May 2011

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Nakba: a Remembrance

by William A. Cook May 12, 2011

I share this tent of sorrow and of shame,
The darkness in the soul, the guilt and blame,
A seared image of suffering and pain–
The curse of Cain rises– once again.

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Egypt and Israel heading for crisis

by Jonathan Cook May 7, 2011

Jonathan Cook argues that post-Mubarak Egypt’s reassessment of its policies towards Israel and the Palestinians is plunging the Zionist state into a mood of deep depression and anxiety.

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False Flags: An American Tradition

by Stephen Lendman May 7, 2011

The official stories are falsified, myths, widely believed fantasies contrary to reality. Past US false flags provided pretexts for militarism, wars, occupations, domestic repression, and national security state extremism, antithetical to democratically free and open societies.

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Israel’s Future

by SR Editor May 7, 2011

Ending the occupation doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t mean upending the Jewish State itself. Democracy in Palestine/Israel and the realization of full human and political rights there for Palestinians means the end of Jewish privilege in my birth country.

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As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Does Not Speak For Me

by SR Editor May 7, 2011

Members of Congress will converge to hail AIPAC and Israel. It helps to keep the Middle East in a perpetual state of war. AIPAC pretends to speak for all Jews, but it certainly does not speak for me or other members of the Jewish community in this country.

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Zionists Are Automatons

by SR Editor May 7, 2011

Large parts of the Jewish population don’t want to talk about the Palestinians. They cannot get out of their role of the victim. They have forgotten about Jewish ethics as laid down in the Golden Rule by Hillel, “What is hateful to you, do not do unto others.”

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The Agendas Behind the Bin Laden News Event

by Paul Craig Roberts May 6, 2011

The US government’s bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered. The real question before us is: What agenda or agendas is the “death of bin Laden” designed to further?

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Osama Bin Laden Is Dead -Again!

by SR Editor May 6, 2011

When Obama announced OBL dead, it was established as a fact – the truth. Where truth is concerned, it clearly matters where you were born – or else the truth does not matter.

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Photos from the Bin Laden Compound

by Haitham Sabbah May 6, 2011

Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.

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Oppressing West Bank Palestinian Children

by Stephen Lendman May 6, 2011

Under military occupation, Palestinian children are treated like adults. Each year, about 700 are arrested, brutally interrogated, and prosecuted in military courts, denying them justice.

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New Israeli Discriminatory Laws

by Stephen Lendman May 6, 2011

Arab minority in Israel are treated like a fifth column, denied equal rights as Jews in a country just as much theirs. More so, in fact, as their forebears lived there for centuries or longer.

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Return to Palestine

by Haitham Sabbah May 6, 2011

On the 15th of May of every year, Palestinians and the whole world remember how it all started. How the Israelis’ ethnic cleansing of a people and the destruction of a society – the Nakba – was met with global indifference.

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