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Category Archives: US Politics
‘Foreign Policy’ peddles productive Iranian war theory
Only a bloody war of attrition with Iran will lead Israel to resolve Palestinian conflict, says Israeli prof
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Politics
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Palestinian Authority and Israel on an arresting spree, children and activists detained
Detainees and Other Prisoner News Palestinians arrest 10 Islamic Jihad members Palestinian security forces arrested 10 members of the Islamic Jihad in the Jenin refugee camp on Monday, a local leader of the radical movement said. link to news.yahoo.com Islamic … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Nakba, 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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Google is partnering with Technion and Cornell in NY
E tu Google
Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Media, US Politics
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Israeli judge to issue verdict in Rachel Corrie case
Nearly a decade after Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by the Israeli military with a weaponized Caterpillar D9 tractor, an Israeli judge will issue a ruling in August on the civil suit filed by the Corrie family.
Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, US Politics
94 Comments
Biden meets major Israel lobby group at White House
The three black politicians who broke with Obama are members of the ‘AIPAC generation,’ says MJ Rosenberg
Latest video’d settler shooting could defuse third rail in US discourse
Soldiers stood by as Israeli settlers shot unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in occupied West Bank — and American media are noticing
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics
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Bill Kristol celebrates Republican Party purge of ‘oldfashioned Arabists’ Scowcroft, Baker and Bush I
Republican Party boss Bill Kristol is treated like royalty on the Upper West Side in a “communal” Jewish conversation
Joe Pitts and ‘The Family’
Joe Pitts connection to The Family, a secretive elite Christian fundamentalist organization that consists of men in power.
Posted in US Politics
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This is the gang that is going to save the world economy?
Cameron says the quality of the European discussion of the economy is the best he’s heard in a year, but nothing tangible will result
Posted in US Politics
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Neocons in Washington Post: Military strike on Iran would ‘calm nerves in the region’
Washington Post pushes war with Iran with argument by two neoconservatives
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
33 Comments
South African artists, intellectuals and gov’t ministers take steps to isolate Israel
How long before South Africans are accused of being anti-Semites? South Africa to ban labeling West Bank settlement products as ‘made in Israel’, Amira Hass Minister of Trade and Industry says South Africa recognizes the State of Israel only within … Continue reading
Aharon Appelfeld’s rage at the German language (and Arendt’s need for it)
It wasn’t the German language that went crazy, Hannah Arendt explained. Israeli prize winner calls German a language of murderers
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media
Tagged Aharon Appelfeld, Hannah Arendt, Independent foreign fiction prize
156 Comments
Feeling the hate in Long Island
Obama’s Jewish support has gone from 78% to 62% and rightwing rabbi stirs the pot with video of old Jews hinting Obama is a secret Muslim
‘King Bibi’ is ready for his close up, and ‘Time’ is willing to oblige
Time magazine crowns Benjamin Netanyahu in its latest cover article, although he comes across as the leader of a country on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media
23 Comments
New US demographics make Israel’s demographic fears seem all the more prehistoric
How long will Obama be able to honor Israel’s demographic concerns without sounding like a total racist?
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, US Politics
Tagged featured
28 Comments
Pinkwashing and lifestyle liberalism
Belligerent powers in the west are pinkwashing their actions, in a bath of lifestyle liberalism
Danish right-wing: ‘Made in settlement’ labels preempt Israel’s expanding borders
Yesterday, Denmark announced that produce from Israeli settlements will no longer carry a “made in Israel” sticker, sparking criticism from the country’s extremist anti-immigration political party, Dansk Folkeparti, or the Danish People’s Party (DPP).
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Neocons, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists
65 Comments
WaPo’s Walter Pincus says US is ‘going above and beyond for Israel’
Last year, Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus said the US must reevaluate aid to Israel in light of our country’s economic woes. Yesterday he revisited the issue and is aghast at the largess being thrown Israel’s way.
Censored children’s art show returns to California in San Diego exhibition
After being censored in Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art, the art exhibit “A Child’s View from Gaza” is scheduled to appear at the World Beat Center in San Diego on May 24, 2012 alongside the local premier of the film “Tears of Gaza”.
In photos: San Francisco commemorates Nakba
Ramsey El-Qare photographs Palestinian activists and their political allies at a silent vigil in San Francisco’s Union Square, May 15, commemorating the “Nakba,” or catastrophe, an expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their homeland between 1947 and 1949.
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, Occupation, US Politics
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In ’92, AIPAC president raised $1 million for Bill Clinton — and he supported the settlements
‘Clinton has Jewish friends.’ MJ Rosenberg publishes influence-peddling phone conversation with Israel lobby president, in 1992, that cost the AIPAC president his job
House Dems slam NYPD spy program as throwback to ‘dark chapters’ in US history
Bills introduced in the House aimed to bar federal funds from being used to conduct racial and religious profiling and condemned the NYPD’s spy program.
International attention must be paid to the Palestinian nonviolent movement
The historic hunger strike reminds us that the courage of nonviolent resisters is nurtured by hope in a better tomorrow. The international community must honor this movement with attention and action. If not, a desperate people will lose patience
Dershowitz attacked from right for supporting two-state solution
Settlers push the one state paradigm
Daily escalations in Occupied Palestine
Eight Palestinian farmers are injured in an unprovoked attack
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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