Category: Israel

We were there

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA …and on a brighter note: [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234

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General’s son

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4ZfnpN4Dfc From: Marjorie J Wright Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 8:53 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: Miko Peled and The Constituency of Conscience This is an excellent short video directed by my friend Ed Sweed and created by the Alternate Focus team, with whom I had the pleasure of working in San Diego.  It is …

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Sit down & shut up

Kindly remain seated By Lamis Andoni, 27 May 2011 09:29 … Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu must have felt more at home speaking to the US Congress than when he addressed the Israeli parliament: Had he made the same speech at the Knesset, he would have been repeatedly cut off by members – Arabs and Jews …

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A moral abdication

The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment By Peter Beinart, June 10, 2010 … In 2003, several prominent Jewish philanthropists hired Republican pollster Frank Luntz to explain why American Jewish college students were not more vigorously rebutting campus criticism of Israel. In response, he unwittingly produced the most damning indictment of the organized American Jewish …

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It was all rather disgusting

Bibi and the Yo-Yos By Uri Avnery, May 26, 2011 … It was all rather disgusting. There they were, the members of the highest legislative bodies of the world’s only superpower, flying up and down like so many yo-yos, applauding wildly, every few minutes or seconds, the most outrageous lies and distortions of Binyamin Netanyahu. …

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29 standing ovations

Why the US applauds Israeli defiance By Rupert Cornwell, Thursday, 26 May 2011 … Accounts vary on whether Benjamin Netanyahu received 28 or 29 standing ovations during his address to the US Congress on Tuesday. But the exact figure scarcely matters. Suffice it to note that they were two or three more than the 26 …

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His predecessors wallowed

Shalom, Netanyahu By Gideon Levy, 02:51 26.05.11 … The “speech of his life” must now quickly become the speech of Prime MInister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political demise. The hour is pressing, there is no time and nothing is going to come of Netanyahu any more. Even the snake oil peddlers who proffered masses of expectations in …

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