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March 17th, 2010
by Eric Margolis – EricMargolis.com
Israel’s hard right knows that the one sure way of thwarting any possible peace with the Palestinians is to keep annexing East Jerusalem and squeezing out its Arab population. Some of these activities are even financed by American tax-free charities….
After the astounding humiliation of Vice President Joseph Biden by Israel’s rightwing government, that nation’s premier newspaper, “Ha’aretz,” cited an old Hebrew saying, `Biden had to wipe spit off his face and say it was only rain.’
March 15th, 2010
By Patrick J. Buchanan
 Actually, Joe set himself up. From the moment he set foot on Israeli soil, our vice president was in full pander mode.
First, he headed to Yad Vashem memorial, where he put on a yarmulke and declared Israel “a central bolt in our existence.”
“For world Jewry,” Joe went on, presumably including 5 million Americans, “Israel is the heart. … Israel is the light. … Israel is the hope.”
Meeting Shimon Peres the next day, Joe confessed that when he first visited at age 29, “Israel captured my heart.”
March 15th, 2010
by Jim Lobe – Antiwar.com
 “Condemn” is not a word that rolls trippingly off the tongue of a U.S. politician addressing anything having to do with actions, however objectionable, by Israel.
So it was no surprise that close observers of U.S. Middle East policy sat up a lot straighter in their seats when Vice President Joseph Biden used the word not once, but twice, during his visit to Israel this week in reference to the Israeli Interior Ministry’s announcement that it intends to build 1,600 new housing units for Jews in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
February 2nd, 2010
By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
Inter Press News Service
 Scores of Palestinian women and their children carefully sift through the desert sands. They are looking for hard nuggets.
No gold rush here in the Gaza Strip – all they are putting into their sacks are pebbles and pieces of hard rock.
Even Israelis were moved when their main commercial channel, Channel 2, showed on prime time news on Thursday evening the scenes of despair in besieged Gaza.
The pebbles are sold for a pittance to Palestinian contractors who have no other building material with which to reconstruct the thousands of homes and buildings destroyed last year during Israel’s war on Hamas.
February 2nd, 2010
WAKE UP!!! When will we stop being good “Germans”? What will it take for Americans to demand an end to this Holocaust? How long shall we ignore what Israel is doing to these innocent babes? Tell Obama, “Not another dime of our taxes shall be sent to Israel until they stop killing innocent Palestinian children!
http://www.vimeo.com/8789960
January 13th, 2010
By Ray McGovern – ConsortiumNews.com
 Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence screw-up that almost downed an airliner on Christmas Day.
After Obama briefly addressed L’Affaire Abdulmutallab and wrote “must do better” on the report cards of the national security schoolboys responsible for the near catastrophe, the President turned the stage over to counter-terrorism guru John Brennan and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
January 7th, 2010
by Kristoffer Larsson – IMEMC & Agencies
 Florida-based bingo and gambling magnate Irving Moskowitz - Over the past 20 years, his bingo hall has funnelled tens of millions of dollars in to what its opponents — including rabbis serving the Hawaiian Gardens area — describe as an ideologically-driven strategy to grab land for Israel, as well as contributing to influential American groups and thinktanks backing Israel’s more hawkish governments. Four new residential buildings in East Jerusalem were approved by the Jerusalem planning and building committing on Monday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reports. The four buildings, which will house a total of 24 apartments, will be constructed in an area east of the borders of Jerusalem’s Old City.
January 7th, 2010
No Way Through highlights mobility restrictions imposed in the West Bank, that are limiting its inhabitants access to health care, thus violating a fundamental human right.
January 6th, 2010
By Stephen C. Webster – Raw Story
 The delegation is the latest in a series of Israeli officials who called off plans to visit the U.K. due to the threat of arrest under the doctrine of “universal jurisdiction”…
An Israeli military delegation decided against its planned trip to Britain on Tuesday after their hosts could not guarantee that they would not be arrested on war crimes charges, according to a published report.
“The Israelis called off their trip because their British army hosts could not guarantee they would not be arrested, the Israeli officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter,” the Associated Press reported. “Neither the Israeli military nor the British government would comment.”
December 3rd, 2009
Note that nearly 10 years of aggressive land grabbing by Israel has taken place since this map was last updated. The question is: Who is really wiping who off the map?
December 3rd, 2009
By E.B. Solomont – The Jerusalem Post
 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the United Nations General Assembly Palestinian statehood is a “vital” component necessary for regional peace, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, in a message to mark Monday’s annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
But amid criticism of Israel’s settlement activities during the two-day solidarity event, Israeli officials were bracing for Palestinian diplomats to declare new diplomatic strategies during a General Assembly debate on Monday. Specifically, officials were expected to use the platform to ask the Security Council to declare a Palestinian state along 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as the state’s capital, according to reports published in recent weeks.
November 24th, 2009
Soldiers who took part in Israel’s 2008 war on Gaza have spoken out on what they say happened during the 22-day offensive. Now the activist group Breaking the Silence has published soldiers’ testimonies saying crimes were committed, and even encouraged. See fifty-four testimonies of Israeli combat soldiers in the booklet here…
November 23rd, 2009
by Desert Peace
On Saturday, November 21st, Alan Dershowitz was appearing at the 92nd Street Y in N.Y.C. to debate a person representing the new lobby, J Street, on the subject of what the future policies of Israel should be. Dershowitz supports Israel’s most aggressive policies. Aware of that, members of the N.Y. group, Jews Say No, gathered outside the Y with signs and leaflets that said “No, not in our name!” and indicated opposition to the ongoing siege of Gaza, the separation wall, the settlements, and the occupation. People carried placards that read:
November 18th, 2009
By Paul Craig Roberts – Online Journal
 It is conventional wisdom that it was the draft that ended the Vietnam war. According to this explanation, cowardly college students subject to the draft and their unpatriotic families, forced an end to the war. This is Karl Marx’s explanation. Material interests, not empty morality, are said to have brought the war to an end.
November 16th, 2009
Levy: “Those presidents who were called ‘friendly to Israel,’ were worse for Israel. The worst of all was George W. Bush….”
November 10th, 2009
by Meron Rapoport in Jerusalem – Guardian, UK
 Palestinian labourers work at a construction site in a West Bank Jewish settlement. Adrian Agassi believes Israel has a biblical claim to territory beyond its borders. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters • Settlements lawyer reveals core beliefs
• Peace with Palestinians ‘goes against nature’
Major Adrian Agassi did not make the connection between the Bible, the land and the Jews when, fresh out of university, he left England for Israel in search of his roots. He was not even a practising Jew.
November 9th, 2009
By Khalid Amayreh — Desert Peace
 Hundreds of children were killed in Israel’s war on Gaza earlier this year. OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel. “It is permissible to kill the Righteous among non-Jews even if they are not responsible for the threatening situation,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement in the occupied West Bank, wrote in his book “The King’s Torah.”
November 7th, 2009
by Human Rights Watch
57 Palestinians Forced From Their Homes in One Week
 The Israeli government is destroying the homes of Palestinian families and causing unnecessary suffering so that it can expand illegal Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. Israel needs to respect the basic rights of Palestinian families to property and housing…
(Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem should immediately stop demolishing Palestinian homes in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said today.
November 6th, 2009
The video shows three events that took place during this year’s olive harvest in the West Bank: Settlers are seen stealing olives from a grove belonging to a resident of al-Mughair village. Two settlers pick olives and drag filled sacks to a car… Residents discovered several dozens of olive trees had been cut in their groves. Residents of other villages also reported olive trees that had been cut or uprooted… Settler harass olive pickers although soldiers were present… residents of the village were also attacked by several dozens of settlers as they attempted to harvest olives… [Source: btselem.org]
November 6th, 2009
by Dominic Waghorn – Sky News, UK
 ‘Halas’, says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. ‘Enough. It’s over’.
Last night he told his people he has ‘no desire’ to stand in the elections he has called for early next year.
He has made similar threats before, about resigning and not wanting to go on. Whether he means it this time remains an open question. If he does, Palestinian politics is entering extremely choppy waters, and with it the hopes for peace.
But how did we get here, and what happened to the now rapidly unravelling US push for peace?
November 3rd, 2009
by Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
 An Israeli columnist issues a scathing indictment of Israel and calls on the U.S. to apply pressure.
The latest Haaretz column by the outstanding and courageous Israeli columnist, Gideon Levy, is entitled “America, Stop Sucking Up to Israel,” and it highlights one of the most bizarre political facts: criticism of Israeli actions is far more tolerated and permitted in Israeli political discourse than it is in America’s. It’s simply inconceivable that any establishment journalist or national politician would ever echo Levy’s scathing indictments of Israel’s conduct and his calls for the U.S. to apply serious pressure and even threats to coerce changes in Israeli behavior. After describing the increasingly conciliatory actions towards Israel by the Obama administration in exchange for nothing but obstinance, Levy writes:
November 1st, 2009
Israel cuts water pipes, destroy Gaza farms, blockade trucks bringing water to Palestinians while Israelis receive virtually unlimited supplies for swimming pools, etc.
http://www.vimeo.com/7309563
October 29th, 2009
By Daniel Tencer – Raw Story
Note: See video clips here and here….
 Jon Stewart’s comedy news show The Daily Show is reportedly under fire from pro-Israeli groups for giving airtime to two pro-Palestinian figures on Wednesday night.
Stewart hosted Palestinian democracy activist Mustafa Barghouti and human rights activist Anna Baltzer, author of A Witness in Palestine, who explained the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of the Palestinian side.
According to a letter reportedly written by Baltzer and circulated by blogger Eric Johnson, the show “was overwhelmed with angry emails and phone calls prior to the appearance, and up until the last minute it seemed like they might cancel.”
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