A Democracy Now! video on the latest developments at UC Berkeley in the US on the issue of boycott, divestment and sanctions against multinationals doing business in Palestine. Soon successes will flourish across America:
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Mearsheimer knows that a bi-national state is on its way
John Mearsheimer, co-author of The Israel Lobby, a former believer of the two-state solution in the Middle East, gave a speech last week at Washington DC’s Palestine Centre. It was powerful, moving and transformative. When conservatives such as this start recognising reality, things are changing: [T]there is going to be a Greater Israel between the…
Murdoch man says the Left is the Devil warmed up
The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan – predictably pro-Murdoch, pro-Israel and pro-American – offers his latest gem: The Left in Australia has great staying power. It is forever on the long march through the institutions. It creates nothing, but its destructive power is fantastic.
Guardian says that Obama may lightly tap Israel on the arm
Read with caution but if true a welcome development (though, how much longer must we accept the role of the Palestinian Authority as representing all Palestinians? They do not:) The US has given private assurances to encourage the Palestinians to join indirect Middle East peace talks, including an offer to consider allowing UN security council…
Drone pilots should hire lawyers immediately
Killing civilians from the air may be illegal. Thank you for stating the bleeding obvious: The pilots waging America’s undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for “war crimes,” a prominent law professor told a Congressional panel Wednesday.
The charming gassing of fellow Arabs by Egypt
Mubarak’s Egypt, doing the dirty work of Israel and America and laughing all the way to the corrupt bank. A “moderate” Arab regime, in the words of policy makers and Zionists: Egyptian forces pumped gas into a cross-border tunnel used to smuggle goods into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians, Hamas officials said.…
Hizbollah rearms and accused of terrorism and Israel just continually rearms
Remind me who is the neighbourhood bully in the Middle East? It certainly isn’t Hizbollah or Lebanon: Hezbollah on Wednesday shot back at US charges it was stockpiling sophisticated weapons, accusing Washington of destabilising the Middle East and vowing to continue to build its artillery. “The resistance has the right to use all legitimate means…
A day will come, and soon, when America will have to face what they’re backing in Israel
Henry Siegman, former national director of the American Jewish Congress, asks a question for anybody loving Israel to death: Most of the political parties that comprise Netanyahu’s government, including Yisrael Beiteinu, led by Avigdor Lieberman, Netanyahu’s Foreign Minister, and Shas, have left no doubt that if forced to choose between democracy and the state’s Jewish…
Californian Jews on speaking out and saying what they want on Palestine
Let’s celebrate the fact that growing numbers of Jews in the US are not staying silent anymore: An ad hoc group of prominent San Francisco Bay Area Jews is publishing an “Open Letter to All Jewish Communities” in the national Jewish newspaper, The Forward, warning of an upsurge in efforts to silence debate about the…
Abu Ghraib was only the beginning
This is what the Western allies have given the Iraqi people; a land destroyed by war that still tortures citizens on a daily basis. NPR reports on a Human Rights Watch investigation that details shocking tales of abuse at a secret Iraqi prison: