Archive | January, 2011

DEBBIE MENON : PALESTINE DYING TO LIVE!

DEBBIE MENON : PALESTINE DYING TO LIVE!

You cannot impose a “slow death” on an already dead horse. Once the horse is dead, he is dead!  All you can do is beat him.  Even under the worst of beatings, he will not get back up! The Guardian says: Secret papers reveal slow death of Middle East peace process And in Al Jazeera: [...]

MEDVEDEV’S PALESTINE-JORDAN TRIP PROMOTED RELIGION AND INDEPENDENCE

MEDVEDEV’S PALESTINE-JORDAN TRIP PROMOTED RELIGION AND INDEPENDENCE

Are you listening, you friends of Israel in the US Congress and in the churches of America? The President of Russia knows something you are unable to grasp. To live free is a God-given gift; not to be free is something quite evil. By James M. Wall When Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev arrived in Jericho, [...]

WOULD THE ISOLATION OF AMERICA PERSUADE OBAMA NOT TO VETO?

WOULD THE ISOLATION OF AMERICA PERSUADE OBAMA NOT TO VETO?

How far outside the international consensus the U.S. already is on account of its unconditional support for Israel right or wrong was demonstrated by the fact that the resolution attracted the support of 120 nations. By Alan Hart Despite strong U.S. opposition, a proposed resolution condemning Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank did make [...]

UNSC: AN ORGANIZATION FOR INJUSTICE

UNSC: AN ORGANIZATION FOR INJUSTICE

What is the veto power? The answer is simple. It’s a discriminatory and biased privilege given to five countries to dictate their own will to some 200 countries as they wish. By Kourosh Ziabari Since its very inception in 1946, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) demonstrated that it cannot be trusted as a podium [...]

STUART LITTLEWOOD : LONDON’S FOREIGN OFFICE MIGHT AS WELL RELOCATE TO TEL AVIV

STUART LITTLEWOOD : LONDON’S FOREIGN OFFICE MIGHT AS WELL RELOCATE TO TEL AVIV

The Foreign Office is stuffed with them, all appointed by our new prime minister, David “I’m-a-Zionist” Cameron By Stuart Littlewood What our Foreign Office minister said on his recent visit to Israel and Occupied Palestine shows more clearly than ever why the struggle in the Holy Land extends all the way to our own front [...]

GORDON DUFF: ELVIS, BIN LADEN AND ASSANGE

GORDON DUFF: ELVIS, BIN LADEN AND ASSANGE

TWO HEADS OF THE SAME COIN, “ELVIS BIN LADEN” AND “WIKI-ISRAEL” In 1977 Elvis Presley, “King of Rock and Roll”, died.  Since his death, sightings of Elvis around the world have numbered in the tens of thousands.  In 2001 Osama bin Laden, CIA asset and critic of Israel’s policies in Palestine, died.  Since his death [...]

DAVID HALPIN : The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by Israeli Occupation Force Snipers

DAVID HALPIN : The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by Israeli Occupation Force Snipers

Our Silence is complicity ED NOTE: Shooting boys at work is nothing new for Israel, nor is shooting anyone else. The U.S. FBI calls snipers who kill for sadistic pleasure “Long Distance Serial Killers (LDSK),” just another name for snipers who suffer from a criminal, sadistic psychopathology. I’m not sure I could live with myself if [...]

RICHARD FALK : ON JEWISH IDENTITY

RICHARD FALK : ON JEWISH IDENTITY

The harshest critics of my understanding of the Israel/Palestine conflict contend that I am a self-hating Jew, which implies that sharp criticism of Israel and Zionism are somehow incompatible with affirming a Jewish identity. By Richard Falk As someone who is both Jewish and supportive of the Palestinian struggle for a just and sustainable peace, [...]