Opinion

What happens when a Gazan wants to marry a West Bank woman?

by Amira Hass December 19, 2011

Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? You don’t believe it?

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“Israel has never been so ugly”

by Alan Hart December 18, 2011

If the Gentile me or any non-Jewish critic of Israel had written such things, I and they would have been smeared by Zionism’s propaganda machine as a rabid Jew hater.

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Newt Gingrich: ignoramus, cheat, cynic or all three?

by Uri Avnery December 17, 2011

Uri Avnery views Newt Gingrich’s parroting of the old Zionist propaganda line that there is no such a thing as a Palestinian people – a line now discarded by most Zionists – and argues that the US Republican presidential aspirant is not only being provocative, but is also doing immense damage to US national interests.

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Netanyahu for President (of America)

by Alan Hart December 16, 2011

It’s now clear that the Republican frontrunner in the race for the White House is Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Officially the two Republican frontrunners are Newt “the Palestinians are an invented people” Gingrich and Mitt “Obama has pushed Israel under a bus” Romney.

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Lawless Israeli Oppression in Palestine: Shooting Mustafa Tamimi at Point Blank Range

by Stephen Lendman December 15, 2011

Israeli soldiers, police and even settlers can kill or otherwise harm Palestinians with impunity.Mustafa Tamimi’s death and many others show that Palestinian life is “cheap.”

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Exploiting the anti-Semitic smear now backfiring

by SR Editor December 14, 2011

This episode reveals yet again just how pernicious is this manipulative use of “anti-Semitism” to intimidate people out of questioning U.S. policy toward Israel. Part of the problem is that most liberal writers, bloggers and pundits – especially the non-Jewish ones – are petrified of getting anywhere near the word “Israel.”

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Obama Raises The Military Stakes: Confrontation On The Frontiers Of China And Russia

by James Petras December 14, 2011

After going from defeat to defeat on the periphery of world power and not satisfied with running treasury-busting deficits in pursuit of empire building against economically weak countries, Obama has embraced a policy of encirclement and provocations against China, the world’s second largest economy and the US’s most important creditor, and Russia, the European Union’s principle oil and gas provider and the world’s second most powerful nuclear weapons power.

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CIA, Mossad Intervention in Syria is all about Iran [Podcast]

by SR Editor December 14, 2011

Eric Margolis, internationally syndicated columnist discusses the conflict in Syria, where Western-backed instigators and a legitimate domestic opposition face off against the Assad regime

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Newt Gingrich’s obscene canard

by Khalid Amayreh December 13, 2011

In a cheap effort to procure Jewish votes and money, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has claimed that the Palestinian people is an invented people.

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Israeli Jewish hate rally against Africans in Tel Aviv caught on video as Haaretz deletes article about it

by Haitham Sabbah December 13, 2011

Rally against Sudanese refugees in Tel Aviv, calling to “restrict their movement” and set up concentration camps.

Israeli Jewish hate rally against Africans in Tel Aviv was caught on video as Haaretz deletes article about it.

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Who Hates Our Freedoms? Part I [Satire]

by Mantiq al-Tayr December 12, 2011

A little birdie told me to start with the US Senate. It seems that there is some brouhahahahahaha going on about new legislation that might allow the military to arrest American citizens and put them in detention forever with no habeas corpus. The entire patriot-minded internet has written about it, so if this is a first for you then you have got to be a Shas Party member, but I digress. The US military could become the only nuclear police force on earth. Who on earth would come up with an idea as anti-American as that? Israel.

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Drones spotted above Gaza as Israel breaks truce; death toll at 5

by SR Editor December 11, 2011

Israel’s Gaza offensive cannot be legally justified by any right of self-defense and instead constitutes aggression and a forcible deprivation of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.

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Academic Freedom: The Fall of the Last Bastion of Democracy

by Mohamed Khodr December 10, 2011

It is outrageous, dishonorable, and unconstitutional actions taken by Judge Starr against Prof Marc Ellis, by eliminating his courses, shutting down his department, and investigation on whether Prof Ellis’ writing against ISRAELI policies is anathema to the Jewish Christian Zionist’s standard of “thou shall not speak against Israel.”

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Is Israel guilty of the crime of apartheid?

by Richard Falk December 6, 2011

The recent finding of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) that the state of Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid in relation to the Palestine people should be taken with the utmost seriousness by all those who affirm human solidarity and care about making visible the long ordeal of a suffering and vulnerable people. The finding is conspicuously ignored by Israel and the United States, as well as by most media and by the United Nations.

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The Whistle Blower As Hero

by Lawrence Davidson December 4, 2011

Journalism has become “corrupted” by editors and reporters who value the prestige of being associated with important centers of power more than the uncensored practice of their craft. There is a crisis of legitimacy within the mainstream press, a rightful crisis of legitimacy.

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