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• Stevie Wonder, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Marco Rubio -- all pony up for Israel
  • spuxx November 26, 2012 at 12:27 pm with 4 replies

    Stevie Wonder wrote "Isn't She Lovely" as a result of being inspired by his daughter Aisha. There are certainly a lot of Aishas in Gaza.

• Emma Thompson among group of prominent British actors calling on Globe theatre to withdraw invite to Israeli National Theatre
  • spuxx March 29, 2012 at 8:07 pm with 1 replies

    I don't believe it.... some beloved names on that list. Will be hard to smear all of them.

• Media critic calls out pundits for ignoring Khader Adnan, their long awaited 'Palestinian Gandhi'
  • spuxx February 19, 2012 at 11:19 am with 2 replies

    If you need the other side to produce a Gandhi, you are on the wrong side.

• MSNBC: Israel trains Iranian terror group to kill nuclear scientists
  • spuxx February 10, 2012 at 3:09 pm with 5 replies

    Providing material support to a terrorist group is a violation of the Patriot Act.

    David Cole, a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, who argued the case for the Humanitarian Law Project, commented on developments since the decision.

    He noted that several prominent former officeholders, including Rudolph Giuliani and Tom Ridge, had spoken in support of the Mujahedeen Khalq [MEK], an Iranian opposition group designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.[5] He stated that he supported their right to speak but that even nonviolent advocacy (such as urging that a designation as "terrorist" be revoked) was illegal under the Supreme Court's decision.

• BDS: Rock musician Cat Power cancels Tel Aviv gig
  • spuxx February 10, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    It's somewhat ironic that her stage name, Cat Power, comes from the Caterpillar company, whose bull dozers are used to demolish Palestinian homes. May they be next to boycott Israel.

• Gingrich comment that Palestinians are an 'invented people' enters primary debate
  • spuxx December 11, 2011 at 4:57 pm

    "His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
    - Balfour 1917

    The Balfour Decleration seems to recognise a Palestinian people, one which didn't need to migrate across continents, revive a language, adapt to a new climate, learn new geography or eat new foods.

• IDF kills Palestinian protester and tweets '#Fail'
  • spuxx December 10, 2011 at 2:39 pm with 3 replies

    May he rest in Peace. From God we come, and to him we return.

    The symbolism speaks for itself.

    There is plenty of footage of the IDF standing by, even protecting, settlers as they throw stones at Palestinians making their way to school or shopping, with none of them having the protection of a helmet or armored car. Maybe the Palestinians should swap the sling shot for the pain ball gun as used on the Mavi Marmarra.

• Gingrich says Palestinians are an 'invented people'
  • spuxx December 9, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country"

• Santorum says West Bank is Israel's Texas, and all who live there are 'Israelis'
  • spuxx November 22, 2011 at 11:42 am with 1 replies

    So if the US forces in Afghanistan went to war with Russia, and Russia won territory, would that make Afghanistan Russian?

• Not my President
  • spuxx June 25, 2011 at 1:14 pm with 1 replies

    I wonder what the response of the State Department would be if a flotilla to Benghazi was threatened by Gaddafi?

• Hillary gives Israel green light to 'defend' itself from flotilla
  • spuxx June 24, 2011 at 2:19 pm with 3 replies

    The flotilla is avoiding Israeli waters, Hillary.

• Israel demolishes bedouin community in the Jordan Valley; 42 people homeless, including 21 children
  • spuxx June 21, 2011 at 9:36 pm

    Who is wiping who off the map?

• Bedouins displaced and dispossessed by settlement expansion in the West Bank
  • spuxx June 16, 2011 at 10:38 am

    Who is wiping who off the map?

    Had these Bedouins been Jewish, their treatment would be called antisemitic. Yet these people are semitic and have a much deeper connection to the land than migrants from Moscow or New York, who in 20 years will probably be dining at Bedouin themed restaurants complete with plastic camels and polyester tents.

• The guard told me 'you are nothing like the Muslim prisoners'. He was wrong
  • spuxx April 7, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    They gave money to the same charities that where still being funded by the USAID programme.

• Congressman Peter King suggests that Muslims are not American
  • spuxx January 11, 2011 at 8:27 pm with 2 replies

    “We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry." - Peter King, supporter of the IRA

• Eden Abergil responds to critics: 'I can’t afford Arab-lovers to ruin the perfect life I live! I’ve got no remorse and no regrets.'
  • spuxx August 19, 2010 at 6:40 pm with 2 replies

    " There are no laws in war!! I hate Arabs and wish them all the worst and it would be fun for me to kill them or even massacre them" - Most moral army in the world.

    "I’m not humane to murderers!"
    I wonder if any of these cuffed men were charged with any crime, let alone murder.

• Eid al-Fitr, 9/11, and my status in America
  • spuxx August 19, 2010 at 10:21 am

    I remember seeing this photo of the Empire State Building bathed in green light to celebrate Eid. I hope this year the same tradition is upheld, be it on the 11th or whenever. Ramadan Kareem.

    link to a.imageshack.us

• 'Renowned philosopher' says Jews invented democracy (OK, but what about hummus?)
  • spuxx June 21, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    an island of democracy.

    Like all islands, due to excessive CO2, it is at risk of being submerged by rising tides. Maybe BHL will finally wake up. Hopefully he will discover Martin Luther rather than King Canute.

  • spuxx June 21, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    It also shatters the claim that Israel and the USA's foreign policies are perfectly aligned. BHL in an earlier fantasy piece on the blockade, commented that the blockade was also enforced by Egypt. I wonder if he truly would support democracy promotion in the land of the Pharohs, some how I doubt it?

• Abbas seems to know, one-state solution is coming
  • spuxx June 10, 2010 at 10:22 am

    The BBC showed a report from the West Bank yesterday, where Salam Fayyad said he is no longer going to wait for diplomacy and negotiations, but is building his own facts on the ground. He is hopeful and says 2011 will be the year in which the occupation ends.

    link to bbc.co.uk

• I think Matthews feels Helen Thomas's pain
  • spuxx June 7, 2010 at 10:00 pm with 1 replies

    "When asked about a Palestinian state, Gov. Huckabee stated that he supports creating a Palestinian state, but believes that it should be formed outside of Israel. He named Egypt and Saudi Arabia as possible alternatives"
    - Mike Huckabee, HuckabeePresidential Candidate and Fox Television Host.

• An unqualified defense of Helen Thomas
  • spuxx June 7, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    I see the Whitehouse was pretty quick to condemn these remarks as 'Offensive And Reprehensible', I wonder what that makes the attack on an Aid flotilla, or the blinding of an activist, or the bombing of Gaza?

• The Helen Thomas moment
  • spuxx June 5, 2010 at 9:22 pm with 2 replies

    In her defence, she was asked for her comments on Israel not Jews, she responded 'Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember these people are occupied and it's their land'.

    She then said they should go home ' back to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else'. I'm not so sure the case against her is technically as damming as some make out, still wouldn't like to be in her shoes though.

• Remembering the dead and the Rachel Corrie’s mission
  • spuxx June 4, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    I heard that tape too and it sounds fake to me, especially when compared to an earlier recording audio youtube clip that was released by the IDF desk.

    It seems rather transparent: antisemetic remark - check, anti american remark - check, and all in crystal clear audio, unlike the audio on the original far less damming tape which was pimped out.

  • spuxx June 4, 2010 at 10:00 pm

    This website has been set up which is collating the survivors testimonies:
    link to gazaflotillasurvivors.posterous.com

    A shorter summary of witness accounts appears here:
    link to newshoggers.com

    And the NYT's Ethan Bronner has a piece that starts off by saying that shots were fired from the helicopter prior to the commando's descent:
    link to nytimes.com

• Israeli soldiers fire rubber bullets at journalists in East Jerusalem
  • spuxx February 16, 2010 at 11:47 pm

    Revealing footage of a similar attack on a journalist reporting from the seperation fence in the West Bank
    link to youtube.com

• 'LA Times' gives Wiesenthal Center a platform to spin falsehoods about Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem
  • spuxx February 13, 2010 at 2:50 pm with 1 replies

    Israel claims to build on the land of their ancestors, well in this case it's clear they are building on the bones of someone elses ancestors.

  • spuxx February 13, 2010 at 12:32 pm

    May I suggest building a library instead, ideally one with a section for dictionaries so that the word tolerance can be looked up by these 'tolerant' Israelis.

• Obama czar wrote that Muslims are 'prone' to 'virulent' conspiracy theorizing-- maybe due to bad parenting
  • spuxx January 25, 2010 at 11:21 am

    "They attack us because of our freedoms" it seems the western elites have their own cravings for conspiracy theories too.

• 2 state solution needed in a hurry, for U.S. and Israel
  • spuxx January 21, 2010 at 9:57 am

    I personally have tried to stop referring to the settlements as illegal, and instead refer the settlers as criminals. I think such a change in language is useful, as illegal, especially in the wake or the Iraq war, has lost it's meaning. Whereas criminal suggests something or someone that runs contrary to all nations.

• Port-au-Hasbara
  • spuxx January 20, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    Meanwhile Israel has stopped issuing work permits for International NGOs working in the occupied territories. I guess we won't see that on CNN or the symbolic donations of toys made by Palestinians to the children of Haiti.
    link to haaretz.com

• Low Expectations for Hard Bigotry in Israel
  • spuxx January 12, 2010 at 8:39 pm

    "Israelis More Tolerant of Arabs Than Swiss" is the headline I'm waiting for.

• This has to be seen to be believed: Bil'in leader charged with arms possession
  • spuxx December 23, 2009 at 12:48 pm with 2 replies

    By Israel's own twisted logic, the rockets of Hamas are in fact military aid donated at great personal risk .

  • spuxx December 23, 2009 at 11:59 am

    There is something about the spent tear gas cannister that serves as a rather apt metaphor for Israel at this moment.

    It is too often casually launched at civilians where it whistles and wheezes and blinds all it in touches, but when the smoke has cleared all that is left but a scortched and empty husk.

    Give 'em enough rope.

• Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? In Israeli prison, of course!
  • spuxx December 21, 2009 at 7:03 pm with 6 replies

    Surely if you need the other side to produce a Ghandi, then you are on the wrong side.

• A Jewish focus won't end a more-than-Jewish problem
  • spuxx October 31, 2009 at 12:55 pm with 1 replies

    The one state solution is useful as a threat, but it is lightyears away from being a credible prospect. Israel and the lobby can't even give up settlement expansion, I can see them giving up Tel - Aviv.

• did Harvard invite Orval Faubus and Bull Connor to speak in '60s?
  • spuxx October 31, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    Give them enough rope I say

• Nobel prize was an effort to box Obama in on Iran
  • spuxx October 15, 2009 at 11:17 am with 1 replies

    I we can have pre-emptive war, why not pre-emptive peace.

• MSNBC airs Greenwald saying Israel flouts NPT and 'slaughters' neighbors
  • spuxx October 5, 2009 at 4:20 pm with 1 replies

    I think from a tactical perspective it is easier to explain that Ahmadinejad doesn't have the authority (let alone the means) to strike Israel. Just liken him to Biden.

• the Gaza international lip service
  • spuxx September 16, 2009 at 10:05 am

    First we were told Gaza was in Lockdown because of rockets. There have not been any rockets for a while, so why is Gaza still in lockdown?

    The empror has no clothes, but the subjects are bashful.

• After UN commission charges Gaza war crimes, PBS affords Michael Oren a platform
  • spuxx September 16, 2009 at 9:41 am

    A three year mis-quote or rather mis-mis-quote, of a president who has neither the means or the authority to persue such an action, is being to used to justify Isralei crimes not in Iran, but in Gaza.

    Surley this is where one's ire should lie, with those who would strech and strain to justify criminality, not those who try to excavate and examine the evidence.

    You yourself admit that the quote can be interpreted as entirely passive, so should you not critise Reuven Rivlin who said "The same U.N. that allows the president of a country to announce on a podium its aspiration to destroy the State of Israel has no right to teach us about morality,"

• Jason Jason bring the basin! No stop, bring the mop!
  • spuxx August 6, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    Second time lucky.
    Ilena posing with Avigdor

• The ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem continues
  • spuxx August 2, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    So this is what 'natural growth' looks like.

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