Finding a Better Way Forward in the Middle East!

To Kill an American

Seeded on Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:30 PM EST (YouTube)

We don't hate America. We all love America. Arab, Africans, Asians... Muslims, Jews, Buddhist... Those who don't like Americans are nothing but warmongers and their allies.

bush, israel, iran, america, peace, politics, american, god, love, palestine

Ex Israeli supreme court judge slams human rights violations in... the USA!!

Seeded on Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:49 AM EST (CNET News.com)

Former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak slammed the state of human rights in the United States Saturday, calling it 'appalling' and saying the Israeli High Court is doing a far better job of upholding rights laws.

israel, america, usa, justice, supreme-court, world-news, aharon-barak

Does Livni, like Avigdor Lieberman, want to expell all Palestinians out of Israel?

Seeded on Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:43 AM EST (Haaretz)

Livni's declaration is seen in the eyes of many as a significant step toward the implementation of the transfer plan that in days gone by was the declared dream of marginal political figures and bodies.

israel, palestinian, palestine, world-news, occupation, ethnic-cleansing, livni

Demands of a thief

Seeded on Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:05 PM EST (Haaretz)

..."To give or not to give," ... It was worth going to Annapolis if only for this reason - but this discourse is baseless and distorted.

israel, palestine, thief, world-news, annapolis, occupation, gideon-levy

US is'worst' imperialist: archbishop

Seeded on Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:29 AM EST (The Times)

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the United States wields its power in a way that is worse than Britain during its imperial heyday.

america, archbishop, usa, world-news, imperialism, rowan-williams, canterbury, imperialist

Rightist manifesto: Settler evacuation is 'crime against humanity'

Seeded on Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:54 AM EST (Haaretz)

About 150 right-wing activists, including academics and Israel Defense Forces reserves officers, have signed a manifesto to be published Friday calling on security forces to refuse evacuating West Bank settlers on the grounds that it is a "crime against humanity." [...]

human-rights, israel, diaspora, palestinian, palestine, world-news, annapolis, right-wing, occupation, zionist

Darkness falls on the Middle East

Seeded on Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:50 AM EST (Independent.co.uk)

So what can a Middle East correspondent write on a Saturday morning except that the world in the Middle East is growing darker and darker by the hour. Pakistan. Afghanistan. Iraq. "Palestine". Lebanon.

pakistan, lebanon, middle-east, west, palestine, world-news, robert-fisk

Facts regarding Israel's Fuel and Electricity Cuts

Seeded on Fri Nov 23, 2007 1:20 PM EST (gisha.org)

# Updated information indicates that since fuel supplies have been cut, every day, on a rotating basis, 50,000 residents are not receiving clean water to their homes because there is not enough fuel to operate the generators that help power Gaza's water wells. # In total, becaus …

human-rights, israel, palestinians, war-crimes, gaza, palestine, world-news, occupation, gisha

Film shows six Israeli women who inflicted and witnessed torture

Seeded on Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:23 PM EST (Reuters)

One posed for a photo as she scrubbed a Palestinian corpse. Another stripped a man to his underwear and then beat him. A third helped cover up the abuse of a young boy...

israel, reuters, film, palestinians, war-crimes, palestine, torture, world-news, occupation

Cancer patient dies after Israel entry refusal

Seeded on Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:49 PM EST (YouTube)

A 21-year old cancer patient in Gaza who had been seeking vital medical treatment in Israel, has died. Na'el al Kurdi is one of dozens of people being prevented by Israel from using the Beit Hanoun crossing for apparent security reasons.

human-rights, israel, cancer, palestinians, war-crimes, gaza, palestinian, palestine

In the war of words, The Times is Israel's ally

Seeded on Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:39 AM EST (The L.A. Times)

No issue better illustrates Orwell's point than coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the United States. Consider, for example, the editorial in The Times on Feb.

media, israel, palestinians, journalist, politics, international-law, journalists, palestine, us-media

Austrian bishops barred from Jewish holy site in Jerusalem for wearing crosses

Seeded on Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:29 AM EST (International Herald Tribune)

Thirteen Austrian bishops were barred from praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall last week by Jewish religious authorities when they refused to take off their crosses, according to Austrian officials.

israel, bishops, religion, jerusalem, austrian

Charges dropped against last of 'Los Angeles Eight'

Seeded on Sat Nov 17, 2007 3:33 AM EST (The San Francisco Chronicle)

On Oct.

israel, palestinians, terrorism, politics, justice, free-speech, prison, supreme-court, los-angeles, civil-liberties

Interrogation and Denial: How Israel Keeps Palestinians Down and Out

Sat May 5, 2007 12:51 PM EDT

The following shocking testimony is a sample of what an uprooted Palestinian face if s/he wish to return home, Palestine.

Continue reading this entry ...

human-rights, israel, chile, palestine, world-news, occupation

Time will Never Heal this Wound

Seeded on Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:43 AM EDT (miftah.org)

For Israeli Jews, this week was all about celebrations, barbecues and oversized blue and white flags fluttering in the spring breeze as their country celebrated the 59th anniversary of its independence.

israel, politics, gaza-strip, west-bank, palestinian-authority, palestine

Why Boycott Israel?

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:13 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

So what explains this fury at Israel -- and only at Israel? What explains this need to denounce, to boycott? Some of it surely comes from the uncritical support that Israel gets from the United States, which to lefties all over the world is a vile state, maybe worthy -- if it wer …

israel, politics, west-bank, palestine, boycott

Prisoners in Israel

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:14 AM EDT (mwcnews.net)

Ahmed Tamimi, a Palestinian serving life in an Israeli prison, needs a kidney transplant – but four years after his nephew Amin came forward as a donor, the Israeli authorities say that they will not pay for the operation.

human-rights, israel, palestine, world-news

UN Official Says Humanitarian Crisis in Palestine

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:50 AM EDT (amin.org)

With at least 530 barriers and checkpoints in place, peoples' lives are completely disrupted. Moreover, Palestinian villages have been torn asunder by movement restrictions because they do not have normal economic life.

west-bank, palestine, world-news, occupied-palestinian-territories, middle-east-watch

Rising anti-Semitism in Israel meets state's blind eye

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:47 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Rabbi Avraham Levine never imagined that years after immigrating from Russia to Israel he would fall victim to a brutal anti-Semitic attack in the heart of the Jewish state.

israel, politics, anti-semitism

Is Bishara the 'Palestinian Herzl'?

Seeded on Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:13 AM EDT (Haaretz)

The recent affair concerning the criminal investigation of MK Azmi Bishara, the Israeli Arab Balad party chairman who has left the country, has spawned a multitude of journalistic reports and commentaries.

israel, politics, west-bank, palestine, azmi-bishara

Will I hang the flag?

Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:07 PM EDT (Haaretz)

During my childhood, there was no question about it: My parents would take the national flag out of the cupboard each year, proudly display it on the balcony, and it would drown in the street's sea of blue and white.

israel

Anti-Semitism on IDF base

Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:04 PM EDT (CNET News.com)

According to the soldier, he decided to move to Israel from France after suffering years of anti-Semitism in the country.

israel, politics, anti-semitism

When an Anti-Semite is Not an Anti-Semite

Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:20 AM EDT (CounterPunch)

What do Einstein, Mahatma Ghandi, Ehud Olmert and, yes, me all have in common? We could each be censured for racism according to the European Union Monitoring Centre's 'working definition of anti-Semitism' which was last week adopted by the UK's National Union of Students as offi …

israel, politics, racism, palestine, apartheid, anti-semite, semite

AIPAC and the muzzling of the US Peace movement

Seeded on Mon Apr 23, 2007 2:10 AM EDT (muzzlewatch.com)

Now there is more evidence on how AIPAC is attempting to influence US Foreign policy in Iran. And to be clear, AIPAC can do whatever it wants within the legal constraints of US law, and per the first amendment, we can talk about such activity.

usa, politics, aipac