A night in Bilin

by Jody McIntyre writing from Bilin, occupied West Bank, Live from Palestine, 31 July 2009, source Over the last few weeks, the residents of Bilin have been subjected to constant night raids by the Israeli military, in retaliation to their weekly nonviolent demonstrations, now in their fifth year, against the Apartheid Wall, which has stolen [...]

Message to the world: Gaza children shatter world record

…Message to the world International media, including Al Jazeera English, witnessed the record-breaking event. The world record event, however, was not just about records, say organisers. They say it sends an important message to the world. “There is a glorious symbolism about thousands of children in the world’s most locked down community heading to the [...]

Facts vs. Beliefs – Today’s Ancient Warfare

By Jeff Gates, source In unconventional warfare, beliefs are deployed as weapons by those waging war by way of deception. Does anyone recall Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraq’s biological weapons laboratories? The Iraqi meetings in Prague with Al Qaeda? Iraq’s purchases of yellowcake uranium from Niger? All were alleged [...]

“Israel’s” Discriminatory Land Policies

by Stephen Lendman, Global research Israel’s late 1947 -1948 “War of Independence” took six months to create a new Jewish state, excluding Arabs to the greatest extent possible. To accomplish it, widespread war crimes and atrocities were committed as about 800,000 people were brutally uprooted, ethnically cleansed, or murdered in cold blood. In addition, 531 [...]

The Biden and Clinton Mutinies

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN, counter punch Time bombs tossed seemingly casually in the past month by his vice president and his secretary of state disclose president Obama, in the dawn of his first term, already the target of carefully meditated onslaughts by senior members of his own cabinet. At the superficial level Obama is presiding over [...]

Why Obama’s peace process is still going nowhere

I don’t agree with the author that a one state solution or a bi-national one is possible not that I believe in a two-state solution either. The idea is not it is unrealistic or utopian but I’m not sure how what the Palestinians have been dealing with from Israelis for decades is ever going to [...]

Fatah: Don’t allow Dayton to control your convention

By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank, source July 30, 2009 I think it would be safe to say that virtually all Palestinians, including Hamas, would like to see Fatah’s upcoming Congress succeed in rehabilitating the movement, mainly by extricating it from the quagmire of corruption, treachery and “security coordination” with Israel, the Nazi-like occupier [...]

US Briefs “Israel” on New Iran Nuke Sanctions

Al manar 31/07/2009 American officials briefed Israel this week on the administration’s ideas for intensifying sanctions against Iran if it fails to respond to President Barack Obama’s offer of dialogue. U.S. National Security Advisor James Jones, who is now in Israel to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, indicated that Tehran has until the UN General Assembly [...]

Unprecedented mass storming of the Aqsa Mosque

Unprecedented mass storming of the Aqsa Mosque 29/07/2009 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– More than 200 Jewish fanatics on Wednesday morning stormed the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem and offered Talmudic rituals on the anniversary of the so-called destruction of the temple. The Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage said in a statement that the Jews [...]

Preparing for war

Yes that is done when you are a government aiming to wage a war or one who wants to defend itself but does a citizen and a civilian do that? The sad truth is these days civilians need to prepare for war because when it comes to invaders and followers of strategies that target civilians [...]

The Disappearing Palestinian?

by Philip Giraldi, July 30, 2009, source Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once said that there were no Palestinians. All she had to do was look out the window to see an Arab or two, but her point was less factual than political in that she was denying that there had ever been any national [...]

CSM: Arabs Losing Hope in Obama’s Ability to Broker ‘Peace”

30/07/2009,  The Christian Science Monitor, source Nearly two months after President Obama’s historic address to the Muslim world from Cairo, his administration made a high-profile drive this week to shore up Arab and Israeli support for a comprehensive peace deal. A trio of senior officials – US Mideast envoy George Mitchell, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, [...]

Using the UN to undermine Palestinian rights

by Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 29 July 2009 European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana surprised observers on 11 July when he called, during a speech in London, for the UN Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state by a certain date even if no agreement had been reached between Israelis and Palestinians. [...]

“Israel” wrestles with Iran problem

By Ramzy Baroud, source Israeli officials face a conundrum that may take more than military muscle-flexing to resolve: how to deal with Iran? The solution to this dilemma will require no less than sheer political genius. It must be frustrating for Israeli policymakers and their friends and backers elsewhere to stand idle as Iran openly [...]

New Jersey’s Corruption Scandal: The Israeli Connection and thier insulting leader

Time, By MATTHEW KALMAN / JERUSALEM – Tue Jul 28, source The mass arrests in the New Jersey corruption scandal last week were big news – in Israel. Images of prominent rabbis and Jewish businessmen being cuffed and arrested after morning prayers filled the front pages under headlines trumpeting the discovery of the “Jewish laundry” [...]