A Stand For Justice
Israel impatient with international effort to thwart Iran's nuclear ambition
Israel wants war.
Hamas' Turn to Demolish Palestinian Homes
The Hamas authorities have been battling increasing incidents of Islamic extremism which have targeted beauty salons, coffee shops, Internet cafes, the YMCA and a Red Cross convoy.
PALESTINE URGENT ACTION: Demand that Israel revoke new military orders for deporting Palestinians from West Bank
Kairos Palestine (http://www.kairospalestine.ps/), a Palestinian Christian organization with whom CPT Hebron partners, is asking Christians around the world to contact their ambassadors to Israel and the Israeli Military and Foreign Affairs ministries regarding new military orders that could separate families. CPT Hebron asks that its constituents respond to this call.
Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons
Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons.
Turkey urges Israel to let in humanitarian convoy
"We don't want new tensions ... We believe Israel will use common sense towards this civilian initiative."
US/Israel Challenged on Iran
despite the rhetoric, Israel and its supporters in Washington do not view the current dispute over Iran's nuclear program as an "existential threat." Rather, it is viewed as another golden opportunity to bring "regime change" to a country considered one of Israel's adversaries, as Iraq was under Saddam Hussein
Ray McGovern is a former CIA analyst.
Flotilla Aims to Break Israel's Grip on Gaza
Five of eight previous protest boats have managed to land in Gaza. But most recently one was rammed at sea by an Israeli navy ship, and another was captured, with all on board being held in Israeli jails for up to a week before they were deported.
Australia moves to expel Israeli diplomat
Israeli radio stations have reported that the diplomats expelled from Australia and Britain were Mossad representatives.
Report: Abbas may double territory offered to Israel in peace deal
The Palestinians are willing to consider making larger territorial concessions in peace talks with Israel than have been offered in the past, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, quoting officials involved in the proximity talks. According to the report, concessions could reach 4% of the West Bank.
Gaza assailants vandalize UN summer camp
Also Sunday, a U.N. agency reported that three–quarters of the damage inflicted on Gaza by Israel's war against Hamas more than a year ago has not been repaired or rebuilt. The report warned that the international community is being increasingly sidelined in Gaza because of Israel's blockade of the territory.
'Israeli Retaliation Must Include Major Muslim Sites'
A new paper from the BESA Center for Mideast Security and Policy says any Israeli response to a non-conventional attack from Arab countries must include an attack on sites of “major symbolic importance for the Muslim world”.
PA's Abbas slams Iran
As to the Palestinian boycott on settlement products, Abbas declared that he too takes part in the campaign.
Israeli Imprisonment of Palestinian Children
conclusive studies like those done by the Defense for Children International (DCI) Palestine Section have researched and reported on the systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities. From their research I take much of my information.
EU aid to Palestinians may shrink if talks fail
The annual assistance given to the Palestinians over the past 16 years represents the EU's highest per capita foreign aid program. The current seven–year budget, part of which funds United Nations support projects, is locked in until 2013.
The Europeans give the lion's share of their foreign aid to the Palestinians and the US gives the majority of its foreign aid to Israel, a nation whose economy is doing better than ours. Gazans, who subsist on roughly $2/day, endure conditions that have been likened to those of sub-Saharan Africa.
Shaping the Story on Iran by Philip Giraldi
There have been recent reports that Iran has enabled the travel of al-Qaeda leaders to Afghanistan and Pakistan where they will be able to confront and kill American soldiers. If you think you have heard the story before, you have, in another context. In the earlier rendition it was Saddam Hussein who was hand-in-glove with al-Qaeda, helping the group in its nefarious planning to attack the United States and kill Americans Another must read by Philip Giraldi.
Congress OKs $205 million for Israel
Israel, facing the threat of a massive missile attack by Iran and its proxies, breathed a sigh of relief after the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved giving it $205 million to buy 10 batteries of a new missile-defense system.
Australia expels Israeli diplomat over Dubai hit
"These investigations and advice have left the government in no doubt that Israel was responsible for the abuse and counterfeiting of these passports," Smith told Australia's parliament. "These are not the actions of a friend."
Gaza, Here We Come to Break the Siege
Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March, 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq.
'Shame on you, democracy,' Vanunu yells as he returns to prison
Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, released in 2004 after 18 years in prison for leaking Israeli nuclear secrets, began serving an additional 3-month sentence on Sunday for refusing to carry out court-mandated community service.
Qatar's offer to help rebuild Gaza is snubbed by Netanyahu
Israel has turned down an offer from Qatar for a reopening of diplomatic contacts between the two countries in return for the Gulf state being allowed to import supplies to Gaza to carry out a series of badly needed reconstruction projects.
Strenger than Fiction / In order to change its image, Israel must change its policy
Ultimately perception of a brand hinges on actual behavior and organizational culture, not propaganda. In other words, the world pays attention to what Israel DOES, not what it says. Actions speak louder than words. All the PR in the world isn't going to change that. So Israel ought to instead CHANGE ITS UNLAWFUL AND IMMORAL BEHAVIOR. Rocket science. Getting the governments and mainstream media in Western nations to coverup the Israeli crimes in Anglo countries isn't solving this problem either.
Debate Over Israel Funding Guidelines Continues To Roil San Francisco Jews
The new policy followed a fracas at last summer’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, which twice screened “Rachel,” an Israeli-made film about Rachel Corrie
Singer Elvis Costello cancels concerts in Israel
Israeli nuclear whistleblower back in jail
In December, Israeli authorities arrested Vanunu, accusing him of having contact with a number of foreigners, including journalists, and a Norwegian woman Vanunu said is his girlfriend.
Israel denies report on nuclear arms sale offer
Report: PA Willing to Have NATO Forces in Future "State"
The newspaper quoted Palestinian sources as saying that Abbas would agree to have North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces monitor the borders of the future Palestinian state, in order to stop arms smuggling to what is supposed to become a demilitarized zone.
A Tale of Two Jerusalems
This pattern of inequality extends to housing policy as well. Despite the fact that the city’s Arab population has increased 450% since Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, not a single new Arab neighborhood has been authorized, even as there have been massive expropriations of Arab-owned land to establish new Jewish neighborhoods
Getting Serious About Iran
There is no conceivable solution to the threat of a nuclear Iran that will not require American leadership. All of the options — whether economic sanctions or military action — are impossible without American support.
Expert Advice from The Washington Times by Philip Giraldi
A copy of The Washington Times was on display with a large front page picture of yesterday’s Salute to Israel parade in New York. Next to the picture was an article by Rowan Scarborough entitled “Israel arms may not be enough to stop nukes.”
PM: Radical Islam with nukes – danger to mankind
Amid international efforts to impose fresh sanctions against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Russia to cooperate with Israel in order to curb the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions.
Rand Paul and Israel
BILL TITLE: To authorize assistance to Israel for the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system
Take Iran’s Deal, Mr. President by Patrick J. Buchanan
Not only did Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and President Lula da Silva of Brazil put their prestige on the line by flying to Tehran, the deal they got is a near-exact replica of the deal Obama offered Iran eight months ago. Why is President Obama slapping it away? Does he not want a deal? Has he already decided on the sanctions road that leads to war?
Boycott Targets Stars From Elvis to Elton
“I must believe that the audience for the coming concerts would have contained many people who question the policies of their government on settlement and deplore conditions that visit intimidation, humiliation or much worse on Palestinian civilians in the name of national security,” he wrote.
Syria defies Western pressure over Hezbollah
"A Scud missile is as big as this room. How could it be hidden and smuggled with Israeli planes and satellites all over the region?" Moualem asked, adding that cumbersome Scuds were not suited to Hezbollah's guerrilla tactics.
Visiting MEPs decide to visit Gaza and ignore Israelis
Comedy Central Vs. The Jews
A video game currently available on Comedy Central’s website, featuring a character named “Jew Producer” and a killer robot named “I.S.R.A.E.L.,” is raising protests in the Jewish community. The game, “Drawn Together,” based on the network’s politically incorrect animated series of the same name, depicts “Jew Producer,” a character that has a speaker for a head and is taken to task for failing to kill certain animated characters. A robot called “the Intelligent Smart Robot Animation Eraser Lady” (I.S.R.A.E.L.) is then sent in to do the job, unleashing destruction and murdering children.
Settlement Policy Wrong - European Jews
Prominent Jewish intellectuals living in Europe have begun denouncing the Israeli policy of allowing settlements to come up on Palestinian territories as "morally and politically wrong.’’
In a collective declaration, presented in the Belgian capital Brussels on May 3, hundreds of prominent European Jews also said that the main danger to the state of Israel ‘’lies in the occupation and the continuing pursuit of settlements in the West Bank and in the Arab districts of East Jerusalem."
Prominent Jewish Liberals Answer the JCall
The statement came in the same week that Peter Beinart, former editor of The New Republic, published a scathing critique of the American Jewish establishment’s approach to Israel. His article appeared in The New York Review of Books.
End of Specter Era Brings New Race for Jewish Vote
In interviews and meetings with Jewish voters, the retired three-star Navy admiral chose to focus on his close ties with top Israeli military officials and his work on issues relating to Israel’s security.
Syria's Assad says US has lost Mideast peace influence
Assad was quoted as telling the Italian daily La Repubblica that Washington "has no influence because they don't do anything for peace. But they remain the greatest power."
The Moral Crisis of American Zionism, Seen Through the Eyes of a Recovering New Republic-nik
Particularly in the younger generations, fewer and fewer American Jewish liberals are Zionists; fewer and fewer American Jewish Zionists are liberal. One reason is that the leading institutions of American Jewry have refused to foster — indeed, have actively opposed — a Zionism that challenges Israel’s behavior in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and toward its own Arab citizens.
Whither Liberal Zionism?
In a long and thoughtful essay in the New York Review of Books, Peter Beinart accurately describes how and why so many young American Jews are becoming alienated from Israel and blames the American Jewish establishment for its lock-step support of the Israeli government’s current policies and attitudes.
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