Here is the joke of the day… US envoy to strengthen Abbas http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3662282,00.html WASHINGTON – The United States’ new envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, will be working to secure a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, as part of an attempt to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority. He does not intend [...]
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Noam Chomsky – “Exterminate all the Brutes”: Gaza 2009
On Saturday December 27, the latest US-Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians was launched. The attack had been meticulously planned, for over 6 months according to the Israeli press. The planning had two components: military and propaganda. It was based on the lessons of Israel’s 2006 invasion of Lebanon, which was considered to be poorly planned [...]
Henry Siegman – Israel’s Lies
Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza: that Hamas consistently violated the six-month truce that Israel observed and then refused to extend it; that Israel therefore had no choice but to destroy Hamas’s capacity to launch missiles into Israeli towns; that [...]
More of a neighborhood than a country
Very strong insights from Israel: More of a neighborhood than a country By Doron Rosenblum There is certainly a connection between the fact that Israel was involved in two prolonged wars of choice within two years, each of which began with an outburst of anger and ended with government head-scratching – and the fact that [...]
Sami Jamil Jadallah – Will Obama’s Presidency becomes Clinton’s Third Term?
When President-Elect Barack Obama was running for president one of his key issue and message to voters was that John McCain presidency would be a third term of George Bush. So far and based on recent major appointments President-Elect Obama is making his presidency a Bill Clinton third term. I was one of those who [...]
Hamas’s Mashaal ‘Sent Obama a Letter Offering 30 Year Truce
Mashaal reportedly asked Obama to recognize Hamas and its “great influence in the Palestinian arena” in order to end the conflict with Israel. Hamas’s leader wrote that he would agree to a cease fire with Israel “for 30 years or longer” if it agrees to withdraw from the territory it gained in 1967. Read more!
9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008
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!
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 [...]
Abu Mazen: don’t mess with the right of return
 Palestinian refugees forced to flee their homes when Israel was established in 1948 (above), In refugee camps across the Middle East-1948 (below)   In recent days, the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas made two extremely worrying pronouncements with regard to the paramount issue of the Right of Return. Last week, [...]
How will the Kadima elections affect the prospects for peace?
The Party, the Candidates and the Stakes. Get the facts. Background on Kadima leadership elections Israel’s ruling Kadima party is set to hold leadership elections on September 17, 2008 to select a new party chairman. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is currently involved in two separate corruption scandals, has indicated that he will not run [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
George Bisharat – The fallacy of Islamic ‘national suicide’
Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat Written by George Bisharat A new buzzword is arising from the network of Israeli think tanks and security-oriented academic departments bent on instigating a U.S. attack on Iran: “national suicide.” The term describes a supposed Arab Muslim tradition of politically motivated suicide at the national, not just individual, level. Arab Muslim [...]
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/
Dismantle the Palestinian Authority now
I really don’t understand why these brilliant Palestinian “negotiators” are still commuting between Ramallah and West Jerusalem for “peace talks” that even little kids in the streets of the smallest refugee camp in Gaza realize will lead nowhere. Indeed, the vast majority of Palestinians are fed up with this despicable peace process under whose rubric [...]
Arab leaders say the two-state proposal is in peril
IHT – Arab leaders will threaten to rescind their offer of full relations with Israel in exchange for a complete Israeli withdrawal from occupied lands unless Israel gives a positive response to their initiative, indicating the Arab states’ growing disillusionment with the prospects of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict… Read on! My A**! [...]
With US $ Benny Elon to launch huge ad campaign to resettle Palestinians
The same plan the Nazis once tried with the Jews (see under the ship St.Louis, 1939). The Israeli plan will be sold as something wonderful for the Palestinians – they just have to move to Jordan and become Jordanians… and the problem will be solved. Benny Elon’s plan is simple… No Palestinians, No Terror. Now, [...]
ACTION ALERT: From the Palestinian American Congress
According to news sources, Israel’s cabinet took a decision to begin to apply large scale collective punishment on the people of the Gaza strip. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned that any cutoff of vital services like fuel and electricity would violate international law and punish the already suffering civilian population. The Palestinian American Congress [...]
30 U.S. members of Congress want Europeans to say NO to UN committee for Palestinian issues
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports: More than 30 U.S. members of Congress signed on to a letter urging the European Parliament to end its cooperation with a U.N. committee for Palestinian issues. Israel has protested the European Parliament’s plans to a host a forum at the end of the month to be led by the [...]
After 7 years of destroying peace process, U.S. wants a farewell party
A conference of cowboys By Alon Liel In the absence of a nightingale, even a raven is a songbird – or is it? The international conference initiated by U.S. President George W. Bush in the twilight of his term in office is definitely no songbird. It is more of a raven than a nightingale. After [...]
The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam
A remarkable piece – considering its source was head of the American Jewish Congress and fellow at the neocon dominated CFR. The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam, by Henry Siegman, London Review of Books. … Just one year after the 1967 war, Moshe Dayan, a former IDF chief of staff who at the time [...]
Why Palestine Matters By Roger H. Lieberman
Thanks as well as a hat tip to the great ladies at Jordan Journals for making this article available. (Unless you have a print subscription to the Jordan Times, this article is not freely available online, the only other site that has it requires subscription). Cross-posted at Reclaiming Space at http://peoplesgeography.com by Ann El Khoury. [...]
Israel and Peace “Talk”
Well, talk is one thing, action another. 92 of 164 settlements expanded or redrawn… “A short drive along West Bank roads demonstrates that talk is one thing, action another; while the government talks about “a political horizon,” in the form of two states, Israel’s actions on the ground and its scandalous failings are pushing this [...]
Blair: The most wholehearted Zionist to lead UK
Beyond satire is Blair’s appointment as Middle East envoy. Blair is the most wholehearted Zionist ever to lead a major British political party – including Balfour. He is at one with the religious right in the United States in having a gut Zionism perversely engendered by fundamentalist Christian beliefs. Remember, Blair is leaving today because [...]
Occupied Palestine and Israel: Weekend News and Articles
House okays Egypt aid cut over Gaza smuggling, human rights The House of Representatives voted Friday to withhold $200 million in military funds for Egypt until Cairo shows it is stopping weapons-smuggling from Egypt to the Gaza Strip and improving human rights abuses. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/874065.html Lieberman slams plan to free PA tax funds as gesture to [...]
Where was the media?
While the media keeps fueling the bullshit of peace through Fatah and Abbas….and all is well now that Hamas is being isolated…. what a CROCK!!! Olmert rejected Rice proposal of agreement with Abbas. “Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected, during his visit to the United States last week, a proposal by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice [...]
Peace & Despair
Abbas demands final status talks or nothing as he heads to Egypt summit (Via: Independent) Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian President, is demanding that next Monday’s scheduled summit with Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, contains a discussion over “final status” talks on a future Palestinian state, Palestinian officials said yesterday. [..snip..] Mr Abbas is reportedly [...]
Bliar offered new job by master
The new job will be …”managing” Iraq/Afghanistan/Palestine wreckage …for decades… George Bush and Tony Blair have discussed the possibility of the prime minister becoming a Middle East special envoy after he leaves office next week. While Downing Street refused to comment on mounting speculation about such a move, US officials indicated that the subject has [...]
Truth and Fiction
Yesterday, on the anniversary of the Israeli attacks on Arab states in 1967, The Guardian published two op-eds, which really say it all. In the first one, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh clearly sets out the Palestinians desire for peace. He said: The first step to change this catastrophic climate is for the west to [...]
How willing are we to be inconvenienced?
How willing are we to be inconvenienced to get peace/justice? An old saying in the fight against segregation in the South was “free your mind and your ass will follow”. I was thinking about this in the past few days in several events that ranged from racists lecturing their audience about how muslims treat non-muslims [...]
Surprise: United States & Israel among least peaceful nations!
The United States is among the least peaceful nations in the world, ranking 96th between Yemen and Iran, according to an index of 121 countries. According to the Global Peace Index, created by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Norway is the most peaceful nation and Iraq is the least, just after Israel and Sudan. The survey [...]
Israeli friends of Bil’in call for international support
Israeli Friends of Bil’in is a group composed of Israeli individuals and organizations who oppose the construction of Israel’s “separation fence” on the land of the Palestinian village of Bil’in, and of the construction of the Israeli settlement of Matityau East, also on the village’s land. They have written a letter addressed to the consulates [...]
Palestinian Solidarity Events in the Seattle Area
VIGIL and showing of THE IRON WALL Vigil for Palestine in St. Mark’s May 18 Vigil: 5:00 – 6:00 soup: 6-6:30 Film: THE IRON WALL, produced in Palestine THE IRON WALL provides graphic evidence of the intentions of Zionist leaders: “Zionist colonization must . . .proceed regardless of the native population . . . which [...]
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Washington, DC, June 10-11 JOIN US IN PROTESTING THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION Tens of thousands to mobilize for protest rally and lobbying day on June 9th and 10th in Washington, DC. The Council for the National Interest Foundation invites its supporters to Washington, DC, to attend The World Says NO to Israeli [...]
Weekend read: Biased Media, War Crimes, One-State Solution and ‘Right to Exist’
1. What ‘Israel’s right to exist’ means to Palestinians By John V. Whitbeck (Source: The Christian Science Monitor) “Recognizing Israel” or any other state is a formal legal and diplomatic act by one state with respect to another state. It is inappropriate – indeed, nonsensical – to talk about a political party or movement extending [...]
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