Category: Israel

Eager to delete the past

The ‘long journey’ to Palestine By Ghada Karmi, 09 Dec 2013 12:32   This December will be remembered as the month which saw Nelson Mandela’s passing, a landmark event ending the epic life of a man who left a legacy of compassion for all who suffered injustice, not least the Palestinians. He spoke about the …

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Cruelty has no geographic boundaries

An obsessive’s documenting of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon can show us how the West lost respect for international law By Robert Fisk, Sunday 8 December 2013   Odd Karsten Tveit was always a very obsessional chap. Every story he covered, he always wanted to dig deeper, study further, hear one more tale of horror, …

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The Last Strumpet

Doomsday theory 2014: Obama as the anti-Christ By Jordan Yerman, Dec 2nd, 2013   [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPQnsizbos[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RPQnsizbos How the world will end: Not with a bang, but with a soundtrack 2012 came and went with no apocalypse. No economic implosion (we got that one a few years earlier). No Rogue Planet Nibiru. Those who were so …

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As long as the Palestinians are not free

Mandela’s mission is not yet complete By Gideon Levy, Dec. 8, 2013 2:30 AM   South African President Nelson Mandela, in his address for International Solidarity Day with the Palestinian People on December 4, 1997, said: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” And Prime Minister Benjamin …

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The triumph of light over darkness

Our Freedom Seems Possible Because You Reached Yours By Marwan Barghouti, 06 Dec 2013   “During the long years of my own struggle, I had the occasion to think many times of you, dear Nelson Mandela. Even more since my arrest in 2002. I think of a man who spent 27 years in a prison …

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What constitutes security for Israel

Obama Crushes the Neocons By Michael Tomasky, November 25th 20135:45 am   Well, the ayatollah appears to have lent his provisional support to the historic U.S.-Iran accord announced Saturday night. In a letter to President Hassan Rouhani, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said the deal “can be the basis for further intelligent actions.” Now we just …

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Systematic and institutionalized

UNICEF isn’t anti-Semitic By Gideon Levy, Mar. 10, 2013 2:45 AM   It has already been met here with a typical shrug of the shoulders, the report by the United Nations Children Fund declaring that Palestinian children detained by the Israel Defense Forces are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law. Now it’s …

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