It’s terrible if it’ s done to Israelis (the world would be outraged!), but acceptable if the Israelis do it Palestinians (the world remains complicity silent.)?
Ministers declare Gaza ‘enemy entity’, vote to disrupt power, fuel
The security cabinet on Wednesday voted to declare the Gaza Strip an “enemy entity,” approving among other things the disruption of [...]
A double standard on academic freedom in the Middle East
By George Bisharat
Two hundred thousand Palestinian children began school in the Gaza Strip this month without a full complement of textbooks. Why? Because Israel, which maintains a stranglehold over this small strip of land along the Mediterranean even after withdrawing its settlers from there in 2005, [...]
This is what the Israeli government IMPORTED:
Only a third of Israeli youths born in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) comprised of the former Soviet Union republics or whose families immigrated from there to Israel identify themselves as Israeli, according to a report published Tuesday…
“Most youths of families who arrived from the former CIS don’t [...]
Arnon Milchan - Mossad’s Man in the Middle
by Christopher Bollyn
1 September 2007
Photo: Arnon Milchan Mossad’s man in the middle, between two of the architects of 9-11 and the War on Terror: Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu.
The government and controlled media have lied to the public about 9-11 for 6 years. Those who have discerned and [...]
One more brain fart by Saudi Mutaween:
Saudi Arabian religious police call for sex-segregated sidewalks - Saudi Arabia’s religious police are insisting that authorities of Medina, one of Islam’s holiest cities, should build separate sidewalks for women, the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said Friday.
The country’s Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), [...]
A Film by John Pilger
A film from award-winning documentary maker John Pilger which suggests that, far from bringing democracy to the world as it claims, the US is doing its best to stifle its progress.
Talking exclusively to American government officials, including agents who reveal for the first time on film how the CIA ran its [...]
President Bush may be hailing Anbar as the surge’s great success but does this analysis hold up? Locals claim the US is sending in hit squads to take out insurgents - but they’re killing the wrong people.
“Everyone’s gone. We’re scared to stay here because of the random killings”, claims one man. Notes on every door [...]
Israel’s Terrorist Educational System
By Dr. Elias Akleh
08 September, 2007 - (Via: Countercurrents.org)
After 911 the major American media outlets were directed to attack and criticize Arab and Islamic educational systems to present them as Madrassas (schools in Arabic) breeding hate, prejudice, religious extremism, and violence. Barbara Walters from 20/20 program (ABC TV) traveled to Saudi Arabia [...]
[Image by Ben Heine]
Pop Quiz on the Middle East
Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
A: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and [...]
Here is a sample of the hate emails, which I waste considerable time on reading lately:
Name: Billiam Mortain
Email: willie21@peoplepc.com
Subject: Israeli Kids sending Palastinians gifts
Message: I think the Israelis,should send you muslim pigs the BIG
GIFT. .A big NUKE. I think you pigs forget what you did to us
Americans on Sept 11TH.A ... EXCLUSIVE-US tax breaks help Jewish settlers in West Bank
Source: Reuters By Adam Entous The United States says Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank threaten any peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- yet it also encourages Americans to help support settlers by offering tax breaks on donations. As Condoleezza Rice flew in on Monday for another round of peace talks, ... Despite truce, still no sign of school supplies in Gaza
Under its truce with Hamas, Israel has permitted shipments of frozen meat, soft drinks, cookies, jam, shampoo, clothing and other items. However, the amounts are insufficient for the entire population. In September 2007 - three months after Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, and after the main cargo crossing, Karni, had ... A Monopoly of Incompetence, Corruption, Failure and Thuggery
Years of silence by Palestinian "Sheiks" and intellectuals led us to where we are now. Arafat ruled the PLO and Fatah with iron fist, using bribery, intimidation even physical liquidation to silence every one. There was never a call for accountability of decisions, failures even financial corruptions. Time for a ... We are running out of time for a two-state solution
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent At the end of my conversation with Sari Nusseibeh at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, the highly respected president of Al-Quds University - and cosignatory of "The People's Choice," a peace plan that he formulated with former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon - told ...
