Category: Palestine

Protestant empire

Where Exactly Is Biblical Israel? By Rachel Havrelock, 1/14/12 05:07 PM ET … The phrase “Biblical Israel” often passes on the lips of Republican presidential contenders, representatives of the Netanyahu government, and Israeli settlers. But where exactly is this Israel of the Bible to be found? Not in the Bible itself. The Hebrew Bible (known …

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Grovelling to Netanyahu

The ‘invented people’ stand little chance By Robert Fisk, Saturday 14 January 2012 … Thank goodness we don’t have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an “invented people” marked about the lowest point in the Republican-Christian Right-Likudist/Israel relationship. So deep has this pact now become that you can …

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Warmongers’ wet dream

What War With Iran Might Look Like By Philip Giraldi, Thursday, 12 January 2012 16:34 … Back in September 2007 I wrote an article for Antiwar.com called “What World War III May Look Like.” The article, which presumed that an incident involving U.S. troops on the border between Iraq and Iran could easily escalate into …

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Newt Gingrich is a big fat idiot

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EItk7TuuV0[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EItk7TuuV0 Newt Gingrich: Palestinians are an ‘invented’ people By Natasha Mozgovaya and Reuters, 01:41 10.12.11 … U.S. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thrust himself into controversy on Friday by declaring that the Palestinians are an “invented” people who want to destroy Israel. The former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives predictably sided with Israel …

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I wish him to have dignity

Rebel without a state By Evgeny Lebedev, Saturday 07 January 2012 … From Jerusalem, the drive to Gaza passes tidy fields and shops selling locally-produced honey. For the final stretch, conifers line one side of the road. When they part, you catch sight of the wall that marks Gaza’s northern perimeter, its concrete sides topped …

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Death via live broadcast

On third anniversary of Gaza war, we will remember By Amira Hass, 03:53 02.01.12 … On the third anniversary of the Cast Lead onslaught, we remember the anonymous soldiers who fired on a red car, in which a father, Mohammed Shurrab, and his two sons were returning home from their farm lands. It is not …

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…RESIST. …CREATE.

Monsieur d’Nalgar’s note: The title of this post is taken from the last line of Stéphane Hessel’s Indignez vous! TO CREATE IS TO RESIST; TO RESIST IS TO CREATE. The little red book that swept France By John Lichfield, Monday 03 January 2011 … Take a book of just 13 pages, written by a relatively …

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