It is pledged to end impunity for the most evil criminals…
There should be no hiding place. But international law never reaches into some corners because the levers that control the wheels of justice, we discover, are sometimes leaned on by the criminals themselves.
by Stuart Littlewood / My Catbird Seat

Calling for Palestinian capitulation, not peace and liberation, Netanyahu delivered a litany of lies, fabrications, misstatements, and half-truths to AIPAC

Ramzy Baroud returns to Gaza –
“The Palestinian security officer at the Rafah border was overly polite.”
“Ramzy Baroud,” called out an older officer loudly. “Welcome home, son,” he said, as he handed me my passport and waved me in. No words could possibly have been sweeter at that moment.

After 17 years of constant attempts to visit Gaza again, I am finally here.

I am in Gaza. I am home.

Egypts’ foreign minister and the Arab League new secretary Dr. Nabil el-Araby, couldn’t have picked a better time to announce the official opening of the Egyptian border with Gaza, especially after Bibi Netanyahu had just bombarded the White House with new round of Isarel’s Grapes of wrath

Perhaps this is the catastrophe of American power policy that seeks domination of the world for our Corporate elite Now America finds itself bereft of power, bereft of resources, and bereft of friends, manipulated by Israeli Zionists like Sharon, Olmert, and Netanyahu who disdain America’s weakness holding its Congress prisoner by coercion, bribery and deceit [...]

“Israel Is Not Alone” member knocks phone out of my hand by Alison Weir / My Catbird Seat We had just completed a CNI press briefing at the National Press Club, when the next group scheduled to use the room, “Israel Is Not Alone,” began to enter. One of their members saw our signs and [...]

Setting the Record Straight about Helen Thomas and Move Over AIPAC by Alison Weir / My Catbird Seat I had not been planning to write about the controversy inside the Move Over AIPAC coalition that occurred awhile ago, but I’ve discovered that an inaccurate statement was published by Mondoweiss about this. I’m surprised this statement [...]

We are faced, here in this country, with the extraordinary spectacle of a US President confronting a foreign leader with a list of reasonable requests – negotiation in good faith, the abandonment of encroaching “settlements,” an end to the arbitrary humiliations endured by a people under occupation – and the leaders of the opposition are [...]