All 2010 Archives

August

8/25/2010 - Mossad in America By Philip Giraldi As tensions with Iran increase, sources in the counterintelligence community report that Israeli agents have become more aggressive in targeting Muslims living in the United States as well as in operating against critics. There have been a number of cases reported to the FBI about Mossad officers who have approached leaders in Arab-American communities and have falsely represented themselves as “U.S. intelligence.” Because few Muslims would assist an Israeli, this is done to increase the likelihood that the target will cooperate. It’s referred to as a “false flag” operation...In another bizarre case, U.S.S. Liberty survivor Phil Tourney was recently accosted in Southern California by a foreigner who eventually identified himself as an Israeli government representative. Tourney was taunted, and the Israeli threatened both him and journalist Mark Glenn, who has been reporting on the Liberty story.

8/25/2010 - PA Claims US Threatened to Withdraw Aid Palestinian Authority officials claim that the United States threatened PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas with ending financial aid if he did not agree to direct negotiations with Israel.

8/25/2010 - UN official criticises Israel over flotilla probe Israel is not co-operating with the UN Human Rights Council's probe of May's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a UN official said today.

8/25/2010 - UN Report: IDF Barring Gazans' Access to Farms, Fishing Zones All in all the IDF restricts access to 17 percent of Gaza's territory. At sea, the fishermen are completely barred from 85 percent of the naval territory to which they are entitled under the Oslo Accords......According to OCHA, the IDF enforces uses life fire on individuals who enter restricted zones. Though in most cases the troops fire warning shots, 22 people have been killed and 146 have been wounded in such incidents since the end of Operation Cast Lead in January 2009. The report further argues that this method of enforcement violates international humanitarian law, and that the local Palestinian population was never informed by Israel of the exact nature of the restrictions. Lovely people, aren't they?

8/25/2010 - Benjamin Netanyahu rejects demands to continue settlement freeze Mr Netanyahu leads a largely right-wing and religious coalition which is committed to Jewish settlement across the West Bank, and the Israeli prime minister has already warned that extending the moratorium would risk the future of his government.

8/25/2010 - Declassified: Massive Israeli Manipulation of US Media Exposed A huge trove of newly declassified documents subpoenaed during a Senate investigation reveals how Israel’s lobby pitched, promoted, and paid to have content placed in America’s top news magazines with overseas funding. The Atlantic (and others) received hefty rewards for trumpeting Israel’s most vital – but damaging – PR initiatives across America. Wow. How many media outlets, magazines, newspapers, radio programs are they funding now? 99 percent of the mainstream media carries Israel's side of the story 99 percent of the time. Not a coincidence.

8/25/2010 - Russia: Israel need not fear reactor Israelis should not be concerned about the uranium fueling of a Russian-built nuclear reactor in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr that is set to take place on Saturday, diplomatic officials at the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv told The Jerusalem Post.

8/25/2010 - U.S. support for Israel is decreasing, new poll shows One of the questions that the poll presented was "Does the U.S. need to support Israel?" In August of 2009, 63% of Americans polled said that the U.S. does need to support Israel. In June of this year, 58% of respondents shared the same view; by July only 51% of respondents said the U.S. needed to support Israel. This means that the Israeli PR machine will be in full swing, much stronger than it normally is. Be on the lookout (for increased BS).

8/25/2010 - Iran unveils long-range bomber drone The presentation of the drone came a day after Iranian and Russian technicians began fuelling Iran's first nuclear power station, something Israel called "totally unacceptable." Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/iran_unveils_long_range_bomber_drone_8CvLKX48uNQrfmrdagy2wN?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=#ixzz0yE6Hv1ay

8/25/2010 - UN official says Israel not co-operating with Human Rights Council probe of Gaza flotilla raid

8/25/2010 - Hamas: Direct Israeli-Palestinian talks illegitimate, coerced by U.S.

8/25/2010 - Israel tells UN it will stop Gaza aid flotilla

8/25/2010 - Military Computer Attack Confirmed A top Pentagon official has confirmed a previously classified incident that he describes as “the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever,” a 2008 episode in which a foreign intelligence agent used a flash drive to infect computers, including those used by the Central Command in overseeing combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.

8/25/2010 - Lieberman: Settlement building should restart in September Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that there was no reason why building should not restart in the major West bank settlement after a 10-month freeze expires next month Peace, perhaps?

8/25/2010 - .Israel faces difficult choice on settlement freeze "If Israel resumes settlement activities in the Palestinian territories, including east Jerusalem, we cannot continue negotiations," Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said, quoting from the letter. He said the document also was sent to other members of the "Quartet" of Mideast mediators, the EU, U.N. and Russia. Peace or piece. Can't keep taking someone else's land and expect them to be at peace with it.

8/25/2010 - Abbas: End of settlement freeze would end direct peace talks Renewed Israeli construction in settlements after the end of the construction freeze in late September would bring the newly-launched direct negotiations to a grinding halt, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has warned in letters sent to U.S. President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the High Representative of the European Union on Foreign Policy, Catherine Ashton. "It's impossible to conduct negotiations alongside settlement construction," wrote Abbas. Peace or piece. Israel chooses piece every time - as in, another piece of Palestine.

8/25/2010 - UN report: IDF barring Gazans' access to farms, fishing zones Over the last ten years, the Israel Defense Forces have increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland on the Gazan side of the Israeli-Gaza border as well as to fishing zones along the Gaza beach, a United Nations report revealed Thursday.

8/25/2010 - Netanyahu rejects peace talks based on 1967 borders The Quartet - the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia - issued the statement after a meeting in Moscow on March 19. It calls for 24 months of talks between Israel and the PA that would result in an agreement on the establishment of a Palestinian state. The statement said that the founding of the Palestinian state would end the occupation that began in 1967. It also called on Israel to institute a total freeze of construction in West Bank settlements and to refrain from home demolitions in East Jerusalem. The declaration even went so far as to mention that the international community does not recognize Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem.

8/25/2010 - Amnesty Int'l Finland: Israel scum state Asked why he termed Israel a “scum state,” Johansson told the Post in a telephone interview that it was because Israel has “repeatedly flouted international law,” and due to his “personal experiences inside and outside of Israel with meeting Israelis.” Well, Israel in fact does flagrantly violate international law and has since its inception.

8/25/2010 - Aussie parties support Israel As the two major parties in Australia's federal election vie for the title of Israel's most ardent backer, most Jewish leaders believe that Australia’s longstanding, strong bilateral support for the Jewish state will not be jeopardized regardless of the outcome. Why, it's just like it is here in America - the power of Israel and its lobbies over Western governments.

8/25/2010 - United Against Knowledge The Guardian reported today that two Israeli groups have set up training courses in subversive Wikipedia editing aiming to 'show the other side' of the Jewish State....Yesha Council, representing the Jewish settler movement ran their first workshop this week in Jerusalem, teaching participants how to ‘rewrite’ and ‘revise’ some of the most “hotly disputed pages of the online reference site.” I'm not really surprised. I have encountered people like this since I began this fight 8 years ago. The Israelis and their supporters here will do anything to whitewash Israel's past and ongoing crimes against not just Palestinians, but Americans too (USS Liberty, Rachel Corrie).

8/25/2010 - Palestinians: Arab states are not paying Arab states have cut financial aid to the Palestinian Authority so far this year, according to PA figures seen by Reuters, and the United Nations has warned of a looming Palestinian cash crisis

8/25/2010 - Cyprus says will not allow Gaza-bound aid ship Cyprus will not allow a ship carrying women activists and aid for the blockaded Palestinian territory of Gaza to sail from its ports, the island's police said on Friday.

8/25/2010 - PLO defends Abbas statements on Jewish rights The 22 July letter, signed by dozens of scholars, activists, and civil society leaders, specifically expressed concerns that Abbas had denied Palestinians their basic rights and accepted an "exclusive Jewish claim to Palestine" in remarks during a conversation with American Jews in the US capital.

8/25/2010 - Palestinians learn about the Holocaust in Israel

8/25/2010 - Fatah accepts Haniyeh unity invite Fatah officials, in Gaza to offer condolences to family members of a former PA intelligence chief, will begin meetings with Hamas officials to discuss Palestinian unity, sources confirmed Friday.

8/25/2010 - Jews elected to new Australian parliament 3 chosen, including Israel's most ardent representative in parliament.

8/25/2010 - Internet Killed Israeli PR An interview with Minor Demographic Threat Israel understands the threat of a medium that bypasses intermediaries and allows ordinary people to disseminate content to a mass audience. Journalists aboard the Mavi Marmara have said that the top priority for soldiers boarding the ship appeared to be the seizure of all the photographic equipment they could find, thus allowing their government to control the media narrative. The only way Israel could exert any measure of control was by cutting off the flow of information. And despite their best efforts, information still got out, some of it during the attack itself. As the web continues its evolution into a real-time medium, this strategy will become increasingly unsustainable.

8/25/2010 - Is Canada passing information on its citizens to Israel? The ardently pro-Israel Conservative government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper has repeatedly equated expressions of support for Palestinian rights with extremism. In March 2009, Ottawa barred British parliamentarian George Galloway from Canada for delivering humanitarian aid to Hamas officials who were the elected administration in the Gaza Strip.

8/25/2010 - US jobless claims jump to 500,000; nine-month high

8/25/2010 - America Has Disgraced Itself Once upon a time, Republicans were so confident that the vast majority of Muslims preferred freedom to jihad that they believed the U.S. could install democracy in Iraq within months. Now, confronted with a group of Muslim Americans who want to build a cultural center that includes Jews and Christians on the board (how many churches and synagogues do that?), GOP leaders call them terrorists because they don’t share Benjamin Netanyahu’s view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict..... I wonder how David Petraeus feels about all this. There he is, slogging away in the Hindu Kush, desperately trying to be culturally sensitive, watching GIs get killed because Afghans believe the U.S. is waging a war on Islam, and back home, the super-patriots on Fox News have… declared war on Islam. Good point.

8/25/2010 - A Threat From Within No surprise that the number of millionaires in Israel soared by 43% in just one year, from 2008 to 2009, a rate bested only by Hong Kong and India. Then why exactly is my government sending billions of American taxpayer dollars to Israel, when clearly, that money could be better spent at home?

8/25/2010 - Canada Halts Mail to Gaza

8/25/2010 - Aid ship Mariam now looks to set sail from Greece The Mariam, a Bolivian-flagged cargo ship, was to have left from Tripoli in north Lebanon later the same day for Cyprus on the first leg of a crossing to Gaza despite an Israeli warning it could use force to keep the blockade intact.

8/25/2010 - The Peace Process is Still Going Nowhere Stephen M. Walt

8/25/2010 - Report: Iran needs year to develop nuclear weapon American and Israeli officials believe that Iran has only enough nuclear materials for two weapons. And to build those two would require the country to kick out international inspectors, which would make it clear what its intentions were. It would also take some time for Iran to convert its nuclear facilities to produce weapons–grade uranium.

8/25/2010 - Statement of Muslim American Imams and Community Leaders on Holocaust Denial

8/25/2010 - Will US Navy board Iranian ships for AIPAC/Israel next month?!

8/25/2010 - Gary Hart Is Right 4. Bombing Iran would virtually assure an attack of considerable dimensions carried out against Israel. This would involve both Iranian and Lebanon-based missiles. Israel would necessarily retaliate. We would then have all-out war in the Middle East.

8/25/2010 - Senior Hezbollah member killed in Beirut clashes Two Lebanese men, including a senior member of Hezbollah, were killed in Beirut on Tuesday in clashes between supporters of the Shi'ite militant group and a Sunni faction, security sources said

8/25/2010 - Two Minutes to Midnight?: Cutting Through the Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate The pièce de résistance in the most recent drum roll of bomb-Iran alerts, however, came from Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic Monthly. A journalist influential in U.S. pro-Israeli circles, he also has access to Israel's corridors of power. Because sanctions were unlikely to force Iran to back down on its uranium enrichment project, Goldberg invited readers to believe that there was a more than even chance Israel would launch a military strike on the country by next summer.

8/25/2010 - The Erosion of America's Middle Class Finley calls them "the new poor." "That is a different category of people that I think we're seeing," he says. "They are people who never in their wildest imaginations thought they would be homeless." They're people who had enough money -- a lot of money, in some cases -- until recently......the United States, in the wake of a real estate, financial economic and now debt crisis, which it still hasn't overcome, is threatened by a social Ice Age more severe than anything the country has seen since the Great Depression......While 90 percent of Americans have seen only modest gains in their incomes since 1973, incomes have almost tripled for people at the upper end of the scale. In 1979, one third of the profits the country produced went to the richest 1 percent of American society. Today it's almost 60 percent. America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel

8/25/2010 - Israel Places Order For 20 F-35s; U.S. Picks Up The Tab To sweeten terms of the deal, Lockheed Martin agreed to buy more component parts for the JSF from Israeli firms; at a price of around $4 billion. Read more: http://defensetech.org/2010/08/16/israel-places-order-for-20-f-35-jsf-u-s-picks-up-the-tab/#ixzz0yDlrjmGi Defense.org America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel

8/25/2010 - 22 cities in danger of a double-dip recession A new report from Moody's Economy.com singled out 22 cities that are at risk of slipping back into a recession in as early as three months. To come to this conclusion, the economists considered dwindling progress in employment, housing starts, home prices and industrial production. (See the map above for the full list.) America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel

8/25/2010 - US Says Bankruptcies Reach Nearly 5-Year High U.S. bankruptcy filings have reached the highest level since 2005, government data released on Tuesday show, as the economy slows and the unemployment rate hovers just below double digits. America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel.

8/25/2010 - Al Qaeda Already Gaming Out War Between Israel and Iran Israel will stage air strikes on Iran’s nuclear installations to start. Shehri expects the Iranian Shia regime to try to take advantage of an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities to seize the holy cities of Mecca and Medina by blaming Saudi Arabia for helping Israel attack. In turn, the Israelis will seize territory in the Levant to establish “the greater state of Israel.” The Sunni Arab population of the Middle East will be caught between the “Jews in the Middle East and Iran in the Peninsula.”

8/25/2010 - Bad news on homes, goods adds to air of recession It's starting to feel like another recession. Businesses are ordering fewer goods. Home sales are the slowest in decades. Jobs are scarce, and unemployment claims are rising. Perhaps most worrisome, manufacturing activity, which had been one of the economy's few bright spots, is faltering Let's send a few more billion to Israel.

8/25/2010 - Hebron: Open Shuhada St. Action Changes Tactics The activists used the day to build up relationships in the Old City with certificates of appreciation to the shopkeepers for continuing to open their shops every day in the midst of this Occupation

8/25/2010 - Pentagon computers attacked with flash drive A foreign spy agency pulled off the most serious breach of Pentagon computer networks ever by inserting a flash drive into a U.S. military laptop, a top defense official said Wednesday.

8/25/2010 - Obama's Silent Jewish Majority The Wall Street Journal reported last week, “U.S. military aid to Israel has increased markedly this year. Top-ranking U.S. and Israeli soldiers have shuttled between Tel Aviv and Washington with unusual frequency in recent months. A series of joint military exercises in Israel over the past months has included a record number of American troops.” Even AIPAC is on board, at least when asked a direct question

8/25/2010 - Iran says it's ready to sell arms to Lebanon Iran is prepared to sell weapons to Lebanon if Beirut asks for help in equipping its military, Iran's defense minister said Wednesday.

8/25/2010 - Fidelity: 401(k) hardship withdrawals, loans up Let's give a couple more billiion to Israel.

8/25/2010 - Iran to supply Lebanon with anti-missile system: report Iran is expected to make the offer to Lebanon during Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's upcoming visit to Beirut shortly after the holy month of Ramadan. Iran would also offer to supply some other weapons during his visit, said the report.

8/25/2010 - 40 Bizarre Statistics That Reveal The Horrifying Truth About The Collapse Of The U.S. Economy What we are now witnessing are the early stages of the complete and total breakdown of the U.S. economic system. The U.S. government, state governments, local governments, businesses and American consumers have collectively piled up debt that is equivalent to approximately 360 percent of GDP. At no point during the Great Depression (or at any other time during our history) did we ever come close to such a figure. America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel

8/25/2010 - Steinitz demands ultimatum for Iran The US should issue a strict ultimatum to Iran, warning that the possibility of a military strike will turn into reality within weeks should Tehran fail to curb its nuclear program, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said Thursday. ....Steinitz, who is a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Whose war is this?

8/25/2010 - US to Fund Israeli Purchase of 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters he $2.75 billion arms deal will be paid for by American taxpayers as part of the US military aid package to Israel. Israel will become the first foreign country to sign an agreement to buy the F-35 outside the eight international partners that helped to develop the plane. America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel

8/25/2010 - Battle for Jewish Votes In a Florida Race That Threatens To Oust Incumbent On the Middle East, West has sounded an even more hawkish note. Speaking to Jewish voters, he has explained that any two-state solution should consist of Israel and Jordan and that by establishing an independent Palestinian state “all you will be doing is creating a terrorist state.”

8/25/2010 - Lebanon moves to address widespread use of weapons

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8/18/2010 - Police: Israeli also suspect in stabbing in Israel Ramle's roughly 3,000–member Arab Christian community is tight–knit, and residents were extremely cautious about discussing Abuelazam's past.

8/18/2010 - Israel has '8 days' to hit Iran nuclear site: Bolton John Bolton (and all others like him) should be stripped of his US citizenship and put on the next plane to Israel.

8/18/2010 - Israel to buy world's most advanced warplane Delivery of the first F–35s, which are still not yet operational, is expected only in 2015, the paper said.

8/18/2010 - Israeli Military and Policemen Shut Three Palestinian Shops A little after 4:00 pm, 30 soldiers and three policemen arrived and pushed their way into the shops where internationals and Palestinians were waiting. The soldiers pulled the civilians out of the shops, scattered much of the merchandise, and dragged a Palestinian behind the gate. Red Crescent of the International Red Cross came shortly thereafter and examined the Palestinian man who had been injured while being dragged. They determined he had a brain concussion and advised the police that he needed hospitalization. The police replied they would take the Palestinian man to the jail, question him and then decide if he needed hospitalization.

8/18/2010 - Netanyahu Rejects Peace Talks Based on 1967 Borders Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday rejected a Palestinian demand that direct negotiations be based on a statement by the Quartet confirming its position that the future Palestinian state will be based on the 1967 borders.

8/18/2010 - A campaign for war with Iran begins Obama administration officials, as well as U.S. lawmakers and European diplomats, passionately made the argument this spring that tough sanctions on Iran were necessary to avoid war. But contrary to their predictions, the drumbeat for war -- particularly from Israel – has only increased since the U.N. Security Council adopted a new resolution against Tehran in June.

8/18/2010 - Hillary’s Enemies List by Philip Giraldi The State Department report sometimes seems like a press release for the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Regarding the horrific Israeli invasion of Gaza and its aftermath...Nothing about Israeli provocations and no mention of the deliberate destruction of schools and infrastructure and the targeting of UN relief operations or the high level of civilian casualties.....The report suggests a new, heavily armed and malignant axis of evil. It clearly makes opponents of Israel the designated bad guys and fails to note that US intelligence has not been able to confirm Tel Aviv’s allegations, making one wonder why uncorroborated claims from biased foreign sources should appear in a United States government document without any additional caveats.....So Israel’s enemies are America’s enemies and Hillary won’t let you forget that fact. All Americans should read this.

8/18/2010 - Point of Return: Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran

8/18/2010 - Palestinian who attacked Turkish Embassy captured Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor identified the attacker as Nadim Injaz, a Palestinian from the West Bank town of Ramallah. Israeli police said Injaz was recently released from prison after serving time for an attack on the British Embassy four years ago, also to seek asylum.

8/18/2010 - The Weak Case for War with Iran the Islamic Republic is not Hitler's Germany, particularly regarding Jews. No matter how many anti-Zionist or even anti-Semitic quotes Gerecht, Goldberg, and others may marshal from Iranian politicians, inconvenient realities undermine the Islamic Republic/Third Reich analogy: Roughly 25,000-30,000 Jews continue living in Iran, with civil status equal to other Iranians and a constitutionally guaranteed parliamentary seat. It is illegal in the Islamic Republic for Muslims to consume alcohol --but Jews (and Christians) are permitted wine for religious ceremonies and personal consumption.

8/18/2010 - Israeli troops invade southern Gaza; Palestinian fighters fire 5 shells across border During the first invasion on Monday night, Palestinian fighters with the Popular Resistance Committees fired five mortar shells toward the invading troops, and 5 additional shells across the border toward Israel, causing no injuries.

8/18/2010 - Israel: No conditions for talks with Palestinians Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is wary of entering open–ended talks with Netanyahu, who has retreated from some of the concessions offered by his predecessors. Abbas wants Israel to accept the principle of Palestinian statehood in the lands Israel occupied in the 1967 Mideast war with minor modifications, and wants all Jewish settlement building to stop during negotiations.

8/18/2010 - On Facebook: Israeli soldier posed with bound Arab A former Israeli soldier posted photos on Facebook of herself in uniform smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, drawing sharp criticism Monday from the Israeli military and Palestinian officials.

8/18/2010 - Commentary: Guns of August? There is little doubt that an Israeli attack on Iran would trigger mayhem up and down the Persian Gulf and trigger a third war that would be yet another force multiplier for the U.S. deficit: Federal spending is now at $3.6 trillion; the national debt, $13.4 trillion; cost per citizen $43,000; cost per taxpayer $120,000. Check the debt clock online -- in real time.

8/18/2010 - Lebanon grants Palestinian refugees right to work The Lebanese constitution prohibits the naturalisation of the refugees.

8/18/2010 - The Israeli authorities try to expel Hamas’s MPs from East Jerusalem In the wake of Hamas’s triumph, Israel’s authorities imposed fines worth thousands of dollars for plastering campaign posters in the wrong places. Five months on, in retaliation for Hamas capturing an Israeli corporal, Gilad Shalit, they sent the men to jail. And on their release more than three years later, Israel declared them illegal residents and gave them 30 days to get out. Appeals that their families had lived in the city for generations fell on deaf ears.

8/18/2010 - U.S. Jewish voters revolt against Obama

8/18/2010 - Formalizing Israel’s Land Grab The net effect of the Israeli seizure of land in East Jerusalem, which includes recent approval for an additional 9,000 housing units, and the West Bank is to promulgate a form of administrative ethnic cleansing. Palestinian families are being pushed off land they have owned for generations and evicted from their homes by Israeli authorities.

8/18/2010 - Storm over Israeli 'Abuse' Photos A former Israeli soldier has sparked controversy after posting pictures of herself on Facebook posing with bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. The photographs show Eden Abergil positioned provocatively with the men, prompting lurid comments from other users of the popular social networking site.

8/18/2010 - Christian students to defend Israel abroad The Knesset for Christian Allies Caucus lobby, headed by Knesset Member David Rotem (Yisrael Beiteinu), began locating and training Christian students in every prestigious university and collage in North America and Europe, with the aim of establishing a non-Jewish support group that will represent the Israeli side in each campus Wow.

8/18/2010 - Harvard University fund sells all Israel holdings In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of 2010. No reason for the sale was mentioned.

8/18/2010 - Turkey sets up own Gaza flotilla inquiry

8/18/2010 - Remembering Tony Judt, Heartsick Lover of Zion In one of his last published articles, a June 2010 New York Times Op-Ed essay, he wrote that Zionism “has moved a long way from the ideology of its ‘founding fathers’ — today it presses territorial claims, religious exclusivity and political extremism.” Perhaps cruelest of all, he wrote in the 2003 article that the unpopularity of Israel’s actions “affects the way everyone else looks at Jews,” and in that sense, “The depressing truth is that Israel today is bad for the Jews.”

8/18/2010 - US spending $16,000 for imam's Mideast tour

8/18/2010 - Israeli military confronts new foe: the Internet The security obsessed Israeli military is confronting a new adversary – trying to control what its own soldiers post to the Internet.

8/18/2010 - No place in university dorms for Arabs who didn't serve in IDF

8/18/2010 - IDF filmed aiming tear gas at Al-Jazeera reporter in West Bank Jacky Rowland was reporting Friday from the West Bank village of Bil'in, explaining to viewers about the separation fence and the weekly protests that take place there, when Israeli troops

8/18/2010 - Gaza Strip: Crisis Takes a Psychological Toll on Locals Perhaps most damaging, psychologists and residents say, is the feeling that there is no way out, no way to change Gaza's future. Attempts to reconcile Islamist Hamas, which rules Gaza, and its rival Western–backed Fatah, which it ousted in 2007 and which controls the West Bank, have long stalled. And peace with Israel seems entirely intangible to most, undesirable to many.

8/18/2010 - Destroyed Muslim graves in Jerusalem were 'fake': Israel The allegation was flatly denied by the Islamic Movement which earlier this week accused the municipality of razing recently renovated Muslim graves in a centuries–old cemetery in a large park in mostly Jewish west Jerusalem.

8/18/2010 - Alleged Mossad spy granted bail in Germany, 'can return to Israel if he wants' Prosecutors say an alleged Mossad spy wanted in connection with the slaying of a Hamas leader in Dubai earlier this year has been set free on bail by a German judge on Friday.

8/18/2010 - Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran

8/18/2010 - When Shuls Were Banned in America When New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood on Governors Island, in sight of the Statue of Liberty, and forcefully defended the right of Muslims to build a community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, he expressly made a point of distancing himself from an earlier leader of the city: Peter Stuyvesant, who understood the relationship between religion and state altogether differently than Bloomberg does.

8/18/2010 - Obama warns Turkish PM over stance on Israel, Iran: report President Barack Obama has warned the Turkish prime minister that Ankara's position on Israel and Iran could lessen its chances of obtaining US weapons, a report said Monday.

8/18/2010 - 25,000 Jews live in Iran 25,000 Jews live in Iran. It's the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel. Iranian Jews are not persecuted or abused by the state, in fact, they are protected under Iran's constitution. They are free to practice their religion and to vote in elections. They are not stopped and searched at checkpoints, they are not brutalized by an occupying army, and they are not herded into a densely-populated penal colony (Gaza) where they are deprived of the basic means of survival. Iranian Jews live in dignity and enjoy the benefits of citizenship.

8/18/2010 - John Bolton: Russia's Loading of Nuke Fuel Into Iran Plant Means Aug. 21 Deadline for Israeli Attack News that Russia will load nuclear fuel rods into an Iranian reactor has touched off a countdown to a point of no return, a deadline by which Israel would have to launch an attack on Iran's Bushehr reactor before it becomes effectively "immune" to any assault, says former Bush administration U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton.

8/18/2010 - Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many Joblessness has taken hold in America, with the numbers of long-term unemployed reaching levels not seen since the Depression of the 1930s. The figures are frightening and illustrate a society that remains in deep trouble......America appears to be a society splitting down the centre, shattering the middle class that long formed the cultural bedrock of the country and dividing it into a country of haves and have-notsAmerica appears to be a society splitting down the centre, shattering the middle class that long formed the cultural bedrock of the country and dividing it into a country of haves and have-nots This is hardly the time to get sucked into yet another war in the Middle East, at Israel's urging (again).

8/18/2010 - How Propagandists Function

8/18/2010 - A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran The neocons seem to be as strong now as under George W. Bush, with their Real-Men-Go-to-Tehran-type macho undiminished.

8/18/2010 - Iraq to Iran: Propaganda for War

8/18/2010 - Romania says it will stand by Israel in event of conflict with Iran

8/18/2010 - These Jewish Interns Campaign for Washington, Not Against It Jewish groups with Washington advocacy offices are among the most sought-after destinations for Jewish interns from across the country. The biggest and most well known is AIPAC, which hosts dozens of interns who are later placed in congressional offices and thus learn pro-Israel advocacy from the perspective of both the lobbyist and the lobbied.

8/18/2010 - Repercussions of an Israeli attack on Iran - CSMonitor.com

8/18/2010 - "Captain, Where Is Your Sense of Decency?"

8/18/2010 - Israel, the bomb, and openness It's time for Israel to come out of the closet. After five decades of maintaining a nuclear weapons program without acknowledging its existence, Israel should proactively announce and provide information about its nuclear weapons status. Though Israel's bombs have long been an open secret, unprecedented international scrutiny in coming years will make this "nuclear opacity" increasingly untenable.

8/18/2010 - How propagandists function Exhibit A - Glenn Greenwald Goldberg wouldn't possibly claim what he claims now -- that the 1981 strike permanently halted Saddam's "nuclear ambitions" -- because, back then, his goal was to scare Americans about The Threat of Saddam. So in 2002, Goldberg warned Americans that Saddam had "redoubled" his efforts to turn Iraq into a nuclear power after the Israeli attack, i.e., that Saddam had a scarier nuclear program than ever before after the 1981 bombing raid. But now, Goldberg has a different goal: to convince Americans of the efficacy of bombing Iran, and thus, without batting an eye, he simply asserts the exact opposite factual premise: that the Israelis successfully and permanently ended Saddam's nuclear ambition back in 1981 by bombing it out of existence (and, therefore, we can do something similar now to Iran)....The purpose of this Atlantic article is as obvious as it is odious: to mainstream the debate over an Israeli or American attack on Iran by defending its rationale, all masquerading as objective reporting

8/18/2010 - Why Israel Wants a US War with Iran Last month, in The Weekly Standard, Reuel Marc Gerecht made the case for an Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear targets. With the publication of Jeffrey Goldberg's "The Point of No Return" in the Atlantic, the campaign for war against Iran is now arguing that the United States should attack so Israel won't have to.

8/18/2010 - AP: Arab nations lobby U.S. on anti-Israel vote Islamic nations have long called for Israel – which is widely believed to have nuclear arms – to open its program. But the fact that the Arab League has directly approached Washington and other Israeli allies for support at the September meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency is significant, considering that President Barack Obama last month warned against using that forum to single out Israel.

8/18/2010 - Lebanon debates giving Palestinians rights

8/18/2010 - ADL Continues To Suffer Harsh Criticism for Its Opposition to Mosque Near Ground Zero “It is a betrayal of our first principles, and it’s tearing the league apart,” said one board member, who asked not to be named.

8/18/2010 - HIAS Fights To Extend Welfare Benefits for Indigent, Non-Citizen Refugees Some 3,800 refugees, rendered unable to work because of age or disability, are at risk of losing their monthly government welfare payments September 30. More than one-third of these immigrants — who have refugee status but not American citizenship — are thought to be from the former Soviet Union. The majority of them are Jewish.....HIAS signed a letter alongside 20 other Jewish and non-Jewish organizations in April that was sent to Democratic New York Senator Charles Schumer, asking him to support legislation that removes the time limits on SSI eligibility for noncitizen refugees.

8/18/2010 - At the Death Camps, Muslim Leaders Grapple With Jews’ Pain one suggestion was that Muslim acknowledgement of the Holocaust should be followed by similar initiatives on the Jewish side, acknowledging Palestinian suffering and the role that Israel’s founding and the country’s subsequent policies had in this. It goes both ways, folks.

8/18/2010 - Hamas leader: Ground zero mosque must be built Mahmoud al–Zahar said Muslims "have to build everywhere" so that followers can pray, just like Christians and Jews build their places of worship.

8/18/2010 - CIA evidence of an Israeli nuclear test

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8/11/2010 - A Cakewalk Against Iran by Philip Giraldi A resolution (HR 1553) is making its way through Congress that that would endorse an Israeli attack on Iran, which would be going to war by proxy as the US would almost immediately be drawn into the conflict when Tehran retaliates. The resolution provides explicit US backing for Israel to bomb Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel’s use of "all means necessary…including the use of military force." The resolution is non-binding, but it is dazzling in its disregard for the possible negative consequences that would ensue for the hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic personnel currently serving in the Near East region.

8/11/2010 - Hebron: "Settlers Heat up the Air in Al Bweireh"

8/11/2010 - At-Tuwani: Palestinian fence damaged in village This property damage is just the last of several ongoing provocations carried out by the Israeli army and Israeli settlers which Palestinian communities in the South Hebron Hills have committed to respond to with nonviolent resistance

8/11/2010 - Report: U.S. downgrades Saudi arms deal over Israeli concerns The Wall Street Journal said Monday that the United States had signed on to sell dozens of F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, but that details in the final deal had been negotiated to quell Israeli concerns over the possible exchange.

8/11/2010 - Eyes on the Skies Over Bushehr Nuclear Reactor Iranian and Russian nuclear scientists and officials have announced Bushehr's reactor will soon be receiving its first shipment of nuclear fuel 36 years after construction first began on the project. This claim may be quietly fueling speculation that a military strike on Iran by Israel - or the U.S. - may be imminent.

8/11/2010 - Will Israel Really Attack Iran Within a Year? Based on dozens of interviews the Atlantic correspondent conducted in recent months with Israeli, American and Arab officials, Goldberg came to the conclusion that the likelihood of an Israeli strike has crossed the 50 percent mark. And Israel might not even ask for the famous "green light" from the U.S. - or even give couple of false pre-attack alerts, so that Washington won't try to stop the unilateral operation......Israel is trying to convey the message not only through the official channels - Israeli military intelligence chief Major General Amos Yadlin visited Chicago recently to meet with the billionaire Lester Crown, one of Obama’s supporters, and asked to him to convey Israel's concerns to the American President, Goldberg reports.

8/11/2010 - Russia Ready to Launch Iranian Nuclear Power Plant The Iranian state owned FNA news service reports that the head of Russia's Atomic Energy Agency Sergei Kirienko will visit Iran in late August to attend a ceremony to inaugurate the country's first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr.

8/11/2010 - Homeless Take On Israeli Forces A bruising battle of will is taking place between Israeli security forces and Palestinians recently made homeless after two Palestinian villages were razed and hundreds left homeless.

8/11/2010 - Israel Threatens to Pull Out of UN Gaza Probe EM - Israel threatened on Tuesday to pull out of a UN probe into its deadly flotilla raid to keep the panel from grilling its troops, as the defence minister told another inquiry the fleet was a "planned provocation."

8/11/2010 - No Blank Checks for the GOP — or Likud by Patrick J. Buchanan is startling to learn 47 House Republicans just signed on to H.R. 1553 declaring unequivocal “support for Israel’s right to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran … including the use of military force.” These Republicans have just given Tel Aviv a blank check for a pre-emptive war that Israel, unless it uses its nuclear weapons, can start but not finish. Fighting and finishing that war would fall to the armed forces of the United States

8/11/2010 - U.S. Funding for Israeli Missile Defense Programs Reaches New High Our government must protect Israel at all costs, even as its own citizens go hungry. Thank Israel's lobby.

8/11/2010 - Israel/Gaza: Wartime Inquiries Fall Short Israeli military investigations into the Gaza war have brought some results over the past 18 months but fall far short of addressing the widespread and serious allegations of unlawful conduct during the fighting, while Hamas has announced no serious investigations whatsoever, Human Rights Watch said today.

8/11/2010 - The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears Let me name those who send these tanks and fighter jets to bomb the concrete hovels in Gaza with families crouching, helpless, inside, let me name those who deny children the right to a childhood and the sick a right to care, those who torture, those who carry out assassinations in hotel rooms in Dubai and on the streets of Gaza City, those who deny the hungry food, the oppressed justice and foul the truth with official propaganda and state lies.

8/11/2010 - Israel accuses US of bias over State Department caution

8/11/2010 - Libya to fund Gaza homes after Israeli freed A rare deal between foes Israel and Libya to free an Israeli photographer will let Libya underwrite the rebuilding of 1,250 Gaza Strip homes destroyed in Israel’s offensive there last year, UN officials said on Tuesday.

8/11/2010 - Swedish activists get ready to set sail for Gaza Solidarity activists at a meeting in Stockholm announced on Wednesday that a major flotilla will attempt to break Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza before the end of the year.

8/11/2010 - Sending a Canadian boat to Gaza is moral thing to do

8/11/2010 - UN names Israeli, Turk to Gaza flotilla probe The U.N. has named representatives of Israel and Turkey to a high–profile panel that will look into Israel's deadly commando raid on a Gaza–bound aid flotilla.

8/11/2010 - U.S. bomb shelter advice misses mark says Israel A warning to U.S. citizens traveling to the Red Sea resort of Eilat that they should locate the nearest bomb shelter should properly apply to the next–door Jordanian resort of Aqaba, an irked Israel said on Sunday.

8/11/2010 - Student from Gaza tells story of deportation Imagine being held at a security checkpoint for seven hours, told you can't return to where you have lived for the past four years, blindfolded, handcuffed and dropped at the border of a rough neighborhood in the middle of the night.

8/11/2010 - 'Not enough evidence to convict suspected Jewish terrorist Pearlman' A Petah Tikva judge on Monday refused a police request to extend by eight days the remand of Chaim Pearlman, a settler suspected of having murdered four Palestinians and wounded several more, on the grounds that "I haven't seen any substantial evidence that could serve to convict Pearlman."

8/11/2010 - UN Chief May Be Heading for Showdown with Israel When the Israeli government gave its blessings to a U.N. panel of inquiry probing the military attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last May, there was widespread speculation that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon may have struck a backdoor deal over its mandate.

8/11/2010 - Shuhada Street: Keeping the quiet (when there’s no peace to be kept) The soldier shrugged. “We can’t let CPTers walk on this street. That’s the order we’ve been given.”

8/11/2010 - Polish court orders alleged Israeli spy extradited An alleged Israeli spy will be extradited from Poland to Germany within 10 days to face charges linked to his suspected involvement in the slaying of a senior Hamas operative in Dubai earlier this year, a Polish appeals court ordered Thursday.

8/11/2010 - Older Gazans recall Israelis, youth sees only army This generational split slices through families across Gaza, where older people remember when jobs in Tel Aviv and contact with Israelis were a short drive away, while those under 25 have grown up locked in, seeing little from Israel but fighter planes and bombs.

8/11/2010 - Israeli nuclear whistleblower out of prison again An Israeli nuclear whistleblower who spent 18 years behind bars was released from jail Sunday after serving an additional three months for violating his release terms.

8/11/2010 - Israel threatening to quit UN probe into flotilla Israel threatened Monday to pull out of a U.N. inquiry into a deadly raid on a Turkish flotilla heading for Gaza, after the U.N. chief said there is no agreement that the panel would refrain from calling Israeli soldiers to testify.

8/11/2010 - Tony Judt, author of 'Postwar,' dies at 62 He so angered supporters of Israel that he was removed from the editorial board of The New Republic even as his wife, Jennifer Homans, continued to serve as the magazine's dance critic. In 2006, Judt was scheduled to speak at the Polish Consulate of New York, but the event was canceled after the consulate received phone calls from the Anti–Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee. "Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life," Judt told the Financial Times in 2007.

8/11/2010 - U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know Most likely we will see a combination of all three responses with dramatic increases in poverty, tax, interest rates and consumer prices. This is an awful, downhill road to follow, but it’s the one we are on. And bond traders will kick us miles down our road once they wake up and realize the U.S. is in worse fiscal shape than Greece. America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.

8/11/2010 - Jewish Leaders Enter Fray Over Islamic Center Near Ground Zero All three Jewish groups issued statements affirming the right of Rauf and his allies to build the center. But the ADL, unlike the others, said it was opposed to the construction. “This is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right,” the ADL said.

8/11/2010 - Speak No Evil by Philip Giraldi surely Clemons knows that Ross and Makovsky are leading members of the Israel Lobby. Ross, who is currently at the National Security Council, has been described as “Israel’s lawyer” while Makovsky is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank founded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. They are gatekeepers whose purpose in life is to protect Israel from any and all criticism. To suggest that as policymakers they have been focused on doing what’s best for the United States and its citizens is contradicted by their personal histories and their recorded statements. That they receive a free pass and even a pat on the head from Clemons and others is precisely why US foreign policy is as dysfunctional as it is.

8/11/2010 - Mayor Bloomberg’s Monumental Folly by Patrick J. Buchanan But the issue here is not religious tolerance. There are a hundred mosques in New York City. The issue here is the appalling insensitivity, if not calculated insult, of erecting a mosque two blocks from a World Trade Center where 3,000 Americans were massacred by Islamic fanatics whose Muslim religion was integral to their identity and mission. Not sure I agree with Pat on this one, but the comments are interesting.

8/11/2010 - Lebanon: We'll reject U.S. military aid if weapons can't be used against Israel

8/11/2010 - China is a barometer on whether Israel will attack nuclear plants in Iran China’s defiance irks the US to the point that American officials are now openly critical of Beijing. Perhaps the US knows something about Israel’s intentions toward striking Iran that China doesn’t. A prime opportunity for Israel to strike Iran would be this fall, just before the US elections when politicians are most prone to support Israel despite its actions.

8/11/2010 - Syria, Iran underline support for Lebanon against Israel

8/11/2010 - Lebanon: US military aid halt is 'unwarranted' "We will address the concerns that congressional leaders have rightfully raised about what happened recent and what it's potential implications are," Crowley said. "But nonetheless we continue to support our assistance programs to Lebanon." I would think Congress would have more important things with which to concern itself. Such as things having to do with AMERICA.

8/11/2010 - Israel-Lebanon border clash has Israel complaining of Hezbollah's influence - Yahoo! News “In a way, the Israelis are shooting themselves in the foot with their criticism of the Lebanese Army,” says Timur Goksel, a university lecturer in Beirut and former official with the UNIFIL peacekeeping force in south Lebanon. “They had been saying for years that they want the Lebanese Army to deploy along the border [to replace Hezbollah] and now [that they have]... they are saying they’re terrorists.” Israelis will complain about anyone that doesn't bow down and kowtow to them.

8/11/2010 - Ongoing action alert: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions CPT-Palestine invites you to join us, Palestinians, and people from all over the world in boycotting Israeli goods and cultural events, divesting from all companies that profit from the occupation of Palestine, and pushing for international sanctions on Israel.

8/11/2010 - Hezbollah accuses Israel of Hariri assassination The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militants presented aerial reconnaissance footage Monday that he said implicates Israel in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

8/11/2010 - Israel Fights Isolation With New Measures In other, quieter ways, Israel is trying to re-establish its credentials as a country that abides by international law and respects human rights. re-establish? When has Israel ever abided by international or humanitarian law? Ridiculous. Good luck with it!

8/11/2010 - Decline of the Middle Class as Metaphor for the Decline of America America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.

8/11/2010 - Governments Go to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On Plenty of businesses and governments furloughed workers this year, but Hawaii went further — it furloughed its schoolchildren. Public schools across the state closed on 17 Fridays during the past school year to save money, giving students the shortest academic year in the nation and sending working parents scrambling to find care for them. America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.

8/11/2010 - Camden Closing Library System New Jersey's most impoverished city will close all three branches of its public library at year's end unless a rescue can be pulled off. America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.

8/11/2010 - Social Security in the red this year Social Security will pay out more this year than it gets in payroll taxes, marking the first time since the program will be in the red since it was overhauled in 1983, according to the annual authoritative report released Thursday by the program's actuary. America is getting poorer as we continue to shovel billions to the Middle East to Israel and others in order to make the world a safer place not for us, but for Israel. Because, our support for Israel actually endangers us. It was the sole motivation given by the mastermind of the 911 attacks, Khaled S. Mohammed.

8/11/2010 - The Mosque and Us Before it became a cause célèbre for Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich and other rank opportunists, before the Anti-Defamation League sullied a once-noble reputation by siding against religious liberty, before the tweets and satellite trucks spun this all out of control, the plan to turn an eyesore of an empty building two blocks from Ground Zero into a mosque and Islamic center was embraced as a sign of true healing.

8/11/2010 - Arab Majority Backs Nuclear Iran A new poll shows that the percentage of the Arab world that thinks a nuclear-armed Iran would be good for the Middle East has doubled since last year and now makes up the majority. You'll note that the critic of the poll who was cited in this article is from the WINEP, a thinktank associated with AIPAC, Israel's lobby. Naturally they're going to try to refute this poll's findings; it goes against their propaganda effort to paint the Arab world as in opposition to Iran obtaining nuclear weapons.

8/11/2010 - American VIP humiliated at airport Prof. Donna Shalala, who served as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services for eight years under Clinton and is currently the president of the University of Miami, was held for two-and-a-half hours at Ben Gurion Airport during which she underwent a humiliating security debriefing because of her Arab last name – all this despite the fact that her hosts notified the airport ahead of time that she is a VIP. The fact that Shalala arrived in Israel as part of an official delegation of the heads of universities fighting against the academic boycott against the Jewish State also seemed not to help her.

8/11/2010 - Obama Administration Presses Palestinians To Enter Direct Talks With Israel although the United States declined to use the term “pressure,” Palestinian officials and Israeli diplomatic sources briefed on talks with the P.A. said the administration had a clear message. Abbas and his negotiators were told by Obama and by Middle East special envoy George Mitchell that direct talks are the only game in town and that any expectation for Israeli concessions could be realized only after entering talks. A joke.

8/11/2010 - Iran Holocaust-denying website angers Israel

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8/4/2010 - Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity This time around, Mullen returned with sweaty palms from a visit to Israel in February 2010. Ever since, he has been worrying aloud that Israel might mousetrap the U.S. into war with Iran, while adding the obligatory assurance that the Pentagon does have an attack plan for Iran, if needed. Veteran intelligence officials including Philip Giraldi and Ray McGovern warn our government about the impending strike on Iran by Israel, and the consequences. These intelligence veterans are heroes.

8/4/2010 - Soldiers and Police Arrest Son and Son in Law in Baqa'a Valley In addition to destroying the irrigation pipes in the grape and tomato fields, the police entered the house this time by force. The father of the family and his wife were up at the time, but the rest of the family was still in bed sleeping when the police arrived. The police beat the son, the daughter and son-in-law, and the other daughter of the farmer

8/4/2010 - Blast in Gaza wounds 24 Palestinians An explosion in the house of a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip has wounded 24 people, a Hamas official and medical workers in the Palestinian territory said on Monday.

8/4/2010 - David Cameron: Israeli blockade has turned Gaza Strip into a 'prison camp'

8/4/2010 - Gaza girls turn to fishing to feed family The girls know their trade is risky, and at times they have had to ditch their nets and race back to shore at the sound of Israeli gunfire. Both know of fishermen who have been shot and wounded out at sea. "Sometimes I get really scared," Reem said. "But I am not ashamed around my friends at school because I help my father and my siblings, and I am reducing the burden on my mother."

8/4/2010 - Kites fill skies over Gaza as children reach for record The triumph of the human spirit alive and well in the children of Gaza.

8/4/2010 - Lobby group alleges mistreatment of young Palestinian prisoners in Israel The organisation, Defence for Children International, has collected more than 100 pages of evidence from the affidavits of minors it says have been beaten, threatened or coerced into signing wrongful confessions. Since when is Defense for Children International a 'lobby group'?

8/4/2010 - Rockets fired at Israel, Jordan resorts; 1 dead The rockets appeared to have been fired from Egypt's Sinai peninsula, an Israeli police spokesman said, though Egypt denied the claim.

8/4/2010 - Settlers seize home in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter Jewish settlers on Thursday took over a building in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and evicted dozens of Palestinian tenants, residents and police said, prompting a sharp protest by the top regional U.N. envoy.

8/4/2010 - US money transfer sites used in Dubai assassination: report US websites that allow employers to transfer money to far–flung employees may have been used to secretly finance the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai, a US newspaper reported Saturday. You don't say?

8/4/2010 - Israeli settlers evict Palestinian family from their home of 70 years Israeli settlers took over a Palestinian home in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City today, evicting about 45 members of an extended family which has occupied the building for more than 70 years.

8/4/2010 - PLO official says Obama sent warning to Abbas President Barack Obama warned Mahmoud Abbas in a letter that U.S.–Palestinian relations might suffer if the Palestinian leader refuses to resume direct peace talks with Israel, a senior PLO official said Saturday....Abbas insists he will only negotiate once Israel commits to the idea of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, with minor modifications. He also wants Israel to freeze all settlement construction in those areas.

8/4/2010 - UN faults Israel's human rights A UN panel of experts called Friday on Israel to fall in line with international norms on civil rights and to take action against targeted killings, torture and impunity for security forces. The UN Human Rights Committee also called for an end to the blockade of Gaza and questioned the independence of Israel's own inquiry into a naval raid on a Gaza-bound relief supply ship in which nine Turkish nationals dead.....The 18 independent experts, tasked with reviewing how the treaty is applied in each nation that has signed up to it, also took issue with the 'extensive use' of administrative detention without fair trial, including for children.

8/4/2010 - Fury as Israel president claims English are 'anti-semitic' The controversy follows the furore last week over David Cameron's remark that Gaza was a "prison camp", as he urged Israel to allow aid and people to move freely in and out of the Palestinian territory. You speak the truth about Israel and you get called an 'anti-Semite'.

8/4/2010 - Lebanon, Israel clash near border; at least 4 dead Lebanese and Israeli troops exchanged fire Tuesday in a fierce border battle that killed a senior Israeli officer, two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist – underlining how easily tensions can re–ignite along the frontier where Israel and Hezbollah fought a war four years ago.

8/4/2010 - Lebanese president: Stand up to Israel Lebanese President Michel Suleiman has vowed to "stand up to Israel's violation of Resolution 1701, whatever the price" following the border flare-up between the Lebanese and Israeli armies Tuesday.

8/4/2010 - US boosts Israeli missile funding US House appropriators have pushed funding for Israeli missile defense programs to its highest level ever, with $422.7 million now slated for 2011. Americans need that money more than Israel does.

8/4/2010 - Chas Freeman Lets Rip on Israel as a Strategic Liability having been very publicly and unfairly discredited by the pro-Israel crowd, Freeman can walk that rare line and speak honestly about the Jewish state without drowning in the caveats that accompany most such attempts in Washington. All Americans need to read the excerpt of Freeman's speech.

8/4/2010 - Assad: We'll support Lebanon in face of criminal Israeli aggression Three Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist were killed Tuesday when Israeli soldiers exchanged fire with Lebanese soldiers at the border.

8/4/2010 - No Blank Checks for the GOP — or Likud by Patrick J. Buchanan Since June 1914, a “blank check” given by one nation to another for war has been regarded as strategic folly. Thus it is startling to learn 47 House Republicans just signed on to H.R. 1553 declaring unequivocal “support for Israel’s right to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran … including the use of military force.” These Republicans have just given Tel Aviv a blank check for a pre-emptive war that Israel, unless it uses its nuclear weapons, can start but not finish. Fighting and finishing that war would fall to the armed forces of the United States...Indeed, the principal purpose and result of an Israeli pre-emptive war on Iran, bringing retaliation on Israel, would be to drag America in to fight and finish a war Israel had begun. The mainstream media has still refused to pick up this story.

8/4/2010 - Israel to take part in UN probe of flotilla raid Israel plans to send an official to participate in the panel's deliberations and will furnish reports from its own internal inquiry, according to the statement. Israel will attempt to whitewash.

8/4/2010 - Israel's harassment of citizens could ignite uprising, warns Arab politician

8/4/2010 - Turkey Summons Israel Ambassador over Barak Remark Turkey has summoned Israel's ambassador in Ankara, Gabi Levy, to a diplomatic dressing-down following remarks by Defense Minister Ehud Barak Sunday. Barak expressed concern that Turkey's new undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), Hakan Fidan, could pass classified Israeli information into the hands of Iran.

8/4/2010 - Robert Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing The EU funds millions of pounds' worth of projects in Gaza. These are regularly destroyed by Israel's American-made weaponry. So it goes like this. European taxpayers fork out for the projects. US taxpayers fork out for the weapons which Israel uses to destroy them. Then EU taxpayers fork out for the whole lot to be rebuilt. And then US taxpayers... Well, you've got the point.

8/4/2010 - Turkey summons US diplomat Turkey has summoned a top US diplomat to protest against Washington's interference in a UN mandate probing Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

8/4/2010 - The Law of Return at 60: Revisiting (and Revising) a Zionist Pillar In 1950 and even in 1970, Israel was still a poor and fledgling state surrounded by enemies. Anyone who wanted to immigrate was, almost by definition, someone who desired to cast his or her lot with the Jewish people. Today’s Israel, by contrast, is economically prosperous and, hence, a potential magnet for immigrants. At the same time, it is a society suffering from deep social cleavages. The Law of Return and the corresponding citizenship law need to be reformed to meet Israel’s current needs. Read the excerpt by Freeman in this news batch. Americans by the millions get food stamps as billions of our taxpayer dollars are handed to 'economicall prosperous' Israel.

8/4/2010 - Damascus: Syria-Saudi ties are none of U.S.'s business Abdullah will hold talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Syrian capital before they travel together to Beirut on Friday to try to calm tension over a tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese statesman Rafik Hariri. They are, thanks to Israel. Israel's problems have become OUR problems.

8/4/2010 - Book condoning murder has another rabbi in hot water

8/4/2010 - A Peaceful Boycott Should Not be a Crime A bill that is currently before the Knesset would allow Israelis who support boycotts against Israel to be sued for damages. The bill is part of a government backlash against a small but growing number of Israelis who have taken up the tactic of boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS) to bring about an end to their government's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza

8/4/2010 - ‘Huffpo’ corrects ‘Times’ smear that Arabs don’t care about Palestinians

8/4/2010 - Foxman Really Outdoes Himself on Mosque Issue The ADL’s Abe Foxman, who harshly attacked Gen. David Petraeus when the general asserted Congressional testimony earlier this year that the lack of progress toward an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement made his job throughout the Arab world more difficult, is, of course, a pillar of the so-called “Israel Lobby.”

8/4/2010 - Beck’s Holocaust comments prompt Fox News meeting Beck has won praise from some in the Jewish community for focusing on Nazi atrocities, though. Morton A. Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, wrote in support of Beck, saying that he "deeply believes the Holocaust is the most vicious and monstrous behavior in human history" and "believes we must stay on high alert to make sure it never happens again." Beck's also a strong supporter of the policies of the current Israeli government. Indeed, the Israeli government even highlighted Beck's coverage of the recent flotilla raid. Beck is another pandering nitwit.

8/4/2010 - Flare-up over tree accents Israel-Lebanon tension The clash started after an Israeli soldier on a crane dangled over a fence near the border early Tuesday to trim a tree that could provide cover for infiltrators. The Israelis said they clear such underbrush at least once a week and coordinate their actions with UNIFIL, the peacekeeping force that has been in the area for more than 30 years.

8/4/2010 - Price for a potential Israeli strike on Iran A Palestinian state. My prediction: Israel will strike Iran, drawing the US into a wider war, and there still won't be a Palestinian state in the near future.

8/4/2010 - Who Owns General Petraeus by Philip Giraldi Many who harbor political ambitions rightly fear the power of the Israel Lobby, but fear is a far remove from affection. Many Congressmen held hostage by the Lobby resent it and long for the time when they would be able to support genuine American interests relating to the Middle East. Petraeus surely understands that no one can get nominated by a major party to run for president of the United States if the Israel Lobby and its media supporters say no. The mainstream media ignored this story, as one would expect.

8/4/2010 - Does the Middle East Face an Israel-Lebanon Regional War?

8/4/2010 - The “Summer Camp Of Destruction:” Israeli High Schoolers Assist The Razing Of A Bedouin Town On July 26, Israeli police demolished 45 buildings in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib, razing the entire village to the ground to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest......One of the most troubling aspects of the destruction of al-Arakib was a report by CNN that the hundreds of Israeli riot police who stormed the village were accompanied by “busloads of cheering civilians.”

8/4/2010 - Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev They say the next intifada will be the Bedouin intifada. There are 155,000 Bedouins in the Negev, and more than half of them live in unrecognised villages without electricity or running water. I do not know what they might do, but by making 300 people homeless, 200 of them children, Israel is surely sowing dragon's teeth for the future.

8/4/2010 - Why put an attack on Iran back on the table? I suspect that the real reason for the new flood of commentary calling for attacks on Iran is simply that hawks hope to pocket their winnings from the long argument over sanctions, such as they are, and now push to the next stage in the confrontation they've long demanded

8/4/2010 - Rabbis oppose Yitzhak's arrest

8/4/2010 - Activist Supports Probe of Aid Raid Ann Wright, who served 29 years in the Army and nearly six years as a diplomat for the State Department, was one of three department officials to resign over the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Now an outspoken peace activist, Wright took part in the May 30-31 Gaza Aid Flotilla in which six civilian ships tried to go through Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, ostensibly to bring humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.

8/4/2010 - Republicans offer Israel green light to bomb Iran

8/4/2010 - AIPAC Goes to College: Teaching Americans to Put Israel First

8/4/2010 - The Real Aim of Israel’s Bomb Iran Campaign What is important to understand about this campaign is that the aim of Gerecht and of the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is to support an attack by Israel so that the United States can be drawn into direct, full-scale war with Iran. That has long been the Israeli strategy for Iran, because Israel cannot fight a war with Iran without full U.S. involvement. Israel needs to know that the United States will finish the war that Israel wants to start.

8/4/2010 - Australia approves new Iran sanctions Outside the pro-Israeli lobby in America, its counterparts reside in Canada, Australia and Britain.

8/4/2010 - War on terror's other cost: undeserved anger at all Muslims We encountered not one single moment of hostility, not from anyone anywhere in that devoutly Muslim country. It was 1998.

8/4/2010 - 'Israeli Arabs have no choice but to build illegally'

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7/28/2010 - Israeli Forces Kill Unarmed Palestinian “Israel must hold its soldiers accountable for illegal and unjustified killings,” he said. He continued, “The Israeli practice of shooting first and asking questions later has become the norm when dealing with Palestinians” in the West Bank.

7/28/2010 - Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in West Bank The three Palestinian fatalities come after a period of relative quiet.

7/28/2010 - Congress, on behalf of Israel, about to declare war on Iran The mainstream media in America has thus far ignored this issue.

7/28/2010 - Who Voted for War With Iran, Mr. Obama? by Philip Giraldi House of Representatives resolution 1553, introduced by Congressional Republicans, and currently working its way through the system will endorse an Israeli attack on Iran, which would be going to war by proxy as the US would almost immediately be drawn into the conflict when Tehran retaliates. The resolution provides explicit US backing for Israel to bomb Iran, stating that Congress supports Israel’s use of “all means necessary…including the use of military force”. The resolution is non-binding, but it is dazzling in its disregard for the possible negative consequences that would ensue for the hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic personnel currently serving in the Near East region.

7/28/2010 - American Jews don military uniforms for volunteer service They left their comfortable lives in lap of their families for meals in soldiers' residence during combat training. Volunteers of 'Aish Machal' project come to contribute to Israel in only way they see fit – military service ......"Nathaniel told me that if he's going to take a bullet, he'd rather take one in Israel, for the country," Is there something wrong with joining the military of the country in which they were residing - AMERICA? We've got TWO WARS going on, something is not right with this picture. A MUST READ from start to finish.

7/28/2010 - Israel, U.S. sign deal to upgrade Arrow missile shield The Arrow III will allow Israel "to deal with the threat of ballistic missiles with long range" and will give it "the ability to shoot down weapons of mass destruction outside the atmosphere," the ministry said in a statement. America pays, and pays again (in more ways than one) for Israeli 'security'.

7/28/2010 - British PM Calls Gaza 'Prison Camp' British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday urged Israel to lift the blockade of the Gaza Strip, slamming the current state of the Palestinian enclave as a "prison camp."

7/28/2010 - UN rights body names team to probe Gaza flotilla raid In response to the UN's decision, a[n Israeli] foreign ministry official said that the UN Human Rights Council's made its decision in haste, and that it was "part of the Rights Council's obsession against Israel." "The Israeli probe, conducted with transparency, makes the organization's probe completely unnecessary," the official added. Laughable.

7/28/2010 - 'Arab man attacked for talking to Jewish girl' A 23-year-old Arab man sustained serious injuries after being attacked in Tiberias, allegedly for talking to a young Jewish woman. Police are still searching for the suspected assailant, a 19-year-old who fled the scene.

7/28/2010 - Palestinian shepherd videotapes Israeli settlers Episodes like this are frequent in the South Hebron Hills, where settlers from the settlements and the outposts attack Palestinian shepherds and farmers to intimidate and force them to leave their lands. These kinds of illegal actions are usually left unpunished and many of them occur with Israeli military and police complicity. The Palestinian communities of this area have chosen to nonviolently resist the continuous abuses of the Israeli settlers and military.

7/28/2010 - Israeli forces crush West Bank demo, injuring three Three people, including a British activist, were injured Saturday afternoon when Israeli forces dispersed a demonstration in the West Bank, witnesses said.

7/28/2010 - US presses Abbas to resume direct peace talks

7/28/2010 - British PM visits Turkey: Iran, Gaza on agenda British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Turkey on Tuesday, saying the world needs Turkey's help in pushing Iran to address concerns about its nuclear program and harshly criticizing Israel's raid on a Gaza–bound flotilla that killed nine Turkish activists. Cameron, addressing Turkish businessmen, also declared that Britain was a staunch backer of Turkey's troubled bid to join the European Union. The visit – coming early in his term – was a measure of Britain's acknowledgment of Turkey as a critical ally in a conflict–prone region.

7/28/2010 - House Republicans Giving Green Light for Israeli Strike on Iran Such a move puts our troops in the region in grave physical danger.

7/28/2010 - US Cash for Israeli Settlements Making a Mockery of the Moratorium Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have declared a freeze on new settlements, but construction is continuing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlers are receiving contributions from American foundations that enjoy tax breaks, including Christian groups that see Biblical prophecies being fulfilled......According to research by the New York Times, pro-settler groups have raised over $200 million (€155 million) in the last 10 years. Such foundations in the United States can be exempted from taxes as long as they benefit "educational, religious or charitable" causes.

7/28/2010 - Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House Republicans Hawkish former Bush Administration official John Bolton recently laid out the game plan to prod Israel into attacking Iran, arguing that outsiders can "create broad support" for a strike by framing it as an issue of Israel's right to self defense. Supporters for military strikes, Bolton says, should "defend the specific tactic of pre-emptive attacks" against Iran. He urges that Congress can "make it clear" that it supports such strikes and that "having visible congressional support in place at the outset will reassure the Israeli government, which is legitimately concerned about Mr. Obama's likely negative reaction to such an attack." John Bolton is a traitor to the American people, and ought to be treated as such. He works FOR ISRAEL.

7/28/2010 - Israel’s Secret Police Exposed “Many members of the Shin Bet are settlers themselves and think of these extremists as their colleagues, not as the enemy. The line between the Shin Bet and these extremist organisations is very blurred.” Really now. That explains a lot.

7/28/2010 - Ex-UN prosecutor De Silva probes Israeli boat raid The U.N. Human Rights Council appointed former U.N. war crimes prosecutor Desmond de Silva and two other people on Friday to investigate Israel's May 31 forcible boarding of a boat bringing aid to the Gaza Strip.

7/28/2010 - UK seeks war crimes law change If approved, the law will spare Israeli politicians and high-ranking IDF officers war crimes arrest warrants upon their arrival in the UK. Looks like the Israeli lobby wins in Britain too.

7/28/2010 - Oliver Stone: Jewish control of the media is preventing free Holocaust debate Referring to the alleged influence of the powerful Jewish lobby on U.S. foreign policy, Stone said that Israel had distorted "United States foreign policy for years," adding he felt U.S. policy toward Iran was "horrible." Stone later backpedaled though, in the face of the heat of the lobby.

7/28/2010 - Israel slams UN council's Gaza flotilla probe Israel on Sunday dismissed moves by the UN Human Rights Council to open its own probe into a deadly raid on a Gaza–bound aid flotilla, saying the panel was biased

7/28/2010 - Turks protest Israeli volleyball team

7/28/2010 - Israel's harassment of citizens could ignite uprising, warns Arab politician Israel could ignite a third intifada if it continues to push its 1.2 million Arab citizens into a corner, claims Haneen Zoabi, the Arab member of the Knesset vilified for joining the Gaza aid flotilla.

7/28/2010 - Israel's sex trade booming

7/28/2010 - Why Jordan is Occupied by Palestinians By Robert Fisk

7/28/2010 - Natural gas could lead to new Lebanon-Israel war The discovery of large natural gas reserves under the waters of the eastern Mediterranean could potentially mean a huge economic windfall for Israel and Lebanon, both resource–poor nations – if it doesn't spark new war between them. Just one more resource for Israel to thieve from the Arabs.

7/28/2010 - Gaza smugglers cut underground Egyptian steel wall Rare footage filmed by AP Television News before dawn Thursday showed one smuggler cutting through the barrier with a blowtorch. The smuggler, his face covered by a scarf, said it took him five hours to breach the obstacle. Where there's a will, there's a way.

7/28/2010 - Nobel-winner Desmond Tutu backs boycotts of Israel

7/28/2010 - A Victim of Madoff and Changing Priorities, the American Jewish Congress Calls It Quits Others say privately that while the AJCongress was doing important work, focusing on issues of religious freedom in the United States, free speech and women’s rights, those simply did not resonate with donors who show more interest in Israel and anti-Semitism. Isn't that interesting?

7/28/2010 - Israel Gets Brutal With Media "We would appreciate it were the authorities to remind the various forces involved, that open, unhindered coverage of news events is a widely acknowledged part of the essence of democracy. "Generally speaking this would not include smashing the face of a clearly marked photographer working for a known and accredited news organization with a stick, or for that matter aiming a stun grenade at the head of a clearly marked news photographer or summarily arresting cameramen, photographers and/or journalists," said the FPA.

7/28/2010 - Whatever Happens, Israel Can Always Count On U.S. Evangelicals Thousands of Christians from across the United States descended on Capitol Hill on Thursday in order to lobby Washington lawmakers on behalf of Israel.

7/28/2010 - Reading the tea leaves hopes received a hard knock by reading here that a lion’s share of GOP congresspeople with Tea Party ties signed on to an idiotic resolution endorsing an Israeli military strike on Iran. The resolution is dumb in the first place, because Israel would only attack Iran if it had assurances that the US would step in to clean up the mess, and basically continue the war Israel started. But since that war would probably immiserate the United States with oil price spikes, plus ramp up the casualties in Iran and Afghanistan, it’s a bad deal

7/28/2010 - ADL accepts Oliver Stone apology over Holocaust, U.S. Jews remarks "I do agree that it was wrong of me to say that Israel or the pro-Israel lobby is to blame for America’s flawed foreign policy," Stone said in a statement released on Wednesday, adding that his comment was "not true and I apologize that my inappropriately glib remark has played into that negative stereotype." Are you f'king kidding me, Oliver Stone? You are 100 % CORRECT. Why the hell did you back down from the truth?

7/28/2010 - Israel linked to exiled sheikh's bid for 'coup' in Gulf emirate of RAK Israel is aiding an exiled Arab sheikh who is vying to seize control of a strategically important Gulf emirate only 40 miles from Iran.

7/28/2010 - Israel lauds new EU nuclear sanctions on Iran

7/28/2010 - Pipes: To Get Obama To Act, Netanyahu Should Threaten To Nuke Iran a recent interview with the right-wing Christian Zionist Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, neoconservative pundit Daniel Pipes shared his view that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should threaten to use nuclear weapons against Iran as a means of “applying pressure” on the United States. Pipes is another traitor to America. An attack by Israel on Iran puts our troops and our missions in the region in GRAVE DANGER. Pipes, Kristol, Bolton, most of US Congress and countless others that are pushing for support for such a strike are all TRAITORS. They do not have the interests of AMERICANS as their primary concern.

7/28/2010 - Israel to UN: North Korea arms proliferation destabilizing the Middle East Hey pot, this is the kettle calling.

7/28/2010 - Terror’s Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone By Ray McGovern Neither contractor nor intelligence agency staffers seem to see much incentive in touching the third-rail issue with which even former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld openly wrestled — what motivates these incorrigible terrorists to attack the United States and U.S. targets? Not even his Princeton pedigree seemed of much help to him in figuring this out, so he opted for torture. Yet, there is zero appetite to address what effect U.S. invasions and occupation of Muslim countries and our Siamese-twin relationship with Israel might be having among young Muslim men.

7/28/2010 - Israel's sex trade booming Findings showed that some 3,000 and 5,000 women are smuggled to Israel annually and sold into the prostitution industry, where they are constantly subjected to violence and abuse.....The U.S. State Department ranks Israel in the second tier of human trafficking around the world, saying the Jewish State does not maintain minimal conditions regarding the issue but is working to improve them.

7/28/2010 - Caterpillar Caught in Web Of Middle East Politics court documents make it clear that Caterpillar has sold its D9s to Israel via an American military program — and that the U.S. Defense Department has financed those sales, even as the U.S. State Department cites Israel’s use of those same D9s to demolish Palestinian homes as serious human rights concerns.

7/28/2010 - 'My conviction for rape by deception has ruined my life'

7/28/2010 - Israeli Military Assaults Palestinians and Activists in Nonviolent Shuhada St. Action In 2000 the street was closed to Palestinians, and even though U.S. Aid came in 2004 to renovate the street for both Palestinians and Israelis, after the work had all been accomplished, the street was declared “a settler-only street.” Israeli settlers and authorities have not only confiscated Palestinian buildings or welded shut the entrances, they now also control all the market and parking spaces connected to Shuhada Street.

7/28/2010 - Israel's 'Rape by Deception' Verdict Belies Racism It is difficult to believe that if the man was an American Christian who signed up for JDate and claimed to be Irving Cohen from Brooklyn, that the case would have gone forward.

7/28/2010 - USS Liberty survivor Death was possible on Gaza freedom flotilla

7/28/2010 - Pennsylvania Senate Race Turns Into Battlefield for Dueling Pro-Israel Groups The dueling advertisements, sponsored by the left-wing group J Street and a new right-wing group called the Emergency Committee for Israel, present diverging views of Sestak’s positions on Israel. Meanwhile, the two groups are targeting each other in a secondary dispute over which organization best represents the interests of Israel. What about the INTERESTS OF AMERICA?

7/28/2010 - Holy Land 5 case reveals double standard in enforcement of US law

7/28/2010 - Haim Saban to CBS: Cancel Oliver Stone's Showtime Series IRONY. Oliver Stone's comments are proven true by the pro-Israeli community's reactions to his comments. Case in point, Haim Saban, and the ADL's reaction. Suddenly Stone has to apologize not once but twice for his comments. When in fact the reaction proves him right.

7/28/2010 - Judge faces anti-Semitism probe after speech attacking Israel helps free arms factory protesters Summing up in the criminal damage trial, he compared Israel to the Nazi regime and accused the country of ignoring international law. The judge spoke the truth.

7/28/2010 - Ahmadinejad says expects U.S. to attack MidEast soon Iran expects the United States to launch a military strike on "at least two countries" in the Middle East in the next three months, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told state–run Press TV.

7/28/2010 - Oliver Stone apologizes for saying Jews control the media Stone had told British publication The Sunday Times that U.S. public opinion was focused on the Holocaust as a result of the "Jewish domination of the media." The remarks sparked a massive backlash, with a large number of Jewish organizations and Israeli officials publicly condemning the director's comments.

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7/21/2010 - Man killed and child injured by IDF strike on Gaza An Israeli tank shot at a group of Palestinians approaching the fence that separates Gaza from Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said

7/21/2010 - Hebron settler on motorbike rams 11-year-old Palestinian boy and soldiers kill Gaza mom who goes into ‘buffer zone’ to fetch her two-year-old

7/21/2010 - Mother of five killed by Israeli artillery fire close to Gaza buffer zone A mother of five was killed by Israeli artillery fire when she went to fetch her two-year-old son from outside her village home close to the "buffer zone" created by Israel along its border with Gaza. Three of her relatives were wounded in the shelling earlier this week, but Red Crescent ambulances were not permitted to reach the family for several hours.

7/21/2010 - 2 Palestinians killed as IDF clashes with militants near Gaza border

7/21/2010 - Some Gaza women smolder over Hamas' water-pipe ban There are few pleasures left for Gaza's 1.5 million people, squeezed by both a blockade and Hamas efforts to impose its strict Muslim lifestyle. And women here just lost another one.

7/21/2010 - Israel Chokes Gaza Despite Announced Easing "Even if the blockade is eased it remains illegal under international law as it is a collective form of punishment on a civilian population," Chris Gunness from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) told IPS.

7/21/2010 - IDF convicts commander, soldier in shooting of bound Palestinian An Israel Defense Forces court on Thursday convicted a former commander and a soldier involved in shooting a bound Palestinian at close range in the West Bank city of Na'alin two years ago. And again.

7/21/2010 - Police suspect alleged Jewish terrorist killed four Palestinians How much time will he serve if convicted, one month, one year?

7/21/2010 - Al Khalil/Hebron: Israeli Border Police Demolish Water Infrastructure in Al Baqa'a Valley For the third time in 12 days, Israeli Border Police carried out demolitions in Al Baqa'a valley, a fertile farming area northeast of Hebron, along route 60. On July 19, the Israeli Border Police, with the assistance of hired laborers using heavy machinery, destroyed a cistern and removed irrigation pipes from 1.5 acres (6 dunams) of vegetable fields.

7/21/2010 - Al/Khalil/ Hebron: Israeli Police Invade Palestinian Home, Arrest Father in Old City

7/21/2010 - Al Khalil/Hebron: Israeli Border Police Demolish Cistern in Al Beqa'a Valley When international peace activists from Christian Peacemaker Teams arrived in the area at 9:30am, the large bagger that had been used to break up the concrete of the cistern was just leaving the site. The driver of a large tractor lifted scoops full of rocks and dumped them into the demolished cistern. Also, workers cut and disposed of irrigation pipes laid in two fields. The fields each measured 10 dunams (approximately 40 acres). One was a field of grape vines and the other field had tomatoes planted under grape vines. In addition to dismantling the irrigation pipes, the workers also cut the twines that were holding up tomato plants. At least seven families will be affected by this destruction, in total about 50 people.

7/21/2010 - Palestinians build solar car from scratch

7/21/2010 - For first time in nine months, Israel razes Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem I doubt it was the first time in 9 months. Israel= just like the Nazis.

7/21/2010 - Ashton: Israel must allow Gaza to resume exports Israel should ease its Gaza blockade further and allow Palestinians to resume exports from the territory, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton said on Sunday during a visit to the Hamas-controlled enclave.

7/21/2010 - Medics prevented from treating dying Palestinian mother According to the woman’s husband, Nasser Abu Said (37) the attack began without warning at about 8.30pm on Tuesday with two shells being fired as the family of 17 sat outside their house in the village of Johar a-Deek. Apart from Nasser and his 65-year-old father, the entire group was women and children.

7/21/2010 - EU foreign policy chief tours Gaza, checks embargo The international community must pressure Israel to go beyond easing its Gaza embargo and throw open the territory's long-blockaded borders, the EU foreign policy chief said after a tour of the Hamas-run coastal strip.

7/21/2010 - Iron Dome success excites, but army balks at the bill The U.S. Congress passed last week the Obama administration's initiative to provide Israel with a $205 million grant to procure Iron Dome batteries As millions of Americans go hungry.

7/21/2010 - Israel re-arms ready for war with Iran While much of the concern in the Middle East and South West Asia is with the post-election problems in Iraq and the worsening conflict in Afghanistan, much more attention needs to be paid to Iran, and the thoroughly dangerous consequences of yet another war in the region. Paul Rogers is Global Security Consultant to Oxford Research Group and Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University.

7/21/2010 - Poll: Most Americans would back Israel attack on Iran This is what happens when my fellow Americans get their news from our mainstream media. They are lying to us. Iran is not a threat to the USA, nor has it threatened us in the absence of any threats we've made. This whole Iran scare, just like during the runup to the war with Iraq, has been put forth by Israel and its lobby here in America. THE LATTER are the REAL threat to America. They should be sent packing to teh country to which they are loyal: Israel. Our troops are sitting ducks when Iran retaliates after any Israeli strike on their country. No American would ever support that. But you won't hear about the fallout in our mainstream media, who all cower in fear of the Israeli lobby.

7/21/2010 - We will continue to shield Israel, militarily and diplomatically, U.S. official says The United States will continue to maintain Israel's military advantage as well as protect it in the diplomatic arena, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said Wednesday, adding that the American commitment to Israel's security was "not negotiable." Disgusting. It's treason; our support of Israel gravely endangers our national security. It's why we were attacked on 911, according to the 911 Commission Report.

7/21/2010 - Obama official assures on Israel defense aid An Obama administration official committed to sustaining a 10-year defense assistance program to Israel, saying that advanced technology is endangering Israel. Did you see what's going on in America lately? More Americans face foreclosure the economy has not yet fully recovered from the recession, and yet OUR PRIORITY IS TO MAKE SURE THE CRIMINAL STATE can continue to plunder and pillage in the Middle East?

7/21/2010 - Iranian Scientist Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there is no such Iranian nuclear weapons programme, according to a former CIA officer. Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism official, told IPS that his sources are CIA officials with direct knowledge of the entire Amiri operation. Really now? Pay particular attention to the last two paragraphs.

7/21/2010 - IDF destroys West Bank village after declaring it military zone Since 1967, Israel has prevented the growth of Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley by cutting off their water supply or declaring large areas as live fire zones.

7/21/2010 - 'Israel convinces US with credible military plan on Iran' Have Israel’s efforts to convince the US to threaten Iran with a credible military option paid off? According to recent media reports, the answer might be yes.

7/21/2010 - Abbas says Israel must accept foreign border force

7/21/2010 - IDF Recognizes Help From Israeli Human Rights Group This is all part of the game.

7/21/2010 - Gaddafi Jr.: We Docked in Egypt After Israel OK'd Gaza Reconstruction Aid

7/21/2010 - Robert Fisk: They're all grovelling and you can guess the reason What they said might have made Israel's supporters angry. And that will never do. The reality is that CNN should have told Israel's lobbyists to get lost, and the Foreign Office – which was indeed upbraided by the Israeli foreign ministry – should have asked the Israeli government when it is going to stop thieving Arab land

7/21/2010 - Israel Jails Arab for Bedding Jew Under False Pretenses An Israel court has sentenced an Arab man named Sabbar Kashur to 18 months in prison for having consensual sex with an Israeli Jewish woman under the pretense that he was also Jewish. The case, brought by the Israeli woman, ended with Kashur being convicted of "rape by deception." It has drawn new attention to the culture of mistrust that persists between many Jews and Muslims in Israel, where race and religion often take the blame for years of complicated international conflict

7/21/2010 - Israelis see Obama as pro-Palestinian: poll Forty–six percent of Israelis believe US President Barack Obama is more pro–Palestinian than pro–Israeli, according to an opinion poll published by the English–language Jerusalem Post on Friday.

7/21/2010 - Family of Briton killed by Israeli soldier demand meeting with ministers The family of British activist Tom Hurndall have demanded a meeting with the British government after the Israeli authorities announced the early release of the soldier who killed him.

7/21/2010 - Netanyahu says he will oppose conversion bill

7/21/2010 - Bibi Unmasked

7/21/2010 - A hidden world, growing beyond control * An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances. How many Israeli spies are in that group?

7/21/2010 - Sayanim - Israeli Operatives in the U.S. When the “con” is clearly seen, “the mark” (that’s us) will see that all roads lead to the same duplicitous source: Israel and its operatives. The secret to Israel’s force-multiplier in the U.S. is its use of agents, assets and sayanim (Hebrew for volunteers). A great piece by Veterans Today.

7/21/2010 - Democracy Depends on Diverse Media, Senators Say Today, a bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski reminding him that the Senate continues to be concerned about the dangers of media consolidation. They did something right for a change, something that actually benefits Americans, not Israelis. Imagine. But yet it still won't prevent our mainstream media from being so totallly biased in favor of Israel as it is today.

7/21/2010 - Iran urges US to drop 'cowboy logic' over nuclear issue Mr Ahmadinejad added that the US's real concern was not that Iran may make a bomb, but its rise as a regional power. Israel is behind that concern.

7/21/2010 - Iranian Scientist Would Not Play Curveball The facts beneath the competing narratives permit a key conclusion; namely, that U.S. intelligence has learned nothing to change its assessment that Iran halted work on the nuclear-weapons related part of its nuclear development program in the fall of 2003 and has not restarted that work......hold onto your hats. I’m waiting for arch-neoconservative Ken Adelman, erstwhile clone of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to arise from – and dust off – the ashes of Iraq to reassure us that attacking Iran, too, will be a “cake walk.” Ray McGovern is former CIA.

7/21/2010 - Demands for Release of Nuclear Whistleblower as Israel Holds Vanunu in Solitary Confinement

7/21/2010 - The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out Hey, I know, let's give Israel a few more billion dollars in US taxpayer aid, and how about we fight another of their wars too?

7/21/2010 - Israel's nuclear program implicated in U.S. investigation It is worth mentioning that in the 1980s, regardless of Jonathan Pollards' espionage activities for Israel, Israeli companies and individuals were involved many cases of technological espionage, steeling U.S. secrets, technology and equipment. The most outstanding case involved Milco, a U.S. based company owned by Israeli tycoon Arnon Milchan, which bought and shipped equipment with which could have also been used as triggers for nuclear weapons. These people are not our allies, not even close.

7/21/2010 - Study: Attack on Iran would be ‘start of long war’ An Israeli attack on Iran would fail to stop Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons program and would lead to a "long war" that would be marked by economic instability and mass civilian casualties, says a study from British think tank

7/21/2010 - Israel set to force all citizens to swear oath to Jewish state We should do that to the Israel-supporters HERE IN AMERICA. It would be poetic justice, and would give us the chance to rid ourselves of the traitors among us.

7/21/2010 - 4 Reasons Israel Hasn't Bombed Iran

7/21/2010 - Food co-op in Rachel Corrie's hometown boycotts Israeli goods

7/21/2010 - Presbyterians Tone Down Report On Israel After Jewish Lobbying some national Jewish groups have dedicated significant time and resources to building relationships with delegates like Bloss, who has been supportive of Israel within the denomination since 2004. By the close of the assembly, the Jewish groups felt that their investment had paid off as the convocation approved a report on the Israel-Palestinian conflict that blunted or blocked some of the text’s original language which had most disturbed them........“The Simon Wiesenthal Center went into a high level of inflammatory rhetoric, which was really below the belt as far as it being certainly unkind, but also untrue,” Levy said. “The church has been looking time and time again at these issues, and then you have Jewish groups that blackmail the church on interfaith relations. They say, ‘Don’t move forward, because you’re going to upset us.’” The truth about Israel must be whitewashed at all costs.

7/21/2010 - Israeli minister to lay West Bank foundation stone Israel's interior minister and deputy prime minister, Elie Yishai, is to lay the foundation stone of a new administrative centre for Jewish settlements in the West Bank, his office announced on Sunday.

7/21/2010 - New sanctions crimp Iran's shipping business as insurers withhold coverage Just weeks after the United States and the United Nations imposed new rounds of sanctions on Iran, Tehran's ability to ship vital goods has been significantly curtailed as some of the world's most powerful Western insurance companies cut off Iranian shippers out of fear that they could run afoul of U.S. laws, the insurers say.

7/21/2010 - In sign of warming ties, Turkey FM reportedly meets Hamas chief Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Meshal in Damascus on Monday, signaling a tightening of relations between Israel's once-close ally and its arch enemy.

7/21/2010 - Bad translation makes fundamentalists of us all I was recently watching the Spanish documentary To Shoot an Elephant, about the Israeli attacks on Gaza in January 2009. The documentary is good, but the subtitles in English struck me as strange: "For the sake of Allah", "May Allah protect [your sons] for you", "May Allah reward you" and other references to God are recurrent throughout the film.

7/21/2010 - Alleged Mossad agent fights extradition to Germany Brodsky is wanted in Germany for allegedly spying and helping to falsely obtain a German passport allegedly used in connection with the assassination of the Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Manhouh in a Dubai hotel in January.

7/21/2010 - Iran FM: Nuclear fuel talks to commence in September Talks between Iran and western powers over a plan to supply fuel for a Tehran nuclear reactor should start late September, the Bloomberg news network quoted Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying on Thursday.

7/21/2010 - 'Mossad agents' expelled from Mauritius

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7/14/2010 - U.S. Congress United in its Support of Israel, says Republican Minority Whip U.S. Republicans and Democrats differ on nearly every issue in the U.S. Congress but are united in their support of Israel, Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) told a congregation of U.S. Jews on Saturday. Behold the treason.

7/14/2010 - Palestinian village to be encircled by barrier The barrier, running much of the length of the West Bank, has already disrupted lives in many Palestinian towns and villages in its path. But it threatens to outright smother Walajeh: The community of about 2,000 on the southwest edge of Jerusalem is to be completely encircled by a fence cutting it off from most of its open land, according to an Israeli Defense Ministry map. This wall, built on Palestinian territory, is illegal under international law. The US prevents justice from being upheld in this case, and most others dealing with Israel's violations of international law.

7/14/2010 - Woman killed, five injured near Gaza City In a separate incident, two Palestinians were injured by Israeli artillery fire near a Gaza refugee camp.

7/14/2010 - Israeli bulldozers raze 6 east Jerusalem buildings Israeli bulldozers destroyed six buildings, including at least three homes, in contested east Jerusalem on Tuesday, resuming the demolition of Palestinian property after a halt aimed at encouraging peace talks.

7/14/2010 - Palestinian homes bulldozed as Israeli freeze on demolitions appears to end Approval was given on Monday for 32 new homes in the Jewish neighbourhood of Pisgat Ze'ev, East Jerusalem, which is exempt from the freeze. A further 48 housing units should be approved next week.

7/14/2010 - It's official: Israel has gotten away with it -- again Over a month after the deadly raid, and after an overwhelming bipartisan majority in Congress signed onto an American-Israel Public Affairs Committee letter that expressed "strong support for Israel's right to defend itself," the Obama administration is letting Israel get away scot-free. Israel will continue with the status quo of occupation and blockade while the prospects for a Palestinian state continue to whither away.

7/14/2010 - Obama says Israel unlikely to surprise US with Iran attack "I think the relationship between the US and Israel is sufficiently strong that neither of us try to surprise each other," he said, when asked if he was concerned Israel could catch the US off guard with an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. Israel didn't give us any warning when they attacked USS Liberty.

7/14/2010 - Strong Russian remarks on Iran please Washington A major goal of U.S. President Barack Obama's "reset" of relations with Moscow has been winning Russian backing for a tougher international line toward Iran. Did it have anything to do with the recent spy exchange between US and Russia, mewonders? I think so.

7/14/2010 - Settler released hours after arrested over killing of Palestinian youth Israel Police on Sunday arrested a resident of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, for his alleged involvement in the shooting death of a Palestinian teenager whose body was found near Ramallah two months ago. The 37-year-old suspect was released without restrictions a few hours after he was detained

7/14/2010 - Palestinian villagers battle plans to wall them in "It is the only village in the West Bank that will be completely surrounded by the wall," says Willow Heske, of the Oxfam humanitarian group, which is helping villagers make their voices heard.

7/14/2010 - Obama tells Abbas he is committed to Palestinian state

7/14/2010 - Netanyahu doubts Mideast peace deal possible by 2012 "There's only been one time that Iran actually stopped the program and that was when it feared U.S. military action," Netanyahu said. "So when the president [Obama] says that he's determined to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and that all options are on the table, I think that's the right statement of policy."

7/14/2010 - Netanyahu: Only US military threats can stop Iran from making nukes

7/14/2010 - Netanyahu signals no extension of settlement freeze

7/14/2010 - Israel says won't let Libyan aid ship reach Gaza

7/14/2010 - Israel: Gaza aid ship diverts to Egypt

7/14/2010 - U.S. conservatives form new pro-Israel lobby group The Emergency Committee for Israel presents a potent combination of Republican Party neoconservatives and Evangelical Christians. The new group’s board includes Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol and Gary Bauer, a former Republican presidential candidate who leads the group American Values, as well as Rachel Abrams, a conservative writer and activist. The neocons are back in full force.

7/14/2010 - Petraeus, Palin, Boot and the Power of Israel

7/14/2010 - Case against soldier who fired shots in Silwan closed After 13 witnesses subpoenaed, State Prosecutor's Office decides not to try haredi Nahal soldier who wounded two Palestinians in east Jerusalem. Left-wing organizations petition ruling, say 'it was point-blank shooting at unarmed civilians'

7/14/2010 - US Treasury Grants Tax Exemptions to Funders of Illegal Israeli Settlements A New York Times investigation revealed Tuesday that the U.S. Treasury is helping to promote illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank by granting tax exemptions to U.S. groups that funnel money into them. These specific settlements aren't only illegal under international law, but also under Israeli law. Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory are a violation of article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention; war crimes. The US government has been aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes for decades, even war crimes against US citizens.

7/14/2010 - Abbas: No point in direct talks with Israel now Mahmoud Abbas sounded determined not to return to the table unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commits to an internationally mandated settlement freeze and agrees to pick up talks where they left off under the Israeli leader's predecessor in December 2008. ....Netanyahu hasn't agreed to either demand, and has so far curbed but not frozen settlement activity. He insists negotiations should be held without any preconditions.

7/14/2010 - Exposed: The Truth About Israel's Land Grab In The West Bank Jewish settlers, who claim a divine right to the whole of Israel, now control more than 42 per cent of the occupied West Bank, representing a powerful obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state, a new report has revealed.

7/14/2010 - 'US will attack Iran if it must' There is wide support in Congress for using all means to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear power, “through diplomatic and economic sanctions if we possibly can, through military actions if we must,” visiting US Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said Wednesday in Jerusalem. These traitors must be stopped.

7/14/2010 - Presbyterians: End Israel aid over settlements Church delegates approved the report by an 82 percent vote during the church's general assembly in Minneapolis. It's meant as a comprehensive guide to the denomination's more than 2 million members on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

7/14/2010 - Netanyahu In 2001: 'America Is A Thing You Can Move Very Easily'

7/14/2010 - Israel bans Gaza woman from studying human rights in West Bank

7/14/2010 - Israel's New 'Video Game' Executions

7/14/2010 - MK Ben-Ari: Sink Libyan Ship The ship, he said, was “a threat to Israel's independence. In order to prevent a flood of hundreds of ships and thousands of refugees gathering on our borders, the ship must be sunk.

7/14/2010 - Israeli Military Finds Flotilla Killings Justified Israel exonerates itself. No kidding?

7/14/2010 - Ireland seeks to block Israel access to data on EU citizens Ireland is seeking to stop a European Union initiative that would enable Israel to receive sensitive information about European citizens, due to concerns about the use that Israel would make of this information, the Irish minister for justice said over the weekend.

7/14/2010 - Israeli academics hit back over bid to pass law that would criminalise them the petition as hysterical and an attempt to silence contrary opinions. While the vast majority of the signatories do not support an academic boycott of Israel, they have joined forces over what they regard as the latest assault on freedom of expression in Israel. The petition states: "We have different and varied opinions about solving the difficult problems facing Israel, but there is one thing we are agreed on – freedom of expression and academic freedom are the very lifeblood of the academic system." Israel is not a democracy. It's a sham.

7/14/2010 - Woods Hole movie screen goes dark CapeCodOnline.com "Films about Palestine are no more troubling than anything else, but it hit a nerve with some members on the board," Panish said. "I'm surprised because this is a small community of people in Woods Hole with the same ideals and it's been going on for a year and a half. This is an infringement on free speech." More fascism on display by Israel-supporters.

7/14/2010 - Children's group boycotts Israel The emergency motion was proposed by international secretary Paul Bemrose, who said it had been prompted by the deaths of nine Turkish activists on the Gaza flotilla.

7/14/2010 - Vodka Ad Too Sexy For Brooklyn Hasidic Community Imagine the national outrcy if it were Muslims that had or wanted to have those ads banned?

7/14/2010 - The Hypocrisy of Preaching Nonviolence to Palestinians

7/14/2010 - critics US too low-key on Islamic radicalism talk President Barack Obama has argued that words matter, and administration officials have said that the use of inflammatory descriptions linking Islam to the terror threat feed the enemy's propaganda and may alienate moderate Muslims in the U.S. By the way, the WINEP, mentioned in this article, is part of AIPAC, the Israeli lobby. Notice the Associated Press laps up this puff piece largely drawing from WINEP. THe AP is often a mouthpiece for the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

7/14/2010 - Obama Should Keep Bush's Word, But Bibi Needn't Keep Olmert's? In effect, the Israeli right doesn’t want Israel to have negotiate its relations with its neighbors on its own. It wants America to impose a solution. Of course JINSA wouldn’t put it that way. JINSA is a neocon (pro-Israel) 'thinktank'.

7/14/2010 - Israel’s Nukes Harm US National Interests by John Mearsheimer there’s no accountability for Israel on any issue. You don’t need opacity. If I went to the Middle East, and visited Israel, and I was killed, somebody shot me, do you think there would be any accountability? Seriously. If any of you went to the Middle East and were killed, do you think there would be accountability? There wouldn’t be. This is how outrageous this situation is. Just think about the [USS] Liberty, think about Rachel Corrie, think about this Turkish-American who was just killed on the flotilla.

7/14/2010 - The Israel-Turkey Imbroglio

7/14/2010 - Castro: War on Iran 'Imminent' Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro warned on Monday that a US-Israeli attack on Iran is "imminent" and predicted that this could trigger a global nuclear war

7/14/2010 - Scott Horton Interviews Lawrence Wilkerson "I think there’s a very clear-cut case that Wurmser was not only working for Rumsfeld and Feith and the Pentagon, but he was also working for Israel. I think Feith was working for Israel too." Several more neocons who deliberately deceived Americans into going to war with Iraq.

7/14/2010 - The Unchallenged Power of the Israel Lobby I quote Mr. Tenet here: “All this weighed heavy on my mind as I walked beneath the awning that leads to the West Wing and saw Richard Perle exiting the building just as I was about to enter. Perle is one of the godfathers of the neoconservative movement and, at the time, was head of the Defense Policy Board, an independent advisory group attached to the Secretary of Defense. Ours was little more than a passing acquaintance. As the doors closed behind him, we made eye contact and nodded. I had just reached the door myself when Perle turned to me and said, 'Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday. 'They bear responsibility.' (Italics added). Perle is one of the neocons responsible for deliberately deceiving Americans into going to war with Iraq.

7/14/2010 - Obama: 'I Have Met Israel and It Is "Us"' Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu set up another illegal Jewish settlement, this time on the White House lawn. And, it appears, President Obama has agreed to serve as its armed guard. And again.

7/14/2010 - Wealthy Reap Rewards While Those Who Work Lose Apart from the newly unemployed, about 39 million people in the U.S. are chronically poor and do not have enough food to eat, according to the U.S. Census and U.S. Department of Agriculture. And yet, we continue to pour billions of dollars to Israel to fund its state based on religious supremacism - a state which by the way has not suffered the same economic fate from which America is suffering.

7/14/2010 - Hebron ‘dance protest’ against Israeli soldiers and settlers Over 100 Palestinians together with international solidarity activists gathered in Hebron this Saturday to protest against the closure of Shuhada street. As a response to the infamous YouTube video of soldiers dancing near the illegal settlement of Tel-Rumeida, some protesters staged a dance protest: three dancers took the role of soldiers and searched and “arrested” three Palestinians.

7/14/2010 - Hezbollah says it has list of targets in Israel A senior official with the militant Hezbollah group said Sunday they have a list of military targets inside Israel to strike in any future war.

7/14/2010 - CNN fires veteran editor for Mideast over Tweet CNN has fired a senior editor for Middle East news after she published a Twitter message that said she respected a Lebanese Shi'ite cleric branded a terrorist by the United States, U.S. and British media said on Thursday. Have sympathy for Israeli Jewish terrorists (such as Begin, Sharon, and more), and you'll get accolades and opportunities.

7/14/2010 - "Christian-Zionism" Is Trouble for Israel and the USA These people are not real Christians. They are impostors.

7/14/2010 - 'Unprecedented police brutality' at East Jerusalem protest Every weekend, Israeli protesters demonstrate alongside the Arab locals against settler activity in the Arab neighborhood. The demonstrators decry the settlers' takeover of several homes in the area.

7/14/2010 - 'Obama warns Erdogan international Gaza flotilla probe bad for Turkey' United States President Barak Obama warned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that an international probe into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla could have negative consequences for Turkey, British Arabic-language daily al-Hayat reported Saturday. What? Now who would give Obama that idea?

7/14/2010 - Obama Yields to Bibi, Plus Me vs. Petraeus David Makovsky, who works for the AIPAC cutout, the Washington Institute for Near East Peace, explained what's going on in today's Washington Post. "As we get closer to the midterm elections, if there was a gap, it's narrowing.... I think the blowup in March between Obama and Netanyahu has led each side to realize that they've gone too far, and they've got to dial it down."

7/14/2010 - 'Many Jewish Neighborhoods in J’lem Will Remain in Israel'

7/14/2010 - Israel is waiting for Palin Look at what’s happening: The prime minister of Israel is holding the president of the United States at bay, bending him to his will, because he’s got the Republicans behind him.

7/14/2010 - Bringing Judaism Out of the Home, and Into the Public Square American Jews, of course, have long been champions of the strict separation of church and state. Individuals and communal institutions have successfully fought against school prayer, displays of religious symbols on public property and state funding for religious programs. This work is crucial in protecting against the privileging of certain religious groups over others, as well as in protecting religious organizations from state control. I just can't get over the irony and hypocrisy of the above excerpt. Jewish groups have fought to keep religion, mostly Christianity, out of government, but yet the state of Israel is a state based on religious supremacy,and a state that many of these same Jews make sure receives billions in American taxpayer aid. Unbelievable.

7/14/2010 - Passing of Shiite cleric Fadlallah spells trouble for Lebanon Notwithstanding his fiery Friday sermons targeting Israel and the United States, the Iraqi-trained Fadlallah opposed the concept of velayat-e-faqih, which puts an Iranian mullah at the pinnacle of Shiite theology and politics. He also condemned Al Qaeda and so-called honor killings of Muslim women, stances that led many Westerners to see Fadlallah, a man Washington labelled a terrorist, as a kind of moderate.

7/14/2010 - Lieberman's settlement bars Russian-Israeli families from buying homes "The biggest problem is that if you accept 10 families in which the mother isn't Jewish, then soon there will be 30 children, and tomorrow your son could fall in love with the good-looking girl next door. It's a real problem," Heiman said

7/14/2010 - Slandering the Good Guys: Some Basic Facts About IHH Before speakers from the Mavi Marmara were scheduled to speak in New York about what happened on May 31st, local politicians began to put forth the rhetoric of their Israeli handlers, using slanderous language to demonize the victims of Israel's illegal act of war. And most recently, 87 US senators have urged President Obama to launch an investigation of whether or not IHH should be added to the US list of foreign terrorist organizations.

7/14/2010 - The Israel Project to N.Y. Times: Expose Anti-Israel NGOs, Too — Like the New Israel Fund A little before midnight on Monday, July 5, the New York Times posted on its website its lengthy, deeply reported investigative piece on U.S. tax-exempt donations that go to fund settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the right-wing American charities that channel those donations, including some that seemed in the Times piece to flirt with or outright violate IRS rules.

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7/7/2010 - .Israel steps up forced evictions of West Bank Palestinians Amnesty International has urged the Israeli authorities to halt forced evictions of Palestinians in the West Bank after a recent spate of military eviction orders were served on Palestinians in the northern Jordan Valley

7/7/2010 - Al Khalil/Hebron: Israeli Border Police Destroy Vegetable Fields in Al Baqa'a Valley Israeli border police destroyed several Palestinian fields in Al Baqa'a Valley just east of Hebron on July 6, 2010, directly impacting the livelihood of more than one hundred Palestinians.

7/7/2010 - Turkey and Israel try fence-mending after ship raid

7/7/2010 - UN General Assembly cancels session on Gaza flotilla

7/7/2010 - Sen. Lieberman says force may be needed in Iran U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman says there is a broad consensus in Congress that military force can be used if necessary to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Lieberman = agent of Israel.

7/7/2010 - Obama set to sign Iran sanctions bill: W.House

7/7/2010 - Obama backs Israel on nuclear conference Obama also agreed to work with Israel to oppose any efforts to single out the Jewish state at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference in September.

7/7/2010 - Palestinian PM meets Israeli minister The Palestinian prime minister said he pressed demands including a halt to Israeli army incursions in Palestinian West Bank towns in a rare high–level meeting with the Israeli defense minister on Monday.

7/7/2010 - Sen. Lieberman: US ready to strike Iran if it must Although US officials often say no option should be taken off the table in relation to Iran's nuclear program, this is one of the few times an official of Lieberman's standing has explicitly used the term "military action" while in Israel. Lieberman is one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill.

7/7/2010 - Rights Group Files FOIA Requests Regarding Israel Attack on Flotilla Delivering Aid to Gaza Center for Constitutional Rights Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed eight Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding the United States government’s knowledge of, and actions in relation to, the May 31, 2010 attack by Israel on a flotilla of six vessels in international waters seeking to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, and U.S. policy towards the blockade of Gaza, which has entered its fourth year

7/7/2010 - Obama denies any Israel, US rift The leaders sat close together in the Oval Office Tuesday and staged a prolonged handshake for the cameras, seeking to put to rest a tense, closed–door encounter at the White House in March. The lobby put the screws to Obama,no doubt, resulting in his total turnaround in behavior.

7/7/2010 - Turkey wants Israel apology Turkey's foreign minister was quoted on Monday as saying that Ankara would cut ties with Israel unless it apologized or accepted an international inquiry into its deadly raid on a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza.

7/7/2010 - Abbas: No direct talks without progress on borders and security

7/7/2010 - 'Obama warns Erdogan international Gaza flotilla probe bad for Turkey'

7/7/2010 - Growing Consensus: Israel Abusing Its Status as ‘Indispensable’ US Ally

7/7/2010 - Gazans: We were used as 'human shields' Another Palestinian testified that "IDF soldiers cuffed me and three of my brothers and for three days had us walk ahead of them, and made sure we did so at gunpoint. They used us as human shields by ordering us to go into houses ahead of them. "After we'd go out, they would send in the (bomb-sniffing) dogs and only then would they go inside."

7/7/2010 - US to press Binyamin Netanyahu to extend freeze on settlements Despite the moratorium, building in settlements has continued in the past seven months thanks to loopholes and violations. Preparations are under way for a construction boom this autumn.

7/7/2010 - Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank HaYovel is one of many groups in the United States using tax-exempt donations to help Jews establish permanence in the Israeli-occupied territories — effectively obstructing the creation of a Palestinian state, widely seen as a necessary condition for Middle East peace. The result is a surprising juxtaposition: As the American government seeks to end the four-decade Jewish settlement enterprise and foster a Palestinian state in the West Bank, the American Treasury helps sustain the settlements through tax breaks on donations to support them......The Internal Revenue Service declined to discuss donations for West Bank settlements. State Department officials would comment only generally, and on condition of anonymity Settlements in occupied territory are a violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Conventions. In short, this is the financing of war crimes. This is a lengthy and unusually frank look at American money funneling into settlements.

7/7/2010 - Israeli settlements cover 42 percent of West Bank Jewish settlements control more than 42 percent of the West Bank, and much of that land was seized from Palestinian landowners in defiance of an Israeli Supreme Court ban, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday.

7/7/2010 - Israel ministers reject bill to foil settlement freeze Peace or piece? Israel chooses to take another piece of Palestine.

7/7/2010 - Gaza gets chocolate but no cement as embargo eases If you have cash to spare in Gaza, you can treat your children to new varieties of chocolate Israel has just let in for the first time in a few years, or splash out on new tableware it allowed into the territory this week. If you need cement and steel to rebuild a home destroyed by war, you'll have to wait a bit longer.

7/7/2010 - Israeli FM Stokes Tensions With Turkey Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman angrily responded to comments made by his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in a Turkish newspaper. Davutoglu called for Israel to either apologize for the killing of Turkish civilians on the Mavi Marmara aid ship or, failing that, to permit an international investigation. Lieberman insisted that neither of these options was acceptable, and once again chastised Turkey for what he called major policy changes.

7/7/2010 - German parliament expected to pass motion urging Israel to end Gaza blockade "The living conditions of the civilian population of Gaza must be urgently improved," said the German motion, adding that the blockade - which the government has already said should be ended - was counterproductive and did not help to make Israel safer.

7/7/2010 - Israeli army: Gaza war troops to be disciplined Around 1,400 Gazans, many of them civilians, were killed in three weeks of fierce urban fighting and aerial bombardments. Thirteen Israelis were killed. A report commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council accused Israel of deliberately targeting civilians, a charge Israel rejects. The Associated Press has truly become an arm of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. This is merely a(nother) dog and pony show put on by Israel.

7/7/2010 - Despite Rift, Israel Gets More U.S. Aid Than Iraq More than any other nation, including war-torn Iraq, Israel gets the most U.S. aid, according to the Feds.

7/7/2010 - Israel eases Gaza closure, but restrictions remain because Israel will continue to ban most travel and exports and restrict the import of desperately needed construction materials, the new rules are unlikely to restore the territory's devastated economy or allow rebuilding of all that was destroyed in last year's war.

7/7/2010 - Report: Secret document affirms U.S.-Israel nuclear partnership According to Army Radio, the U.S. has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as nuclear technology and other supplies, despite the fact that Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

7/7/2010 - 2,700 houses to be built as soon as West Bank settlement freeze ends And again.

7/7/2010 - Blair to receive US peace medal "Freedom, liberty and justice are the values which I try to apply to my work on governance in Africa and on preparing the Palestinians for statehood.

7/7/2010 - Israeli judge Learn from Nazis Israel has learned from the Nazis alright.

7/7/2010 - Report: Abbas agrees to Israeli control over Jewish holy sites in Jerusalem

7/7/2010 - JA adopts plan aimed at securing Jewish future “The main danger facing the Jewish world today is a weakening of the connection of young Jews to their People and to the State of Israel,” said Sharansky, who led the new strategic planning process along with Board of Governors Chairman Richard Pearlstone. “Our new plan deals directly with this issue.” How ironic.

7/7/2010 - Lieberman no-show at US Embassy's 4th of July party Lieberman's absence from the event marking the 234th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence may stem from his strained relations with the Obama Administration.

7/7/2010 - Judge grants ex-Israeli spy US asylum 'Oh ok, as long as he was good for Israel, he can stay.'

7/7/2010 - Why are so many Israelis arrested over illegal arms deals worldwide?

7/7/2010 - Ben-Eliezer meets with Turkish FM in effort to resolve bilateral crisis

7/7/2010 - With Obama meeting scheduled, Israel eases Gaza import limits Israel on Monday announced a major change in the way it will manage the country's controversial blockade of the Gaza Strip , a move Israeli officials hope will ease tensions with the Obama administration on the eve of a visit to Washington by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . So the easing of the blockade will be reversed once the dog and pony show is over?

7/7/2010 - No Israel visit for Dustin Hoffman Jewish actor Dustin Hoffman halted arrangements to attend the Jerusalem Film Festival in the wake of the Gaza flotilla clash, one of the organisers has claimed.

7/7/2010 - Clinton: U.S. to contribute $150 million to Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation The State Department on Saturday said Clinton's announcement of the anticipated contribution helps commemorate the 1.1 million victims who perished at the Nazi death camp, and demonstrates the U.S. administration's commitment to Holocaust remembrance and education. We're looking at unemployment here that rivals that of the Great Depression, is this really necessary? Did American perpetrate the Holocaust?

7/7/2010 - Report: Turkey may expand Israeli flights ban

7/7/2010 - Polish court orders Mossad spy suspect extradited A Polish court on Wednesday ordered the extradition to Germany of an Israeli man suspected of being a Mossad agent involved in the slaying of a Hamas operative.

7/7/2010 - IDF objector sprays 'Free Gaza' graffiti on Warsaw Ghetto wall One of the activists was conscientious objector Yonatan Shapira, an Israel Air Force pilot who authored the Pilot’s Letter – a 2003 statement signed by 27 Israeli pilots who publicly refused to fly missions over the Palestinian territories. Shapira was subsequently ousted from reserve duty and also lost his job as a commercial pilot

7/7/2010 - EU foreign ministers accept Israeli invitation to visit Gaza Israel's recent offer to let foreign dignitaries into the Palestinian territory followed an earlier pledge to relax its economic embargo on Gaza. Both moves came in the wake of international outrage sparked by Israel's late-May attack on a flotilla bringing in aid to the enclave, which resulted in nine dead.

7/7/2010 - The General, the Journalist, and the Power of Israel It indicates that Gen. David Petraeus, who just replaced Gen. McChrystal as commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, has frankly assessed that the intimate U.S. relationship with Israel is costing U.S. lives in the Middle East. But he’s concerned that his views may cost him politically and so uses buddies in the media to conceal them.

7/7/2010 - Analysis: President now working with the PM, not against him the difference in Obama's tone on Tuesday, compared to the last time they met the press in the Oval Office in May 2009, was striking.....Rather than bash Netanyahu for various plans in the works to build in Jerusalem, as he directed his secretary of state to do in March following Vice President Joe Biden's visit to Israel, this time Obama praised the Israeli government for "working through layers of various governmental entities and jurisdiction" and showing "restraint over the last several months." Translation: the Israeli lobby put the screws to Obama and it worked.

7/7/2010 - What to read this Fourth of July weekend by Stephen M. Walt This year, I recommend you spend a few minutes reading George Washington's Farewell Address, originally published in September 1796. Read the whole thing. Our first president has many wise things to tell us today, but none is more telling than his trenchant advice on the conduct of foreign policy Beware of the evils of the passionate attachment (in present times, this would be the attachment to Israel).

7/7/2010 - Petraeus emails show general scheming with journalist to get out pro-Israel storyline Very interesting.

7/7/2010 - US questions its unwavering support for Israel "This is starting to get dangerous for us. What you're doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace," Biden told Netanyahu. Americans need to get Congress back from chokehold of the Israeli lobby.

7/7/2010 - 'Israel trying to block U.S.-Saudi Arabia defense contract' Israel, however, hopes that if the deal goes forward, Saudi Arabia will receive fewer advanced versions of the F-15 than those possessed by Israel, which seeks to maintain its air force's superiority. "Today these planes are against Iran, tomorrow they might turn against us," the source said.

7/7/2010 - Palestinian who planned Munich attack dies in Syria A former leader of the Black September Palestinian guerrilla group, Abu Daoud said he planned the Munich hostage–taking in which 11 Israelis died. But Abu Daoud, who did not take part in the attack, said he was not directly responsible for the deaths. "I didn't kill anybody and I didn't order anybody's killing," Abu Daoud told Reuters 1999 after publishing memoirs in which he boasted of planning the abduction.

7/7/2010 - Executive Privilege by Philip Giraldi the right of Americans to associate freely, guaranteed by the first amendment, can be limited by Congress and the White House if they disapprove of or criminalize the group you are associating with. The Supreme Court is curiously siding with the executive and legislature and denying that it has any right to uphold the constitution, which becomes, by that standard, truly just a piece of paper. The government can call anything a security threat and can proceed without restraint. Libertarians were dismayed by the ruling, but the Israel Lobby’s Anti Defamation League called the ruling "right on target.".....Lieberman, of course, has a particular passion for Israel and it is reasonable to assume that his ultimate intention might be to use the cyberwarfare justification combined with anti-terror legislation to shut down internet sites that provide news and commentary critical of the Benjamin Netanyahu government. Note Giraldi's comments on the bill to 'shut down the internet' in the face of 'danger' proposed by one of Israel's top agents, Lieberman.

7/7/2010 - Israel: Hezbollah storing weapons inside villages The rare publication of what seemed to be detailed intelligence material appeared aimed at demonstrating Israel's reach and preparing public opinion for possible strikes inside villages and the attendant civilian casualties if a future round of fighting erupts.

7/7/2010 - Me, General Petraeus & The Lobby Why the panic? Why the rush to consult neocon Max Boot? Why the nervousness?

7/7/2010 - General Petraeus’s leaked emails about Israel In a gaffe that hasn't yet attracted the same amount of press as Stanley McChrystal's bizarre interview with Rolling Stone, Petraeus accidentally leaked an email exchange of his -- with the belligerent, neoconservative, pro-Israeli columnist Max Boot -- to an activist named James Morris, who then passed it on to the blogger Philip Weiss:

7/7/2010 - Neocons, Likud Conquer DC, Again The clout of Washington’s neoconservatives and the political fear induced by Israel’s Likud hardliners were on display again with recently released e-mails in which Gen. David Petraeus grovels before a key neocon and in White House meetings at which President Obama pandered to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

7/7/2010 - Bibi's Trifecta: Reach Out to Turkey, Boost Fuad, Diss Lieberman some influential American Jewish organizations are following Yvet’s lead on Turkey. They’re giving its envoys a cold shoulder and flooding the internets with bad stuff about Turkey, including sophomoric nastiness as well as criticism of behavior that they used to be the first to defend. This could be a case of American Jewish freelancing, using a sledge hammer while Israel approaches it with a scalpel. Or it could be that Bibi is using them as his own sledge hammer, getting them all worked up against those mean Turks as a little show of force while he quietly negotiates.

7/7/2010 - Israel and the Infinite Limits of US Patience : No Woodshed for Netanyahu It may be in the interests of the US to restrain Israel but this is almost certainty not going to happen. The reason why is shown by the strange story of the attempt by General David Petraeus, now commander in Afghanistan, previously head of Central Command and America's most prestigious general, to put on the record the fact that US support for Israeli actions in the Middle East was endangering the safety of US troops. He reiterated this in written testimony before Congress in March. But no sooner had General Petraeus done so than he was swiftly rowing back. The explanation for General Petraeus's swift turnaround suggests that he wants to keep open the option of running for the presidency as Republican candidate in 2012 and does not intend to alienate Jewish voters or militant neocons

7/7/2010 - Analysis: A critical US-Israel issue is left open the hard–liners in Netanyahu's coalition government will probably not be won over. They have no interest in answering Palestinian demands for a freeze on settlement building in return for direct peace talks. And that's still the critical issue between the U.S. and Israel, one neither Netanyahu nor Obama addressed after their fifth meeting since Obama took office 17 months ago.

7/7/2010 - Military official: Iran did not send radar to Syria

7/7/2010 - In Israel, Subsidies Not to Learn I would note that such “schools” are in the same tradition as the Muslim madrassas so often criticized in the Western media. But about Israel most of our media is silent.

7/7/2010 - Does Israel Make Us Safer? The history of Israel and its relationship with the U.S. is infinitely complex, but there’s one damning fact that’s ignored as often as The Question: There was not a single act of Arab terrorism against Americans before 1968, when the U.S. became the chief supplier of military equipment and economic aid to Israel.

7/7/2010 - American Opinion On Israel - And The Congress's Interesting.

7/7/2010 - Islamo-fascism, Judaeo-fascism, Bapto-fascism, and Why We Need More Bars The wheels are squeaking on the tumbrel methinks. At a recent conclave held by AIPAC, unease arose, reasonably enough, over eroding American support for Israel. What apparently did not arise was any indication of understanding of why support is eroding.

7/7/2010 - Epstein hopes Gazans will be ‘free to pursue their lives in dignity’ In 2003 I went to the Israeli-occupied West Bank for the first time and have been back there five times since, most recently with the Gaza flotilla. I have tried unsuccessfully four times to enter Gaza, but permission has repeatedly been denied. They say that I am a “security risk”! An 86-year-old woman! Hedy Epstein is a very brave individual.

7/7/2010 - Seven European Ships Will Join 2nd Gaza Aid Flotilla The European Campaign to Lift Gaza Siege announced recently that seven European vessels will join the second Gaza aid Freedom Flotilla to break the Israeli blockade, Algerian Press Service (APS) reported.

7/7/2010 - Senators Raise Prospect of US Attack on Iran Sen. Graham was even more blunt in his support for launching the war on Israel’s behalf, saying that “the Congress has Israel’s back.” Passionate attachment, right there.

7/7/2010 - Hebron - Freedom Flotilla release Tear gas and rubber bullets are a common response from the Israeli army; the CPT teams in Palestine witness their brutality on a weekly basis. The only difference now is that Israel is turning it's "security measures" against the international community.

7/7/2010 - Israel's Foes Embrace New Resistance Tactics

7/7/2010 - Israel’s Stealth Foreign Minister While Lieberman on June 29 again completely rejected the goal of a negotiated agreement on a Palestinian state by 2012, as urged by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, Barak has begun speaking out in recent months about the clock ticking against Israel.

7/7/2010 - Histories Again Collide On the Hills of Jerusalem Siyam also criticizes Elad’s role in bringing Jewish residents to Wadi Hilwah, claiming that Elad has a “transfer agenda” in that it wishes to see Palestinians leave Wadi Hilwah. “Elad is using all methods in order to make a Jewish majority in Wadi Hilwah,” he claimed, questioning the morality of some of the methods used to acquire properties, including the Absentee Property Law, according to which Israel can seize the property of Arabs who fled to enemy countries after the 1948 and 1967 wars.

7/7/2010 - Labor Minister, Ex-Gen. 'Fuad' Ben-Eliezer: Time's Up. World Is Tired of Us. Bibi Must Decide The next morning, when I went down to breakfast, there was a very senior representative of one of the Western delegations standing a few meters from me, between the tomatoes and the cucumber. “A gang of animals,” he said about us. The world has changed disks and we haven’t caught on yet.

7/7/2010 - Fury as Methodists vote to boycott Israel The Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council said the Methodists’ annual conference should “hang its head in shame” for passing a policy which calls for a boycott of goods from “illegal” Israeli West Bank settlements and blames Israeli occupation as the “key hindrance” to Middle East peace. Oh dear.

7/7/2010 - Iran moves radar to Syria: US official Iran has moved radar to Syria that could provide early–warning against a possible surprise Israeli air attack against Tehran's nuclear sites, a US defense official said on Friday.

7/7/2010 - Sean Hannity Displays His True Colors - Blue and White (Israeli Flag) When Caller Mentions USS Liberty Sean Hannity evidently went full throttle into 'defend Israel' mode and proceeded to repeat the Israeli propaganda regarding that incident, rather than stick up for the AMERICAN (sailors) that were viciously attacked.

7/7/2010 - Peoplehood Vs Israel If that is true, then the “for us or against us” crowd is harming Israel’s interests in the long run, too. Because while the Jewish community may be tighter, more unified and more supportive of Israel as a result of excluding those whose views are too treyf, one thing is for sure: It will definitely be smaller.

7/7/2010 - Guns belonging to Israel PM's security detail 'missing' Four guns went missing and were believed to have been stolen from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security detail after American Airlines lost luggage containing the weapons, NBC reported.

7/7/2010 - Bikini Models Protest Vodka Ad Ban in Brooklyn Hasidic Jewish Communities Dozens of bikini-clad women and upset New York residents congregated outside New York City's public transit headquarters on Tuesday to protest the transport authority’s recent decision to ban a popular Georgi Vodka ad campaign, which features models donning sexy swimsuits, from appearing on buses that travel through certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn that are primarily populated by Hasidic Jewish communities I thought only the Islamists were the ones offended by women's unclothed bodies?

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June

6/30/2010 - Children in West Bank facing worse conditions than in Gaza Israel's restrictions on Palestinian access to and development of agricultural land – in an area where almost all families are herders - mean that thousands of children are going hungry and are vulnerable to killer illnesses like diarrhoea and pneumonia.

6/30/2010 - Sinking Ship - The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself. By John J. Mearsheimer It is easy to see why. Because the United States gives Israel so much support and U.S. politicians routinely laud the “special relationship” in the most lavish terms, people around the globe naturally associate the United States with Israel’s actions. Unfortunately, this makes huge numbers of people in the Arab and Islamic world furious with the United States for supporting Israel’s cruel treatment of the Palestinians. That anger in turn helps fuel terrorism against America. Remember that the 9/11 Commission Report, which describes Khalid Sheik Muhammad as the “principal architect of the 9/11 attacks,” concludes that his “animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experiences there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel.” Osama bin Laden’s hostility toward the United States was fuelled in part by this same concern. An absolutely superb piece by Mearsheimer. If you're American (like me), please read it.

6/30/2010 - Gaza aid victims shot more than once - report Forensic reports have found that all but two of the nine Turks killed in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship last month were shot more than once.

6/30/2010 - Israel police arrest Hamas man set for expulsion Policemen arrested Mohammed Abu Teir in east Jerusalem for ignoring a court order to vacate his home, according to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. Abu Teir was taken to a police compound in downtown Jerusalem and will appear in court Thursday, he said, and any further decision on if and when the Palestinian lawmaker will be expelled will be made by the court.

6/30/2010 - Palestinian family fears Gaza expulsion The Helou family is so worried about getting expelled to Gaza by Israeli authorities that they’re all but trapped in Jenin. They couldn’t even leave to get their disabled son the best possible surgery to let him walk. Some 20,000 Palestinians in the West Bank live under the same fear, because they hold residency papers from the Gaza Strip and Israeli authorities refuse to allow their papers to be updated – though they have lived in the West Bank for years.

6/30/2010 - US Approves New Iran Sanctions The pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs committee (AIPAC) praised the sanctions, saying they “provide the best hope that political and economic measures can peaceably persuade Iran to end its illicit nuclear program before it is too late.” AIPAC is pulling the strings.

6/30/2010 - Palestinians seek new partner: American Jews "I think it's a mistake to ignore these institutions and communities by saying that they are against us, and that we should not talk to them," Abbas told The Associated Press. "No, we should sit with them, and we should try to convince them by talking to them." And there's nobody better for the job than Mahmoud Abbas. It's too bad that those extremists in the pro-Israeli camp will never accept a word he says.

6/30/2010 - Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children The U.N. says it hopes to help shield Gaza's children against the lure of militancy, a task that's getting harder in the impoverished territory. Educators say today's children are more vulnerable than the previous generation, having witnessed war with Israel last year, internal Palestinian fighting and the violent Hamas takeover in 2007, followed by an Israeli–Egyptian blockade that has virtually cut Gaza off from the outside world

6/30/2010 - Razing of Palestinian homes in E. Jerusalem approved despite 250 shortfalls in plan

6/30/2010 - Fearing expulsion, Palestinians stay home

6/30/2010 - Racing Palestinian girls speed into record books It's another step for Palestinian women who have been claiming more positions of influence in a still very much male–dominated society. This year, the first female Palestinian governor was appointed to oversee the West Bank district of Ramallah. The mayor of the district's main city is a woman, as are four ministers in the Palestinian Cabinet.

6/30/2010 - G-8 'fully believes' Israel will attack Iran, says Italy PM

6/30/2010 - Abbas: Israel must not expel Hamas politicians from Jerusalem Abbas warned that expelling the politicians to the West Bank would set a dangerous precedent and would create new obstacles for peace.

6/30/2010 - U.S. frustrated with Netanyahu over stalled proximity talks

6/30/2010 - Indictment: Settlers attacked Arabs in Tel Aviv Two youths from West Bank settlements charged with attacking Arab brothers with knifes; spitting, cursing their Russian friend for 'hanging out with Arabs'

6/30/2010 - Planning committee to release blueprint outlining takeover of East Jerusalem The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee at the Interior Ministry will publish in the coming weeks a new blueprint program for development in Jerusalem that will include plans to expand Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. Most of the land earmarked for this expansion is privately owned by Arabs. If the plan is approved, after objections to it are heard, it will grant official approval to an urban plan for the Israeli takeover of East Jerusalem. Wow.

6/30/2010 - Methodist Church to boycott goods from illegal Israeli settlements The Methodist Church has today voted to boycott all products from Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, and to encourage Methodists across Britain to do the same.

6/30/2010 - Israel Foreign Minister: 'No Chance' For Palestinian State By 2012 The comments by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman drew swift Palestinian condemnations and could put Israel at odds with the international community, which has set a 2012 target for brokering a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

6/30/2010 - UN urges Israel to rethink East Jerusalem construction plans The United Nations late Wednesday called Israel's plan to demolish Arab homes in East Jerusalem for the purpose of settlement construction "unhelpful" and "contrary to international law."

6/30/2010 - HEBRON/AL-KHALIL: Settlers destroy Palestinian crops and slash water piles in the The family lives between the settlement of Kiryat Arba and a set of prefabricated housing, installed about five years ago, called Havat Gal. The father of one of the children in the family said that he is often afraid to go to work because settlers in the area have threatened to kidnap his children.

6/30/2010 - Israel: We will not apologize to Turkey over Gaza flotilla deaths Foreign Ministry officials said Saturday that Israel would not apologize to Turkey for the deaths of nine Turkish pro-Palestinian activists who were killed during the Israel Navy's raid on the Turkish-flagged 'Freedom Flotilla' ship earlier this week.

6/30/2010 - Israel's Likud backs West Bank settlement growth Israel's right–wing Likud party backed on Thursday the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, with an eye to a building spurt when a building moratorium expires in September. Double crossers.

6/30/2010 - Iran cancels aid ship to Gaza: report "In order to deprive the Zionist regime of any excuse, the aid collected for the oppressed people of Gaza will be delivered to them by other means without mentioning the name of Iran."

6/30/2010 - US Military Chief: Doesn’t Trust Iran but Israel, US “in Synch” Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of U.S. Joint Chief of Staffs, returned home from Israel and said that although he has “no reason to trust” Iran, Israel knows that attacking the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites would be "incredibly destabilizing.”.....Mullen’s visit to Israel Sunday was the 15th time he has met with IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi since taking office in 2007. He said that he considers Chief of Staff Ashkenazi a “personal friend” and that he always tries to share Israel’s view of threats against the country.

6/30/2010 - Is Benjamin Netanyahu Rational? by Philip Giraldi Israel appears to have little concern about doing whatever is necessary to drag the United States down with it if that is what is required. It is we Americans who should be fearful. Each American should be very concerned about what Bibi is actually thinking, particularly as our Congress and media have already been bought and occupied and we have a president who is so unsure of the support of his own party that he is afraid to face down an Israeli prime minister. I encourage my fellow Americans to heed (former CIA) Philip Giraldi's words.

6/30/2010 - War crimes suit filed against Barak, Livni in Belgium After similar circumstances last week prompted the last-minute cancellation of Defense Minister Ehud Barak's trip to Paris, another court case was filed against the Barak and a series of other senior Israeli officials for alleged war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead.

6/30/2010 - IDF draws up new Gaza war doctrine Ahead of a potential new conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the IDF has drawn up plans to evacuate entire Palestinian villages and refugee camps from areas of conflict in the event of an Israeli incursion, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Is this the same type of 'evacuation' (expulsion) that the Israelis employed in the 40s?

6/30/2010 - Gaza: Allow Access to Gilad Shalit Hamas authorities in Gaza should immediately end the cruel and inhuman treatment of Staff Sgt. Gilad Shalit of Israel and allow him to communicate with his family and receive visits from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Human Rights Watch said today.

6/30/2010 - British trade union calls for boycott One of Britain’s largest trade unions passed a motion at its annual conference in Bournemouth last week accusing Israel of lying over the Gaza flotilla incident and has called for a complete boycott of Israel and for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador, it was confirmed on Thursday.

6/30/2010 - Peres to Austrian chancellor: Terror groups overtook Gaza flotillas President Shimon Peres on Thursday told visiting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann that the aid flotillas to the Gaza Strip have been taken over by terrorist groups "seeking provocation and conflict." Note to Peres: I don't think anyone (besides the US) is buying it.

6/30/2010 - Report: Lieberman changes policy, invites European diplomats to Gaza Earlier Thursday, the Council of Europe parliamentarians called on Israel to completely end its siege of the Gaza Strip, days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an ease of the land blockade, which it imposed in 2007. Something tells me that a whitewash is in the making, in order to ease the international pressure with respect to Gaza.

6/30/2010 - Jon Voight to Obama: You are Harming Israel and Promoting anti-Semitism Maybe Jon Voight could better serve ISRAEL'S interests by MOVING THERE. This here is AMERICA.

6/30/2010 - YouTube - Israelis Enjoy Massacre (Shocking)

6/30/2010 - Palestinian boycott of Israeli settlement goods starts to bite Israeli factories based in settlements on the West Bank have been forced to cut back production as a growing Palestinian boycott movement begins to take effect.

6/30/2010 - Palestinian Children Beaten by Israeli Soldier

6/30/2010 - Barak: Clear mines from Israel-US ties The defense minister told reporters that "the Americans expect to see an Israel which takes its security seriously, but also takes risks to stop the lack of progress and isolation. A real advancement of a political move will give Israel the freedom of action to carry out the military actions required for its security.

6/30/2010 - US says Gaza flotillas 'irresponsible'

6/30/2010 - Turkey closes airspace to some Israeli flights Turkey has closed its airspace to some Israeli military flights following a deadly raid on a Gaza–bound aid ship, the Turkish prime minister and officials said Monday. An official said civilian commercial flights were not affected.

6/30/2010 - Hamas says asked by US to keep silent on talks The Hamas figure told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper that the Americans fear discussing the talks publicly would "rouse the Jewish lobby and other pressure groups in the US and cause them to pressure the administration to suspend all talks with Hamas."

6/30/2010 - New Australian PM supportive of Israel Julia Gillard was elected unopposed in a Labor Party caucus meeting Thursday after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd agreed to a leadership ballot triggered by a slump in the polls.......Rudd, a staunch supporter of Israel, recently had come under fire from Jewish leaders for expelling an official from the Israeli Embassy in Canberra over the Dubai passports affair. Gillard stayed largely silent on the controversial affair. Australia has its own version of AIPAC, the powerful Israeli lobby.

6/30/2010 - US: Turkey must show commitment Turkey's crime? It dared stand up to Israel.

6/30/2010 - Sidelining Conflict Welcome to “The Team,” a 30-part television drama that began broadcasting on the Palestinian Ma’an Network on June 11, the first day of the World Cup.

6/30/2010 - American Jews Who Reject Zionism Say Events Aid Cause Until Theodore Herzl created the modern Zionist movement early in the 20th century, the biblical injunction to return to Israel was widely understood as a theological construct rather than a pragmatic instruction. Most Orthodox Jewish leaders before the Holocaust rejected Zionism, saying the exile was a divine punishment and Israel could be restored only in the messianic age. The Reform movement maintained that Judaism is a religion, not a nationality.

6/30/2010 - Exclusive: Leaked documents show PA undermined Turkey's push for UN flotilla probe The Palestinian Authority attempted to neutralize a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning Israel's deadly attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, leaked UN and Palestinian Authority documents obtained by The Electronic Intifada show. Israel's 31 May attack killed nine Turkish citizens, including a dual US-Turkish citizen, and injured dozens of others aboard the Mavi Marmara in international waters.

6/30/2010 - Sen. Kerry in Israel: Praise for Israel, Worried over Iran . Kerry previously has visited Syria and Gaza in an effort to win backing for a regional peace summit, even though the United States considers Syria a country that supports terrorism.

6/30/2010 - New York Times reporter calls Zionist terrorism ‘romantic’ "What’s amazing here is not only does Solomon neglect to challenge Livni’s characterization of her parents’ membership in a terrorist group as 'freedom fight[ing],' Solomon herself volunteers further assistance in the whitewash," he opines. Duss points out that, at the time of Irgun's attacks, the Times itself referred to the group's activities as "terrorism."

6/30/2010 - Jewish Groups Turn a Cold Shoulder To Turkey, as Turks Refuse To Budge Jewish groups, who until recent months defended the Israeli-Turkish alliance, are now taking on the task of portraying the Erdogan government as supporting terrorist and extremist regimes. As the Jewish groups turn, so too does the US Congress.

6/30/2010 - Obama meets Saudi King Abdullah at White House

6/30/2010 - Report: US warships stationed off Iranian coast The chart, published by Stratfor and obtained by the Zero Hedge financial blog, shows that over the last few weeks a naval carrier -- the USS Harry S Truman -- has been positioned in the north Indian Ocean, not far from the Strait of Hormuz, which leads into the Persian Gulf. The carrier joins the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, which was already located in the area. The chart is dated June 23, 2010.

6/30/2010 - 'The U.S. will have to confront Iran or give up the Middle East' Amitai Etzioni, professor of International Relations at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., believes the only option available to contain Iran's atomic ambitions is a series of assaults on its non-nuclear facilities. Amitai Etzioni naturally has ties to Israel (he served in the Haganah, the Jewish terror organization).

6/30/2010 - Punishing Turkey by Philip Giraldi The Gaza flotilla has been handled by the mainstream media in precisely that fashion – blaming the victim with a unanimity that overwhelms both justice and fairness. No humanity, no mention of the deliberate attempt to starve Gaza most recently endorsed by alleged United States Senator from New York Charles Schumer who said "strangle them economically." Or, if one prefers the wisdom of Representative Eliot Engel, also from New York, the flotilla was "filled with hate-filled provocateurs bent on violence." Punishing Turkey - all because of Israel.

6/30/2010 - Hezbollah not interested in dialogue with US Hezbollah's deputy chief said Monday his group is not interested in a dialogue with Washington until the U.S. changes its Mideast policy, which he said is totally biased in favor of Israel.

6/30/2010 - Congress faces grim numbers in new Gallup poll Here's something that might help President Obama feel better about his dismal poll numbers: The public is even more unhappy with Congress. A new Gallup poll finds just 20 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, among the lowest ratings ever recorded for the House and Senate ahead of a midterm election. Maybe they ought to try representing OUR interests for a change.

6/30/2010 - CIA's Panetta: Iran has enough uranium for 2 bombs Asked about a potential Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, Panetta said he thinks Israel is giving the U.S. room on the diplomatic and political fronts.

6/30/2010 - Chavez: Israel and US 'empire' are enemies "Someday the genocidal state of Israel will be put in its place, in the proper place and hopefully a real democratic state will be born," Chavez said Saturday. "But it has become the murderous arm of the Yankee empire – who can doubt it? – which threatens all of us."

6/30/2010 - Palin: Obama administration selling out Israel Who chooses to take the side of a foreign nation over their own? It's treason.

6/30/2010 - Erekat Voices Frustration With Israel’s Unwillingness To Play ‘End Game’ while Netanyahu has endorsed the two-state solution, his expectations that Jerusalem remains united under Israeli control, that the Palestinian entity is demilitarized and without control of its electromagnetic field or airspace, that settlements remain and that Palestinians recognize the Jewish character of Israel, indicate that he is not serious. “And after that,” Erekat said, “after he finishes all these conditions, he addresses me and tells me: ‘Come here, boy, we know what’s best for you. Come without conditions.’ So he gives himself the right to dictate.”

6/30/2010 - Iran says Egypt barring Gaza aid ship from Suez Canal The Iranian Red Crescent said on Sunday that in addition to restrictions imposed by Israel, Egypt had barred a Gaza-bound aid ship from entering the Suez Canal, leading to the trip being postponed.

6/30/2010 - Kagan explains Barak remarks "I am troubled by the fact that you hold up Barak as a judicial role model," Grassley said. "He's been described as creating a degree of judicial power undreamed of by most U.S. justices."

6/30/2010 - ISRAEL 'PLOTS TEHRAN RAID' Preparations are underway to launch the military attack from Azerbaijan and Georgia, reports our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej, quoting military sources.

6/30/2010 - Chances of Israeli Bombing Increase

6/30/2010 - Congresswoman Raises Red Flag on Hezbollah-Cartel Nexus on U.S. Border AIPAC is no doubt behind this effort..

6/30/2010 - Infrastructure Minister warns Hezbollah: Israel will fight for its gas fields Lebanon parliament speaker Nabih Berri earlier this month urged his government to start exploring its offshore natural gas reserves, claiming that otherwise Israel would claim the resources.

6/30/2010 - Will mainline American Protestants give Palestinian Christians a voice? B'nai B'rith has issued a statement criticizing the recommendations of the Middle East Study Committee of the Presbyterian Church USA. These recommendations include possibly withholding US military aid to Israel in order to encourage it to abide by international law as well as an endorsement of the important Kairos Document, recently put forth jointly by the leaders of the Palestinian Christian community.

6/30/2010 - Barred from Jerusalem for Crime of Being Palestinian At the age of 33, he has suddenly become, to use his own word, "stateless". His only "crime" has been to spend several years in the US doing an electrical engineering PhD, completing post-doctoral research funded by a division of the US Army, acquiring high-tech work experience with the sole purpose of bettering his future career prospects in the Holy Land, and being a little homesick.

6/30/2010 - Ministers reject bill to prevent discrimination in state schools The bill had been submitted before the Ashkenazi parents in the ultra-Orthodox community of Immanuel were given a two-week jail term for refusing a court order to send their daughters to school with girls of Sephardi, or Middle Eastern, origin. On Sunday, the court ordered the parents released from jail immediately, after a deal was reached to see the girls integrated in classes for the remaining three days of the school year.

6/30/2010 - On Gaza, an About-Face That Was Overdue Israel’s policy failed to achieve its stated goals. It didn’t bring down the Hamas government, and it didn’t help free captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Instead, the siege seems to have strengthened Hamas and has damaged Israel’s image.

6/30/2010 - THE REAL SEAN HANNITY a man called into Hannity’s radio talk show on Friday June 25th, and politely informed him he was disappointed that Hannity showed a bit too much biased obsequiousness, often referring to Israel as “Americas greatest ally” and refusing to admit any inequities. The caller pointed out that it was Israeli fighter jets which bombed the U.S.S Liberty and killed American sailors, and that nearly all, if not all, those aboard the vessel claimed it was an obviously intentional act. However, Hannity would not even consider the man’s statements as objectively inquisitive and instead began insinuating that the caller was a “conspiracy theorist.” The sober disappointment could be heard in the caller’s voice as he respectfully requested that Hannity just research the incident.

6/30/2010 - In Brooklyn, Passengers Aboard the Flotilla Ship Give Eyewitness Accounts Al-Awda spokesman David Letwin denounced the State Department’s decision to deny a visa to ex-Turkish parliamentarian Ahmet Faruk Unsal, who was also scheduled to speak. It was, he said, “an effort to shut down discussion, intimidate people and make it harder for them to be heard.” He noted that Unsal had visited the United States frequently in the past.

6/30/2010 - Will The NY Times Ever Retract Michael Oren’s Falsehoods? Nearly a month after publishing Israeli Ambassador the US Michael Oren’s apologia for the flotilla massacre, the NY Times has yet to correct two of the most glaring lies Oren made

6/30/2010 - Venezuela's Chavez meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad, vows to fight US 'imperialism'

6/30/2010 - This Is What Jewish Democracy Looks Like The 1982 congress actually voted to end the WZO’s role in building settlements in the territories, but the WZO’s then-chairman, Likudnik Arye Dulzin, declared the session out of order and adjourned. A revote was held the next morning, after Hadassah had been pressured into switching sides to oppose the resolution, thus sinking it......With the Israeli left reduced to a rump, the numbers must mean that most of the Diaspora delegates were voting against most of the Israelis. Who says Peter Beinart was wrong?

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6/23/2010 - Long Island Rep. Pete King says House Dems forced to choose between Israel and Obama - NYPOST.com Rep. Pete King says President Obama's weak Mideast policy is forcing House Democrats to make the difficult choice of either supporting Obama or supporting Israel. "I hope they put our relationship with Israel above their relationship with Obama," King (R-LI) said yesterday. Do Americans fully understand the treason within that statement?

6/23/2010 - Mayor defends plan to raze Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem The office of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Tuesday defended plans to demolish Palestinian houses in the city's eastern sector to make way for a tourist center, after Defense Minister Ehud Barak lashed out at authorities over the project.

6/23/2010 - Report: German government to demand sea aid to Gaza

6/23/2010 - Poll: Most Palestinians want peace with Israel The majority of Palestinians support a peace agreement with Israel and believe that the Palestinian Authority should use non-violent means to achieve their political goals, a new Fafo poll revealed.

6/23/2010 - Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict A superb and concise look at the top myths employed Israel's defenders. Well worth the read.

6/23/2010 - Turkey set to freeze ties with Israel: report It also reported that military deals, including plane and tank modernisation and missile projects, worth $7.5 billion, were to be frozen. Military cooperation, including joint exercises and pilot training, would also be halted, as would intelligence sharing, the Star said.

6/23/2010 - Push To Sanction Backers of Gaza Flotilla Gains Steam in U.S. Jewish groups, working with congressional leaders, are pressing to designate one of the main organizers of the humanitarian flotilla that sought to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza as a terrorist group.....meanwhile, New York-area Congress members and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater New York are also urging the administration to deny visas to passengers on the Mavi Marmara who have been invited to speak in the United States about what they experienced........For Jewish groups, going after the IHH is one of three main goals set forth in the aftermath of the incident, alongside gaining U.S. support for Israel’s attempts to avoid an international investigation and fighting Israel’s public relations war in American media. Afraid the truth will get out?

6/23/2010 - Human Rights Groups say Israel's 'Easing of Blockade' Does Not Go Far Enough The UN has been trying to import construction materials for the past 18 months to repair schools damaged in the Gaza war of 2008-9 and to construct new buildings to accommodate Gaza's exploding population. Israel has refused on the grounds that the materials could fall into the hands of Hamas and be used to make weapons or build underground bunkers.

6/23/2010 - U.N. agency calls for full lifting of Gaza blockade

6/23/2010 - Israeli authorities must stop demolitions of Palestinian homes Amnesty International has called on the Israeli authorities to end house demolitions which leave thousands of Palestinians living in daily fear of eviction from their homes....."The Israeli authorities are putting Palestinians in an impossible situation. Whatever choice they make, they face homelessness.

6/23/2010 - Israel bars German minister from Gaza Niebel, who arrived in Israel earlier Saturday, had hoped to visit a sewage treatment plant being financed with German development aid....Niebel said that Israel's latest announcement on easing the Gaza blockade was "not sufficient" and that Israel must "now deliver" on its pledge.

6/23/2010 - Jerusalem revives plan to raze Palestinian homes Back in March, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had pressured Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat to hold up the plan so authorities could consult with Palestinians who would lose their homes – a delay that appeared to be aimed at fending off criticism from the U.S. And now that Obama has been reduced back down to the kowtow bow (to Israel), the Israelis resume their Nazi-like ways.

6/23/2010 - No need for aid flotillas, says Blair “If we implement this policy so that the things that people are trying to bring in by flotilla you can bring in through the legitimate existing crossings, do it that way,” Blair urged in an interview with The Jerusalem Post. “That is the more sensible way to do that,” he said, amid reports that one or two ships may seek to sail from Lebanon to challenge the naval blockade in the next few days.

6/23/2010 - Iran says UN sanctions show double standard The Supreme National Security Council said that U.S. and other nuclear–armed powers have punished Iran with the sanctions even though it doesn't have nuclear weapons, while at the same time they support Israel, which is widely believed to have a sizable nuclear arsenal.

6/23/2010 - Netanyahu Vows to ‘Tighten’ Gaza Blockade Hours after the Israeli government announced that it was intending to issue a new “banned goods” list for the Gaza Strip, focused on placating international demands to allow more food and humanitarian goods into the tiny enclave, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a pledge that the move would actually “tighten” the blockade. That didn't last long.

6/23/2010 - Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border The Israeli Air Force recently unloaded military equipment at a Saudi Arabia base, a semi-official Iranian news agency claimed Wednesday, while a large American force has massed in Azerbaijan, which is on the northwest border of Iran.

6/23/2010 - Israel loosens chokehold on Gaza Israel has said before that it would be willing to allow in cement under international supervision. But it took the direct intervention of U.N. chief Ban Ki–moon to get in cement last month for a single U.N. housing project, following years of delay. Watch what Israel does not what it says.

6/23/2010 - Israeli Blockade 'Eased' Only in English, but U.S. Media Eat It Up corporate news coverage in the United States omitted an important aspect of the story that undermines the narrative that Israel is "easing" its blockade of Gaza. The Israeli daily Ha'aretz (6/17/10) reports: The prime minister's office announced on Thursday that the security cabinet had agreed to relax Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip, but as it turns out, no binding decision was ever made during the cabinet meeting.

6/23/2010 - Israel drafting new list of goods banned from Gaza Chris Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA, the U.N. agency that aids Palestinian refugees, agreed. "We need deeds on the ground, not words," he told The Associated Press. "We have to see the blockade lifted, because the blockade is illegal."

6/23/2010 - Israel cannot put Gaza responsibility on Egypt: Mubarak Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday rejected what he said were Israeli attempts to escape responsibility towards the blockaded Gaza Strip and place it on Egypt.

6/23/2010 - Report: Lebanon forbids launch of Gaza-bound flotilla Earlier Sunday, Haaretz reported that Israel had initiated diplomatic efforts designed to prevent the departure of at least one vessel, carrying 50 to 70 Lebanese women and food aid. Israel has been in touch with the UN, United States, France, Spain and Germany. It has also been speaking with the Vatican because the ship is expected to include several dozen Catholic nuns.

6/23/2010 - Israel to UN: We reserve the right to stop Lebanon Gaza-bound flotilla Earlier Friday the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah said that it would not take part in Gaza-bound aid missions so as not to give a pretext for Israel to attack Lebanon.

6/23/2010 - Israel adds Turkish organizers of Gaza flotilla to terror watch list

6/23/2010 - Canada: Israel's new defender At a time when many countries are becoming more critical of Israel's policies, Canada seems to be moving in the opposite direction. A general reluctance to engage in open debate about the Palestinian issue is exacerbated by pro-Israel groups' efforts to shut down discussion and the federal government's unprecedented penchant for defending Israeli actions. Canada has fallen victim to its own Israeli lobby. Shame.

6/23/2010 - Barak: Israel needs 'daring initiative' to thwart international isolation Why not try acting in a legal and ethical way instead of trying to cover up for more and more crimes?

6/23/2010 - Lawmakers warn Turkey of payback over Iran, Israel policies "There will be a cost if Turkey stays on its present heading of growing closer to Iran and more antagonistic to the state of Israel," Rep. Mike Pence, R-Indiana, told a news conference. "It will bear upon my view and I believe the view of many members of Congress on the state of the relationship with Turkey." What other nation's lawmakers are doing this besides ours? Why is that, you figure?

6/23/2010 - Former Spanish PM: If Israel goes down, we all go down Aznar went on to state that Israel's right to exist should not be questioned as it was established by a United Nations decision, and added that as a nation with "deeply rooted democratic institutions," Israel is the only Western country that exists under constant threat of attack, whether it be from its neighboring countries or Iran. Aznar is a very deluded man. I wonder what the Israelis have on him..

6/23/2010 - Unofficial Bob Dylan website bans Israelis in wake of Gaza flotilla One of the largest fan sites dedicated to Bob Dylan songs, dylanchords, has recently blocked Israeli IP users access over the Israel Defense Forces' raid on the Gaza –bound Freedom Flotilla two weeks ago.

6/23/2010 - Knesset to hold session on Armenian genocide On Wednesday, several U.S. congressmen from both parties announced that they were reconsidering their own positions on whether Turkey's treatment of the Armenians during World War I should be labeled genocide. At a press conference, the congressmen expressed concern over Ankara's deepening ties with Iran at the expense of those with its traditional ally Israel. Why that's a heck of a coincidence? Capitol Hill recently did the same thing. I wonder if that's becasue Capitol Hill is the second branch of the Israeli Knesset? Methinks so.

6/23/2010 - Army mulls charging soldier for Gaza war killings Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, which first reported the killings, said the soldier is believed to have opened fire without provocation on a group of some 30 civilians, killing Riyeh Abu Hajaj, 64, and her daughter Majda Abu Hajaj, 37, from the Juhr al–Dik village south of Gaza City.

6/23/2010 - Calls for NDP MP to resign after Israel comments Earlier this month, Davies was interviewed at a rally in Vancouver and asked if she believes the occupation in Israel began in 1948 or 1967. After hesitating, she answered: "Forty-eight. I mean, it's the longest occupation in the world. But I mean, I'm not going to argue numbers. It's too long, right?" She went on to say, "I mean, this is the longest occupation in the world. People are suffering. I've been to the West Bank in Gaza twice so I've seen for myself what's going on." A reminder: Canada's Israel lobby is about second to ours. Davies spoke the truth. For that, she is now the victim of the latest witchhunt. She should not have apologized.

6/23/2010 - Israel Caves Under Flotilla Pressure

6/23/2010 - US signals better relations with Israel

6/23/2010 - Lawrence of Cyberia Putting Names To Faces A brief introduction to the nine people shot dead on 31 May 2010, by Israeli soldiers who attacked the Turkish vessel M.V. Mavi Marmara, as it attempted to transport humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Poignant look at the people Israel killed aboard the Turkish ship.

6/23/2010 - Twitterers paid to spread Israeli propaganda Internet warfare team unveiled Atlantic Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times The passionate support for Israel expressed on talkback sections of websites, internet chat forums, blogs, Twitters and Facebook may not be all that it seems. Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government’s line on the Middle East conflict.

6/23/2010 - They Call a Man a Robber if ‘e Stuffs ‘is Marchin’ Clobber by Philip Giraldi The people who were seized in the act of international piracy and were lucky enough not to be shot had all their personal possessions confiscated by the Israeli Army. A number of them have now discovered debit card deductions, credit card purchases, and the use of their cell phones.

6/23/2010 - Swedish dockers block Israeli cargo in Gaza protest

6/23/2010 - Chuck Schumer, Helen Thomas, & the Media A tale of two statements As Thomas was shamed away from her career, Schumer was applauded for supporting the “economically strangling” blockade of Gaza. Not only are Schumer’s words offensive, they are also ironic, not to mention illogical. In advocating “economically strangling” policies, Schumer is supporting a ghettoized, open-air prison classified by the Geneva Conventions as “collective punishment.” While Helen Thomas is condemned for her insensitivity towards collective punishment incurred in Poland and Germany during the Holocaust, Senator Schumer can advocate for the literal and figurative starvation of Gaza.

6/23/2010 - Elton John aside, Israelis feel growing isolation Many in Israel blame the country's public diplomacy mechanism for not explaining itself properly and for being outmaneuvered in the media, but Bergman said this largely misses the point. "The problem is not with the marketing. The problem is with the product and the product is damaged. You can't market occupation," Bergman said, referring to Israel's 43 years of control over the Palestinians.

6/23/2010 - Israel comment spurs calls for lawmaker’s resignation Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has joined a growing list of politicians calling for the resignation of a senior member of Parliament who questioned Israel's right to exist.

6/23/2010 - Palestinian Jerusalemites go work abroad and get residency revoked upon return

6/23/2010 - Obama sets meetings with Saudi, Israeli leaders

6/23/2010 - YouTube - Israeli soldiers ate chocolate while shooting children

6/23/2010 - U.S. targets bank, shipping in new Iran sanctions U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman said he expects Congress to finish shortly legislation tightening U.S. sanctions on Iran that will include provisions affecting the supply of refined petroleum products to Tehran, and add to sanctions on its financial sector. Lieberman is one of Israel's main agents in Congress.

6/23/2010 - Gaza: End of the Siege?

6/23/2010 - Ex-Mossad Chief Strike Iran Now Israel should launch a pre-emptive strike to prevent arch-foe Iran from going nuclear, a former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency said on Monday.

6/23/2010 - Israel warns UN over Lebanon to Gaza aid bid

6/23/2010 - Lebanon permits Gaza-bound ship to sail to Cyprus Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi said the ship named "Julia" is now docked at the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli and can set sail once it is cleared by port authorities there. He said it would be allowed to sail to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus and not directly to Gaza because Lebanon and Israel are technically in a state of war and Lebanon views Gaza as Israeli controlled.

6/23/2010 - Report: Egypt refuses to stop Iranian ships Egypt rejected Israel's request not to assist the Iranian ships slated to sail to the Gaza Strip in the coming days, Kuwaiti paper al-Dar reported on Friday. The report was not confirmed by any official Egyptian elements.

6/23/2010 - Report: U.S., Israeli warships cross Suez Canal toward Red Sea According to the report, thousands of Egyptian soldiers were deployed along the Suez Canal guarding the ships' passage, which included a U.S. aircraft carrier.

6/23/2010 - Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest school ruling

6/23/2010 - Peter King Calls For U.S. Removal From UN Human Rights Council Though Congressman King does not have an exceptionally large identifiable Jewish constituency, he nevertheless has been a most outspoken and passionate defender of Israel and the role it plays as America’s greatest ally....Today, Mr. King introduced, the America Stands with Israel Act. This legislation reaffirms America’s support for Israel by calling for the removal of the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council and prohibiting the use of American taxpayer dollars to fund a U.N. investigation into the flotilla incident. King is a traitor to America.

6/23/2010 - Ultra-Orthodox parents evading jail-time in segregated school row to spend Shabbat at home The parents of Ashkenazi (European) descent at the all girls' school have refused to let their daughters study with classmates of Middle Easten and North African descent, known as Sephardim.

6/23/2010 - YouTube - Ron Paul Exposes Israeli Agent Nancy Pelosi

6/23/2010 - Global Poll Shows Muslims Leery of US and Obama The surveys were taken before Israel's deadly May 31 clash with a flotilla of boats trying to break the blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, which sparked widespread condemnation of Israel.

6/23/2010 - Syria: Israel raid on Gaza flotilla raises risk of Mideast war Syrian President Bashar Assad said Thursday that Israel is being run by a "pyromaniac government", warning that its raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip had increased the risks of war in the region.

6/23/2010 - Report: Hezbollah prepares retaliation for potential Nasrallah assassination

6/23/2010 - Giving Peace Advice to Terrorist Can Be Illegal Civil liberties advocates said they also feared repercussions for U.S.-based critics of the Israeli government, who might be charged with aiding Hamas, which Washington has designated as a terrorist group. One such critic is former President Jimmy Carter, whose private Mideast diplomatic efforts have included contact with Hamas. The ruling "threatens our work and the work of many other peacemaking organizations that must interact directly with groups that have engaged in violence," said Carter, whose organization filed arguments with the court.

6/23/2010 - Lebanon: Israel fully responsible for any attack Israel's ambassador to the United Nations warned the world body last week that the Jewish state was entitled to use "all necessary force" to stop the Lebanese activists' boats.

6/23/2010 - The Critic of My Friend is My Enemy Stephen M. Walt The fact that the ADL was in effect protecting another country against the charge of genocide is more than a little ironic, but who ever said that political organizations had to be ethically consistent? Once relations between Israel and Turkey began to fray, however -- fueled primarily by Turkish anger over Israel's treatment of the Palestinians -- the ADL and AIPAC withdrew their protection and Congressional defenders of Israel began switching sides, too. .......The neocons have turned from friends of Turkey to foes for one simple reason: Israel.....whether a state is democratic or not matters little for the neocons; what matters for them is whether a state backs Israel or not Great article.

6/23/2010 - Muslim Student Group May Face Suspension at Irvine “I think the university has taken an important step that will be precedent-setting, that not only deals with free speech issues but talks about the kind of campus climate that is expected,” said Shalom Elcott, president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of Orange County.

6/23/2010 - Report: Germany rejects Israeli call to halt probe into Mossad role in Dubai killing The German government has said it will not intervene to stop an investigation into a suspected Mossad spy linked to the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai, despite pressure from Israel, a German newspaper reported on Saturday.

6/23/2010 - Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda by Robert Fisk So an "occupation" becomes a "dispute". Thus a "wall" becomes a "fence" or "security barrier". Thus Israeli acts of colonization of Arab land, contrary to all international law, become "settlements" or "outposts" or "Jewish neighborhoods". It was Colin Powell, in his starring, powerless appearance as Secretary of State to George W Bush, who told US diplomats to refer to occupied Palestinian land as "disputed land" - and that was good enough for most of the US media

6/23/2010 - Amnesty slams new jailing of Israeli whistle-blower Amnesty International accused Israel Friday of subjecting nuclear whistle–blower Mordechai Vanunu to "inhuman" treatment by sending him back to jail.

6/23/2010 - US warns citizens against participating in Gaza flotillas

6/23/2010 - Minority Man - Dor Guez Examines Arab Christians in Lod “The Monayer Family” is extracted from a bigger one-man exhibition, “Georgiopolis,” which ran at Israel’s Petach Tikva Museum of Art earlier this year. The exhibition focused on the largely untold history of Lod’s Christian Arab community, many of whose members were segregated in ghettos or expelled by the Hagana after the city was occupied during the 1948 War of Independence.

6/23/2010 - Case filed over Gaza assault A war-crimes complaint has been filed in a Belgian court against 14 Israeli officials including Ehud Barak, the defence minister.

6/23/2010 - The silent expulsion Citizens of Israel can leave the country for any length of time, and their citizenship and all their rights are theirs in perpetuity. But when it comes to Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, Israel applies draconian regulations whose covert intent is to bring about the expulsion of as many Palestinians as possible from their home city.

6/23/2010 - Balkan summit condemns Israeli raid on Gaza flotilla Turkey and 12 other southeastern European countries on Wednesday denounced the recent Israeli raid on an aid flotilla headed to Gaza, which left eight Turks and one Turkish American dead.

6/23/2010 - Israeli minister hits back: Erdogan is the enemy, not Turkey "We have not remained silent against this piracy and injustice, and we will not do so, and we will seek solutions within the framework of international law," Erdogan told reporters in Ankara. Erdogan's crime? He has dared to stand up to Israel in light of its crimes in Gaza, and now with regard to the flotilla incident.

6/23/2010 - Israel’s Sex-Segregated Buses Riding High Critics say that these routes — around 60 in number — are anything but beautiful. They claim that the segregation they practice is religious coercion at its worst because if non-haredim refuse to comply with the separation of the sexes, violence sometimes results. I suppose the Muslims make them do it?

6/23/2010 - Israel’s Flotilla Raid Commission Is Criticized for Its Scope and Its Members

6/23/2010 - The Flotilla Probe Critically, the panel’s narrow mandate won’t permit it to answer all the questions that need answering. It won’t be allowed to interview military personnel other than the army chief of staff; that means it can’t provide credible answers to the burning question of who attacked first. It won’t look seriously into the government decision-making processes leading up to the fiasco. It will examine the legality of Israeli actions leading up to the ship’s capture, but apparently not the underlying legality (nor the effectiveness) of the blockade that the raid sought to enforce.

6/23/2010 - Male-Only Voting in Crown Heights Prompts Complaints And again.

6/23/2010 - Diving Into the Gene Pool: New Research on the Origins of the Tribe The bottom line: Jews aren’t strangers who stumbled into the Holy Land. And neither are the Palestinians.

6/23/2010 - 33 Greeks to sue Israeli officials over Gaza flotilla raid According to flotilla participants, Israel violated Greek criminal law as well as international treaties when it stopped the ships by force outside of Israel's territorial waters.

6/23/2010 - Will We Defend Israel? Ed Koch clearly has a passionate attachment to Israel and he should do the rest of us Americans a favor, and move there.

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6/16/2010 - Report: Israel Police shot Palestinian instead of arresting him A motorist from East Jerusalem who ran over and wounded several Border Police officers Friday was shot twice in the face from close range while still lying on the ground, eyewitnesses said. Neighborhood witnesses said the fatal shots were fired once the officers no longer had reason to fear that their lives were in danger, and could have easily arrested the suspect.

6/16/2010 - ICRC says Israel's Gaza blockade breaks law Israel's blockade of Gaza is a clear violation of international humanitarian law, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said.

6/16/2010 - Uzi Dayan: Israel Must Announce Turkish Warships Casus Beli Israel must send Turkey a clear message that if Turkish warships are sent to accompany the next flotilla trying to break the embargo on Gaza, these will be considered acts of war by Israel , Uzi Dayan, former deputy Chief of General Staff, told Army Radio Monday morning.

6/16/2010 - Amnesty International Criticizes the Israel Gaza Commission over Transparency and Accountability Any information considered "almost certain to cause substantial harm" to Israel's national security or foreign relations, by the Commission chair can be withheld from the international observers. The Commission may also choose to censor their report on similar grounds, after consulting with what is vaguely termed 'the authorized bodies'. Read that again.

6/16/2010 - UN seeks international Gaza flotilla probe, despite internal Israeli inquiry Undeterred by the government's decision yesterday to establish an independent public committee into the raid against the Gaza-bound flotilla, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is moving forward with plans to form an internationally sanctioned investigative forum to probe the deadly events.

6/16/2010 - UN calls for Israel to change policy in Gaza Strip (Roundup) 'The closure and blockade of the Gaza Strip needs to come to an end,' he said. 'There is now a welcome international consensus on Gaza.'

6/16/2010 - B'Tselem's Annual Report 2009-2010: Easing of movement along with continuation of the Gaza siege and the settlement enterprise From 19 January 2009 to 30 April 2010, Israeli security forces killed 83 Palestinians, 20 of them minors, not including the Palestinians killed during Operation Cast Lead. Of that number, 31 of the Palestinians killed, some thirty-seven percent, were not taking part in hostilities

6/16/2010 - Abbas: Israeli probe plan no good Israel's planned internal investigation into the Gaza flotilla raid falls short of UN Security Council demands, said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday.

6/16/2010 - Israeli cabinet approves internal inquiry into Gaza flotilla raid The White House has given its approval for the Israeli formula, which was devised after calls for an independent international inquiry were rejected.....The foreign observers are the former Northern Ireland first minister David Trimble and a Canadian judge, Ken Watkin. They will have no voting rights. Trimble was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for helping to bring about the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, but critics say his impartiality is compromised by his membership of the new Friends of Israel project.

6/16/2010 - Palestinians welcome Turkey involvement in Gaza, Fayyad says "The Palestinian Authority welcomes any mediation that would lift the siege off Gaza," Fayyad told reporters, saying that alleviating the Strip's condition was "a general Palestinian interest, and doesn't strengthen this or that faction."

6/16/2010 - Abbas tells U.S. Jews: I would never deny Jewish right to the land of Israel Later on Wednesday, Abbas told Charlie Rose in an interview on PBS that Israel must agree to ceding East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital as a necessary precondition for any peace settlement. "East Jerusalem is occupied territory. The entire world recognizes that including the United States of America," Abbas told Rose. "We cannot accept any solution that excludes East Jerusalem."

6/16/2010 - Following B'Tselem's action, prosecution of soldier appears likely on charges of killing Majda and Riyeh Abu Hajaj while they carried white flags during Operation Cast Lead Riyeh and Majda Abu Hajaj were shot after they obeyed soldiers' calls to leave their house and were walking in a group of civilians who were carrying white flags.

6/16/2010 - US lawmakers blast 'disgraceful' Turkey over Iran, Israel US lawmakers slammed "disgraceful" Turkey on Wednesday over its ties to Iran and charged Ankara had the "blood" of nine Turks killed in an Israeli raid on a Gaza–bound aid ship on its hands. Capitol Hill = Israeli-occupied territory.

6/16/2010 - US expects 'prompt' inquiry of Gaza flotilla raid

6/16/2010 - Ordinary Gazans hurt most by 3-year blockade Even if the blockade were to be lifted soon – as many demanded after last week's deadly Israeli raid on a blockade–busting flotilla – recovery could take years. Production lines have fallen into disrepair. Entrepreneurs have moved investments abroad. Men forced into idleness have lost their place in society. ...."It's my feeling that Israel wants to create terrorists," said Alam Hamada, 31, a member of the once powerful family. "Imagine you ... lose everything you have, your income, your car, all that you hold dear, you'll be a different person."