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Category Archives: Iraq
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
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
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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
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
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Hana al-Shalabi, ten days on hunger strike, also being held without charge
and other news from today in Palestine: Take action today for Hana al-Shalabi – administrative detainee and hunger striker! Hana al-Shalabi, an imprisoned Palestinian held under administrative detention without charge or trial, has been engaged in an open-ended hunger strike … Continue reading
Jazz singer Cassandra Wilson cancels Israeli show out of ‘a desire to support Palestinians’ civil rights’
Cassandra Wilson cancelled her performance at the Holon International Women’s Festival.
Sanity check on Iran
Iran war threats recall Iraq war plans– and mainstream voices are making the connection
Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics
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Dog-bites-man story in NYT leads readers to say, tail wags dog
Republicans want to railroad us into a war that serves Israel, NYT readers write
Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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Khader Adnan, 61 days on a hunger strike, near death
A Palestinian prisoner on his 61st day of hunger strike while shackled to a bed in an Israeli hospital is in immediate danger of death, according to a medical report submitted to the supreme court in an effort to secure his release.
News roundup on the 59th day of Khader Adnan’s hunger strike
As Khader Adnan entered his 59th day on hunger strike, his wife Randa appealed for the international community to end his isolation and save his life.
Israeli military escalating arrests in Hebron of boys aged 12-15 years old; at least 10 children arrested last week
Hebron: At least 10 children arrested by Israeli military in one week The extreme Golani Unit of the Israeli military is escalating its arrests of Palestinian children in Al Khalil (Hebron), targeting boys between the ages of 12 to15 years … Continue reading
As Khader Adnan struggles through his 55th day on a hunger strike, a reminder that he has not been charged with a crime
Khader Adnan enters the 55th day of his hungry strike in Israeli detention, he has not been charged with anything Palestinian hunger striker nearing death A Palestinian prisoner on a hunger strike for 55 days to protest against his detention … Continue reading
Settlers spray ‘Death to Christians’ on a monastery, ‘Death to Arabs’ on a school and ‘Mohammad is a pig’ on village entrance
More “pricetag” attacks by Israeli settlers
Leading Zionist historian was first to say ‘Israel Firster’– in 1960
‘Israel Firster’ is no anti-Semitic trope. Zionist historian Abram Sachar used it against Ben-Gurion in 1960
Posted in American Jewish Community, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons, US Politics
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Bruising Judt, Fukuyama says Arabs aren’t ready for liberalism
Francis Fukuyama suggests Tony Judt’s idea of one state was “monstrous” because Arabs aren’t ready for liberalism
Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, Neocons
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New Knesset bill, ‘Regulation of the Bedouin settlement in the Negev’ seeks to turn Bedouin dispossession into law
A new bill seeks to turn the controversial Prawer Plan into Israeli law. If the Knesset passes the legislation, it will pave the way for Israel to step up its efforts to disposess the Negev’s Bedouin and relocate them to impoverished townships.
The Iraq war coverup: What did AIPAC do and when did it do it?
Center for American Progress helps AIPAC cover up its support for the Iraq war
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Why we should be furious the Haditha massacre Marines got no jail time
Orwellian-style agitprop from James Joyner in The Atlantic on the Haditha massacre where 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines in 2005.
Tadamun: Israel detained student because of computer engineering graduate project
Tadamun: Israel detained student because of his graduate project The international Tadamun society for human rights said the Israeli occupation forces detained about one month ago a university student from Tulkarem city because of his graduate research project. link to … Continue reading
Two settler attacks on Palestinian teens, both are tragedies but one ended in death
Palestinian teen hit by Israeli car at checkpoint JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian teenager was struck and injured by an Israeli driver near an East Jerusalem checkpoint on Saturday morning, witnesses told Ma’an. Suleiman Abu Mahamid, 18, was waiting to … Continue reading
Max Ajl, “One State, Two States: Who is the subject of Palestinian liberation?”
Max Ajl, “One State, Two States: Who Is the Subject of Palestinian Liberation?” In Finkelstein’s explicit demands to water down the struggle lies a tacit recognition that his battalions of disaffected liberals, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, are not the ones … Continue reading
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
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