Category Archives: Iraq

Senate fight today over the number of Palestinian refugees

Senate fight today over Palestinian ‘refugees’ Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian “refugees” or just around 30,000 — a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate involving … Continue reading

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Passive-aggressive George Bush namechecks neocons for getting us into that mess

George Bush brings up neocons in his memoir only to show how they gave bad advice on Iraq war

Posted in Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Politics | 83 Comments

Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained

Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. link to news.yahoo.com Islamic … Continue reading

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Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of ‘oldfashioned Arabists’ Scowcroft, Baker and Bush I

Republican Party boss Bill Kristol is treated like royalty on the Upper West Side in a “communal” Jewish conversation

Posted in American Jewish Community, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 83 Comments

Daily escalations in Occupied Palestine

Eight Palestinian farmers are injured in an unprovoked attack

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Nakba 64 years later, we will never forget

News and headlines from Nakba Day, 2012.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 10 Comments

The left lacks an analysis of the neocon rise

Rachel Maddow’s foreign policy speech and Ari Berman’s piece on Romney’s neocons both fail to mention the Israel lobby as a source of American foreign policy ideas

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 44 Comments

The neocon machine

The three horsemen the neocon propaganda organs: Kristol, Abrams and Goldberg

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Politics | 23 Comments

Israeli officer threatens to rape Palestinian activists in custody (if this happened in Syria it would be headline news)

Israel faces major West Bank uprising over hunger strikers

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 8 Comments

Michael Scheuer says Israeli lobby has tied American gov’t down like Gulliver

Our leaders tell us bin Laden attacked us because of our liberties. But they ignore what he said in his declaration of war

Posted in Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 25 Comments

‘Battle of the Empty Stomachs’: Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab surpass 70 days on hunger strike

Addameer: Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Diab’s petitions to the Israeli High Court regarding their administrative detention orders were rejected yesterday, four days following their High Court hearing on 3 May. Thaer and Bilal are on their 71st day of hunger strike and at immediate risk of death.

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That was Jane Harman of Newsweek trying to quash Medea Benjamin’s stellar soliloquy against drones

Jodie Evans did a similar star turn at the 2004 Republican convention– and the media ignored her too

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Situation for Palestinian Hunger Strikers grows more and more dire– 2 at death’s door

Hunger Strike & Prisoner News Gravely ill Palestinian hunger striker faints in court as Israeli judges sentence him to slow death, Ali Abunimah Two days after doctors warned that hunger strikers Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh are at immediate risk … Continue reading

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Thaer Halahla and Bilal Thiab in serious condition after 63 days on hunger strike

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) – Israel Branch, warned that the health condition of Thaer Halahla and Bilal Thiab, who entered their 63rd day of hunger strike is causing grave concern, adding that both detainees suffer from an acute decrease of muscle tone and are bedridden, which puts them under dual threat; muscle atrophy and Thrombophilia, which can lead to a fatal blood clot.

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A weekend of violence against Palestinian activists that the UN will never get around to condemning

and other news from Today in Palestine:   Land Theft & Destruction / Ethnic Cleansing / Palestinian History Jordan Valley Resident Forcibly Removed from Home JORDAN VALLEY, April 27, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli soldiers forcibly removed on Friday a Palestinian … Continue reading

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Palestinian prisoner hunger strike grows to 2,000 inmates despite punitive measures to stop it

Guardian: Human rights groups say 2,000 are now on hunger strike against indefinite detention without charge and alleged ill-treatment. The number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails has grown to 2,000 with more preparing to join the protest next week, according to human rights groups in the West Bank.

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Bradley Manning could become the Ellsberg of our age (if the media would just stop marginalizing him)

The media have painted Bradley Manning as a headcase, but he’s as heroic as Daniel Ellsberg, in a less hospitable intellectual climate

Posted in Activism, Iraq, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | 47 Comments

Video: Israeli soldiers arrest three children in West Bank raid

A video shows heavily-armed Israeli soldiers seizing three children from their home in the middle of the night in the West Bank village of Beit Ommar

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Bernard Lewis revises Bernard Lewis (says he opposed invasion of Iraq!)

Cowardly lion Bernard Lewis argued for military takeover of Iraq in 2003. Now he says he was privately against it!

Posted in Iraq, Israel Lobby, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 19 Comments

Egypt and Israel, all is not well

There is increasing public pressure in Egypt to boycott companies doing business in Israel

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 35 Comments

Israeli undercover unit’s murder of Palestinian civilian was part of “training exercise”

Khader Adnan returns home after months in administrative detention and a historic hunger strike

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine | 6 Comments

As 100s of other prisoners begin hunger strike,Thaer Halahla, 7 weeks without food, vomits blood

and other developments from the occupation: Attack on Danish Activist / Suppression of Bike Tour Religious cover to attack peace activists: Rabbis: Officer reacted to highly unusual circumstances Prominent rabbis rally to aid of officer who assaulted foreign activist; slam military’s … Continue reading

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11-year-old child beaten in pro-prisoner march

And other news from Today in Palestine: Israeli occupation forces severely beat an 11-year-old child while participating in a peaceful march in Ma’sara village, south of Bethlehem, on Friday in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. link to www.palestine-info.co.uk Land Theft & … Continue reading

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‘In your eyes, I’m a terrorist’ but you killed and maimed 100s of 1000s of Muslims — Mehanna, on sentencing

Tarek Mehanna is sentenced to 17-1/2 years in Massachusetts as an alleged terrorist, targeted because he had questioned American policy in the Middle East

Posted in Activism, Iraq, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 19 Comments

Jeffrey Goldberg’s claim that Iran’s Supreme Leader wants to kill Israeli Jews is based on shoddy sources

The last time Jeffrey Goldberg was pushing war he also inflated dubious reports from the Middle East

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 23 Comments