“POWER STUPEFIES”? April 1, 2013
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Veteran journalist, Uri Avnery at Counterpoint, attributes idiocy specifically to the behavior of the Israeli Government in the case of the Mavi Marmara and makes the wider case.
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ISRAELI IMPUNITY February 27, 2013
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At AlterNet, Charlotte Silver asks: How Israel Gets Away with Torturing Palestinians to Death. Or maybe I should ask,How did 30 year old Arafat Jaradat die from heart failure?
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PRISONER X, MURDERED? February 14, 2013
Posted by wmmbb in Australian Politics, Israel-Palestine.3 comments
The ABC program cutely observed, “Israel has unique security problems”. And then we are reassured by the pronouncement that Israel is a democracy, but that neatly overlooks that its Arab citizens are either not fully represented, they have been exiled in the manner of a diaspora, often don’t vote when citizens, and when elected never are in government.
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NETANYAHU WINS BUT LOSES CONTROL January 24, 2013
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Binyamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party seems likely to lead the new Israeli Government following the elections for the Knesset.
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ISRAEL: INTERNATIONAL OUTLAW December 3, 2012
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Seriously, is there anything that the Government of Israel will not again and again stoop to?
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NEW UN STATUS FOR PALESTINIANS? November 30, 2012
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It is a puzzle. Why is it that Palestinians do not have a State, and how was it possible for the State of Israel to continue their dispossession despite the Olso Accords?
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RECOGNIZING PALESTINE November 29, 2012
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Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbot, asked a question of the Prime Minister this week concerning Israel.
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A GAZA PEACE November 23, 2012
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The establishment of a peace settlement that stops the overt political violence, at least for now, between Palestinians and Israelis is very desirable.
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DEFENCE OR MURDER? November 20, 2012
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The military forces of Israel are again attacking the Palestinians who live in Gaza, a large proportion of whom are children and claiming it is defence. Certain persons, including those who are public officials, are parroting this line.
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STANDING, IF NOT WALKING October 2, 2012
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This commentary from Rabbi Arthur Waskow is interesting on several grounds.
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UN SPEECHES: PRESIDENT MORSI September 28, 2012
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The United Nations is proving to be this season somewhat of a speaker’s forum.
YASSER ARAFAT MURDERED? July 8, 2012
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Al Jazeera has been undertaking investigative reporting. Why would the Israeli Government wish for the death of the Palestinian leader who was seeking recognition for Israel?
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IMMIGRATION AND ISRAEL June 12, 2012
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Wealthy countries are magnets for immigrants who are simultaneously fleeing oppression and seeking better a life. Israel is just one more country dealing the problem.
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DEFENDING ISRAEL May 24, 2012
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Not only does Israel live in “a very tough neighbourhood”, but then there is the media environment.
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NAKBA REMEMBERED May 16, 2012
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Palestinians have remembered Nakba, and the complicity of the Western Imperial Powers and the Jewish settlers in the dispossession from their land in 1948.
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ISRAEL’S EXISTENTIAL DILEMMA: “What must be said” April 12, 2012
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The Israeli Government did not like Gunter Grass’s poem, “What must be said”. They were not content to brand him as persona non grata, but label him as being anti-Semite and associate him with the Nazi past and the Holocaust.
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THE FUTURE OF ISRAEL January 6, 2012
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Every settler society is a set of social experiments.
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“OCCUPY WALL STREET, NOT PALESTINE” November 12, 2011
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The apparent consensus of the major political parties on the injustice in Palestine and the opposition to the recognition of a Palestinian state by the United States is staggering.
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OBAMA REJECTS THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE September 25, 2011
Posted by wmmbb in Duckspeak, Human Rights, Humankind/Planet Earth, Israel-Palestine, Modern History, Peace, Terrorism Issues, US Politics.add a comment
President Obama went before the UN General Assembly address the Palestinian application to world for statehood.
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THE SAUDI CONNECTION September 15, 2011
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Fifteen of the hijackers of the planes on the 11th September 2001 were Saudis.
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