Archive for the ‘Asides’ Category

Sami Jamil Jadallah - Time to Outsource

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If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Sick and Tired of Fatah and Hamas
By Sami Jamil Jadallah
I do not know about you, but I am very sick and tired of hearing, reading, listening and talking about [...]

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Donkey Threatens Israeli Settler - Gets Butchered!

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Fifteen masked Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on attacked three Palestinian shepherds who were grazing their flocks in a valley south of the outpost, and Christian peacemakers who were with them.
The settlers came running down from a ridge above the shepherds, hurling rocks. The shepherds were able to get their flocks away [...]

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Watch Propaganda

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Israel launches Arabic YouTube channel to bypass Arab media
The Foreign Ministry has launched a YouTube channel in Arabic which is meant to bypass Arab media and give Israel’s version of current events directly to Arab viewers, Haaretz has learned.
The ministry’s Arab media department chief Ofir Gendelman told Haaretz on Wednesday that they seek to reduce [...]

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UN human rights chief calls for an immediate end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza

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GENEVA – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called today for an immediate end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza. “By function of this blockade, 1.5 million Palestinian men, women and children have been forcibly deprived of their most basic human rights for months. This is in direct contravention of [...]

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A Modern Parable For The Middle East

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Jones, a wealthy financier, had on many occasion in the good old days - when trains were flourishing and coaches were the last word in technological luxury - crossed the continent by Pullman. He was well known and well served and was accustomed to every convenience, particularly when dining. Imagine his exasperation, then, when it [...]

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Automatic war crimes

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The latest style of committing war crimes is “automatic”. They don’t have to see whom they are shooting at. Just kill all of them:
Israel deploys remote-controlled guns along Gaza
Israeli defence officials say the military has deployed remote-controlled machine guns along its border with the Gaza Strip.
The system allows female soldiers watching television screens in control [...]

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Israeli soldier beats Palestinian laborers with rock; three in hospital with multiple fractures

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Three workers from the southern Nablus governorate were beaten by Israeli soldiers on Monday. The men were taken to hospital where medical staff confirmed that several bones had been fractured.
When speaking of the incident Palestinian sources recalled the Israeli broken bones policy of the first Intifada. During the late 1980’s Israeli soldiers were outfitted with [...]

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Israeli Brothels forbid prostitutes to use condoms to prevent evidence

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By Vered Lee, Haaretz Correspondent
Owners of “massage parlors” (a euphemism for brothels) forbid prostitutes working in them to use condoms because in a police raid they would be evidence that the establishment is for paid sex.
A Health Ministry spokeswoman says that an increase in sexually transmitted diseases has been registered recently among prostitutes and their [...]

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The Endorsement From Hell

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By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
John McCain isn’t boasting about a new endorsement, one of the very, very few he has received from overseas. It came a few days ago:
“Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” read a commentary on a password-protected Islamist Web site that is closely linked to Al Qaeda and [...]

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Saudi supercomputer

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At last, something worth the money spent:
Saudi supercomputer lures researchers
By Asma Alsharif
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A new science and technology university in Saudi Arabia will house one of the world’s largest supercomputers and it is helping lure top researchers to the conservative desert state.
The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is due [...]

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9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008

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Dr. David Ray Griffin and everyone involved in the 9/11 truth movement have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The recipient of the Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, October 10.
Read more here!

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Heineken & Palestine

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Open letter to the Royal Dutch Embassy, Israel, The Dutch Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority and Heineken Nederlands to praise the decision of Barkan Wineries to divest from illegal Israeli settlements in Barkan.
The Royal Dutch Embassy
Beit Oz
14 Abba Hillel Street
Ramat Gan
52506
Israel
The Royal Netherlands Representative Office to the Palestinian Authority
12 Hollanda Street
Al-Bireh
P.O. BOX [...]

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Israel: Breeding Ground for Jewish Settler Terrorism

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The Attack on Zeev Sternhell
By Jonathan Cook
The words “Jewish” and “terrorist” are not easily uttered together by Israelis. But just occasionally, such as last week when one of the country’s leading intellectuals was injured by a pipe bomb placed at the front door of his home, they find themselves with little choice.
The target of the [...]

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Israeli settlers offering $ for murder of Jewish Peace Now members via flyers

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These are, what we today call TERRORISTS… let’s call them by the name they deserve: Israeli terrorists!
A pipe bomb that exploded late on Wednesday night outside the Jerusalem home of Zeev Sternhell, a Hebrew University professor, left him lightly wounded and created only a minor stir in a nation that routinely experiences violence on a [...]

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McCain: Withdraw Troops Now

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Two videos you haven’t seen on FOX News or the MSM.
THE QUESTION IS WHY?!
1. Video tapes/clips of McCain - Demanding Immediate and Unconditional Withdrawal of American Troops from Somalia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TFKXHiefs

2. Video tapes/clips of McCain - Demanding Immediate and Unconditional Withdrawal of American Troops from Haiti!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=palbo-ilalU

What a hypocrite!

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Sabra-Shatila: The unforgettable, unforgivable, massacre of Palestinians by Israel - 1982

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From my two years old post:
There’s another significant anniversary this week, but not one that’s attracted the sort of attention the 11 September commemorations have.
On the morning of Saturday, September 18th, 1982, reporters entering the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila near Beirut, Lebanon, [...]

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EU dropped ICAHD funding

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This urgent message was received today from the Israel Committee Against House Demolition, the ICAHD. The ICAHD has worked for over two decades on behalf of human rights in the case of the plight of the Palestinian people, in particular, the Palestinian families who have had their homes demolished in the name of Zionist colonialism [...]

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Israel Turns Gaza Into Prison For UConn Fulbright Scholar

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By ZOHAIR M. ABU SHABAN
As a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, I could not have been more proud to learn last June that I had earned a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States.
As a child, I would wonder how televisions, computers and washing machines actually worked. I took this fascination to the [...]

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Hate-emails sample!

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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 curse on all muslim fanatical [...]

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EXCLUSIVE-US tax breaks help Jewish settlers in West Bank

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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, Israeli and American supporters of [...]

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