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Saeb Erekat: Palestinians deserve Obama’s support in September

by SR Editor June 23, 2011

Mr Netanyahu’s gamesmanship aside, we are pleased that Mr Obama recognised that Palestine must be based on the 1967 border. If Israel continues to choose colonisation over a two-state solution, we hope that the US will support our peaceful efforts to realise our national rights at the UN this September. As Mr Obama noted, the transformations taking place in the Middle East provide “a moment of opportunity”. We ask that this not be missed: it is truly an opportunity for Palestinians, Israelis, and world peace.

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Why Was This Man Standing At A Podium Before the US Congress?

by James M. Wall June 11, 2011

While many Americans were watching Oprah, Israel assumed control of our government. The picture of Netanyahu lecturing Congress, was orchestrated by John Boehner with the help of all those other Zionist politicians we elected to office in campaigns financed by the Israel Lobby.

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Israel’s war on Jerusalem children: 1,200 arrested in one year

by Jonathan Cook December 16, 2010

Late last month, in a sign of growing anger at the arrests, a large crowd in Silwan was reported to have prevented police from arresting Adam Rishek, a seven-year-old accused of stone-throwing. His parents later filed a complaint claiming he had been beaten by the officers.

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The endgame for the peace process

by SR Editor December 4, 2010

Future historians will no doubt argue over the precise moment when the Arab-Israeli peace process died, when the last glimmer of hope for a two-state solution was irrevocably extinguished. When all is said and done, and the forensics have been completed, I am sure they will conclude that the last realistic prospect for an agreement expired quite some time before now, even if all the players do not quite realise it yet: anger and denial are always the first stages in the grieving process; acceptance of reality only comes later.

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Obama’s Bribe: Palestinians will be the Losers – Again

by Jonathan Cook November 18, 2010

Barack Obama dangles a lavish package of incentives in the face of Benjamin Netanyahu in an attempt to lure the Israeli prime minister into renewing a three-month, partial freeze on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank.

The generosity of the US president’s package, which includes 20 combat aircraft worth $3 billion and backing for Israel’s continued military presence in the Jordan Valley after the declaration of a Palestinian state, has prompted even Thomas Friedman of The New York Times to compare it to a “bribe”.

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