July 6, 2011
Israel‘s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip has led to an almost complete collapse of Gaza’s economy, making the people dependent on international aid [GALLO/GETTY] Earlier this year we watched with amazement as hundreds of thousands of Arabs charged into the streets of their cities demanding reform. The uprisings led to the departure of several [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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June 21, 2011
No Savior Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister. STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images If Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s political career came to an end today, he could still proudly claim to be Palestine‘s most accomplished prime minister ever. The problem is that all of his predecessors — Ahmad Hilmi, Mahmud Abbas, Ahmad Qurei, and Ismail Haniyya [...]
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June 3, 2011
A State for Jews By William James Martin I grew up in NC and was around for the transformation to an integrated society where in the laws of the state and nation became color-blind; and blacks were afforded equal protection under the law. My parent’s generation were generally decent honorable people who wished no one [...]
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May 31, 2011
Emperor Obama vs the Arab people Despite calling for change in some parts of the Middle East, the US president reaffirmed the status quo where it counts. Joseph Massad Last Modified: 21 May 2011 13:17 By giving Israel his unflinching support, Obama has alienated much of the Arab world [GALLO/GETTY] In 1960, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan [...]
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May 25, 2011
Netanyahu Conditions Denounced as ‘War’ by Palestinians by Mitchell Plitnick, May 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out what he called his vision for peace with the Palestinians Tuesday, but listed a set of conditions the Palestinians immediately called “a declaration of war.” Speaking before a [...]
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May 23, 2011
Israel‘s new laws promote repression As Arabs across the region struggle for freedom and democracy, Israeli law seems to be headed in the opposite direction. Neve Gordon Last Modified: 10 May 2011 15:23 Email Print Share Send Feedback The Israeli Knesset has passed some 20 new laws that have been characterised as undemocratic and racist – [...]
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May 23, 2011
Obama’s Middle East: Rhetoric and Reality David Bromwich Charles Dharapak/AP Photo President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, May 20, 2011. Being president of the world has sometimes seemed a job more agreeable to Barack Obama than being president of the United [...]
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May 20, 2011
Central to the position in Palestine is the presence of a fully armed and nuclear capable country that is seeking to simply take and to keep taking what belongs to other people. The first taking was then the land was simply handed to them without any regard to the justice of doing that. Regardless of how much [...]
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May 18, 2011
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
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May 10, 2011
Tides of Change and Its Implications for Palestinians By Dr. Ahmed Yousef Speaking 150 years ago about political judgments, [Otto von] Bismarck said if we listen carefully, we can hear the sound of hoof-beats in the distance and plan accordingly. The hoof-beats are near today, not distant, so there is little time to waste before [...]
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
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May 8, 2011
In a recent video interview at the Real News site there is some very interesting information. The whole interview should be watched. You can do that at http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6731. It starts with the news that S & P has said a few things about the US economy. The witch doctors of financial boogie fever have spoken But they seem to [...]
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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May 5, 2011
Yet another good effort by Jason Ditz. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site Israel Outraged as Palestinian Peace Deal Signed Netanyahu Tours Europe to Rally Opposition to Deal by Jason Ditz, May 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Hamas and Fatah parties signed an agreement today in Cairo finalizing the reconciliation [...]
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May 3, 2011
At the end of the day is what some people think is a fairly overused saying, but sometimes it covers the situation. Whatever you may think of Bin Laden and Afghanistan you really need to work out what their position was that led to their actions. It would take a fairly obstinate person to disregard [...]
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May 1, 2011
Judge Goldstone’s bogus test of war time culpability by Lynda Burstein Brayer CounterPunch 29 April – 01 May 2011 Wikileaks has once again brought attention to the question of Israel’s war crime culpability in the military “Operation Cast Lead” it conducted from 27th Dec 2008 – 18th Jan 2009, a period of twenty three days, [...]
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April 22, 2011
Gilad Atzmon: The Israeli So-Called ‘Left’ Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 7:48PM Gilad Atzmon We learned today that some 300 prominent Israeli left-wingers, including some cultural leaders, gathered in Tel Aviv to call for the Jewish state to embrace the creation of a Palestinian State. Among the petition’s signatories were 17 winners of the Israel Prize [...]
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April 21, 2011
The Slanderer as Historian By Jeremy Salt – AnkaraBenny Morris is a man who has completely lost his moral compass. One has to assume it was there at some point, but driven by the logic of his own research, and forced to make a choice, Morris opted for justification rather than rejection of the war [...]
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April 14, 2011
UN Gaza report co-authors round on Goldstone Exclusive: Three mission members say calls to recant UN report disregard the rights of Palestinian and Israeli victims Read the full statement by Jilani, Chinkin and Travers Share9 Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Thursday 14 April 2011 08.19 BST Article history Richard Goldstone has said he regrets the [...]
Tags: Christine Chinkin, Desmond Travers, Gaza War, Hina Jilani, Israel, Palestinian people, Richard Goldstone, United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
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April 12, 2011
The Gold and the Stone Judge Goldstone Revisited By URI AVNERY There is something tragicomic about the persona of Richard Goldstone. First there was a veritable storm of fury when the original Goldstone report was issued. What a fiend! A Jew who claims to be a Zionist and an Israel-lover, who publishes the most abominable [...]
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April 10, 2011
There is no shortage of informed comment and opinion about the recent matters regarding Goldstone. Here is an article form Stuart Littlewood making some interesting points. The Goldstone Report it self is very lengthy and I have been able to read most of it and feel that most if not all of the criticism directed [...]
Tags: Gaza, Israel, Jew, Richard Goldstone, United Nations, United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, United Nations Human Rights Council, Washington Post
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April 9, 2011
IMAGE GALLERY —-> CARTOONS IMAGE This cartoon in its own way puts Goldstone and his latest comments into the balance. to say his reversal does not fit the facts is a dramatic understatement. For whatever reason he misses many points so painstakingly put forward in his reports. Whatever your thoughts about the world’s largest outdoor [...]
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April 5, 2011
Silwan: A Shard of Glass Jerusalem: Walls, towers and ethnic cleansing. (Aljazeera) By Stephen Williams ‘Welcome to Palestine.’ ‘What is your name?’ ‘Where are you from?’ The questions came thick and fast, the handshakes frequent, as the teenagers crowded around me. I had been wandering the narrow streets of Silwan and a [...]
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April 5, 2011
You may have read all the recent reports about Goldstone wanting to place a different interpretation on his report following his getting further information. In any walk of life it takes courage and determination to hold a view markedly different from powerful interests and to express them regardless of the individual repercussions. It take the [...]
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A Gaza message to others
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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