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Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Warfare State: Pentagon Taking Over U.S. Foreign Policy

by Sherwood Ross, source September 24, 2009 The Pentagon has virtually replaced the State Department in making U.S. foreign policy, The Nation magazine charges. “Quietly, gradually–and inevitably, given the weight of its colossal budget and imperial writ–the Pentagon has all but eclipsed the State Department at the center of US foreign policy-making,” reporter Stephen Glain [...]

Khalid Amayreh Interview: “the mental landscape of every Palestinian man, woman and child is overwhelmed with the Israeli nightmare”

By Mary Rizzo, Palestinian think tank Those who seek information about Palestine often tend to be attracted to particular writers and journalists for the special insights and gifts that seem to be uniquely their own. “The Middle East Crisis” is an issue having a profound, complex and multi-faceted dimension of interpretation, that for however long [...]

Israeli drive to prevent Jewish girls dating Arabs

Peace just around the corner?! Another look into the diseased Israeli mindset. by Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent September 25, 2009 – The National NAZARETH // A local authority in Israel has announced that it is establishing a special team of youth counsellors and psychologists whose job it will be to identify young Jewish women who [...]

Spain expels Israeli scientists from solar energy competition

Thanks to irish4palestine for alerting us of this, finally some sensible actions are big done even if it is an extremely small step compared to the hideous crimes in Palestine but any step in the right direction is welcomed. As usual the Israelis who stole and killed the people to build that university cry anti-Semitism, [...]

UK diplomat convicted for being rude to “Israel”

Unbelievable! He committed the gravest sin ever! He criticized the Israelis for their crimes! What an evil man, tsk tsk. Sheesh according to their definition there would be at least a billion people who are “rude” to the Israelis, lets chuck them all in jail. Let’s not forget the utter mad idea that one is [...]

Ousted Honduran President: Israelis Sent to Kill Me

Al manar 25/09/2009 Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who returned to his country this week after three months in exile, is accusing his government of hiring Israeli mercenaries to torture him with high-frequency radiation in his safe haven in the Brazilian Embassy. In a conversation with the Miami Herald, Zelaya said that he has begun [...]

More Palestinian Children Getting Jailed

By Mel Frykberg BI’ILIN, West Bank, Sep 24, 2009 (IPS) – Eight children between the ages of 10 and 17 were arrested and detained by Israeli soldiers during military raids Monday night and Tuesday morning in the northern West Bank cities Nablus and Qalqilia. Defence for Children International (DCI) Palestine has released a statement that [...]

Max Boot: Propagandist and Apologist for War Crimes

By Max Kantar, source The recent publication of the UNHRC’s report on Israel’s December-January assault on the Gaza Strip, also known as the Goldstone Report, has elicited some rather hysterical reactions from Israel’s leading apologists. Perhaps among the most desperate of the attempts to deflect legitimate criticism of Israeli war crimes is an article entitled, [...]

The “democracy” that can do no wrong

“Israel” and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza By Paul J. Balles, source September 23, 2009 Paul J. Balles considers the “lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia” inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel’s apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes [...]

The making of Salam Fayyad

Eh call a stooge a stooge instead of all these words. The Zionists made him and put him in place to further corrupt the PA officials (if that is even possible since it is already corrupt to the brim) . Fayyad is much like Karazi, Abbas, Sinyora, most Arab rulers, and the shah before them [...]

Ahmadinejad: Why focus on Holocaust?

Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Press TV Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on the US media to shift their focus away from the Holocaust into other massacres that have taken place in the world. “There are many historical events, similar historical events. Why is this one in particular so important to you?… During World War [...]

“Israel’s” thirst for the Nile’s water

The Nile Water… When would water go after gas to the Zionist state? It is a declaration of war WRITTEN BY Ali Hattar, TRANSLATED BY Adib S. Kawar, Palestinian think tank What is taking place regarding the Nile’s water is not a simple matter… Without exaggeration… It is as important as war itself… Lieberman, the [...]

Another farcical show

By Khalid Amayreh, source September 23, 2009 One doesn’t have to be a prophet to predict the outcome, or more correctly failure, of the three-way meeting between President Obama, the Israeli premier Benyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (whose term in office expired in January 2009), which took place in New York [...]

McChrystal’s Conundrum

by Justin Raimondo, September 23, 2009, source Is the Afghan war already lost? Well, not quite, says the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, but almost: “Failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) – while Afghan security capacity matures – risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is [...]

Neo-cons never left and the fear factory continues: If you want another 9/11, leave Afghanistan, Rice says

Does the fear strategy still work? Are there people who still believe in this non-sense of preemptive wars and killing people to make the world “more safe”? Well if the neo-cons and Zionists are still using it then there must be some pretty stupid people out there who still listen to them! Tue, 22 Sep [...]

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