October 2011

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Besieged Gaza paid the price for the release of the prisoners

by SR Editor October 25, 2011

The inhumane blockade was endured in order to gain freedom for the Palestinian prisoners released as part of the exchange deal. It was besieged Gaza which liberated our prisoners, not the largesse of the Israeli government.

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Israeli military covers up evidence showing Eilat attack was not carried out by Palestinians

by Haitham Sabbah October 25, 2011

Israeli military investigation revealing that the attack was carried out by Egyptians, not Palestinians, has been ‘embargoed’ by the military.

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Israel’s Gilad Shalit got off lightly

by Stuart Littlewood October 25, 2011

Stuart Littlewood views the hypocrisy of Western civic leaders who are falling over one another honouring Gilad Shalit​ for “sitting behind his armour plate picking out soft targets among the women and children packed into the Gaza Strip” while ignoring the vilest crimes committed by Israel against civilians, including children.

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Palestinian Prisoners Are Not Unpeople; They Are Children of God

by James M. Wall October 23, 2011

The one-sided media coverage of the prisoner exchange was treating Israeli Jews as people, while dismissing Palestinians as “unpeople”.

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Saving Sergeant Shalit, Condemning Palestinians to Torture and Children to Imprisonment

by Clive Hambidge October 22, 2011

Oh Israel… Would you give a scorpion to the little one who asked for an egg?” And would you offer prison, torture and exile to the children that ‘cry freedom?’

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Israel Arrests Palestinians While Releasing Others

by Stephen Lendman October 22, 2011

Israel can’t be trusted. Its promises lack credibility and honor. Despite releasing 447 prisoners and promising another 550, new arrests are made regularly.

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Still under wraps

by Paul J. Balles October 22, 2011

At times I feel like the bearded old man going nuts over the passing ship missing the point… If going nuts as the ship passes helps, three rescues show promise.

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Who is Really Behind It? The Implausibility of an Iranian Plot

by SR Editor October 19, 2011

What do we know about this alleged conspiracy? And what are the facts pertinent to this explosive charge? Who is behind this amateurish plot?

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Thank you, Hamas

by Khalid Amayreh October 19, 2011

The imminent release of some 1030 Palestinians from Israeli bastilles, dungeons and concentration camps is a definitive victory for Palestine and its struggling people by all conceivable standards.

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Yes, rejoice for precious Shalit. Spare a thought for the 8,000 Palestinian prisoners

by Stuart Littlewood October 19, 2011

I can’t deny that I’m pleased for Gilad Shalit and his parents. On the other hand why is there such a torrent of sympathy for Shalit when the much-hyped thousand-for-one prisoner swop leaves 8,000 Palestinians still rotting in Israeli jails.

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The FBI Goes Rogue On Iran

by Lawrence Davidson October 18, 2011

Why do our political leaders act in such duplicitous and hypocritical fashion? Obama is probably going to appear as embarrassing hypocrite in all future relevant and objective histories.

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No tears for warmonger Fox

by Stuart Littlewood October 16, 2011

The champion of Israel within the British government, an Israel flag-waver, defence secretary Dr Liam Fox, decided to jump rather than be thrown from the battlements.

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Ongoing Israeli Human Rights Abuses and Self-Proclaimed Democracy

by Stephen Lendman October 16, 2011

Israel is a modern day Sparta, a regional killing machine. Israel is democratic in name only, affording rights solely to higher income and wealthy Jews. It can mobilize over 600,000 combatants in 72 hours, equipped with nuclear and other state-of-the-art weapons.

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Obama and the Terror Plot Thriller

by James M. Wall October 16, 2011

There are so many doubts and questions surrounding the alleged Iranian-sponsored assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador, that for Barack Obama to take a prominent role in announcing the case may prove to be a serious political and diplomatic mistake.

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The Real Enemy of the Palestinians

by Dr. Elias Akleh October 16, 2011

Israelis, themselves, are as victims as the Palestinians although to a very lesser extents. Those Israelis are being misguided, mass-brainwashed, and militarily driven by deliberately distorted and misinterpreted theology, political Rabbis, and Western Zionist imperialist powers to execute the colonial Zionist project of establishing Greater Israel in the heart of the Middle East.

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