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James Petras - From Gaza to Tehran: Israel Asserting Middle East Supremacy

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By Carlos Latuff
"The Israeli Defense Force is the most moral army in the World!"
–Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany bombed, invaded and annexed countries and territories [...]

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Uri Avnery - The Boss Has Gone Mad

169 YEARS before the Gaza War, Heinrich Heine wrote a premonitory poem of 12 lines, under the title "To Edom". The German-Jewish poet was talking about Germany, or perhaps all the nations of Christian Europe. This is what he wrote (in my rough translation):
"For a thousand years and more / We have had an understanding [...]

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YNET: Gaza war summary (CONCISE)

Yedioth [Israel Newspaper] Internet
Gaza war summary
Despite widespread praise, B. Michael unimpressed with military’s performance in Gaza
B. Michael
Did the army draw lessons from its past performance? Unclear. The praise being lavished on the IDF still requires verification. This army participated in two wars: In Lebanon it was fired at and it emerged out of [...]

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Oren Yiftachel - The Jailer State

Israel has turned Gaza into a massive prison, and is choosing to prolong the cycle of state terror and prisoner resistance that goes with that, writes Israeli academic Oren Yiftachel
"We have a great opportunity now in Gaza to smash and flatten them…[We] should destroy thousand of houses, tunnels and industries, and kill as many terrorists [...]

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Israel - The Sociopathic State

By: Anonymous American Citizen (who refuses to be silent any longer)
The unconscionable attacks of Israel upon Gaza can be seen as the action of a sociopathic state upon a helpless victim. While the diagnosis of sociopathy is commonly reserved for the individual, it may be used to describe an entire society in a [...]

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Thoughts of an Israeli ex-soldier

By אבנר אפנדוביץ
A good friend sent me one of those computer videos, accompanied by "A must see! Please watch and forward!" In the video, a little Israeli girl is counting from 1 to 15 before she uncovers her eyes in a hide-and-seek game. 15 seconds is the time that residents of Sh'derot and other towns [...]

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Mohamed Khodr - How Zionists Occupy Two Nations: America and Palestine

From America’s “Jewish Triangle” to Iraqi’s “Sunni Triangle”
Government Job Notice: No Gentiles Need Apply

Mohamed Khodr

“The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century.”
–Yuri Slezkine, Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley, “The Jewish Century”; Princeton University Press (Russian Jewish immigrant to the U.S.)
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Will You Continue To Ignore Gaza's Suffering, Mr Obama?

By Kathleen and Bill Christison
Image by: Ben Heine

Palestine and Palestinian suffering have always taken a back seat in the world's attention while the United States starts this war, finishes off that war, or expands it; while the world deals with wars and economic crises; while the attention of the compassionate is taken up by starvation [...]

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Mohamed Khodr - Et tu Obama: Who will your Appointees Serve-Israel or America?

Rahm Israel Emanuel: Will Handle U.S. Domestic Policy for Israel
Dennis Ross: Will Handle U.S. Foreign Policy for Israel
By Mohamed Khodr
"Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that committed the offence and has turned [...]

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Israel and Palestine Can Still Achieve Peace

By MAHMOUD ABBAS - President of the Palestinian National Authority
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
This month marks 15 painful years since the Arafat-Rabin handshake on the White House lawn. Palestinian children who started school when the Oslo Agreement was signed in 1993 are now young adults. They have not known a day of true freedom or genuine security [...]

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Democracy and Empire: Both Illusions

By Timothy Gatto
The last few weeks have been enlightening, although utterly depressing. If this sounds like a contradiction, all anyone must do to understand what I'm talking about, is to listen to the podcasts from my radio show (http://blogtalkradio.com/headingleft/liberalpro) from the last two weeks. My guests have been some of the most enlightened liberal minds [...]

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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 me he wouldn't be surprised [...]

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The Worlds Worst Prison State

Guess who?

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the United States of America is The Worlds Worst Prison State:
"In 2004, nearly 7 million people were on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole at yearend 2004 — 3.2% of all U.S. adult residents or 1 in every 31 adults." - U.S. Department of [...]

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Salam Fayad: Re:Potential upgrade of EU-Israel relations

The European Union is considering upgrading its relationship with Israel, including in the political and economic spheres, and the European Council will take a decision on these matter in its June 16th meeting.
Salam Fayad wrote the EU a letter of protest which is worth noting:
Palestinian National Authority
Prime Minister's Office
27 May 2008
Re: Potential upgrade of EU-Israel [...]

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What d'ya mean you got nothin t' read?

Welcome to Carter's 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid' the Book.
Here you can find 'Palestine Peace Not Apartheid' on the right hand side is the table of contents. Be sure to click on the images so you can clearly see. The blog is for review reference purposes only:
http://peacenotapartheidbook.blogspot.com/

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