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UN Committee: Israeli system ‘tantamount to apartheid’
Ethnic Cleansing / Land Theft & Destruction / Occupation & Apartheid / Exile & Restriction of Movement / Refugees Report: Israel issued 13,000 demolition orders against Palestinian real estate Haaretz newspaper said the Israeli civil administration issued 13,000 demolition warnings … Continue reading
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Slater on Beinart
Peter Beinart’s call for religious segregation in the Jewish community would empower the most intolerant political elements of that community
US official — we went to Israel first
US gov’t negotiators on Iran issue briefed Israel on recent talks before they briefed their own government
Israel lobby’s favorite senator tries to erase Palestinian refugee status for millions
Senator Mark Kirk (above) of Illinois is leading an effort that would redefine who a Palestinian refugee is. Critics say the move is one step in a larger strategy to take refugee rights for Palestinians off the negotiating table.
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Nakba, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
Tagged Danny Ayalon, featured, Mark Kirk, right of return, UNRWA
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Aaron David Miller: After a short ‘peace process,’ look for war with Iran in 2013
Aaron David Miller predicts that there will be neither an agreement nor an attack on Iran in 2012. Instead he sees a “peace process” which will create an illusion of progress then end badly. In 2013, with the failure of negotiations, we could see a war, unless there is an “unexpected breakthrough.”
US to differentiate between ‘personally displaced’ Palestinian refugees and their descendants
Today the U.S. government approved the “Kirk amendment,” a resolution to differentiate between Palestinians “personally displaced” in 1948 and their millions of descendants.
Senate fight today over the number of Palestinian refugees
Senate fight today over Palestinian ‘refugees’ Thirty U.S. senators will vote today over whether there really are 5 million Palestinian “refugees” or just around 30,000 — a hot-button issue that has already become the subject of a vigorous international debate involving … Continue reading
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‘Obama will only go as far on Iran as AIPAC permits him to go’
Israel lobby ratchets pressure on Iran, preempting global talks and threatening world peace
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Media, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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Honest broker? Israeli consulate sponsors Obama’s former Middle East peace adviser at Stanford talk!
Dennis Ross worked for Obama for several years on Middle East peace. And before that he worked for Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush too. But he was always accused of bias toward Israel. Aaron David Miller called him Israel’s … Continue reading
Philip Roth on the Israel lobby
Philip Roth wrote that Israel was dependent on the Israel lobby in the U.S. for its existence, in 1986
If Obama really has things under control, then why the loose talk from CentCom’s Mattis?
Obama’s strategy on Iran: keep ratcheting up pressure on Iran with the Israelis, put off military action till after November
U.S. and Israel coordinate– and signal hard line in Iran talks
Hard line against Iran is reminiscent of the hard lines leading up to the invasion of Iraq
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
Pinkwashing and lifestyle liberalism
Belligerent powers in the west are pinkwashing their actions, in a bath of lifestyle liberalism
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.
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
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
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Hunger strikes and Nakba aside, it’s been a busy week in the Middle East
Headlines from around the Middle East.
‘New York Review of Books’ calls it ‘apartheid’ and prepares Americans for the end of the Jewish state
Israel has disenfranchised millions of Palestinians, and robbed them of their dignity and their land, and killed the two state solution — New York Review of Books
