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U.S. Withdraws Fulbright Grants to Palestinian students

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Dear friends,
Remind me again why anyone in their right mind would believe that the U.S. can bring a lasting peace to the region when they can’t even get six U.S.-bound students past an Israeli checkpoint?

If I had to guess, I think Israel may change their stance on this one…using their infamous posture of [...]

Zionism’s bosom buddy

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Bush at the Knesset revealed what most Arabs and Palestinians already knew: he is not an impartial broker, reports Khaled Amayreh from Ramallah

In his speech before the Israeli Knesset last week, President George W Bush proved once again that he is a Zionist par excellence. Indeed, the depth of his embrace of Zionism and the [...]

George Bush You Shamed US. If Israel is your “model” democracy in the Middle East, no wonder your democratization process is a total failure

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

George Bush statement in the Israeli Knesset in celebrating 60 years of independence, shames us all. His failure to recognize that Israel was not founded in “Heaven” but in long history of terrorism and ethnic cleansing is a smack in the face of his administration and its commitment to fighting terrorism and it is an [...]

How Muslims Are Treated In USA? (2nd round)

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Image by Carlos Latuff

Is Big Brother at your mosque?

On the first Friday of each month, Mohammed Elsisy, an Egyptian-born software engineer, usually drives from his home in Irvine, Calif., to the King Fahad mosque in Culver City, Calif., to deliver the khutba, or sermon.

Elsisy thought the first Friday of this past June would be no [...]

Breaking Through the News Filter

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

If it is true that the power belongs to the people in America, and Congress still answers to the people, then what force prevents the people from rising up to demand that Congress answer to the people’s will? The answer to that question is that the “silent majority” is only silent because they have [...]

Iran and Israel: Most Negative in Global Poll

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

On Israel’s 60th year of “independence,” the Jewish state is ranked one before last in terms of its global image, according to a comprehensive BBC poll.

According to the annual survey, conducted among 17,000 participants in 34 countries, Iran and Israel “enjoys” the most negative image.

As was the case a year ago, Iran and Israel receive [...]

Funding Our Decline

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

By ALISON WEIR

April 1st I participated in a debate in San Francisco that raised the question of US aid to Israel.

It was highly appropriate that this debate was held two weeks before tax day, since in Israel’s sixty years of existence, it has received more US tax money than any other nation on earth.

During periods [...]

How Muslims Are Treated In USA?

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Listen carefully to the results at the nd f the clip. They are scary!

US sought to oust Hamas, sparking civil war

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Oh, what a surprise!?

(AFP) - US President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice covertly sought to oust Hamas after the 2006 polls triggering a bloody Palestinian civil war, a US magazine alleged Tuesday.

Vanity Fair (full report below) said it had obtained confidential documents, which had been confirmed by US and Palestinian sources, [...]

Berman, US Congressional Foreign Affairs Boss: “I’m on the foreign affairs committee for Israel”

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Howard Berman, Congressional Foreign Affairs Boss, Cites Israel as a Prime Motivator in His Politics, Then Calls Israel Lobby a ‘Total Canard’ [Via: Mondoweiss]

On February 20, Congressman Howard Berman, the soon-to-be-chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, visited the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association in his Los Angeles district. During the Q-and-A, a couple of audience [...]