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Category Archives: Iraq
The antiwar movement must rise again. Now
Why hasn’t an anti-war candidate risen to primary Obama? Too late now. But not too late for the antiwar left to mobilize
Posted in Activism, Iran, Iraq
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In the last 24 hours an orgy of land theft and political arrests of children
Land Theft & Destruction / Attacks on Protests Against Land Theft / Restriction of Movement / Apartheid / Refugees Breaking: Israeli bulldozer, soldiers destroy entire community of Beit Arabiya in West Bank, Philip Weiss Tne tragic night in the West … Continue reading
Some elephants aren’t fit to print: ‘NYT’ front-pages Adelson gift to Gingrich PAC without a word about Israel!
This is so shocking it’s funny. LOL funny. ROTFLMAO funny. The New York Times has a long front-page story by Nicholas Confessore about Sheldon Adelson’s wife Miriam donating another $5 million to the Gingrich campaign and there is no mention … Continue reading
Children in Nabi Saleh play their favorite game called ‘Mustafa Tamimi’ during weekly protests
this is the game #NabiSaleh kids were playing yesterday..the one called #MustafaTamimi facebook.com/photo.php?fbid… it’s their fave from what i hear — Linah Alsaafin (@LinahAlsaafin) January 21, 2012 Attacks on Protests Against Land Theft / Land, Property Theft & Destruction / … Continue reading
Must-see TV from West Wing: Hide the 1709 map of Holy Land, it doesn’t show Israel!
Blackwashing joins pinkwashing and greenwashing to save the Israeli brand
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Gaza 2 Years Later, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine
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Military trial for 17-year-old girl, charged with… Spilling Water on Soldier
Military Trial of 17-year old Amal Hamamdeh from Mufakarah. Charge: Spilling Water on Soldier, Assaf Oron As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with … Continue reading
Settlers assault Palestinians in Hebron. Palestinian fire fighters save settlers in Hebron
and other news from Today in Palestine: Jewish settlers assault two young men and the soldiers arrest themIsraeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested two Palestinian young men in Al-Khalil city after a group of Jewish settlers assaulted them on Friday. link … Continue reading
13 year old Palestinian girl in wheelchair victim of hit and run by Israeli settlers
Hiba Abdul Ghaffar, 13, was heading to school Thursday when she was hit by a settler car near the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron,
Palestinian drivers challenge Israeli-only roads in the West Bank
This video was taken today outside Jericho as a convoy of 50 Palestinian cars attempted to travel to Ramallah over roads restricted to Israelis. Reports over Twitter say four activists were arrested.
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Gaza, Gaza 2 Years Later, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine
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Even ‘SNL’ is talking about Israel firsters….
Fake Rick Santorum ad on Saturday Night Live says campaign is about starting a war with Iran as a favor to Israel
Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics
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U.S. continues to fund Israeli military but not Palestinian ‘Sesame Street’
“Sharaa Simsim,” the Palestinian version of Sesame Street, has been put on hiatus for the 2012 season due to a funding freeze by the U.S. Congress.
Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine
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Ron Paul’s foreign policy should be embraced
War always involves civilian casualties. Shouldn’t that make all of us antiwar except for the most dire of circumstances?
Posted in Iraq, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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The story every American should know – The barbaric legacy of the US invasion of Iraq
Doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous for what are being described as “catastrophic” levels of birth defects and abnormalities.
Posted in Iraq, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East
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Poof, Dome of the Rock, gone: IDF rabbinate edits Dome of the Rock out of picture of the Temple Mount
IDF rabbinate edits out Dome of the Rock from picture of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Photo appears in army packet on Hanukkah describing the Jewish revolt against Hellenistic rule; IDF spokesman: Image meant to illustrate a period in which holy … Continue reading
383 Palestinian children arrested in 2011, 15 in the last week alone
According to the Ansar organization for prisoners, Israel arrested 3,232 Palestinians in 2011. 383 of those arrested were children, and 250 of them remain in Israeli jails.
Neoconservative responsibility for the Iraq war
Hawkish Jews are a small minority of the American Jewish community. But they prevailed in policy discussions leading to the Iraq war, and their concern was Israel
Clark: There was no national debate over the policy coup by the ‘hardnosed’
Iraq war was the most arrogant foreign policy in history, and grew out of a coup by the hardnosed –Wesley Clark
Posted in Iraq, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East
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‘People who promoted the Iraq war ought to be so discredited that no one listens to them any more’
Those who promoted the Iraq war are now promoting the Iran war. Why do they have such clout?
Posted in Iran, Iraq
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Kampeas: Jewish neocons are more than 2 degrees removed from Bush’s decision to invade Iraq
Yesterday I posted a question that I’d sent to Ron Kampeas of JTA: why is it that the Walt and Mearsheimer thesis, that the Israel lobby played a crucial role in pushing the Iraq war, has become more and more … Continue reading
You don’t write, you don’t call (Ron Kampeas version)
The other day Ron Kampeas of the JTA and I did posts on the Economist article saying that the Jewishness of the neocons was an essential factor to be considered in any analysis of why the U.S. invaded Iraq. I … Continue reading
Jenin Freedom Theatre Director Zakaria Zubeidi ordered by Israel to turn himself in to PA security services
Palestinian pardoned by Israel put back on wanted list Zakaria Zbeidi, the former commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin who now runs the Freedom Theater, says he did not know his pardon was canceled. Zakaria Zbeidi, the former commander … Continue reading
‘Economist:’ analysis of Iraq war that leaves out neocons’ Jewishness is ‘deficient’
The Jewishness of neocons was factor in cause of Iraq war, says Economist blogger, mainstreaming Walt and Mearsheimer analysis
Posted in American Jewish Community, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons
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Three years since Cast Lead
Four children in the al Samouni family use animated drawings to share what happened to their family during the Israeli attack on Gaza in the winter of 2008-09.
Been there, done that? Israel’s fresh concerns about Iraq
Didn’t we do this before? Israeli hawks and neoconservatives have expressed fears about security threat to Israel from Iraq
Let us forget Iraq
For Iraqis, the suffering is endless and the consequences of occupation have only just begun. America left a ruined country.
