With Washington’s bipartisan blessing, Israel is sabotaging a Palestinian plea for U.N. recognition By Rashid Khalidi | Salon AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Reuters/Ali Hashisho Once again Israel is doing its utmost to block Palestinian aspirat…
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Condemnation abounds after new U.S. ambassador reiterates commitments to Israel
[ 14/08/2011 - 02:42 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Condemnation has abounded among Palestinians after the U.S.’s new ambassador to Israel confirmed his country’s commitment to Israel’s security during a recent visit to the occupied territories. Where i…
Gaza: USAID freeze came after agreement was reached
[ 14/08/2011 - 10:06 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Tahir al-Nono, spokesman for the government in Gaza, expressed shock after the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) declared freezing operations in the Gaza Strip after an auditing agre…
Oslo’s Other Tragedy
By Dallas Darling | Palestine Chronicle | Aug 14, 2011 Oslo’s ‘other’ tragedy had nothing to do with a homegrown killer, one who had became mesmerized with extremist views and images shown in the global mass media, and one w…
81 US lawmakers in Israel on ‘tour’ sponsored by Zionist lobbying group
Some background info to read while you keep paying tax while lawmakers enjoy their holiday to learn HOW TO REPRESENT ISRAEL in stead of USA: About the cost of US congressmen: “We pay congressmen $174,000 per year. Then we give them an employee al…
Israel’s Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi to Glenn Beck: ‘G-d will bless you for what you did’ – video
by Lizzy Ratner on August 12, 2011 | Mondoweiss It’s T minus twelve days until Glenn Beck’s big End Times powwow in Jerusalem (an event he has predicted “will change the direction of the world”), and the wing-nuts are comin…
The road to New York goes through Lebanon and Qatar
By Bassam Abu Eid | Maan News Agency | Aug 11, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — As the Palestinian UN bid for recognition approaches in September, two Arab countries will hold key positions in both the Security Council and General Assembly, a…
US Mideast policy: Well on its way to total irrelevance
Wednesday, August 10 2011| Noam Sheizaf | + 972 Magazine By following Jerusalem’s lead regarding the Palestinian UN bid, the United State is diminishing its own position in the region, and actually proving that the Palestinians have nothing…
AIPAC’s European cousin evades scrutiny
Jeff Haynes| Agence France Presse Submitted by david on Thu, 08/11/2011 – 07:07 I don’t envy the 81 members of the US Congress who are on an expenses-paid trip to Israel this week. Having to listen to Zionist claptrap throughout the junket…
Straining Every Nerve against UN Membership for Palestine
Palestine Chronicle | Aug 10, 2011 Will the PA go through with its UN initiative? (UN) By Josh Ruebner The Roman philosopher and politician Cicero urged orators to ‘Strain every nerve to gain your point.’ The Obama Administration appea…
Of Caucasians, Christians and Desperate White Men ~ by The AngryIndian
TheAngryindian 07.06.2001 ‘As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into Europe for the third time in 14 centuries, on this one, Breivik may be right’. -Patri…
Throng of US Congressman to Visit Holy Land in Next Few Weeks
08.08.11 – 11:52| Palestine News Network Over the next three weeks during the US Congress’s summer recess, 81 congressman, some 20 percent of the US House of Representatives, will visit Israel. A group of 26 Democrats plan to arrive on Mon…
Why Aren’t There More Muslim Terrorists? ~ by Mother Jones
After the rush to blame Islamist extremism for the terror attacks in Norway, a new book examines why so few Muslims are terrorists. By Aaron Ross on Mon. August 1, 2011 11:14 AM PDT Louie Palu/ZUMA Immediately after last month’s terror attacks in…
The Occupation of #Palestine Extends to Twitter
This imagine is borrowed from http://lama-karma.livejournal.com/3731.html where similar free speech killings by twitter in Bahrain, Iran, China & Saudia are related. Finally a few days ago Twitter admitted it is moderating trends Not that we expect…
Islamophobia, Zionism and the Norway massacre – by @avinunu
Anti-Defamation League director Abraham Foxman condemned Breivik’s ideology, but he is still an enabler of Islamophobia. Ali Abunimah | 02 Aug 2011 12:50 | Al Jazeera | Opinion Anti Defamation League director Abraham Foxman and his…