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I Want My NPT: A weekend review of Iran nuclear program propaganda
Two news reports by major wire services this weekend demonstrate just how pervasive misinformation and propaganda are in the mainstream media when it comes to the Iranian nuclear issue.
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East
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Biden gives Israel the green light on Iran in speech to rabbinical convention
Speaking to an international assembly of 1,600 conservative rabbis in Atlanta today, Joe Biden said that Israel still had time to attack Iran if it so chooses.
Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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To counter the injustice of Israeli impunity, remember the Samouni family
With such impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity a benchmark of the Israeli state, any hope for real justice is futile. Read the story of the Israeli military’s willful murder of the Samouni family’s men, women, and children, as reported in relevant sections of the Goldstone Report.
Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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How Zionists implanted their dream in Einstein
The art of inception is planting a dream in someone else so they think they came up with the idea
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Obama’s selective view of the struggle for human dignity
Obama never mentioned Palestine or Palestinians in his homage to Israel at the Holocaust memorial yesterday
Wallace interview with Ahmadinejad was little more than deliberate demonization
Mike Wallace’s August 2006 interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad made headlines around the world and cemented Ahmadinejad’s reputation as a genocidal threat to Israel and a confrontational denier of the Holocaust in the hearts and minds of Western audiences. But those threats and denials came from Wallace’s voice-over, not Ahmadinejad’s actual words.
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine, Media
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NY high school students visit Western Wall, Israel Museum, and AJC, but Foxman blasts them for daring to meet Palestinians
Exclusive school in New York did not get enough hasbara on its trip to Israel and Palestine to meet Abe Foxman’s standards
Another civilian massacre and the savagery of our soldiers
What the latest massacre in Afghanistan says about the United States’s neverending “War on Terror”
Posted in Iraq, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror
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Crawfish, gumbo, and the truth
A sign hanging on a restaurant near New Orleans’s French Quarter presents the facts on Israel, Iran and the IAEA.
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine
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Iran’s Oscar win reveals Israeli movie-goers to be brainwashed bumpkins
Israeli reactions to the film, “A Separation,” reveals the sheer amount of propaganda Israelis must be subject to regarding their perception of Iran.
Posted in Iran, Israel/Palestine
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Troubled Jeopardy!: Travels through Trebekistan
The Jeopardy! writers, widely respected as masters of fact and trivia, got a simple one wrong on February 8, 2012 when they claimed Gaza was no longer controlled by Israel.
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics
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Leader in fight for indigenous Australians’ rights is on board for denial of those rights in Israel and Palestine
“Australian Jew working to end discrimination against indigenous peoples,” reads a proud headline from the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) today, January 22, 2012. The article reports that a “high-profile Jewish Australian cited the effects of the Holocaust on his family … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation
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Military indoctrination at Nazi death camps stokes… universal democratic values!
Israeli officers who tour Nazi death camps come back less committed to Jewish values
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Israel: Still not doing Gandhi very well
Israel plans to build a statue for Mahatma Gandhi in East Jerusalem that NGOs charge is a pretext to seize Palestinian land. Major General Amos Gilad was right when he told U.S. officials, “we don’t do Gandhi very well.”
Trivializing the Holocaust charge
Israel’s trivialization of the Holocaust for political ends offers great insight into Israeli society.
Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government
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Why Alan Dershowitz is wrong on Israel’s ‘rights’
Alan Dershowitz is out of step with the basic tenets of international law and ignores both historical facts and current reality in order to draw his dubious conclusions.
Eldar: ethnocentrism has called on religious and secular alike
Akiva Eldar recognizes that hunger for land and Jewish ownership have driven both secular and religious in Israel
Propaganda Revisited: Iraq, Iran, and the rhyming of history
The propaganda about Iran’s nuclear program bears a striking resemblance to the lies about Iraq leading up to the invasion of that country.
Posted in Iran, Iraq, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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Rattling Sabers & Beating Drums: Fear-mongering over nuclear Iran reaches a fever-pitch
“Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.” … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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‘Atlantic’ expose on Rick Perry’s affinity for Israel ignores the H2Occupation of Palestine
“[It is] of vital importance not only to secure all water resources already feeding the country, but also to control them at their source.” – Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization and the first President of Israel, at … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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The Ninety-Nine Percent
To sit in silence when we should protest Makes cowards out of men. The human race Has climbed on protest. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, I Protest, 1914 With so much effort being exerted by the right-wing lunatic punditocracy and commentariat, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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The Department of Corrections: Ben-Hur, the LA Times & a place called Palestine
“You know the law – every son of Israel must have some occupation.” – Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Chapter IV On September 26, The Los Angeles Times ran a short Calendar section item on the new belated 50th anniversary, fully restored … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Fleitz of Fancy & A New Diehl on Iran: An update on fear-mongering about Iran’s nuclear program
It has been nearly seven months since I wrote, ”The Phantom Menace: Fantasies, Falsehoods, and Fear-Mongering about Iran’s Nuclear Program” (posted here on Mondoweiss), a time-line of false U.S., Israeli, and European assertions regarding the supposed inevitability and immediacy of a nuclear-armed Iran, hysterical allegations … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Jeffrey Goldberg vs. The Truth
By now Mondoweiss readers have probably seen Jeffrey Goldberg’s updated post on supporting the boycott of Netanyahu here in the US. It includes this tidbit (emphasis added): “…all I can say is this: Since 1948, Israel has been a besieged … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Desert Bloomism: The Israeli myth that won’t spoil, wither, or die
“This tractor does two things – it turns the land and turns us off the land. There is little difference between this tractor and a tank. The people were driven, intimidated, hurt by both. We must think about this.” – … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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