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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
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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
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
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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
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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
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.
Posted in Iraq, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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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.
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.
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.
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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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
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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.
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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MJ Rosenberg: why he is trying to stop the next war
War on Iran would endanger Jews everywhere
Beinart: Time for a Jewish conversation about Jewish power and responsibility
Daily Beast website will focus on Israel/Palestine issue– but with Jews predominating
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
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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?
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
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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
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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
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
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‘Blackwashing’ and the Israel lobby
Max Blumenthal discusses the Israel lobby’s use of “blackwashing” to build support for Israel.
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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