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Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion.
The Weight of Three Thousand Years, Pluto Press, 1994, 
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/jewish_history.html 
Israel Shahak, Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Pluto Press, 1999,
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/jewish_fundamentalism.html

Israel Shahak, The Ideology of Jewish Messiansim:
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/shahak_messianism.html

Israel Shahak, The Zionist Plan for the Middle East:
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/zionist_plan.html

Israel Shahak, The Racist Nature of Zionism and of the Zionist State of Israel:
http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/racist_israel.html

Israel Shahak, What is the [...]

SF IMC Interview – Jeffrey Blankfort: Jewish-American anti-Zionist journalist
 
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/350717.shtml

On celebrating ethnic cleansing 
Marcy Newman, body on the line

This week the Zionist entity celebrated 61+ years of ethnic cleansing: stealing palestinian land, murdering and massacring Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Egyptians, Jordanians, Iraqis. 61 years of the Zionist entity being recognized by the international community, though its colonial regime is 122 years old this year. Barack Obama [...]

The New American Century Has Not Been Cancelled 
Steve Hynd

Anyone who thought the neoconservative project for a new American hegemony was finally cancelled when Obama came to power, promising to change Bush’s failed course in Iraq and Afghanistan, has by now had their hopes dashed. The Obama administration has proven itself just as inclined to interventionism [...]

How U.S. Torture Came To Iraq 
Moon of Alabama

According to the Taguba report torture by military units in Iraq was implemented after the Gitmo commander General Miller visited Iraq in August/September 2003 and recommended that the military police should be used in setting the conditions for intelligence exploitation of the prisoners. The pictures from Abu Ghraib [...]

No More Make-believe in the Middle East
 
By Norman H. Olsen
 

Bibi’s policies may be misguided, but at least he doesn’t pretend to be a peacemaker. Such intellectual honesty could prove salutary. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22505.htm

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‘The War on Democracy’
 
Video By John Pilger
 
“The film tells a universal story,” says Pilger, “analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind [...]

US using White Phosphorus in Afghanistan
 
http://stopwarblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/british-war-crimes-part-1.html
 
British war crimes 
 
White phosphorus weapons have achieved some notoriety since January when Israeli aircraft dropped US-made WP munitions on civilian areas of Gaza – a flagrant war crime. You can see a series of photos concerning the use of WP in Gaza on the Human Rights Watch website, which notes [...]

Israeli Use of Palestinians As Human Shields 
Stephen Lendman

The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights is a Gaza-based Palestinian NGO mandated “to promote, protect and prevent violations of human rights in general, and economic, social and cultural rights in particular, to provide effective aid to those victims of such violations, and to enhance the quality of [...]

Waterboarding Approved Specifically To Justify Iraq War 
Craig Murray

I have just learnt something which has convinced me that Bush, Cheney and Rice are indeed evil in the sense that Hitler was evil. I did not actually believe that until today. The excellent and much-respected Marjorie Cohn, President of the National Lawyers Guild of the USA and [...]

The Psychologists of Torture 
Medical professionals designed and helped to implement Bush administration interrogation practices. 
Frederick Clarkson

One of the key, if underreported, findings in Tuesday’s bombshell Senate committee report on the Bush-era treatment of U.S. military detainees was the role of civilian and military psychologists in devising, directing and overseeing the torture of prisoners.While the report highlights [...]

Straight to the Top
 
The torture trail starts and ends in the White House.
 
By Scott Horton
 

The big open question is whether we have an attorney general who enforces the law, or a Democratic version of Alberto Gonzales. That will become apparent soon enough. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22491.htm
 
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Torture?
It Probably Killed More Americans Than 9/11
 
By Patrick Cockburn
 
A US major reveals the inside [...]

Da:   iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] The murder of Bassem Aburahma
Data: 26 aprile 2009 6:27:17 GMT+02:00
A:   gazafriends, future-of-free-gaza, FG-Discussions
 
Most of the time, we post messages/videos/photos from Gaza, but many of us who have advocated for the rights of the occupied Palestinians in Gaza also have been in the occupied West [...]

Ahmadinejad’s Webster speech canceled:
 

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at a Swiss university has been canceled due to apparent pressure from pro-Israeli lobbying.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92052&sectionid=351020101
 

Let’s skip Gaza: Pope’s PR blunder :
 

If the Pope arrives in Palestine he must visit Gaza or it’ll look as if he doesn’t give a damn about the human condition in the very land where [...]

Democratic Leader Harman Caught Making Promises to Israeli Agent 
The Times (Britain)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6142991.ece 
A prominent Democratic Congresswoman was embroiled tonight in a growing scandal involving government wiretaps and her relationship with two alleged Israeli spies. Jane Harman, a California Democrat with long involvement in US intelligence matters, was allegedly recorded by a Bush administration wiretap promising an Israeli [...]

Everyone knows a prisoner 
Eva Bartlett, In Gaza

I visited Anwar in his Rafah home last week, 2 days after April 17th Palestinian Political Prisoners’ Day. Prison is a theme for all Palestinians living in occupied Palestine, whether they themselves have been abducted and imprisoned by Israeli occupation forces, or whether someone in their family (a brother, [...]

PCHR Weekly Report: 3 Palestinians killed, including 2 children, 11 injured this week 
Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News

According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, during the week of 16 – 22 April 2009, 3 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, including 2 children. Eleven people were injured, three of them children. [...]

Israel Covering Up Gaza Crimes: HRW 
IslamOnline.net

Human Rights Watch on Thursday, April 23, branded Israeli probes into the recent Gaza war as an attempt to covering up Israeli war crimes perpetrated in the densely-populated coastal enclave. “The conclusions are an apparent attempt to mask violations of the laws of war by Israeli forces in Gaza,” HRW [...]

BDS: Thinking Outside the PLO Box 
Samah Sabawi

Three months ago, the world stood still for one rare moment of absolute clarity as it grasped the implication of Israel’s imprisonment of a civilian population and its use of aid and medicine as a political bargaining chip and a means of collective punishment. That moment of clarity and [...]

No hope left 
Saleh Al-Naami

“I challenge Ismail Haniyeh or Mahmoud Abbas to be able to live under the circumstances I do for just three days. I’m certain that if they experienced my circumstances for just this short time, they would end the dialogue farce so as to put an end to this miserable reality,” says journalist [...]

Palestinian, you are on your own! 
International Solidarity Movement (ISM)

… Gilad Shalit “who turned 22 in captivity, will have been a hostage of Hamas for about 1,000 days,” writes Isabel Kershner on March 8th 2009, in the New York Times . ِAround 11,700 Palestinians resisting illegal occupation, including children under the age of 18 and elderly, [...]

Process Philosophy: Immorality and Imbecility in the Torture Memo Mess 
Chris Floyd

Let’s do something we rarely do around these parts. Let’s do a “process story,” looking at an issue from the standpoint of how it plays out in the political game. As a rule, we prefer to focus much less on political kibitzing in the imperial [...]

Crumbs… 
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

Some of you are already familiar with my dear relative Radhee. Radhee who lives in an all sooooooneee ghetto, in a ghetto where to cross to the other side requires huge detours and being searched through endless checkpoints, and there is no guarantee that he can make it back to [...]

Fake Faith and Epic Crimes

By John Pilger
  

April 02, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — These are extraordinary times. With the United States and Britain on the verge of bankruptcy and committing to an endless colonial war, pressure is building for their crimes to be prosecuted at a tribunal similar to that which tried the Nazis at Nuremberg. [...]

‘Israel killed 437 kids in blockaded Gaza’

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:27:24 GMT

Israel’s three-week war on the Gaza Strip left 437 children dead and 1872 more wounded, the Ministry of Social Affairs in Gaza has said. 

Ahmad Al Kurd, Minister of Social Affairs, said on Friday that the Israeli army targeted women and children, and that its [...]

More Than 20 Types Of War Crimes Against Children
 
Monday, 23 March 2009, 12:53 pm

Press Release: Sherwood Ross
 

More Than 20 Types Of War Crimes Against Children Ascribed To /Ex-President Bush In Iraq And Afghanistan
Torture has received the most attention among the many war crimes of the Bush administration. But those who support Bush’s pursuit of the [...]

Were Democrats Aware About the CIA’s Torture Program? 
By Jason Leopold

One day after the Obama administration released four gruesome Bush-era legal opinions that described in shocking detail the torturous methods CIA interrogators were permitted to use to extract information from alleged “high-value” detainees, a majority of Democrats have remained collectively silent on whether the disclosures warrant [...]

CIA fears torture prosecutions
Only some of the secrets of US ‘ghost’ prisons have been revealed
 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6122483.ece
 
 
Divisions Arose on Rough Tactics for Qaeda Figure
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/middleeast/18zubaydah.html?_r=1
 
 
From insects to waterboarding: 10 ‘torture’ techniques blessed by Bush
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/middleeast/18zubaydah.html?_r=1
 
 
Psychologists Helped Guide Interrogations
Extent of Health Professionals’ Role at CIA Prisons Draws Fresh Outrage From Ethicists
 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041703690.html
 
 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Waterboarded 183 Times in One Month
 
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04/18/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-was-waterboarded-183-times-in-one-month/
 
 
In [...]

Palestinian Prisoners: Imprisoned for their Love of Freedom 
Reham Alhelsi

Every year, on April 17, Palestinians commemorate the Palestinian Political Prisoners Day. On 17.4.1974 the first Palestinian political prisoner, Mahmoud Baker Hijazi, was released from Israeli prisons in the first prisoner exchange deal with Israel. That same year, the Palestinian National Council declared the 17th of April [...]

 
Israel moving towards either apartheid OR expelling the Palestinians – Mearsheimer
 
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/03/26/please_tell_me_where_is_israel_headed
 
 
Gaza war changed Middle East; Israel wanted its troops out before Obama was sworn in
 
http://mondediplo.com/2009/02/02gazawar
 
 
Hollywood features Israeli Actresses
 
http://forward.com/articles/104680/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Email+marketing+software&utm_content=70948438&utm_campaign=April+17%2c+2009+_+tylkdd&utm_term=Hollywood%e2%80%99s+Spring+Fling+With+Blooming+Israeli+Actresses+
 
 
US Jews becoming less Secular, more Religious, as Converts, Intermarriage & Orthodoxy increase
 
http://forward.com/articles/104681/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Email+marketing+software&utm_content=70948438&utm_campaign=April+17%2c+2009+_+tylkdd&utm_term=News+Analysis%3a+Young+Jews+More+Spiritual%2c+Yet+More+Divided%3f
 
 
Jewish Bankers blamed for the Economic Crisis
 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123906114937094859.html
 
 
Easter or Passover? Obama invites friends, aides to White House [...]

Bishop Tutu to Speak at Michigan University Despite Zionist Protests 
Lansing State Journal (Michigan)
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20090410/NEWS06/904100317/1102/NEWS06       
Michigan State University announced last week that retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu would give this year’s commencement address. Two days later, the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy organization, filed a protest … Professors and students interviewed Thursday were unanimous in their support [...]

Law and Justice first, Mr Mitchell. Peace comes later.st 
STUART LITTLEWOOD

So they sent you to the Holy Land, Mr Mitchell, for talks. So many before you have gone to talk. They failed because polite talk isn’t enough. What will you say about the subjugation of Palestine’s people and Israel’s defilement of this once-lovely place? How will [...]

Tortured Logic: Obama Writes Off Old Crimes While Promoting New Outrages 
Chris Floyd

…Barack Obama is being given great credit for releasing the memos, although as the president himself points out in his statement, their release was actually required by law. I suppose it’s true that the United States government has become so degraded that we must [...]

The rhetoric of “peace” 
Ziyaad Lunat

The Israelis have offered the Palestinians many types of “peace.” Their first attempt to reach out to the Palestinians was in 1948 with an offer of a “racist peace.” Ethnic cleansing was the basis of a “racist peace” where Zionist terrorists drove out two thirds of the Palestinian population from their [...]

Investigating Israeli War Crimes in Gaza 
by Stephen Lendman

Independent investigations and convincing testimonies, on both sides, provide compelling evidence of Israeli war crimes in Gaza. It’s time to hold the guilty accountable. In February, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights showed conclusively how Israel violated core international law principles by indiscriminately attacking civilians in [...]

NUCLEAR HYPOCRISY 
Malcom Lagauche

North Korea has had enough. For six years, the nation has been talking to the world in an attempt to stop its nuclear program. The Koreans promised to halt its program and other nations, including the U.S., promised food, fuel and an easing of diplomatic isolation. North Korea has done what it said [...]

America’s Afghan War: The Real World versus Obama’s Marketed Imagery 
First Bush then Obama and their NATO allies have been killing twice as many civilian women and children than civilian men in America’s Afghan war 
Prof. Marc Herold

On March 31, 2009, Jon Stewart in his “Daily Show” announced Commander-in-Chief Obama’s mission of “Redefinition Accomplished” was in full [...]

Da:   iristulip
Oggetto: [GazaFriends] Why did you shoot at us, on the sands and in the small boats, you killed us
Data: 06 aprile 2009 15:44:59 GMT+02:00
A:   gazafriends
 
Gazan fishermen abducted by Israeli forces
 
ISM Gaza Strip
http://fishingunderfire.blogspot.com/
 
 
Since Friday 13th March 2009, 16 fishermen from the Gaza Strip have been abducted [...]

Israel’s Racist in Chief
By Chris Hedges

Israel has changed. And the racist virus spread by Kahane, whose thugs were charged with the murders and beatings of dozens of unarmed Palestinians and whose members held rallies in Jerusalem where they chanted “Death to Arabs!” has returned to Israel in the figure of Israel’s powerful new foreign minister, [...]

Arab European League (AEL) interviews Dr. Ibrahim Alloush, Palestinian activist and professor of Economics in Jordan. 
By Brahim Harchaoui

…Regarding the Iraqi resistance, we must keep in mind that it helped coax the Americans into a major strategic, military, economical, financial, and political quagmire (along with the Afghani resistance). Yet the Iraqi resistance is also has also [...]

U.S. shipped 989 munitions containers to Israel week before Gaza invasion 
http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/488322/cs/1/
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Peres on Ahmadinejad: We’ll strike him
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=91241&sectionid=351020101
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IRAN: New Israeli government reignites war talk
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/04/iran-new-israeli-government-reignites-war-talk.html
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Gaza boat explodes near Israel Navy vessel
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078203.html
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War-shocked Gaza children ‘want to die’
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/13/2541280.htm
 

Israel created ‘terror without mercy’ in Gaza
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/07/israel-gaza-human-rights-report
 
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‘US strongly supports two-state solution’

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=90654&sectionid=351020202
 
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Erdan: Israel not taking orders from Obama:
 
“In voting for [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu the citizens of Israel have decided that they will not become the US’s 51st state.
http://snipurl.com/ffotr
 
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‘Israel holding Mideast hostage by shunning Arab peace offer’:
 
King Abdullah II: “Israel must decide whether they want to [...]

Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Shame 
Neve Gordon — The Guardian (Britain)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/25/avigdor-lieberman-binyamin-netanyahu-israel 
Thanks to Binyamin Netanyahu’s overweening ambition, Israel is to be saddled with a foreign minister who is a national disgrace / … Despite these egregious transgressions, newly-elected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has no qualms about appointing Lieberman to represent Israel in the international arena. Netanyahu’s lust for [...]

Six Years of Resistance 
Alquds Editorial, Translated By Namir Shabibi

The U.S. occupation of Iraq completes its sixth year today without improvement in the security or stability promised by Iraq’s new leaders and their masters in Washington, leaving more than 25 million Iraqis without the bare minimum of either. The new American President, Barack Obama, during his [...]

Feeding frustration 
Salah Al-Bardweil

The evening gathering of Al-Hamaydeh clan in the central Gaza Strip’s Deir Al-Balah City broke up late on Thursday. The clan members who meet every week had been exchanging jokes and had found commentary on the failure of the most recent dialogue talks between Fatah and Hamas to be a source of entertainment. [...]

From Deir Yasin to Beit Hanun 
KHALED AMAYREH

Hence, Zionism will always be a criminal concept if only because its ultimate implication is the uprooting and expulsion of an entire people from its ancestral homeland in order to be replaced by another people. Zionism has never changed its mind, heart, or even skin. It remains a virulent [...]

Obama’s obscene remarks in Iraq 
Christopher Dowd

…Obama also called the Iraq war an “extraordinary achievement”. The “extraordinary achievement” that Obama called the Iraq war is a nation that high ranking American officials can’t visit pre-announced. It is an “extraordinary achievement” with an “unknown” civilian casualty component- killed civilians by the way- the US military didn’t even [...]

Urgent Appeal: In Gaza a Siege fire instead of Ceasefire 
Sameh Akram Habeeb

Actions strongly required as borders are severely restricted… Patients still dying and death toll 313 as no exit, no enough medicines… Tens of thousands displaced… Re construction not allowed… Extreme poverty and unemployment paralyzing life… Freedom of Movement is a taboo…
The European Campaign to [...]

Zionism is discrimination is oppression is racism is apartheid 
Marcy Newman, Body on the line

As i watch the protests flaring in Moldova, Avigdor Lieberman’s home country who is the foreign minster of the zionist entity, i keep thinking what a great time it would be for him to go home. Back to where he came from. [...]

It Will Take the World to Save These Homes 
By Nora Barrows-Friedman

Orthodox Israeli settlers, backed by soldiers and police, attacked Palestinian residents of the Sa’diyya neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem Sunday evening, four days after the settler group invaded the home of the Jabir family and extra-judicially evicted them. The settlers claim ownership of the Jabir [...]

Iraqi babies for sale: people trafficking crisis grows as gangs exploit poor families and corrupt system 
Afif Sarhan, Guardian

Corruption, weak law enforcement and porous borders are compounding a growing child trafficking crisis in Iraq, according to officials and aid agencies, with scores of children abducted each year and sold internally or abroad. Criminal gangs are profiting [...]

* * * NOT SATIRE * * * 
Abbas thanked the Iraqi government for its treatment of the Palestinians 
CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, NYTimes

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, visited Iraq for the first time since the American invasion in 2003, meeting with Iraqi leaders on Sunday to garner support for the Palestinian leadership and Iraq’s Palestinian [...]

Student Merna foils Israeli bid to wreck family’s education hopes 
STUART LITTLEWOOD

Bethlehem University has been closed a dozen times by Israeli storm-troopers and shelled by their tanks, but it remains one of those magical places in the Holy Land where you always feels good ‘vibes’. Meeting the students is a continual source of inspiration, as so [...]

Video: Israeli bombs still threaten Gaza’s civilians 
AlJazeeraEnglish

More than two months after Israel’s 22-day offensive on the Gaza Strip, unexploded bombs continue to threaten Palestinian civilians. Explosives that failed to detonate during the bombardment still lie in heavily populated areas of Gaza. Since the war ended, seven people have been killed by bombs suddenly exploding, six [...]

White Phosphorus Bombs, a Legacy of Suffering (VIDEO) 
By Yousef Al-Helou for Salem-News.com

During Israel’s 3-week long offensive on Gaza launched on December 27th, the Israeli army used internationally banned weapons according to foreign military and medical experts. American made white phosphorus shells were used in populated areas across the Gaza strip, home to about 1.5 million [...]

Zionists: We hate you because you are evil, not because you are Jewish 
KHALED AMAYREH

I have been under fire of late from two diametrically opposite quarters. First, the fanatical, self-worshipping Zionists who think that non-Jewish suffering should never ever be compared with Jewish suffering. Needless to say, this psychotic attitude stems from deep-seated convictions that a [...]

Clash of Civilizations, Europe and the Israeli Colonial War on Gaza
Issam Aburaiya for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)

The atrocious war that the State of Israel launched on Gaza (December 2008-January 2009) is just the latest incarnation of the Jewish-colonial settler project in Palestine. It also goes without saying that this project has been always animated [...]

Palestine’s Island Paradise, Now With a Word from its Creator 
Strange maps

..”Maybe posting the full map would help to take it for what it is, i.e. an illustration of the West Bank’s ongoing fragmentation based on the (originally temporary) A/B/C zoning which came out of the Oslo process, still valid until now. To make things clear, [...]

Lexicon of Resistance 
Gilad Atzmon

The following is an attempt to present my own personal dictionary of what seems to be the most charged terminology and concepts attached to the Palestinian solidarity and anti-war discourse.Palestine- a piece of land on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. For many years Palestine was the home of the Palestinian [...]

The Obama Government: Take From Workers and Give to the Rich
by Ann Robertson

These past several weeks have witnessed a stunning attack on working people, with the Obama administration leading the charge. It started with Larry Summers, Obama’s chief economic adviser, responding to the A.I.G. bonuses by pontificating about the sanctity of contracts: “We are a [...]

Torture Expose by Iraq member of Parliament. Mohammed Al-Daini reveals torture in Iraqi prisons. He is currently missing. Warning: graphic content
 
Read the full article / Leggi l’articolo completo: http://www.uruknet.de/?p=52971

PCHR Contests Distortion of Gaza Strip Death Toll 
PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) contest figures presented by the Israeli Coordination and [...]

IRAQ: Poor sell kidneys just to survive 
Nizar Latif,

Abu Zahra arrived in Baghdad two years ago, coming north from the city of Amarah. He brought along his wife, three daughters, a son and his dreams of getting a job that would end their life of poverty. He found work, washing cars, but with earnings of less [...]