All Hail the Israeli resistance part 10

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All Hail the Israeli resistance part 10

Biberman & Co.

IS THIS the government of Biberman (Bibi Netanyahu and Avigdor Liberman) or perhaps of Bibarak (Bibi and Ehud Barak)?

Neither. It is the government of Bibiyahu.

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In Cairo, representatives of the Palestinian parties have discussed the threshold of votes required for representation on the Palestinian Legislative Council. The party that is considered the strongest, Hamas, wants a high threshold and threw out the figure of 8 percent, to the shock of members of one of the smaller parties. In Fatah, a ruling party that has known the taste of defeat, opinions were mixed: Some preferred a relatively high threshold (4 percent) in the hope that it would force the smaller factions within the PLO to run on a unified list with Fatah in democratic elections. Most of the Fatah representatives favor a lower number, however. Meanwhile, the rival leaderships are acting as if they operate within a sovereign country rather than in split and isolated territories under foreign domination. 

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1074827 

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 Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run -Sting, an englishman in new york

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UNRWA threatens to fire Gaza employees with declared Hamas, Fatah loyalties  http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1075344 

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Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run -Sting, an englishman in new york

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Who's The Boss?

 

ON THE first day of the new Israeli government, the fog cleared: it's a Lieberman government.

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Biberman & Co.

IS THIS the government of Biberman (Bibi Netanyahu and Avigdor Liberman) or perhaps of Bibarak (Bibi and Ehud Barak)?

Neither. It is the government of Bibiyahu.

yeah, but this, from the article: "ON THIS government's chosen path there lies a huge rock: the United States of America.

While Israel made a big leap to the right, the US has made a big leap to the left. One can hardly imagine a greater contrast than that between Binyamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama"

see, that's just nonsense - Barack has followed practically to the letter the same "blueprint" ( http://bit.ly/the_Likhud_in_power ) that GWBush was following, ( http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EC20Ak07.html ) when he invaded Iraq and created this escalating nightmare

that "blueprint" was inspired by Netanyahu's Likhudnik pals! and planned for years, before they were all installed in the White House early on in Bush's admin!

so, like, either the author of "Biberman & co." doesn't know that, or he's complicit in fuzzing the fact - maybe like this guy seems to, while he shows us the scope of the "project", : http://bit.ly/neocon_beat_goes_on

in which he states, "the "New American Century" lies in the dustbin of history" - I doubt that very much, given this:

 

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22341.htm

 

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Interview with Jeff Halper
On 29 August, two small fishing boats set sail with the aim of breaking Israel's blockade of Gaza. An eclectic bunch of 46 individuals were on board, including an al-Jazeera journalist with an acute bout of seasickness, and an Israeli activist - Jeff Halper - who had decided to join the Palestinians' fight for liberation against his homeland.

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Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams: Gaza is an open-air prison

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams Thursday denounced the Israel-led blockade on Gaza as having turned the coastal strip into an "open-air prison," news agencies reported.

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"Rest has Come to the Weary..."

 

PASSOVER Week is a time for outings. News programs on radio and television start with words like: "The masses of the House of Israel spent the day in the national parks..."

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The excitement in the announcer's voice was as if he were at a World Cup soccer final. "Gaza wins the big derby - for the first time in five years we are witnesses to these feelings of joy!" he cried, as if reporting on Palestine's historic victory over national rivals.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1078391

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Gaza prime minister Ismail Haniyeh approved last week the recommendation of the local interior ministry's special investigative committee to dismiss and court-martial 11 policemen on suspicion of causing the death of detainee Zayad Ayash Jaradat. A decision on the death of another detainee is still pending.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1078388

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Officials say Hamas and Fatah no nearer to reconciliation

 

Despite popular expectations that Hamas and Fatah would overcome their differences, there is concern in Gaza that the next round of reconciliation talks between Fatah and the Islamic movement will not take place.

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GAZA - The tall young man walked into the room slowly and sat down slowly. Two nails that have penetrated his body force him to walk rigidly and carefully; one is in the upper-right part of his chest, the other in his right thigh. The man is Nahaz Abdel Daym, 25, who was wounded by two flechette shells fired by the Israel Defense Forces on January 5 during Operation Cast Lead.
Penetrating the laws of war

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A Little Red Light
PERHAPS Avigdor Lieberman is only a passing episode in the annals of the State of Israel. Perhaps the fire he is trying to ignite will flicker briefly and go out by itself. Or perhaps the police investigations into the grave corruption affair of which he is suspected will lead to his removal from the public sphere.

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The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip announced Tuesday the opening of an Islamic National Bank, even though the bank is not recognized by the Palestinian Monetary Authority, an organ of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.

PA refuses to recognize first Hamas-licensed bank in Gaza

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Can Two Walk Together?

 

I AM not saying that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an agent of the Mossad.

Absolutely not. I don't want to be sued for libel.

I am only saying that were he an agent of the Mossad, he would not behave any differently.

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Was the Gaza school bombed by IAF a 'legitimate target'?

The Israel Defense Forces knows very well why, on January 3, at somewhere between 3:30 and 3:45 A.M., an Israel Air Force pilot bombed and destroyed the American International School, in the northern Gaza Strip.

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The two Palestinian governments continue to infringe on the rights of Gazans to medical treatment. They are still quarreling over the details of a compromise in principle brokered by public figures and independent Palestinian organizations. According to the proposed compromise, Bassem Naim, the health minister in Gaza, is to reinstate the officials who answer to Ramallah, whom he dismissed from the department for referrals abroad. His counterpart from Ramallah, Palestinian Authority Health Minister Fathi Abu Maghli, is to establish a committee of independent doctors to assure transparency in the referral of patients.

Assisting the siege

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The Emperor's Old Clothes

 

EVERYBODY IS talking about the first 100 days of Barack Obama. And there's a lot to talk about.

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GAZA - One of the first - if not the first - official request submitted to the Israel Defense Forces was to investigate the killing of Palestinian civilians in Operation Cast Lead. The request was sent on January 9 to the military advocate general, Brig. Gen. Avichai Mandelblit, and was signed by Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. Mandelblit never responded.

Paradise lost

al-Qa'bong

Nothing in this thread is about any "Israeli resistance."

 

There's an obvious reason for that.

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Al, the next time you get drunk and morose, please do me a favor and avoid posting here.

al-Qa'bong

Can you explain why you have threads about a so-called "Israeli resistance" that have no examples of an Israeli resistance as their content?

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Oh for fuck sake!  These voices may be marginal, but they are all important and do represent a tiny but determined resistance movement.  Besides, I feel that this is my major contribution to the peace movement.  If I lived in hog town and were a much baver human being,( Ala Cueball, Maysae Michelle, etc) I would probably join you on the  baracades, but I don't and I'm not, so this is what you get.  Pretty pathetic right?   

Now go back to your manly ice monkeyish persuits and leave me alone.

P.S. I did show Peace, propoganda and the promised land to a group of middle east newbies and later donated  it to Fernie public library, so I guess that's something, but in the end there's only so much you can do in a town of 5, 000 people.

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First of all, I want to apologize to all the good women who are engaged in the world's oldest profession.

I recently described Shimon Peres as a political prostitute. One of my female readers has protested vigorously. Prostitutes, she pointed out, earn their money honestly. They deliver what they promise.

Sir Winston Peres

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Successive Israeli governments since 1993 certainly must have known what they were doing, being in no hurry to make peace with the Palestinians. As representatives of Israeli society, these governments understood that peace would involve serious damage to national interests.

Amira Hass / Israel knows that peace just doesn't pay

Caissa

Pope Benedict says:
The Holy See supports the right of your people to a sovereign Palestinian homeland in the land of your forefathers, secure and at peace with its neighbours, within internationally recognised borders," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8047134.stm

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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Calm
May 13, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/otncpv

Because the article is lengthy, it is simpler to link you to it rather than attempt to (copy/paste) post it here.

 

Please don't attempt to sign-in or join the forum.

 

It is just a database which I created and maintain.

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The Jews Are Not A Race
There was no such thing as "Jewish" until God spoke to Abraham
Judaism is not a religion, but a Law (Talmudic Law) that has become religionized.

By Calm
May 13, 2009

All ancestors of Adam are what are known as the "human race". Adam was neither a Jew nor Muslim species. He was simply a human species. All who find their beginnings in Adam are a human species and belong to the human family and compose the human race. I don't particularly recall where God or anyone else created a 'Jewish race' nor a 'Muslim race' ... or, for that matter, a Protestant or Catholic race. God only created human beings and thus we are all simply that: human. To claim otherwise is preposterous. That would be like claiming that the DNA composition of a Jew or a Muslim or whatever other religious variety would be markedly different. But anyone with a half a brain in their head knows that the DNA of both a Muslim and a Jew is precisely identical.

Claims to the contrary are absolutely ludicrous. As Abraham of old, I too " fell on his face and laughed" when reading opposing arguments. The Jews are not a race. Plain and simple.

Abraham was 99 years old when his god supposedly interrupted his day and introduced himself. Abraham was a Semite before this incident and remained a Semite after the incident. The singular item which changed was Abraham's concept of a divine entity. And, like numerous tribes before him and after him, what did Abraham do? Not surprisingly, he created for himself and his offspring a religion!

Later we read where this new-found god of Abraham commanded him to kill his son Issac and thus revealed himself as something of a schizophrenic god who acts different to the very laws of creation which he himself instilled in every man's heart. It is not a wonder why Islam was born; the Jews became a shame to their own religion. Not to mention the fact that their claim to serve such a schizophrenic god was not all that inviting to those seeking joy, peace and righteouness. (But this contrariety we should perhaps leave for another day).

Speaking of the creation laws of God: lets not forget why the Ten Commandments were chiseled in stone. It was because the conscience of the Israelites had become so hardened and ignorant of their humanity that the very creation laws of God were no longer speaking to them. So Moses had these creation laws become physically visible to compensate for those who, similar to the Pharoah of old, had hearts which had become hardened.

Inspite of all the clamour in these days of the Jews worshipping the god who revealed himself to Abraham, sadly their own prophet Jeremiah stands to accuse them saying: "And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also."

But here is where the Jews set out to fool their god and mimic obedience. They lawyered-up as the popular saying goes. Their Rabbis began to invent edicts and subscriptions to all sorts of burdensome laws and self excusatory penances. Much later, Jesus asked of these lawyered-up Jews, "O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."

Notwithstanding, all those who claim to be Jews are comprised of the human race and share the identical DNA as all other humans on the planet; they merely named themselves Jews as a result of clan/tribal ancestry. So it is that the Hebrew term rendered in English as "tribe" is 'shebet', while the term 'matteh', prevails in the post-exilic writings. Yet, the two terms are nearly synonymous in that they signify "branch", "rod", "staff", "sceptre", and in the sense of "tribe" and is used figuratively to the derivation of the tribe as a branch of the family of Jacob (stirps).

Arrangement by clans merely represents a form of social and political organization which was natural to Semitic nomads, (as is observed among the Bedouins of today). Contrary to outrageous claims, it certainly does not infer a sense of race or species!

Wikipedia reports that according to the Jewish Agency, as of 2007 there were 13.2 million Jews worldwide, 5.3 million of whom lived in Israel, 5.3 million in the United States, and the remainder distributed in communities of varying sizes around the world; this represents 0.2% of the current estimated world population. These numbers include all those who consider themselves Jews whether or not affiliated with a Jewish organization, and, with the exception of Israel's Jewish population, do not include those who do not consider themselves Jews or who are not Jewish by halakha (Jewish religious law). The total world Jewish population, however, is difficult to measure. In addition to halakhic considerations, there are secular, political, and ancestral identification factors in defining who is a Jew that increase the figure considerably.

Furthermore, the historical records clearly speak about the origin and nature of this most famous of all known tribal organizations, (the Jews). There were thirteen tribes in all but they are habitually referred to as twelve; doubtless because in the distribution of the land after the conquest of Palestine only twelve tribal territories were assigned, the tribe of Levi being distributed among the others because of its priestly functions. The unifying forces were chiefly the blood bond and the tribal or family cult. At the time of the invasion of Palestine (see Book of Judges) the nation was still in the stage of loose tribal confederation and the war was waged by tribes and subdivisions of tribes, sometimes acting separately, sometimes in combination with others. The process of consolidation went on after the conquest; the kindred families and clans naturally settled in the same neighborhood, and finally the complete tribal organization was evolved with territorial boundaries and independent historical traditions. These Jewish tribes do not appear to have had any fixed or continuous political organization. Aggression by a foreign enemy would unite the clans of a tribe or even several distinct tribes under a common leader as was the case of Gideon and others of the Judges.

Yes, it remains true that Jewish history began during the second millennium BCE with the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Jews enjoyed two periods of political autonomy in their national homeland, the Land of Israel, during ancient history. The first era spanned from 1350 to 586 BCE, and encompassed the periods of the Judges, the United Monarchy, and the Divided Monarchy of the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, ending with the destruction of the First Temple. The second era was the period of the Hasmonean Kingdom spanning from 140 to 37 BCE. Since the destruction of the First Temple, the 'diaspora' has been the home of most of the world's Jews; afterwards the modern State of Israel was established in 1948, But these facts don't license the claim that Jews are a species or race of people. Yes, indeed there came into existence a people who came to be known as Israelites. This was simply the result of their territorial/geograhical heritage and not their DNA.

The evidence of this preposterous concept becomes all the more clearer when one understands what it means to say when the Israelis desire a 'Jewish State". They are not content to be known as Israelis only; as citizens of a geographical land known as Israel. No, they desire to impose their tribal religion on this land too; much like Iran saying it is an 'Islamic Republic' or the IRA declaring Ireland as a Catholic enclave. The Jews want to invent nothing short of a 'Taliban State' ruled under a constitution acceptable to their Jewish Rabbis and orthodox tribal/religious radicals.

Any stated reasoning to the origin of the Jew is ridiculous; laughable at best.

While it is true that Judaism shares some of the characteristics of a nation, an ethnicity, a religion, and a culture, it certainly is not a distinct race of people. The composite definition of who is a Jew include three groups: people who were born to a Jewish family regardless of whether or not they follow the religion, those who have some Jewish ancestral background or lineage, and people without any Jewish ancestral background or lineage who have formally converted to Judaism and therefore are followers of the tribal religion. Historical definitions of who is a Jew date back to the codification of the oral tradition into the Babylonian Talmud. Interpretations of sections of the Tanakh, such as Deuteronomy 7:1-5, by learned Jewish sages, are used as a warning against intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews because "[the non-Jewish male spouse] will cause your child to turn away from Me and they will worship the gods of others." Leviticus 24:10 says that the son in a marriage between a Hebrew woman and an Egyptian man is "of the community of Israel." This contrasts with Ezra 10:2-3, where Israelites returning from Babylon vow to put aside their gentile wives and their children.

There remains an unjust and paradoxical issue when it comes to discussing the stated writings or beliefs (for example) of both Jews and Muslims. In Western society we might have a Pope or certain Evangelical leaders who behave as the 'all knowing ones' and who craftily traffic their edicts and interpretations at will to the gullible and disillusioned. The same can be said about the Jewish and Muslim religions too. What I am saying is that, when the Jews are smearing the Muslims, they eagerly quote some edict related to "seventy two virgins" and a host of other of similar slant. But it should be noted that the Jews have had their share of extreme teachers as well as the Muslims; not to mention the Christians too who (for example) blessed racism in America. Unfortunately, over these past decades the Muslim religion has not yet learned how to lawyer-up with the same sophistication as their Jewish brothers have done. The Muslims have not been so quick to conceal or obfuscate their religious materials and therefore have left themselves open to accusations of being barbarian extremists.

But the Jews have committed the very same troubling scenario which they are so eager to accuse others of. For example: various Jewish Rabbis have pronounced Talmud interpretations or edicts to be strictly adhered to by their fellow Jews. As I stated earlier, the Jews have long since lawyered-up concerning this historical record and when these edicts are disclosed the Jews now declare them 'inoperative' simply because some moderate Rabbi might have opposed them. Yet, regardless, the original Rabbi has not in fact disowned them; nor has his followers disavowed them nor refused to continue teaching them in their religious schools.

Sanhedrin 55b. A Jew may marry a three year old girl (specifically, three years "and a day" old).

Sanhedrin 54b. A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old.

Kethuboth 11b. "When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing."

Erubin 21b. Whosoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and will be punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell.

Sanhedrin 58b. If a heathen (gentile) hits a Jew, the gentile must be killed.

Sanhedrin 57a. A Jew need not pay a gentile ("Cuthean") the wages owed him for work.

Sanhedrin 57a. When a Jew murders a gentile ("Cuthean"), there will be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a gentile he may keep.

Yebamoth 98a. All gentile children are animals.

Abodah Zarah 36b. Gentile girls are in a state of niddah (filth) from birth.

Abodah Zarah 22a-22b. Gentiles prefer sex with cows.

Soferim 15, rule 10 The best of the Gentiles should be killed.

Gittin 69a. To heal his flesh a Jew should take dust that lies within the shadow of an outdoor toilet, mix with honey and eat it.

Shabbath 41a. The law regulating the rule for how to urinate in a holy way is given.

Yebamoth 63a. States that Adam had sexual intercourse with all the animals in the Garden of Eden.

Gittin 69b. To heal the disease of pleurisy ("catarrh") a Jew should "take the excrement of a white dog and knead it with balsam, but if he can possibly avoid it he should not eat the dog's excrement as it loosens the limbs."

Menahoth 43b-44a. A Jewish man is obligated to say the following prayer every day: Thank you God for not making me a gentile, a woman or a slave.

I can only suppose that the next claim of twisted genealogy is that the Ape creatures in Africa are a special breed of human being too as a result of some ancient tribal religion which caused them to exist as an added and forlorn species to the human race.

It is nonsense to believe that someone could travel to the Amazon and introduce the movie "Jaws-3" to a lost tribe while saying that the shark is God. According to some preposterous claims of the Jews being a race of people, we would expect that these Amazon natives with their new found religion to awaken tomorrow morning naming themselves as a race of people known as Jaws. If anyone were to believe this concept, then they believe in the tooth fairy too.

This convoluted genealogy does nothing but reveal a bizarre insistence to deny the fact that Jews are nothing more than an obscure religious tribe. Its this type of arguments which always seem preoccupied with the task of attempting to define Jewish Folks as a distinct race; aka: the "chosen ones". No doubt, this preoccupation is the result of the additional tribal claim of their tribal ancestor Abraham who declared that "The Lord God is ONE". This premise perpetuates the bizarre notion that Jews alone have a grasp on divinity and Jews alone are worthy to be named human.

What rubbish!

It is claimed that Sarah was the 1/2 sister of Abraham, because of the exact opposite, She had a different father.

It's rather redundant to debate this issue. I leave that up to the talking heads, the theologically bent and the delirious rabbis who are earning handsome fares for such a useless conversation. On the other hand, it just may be that Abraham himself lawyered-up and incest became the law of the land, I just don't know at this point.

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http://tinyurl.com/re47bh

 

 

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1085622

 

GAZA - Wadi Gaza is an agricultural region southeast of Gaza City. The ruins of Hussein al Aaidy's family home are immediately apparent. The houses (and several other heaps of ruins) are scattered among budding hills, lazing goats and fields that have been plowed but not sown. Up until nine years ago, these houses were surrounded by orchards and other fruit trees. Until the Israel Defense Forces bulldozers uprooted everything in order to safeguard the Israelis driving to the settlement of Netzarim.

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I'm shutting down the Israeli Resistance threads. 

The following links are the sources for all the articles I've posted over the years

Uri's articles can be found here

Ran's anti war articles are here

A huge archive of Amira's work can be found here

Youtube is also a good source of material 

 I hope you find these sites useful.

Goodbye and good luck.

 

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ONE OF THE HAPPIEST moments in my life occurred in a restaurant.
It happened before the second intifada. I had invited Rachel to celebrate her birthday with dinner at a famous restaurant in Ramallah.
Quarrel on the Titanic

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BARACK OBAMA is often compared to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but it is from the book of another Roosevelt that he has taken a leaf: President Theodore Roosevelt, who, 108 years ago, advised his successors: "Speak softly and carry a big stick!"

Calm Voice, Big Stick

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 I posted this piece to 'Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem". It is probably better placed on this thread here:

Does Israel Really Have a Right to Exist:

http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/06/does-israel-really-have-a-right-to-exist/

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HOW LUCKY we are to have the extreme Right standing guard over our democracy.
"Racists for Democracy"

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http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1244289868

 

ONE MAN spoke to the world, and the world listened.

He walked onto the stage in Cairo, alone, without hosts and without aides, and delivered a sermon to an audience of billions. Egyptians and Americans, Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites, Copts and Maronites - and they all listened attentively

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Netanyahu's biggest problem is to make believe that the old is new. To make yesterday's tired old clichés sound like the rallying call for tomorrow. But how to do that without using winks?

Obama won't wink back

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A Givati Brigade officer assembles his soldiers before the next attack on the Gaza Strip. "Who wants to go into the Izbat Abed Rabbo neighborhood?" he asks. Two soldiers raise their hands. "Who wants to get sent to El Atatra?" Five. "And who wants Tel al-Hawwa?" A sea of hands is raised. Everyone wants to serve in Tel al-Hawwa.

Amira Hass / Israel bans books, music and clothes from entering Gaza

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Among the 1,400 Palestinians killed during Operation Cast Lead last December and January, 1,085 died in Israeli air strikes, according to a study by the Gaza-based human rights group Mezan. Israeli soldiers killed 93 Palestinians at close range with rifles, according to the study, which was requested by Haaretz.

Were IDF close-range killings in Gazan justified?

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NEWBURGH, New York - The first time Kathleen Baines saw Maksud was on Wednesday, May 20. Like everyone else, she knew the well-to-do Pakistani by his first name only. He had started appearing here the previous September, wandering around outside Masjid al-Ikhlas (the "mosque of devotion") in town, meeting people in a popular local restaurant, paying for their meals and offering financial help.

Did FBI informant actually inspire Bronx synagogue plot?

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Israeli Barrier: Security or Apartheid? - Jeff Halper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gaV_Aj1710

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When He Says Yes - What Does He Mean?

"YOU MUST be celebrating," the interviewer from a popular radio station told me after Netanyahu's speech. "After all, he is accepting the plan which you proposed 42 years ago!" (Actually it was 60 years ago, but who is counting?)

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Double post!

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Double post!

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Sorry!

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Between Tel Aviv and Tehran

 

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Iranian citizens pour into the streets in order to protest against their government! What a wonderful sight! Gideon Levy wrote in Haaretz that he envies the Iranians.

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Even if the Iranian authorities succeed in suppressing the large demonstrations, the opposition might adopt other forms of protest - such as manifestos, strikes and mass resignations by university professors. That is the assessment of Ervand Abrahamian, a professor of history at the City University of New York and author of several books about Iran, most recently "A History of Modern Iran" (Cambridge University Press, 2008). "There is talk about the opposition trying to encourage its supporters to go out into the market places and prevent commercial activity," he told Haaretz last Wednesday in a phone conversation from New York. "That's the question: How will the bazaars behave, will the strike reach commerce."
Mousavi would shun nuclear weapons, says Iran scholar

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Israel Attacks Justice Boat; Kidnaps Human Rights Workers; Confiscates Medicine, Toys, and Olive Trees. Urgent Action

http://freegaza.org/index.php

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A West Bank checkpoint managed by a private security company is not allowing Palestinians to pass through with large water bottles and some food items, Haaretz has learned.

Privately run checkpoint stops Palestinians with 'too much food'

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