Category Archives: Iraq

The Israel/Palestine conflict will be resolved when Arab countries kick the U.S. out of the region

Continued US involvement in the ‘peace process’ will only dampen the Israel-Palestine conflict or cover for more Israeli settlement. Not till the Gulf states tell the U.S. to get lost will the power balance in the region change and the conflict be resolved

Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 56 Comments

Settlers run wild in the West Bank, but Israel rarely bothers to put them in kangaroo courts

Palestinian family pelted with stones near Hebron, by zealot settlers. No accountability

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 | 1 Comment

Settlers take over house in Hebron, PA detains owner

Several dozen settlers move into property located near Cave of Patriarchs; say they have legal ownership. Palestinian owner detained by PA police.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 1 Comment

Sullivan unmasks Goldberg as a propagandist for Netanyahu’s ‘lies, bluffs and deceptions’ aimed at getting us into war

Jeffrey Goldberg is a propagandist for the Israeli government

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | Tagged | 27 Comments

US ‘understands’ Israel’s decision to cut ties with UN Human Rights Council

Shapiro: Israel’s decision to cut HRC ties ‘understandable’ US ambassador to Israel says Human Rights Council obsessively focuses on Israel instead of other critical issues in Syria, Iran. link to www.ynetnews.com  Israel reprimands Austria, Belgium over vote on UN human … Continue reading

Posted in Activism, BDS, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 7 Comments

The ‘clash of civilizations’ and the death of an Iraqi mother in San Diego

Antiwar.com’s Justin Raimundo says the responsibility for Shaima Alawadi’s murder rests with the “war party,” and that her death should not be a surprise given the rampant Islamophobia seen in Southern California over the past few years.

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UPDATE: Hamas, family misled AP reporter on death of five month old child

A seven-month-old baby in Gaza died on Friday evening after medical equipment he was connected to switched off as a result of a power cut, a Hamas-affiliated TV channel said. Gaza medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya confirmed the incident, adding that the infant was born with respiratory problems and doctors had recommended the use of mechanical breathing apparatus to be used at home.

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Half of Gaza’s ambulances and fire trucks are at a standstill due to fuel crisis

The Committee for Ambulance and Emergency in Gaza announced Wednesday that 50% of ambulances and fire trucks stopped working as the fuel crisis in the Gaza Strip have worsened.

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Physicians for Human Rights: On the 33rd day of her hunger strike, Hana Shalabi is in imminent danger of death

An independent physician from Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-Israel) examined her today and determined that she must be hospitalized immediately.

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Israeli settlers attack a shepherd and a child in separate attacks in the West Bank

Settlers destroy 220 olive trees in Nablus village land

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 2 Comments

To my unborn children

A 24 year old Gazan blogger writes a letter to his future children about growing up in Gaza under Israeli occupation.

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, BDS, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 2 Comments

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 | Tagged | 38 Comments

MJ Rosenberg: why he is trying to stop the next war

War on Iran would endanger Jews everywhere

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 38 Comments

Beinart: Time for a Jewish conversation about Jewish power and responsibility

Daily Beast website will focus on Israel/Palestine issue– but with Jews predominating

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 31 Comments

Massacre in Afghanistan

The news of a horrific brutal massacre of civilians in Afghanistan arrived in spurts yesterday accompanied with the news one lone soldier had come forward to turn himself in. 16 people, 9 of them children murdered in the middle of the night.

Posted in Iraq, Middle East, US Policy in the Middle East, War on Terror | 41 Comments

Israel is sucking up all the oxygen in the White House

If Obama weren’t meeting Netanyahu 9 times, and having to fend off the Israel lobby at every turn, maybe he’d be doing more about the trade deficit with China?

Posted in American Jewish Community, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 119 Comments

Obama victory over Netanyahu gained support, time

Even Israelis are put off by Netanyahu’s Holocaust argument about Iran

Posted in Iraq, Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 26 Comments

Walt and Mearsheimer don’t think Israel will attack Iran, and neither will we

All the Iran saber rattling is getting Israel what it wants

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 49 Comments

Friedman warns war could hurt American Jews

Tipping point on opposing war on Iran seems to have happened in the last 24 hours. Tom Friedman is against

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 40 Comments

At last a leader, Obama fingers ‘Israeli interest’ in war

It was antiwar day at the White House yesterday, as President Obama hosted ‘wounded warriors’ and defied the Israeli push for war

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 65 Comments

‘Blackwashing’ and the Israel lobby

Max Blumenthal discusses the Israel lobby’s use of “blackwashing” to build support for Israel.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 1 Comment

This could be World War 3– and we’re talking less than the parties to a friendly divorce

Congress is now driving foreign policy. Not the president. And Iranians understand this better than we do

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 17 Comments

Consequences of an attack on Iran are no joke

No one is talking about the harm that “surgical air strikes” against “suspected Iranian nuclear facilities” with GBU-28 “bunker-buster” bombs, which derive their ability to penetrate concrete and earth from depleted uranium, would inflict on 74 million Iranians, nearly a quarter of whom are under the age of 14 and under and half of whom are under the age of 30.

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Middle East, US Politics | 33 Comments

Forward: ‘Israel and most US Jewish orgs are beating drums of war’

Jewish newspaper says that war against Iran is being pushed by Israel and most American Jewish organizations

Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 20 Comments

Neocons and AIPAC both want war– but AIPAC has the Dems

Neocons pushed Iraq war, AIPAC got on board. This time both groups are gungho

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 24 Comments