Category: Israel

Pushing Obama toward war

44 Senators, including many Democrats, sign AIPAC letter to Obama against Iran negotiations By Philip Weiss, June 16, 2012   Obama Letter P5+1 Final   A terrifying letter, signed by nearly half the Senate, Democrats and Republicans, pushing Obama toward war with Iran– and let’s see who is telling us about it. MJ Rosenberg a …

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Inspired and planned by the institutions of racism

Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s moving reflections on the occupation’s 45th birthday By Henry Norr, June 15, 2012 … Nurit Peled-Elhanan, daughter of a prominent Israeli general and mother of a suicide bombing victim, and her brother Miko Peled have long been among the most courageous Israeli critics of their nation’s treatment of the Palestinians, but this year they’re …

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Among informed and honest observers

Should we call it apartheid? By Omar Baddar, June 11, 2012 … Among informed and honest observers, there is no dispute that Israel is imposing a separate and grossly unequal system of ethnic discrimination on the Palestinians, most blatantly in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). Setting aside the complex system of discrimination within Israel itself, …

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The human propensity to follow

The Milgram Experiment in Syria By Robin Yassin-Kassab, June 10, 2012 … It has thrown students out of top-floor windows. It has shelled cities from the land and from the air. It has raped women and men and tortured children to death. Now with the massacres at Howleh and Qubair – in which Alawis from …

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Claims of a frontier battle

Far-right Europeans and Israelis: this toxic alliance spells trouble By Rachel Shabi, Wednesday 6 June 2012 12.15 EDT … Last month, demonstrations against African refugees in Tel Aviv turned violent. Protesters looted shops, broke windows and firebombed buildings, including a nursery. Days ago, arsonists torched the home of 10 African migrants in Jerusalem, injuring four, …

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And the beat goes on

By Monsieur d’Nalgar, Friday June 8, 2012 … This rant emanates from a Facebook conversation today that followed Maha’s lament. Maha is a Palestinian woman who is frustrated with her Israeli friend. Seems that this friend is blind to historical realities of indigenous villages and peoples systematically erased from the ancient landscape by a new …

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Good luck getting into Israel

‘Do you feel more Arab or more American?’: Two women’s story of being detained and interrogated at Ben Gurion By Najwa Doughman and Sasha Al-Sarabi, June 2, 2012 … I am an American citizen. I went to American schools my entire life, graduated from an American university and work as an architect in New York City. …

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