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Human Rights, United States
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, American Citizen | Assassinated by Obama's Drone Wars

Obama’s Crocodile Tears

I would like to see your tears, Obama, also for another citizen of your country, a kid named Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was killed by your illegitimate orders. Until then, you and your government are outliers. Blessed be the victims, may God have mercy on their souls.

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Arabs, United States, War Crimes

Do Arabs Cry For Their Children Too?

The misery and torment that befell Newton can be multiplied a thousand fold across the Arab world. American policy and actions have resulted in the deaths (i.e. murder) of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent children. The deaths of these children can be considered as war crimes and a crime against humanity of the highest order. They should shock and outrage us, compelling us to demand an immediate change in American foreign policy.

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Gaza, Palestine

Gaza to Galilee: The colonial context

The shocking reality is that many of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are a few miles away from the land of their ethnically cleansed former villages, across the border fence in southern Israel. Like so much else with Palestine, you can’t understand Gaza if you don’t understand the Nakba.

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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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Gaza, Opinion

Richard Falk: Understanding Hamas after Khaled Meshaal’s Gaza speech

Is the true voice of Hamas discernable at this point? There seems to be a sharp contrast between the sweeping language of Meshaal’s words spoken at the anniversary demonstration in Gaza and his far calmer, focused, and accommodating tone in interviews and other statements during the last several years.

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Politics, United States, Zionism
Palestinian men, show them standing in line next to the “Security” wall surrounding Jerusalem during Ramadan.

James M. Wall: The fate of human dignity is in our hands

Human dignity for the Palestinian people is in the hands of the world in 2013. Barack Obama knows that he and his nation play an essential role in delivering  that dignity to the Palestinian people. Benign neglect will not be his policy.

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Israel, Zionism

Stephen Lendman: Israel’s Lieberman Resigns

Lieberman and Netanyahu represent the worst of extremist governance. They’re hardcore racists. They’re ideologically anti-democratic. They believe Israel has a divine right to persecute, torture, commit naked aggression, and dominate the region unchallenged.

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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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Palestine, War Crimes
liberman_israel_war_crimes

Stephen Lendman: Holding Israel Accountable for War Crimes

Israel operated unaccountably for decades. How much more indiscriminate slaughter and mass destruction is tolerable. How many more years of Palestinian suffering will world leaders permit? How much longer can the ICC spurn its mandate? It’s time for all relevant stakeholders to step up to the plate and act responsibly.

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UK, Zionism
david-cameron-israel-supporter-conservative-friends-of-israel

Stuart Littlewood: Why they call him ‘Agent’ Cameron

Agent Cameron is very careful not to let the words ‘justice’ and ‘law’ pass his lips in connection with Israel’s illegal occupation of the Holy Land.

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Boycott, Grassroots Activism, Israel
Holiday Caroling Choir in front of Lev Leviev's jewelry store

New Zealand boycott companies of Israeli settlement-builder Lev Leviev

Lev Leviev’s companies have also been accused of involvement in human rights abuses and unethical business practices in the diamond industry in Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

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Opinion, United States, War Crimes
Francis Boyle

More Than 30 Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes, Boyle Says

Charges that the war crimes includes torture, enforced disappearances, assassinations, murders, kidnappings, extraordinary renditions, ‘shock and awe’ (bombings), and (the use of) depleted uranium, white phosphorus, cluster bombs, drone strikes, and the like.

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Israel, Palestine
Palestine: 12 Districts Map (1946)

Mohamed Khodr: Does Israel Have the Legal Right to Exist?

General Assembly has no legal right or basis to Partition any land, especially against the wishes of the majority population. Also, given that Israel did not meet Resolution 273′s “conditional” requirements for admission, its membership in the U.N. is illegal.

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Gaza, War Crimes
Israeli soldiers positioned to shoot Palestinian fishermen. (photo: Donna Wallach)

Story from Gaza: “I just want to live a peaceful life and be able to fish freely”

In confiscating fishing boats, Israel denies Gaza fishermen the right to livelihood by removing their means to make a living. The right to not to be arbitrarily deprived of property is protected under Article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Featured Articles, Opinion, Palestine

Stuart Littlewood: Will Palestinians ever ‘seize their destiny’

Palestinians of both factions (Hamas and Fateh), no matter how unified, will never succeed in re-framing the international discussion and “seizing their destiny” unless they undergo a crash course in media skills.

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Israel, Palestine
mofaz_to_assassinate_meshaal

Stephen Lendman: Netanyahu Mocks Legitimate Governance

Netanyahu calls terrorism. His notion of peace is none at all. His idea of truth is avoid it. His governing style is hardline. His type security is naked aggression. Palestine’s liberation has miles to go. It’s well worth struggling for.

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Israel, Palestine
Khaled-Meshaal

Alan Hart: Scoop! Bibi’s letter to Khaled Meshal

In light Khaled Meshal could respond to Netanyahu’s letter with these words: “No, prime minister, it is me who has to thank you for what you are doing to destroy your state!”

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Defence, Israel, United States
netanyahu-speaks-at-un-about-iranian-bomb

Dr. Elias Akleh: American Nuclear Hypocrisy

When it comes to criminal Israel, American nuclear hypocrisy go as far as criminalizing themselves by violating their own American laws to protect and support Israel financially, militarily, and politically.

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Featured Articles, Israel, United States
israel impunity

William A. Cook: From the City of Destruction to the Promised Land

The path to the Promised lands is the path that avoids wanton destruction of the kind the United States and Israel have wrought in the mid-east, where cooperation, compassion and concern for all is the peace all deserve.

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Israel, Opinion

Uri Avnery: Israel’s Cold Revenge

Israel: It may well turn out that the victor of the elections, six weeks from now, will be Avigdor Lieberman, the man of the cold revenge. And that will be the beginning of a new chapter altogether.

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Israel, Opinion
Map of E1 Israel Settlement

James M. Wall: Israel Plans a “Doomsday Settlement” for E1

Israel’s “Doomsday Settlement” on E1 “will render any prospective Palestinian contiguous state territorially impossible”. The tail of the snake coils around the northern part of Jerusalem, eating up rich Palestinian farm land, concluding west of Jerusalem.

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Gaza, Israel, War Crimes

Richard Falk Visit to Gaza: UN Press Release

Richard Falk, arose an urgent need to investigate Israel’s seemingly deliberate attacks against seemingly civilian targets during recent hostilities. It is clear that some attacks killed and harmed civilians in a grossly disproportionate manner and thus clearly appear to violate international law.

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Israel, Palestine, United States
Palestine_UN_status

Mohamed Khodr: US and Israel Faced The Greatest Slap Heard Around the World

95% of the entire world rebuked and expressed their long held anger against U.S. and Israel. The world is slowly finding its voice, its courage, its humanitarian conscience to tell Israel and the U.S.: “Enough is Enough” of your murderous atrocities, ethnic cleansing, and theft and illegal occupation of a nation—Palestine.

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Israel, Opinion, Palestine

Justice and Peace as Defined by the Jewish State

No longer can it run to the US veto to maintain impunity in crime, no longer must the people of Palestine be ignored, no longer can this world body live with the lies, the distortions, the deceit used by the Jewish nation to control all the peoples of the earth.

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Israel, UK

No consequences (again) for Israel’s hateful conduct?

Civil society calls for trade sanctions but Hague says EU has ‘no enthusiasm’. Now he shames us again by shirking firm action against the racist Israel’s endless land thieving and general lawlessness.

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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

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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Opinion, Palestine

The fine print of Palestinian statehood

Can the old leadership really lead the Palestinians to freedom from occupation, justice for the refugees and equal rights for the Palestinian citizens of Israel? Can it take advantage of the ICC and ICJ, and other UN conventions and bodies to protect its waters, airspace and people? The jury is out.

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Israel

The demographic success of Israel’s settlement project

Infograph to illustrate and explain how Israel’s settlement demographic changes within the West Bank obstruct the possibility of the two-state solution. The numbers suggest that Abbas’ bid to the United Nations was too little, too late.

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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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France, Israel, Palestine, UK

France and UK to recall their ambassadors in Israel

Israel’s largest newspaper, Yedioth Aharonot, claimed “diplomatic sources said both London and Paris were considering the unprecedented step of recalling their ambassadors to Tel Aviv.

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Israel, Palestine

Stuart Littlewood: The game is up for Israel’s pimps and hirelings

Why should Palestinians have to negotiate over Israel’s unlawful acts and haggle for their property in rigged talks when there’s proper recourse to the law? Israel’s pimps and hirelings are now exposed. No wonder the Zionist regime and its spin-masters are in such a flap.

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Israel, Satire, United States, War

Israel Routes US Forces in “Six-Hour War” [Satire]

Obama orders land, sea and air invasion of israel. Us sixth fleet wiped out by israeli planes, ships and subs. Israeli amphibious assault on washington dc successful. Israeli flag flies over the us capitol building.

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Canada, Israel, Palestine

“More settler than the settlers”: Canada’s UN policy and Israel

There is not a government on the planet today more supportive of Israel than Harper’s Canada. Israel Hayom, Israel’s largest circulation daily newspaper, said: “When he discusses the Palestinian issue, Baird sounds like he could have voted in this week’s Likud primaries.”

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Israel, Palestine, United States

Noam Chomsky: Palestine 2012 – Gaza and the UN resolution

The US and Israel could end the merciless unremitting assault and open the borders, and provide for reconstruction – and if it were imaginable, reparations for decades of violence and repression in Palestine.

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