Tag: palestine

Faced with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s absolutism, US President Barack Obama’s natural tendency to compromise is untenable and renders him weak and ineffectual.

TIKKUN in Hebrew means mend, repair and transform the world. Keep Hope Alive, the book by Eileen Fleming sheds light good energy towards all men.

By the time I booked my flight, Ms. Thomas had been “disinvited” to speak at Move AIPAC Over because of the pressure from a few particular people who had still not gotten over her flaming honesty expressed on 27 May 2010, in a courtyard at the White House. Their shortsightedness led to one of the highlights of my 57 years of life.

4th and last part of the interview with Rinaldo Francesca dealing with issues to do with Freedom of expression, KKK vs IDF, ...

Watch this video just in of women being abused by a military paid for by the U.S. Taxpayer

The overwhelming desire within Israel, and more importantly within the United States, to divide Palestine into two states reflects a 130-year old dream to create a Jewish state in the Holy Land. Aside from the attractiveness or repulsiveness of this dream, any such division flies in the face of reality or what might be called “facts on the ground.”

“Norman Finkelstein joined some Egyptian youth activists in their most daring and adventurous attempt to breach the heavy security cordon around the Israeli embassy in Cairo, break into the embassy and take down the Israeli flag”

The Jewish state is under seige. The IDF forces reportedly fired at Syrian, Lebanese and Gazan 'Nakba Day' protesters who breached border fences.

In 2008, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation sponsored a competition to express the Palestinian narrative from 1948 in the form of visual arts, poetry, essays, music, video and digital media.

May be the Arab-Israeli conflict doesn’t need any more US special envoy, may be president Obama shouldn’t bother appointing a replacement, for as far as the Palestinians are concerned, they had enough of this backstage Zionist-manipulated politics disguised as peace envoys

Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade.

No fewer than 29 members of the Samouni family, including many of the women and children, were callously slaughtered by Israeli troops during their assault on the Gaza Strip, known as Operation Cast Lead, some two years ago.

“Palestinians have not been excluded from the Arab awakening that was dawning on the region and Israel is not immune from its ripple effect”

“With those powerful political storms rolling up the Middle East, and with this unstoppable and unpredictable domino effect of popular uprisings, how long before we watch the Israeli domino piece fall down” “And if dictatorships are not tolerated in the Arab world anymore, why the Israeli quasi-dictatorship over the Palestinians should be any exception”

SHIFTING FOCUS David Harris and his cronies at the AJC have been working the same charade for years: when the rest of the...

On this April 8th night, and on the very same day that witnessed the massacre of Bahr el-Bakar the Israeli embassy with all the Israeli diplomatic mission in Cairo seemed under siege.

Far too often, what is not said, or cannot be said, publicly is more significant than the platitudes bandied about by assorted political leaders and pundits. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli matrix of death and disinformation.

Despite its flaws, 'Miral' marks the first time anyone has tried to tell just a Palestinian story in Hollywood.

Not taking away from the courageous efforts of JStreet in challenging AIPAC and the well-entrenched American Jewish leadership that has always been consistently anti-peace and pro-war, JStreet has a long way to go. The American Jewish leadership has been the main obstacle to any meaningful Middle East peace.

Singer-songwriter and harmonica owner Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) will perform at Israel's Ramat Gan Stadium in June.

One has to ask and wonder why the sudden escalation of violence between Israel and Gaza and why Jerusalem after calms and quite is witnessing its first “terrorist” acts in many years?

I have no brief for Libya's government, and it doesn't seem to make much sense at this point to debate whether or not the military action now taking place against it is, or is not, justified. It is a fact, and like the earlier onslaughts against Yugoslavia (read: Serbia) and Iraq, it'll simply play itself out, putting a gross imbalance of military power favoring the attackers against whatever intransigence and resistance Libya's government can muster, accompanied by pious and pompous speeches from Washington, London and other capitals of the attackers. As for Muammar Gaddafi, he is certainly certifiable, probably somewhere in the middle range of global dictators and close to the mayor-elect of Chicago, so if his psychosis is a basis for external military intervention, we had all better be prepared for a lot of military interventions in different parts of the world, perhaps starting with Chicago....

[The World] -- "All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed…If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem."- Isidor Feinstein/Izzy Stone.

On May 22-24, the pro-Israel America conference from AIPAC is coming to Washington, D.C. Will you be there? You gotta know that the U.S. Congress will be. They must go as their hands will be out taking cash bribes with their blackened hearts spilling with no shame as they send our billions earned by the sweat of each American to a land far far away that has no consequence to the everyday welfare of Americans.

"The team, headed by the prime minister's advisor Dov Weissglas and including the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, the director of the Shin Bet and senior generals and officials, convened for a discussion with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on ways to respond to the Hamas election victory.

“Even the Israelis in Gaza, when they moved into the Gaza Strip, they moved in with tanks to fight such extremists. It's the same...

We are touring all over Europe at the moment I met Underyourskin in my hotel room in Vienna just before our concert. We spoke about everything... politics,...

The Arabic street is the one who is calling the shots now, the coming Arab policies will try and reflect the pulse of the Arabic street. The united Arab sounds are to be heard at last where no American veto could come out to obliterate the truth and where no need to waste more than one million innocent Arabs to allegedly get rid of a dictator.

“Anti-Semite” slogan used by American Corporate Media to Confuse U.S. Public. Learn more

I managed to infuriate some, by suggesting that I was against the comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany. Indeed, I believe that from certain ideological perspective, Israel is actually far worse than Nazi Germany, for unlike Nazi Germany, Israel is a democracy and that implies that Israeli citizens are complicit in Israeli atrocities.

Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people of conscience, once and for all smash to pieces the abominable Egyptian blockade of Gaza.

Will democracy in Egypt benefit the Palestinians? By Alan Hart STAFF WRITER For decades, and despite much rhetoric to the contrary, American-led Western policy...

The Egyptian Tsunami of people power is moving so rapidly that the walls of the Old World Order, based on control and military force,...

That leading policymakers are afraid to challenge the billions of dollars flowing to Tel Aviv while US senators...

While millions of Egyptians are in the streets, in one of the most dramatic spontaneous uprisings in recent years, in an attempt to overthrow 30 years of Mubarak rule, a regime propped up by Israel and the United States, an undercurrent of opportunist plots threaten to turn this hopeful situation into an epic disaster.

Let us realize once and for all, that we the people are one, that we are human, that our most precious gift is that of our humanity. Let us never sacrifice it again. Together we are unstoppable. We are the sleeping giant, we are the waking lion, we are fierce and we are fearless.

“What seems most disturbing about the 9/11 controversy is the widespread aversion by government and media to the evidence that suggests, at the very...

By Richard Falk in Foreign Policy Journal Because my blog prompted by the Arizona shootings has attracted many comments pro and con, and more recently...

Timing is everything when waging war “by way of deception,” the motto that has long guided Israeli war-planners. Whenever Israel’s geopolitical goals are threatened,...

Palestine does not have to be a lost cause By Alan Hart STAFF WRITER The most sickening (I mean truly vomit inducing) thing about the Al...

Would the isolation of America persuade Obama not to veto? By Alan Hart/ STAFF WRITER Despite strong U.S. opposition, a proposed resolution condemning Israeli settlements on...

WIKI-WAR ON ISRAEL "WEASELS OUT" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The new Wikileaks "attack on Israel," is, as was expected, not only toothless, but released...