It seems Israel is developing a delicate sense for the celebration of genocide. “Bibi, it’s the three year anniversary of our murder of 1.200 Palestinian women and children, lets celebrate.”
Like Saleh, President Obama, the Sultan of Drone massacres in the Arab and Muslim world. has betrayed his every promise as well as having shred the American Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the civil liberties of the American people.
O little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight
Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and the Israeli state’s failure to adequately respond to it highlight an important aspect of the Israeli occupation’s Apartheid-like policies.
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.”
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.
New report from Bethlehem University shows that academic staff had been attacked again by Israeli squatters. Palestinian universities suffer the severest restrictions in delivering knowledge.
The plan calls for Israeli children to confront their Palestinian counterparts, Israeli women and men doing the same thing. At home, America is plagued by police state laws.
The U.N. report concludes that the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip is legal under international law. Democracy Now! interview with author Norman Finkelstein and Free Gaza Movement organizer Huwaida Arraf.
Turkey decided to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Israel and suspend military ties with the Zionist state after Tel Aviv’s refusal to do the decent thing and apologize for murdering unarmed civilians on the high seas.
Turkey was angry that the commission mostly adopted Israeli friendly conclusions. At the same time, Israel was pleased. Turkey also is expected to initiate a diplomatic and legal campaign against Israel through the UN.
Minnesota House member Erik Paulsen (Likud) continues his hasbara work on behalf of the State of Israel doing so via the funding of the AIEF which is a US tax-deductible arm of AIPAC.
What would Israel do without the constant presence of journalists like the New York Times’ Ethan Bronner? Not much in the way of progress, but it is a reminder that Israel cannot depend forever on America’s vetoes to clean up the mess it creates for itself.