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[ 11/08/2010 - 01:35 PM ] GAZA, PIC -- Palestinian minister of public works and housing Yousuf Al-Mansi strongly denounced the international silence towards Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes in the Jordan Valley and southern Negev areas and called for immediate intervention to stop Israel from displacing Palestinians.In a press ... [Link] [Cache]

ShareThisSuspected US serial killer nabbed en route to Israel --Abuelazam was arrested carrying expired Israeli passport 12 Aug 2010 A man suspected of killing five people in a rash of 20 stabbings in three US states over three months was arrested in Atlanta as he tried to board a flight ... [Link] [Cache]

MEPGS: excerpts: President Obama's unusual, if not unprecedented backgroundpress briefing last week on US policy towards Iran surprised evenveteran Administration officials. "It shows not only theimportance the President places on reining in Iran's nuclearprogram but the success he feels he has achieved so far inreaching that goal," said one State ... [Link] [Cache]

An article this week in The Jerusalem Post suggested that "when the construction freeze in Judea and Samaria ends on September 26", Israeli PM Netanyahu intends to build mainly in the so-called settlement blocs "Israel will likely keep under an agreement with the Palestinians".Further down, the piece notes:Deputy Prime Minister ... [Link] [Cache]

I get a circle-the-wagons feeling from Israel's defenders in Washington. Thomas Friedman's column the other day was unhinged, lumping Oliver Stone with the British Prime Minister, and not acknowledging what has changed world opinion, the slaughter of civilians and denial of human rights to Palestinians for decades. Richard Cohen, who ... [Link] [Cache]

On Monday evening, Jethro Tull performed in Jerusalem with Shlomo Gronich as guest keyboardist. Gronich played riffs from Israel's national anthem, the Hatikvah. Front man, Ian Anderson's decision to play in the apartheid state was taken in spite of urgent calls for him heed the boycott call. It is clear ... [Link] [Cache]

I’ve just come back from. Temple Bar. Usually a reserve in central Dublin where we herd tourists, this lunchtime it was taken over by Irish artists who support Palestine. Meeting House Square, a cultural nexus in the city centre, was donated by the managers of Temple Bar Properties as the ... [Link] [Cache]

Something not mentioned here, quite apart from the effect on campaign contributions of the incumbents’ Israel policy, is this: suppose that, as a result of a populist wave better grounded in reality than that of the so-called Tea Party, the US were to cease its slavish support of Israel’s savage ... [Link] [Cache]

Kaplan, in the Atlantic:"... Indeed, I would argue that because Sunni Arabs from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, and Egypt perpetrated the attacks of September 11, 2001, and because Sunni hostility to American and Israeli interests remains a conspicuous problem, the United States should theoretically welcome a strengthened ... [Link] [Cache]

ShareThisIsrael to block future Gaza flotillas 12 Aug 2010 Defending Tel Aviv's deadly attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla, Israel's army chief has vowed to block future aid shipments heading toward the besieged strip. "If they come, they will be stopped by our defensive shield," Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi said in his ... [Link] [Cache]

Words without Borders “dialogue” violates Palestinian boycott call Haidar Eid, Electronic Intifada, Aug 9 2010 An initiative recently launched by the prestigious online literature magazine Words without Borders entitled “Cross-Cultural-Dialogues in the Middle East,” rings alarm bells in light of the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions ... [Link] [Cache]

Image ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff FAQ on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions What is BDS? What are the goals of BDS? Who is calling for BDS? What are some examples of how BDS was used during Apartheid in South Africa? What is the call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel? ... [Link] [Cache]

I’ll tell you why I think it is. All his readers are either middle-class ‘progressive Jews’ or their hangers-on. They are all extremely proud of and happy about the fact that the US economic elite, and the western economic elite generally, are overwhelmingly Jewish in one sense or another. They ... [Link] [Cache]

Children of Gaza remember their loved ones EXCLUSIVE PICTURES As the Muslim world welcomes the holy month of Ramadan, orphans in Gaza remember their parents and loved ones who were killed during Operation Cast Lead. Children gathered together to paint murals to depict what they had witnessed during Israel’s rampage ... [Link] [Cache]

This is a pseudo-topic because it deliberately collapses racial, religious, political and economic resentments against Jews into one ahistorical unit, with the aim of making them all appear racial, and thus demanding the ‘anti-racist’ support of the liberal pseudo-left, a body of western opinion that knows absolutely nothing about genuine ... [Link] [Cache]

Details of CSIS probe on foreign influence still being withheld CJPME, Aug 9 2010 The Harper government is still withholding the details of Canadian Security Intelligence Service CSIS investigations that prompted CSIS Director Richard Fadden to comment on foreign influence on Canadian politicians. The media have been focusing on China ... [Link] [Cache]

You must do what we can’t, because if you don’t, we will Paul Woodward, War In Context, Aug 11 2010 Worried about an Israeli attack on Iran? That’s the idea. You must do what we can’t, because if you don’t, we will. This is how some Israelis are trying to ... [Link] [Cache]

The Point of No Return slightly abridged Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic, Aug 2010 It is possible that at some point in the next 12 months, the imposition of devastating economic sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran will persuade its leaders to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons. It is also ... [Link] [Cache]

Gilad AtzmonGilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born British jazz musician, author and activist.He has denounced both Zionism and Judaism.At The Omani Brown Eagle we read "an Interview with Gilad Atzmon" http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/touching-left-islam-israeli-lobby-chom~ - 27 June 2010 Among the points made:1. In order to create a large Israeli empire, Israel is planning to ... [Link] [Cache]

OxfAn: Excerpts:".... Hizbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah confirmed rumours that the STL is expected to indict his party, accusing the STL of working at the behest of Israel.This unprecedented attack on the STL prompted renewed commitment by Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri to the tribunal. Although Nasrallah last month claimed that ... [Link] [Cache]

Dweyer in the Dispatch:"... When Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBC's Meet the Press whether the U.S. has a military plan for an attack on Iran, he replied: "We do."General staffs are supposed to plan for ... [Link] [Cache]

Hillary’s Enemies List Philip Giraldi, AntiWar.com, Aug 12 2010 Some might recall the enemies list that President Richard Nixon kept in his desk. The list was appended to a memo that asked “how we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies?” Named were a number of ... [Link] [Cache]

Israeli rightists and those echoing their formulations are fond of saying about the Palestinians: “There is no partner for peace.” Well, now the Palestinians can legitimately say the same about the current Israeli government. Haaretz today reveals that Bibi Netanyahu, in George Mitchell’s latest round of proximity talks, rejected a ... [Link] [Cache]

By PCHR, Electronic Intifada | August 11, 2010The signs which dot the beach along the Gaza City waterfront are clear: "THIS BEACH IS POLLUTED," they read, and yet they seem to serve only as obstacles for children running to the sea rather than warnings to be heeded of the serious ... [Link] [Cache]

11 August 2010 | ISM London Four campaigners against Israeli apartheid were acquitted yesterday August 10th of all charges related to two direct action protests against the Israeli cosmetics retailer Ahava in Covent Garden, London. The campaigners locked themselves onto concrete-filled oil drums inside the shop, closing it down for ... [Link] [Cache]

The Zionist state’s relationship with the world’s only superpower is one-sided, with little benefit for the latter By George S. Hishmeh | Gulf News | August 12, 2010 Oftentimes, Israelis and their supporters bury their heads in the sand, ignoring all that goes on around them. Take, for example, the ... [Link] [Cache]

There are those who would have us believe that:[O]ne day next spring, the Israeli national-security adviser, Uzi Arad, and the Israeli defense minister, Ehud Barak, will simultaneously telephone their counterparts at the White House and the Pentagon, to inform them that their prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has just ordered roughly ... [Link] [Cache]

Amjad Atallah of the New America Foundation disputes the claim that Arab governments seek a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran. Too destabilizing. And it doesn't touch the big enchilada: Palestinian freedom.Are Arab governments considering yet another war? Despite the repeated unconfirmed reports about anonymous Arab leaders urging Obama to ... [Link] [Cache]

Connections related to the reports that Obama’s collapse on Israel resulted from pressure in Chicago By Philip Weiss on August 11, 2010 Probably closer to the Obamas than Lester Crown is Marty Nesbitt Obama’s “confidante and golfing buddy” . For the sake of the Obamas’ dear friendship with Nesbitt’s wife ... [Link] [Cache]

Less than two months ago, I was at a hastily-organized report-back from survivors of Israel's attack on the Mavi Marmara when someone, almost as an afterthought, suggested that an American boat should go to Gaza with the next Flotilla, proudly flying the red, white, and blue to show the world ... [Link] [Cache]