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AIPAC Conference Promotes War – by Stephen Lendman

It’s contemptuous of fundamental human rights. It believes Jews are God’s chosen people. It thinks Arabs are subhumans. It favors eliminating them altogether. War is its instrument of choice.

Washington again was venue. A rogue’s gallery of participants attended. Warmongering speeches were featured. AIPAC does it annually. It disseminates disinformation, lies and hate.

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Israel, United States, Zionism

Israel And America: The “Special Relationship” That Isn’t – By Dr. Alan Sabrosky

Whenever Israel’s supporters today speak of a “special relationship” with the US that is supposedly graven in stone, it is useful to remember that something very different existed when Israel came into existence in 1948 on the gutted carcass of Palestine. The US recognized Israel, but that was about it. Hollywood was (and remains) largely a Jewish preserve, but their level of influence elsewhere – in the government, the media and academia – was limited. Prominent American Jews felt no obligation to endorse Israel or Israeli leaders, no matter what happened. Dozens (including Albert Einstein) signed a letter published in the New York Times in 1948 protesting the arrival of Menachem Begin and condemning his actions. And the general American public was largely indifferent to what happened in the Middle East.

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History, Israel
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Jamal Kanj: The myth of the Jewish people

Jamal Kanj highlights recent scientific research which proves that in 1948 “the children of the original Jews” – the Palestinians – were replaced by 8th century converts with no roots in the Middle East.

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Israel, UK, Zionism
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Stuart Littlewood: Britain’s UKIP – another Zionist lobby tool

Stuart Littlewood considers the latest Israeli stooge on Britain’s political scene, the UK Independence Party (UKIP), whose allegiance to Israel completes a circle of allies that has some of Europe’s most odious parties.

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Palestine, United States

Alan Hart: What do Obama and Abbas have in common?

Alan Hart examines what it would take for Obama and Abbas to stop being grovellers to Israel and the Zionist lobby, and wonders if they’d both be assassinated if they ceased grovelling.

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History
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Paul Craig Roberts: What If?

What ifs are provocative, and that is what makes them fun. Thinking is America’s national disability. I’m all for anything that provokes Americans to think.

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Peace, War, Zionism
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Bishop Donald R. Corder: People of Good Conscience

Those who are of good conscience must consider these things, whether they be so. And find for themselves whether wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness or is it better to have a mind positioned in nothingness? Political realities are issues of the heart of leadership and although prayer changes things. Change must begin in our own hearts and wisdom manifests within the spirit of our minds. Where regard is rendered unto knowing that through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: Wherewith, by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Then, let us all learn from a truth, “Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with the spirit of all wisdom.” From such a place shall we not be made free indeed?

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Failures, United States
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Stephen Lendman: Hillary Clinton – Profile of Imperial Arrogance and Lawlessness

Hillary Clinton represents the worst of imperial arrogance. She supports the worst of Israeli lawlessness. She was one of the largest recipients of defense contractor cash. She backed war on Afghanistan and Iraq. She opposed a Democrat resolution. She supported restriction-free nuclear cooperation with Israel and other US allies violating NPT provisions. She endorsed nuclear weapons use in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She calls them deterrents that “keep the peace.

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Israel, Nuclear Weapon, United States, Videos
Abby Martin talks to Grant Smith, Director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, about NUMEC, Israel's nuclear ambiguity and nuclear secrets.

Nuclear Weapons: What’s worse, poisoning by Israel, or gagging by U.S. government?

Grant F. Smith appeared on Abby Martin’s global broadcast today to discuss the Israeli nuclear weapons program. Topics covered included the diversion of weapons-grade uranium from Apollo, Pennsylvania, the U.S. government’s ongoing fight against releasing classified documents on Israeli nukes, the bankruptcy of “nuclear ambiguity.”

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Palestine, UK

Stuart Littlewood: The conspiracy to thwart Palestinian freedom hopes

How could the Palestinians possibly go wrong with all that expertise and communications firepower behind them? Yet none of these noble tasks ever seems to get done. The PLO explains very little, doesn’t even try to mobilize international civil society, and lets Israel run propaganda rings round it.

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Americas, Terrorism, United States
US Death Buisness

Elias Akleh: Who Killed Our Children?

The whole US was shocked when armed with automatic assault weapons 20 years old Adam Lanza murdered 20 first grade students in Newtown, Connecticut, yet very few, if any, Americans get shocked when their presidents murder thousands of similar children of other nations but call them heroes and defenders of freedom and democracy.

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Opinion, United States, War
Thirty three countries - Failed States Index based on a risk assessment

Wiping Countries off the Map? Iran or the United States?

Several targeted countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, are categorized as “failed states”. The central question is: who is failing the failed states? Who is “Taking them Out”?
It is part of a covert United States military and intelligence agenda. Destroying countries is part of a US Imperial project, a process of global domination.

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Opinion, Politics, Zionism

Maidhc Ó Cathail: How a Group of Christians Smearing Muslims Benefits the Jewish State

They clearly state their position on Jewish State as following: “We recognize the sacred right of the state of Israel and the Israeli people to the land of historic Israel. The right of Return of the Jewish people to the land of their foremothers and forefathers is a sacred right. It has no statute of limitation. The return must continue to enrich the Middle East. We recognize Jerusalem as simply a Jewish city, It must never be divided. She is, and shall always be, the united capital of Israel. The future of the Palestinians lies with the Arab states. A Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria constitute an imminent danger to world peace.”

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Israel, Palestine, Zionism

Uri Avnery: Sea-to-River (Israel) or River-to-Sea (Palestine)

The direction: the difference between sea-to-river (Israel) and river-to-sea (Palestine) is not just political, and far from superficial. It goes right to the roots of the conflict.

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Israel, United States

Glenn Greenwald; The US and Israel: a short quiz on ‘rogue nation’ status

It’s the entire planet on one side, versus the US, its new right-wing poodle to the north, Israel, and three tiny, bribed islands on the other side.

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Palestine

UN Vote on Palestine: Israel Suffered a Humiliating Defeat

Palestine fully qualifies on all counts. It did so many years ago. It long ago should have become a full de jure UN member. PA leaders must explain why not. Why not now? Why partial, not full status?

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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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Corporate Media, Middle East, Politics

Stephen M. Walt: Why Americans don’t understand the Middle East

American media needs new narratives that are less likely to rehash the same-old, same-old thinking that has kept U.S. Middle East policy stuck on the hamster-wheel for the past two decades or more.

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Gaza, Israel, Opinion, Palestine

Israel: A Deadly Déjà Vu

Israel plans for death, and, terror, terror, terror, terror, terror; so what you choose to do is what you choose to be. Israel must be judged on this basis.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War, War Crimes

The Latest Gaza Catastrophe: Will Israel Ever Learn?

Israeli leadership knew exactly what it was doing. Israel’s policies seemed almost calculated to increase future ‘insecurity’ for its people and the region. Will they ever learn?

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War, War Crimes
Send Gaza Back to Middle Ages

Israel’s Orgy of Death in Gaza

Targeting of Gaza’s unprotected and undefended civilian homes from high altitudes is the ultimate expression of cowardliness and callousness. Hence, the wanton, unbridled brutal aggression on the thoroughly tormented, thoroughly blockaded and bombed out Gazans.

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, UK, War, War Crimes
Steve Bell on Tony Blair and William Hague's role in Israel-Gaza clash

Hague: Gaza to “de-escalate”, Israel OK to attack

William Hague asks Gaza to de-escalate. This “Friend of Israel” bias is blatant. Shouldn’t he be calling for Israel to end its terrorism and occupation?

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Gaza, Israel, Palestine, War

Gaza: Part of a Broader US-NATO-Israel Military Agenda

Is the attack on Gaza a trigger mechanism which could lead to Middle East war? The invasion of Gaza is part of the broader US-NATO-Israel military agenda.

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Economics, War

An American Narcissist

How does America sell Pax Americana democracy to a doubtful world when the mind of its Presidents, past and present, is trapped in a speeding bullet? America has been planning a rash departure from reality for decades ‘it’s the American Dream’.

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Israel, Say That Again

Basic Facts About Israel You Should Know About

These are some shocking, yet basic facts about Israel, everyone should know about. The world deserves to know where does evil comes from!! Amazing what they get away with, isn’t it…

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Iran, Israel, War

Benjamin Netanyahu warning reveals his moments of memory loss

Netanyahu had noted “rightly, that Israel’s intelligence agencies are superb”. They are not. Israel’s intelligence on Lebanon has been pitiful for two decades, and it was these same “agencies” who assured Powell back in 2003 that Iraq did indeed have weapons of mass destruction. Later, we somehow forgot that little bit of false Israeli “intelligence” input.

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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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Featured Articles, Iran, Israel, Opinion, War, Zionism

Bibi’s Crazy UN Speech: Medievalist poses as champion of “modernity”

Imagine if Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who addressed the UN that day minutes before Netanyahu took the stage, had said: “Militant Judaism has many branches, from the Washington offices of AIPAC to the center of Jewish power in Tel Aviv – but they’re all rooted in the same soil” of intolerance? Picture him conjuring images of violent Jewish “fanaticism” – not a hard task, given what is happening in Israel today. If he had done so, Abbas would have been denounced in every Western capital as the 21st century incarnation of Hitler.

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Featured Articles, Middle East, Opinion, United States

New York Times Promotes War on Syria

The business of America is war. Policy calls for permanent ones. Wall Street and war profiteers demand them. Policy makers oblige. The Times and other media scoundrels show support. Imperial dominance, wealth, power and privilege alone matter. Throughout its history, its record reflects shame and contempt for humanity. Corporate interests are endorsed. So are imperial wars.

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History, Israel, Opinion, Palestine, Zionism

Ilan Pappe: Israel is an Apartheid State

Liberal Zionists though find it dangerous, and for many years have been trying to square the circle in an attempt to justify Israel’s apartheid policies. Jewish communities, of course, are allergic to the very idea. No, it’s not the recognition that Israel is an apartheid state that’s dangerous, it’s Israel itself that is dangerous; dangerous to Palestinians, dangerous to Jews in Israel and abroad, and dangerous to the world beyond.

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Iran, Israel, Palestine, United States, War

Noam Chomsky: Israel is a pretty crazy state. The U.S. is just a rogue state

An Interview With Noam Chomsky: Everybody is already furious at Israel. Even in Europe, it is regarded as the most dangerous state in the world, and it is becoming a pariah state. People in the U.S. should be breaking through the media and general doctrinal barriers to come to know what is going on.

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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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Israel, Terrorism, War Crimes, Zionism

AIPAC-Drafted US Aid to Israel Illegal

The U.S.-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 forces Americans to fork hard-earned tax dollars over to Israel’s coffers on the pretext that it is in eminent danger. Yet declassified documents reveal that even the current prime minister once worked inside the state’s clandestine nuclear arms smuggling rings. Transferring foreign aid to the Middle East’s sole nuclear weapons state is not just unseemly and unnecessary. It is illegal.

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Featured Articles, Human Rights, Opinion, Politics, War Crimes

In America Today Peace is For Sissies

Neoconservative triumphalism has destroyed American morality and left hubris in its place. Americans are overwhelmed by how great and good and moral and indispensable they are. American hubris raises Americans above everyone else in the world. Americans can torture, murder, invade, and still lecture the rest of the world about human rights.

The point is that we cannot give up hope that the world can be returned to a moral existence. What is discouraging is that it is no longer the West, and certainly not the US government, that is the upholder of “the rights of mankind.”

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Bleeding Edge, Islam, Middle East, Religion, United States

US Media War on Islam

America never treated Muslims respectfully. US media and Hollywood play lead roles. How many more millions will die before The New York Times and other media scoundrels acknowledge decades of US mass murder?

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