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‘The Palestine Cables’: Other countries want to ‘smoke out’ Israel on NPT and Mossad use of passports
Whether it’s the Mossad’s use of foreign passports or the refusal to open up about its nuclear weapons program, Israel is developing a reputation as a rogue state. Some of the nearly 2,000 secret State Department cables so far released … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged Canada, Dennis Ross, Dubai, Egypt, France, Hamas, Juan Cole, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Mossad, New Zealand
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‘The Palestine Cables’: Gaza is a burning issue from Egypt to Latin America to Pakistan, to John Kerry being ‘shocked by what I saw’
This is the third entry in “The Palestine Cables,” Alex Kane’s series on what WikiLeaks is telling us about the Palestinian position in world politics. Forsaken by the “peace process,” ignored by mainstream media, denied justice two years after Israel … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine
Tagged Egypt, Gaza Flotilla, John Kerry, Latin America, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey, WikiLeaks
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Jeffrey Goldberg likens BDS movement to Nazi Germany policies
If you can’t beat ‘em, smear ‘em. And throw in the word Nazi for good measure. As the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement continues full-steam ahead in its efforts to force Israel to comply with international law, pro-Israel hawks … Continue reading
‘The Palestine Cables’: WikiLeaks dox expose Netanyahu’s vision of Palestinian bantustan
Last week Alex Kane began a series called The Palestine Cables, based on Wikileaks data. His second entry. The Obama administration’s failure to bribe Israel’s right-wing government into accepting a three-month settlement “freeze” should have ended talk about the “peace … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged bantustan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tzipi Livni, WikiLeaks
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‘The Palestine Cables’: WikiLeaks expose European chill on Israel after Cast Lead, and Lebanese advice on defeating Hezbollah
WikiLeaks has gone from a drip to a torrent, and we need a way to keep up. With this post we inaugurate a new feature at this site. “The Palestine Cables” will be a weekly chronicle/analysis of important revelations bearing … Continue reading
What’s J Street doing meeting with Israeli officials on BDS?
The lobby group J Street has a somewhat muddled policy on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. An interview in which their executive director says that he’s meeting with the Israeli Foreign Ministry on “how to address” the movement … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Michael Bloomberg and New York’s Muslims: a lesson in how Israel courses through Jewish-Muslim relations
Ever since Lawrence Swaim of the California-based Interfaith Freedom Foundation articulated his valuable insight to me that the question of Israel courses through Jewish-Muslim relations, I’ve been coming across stories that fit into that theme. In general, strong support for … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, US Politics
Tagged al-Samouni, Anti-Defamation League, Debbie Almontaser, Gaza, Gotham Gazette, Hamas, Interfaith Freedom Foundation, Islamic community center, Islamophobia, Jews, Khalil Gibran International Academy, Kiera Feldman, Lawrence Swaim, Michael Bloomberg, Middle East, Muslims, Operation Cast Lead, Park 51, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Zionism
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The real Yitzhak Rabin
Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of when former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli extremist for Rabin’s signing of the Oslo Accords with Yasir Arafat. With the anniversary comes the obligatory mourning of Rabin as … Continue reading
How much money is needed to stop the BDS movement?
$6 million: enough to combat a largely grassroots, bottom-up and growing boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel? That’s what the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs are hoping. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s … Continue reading
Cut, cut, cut the budget (just don’t touch Israel)
If the GOP’s electoral wins next week are enough to take over Congress, one thing they’ve pledged to do is “stop out-of-control spending,” as their “Pledge to America” policy blueprint says. But don’t even think about touching the over $3 … Continue reading
The Democratic-Likud Party
Ynetnews.com today publishes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “list of millionaires,” a group of people Netanyahu identified as potential donors to him ahead of the 2007 primary elections in Israel. What’s important about the list of donors that Netanyahu identified … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Democratic Party, Haim Saban, Likud, Mort Zuckerman, Republican Party, settlements
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Groundwork laid for media narrative of failed peace talks: It’s the Palestinians’ fault
With direct “peace talks” between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government headed nowhere fast after the Netanyahu government let the so-called “settlement freeze” lapse, the groundwork for the media narrative on who to blame if the “peace talks” officially … Continue reading
Israel-centric Ethan Bronner cites Israeli law on East J’lem and Golan, ignoring crystal clear int’l standards
Nestled in this all over-the-place article written by Ethan Bronner in today’s New York Times is this factually-challenged nugget: Both East Jerusalem and the Golan were officially annexed by Israel through parliamentary votes, so by Israeli law they count as … Continue reading
‘Eased’ blockade continues to ‘strangle’ Gazan economy
The Gaza “Freedom Flotilla” of May 31 brought the world’s attention to the collective punishment the people of Gaza are going through. But despite the much-heralded Israeli “easing” of the siege in response to a furious world, the situation in … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza
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Avigdor Lieberman’s UN speech shows the true face of Israel
Yisrael Beiteinu’s strong third-place showing in Israel’s February 2009 elections for the Knesset was met with dread and disgust from many different quarters. Avigdor Lieberman, the founder and leader of the far-right party and the current Foreign Minister, ran a … Continue reading
Jewish groups denounce ‘Museum of Tolerance’ builder Simon Wiesenthal Center for support of Islamophobia
A coalition of four Jewish groups, backed by a wide array of peace and justice organizations, held a demonstration Sept. 16 outside the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in New York, denouncing the organization’s opposition to the Islamic community … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Middle East
Tagged American Jews for a Just Peace, Center For Constitutional Rights, Cordoba House, Debbie Almontaser, Ground Zero, Islamophobia, Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Jews Say No, Khalil Gibran International Academy, Mamilla cemetery, Middle East, Museum of Tolerance, Muslim community center, Palestine, Park 51, Simon Wiesenthal Center
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House Republicans pal around with anti-Muslim, anti-Black racist David Yerushalmi
It should come as no surprise that elected officials are aiding and abetting anti-Muslim sentiment in the U.S., especially with mid-term elections nearby. But it was still a little shocking to read Think Progress national security blogger Matt Duss’ post … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Neocons
Tagged Center for Security Policy, Charles Johnson, Cordoba House, David Yerushalmi, Debbie Almontaser, Islamic community center, Islamophobia, Jews, Khalil Gibran International Academy, Little Green Footballs, Matt Duss, Middle East, Park 51, Republicans, Richard Silverstein, Zionism
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On night before 9/11, New Yorkers voice strong support for Muslim community center
As the the anniversary of 9/11 and the Islamophobic rally led by far-right blogger Pamela Geller converge today, over 1,000 New Yorkers gathered Sept. 10 at Park Place in lower Manhattan for a candlelight vigil in support of the proposed … Continue reading
‘New York Post’ joins campaign against Moustafa Bayoumi
The New York Post, the sensationalistic right-wing daily in New York, is joining the smear campaign against Moustafa Bayoumi, the Brooklyn College professor and the editor of the newly released book titled Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on … Continue reading
Unchallenged violence and intimidation, coming soon to a mosque near you
Reading accounts of the far-right English Defense League’s (EDL) recent anti-Muslim rally in Bradford, England is disturbing. EDL members, shouting slogans that state that Allah is a “pedophile” and that they “love the floods” currently devastating Pakistan, clashed with riot … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Middle East
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Anti-Defamation League condemns the very ‘anti-Muslim sentiment’ it contributes to
A month after the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the “nation’s premier civil rights” agency (in their words), came out against building an Islamic community center blocks away from Ground Zero because “building [it] in the shadow of the World Trade Center … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, Middle East, US Politics
Tagged Ahmed Sharif, Anti-Defamation League, Cordoba House, hate crime., Islamophobia, Middle East, Muslims, Park 51
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