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Islam, Religion, Terrorism
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Muslims By Birth, Not By Faith (Part I) – by Mohamed Khodr

One must ask the Muslim militants this most important and basic of all questions. What Revelation or Book and Prophet or Messenger do you follow to commit such crimes against Islam and humanity? It most certainly is not the Holy Qur’an and Prophet Muhammad given that all your crimes against humanity directly violate and contradict God’s Book and His Prophet Muhammad.

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Bleeding Edge, Egypt
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Stephen Lendman: Islamofascist Rule in Egypt

Doublespeak duplicity conceals tyranny. Democracy is verboten. It’s not tolerated. Hardline rule is policy. So are social injustice and anti-worker practices. Egypt’s new constitution establishes Islamofascist rule. Junta power heads it. Repression confronts resisters. Morsi claims dictatorial executive powers. Constitutional rights don’t matter. Nor does press freedom. Security forces can detain protesters indefinitely.

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Human Rights, Israel, United States
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William A. Cook: Universalism and Individualism versus Tribalism

this country has chosen to support the increasingly undemocratic state of Israel, the ever increasing tribalism that is pushing that state into a theocracy that denies the universalism of all human kind and imposes a set of beliefs that threaten to destroy the very concept of individual rights. America invests untold billions of dollars into this state ostensibly because it is democratic, a democratic friend in the mid-east, and it adheres to America’s core values. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Egypt, Israel, Zionism
"The statements made by Issam al-Aryan, a senior leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, calling on Egyptian Jews in Israel to return home, are hardly novel," writes author (AFP)

Joseph Massad: Palestinians, Egyptian Jews and propaganda

Concomitant with these rumours is the Egyptian government’s and the opposition’s race to please the United States and its Zionist lobby. While the very same Issam al-Aryan spoke about the tragedy of the Jewish holocaust while in the US on a Muslim Brotherhood promotional trip in May 2011, the naïve and charisma-less Mohamed el-Baradei upped the ante by telling a German newspaper that elected Salafi and Brotherhood members of parliament should not be trusted to draft the Egyptian constitution because they allegedly deny the holocaust!

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Gaza, War Crimes
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They can attack our bodies but not our strength

Due to the ongoing illegal closure imposed by Israel, some of the required medical supplies and devices cannot enter the Gaza Strip, causing additional suffering to patients throughout their recovery process.

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Democracy, Egypt

Chris Hedges: Egypt’s New Pharaoh And The Useful Idiots

The lines are drawn. Morsi and the Brotherhood have been exposed as the heirs of the old dictatorship in new garb. The struggle for an open society is being waged by the betrayed on the streets of Egyptian cities. It will be a fight to the death. Brotherhood posters put up throughout Egypt in support of the pending constitution urge people to vote yes to “Supporting Legitimacy and Shariah [Islamic law].” Those who oppose legitimacy and Islamic law, it goes without saying, are heretics.

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Palestine

International Law Legal Intifada by Palestinians Against Israel (Must Read)

Prof. Boyle – Arafat and PA Legal Advisor – says: “Palestinians will start a “legal intifada” against Israel, supported by international law. I have already recommended to them, over in Ramallah.”

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Peace, Politics

Why Israel-Palestine Peace Process Failed

There is a complete imbalance of power between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel is the only party between the river and the sea which is able, through the use of unchecked force, to alter the physical landscape by building and expanding settlements, supported unjustly by United States.

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Palestine, Resistance

Brayer: The Absolute Right of Palestinian Resistance

Despite their rights de iure as well as de facto and their legitimate resistance and struggle and the use of weapons that do not come up to the minimum standards of a modern army, it is only the victimized people of the world who understand their plight together with those coming from the West who are termed radicals. At this juncture in history the people have no power, but it behooves us to continue the struggle for freedom and justice in any way we can, without destroying the planet, as our friends the capitalists are doing.

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Israel, Palestine, Peace

Palestinian peace, reconciliation and unity advocates are murdered or arrested

Observers thinking Palestinians gained from Pillar of Cloud might think again. Nothing changed. Hardline Netanyahu policies continue. Expect worse ahead. Palestinian peace, reconciliation and unity advocates are murdered or arrested.

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Israel, Palestine, United States

Andrew Levine: Netanyahu Gives Obama His Comeuppance

Were Obama to withdraw or credibly threaten to withdraw just a fraction of the support the United States provides, Israel would have no choice but to comply. But, of course, he will not. American political class enables Israel’s depredations. It is an in-grained habit.

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Israel, Palestine

Stephen Lendman: Netanyahu Plans More War

Netanyahu will ignore memorandum of understanding ceasefire terms, maintain Gaza’s siege, manufacture pretexts to eliminate Israeli enemies, and kill Palestinian civilians he calls threats.

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Gaza, Innovation

Stephen Lendman: Gaza Still Boils

Gaza boils daily. Life reflects brutalizing occupation harshness. Isolation is suffocating. West Bank Palestinians understand. No one’s safe anywhere in Palestine. State terror makes everyone vulnerable. No one knows from one day to the next who’ll live, die, be arrested, beaten, tortured, or dehumanized for not being Jewish.

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Economics, Gaza

Behind the Pillar of Cloud – Gaza Severely Maimed

The consequences of the recent assault on Gaza will only be visible when the dust has settled. But it will surely not depart from the aim expressed by former Israeli official Dov Weisglass in 2006: “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”

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Israel, Palestine, War

War and peace incompatible

What Gaza needs are deeds to compel Western powers to come to their senses and stop defending Israel’s malevolent policies, not rhetoric, speeches and feel-good visits to Gaza.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War

A defeat for Israel?

Netanyahu finally decided that it would be too costly for Israel in diplomatic and political terms to say “No” to Obama and many other leaders who insisted that Israel had to agree to a ceasefire.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War, War Crimes

Richard Falk Calls for Global Protection of Gaza Civilians

Richard Falk calls on the international community to help defend the people of Gaza from the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli assault. “It’s time, it seems to me, for the international community to take some responsibility for protecting the people of Gaza,” Falk says.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War, War Crimes
Gaza: Massacre of Dalo family

We in Gaza will not die in silence

Israel has embarked on an adventure it has not calculated properly. It must now bear the consequences. A truce will be on Hamas’s terms, not Israel’s. The first of these will be to lift the oppressive blockade on the Gaza Strip.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War, War Crimes
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Why Gaza must suffer again

The four main culprits who should be held responsible for the deaths of Palestinians and Israelis in the days and, if Israel expands its operation, weeks ahead.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, United States, War

Stop pretending the US is an uninvolved, helpless party in the Israeli assault on Gaza

Assault on Gaza is possible only because of direct, affirmative, unstinting US diplomatic, financial and military support for Israel and everything it does.

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Gaza, Judaism, Religion, War

Bishop Corder: Israel’s “Pillar of Cloud” Blasphemy

Israel have mocked the message of God’s prophet and turned it into a murderous blasphemy. The Pillar of Cloud represents life to the Palestinian people.

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Gaza, Israel, Opinion, Palestine, War, War Crimes

Interview with Noam Chomsky about Gaza

Palestinians in Gaza still, you know — fight for their rights, and don’t just succumb. It’s a lesson for people from the West, says Chomsky.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War Crimes
BBC Arabic journalist Omar Jihad mourns the death of his 11 months old son after Israeli air strikes.

Gaza: Bodies for Ballots

In Gaza, the equation of trading bodies for ballots is an Israeli leader’s favorite game. All the ballots are Israeli and the bodies are always Palestinian.

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Iran, Israel, Opinion, United States, War

Will Israel Launch a False Flag Against Iran to Start War?

Israel has admitted to previous use of false flag attacks to justify war against Middle Eastern nations. For example, Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities.

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Bleeding Edge, Iran, Israel, War, Zionism

Israeli leaders set to repeat historical blunders

Uri Avnery argues that Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak, and their sycophantic parrots in the media and the political establishment, are leading Israel to disaster, just as Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan did in 1973, except this time it could be much worse.

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Israel, Palestine, Politics, Zionism

Memo to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon: The door on a two-state solution was closed 45 years ago

Like it or not, and whatever it might mean for the fate of mankind, the world was going to have to live with the fact that there were two sets of rules for the behaviour of nations – one for Israel and one for all other nations.

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Egypt, Iran, Israel, Politics, Zionism

Israeli leaders score own goal over non-aligned summit in Iran

Uri Avnery argues that the Israeli premier’s and defence minister’s reactions to the UN and Egyptian leaders’ participation in the Tehran non-aligned summit demonstrate their ideological fixations, mental outlook and low intelligence.

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Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Peace

The Camp David treaty is not a sacred text

Is it a pre-condition to recognize Israel in order to govern? This is not possible, no matter what the circumstances are. We don’t recognize Israel at all. It is a criminal occupier.

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Americas, Europe, Featured Articles, Islam, Middle East

The Washington – “Moderate Islam” Alliance: Containing Rebellion Defending Empire

The West have agreed to a kind of “power-sharing’ with Islamist parties. The Islamists would be responsible for imposing orthodox economic policies and re-establishing ‘order’ in partnership with pro-multinational bank economists and pro US-EU generals and security officials. In exchange the Islamists could take certain ministries, appoint their members, finance electoral clientele among the poor and push their ‘moderate’ religious, social and cultural agenda.

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Egypt, Israel, Politics

From Saigon to Cairo – Escapes on Helicopter skids

From Saigon to Cairo, there exists a geographical line which, if drawn accurately, will pass through Sharm-El-Sheikh.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, War Crimes, Zionism

Rep. Erik Paulsen Meets Israeli War Criminal [Satire]

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.

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Israel, Palestine, United States, War Crimes, Zionism

Avnery Reveals: The Return of the Generals

Why, indeed, is Israel bombing Gaza? The Israeli public must be persuaded that Palestinians are not to be trusted. Israel is in danger of losing the September 20 vote for Palestinian statehood in the UN General Assembly.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War, War Crimes, Zionism

Netanyahu and the Border Incident: The Return of the Generals

With a sigh of relief, Netanyahu returned to his usual stance. Here he was, surrounded by generals, the he-man, the resolute fighter, the Defender of Israel.

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Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, War, War Crimes, Zionism

Israel’s Changed Agenda?

How to change public agenda and focus?
Attack buses in Israeli Negev, and all at once Israel’s Air Force took off for Rafah and made the hit. Israel in war!

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Arabs, Democracy, Human Rights

From Arab Spring to jobless summers

Few young people consider what effect their protests will have. Little heed gets paid by these youthful protesters to the cost of their revolutionary zeal. They blithely ignore the disaster their activities have caused to their national economies.

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