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Archive for April, 2007

Who is Azmi Bishara, the Israeli-Palestinian Citizen?

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

By now, most of you have heard of Azmi Bishara. If not, Dr. Bishara is the Head of the National Democratic Assembly political party in Israel, a Christian Palestinian and a citizen of Israel who USED to represents Israel’s Palestinian minority in the Knesset until few days ago.

In this remarkable 30 minutes speech presented at [...]

Israel anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism Recipe

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

[By Carlos Latuff]

Day by day, it seems that Israel is producing more worms for its own destruction than what she always claimed the world is doing to destroy the Jewish dream.

Recently there are more news showing that the trend of anti-Semetism and neo-Nazi among Israelis are growing fast.

Yesterday I mentioned one of the anti-Semitic attacks [...]

How Big is Islamic Threat to Europe?

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

[By bendib.com]

How funny can the world be? Let’s find out…

Thanks to Robin, she sent me a link for an article (By Kristoffer Larsson) titled:”The Islamic Threat to Europe: By the Numbers.” So far so good!

Larsson start his article by describing how and why the U.S. media is focusing best of its attention on Islamism (as [...]

‘Heil Hitler’ Salute in IOF Bases

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Here is a nice one for our Zionist “friends”:

According to the soldier, he decided to move to Israel from France after suffering years of anti-Semitism in the country. Last August, he enlisted in the IDF and was sent to the ‘Mihveh Alon’ base, where new recruits receive intensive Hebrew courses, in addition to undergoing basic [...]

Podcast: AIPAC & US Foreign Policy - Debate between James Petras & Norman Finkelstein

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

What is the power and influence of “The Lobby” (a.k.a. AIPAC) on US Foreign Policy?

The explanation for the support is to be found in the activities of the Israel Lobby, also known as the Jewish Lobby, or as AIPAC (the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee), which uses its formidable influence to shape American foreign policy in [...]

UK doctors call for boycott of Israeli Medical Association

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Some 130 distinguished doctors in Britain Saturday called for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) and its expulsion from the World Medical Association (WMA).

“The IMA has forfeited its right to membership of the international medical community. The Israeli Medical Association has a duty to protest about war crimes of this kind, but has [...]

Emigration FROM Israel exceeds immigration TO

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

One of the rare good news from Israel:

In Israel, the number of emigrants exceeded the number of immigrants for the first time in 20 years, the Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot reported Friday.

Many emigrants were recent arrivals who wanted to leave Israel again, the report said. In 2007, 14,400 immigrants are expected in Israel while 20,000 [...]

Still Strangling Palestine

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

“It is easy enough to predict the likely consequences of imposing a year’s comprehensive financial blockade on one of the poorest places on Earth. And yet the findings of last Friday’s Oxfam report on the effects of the West’s enforced economic isolation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories – imposed in response to the victory of [...]

Weekend Read: Holocaust, AIPAC, Azmi Bishara and Social Injustice

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

There are plenty of noteworthy articles that are missed every week. To give them credit and rescue them from going unnoticed by my blog readers, I will try to compile some of these articles every weekend in a ‘Weekend Read’ post. Here is the first one:

1. The Holocaust as political asset
By Amira Hass (Source: Ha’aretz)

Turning [...]

Doha Debate: 82% Support Palestinian Right of Return

Friday, April 20th, 2007

This issue is one of the most intractable barrier to a Middle East peace settlement. Millions of Palestinian refugees will always fight for their right to return to their occupied lands and property that was occupied by Israel and now is called the State of Israel.

In the latest Doha Debate, this issue was discussed. The [...]