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July 2008 Archives Back to MER World Hamas' Christian convert: I've left a society that sanctifies terror "Send regards to Israel, I miss it. I respect Israel and admire it as a country," he says. "You Jews should be aware: You will never, but never have ... more John Hagee`s CUFI Conference Mixes End-Times Prophecies With With Lobbying Philip Weiss attacks J Street. Why he`s wrong. Why This Election Is the Armageddon of the Neocons and the 2-State Solution Obama on Iran, Syria, and Jerusalem - Interview in Jerusalem Post On Wednesday evening, toward the end of his packed one-day visit here, Barack Obama, the Democratic senator who is leading the race for the White Hous ... more Memo to '60 Minutes' Producers: Take 'The Israel Lobby' to the Israel Lobby China plunges into controversy with Internet backflip 'J Street' Is Gutless Re AIPAC J-Street Says We Are Not Anti-AIPAC Israel revives West Bank settlement plans Arabs under siege as Israel tightens grip on Holy City The battle for Jerusalem is entering a new phase as Israel continues to build new settlements in the east of the city and a series of violent attacks ... more Obama and Appologizing to American Indians Obama Tells Dems ISRAEL Likely to STRIKE IRAN Note...no outrage, no opposition, no sense of let's stop this... Is Obama being used by AIPAC and the Israelis? Is Obama just naive not realizing t ... more Reviving U.S. Leadership in the Middle East - Report from Dem Party Think-Tank Torture of Palestinians Widespread Of course it all started with widespread torture by the Israelis of Palestinians with American connivance. Then it spread to Palestinian torture of ... more ANALYSIS: Israeli security forces losing control in the West Bank Hamas to Fatah: Only Zionist protection keeping you safe in West Bank Barak: U.S. to provide Israel with defense systems against Iran strike Abbas Ultimatum to Israel: Don't Release Hamas Prisoners! PA and Abbas In Danger of Going Down Imagine this. It's not an ultimatum about settlements, about Apartheid, about raids and killings and brutality by the occupying military. It's inste ... more Palestinian conflict hits cyberspace Stop War on IRAN Perle Linked to Kurdish Oil Deals and Money Nightmare on J-Street Says New Republic Jerusalem Ignored Says Moshe Arens J-Street Ex Dir Writes in Haaretz Olmert: Syria must choose between peace and isolation Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday that Syria must make a strategic choice between peace and isolation, as a new round of mediated peace talks be ... more The Military-Industrial Complex It's Much Later Than You Think High court in Turkey expected to ban party A legal expert, asked by the court to review the AKP case, concluded in his report that the party should not be banned, but the recommendation is not ... more Pak Newspaper receives threats for liberal voice Campaign ads attack GOP candidates for oil industry ties McCain's Many Lobby Connections Richard Perle Cashing In - True BLOOD for OIL Deals Pelosi: 'I'm trying to save the planet' Scarborough: Spy thriller on Middle East offers unique insights U.S. Alliance With the Kurds? How Barack Obama learned to love Israel - 2007 A Counterinsurgency Guide for Politicos Eighth in a Series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents Rice Adviser: Iraq Invasion Was 'F*cking Stupid' Who Are We? One World, One Humanity, One Family Leftists' dreams die hard in Egypt 'Mubarak has kept us so distracted by trying to earn a living that we have time or energy for nothing else,' says one. 'We've lost a younger generatio ... more Pakistan plans a push into its tribal areas Who Are We? One World, One Humanity, One Family Bush Forced al-Maliki to Back Down on Pullout in 2006 Bush Will Issue a Mass Pardon The Military-Industrial Complex It's Much Later Than You Think Ford Foundation still funding anti-Israel groups Fourth World War by Subcommander Marcos - VIDEO The Israel Lobby - Video Documentary For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterized by the strong tie between the United States and Israel. Does the United States i ... more Gates Says NO to IRAN War...but... A war with Iran would be "disastrous on a number of levels," according to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.In an article appearing in the latest ... more Israelis Use Ceasefire with Hamas to Prepare for WAR VIDEO - Iraqi Testifies Before Congress http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELjgVq6GtPA New Israeli Anti-Nuke Organizations Goes Public This debate cannot be suppressed any longer John Hagee`s CUFI Conference Mixes End-Times Prophecies With With Lobbying Lieberman At CUFI Conference: U.S. Should Attack Iran, God Hates Israel`s Enemies 'Compared to Us, Hamas Is Islamism Lite' NYTimes Lets Top Israeli Argue for Nuke Attack on IRAN! Benny Morris argues for nuclear genocide against Iran by Justin Raimondo July 21, 2008 Evil usually hides its face, because the sight of it repulse ... more Obama is wrong about Afghanistan - Juan Cole The Smallest, BUT VERY IMPORTANT, New Israeli Settlement Iran in the Spotlight at Christian Zionist Confab Officials: US talks to Iran to legitimize attack Chaim Yavin - Israel Walter Cronkite - in 2005 CHAIM YAVINWhat Israel must doBy Chaim Yavin Defense Dept. imposes loyalty test on American Jews - IL STRATCOM Cancels Controversial Preemption Nuke Strike Plan The U.S. military has canceled a controversial war plan designed to strike adversaries promptly - even preemptively - with conventional and nuclear we ... more Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan If Iran is Attacking It Might Really be Israel Free Gaza Movement - Boat to Gaza Sailing to Gaza Gates Says NO to IRAN War...but... A war with Iran would be "disastrous on a number of levels," according to U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. In an article appearing in the late ... more Father of bulldozer terrorist: 'Someone messed with my son's head' Syria envoy to U.S.: Israel has chance for peace with all Arabs Syria is interested in securing a peace agreement with Israel that would see a normalization of ties and end to the longstanding state of war between ... more http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005115.html UN report: At 45%, Gaza unemployment is highest in the world Olmert: Living with 270,000 Arabs in Jerusalem means more terror Allawi Testifies before Congress Israel's Debate Over an Iran Strike Active and retired Israeli intelligence officials interviewed by TIME tended to dismiss Iran's threats of retaliation against Israel and the U.S. Ephr ... more Top-level U.S.-Israel War Meetings Accelerating Tangled Web of Allegiances Leads Back to Tehran Christian Zionists Target IRAN - CUFI 2008 Palestinian family fights settlers - Jerusalem Battles - Jonathan Cook Jerusalem Area Palestinians Fight Back with New Mosque - E1 Encroaches A Brazen Evil Benny Morris argues for nuclear genocide against Iran Obama's Romantic Revolution Barack Obama's promises to heal the world were lapped up in Berlin on Thursday. His speech was a masterpiece in the art of political magic -- and it w ... more CENTCOM's Master Plan and U.S. Global Hegemony Israel Tries to Assassinate Hamas Head in Amman in 1997 - Victor Ostrovsky Bungled Amman Assassination Plot Exposes Rift Within Israeli Government Over Peace Negotiations By Victor Ostrovsky There is only one thing more dan ... more Peace Now Interviews Syrian Amb Rice presses Israel, PA to agree on document ahead of UN meet Beilin Calls It Wrong Again about 'Peace Process' If Iran is Attacking It Might Really be Israel The Benny Morris op-ed in the NYT last Friday should provide convincing evidence that Israel really really really wants an attack against Iran sooner ... more Report: Ex-Mossad chief says strike on Iran could 'affect us for 100 years' Obama to Israeli PM: Iran action legitimate only if talks fail Obama reportedly told Olmert that he is interested in meeting the Iranians in order to issue clear ultimatums. "If after that, they still show no wil ... more Moon astronaut says we're not alone Israel's Walter Cronkite on WHAT ISRAEL MUST DO My answer is: Let's not base our existence on the acquisition of more and more land, but on building, within recognized borders, a better society, bas ... more All About Israeli Settlements Who is doing real journalism? VIDEO - War Crime Sold By Neocon Deception, IMPEACH NOW Israeli in Boston Globe - WHAT ISRAEL MUST DO Zbig Says NO to Obama's Afghanistan Surge NYTimes Kristof - TOUGH LOVE FOR ISRAEL NYTimes Op Ed - Ta.king Sense About IRAQ 300 Foreign Policy Advisers for OBAMA LATimes Middle East Blog Debut of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald: An interview with Dan Ellsberg Obama Vs. Susan Rice On Meeting With Iran's Ahmedinejad Hagee, Lieberman at Strategic Pivot to Possible War With Iran CUFI, and the Christian Zionist/Jewish alliance represented by Senator Joseph Lieberman's appearance at Christians United For Israel 2008, has conside ... more Defense Dept. imposes loyalty test on American Jews JERUSALEM - 3-part special in the LATIMES Tom Friedman doesn't understand why America is unpopular in the world I say Bomb Eye-ran! (Parody) AIPAC is pushing us to war with Iran for Israel - Eric Alterman Re-Thinking Jeffrey Goldberg VIDEO - The "wiping Israel off the map" myth part 1 of 2 VIDEO - Rumour of the century (wiping Israel off the map) Europe's Obama cheers ring hollow in the Middle East Here the US leader has much less power. Israel calls the shots, and the reality on the ground is gloomy and anti-peace Hiroshima: Last military act of World War II or first act of the Cold War? by William Blum GAZA Today Sibel Edmonds - Greatest Hits Rumour of the century (wiping Israel off the map) Obama Op Ed on IRAQ - NYTimes Obama Interviewed on Zionism and Palestinians Zionist CNN, Sky & Fox Won't Show U This About Israel -Part1 GAZA - THE KILLING ZONE -- Zionist CNN, Sky & Fox Won't Show U This About Israel -Part1 Journalist Receives Death Threat for Talking About Israel - Alison Weir If Americans Knew What Israel Is Doing! VIDEO WAS CENSORED! White House: IRAN WANTS TO WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH Democrats Risk War with Iran to Serve Israel's Agenda Cost Of Iraq War Reaches Vietnam Levels Here are the report's estimated costs of major wars, in 2008 dollars, and their costs as a percentage of GDP in each of their peak years:--American R ... more Obama's Western Wall Prayer to God Retrieved and Reported for All FAA Cutting Back Flights from Israel for Security Concerns Top Astronaut Says ALIENS Already HERE! They appear to be intelligent, inquisitive, and not hostile! Lucky for us they are not like us! Rice Rushes Against Time Obama's Younger Brother Found in UK and Kenya Guard Confirms Late-Night Hotel Encounter Between Ex-Sen. John Edwards, Tabloid Reporters National Enquirer Reporters File Law Suit Against Hotel to smoke out Edwards Obama's Western Wall Prayer to God Retrieved and Reported for All Obama's People Jump Overnight on NYTimes Reporter Obama and the Dems also court and get the Big Money... Yes they do. And yes they have to pay the price for what they do. Top Dem Wesley Clark Says ‘N.Y. Money People’ Pushing War With Iran Former Astronaut and Moon Walker Says ALIENS are here! Chillingly, he claimed our technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as theirs and "had they been hostile", he warned "we would be been gone by now ... more London Times both Hypes and Mocks Obama And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the s ... more Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1 AIPAC is pushing us to war with Iran for Israel Why has Ameinu embarked upon this video initiative about the West Bank settlements? Arabs Cave Again to American Pressure Sen. Joe Lieberman praises pastor who said Holocaust was God's work Obama to PM: Talks with Iran necessary to legitimize action Here you have it. The Democratic Party wants to play the diplomacy card in order to line up the cards for an Israeli-U.S. war on IRAN, et. al. ... more Editorial: We need a U.S. leader unfettered by the Israel lobby - Haaretz Haaretz Says U.S. Pres Free of Jewish Lobby Pressure Badly Needed Obama Sticks to the U.S.-Israeli V ersion of the "Two-State Solution" Obama Berlin Speech - Transcript BARACK OBAMA BERLIN SPEECH: 'A WORLD THAT STANDS AS ONE' THURS JULY 24 2008 12:58:02 Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany ... more Hagee's Jewish Ex. Dir. Explains Hagee, Israel, and American Jews McCain Dumps Hagee Survey of American Jews Open Letter from an Iranian to Congress Jon Stewart on the Different Between Obama and Osama Egyptian Police State Cracks Down on FaceBook Activists Obama Live-Ticker in Germany: Der Spiegel Most Expensive Cities, What a List! FaceBook Expanding And Opening Up To New Applications McCain's Big IRAQ Surge Error Not Shown by CBS BUSH/Cheney Crimes and Misdemeanors Slate's interactive guide: Who in the Bush administration broke the law, and who could be prosecuted? Why the Press Is Ignoring the Edwards "Love Child" Story 100 Greatest Movies Lieberman Talks To CUFI...NYTimes calls it 'Hagee's Group' Blog - Jeffrey Goldberg of THE ATLANTIC Like DC, NYC Subways Increasingly Slow and Unreliable CUFI Starts - Media Doesn't. Wash Post Page 3 take on Hagee, CUFI, and being told they weren't welcome Lieberman, CUFI, and Hagee Get Little Mention in Wash Post They had quite a major banquet, dinner, rally, last night at the Convention Center in downtown Washington. Must have been 4 or 5 thousand of them sin ... more McCain Ad Mocks Media Adoration of Obama The Truth About Torture To get a full accounting of how U.S. interrogation methods were used, the president should give those accused of 'war crimes' a pass. OCHA - OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY 2008 NBC’s Andrea Mitchell Blasts Obama for ‘Fake Interviews’ UPDATE: JOHN EDWARDS LOVE CHILD SCANDAL! 2007 John Edwards CAUGHT by the National Inquirer Growing Food Problems in Cairo CUFI on YouTube - Third D.C. Summit This on the Internet from CUFI even as the Washington Post reports on 22 July 2008 that the media that turned up to hear Hagee and Bauer at the CUFI T ... more Coalition of Evangelicals Voices Support for Palestinian State - Opposes Hagee and CUFI Will Lieberman Skip Hagee and CUFI Summit? Will Lieberman Skip Hagee Event? Netroots Wants Lieberman 'Punished' Cell Phone - Cell Ranger - Review Against the Wall: Israel's Barrier to Peace (Paperback) NYT REJECTS MCCAIN'S EDITORIAL; SHOULD 'MIRROR' OBAMA NYT REJECTS MCCAIN'S EDITORIAL; SHOULD 'MIRROR' OBAMA Mon Jul 21 2008 12:00:25 ET An editorial written by Republican presidential hopeful McCain has ... more UK Brown Speaks to Knesset Focused on IRAN, as did Bush Rise and Fall of the Holocaust Reparations Racket Holocaust Cash Went To Shadowy Pal Of Ousted WJC Leader William Blum on Dr. Stranglove Back Then Bush's Banned Interview: An Insight Into Insanity I came across an interview with President Bush on Irish television that caused a bit of a storm in 2004. The interview conducted by the tenacious Caro ... more Israelis And Palestinians - The Great Divide Has Gotten Greater Coexistence projects bring Jews and Arabs together within Israel, but it is much harder to bridge the larger gap between Israel and the Palestinian te ... more Resistance in Palestine The iron resistance of one Palestinian hamlet to Israel's 'ring of steel' has caught the imagination of the world's media Goldberg of The Atlantic Interviews Obama on Hamas and Zionism US NOT Changing Course on IRAN - Prelude to WAR Democrats Risk War with Iran to Serve Israel's Agenda Re: AIPAC is pushing us to war with Iran for Israel War Crime Sold By Neocon Deception, IMPEACH NOW! Obama Interviewed about Israel, Zionism, and Hamas Re-Thinking Jeffrey Goldberg Intrigued (and alarmed) by the new science of “neuromarketing,” our correspondent peers into his own brain via an MRI machine and learns what he reall ... more The Peace Process in THE ATLANTIC - Jeffrey Goldberg The latest iteration of the never-ending Middle East peace process, launched in Annapolis late last year by President Bush, is in many ways a farce. O ... more US-led forces killed 9 Afghan police + others U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces killed nine Afghan police Sunday, calling in airstrikes and fighting on the ground for four hours after both sides m ... more Gillerman: Iran likelier to use nukes via proxies "The real fear is not that the Iranians will be crazy enough or stupid enough to launch a missile at Israel, but that they will have no compunction ab ... more US Election: Senior aide to Barack Obama says Obamamaniacs' hopes unrealistic Afghanistan: The 'forgotten' war is back in the spotlight Preparing the IRAN War What is needed isn't just a new President – we sorely require a new foreign policy. Or, rather, a return to the old one, a policy derived from the tra ... more Seniors Use Internet "Free Gaza" initiative to try and enter Gaza by sea and open port More Gazan Students Trapped by Israel in Gaza PLO Leader Challenges ICC About Sudan Chinese HoneyTrap Bags Aid to British PM Brown Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan Israeli Soldiers Shoot at Palestinian Journalist Israeli shoots Palestinian with hands bound point blank Frances First First-Nude-Lady Beijing Olympics: Battle for gold offers China first chance to 'defeat' America The Olympic host is straining every sinew to dislodge the US from the top of the medals table, a badge of global superpower status. Peace Now buses turned back from Hebron again after settlers protest Hebron settlers successfully thwarted Peace Now's attempt to bring five busloads of visitors to their city on Friday. The tour was meant to highlight ... more Banks Dig Customers Deep Into Debt GAO Says Little Political Progress in IRAQ Pressing the President -- U.S. Comptroller General David Walker What the Iraq War Is About - John Craig Roberts What the Iraq War Is About Bomb Eye-ran and let freedom ring! I say Bomb Eye-ran! The inherently evil Ahmadinejad brought it upon himself by demanding oil compensation in euros. Oil has always been bought and so ... more US gives Iran two weeks to think again on enrichment Deadline? Bluff? Preparations for Attack? Meanwhile, during this 'two-week deadline' the top Israeli military brass are on their way for a major 'v ... more Begin told British: quit Palestine or die Should we be headlining this: Menachem Bin Laden? Top Israeli Military on Way to U.S. for Major 'Visit' July 19th, 2008 IDF SPOKESPERSON'S ANNOUNCEMENT IDF Chief of the General Staff Visits the United States Army The IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt ... more McCain Calls Obama 'Socialist' White House Accidentally E-Mails to Reporters Story That Maliki Supports Obama Iraq Withdrawal Plan Tom Friedman doesn't understand why America is unpopular in the world 'Compared to Us, Hamas Is Islamism Lite' All about Israel Singer and the WJC Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages Iraq's Maliki Says Please Get Out Soon, Obama's Timeline About Right Obama's aides furious at McCain for blabbing about Dem's Mideast trip The Neocons, CUFI, Hagee, Lieberman, and the coming war with IRAN Iraq : Celebrating 50 Years As A Republic. A Quick Look From 1958 Till Present. IRAQ - 50 Years Ago Iraqi Revolution Expelled British Fifty years after the Iraqi army toppled the pro-West monarchy on 14 July 1958, Iraqis who live in their now terror- stricken nation are too preoccupi ... more LATimes - Tough Talk in IRAN Continues as U.S. Envoy speeds to European Mt Holocaust Cash Went To Shadowy Pal Of Ousted WJC Leader - Israel Singer WJC Corruption over Holocaust Claims Money - Singer, Bronfman Israel and the Clash of Civilisations - Jonathan Cook We're Being Set Up for Wider War in the Middle East Bigtime Gitmo Lawyer Takes Off Pants to Demonstrate Abuses Obama Lifts off in Secrecy Obama's Mid-East Tripped with Secrecy and Concerns Obama Gives Final Burial to 'Undivided Jerusalem' Statement Interviewer Fareed Zakaria asked: "One area where you're outside the international consensus -- and certainly, perhaps, some others -- is the statemen ... more Holocaust Cash Went To Shadowy Pal Of Ousted WJC Leader - Israel Singer Finkelstein on Carter about Israeli Apartheid and His Critics As Jimmy Carter's new book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid[1] climbs the bestseller list, the reaction of Israel's apologists scales new peaks of lun ... more Video THE WALL - Finkelstein and Weisglass on alJazeera Democrats Aim to Reframe Iraq Debate Israel's Benny Morris Threatens IRAN with nuclear obliteration in NYTimes This frightening and threatening Op Ed rushed into print by those in power in both Israel and the U.S. the day before a critical meeting with the Iran ... more Nasrallah Wins Again That is the essence of Zionism, which meant - or once meant - that Jews would never again be hapless murder victims with no one to defend them and av ... more Abbas slams Obama for saying Jerusalem to stay Israel's undivided capital Ahead of Obama Visit Israelis Arrest Palestinian Plotters Against Bush Olmert Jumps Right into Nasrallah's Trap Ahead of Mideast trip, Obama backtracks on 'undivided' Jerusalem Even Arab and Palestinian Ambs came to Israeli Amb Apartment to Say Goodbye Samir Kuntar: I'm yearning more than ever to confront Israel Anti-Semitism in the USA? Haaretz Quotes DrudgeReport about Obama Security Concerns in Israel U.S. Shifting in the Middle East - NYTimes Listing of Palestinian Refugee Camps GEORGE W. BUSH Sewage Plant on the Ballot in San Francisco Israelis Make Arrests In Jerusalem Plot Against Bush Indeed, if one things back abit, during Bush's visit to Israel earlier in the year a planned helicopter trip was traded in for a motorcade. That one ... more Cast of hundreds advises Obama on foreign policy Behind the e-mail messages is a tight-knit group of aides supported by a huge 300-person foreign policy campaign bureaucracy, organized like a mini St ... more Poll: 55% Of American Jews See Mideast Peace As 'core' U.s. Interest Israelis Beat Award-Winning Journalist with Diplomats Waiting Obama Op Ed on IRAQ - NYTimes NYTimes Editorial Endorses Obama on IRAQ and Afghanistan Obama Speech on Foreign Policy - 15 July 2008 The Land of the Settlers - Chaim Yavin McCain's AIPAC Speech - NYTimes Lebanon Gives Hero Welcome to Released Fighters ISRAEL and IRAN - Be Very Afraid Israelis Target More Hamas Orgs, Schools, Philantropies Israelis Kidnap and Imprison More Hamas Members from West Bank Economist - THE VIEW FROM CLUB MED Fearful and Under Israeli Control Blair Cancels Visit to Gaza What Israel Must Do - Boston Globe Op Ed ----- China - Building Well and Big! Prisoners' homecoming a triumph for Hezbollah Cairo pines for its golden era Obama's Israel Problem Pope says world's resources being squandered The world's natural resources are being squandered in the pursuit of "insatiable consumption," Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday in a speech urging foll ... more Syria says Sudan genocide charges dangerous DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria's foreign minister says genocide charges against Sudan's president have set a dangerous precedent. Walid al-Moallem says ... more The Zionist Freedom Alliance: Pro-Israel Revolution on Campus Iran president would welcome direct talks with US ran's hardline president said Monday he would welcome direct talks with the U.S. if both parties are on equal footing, adding such talks could happen ... more IRAN Plans Large-Scale Air Force and Military War Games Lieberman Rips Obama for LACK OF CONVICTION McCain Defends Non-existent Czechleslovakia Dedication of Abrahams Herberge in 2003 Abrahams House: A Reality at Last: After seven long years of prayer, work, construction, delays, curfews, closures and determination, Abrahams House ( ... more Now National Review Pokes at John and Cindy on the Cover Palestinian conflict hits cyberspace Hillary Alrady Preparing for 2012 Race Prof Richard Falk, now U.N. Official, Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 Obama Iraq Speech: US Strategy Is Unsound OBAMA - Huge Racial Gap Americans are sharply divided by race ahead of the first presidential election in which a black candidate will represent a major party, a New York Tim ... more Iran has clear "red lines" in nuclear talks Metallica - New Music and Video Games Baghdad Under Urge - March 2007 Israel Lobby Says No to Senator Hagel Sen. Graham: Obama’s Speech ‘Breathtaking’ In That He ‘Completely Misunderstands the World’ Obama Major Foreign Policy Speech - 15 July 2008 Official: US envoy to meet Iranian nuke negotiator Video: Obama's Speech On Iraq Obama says New Yorker insulted Muslim Americans Gaza: Long History of Wars and Defiance Lebanese Plan Festive Ceremonies; Israelis Somber Hiroshima: Last military act of World War II or first act of the Cold War? by William Blum Israeli soldiers torture 10-year-old in his house This Recession could easily tip into a Depression The debt crisis, the banking crisis, the property crisis, the oil crisis, the shift to Asia, the bear market in stocks, are huge global adjustments t ... more Interview with NEW YORK Editor David Remnick on the OBAMAS COVER New Yorker OBAMAs CBS Lara Logan Says U.S. TV News Bad - She'd 'Blow Her Brains Out' If She Had To Watch Daily Abourezk Writes of World War III Blues Will Israel and / or the U.S. Attack Iran? Today it is already clear that the real American aim (as I have asserted in this column right from the beginning) was to take possession of the Caspia ... more Big War Preparations in Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Israel US Has 1 Million + on Terror Watch List South Africans Sign Statement Saying Israeli Policies are Worse Than Apartheid Ariel Sharon Quotes - Bush About "Sharon is Man of Peace" Cheney to Middle East to Prepare IRAN War Israelis Claim Iranians Now in Lebanon with Hezbollah Hizballah Brings out Iranian Silkworm to Hit Israel Navy Corvette SHELLING LEBANON - Another Israeli Tells Ron Gerlitz April 1996, Operation "Grapes of Wrath" is at its peak. I am a commander of a Dvorah-type naval war ship. The ship is sent every day to ... more WITH or WITHOUT NUKES - Israelis Fear IRAN because... IRAN's PLAN HELL - Tourists and Journalists sent as Spies to US and West ...Agents of Iranian intelligence are posing as tourists and journalists and collecting information about "diplomatic and military sites" in the West, ... more U.S. Top 'Intelligence Analyst' Says NO to WAR with IRAN...NO to the Neocons What he said was like a thumb in the eye to neoconservatives and assorted other sabre-rattlers. Arab Anger Forces Obama to Backtrack on Jerusalem 'This is like apartheid': ANC veterans visit West Bank Video - Finkelstein about 'The Wall' Program - SCRIBEFIRE Israeli Spying on U.S. - Cover article in THE CONSERVATIVE Mediterranean union wants to rid Mideast of WMDs Oliver Stone "W" Stars Arrested http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080713/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mediterranean_nuclear_arms;_ylt=Ao.BeIbr8mvT_sV2X74RnMcUewgF Syria and Israel Keep Apart in Paris Hamas Rejects Abbas As American-Israeli Agent He also described Fayyad as “the most dangerous man in the history of the Palestinian cause because of his US-backed ideas that he has tried to implem ... more Israel & Palestine: Demanding Co-existence: Book Review DARK HOPE Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine by David Shulman University of Chicago, 2007 Bush/Cheney Trying End Run Around Collapsed US-Iraq 'Status of Forces' Agreement The UN Security Counsel is unlikely to intervene on its own against the proposed "status of forces" language. But increased rumblings in the Iraqi par ... more Saudi Interfaith Conf in Madrid Opens Wed Israel and U.S. Prepare to Attack IRAN - 'Different Middle East ' coming within 3 months Olmert Declares In Israel, Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, has his own domestic problems with a corruption scandal that threatens to unseat him and the media have be ... more The Iranian Oil Bomb - Major Step Toward Greater WAR! As War with IRAN approaches the Americans and Israelis are already secretly shooting and publicly threatening. Now IRAN is making a major economic sh ... more The Dogs of War - Treated Better than the People The US treats the canine victims of its adventure in Iraq better than it does the millions of humans displaced US, Iraq Long-Term Security Deal Abandoned 9+ U.S. Killed in Massive Attack in Afghanistan A multi-pronged militant assault on a small, remote U.S. base killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 Sunday in the deadliest attack on U.S. forc ... more IRAN Bombs America With 'The Oil Bomb' Before you get too excited, let me caution you that the assumption that that America will suddenly collapse is wishful thinking. It is we who are mor ... more With Indictment Looming Olmert Tries Proclaiming Peace with Palestinians Near "It seems to me that we have never been as close to the possibility of reaching an accord as we are today," he said, standing along Abbas and Sarkozy ... more Very Rare State Funeral for Thatcher Being Planned Margaret Thatcher is to be given the ultimate accolade of a State funeral when she reaches the end of her days – the first British Prime Minister sinc ... more An itchy finger on the taunt button Last week Iran fired a volley of missile tests. Was it the latest move from an apocalyptic president who loves to goad the West? Flop fears loom over Nicolas Sarkozy's grand plan for Mediterranean Union Cameras change picture of West Bank violence Palestinian victims of violence by Israeli settlers have been given a valuable weapon to bring their attackers to justice Exclusive: Bush lobbyist in ‘cash for access’ row A lobbyist with close ties to the White House is offering access to key figures in George W Bush’s administration in return for six-figure donations t ... more Analysis: Words that hide the withdrawal Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP return to Iraq Liberal Jews support Obama in part because they blame the Jews too Obama, The Jewish Left And AIPAC International Justice and Impunity: The Case of the United States Review of Wiliam Blum's book How Bib and Mossad Bungled the Hamas Assassination in Amman Israeli Espionage in and on the U.S.A. Wash Post Hypes War with IRAN Selling War On IRAN - Nir Rosen CBS Lara Logan - From War to Tabloids The pregnancy was unplanned. Logan says she lost one of her fallopian tubes during an ectopic pregnancy years ago and believed at her age it was high ... more Shanghai Vs. Beijing - Wash Post Feature This is China's most fashion-conscious metropolis, its most dynamic business center and the Chinese city most open to foreigners. Shanghai is home to ... more Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran - London Sunday Times President George W Bush has told the Israeli government that he may be prepared to approve a future military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities...De ... more Jewish “Klansmen” tie Palestinian to power pole, beat him savagely Jewish “Klansmen” tie Palestinian to power pole, beat him savagely [ 06/07/2008 ] From Khalid Amayreh in el-Sammou, Hebron Even in his wildest dream ... more Under the pretext of fighting Hamas: Israel launches all-out war on Islamic institutions in the West Bank Thousands of American-trained Palestinian “national security forces” are stationed in Nablus, but their tasks are confined to fighting anti-Israeli ac ... more Anniversary #2 - Siniora: 33-day war a blow to Israel Israel launched a devastating war against Lebanon on July 12, 2006 to 'crush Hezbollah' and secure the release of two Israeli soldiers captured by t ... more Iran Says Talks with US Need No Third Parties Iran will target US bases if attacked Iraqi Govt Now Says It Wants Control of Green Zone Review of THE REFLECTING POOL Bush's Banned Interview: An Insight Into Insanity MER was publishing in 2004 - Our Readers didn't miss it, and that was back in 2004 when it still really mattered. Clinton Reconfigures as THE DENVER GROUP with Catchy Ad Hillary Reborn as THE DENVER GROUP Clintonites Not Finished - Pushing Obama Down Hoping for Upset in Denver Israel's Great Divide - Feature in THE GUARDIAN About this seriesIt has been called a 'wall', a 'security fence' and an 'obstacle' to terrorists. When it is finished it will run 450 miles and will h ... more AUDIO REPORT - Guardian Weekly: Special focus on West Bank barrier The barrier in the West Bank and East Jerusalem that separates Israelis from Palestinians continues to divide them – and not just in a physical sense. ... more ISRAEL Living alongside the enemy - Letters from Jerusalem Coexistence projects bring Jews and Arabs together within Israel, but it is much harder to bridge the larger gap between Israel and the Palestinian te ... more ISRAEL'S GREAT WALL - Feature in The Guardian http://bp3.blogger.com/_lJK9qaX7XKE/SHc4rEcaW_I/AAAAAAAABJI/NyjDkyQ-5D0/s1600-h/denvertribagain.jpg Click here to find out more! Welcome iPhone killer-app is letting users choose software US Tells Pakistanis Get With It Or Else! The threat to Pakistan has been there for some time. Still President Musharaff actually blurted it out at one point when he was hawking his book. We ... more U.S. Prepares to Strike in Pakistan, Israel in Iran Admiral Mullens, top military man after the Bush/Cheney Administration pushed out both General Peter Pace and Admiral William Fallon, has been persona ... more U.S. Attempt to Lock In IRAQ Control Fails The real headline here is Bush/Cheney/Neocons Fail to lock in control of Iraq. And the real subhead here is that Prime Minister Maliki and his U.S.-fi ... more U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 - Richard Falk IRAN Threat - U.S. Public Anti-Iran and Pro-Attack IF... Electoral College Leans Obama deBakey dies at 99 Iran to target '32 US bases' & Heart of Israel if attacked Iran will target "32 US bases and the heart of Israel" if it is attacked, the Fars news agency quoted an aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... more Literally Running for Office, Iraq PM + Give Out Cash on the Street "Money is not a problem," al-Maliki told a recent gathering of tribal chiefs in the southern city of Basra, after government forces had defeated Shiit ... more Syrians Want Much More Arms from Russia Ex-Israel Leader Urges Peace deal of Israel, Syria Israelis Appeal to Bush to Save Palestinian Collaborator Sentenced to Death by PA It's a remarkable situation really. Rather than taking this up with their partner Abbas in Ramallah, the Israelis take the case to the American Presi ... more IRAQ: Marines admit they killed prisoners Will AIPAC’s Former Honchos Plead Guilty If Trial Cannot Be Avoided? St. Louis - Bob Bowman on 25 July Bob Bowman's State of the Union Address Friday, July 25, 2008 7:00 PM Evangelical United Church of Christ 204 E. Lockwood Avenue St. Louis (Webster ... more Put 911 on the Ballot Movement in NYC - Independent Investigation Sought Calling all New York City residents and supporters of truth and justice! There is widespread awareness that the events of 9/11 were never adequately ... more Independent 9/11 Investigation Urged "The Reflecting Pool" Movie Hezbollah: Second Lebanon War was biggest Israeli defeat ever Israel Jewish Lobby Pushing for More Sanctions on IRAN THE REFLECTING POOL - Joseph Culp Ban Ki-moon is Bush's marionette at UN Nuclear flyover 'mistake' was really aborted attack on Iran WMR has learned that a U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear and conventional weapons was scheduled to coincide with Israel's September 6 air attack on a ... more AIPAC Trial Judge OKs Supoenas for Rice and Hadley UN Human Rights Org Makes ISRAEL Permanent Issue American Jews Leads Org to Prevent Any Sharing of Jerusalem Senior Tehran official: Iran would destroy Israel if attacked Will next U.S. Congress top current record number of Jewish lawmakers? Olmert to French daily: Israel, Syria not far from direct talks Arab Leaders Doubtful about French Club Med Federation Israeli settlements put talks in doubt Israel in Iraq -- Fingerprints all over Redford for Obama with Warning to Dems IF BARACK Obama doesn't win November's presidential election in the United States, "you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye", the actor and director ... more Cash pours in for McCain as campaign gathers strength Israeli jets using Iraq's airspace Israel at 60 =- and Plan Dhalit to Expell the Palestinians New Israeli scholars face up to country's origins Gaza's Hundreds of Imprisoned Students NYU Student Newspaper Takes Up Plight of Gaza Fulbright Students TIMELINE: A chronology of Israel-Syria relations since 1947 Rice to Israel: 'Extremely important' to grant exit visas to Gaza Fulbright students NYPost: FIGHT Don't Talk! Will AIPAC’s Former Honchos Plead Guilty If Trial Cannot Be Avoided? UN official who compared Israel to Nazis turns the spotlight on Palestinians Religion is not very important to American Jews Senior Iranian Ayatollah: Our missiles neither threat nor fake "Unlike you (the U.S. and Israel), we are having our military maneuvers inside our own territory, and this is an internationally acknowledged and legi ... more The more religious the Jewish voter, the more pro-McCain Kucinich Again Raises Impeach Bush Resolution in Congress A Conversation With Richard Falk in THE NATION Prof Richard Falk, now U.N. Official, Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11 A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have ... more Syria Software Pirate Says You Embargo Us We Crack You 'Generation Kill' - HBO Special Series on Iraq War Gaza Fulbright Students May Get Out to USA Senior Iranian Ayatollah: Our missiles neither threat nor fake Israeli Jets Using Iraq to Prepare for Striking IRAN Israelis Dramatize New Fighter Bombers For Attacking IRAN Israeli Preparing to Attack Gaza Even With Cease-Fire The end of the American century Iyad Sarraj in Gaza Calls on Palestinians to Unite Israel is a master at disguising aggressive intransigence as self-defense. The assassinations carried out last week in Nablus aimed to incite retali ... more Israeli Press Reveals More About Outrageous Military Actions Against the Palestinians Another story from the Israeli Press about how the Israeli Army treats Palestinians: Twilight Zone: When Charity Ends at Home Gideon Levy - Haaretz ... more American is the Real Problem says Israeli Columnist Yup, It's All About Oil Tutu plunges into heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict Archbishop Tutu, who won a Nobel Prize for courageously standing up against apartheid in South Africa, has now entered the struggle for Middle East pe ... more Saudis make up 90% of terror suspects' One of Bahrain's 37 Jews Is Made Amb to U.S. Four years in Bagram as Prisoner 650 Israel bans British group over 'links to Hamas' Newswoman Lara Logan Now Hits the Tabloids Internet Soon to Crash Over All Addresses Used Up Israel’s Impasse: How A Fractured Knesset Hinders Peace Cheney Tried to Light Fuse for WAR WITH IRAN in 2007 Resolutions amount to declaration of war Resolutions amount to declaration of war Chinese Invite Israeli Pres Shimon Peres and Given Him Special Treatment Israel detains Fulbright scholars in Gaza The Two Johns: How Kerry and McCain Grew Apart Special Section on THE GREAT DIVIDE - Israel's Wall Israel and the Palestinian territories - Special Section in THE GUARDIAN Living alongside the enemy - THE GUARDIAN Coexistence projects bring Jews and Arabs together within Israel, but it is much harder to bridge the larger gap between Israel and the Palestinian te ... more Saudi Shias slam Sunni critics Google Desktop: Personalize and organize your own computer. Permanent Observance for Palestine at UN Calls on Inte'l Community to Comply Israel to Halt Building Apartheid Wall More than 20 Israeli Raids Throughout the West Bank Peres Appologizes to Abbas for Remarks Indicating Peace Process Dead Senator Hagel: Ending the Nonsense in U.S. Foreign Policy Tikkun and THE GLOBAL MARSHALL PLAN Coup Plot in turkey - Life for Generals Sought by Prosecutor France 'shocked' by China's remarks Latest of 3 Fulbright Scholars Israel Keeps in Gaza Gaza Fulbright scholars a step closer to U.S. study 10 Jul 2008 12:15:17 GMT Source: Reuters GAZA, July 10 (Reuters) - Three Palestinian students ho ... more U.S. restores Fulbright scholarships to Gaza students VIDEO - U.S. restores Fulbright scholarships to Gaza students No Treaty, But Rice Warns IRAN U.S. will "Defend" Israel TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Thursday that the United States will not back down in the face of Iranian t ... more POLITICO -- All About Mat Drudge - 3 June 2008 Watching Matt Drudge - New York Magazine He hides, but craves attention. He is prurient and prudish, powerful and paranoid, an icon of the right who seems obsessed with making Hillary Clinton ... more Politico Features Drudge and the Pondering Campaigns Iranians Upping Their Missiles for Effect? Carla Bruni's new album and the love song for Sarko French Pres Wife Gives Her All - "Orgy" and all I put an end To all my emblems To my career as an Amazon And to my sovereign freedom... I give you my body, my soul and my chrysanthemum For I am Yo ... more Israel to show airplane that can spy on Iran OPEC chief warns of 'unlimited' oil prices if Iran is attacked The head of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries warned Thursday that oil prices would see an "unlimited" increase in the case of a milit ... more Shades of Checkpoint Charlie at Rafah Crossing Chomsky - It's the Oil Stupid! Foreign Firms Sued by Palestinians for Building in West Bank Settlements This is the first time a private company has been sued for investing in settlements, which are a violation of international law, Michael Sfard, the at ... more US 'escalates covert Iran missions' News Middle East Israel raids West Bank charity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Online Hebron Settlers Savage Palestinians The Franklin-AIPAC-Israeli investigation was more than a spy case. It involved the future of US-Middle East relations. AIPAC Spy Trial Still Underway CBS News Correspondent: "I'd blow my brains out" Lara Logan disputes coverage accusations on CNN - 2005 Turk PM Only Second Regional Leader to Visit Baghdad since 2003 How Matt Drudge Rules the (Political) World In-Flight Movies Out to Save Fuel! BBC - Jerusalem Diary AIPAC Spy Trial - Prospectus Interruptus Obama's Foreign Policy Advisers - Weak on the Middle East BarelyPolitical.com - How It Uses Videos and YouTube Obama Girl and the Personal Democracy Forum U.S. Mayors Mobilizing Against a War with Iran Abourezk Meets with Meshal of Hamas Is the US 'encircling' China? Summit that's hard to swallow - world leaders enjoy 18-course banquet as they discuss how to solve global food crisis Just two days ago, Gordon Brown was urging us all to stop wasting food and combat rising prices and a global shortage of provisions. But yesterday t ... more THE IRAN CRISIS - NYReview of Books US mayors mobilize against Iran war Biggest U.S. Export to Iran is Cigarettes - McCain Jokes Again about Killing Iranians! US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has once again joked about killing Iranians, this time by sending them cigarettes. "Maybe that's a w ... more Under the pretext of fighting Hamas: Israel launches all-out war on Islamic institutions in the West Bank Palestinian Islamic leaders have called on Arab and Muslim states as well as “all human beings who believe in justice” to strongly condemn an ongoing ... more Iranian Pres Tries to Dampen War Talk Palestinians Try to Escape Gaza Prison Israelis Beat Journalist Returning from Speaking to European Parliamentarians The Networks Are Not Reporting - And CBS Logan Says She'd Blow her Brains Out! More Israeli Settlements Announced More Israeli Settlements Announced Israeli Group with Help Sponsors TELL ALL ARMAGEDDON WEBSITE The site is the brainchild of a large group of Israeli intellectuals, journalists and philosophers affiliated with an Israeli group advocating a Middl ... more Israeli Armageddon Website Tells About Israeli Nuclear Weapons Israel Fears Enemies No Longer Fear IDF must find a way to frighten our enemies as it did in the past.... Once upon a time, when our founding fathers were in power, that same Mossad whi ... more Iran Missile Tests Jolt U.S. Debate Israelis Keep Whipping up IRAN and the Bomb Hysteria Big Flaw Almost Allowed Internet Take-Over Israelis Prepare Home Demolition in East Jerusalem Palestinian PM Says Israelis Undermining His Credibility Grave Water Crisis in Israel Palestinians Protest Latest Israeli Closing of Shopping Centers + Vanunu Appeals in Jerusalem Court Palestinian Journalists Killed by Israel Since 2000 Israeli Outlaws More Groups and Orgs said to be supportive of Hamas Bin Laden Jr Rants Loudly on the Web The teen declared in his demented ditty to fanatics: “Accelerate the destruction of America, Britain, France and Denmark.” He continued: “Oh God, r ... more Russia threatens military response to US missile defence deal “We will be forced to react not with diplomatic, but with military-technical methods,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. ... more History - Israeli Elimination Of Engineer Yahea Ayash (1996) AIPAC Targets IRAN in AIPAC News OnLine AIPAC Sums Up Its Major Yearly Conference AIPAC News - Interns Victor Ostrovsky: How Mossad got America to bomb Libya and fight Iraq The Real Aipac Spy Ring Story -- It Was All About Iran - 2005 iRAQIS Raise Stakes with U.S.: Give us a Withdrawal Date! Latest on Israel's LandGrab Via 'The Wall' Kosher Sexual Abuse Scandal in Midwest Scott Ritter Speaks In His Home Town Israelis Fear Hamas Gaining Ground in West Bank - So Repression Escalates Still Further On Israel-Diaspora relations, Israelis are quite clueless Anti-Empire Report - 4 July 2008 Sasha Fools the Mossad this Time Around Israel's saber-rattling against Iran could backfire Syria and Iran 'Cementing' Military Ties Arab 'Moderates' Panicking They Will Loose Power as well as Credibility Report: U.S. fears Israeli strike won't take out Iran nukes Don't expect an Israeli au pair Citizenship law makes Israel an apartheid state By Amos Schocken Arab-Israeli Conflict Remains Central Issue in Region as Most Support Hamas over Fateh Whether one likes it or not, whether this is justified or not, "the Arab-Israeli issue remains the prism through which most Arabs view the world." In ... more 71% of Americans say U.S. gov't shouldn't take sides in Mideast conflict Israeli Repression Escalates - Now More Hamas Charities Raised, Closed, and Outlawed The escalation seems endless. If these groups are truly part of Hamas and involved in "Terrorism" why have they been operating for so long and why is ... more Israel and Hezbollah Make Major Prisoner and Bodies Deal Palestinian poet: History laughs at both victim and aggressor - Mahmoud Darwish Sequence of six photographs of the street execution of a Palestinian by Israeli soldiers. Israeli 'Apartheid' - Common Talk in Israel The Most Radical President in History - Seymour Hersh on Bush IRAN and turning the Middle East into a 'Fireball'. Seymour Hersh terms Bush the "Most Radical President in American History". Israel's Mossad - published in THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE Given the stakes involved, it would be reasonable for the United States to quietly offer Israel’s leaders a choice. They can continue to receive billi ... more Video - Why Was JFK Killed John Pilger: The New Rulers of The World (2001) Israel Locks Down West Bank Village To Stop Protests Background / The Iraq crisis as the War of the Jews Red Mosque Massacre Anniversary in Islamabad "We have beefed up security in the city, diplomatic missions and government installations will be protected. Nothing is being left to chance," a senio ... more Israeli MKs injured trying to stop bulldozer demolitions Israelis Rushing Missile Defense Why Did the U.S. Invade Iraq? US/IRAQ: "Divide and Rule" Strategy Called Shortsighted IRAQ: Whoever Wins, They Lose Many Iraqis appear to be skeptical of the promises made by Obama. "I'll believe the troops are gone from Iraq when they are no longer on our street ... more IRAQ: Journalist Charges Censorship by U.S. Military in Fallujah Miller was embedded with Marines on a patrol one block from the attack when it occurred. He had originally turned down the option of going to report ... more Interview with Ilan Pappe Secret Israeli Meetings As War On IRAN Plans Proceed Hamas and Hezbollah Gain, Almost Hand in Hand NYTimes Journalists Taken Hostage in Pakistan Border Areas The abduction Friday of two Pakistani journalists representing the New York Times (NYT) in troubled Mohmand Agency by pro-Taliban fighters has put the ... more BOOKS-IRAQ: The Fruit of a Poisonous Tree For those seeking different and deeper reasons why Iraq ended up where it is today, other than the often-cited but somewhat clichéd list of blunders l ... more U.S. Oil Motives In Question in IRAQ and Middle East Muslims in Britain should be able to live under sharia, says top judge Brit Spy chief Alex Allan found with 'blood everywhere' U.S. military sees 2006 Lebanon war as future prototype Iran Signals This, and That, and Actually No Real Change Iran Signals This, and That, and Actually No Real Change What is Iran Really Up to with its Nuclear Program? Obama-like Messages from Military Man #1? Interesting timing. Admiral Mullins was just back from his second trip to Israel in six months. Is Obama Already Selling Out? Uri Avneri I see him walking a tightrope across an abyss, and I worry. I saw him performing before the Jewish lobby, where he broke all records for fawning, and ... more Wash Post Editorial Setting Stage for War with IRAN Pentagon Chief Prepares Country and Pentagon for IRAN WAR On the one hand he's preparing both the public and the military for the much bigger and unknown war with IRAN. On the other hand, just in case it goe ... more Nir Rosen Tells The Truth About IRAQ Lebanon BattleField Being Prepared for New War I’m sick and tired of this thing called “patriotism” by William Blum NEOCON WARS PARODY witjh Ron Paul Kristof on the West Bank - But Not A Word About Stopping American Support IRAN Responds...Putting Ball Back in EU, UN Couart That could allow Iran to start negotiations about the future of its nuclear program while continuing to enrich uranium at current levels. more Jerusalem Mayor Kollect Declares "Fundamental" Change Between Jews and Arabs - 1988 More than 20 years after Israel captured and annexed East Jerusalem, the predominantly Arab part of the city, violent Palestinian protests appear to h ... more NYTimes reports 'Rampaging' Palestinian Father Child with Jewish woman BEWARE! The Worst Is yet to come in IRAN and IRAQ and THE MIDDLE EAST In June of 2003, two months after the United States conquered Iraq, I sat in on a briefing given by US Army intelligence officers in that most Sunni o ... more Jews Complain About Palestinian TextBooks Peace Now: Peres aiding 'enemies of peace' by attending Ariel anniversary President Shimon Peres' attendance at a celebration marking thirty years since the government approved the establishment of the West Bank settlement o ... more Imprisoned Barghouti Says He May Run for Palestinian Presidency Knesset Speaker Says; DEMOLISH THEIR HOMES! Background / The Iraq crisis as the War of the Jews By Bradley Burston Israel must stay the hell out of U.S. debate on Iraq Bewildered Israelis Still Don't Understand Why They Are Attacked This is what I don't yet want to admit: that for all these years, in 2008 no less than in 1902, what a critical mass of Palestinians want most, perha ... more Israelis Ponder: Why Did He Do It? The Shin Bet security service agents who arrived at the home of the terrorist's family in Sur Baher in East Jerusalem, are now looking for clues as t ... more Israelis to World Jews: We Are Much Safer Than You Are New Israli Law Bans MKs from Visiting Arab States and Meeting with Hamas The Knesset approved earlier this week in a second and third reading a law that stipulates that anyone visiting enemy states cannot be elected to Knes ... more Haaretz Urged 'Peace Deal Quickly with Abbas It's a sign of desperate from the 'liberal' Israelis. They don't think time is now on their side. From the article: "Israel may argue that the force ... more Top Israeli told he's Banned from UK Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Likud's Jewish Leadership faction, was recently notified in a letter from British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that he has ... more Kuntar has a different story. It's not unusual, in fact it's the rule, that Israeli stories about 'terrorists' turn out to be not really what happened and not really why. more Israelis Try to Pressure UN About New Human Rights Chief Israelis Throw Cold Water on Latest Iranian Positions Top UN Human Rights Official Calls It Quits Israelis Prepare World for US Strike on IRAN after Nov Election But the times are not reasonable ones, and the men involved are not reasonable men. The logic that guides Bush and Dick Cheney is one that Western pub ... more Israelis Claim Involvement with Columbia Military and Big Rescue Op The Israeli activity, involving dozens of Israeli security experts, was coordinated by Global CST, owned by former General Staff operations chief, Bri ... more Mother of Kuntar victim: This monster will be a Lebanon hero Israeli Generals Mention USS LIBERTY in Discussions with Top U.S. Admiral ...it was mentioned during discussions that both sides would like to avoid mistaken confrontations, of the sort that led to the IDF attack against the ... more IRAN - Any Attack Means WAR Haaretz TV on the 'terrorist' - Barak orders demolition of Jerusalem, yeshiva terrorists' homes HEBRON and The Two Israels - NYTimes Column Elizabeth Grice meets the blogger whose lament as a lonely, uprooted housewife has found international success # Wife in the North by Judith O'Reilly (Penguin) is available from Telegraph Books for £7.99 plus 99p p&p. To order a copy, call 0870 428 4112 or see ... more Another Story of Ethnic Cleansing: Israeli Style Denied the Right to go Home June 21, 2008 I am Palestinian - born and raised - and my Palestinian roots go back centuries. No one can change that ... more Peres: No chance of peace with Palestinians This is the actual reality, but usually the establishment press plays coy and the public remains unaware. The 'peace process' is for show and p.r. T ... more Iraqi MPs voice outrage after President shakes Barak's hand "The president is supposed to represent Iraqi policy? which means not recognizing Israel ... He must apologize." Perhaps sensing the handshake might ... more US. As War Criminal - Terrible Death and Destruction in IRAQ Book Review by Kim Petersen /for full review see Dissident Voice / June 18th, 2008 Here is the picture: over 1.5 million killed, 4 million refuge ... more Chomsky: U.S. Public is Irrelevant What did You Watch on Your Computer - The Courts and Big Brother Want to Know Egypt to take on Population Obama Considers Stadium for Convention Speech “One of the concerns we had from the beginning of this campaign is the tendency for special interests and lobbyists to dominate the political process, ... more Israel To Wall Off More Palestinians, Demolish More Homes ! ! !No possible motive was provided, although city officials confirmed that an order to demolish Dwayat's home was issued in 2005 on grounds that it ... more Condoleezza Rice Says She's `Proud' of Decision to Invade Iraq July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she's ``proud'' of the U.S. decision to wage the Iraq war and insisted that the world ... more CIA given green light to bomb Osama bin Laden Cheney's Big Oil Friends Soaking It Up in Kurdistan part of Iraq Report: Iran will halt enrichment if West removes sanctions Iran to West: Take ElBaradei's warnings seriously VIDEO EXAMPLE - Editor of Vanity Fair Introduces Each Issue Watch WaterBoarding! 17-second and Christopher Hitchens Is Screaming STOP! WaterBoarding Christopher - 17 seconds! Just in case the revelation that American torturers took their cues from that model of moral clarity that was the Chinese Communist regime hasn't full ... more FOX Shows Body of Dead Model but not of Dead Soldiers Obama Takes on Clintonites - Including long-time Israeli-connected operative Stuart Eizenstat “We’ve had a number of good and cordial and constructive conversations,” said Mr. Feinstein, who said he was supporting Obama as an outside foreign-po ... more Top Pentagon Commander Oblque Warns of Dangers of Attacking IRAN He's just back from his second trip to Israeli since becoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And he speaks just a few months after Admiral Fallon, CEN ... more Jordanian Prince comes to Washington as New Ambassador Israelis to Demolish Family Home of Jerusalem 'Terrorist' Unconfirmed rumors are that one of the things that provoked this Palestinian and caused him to snap were Israeli threats to demolish his and other hom ... more UN DISTURBED BY UNABATED VIOLENCE IN MIDDLE EAST; CONDITIONS IN PALESTINE ALARMING Iraqi Regimes 'Opens' To International Oil Companies Gaza Palestinians Que at Egyptian Crossing Point Gaza Palestinians Que at Egyptian Crossing Point LA and Oakland: Home Prices Way Way Down - Ghosttowns Appearing Lieberman, Fronting for McCain, Warms of Terrorists Attacks in 2009 How convenient for Joe and John, the former Democratic Senator, Jewish and long-known for his close ties to Israel, is warning Americans to elect McCa ... more Lieberman, Fronting for McCain, Warms of Terrorists Attacks in 2009 How convenient for Joe and John, the former Democratic Senator, Jewish and long-known for his close ties to Israel, is warning Americans to elect McCa ... more Iran to ready thousands of graves for enemy soldiers Military strike on Iran would be 'catastrophic:' Russian ministry Any military attack on Iran would have a "catastrophic" effect on the Middle East, a Russian foreign ministry official said Wednesday after reports th ... more China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo For Iraq’s Oil Contracts, a Question of U.S. Motive Israelis and Neocon Responsible for Huge Oil Price Surge Klare believes that the oil markets believe "there's at least a 50-percent chance that the U.S. and/or Israel will attack Iran before Bush leaves offi ... more CHINA: ‘Within a Generation Beijing Will Cease to Exist’ IRANIANS Blink or Feint? Iranians Float an Offer the West Should Not Refuse If there were any substance to Condi Rice's repeated assertions, that the strife over Iran's nuclear program could, and preferably should, be solved t ... more Amid policy disputes, Qaeda grows in Pakistan Softer Tone From Iran Has Experts Guessing Informed of Mr. Mottaki’s comment, a Bush administration official said, “Beats me.” Iraq to Open Oil Fields for 35 Foreign Companies; Initial No-Bid Contracts Delayed Israel and the U.S. Are Guilty Palestinians cannot even visit their homes Congress to Bush and Cheney: Do What You Want in Iran Israel, US, UK Out to Get IRAN - IRAN Not Guilty The Revolving Door of K Street K Street lobbyist money beckons elected officials before they even leave office Afghanistan: The new 'great game' The Guardian: The new 'great game' - John D McHugh is embedded with US troops in Afghanistan on the highly porous frontier with Pakistan. In his lates ... more Seymour Hersh says Democratic Party leaders signed on to secret war against Iran "If we bomb Iran our grandchildren will be fighting Jihadists." Secretary of Defense Robert Gates privately off-the-record.In an article in the "New ... more Shadow of Nightmare War Scenario in Middle East Looms as Israel Threatens and Prepares Israeli fighter jets flew 1,500 kms across the Mediterranean this month, in a dry run for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. Tehran has threate ... more Israelis Assault Award-Winning Journalist America's Trillion Barrels of Shale Oil New U.S. Embassies from Berlin to Beijing stir controversy—but critics miss the point. Newsweek and Zacharia Tell OBAMA What To Say and Do About IRAQ The Hundred-Years War - Bush, McCain, and the Middle East So, no, Mr. Republican, the Iraq thing is not over, and the Iran thing is just beginning. And if the occupation launched by Bush is indeed embraced by ... more What Obama Should Say On Iraq Petraeus Shifts to Pakistan and Afghanistan New Iraq report: 15 of 18 benchmarks satisfactory From the Bush/Cheney Administration as together with Israel it prepares war with IRAN as its swansong. Wash Times on NORTH KOREA and Bush Admin Foreign Policy Freefall IRAN Threatens to Hit Israel Nuclear Dimona The sabre-rattling coincided with a visit to Israel yesterday by the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, for talks with ... more From homeless drug user to millionaire New Israel law stipulates: Territorial withdrawal only by referendum IRAN To Execute Israeli Spy State Dept. slams report stating Israel likely to attack Iran this year Poll: 'Big powers' taint U.N.'s image A top U.N. official said Monday that the world's "big powers" have tarnished the world body's image of neutrality, at a time when the United Nations i ... more Journalists to record Obama's every step Obama to expand Bush's faith based programs Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush's program stee ... more Saudi King on Oil Prices, Taxes, and 'Get Use To It' Obama, AIPAC, Israel, and IRAN From reasonable principled stand to cheerleading for the Israelis, the Neocons, and the Bush/Cheney preparations for war with IRAN. The Other Baldwin in Hollywood Says NO to Obama and His Hollywood Backers Obama's Evolving Position on Iran Hawkish Stand More Like the Bush Administration's Position Obama on IRAN - More and More Like Bush Video - ABC - New Escalating US Battle Plans for Pakistan and Iran Pentagon Official Warns of Israeli Attack on Iran Palestinians who approach Gaza fence will be shot, says IDF Will Moderate Arab Leaders Pay The Price of Appeasement Deals in the Region? THE NEW MIDDLE EAST Report from Carnegie in the pages of Newsweek Bush's rhetorical "axis of evil" helped mire the United States in an utterly implausible policy, according to the report. (Words do matter, it seems.) ... more What Obama Should Say On Iraq 'The Hundred-Years War' Warns Dickey in Newsweek But when I heard Sen. John McCain talking this morning about the "success" of the war in Iraq, I was the one cringing. Admittedly, I live across the A ... more British politician: Iran, N. Korea differ A British politician urges the West to be cautious in dealing with Iran's nuclear issue since it totally differs from that of North Korea. Member of ... more Iran produces 'Quick Reaction' tanks US: Oil blockade constitutes an act of war Syrian FM Wishes for Nuclear Weapons to Counter Israel "As a private citizen, I wish Syria had this program quite simply because Israel has made huge advances in its manufacturing of nuclear bombs.” more 'Iran missiles aimed at Israeli nukes' 'The US is not a republic anymore' - Gore VIdal Iran 'digging 320,000 graves for invaders' Israel: Iran is giving us an ultimatum Ultra-right Knesset member Avigdor Lieberman claims Iran is orchestrating a plan to give Israel a 'give up or run away' ultimatum. "Iran's strategy i ... more Iran: Israel no match for our defenses Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says the Israeli regime is no match for the organized and skilled armed forces of Iran. "Modern weap ... more Israel Prodding U.S. To Attack Iran Don't Wait for World War III Act now to stop it! Waiting for WWIII? Cut 'Sovereign' Israel Loose America Is the Rogue Nation This Recession, It's Just Beginning The Hundred-Years War Iraq fails to sign contracts with global oil majors - 2 Hours After Story Saying YES, this Story says NO Iraq fails to sign contracts with global oil majors Jun 30 09:24 AM US/Eastern Iraq said on Monday it has failed to sign technical support agreemen ... more Iraq To Sign Oil Deals - This Story Ran First, Then Another Contracding it Iraq to award oil contracts to foreign companies Jun 30 07:10 AM US/Eastern Iraq on Monday will award oil contracts to dozens of foreign companie ... more Iraq Malik Govt Keeps Resisting U.S. Plan to Get Oil Revenues for Western Companies Attacking Iran May Well Lead to Nuclear Weapons Use by Israel An Iran Attack Scenario - A Catastrophe The finishing touches on several contingency plans for attacking Iran By David DeBatto 6-24-8 "Israel has ... more Who's Planning The Next War on IRAN? Pat Buchanon Yet, to start a third war in the Middle East against a nation three times as large as Iraq, and leave it to a new president to fight, would be a dayli ... more

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