ÿþ<html> <head> <title>All 2010 Archives</title> </head> <body bgcolor=ffffff text=000000> <b><font color=red size=3>All 2010 Archives</font></b> <br><br> <b>December</b> <br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-23-03.htm">12/29/2010 - Palestinian medic: Israel kills Gaza shepherd</a> Adham Abu Salmia said the man was leading his goats in an open area near Gaza's Erez border crossing with Israel Thursday when he was shot. He died later in hospital. Another man with him was wounded. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/12/22/stealth-resolutions-by-congress/">12/29/2010 - Stealth Resolutions by Congress by Philip Giraldi</a> Then comes the really interesting part. The mainstream media did not report on the passage of House Resolution 1765, as if it did not happen. Nothing appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, NBC, ABC, CBS, or PBS. Nada. Did some gatekeeper news editors decide that the story did not reflect well on Israel and its friends in Congress so it had to vanish down the memory hole? Congress again lining up and bending its knee before AIPAC was not news? Apparently not. ....You have created that evil, Frank, you and all your buddies in Congress who line up to do AIPAC s bidding and pass shameful pieces of paper like House Resolution 1765, which do terrible damage to the United States and its interests on behalf of Israel. Dante s Ninth Circle of Hell, the lowest level, was reserved for those who betray their own country. If God truly exists and will someday mete out justice, I expect to learn that you and many of your colleagues from the 111th Congress someday will be doing hard time there. <b>Former CIA Philip Giraldi, hat's off to you, Sir.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-26-05.htm">12/29/2010 - Israeli forces kill two Gaza militants near border</a> The Islamic Jihad militant group said two of its gunmen were killed by Israeli fire after they detonated an explosive device against a passing Israeli patrol. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/23">12/29/2010 - New Gaza War 'Only a Question of Time'</a> A senior Israeli army officer has told the BBC that as long as Hamas remains in control of the Gaza Strip, another war is "only a question of time". <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/Israeli-Mayor-Bans-Christmas-Trees-2823/">12/29/2010 - Israeli Mayor Bans Christmas Trees</a> Nazareth Illit is a suburb of Nazareth, which as the childhood home of Jesus Christ is an important center of Christian history and is about one-third Christian today. Journalist Nir Rosen wonders how Fox News, which has a tendency to defend Israel but also a love of fighting what it calls "the war on Christmas," would handle this story. <b>Who are the intolerant ones here?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/27-0">12/29/2010 - An Open Letter from Gaza: Two Years After the Massacre, a Demand for Justice</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-29-02.htm">12/29/2010 - West has 3 years to rein in Iran: Israeli minister</a> The United States and its allies have up to three years to curb Iran's nuclear programme, which has been set back by technical difficulties and sanctions, a senior Israeli official said on Wednesday. <b>Somehow Israel's problems become OUR problems.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-to-publish-israel-cables-on-second-lebanon-war-dubai-assassination-1.332416">12/29/2010 - 'WikiLeaks to publish Israel cables on Second Lebanon War, Dubai assassination'</a> In an interview with Al Jazeera, Assange said that only very few files related to Israel were published so far and that WikiLeaks intends on releasing many more documents over the next six months. <b>Hmm?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/rabbis-wives-urge-israeli-women-stay-away-from-arab-men-1.333841">12/29/2010 - Rabbis' wives urge Israeli women Stay away from Arab men</a> A letter urging Jewish women not to date non-Jewish men has been published by a group of rabbis' wives. The letter comes on the heels of a rabbis' letter published earlier this month urging Jews not to sell or rent properties to non-Jews. The new letter, signed by 30 rabbis' wives, says, "For your sake, for the sake of future generations, and so you don't undergo horrible suffering, we turn to you with a request, a plea, a prayer. Don't date non-Jews, don't work at places that non-Jews frequent, and don't do national service with non-Jews." <b>Who are the intolerant ones here?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-25-02.htm">12/29/2010 - Pope appeals for Israeli-Palestinian co-existence</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=200471">12/29/2010 - Democrats up in arms over hints of reduced aid for Israel</a> David Harris, president of the National Jewish Democratic Council, charged that  for America to remain engaged as a world leader, and for the sake of Israel s security, Congress must fully fund foreign aid and aid to Israel together. As the pro-Israel community has said for decades, the two cannot be separated for a host of reasons. Harris referred to Israel aid as the  centerpiece of the pro- Israel community s agenda.  To do any less would threaten the bipartisan support that has been the hallmark of this issue  and risk the future of foreign aid, he said. <b>Israel's shills on Capitol Hill are trying to find ways to spare Israel any cuts to its share of US foreign aid in the midst of cuts to others'. AIPACers are naturally behind it. How many services will be cut to AMERICANS as a result?</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/134003/">12/29/2010 - Congress: Still Opposed to a Palestinian Statehood Declaration</a> Jewish groups had been pushing the White House for several months to make clear it will veto a resolution declaring a Palestinian state if it reaches the UN Security Council. <b>Why was this a matter for the US Congress?</b><br><br> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-12/23/c_13661923.htm">12/29/2010 - Israel prepares ground for military operation in Gaza: PLO official</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-29-01.htm">12/29/2010 - Abbas heads to Brazil to found Palestinian embassy</a> Brazil's outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on December 3 that his country would recognise a Palestinian state following a personal request from Abbas. "The demand presented by his excellency (Abbas) is just and consistent with the principles upheld by Brazil with regard to the Palestinian issue," Brazil's foreign ministry said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/focus-u-s-a/palestinian-delegate-to-u-s-congress-shouldn-t-interfere-in-mideast-peace-process-1.328388">12/29/2010 - Palestinian delegate to U.S.: Congress shouldn't interfere in Mideast peace process</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-declined-to-cooperate-in-dubai-probe-of-mabhouh-killing-wikileaks-shows-1.333608">12/29/2010 - U.S. declined to cooperate in Dubai probe of Mabhouh killing, WikiLeaks shows</a> A cable sent from the embassy in Dubai less than a month after the assassination reveals that senior U.A.E. officials asked the American ambassador and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to probe urgently "cardholder details and related information for credit cards reportedly issued by a U.S. bank to several suspects" in the murder. The WikiLeaks cable not only proved that the request was indeed made but that it was recorded in a secret State Department cable. By not accepting the request, the Obama administration harmed the Dubai investigation efforts and assisted Israel instead. <b>Now there's a real shocker.</b><br><br> <a href="http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7228390.html">12/29/2010 - Palestinians slam U.S. for not recognizing a state, say no talks with Israel yet</a> Palestinian officials have on Saturday slammed the United States for refusing to recognize the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 and for saying that it is still premature to recognize the Palestinian state. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/27-2">12/29/2010 - Jewish Activist Faces Jail for West Bank Resistance</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/12/23/Police-mum-on-hiker-death-investigation/UPI-86531293137162/">12/29/2010 - Police mum on hiker death investigation</a> <b>The media blackout on this case and the arrests Israel made on December 22 continues.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-soldier-charged-with-killing-gaza-civilian-my-commander-told-me-i-was-cold-blooded-murderer-1.332334">12/29/2010 - IDF soldier charged with killing Gaza civilian: My commander told me I was 'cold-blooded murderer'</a> The day after ground troops entered the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead two years ago, S., a soldier in the Givati Brigade, allegedly shot a woman in her upper body while she was carrying a white flag. About half an hour later, S. subsequently told the Military Police, the company commander arrived and S. was stunned by his response. "He told me, in front of everyone, 'You're a cold-blooded murderer, you'll go to hell,'" S. said. "When I tried to tell him, 'But those were your orders,' he told me, 'Shut up. You won't remain in my company.'" "But that was it. From then on, until the end of the fighting, it was if nothing had happened," S. related. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-24-04.htm">12/29/2010 - Crowds pack Bethlehem to hear message of peace</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-24-06.htm">12/29/2010 - Xmas joy mixed with threats for Mideast Christians</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-23-01.htm">12/29/2010 - Wave of ethnic rage worries Israeli PM, activists</a> A wave of protests and discriminatory acts by Jewish Israelis against Arabs and Africans is worrying rights activists and has prompted an unprecedented appeal for calm from Israel's prime minister. <b>Who are the intolerant ones here?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-26-06.htm">12/29/2010 - Israeli foreign minister: peace is 'impossible'</a> "It's not only that it is impossible" to reach an overall agreement, he said. "It is simply forbidden." <b>Israel = Israel's own worst enemy.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/29/palestinians-take-settlement-battle-un/">12/29/2010 - Palestinians to take settlement battle to U.N.</a> The Palestinians will ask the U.N. Security Council in the coming days to condemn Israeli settlement construction, a senior Palestinian official said Wednesday, part of a growing Palestinian campaign to rally international pressure against Israel with peace efforts deadlocked. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-24-05.htm">12/29/2010 - Bethlehem celebrates merriest Christmas in years</a> "Because of the hard situation and the pressure we are living in, we take advantage of any joyful moment and bring our children to play," said Khitam Harazallah, a veiled Muslim housewife from the nearby Deheishe refugee camp who came with her two young children. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-25-01.htm">12/29/2010 - Hamas abiding by Israel truce but ready for war</a> Overnight Saturday, Israeli warplanes hit four targets in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least two people and knocking out power in a large swathe of the strip. The strikes came after militants fired a mortar and rocket into Israel on Friday, according to the army, which called the target a "terror centre." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/8228244/Britain-forms-plan-for-Gulf-evacuation-in-event-of-war-with-Iran.html">12/29/2010 - Britain forms plan for Gulf evacuation in event of war with Iran </a> The British armed forces are drawing up contingency plans to evacuate hundreds of thousands of British residents and tourists from Dubai and other Gulf cities in the event of war with Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-24-03.htm">12/29/2010 - Ecuador recognizes Palestine state</a> Ecuador's decision, the ministry statement said, "vindicates the valid and legitimate desire of the Palestinian people for a free and independent state" and will be a key contribution to a negotiated peaceful coexistence in the Middle East. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-23-02.htm">12/29/2010 - Peace Talks Stall, But Palestinians' Fayyad Conjures a State</a> "This is not about state declaration; this is about building a state," says Fayyad, in what has become a mantra since he announced a two year plan to create the institutions of a state by August 2011. The timetable puts the effort in "the home stretch to freedom," <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/28/israel-denies-lawyers-palestinian-prisoners">12/29/2010 - Israeli authorities deny Palestinian prisoners access to lawyers</a> Palestinian detainees are systematically denied the right to meet a lawyer during interrogations by Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service, according to a report published today by an Israeli and a Palestinian rights group. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-26-03.htm">12/29/2010 - Israeli FM vows no apology to Turkey on raid</a> Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman vowed on Sunday that Israel would not apologise to Turkey for a commando raid on a Gaza bound aid ship that killed nine Turkish activists. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-12/26/c_13665364.htm">12/29/2010 - Paraguay to recognize Palestinian state in 2011</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=200853">12/29/2010 - seattle Anti-Israel ad campaign rejected by city officials</a> On Wednesday, Seattle Jewish community leaders held a meeting with senior officials from the King County Executive's office and Metro Transit management about the "potential threat to the Seattle-area Jewish community" after over 2,000 emails, and numerous organizations announced that counter advertisements would be initiated to promote Israel. <b>Who are the intolerant ones here?</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/guywalters/100069450/its-not-antisemitic/">12/29/2010 - It's not anti-Semitic to say that Hasidic Jews are intolerant of goyim </a> Labelling Patterson as an anti-Semite is manifesting far more intolerance than anything she ever wrote. Yes, calling for Jews to be burned to death is anti-Semitic, but asking Hasidic Jews in Stamford Hill to be a little more polite is not. Victimhood status should never confer an automatic exemption from criticism. <b>Helen Thomas' comments (also taken out of context) made this top ten list as well.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-24-02.htm">12/29/2010 - African migrants protest Israeli detention center</a> many in Israel think the migrants are overwhelming the small state and threatening the country's Jewish character. <b>Supremacism and the irony - <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124478/">Jews in the US are behind the immigration 'reform' here in the US. </a></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-26-04.htm">12/29/2010 - Turkey's apology demand is "chutzpah": Israeli Finance Minister</a> Israel's ultranationalist foreign minister on Sunday dismissed as "chutzpah" a Turkish offer to restore ties if Israel apologizes for a deadly raid on a Gaza bound ship, saying it was up to Ankara to make amends. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/police-called-over-gaza-flotilla-t-shirts/">12/29/2010 - Gallery Patrons Ejected Over T-Shirts</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4003644,00.html">12/29/2010 - Haredim threaten to boycott Mamilla Mall</a> The ultra-Orthodox community is threatening to boycott Jerusalem's luxurious Mamilla shopping complex due to electric ornaments resembling Christmas lights, which have been placed along the boulevard. ....The ads  titled "Is Jerusalem becoming Christian?"  were signed by the Rabbis' Committee for the Sanctity of Jerusalem. They stated that "if this idol worship is not removed immediately, we will declare a consumer boycott against the mall and the Mamilla Hotel, owned by businessman Alfred Akirov." <b>Who are the intolerant ones here?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8224391/New-Mossad-chief-to-apologise-for-use-of-UK-passports-in-Dubai-killing.html">12/29/2010 - New Mossad chief to apologise for use of UK passports in Dubai killing</a> Mr Pardo's apology and pledge during a visit to London that is expected early in January would be the first official acknowledgement by Israel that it was behind the assassination of the Hamas leader in Dubai. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-26-01.htm">12/29/2010 - Israel won't attend racism conference fete</a> Israel says it won't participate in the 10th anniversary commemoration of a U.N. conference on racism that singled out Israel for criticism and likened Zionism to racism. <b>The truth hurts.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/134142/">12/29/2010 - Progress Seen in P.A. Crackdown On Incitement by West Bank Imams</a> <b>When will see a crackdown on incitement by fiercely anti-Arab rhetoric by Israeli rabbis, as one example? <a href="http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&q=ovadia+yosef&aq=0&aqi=g4g-o1&aql=&oq=ovadia+&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=e64ee6e4e8056c32">Google Ovadia Yosef</a> for more. Who are the intolerant ones here?</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/12/youtube_removes_pro-palestinia.php">12/29/2010 - YouTube Removes Pro-Palestinian-Anti-Motorola Video - St. Louis News</a> Two weeks ago, we told you about the local activists who busted out an anti-Motorola song-and-dance routine at the Best Buy and AT&T stores in suburban Brentwood -- and we posted a video of the performance. That video quickly drew more than 35,000 hits. Last week, however, YouTube unceremoniously removed the video in question, saying it was subject to a copyright challenge by WMG (apparently, the Warner Music Group). See this link for the brief message from YouTube. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27119.htm">12/29/2010 - WikiLeaks to Release Israel Documents in Six Months </a> WikiLeaks will release top secret American files concerning Israel in the next six months, its founder Julian Assange disclosed yesterday. In an excusive interview with Al Jazeera, Assange said only a meagre number of files related to Israel had been published so far, because the newspapers in the West that were given exclusive rights to publish the secret documents were reluctant to publish many sensitive information about Israel. .... The Guardian, El-Pais and Le Monde have published only two percent of the files related to Israel due to the sensitive relations between Germany, France and Israel. Even New York Times could not publish more due to the sensitivities related to the Jewish community in the US, he added. <b>Really now?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-21-06.htm">12/29/2010 - Mideast Peace: What If the Palestinians Turn to the U.N.?</a> Israel is worried, according to press reports in the country, that the United States will not "rush to veto" a planned U.N. Security Council resolution condemning ongoing Israeli settlement construction. <b>Oh dear. How could the US not ask 'how high?' when Israel says 'Jump!'?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/134149/">12/29/2010 - 2010: What Came, What Went, What s Next</a> You wouldn t know it from listening to Jewish liberals, but November 2 was a great day for our people. Finally, there will be a Jew in the top leadership ranks of the House of Representatives. After Pelosi, Hoyer and Clyburn, we can take pride in the ascension of Eric Cantor! More seriously, the election is great for Jews on almost every issue we care about: Israel (more support), Iran (more pressure), education (more choice), national security (more serious), immigration (more reform) and the peace process (more realistic). In addition, like all Americans, we can hope the fiscal mess made by previous Congresses will now be addressed. Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/134149/#ixzz1A74d2n79 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/12/28/commies-are-at-it-again/">12/29/2010 - Commies Are At It Again by Philip Giraldi </a> What this is really all about is the hidden message, conveyed by Clinton s reference to selective. Khodorovsky is Jewish, as are most of the oligarchs who stripped Russia of its wealth in the 1990s, and he has his own claque of supporters who regard his conviction as anti-Semitism. The fact is that anyone who has looked into the looting of Russia knows very well that Khodorovsky is guilty as hell on all charges. <b>This case is demonstrative of the ever-increasing philosemitism of the American government. The spread of philosemitism, not democracy, has become their mission. Conversely, the demonization of those that do not subscribe to this supremacism is also taking place by this same institution.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27148.htm">12/29/2010 - Counter-terror  Expert Tells Cops: Kill Militant Muslims,  Including Children </a> A counter-terrorism consultant told a meeting of law enforcement officials that the way to combat militant Muslims is to "kill them ... including the children," says a news report. Walid Shoebat, a self-described "former PLO terrorist" who "now speaks out for USA and Israel," reportedly made the comment at a speech during a conference of the International Counter-Terrorism Officers Association in Las Vegas this past October, according to the Huffington Post's Chip Berlet. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-accused-egyptian-spy-says-israel-paid-syrian-agent-for-nuclear-plan-details-1.334064">12/29/2010 - Report: Accused Egyptian spy says Israel paid Syrian agent for nuclear plan details</a> An Egyptian charged with spying for Israel told authorities that his Syrian counterpart was paid 1.5 million dollars to provide Israel with information on Syrian nuclear activities, Egyptian media reported Wednesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/uae-held-back-full-story-of-hotel-assassination-2171104.html">12/29/2010 - UAE 'held back full story of hotel assassination'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.alanhart.net/if-obama-could-put-america%E2%80%99s-own-real-interests-first%E2%80%A6/#more-1401">12/29/2010 - IF Obama could put America s own real interests first& </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8227098/Mossad-agent-brought-down-Egypts-internet.html">12/29/2010 - Mossad agent 'brought down Egypt's internet' </a> Severe disruptions to Egypt's internet service in December 2008 were blamed at the time on damage to underwater data cables caused by a ship's anchor. But Hassan told police that the incident was, in fact, the work of Israel's foreign intelligence agency, according to interrogation records leaked to an independent Egyptian newspaper. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-24-01.htm">12/29/2010 - Egyptian has 'revealed three Israeli spy cells'</a> The aim of the missions was to deliver sums of money to a Syrian holding a "sensitive" post with the security services. Al Shuruk daily said Abdul Razzak has provided investigators with copies of reports he had passed on to Israeli intelligence from a Syrian chemist working for the security services in connection with a Syrian nuclear programme. The Syrian expert had been spying for Israel for 13 years, according to the confessions. He was executed in Syria last month, said Al Shuruk, which did not give sources for its report. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/28-5">12/29/2010 - Israel Represses Israelis and Congress Approves</a> A resolution -- sponsored by House Foreign Relations Committee Chair Howard Berman (D-CA), Middle East Subcommittee Chair Gary Ackerman (D-NY), and soon-to-be House Foreign Relations Committee Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) -- condemned the findings of the UN Human Rights Council report for documenting such infringements on civil liberties and other human rights violations by the Israeli government. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/134143/">12/29/2010 - Why Anti-Semitism Is Growing in Germany</a> Taken at face value, opposition to Israel need not be assumed to be anti-Semitic. But the majority who tell pollsters they view Israel s actions toward the Palestinians as a  war of annihilation and  principally not different than what the Nazis did with the Jews during the Third Reich reflect a country in which there are blurred lines between opposition to Israeli actions and policies and anti-Semitism. <b>to be highly critical of Israel is the new definition of anti-Semitism. Even some Holocaust survivors themselves (or their children) liken what Israel is doing in Gaza to the Holocaust. I suppose they are anti-Semites too?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/27/israeli-activist-imprisoned-demonstration-gaza">12/29/2010 - Israeli activist imprisoned for protest against Gaza blockade</a> The Association for Civil Rights in Israel criticised the sentence. "Placing Pollak behind bars because of his participation in the critical mass bike ride is an extreme punishment and an unusually harsh measurement," Dan Yakir, the organisation's chief legal adviser, said in a statement. "The entire affair raises suspicion that Pollak was personally targeted because of his views in an attempt to silence him and prevent him from partaking in various acts of protest." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/23/AR2010122302698.html">12/29/2010 - Israel uses arcane law to try to expel Palestinian</a> Gheith is also a leading opponent of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat's plan to raze 22 Palestinian homes in another neighborhood to make way for an Israeli tourist center. That plan is on hold. "They are trying to make look it like I am the one threatening the security, as if saying no to oppression and to house demolitions is an assault," he said. "Whatever they do to stop me, I will keep talking." <b>The similar article of the Israeli protester sitting in an Israeli jail for his activism against Israel coupled with this one are the answer to the oft-asked question: where is the Palestinian Ghandi? Palestinians DO protest using non-violent means. They're lucky they aren't killed by the IDF (Rachel Corrie, numerous Palestinians, etc).</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-26-02.htm">12/29/2010 - French activists arrested at West Bank protest</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/233014.asp">12/29/2010 - After Israel flap, Constantine bans certain bus ads</a> King County Executive Dow Constantine on Thursday temporarily suspended all non-commercial advertising on Metro Buses following complaints about a planned bus ad that criticized Israel <b>Who are the intolerant ones here?</b><br><br> <a href="http://israelsoccupation.blogspot.com/2010/12/spanish-artists-paint-on-israeli.html">12/29/2010 - Israel-Palestine News Spanish artists paint on Israeli apartheid wall (PHOTOS)</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/134067/">12/29/2010 - Abe Foxman Takes on a New Threat: Jewish Paranoia</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-28-01.htm">12/29/2010 - Iran hangs man convicted of spying for Israel</a> According to IRNA, Siadat confessed to spying for Israel starting in 2004 in return for $60,000, as well as an additional $7,000 each time he met with Israeli handlers. IRNA said he met up with Israeli intelligence agents during "foreign trade" trips to Turkey, Thailand and the Netherlands and that he transferred data through a digital camera, transmitters and laptop. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nwcn.com/home/?fId=112531474&fPath=/news/local&fDomain=10212">12/29/2010 - Seattle anti-Israel demonstration in wake of Metro ad controversy </a> "We'd like Israel to be held accountable for its actions and our government to stop spending our tax dollars to support Israel's war crimes," said Ed Mast, Mideast Awareness Campaign. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/Israel-destroyed-Syria-nuclear-reactor-WikiLeaks/Article1-642335.aspx">12/29/2010 - Israel destroyed Syria nuclear reactor: WikiLeaks</a> Former US president George W Bush recounted in his memoirs that he resisted Israeli pressure to bomb the site. In 2008, current US President Barack Obama said when he was a Democratic hopeful for the White House that Israel was right to bomb the suspected nuclear facility in Syria. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Seattle+transit+agency+rejects+alleging+Israeli+crimes/4021093/story.html">12/29/2010 - Seattle transit agency rejects bus ads alleging 'Israeli war crimes'</a> That proposed ad, expected to appear next week, sparked a furor, with thousands of comments flooding into the transit agency as two groups said they planned to run their own ads to counter the "Israeli war crimes" message. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNZGYQTzfcY">12/29/2010 - Press TV News Analysis, James Morris, Richard Millet and Dahr Jamail on Israeli Nukes # 3 </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNO3mUjk83Y">12/29/2010 - Press TV News Analysis, James Morris, Richard Millet and Dahr Jamail on Israeli Nukes # 2 </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-5Yo2ZA29U">12/29/2010 - Press TV News Analysis, James Morris, Richard Millet and Dahr Jamail on Israeli Nukes # 1</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/134098/">12/29/2010 - Nurse Wins $40,000 in Sabbath Discrimination Case</a> Everything seemed great in 2007, when registered nurse Alisa Dolinsky got offered a job by the Color-Goldwater Specialty Hospital & Nursing Facility on Roosevelt Island, part of New York City s Health and Hospitals Corporation. But when the observant Jew informed her prospective employer she couldn t work on the Sabbath, they withdrew the offer. Now, that decision has earned Dolinsky a $40,000 payout from the city s Commission on Human Rights to settle a discrimination claim, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The case  could be an embarrassment to the Bloomberg administration, which has worked to build bridges with the Orthodox Jewish community, according to the Journal.  Mayor Michael Bloomberg is Jewish. His press secretary, Stu Loeser, observes the Sabbath. And there are more than 1.4 million Jews in the area, many of them Orthodox. <b>Philosemitism.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4k4RGpP7-E">12/29/2010 - Press TV's Waqar Rizvi talks to James Morris on "Mossad in Iraq"</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/12/12-17-02.htm">12/22/2010 - Teenager drowns after Israeli navy firing: witnesses</a> A Palestinian teenager fishing off the coast of the Gaza Strip on Friday drowned following firing by the Israel navy, a health official and witnesses said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/133849/">12/22/2010 - Who Wants Peace? Americans Do</a> here is where it becomes interesting. Telhami asked participants in the survey what position the U.S. should take in its efforts to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Two thirds responded that America should be evenhanded and not lean to either side. A quarter believe the U.S. should lean toward Israel, and only 2% think it should lean in favor of the Palestinians. <b>The majority of Americans want our government to take NO SIDE. Yet, Congress is overwhelmingly pro-Israel, as evidenced by the anti-Palestinian legislation passed as reported in this news batch. <b>Our representatives do not represent us. </b> This is a testament to the power of the Israeli lobby. This poll, along with a similar one only a few months ago, dispels the notion put forth by pro-Israelis that Americans support Israel. 2/3 of Americans want to take no side.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-18-03.htm">12/22/2010 - Israeli air strike kills five Gaza militants</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://againsttheinsidiouswiles.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-american-tourist-killed-in.html">12/22/2010 - Update: American Tourist Killed in Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-19-09.htm">12/22/2010 - American tourist found stabbed to death in Israel</a> Wilson's face was obscured in TV footage of the interview, though Yair Ettinger of Israel's Haaretz daily said she had a black eye <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/12/19/american-woman-killed-near-jerusalem/">12/22/2010 - American Woman Killed Near Jerusalem</a> Early Sunday morning police have issued a gag order on the various suspicious details of this deadly incident. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/19/israeli-briton-stabbed-american-killed">12/22/2010 - British woman stabbed and US tourist killed in Israel</a> Wilson, a 46-year-old tour guide who moved to Israel in the early 1990s, and who holds dual citizenship, was taken to Haddasah hospital in Jerusalem. She was said to be in a stable condition, after being moved from intensive care to a normal ward. "She was stabbed in the abdomen and in the back. The wounds are not very deep but she has a lot of pain. She did not suffer any internal bleeding and she has been communicative and conscious since she arrived at the hospital last night," ...."One of them took the Star of David necklace off my neck like a gentleman  and they stabbed me 12 times. They came to kill. Nobody walks around with a knife like that for no reason. He stabbed me, but I sensed the knife did not penetrate my heart. I pretended to be dead." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.debka.com/article/20470/">12/22/2010 - Body found of missing American woman with marks of violence</a> Jerusalem Police spokesmen have said they were checking several lines of investigation, including Palestinian terrorist action. This vagueness may be attributed to lack of evidence of any crime to support Wilson's account or the disinclination to admit that a violent terrorist crime was possible deep inside the Green Line in an area popular with hikers, picnickers and tourists. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-22-04.htm">12/22/2010 - EU signs off 100 mln euros of Palestinian aid</a> European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton announced Wednesday a first, 100 million euro (131.5 million dollars) tranche of aid to the Palestinian people for 2011. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-19-08.htm">12/22/2010 - Group: Palestinian communities stifled by Israel</a> No security rationale or other legitimate reason can explain the "vast scale of differential treatment," said the 166 page report, which compared several Palestinian communities with neighboring settlements. In one case, Israel refused to connect a West Bank village to the electricity grid and denied approval for a foreign funded solar energy project there, while a nearby settlement enjoyed all standard services, the report said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133980/">12/22/2010 - Rosen Fires Back in His Law Suit Against AIPAC</a> The American Public Affairs Committee has frequently condoned its employees receipt of classified information, according to documents filed in federal court by lawyers for Steve Rosen, a former senior official of the pro-Israel lobby. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://againsttheinsidiouswiles.blogspot.com/2010/12/breaking-american-tourist-killed-in.html">12/22/2010 - Breaking: American Tourist Killed in Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=22462">12/22/2010 - American Christian killed by terrorists, Messianic friend wounded</a>  One of them turned me around and saw that I was wearing a Star of David necklace, said Wilson.  He took it off of me like a gentleman and then stabbed me 12 times. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/body-of-u-s-tourist-found-near-jerusalem-police-suspect-terror-attack-1.331424">12/22/2010 - Body of U.S. tourist found near Jerusalem; police suspect terror attack</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/12/18/israelwest-bank-separate-and-unequal">12/22/2010 - Israel-West Bank Separate and Unequal - Human Rights Watch</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4001856,00.html">12/22/2010 - Stabbing victim 'found God' in Israel</a> no one in the CMJ had been notified of Luken's visit to Israel apart from Wilson. "I suppose she didn't tell anyone she was coming because she knew that if she did, work would be found for her to do at the offices in Jerusalem," the reverend surmised. Pileggi's main concern is that Kay's testimony be believed by the authorities investigating the mystery. "The impression I got from the police was that they weren't certain about Kay's story and did not believe her account," he said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/20-0">12/22/2010 - Disillusioned Palestinians: US-Guided 'Peace Process' is 'Ridiculous'</a> "We're not looking for a Mickey Mouse state, we're not looking for some form of self-rule, we're looking for a sovereign state of Palestine, where we Palestinians can live as free people." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-19-07.htm">12/22/2010 - Mubarak blames Israel for Mideast peace crisis</a> "Israel must take responsibility for the stalemate in the negotiations and realize that the security of its people depends on peace not occupation or arms," Mubarak told lawmakers, warning of the impact from Israel's "intransigence, positions and policies" on world and Middle East stability. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-condemns-norway-s-upgrade-of-palestinian-standing-in-oslo-to-diplomatic-delegation-1.330976">12/22/2010 - Israel condemns Norway's upgrade of Palestinian standing in Oslo to 'diplomatic delegation'</a> Over the past four months several countries have upgraded the standing of Palestinian representatives. The first country to have done so was none other than the United States. After the U.S., France, Spain, and Portugal also took similar steps. Despite this, the Foreign Ministry has yet to condemn these moves until now. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4000648,00.html">12/22/2010 - S. African politicians 'beaten up by IDF' </a> South African parliament members, who visited the West Bank city of Ramallah last week, say they were attacked by Israeli security forces during a protest in a Palestinian village near Bethlehem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1390">12/22/2010 - Israeli Military Demolishes Water Wells and Cisterns in the hilly and</a> The demolished cisterns and wells supplied drinking water to the villagers as well as their sheep and goats. The wells were up to 300 meters deep and over 70 years old, pre-dating the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian Territories. The Israeli military claims that it does not destroy structures created before 1967. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/israel-fears-uk-moving-towards-recognising-palestinian-state-15036433.html">12/22/2010 - Israel fears UK moving towards recognising Palestinian state</a> Although the change of status is largely symbolic, Israel has started a major lobbying campaign to stop the move. Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/israel-fears-uk-moving-towards-recognising-palestinian-state-15036433.html#ixzz19SLBRKqe <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/22-0">12/22/2010 - Israeli Fighter Jets Attack Gaza </a> Up to seven different Gazan targets were hit overnight on Monday and on Tuesday, according to the Israeli military. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-19-05.htm">12/22/2010 - Israel deprives Palestinians in West Bank: report</a> Human Rights Watch said Israel had cited security concerns as a reason for any differential treatment. But Carroll Bogert, a spokeswoman for the group, said Israel was carrying out "systematic discrimination merely because of (Palestinians') race, ethnicity and national origin, depriving them of electricity, water, schools and access to roads." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-21-01.htm">12/22/2010 - Palestinians, Israelis trade rockets, airstrikes</a> The violence followed the deaths of five Gaza militants Saturday in the deadliest Israeli assault on the coastal strip in months, indicating a trend of escalation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinian-pm-plan-to-declare-statehood-by-2011-remains-on-track-1.331324">12/22/2010 - Palestinian PM: Plan to declare statehood by 2011 remains on track</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27089.htm">12/22/2010 - PLO 'Disappointed' Over U.S. Resolution opposing unilateral declaration of Palestinian state</a> The Palestinian delegation in the United States expressed its "deep disappointment" on Thursday over the resolution passed by the U.S. House, which opposes unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/8217598/EU-to-boost-status-of-Palestinian-diplomats.html">12/22/2010 - EU to boost status of Palestinian diplomats</a> The Foreign Office confirmed it was studying a proposal that would see Palestinian "general delegations" upgraded to "diplomatic missions" in a number of European capitals. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-22-03.htm">12/22/2010 - Bolivia to recognize sovereign Palestine</a> Bolivia on Wednesday formally recognized Palestine as an independent state, following the lead of its neighbors Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay earlier this month. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-19-01.htm">12/22/2010 - Abbas holds rare meeting with Israeli lawmakers</a> Abbas said the Palestinians have undergone a transformation since their uprising and Israel's harsh reprisals left thousands dead. "We changed the culture of terror and violence into a culture of peace and stability here in the West Bank in the last four years," he said. "We do not want to miss this opportunity," he told the Israelis. "We don't want to miss it. Please help us not to miss it. I have eight grandchildren. I want a peaceful life for them." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-16-02.htm">12/22/2010 - Palestinians ask Europe to recognize a state</a> Brazil and Argentina, minor players in the Middle East, recently recognized Palestine as other countries in the Arab world and Africa have done. Several European countries have upgraded diplomatic relations with the Palestinians, but it is unclear how far the international community will go. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-19-02.htm">12/22/2010 - Israeli settlements 'displace' Palestinians: HRW</a> "Palestinians face systematic discrimination merely because of their race, ethnicity, and national origin, depriving them of electricity, water, schools, and access to roads," HRW representative Carroll Bogert said. "While Israeli settlements flourish, Palestinians under Israeli control live in a time warp   not just separate, not just unequal, but sometimes even pushed off their lands and out of their homes." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-draft-condemning-west-bank-settlements-ready-for-un-1.332298">12/22/2010 - palestinians Draft condemning West Bank settlements ready for UN</a> Erekat said he hoped the United States would not use its veto to defeat the resolution and added that if it did not succeed at the Security Council, "we will go to the International Court of Justice." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-12/22/c_13660454.htm">12/22/2010 - Gaza Christians look forward to celebrating Christmas in Bethlehem</a> Local media reported that Israel will only offer pass permits to around 300 Christians this year, out of a total of 3,000 Christians in Gaza among the 1.8 million population, to go to Bethlehem during the Christmas. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-17-03.htm">12/22/2010 - Palestinians want control of more West Bank parts</a> Children's chairs pulled out of a pile of rubble are all that's left of a schoolhouse that served 17 children of Palestinian herders in this encampment on a wind swept West Bank plateau. The school was razed by Israeli troops last week for the third time in six years as Israel asserted control over the area  part of the 62 percent of the West Bank that remains exclusively in Israeli hands, much of it set aside for Jewish settlements and military zones. The rest  where most Palestinians live  are disconnected territorial islands administered by the Palestinian Authority. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-20-02.htm">12/22/2010 - Israel on offensive over Palestinian diplomacy: report</a> The newspaper's website said the document, penned by foreign ministry director general Rafael Barak, calls on Israeli envoys to begin a "comprehensive defence along the home front," seeking to undermine Palestinian diplomatic efforts. It calls on Israeli diplomats to thwart three Palestinian initiatives: a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning settlement activity, international recognition of a Palestinian state, and the upgrading of Palestinian diplomatic representations in Europe and Latin America. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=200098">12/22/2010 - US woman's body found in Jerusalem-Beit Shemesh area</a> The security level had not been raised in the Jerusalem area as of Sunday afternoon. Rosenfeld said the police were waiting for  concrete answers before updating security procedures or implementing road blocks going in or out of the territories. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/it-was-clear-they-came-to-kill-us-says-survivor-of-jerusalem-stabbing-1.331443">12/22/2010 - 'It was clear they came to kill us', says survivor of Jerusalem stabbing</a> "I had a Star of David hanging on a chain around my neck," Wilson told Haaretz. "He took it off like a gentleman and then turned me around and stabbed in the place where the Star of David had been." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155697.html">12/22/2010 - US House against Palestinian state</a> The House unanimously approved a resolution opposing unilateral declaration of Palestinian state on Thursday, Ha'aretz reported. \\.....The remarks came after Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay recognized the Palestinian state to support the rights of Palestinian people, whose land has been occupied by Israel. <b>You had to know that was coming. After all, Capitol Hill is controlled by Israel, as demonstrated here.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Missions/Default.aspx?id=1259216">12/22/2010 - Slain Christian had religious ties to Israel (OneNewsNow.com)</a> The ministry issued a statement citing Luken's "vibrant faith" and offering prayers for her friends and family. The ministry adds that it "will continue to share the gospel with the Jewish people and to work for forgiveness and reconciliation in Israel." According to the statement, Luken had worked with the ministry for one year and had previously worked for the U.S. government. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/42928/stab-victim-could-not-wait-make-aliyah">12/22/2010 - Stab victim 'could not wait to make aliyah'</a> Police have placed a gag-order on the investigation. "We are keeping all avenues open on whether this was a terror or criminal attack," said Jerusalem police commander Aharon Franko. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27102.htm">12/22/2010 - U.S. Gov't "Responds" to Questions About Imprisoned Palestinian Protest Organizer Abu Rahmah</a> <b>Kudos to that reporter for his perserverance, very rare these days.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.king5.com/news/local/Israeli-War-Crimes-signs-to-go-on-Metro-buses-112108154.html">12/22/2010 - 'Israeli War Crimes' signs to go on Metro buses</a> "I wouldn't say it's an anti-Israel message any more than any complaint about a country is anti-that country. We would like Israel to stop violating human rights. We would like Israel to give equal rights to its Palestinian citizens and its Palestinian subjects who live under occupation," said Mast. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133970/">12/22/2010 - How Kissinger Saved the Jews</a> The  context of the time included a nasty political battle between the White House and the organized Jewish community over a piece of legislation known as the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. The measure proposed pushing Moscow to ease Jewish emigration by making it a precondition for normal U.S.-Soviet trade relations. It won nearly unanimous approval in Congress in late 1974 despite fierce administration opposition, arguably the strongest display ever seen of American Jewish political muscle. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-20-01.htm">12/22/2010 - WikiLeaks hints at Israeli-Palestinian cooperation</a> The Israeli Security Agency, also known as the Shin Bet, is reviled by Palestinians for its sometimes deadly raids on militant targets and its often harsh treatment of Palestinian suspects. Although Israeli and Palestinian security forces are known to cooperate, the tight coordination described by Diskin could further weaken Abbas. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-s-based-rabbi-edict-against-renting-to-arabs-endangers-jews-abroad-1.331369">12/22/2010 - U.S.-based rabbi: Edict against renting to Arabs endangers Jews abroad</a> Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, the New York-based rabbi whose followers include many high society names, has condemned the letter prohibiting Jews to rent or sell property to Arabs, signed by 50 municipal rabbis. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://reston.patch.com/articles/missionary-slain-in-israel-was-south-lakes-grad">12/22/2010 - Missionary Slain in Israel was South Lakes Grad</a> Luken, who moved to England in recent years, was in Israel working for Church's Ministry Among Jewish People, a group that tries to get Jews to accept Christ as their savior. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-22-02.htm">12/22/2010 - Israel moves to counter Gaza militants' new weapon</a> The Israeli defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss such matters publicly, provided no proof to support their claim that the laser guided missile came from Iran. Also, it was not clear how it was delivered. Hamas controls a network of smuggling tunnels along Gaza's southern border with Egypt, though Egypt has pledged to crack down on smuggling. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-munayyer-mideast-20101222,0,3454024.story">12/22/2010 - Middle East peace The U.S. needs to get tough with Israel</a> America's political response? Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-Valley Village) rushed a resolution to the House floor expressing opposition to such declarations of Palestinian statehood. The resolution, which passed, is a timely reminder of the increasing gap between Washington and the international community on this issue. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://endtheoccupationblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/house-vote-against-palestinian.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook">12/22/2010 - House vote against Palestinian statehood actually showed that Israel lobby is losing its grip</a> As are most  pro-Israel resolutions, H.Res.1765 was brought to a vote under a procedure known as  suspension of the rules. This procedure, which is supposed to be reserved for non-controversial resolutions such as the naming of a post office, prohibits the resolution from being amended and limits debate on it. In exchange for these restrictions, the resolution must get at least a 2/3 vote to pass rather than a simple majority. <b>Again, why is this a matter for the US Congress?</b><br><br> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/northwestvoices/2013739355_metrobusestocarryadvertisingcriticalofisraeliwarcrimes.html">12/22/2010 - Metro buses to carry advertising critical of Israeli war crimes</a> Americans are losing their jobs and their homes, yet we give Israel nearly $3 billion annually, which enables Israel to continue its militaristic control of the Palestinian people and the subsidizing of illegal settlements! We need to keep those tax dollars here at home. <b>Here here, guys. Thank you for your tireless efforts towards justice.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-17-05.htm">12/22/2010 - Israeli companies outsourcing to Palestinians</a> While Indians or Chinese engineers cost even less, he said Palestinians are more loyal to his company than workers from distant countries  and have a dogged work ethic. Many gained experience working abroad, and stiff competition for coveted engineering jobs in the West Bank pushes those who have work to prove themselves, Tahboub said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-22-05.htm">12/22/2010 - Christmas trees 'provocative:' Nazareth suburb's mayor</a> The mayor of a Jewish suburb of Nazareth sparked outrage on Wednesday after refusing to allow Christmas trees to be placed in town squares, calling them provocative. ...."The request of the Arabs to put Christmas trees in the squares in the Arab quarter of Nazareth Illit is provocative," Mayor Shimon Gapso told AFP. "Nazareth Illit is a Jewish city and it will not happen   not this year and not next year, so long as I am a mayor," he said of the northern Israeli town. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.staradvertiser.com/editorials/guesteditorials/20101222_Gaza_victimized_by_double_standard.html">12/22/2010 - Gaza victimized by double standard</a> The reality is that when Israel burns, the world rushes to help -- and when Gaza burns, the world shuffles its feet and stands by for weeks at a time watching the smoke rise in ghastly plumes on the horizon. Where was the aid from the "developed" and "democratic" world during "Operation Cast Lead" when white phosphorous rained on civilian areas and 14,000 homes were damaged or destroyed? Gaza was burning then and is burning today, albeit invisibly to the Western gaze. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/12/say-it-aint-so-zakaria-huffington-and-tom-friedman-go-to-bat-for-center-that-is-desecrating-muslim-cemetery-in-jerusalem.html">12/22/2010 - Say it ain t so Zakaria, Huffington and Tom Friedman go to bat for center that is desecrating Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/1217/In-Israel-a-rabbi-who-argues-that-anti-Arab-measures-are-un-Jewish">12/22/2010 - In Israel, a rabbi who argues that anti-Arab measures are un-Jewish</a> he American-born rabbi is embroiled in two of Israel s main conflicts today: the struggle with Palestinians over the West Bank and, within Israel, a rising tide of anti-Arab and anti-foreigner sentiment. The latter is starkly illustrated by an unprecedented rabbinical edict calling on Jews not to rent or sell property to non-Jews. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/18784">12/22/2010 - US embassy cables: New Zealand PM suspected passport fraud pair were 'Israeli intelligence agents'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/egypt-stop-israeli-aggression-against-palestinians-in-gaza-1.332256">12/22/2010 - Egypt: Stop Israeli aggression against Palestinians in Gaza</a> The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned Israel's air strikes on the Gaza Strip this week, calling them an attempt to deflect attention from the failed peace process. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/perle-iran-israel-nuclear/2010/12/16/id/380212">12/22/2010 - Perle: Israel Will Act on Iran</a> Israel ultimately will have to attack Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, says Richard Perle, a key architect of President Ronald Reagan s strategy to end the Cold War. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133977/">12/22/2010 - Dropping Goal of Direct Talks, U.S. Will Now Test Both Sides on Core Issues</a> Such vigor would require not only determination on the part of the administration, but also the backing of Congress, which in the past has shown it does not welcome American pressure on Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/17/arab-governments-silenced-wikileaks">12/22/2010 - How Arab governments tried to silence WikiLeaks</a> Some wondered why there are so few damaging revelations about Israel  giving rise to at least one conspiracy theory about collusion between Julian Assange and Binyamin Netanyahu. Others were disgusted if not really surprised at evidence of double-talk by the leaders who are quoted in the cables. In many cases, it is striking to see the contrast between well-informed, warts-and-all American assessments of the Arab autocracies and the limited efforts made by the US to promote democracy and human rights. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-21-03.htm">12/22/2010 - Syria eyed Israel for 2008 killing: US cable</a> The leaked US cable on the killing said "the most obvious suspects are the Israelis." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/12/16/2742198/aipac-planned-to-accuse-feds-of-targeting-pro-israel-groups">12/22/2010 - AIPAC viewed U.S. gov t as targeting pro-Israel groups during espionage probe</a> Before firing the two senior staffers, AIPAC prepared a robust defense of them that alleged a conspiracy inside U.S. government agencies to target pro-Israel groups. ...The court case is significant because it shows the inner workings of AIPAC, a lobbying group that both enemies and supporters call one of Washington s most powerful and feared lobbies. The new court filings also show the extent to which some of AIPAC s highest officials believed the U.S. government was targeting the group because of its pro-Israel stance and activities, not because of suspected criminality. ...Kohr suggests that AIPAC is caught in the internecine wars between Bush administration neoconservatives and their enemies in and out of government. <b>It warms the cockles of my heart to think that there are those in our government who are as angry as I am about the overwhelming influence the Israeli lobby has over our government. Kudos to you, the good guys! I cannot thank you enough. Never give up!</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-17-04.htm">12/22/2010 - France gives Lebanon anti-tank missiles</a> France will give Lebanon 100 anti tank missiles, a government official said on Friday, confirming a deal that raised concerns in Israel and the United States earlier this year. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-16-03.htm">12/22/2010 - Israel can't defeat Hezbollah: Israeli expert</a> Israelis have been watching for signs that Hezbollah, should it be named in an impending U.N. indictment over the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, will push back by consolidating power in Beirut. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-18-04.htm">12/22/2010 - Lebanon denounces Israel 'spy' devices to UN</a> Lebanon has complained to the United Nations Security Council about two "espionage devices" it claims Israel placed atop two of the country's mountains, the foreign ministry said on Saturday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/164634">12/22/2010 - US embassy cables Israel suspected in Syrian sniper killing</a> As in other recent assassinations in Syria, speculation about who could have done it will likely be rampant. The most obvious suspects are the Israelis. SARG security services are well aware that the coastal city of Tartous would offer easier access to Israeli operatives than would more inland locations such as Damascus. Sulayman was not a highly visible government official, and the use of a sniper suggests the assassin could visually identify Sulayman from a distance. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27088.htm">12/22/2010 - Zionist Lobby s New Orders For Obama</a> As M.J. Rosenberg predicted, the Berman bill passed overwhelmingly, actually unanimously,  because that is how things work in a city where policy is driven by campaign contributions  and not just on this issue . He added: <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-16-01.htm">12/22/2010 - UN Hariri court to 'disappear with wind': Nasrallah</a> Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday predicted a UN court on the murder of Rafiq Hariri would "disappear with the wind" as vast crowds gathered to mark the Shiite holy day of Ashura in Lebanon. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/20-4">12/22/2010 - Terrorist by Association: The Justice Department targets nonviolent solidarity activists. </a> Ten hours after their arrival, as television news crews filmed and activist supporters stood on the sidewalk, the agents drove away with nearly 30 boxes of material, including t-shirts and a photograph of Malcolm X. By that time, Iosbaker and Weiner had been served subpoenas to appear before a grand jury investigating "material support" for "foreign terrorist organizations." And they knew theirs wasn't the only home invaded that day. More than 70 FBI agents had raided seven residences in Chicago and Minneapolis and questioned activists in Michigan, California and North Carolina, serving subpoenas to 11 people. <b>Can't say I didn't see that one coming either.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27106.htm">12/22/2010 - The Great Islamophobic Crusade</a> Besides providing the initial energy for the Islamophobic crusade, conservative elements from within the pro-Israel lobby bankrolled the network s apparatus, enabling it to influence the national debate. One philanthropist in particular has provided the beneficence to propel the campaign ahead. He is a little-known Los Angeles-area software security entrepreneur named Aubrey Chernick, who operates out of a security consulting firm blandly named the National Center for Crisis and Continuity Coordination. A former trustee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, which has served as a think tank for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a frontline lobbying group for Israel, Chernick is said to be worth $750 million. <b>The pro-Israelis have brought this fight to America, and are continuing to provoke these people. It is they who are the extremists. They should be rounded up and deported to Israel. America would be all the better for it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/20/wikileaks-cables-syria-sniper-killing">12/22/2010 - WikiLeaks cables: Syria believed Israel was behind sniper killing</a> It was late in the evening of 1 August 2008 in the Syrian coastal city of Tartous when the sniper fired the fatal shot. The target was General Muhammad Suleiman, President Bashar al-Assad's top security aide. Israelis, the US embassy in Damascus reported, were "the most obvious suspects" in the assassination. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/22-6">12/22/2010 - FBI Expands 'Witch Hunt' Against Antiwar Activists </a> Meredith Aby, another prominent antiwar activist who had her home raided by the FBI, likewise believes she is being targeted for exercising her right to free speech, not because the government actually believes she and other committed pacifists would actually support terrorist violence. She says that the questions U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald wants activists to answer - like which activists they met with abroad and what ideas did they express - proves as much. And like other activists, she said she wasn't interested in answering. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/12/15/beltway-bunkum/">12/22/2010 - Beltway Bunkum by Philip Giraldi</a> Flipping over to the Post s opinion page, one also found "right turn" commentator Jennifer Rubin singing the praises of incoming Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Rubin believes that Ros-Lehtinen will "scrutinize the gap between rhetoric and results." She asks "Why are we giving $1.5 billion to Hosni Mubarak& why aren t we more robustly supporting Iran s green movement?" Why indeed. But she fails to ask why are we giving Israel $3 billion when Tel Aviv continues to pursue policies that are more directly damaging to the United States than anything being done by Egypt or Iran? It is a question that Ros-Lehtinen and Rubin will no doubt avoid raising and symptomatic of the blinders that are on regarding the issue of Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133939/">12/22/2010 - Why Kissinger Said U.S. Jews Acted  Traitorously </a> The Soviets wanted a grain deal with the West, and they were hoping to get a new arms limitation treaty ratified. Jackson-Vanik had taught them an important lesson. If they wanted something from the United States government, they should release their Jews. And that s what they did. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133960/">12/22/2010 - Obstructing a Middle East Rescue Effort</a> Just in the time that elapsed since the collapse of efforts to restart direct negotiations, respected New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman effectively recommended conditioning American aid to Israel on its cooperation with peace efforts, while Andrew Sullivan  arguably America s leading political blogger  called for an end to such aid entirely. Israel s own actions, far more than those of its detractors, are hastening this moment. (Think about the recent decree by dozens of municipal rabbis prohibiting renting property to non-Jews, the proposed loyalty oath or the measures taken against Palestinian leaders engaged in nonviolent struggle.) <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-21-04.htm">12/22/2010 - Holy Land Patriarch voices hope for peace</a> Twal noted that a record 3.4 million tourists are visiting the Holy Land this year, many of them Christian pilgrims. He said he is grateful for "the fantastic solidarity" of Christians around the world with the Palestinian community. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/bloggers-claim-wikileaks-struck-deal-with-israel-over-diplomatic-cables-leaks-1.331030">12/22/2010 - Bloggers claim WikiLeaks struck deal with Israel over diplomatic cables leaks</a> Speaking to Haaretz, Duff added that "it sticks out like a sore thumb that WikiLeaks is obviously concocted by an intelligence agency. It's a ham-handed action by Israel to do its public relations." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-21-05.htm">12/22/2010 - Israel to press Obama to free Israeli spy Pollard</a> In his first tenure as prime minister a decade ago, Netanyahu granted Pollard Israeli citizenship, then later visited him in prison in North Carolina. Netanyahu said he has raised the issue with both Obama and Secretary of State Clinton "at least half a dozen times" in closed meetings over the last two months. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/turkey-pm-israel-to-blame-for-deadlock-in-mideast-peace-talks-1.331867">12/22/2010 - Turkey PM: Israel to blame for deadlock in Mideast peace talks</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-compensate-palestinian-for-disability-caused-by-interrogation-1.331807">12/22/2010 - Israel to compensate Palestinian for disability caused by interrogation </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/133961/">12/22/2010 - Israel Doesn t Need the West Bank To Be Secure</a> in recent years Israel has shown it can deal with that kind of threat if it really wants to. Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of Beirut, the northern border has been absolutely quiet. Since Operation Cast Lead, which killed perhaps 1,200 Gazans, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of much of the city of Gaza, not one Israeli has been killed by a mortar round or rocket coming from the Gaza Stri <b>Killing civilians really works, is that the lesson here?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133965/">12/22/2010 - Roger Cohen s Recklessness</a> Roger Cohen, a New York Times Op-Ed columnist, is not obsessed with Israel; it only seems that way. During the last 10 weeks, only(!) five of his Times columns have dealt directly with Israel. I admit that I share the obsession, but not the places it takes him. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129839/">12/22/2010 - From August: A Wounded People vs. Oliver Stone</a> As far as his comments about the pro-Israel lobby  well, AIPAC brags about its influence. Whether that has  f ed up American policy depends upon what you think of the policy....Few seemed to notice the irony: Two of the most powerful men in Hollywood, both Jewish, urging a third power player, also Jewish, to punish Stone for suggesting that Jews dominate the media. <b>I saw the irony. Check back in these archives for it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133983/">12/22/2010 - U.S. Rabbis Offer Rare Rebuke of Israeli Edict</a> An edict signed by dozens of Israeli rabbis barring the sale or rental of homes to non-Jews in Israel has led to a rare consensus among American rabbis, who have issued a nearly unanimous condemnation of the ba <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-17-01.htm">12/22/2010 - US urged to strike Iran opposition from terror list</a> Several Bush era officials on Friday urged the Obama administration to strike an Iranian opposition group from a terrorism blacklist and support regime change in Iran. Former officials Tom Ridge, John Bolton, Frances Townsend and Michael Mukasey who worked under president George W. Bush backed delisting the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI), which is also known as the Mujahedeen e Khalq (MEK). <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-21-02.htm">12/22/2010 - Netanyahu to make public plea to US for spy's release</a> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a public plea to US President Barack Obama for the release of Jonathan Pollard, an Israeli spy jailed 25 years ago, his office said on Tuesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-criticized-new-zealand-for-reaction-to-2004-israel-spy-affair-wikileaks-cables-reveal-1.332064">12/22/2010 - U.S. criticized New Zealand for reaction to 2004 Israel spy affair, WikiLeaks cables reveal</a> Ties between Israel and New Zealand grew strained after two Israelis, thought to be Mossad agents, were caught trying to illegally forge local passports. New Zealand's then-Prime Minister Helen Clark suspended high-level diplomatic relations until Israel formally apologized over the incident in 2005. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/12/22/holiday-hijinks/">12/22/2010 - Holiday Hijinks by Philip Giraldi </a> Another story http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101222005875/en/Obama-Asked-Delay-NUMEC-Founder-Award-Nuclear getting almost no traction in the MSM is the account of how one Zalman Shapiro is in line for a top US government award for his work as a scientist and inventor. Only problem is Shapiro was president of a Pennsylvania company called NUMEC that is generally believed to be the source of 741 pounds of weapons grade uranium that made its way to Israel in the 1960s <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-18-01.htm">12/22/2010 - Mullen: US 'very ready' to counter Iran on nukes</a> "We're very ready," Mullen said, an unusually direct acknowledgment that the United States has contingency plans to counter Iran should it make a move. "There are real threats to peace and stability here, and we've made no secrets of our concerns about Iran." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-19-03.htm">12/22/2010 - NY Rep. King: I'll hold hearings on radical Islam</a> The incoming head of the House Committee on Homeland Security says he will hold hearings on what he calls the "radicalization" of some American Muslims. Rep. Peter King, a Republican from Long Island, said Sunday that law enforcement officials around the country have told him they receive little cooperation from Muslims. <b>Like so many of our 'representatives', King is nothing more than a shill for Israel, though he is one of the most egregious ones. <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/king_of_israel_4TnxlcufrRkd7JOG132hKN">Recall King's traitorous statement of a few months back.</a></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101222005875/en/Obama-Asked-Delay-NUMEC-Founder-Award-Nuclear">12/22/2010 - Obama Asked to Delay NUMEC Founder Award over Nuclear Weapons Material Diversions to Israel</a> The Obama administration has been asked to delay a 2010 National Medal of Technology and Innovation award to Zalman Shapiro over lingering questions about the theft and diversion of US weapons grade uranium to Israel. Shapiro, a talented inventor, was the former president of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-19-04.htm">12/22/2010 - Obama says US-Turkish ties 'more important than ever'</a> US ties with Turkey are "more important than ever" despite differences over Iran, President Barack Obama said, also urging Ankara to repair ties with Israel, in an interview published Sunday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://irmep.org/ILA/nukes/specter/default.asp">12/22/2010 - Senator Spector Seeks Exoneration of NUMEC Diversion of Uranium to Israel</a> The office of Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania attempted to obtain a statement from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. On August 27, 2009, Arlen Specter wrote to Rebecca Schmidt asking that the NRC "issue a formal public statement confirming that he [constituent Zalman Shapiro] was not involved in any activities related to the diversion of uranium to Israel." Zalman Shapiro was formerly president of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation at Apollo, PA. According to a secret GAO report "Nuclear Diversion in the US?" partially declassified on May 6, 2010 NUMEC received over 22 tons of uranium-235, the key material used to fabricate nuclear weapons. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/u-s-congressman-urges-france-to-rethink-missile-sale-to-lebanon-1.332282">12/22/2010 - U.S. congressman urges France to rethink missile sale to Lebanon</a> The United States House of Representatives expressed in August its disapproval of the deal, claiming the missiles might be used against Israel, due to the rising influence of Shiite militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. <b>Why is this a matter for the US Congress?</b><br><br> <a href="http://counterpunch.org/baroud12172010.html">12/22/2010 - Ramzy Baroud Insisting on Humanity</a> The Plight of the Palestinians is not just another chronicle of the history of a defenseless nation. While it is an unhesitant acknowledgment of that reality, it is far from being a celebration of victimhood. Rather, it documents the logical evolution from suffering to resistance. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/12/the-smoking-wiki-gun-israel-and-us-had-secret-accord-for-settlements-even-as-obama-promised-muslim-world-they-must-end.html">12/22/2010 - The smoking cable: Israel said it had  secret accord with U.S. over expanding settlements even as Obama said in Cairo they must stop!</a> One odd thing though, the story notes that indeed it seems that stuff critical of or embarrassing to Israel or even related to Israel was not in that tranche at all while stuff about damn near every other country sure was represented. One former U.S diplomat says it might be because cables from the U.S. embassy in Israel are so unremarkable really, but this seems weak to me at least: Lots of stuff Assange released was unremarkable, wasn t it? He just seemed to dump a truckload, didn t he? Moreover, what about cables from other ME embassies mentioning Israel? <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-19-06.htm">12/22/2010 - Jewish-American group releases list of top 10 slurs</a> The list is topped by Helen Thomas, who said in May that "Jews should get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133981/">12/22/2010 - Israel Advocacy Is a Hot Place for New Hires,</a> battling the so-called de-legitimization of Israel  specifically, combating boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns  has become the cause célèbre of mainstream Jewish organizations. In fact, in November, the Jewish Federations of North America made it a major theme in its three-day General Assembly in New Orleans. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/12/12-11-01.htm">12/15/2010 - Israeli troops kill two Gaza militants: army</a> The incident was the second in three days in which an Israeli was wounded. On Wednesday, a civilian was lightly hurt by a mortar shell launched by militants from the Gaza Strip that landed in an agricultural community near the border. The last incident in which soldiers were hurt occurred in August when two were lightly wounded from shell fragments, the army said <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-14-05.htm">12/15/2010 - Palestinian firefighters barred from Israeli fete</a> About 20 Palestinian firefighters joined the international effort against the blaze that killed 43 people as it swept through the Carmel forest in Israel's north, the biggest forest fire Israel has ever seen. In the end, firefighting aircraft and crews from abroad helped put it out. Tuesday's ceremony was set to take place in Usfiya, an Israeli Arab town near to where the blaze erupted, and the Palestinian firefighters were to be awarded certificates at the event. <b>I'm so proud of the Palestinians - who, despite all that Israel has done to them - volunteered to help put out that fire. It reminds me of the donations the Palestinian refugees made to Hurricane Katrina victims. They didn't have a lot to give, but they gave what they could because of all people, they could instantly sympathize with our refugees. Brings a tear to me eye.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-14-04.htm">12/15/2010 - Envoy says US committed to Palestinian state</a> The U.S. will not be deterred by setbacks and will persevere until a Palestinian state is established alongside Israel, President Obama's Mideast envoy said Tuesday after meeting the Palestinian president. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3998571,00.html">12/15/2010 - 'Europe will recognize Palestinian state when appropriate' </a> The resolution is also expected to address Israel's refusal to extend the construction moratorium in the West Bank and stress the need to resume negotiations for a period of 12 months, as determined by the Mideast Quartet. Israel has been working diligently to try and soften the wording in the resolution. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has spoken with a number of his counterparts in the Union to try and convince them not to recognize a Palestinian state, and he has also instructed Israeli ambassadors in EU countries to clarify Israel's position. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/arab-fms-oppose-mideast-talks-without-u-s-stance-on-borders-1.330817">12/15/2010 - Arab FMs oppose Mideast talks without U.S. stance on borders</a> The ministers said the failure of Washington to force Israel to stop settlement building on territories occupied in 1967 demands that the American administration declares clearly the two states' borders be based on the 1967 borders. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-to-mitchell-u-s-must-demand-talks-based-on-1967-borders-1.330623">12/15/2010 - Palestinians to Mitchell: U.S. must demand talks based on 1967 borders</a> In a meeting with U.S. envoy George Mitchell in Ramallah on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his disappointment with the United States for failing to declare that talks on borders with Israel will be based on 1967 lines. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27041.htm">12/15/2010 - US House Approves Large Increase in Military Aid to Israel</a> Most significantly, the House added $205 million in first-time funding for the Iron Dome project, a short-range rocket defense system. The money was pledged by President Barack Obama last May, but had been stalled until now. In addition, military aid allocations from Israel should increase from 2010 levels of $2.775 billion to $3b. for fiscal year 2011, while those for Egypt and Jordan will hold constant from 2010. <b>Look at the House vote -212-206? Are our representatives finally starting to represent US, the AMERICAN people?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/12/08/131905683/a-grim-record-one-in-seven-americans-is-on-food-stamps">12/15/2010 - A Grim Record: One In Seven Americans Is On Food Stamps</a> <b>Hey I know, let's shovel a few more billion to Israel, a prosperous country even despite the economic downturn.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/10-6">12/15/2010 - The Returning Issue of Palestine's Refugees</a> Before his murder in 1948, Lord Folke Bernadotte, the first UN mediator to the Arab-Israeli conflict, stated: "It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent [Palestinian] victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes, while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine." Lord Bernadotte paid for his candour with his life as Jewish militants assassinated him under the direction of Yitzhak Shamir, the man who would later become prime minister of Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-13-04.htm">12/15/2010 - After setback, US resumes Mideast peace push</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3998121,00.html">12/15/2010 - Public invited to inform on those renting to Arabs</a> The Lehava organization issued a notice Sunday evening, inviting the public to call a voicemail service and record the names of Jewish Israelis renting apartments to Arabs. Lehava, identified with supporters of Meir Kahane, thus adds its weight to the recent call by 50 prominent rabbis to avoid renting to Arabs which, the organization says, amounts to no less than assimilation. <b>Racism at its finest.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-14/israel-seeks-20-more-f-35s-after-failed-u-s-swap-for-settlement-freeze.html">12/15/2010 - Israel Seeks 20 Additional F-35s After Failure of U.S. Swap for Peace Plan</a> Defense officials from both countries are discussing ways to pay for the  expensive jets because Israel lacks the funds, Oren said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-13-03.htm">12/15/2010 - Hamas reaches out, tries to shore up popularity</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-says-recognition-of-palestinian-state-premature-1.329994">12/15/2010 - U.S. says recognition of Palestinian state premature</a> Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman, who was due to meet with Burns on Saturday, criticized his remarks. "I think it's unpropitious that once again the United States has publicly expressed an opinion about sovereign actions taken by the Argentine Republic," Timerman told Reuters. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-12-04.htm">12/15/2010 - Palestinians express doubts over 2-state future</a> Conventional wisdom on Israeli Palestinian peacemaking has long held that Israel should relinquish most of the lands it occupied in 1967 in favor of a Palestinian state  the "two state solution" that much of the world has supported for years. But the utter lack of progress in peace talks and continued Jewish settlement in the West Bank has many people warning that Israel might instead be headed toward a one state reality, with a permanent occupation of the West Bank and a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority  unless, perhaps, the world forces it to give the Palestinians the right to vote. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-14-02.htm">12/15/2010 - Hamas celebrates 23rd anniversary with mass rally</a> While sticking to its militant rhetoric, the Hamas has largely observed an informal truce since a bruising Israeli offensive two years ago, forgoing attacks that could spur Israel to strike back or tighten its blockade. Any Israel response could make life harder for Gazans. Some 30 percent of residents are unemployed and many more rely on food aid. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-hails-u-s-retreat-on-settlement-freeze-demands-1.330368">12/15/2010 - Netanyahu hails U.S. retreat on settlement freeze demands</a> Mitchell is also scheduled to hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. But the brunt of the work will be in Israel because the Palestinians have already submitted their opening positions on all the core issues - borders, security, Jerusalem, refugees, water and the settlements <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-12-05.htm">12/15/2010 - Palestinians sceptical after US freeze failure</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-14-03.htm">12/15/2010 - Hamas leader says group will never recognize Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-13-01.htm">12/15/2010 - Israel group blasts arrests of Palestinian minors</a> In a report released Monday, the Israeli rights group B'Tselem says the youths' arrest is part of an Israeli campaign targeting Palestinian minors  one just 5 years old  for stone throwing in east Jerusalem. It says police often arrest minors from their homes in the middle of the night and interrogate them, sometimes with no parent present, in ways that violate Israeli law. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-12-02.htm">12/15/2010 - Israel's leader does not want to share Jerusalem</a> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reaffirmation of his intention to hold on to east Jerusalem drew criticism from the Palestinians and was likely to increase friction with the Americans. The White House Mideast envoy is scheduled to arrive this week in another attempt to push peace efforts forward. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-09-01.htm">12/15/2010 - Israel draws international rebuke over settlements</a> The European Union, the United Nations and the Arab League have rebuked Israel after its refusal to halt settlement construction forced Washington to drop efforts to relaunch Mideast peace talks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-11-04.htm">12/15/2010 - Jordanian, Palestinian soccer fans clash</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-12-06.htm">12/15/2010 - Yad Vashem struggles to teach Holocaust to Arabs</a> <b>The irony. At what point will Israel teach its people the truth about its inception, and what it has done to a largely agrarian people who for 60 years have been made to pay for the Holocaust, when they had nothing to do with it.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-12-03.htm">12/15/2010 - Heavy rains, strong winds batter Middle East</a> In the Gaza Strip, strong winds and lashing rains caused cracks in the pier and the breakfront at the harbor local fishermen use. No one was hurt, but civil defense workers and the Gaza maritime police were hauling boats out of the water and moving them and other fishing equipment to safer ground. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-13-02.htm">12/15/2010 - Palestinians, Contained</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133677/">12/15/2010 - Who by Fire?</a> By the end, when Prime Minister Netanyahu informed others already preparing to send personnel and supplies that they would not be needed, Israel had welcomed seven aircraft from Greece, two from Cyprus, two from Turkey(!), three from Russia, five from France, two more from Britain, seven from Germany, five from Spain, two from Azerbaijan, and five from America  as well as 92 firefighters from Bulgaria, 21 firefighters and three fire engines from the Palestinian Authority, along with three truckloads of equipment from Jordan, materials from Egypt  and all this is only a partial list. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/1209/What-really-drives-suicide-terrorists">12/15/2010 - What really drives suicide terrorists by Robert Pape</a> After examining 2,200 suicide attacks around the world since 1980  the most comprehensive analysis ever conducted  I've concluded that the answer is both simple and disturbing. What drives them is deep anger at the presence of Western combat forces in the Persian Gulf region and other predominately Muslim lands. Popular accounts of these suicide terrorists give the impression that most of them are globe-trotting extremists radicalized by militant networks to strike outside their homeland for religious or other transnational causes. These accounts are false. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-10-02.htm">12/15/2010 - Top Israeli rabbi slams anti-Arab edict</a> A top Israeli rabbi has condemned a controversial ruling forbidding renting or selling property to non Jews. That ruling, which won the support of three dozen rabbis this week, has drawn vocal criticism in Israel. Israel's attorney general is weighing possible charges against the rabbis. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/8196283/Market-alarm-as-US-fails-to-control-biggest-debt-in-history.html">12/15/2010 - Market alarm as US fails to control biggest debt in history</a> The reality is, though, that the market is increasingly alarmed at the rate of increase of the US government s already massive liabilities. America s government debt is set to expand by a jaw-dropping 42pc over the next few years, reaching $19.6 trillion by 2015 according to Treasury Department estimates presented (amid very little fanfare) to Congress back in June <b>Hey I know, let's send a few more billion to Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27067.htm">12/15/2010 - Funding Illegal Israeli Settlements? Priceless.</a> Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all enable donations to be made to US-registered groups funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank in defiance of international law. It appears at least one of the major credit cards also enables donations to an extremist Jewish group that has placed a bounty on the lives of Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133792/">12/15/2010 - The Biggest Pro-Israel Group in America? That s Us, Says Christians United</a> Last year the group distributed, through its sister organization, John Hagee Ministries, more than $8 million to Israeli and Jewish organizations, according to CUFI. CUFI has stated that less than 5% of that sum went to settler organizations operating in the West Bank. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133817/">12/15/2010 - No Link Between Stopping Iran and Pushing Peace? Rabin Knew Better</a>  No, he had the diplomatic cables to prove that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was no obstacle to wide Arab backing, Horovitz wrote.  Obama, that is, was not the prisoner of a misconception, convinced in absolute good faith that Israeli concessions would bring the Arabs  on board for the battle with the mullahs. <b>The pro-Israelis crave a US attack on Iran, as they did with Iraq but then later denied it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2008/02/foreign-affairs.html">12/15/2010 - Berman, Congressional Foreign Affairs Boss, Cites Israel as a Prime Motivator in His Politics, Then Calls Israel Lobby a  Total Canard </a> Berman then assumed he was talking to a friendly crowd. He said Israel "is why I went on the Foreign Affairs Committee " he corrected himself "it s part of why I went on the Foreign Affairs committee in the first place. I m a great supporter of Israel." He hastened to add he was also a supporter of a "sensible" peace process that takes into account "Israel s longtime security needs." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/aipac-palestinian-bashing_b_797287.html">12/15/2010 - UPDATE: State Department Quakes In Terror As AP Asks About Imprisoned Palestinian Demonstrator -- Plus The True Story of the AIPAC-Drafted Berman Bill</a> Congressman Howard Berman (D-CA), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is today rushing to the House floor with an AIPAC-drafted resolution condemning the Palestinians for publicly suggesting that, in the wake of Netanyahu's refusal to freeze settlements and negotiate, they will consider a unilateral declaration of statehood. (As is usual with Berman, his resolution exclusively blames Palestinians for the collapse of peace talks; not a word of criticism of Israel appears.) <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/12/08/leaks-and-leakers/">12/15/2010 - Leaks and Leakers by Philip Giraldi</a> Unauthorized release of classified information and what becomes of it was also the focus in the trial that was terminated in May 2009 of Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, AIPAC employees who passed sensitive intelligence to Israeli government officials and to Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post. The very same people at the Wall Street Journal and the Weekly Standard who are now calling on the federal government to declare war on WikiLeaks and to summarily execute Julian Assange were at that time complaining about the fact that Rosen and Weissman had been charged with a crime because "everyone" passes around classified information in Washington. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/12/09/more-money-for-nothing/">12/15/2010 - More Money for Nothing by Philip Giraldi </a> Yesterday the US Congress approved $205 million for Israel s Iron Dome anti-missile system. That was on top of $200 million previously allocated for Israel s Arrow and David s Sling development programs. Now, one might question approving nearly half a billion dollars for a foreign country at a time when budgets for programs in the United States are being axed, so it is definitely convenient that the US public will not know about the vote as it has not been reported anywhere in the US mainstream media. The article I saw was in today s Haaretz. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-15-04.htm">12/15/2010 - Muslim hotel staff allege discrimination on Israeli visit</a> Muslim employees of a Washington hotel alleged that they were discriminated against when Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited at the weekend, a group representing them said Wednesday. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) sent a protest letter to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel's management on behalf of the employees who alleged they were barred from floors where the Israeli delegation was staying. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27056.htm">12/15/2010 - Deputy FM: Iran-Venezuela Ties Threaten U.S., Entire World</a> Last month, sources in Latin America told Haaretz that a border incident between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and military pressure placed on Costa Rica, a country without an army, are the first step in a plan formulated by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, with funding and assistance from Iran, to create a substitute for the strategically and economically important Panama Canal. The plan has aroused concern in Washington, and the U.S. has begun behind the scenes efforts to foil such a move. Sources in Latin America consider these events, and the power demonstrated by Nicaragua, as a trial balloon by the creators of the "New Canal Plan"  Venezuela, Iran and Nicaragua. Western intelligence agencies are closely following the path of heavy machinery equipment to Nicaragua as well as the activities of Iranians in the Nicaraguan capital Managua. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/13/3091427.htm?section=world">12/15/2010 - Israel was happy with Rudd's stance: WikiLeaks</a> The cables also indicate Mr Rotem was impressed with Prime Minister Julia Gillard's handling of Australia's response to fighting in Gaza while in the role of acting prime minister. The Israelis told US officials she was far more supportive than expected. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27049.htm">12/15/2010 - Italy PM said 'not even Obama can stop Israeli attack on Iran', WikiLeaks cable reveals</a> "No one, including [U.S. President Barack] Obama, can stop Israel if it feels an existential threat," Berlusconi is reported to have said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/barak-tells-gates-hezbollah-and-syria-must-not-gain-weapons-supremacy-over-israel-1.330433">12/15/2010 - Barak tells Gates: Hezbollah and Syria must not gain weapons supremacy over Israel</a> The two discussed continuing cooperation to build up Israel's active defense against missiles and rockets. They also resumed talks regarding the development of the Namer armored vehicle, and Barak advised his American counterpart to see the U.S. ground army equipped with one as well. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/ss_military1225_12_09.asp">12/15/2010 - Obama withdraws offer to donate 20 F-35s to Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27037.htm">12/15/2010 - Lebanon Holds its Breath Over Leaked Revelations By Robert Fisk in Beirut</a> Now the US cables reveal that the UN has indeed been cooperating with the United States, asking for aerial reconnaissance pictures of the Bekaa Valley and sending DNA samples from Mr Hariri's suspected killer, Ahmad Abu Adass, to FBI headquarters for examination.......Yet more dangerous still is a 2008 cable stating that former Lebanese telecommunications minister Marwan Hamadeh provided the US with maps detailing locations of Hezbollah's communications network. ...There are some details in the cables on Lebanon which are provably wrong. A claim by Samir Geagea, a right-wing Christian politician , that Iran had provided Syria with 15 submarines, was palpably untrue. Mr Geagea has refused to comment on this cable. Another allegation  that missiles were smuggled into Lebanon on board planes carrying first aid during the 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli war  is provably untrue: Beirut airport was bombed on the first day of the battles and never reopened until the conflict had ended. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/rudd-calls-for-inspections-of-israels-nuclear-facility/story-e6frg6nf-1225970522340">12/15/2010 - Rudd calls for inspections of Israel's nuclear facility</a> FOREIGN Minister Kevin Rudd has arrived in Israel with a blunt message: allow international inspectors into your nuclear facility. He has also called on Israel to stop building in Jewish settlements in both the West Bank and East Jerusalem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-10-01.htm">12/15/2010 - Iran Nuclear Talks: Senators Urge Obama to Stand Firm</a> On Monday, as Iran's nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili met in Geneva with E.U. foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, a group of prominent U.S. Senators  including John Kyl, Joe Lieberman, Kirsten Gillebrand and John McCain  wrote to President Obama urging him to reject any proposal under which Iran would maintain a uranium enrichment capability <b>AIPAC shills.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-11-03.htm">12/15/2010 - 1 small NY town's battle for tolerance</a> Locals watched in horror as Sidney was branded as Islamophobic, backward and ignorant. "It was sickening," says attorney Tom Schimmerling, 58, the son of Holocaust survivors, who immediately offered to represent the Sufis free of charge. "McCarthy was acting like this was Selma, Ala., in the '60s and he was Bull Connor." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/rudd-failed-to-consult-israel-over-call-for-nuclear-inspection-opposition-claims/story-fn59niix-1225971427422">12/15/2010 - Rudd failed to consult Israel over call for nuclear inspection, Opposition claims </a> KEVIN Rudd's call for an inspection of Israel's nuclear facilities was made without any consultation with Jerusalem, the Opposition has claimed. "If the reports are correct and Israeli officials were taken by surprise, it reveals Kevin Rudd has not learnt any lessons from his past mistakes," said the opposition's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Julie Bishop. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israpundit.com/archives/31589">12/15/2010 - Jewish Ingratitude to Evangelicals</a> Every year Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews raises about $100 million dollars from mostly evangelical Christians in the United States for distribution to social welfare projects in Israel and the former Soviet Union. This is a staggering sum, making the fellowship arguably the largest foundation for Jews in need in the world. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://america-hijacked.com/2010/12/14/congressman-paul-findley-on-push-for-iran-war/">12/15/2010 - Former Congressman Paul Findley on Push for Iran War</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/12/01/thirty-nine-congressmen-cant-be-wrong/">12/8/2010 - Thirty-Nine Congressmen Can t Be Wrong by Philip Giraldi</a> For those who think it inconceivable that a large number of congressmen might petition seeking clemency for a convicted foreign spy who did enormous damage to the United States, think again. Pollard has recently obtained the services of Barney Frank and thirty-eight other Democratic congressmen who have signed on to a letter coordinated with a number of Jewish groups. They apparently believe that the poor guy has suffered enough in service to his country, which is of course Israel, making one wonder why American politicians should feel the pain. But no matter, as we all know where the faux compassion comes from. <b>Treason, folks. If you care about this country, you just have to read the whole thing. Then do something about it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/iran-nuclear-experts-killings">12/8/2010 - Covert war against Iran's nuclear aims takes chilling turn</a> The assassination had the hallmark of well-practised professionals. The explosives were shaped to focus the blast and fire a hail of projectiles into the car at an individual target, with minimal "collateral damage". The targets were obviously carefully chosen and the attack would have required weeks of surveillance. So even if local assassins were involved, the questions of who trained and funded them and assigned the targets would remain.......Stuxnet does not bear fingerprints, but a western military source recently told the Observer that it was an Israeli creation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53790">12/8/2010 - Cables Belie Gulf States' Backing for Strikes on Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-07-03.htm">12/8/2010 - Israel upset by Argentina Palestinian recognition</a> Argentina's foreign minister, Hector Timerman, said Monday that in view of stalemated peace efforts, "the time has come to recognize Palestine as a free and independent state." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-07-10.htm">12/8/2010 - Israel: US too consumed by WikiLeaks to talk peace</a> Israel's defense minister said Tuesday the U.S. has halted talks with Israel about curbing West Bank settlement construction and resuming peace talks with the Palestinians because Washington is distracted by the WikiLeaks release of secret documents. <b>Cui bono - who benefits -- from Wikileaks? Who is sitting pretty and smug, with Julian Assange singing Netanyahu's praises?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-04-01.htm">12/8/2010 - Abbas: Last resort  I'll ask Israel to take over</a> Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned he may dissolve his self rule government and ask Israel to resume full control of the West Bank if troubled peace talks fail. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-08-02.htm">12/8/2010 - Netanyahu Forces an Obama Mideast Retreat</a> "I know what America is," Benjamin Netanyahu, then an opposition politician, told Israeli settlers in 2002. "America is something that can easily be moved. Moved to the right direction." And in the last few months, Prime Minister Netanyahu has proved his point by walking back President Obama's call for a freeze in Israeli settlement construction so much so that the Administration on Tuesday essentially gave up and took it off the table. <b>America is not the land of the free, not when it is ruled by Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-07-04.htm">12/8/2010 - Palestinian protest leader's case sparks scrutiny</a> The target of such unprecedented interest was Abdullah Abu Rahmeh, a leader of Palestinian protests against Israel's West Bank separation barrier who has been feted by some in the international community, from European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, as a courageous defender of human rights. Israel views the West Bank school teacher as an instigator of violence and wants to keep him in prison, even though he has completed his yearlong sentence. Israel says the demonstrations are violent riots since some of the marchers routinely throw stones at Israeli troops. .......Carter and fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, part of a group of former leaders known as The Elders, on Monday condemned the attempt to keep Abu Rahmeh in prison. Carter said his "example of nonviolent resistance against the occupation is a model that others should follow." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-02-02.htm">12/8/2010 - Iran makes arrests over nuclear scientist killing</a> "The three spy agencies of Mossad, CIA and MI6 had a role in the (attacks) and, with the arrest of these people, we will find new clues to arrest other elements," Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi was quoted as saying on state television's website. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3992938,00.html">12/8/2010 - 'Promised land for organized crime'</a> "It is fair to assume that many known OC figures hold valid tourist visas to the United States and travel freely," Cunningham wrote, adding that the embassy "has developed an extensive database and placed lookouts for OC figures and their foot soldiers." He did not elaborate. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.dci-pal.org/english/doc/press/UA_4_10_Children_of_the_Gravel_UPDATE_3_DEC__2010(2).pdf">12/8/2010 - Defense for Children International: Urgent Appeal - Shooting of children collecting building gravel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11656.shtml">12/8/2010 - Without land, Gaza farmers grow crops on roofs</a> The Israeli imposition of a "buffer zone" along Gaza's borders swallows at least a third of Gaza's farmland and renders lethal any border regions farmers try to access. This land formerly produced wheat, barley and a variety of fruits and nuts; it was Gaza's food basket. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/12/02/wikileaks-exposes-israeli-mafias-growing-influence/">12/8/2010 - WikiLeaks Exposes Israeli Mafia s Growing Influence by Justin Raimondo</a> Take, for example, this excerpt from a cable dated May 15, 2009  entitled "Israel, A Promised Land for Organized Crime?"  sent by our embassy in Tel Aviv, which deals with the rising influence of Israeli organized crime <b>The bottom line here: Israel's organized crime syndicate is free to roam the US on visas. And if they commit crimes against Americans, they can hightail it back to Israel to avoid extradition, as so many of them evidently do. And anyway, even if they out and out KILLED Americans, what would our government do about it? Well, what did our government do about the murder of Rachel Corrie, or the men aboard the USS Liberty? ZERO.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-02-03.htm">12/8/2010 - Israel to blame for "collapse" of talks: Abbas aide</a> "It's time for the American administration to tell the world that Israel holds the responsibility for the collapse of this peace process," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said. "Israel has chosen settlements and not peace," he told Reuters. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-07-07.htm">12/8/2010 - Palestinians seek unilateral statehood recognition</a> Winning a majority in the U.N. General Assembly would presumably be an easier task, but obtaining recognition by the U.N. Security Council would be the bigger prize, yet much harder to obtain because of a likely U.S. veto. Washington has traditionally blocked measures that Israel considers hostile. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-06-02.htm">12/8/2010 - Argentina: Palestine is free and independent state</a> Argentina announced Monday that it recognizes the Palestinian territories as a free and independent state within their 1967 borders, a step it said reflects frustration at the slow progress of peace talks with Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-israel-has-chosen-west-bank-settlements-over-peace-1.328396">12/8/2010 - Palestinians: Israel has chosen West Bank settlements over peace</a> The United States should openly blame Israel for the "collapse" of the peace process, a senior Palestinian official said on Thursday, in one of the bleakest assessments yet on Middle East peace efforts. New Israeli plans to build near East Jerusalem show Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not want to resume peace talks, Palestinian officials said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-08-01.htm">12/8/2010 - Israel decides to ease Gaza export ban</a> Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas in Gaza, described the decision as a "propaganda manoeuvre" and urged public opinion not to be "deceived ... and to keep up the international pressure on the occupation." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-07-05.htm">12/8/2010 - U.S. drops push for Israel settlement freeze</a> there were some concerns about the size of the incentives the United States offered Israel   which Israeli sources said included 20 F 35 stealth fighters worth $3 billion   for only a temporary extension.......Three Latin American nations   Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay   declared recognition of a Palestinian state at the weekend, drawing Israeli condemnation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-08-04.htm">12/8/2010 - After new setback, Obama Mideast plan in doubt</a> A top aide to the Palestinian president, Yasser Abed Rabbo, went so far as to question Washington's ability to broker a deal, asking how the Americans could possibly "make Israel accept a fair solution" when they couldn't even make it limit its settlement activities. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-07-01.htm">12/8/2010 - Israel east Jerusalem policy threatens peace: EU</a> The EU report said that since the start of November, east Jerusalem settlement planning had resumed "very intensively" and warned that such a policy, combined with curbs on Palestinian building and increased demolitions and evictions in the sector, were having "serious humanitarian consequences." .....Israel's attempts to exclusively emphasise the Jewish identity of the city were threatening to "radicalise the conflict, with potential regional and global repercussions." And the report warned of the EU's increasing concern about Israel's "use of archaeology as a political ideological tool" in a bid to cement the Jewish state's hold over the entire city. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-03-02.htm">12/8/2010 - US lawmakers blast Brazil's Palestinian move</a> Ros Lehtinen, set to chair the panel come January, said "responsible nations" would wait to take such a step until Palestinians return to direct talks with Israel and recognize its "right to exist as a Jewish state." <b>Why is this a matter for Capitol Hill? Do not our 'representatives' have anything better to do than to shill for a foreign nation? They seem to do an awful lot of that for the nation of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/133795/">12/8/2010 - Rep. Ackerman Cheers Obama's Shift in Peace Process</a> Instead, Ackerman now suggests focusing on Iran, which he sees as the biggest Middle East problem. Here, he is once again on the same page as Netanyahu. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-07-09.htm">12/8/2010 - Israeli rabbis tell Jews not to sell homes to Arabs</a> Obtained by Reuters ahead of its planned publication in synagogues and religious journals, the letter quotes warnings by ancient sages that living with non Jews can lead to "sacrilege." Other concerns for property values are also raised. <b>Racist much?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133561/">12/8/2010 - Parsing a Palestinian Poll on Peace, With Prejudice</a> if you re the Zionist Organization of America, what s in your headline is whatever distortion of the data you re discussing that you think you can get away with. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/12/03">12/8/2010 - Human Rights and Humanitarian Relief Groups Urge Rebuilding Plan for Gaza</a> In a report entitled "Gaza Repair Strategies," the nongovernmental organizations propose a concerted effort of small-scale home repairs that offers viable, safe, and dignified repair options. The strategy is designed to enable Gaza residents to move toward regaining their lives and livelihoods until a permanent political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be reached. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11657.shtml">12/8/2010 - Why we walked out</a> Students across the US are protesting a public relations campaign that brings soldiers from the Israeli army to speak on campuses. These tours are an attempt to justify recent war crimes committed by the army and are coordinated by various organizations, the most well-known being the Zionist organization StandWithUs. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noTojOAAC8M">12/8/2010 - YouTube - Let Us Call On Israel To STOP SHOOTING CHILDREN! Congressman Brian Baird</a> <b>Congratulations for Rep. Baird for having the courage to stand up for justice, and stand up to Israel and its goons who preside over Capitol Hill.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/156822/uprooting-bedouins-israel">12/8/2010 - Uprooting the Bedouins of Israel</a> The Jewish National Fund s objective, however, is not altruistic, but rather to plant a pine or eucalyptus forest on the desert land so that the Bedouins cannot return to their ancestral homes. The practice of planting forests in an attempt to Judaize more territory is by no means new. Right after Israel s establishment in 1948, the JNF planted millions of trees to cover up the remains of Palestinian villages that had been destroyed during or after the war. The objective was to help ensure that the 750,000 Palestinian residents who either fled or were expelled during the war would never return to their villages and to suppress the fact that they had been the rightful owners of the land before the State of Israel was created. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/12/20101224118125377.html">12/8/2010 - Ireland 'blocked' weapons to Israel </a> After the Israel-Lebanon war, the Israeli military said it needed to restore its depleted ammunition stocks, but the cable from James Kenny, the US ambassador to Ireland at the time, indicates that the Irish government was making it increasingly difficult for Israel-bound US weapons shipments to pass through its airport. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-05-01.htm">12/8/2010 - Turkey, Israel in bid to overcome crisis</a> "Some say we should turn a new page... An apology must be offered first, compensation must be paid first," Erdogan said Sunday in a speech in Sivas, central Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-03-03.htm">12/8/2010 - NY rabbi, sons accused of sexually abusing girls</a> The 58 year old father and his 21 year old son fled to Israel two days ago and are wanted for questioning in the case, police said. They were apparently driven to the airport by the mother. <b>Israel = haven for criminals.</b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/12/state-dept-reporters-continue-to-be-rambunctious-about-israel-announcing-625-new-houses-for-jews.html">12/8/2010 - State Dep t reporters continue to be rambunctious about Israel announcing 625 new houses for Jews</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/12/video-reporters-challenge-state.html">12/8/2010 - Video: Reporters challenge State Department on Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=198312">12/8/2010 - Imams, rabbis in Brussels to improve Muslim-Jewish ties</a> He also suggested that the EU impose on its members and officials a code of behavior that would sanction those who made anti-Semitic and racist remarks. <b>Will Israel too be sanctioned for its anti-Semitic (Arabs are Semites too) and racist remarks of its leaders, rabbis, and legislation ? Doubtful.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/12/new-wikileaks-revelations-show-ireland.html">12/8/2010 - New WikiLeaks revelations show Ireland limiting complicity in US arms transfer to Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/02/2493818/helen-thomas-says-zionists-control.html">12/8/2010 - Helen Thomas says Zionists control U.S. foreign policy - KansasCity.com</a>  I can call a president of the United States anything in the book, but I can t touch Israel, which has Jewish-only roads in the West Bank, Thomas said.  No American would tolerate that  white-only roads. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11661.shtml">12/8/2010 - ei The Carmel wildfire is burning all illusions in Israel</a> The pine trees themselves were instruments of concealment, strategically planted by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) on the sites of the hundreds of Palestinian villages the Zionist militias evacuated and destroyed in 1948. With forests sprouting up where towns once stood, those who had been expelled would have nothing to come back to. Meanwhile, to outsiders beholding the strangely Alpine landscape of northern Israel for the first time, it seemed as though the Palestinians had never existed. And that was exactly the impression the JNF intended to create. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/carmel-inferno-proves-israel-can-t-afford-war-with-iran-1.328529">12/8/2010 - Carmel inferno proves Israel can't afford war with Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/bittersweet-remembrance-sunday-for-palestinian-veterans-23013678;_ylt=AiQcAPsjrE1MANj6kvFQRk10fNdF">12/8/2010 - Yahoo Video: Bittersweet Remembrance Sunday for Palestinian veterans</a> <b>Short clip of Palestinian Arab veterans who served for the British in WWII.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-06-03.htm">12/8/2010 - AP Exclusive: Jailed Palestinian atheist sorry</a> A Palestinian atheist jailed for more than a month for sharing his anti Islam views on the Internet has apologized for offending Muslims, and a Palestinian military spokesman said he expected "positive" developments in the case. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/israel-citizen-advocates-europe-pr">12/8/2010 - Israel recruits citizen advocates in Europe</a> Israel has instructed its embassies in 10 European countries, including the UK, each to recruit 1,000 members of the public to act as advocates for its policies in a new public relations offensive. <b>Europeans beware.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-07-06.htm">12/8/2010 - Gulf leaders want Iran to respond to peace efforts</a> A communique issued by the six leaders at the end of a two day summit in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, said they wanted the dispute over Iran's nuclear program to be resolved through "peaceful means" and make the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction. <b>Kind of goes against the Wikileaks cables.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/04/yvette-cooper-israeli-settler-labelling-imports">12/8/2010 - Yvette Cooper calls for Israeli settler labelling on food imports</a> Labour is opposed to boycotting Israeli goods but Cooper believes consumers should be informed whether products are produced by illegal settlers. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=590:too-toxic-to-handle&catid=1:alerts&Itemid=34">12/8/2010 - FOLLOW-UP ALERT ON ISRAEL S POLICY OF NEAR-STARVATION FOR GAZA</a> It is of major significance that explicit Israeli calculations for the amount of food, animal feed and poultry to be allowed into Gaza can be seen, starkly laid out in black and white. One of the calculated quantities is  breathing space : the number of days that supplies will last in Gaza. The concept of  breathing space for Gaza, dictated by the Israelis, is chilling; yet, the media appear happy to look the other way. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/133752/">12/8/2010 - The Limits of a Coalition Without AIPAC</a> So here is where the administration s efforts to engage the Jewish community on START stand: On the one hand, the White House and congressional Democrats were successful in creating a remarkable Jewish coalition in support of the treaty, which spans from J Street to ADL. On the other hand, without the lobbying power of AIPAC, this coalition isn t even close to showing lawmakers what Jewish power really means. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133570/">12/8/2010 - Leaks Hint at Chance, Risk of Coalition Against Iran</a>  These leaders now have to hide following these comments, Parsi said.  They are really going to have to pull back from the brink, and the primary reason is that this is a policy that is at odds with what their populations want. Parsi said the main reason that these strong sentiments were only revealed now is that these Arab leaders, though heads of authoritarian regimes, were keeping their Iranian saber rattling to themselves because it puts them at odds with public opinion in their own countries. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133569/">12/8/2010 - Another Mosque Project Seeks Support, This Time With Jewish Help</a> Asked why his group decided to spend the first night of Hanukkah with a Syrian-born imam and his flock to support their bid to build a mosque in the rolling hills of the Temecula Valley in California s Southwestern Riverside County, Eric Greene replied,  We remember when there were protests in this country against synagogues being built. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/12/02/wikileaks_israel_on_iran">12/8/2010 - WikiLeaks cables: Don't trust Israel on Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/senior-turkey-official-says-israel-behind-wikileaks-release-1.328373">12/8/2010 - Senior Turkey official says Israel behind WikiLeaks release </a>  One has to look at which countries are pleased with these," Celik was quoted as saying. "Israel is very pleased. Israel has been making statements for days, even before the release of these documents. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8182847/Wikileaks-Saudis-chief-funders-of-al-Qaeda.html">12/8/2010 - Wikileaks: Saudis 'chief funders of al-Qaeda'</a> <b>Why wasn't Saudi attacked after 9/11? Do you believe for one moment that without Saudi funding, those attacks would have been able to proceed? Not likely. One would've thought it was Iraq that funded 9/11, or even Iran. Who is driving our policy here? Who benefitted from our invasion of Iraq? The United States? Whose number 1 enemy did we depose? Israel's. So while we're bogged down fighting Israel's enemies (next comes Iran), our real foes get away with murder, incitement, and the funding of terror against US citizens and soldiers.</b><br><br> <a href="http://againsttheinsidiouswiles.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-israel-in-list-of-countries.html">12/8/2010 - Wikileaks: Israel in the list of countries not clamping down on terror funding</a> ABC Nightly News just ran a Wikileaks story exposing terror funding during which they showed documents exposing bank transactions from countries not clamping down on this funding. I spied some transactions from Tel Aviv in the list (a few times) of the document but yet no mention of this in the report or any other that I can find in the Google News index. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-04-02.htm">12/8/2010 - UN investigating reported device blast in Lebanon</a> The U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon says it is investigating a blast reportedly caused by the detonation of an Israeli device spying on Hezbollah's private telecommunications network. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/rabbi-landlord-jewish-arab-students-safed">12/8/2010 - Denounced as a traitor the Holocaust survivor who rents rooms to Israeli-Arabs</a> Israel's extreme rightwing foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has advocated the compulsory "transfer" from the country of Israeli-Arabs, who make up about 20% of the population. The government wants non-Jewish citizens to pledge loyalty to the Jewish state. Tzvieli insists he will not bow to pressure over his tenants. "Most residents of Safed are a mixture of religious and secular and are tolerant and open," he said. "It's just here in the old city, where the extremists live, that I am in a minority." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8182126/Mossad-was-this-the-chiefs-last-hit.html">12/8/2010 - mossad was this the chief's last hit - Telegraph</a> Last Monday, a thousand miles further east in the Iranian capital, Tehran, it appears that the kidon put both of those skills into practice, killing a top nuclear scientist and critically injuring a second as they drove through the rush-hour traffic. .....To assist in the attack, Persian-speaking Mossad deep cover agents have been steadily infiltrating Iran for years. How exactly they helped the hitmen flit in and out of the country remains a secret. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2010/dec/06/mossad-iran">12/8/2010 - Mossad and Iran's nuclear scientists Part II</a> Saeed Kamali Dehghan, The Guardian's Iran correspondent in exile, has pointed me towards this Wikileaks cable from the US embassy in Tel Aviv. It is dated May 2009 and says: In November 2008, Israeli crime boss Yaakov Alperon was assassinated in broad daylight in a gruesome attack on the streets of Tel Aviv, only about a mile away from the Embassy. According to several media accounts, a motor scooter pulled up alongside Alperon's car and the rider attached a sophisticated explosive device with a remote detonator to the car door. The bomb killed Alperon and his driver, and injured two innocent pedestrians. The hit was the latest in a series of violent attacks and reprisals, and indicated a widening crime war in Israel. The interesting point here is that this is exactly how the two Iranian nuclear scientists, Majid Shahriari, and Fereidoun Abbasi, were attacked last Monday morning. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/12/05/israeli_predictions_iranian_nukes/index.html">12/8/2010 - Israel on Iran So wrong for so long</a> According to various Israeli government predictions over the years, Iran was going to have a bomb by the mid-90s -- or 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2005, and finally 2010. More recent Israeli predictions have put that date at 2011 or 2014. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-06-01.htm">12/8/2010 - Israel fears 'flood' of migrants threatens state</a> In a speech to parliament last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of a "flood" of illegal migrants. "It is threatening the jobs of Israelis, and it is threatening the Jewish and democratic character of the state of Israel," he said. <b>The supreme irony here is that it is the <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124478/">Jewish groups here in America that are squarely behind the effort to grant amnesty to illegals in America</a>, by their own admission. Yet, it's another standard for Israel. Ironically, many of these immigants are from Sudan, another celebrated cause of American Jews.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-03-01.htm">12/8/2010 - Hezbollah says it found Israeli spy device</a> Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group said Friday that it discovered an Israeli device spying on its private telecommunications network. The device exploded, apparently detonated remotely by the Israelis, when it was found near the village of Majdel Silim, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the border with Israel, Hezbollah said in a statement. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/05/iran-nuclear-experts-killings">12/8/2010 - Covert war against Iran's nuclear aims takes chilling turn</a> Time magazine last week claimed to have been given details of the attack from "a western intelligence expert with knowledge of the operation" and asserted that it "carried the signature of Israel's Mossad". <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-07-02.htm">12/8/2010 - Hezbollah has 50,000 rockets: report</a> The Times quoted a Pentagon official expressing concern over the Hezbollah arsenal, in response to a series of leaked diplomatic cables on the issue. <b>which neocon in the Pentagon was it? Name names.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.iww.org/en/node/5282">12/8/2010 - IWW supports Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in support of Palestinian Rights</a> This vote makes the IWW the first union in the US and the third union in Canada to officially support the Palestinian United Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11658.shtml">12/8/2010 - ei Boycott roundup French companies to drop out of Jerusalem rail project</a> In a significant victory for the global Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, French companies Veolia and Alstom have dropped out of the Jerusalem light rail project due to sustained pressure from Palestine solidarity groups. The companies were contracted by the Israeli government to construct and manage the tramway linking Jerusalem to several illegal Israeli settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-founder-netanyahu-believes-expose-will-aid-mideast-peace-1.328380">12/8/2010 - WikiLeaks founder: Netanyahu believes exposé will aid Mideast peace</a> WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday defended his disclosure of classified U.S. documents by singling out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an example of a world leader who believes the publications will aid global diplomacy. <b>A little strange his praise of Israel. IT kind of goes against the premise of the whole Wikileaks operation, or at least the premise that the public is led to believe.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-08-03.htm">12/8/2010 - WikiLeaks: Saudi proposed force to crush Hezbollah</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/12/08/gordon-duff-busted-wikileaks-working-for-israel/">12/8/2010 - BUSTED  WIKILEAKS WORKING FOR ISRAEL Veterans Today</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://jfjfp.com/?p=19400">12/1/2010 - URGENT APPEAL. More children collecting building gravel have been shot and wounded in Gaza. Please lodge a protest.</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.mepc.org/journal/middle-east-policy-archives/special-relationship-israel">12/1/2010 - The Special Relationship with Israel: Is It Worth the Costs? </a> When Benjamin Netanyahu was chosen as Israel s prime minister in 1996, a handful of prominent American neoconservatives prepared for him a policy document entitled,  A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm. The authors, several of whom would obtain influential posts in the George W. Bush administration, recommended an aggressive stance towards Syria, confrontation with Arafat, an effort to  wean the Lebanese Shia away from Hezbollah, and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. In his recent book Israel and the Clash of Civilizations, Jonathan Cook traces these recommendations to themes worked up by several right-wing Israeli strategists in the 1980s. The Israelis were proposing that Jerusalem cement its status as the Mideast s dominant power by fomenting sectarian and ethnic strife in the surrounding states.<br><br>.... American backing of Israel has been a major, if not the sole, factor in making the United States a target of Muslim terrorists. This is invariably what such terrorists say, whether in custody or at liberty, and no one has explained plausibly why they would misrepresent their motivations. <br><br>.... While America s freely elected leaders bear the ultimate responsibility for the decision to invade Iraq, it should not be forgotten that Israeli officials were pressing for the invasion every step of the way, giving speeches before Congress, writing op-eds, appearing on television.<br><br>.....One important consequence of a  special relationship with Israel is that Israel will work to ensure that its enemies become enemies of the United States. To the extent it succeeds, the United States will have fewer friends and more enemies.<br><br>...The affection implicit in the special relationship flows in one direction only. The Washington Post reported recently on a poll of CIA officers. They ranked Israel dead last among allies for intelligence cooperation with the United States. The same story noted that American counterintelligence officials, pointing to aggressive Israeli spy operations on U.S soil, ranked only Russia and China as more serious intelligence threats. <b>Our 'special relationship' with Israel has cost us Americans dearly - in many ways. This piece is long, but a must read.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-28-01.htm">12/1/2010 - Israeli gunfire wounds four Gazans: medics</a> Israeli soldiers on Sunday shot and wounded four Palestinians as they searched for building materials near Gaza's border with Israel, medical sources said <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.dci-pal.org/english/PrinterF.cfm?DocId=1731&CategoryID=1">12/1/2010 - 60 Israeli professionals speak out at violence against children</a> The issues raised in the letter reflect concerns held by DCI-Palestine, which has documented 22 cases of children who report being mistreated by the arresting authorities since 8 October 2010. The age of the youngest child reporting mistreatment is seven years. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-26-01.htm">12/1/2010 - Israeli fire wounds Gaza child: officials</a> The boy was shot in the leg as he foraged for building materials near the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, the officials said. Figures provided by Geneva based rights group Defence for Children International show that in the six months between March and October this year, 14 teenage gravel pickers were wounded by Israeli fire   with those injured being shot in an area ranging from 50 to 800 metres from the border. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-25-02.htm">12/1/2010 - Israel police under fire for abusing east Jerusalem children</a> Israeli police were accused of "flagrant violations" of the law Thursday over their harsh and at times violent treatment of Palestinian children suspected of stone throwing in east Jerusalem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/israel-condemned-over-bedouin-village-demolition-2010-11-25">12/1/2010 - Israel condemned over Bedouin village demolition Amnesty International</a> Amnesty International has condemned the Israeli authorities following the demolition of a Bedouin village in southern Israel for the seventh time since July. ... The fact that the village has been demolished seven times in four months shows that this is not some administrative mistake but a conscious Israeli government policy of dispossession. ....As in previous demolitions, no eviction or demolition order was presented to the inhabitants. Israeli authorities have previously detained residents and their supporters when they demanded to see a demolition order. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1389">12/1/2010 - CPT Palestine: Help!</a> Because of your support, we were able to continue to work with non-violent Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation. Today, Palestinian shop-keepers sell their wares in the old city of Hebron, and refuse to be driven out of their homes by harrassment from Israeli settlers and soldiers. This year, people living in the village of At-Tuwani succeeded in gaining access to electricity and running water. These successes are made possible by organized Palestinian activism, and CPT is honored to work with and support our Palestinian partners. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-30-02.htm">12/1/2010 - WikiLeaks shows Netanyahu supports land swaps</a> <b>I'll believe it when I see it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/israel-razes-east-jerusalem-home-20101125-187nq.html">12/1/2010 - Israel razes east Jerusalem home</a> Shortly afterwards, some 15 Jewish settlers, accompanied by dozens of police, took over a house in another part of the district, an Israeli peace activist told AFP. ...Meanwhile, Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday destroyed at least two Palestinian buildings used to house livestock and a tent in Massua near the border with Jordan. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/30-3">12/1/2010 - Aid Groups Decry Blockade on Gaza </a> Nasma died four months later, on October 16, after Israeli authorities failed to issue her with a permit to leave the strip in time for treatment in an Israeli hospital. Her case is being held up by human rights groups as evidence that Israel's "relaxation" of the blockade has in fact offered little improvement to the lives of Palestinians trapped in Gaza. In a report issued on Tuesday, a coalition of 22 international NGOs and human rights groups have accused Israel of failing to make good on its June promises. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/28/israel-primed-attack-nuclear-iran">12/1/2010 - Israel primed to attack a nuclear Iran</a> US officials repeatedly expressed concern about conflicting assessments by their Israeli counterparts, some of whom admitted their own estimates should be treated with caution: one diplomat noted that Israeli assessments from 1993 onwards had predicted Iran would possess an atomic bomb by 1998 at the latest. <b>Israel=Chicken Little. Our government finally wising up?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-29-01.htm">12/1/2010 - Iran blames Israel after nuclear scientist killed</a> Iran's president accused Israel and the West of being behind a pair of daring bomb attacks that killed one nuclear scientist and wounded another in their cars on the streets of Tehran on Monday. He also admitted for the first time that a computer worm had affected centrifuges in Iran's uranium enrichment program. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-01-03.htm">12/1/2010 - Israel unveils new residential plan near East Jerusalem</a> Israel on Wednesday revealed plans to build new homes on West Bank land it has annexed as part of its Jerusalem boundaries, a move likely to further hamper any resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians. The plan to build 625 homes in the urban area of Pisgat Zeev adjacent to Arab East Jerusalem was approved by an Israeli Interior Ministry committee last week, some two years after it was originally proposed, Israel Radio said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/26/palestinian-refugees-middle-east-conflict">12/1/2010 - Memories and maps keep alive Palestinian hopes of return</a> Aerial photographs taken by first world war German pilots are combined with mandate-era and Israeli maps supplemented by digitally enhanced satellite images that record old tribal boundaries, neighbourhoods and even individual buildings. Most striking are the hundreds of Arab villages that were destroyed or ploughed under fields, as well as postwar Jewish settlements and suburbs. The Abu Sitta family lands, for example, are now owned by Kibbutz Nirim, near the border with Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-vows-to-honor-palestinian-referendum-on-peace-with-israel-1.328234">12/1/2010 - Hamas vows to honor Palestinian referendum on peace with Israel</a> The Islamist Hamas movement, whose charter advocates the elimination of Israel, would accept the outcome of a Palestinian referendum on a future peace treaty with Israel, its Gaza leader said on Wednesday <b>Another myth put forth by pro-Israeli propagandists flushed down the toilet: Hamas wants or intends to 'drive the Jews into the sea', ie that Hamas seeks to annihilate or conquer all of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/11/24/who-voted-for-more-war/">12/1/2010 - Who Voted for More War? by Philip Giraldi</a> as it is Thanksgiving, it is perhaps appropriate to ditch the gloom for just one day and look on the bright side. There has been no war against Iran in spite of the best efforts of Graham, McCain, Lieberman, Palin, the Israel Lobby, and the mainstream media. That is largely due to the intelligence community s having developed a backbone in its 2007 Iran NIE, but it is also the product of alternative media sites like Antiwar.com that make sure that the downside of yet another military adventure is made clear to an increasingly well informed and vocal public. Antiwar has a stable of staff and contributors who put in long hours to produce unique content for the site, reflecting a wide range of viewpoints even if neocons are not generally welcome, thank you very much. On Thanksgiving I personally want to thank the many contributors whom I read and listen to every week: Justin Raimondo, Kelley Vlahos, Scott Horton, Ivan Eland, Chuck Pena, Jeff Huber, Jim Lobe, Gareth Porter, Paul Craig Roberts, and so many others. And I particularly will drink a toast later today to my fellow former spooks who have done so much to rip the veil of secrecy that surrounds the National Security State and its bankrupt policies: Ray McGovern, Michael Scheuer, and the Christisons. Floreat in aeternum! <b>Thank you too, Mr. Giraldi, for your tireless efforts to protect America!! God love ya.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26950.htm">12/1/2010 - Exclusive: Leaked Cable Reveals US-Israeli Strategy for Regime Change in Iran </a> Philip Giraldi, a former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer and the Central Intelligence Agency, who served for eighteen years in Turkey, believes Dagan's comment that Israel will have to "invest time and effort ourselves in dealing with Iran was, in essence, a veiled threat. "It is essentially setting up a situation in which the threat of Israel acting alone becomes a wedge issue to force the US to do something so that it will be able to manage the situation rather than respond to Israeli initiatives," Giraldi told Raw Story on Sunday. "It pushes Washington into planning a military strike to force the Israelis to stand down on their own plans." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/pdf/gazareport2011.pdf">12/1/2010 - Amnesty report: Dashed Hopes</a> five months later, there are few signs of real improvement on the ground as the  ease has left foundations of the illegal blockade policy intact. In order to have a positive impact on the daily lives of the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, half of whom are children, Israel must fully lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip. ...the International Committee of the Red Cross has recently confirmed that the blockade constitutes a collective punishment of the entire civilian population of Gaza and is in clear violation of international humanitarian law........Palestinians freedom of movement including to travel, work, study and visit family members abroad continues to be denied. <b>This PDF doesn't seem to open in Firefox but will open in Internet Explorer.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-01-01.htm">12/1/2010 - Hamas PM: We're ready for referendum on peace deal</a> Hamas would respect any peace deal reached between Israel and Western backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, provided it is approved in a global Palestinian referendum, the top Hamas official in Gaza said Wednesday. In a rare news conference for foreign media, Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of Gaza's Hamas government, staked out seemingly pragmatic positions. He said Hamas seeks dialogue with the West and wants to be "part of the solution, not the problem." Haniyeh said such claims are part of a disinformation campaign meant to prepare the ground for future attacks on Gaza. "There is no such thing as al Qaida in Gaza," Haniyeh said, adding that "the Palestinian resistance does not work outside the borders of Palestine." Haniyeh said his government is also monitoring and attempting to rein in Gaza's homegrown zealots, but trying to avoid confrontation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/germany-asked-u-s-to-force-settlement-freeze-on-israel-wikileaks-cables-show-1.328127">12/1/2010 - Germany asked U.S. to force settlement freeze on Israel, WikiLeaks cables show</a> According to a telegram published by the whistleblowing website, two weeks before Israel's inner cabinet decided on a settlement construction freeze in November 2009, a senior German government official urged the United States to threaten Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if he did not agree to a moratorium, Washington would withdraw its support for blocking a vote on the Goldstone Report at the United Nations Security Council. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-12/01/c_13629495.htm">12/1/2010 - China calls on Israel to immediately end all settlement activity in occupied territory</a> China on Tuesday called on Israel to immediately stop all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory in order to revive the peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-26-05.htm">12/1/2010 - Israel train line plan draws Palestinian ire</a> "This shows not only Israel's short term illegal activities in terms of settlement expansion, but its long term planning and execution of colonial projects that aim at nothing less than ending the two state solution," <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-29-03.htm">12/1/2010 - Iran 'smuggled arms' to Hezbollah on ambulances</a> <b>I wonder if this is one of those planted cables discussed in other articles of this news batch? Cui bono - who benefits?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133419/">12/1/2010 - Noodging and Good Timing Are Behind New Push for Release of Pollard</a> Nyer, working under the auspices of the National Council of Young Israel and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, repeatedly called dozens of congressional offices and pressed Jewish groups asking for a leader to take on the case of Pollard, the former U.S. Navy analyst who has spent 25 years in prison, part of a life sentence, the longest ever for spying for an ally. Congressional staffers described Nyer as  relentless, and he eventually struck gold: Massachusetts Democratic congressman Barney Frank, who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives Banking Committee, agreed to sign on. That prompted a total of 39 signatures, all by Democrats, on the letter sent to Obama. <b>I wonder if Mr. Frank realizes just how severe the damage was that Jonathan Pollard's treason caused.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/bring-on-the-transparency-1.3326">12/1/2010 - Bring on the transparency</a> These examples are just the tip of an iceberg. Hundreds of millions of dollars in Israeli taxpayer money and U.S.tax exemptions, mostly hidden from public view, are the driving force of the settlement enterprise <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/poll-most-israeli-jews-believe-arab-citizens-should-have-no-say-in-foreign-policy-1.327972">12/1/2010 - Poll: Most Israeli Jews believe Arab citizens should have no say in foreign policy</a> The study also revealed that almost half of the Jewish Israelis polled would be bothered to have an Arab neighbor <b>No, they're not racists or anything....</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133406/">12/1/2010 - Shouting To Be Heard</a> And while our struggle within the Jewish world is personal and painful for us, we know that it is actually Palestinians whose voices need and deserve to be heard. A lasting peace will only be possible when Palestinians are seen as truly equal and their claims no longer ignored  whether in Jewish community forums across North America, or at the diplomatic negotiating table with Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/60047">12/1/2010 - U.S. Students Group Calls to Boycott an Israeli Hummus Brand</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.chron.com/bakerblog/2010/10/activism_101_with_colonel_ann_wright.html">12/1/2010 - Activism 101 with Colonel Ann Wright</a> At Rice, Colonel Wright discussed her opposition to the violence used by the Israeli Navy to seize the six ships of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May 31. She gave an explicit, first-hand account of her experience on board 'The Challenger,' a ship which was filled with journalists who attempted to document Israeli soldiers' raids on the flotilla. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-26-04.htm">12/1/2010 - Tuk-tuks, cheap fuel edge out donkey carts in Gaza</a> Tuk tuks started appearing on Gaza's streets in significant numbers several months ago, with demand driven by cheap smuggled fuel. Once the first tuk tuks were imported, their advantages quickly became apparent, generating more demand. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/carnations-gaza-allowed-over-border">12/1/2010 - Carnations from Gaza allowed over the border</a> Israel has granted permission for the export of strawberries and carnations from Gaza. The move is partly because the Dutch government is supporting the Palestinian farmers and growers. The produce will only be allowed onto the European market. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.vtjp.org/boycott/pledge/">12/1/2010 - Vermont group offers anti-apartheid pledge, and more</a> I stand with Nelson Mandela, Palestinian civil society and people of conscience around the world in support of the international boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS) against corporations, business interests, and academic and cultural institutions that are complicit in or profit from Israeli apartheid and occupation of the Palestinian territories. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26945.htm">12/1/2010 - WikiLeaks exposé: Israel tried to coordinate Gaza war with Abbas</a> In a June 2009 meeting between Defense Minister Ehud Barak and a U.S. congressional delegation, Barak claimed that the Israeli government "had consulted with Egypt and Fatah prior to Operation Cast Lead, asking if they were willing to assume control of Gaza once Israel defeated Hamas." "Not surprisingly," Barak said in the meeting, Israel "received negative answers from both." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26941.htm">12/1/2010 - Did The US Supply Israel With Information Enabling Murder Of Hamas Officials? </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26940.htm">12/1/2010 - Wikileaks: Israel Assessed Abbas as Weak, Unpopular</a> In 2007, then-opposition leader and current Prime Minister Netanyahu told US lawmaker Gary Ackerman that Abbas was a "nice man who means well," but that Israeli and US efforts would be better focused on undermining Hamas. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26935.htm">12/1/2010 - Wikileaks: Israel Says Turkeys Prime Minister "Simply Hates Israel"</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-29-02.htm">12/1/2010 - Israel says WikiLeaks shows 'consistency' on Iran</a> Israel expressed satisfaction on Monday after the mass release of US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks, saying it proved the Jewish state's position on Iran was consistent   in public and in private. <b>Cui bono - who benefits?</b><br><br> <a href="http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/723">12/1/2010 - Galloway Stirs Up Montreal News</a> Canadians, Galloway said, should stop treating Israel like a  legitimate member of the international community and start treating it like the international rogue terrorist state that it has become. Nearly two million Palestinians have been pushed from their home and currently live in the  open-air concentration camp in the Gaza strip, said Galloway. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133403/">12/1/2010 - Shouting  Fire </a> The incident began when the leadership of Temple Beth Avodah in Newton Centre, Mass., acceded to the demands of what the congregation s rabbi characterized as a  small, influential group within the Reform congregation, by canceling a planned event at the synagogue with J Street s president. This assuredly was not American Judaism s finest hour. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26967.htm">12/1/2010 - Is Wikileaks being manipulated by an intelligence service?</a> There are a number of bloggers  some of them informed writers with credibility, some of them uninformed, anti-Semitic conspiracy theory nutters  who think the answer is  Yes . More to the point is that no less a figure than Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter s National Security Advisor, thinks the answer could be  Yes . He said so in an interview with PBS s Judy Woodruff and also in a subsequent BBC World Service (Radio) interview. To Judy Woodruff he said:  The real issue is, who is feeding Wikileaks? They re getting a lot of information which seems trivial, inconsequential, but some of it seems surprisingly pointed& The very pointed references to Arab leaders could have as their objective undermining their political credibility at home, because this kind of public identification of their hostility towards Iran could actually play against them at home& It s a question of whether Wikileaks are being manipulated by interested parties that want to either complicate our relationship with other governments or want to undermine some governments& I have no doubt that Wikileaks is getting a lot of the stuff from sort of relatively unimportant sources, like the one that perhaps is identified on the air. But it may be getting stuff at the same time from interested intelligence parties who want to manipulate the process and achieve certain very specific objectives. <b>Interesting.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/29/gordon-duff-wiki-murders-in-iran-signal-false-flag-terror/">12/1/2010 - GORDON DUFF  WIKI-MURDERS IN IRAN, SIGNAL  FALSE FLAG TERROR Veterans Today</a> Iran is being  set up through terrorist attacks timed to make any military action in the region immediately look like Iran  out of control. More attacks on scientists and their families are planned until international tensions are high enough for a  false flag terror attack on the United States to seem plausible.........There is now little doubt that Wikileaks is an intelligence operation managed from Tel Aviv, carrying out Israeli foreign policy. The most recent  leaks have successfully reset the diplomatic stage in the Middle East, exposing undercurrents of animosity against Iran while destroying American diplomatic credibility. <b>Very interesting, if true.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26925.htm">12/1/2010 - WikiLeaks: Netanyahu Warned U.S. Iran 'Months Away' From Nuclear Bomb</a> the U.S. diplomat quoted in the classified cable said in response to the premier's warning that Netanyahu's estimate was likely unfounded and meant to pressure Washington into action against the Islamic Republic. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26930.htm">12/1/2010 - Oceans of Blood and Profits for the Mongers of War</a> Total losses for Lebanon in 2006 came to an estimated $3.6bn, for Israel $1.6bn - so Israel won hands down in terms of money, even if its rabble of an army screwed everything up on the ground. But among those who paid for this were American taxpayers (funding the Israelis) and European taxpayers, Arab potentates and the crackpot of Iran (funding Lebanon). So the American taxpayer destroys what the European taxpayer rebuilds. It's the same in Gaza; Washington funds the weapons to blow up EU-funded projects and the EU rebuilds them in time for them to be destroyed again. But boy oh boy, in the Lebanese war, US arms manufacturers make a packet - and so, to a lesser extent do the Iranian and Chinese missile dealers. <b>The cost of Israel to the American taxpayers, and that includes all peripheral costs including continued aid to Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan for keeping peace treaties with Israel or because of the damage Israel has wrought upon them, and the costs of the Iraq war - all of this money has been drained out of the US economy, could have fed and housed millions of Americans many times over, could have provided free health care many times over. Instead, thanks to the overwhelming influence of the Israeli lobby on our government, we are going broke. America is becoming a third world nation in order to prop up a nation based on religious supremacism, one that routinely violates international and humanitarian law, and one that practices a form of apartheid. And given that, the Israelis are starting to seed a new host: China. This doesn't begin to address the political ramifications our support for Israel has cost us. It was the main reason given by the 911 mastermind, Khaled Shaikh Mohammed.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3991029,00.html">12/1/2010 - Der Spiegel: US officials called Ahmadinejad 'Hitler'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/12/01/if-wikileaks-is-a-psyop-whose-psyop-is-it/">12/1/2010 - If WikiLeaks Is a PsyOp, Whose PsyOp Is It?</a> Selective disclosure and cherry-picking intelligence can be even more useful than simply fabricating evidence. The authenticity of the diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks hasn t been challenged. But one might wonder whether there s a particular spin that the disclosures are meant to convey. <b>Could be why Israel is so pleased at the latest Wikileaks release.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=196498">12/1/2010 - If we aren t going to bomb, we have to deter</a> The only way to prevent this scenario is through a sweeping military operation. Only one country has the power to take on an operation of this scale; it is the country with the most at stake and the greatest interest in preventing this new world disorder. That country is the United States. <b>Israel wants us to attack Iran for them, like we did with Iraq.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-cables-qatar-okays-use-of-airbase-for-u-s-attack-on-iran-1.328081">12/1/2010 - WikiLeaks cables: Qatar okays use of airbase for U.S. attack on Iran</a> Qatar agreed to allow the United States to use a base on Qatari soil to bomb Iran, according to a report in the newspaper Al-Arabiya based on secret diplomatic cables published by the website WikiLeaks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-u-s-tense-as-wikileaks-set-to-release-classified-bilateral-communiques-1.326905">12/1/2010 - Israel, U.S. tense as WikiLeaks set to release classified bilateral communiques </a> According to the senior Israeli official, the U.S. Embassy said that the documents were not highly classified, but the administration did not know the precise content of the cables. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53731">12/1/2010 - Unexpectedly, Israel Welcomes WikiLeaks Revelations</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/11/26/why-are-we-still-in-korea/">12/1/2010 - Why Are We Still in Korea? by Patrick J. Buchanan </a> To broker peace in Palestine, Obama began his presidency with a demand that Israel halt all new construction of settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Today, as his price for a one-time-only 90-day freeze on new construction on the West Bank, but not East Jerusalem,  Bibi Netanyahu is demanding 20 F-35 strike fighters, a U.S. commitment to a Security Council veto of any Palestinian declaration of independence, and assurances the U.S. will support a permanent Israeli presence on the Jordan river. And the Israelis want it all in writing. This, from a client state upon which we have lavished a hundred billion dollars in military aid and defended diplomatically for decades. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/11/26/israeli-airport-security/">12/1/2010 - Israeli Airport Security</a> Steve Clemons has a useful post about GOP demands for Israeli-style airport security in place of the TSA s strip- n'-grope regime. Not only would it be more expensive than TARP, and quite probably impractical, but as Stephen Walt writes to Clemons, there s a bigger question going unaddressed here: Am I the only person who sees the irony in the recommendation that the US adopt the Israeli approach to airline security? The proper question to ask is: why do we suddenly need greater airport security? Could it be because we ve gradually adopted Israel s approach to the Middle East too? <b><a href="http://neocon-watch.blogspot.com/2010/11/sarah-palin-neocon.html">Our support for Israel is the reason we were attacked on 911 in the first place. </a></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/12/01/the-democracy-agenda-is-over/">12/1/2010 - The Democracy Agenda is Over</a> One other notable aspect of these stories has been the reaction of neoconservatives. I mentioned Jennifer Rubin and David Frum in the piece. But The Washington Times Eli Lake and The Atlantic s Jeffrey Goldberg have also rushed to point out that Wikileaks proves  that it is not just Israel that seeks to pull America into a fight with Teheran. This is a red herring. No one with any familiarity with the region would doubt that other Arab nations are uncomfortable with Iran s ascendency. The problem with an American strike on Iran isn t that it would be in Israel s interest, it is that it is not in the American interest. Adding King Abdullah doesn t make a hill of difference. Why should Uncle Sam muscle up on his behalf? <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/133400/">12/1/2010 - A Dangerous Link</a> There are safer ways for the Obama administration to prove its unquestioned support for Israel s security. <b>Really? And why should he have to do that at all? He was elected to serve the AMERICAN PEOPLE.</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/133407/">12/1/2010 - A Look at the Franken Files</a> On the Senate floor, however, Franken has been less active on issues relating to the Jewish community and Israel. He did not co-sponsor any of six recent bills in support of Israel, including one  calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Gilad Shalit (Resolution 571) and another opposing the Arab League trade boycott of Israel (Bill 1671). He also did not cosponsor Bill 3821, protecting Jewish students from discrimination on the ground of religion under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act  which has not yet come to a vote. Franken s official website also does not mention Israel or anti-Jewish discrimination, and does not include a section on Israel or anti-Semitism. This may be because most of his focus in his first two years has been directed toward issues relating directly to Minnesotans. Franken, for example, lists  Agriculture and Rural Issues at the top of his agenda on his official website. <b>Oh dear, how dare Franken put the interests of his constituents over the interests of a foreign nation! The nerve.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26953.htm">12/1/2010 - Now We Know. America Really Doesn't Care About Injustice in the Middle East</a> It's not that US diplomats don't understand the Middle East; it's just that they've lost all sight of injustice. Vast amounts of diplomatic literature prove that the mainstay of Washington's Middle East policy is alignment with Israel, that its principal aim is to encourage the Arabs to join the American-Israeli alliance against Iran, that the compass point of US policy over years and years is the need to tame/bully/crush/oppress/ ultimately destroy the power of Iran. There is virtually no talk (so far, at least) of illegal Jewish colonial settlements on the West Bank, of Israeli "outposts", of extremist Israeli "settlers" whose homes now smallpox the occupied Palestinian West Bank  of the vast illegal system of land theft which lies at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian war. And incredibly, all kinds of worthy US diplomats grovel and kneel before Israel's demands  many of them apparently fervent supporters of Israel  as Mossad bosses and Israel military intelligence agents read their wish-list to their benefactors. <b>A good read.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israpundit.com/archives/30976">12/1/2010 - WikiLeaks Israel warned U.S. not to arm Arab states against Iran</a> Netanyahu is quoted as warning that should Iran get the bomb despite U.S.-led efforts to curb its uranium enrichment, Arab powers could shift loyalties from Washington to Tehran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-26-03.htm">12/1/2010 - Turkish foreign minister to hold talks in US</a> Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu starts a four day visit to the United States Saturday for talks on bilateral ties and regional issues, the foreign ministry said Friday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/11/armed-members-of-jewish-defense-league.html">12/1/2010 - Armed members of Jewish Defense League forced way into Paris museum</a> The BDS France Campaign- On Sunday November 21, 2010, more than 30 members of the Jewish Defense League forced their way into the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, which was showing an exhibition of photographs from Gaza taken by Kai Wiedenhöfer. Armed, wearing helmets and hoods in some cases, group members tried to reach the basement exhibition room in order to vandalize the photographer's work, but were prevented from doing so by the museum security staff. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-26-02.htm">12/1/2010 - Hariri visits Iran to lobby for stability</a> Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al Hariri visits Iran on Saturday, seeking its help to prevent political tensions turning violent if a U.N. backed tribunal indicts Hezbollah members for killing his father. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-29-04.htm">12/1/2010 - Iran condemns leaks on Arab calls for attack</a> "We don't give any value to these documents," Ahmadinejad told a news conference "It's without legal value. Iran and regional states are friends. Such acts of mischief have no impact on relations between nations." <b>Wikileaks = psyops?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-30-05.htm">12/1/2010 - Is Israel's Mossad Targeting Iran's Nuclear Scientists?</a> <b>This is why it's likely it was the Israelis behind the Hariri assasination. The Israelis were the first terrorists in the Middle East (Irgun and Stern gangs) and the Arabs simply have learned from them.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-29/iran-scientist-killed-by-bomb-worked-on-atomic-project.html">12/1/2010 - Iran Scientist Killed by Bomb Worked on Atomic Project</a> Shahriari was a member of a regional scientific program known as Sesame, which includes Israel as a member, according to the project s website. He succeeded Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, an Iranian scientist who also died in an attack, the Tehran-based Asre-Iran website, which is close to the government, said today. Ali-Mohammadi, a professor of elementary particle physics, was killed in January by a bomb planted outside his home in Tehran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/27/world/la-fg-israel-homeland-security-20101128">12/1/2010 - Israeli firms see a global market for their anti-terrorism know-how</a> "We might be a small country, but we're not small in this business," said Hefetz, director of the Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute, a quasi-government business promotion group that this month organized the Homeland Security Conference, Israel's first expo for domestic security providers. .....More than 400 Israeli companies export about $1.5 billion annually in domestic security goods and technology, including biometric devices, tear gas canisters, anti-intrusion systems, airport screening machines, explosives detectors and remote-controlled vehicles. <b>How much terror is manufactured by Israel to further its massive anti-terrorism business?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-25-01.htm">12/1/2010 - Turkey 'won't be silent' if Israel strikes Lebanon</a> "Does (Israel) think it can enter Lebanon with the most modern aircraft and tanks to kill women and children, and destroy schools and hospitals, and then expect us to remain silent?" Erdogan said at a conference organised by the Union of Arab Banks. "Does it think it can use the most modern weapons, phosphorus munitions and cluster bombs to kill children in Gaza and then expect us to remain silent? "We will not be silent and we will support justice by all means available to us." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-ruebner/wikileaks-israels-securit_b_790100.html">12/1/2010 - WikiLeaks Israel's Security Concerns Often Clash With U.S. Interests</a> Gilad's "typically frank" remarks lend credence to the testimony of Gen. David Petraeus, then CENTCOM Commander, before the Senate Armed Service Committee in March. Petraeus articulated several reasons why U.S. and Israeli interests did not necessarily coincide. The Arab-Israeli conflict, according to Petraeus, "present[s] distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests," and "foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel." Petraeus went on to describe how Israel's ongoing conflicts spurred recruitment efforts for al-Qaeda and increased Iranian influence in the region. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/porter/2010/11/30/russians-refuted-us-claim/">12/1/2010 - Russians Refuted US Claim of Iranian Missile Threat to Europe by Gareth Porter</a> The Russians maintained that even assuming favorable conditions, Iran would be able to begin a program to develop ballistic missiles that could reach Central Europe or Moscow only after 2015 at the earliest. The Russians denied, however, that Iran has such an intention, arguing that its ballistic missile program continues to be directed toward  regional concerns  meaning deterring an attack on Iran by Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-30-04.htm">12/1/2010 - Iran's military looks to the sky as new priority</a> Still, Iran clearly is trying to close security gaps around nuclear sites  including Iran's main uranium enrichment lab  and blunt the edge that the Pentagon and Israel gain from drone technology. Iranian commanders now view drones as a critical tool, including to monitor the U.S. 5th Fleet based across the Gulf in Bahrain. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-30-01.htm">12/1/2010 - WikiLeaks Files Threaten Egypt's Role as Mideast Mediator</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-30-03.htm">12/1/2010 - WikiLeaks Lesson: Deception Part of Middle East Diplomacy</a> then there's the revelation, from Israeli officials, that a number of U.S. allies in the Gulf feel that their views are so routinely ignored by Washington that they have taken to relaying messages via Israel, which they know has the ear of those in power in the U.S. But any sense of strategic intimacy between Israel and even these most conservative Arab regimes is undercut by the cables' revelation that Israeli officials have constantly questioned some of the goodies included in U.S. arms sales to those regimes, making clear their suspicion that such weapons could one day be turned against Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rt.com/news/iran-jews-community/">12/1/2010 -  There is no anti-Semitic sentiment in Iran </a> If you don t believe in Moses and Jesus, you are not Muslim Islamic theologian Mohsen Rabbani, director of  Fundacion Cultural Oriente , describes religious similarities between Jews and Muslims.  We believe that Moses and Jesus are great prophets. If you don t believe that, you are not Muslim. We believe in Abrahamic religions. We view them as brothers. We as Muslims believe in Prophet Moses. The Islamic Republic of Iran is the only country where religious minorities have the same freedoms, occupy high positions, are free to operate on the market, in the economy, and have their representatives in the parliament. We consider ourselves first Jews, then Christians, and only after that, Muslims. <b>Great article.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/12/12-01-04.htm">12/1/2010 - Israel torn on U.S. arming Arabs against Iran: WikiLeaks</a> Shapiro declines an Israeli request to review the U.S. report on planned Middle East arms sales before its submission to Congress, as it contained secret intelligence assessments. The Obama administration announced last month it would go ahead with the $60 billion deal with Saudi Arabia. A Pentagon official, Alexander Vershbow, told reporters at the time: "Israel does not object to this sale." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-28-02.htm">12/1/2010 - Israel approves detention center for migrants</a> other officials said authorities cannot let thousands of economic migrants enter illegally each year, take jobs from Israelis and dilute the country's Jewish character. <b>The supreme irony here is that it is the <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124478/">Jewish groups here in America that are squarely behind the effort to grant amnesty to illegals in America</a>, by their own admission. Yet, it's another standard for Israel. Ironically, many of these immigants are from Sudan, another celebrated cause of American Jews.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133401/">12/1/2010 - Is Glenn Beck After the Wrong Billionaire?</a> It s kindly old Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp. He has six channels on my cable system alone. He actually pays Republican presidential contenders to pontificate on air. He owns The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London and a major Hollywood movie studio. But he doesn t pull anyone s strings, does he? Nah. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <b>November</b> <br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-19-04.htm">11/24/2010 - Israel planes hit Gaza targets after rocket fire</a> At least four people, three women and a boy, were hurt in one attack in the central Gaza Strip when an uninhabited building close to where they were standing collapsed after being hit, local residents said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/11/17/liar-liar/">11/24/2010 - Liar, Liar by Philip Giraldi</a> His administration s retreat from any confrontation with Israel in an attempt to make a recalcitrant Netanyahu conform even to minimal standards of behavior confirms what all the world already knows: Israel will act and the United States will follow, even if those actions will inflict grave damage on the American people and on the US national interest. And what will that mean for the United States? It means that the decision about going to war for the US is essentially controlled by Israel because Tel Aviv can start a conflict with Iran at any time that will quickly draw Washington in. Those who think that the White House still is managing the situation are completely naïve. There is no indication that the Obama administration has warned Israel against bombing Iran because the US has no cards to play, having ruled out exerting any sort of economic or military pressure on Netanyahu. And there should be no doubt that an attack by Israel on an Iranian nuclear facility would trigger Iranian retaliation and immediate calls in Congress and the media to support Tel Aviv, leaving the president no option but to enter the conflict. ...So if you doubt that the United States is tied hand and foot to Israel in terms of its ability to take independent action in the Middle East, just listen to what Dennis Ross, Joe Biden, and Eric Cantor are saying. Does it sound like they are articulating policies beneficial to the US? <b>Read on for more treason in our government. Philip Giraldi is a former CIA counterterrorism official.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/21/israeli-soldiers-human-shield-avoid-jail">11/24/2010 - Israeli soldiers who used Palestinian boy, 9, as a human shield avoid jail</a> Majed was among dozens of men, women and children who were sheltering in a basement when the soldiers forced him to open a bag at gunpoint, according to the boy's affidavit, given to Defence for Children International (DCI), which filed a complaint against the Israeli army. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/i-saw-ariel-sharon-murder-2-palestinian-toddlers-in-lebanon-1.325540">11/24/2010 - 'I saw Ariel Sharon murder 2 Palestinian toddlers in Lebanon'</a> Dutch media this month published articles accusing Ariel Sharon of murdering Palestinian children in Lebanon. Former officials who worked with Sharon said the publications were false. The Israeli foreign ministry called the claim "a modern blood libel." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-ready-to-offer-israel-written-guarantees-if-it-restarts-peace-talks-1.325659">11/24/2010 - U.S. ready to offer Israel written guarantees if it restarts peace talks</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-18-04.htm">11/24/2010 - Qaeda-linked group threatens Israelis, in Hebrew</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133172/">11/24/2010 - AIPAC Gets Down and Dirty in Pushback vs. Defamation Suit</a> former AIPAC staffer and now liberal columnist M.J. Rosenberg sees more to it. According to Rosenberg, if Rosen proves that his operations, including going to a foreign official to warn him about the investigation, were all part of AIPAC s standard operating procedures,  that would mean that AIPAC is not a domestic lobbying organization at all, but something very, very different. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://againsttheinsidiouswiles.blogspot.com/2010/11/us-taxpayers-footing-bill-for-israeli.html">11/24/2010 - US Taxpayers Footing the Bill for Israeli 'Refugee Resettlement'</a> Just remember this when you see all of the continued poverty in the US as more and more people are forced to use food stamps in order to survive; this is just another one of the costs of Israel to the American taxpayers. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=22293">11/24/2010 - 'US no longer sees Israel as an asset'</a> Rivlin s remarks provide a good reference point for how average Israelis view the growing tension between Jerusalem and Washington, which is being fed by a burgeoning movement within the US to paint Israel as a liability, both ethically and politically. <b>It's about time! Too bad Congress hasn't followed suit. YET.</b><br><br> <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/2010/11/israeli-bill-seen-threat-future-peace-deals">11/24/2010 - Israeli bill could threaten future peace deals</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-20-02.htm">11/24/2010 - U.S. and Israel: Still No Consensus on Pressuring Iran</a> An open disagreement between Israel and the Pentagon in recent weeks has highlighted the dilemma President Barack Obama faces in making progress on Iran. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday poured cold water on last week's suggestion by Israeli Prime Minister that the only way Iran can be stopped from acquiring nuclear weapons is for the U.S. to threaten military action. Military action, Gates warned, would solve nothing; in fact it would be more likely to drive Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. <b>Somebody needs to tell Israel to fight its own battles. Let us get our troops out of there first, as, they most certainly would pay the price for any such action. And thank you, Mr. Robert Gates, for putting the interests of our country, America, FIRST.</b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1388">11/24/2010 - ISRAELI SOLDIERS DETAIN FIVE PALESTINIAN SCHOOLBOYS IN SOUTH HEBRON HILLS</a> These kinds of incidents are the evidence of the Israeli military escort s failure to protect the children from settler s violence. In the last school year, the children were attacked 19 times, they waited for the escort 53 hours and they missed almost 27 hours of classes. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/idf-officer-suspected-of-blocking-probe-into-gaza-civilian-death-1.325391">11/24/2010 - IDF officer suspected of blocking probe into Gaza civilian death</a> Sergeant S. was part of a combined force of Givati and armored brigades which had entered a built up area when it identified a group of around 30 Palestinians walking toward them, apparently after being ordered by the IDF to evacuate their homes in a neighboring area. A deputy battalion commander ordered troops to fire warning shots toward the group - but not at them. Soon after the order was given, two Givati Brigade soldiers joined the troops. One of them, S., opened fire, killing the two women. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/11/jewish-groups-push-for-pardon-of-worst.html">11/24/2010 - Jewish groups push for pardon of worst spy against US</a> Insiders associated with the push, which resulted last week in a congressional letter to President Obama asking for clemency for the American Jew convicted in 1987 of spying for Israel, say the main factor was one man: David Nyer, an Orthodox activist from Monsey, N.Y. Nyer, working under the auspices of the National Council of Young Israel and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, repeatedly called dozens of congressional offices and pressed Jewish groups asking for a leader to take on the case of Pollard... <b>Yet another example of the treason on Capitol Hill. Read on.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-21-01.htm">11/24/2010 - Abbas insists on Jerusalem in settlement freeze</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-19-01.htm">11/24/2010 - U.S. bars Palestinian statehood moves in U.N. agencies</a> At a meeting of the International Telecommunications Union last month in Mexico, the Palestinian delegations tabled a motion designed to secure them the rights of a member state, said Sulaiman Zuhairi, a senior Palestinian official. "We could have gone to voting and got what we wanted," he said, saying it was endorsed by around 50 countries and was on track to pass with the backing of an additional 40 states. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-official-israel-must-refrain-from-east-jerusalem-construction-during-freeze-1.325378">11/24/2010 - U.S. official: Israel must refrain from East Jerusalem construction during freeze</a> The official added that President Barack Obama had committed in an oral message to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas last April that the U.S. expects both sides to refrain from "actions that would seriously undermine trust," including in East Jerusalem, and would respond with "steps, actions, or adjustments in policy" to any such provocative actions as long as negotiations are underway. The U.S. administration has defined "actions that would seriously undermine trust" as including major housing announcements, demolitions, or evictions in East Jerusalem <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-18-01.htm">11/24/2010 - Israel says no building freeze in Jerusalem</a> Israel insisted Thursday it would keep building homes in disputed east Jerusalem, threatening to hold up a U.S. proposed settlement construction moratorium designed to renew deadlocked Mideast peacemaking. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-19-02.htm">11/24/2010 - Israel condemns Web list of Gaza soldiers</a> Israel's military on Friday condemned the publication of names and photographs of 200 Israeli soldiers on a website that called them "war criminals." <b>If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-19-03.htm">11/24/2010 - Israel and U.S. struggle to conclude settlement pact</a> The latest snag concerned a pledge that Israel says U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made to provide the country free of charge 20 F 35 stealth warplanes worth $3 billion. Politicians said Washington was backtracking and now wanted some sort of payment for the coveted fighter aircraft. "It looks like the free stealth fighters have slipped," said Benny Begin, a minister from Netanyahu's Likud party who is opposed to the proposed U.S. deal, warning that Washington was setting a trap to extract major concessions later down the line. <b>We have to bribe them to stop breaking the law. Other nations (Iraq, namely) would've been invaded for such behavior.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26868.htm">11/24/2010 - Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent</a> An IAEA official told Seymour Hersh that the Israelis were behind the revelation of the sites and two journalists from Der Spiegel reported the same thing. So did an adviser to an Iranian monarchist group, speaking to a writer for The New Yorker. That episode was not isolated, but was part of a broader pattern of Israeli cooperation with the MEK in providing intelligence intended to influence the CIA and the IAEA. Israeli authors Melman and Javadanfar, who claimed to have good sources in Mossad, wrote in their 2007 book that Israeli intelligence had "laundered" intelligence to the IAEA by providing it to Iranian opposition groups, especially the NCRI. <b>Read it.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-21-02.htm">11/24/2010 - Israeli soldiers walk free in Gaza human shield case</a> "It's purely for international consumption," Horton told AFP. "It's to look like you're doing something busy after the Goldstone report, in order to get the UN off your back. It's not a genuine attempt to enforce the law or to send a message that this is not appropriate conduct for the army to engage in." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26883.htm">11/24/2010 - With settlement deal, U.S. will be rewarding Israel's bad behavior</a> It was only a little over a year and a half ago that the Obama administration demanded a freeze on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, including even the "natural growth" of existing settlements. At the time, the administration called settlement activity "illegitimate" and appeared ready to go to the mat with Israel to show just how strongly the United States believed that settlements impede peace. But now, the administration says it is prepared to pay off Israel to freeze only some of its settlement activity, and only temporarily. For the first time in memory, the United States is poised to reward Israel for its bad behavior. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26884.htm">11/24/2010 - An American Bribe that Stinks of Appeasement By Robert Fisk</a> Three billion dollars for three months is one billion dollars a month to stop Israel's colonisation. That's half a billion dollars a fortnight. That's $500m a week. That's $71,428,571 a day, or $2,976,190 an hour, or $49,603 a minute. And as well as this pot of gold, Washington will continue to veto any resolutions critical of Israel in the UN and prevent "Palestine" from declaring itself a state. It's worth invading anyone to get that much cash to stage a military withdrawal, let alone the gracious gesture of not building more illegal colonies for only 90 days while furiously continuing illegal construction in Jerusalem at the same time. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/israels-ashkenazi-elite-not-russian-immigrants-are-responsible-for-the-countrys-ever-increasing-racism.html">11/24/2010 - Israel s ashkenazi elite, not Russian immigrants, are responsible for the country s ever increasing racism</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-23-01.htm">11/24/2010 - Palestinians, Syria condemn Israel referendum law</a> In Damascus, the foreign ministry said "Syria totally rejects this Israeli measure which changes nothing to the fact that the Golan is Syrian territory and cannot be part of any negotiations." The legislation, which was backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, passed with 65 Knesset members in favour and 33 against, and no abstentions. It requires any government signing a peace agreement that cedes territory in east Jerusalem or the Golan, or any other sovereign territory within Israel itself, to secure either approval of parliament or hold a national referendum. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/1119/Gazans-shocked-at-how-many-neighbors-coworkers-officials-are-spying-for-Israel">11/24/2010 - Gazans shocked at how many neighbors, coworkers, officials are 'spying' for Israel</a> Rumors and panic reached a fever pitch over the summer when the government began arresting people while shrouding the campaign in secrecy. Because officials wouldn t say why anyone was arrested, people arrested for other crimes were sometimes falsely branded collaborators, a charge that carries a high price in Gazan society. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/a-special-place-in-hell/thanksgiving-tikkun-olam-and-u-s-jews-breaking-the-israel-barrier-1.326087">11/24/2010 - A Special Place in Hell-Israel News</a> Before coming to America recently, I'd heard warnings from friends in the U.S. Jewish community that the very mention of J Street would spark nasty arguments, attempts to silence dissenting opinions regarding Israeli policies, behind-the-scenes sabotage by powerful pro-settlement donors and organizational professionals, perhaps cancellations of events. I had been warned, as well, that it was already too late. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/British+lashes/3846184/story.html">11/24/2010 - George Galloway. Blasts Ottawa for its policies on Israel and Afghanistan</a> "The Palestinians decided long away they will not go into the museum of ex-nations," he said to broad applause. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/23/israel-palestine-withdrawal-referendum">11/24/2010 - Israel must hold poll on any peace plan withdrawal after Knesset vote</a> Any peace deal involving withdrawal by Israel from annexed territory in East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights will need to be ratified by a national referendum under legislation approved by the Israeli parliament late last night. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-24-01.htm">11/24/2010 - Palestinian official: Western Wall not Jewish</a> "This wall has never been a part of what is called the Jewish Temple," the report claimed. "However, it was Islamic tolerance which allowed the Jews to stand before it and cry over its loss." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26896.htm">11/24/2010 - Ex-AIPAC Official Threatens to Uncover Mass Spying at Israel lobby</a> Rosen says his actions were common practice at the organization. He said his next move is to show that AIPAC, Washington s major pro-Israeli lobbying group by far, regularly traffics in sensitive U.S. government information, especially material related to the Middle East.  I will introduce documentary evidence that AIPAC approved of the receipt of classified information, he said by e-mail.  Most instances of actual receipt are hard to document, because orally received information rarely comes with classified stamps on it nor records alerts that the information is classified. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-23-03.htm">11/24/2010 - Israel stakes out lonely position on Jerusalem</a> no other government recognizes Israel's 43 year old annexation of east Jerusalem, and the Palestinians are increasingly vocal about insisting that what Israelis universally call "neighborhoods" are in fact illegal "settlements.".....On Tuesday, bulldozers started clearing land for 1,000 new housing units to expand Har Homa's population by a quarter. What might not have drawn much attention several years ago, however, drew reprimands this month from the U.S., the Palestinians and other countries. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133103/">11/24/2010 - The Rise, Then The Fall of GOP s  National Rabbi </a> In surreptitiously recorded conversations between Balkany and SAC Capital representatives that were played during the trial, Balkany boasted of his political connections.  Every six weeks, a different senator from Washington comes to my house for lunch or dinner, he said on the tapes, citing such present and past senators as Orrin Hatch, Joseph Lieberman, Arlen Specter, Ted Kennedy and Max Baucus. There s little cause to assume that Balkany is exaggerating. The catalog of boldface political players gives a hint as to the level of Balkany s access, carefully cultivated through years of donations. His power, Sheinkopf said, came from  his ability to raise money, which gave him access, which gave him the ability to deliver things for his community that some thought were not possible to do. He was a great bundler. Money matters in politics; he was able to raise it. ....A January 2000 Daily News report found that Balkany was charging Jewish families for his help in accessing child day care vouchers for low-income families. The report raised suspicions that applications submitted via Balkany received special consideration from the city as families elsewhere got put on long waiting lists. More than half the vouchers went to four heavily Orthodox Brooklyn neighborhoods, and the number going to the Brooklyn ZIP code in Boro Park where Balkany s school and several others he helped were located was about five times the number of vouchers distributed in Manhattan and the Bronx combined. Balkany was never charged in this case. <b>This is why ALL campaign financing must be ABOLISHED. This is NOT what the Founding Fathers had in mind for this country. Our representatives are supposed to be working for EVERYONE, not just the highest bidders. This is bullshit of the highest order.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133244/">11/24/2010 - Terror Expert Emerson Feels His Own Heat Over Finances</a>  Emerson is a leading member of a multi-million-dollar industry of self-proclaimed experts who spread hate toward Muslims in books and movies, on websites and through speaking appearances, the report claimed. In its wide-ranging article, The Tennessean reported that while the IPTF is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt charity, it in fact distributes almost all of its contributions to SAE Productions, a for-profit company that Emerson founded in 1994 and continues to control, as he does the IPTF. Citing publicly available tax filings, the paper reported that Emerson s foundation paid $3,390,000 to SAE in 2008  the foundation s only significant expenditure. It was the Emerson-controlled for-profit firm that then made all expenditures on the foundation s behalf. .... Of all those of us who labored in the vineyard in trying to help the Jewish people, there is no one who stands higher in the pantheon of honor than Steve Emerson, said Bialkin, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,  for all of us  those of us who are hard-liners  feel this guy is worth his weight in gold. <b>And now you know why Emerson is allowed to get away with this.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26903.htm">11/24/2010 - Bush Lies - Not Just To Us, But To Himself</a> The good news is that Cheney is gone and that Adm. Mullen is still around. The bad news is that Adm. Fallon was sacked for making it explicitly clear that, "We're not going to do Iran on my watch," and there are few flag officers with Fallon's guts and honesty. Moreover, President Barack Obama continues to show himself to be an invertebrate vis-à-vis Israel and its neocon disciples. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26876.htm">11/24/2010 - Al-Qaeda s Christian Massacre  Aiding and Abetting the Occupation of Palestine</a> The massacre of Iraqi Christians at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad also makes one wonder about claims that the group has  a great sense of timing. The slaughter of Catholic Mass-goers occurred just one week after church leaders from across the Middle East had forcefully condemned Israel s occupation of Palestinian territories. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26861.htm">11/24/2010 - Mystery of Who Funded Right-wing "Radical Islam" Campaign Deepens</a> The DVDs, 28 million in all, were a boost to Republican candidates who were trying to paint Democrats as weak on terrorism -- and they arguably helped fuel the anti-Muslim sentiment that boiled over in the "ground zero mosque" fight last summer. The film, "Obsession: Radical Islam's War With the West," was widely criticized for its cartoonish portrayal of Muslims as modern-day Nazis. But who put up the money to send out all those millions of DVDs? Clarion, which has strong links to the right-wing Israeli group Aish HaTorah and is listed in government records as a foreign nonprofit, would never say <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26858.htm">11/24/2010 - Eric Cantor and the Provoking of American Anti-semitism </a> Essentially what Cantor did was tell the leader of a foreign country that he will protect that country from the official policies of the President of the United States the person charged by the Constitution to carry out the nation s foreign policy. Actually, the Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, have been supplying just this sort of protection for a very long time. But they have always done so surreptitiously. What is different with Cantor is that he has done this quite publically, letting us all know about it in a notice on his official stationary. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26891.htm">11/24/2010 - PM asks for Pollard s Release as Part of Freeze Deal</a> Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has asked the US to release Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard as part of a series of gestures made to Israel in an effort to restart peace talks with the Palestinians, sources with knowledge of the talks told The Jerusalem Post over the weekend. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-20-03.htm">11/24/2010 - Israeli wanted by Colombia released in Russia</a> He was sentenced in absentia to nearly 11 years in prison for his role in the 1980s training of far right paramilitary groups responsible for mass murder and widespread land theft during a more than decade long reign of terror across Colombia's countryside. <b>And who better to do that than an Israeli?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133245/">11/24/2010 - New Museum on Independence Mall Is a Sign That Jews Have Arrived</a> It is, therefore, a measure of how far American Jews have come, how much anti-Semitism has declined and how secure the Jewish community now feels that if any such fears were expressed, no notice whatsoever was taken of them. The new museum, in its prime location and through its eye-catching building, makes a bold statement. Nobody who walks the mall can miss it. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/133104/">11/24/2010 - Shapiro: Administration Opposes Palestinian State Declaration Via U.N.</a> What was on the minds of the Jewish leaders? A bevy of issues ranging from Iran sanctions, to delegitimization of Israel, to unilateral Palestinian steps (where Shapiro told Morton Klein of the ZOA that the administration opposes a move to ask the UN Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state, although he did not explicitly say the U.S. would veto it). <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26879.htm">11/24/2010 - Ex-AIPAC official got at least $670,000 from donors</a> The latest episode of the AIPAC spy scandal turned sordid last week, with the pro-Israeli lobby releasing its deposition of fired official Steven J. Rosen in which he confesses he engaged in extra-marital sex and watched pornography on his office computer. But largely buried beneath such tawdry details was an admission arguably far more damaging to Rosen s drive to prove the organization ruined his professional life: that major Jewish donors supported him with hundreds of thousands of dollars during the four years after his dismissal in May 2005. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133243/">11/24/2010 - Occupation Is the Issue; BDS Is a Distraction</a> a mobilization to oppose the Global BDS movement is now the highest priority of the pro-Israel community. ..... The BDS campaign is working hard to brand Israel. We must now work to brand the BDS movement as deceptive and destructive. And we have a new and coordinated effort that includes the Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, with initial funding in the millions of dollars, with roughly the same goal: Denounce BDS. Once again (yawn), Israel as embattled victim. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-24-02.htm">11/24/2010 - Jewish settlements targeted in divestment campaign</a> Pension funds in Norway and Sweden have divested themselves of holdings in some firms involved in building in settlements or helping to erect Israel's contentious West Bank separation barrier. European activists are cranking up pressure on companies by exposing the West Bank ties and picketing stores that sell settlement goods. And some major U.S. churches are questioning companies as a precursor to possible divestment. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133242/">11/24/2010 - Columbia Student Group Drops Sponsorship of Gaza Talk Under Pressure</a> J Street U s national director, Daniel May, who introduced Ging at the Columbia event, took exception to the notion that Ging s views are beyond the pale. If an event with Ging is considered illegitimate, May said,  then we are effectively saying that any criticism, any questioning of the effectiveness of Israel s policies, is illegitimate. <b>Fascists strike again.</b><br><br> <a href="http://neocon-watch.blogspot.com/2010/11/sarah-palin-neocon.html">11/24/2010 - Sarah Palin, Neocon</a> A great article out this week by former CIA Philip Giraldi deals with a recent letter Sarah Palin penned to Congress, evidently on behalf of her Neocon puppetmasters <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-21-03.htm">11/24/2010 - Pope's praise of Pius dismays Holocaust survivors</a> "The decisive thing is what he did and what he tried to do, and on that score, we really must acknowledge, I believe, that he was one of the great righteous men and that he saved more Jews than anyone else," Benedict said, offering perhaps his most sweeping praise of Pius' papacy to date. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133175/">11/24/2010 - Purposes to All in Tents: Four Films About Bedouins in One</a> The film opens with the four directors reading facts about the Bedouin community of Israel over sepia-tinted footage of Bedouins shuffling through the desert. As one says, in 1948, the year of the Jewish state s founding, his community was told,  Keep living on your land as you did during the British Mandate. Whether due to migration or other reasons left somewhat ambiguous, Israel s 2008 Goldberg Commission found that 70,000 Bedouins living in the Negev in 1948 had, by 1951, dwindled to 12,750. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/11/11-17-01.htm">11/17/2010 - Two brothers killed in Israeli strike against Gaza militant</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/two-year-old-girl-dies-from-leukemia-while-waiting-to-leave-gaza-for-treatment.html">11/17/2010 - Two-year-old girl dies from leukemia while waiting to leave Gaza for treatment</a> A two-year-old girl suffering from leukemia died while waiting for an urgent referral to an Israeli hospital. Since January 2009 a total of 33 patients have died while waiting to access hospitals outside Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-14-01.htm">11/17/2010 - Palestinians say settlers torched their olive trees</a> A senior Israeli intelligence officer acknowledged that there had been acts of violence and vandalism by Jews in the West Bank, noting in particular recent attacks against mosques there. "We are not happy about the situation connected with Jewish extremists in the West Bank," he told a group of foreign journalists on Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity. <b>Settlers are Israeli terrorists, but are rarely prosecuted for their crimes.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-11-02.htm">11/17/2010 - Clinton offers Netanyahu security pledge on peace talks</a> "The chances of reaching a peace agreement will be improved significantly by achieving comprehensive security understandings between Israel and the United States," Netanyahu said before Thursday's talks began. <b>Extortion.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-15-03.htm">11/17/2010 - US deal would allow Israel some West Bank building</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-17-04.htm">11/17/2010 - Iran starts "biggest" air defense war games</a> Iran began what it said was its biggest ever air defense drill on Tuesday to test its ability to deter air strikes, which the United States and Israel have not ruled out to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-16-02.htm">11/17/2010 - Israeli high tech adjusts to Asian challenge</a> It's well known that the emergence of India and China is casting a shadow on the developed economies of Europe and North America. Less famous is the challenge facing Israel: With the Jewish state having quietly prospered as a global haven of innovation, key players here are asking whether the Asian giants might steal their high tech thunder. <b>If they are prosperous, then they can GIVE US OUR TAXPAYER MONEY BACK.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-11-06.htm">11/17/2010 - Lengthy US-Israel talks fail to make Mideast headway</a> <b>Cut all aid to Israel. Watch how fast they make peace with their neighbors.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Cantor-Draws-Fire-Over-Pledge-to-Israel-5809">11/17/2010 - Cantor Draws Fire Over Pledge to Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-14-04.htm">11/17/2010 - Israeli official: Hamas rockets can reach Tel Aviv</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26808.htm">11/17/2010 - Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance</a> Leave aside the absurdity of believing that Israel needs to be protected from the extremely deferential and devoted Obama administration. So extraordinary is Cantor's pledge that even the Jewish Telegraph Agency's Ron Kampeas -- himself a reflexive American defender of most things Israel -- was astonished, and wrote: I can't remember an opposition leader telling a foreign leader, in a personal meeting, that he would side, as a policy, with that leader against the president. Certainly, in statements on one specific issue or another -- building in Jerusalem, or somesuch -- lawmakers have taken the sides of other nations. But to have-a-face to face and say, in general, we will take your side against the White House -- that sounds to me extraordinary. <b>Treason.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26812.htm">11/17/2010 - U.S. offers Israel warplanes in return for new settlement freeze</a> According to "The Cable" blog, White House Middle East adviser Dan Shapiro told a group of American Jewish leaders on Friday that U.S. was committed to fighting delegitimization of Israel, and listed recent efforts to advocate on behalf of Israel. Such efforts included: curbing actions by the United Nations on the Goldstone Report; blocking anti-Israel UN resolutions concerning the Gaza flotilla raid; defeating international resolutions aimed at exposing Israel's nuclear program at the International Atomic Energy Agency; and strengthening pressure on Iran and Syria in regards to their nuclear and proliferation activities. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-11-05.htm">11/17/2010 - Palestinian held for Facebook criticism of Islam</a> The case of the unlikely apostate, a shy barber from this backwater West Bank town, is highlighting the limits of tolerance in the Western backed Palestinian Authority  and illustrating a new trend by authorities in the Arab world to mine social media for evidence. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-14-03.htm">11/17/2010 - Plan for Mideast talks bets on quick border deal</a>Clinton outlined the "borders first" approach in September, saying that an agreement on territory would eliminate the debate about settlements "because some areas would be inside Israel and some areas would not be inside Israel." Netanyahu has not revealed his detailed position on borders. His predecessor, Ehud Olmert, proposed to Abbas in 2008 that Israel annex 6.5 percent of the West Bank, where large Jewish settlements are located, and compensate the Palestinians with a roughly equal amount of Israeli land. The Palestinians proposed a land swap of 1.9 percent, negotiators said at the time. Those talks ended abruptly in December 2008. It appears unlikely Netanyahu would match Olmert's proposal, since he has steadfastly refused to resume negotiations where they left off. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/scott-mcconnell/2010/11/11/how-the-neocons-are-co-opting-the-tea-party/">11/17/2010 - How the Neocons Are Co-opting the Tea Party by Scott McConnell</a> Palin has become neoconservatism s reliable vector into the Tea Party world. She reliably echoes neoconservative talking points about war with Iran. When addressing the Tea Party Convention in Nashville last February, she hit neocon talking points by citing Ronald Reagan, "peace through strength," and "tough action" against Iran. She declared that the United States needed a foreign policy that "reflected our values" and denounced the alleged policy of treating terrorism as "a mere law enforcement matter." Wearing an Israeli flag pin, she charged that President Obama was causing "Israel, our critical ally" to question our support by reaching out to hostile regimes. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-52852520101111">11/17/2010 - Clinton offers Netanyahu security pledge on peace talks</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/11/15/straight-talk-from-sarah/">11/17/2010 - Straight Talk from Sarah by Philip Giraldi </a> Sarah Palin has written an  Open Letter to Republican Freshmen Members of Congress telling them what they should support in the upcoming legislative session. The letter is clearly directed towards those congressmen who are believed to be associated with the tea parties. Her advice on foreign policy is pretty much a straight neoconservative interpretation  not at all surprising since that is who is advising her and providing her with her talking point <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26833.htm">11/17/2010 - Cantor Recants</a> no American official  by any stretch of the imagination  has the right to tell the government of Israel, or any foreign government, that he stands with the foreign leader against his own president. It is one thing to oppose particular US policies; it is quite another to tell a foreign leader, "I'm with you, not my president." Of course, Cantor was just being honest. Although he does oppose virtually all of President Obama's policies (he's a Republican and that is what Republicans do), he supports 100% of Israeli policies. And although an extreme partisan domestically, when it comes to Israel, he supports whichever government is in power. He believes in the right to criticize this government, just not that one. <b>Cantor serves Israel, not the United States. Understand that. That way, we can finally DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. He is NOT THE ONLY ONE.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3985625,00.html">11/17/2010 - Settler convicted of kidnapping, abusing Palestinian teen</a> Struk had attacked the boy two months earlier, the indictment stated, while the latter was herding sheep with a friend near the village. Struk told them to leave the land, claiming it was his, and then beat the two boys. The settler also killed a young goat belonging to the Palestinian. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-14-02.htm">11/17/2010 - Obama calls latest Israeli plan promising</a> On the Mideast, Washington's new proposal for reviving peace talks includes a 90 day ban on housing starts in West Bank settlements  but not in east Jerusalem <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-15-04.htm">11/17/2010 - Israeli government seen accepting new settlement freeze</a> In private, Palestinian officials have expressed anger over U.S. incentives to get Israel to prolong the partial moratorium on Jewish settlement building, saying it effectively constituted bribing Israel to fulfil basic international obligations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3985647,00.html">11/17/2010 - Israel demands written US guarantees before freeze </a> <b>They're using extortion to bilk the US taxpayers of MORE money that would be obviously better spent HERE AT HOME.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/cabinet-stalls-on-settlement-freeze-as-israel-and-u-s-clash-over-terms-1.325081">11/17/2010 - Cabinet stalls on settlement freeze as Israel and U.S. clash over terms</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/israeli-military-invades-palestinian-village-after-israeli-settlers-attack-family.html">11/17/2010 - Israeli military invades Palestinian village after settlers attack family</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/11/11/2741699/us-to-store-more-weapons-in-israel">11/17/2010 - U.S. to store more weapons in Israel</a> The United States will store an additional $400 million in emergency military equipment in Israel. The new equipment, which will arrive in Israel over the next two years, will be available to Israel in the event of an emergency. It will bring to $1.2 billion the amount of American military equipment being stockpiled in Israel by 2012. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-11-03.htm">11/17/2010 - Clinton, Netanyahu hold marathon Mideast talks</a> Netanyahu has insisted Israel will maintain a military presence along the eastern border of any future Palestinian state. Aaron David Miller, a Middle East expert at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, said Netanyahu was likely to remain defiant. The premier is determined "to make it unmistakably clear to the Americans that Jerusalem was never a part of this understanding and will not be a part of it in the future. There's no question that he's prepared to stand his ground," Miller told AFP. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132968/">11/17/2010 - J Street and Republican Jewish Coalition Clash Over Their Own Influence on the Elections</a> he RJC expanded the breadth of its campaign ads on Israel during this election, making its biggest ever investment. It is hoping to show a political return. Most of the group s ad money went to eight races, but RJC polls do not provide information about the influence it had on the outcome of those races. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11621.shtml">11/17/2010 - Major Dutch pension fund divests from occupation</a> The major Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), which has investments totaling 97 billion euros, has informed The Electronic Intifada that it has divested from almost all the Israeli companies in its portfolio. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-17-02.htm">11/17/2010 - Analysis: Obama's bid for Mideast peace is risky</a> After watching fellow Democrats suffer bruising defeats in congressional elections, Obama is looking toward his own campaign for re-election in 2012. He needs a big win on foreign policy, and brokering an Israeli-Palestinian peace that has eluded U.S. leaders for six decades would certainly be that. To this end, the Obama administration has moved a significant distance from its original demands on Israel and its settlements. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133046/">11/17/2010 -  Social Suitability Nears OK As Israeli Housing Criterion</a> Adalah claims that absorption committees are a means to exclude Arabs without saying so. Bishara said that these committees hide behind  vagueness, as  no one can explain what social suitability is. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-16-01.htm">11/17/2010 - Fate of Mideast talks in hands of polarizing rabbi</a> The future of the Mideast peace process could rest in the hands of one very undiplomatic man: an outspoken 90 year old rabbi who recently sparked an uproar by saying the Palestinian president should "perish from the world." <b>Why have not the Israelis been told by US officials that they must end all of THEIR incitement against the Palestinians? Israel has for years, by way of our government, demanded the same of the Palestinians.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-17-05.htm">11/17/2010 - Israel OKs pullout from Lebanon border village</a> Ghajar is a village of 2,200 people that lies in a strategic corner where the boundaries of Syria, Israel and Lebanon are in dispute. More than 1,500 residents live in the northern half. Its residents are members of Islam's Alawite sect, whose followers include many members of Syria's ruling elite. Most of the villagers say they want the village to remain united, regardless of who controls it. Virtually all residents have taken Israeli citizenship, further complicating the village's future. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26798.htm">11/17/2010 - Harper on Israel: Is the Prime Minister Mentally Sound?</a> His dedication to that country supersedes his commitment to his own. That would be disturbing enough if Harper were merely a private citizen. But as prime minister it is beyond the pale and it isn't much of a stretch to suggest it borders on the betrayal of Canada and certainly Canadian interests. For what does it mean that Harper will defend Israel no matter the consequences for Canada? <b>Harper appears to be a traitor to the Canadian people. The US has no shortage of such individuals - and for the same reason.</b><br><br> <a href="http://jfjfp.com/?p=19085">11/17/2010 - Israel rates low in terms of religious freedom</a> While Israel s Basic Law describes the country as a Jewish and democratic state,  Government policy continued to support the generally free practice of religion, although governmental and legal discrimination against non-Jews and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism continued, according to the report. <b>And if you read some of the news from the latest news batches, you'd see that these people have made sure OUR government TOO favors the Orthodox (in NYS, as one example). These are the first groups by their own admission to see to it that there's a separation of church and state here in the US (except evidently when it applies to their own).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2010/11/boston-area-towns-vote-on-israeli-anti.html">11/17/2010 - Boston-area towns vote on Israeli anti-discrimination resolutions</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133037/">11/17/2010 - Jewish Voters, Obama and the Great Elephant Hunt</a> The two most dramatic swings in Jewish voting in the last 30 years had a lot to do with Israel: with 45% of the Jewish vote, Jimmy Carter garnered a record low for a Democrat in 1980, and with 12% of the Jewish vote, George H.W. Bush earned a near-record low for a Republican in 1992. The surveys don t show it, but when a candidate sets off alarm bells, Israel matters big time. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1387">11/17/2010 - CPT At-Tuwani October 2010 Update</a> A visitor from England spent a day with the team and a delegation of 30 Mennonites from the US and Canada visited to see for themselves and hear the stories of nonviolent resistance of the people of At-Tuwani to the occupation and confiscation of their land by Israeli settlers and soldiers. The team helped a Palestinian couple from At-Tuwani prepare for a speaking tour in Italy next month. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/nigeria-summons-iran-diplomats-over-seized-arms-1.324214">11/17/2010 - Nigeria summons Iran diplomats over seized arms</a> Immediately after the arms seizure, Israeli officials accused Iran of trying to sneak the shipment into the Gaza Strip, but Nigeria's security service now believes the arms were imported by some local politicians to destabilize Nigeria if they lose in the coming general elections. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26847.htm">11/17/2010 - "Put The Palestinians On A Diet"</a> "The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger." ('Hamas readies for government, Israel prepares sanctions', Agence France Presse, February 16, 2006) The released documents contain actual equations used by the Israeli government to calculate the exact amounts of food, fuel and other necessities needed to do exactly that. ('Submitted to Gisha in the framework of a Freedom of Information Act Petition, AP 2744/09 Gisha v. Defense Ministry', Appendices B, C and D; http://gisha.org/UserFiles/File/HiddenMessages/DefenseMinistryDocumentsRevealedFOIAPetition.pdf) <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133045/">11/17/2010 - Jewish Congressman Loses Florida Seat to Hard-Line, Pro-Israel Republican</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133049/">11/17/2010 - Federations Find Youth Outreach Tricky Terrain at Yearly Meeting</a> though conference leaders claimed to distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from delegitimization, the panels promoted as addressing the issue contained no public critics of Israeli policy. The audience heard instead from Republican messaging guru Frank Luntz and from representatives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Israel s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the right-leaning Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/11/10/wingnuts-on-parade/">11/17/2010 - Wingnuts on Parade by Philip Giraldi</a> Pollak, one of whose supporters is Alan Dershowitz, asked Schakowsky to join him in "condemning the Obama administration s ongoing attack on Israel." In a debate with Schakowsky, Pollak unrolled a map of Israel and announced "My focus tonight will be Israel." Schakowsky s campaign countered that she had a 100% pro-Israel voting record, which was the truth, including even a vote in favor of Israel s right to defend itself after it killed 300 Palestinian children in operation Cast Lead against Gaza. She also cited self defense when signing a congressional letter endorsing the killing of US citizen Furkan Dogan on the Gaza flotilla. In addition, she has enthusiastically endorsed every actual and proposed piece of legislation sanctioning Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/articles/display/standard_operating_procedures_how_the_neocons_are_co_opting_the_tea_party">11/17/2010 - Standard Operating Procedures: How the Neocons Are Co-opting the Tea Party</a> Before there were Tea Partiers, there was Sarah Palin. The summer before John McCain put the Alaska governor on the ticket, she had been  discovered on a Weekly Standard sponsored summer cruise to Alaska. She hosted Standard editor Bill Kristol and others at a luncheon in the state capitol, where she impressed them as a raw political talent. Kristol s subsequent touting elevated her onto McCain s vice presidential short list. One AEI staffer described Palin as a  project, adding  [s]he s bright and she s a blank page. She s going places and it s worth going there with her. ...For the neoconservatives, this alliance has paid off. Palin has become the neoconservatism s reliable vector into the Tea Party world. She reliably echoes neoconservative talking points about war with Iran. When addressing the Tea Party Convention in Nashville last February, she hit neocon talking points by citing Ronald Reagan,  peace through strength, and  tough action against Iran <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/15/not_one_cent_for_tribute_obamas_embarrassing_gift_to_israel">11/17/2010 - Not one cent for tribute: Obama's embarrassing gift to Israel</a> On October 25, Dennis Ross, the White House point person on the Middle East, told a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that not only is America committed "to Israel's security", but that the U.S. commitment "has also been demonstrated in our work to defeat efforts in international organizations to single out or delegitimize Israel." This is new, but undoubtedly welcome to Israel's supporters: the U.S. will not only defend Israel, it will silence its critics. The Ross pledge was ostensibly made to bar a U.N. move for Palestinian statehood which, under the agreement, would be vetoed by the U.S. But the administration's new promise has far reaching consequences. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26844.htm">11/17/2010 - Senior Republican Against US Aid to Palestinians</a> <b>Ros-Lehtinen is another one of the most egregious Israel-firsters on Capitol Hill. She should be deported to Israel, for, she too does not serve the American people.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26841.htm">11/17/2010 - U.S. Taxpayers are Paying for Israel's West Bank Occupation</a> <b>As more Americans go hungry, our government funds the state in the Middle East that is based on religious supremacy, which goes against the ideals upon which this nation was founded.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26842.htm">11/17/2010 - This Congress Won't Give Obama a Free Pass on Israel</a> he new Congress can be expected to be openly supportive of Israel. That means that if the president were to resume his tactic of pressuring Israel he will find himself in opposition to many in the Congress. With many other urgent items on his agenda he may not want to get into a collision with Congress on this issue. If he were to consider taking punitive measures against Israel, if he finds the Israeli government recalcitrant, he will find it difficult to get the cooperation of Congress in the areas where this is required. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/16-2">11/17/2010 - Land of the Food Insecure: Record Rates of Hunger in US</a> <b>Hey I know, let's give a couple more billion to Israel (whose economy is flourishing).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26823.htm">11/17/2010 - AIPAC Bares All to Quash Lawsuit</a> Shapiro and Rosen are clearly building a very interesting box of incrimination around Kohr. While it is now established fact that a copy of the 300-page  Probable Economic Effect of Providing Duty-Free Treatment for U.S. Imports from Israel, Investigation No. 332-180 was probably still in AIPAC s possession in 1987 and circulating among its employees, the report was only classified as  confidential by the U.S. government. If Rosen intends to reveal Kohr received that particular classified information through such depositions, he will have to coach his legal team on the details of how AIPAC (in conjunction with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs) obtained such classified U.S. industrial secrets. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-15-01.htm">11/17/2010 - Eyeing Iran, Israel slates missile shield for 2015</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26815.htm">11/17/2010 - Justice Department Prepares for Expansion of Law Prohibiting  Material Support for Terrorism</a> Of course, the first targets of this draconian expansion of the material support law will not be a former president or the establishment media, but members of a Marxist organization and vocal opponents of the governments of Israel and Colombia and the U.S. policies supporting these repressive governments. <b>Come and get me, bitches :)</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/132896/">11/17/2010 - Still More Than a Minyan in the Senate: The Post-Election Count</a> : Cantor apparently is no longer the only elected Jewish Republican on Capitol Hill. Nan Hayworth, newly elected from New York s 19th congressional district, got a shout-out in an AIPAC email blast that congratulated winners and especially saluted the three newly elected Jews, one of whom is Hayworth. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Was-Glenn-Becks-George-Soros-Takedown-Anti-Semitic-5773">11/17/2010 - Was Glenn Beck's George Soros Takedown Anti-Semitic</a> Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation League have condemned Beck's description of Soros's behavior in occupied Hungary, while others have said that Beck's entire broadside against Soros veers uncomfortably close to anti-Semitism. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/19/release-of-the-%E2%80%98dancing-israelis%E2%80%99-coincidence-or-blackmail/comment-page-1/">11/17/2010 - Release of the  Dancing Israelis , Coincidence or Blackmail?</a> Following what ABC News reported were  high-level negotiations between Israeli and U.S. government officials , a settlement was reached in the case of the five Urban Moving Systems suspects. Intense political pressure apparently had been brought to bear. The reputable Israeli daily Ha aretz reported that by the last week of October 2001, some six weeks after the men had been detained, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and two unidentified  prominent New York congressmen were lobbying heavily for their release. According to a source at ABC News close to the 20/20 report, high-profile criminal lawyer Alan Dershowitz also stepped in as a negotiator on behalf of the men to smooth out differences with the U.S. government. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phyllis-bennis/bribing-israel-enhancing_b_785071.html">11/17/2010 - Bribing Israel Enhancing the Swag</a> What it all means is that the Obama administration is promising to interfere with and prevent any effort to hold Israel accountable in the international arena. The U.S. is staking out a position that allowing the UN to function unhindered, or implementing UN resolutions such as the Goldstone Report, are simply gifts to be bestowed or withheld according to politically-driven, not international law-driven, considerations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israpundit.com/archives/30283">11/17/2010 - Congress lifts hold on $100 million for Lebanese army</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-14-05.htm">11/17/2010 - Israel welcomes last Ethiopians of Jewish descent</a> <b>The original link for a related story by the JTA is <a href="http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/102463.html">here</a> but it no longer works. It`s from June 15, 2007. I found it on <a href="http://www.rebelnews.org/opinion/middle-east/4388">this website</a>. Essentially, WE THE US TAXPAYERS are paying for the `resettlement` of these `refugees`. <br><br> Just remember that when you see all of the continued poverty in the US as more and more people are forced to use food stamps in order to survive. <br><br> <a href="http://standforjustice.blogspot.com/2005/11/conferees-approve-israel-aid.html">Here</a> is a similar story on one of my blogs from November of 2005. It states: <br><br> "The package, which the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbied for, includes an additional $40 million in refugee-resettlement assistance for Israel, money that helps absorb Ethiopian Jews, and provides up to $75 million annually in additional funds by cutting administrative costs."</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/11/17/2741780/australian-zionist-organization-withdraws-offensive-ad">11/17/2010 - Australian Zionist group withdraws offensive ad JTA - Jewish & Israel News</a> A major Zionist organization has withdrawn an advertisement because it featured images mocking the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=195207">11/17/2010 - British politician:  Israel is the root cause of terrorism'</a> In the second attack on Israel by Liberal Democrat politicians in the same week that the party s leader said the party got it wrong on Israel, Jenny Tonge claimed on Friday that Israel s treatment of Palestinians is the root cause of terrorism worldwide. Possibly  Holocaust guilt allows this treatment to go unchecked, Tonge said, adding that it might also be the  power of the pro-Israel lobby in the UK and US. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133021/">11/17/2010 - Rowing Home to Haven In Sunny Palestine</a> It must be a sign that I m getting old that I encounter fewer and fewer people who remember that, prior to the creation of the State of Israel, in 1948,  Palestine was a perfectly respectable word among Jews and was used by them all the time <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133041/">11/17/2010 - We Believe We Can Make A Difference</a> I have devoted most of my adult life to working as a diplomat on behalf of Palestinian rights, foremost their right to live as a free and dignified people in their homeland in peace and security, side by side with all their neighbors, including Israelis. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133039/">11/17/2010 - Moving Beyond Stereotypes</a> As a result of our intense, often volatile, discussions, I came to see that each side perceives itself as the victim and sees the other as the aggressor. I also realized that Israelis feel as vulnerable and scared as Palestinians, even though Israel is so strong and Palestine so weak. And I see that Palestinians are imagined powerful enough to influence the entire outcome of the conflict by ending our resistance to occupation, which, whether violent or non-violent, Israel calls  terrorism. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/133040/">11/17/2010 - Challenging Each Other, In Good Faith</a> Because I lived in Ramallah for a few years, I m able to bring to the group some critical insights about life in a  five-star prison with limited to no freedom of movement. To reach my father s village, normally a 15-minute drive from Ramallah, we had to circumvent all the special roads that Israel built  mostly on confiscated Palestinian land  for settlers use only. Now the trip takes an hour and a half. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/israel-claims-assassination-of-top-islamist-militant-in-gaza-1.322740?trailingPath=2.169,2.216,2.217,">11/10/2010 - Israel claims assassination of top Islamist militant in Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/german-fm-calls-on-israel-to-lift-gaza-siege-1.323605">11/10/2010 - German FM calls on Israel to lift Gaza siege</a> German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle called on Israel on Monday to lift its siege of the Gaza Strip, saying the blockade of 1.5 million people was "not acceptable." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/09-4">11/10/2010 - Echoes of Iraq as Hawks Push for Attack on Iran</a> Starting in January, advocates of a tougher line on Iran will have powerful allies in Congress who could help advance that plan. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), a veteran Iran hawk who has downplayed the effectiveness of sanctions, will take over as chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/09">11/10/2010 - Netanyahu Pounds War Drums</a> Less than a week after Republicans made major gains in the U.S. midterm elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on President Barack Obama to "create a credible threat of military action" against Iran. .....According to diplomatic sources quoted in the Israeli and U.S. press, Netanyahu's appeal came during a meeting with Vice President Joseph Biden in New Orleans Sunday. It suggests that his right-wing government and its allies here, including hawkish Republicans who will take control of the House of Representatives in January, are preparing to escalate pressure on Obama to adopt a more confrontational stance with Tehran. <b>Can Israel ever fight its own battles?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/bush-olmert-asked-me-to-bomb-suspected-syria-nuclear-plant-1.323194">11/10/2010 - Bush: Olmert asked me to bomb suspected Syria nuclear plant </a> Bush writes that he told Olmert, "I cannot justify an attack on a sovereign nation unless my intelligence agencies stand up and say it's a weapons program." <b>Can Israel ever fight any of its own battles?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-09-03.htm">11/10/2010 - Palestinians say it's time to recognize their state</a> "Israeli unilateralism is a call for immediate international recognition of the Palestinian state," he said in a statement. The United States swiftly repeated its opposition to any unilateral moves to recognize Palestinian statehood. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/u-s-midterms-aipac-lauds-re-election-of-pro-israel-stalwarts-1.322729">11/10/2010 - U.S. midterms: AIPAC lauds re-election of pro-Israel stalwarts</a> Israel's Washington embassy also expressed satisfaction with the results. "Support for Israel at the Congress is strong and bipartisan, an embassy spokesman told Haaretz. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-07-04.htm">11/10/2010 - VP Biden pledges unwavering support for Israel</a> The vice president said the Mideast's genuine threats come from Iran and he pledged to defend Israel from that country. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-08-03.htm">11/10/2010 - Netanyahu says Iran must fear military strike</a> Netanyahu's call for a "credible military threat" drew a swift response from the U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said international sanctions were "biting more deeply" than the Iranians anticipated. "I disagree that only a credible military threat can get Iran to take the actions that it needs to," Gates said in Australia on Monday. "At this point we continue to believe that the political and economic approach that we are taking is in fact having an impact on Iran." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26790.htm">11/10/2010 - 'US Support for Israel Must Continue Forever,' says Biden</a> Iran featured prominently in Biden s address in New Orleans. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/help-the-palestinians-go_b_780609.html">11/10/2010 - Help the Palestinians. Go See This Movie</a> The film, which a Washington Post reviewer called "riveting" and "a sure-fire crowd-pleaser," and former AIPAC staffer M.J. Rosenberg called a "totally engaging" story of "regular people" who "take their fate into their own hands," is starting to be shown throughout the United States. In the next two months, scheduled screenings include: Washington DC, through November 11; Chicago, starting November 19; Minneapolis, November 26; Palm Beach, December 1; Boston, December 3; Seattle, December 17. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/focus-u-s-a/how-will-the-republican-controlled-house-affect-u-s-israel-ties-1.322621">11/10/2010 - How will the Republican-controlled House affect U.S.-Israel ties?</a> "If we regain the majority, we will use our larger platform to make the case that a strong Israel is firmly in the strategic and moral interests of the United States. We will press the administration not to pressure Israel into making concessions that will compromise Israel s already tenuous security. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-will-give-u-s-more-time-to-relaunch-peace-talks-1.322979">11/10/2010 - 'Palestinians will give U.S. more time to relaunch peace talks'</a> The Palestinians will give the United States several more weeks to try to relaunch direct peace talks with Israel, but will not buckle on their key demand for a halt to Israeli settlement activity, a top Palestinian official said on Thursday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/03/israel-war-crimes-row-william-hague">11/10/2010 - Israel sparks legal row during William Hague visit</a> British officials were dismayed after being ambushed ahead of a meeting between Hague and his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, at which the issue of universal jurisdiction  under which such arrest warrants can be made  was due to be discussed. <b>Drama queens.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/arrest-fears-prompt-israel-to-relocate-strategic-forum-with-u-k-1.322946">11/10/2010 - Arrest fears prompt Israel to relocate strategic forum with U.K.</a> Israel said an annual strategic forum of Israeli and British officials set to be held in London has been relocated to Israel due to continued fears that Israeli leaders could be arrested on war crimes charges. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-halts-special-strategic-dialogue-with-britain-to-protest-arrest-warrants-1.322654">11/10/2010 - Israel halts 'special strategic dialogue' with Britain to protest arrest warrants</a> Israel has canceled its special strategic dialogue with London to protest a law that enables Britain to arrest visiting Israeli officials for alleged war crimes, officials in Jerusalem said Wednesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-05-02.htm">11/10/2010 - Israeli fast train to run through West Bank</a> Israel is taking Palestinian lands, some of them privately owned, for tunnel portals and access roads, Baum said. Most of the land belongs to the Palestinian villages of Beit Iksa and neighboring Beit Surik, whose residents have already been cut off from some of their lands by the construction of Israel's West Bank separation barrier. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://israelsoccupation.blogspot.com/2010/11/us-denies-support-for-un-palestinian.html">11/10/2010 - Israel-Palestine News US denies support for UN Palestinian statehood bid</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-07-02.htm">11/10/2010 - Israel demolishes illegal mosque in Arab town</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-demand-immediate-statehood-to-counter-israeli-unilateralism-1.323796">11/10/2010 - Palestinians demand immediate statehood to counter Israeli 'unilateralism'</a> The prospect of the United States recognising an independent Palestine without the agreement of Israel seems very remote. But Israeli analysts speculate that President Barack Obama could threaten to abstain rather than veto a UN resolution if he believes Israel is obstructing the path to a peace treaty. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-09-02.htm">11/10/2010 - Obama: Israel construction plans unhelpful</a> <b>Then do something about it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/abbas-seeks-urgent-security-council-meeting-over-east-jerusalem-construction-1.324007">11/10/2010 - Abbas seeks urgent Security Council meeting over East Jerusalem construction </a> Israel announced earlier this week it plans for 1,300 new apartments on land in and around Jerusalem which was annexed by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. A further 800 housing units were planned for the settlement of Ariel in the northern West Bank. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132846/">11/10/2010 - Special Satmar School District Gets a Windfall</a> Some basic math shows that the public school district for Kiryas Joel  a town founded in 1977 by the late grand rebbe of the Satmar Hasidic sect, Joel Teitelbaum, as a rural refuge for his followers  will receive more in RTTT funds per public school student than any other district in the state What remains unclear is whether the district can also use those funds to benefit its private school students, an outcome that would be welcome news to the religious schools that serve almost all the non-special education students in the politically influential town .......The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1994 that the district violated the Constitution s requirement of separation between religion and state. But allies of the influential Satmar sect in the state government rewrote the law allowing for creation of the district, finally finding statutory language able to overcome the constitutional barriers. Unlike some New York villages and neighborhoods with majority Orthodox populations, Kiryas Joel is almost exclusively populated by members of the Satmar Hasidic sect. The village ranks among the poorest in the United States, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. <b>Read that again. And realize who cries the loudest to keep the separation of church and state, only when it applies to others.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132835/">11/10/2010 - Struggling Over Subsidies That Undo Modernity</a> The reason for the protest was the students perception of rank unfairness in Israel s upcoming state budget, which will provide monthly living allowances to Orthodox men engaged in full-time yeshiva study. The stipends actually date back to 1980, but they were ruled illegal by the Supreme Court last June because they discriminate against secular university students. Then, late in October, the Cabinet began discussing a bill to circumvent the high court and restore the yeshiva stipends, and protests erupted nationwide, some of them violent. <b>Notice how similar this is to the story in this news batch dealing with the upstate New York school in a largely orthodox neighborhood. Welcome to the United States of Israel, where American taxpayers get to fund religious supremacy as long as it is JUDAISM. And we also get to fund the pirate kingdom of Israel, which pillages and plunders its neighbors property at will.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132842/">11/10/2010 - Federal Civil Rights Policy Expanded To Protect Jewish College Students</a> The University of California, Irvine, has become emblematic of the trend, as its Muslim Student Union gained attention  and was eventually suspended  for, among other actions, disrupting a speech by Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the United States, with calls that he was a  killer. The Muslim group s anti-Israel protests fueled a 2004 complaint that ZOA filed with the Education Department claiming Irvine s administration had stood by as its environment became hostile for Jews. (After an investigation, the OCR found that most alleged acts of harassment were not based on shared ethnic origins, and that the university had dealt with other instances appropriately. The ZOA s appeal is pending.) Klein said his group regularly fields calls from students who say they are cursed and spat at for wearing shirts promoting Israel. The ZOA and 12 other Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Orthodox Union, wrote a letter in April arguing that OCR s policy failed to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment. <b>More special treatement for guess who? This time, as 'victims' due to the growing anti-Israel sentiment on campus, that's now deemed 'anti-Semitism'.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/11/03/a-hard-rains-gonna-fall/">11/10/2010 - A Hard Rain s Gonna Fall by Philip Giraldi</a> hen there are the changes that will take place in committees and the pecking order in Congress, changes that will bring the long war advocates to the fore. It is where the real damage can take place. Not coincidentally, the hawks are also calling for military action against Iran and are notable in their affection for the state of Israel. The Israel connection is significant because Israel has long been at the heart of America s foreign policy woes. America s misguided war on terror is in fact a complete adoption of Israeli security paradigms without any regard for the actual threats that confront the US, making Israel s many enemies also the foes of Washington. The Israeli Lobby might not have single handedly brought about the disastrous Iraq war but it certainly was a major factor in the push to invade, taking its cues from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. And today Israel and its friends in Congress and the media are the most powerful advocates of a military conflict with Iran, which will only take place, if it does, because of them. At the same time the Lobby is doing its best to sour relations with Lebanon and preempt any possible rapprochement with Syria ..Neither Cantor nor Ros-Lehtinen is troubled by giving more than $3 billion of taxpayer money annually to a relatively wealthy country whose policies damage US interests and place US citizens at risk worldwide. With friends like Cantor and Ros-Lehtinen in key positions in Congress it is the American people who should be in despair. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-08-01.htm">11/10/2010 - Israel moves ahead with new east Jerusalem housing</a> The Israeli government is moving ahead with plans to build nearly 1,300 apartments in disputed east Jerusalem, an official said Monday, drawing a harsh U.S. response just as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is there for meetings with American leaders. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132787/">11/10/2010 - Republicans Backtrack After Proposal on Aid to Israel Draws Heavy Criticism</a> The roughly $3 billion a year provided by the United States for Israeli military purchases is a product of years of formal negotiations and backroom tweaking, and tinkering with it raises concern among pro-Israel lobbyists. Moreover, raising the issue as Cantor did, days before the election, is viewed as breaching the bipartisan support for aid to Israel, which traditionally translates to an easy passage of the bill in Congress every year. ......Throughout the years, AIPAC s lobbying efforts added other perks to the aid package: Israel is the only recipient allowed to spend a portion of its military aid on purchases within the country; usually this kind of aid is designed for procurement of American-made weapon systems. Israel also receives its aid in the first month of the fiscal year as a deposit in an interest-bearing account. Aid to all other recipients is spread out throughout the year. <b>Are you getting the picture yet? </b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hecklers-disrupt-netanyahu-s-speech-at-u-s-jewish-conference-1.323644">11/10/2010 - Hecklers disrupt Netanyahu's speech at U.S. Jewish conference</a> The first heckler, who interrupted Netanyahu barely moments after he began his 30 minute speech, was ejected while shouting "the loyalty oath delegitimizes Israel". .....Subsequent interruptions of regular intervals protested Israel's occupation, claiming that it too delegitimizes Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Harper+says+Canada+will+stand+Israel/3794912/story.html">11/10/2010 - Harper says Canada will stand by Israel</a> The prime minister delivered a strongly worded warning about the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Canada and abroad. He said the persecution of Jews is becoming a global phenomenon in which anti-Semitic ideologies target the Jewish people in their  homeland of Israel and uses the  language of human rights to do so. <b>Canada = another Israeli-occupied territory.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-denies-entry-to-sweden-mp-and-ex-israeli-who-sailed-on-gaza-flotilla-1.323419">11/10/2010 - Israel denies entry to Sweden MP and ex-Israeli who sailed on Gaza flotilla</a> Kaplan and Feiler had planned to use their trip in Israel to lodge an official complaint with the Israel Police against the Israel Defense Forces. Their complaint accused the IDF of kidnapping, armed robbery, violence and obstruction of freedom. Feiler claims that Israeli security forces confiscated his saxophone during the raid, and refused to return it to him. Kaplan says the IDF stole his satellite telephone and camera. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/el-al-apologizes-for-strip-searching-u-s-professor-1.323581">11/10/2010 - El Al apologizes for strip-searching U.S. professor</a> Following the incident, Hebrew University officials wrote to El Al to warn that "the world's top scientists will now refrain from visiting Israel due to interrogations and insensitive searches at Israel's airports". <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/132805/">11/10/2010 - Schakowsky s Israel Question</a> Her own seat seems safe for the time being. But Schakowsky was visibly worried by the prospect of the Obama administration s Israel policy becoming a wider issue. She was particularly stunned to hear of the loss of Miami Congressman Ron Klein, whose non-Jewish opponent criticized Klein s support for Obama s Israel policy. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/132818/">11/10/2010 - Boxer Scores Knockout, Defying GOP Wave</a> Raphael Sonenshein, chairman of the political science department at California State University, Fullerton, believes that Israel and foreign policy generally will have less importance in the coming congressional power struggles than domestic issues, mainly the economy; that is, unless matters should change on the ground and the Middle East erupts into the headlines.  Obama will have less room to push for negotiations, Sonenshein speculated. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/israel-needs-a-leftist-revolution-to-stop-the-fascism-1.323717">11/10/2010 - Israel needs a Leftist revolution to stop the fascism</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-10-03.htm">11/10/2010 - Despite ban, Palestinians build the settlements</a> ... I'm married and have kids. I don't want to be a millionaire. I just want to pay my bills." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3980909,00.html">11/10/2010 - Court okays Jews-only building in Jaffa</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/11/03/jewish-settler-leaders-praise-republican-gains/">11/10/2010 - Jewish Settler Leaders Praise Republican Gains</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/11/08/2741656/first-sign-of-the-new-us-political-reality-bibis-swagger">11/10/2010 - First sign of the new U.S. political reality Bibi s swagger JTA - Jewish & Israel News</a> It was a clear sign that Netanyahu feels empowered by the Republican sweep last week of the House of Representatives to trump the Obama administration s emphasis on peacemaking with the Palestinians with his own priority: confronting Iran. .....Pro-Israel insiders in Washington noted that in different ways, Mandel and Grossman both have been leaders in the effort to sanction Iran and now are positioned to mak sure that their states enforce such sanctions. As a lawmaker, Mandel led the effort to divest Ohio from Iran. Grossman, as AIPAC president in the mid-1990s, lobbied for the Iran sanctions passed by Congress at that time. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-10-02.htm">11/10/2010 - Kerry: Israel may extend settlement freeze</a> "I completely understand the frustration of the Palestinian people," said Kerry, who warned against pulling from the negotiations with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton working "in very good faith" to break the impasse. <b>Then do something about it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/idf-spokeswoman-completely-denies-hinting-israel-coordinated-gaza-hit-with-washington-1.322766">11/10/2010 - IDF spokeswoman completely denies hinting Israel coordinated Gaza hit with Washington</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26755.htm">11/10/2010 - A Tale of Two Ghettoes</a> Last week, in a move to silence criticism of Israeli policies, the Canadian Jewish Congress labelled Adbusters -- and anyone who makes the above historical analogy -- anti-Semitic. The CJC has lobbied Shoppers Drug Mart not to carry Adbusters. Three-thousand-five-hundred copies of Adbusters will no longer be sold at Shoppers Drug Mart's 515 Canadian stores. <b>The fascists strike again.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/a-rabbi-struggles-to-protect-his-palestinian-flock-2121858.html">11/10/2010 - A rabbi struggles to protect his Palestinian flock</a> This sunny late-October morning, has turned out to be the day of the stolen ladders. It started while Ascherman was checking on a group of the Israeli volunteers he assembles each year to help protect olive picking Palestinian families from settlers during the harvest in olive groves overlooked by the red-roofed Jewish settlement of Kedumim. A phone call alerted him to the fact that settlers had vandalised an empty Palestinian car parked on the main road on the other side of the settlement, below the deserted  and even in Israeli law illegal  hilltop outpost of Shvut Ami. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-05-01.htm">11/10/2010 - Israelis mull leaving settlers in Palestine</a> Although it's hardly mainstream thinking, voices on both sides are quietly contemplating an alternative: Perhaps some Jews can live in a future Palestine, even if only in small numbers, the way Arabs live in Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/blog/2010/11/10/un-human-rights-council-calls-on-u-s-to-enforce-leahy-amendment">11/10/2010 - UN Human Rights Council Calls On U.S. to Enforce  Leahy Amendment The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice</a> In Geneva, Ms. Patnaik explained that there are systemic flaws in U.S. implementation of both the  Leahy Amendment, and the Department of State s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices that prevent them from effectively identifying and remedying gross human rights violations. Patnaik stated that multiple sources have provided credible evidence of a persistent pattern of human rights violations committed by the Israeli military, including the killing and injury of international human rights monitors and Palestinian civilians, and demolition of civilian homes. However, to date, the U.S. Department of State has not conducted an investigation under the Leahy Amendment into any Israeli military violations of human rights law. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/209157/obamas-settlement-stand-the-end-of-mideast-peace-talks">11/10/2010 - Obama's settlement stand The end of Mideast peace talks</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israpundit.com/archives/30007">11/10/2010 - First US targeted assassination in Gaza</a> <b>Somehow I doubt that this was a US hit.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-07-06.htm">11/10/2010 - Settlers got sweet land deals in east Jerusalem</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haaretz-expose-state-gave-east-jerusalem-lands-to-rightist-groups-without-tenders-1.322988">11/10/2010 - Haaretz exposé - State gave East Jerusalem lands to rightist groups without tenders - Haaretz Daily Newspaper Israel News</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/report-iran-gave-hezbollah-uavs-attack-aircraft-1.323259">11/10/2010 - Report: Iran gave Hezbollah UAVs, attack aircraft</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=194662">11/10/2010 - Bush rejects claims that Israel was behind Iraq war</a> The only reference Bush makes to a pro-Israel figure having a role in his Iraq deliberations is the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, a supporter of military intervention whose opinion the president solicited as he weighed his options.  Elie is a sober and gentle man. But there was passion in his seventy-four-year-old eyes when he compared Saddam Hussein s brutality to the Nazi genocide, Bush writes. The other major pro-Israel figure whose influence Bush notes in his work comes during his discussion of the  Freedom Agenda. Bush cites a passage from Natan Sharansky s book The Case for Democracy in making the argument that America needed to  put pressure on the arms of the world s tyrants. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/08/george-bush-memoir-decision-points">11/10/2010 - George Bush's memoirs reveal how he considered attacks on Iran and Syria</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-07-01.htm">11/10/2010 - Netanyahu to press U.S. for military threat on Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26779.htm">11/10/2010 - Netanyahu Tests Obama, Again</a> While visiting Israel in March, Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech that delighted the Israeli right and its followers here. The key passage was this: "When it comes to Israel's security there can be no daylight  no daylight  between Israel and the US." That formulation, which was devised by the pro-Israel lobby here, pleased the Netanyahu government, which interprets it to mean that Israel has carte blanch from Washington to do whatever it wants. No other country in the world enjoys such a pledge from the United States. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132786/">11/10/2010 - Jews Stayed With Democrats, Now Worry About Domestic Agenda</a> Capitol Hill, however, is still a friendly place for Jewish and pro-Israeli activists. Leadership of key committees, including Appropriations and Foreign Affairs, will remain in the hands of veteran Republicans with whom pro-Israeli activists had established long-standing working relations.  We make sure to be in close ties with both sides, and we ve always worked with both the majority and the minority, so these kinds of transitions are easier for us, said Daniel Meron, minister of congressional affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/michael-oren-urges-u-s-jews-to-defend-israel-against-aggressors-1.323620">11/10/2010 - Michael Oren urges U.S. Jews to defend Israel against aggressors</a>  I think it is fair for Israel to expect the American Jewish community to uphold our right to self-defense," Oren said. "Israel expects American Jews to fight the Goldstone report which limits our ability to defend ourselves by branding us as war criminals, with the same zeal that you have fought boycotts, divestment and sanctions." ... I want to say categorically that bipartisan political support for Israel is a national strategic interest for the Jewish state. We urge American Jews to ensure that preserving a secure sovereign Israel remains a bipartisan goal to which Americans of all political outlooks aspire . <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26776.htm">11/10/2010 - 'Bibi Can Take US Into War With Iran'</a>  On Iran, there's no difference between Democrats and Republicans. They're very comfortable with the idea that a foreign leader like [Benjamin] Netanyahu can take 300 million Americans to war whenever he wants, said counterterrorism expert Michael Scheuer, who has worked with the Central Intelligence Agency for more than 20 years.  The election was a disaster in terms of increasing the chances of another war that we don't have the resources to fight, and we won't have the will to win, Newsmax quoted Scheuer as saying. .....Scheuer said no problem would be resolved  until they [US officials] understand we're being attacked because of our foreign policy and what we do in the Muslim world, we're never going to understand the motivation and size of the enemy. <b>We were not attacked for our freedom, because of Islam or because our women are liberated. The majority of those attacked us on 911 because of our support for Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26775.htm">11/10/2010 - The Parcel Bomb Plot: Al-Qaeda s Latest Christmas Gift to Israel</a> While Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) may have claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb plot, it s worth considering how this latest Yemen-linked terror scare has been a gift to their avowed enemies. A mere two weeks before the discovery of mail bombs addressed to  two places of Jewish worship in Chicago, Rupert Murdoch sounded prescient as he received an award from the Anti-Defamation League for his support of Israel.  The terrorists continue to target Jews across the world, declared the media mogul in his acceptance speech.  But they have not succeeded in bringing down the Israeli government  and they have not weakened Israeli resolve. Equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, the Fox News owner smeared the growing worldwide condemnation of Israel s rogue behaviour as an  ongoing war against the Jews. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132761/">11/10/2010 - Citing Their Close Ties With Local Muslims, Chicago s Jews Unfazed by Terrorist Threat</a> In Chicago, Lopatin noted that the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago issued a statement condemning the attacks immediately after the first news reports broke stating that area Jewish institutions were targeted. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/outgoing-intel-chief-iran-can-already-produce-nuclear-bomb-1.322544">11/10/2010 - Outgoing intel chief: Iran can already produce nuclear bomb </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26758.htm">11/10/2010 - In U.S., 14% Rely on Food Stamps</a> Some 42,389,619 Americans received food stamps in August, a 17% rise from the same time a year ago, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which tracks the data. That number is up 58.5% from August 2007, before the recession began. <b>Hey I know, let's give a few more billion to Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israpundit.com/archives/30096">11/10/2010 - Sen Graham sees  confrontation with China, war with Iran</a> The South Carolina Republican saw the United States going to war with the Islamic republic  not to just neutralize their nuclear program, but to sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard, in other words neuter that regime. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/breaking-news-benjamin-netanyahu-retains-control-of-u-s-congress.html">11/10/2010 - BREAKING NEWS: Benjamin Netanyahu retains control of U.S. Congress</a> "American voters on both sides of the aisle support Israel," Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, founder and president of The Israel Project, says in the e-mail. <b>American voters nothing to do with it. AIPAC did.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-07-03.htm">11/10/2010 - Anger at Israel flares in Jordan election campaign</a> Behind the anger expressed by candidates and voters lies U.S. ally Jordan's greatest fear: that if peacemaking collapses, Israel will try to force it to take in the residents of the West Bank and stand as the Palestinian state. Recent talk by right wing Israelis about the "Jordanian option" has only fueled the belief here that this is Israel's ultimate plan. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11617.shtml">11/10/2010 - ei The great book robbery of 1948</a> Between May 1948 and February 1949, librarians from the Jewish National Library and Hebrew University Library entered the desolate Palestinian homes of west Jerusalem and seized 30,000 books, manuscripts and newspapers alone. These cultural assets, which had belonged to elite and educated Palestinian families, were then "loaned" to the National Library where they have remained until now. Furthermore, across cities such as Jaffa, Haifa, Tiberias and Nazareth, employees of the Custodian of Absentee Property gathered approximately 40,000-50,000 books belonging to Palestinians. Most of these were later resold to Arabs although approximately 26,000 books were deemed unsuitable as they contained "inciting material against the State [Israel]" and were sold as paper waste. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-harrington/2010/11/09/netanyahu-intellectual-father/">11/10/2010 - netanyahu Intellectual Father of the  War on Terror by Thomas Harrington -- Antiwar.com</a> Key to the continued rise of Revisionist Zionism was the ability to organize key elements of American Jewry around this new, hyper-martial view of the Israeli reality. They did so by infiltrating AIPAC and by flooding the think-tanks then being created to prop up the Reagan Revolution (e.g., the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute) with thinkers amenable to their cause, and by founding think-tanks of their own (e.g., the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Hudson Institute, the Center for Security Policy, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the Middle East Media Research Institute) dedicated wholeheartedly to promoting a pro-Likud approach to Mideast policy. <b>A very good read.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-10-04.htm">11/10/2010 - Muslims say Obama failing to keep Cairo promises</a> Seventeen months after Obama's Cairo University speech, al Qaeda is still threatening the West, peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians remain stalled over the issue of West Bank settlements and U.S. troops remain in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many in the Middle East believe that Washington's tight alliance with Israel makes it impossible to end the suffering of the Palestinians, breeding cynicism among Arab Muslims toward U.S. intentions in the region. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/02/meet_your_new_house_foreign_affairs_chairwoman_ileana_ros_lehtinen">11/10/2010 - Meet your new House Foreign Affairs chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen</a> Over the mid to long term, Ros-Lehtinen is poised to thwart Obama's efforts to move toward repealing sanctions on Fidel Castro and resist any White House attempts to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She isn't likely to move Berman's foreign-aid reform bill through the committee and she is likely to seek cuts in the foreign-aid budget in her authorization bill. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/11/05-2">11/10/2010 - Justice Dept. Renews Enforcement of Subpoenas for Antiwar Activists Targeted in FBI Raids</a> Subpoenas to appear before a grand jury were served on 13 people, but later withdrawn when the activists asserted their right to remain silent. But this week, the U.S. Department of Justice said it intends to enforce the subpoenas for some of them and require them to appear before a grand jury. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-syria-risks-iaea-action-if-access-to-suspected-nuclear-site-is-denied-1.323221">11/10/2010 - U.S.: Syria risks IAEA action if access to suspected nuclear site is denied</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/11/08/the-war-on-christianity/">11/10/2010 - The War on Christianity by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> <b>Some great comments on this article.</b><br><br> <a href="https://www.amconmag.com/larison/2010/11/05/israelpalestine-and-iran-are-not-linked-and-should-not-be-linked-ii/">11/10/2010 - Israel/Palestine and Iran Are Not Linked And Should Not Be Linked (II)</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132845/">11/10/2010 - At New Museum, an Inventive, if Incomplete, Paean to Freedom</a> Some subjects, though, remain perplexingly untouched. Most glaringly avoided is the complex role that Israel has played in American Jewish identity over the past century. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/turkish-action-movie-on-gaza-flotilla-raid-unlikely-to-calm-regional-tensions/">11/10/2010 - Turkish Action Movie on Gaza Flotilla Raid Unlikely to Calm Regional Tensions</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israpundit.com/archives/30119">11/10/2010 - Israpundit » Blog Archive » Senator Elect Rubio is coming to Israel next week</a> You Just Won The Senate Seat For Florida, Mr. Rubio! Now What are You Going to Do? . . .  I m Going to Israel! <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/analysis-bush-s-memoir-explains-u-s-can-t-appear-to-be-doing-israel-s-bidding-1.323296">11/10/2010 - ANALYSIS - Bush's memoir explains U.S. can't appear to be doing Israel's bidding - Haaretz Daily Newspaper Israel News</a> Bush's book should thus be read as a lesson for the future: The Americans cannot appear to be doing Israel's bidding. Precise intelligence is necessary. And whatever can be done secretly is better than what explodes thunderously <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/9668">11/10/2010 - Muslim supplier refuses blood money from South African Jewish group</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/11/11-01-02.htm">11/3/2010 - Palestinian children face increasing settler violence: study</a> Palestinian children are coming under increasing attack by a handful of violent, extremist Jewish settlers, a rights group said Monday in a report on the human cost of settlement expansion. The study, which was compiled over two years by Defence for Children International Palestine (DCI), investigated 38 separate incidents of settler violence towards minors, which resulted in the deaths of three children and injuries to 42 others. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132611/">11/3/2010 - Israel Quietly Accedes to Huge Saudi Arms Deal, The Largest Ever</a> one of the most important parties involved in the negotiations for this huge deal is making its position clear simply through its silence. Israel and its supporters in the United States have chosen to quietly allow the deal to pass unopposed Congress. ... The U.S. did a good job of convincing Israelis, said Michael Knights, a military expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He added that in exchange for its acceptance of America s need to strengthen the Saudi military, Israel could be well compensated on its next arms request .....the administration has stated it believes, based on quiet discussions held with key congressmen, that Congress will not block the deal. This optimism is based in part on the fact that the pro-Israel lobby is not fighting against the deal. <b>Who runs Congress? ...Not you and I.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/10/28/Palestinians-to-declare-statehood-in-2011/UPI-31621288266028/">11/3/2010 - Palestinians to declare statehood in 2011</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-settlement-building-won-t-affect-final-status-peace-deal-1.321678">11/3/2010 - Netanyahu: Settlement building won't affect final status peace deal</a> Speaking after a meeting with U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman on Thursday, Netanyahu seemingly rejected the Palestinian stance, saying the settlement issue was "not substantial" and that construction in the settlements "will not influence the peace map." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/10/27/the-tea-party-disconnect/">11/3/2010 - The Tea Party Disconnect by Philip Giraldi</a> Palin is something quite different, and a good deal more dangerous than the lumpish and frequently strident Gingrich. She knows nothing of foreign policy and even less of security and defense related issues and is basically a neocon creation being promoted by them as a national candidate. Palin was discovered by Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol in 2007 while he and a group of National Review stalwarts were on an Alaska cruise. Kristol assiduously pushed the right buttons to get her on the Republican ticket with John McCain. Palin returned the favor, describing how she had an Israeli flag on display in her governor s office and describing her love for Israel during the debate with Joe Biden, but her ignorance of foreign policy issues was palpable during the campaign <b>Another excellent article by former CIA Philip Giraldi.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/11/01/does-obama-need-a-war/">11/3/2010 - Does Obama Need a War? by Patrick J. Buchanan </a> The first result of a U.S. strike would be to pull Iran s oil off the world market. If Iran responded by mining the Gulf or sinking a tanker, oil would go to $300 a barrel and gasoline to $10 a gallon. Does Broder think that would give a nice boost to the U.S. and world economy? ....Israel calls Iran  an existential threat. But Israel has 200 nukes and the planes, subs and missiles to deliver them, while U.N. inspectors claim Iran has not diverted any of its low-enriched uranium for conversion to weapons grade. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-02-01.htm">11/3/2010 - Jewish-Arab relations in Israel hit boiling point</a> Relations between Israel's Jewish majority and its Arab minority have never been warm, but they appear to have hit a new low that has activists on both sides worried the troubled relationship is beyond repair. In the past month alone, Israeli lawmakers have introduced a series of bills that aim to marginalize Arabs. Rabbis in a northern town have urged followers not to rent homes to Arabs. Extremist Jews marched through this town and set off a violent riot. And a prominent Arab activist has admitted in a plea bargain to spying for the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-31-01.htm">11/3/2010 - In Beirut, a crash course in Arabic -- and Mideast politics</a> For student Sajjad Dewji, a political science major at the University of British Columbia in Canada, the most memorable experience was a visit to a rundown Palestinian refugee camp. "While the subject ... has been one that many of us would have discussed academically ... visiting the Palestinian camps was a very emotional and eye opening experience," said the 21 year old Vancouver resident. Lebanon is home to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees who are crammed into a dozen destitute camps across the country. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1385">11/3/2010 - Israeli military occupy Palestinian house</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/american-professor-invited-to-israel-humiliated-by-el-al-security-personnel-1.322099">11/3/2010 - American professor invited to Israel 'humiliated' by El Al security personnel</a> An American professor who was invited to a conference in Israel claims she was humiliated by Israeli security personnel at London's Luton airport on Thursday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-bans-palestinian-pm-from-east-jerusalem-event-1.322320">11/3/2010 - Israel bans Palestinian PM from East Jerusalem event</a> Fayyad was scheduled to make an appearance on Tuesday at two East Jerusalem schools to mark the PA-sponsored renovation of 15 educational institutions in the city. The reception and ceremony was to take place in the Dahyat al-Salam neighborhood. On Monday, however, Jerusalem policemen arrived at the Dahyat al-Salam reception hall, handing over a warrant signed by Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, according to which PA-sponsored events were forbidden on Israeli soil. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2010/1029/Obama-can-let-Palestinians-seek-state-recognition-at-the-UN">11/3/2010 - Obama can let Palestinians seek state recognition at the UN</a> If the UN declares a state of Palestine, Israeli settlements would then clearly be in violation of international law. <b>They already are.</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/132450/">11/3/2010 - Murders, Deemed  Honor Killings, Rock an Israeli City</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2010/11/02/so-much-for-the-triumph-of-the-national-interest/">11/3/2010 - So Much For The Triumph of the National Interest</a> I agree with Miller that Obama should not focus on foreign policy for the next two years, but that is because anything substantial he is likely to achieve will most likely undermined or sabotaged by political opposition at home. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/u-s-midterms-israeli-democrat-leader-says-american-voters-need-to-grow-up-1.322378">11/3/2010 - U.S. midterms / Israeli Democrat leader says American voters need to grow up</a> What about Jewish voters who, according to polls, are beginning to abandon the Democrats, because of, among other things, Obama's approach to Israel? The Jewish American voter also has to grow up and recognize that Obama is Israel's friend and acts in its interests. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132595/">11/3/2010 - Equal Time for Arab Voices</a> The stunning disinterest in Arab-American opinion, or its productive role in genuine peacemaking, is the result of decades of demonizing the Palestinian narrative and reducing it to an intellectually dishonest caricature of a violently anti-Semitic people squatting on the land, always rejecting peace. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-01-03.htm">11/3/2010 - Some good news for Obama from Israel "Tea Party"</a> The Israel Tea Party launch did not mark the start of a breakaway right wing party, he said. It was meant to help Netanyahu reject Obama's pressure to bend to Palestinian conditions for the revival of flagging peace talks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/jewish-federations-acknowledge-israels-paradigm-shift-and-circle-the-wagons.html">11/3/2010 - Jewish Federations acknowledge Israel s  paradigm shift, then circle the wagons</a> If we are to effectively respond to the delegitimization/BDS campaign against Israel, the People of the Book also have to become the People of Cyberspace. Understanding how much anti-Israel material is out there, monitoring attacks and crafting tailored pro-Israel messages to the right audiences especially to the younger generation is now dependent on our ability to strategically and effectively utilize the Internet, new media, Websites and social networks. This workshop will provide hands-on guidance on how Federations, and other organizations, networks and individuals can implement advocacy and communications strategies for the 21st Century. <b>Be warned: MORE pro-Israel propaganda is on the way.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-31-02.htm">11/3/2010 - Israeli Jews at odds with liberal brethren in US</a> Rubin is at the center of a deepening rift between the world's two biggest Jewish communities  the American and Israeli. Religious life in Israel is dominated by the strict ultra Orthodox establishment, which has growing political power and has become increasingly resistant to any inroads by the more liberal movements that predominate among American Jews. ....."There are a lot of Americans who normally would not get involved in Israeli politics but who are saying, 'What you are doing is delegitimizing me. It is not enough to want my support and want my money, you have to be willing to recognize me as a human being and as a Jew,' and they feel that is not happening," <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-31-03.htm">11/3/2010 - Israel PM to fly to US for talks on peace process</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/turkey-policy-paper-israel-s-actions-threaten-mideast-1.321960">11/3/2010 - Turkey policy paper: Israel's actions threaten Mideast</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/132691/">11/3/2010 - Questioning A Congresswoman's Jewishness (or Jewessness)</a> His name is Bruce Ash, and he is a member of the RNC national committee. Ash also served in the past as chair of the Southern Arizona federation. According to a report in the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix, Ash posted a letter on a conservative website in which he referred to Giffords as the congresswoman  who claims to be a Jewess. The broader context of the sentence was an attack on Giffords stance on Israel, which Ash believes is not strong enough. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132597/">11/3/2010 - Opening Minds on Campus</a> In Imran s first week of college, he immediately had someone to hate. Or at least his dorm neighbor thought so.  Wait, Imran, why are you going to Shabbat this Friday? he asked.  I thought Muslims hated Jews. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-28-07.htm">11/3/2010 - Christian pilgrims flock to Jordan River for baptism</a> Qasr al Yahud is located in a closed military zone near Jericho. Although it has been opened to pilgrims on special occasions, Israel recently allowed access to the site six days a week. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132607/">11/3/2010 - Price of Beauty: Boycotts and  Buycotts </a> The escalation of both the boycott campaign and opposition to it come as supporters of Israel increasingly point to BDS as part of an effort to  delegitimize Israel. On October 26, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and the Jewish Federations of North America announced the creation of the Israel Action Network to actively combat BDS campaigns. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-31-04.htm">11/3/2010 - Ahmadinejad aide says Iran not ready to talk nuclear</a> Ahmadinejad has also asked the parties to declare their opinion on Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal. Israel says a nuclear armed Iran would threaten its very existence and does not rule out striking Iran militarily to stop that happening. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/02/meet_your_new_house_foreign_affairs_chairwoman_ileana_ros_lehtinen">11/3/2010 - Meet your new House Foreign Affairs chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen The Cable</a> Over the mid to long term, Ros-Lehtinen is poised to thwart Obama's efforts to move toward repealing sanctions on Fidel Castro and resist any White House attempts to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She isn't likely to move Berman's foreign-aid reform bill through the committee and she is likely to seek cuts in the foreign-aid budget in her authorization bill. <b>She is one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill. Thus will the American national interest further suffer with her in power.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-30-01.htm">11/3/2010 - Nigeria: Shipper confirms weapons came from Iran</a> Israeli military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were unauthorized to discuss the matter with journalists, said Thursday that it appeared Iran hoped to smuggle the weapons into the Gaza Strip. Israel instituted a naval blockade of the region in 2007 after Iranian backed Hamas seized control of the Palestinian territory. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/11/11-03-02.htm">11/3/2010 - Obama's star fades in Muslim world</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-28-08.htm">11/3/2010 - Syria flouts Lebanon sovereignty, arms militants: U.S.</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-28-06.htm">11/3/2010 - US says Syria, Iran, Hezbollah endanger Lebanon</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/obama-s-message-to-israel-freeze-settlements-or-get-rid-of-dimona-1.322382">11/3/2010 - Obama's message to Israel: Freeze settlements or get rid of Dimona</a> Ross, who has served both Republican and Democratic presidents for the last three decades, predictably lauded Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon for leading the campaign to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. But he also took care to mention that Congress, with "strong encouragement from AIPAC," had enacted tough sanctions against Iran with bipartisan support. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/11/01/gop-hawks-and-doves/">11/3/2010 - GOP Hawks and Dovesby Philip Giraldi </a> Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, born in Cuba and currently representing Florida, will almost certainly become chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where she will energetically pursue a policy of undying enmity towards Fidel Castro coupled with total alignment with Bibi Netanyahu. Eric Cantor of Virginia, currently minority whip, will likely move up to become Speaker of the House. Cantor has proposed that Israel s $3 billion plus per annum be removed from the foreign aid budget, where it is bunched with a number of countries that Cantor does not like, and that it come directly from the Treasury, making Israel a permanent and institutionalized beneficiary of the United States taxpayer. Cantor and Ros-Lehtinen and those of a like mind would then be able to vote against foreign aid without damaging Israeli interests. Both Cantor and Ros-Lehtinen also support preemptive action against Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132608/">11/3/2010 - Some Israelis Hoping for A GOP Win, But Will History Repeat Itself?</a>  Netanyahu fears a strong Obama who can apply pressure, said Yaron Deckel, Israeli TV s Channel 1 political commentator.  If the Republicans win big in the midterm elections, Obama will be weaker and less inclined to pressure Israel, and that will buy Netanyahu more time. .... If you need the president, you need us as chairs of the committees, Ackerman said as he listed what he called the  first-class team of Jewish pro-Israel Democrats who chair key House committees: Berman at Foreign Affairs, Barney Frank at Financial Services, Henry Waxman at the Energy and Commerce committee, Sander Levin at Ways and Means, and Ackerman himself in his role as head of the Middle East subcommittee.  We are all pro-Israel and we all have major, major, major influence in the executive branch. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132610/">11/3/2010 - As Some Retire From ADL, Will Abe Be Next?</a> While the ADL was founded as a civil rights and human relations agency, Foxman in recent years has clearly focused on defending Israel, which some say is to the detriment of the ADL s legacy and stated mission. Targeting Jewish Voice for Peace  a left-wing group but a Jewish one  is one example. The recent award to Murdoch is offered as another. .....said Klein of the group s award to Murdoch,  It s this  wink wink nod nod, we ll take Murdoch s money because he supports Israel, and we ll ignore everything happening on Fox News. On several recent occasions when Klein posted polite but critical comments of the Murdoch award on the ADL s Facebook page, they were deleted within hours. Through Gutnick, Foxman declined to be interviewed for this story. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://jfjfp.com/?p=18752">11/3/2010 - BDS success Africa Israel pulls out of settlement development Jews for Justice for Palestinians</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <b>October</b> <br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1384">10/27/2010 - Israeli Military's negligence exposes schoolchild</a> The Israeli military is mandated by the Israeli Knesset to escort these children to and from school each day because Israeli settlers from the Ma on settlement and Havat Ma on outpost have repeatedly attacked schoolchildren on their way to and from school. On the afternoons of the 24th and 25th, Internationals from Operation Dove and the Christian Peacemaker Teams made repeated calls to the Israeli military to notify them that the children were ready and waiting for the escort, but the army never arrived. This is the third incident this month in which the army has failed to arrive to escort the schoolchildren. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/carter-sheikh-jarrah-evictions-are-against-international-law-1.320676">10/27/2010 - Carter: Sheikh Jarrah evictions are against international law</a> Former United States President Jimmy Carter said on Friday that the eviction of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah is against international law. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-25-03.htm">10/27/2010 - Palestinians renew threat of unilateral action</a> The Palestinian president says Israel's prime minister should not warn him against taking unilateral steps when Israel has been building West Bank settlements on its own for decades. Mahmoud Abbas was referring to a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he said the Palestinians have no options for peace except direct negotiations. Palestinians have been indicating they might ask for U.N. recognition of a state of their own if they give up on peace talks. Abbas said Israel has been taking one sided measures for decades in the West Bank. "Settlements are a unilateral step taken by Israel," Abbas said during a visit to Bethlehem Monday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-25-01.htm">10/27/2010 - Restoration planned for Bethlehem Nativity Church</a> The Palestinian government has appealed to European and Arab nations to help fund the project, Bandak said. He said the three churches that administer sections of the church have agreed to the project. Officials from the Latin, Greek and Armenian churches could not be reached for comment. Their rivalries have often led to fistfights between monks at the holy site. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/public-outcry-ensues-after-rabbis-tell-jews-not-to-rent-to-arabs-1.320336">10/27/2010 - Public outcry ensues after rabbis tell Jews not to rent to Arabs </a> Several Knesset members and nonprofit organizations on Wednesday demanded a criminal investigation of Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and 17 other rabbis, after Haaretz reported that they had called on Jews not to rent or sell apartments to non-Jews. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.tennessean.com/article/20101024/NEWS01/10240374/Anti-Muslim-crusaders-make-millions-spreading-fear">10/27/2010 - Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear</a> Emerson is a leading member of a multimillion-dollar industry of self-proclaimed experts who spread hate toward Muslims in books and movies, on websites and through speaking appearances. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-26-02.htm">10/27/2010 - Tutu urges South African opera not to tour Israel</a> Tutu charges that by bringing international artists to perform, the Tel Aviv Opera House "advances Israel's fallacious claim to being a 'civilized democracy.'" <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-24-02.htm">10/27/2010 - Israel critical over Mideast synod conclusions</a> the bishops attending the gathering issued their conclusions on Saturday. They said they had "reflected" on the suffering and insecurity in which Israelis live and on the status of Jerusalem, a city holy to Christians, Jews and Muslims. While the bishops condemned terrorism and anti Semitism, they laid much of the blame for the conflict squarely on Israel. They listed the occupation of Palestinian lands, Israel's separation barrier with the West Bank, its military checkpoints, political prisoners, demolition of homes and disturbance of Palestinians' socio economic lives as factors that have made life increasingly difficult for Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/10/21-10">10/27/2010 - 'Not One Word of Remorse' from Driver Who Crushed Rachel Corrie</a> The Corrie family had requested that they be given dispensation to see YB give evidence, which was refused. "I do feel that the state of Israel is saying [we] are security risks and I am affronted by that," Cindy Corrie, Rachel's mother, said after the hearing. "I wanted to be able to see the whole person, not just hear the words." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=192791">10/27/2010 - Ross warns Israel failed talks could imperil its security</a> he primarily focused on Iran in his address, which he described as a preeminent threat to America. He said that US President Barack Obama  has consistently devoted more time to this issue than almost any other national security challenge. <b>Read that sentence again. Who really feels threatened by Iran? Not America. So why is this the nearly number one concern of our AMERICAN president? Because AIPAC made it his concern. To OUR detriment.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=192195">10/27/2010 - Foxman: US must stop Palestinians from declaring state</a> <b>Like Israel did in 1948? And how is this a matter for the ADL? Because their real job has more to do with being an agent of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/europe/24vatican.html?_r=1">10/27/2010 - Bishops at Meeting Urge Israel to End Its Occupation of Palestinian Territories</a>  The concept of the promised land cannot be used as a base for the justification of the return of Jews to Israel and the displacement of Palestinians, he said.  Sacred scripture should not be used to justify the occupation by Israel of Palestine. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-26-03.htm">10/27/2010 - Israel PM praises troops who raided Gaza flotilla</a> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on a special visit to a military base, told the men they acted "heroically" and "ethically" in an attempt to stop "people who sought to kill you." <b>The Israelis have a museum exhibit dedicated to praising the attack on the USS Liberty which killed 34 American men and wounded 170 others. Read about it in the article <a href="http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,NI_Friendless_0603,00.html">Friendless Fire</a>.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3974773,00.html">10/27/2010 - Pentagon in charge of aid to Israel?</a> According to advocates of this proposal, disconnecting Israel from the foreign aid's law will guarantee the continued support while also allowing the Republicans to take control of the foreign aid budget and the money flow to other countries. .... Eric Cantor, the only Jewish Republican serving in the US House of Representatives, has recently told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), that the House of Representatives, headed by the Republican Party, will work towards stopping the American aid to countries who do not operate according to American interest. This means that there is a possibility that the House of Representatives will not approve the foreign aid budget submitted by the Government .....If the Republicans win the upcoming elections, there will be more Tea Party right-winged representatives supporting tax cut-backs and strict foreign aid policy. Some of them have already stated that they intend to vote against foreign aid. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-22-05.htm">10/27/2010 - Peace with Palestinians would help U.S. on Iran: Peres</a> "We fought alone, but we cannot exist alone. For our existence we need the friendship of the United States of America. It doesn't sound easy, but this is the truth," Peres said in a speech to Jewish leaders broadcast by Israel Radio. "As the United States is trying to understand the security needs of Israel, we Israelis ourselves must understand the security needs of the United States," he said, speaking in English in an address made on Thursday evening. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-23-02.htm">10/27/2010 - Vatican meeting demands Israel end occupation</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-21-02.htm">10/27/2010 - AP IMPACT: Israeli settlers building 544 new homes</a> Israeli settlers have begun building new homes at an extraordinary pace since the government lifted its moratorium on West Bank housing starts  almost 550 in three weeks, more than four times faster than the last two years. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-22-01.htm">10/27/2010 - Israel colonel 'quizzed over deadly Gaza raid'</a> Givati units had been operating in the neighbourhood for several days before the air raid, and witnesses said it was clear the building was populated with civilians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/un-envoy-demands-israel-act-against-settler-attacks-1.321296">10/27/2010 - UN envoy demands Israel act against settler attacks</a> "I am appalled at acts of destruction of olive trees and farmlands, desecration of mosques and violence against civilians," <b>terrorism.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinian-graveyard-vandalized-in-settler-price-tag-operation-1.320675">10/27/2010 - Palestinian graveyard vandalized in settler 'price tag' operation</a> One of the slogans had the words "price tag," which radical settlers use to describe their revenge campaign against restrictions on Israeli construction in the occupied territory. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/abbas-discusses-un-approved-palestinian-statehood-with-saudi-king-1.320723">10/27/2010 - Abbas discusses UN-approved Palestinian statehood with Saudi King</a> <b>DO IT.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8079434/Israeli-settlement-building-alarming-says-UN-envoy.html">10/27/2010 - Israeli settlement building 'alarming', says UN envoy </a> After touring east Jerusalem flashpoints where Jewish settlers have moved in to houses after Palestinians were evicted, Mr Carter expressed outrage. "The suffering here under occupation and the deprivations of people in Gaza are evidence of the improper policies of the government of Israel," he said. "We will continue to work on a peaceful solution where the Israelis will withdraw from east Jerusalem, and let this be the capital of a Palestinian state. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-25-02.htm">10/27/2010 - Palestinians, Jews race to plant West Bank</a> Israeli military officials can seize farmland if it has lain fallow for three to 10 years. The military has grabbed some 240,000 acres this way since the 1980s, mostly handing them over to Jews to build settlements, according to Peace Now, an anti settlement watchdog group. <b>The Israeli military has no legal right to do that. In fact, it's a violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Conventions which states: the occuping power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies. Those are war crimes.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-24-01.htm">10/27/2010 - Israel slams 'political attacks' by Catholic bishops</a> Most religious Jews believe the land of Israel was given to them by God, and Jewish settlers often cite biblical justifications for holding onto the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories seized in the 1967 Six Day War. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-22-02.htm">10/27/2010 - Israel settlements block Palestinian state: UN envoy</a> A Palestinian state "seems increasingly problematic as a solution because it would require a substantial reversal of the settlement process," said Richard Falk, a UN representative on human rights in the Palestinian territories. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-21-01.htm">10/27/2010 - UN envoy: AP findings on settlements 'alarming'</a> In a statement, U.N. envoy Robert Serry called the AP settlement report "alarming." He said settlement construction is "illegal under international law" and "will only further undermine trust." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/british-passengers-of-gaza-flotilla-seek-to-testify-in-israeli-probe-1.320512?localLinksEnabled=false">10/27/2010 - British passengers of Gaza flotilla seek to testify in Israeli probe</a> Most of the 33 British passengers on May's aid flotilla to Gaza have asked to give oral testimony to Turkel committee investigating the botched IDF raid on the ships, a lawyer acting on their behalf said yesterday. The group say they are resisting what they see as efforts by the commission to belittle their evidence by having them submit only very basic information about their experiences. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/shin-bet-supports-revoking-citizenship-of-israelis-convicted-of-terror-1.321269">10/27/2010 - Shin Bet supports revoking citizenship of Israelis convicted of terror</a> Interior Minister Eli Yishai's proposal has been presented as a method of deterring potential criminals from embarking on terrorist activities, seen as targeting Israeli Arabs in particular. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/148356.html">10/27/2010 - Israel hails commandoes killing activists</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-27-01.htm">10/27/2010 - Police, protesters clash in Arab Israeli town</a> Police kept journalists away from the march's 50 meter (yard) path. But nearby resident Amneh Jabari, 38, said marchers chanted "death to the Arabs" and "Umm el Fahm will be Jewish" while waving white and blue Israeli flags and reciting prayers. The Jewish militants are admirers of Meir Kahane, a U.S. born rabbi who preached that Palestinians should be expelled from Israel and the West Bank. An Arab gunman assassinated Kahane at a New York hotel 20 years ago. ....On Wednesday, a parliamentary committee gave preliminary approval to legislation that would allow small towns to determine who moves into their communities and reject those deemed unfit. Arab lawmakers say the measure targets Arabs. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/10/19/102294/israelis-palestinians-agree-not.html">10/27/2010 - Israelis, Palestinians agree not to embarrass Obama before midterm elections</a> "The time frame we are following has been designed around the elections in America," said a senior member of the Palestinian negotiating team. "We have been asked not to issue announcements that could embarrass negotiation officials." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11587.shtml">10/27/2010 - ei Police repress convergence on UK weapons factory</a> As Israeli warplanes flew over Gaza on 13 October, activists converged on Brighton, United Kingdom for the annual mass action against the local EDO/ITT factory that produces components used in weapons by the Israeli Air Force, amongst others, to devastating effect. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2010/10/22/new-israels-and-u-s-israel-policy/">10/27/2010 - New Israels and U.S. Israel Policy</a> As the distilled essence of Mead s argument about the reasons for pro-Israel attitudes in America, this captures quite nicely just how silly it is. It must be that South Africa s Nationalist government was also interested in developing a close diplomatic relationship with Israel during the 1970s and 1980s because Calvinist Afrikaners also thought of themselves as a New Israel. When we put it that way, it s clear how ridiculous it is. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/U-S-media-ignore-Israeli-flotilla-executions-719453.php">10/27/2010 - U.S. media ignore Israeli flotilla executions</a> An autopsy revealed that Dogan, 19, was shot once in the back, twice in the head and once in the leg and foot. After lying on the deck for some time, he was shot at point-blank range in the face. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3973366,00.html">10/27/2010 - Netanyahu's 'list of millionaires'</a> List of potential donors prepared by then-opposition leader in 2007 provides peek into his fundraising industry in US. Officials include extreme rightists, people who got in trouble with law <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/22/israels-murder-of-american-citizen-furkan-dogan/">10/27/2010 - ISRAEL S MURDER OF AMERICAN CITIZEN FURKAN DOGAN</a> As Ralph G. Loeffler in Kayseri, Turkey wrote two days ago in his article, Remembering Furkan Dogan,  Furkan was filming the Israeli assault when an Israeli commando fired his first shot pointblank hitting Furkan squarely in the face. Four more shots were fired into Furkan leaving him dead and unrecognizable. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vincent-warren/live-from-corrie-trial-in_b_770337.html">10/27/2010 - Vincent Warren Live from Rachel Corrie Trial in Israel Seeking Answers and Accountability From Israel</a> "When our daughter was killed, the Israeli government promised a thorough, credible and transparent investigation into her death, and neither our family nor our government believes that standard has been met," said Cindy Corrie. Indeed, in response to inquiries from the Corrie family to the U.S. government regarding the Israeli Military Police investigation, Colin Powell's Chief of Staff, Lawrence B. Wilkerson, stated in 2004, "Your ultimate question, however, is a valid one, i.e., whether or not we view that report to have reflected an investigation that was 'thorough, credible, and transparent.' I can answer your question without equivocation. No, we do not consider it so." The testimony to date in the trial taking place in Haifa reinforces this conclusion. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-23-03.htm">10/27/2010 - The Associated Press American al-Qaida spokesman urges attacks in US</a> "It is the duty of everyone who is sincere in his desire to defend Islam and Muslims today, to take the initiative to perform the individual obligation of jihad ... by striking the Zio Crusader interests," he said, referring to Western and Jewish interests. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/10/22-2">10/27/2010 - 'Viva Palestina' Activists Deliver Tons of Aid to Gaza Strip</a> Over 300 activists from Syrian aid flotilla "Viva Palestina" crossed Thursday the Egyptian Border into Gaza by land with tons of medical equipment and food supplies for the residents of the coastal enclave. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=192686">10/27/2010 - Report: Israel planned explosion at Iranian missile site</a> An explosion that killed 18 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on October 12 was ordered by the Mossad, French newspaper Le Figaro suggested on Monday. Another cause for the blast mentioned by the paper was a targeted Israeli air raid. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/132236/">10/27/2010 - The Rhetoric Turns Red Hot as Election Day Approaches</a> In Illinois 9th District, indefatigable Republican Joel Pollak kept on going after incumbent Democrat Jan Schakowsky, claiming she was not supportive of Israel. It s a theme that has been taken up against several Jewish Democrats by Republican challengers, or by the Republican Jewish Coalition on their behalf. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/132266/">10/27/2010 - Attacks From the Jewish Right Continue in Pennsylvania</a> Joe Sestak, the Democratic Pennsylvania senatorial candidate, just can t seem to shake off attacks from right-wing Jewish groups. First he was targeted by the Emergency Campaign for Israel in TV ads questioning his support for Israel, mainly because of his decision to join a letter calling for easing the Israeli siege on Gaza. Later he was hammered in newspaper ads, sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition, that took issue with funding he received from J Street. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132289/">10/27/2010 - For Jews, a Permanent Stake in the Immigration Debate</a> An ideologically-based citizenship  a fundamental principle of this nation s birth  offers the best source of national cohesion. Emphasizing shared ideals and the rich commonalities of the American experience is where the Jewish stake in the contemporary immigration debate is anchored. <b>Again, more of the same hypocrisy on the part of American Jews. For, not anyone can just immigrate to Israel. One has to be Jewish under the so-called Law of Return. Yet America is to retain a liberal immigration policy to make sure she stays amenable to Jews worldwide (oh, and others too), should they need to seek refuge. The excerpt above from this article contrasts sharply with the new legislation in Israel enforcing people to swear allegiance to Israel as a Jewish state. This is the height of hypocrisy.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132312/">10/27/2010 - Obama s Still Popular With Ex-Generals</a> Obama s handling of the Iran nuclear crisis is even more unpopular: 46% disapprove, while only 43% approve. Nearly three quarters believe there s little or no chance that diplomacy or sanctions will stop Iran from getting nukes, and 59% would support a U.S. military strike to prevent it. That s a huge change from two years ago, in September 2008, the final months of the Bush administration, when Jews opposed U.S. military action by 47% to 42%. <b>By the way, I think the poll numbers with respect to ISrael's importance vs the importance of the economy to Jews polled are misleading. Support for Israel is a given on Capitol Hill, and thus is largely a non-issue. The economy however is neither of those things.</b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/132338/">10/27/2010 - Rights of Return and Recognition Cannot Be Swapped</a>  Though recognition of Israel as the Jewish state would not shield us from further assaults or pressure, it would prove that the Palestinians are serious about peace. Come again? How would it prove that? If it is not a shield against violence, what is its value? Yes, it would be nice were the Palestinians to acknowledge what everyone in the world knows, that Israel is, as a matter of obvious fact, the Jewish state <b>And again.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132295/">10/27/2010 - Oath of Loyalty to What?</a> To ask non-Jews to declare loyalty to a  Jewish and democratic state, it is claimed, is an inherent contradiction, since no country can be considered democratic if it demands of prospective citizens that they swear allegiance to what excludes them. <b>Just more of the same with respect to Israel as a 'democracy', which it clearly is not. It's a theocracy, which is why it demands to be seen as a Jewish state.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132291/">10/27/2010 - One Nation, Under Various Divinities</a> She points to the example of the landmark 1962 school prayer case, Engel v. Vitale, in which five Long Island families, all Jewish or with Jewish backgrounds, brought suit opposing school prayer.  They suffered terrible repercussions, including hate mail, she said. This, Mellowes said, is an example of how Jews  have clearly contributed in a major way to the tremendous religious vitality and diversity in America and also been at the forefront of pressing for religious freedom. <b>Do you see the irony and hypocrisy in the preceding excerpt and the entire article? See also the article with respect to the battle fuming in upstate NY over the Orthodox school issue. Then also realize just how much taxpayer money flows to Israel, a JEWISH state, and realize that on the one hand American Jews seek to keep religion out of state at all costs yet demand that the United States continue to fund Israel- - a state based on RELIGIOUS SUPREMACY. Israel is not a democracy. Israel is a THEOCRACY. Do these Jews demand that Israel keep religion out of ITS schools and government? NOPE. Hypocrisy of the highest order. And look in the mirror folks, you get to fund it ALL.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132335/">10/27/2010 - Boxer-Fiorina Race Redefines  Negative </a> The visit to Eretz Yisrael was billed as a  personal trip. But unlike most personal pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Fiorina s was financed and arranged by the RJC and led straight to high-level meetings with President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset opposition leader Tzipi Livni. Netanyahu s office told the Forward,  The prime minister and Fiorina discussed the Israeli and world economies and events in the region. Netanyahu, as a representative noted, via e-mail,  believes strongly in the importance of the Israeli-American relationship being above partisan party politics. [H]e therefore makes every effort to meet with political leaders from both major parties whenever they visit Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132334/">10/27/2010 - Schools Fight Stokes Anger At Orthodox Jews in N.Y. Suburb</a> Some non-Orthodox community members allege that the Orthodox members of the board support the religious schools at the expense of the public school system  claims that the Orthodox board denies. But people on both sides agree that anger over the issue is running high. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/10/25/friends-like-these-i/">10/27/2010 - With Friends Like These, II</a> Some supporters of Israel see in the latest Wiki-leak the opportunity to bury the Goldstone Report (PDF) and attendant international criticism of Israel s war in Lebanon. Israeli MK Michael Ben Ari, of the Kahane strain, would bury along with it those former (and no longer useful) American high officials whose expenditure in American blood largely to rid Israel of a hostile neighbor continues: <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-24-03.htm">10/27/2010 - Pope seeks religious liberty in Muslim Mideast</a> At least 3.5 million Christians of all denominations live in the Gulf Arab region, the birthplace of Islam and home to some of the most conservative Arab Muslim societies in the world. The freedom to practice Christianity   or any religion other than Islam   is not always a given in the Gulf and varies from country to country. Saudi Arabia, which applies an austere form of Sunni Islam, has by far the tightest restrictions. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26698.htm">10/27/2010 - Syria spurns U.S. bid to mend ties</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-21-03.htm">10/27/2010 - Chavez visits Syria on tour to counter US sway</a> Chavez arrived in Syria on Wednesday from Tehran, where he and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said they are united in efforts to establish a "new world order" that will eliminate Western dominance over global affairs. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26686.htm">10/27/2010 - Israel is Relieved Not to be The Only War Criminal</a> The voice of joy, the voice of rejoicing is heard in Israel: The Americans and British have also committed for war crimes, not only us. WikiLeaks' revelations have inflamed all our noisy propagandists: Where is Goldstone, they rejoiced, and what would he have said? They were relieved. If the Americans are allowed to do it, so are we. <b>Case in point (see related post in this news batch).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/24/editorial-iraq-atrocities-torture">10/27/2010 - The final reasons for going to war are being swept away</a> <b>We have become just like Israel. I'm sure they're pleased.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26678.htm">10/27/2010 - The Shaming of America</a> The "evidence" of Iranian involvement in bomb-making in southern Iraq was farmed out to The New York Times's Michael Gordon by the Pentagon in February 2007. The raw material, which we can now read, is far more doubtful than the Pentagon-peddled version. Iranian military material was still lying around all over Iraq from the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and most of the attacks on Americans were at that stage carried out by Sunni insurgents. The reports suggesting that Syria allowed insurgents to pass through their territory, by the way, are correct. I have spoken to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers whose sons made their way to Iraq from Lebanon via the Lebanese village of Majdal Aanjar and then via the northern Syrian city of Aleppo to attack the Americans....... The Americans scored no better last time round. In Kuwait, US troops could hear Palestinians being tortured by Kuwaitis in police stations after the liberation of the city from Saddam Hussein's legions in 1991. A member of the Kuwaiti royal family was involved in the torture. US forces did not intervene. They just complained to the royal family. Soldiers are always being told not to intervene. After all, what was Lieutenant Avi Grabovsky of the Israeli army told when he reported to his officer in September 1982 that Israel's Phalangist allies had just murdered some women and children? "We know, it's not to our liking, and don't interfere," Grabovsky was told by his battalion commander. This was during the Sabra and Chatila refugee camp massacre. The quotation comes from Israel's 1983 Kahan commission report  heaven knows what we could read if WikiLeaks got its hands on the barrels of military files in the Israeli defence ministry (or the Syrian version, for that matter). <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26665.htm">10/27/2010 - The Israel Lobby: Targeting Democrats for Election Day Defeat </a> One, they are tired of even Obama's timid pressure on settlements and (2) they want a President who will give Israel permission to bomb Iran. George W. Bush said "no" to that scheme as has Obama. But President Palin or Huckabee? They know that they would say "bombs away" in a heartbeat. That is why they are running these ads. That is why the American Jewish Committee has become a Republican cutout. It's all about the Middle East: preventing Israel from achieving peace with its neighbors and preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons, not through diplomacy but war. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-state-pension-funds-in-the-most-trouble-2010-10">10/27/2010 - And Now, Here's The First 11 State Pensions Funds That Will Run Out Of Money</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=192187">10/27/2010 - 'US, Israel and Iran have approached the end game'</a>  One problem today when you think about [Israeli] restraint, he said,  is that Israelis don t see the United States preparing for a credible threat to use military action, and it s heightened their sense of isolation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=192259">10/27/2010 - Iran, Saudi leaders talk after $60b. arms deal advances</a> Jerusalem did not object to the weapons sale to the Saudi government, perhaps influenced by its own deal to receivedthe US the F-35 Joint Strike stealth fighters from the US as a reassurance against an Iranian attack. "This equipment is primarily to give (Israel) a better feeling facing the Iranian threat. It is not related to Israeli-Arab relations," <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-21-04.htm">10/27/2010 - US-Saudi arms deal ripples from Iran to Israel</a> "This equipment is primarily to give (Israel) a better feeling facing the Iranian threat. It is not related to Israeli Arab relations," said Inbar. "Ironically, in the current situation, Saudi Arabia is in the same strategic boat as Israel is in facing the Iranian threat." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/10/28/schools-stipends-trigger-israeli-religious-battle-2/">10/27/2010 - Schools, stipends trigger Israeli religious battle</a> "If they want to live in a ghetto, fine, but why should the state pay for it? As long as the state is paying, it has to have a say," said Yossi Sarid, a former education minister. <b>And they seem to be keen on getting the American taxpayer to fund their schooling here too. See related news in this batch.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/59616/australian-unions-join-boycott-of-israeli-goods-fromwest-bank/">10/27/2010 - Australian unions join boycott of Israeli goods from?West Bank j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California</a> Five Australian unions have joined the international campaign to boycott Israeli goods from the West Bank <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-22-04.htm">10/27/2010 - Mideast sides eye US midterms and impact on talks</a> Animating the discussion is the startling fact that the United States has failed, despite emphatic public appeals by Obama and weeks of increasingly frustrating diplomacy, to persuade Israel to extend the settlement building slowdown that expired on Sept. 26. ...If Congress tilts Republican it could have a "positive impact" on Israeli concerns, one Netanyahu adviser told The AP  an allusion to avoiding pressure for concessions. With the Democrats weakened, Israel's friends in Congress  both Democrat and Republican  "would be able to have a stronger voice if the administration should embark on a policy that is less favorable to Israel," he added. U.S. foreign policy is set by the White House, not Congress. But Congress can influence it in the course of the day to day political horse trading that goes on between the executive and legislative branches. For example, when Republicans controlled the House of Representatives during Netanyahu's first term in the late 1990s, the Israeli leader was able to marshal the support of the party's conservative wing in a faceoff with President Bill Clinton over stepped up settlement construction and Israeli troop pullbacks in the West Bank. Traditionally, both branches have been bastions of support for Israel no matter which party is in charge <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/obama-aide-iran-prefers-defiance-and-secrecy-to-transparency-and-peace-1.321227">10/27/2010 - Obama aide: Iran prefers defiance and secrecy to transparency and peace</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/23/if-americans-knew-made-the-adls-anti-israel-list/">10/27/2010 -  IF AMERICANS KNEW MADE THE ADL S ANTI-ISRAEL LIST!</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-ranks-among-western-world-s-most-corrupt-countries-1.321251">10/27/2010 - Israel ranks among Western world's most corrupt countries</a> Out of 178 countries - 1 being least corrupt - Israel was listed at number 30. But when compared to other member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Israel fared much worse. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/10/10-17-01a.htm">10/20/2010 - Israeli air strike kills 2 militants in Gaza Strip</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146674.html">10/20/2010 - Israeli army shoots teenage boy in Gaza</a> Israeli forces have shot yet another Palestinian teenager near the Gaza Strip's border with Israel for collecting rubble often used as building material. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mks-seek-ban-on-east-jerusalem-arabs-guiding-in-the-city-1.319890">10/20/2010 - MKs seek ban on East Jerusalem Arabs guiding in the city</a> A bill sponsored by MK Gideon Ezra (Kadima ) and seven other Knesset members proposes to ban residents of East Jerusalem from serving as tour guides in the city, potentially putting hundreds out of work. Ezra, who said he was temporarily freezing work on the bill so as not to damage the negotiations with Palestinians, said in the introduction to the bill he believed Palestinian residents of Jerusalem should not be certified guides because they did not represent Israel's national interest well enough "and in an appropriate manner."..... The bill proposes that a guide leading a group of over 11 people, or traveling in more than one vehicle, must be a citizen of Israel. Most Arab residents of East Jerusalem have residency status but not citizenship, and so would be banned from guiding a majority of the tourist groups. "Israel has valuable tourism sites," the text of the proposed bill reads. "Oftentimes there are disagreements on the manner of the presentation of these sites historically, religiously, culturally and more. The city of Jerusalem, with its many historic sites, is an example of a site about which there are such disagreements. Some of the residents of Israel, like those in East Jerusalem, often have 'dual loyalty,' since they vote in elections of the Palestinian Authority. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1383">10/20/2010 - Shepherd made homeless, livelihood threatened, son in prison.</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-14-01.htm">10/20/2010 - Turks accuse Israel of war crimes at int'l court</a> Turkish lawyers representing pro Palestinian activists filed a complaint Thursday with the International Criminal Court accusing Israel of committing war crimes in May when its troops raided a boat trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/plo-chief-we-will-recognize-israel-in-return-for-1967-borders-1.318835">10/20/2010 - PLO chief: We will recognize Israel in return for 1967 borders</a> Abed Rabbo continued, "It is important for us to know where are the borders of Israel and where are the borders of Palestine. Any formulation the Americans present  even asking us to call Israel the 'Chinese State'  we will agree to it, as long as we receive the 1967 borders. We have recognized Israel in the past, but Israel has not recognized the Palestinian state." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-16-01.htm">10/20/2010 - Israel settlers start fires amid West Bank harvest</a> Thick black smoke billows from the olive grove under the gaze of Israeli soldiers as Palestinian farmers use branches to try to beat out the fires lit by Jewish settlers. It's olive harvest time in the occupied West Bank. The firebombers swooped down from Havat Gilad, a wildcat Jewish settlement unauthorised even by the Israeli government. <b>Every American should read this. These are the Israeli equivalent of Hamas, just as capable of murder and other crimes but with one main difference: the Israeli government supports them, and so does ours (and the US taxpayer dollars never stop flowing).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/19/americas-poor-where-pover_n_767734.html">10/20/2010 - America's Poor Where Poverty Is Rising In America</a> Thanks to the recession, 2009 was one of the worst years for poverty in America in more than half a century. The total number of Americans living in poverty hit 43.6 million, the highest level in 51 years and the national poverty rate rose to 14.3 percent from 13.2 percent, according to data released last month by the Census Bureau. <b>All of that money we pour into the Middle East in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Egypt and more, could be better spent here at home.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/israel-seals-unprecedented-weapons-deals-with-us64373">10/20/2010 - t r u t h o u t Israel Seals Unprecedented Weapons Deals With the US</a> Preceding the October 7 signing of the Lockheed contract, Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, told The Washington Post on October 6 that "incentives" were offered to Israel to extend its so-called moratorium on the illegal settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem to keep the Palestinian Authority in direct talks. Oren told the Post that the Obama administration had come up with "a number of suggestions, incentives if you would, to the Israelis that would enable the government to maybe pass a limited extension of two or three months." It was unclear whether the Lockheed contract was specifically offered as one of the incentives, but Oren added that the purchase agreement was "an event of great strategic and historic significance," and that it would "serve the common interests" of the US and Israel. In late July 2010, the US House Appropriations Sub-Committee on Defense increased funding for Israeli missile defense programs to its highest level ever - approving $422.7 million for next year's budget - and adding $95.7 million to the original White House funding request for the long-range Arrow interceptor project and the medium-range David's Sling, according to sources quoted by the Jerusalem Post. "The lion's share - $108.8m. - will go to the Arrow 3 system, which the US signed off on after some initial hesitation," the Jerusalem Post reported. The funding also includes $205 million for the short-range missile interceptor program (dubbed "The Iron Dome") initially approved by President Barack Obama last Spring. This defense spending package is more than double that of last year's. <b>And that's just a fraction of the total aid that American taxpayers shell out to Israel (and its neighbors to keep the peace) each year. Americans would be shocked, and outraged, especially given the fact that more and more Americans are in POVERTY. Our money is funding a people whose economy is actuallly DOING WELL, and the government is committing war crimes ('settlements' in occupied territory) and has been since its inception.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/business/economy/13econ.html?_r=1&hp">10/20/2010 - Across the U.S., Long Recovery Looks Like Recession</a> At the current rate of job creation, the nation would need nine more years to recapture the jobs lost during the recession. And that doesn t even account for five million or six million jobs needed in that time to keep pace with an expanding population <b>All of that money we pour into the Middle East in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan, Egypt and more, could be better spent here at home.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/15-4">10/20/2010 - Water Crisis in Palestine Is Worsening</a> According to current statistics by Amnesty International, Israel takes 80% of the water in the Mountain aquifers in the north (one of many water sources available to Israel, including the state's full access to the Jordan River, which runs inside the occupied West Bank); while Palestinians in the West Bank are left with just the remaining 20% of that one aquifer, and are prohibited from accessing water from the Jordan river altogether. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3970773,00.html">10/20/2010 - Israel takes center stage in Illinois election campaign</a> Forget the financial crisis; in the Ninth Congressional District of Illinois, it is Israel that has taken center stage in the election campaign. A Jewish candidate has been trying to convince the mostly Jewish voters that his Jewish opponent has not done enough to protect the Jewish interest. <b>Don't read this if you have high blood pressure.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-17-02.htm">10/20/2010 - With statehood, Palestine ready to end all claims</a> The Palestinians are ready to end all historic claims against Israel once they establish their state in the lands Israel occupied in the 1967 Mideast War, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday, addressing a long standing Israeli demand. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-16-02.htm">10/20/2010 - Palestinians weighing alternatives to peace talks</a> The Palestinians will study alternatives to peace talks with Israel in the coming days, a top PLO official said Saturday, after Israel gave the green light to build 238 new houses for Jews on war won land Palestinians seek for their state. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/1018/Israel-rebuked-at-United-Nations.-Will-Security-Council-take-action">10/20/2010 - Israel rebuked at United Nations. Will Security Council take action?</a> Israel s approval last week of 238 new Jewish housing units in Arab East Jerusalem provoked widespread condemnation in a United Nations Security Council session Monday focused on the stalemated Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/leading-rabbi-encourages-idf-soldiers-to-use-palestinian-human-shields-1.320311">10/20/2010 - Leading rabbi encourages IDF soldiers to use Palestinian human shields</a> "According to true Jewish values, your lives come before those of the enemy, whether he is a soldier or a civilian under protection. Therefore, you are forbidden from endangering your own life for the sake of the enemy, not even for a civilian," Shapira declared. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/new-east-jerusalem-homes-approved-14977866.html">10/20/2010 - New east Jerusalem homes approved</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-18-02.htm">10/20/2010 - Israel says Hamas has anti-aircraft missiles</a> Netanyahu gave no evidence to support his claim, and aides would not discuss details about the missiles. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-15-04.htm">10/20/2010 - East Jerusalem housing approval irks Palestinians</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/10/20-2">10/20/2010 - Carter in Syria: Israel Must Fully Lift Gaza Blockade</a> "The blockade is one of the most serious human rights violations on Earth and it must be lifted fully," said Carter from Syria. Besides Carter, the Elders delegation includes former Irish president Mary Robinson and former UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. While in Gaza, the group described Israel's blockade as an "illegal collective punishment" and "an impediment to peace." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/families-of-gaza-flotilla-victims-accuse-israel-of-war-crimes-in-the-hague-1.319122">10/20/2010 - Families of Gaza flotilla victims accuse Israel of war crimes in The Hague</a> Turkish lawyers representing pro-Palestinian activists filed a complaint Thursday with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, accusing Israel of committing war crimes in May when its troops raided a boat trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. It was unclear whether the prosecutor would agree to pursue the case or whether the court has jurisdiction. But the filing reignited an issue that has severely strained Israel's relations with Turkey, previously its strongest ally in the Muslim world, and keeps Israel on the defensive over its much-criticized Gaza blockade. Anti-Israel protest in Turkey, AP, June 6, 2010 Pro-Palestinian Turks demonstrating against Israel in Ankara, Turkey on June 6, 2010 Photo by: AP A delegation representing some 300 activists and a Turkish nongovernment organization submitted the complaint to the prosecutor's office in The Hague seeking an investigation into the May 31 raid. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-15-02.htm">10/20/2010 - US 'disappointed' at Israel's settlement move</a> The United States said Friday it was "disappointed" with Israel's plans for 238 new settler homes in east Jerusalem, saying it undermined US efforts to revive Middle East peace talks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/did-canada-s-support-for-israel-cost-it-a-seat-on-un-security-council-1.319626">10/20/2010 - Did Canada's support for Israel cost it a seat on UN Security Council?</a> In January 2010, Canada was the only country to reduce its financial contributions to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides education, health care and emergency aid to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza, cutting $18 million in aid, as reported by the Ma'an News Agency. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/10/20/with-allies-like-these/">10/20/2010 - With Allies Like These</a> Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his weekly Saturday night sermon said that non-Jews exist to serve Jews.  Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel, he said during a public discussion of what kind of work non-Jews are allowed to perform on Shabbat. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/no-knesset-majority-for-loyalty-oath-for-jews-and-non-jews-1.320116">10/20/2010 - No Knesset majority for loyalty oath for Jews and non-Jews</a> Edelstein and Elkin, both immigrants from the former Soviet Union, told Neeman at the meeting that they won't support the bill in its new form, as it discriminates between Jews born in Israel and Jews who immigrate under the Law of Return. That would undermine the point of the Law of Return, which was to treat any Jew who moves here as the equal of someone born here, they argued <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53224">10/20/2010 - This Peaceful Position Takes Courage</a> While Israel often gets a lot of negative publicity for its brutal treatment of Palestinians and the inherent racism within its society, there is a growing core of Israeli human rights activists who are challenging government policy -- and paying a high price for their courage. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/report-suspect-in-dubai-hamas-assassination-arrested-in-canada-1.320001">10/20/2010 - Report: Suspect in Dubai Hamas assassination arrested in Canada</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/arab-league-urges-world-leaders-to-boycott-oecd-conference-in-jerusalem-1.319647">10/20/2010 - Arab League urges world leaders to boycott OECD conference in Jerusalem</a> The Arab League sent letters to world leaders on Sunday calling for a boycott of this week's international tourism conference in Jerusalem hosted by Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/146903.html">10/20/2010 - US supports terrorism: Turkish PM</a> Erdogan touched on Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine Turkish human rights activists on May 31 and condemned the US "double standards," noting that Washington openly "supported the Israeli state terrorism," despite its claims that it supports peace, Turkey's Milliyet newspaper reported on Saturday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132141/">10/20/2010 - New Loyalty Oath Unusual in Asserting Religion</a> It adds the words  as a Jewish and democratic state, <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/10/13/the-iran-report/">10/20/2010 - The Iran Report by Philip Girald</a> How about a White House-issued statement calling itself an NIE that says something like this: "Even though we have no hard evidence that Iran has a nuclear arms program we have decided that since Tehran has not been completely forthcoming on some aspects of its nuclear energy program it might be intending to develop a weapon. The White House is under constant pressure from Israel and its supporters in congress and the media to do something about the threat from Iran, so we have asked the CIA to prepare a document that will enable us to bomb Iran if we decide it is politically expedient to do so. Or alternatively not to bomb Iran if we decide not to do so because, in our judgment, the voters cannot stomach another war. The decision on what to do about Iran will be based on what happens in midterm elections next month and on a White House assessment of what has to be done to insure the re-election of President Obama. That might require a new war or maybe not, but rest assured that it will have nothing to do with the genuine threat that Iran might actually pose and nothing to do with any balance of power in the world or vital American national interests. It will all come down to appeasing the Israel Lobby and managing the election cycle. Thank you." <b>Right on, Phil. Sad.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26590.htm">10/20/2010 - It s the Palestinians Fault</a> You get the picture. Israel is now essentially saying: we will partially obey international law for 60 days (and then go back to violating it), as long as you sign away basic human rights refugees and their descendants returning to homes they were expelled from and equality for all forever. And media, both in the U.S., in Israel and around the world, are adopting Israel s framing of the issue. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-18-04.htm">10/20/2010 - Turkish PM says will not talk with Netanyahu</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-17-01.htm">10/20/2010 - Director Mike Leigh cancels Israel trip in protest</a> Leigh, the award winning director of "Naked" and "Secrets & Lies," was to participate in a film festival next month. He is Jewish. Writing to the school sponsoring the event, Leigh said he opposed Israel's policies on Gaza, but called the loyalty oath the "last straw." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/ahmadinejad-visit-proves-lebanon-has-joined-axis-of-extreme-nations-1.318905">10/20/2010 - 'Ahmadinejad visit proves Lebanon has joined axis of extreme nations'</a> Israel's stance, which has been clearly expressed over recent days, is that Ahmadinejad's visit proves that Lebanon is becoming more extreme, on its way to becoming an Iranian outpost. "Lebanon has joined the axis of extreme nations which object to the peace process and support terror," said a senior Israeli official involved in preparations for the two-day visit. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/132073/">10/20/2010 - Obama's Sinking Jewish Numbers--Is It Israel?</a> It does not mean that Jewish voters do not care about Israel, said David Harris, president and CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Coalition, but rather that Jewish voters feel comfortable with the level of support for Israel demonstrated by most candidates, Democrats and Republicans. <b>In other words, they know they're going to get an Israel-kowtower in Congress, so they don't have to worry.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132139/">10/20/2010 - Israel Is a Campaign Issue, but How Big?</a>  Jewish voters need to be comfortable that their candidates support Israel, and once they are sure of that, they move on to other issues, <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/132140/">10/20/2010 - New York Candidates Court Hasidic Vote</a> While the true strength of the famous ultra-Orthodox voting blocs is up for debate, the Hasidic lifestyle, which calls for large families and private yeshiva education, leads its adherents to rely on significant infusions of government financial support. Relationships between community leaders and political leaders are based largely on the ability of the former to deliver bloc votes to the latter, and are seen as essential to keeping the aid flowing in the opposite direction.  They don t want to be on the outside, New York Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf said of the New York Hasidic leadership.  They ll pick the winner. Why? Because they don t want to be denied aid. ....... Education, and how government can alleviate the financial burden on a typical Jewish family sending five or six children to yeshivas, is probably the issue of paramount importance to the community, <b>Read that a few times.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2010/10/15/occupation-and-withdrawal/">10/20/2010 - Occupation and Withdrawal</a> The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland [bold mine-DL]. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaign over 95 percent of all the incidents has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/10/17/going-after-iran-again/">10/20/2010 - Going After Iran (Again) by Philip Giraldi</a> Quite a lot to digest. One does not have to be an apologist for Iran to note that the editorial is a whole lot of innuendo wrapped in speculation. In reality, Iran has not attacked any neighbor or triggered any war either directly or by proxy while it has been Israel that has been doing all the attacking. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20101018/us-us-israel-iran/">10/20/2010 - US, Israel agree Iran prime threat to Mideast</a> "While today's strategic dialogue covered many subjects, it is clear that Iran is among the greatest challenges we face today in the Middle East," said the statement, which was released by the State Department in the names of Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg and Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon. <b>Israel=the tail that wags the American dog.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-63164.html">10/20/2010 - Musharraf's 'fish, duck and wine' lunch with Israeli MPs in London</a> Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf is stated to have shared a lunch with a couple of members of Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, at a Chinese restaurant in Kensington area of central London a few days ago. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69D2LW20101014">10/20/2010 - Ahmadinejad, near Israel border, says Zionists mortal</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26605.htm">10/20/2010 - Israeli Policies are Manifestly Evil: Philip Giraldi</a> Most intelligence officers believe that Israel, which was conducting a massive and illegal spy operation inside the U.S. aimed at Arabs living here, knew at least parts of the 9/11 conspiracy. It did not share that information and it is also clear that leading Israeli politicians welcomed the attacks because they made Washington a totally committed ally in full agreement with the Israeli view of Islamic terrorism. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-08-02.htm">10/20/2010 - Without Protest or Funding, Columbia Opens Center for Palestine Studies</a> Unlike Israel Studies, which has expanded rapidly with support from wealthy Jewish donors, "Palestine studies" as an autonomous field of research has no ready made set of foundations and donors to back it <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/10/20/1678148/turkey-iran-sanctions-affecting.html">10/20/2010 - turkey Iran sanctions affecting banking decisions</a> Turkey said Wednesday that U.S. and EU sanctions have led to hesitation by Turkish banks on doing business with Iran. But Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan told reporters in Washington that he expects overall Turkish trade with Iran to increase. Read more: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/10/20/1678148/turkey-iran-sanctions-affecting.html#ixzz13VZqdsTM <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/10/18/2741338/pro-israel-groups-deny-role-in-cyprus-bill">10/20/2010 - Pro-Israel groups deny role in Cyprus bill</a> A report last week in Congressional Quarterly said the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbied for the nonbinding resolution passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 28 by voice vote.....The Congressional Quarterly story cast what it said was pro-Israel support for the resolution as part of deteriorating Israel-Turkey relations in the wake of the 2009 Gaza war and Israel's deadly May 31 raid on a Turkish-flagged aid flotilla attempting to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/18/it_s_the_occupation_stupid?page=full">10/20/2010 - It's the Occupation, Stupid - By Robert A. Pape</a> Israelis have their own narrative about terrorism, which holds that Arab fanatics seek to destroy the Jewish state because of what it is, not what it does. But since Israel withdrew its army from Lebanon in May 2000, there has not been a single Lebanese suicide attack. Similarly, since Israel withdrew from Gaza and large parts of the West Bank, Palestinian suicide attacks are down over 90 percent. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2010/10/20/foreign-policy-does-not-flow-from-the-will-of-the-people/">10/20/2010 - Foreign Policy Does Not Flow From the Will of the People</a> To the extent that a consensus on Israel exists on the right, it is something that has been fashioned by conservative political and intellectual leaders over decades, and it is something that has been reinforced through a steady diet of slanted or incomplete news coverage, government propaganda, and the constantly repeated claim that Israel is a reliable ally.......One side has effectively dominated the public discussion of the issue for decades, not because they happen to be telling the public what it already wants to hear, but because they have been trying to shape public opinion for decades <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-18-01.htm">10/20/2010 - 4 men are convicted in NY synagogue-bombing plot</a> The FBI assigned Hussain in 2008 to infiltrate a mosque in Newburgh, about an hour north of New York. After meeting Cromitie, he told him he was a representative of a Pakistani terror organization that was eager to finance a holy war on U.S. soil. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-15-03.htm">10/20/2010 - At Lebanon border, Ahmadinejad predicts Israel demise</a> "The whole world knows that the Zionists are going to disappear," he said Thursday to thunderous applause before a frenzied crowd in Hezbollah's bastion of Bint Jbeil, some four kilometres (two miles) from the Israeli border. "The occupying Zionists today have no choice but to accept reality and go back to their countries of origin," he added. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-15-01.htm">10/20/2010 - Ahmadinejad in Lebanon: A Mideast Doctrine in Ruins</a> The Bush Administration may have hoped that its own invasion of Iraq and Israel's attacks on Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in late 2008 would strike decisive blows against Iran and its allies and turn the regional dynamic in favor of the U.S. But in all three places, Iran's influence was actually strengthened <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/building-to-destroy-the-peace-process-1.319690">10/20/2010 - Building to destroy the peace process</a> The only explanation for the government's approval of 240 new housing units in East Jerusalem is that it was an attempt to sabotage the efforts to renew direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11578.shtml">10/20/2010 - ADL's demonization of student activism denounced</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-lawmakers-lebanon-s-embrace-of-ahmadinejad-may-affect-military-aid-1.319034">10/20/2010 - U.S. lawmakers: Lebanon's embrace of Ahmadinejad may affect military aid</a> In August, two key Democrats, Representatives Nita Lowey and Howard Berman, announced they were holding up $100 million that had been approved for Lebanon's army but not yet spent. At the time, lawmakers said they were blocking U.S. funding due to a deadly border clash between Lebanon and Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/10/17/israel-my-experiences-there/">10/20/2010 - My Amazing and Disturbing Experiences in Israel Veterans Today</a>  Boy, you guys are really something  having served the military of our country (remember  they were AMERICAN citizens) and then investing your time in a  feeling for duty to Israel . They answered proudly and without hesitation:  Oh no  we haven t served in the United States military  there s no way . Then they both broke out in a cynical mocking laughter. So if there is any doubt where their loyalties lie  consider their unabashed answer of contemptuous scorn for the notion of patriotically serving in uniform for America <b>I don't agree with Mr. Cortina's inability to distinguish between Jews and Israelis but if true, his account of his travels is interesting.</b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/10/10-08-01.htm">10/13/2010 - 2 militants dead in Israeli raid in West Bank</a> Israeli troops in the West Bank killed two senior Hamas militants, and a settler leader struck a rock wielding Palestinian youth with his car Friday in disputed east Jerusalem as tensions rose over stalled peace talks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/09/14/third-world-america/">10/13/2010 - Third world America</a> The National Association of Counties estimates that local governments will eliminate roughly half a million employees in the next fiscal year, with public safety, public works, public health, social services, and parks and recreation hardest hit by the cutbacks. A July survey by the association of counties, the National League of Cities, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors of 270 local governments found that 63 per cent of localities are cutting back on public safety and 60 per cent are cutting public works. <b>Hey I know, let's send Israel a few more billion.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/syria-israel-u-s-fighter-jet-deal-destabilizes-region-1.318078">10/13/2010 - Syria: Israel-U.S. fighter jet deal destabilizes region</a> Last month, a ministerial panel headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak made a final decision to purchase 20 new F-35 fighter jets, despite opposition from a number of senior defense officials over the high cost of the deal. The entire deal will be funded by American military. <b>Hey I know, let's send Israel a few more billion. </b><br><br> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2010-10-08-unemployment08_ST_N.htm">10/13/2010 - A record 30% of unemployed out of work at least a year</a> Put another way, a hefty share of the long-term unemployed  71%  were out of work at least a year in August, up from 48% a year earlier, BLS figures show. <b>Hey I know, let's send Israel a few more billion.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26581.htm">10/13/2010 - US Backs PM: Israel is Jewish State</a> Meanwhile, Israel plans to request next week that the US extend its $3 billion security package for another few years, but the state is also preparing for the possibility that the latter will cut the package by a billion, Ynet has learned. Next week officials from the State Department are scheduled to arrive in Israel in order to receive a briefing on its economic standing and reforms. Over the past few years, due to Israel's relatively buoyant economy, the state has not generally had to make use of US security in order to raise funds, but the Finance Ministry prefers to continue receiving it. <b>Hey I know, let's send Israel a few more billion. </b><br><br> <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/39626759">10/13/2010 - US Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Pension Deficits</a> <b>Hey I know, let's send Israel a few more billion. </b><br><br> <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Senior-citizens-brace-for-apf-3618961764.html?x=0&.v=11">10/13/2010 - Senior citizens brace for Social Security freeze</a> The government is expected to announce this week that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through a second straight year without an increase in monthly benefits. This year was the first without an increase since automatic adjustments for inflation started in 1975. <b>Hey I know, let's send Israel a few more billion.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/09/3091190/10000-wait-in-line-at-cal-expo.html">10/13/2010 - 10,000 wait in line at Cal Expo in bid to save their homes</a> <b>Hey I know, let's send Israel a few more billion.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-13-03.htm">10/13/2010 - Ahmadinejad makes a show of strength in Lebanon</a> Israeli lawmaker Arieh Eldad, from the ultranationalist National Union Party, went so far as to suggest that Israel assassinate the Iranian leader when he visits the border area. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/201010100374795946.html">10/13/2010 - Arab summit fails to address issues</a> Abbas sought Arab backing for possible fall back options in case troubled talks with Israel collapse, including urging the US to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state. The Arab Summit gave US mediators another month to keep the talks from collapsing, a deadline that comes just after the US midterm elections. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/12-10">10/13/2010 -  Why Is the U.S. Government Deaf to What Has Been Done to My Son? Asks Father of an American Murdered on the Gaza Flotilla</a> "Up to this moment, I still do not understand why the United States government is deaf to what has been done to my son, an American citizen. I urge the U.S. government to act to defend the rights of my son. I also would like to know why the U.S. voted against the Gaza Flotilla Report of the UN Fact Finding Mission at the Human Rights Council last week, as that report included information about the execution of my son, " said Dogan <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/10/12">10/13/2010 - Israeli Troops Accused of Shooting Children in Gaza</a> At least 10 Palestinian children have been shot and wounded by Israeli troops in the past three months while collecting rubble in or near the "buffer zone" created by Israel along the Gaza border, in a low-intensity offensive on the fringes of the blockaded Palestinian territory.....Last month a 91-year-old man and two teenage boys were killed while harvesting olives outside the official zone when Israeli troops fired shells. Forty-three goats also died in the attack. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-07-05.htm">10/13/2010 - Israelis, Palestinians signal deal on settlements</a> Israel indicated it, too, was edging toward a compromise. The country's ambassador to Washington confirmed for the first time that the U.S. is offering "incentives" for Israel to extend a just expired settlement slowdown <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131950/">10/13/2010 - How Will Jews React to  Budrus ?</a> A Film Highlighting Non-violent Resistance to Israeli Policies, and Israel s Tough Response, To Get U.S. Premiere, With Jewish Support. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=191038">10/13/2010 - Abbas to Arab League: Israel has violated all agreements</a> Chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat quoted Abbas as telling Arab leaders attending the summit that Israel has also scrapped the PA s political, legal, functional and security authorities in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-11-04.htm">10/13/2010 - Palestinian dream city hits snag from Israel</a> "I'm really glad the road is there to prevent them from building that city," she said, speaking in English, "and yay for us that we have established those communities so that the problem exists." [says an Israeli settler] <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/netanyahu-asking-palestinians-to-cede-right-of-return-1.318527">10/13/2010 - Netanyahu asking Palestinians to cede right of return</a> Netanyahu knows full well that any Palestinian leader who recognizes Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people also acknowledges that the Palestinians do not have any rightful place there. In other words, it is tantamount to an up-front concession on the right of return. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26541.htm">10/13/2010 - Obama s Letter, Netanyahu s Rejection, and Media s Non-response</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-11-03.htm">10/13/2010 - Israeli PM offers conditional settlements freeze</a> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said for the first time that he would extend the settlement restrictions in the West Bank  if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish national homeland. The idea, while innocuous to Israel's supporters, is widely seen as undermining the rights of Arab Israelis, and was immediately rejected by the Palestinians. But it could signal that Netanyahu is willing to bend and save a U.S. led peace effort in exchange for a different concession. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748704652104575493883093318088-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwNzEwNDcyWj.html">10/13/2010 - In Global Hunt for Hit Men, Tantalizing Trail Goes Cold </a> The findings raised hopes of nabbing one of the orchestrators of the hit, possibly providing proof for accusations by Dubai police that Israel's intelligence agency Mossad was behind it.......And despite an initial burst of tough talk from various governments, some international investigators are concerned that politics may be hampering cooperation from some governments that support Israel.....Two suspects, traveling with forged passports, appeared to have fled to the U.S. shortly after the killing.....But the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has since said it doesn't have records of the two suspects in its system. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131945/">10/13/2010 - Push To Amend Civil Rights Act Forces Basic Questions About Jewish Identity</a> Now, two Jewish lawmakers are trying to amend the law, in order to have it include protection for Jewish students on college campuses. In the process, they are taking on a heavy historical question: Are the Jews of America part of a religion, or are they an ethnic group?.....the driving force behind this proposed legislation is the Zionist Organization of America, and the events triggering it took place at the University of California, Irvine, where tensions between Jewish and pro-Palestinian students have run high......In addition to incidents at UC, Irvine, ZOA also pointed to other campuses at which anti-Israel activity has left Jewish students feeling harassed. The Specter-Sherman bill mentions several incidents at other universities, as well, including the University of California s Berkeley campus, where a student holding a pro-Israel sign was pushed and injured. At the University of North Dakota, anti-Semitic slurs were shouted at a Jewish student. <b>Soon criticism of Israel will be illegal, if the Zionists have their way. Already, the FBI is- under the auspices of the new definition of terrorism- rounding up people in the US for pro-Palestinian activity. Let the<a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131869/"> fascism</a> of Israel and its supporters be fully known to the American people - so that we all finally DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-11-01.htm">10/13/2010 - Critics: Israel loyalty oath undermines pluralism</a> Netanyahu's government is also smarting over harsh international criticism over a deadly naval raid on a Gaza bound flotilla and suspicions that Israeli agents killed a Palestinian militant in Dubai after stealing the identities of some of its own citizens. Nationalists are promoting a bill that would shut down groups that provide information that could be used to support war crimes allegations against Israel in court cases raised in other countries. Another would impose fines and entry bans on supporters of an anti Israel boycott. Earlier this month, controversy erupted after a high school principal used of an unapproved textbook that presents the Palestinian grief over Israel's 1948 creation. Palestinians mourn it as the "nakba"  the catastrophe  because hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled from homes in what is now Israel. The principal faces possible disciplinary action. Another bill that has drawn criticism recently would deny state funding to groups that mourn the "nakba." <b>Fascism.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/israel_iran_times_up">10/13/2010 - Israel To Iran: Time s Up </a> Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz called Monday for a naval blockade of Iran within two to six months, saying sanctions have failed to convince the Islamic republic to abandon its nuclear weapons program. <b>THey'll do and say anything at this point to get the US to fight yet another war on their behalf.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-07-04.htm">10/13/2010 - Slumdog movie star turns defiant Palestinian girl</a> The Indian actress who starred in "Slumdog Millionaire" has moved from the slums of Mumbai to the squalid refugee camps of the West Bank in a new film: the story of a defiant Palestinian girl who wants to fight against Israel in a coming of age story with a Mideast twists. "Miral," directed by award winning artist Julian Schnabel and with cameos by Willem Dafoe and Vanessa Redgrave, stands apart for more than its star power. Due for U.S. release in December, it's also likely to give Western audiences some perhaps more used to movies depicting Arabs as violent Islamic militants a compassionate view of the Palestinians. "The ordinary American who knows nothing about Palestine and knows nothing about our cause it will be the first time he will sit and watch this story," said Yasmine al Massri, a 31 year old Paris based Palestinian actress who plays Pinto's mother. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-12-05.htm">10/13/2010 - Slain US activist's parents seek justice in Israel</a> The Corries have lobbied U.S. officials to pressure Israel to reopen the investigation into Rachel's death. And if the Supreme Court doesn't rule in their favour, the Corries say the will resume lobbying U.S. officials. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3967357,00.html">10/13/2010 - Settlers, Palestinians clash over olive harvest</a> Nasser, a carpenter from the village of Jit, took a day off on Sunday to pick olives from his 30 olive trees which provide him with oil for the entire season. He was shocked to discover a pianful sight when he reached his plot. "I saw that all my trees had been shaved," he said. "There's not one fruit left on any of the trees." Nasser has no doubts as to who is behind the act. "The Havat Gilat settlers emptied them (the trees) completely." Nasser is not alone. Farmers of the neighboring villages also found there was nothing left of their crop of hundreds of thousands of olives. Hundreds of trees have been stripped of their fruit. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-07-02.htm">10/13/2010 - IOC president invites Israel, Palestine for talks</a> The president of the International Olympic Committee has invited Israeli and Palestinian sports officials to meet at IOC headquarters to discuss travel restrictions on Palestinian athletes. Jacque Rogge has expressed concern over travel obstacles facing Palestinian athletes, saying they should be granted free movement regardless of politics. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-12-02.htm">10/13/2010 - Jordan Valley joins list of peace obstacles</a> The Palestinians say they can't give up an inch of the fertile valley, which makes up a quarter of the West Bank and would be one of the few largely undeveloped territories of their crowded future state, a place to build new cities and settle refugees. With an eye to the future, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad broke ground Monday on an agroindustrial park in the valley that, with funding and technical help from Japan, is to create 10,000 Palestinian jobs one day and transform the sleepy area into an economic hub. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1381">10/13/2010 - Two Palestinians killed, four families made homeless.</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26571.htm">10/13/2010 - Israel's Other "Peace" Plan Arm-Twisting Obama</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1382">10/13/2010 - CPT Serious Incident Report and Reflection</a> This particular incident speaks not only to the Israeli police s lack of impartiality, but also to the reality that settlers accusations supersede preserving the educational environment of Palestinian children. The entry of soldiers into educational institutions signifies to children that schools are not safe places for them, thus creating further barriers to education. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/french-spanish-fms-lieberman-violated-every-rule-of-diplomacy-1.318404">10/13/2010 - French, Spanish FMs: Lieberman violated every rule of diplomacy</a> During a dinner meeting on Sunday, Lieberman told France's Bernard Kouchner and Spain's Miguel Angel Moratinos to "solve your own problems in Europe before you come to us with complaints. Maybe then I will be open to accepting your suggestions." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/dubai-police-suspect-in-hamas-assassination-arrested-abroad-1.318463">10/13/2010 - Dubai police: Suspect in Hamas assassination arrested abroad</a> In Monday's comments, Tamim said the suspect is not believed to be European. "The suspect who was arrested played a key role in the killing, but we were informed by the ambassador ... that they did not wish to release the information," Tamim told the Abu Dhabi government-owned daily. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/gaza-teens-brave-idf-fire-to-collect-salvaged-building-materials-1.318121">10/13/2010 - Gaza teens brave IDF fire to collect salvaged building materials</a> Every day dozens of people come to the ruins of the industrial zone and the settlements, such as Elei Sinai, in wagons drawn by donkeys or horses. One of the teens, who was shot on August 25, told Defence for Children that in recent months soldiers also shot and killed one of the donkeys and three of the horses. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131949/">10/13/2010 - J Street Board Sticks With Ben-Ami After Soros Flap</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26526.htm">10/13/2010 - Video: The Two State Solution Is Effectively Dead</a> <b>Short clip of John Mearsheimer, coauthor of The Israeli Lobby, giving the lowdown on Israel's future.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2025241,00.html">10/13/2010 - The Israeli Loyalty Oath: What is Netanyahu Up To?</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/11/israel-loyalty-oath-discriminatory">10/13/2010 - Israel's loyalty oath: Discriminatory by design</a> The question that lies behind this is why, and why now? Are these the actions of a nation prepared to make a historical compromise, end occupation and live in peace with its neighbourhood? If they are and we are all wildly misinterpreting this, why alienate and incite the very people who could have helped by their example bring a historic settlement about, people who have accepted the existence of Israel, who have never in their history taken up arms against it? This applies to Christian as well as Muslim. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=123158">10/13/2010 - Russia to pay Iran $800 mln for shelved S-300 deal</a> Iran had criticised Russia for abandoning the deal, which the United States and Israel had urged Moscow to drop because of fears Tehran could use the missiles to protect nuclear facilities they suspect are part of a weapons programme. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/131997/">10/13/2010 - Bagels and Ballots  Friday</a> Responding to MitzVote s questionnaire, California s Democratic incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer responds to our questionnaire.  When it comes to Iran, nothing should be taken off the table, she wrote. (The San Francisco Chronicle) <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/10/06/six-more-years/">10/13/2010 - Six More Years by Philip Giraldi</a> . The White House has promised Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu that it will pursue a hard line on Iran and has offered a complete surrender over the issue of settlements if Israel can come to some jury-rigged peace agreement with the Palestinians, possibly landing the United States in the middle of yet another conflict in the Persian Gulf. And to ice the cake there is fear-mongering that occasionally even exceeds the frenetic output of the Bush Administration. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/10/13/joseph-sobran-antiwar-prophet-rip/">10/13/2010 - Joseph Sobran, Antiwar Prophet, RIP</a> The Israeli/Likud lobby today is still dominant mainly because of its fanatical support from tens of millions of Christian Zionist evangelicals and the military-industrial complex. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/10/07/goldwater-on-the-israel-lobby/">10/13/2010 - Goldwater on the Israel Lobby</a> Kolbe: Is the Israeli lobby too powerful? Goldwater: God, yes, way too powerful. Kolbe: Has that had some detrimental effects on what comes out of Congress? Goldwater: Yes. See, we have no treaty with Israel, but we have pledged ourselves to go to war if she has to go to war. And there are some of the actions that some of the Israeli groups take that, at times, I ve felt would hasten that day when we have to live up to our promise. I can understand the feeling, but I m getting awfully tired of the great influence they have and there s no question about it. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/poll-76-of-american-jews-think-arabs-want-to-destroy-israel-1.318669">10/13/2010 - Poll: 76% of American Jews think Arabs want to destroy Israel</a> If diplomacy fails, 59% would support military action against Iran to stop its nuclear program, while 35% would oppose it. 70% will support Israeli preventive strike, while 26% would oppose it. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/national/emanuel_and_axelrod_gone_will_jews_have_access_obama">10/13/2010 - With Emanuel and Axelrod Gone, Will the Jews Have Access to Obama?</a> the two individuals now running the policy in the White House -- National Security Council staffers Daniel Shapiro and Dennis Ross -- are sensitive to Jewish concerns.  Rahm was not running Middle East policy, Diament said.  Dennis Ross and Dan Shapiro are still there. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/10/12/2010-10-12_sarah_palin_says_if_iran_gets_a_nuclear_weapon_it_could_lead_to_armageddon_or_wo.html">10/13/2010 - Sarah Palin says if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, it could lead to Armageddon or World War III</a> "We have to realize that, at the end of the day, a nuclear weapon in that country's hands is not just Israel's problem or America's problem  it is the world's problem," Palin said of Iran. <b>Sarah Palin would appear to be a nitwit.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=chinese-warplanes-refueled-in-iran-enroute-to-turkey-2010-10-11">10/13/2010 - Chinese warplanes refueled in Iran en route to Turkey</a> Iran indirectly supported a secret military drill between the Turkish and Chinese air forces that took place in September, sparking concerns in the United States, daily Hürriyet reported Monday <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/10/12-5">10/13/2010 - They Hate Us for Our Occupations</a> In 2004, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld commissioned a task force to study what causes Terrorism, and it concluded that "Muslims do not 'hate our freedom,' but rather, they hate our policies": specifically, "American direct intervention in the Muslim world" through our "one sided support in favor of Israel"; support for Islamic tyrannies in places like Egypt and Saudi Arabia; and, most of all, "the American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan" (the full report is here). Now, a new, comprehensive study from Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political science professor and former Air Force lecturer, substantiates what is (a) already bleedingly obvious and (b) known to the U.S. Government for many years: namely, that the prime cause of suicide bombings is not Hatred of Our Freedoms or Inherent Violence in Islamic Culture or a Desire for Worldwide Sharia Rule by Caliphate, but rather. . . . foreign military occupations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3965793,00.html">10/13/2010 - US man suspected of trying to spy for Israel</a> In June 2006, Doxer e-mailed a foreign country's consulate in Boston with his offer to help. Court papers indicated the country was Israel because at one point he identified himself as a Jewish American who wanted "to help our homeland and our war against our enemies." A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to confirm or deny that it was Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4163">10/13/2010 - The Media's Construction of the 'Ground Zero Mosque'</a> CNN featured virulent Islamophobes on a number of occasions. Geller who has called for the destruction of Jerusalem s Dome of the Rock, one of Islam s holiest sites, and whose website depicted Muhammad with the face of a pig (FAIR Blog, 8/18/10) appeared on the network twice (5/26/10, 8/17/10) to talk about her opposition to the project. <b>Many are bile-spewing Israel-supporters, not surprisingly.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131947/">10/13/2010 - Venezuela Community in Eye of Storm As Chavez Assails Israel</a>  A Palestinian community lives here with us, which we adore and love, and there are also Jews that live here who we love, as well, he said then.  But I wish the Jewish community would declare themselves against this barbarism. Do it. Don t you strongly denounce any act of persecution and the Holocaust? What do you think we are looking at [in Gaza]? Put your hand on your heart, and be fair. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/10/06/why_defense_spending_wont_go_down_much">10/13/2010 - Why defense spending won't go down much Stephen M. Walt</a> Q. How can you tell when William Kristol is giving bad policy advice? A. His lips are moving. Or he's typing. Or he's writing an open letter for a bunch of hawks to sign. Or launching some new letterhead organization. I refer, of course, to Kristol's recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (co-authored with the presidents of the the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute). The basic theme is that the world is very, very dangerous, and so the United States should not cut a nickel from its defense budget, even though we already spend more than the rest of the world combined, have most of the world's major powers on our side, and possess a robust nuclear deterrent. So even though the country is also facing massive budget deficits, at least partly due to policies that Kristol has previously promoted, we need to build a wall around the defense budget and make sure it doesn't get shrunk. At all. <b>Mr. Walt is the other author of the Israeli lobby.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/real-israel-lobby_501178.html">10/13/2010 - The Real Israel Lobby</a> <b>Neocon Bill Kristol attempting to further the lie that Americans support Israel. IF it were true, then there wouldn't be a need for AIPAC, WINEP, CAMERA, Honestreporting.com and many more lobbies, PACs, thinktanks, watchdogs : all dedicated to making sure the media and representatives toe the Israeli line. None of that would be necessary if the majority of Americans supported Israel. In fact, they don't according to a <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/poll-vast-majority-opposes-attack-iran/"> recent poll by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs</a>. My condolences to the Israel firsters (which includes the neocons).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2024389,00.html">10/13/2010 - Israel, Hurt by Belly-Dance Video, Fears Delegitimization - TIME</a> Israel's latest mortification, now playing on YouTube, features a Palestinian woman in modest Islamic dress, captive, blindfolded and standing stock still while an Israeli soldier undulates against her, trilling his fingers like the belly dancer he pretends to be as he grins at his friend who holds the camera. This follows the infamous Facebook posting of a female soldier beaming beside blindfolded and bound Palestinian men  her prisoners  in a photo album titled "IDF  The best time of my life." .......The need to nurture U.S. support against Iran was only one reason Netanyahu came around to the Obama Administration's bid for talks <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-13-01.htm">10/13/2010 - Hero's welcome in Lebanon for Iranian leader</a> "We fully support the resistance of the Lebanese people against the Zionist regime and we want full liberation of occupied territory in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine," <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-12-01.htm">10/13/2010 - Helen Thomas on being anti-Semitic: 'Baloney!'</a> In a radio interview, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas acknowledges she touched a nerve with remarks about Israel that led to her retirement. But she says the comments were "exactly what I thought," even though she realized soon afterward that it was the end of her job. "I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive," Thomas told Ohio station WMRN AM in a sometimes emotional 35 minute interview that aired Tuesday <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm">10/13/2010 - Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.? Part 1</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/131907/">10/13/2010 - Palestinian Oktoberfest Entices Israeli Jews</a> This past weekend thousands of Palestinians, foreigners and a few Israelis flocked there for an Oktoberfest celebration where, as-per Oktoberfest tradition, beer flowed freely. For some of the Israelis who went the event was reminiscent of the days, before the First Intifada, when they regularly traveled to Palestinian areas to eat and drink. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/132089/">10/13/2010 - Bagels & Ballots: The Governator Jumps In</a> The American Jewish Committee published a survey on Jewish voters is out, and it looks like Barack Obama is losing Jewish support because of his Israel policy. 61% of Jewish voters see the issue as  very important in choosing mid-term congressional candidates, making it the sixth-highest concern. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131941/">10/13/2010 - Rick Sanchez Latest To Be Immediately Fired After Comments Hostile to Jews</a> Before Sanchez there was Octavia Nasr, CNN s senior editor of Middle East affairs, who was sacked in June for publicly praising  via Twitter  a Muslim cleric associated with Hezbollah. And before her there was Helen Thomas, the 90-year-old veteran White House correspondent who lost her job this past summer when she said that Israelis should  get the hell out of Palestine and go back to Poland and Germany. In her case, she quit, but there was little chance of her staying on in her job after the uproar began. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3967636,00.html">10/13/2010 - Negotiator: Iran to show proof of US nuclear aid to Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/10/10-03-02.htm">10/6/2010 - Israelis kill Palestinian worker who sneaked in</a> Israeli police shot and killed a construction worker from this West Bank village Sunday after he used a rope to scale a towering wall meant to keep Palestinians from sneaking into Israel, police and a witness said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-05-03.htm">10/6/2010 - Israeli rabbis visit torched West Bank mosque</a> The attackers left Hebrew slogans on the mosque walls, including the word "revenge." It appeared to be the latest action in a campaign that extremist Jewish settlers call the "price tag," their response to moves by their government to remove unauthorized settlement outposts and other similar measures. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/69541,news-comment,news-politics,two-israeli-soldiers-take-fall-for-human-shield-incident-in-gaza-offensive-idf">10/6/2010 - Two Israeli soldiers  take fall for Gaza offensive</a> Despite over 150 internal investigations being opened by the Israeli military into alleged misconduct by its troops during the assault on Gaza, only 36 have been referred for criminal prosecutions, and  until yesterday's verdict  only one conviction has been handed down by the courts, in the case of a soldier accused of petty theft....Human rights groups have documented scores of cases of similar abuses by IDF fighters since the practice of using human shields was supposedly banned in 2005. Allegations backed by substantial evidence continue to surface - and the IDF continues to fail to instigate meaningful investigations in almost all incidences. <b>You will not see this story in our media anywhere, certainly not in any headlines on the local or national news. Refer to the video in this batch on how Israel controls our media.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1371936/Israeli-troops-used-boy-as-shield">10/6/2010 - Israeli troops used boy as shield</a> In Sunday's ruling, a military court said the soldiers asked the boy to open bags that troops suspected contained explosives. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/10-days-after-settlement-freeze-expires-350-new-units-under-construction-1.317467">10/6/2010 - 10 days after settlement freeze expires, 350 new units under construction</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3962938,00.html">10/6/2010 - Art sellers or Mossad spies?</a> In Saratoga Springs, in northern Utah, there were complains that these art peddlers were asking strange questions that had nothing to do with their sales pitch. Some residents said they were asked about the new National Security Agency's data center being built at Camp Williams. <b>Art sellers resurface in America? They were around in the run up to 9/11, according to a Fox News report on Israel's spies in December of 2001. Round them up and deport them, posthaste.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-03-01.htm">10/6/2010 - Ahmadinejad says Mideast to expel US with 'kick in butt'</a> Ahmadinejad has already drawn international condemnation by repeatedly casting doubt on the Nazi Holocaust since coming to power in 2005. On Sunday he branded Iran's regional arch foe Israel a "savage dog unleashed in the region." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/30-1">10/6/2010 - FBI Targets US Palestine Activists </a> Despite the searches and seizures of computers, cheque books, mobile phones, documents and photographs, Molm and other activists have not been charged with committing a crime.....Molm and other American activists travelled to Palestine in 2004 to see the conditions there for themselves. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-01-09.htm">10/6/2010 - Obama envoy ends Mideast talks with no breakthrough</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hundreds-of-activists-from-muslim-countries-planning-new-gaza-bound-flotilla-1.317150">10/6/2010 - Hundreds of activists from Muslim countries planning new Gaza-bound flotilla</a> The Turkish charity IHH, which sponsored a Gaza-bound flotilla that Israeli commandos boarded in a deadly raid last spring, said Monday that some 500 activists would take part in a new flotilla that hopes to reach Gaza by December 27. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-04-03.htm">10/6/2010 - Korans burnt in West Bank mosque attack</a> A Star of David symbol and the words "Price Tag" were found scrawled over the mosque's doorway. Militant settlers coined the slogan to warn of the cost of any threat to their presence. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/livni-tells-un-to-mind-its-own-business-over-flotilla-probe-1.317560">10/6/2010 - Livni tells UN to mind its own business over flotilla probe</a> Livni told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that his decision to appoint a panel to investigate the May 31 commando raid, which left nine pro-Palestinian activists dead, was "unacceptable". ...."Israel is investigating the events of the flotilla itself, and that is enough," said Livni, who leads Kadima, the second largest party in Israel's Knesset. <b>Arrogant much?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-01-08.htm">10/6/2010 - Israel: Principal faces hearing over textbook</a> An Israeli high school principal has been summoned for a hearing by the country's Education Ministry for using a textbook that presents the Palestinian narrative about events surrounding Israel's creation in 1948, officials said Friday.....The textbook in question gives the Israeli narrative of the country's founding next to that of the Palestinians, with blank space in the middle for students to insert their own thoughts, according to a report this week in the daily Haaretz. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-03-04.htm">10/6/2010 - Egypt, Jordan back Palestinians on settlements</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-04-01.htm">10/6/2010 - Court upholds deportation of Nobel laureate</a> She won the peace prize in 1976 for her efforts to end sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, but has since turned most of her attention to the Palestinian cause. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-04-02.htm">10/6/2010 - Arsonists torch mosque in West Bank village</a> Arsonists torched a mosque in a West Bank village Monday, scrawling "revenge" on a wall in Hebrew and charring copies of the Muslim holy book in an attack that threatened to stoke tensions over deadlocked Mideast peacemaking. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-01-05.htm">10/6/2010 - Ancient tree to help turn Jericho into tourism hub</a> At the Oct. 10 launch of yearlong festivities, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will outline ambitious plans for Jericho, a Jordan Valley oasis that bills itself as the world's oldest and lowest lying town, at some 780 feet below sea level. "This is to promote Palestine as a destination," Palestinian Tourism Minister Khouloud Daibes said of the venture, which includes a resort to be built on the shores of the nearby Dead Sea. The Palestinians even hope for an airport in the area, though both projects hinge on Israeli approval.....On Friday, dozens of Palestinian and Russian workers laid brick, rushing to finish the white stone building with two domes and several graceful columns in time for the Oct. 10 opening. The museum, which sits on land bought by the Russian government in the 19th century, will feature Russian art and an exhibit on cultural ties between Russia and Palestine, as well as artifacts discovered during a salvage dig before construction began. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-02-01.htm">10/6/2010 - Peace talks come and go, but a settlement grows</a> In 1991, when the first Bush administration was coaxing Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table, 90,300 Israelis lived in settlements across the West Bank. Today there are 300,000  and their population is growing by 5 percent a year, more than 2 1/2 times the growth rate inside Israel. The settlements themselves, ranging from small cities to isolated enclaves, take up just one percent of the area of the West Bank, according to government maps analyzed by Israeli human rights campaigners. But their impact is much greater than that number would suggest; the settlements and their access roads form a web of Israeli control that Palestinians say rules out any chance of viable statehood. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-05-01.htm">10/6/2010 - Webclip shows Israel soldier dancing around prisoner</a> A grainy video of a male Israeli soldier bellydancing around a bound and blindfolded female prisoner which went viral overnight, on Tuesday provoked a furious response from the Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-02-02.htm">10/6/2010 - Palestinians back Abbas on settlement slowdown</a> Dozens of senior Palestinians on Saturday backed President Mahmoud Abbas' refusal to negotiate with Israel as long as it builds in West Bank settlements, dealing a new setback to troubled U.S. efforts to salvage peace talks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3962291,00.html">10/6/2010 - Obama pressed to weigh Iran strike</a> US President Barack Obama is under pressure to consider a military strike on Iran, according to the Financial Times. Both Senator Joe Lieberman and Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, have urged the president to consider setting a time limit of just a few months on the effectiveness of the most recent sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic for its nuclear advances. <b>Joe Lieberman is one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill. Any strike on Iran would place our missions and troops in the region in grave danger. For whom do these representatives work?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-06-01.htm">10/6/2010 - Israeli premier weighing new settlement curbs</a> The Israelis are seeking various "assurances" in return for the extension. Officials said the Israeli wish list included additional American military support, U.S. guarantees to veto anti Israeli resolutions at the United Nations and guarantees that Washington would not impose an accord on Israel or force a full withdrawal from the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians seek both areas as part of a future state. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131721/">10/6/2010 - David Grossman, a Man Who Owns Israel</a> As to the  oppressor, President Barack Obama, he plainly understood that the 10-month moratorium was scheduled to end just as the American midterm election campaigns were heading into their final stretch. Ten months is such an unusual time period  the mind inclines toward nine months or 12  that Netanyahu s choice of 10 months was plainly intended as a trap. Surely, no American administration would take the political risk of leaning on Israel just before elections; no one wants to incur the wrath of the Jews or the evangelicals. And the fact is that we do not yet know to what degree Obama is prepared to take that risk. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26495.htm">10/6/2010 - How Israel Controls Your Media:</a> <b>Pay particular attention to the disparity in the news coverage - even between that of the Brits and ours. I have experienced it for the 8 years I have been reading the coverage of all things Israel-Palestine. Our media is in fact controlled by Israeli interests. Not so much that they own the media, it's by way of their intense 'lobbying' of our journalists, our news wires (AP), and the threat of anti-Semitism -this is how they accomplish getting our media to carry the Israeli side of the story, nearly all of the time.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-30-01.htm">10/6/2010 - Mossad 'issued death threats' to Dubai police chief</a> Dubai's police chief said he has received death threats from Israel's spy agency Mossad linked to his role in uncovering details of the assassination of a senior Hamas leader, a report said on Thursday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-01-07.htm">10/6/2010 - Hamas leader: Arafat urged attacks on Israel</a> Avi Issacharov, an Israeli journalist who co authored a book about the uprising, went further: "Arafat wasn't in favor of suicide attacks. He didn't demand, he didn't order, he didn't recommend" them <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-03-01a.htm">10/6/2010 - Flotilla ship is setting for anti-Israel movie (AP)</a> Part of a movie is being filmed on board the Mavi Marmara, where Israeli troops clashed in May with pro Palestinian activists trying to breach the blockade in Gaza, said Salih Bilici, a spokesman for the Turkish Islamic charity that sponsored the flotilla, told The Associated Press on Sunday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-03-05.htm">10/6/2010 - Syria wants Turkey to mediate talks with Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0930/Rachel-Corrie-an-Israeli-bulldozer-and-our-shared-global-fate">10/6/2010 - Rachel Corrie, an Israeli bulldozer, and our shared global fate</a> Last month, several state witnesses took the stand in a Haifa District Court to testify in the civil law suit filed by Rachel Corrie s family against the state of Israel. Many may still recall the disturbing photographs that wallpapered the world s media outlets of Ms. Corrie, a 23-year-old activist from Walla, Walla, Washington, being crushed under a military bulldozer while trying to defend a Palestinian home in Rafah, Gaza under threat of demolition <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-01-02.htm">10/6/2010 - CNN fires host Rick Sanchez over controversial remarks</a> Sanchez called out Comedy Central host Jon Stewart as a "bigot" for mocking him, and complained that Jews  like Stewart  don't face discrimination. He also suggested that CNN, and perhaps the media industry more broadly, is run by Jews and elitists who look down on Hispanics like himself. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/131637/">10/6/2010 - The Intifada, 10 Years Later: Why Israelis Don't Care About Peace Processing</a> Actually, what Time said wasn t even new or shocking to anyone who s spoken to a real live Israeli in the last five years or so. Newsweek carried an almost identical story this past January. Fortune magazine reported it all the way back in June 2005. Israelis themselves have been saying the same thing for years: There s no point in trying to negotiate peace with the Arabs, either because it always backfires, or because the Arabs are bunch of bums and you can t trust them, or because, as Time reports, things are fine the way they are and nobody believes it ll get better. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8034882/Israels-unit-8200-cyber-warfare.html">10/6/2010 - Israel's unit 8200: cyber warfare </a> The Negev desert based Unit 8200 has evolved from the signal intelligence arm of the Israeli military into a respected leader in high technology warfare. One American consultancy rated Unit 8200 as the sixth biggest initiator of cyber attacks on the plants. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26506.htm">10/6/2010 - Netanyahu Humiliates Obama Again By MJ Rosenberg</a> "Netanyahu said he appreciated the letter but could not accept the American proposal because it included a two-month extension of the construction moratorium, which he said would damage his public credibility." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131727/">10/6/2010 - It s Not Easy To Build a Mosque in Brooklyn, Either</a>  They brought people in who aren t from the neighborhood, he said.  They re anti-Muslim. What other reasons would they be here? Do they care that I have a lot of traffic here? No, seriously  they live in Queens. .....In the view of Michael Berenbaum, head of the Sigi Ziering Center for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics at American Jewish University, the fact that so many of the Sheepshead Bay mosque opponents are Russian Jews  immigrants themselves   may mean that they have not internalized the notion of religious freedom, which is essential to the American experience. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/10/04/the-barack-crack-up/">10/6/2010 - Cracks in the Democratic Coalitionby Patrick J. Buchanan </a> Black-Jewish tensions inside the Democratic coalition have also arisen in recent years, as Jewish contributors have poured money into races to defeat black members of Congress seen as hostile to Israel. Two smaller minorities, Muslim- and Arab-Americans, also vote Democratic, are growing rapidly in numbers and, like many African-Americans, take the side of the Palestinians as an oppressed Third World people of color. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=44825">10/6/2010 - Antiwar Activists Refuse to Appear in Court</a> Activists say the feds are trying to silence criticism of U.S. foreign policy. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/israel-pressures-lebanon-to-cancel-ahmadinejad-visit-20101005-1668y.html">10/6/2010 - Israel pressures Lebanon to cancel Ahmadinejad visit </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130272928">10/6/2010 - Midnight Shopping On The Brink Of Poverty</a> Last year, 3.7 million Americans joined those already living in poverty, meaning families of four living on just under $22,000. That's 14 percent of the population <b>Hey I know, let's give a couple more billion dollars to Israel so she won't steal any more Palestinian land (for 'settlements'). Unf'ingreal.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26512.htm">10/6/2010 - Obama s Cave-In To Israel</a> According to the leak, Obama made a series of extraordinarily generous offers to Israel, many of them at the expense of the Palestinians, in return for a single minor concession from Netanyahu: a two-month extension of the partial feeze on settlement growth. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc7BFkgmOYE&feature=player_embedded">10/6/2010 - Video: Even Zbigniew Brzezinski says AIPAC is bad for USA and Israel stole Palestinian land </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/jewish-population-in-israel-is-declining-1.317042">10/6/2010 - Jewish population in Israel is declining </a> There is no choice but to deal with forecasts for the next decade or two, and it turns out that by then the proportion of Jews will have declined to 42 percent <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8034987/Israeli-cyber-unit-responsible-for-Iran-computer-worm-claim.html">10/6/2010 - Israeli cyber unit responsible for Iran computer worm  claim </a> Ralf Langner, a German researcher, claims that Unit 8200, the signals intelligence arm of the Israeli defence forces, perpetrated the computer virus attack by infiltrating the software into the Bushehr nuclear power station <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/207552/did-the-west-attack-irans-nukes-with-a-biblically-encoded-computer-worm">10/6/2010 - Did the West attack Iran's nukes... with a Biblically encoded computer worm? </a> experts found what might be a "fleeting reference to the Book of Esther" embedded deep in the worm's code. "Myrtus," the name of one of the files, may be an allusion to "the Hebrew word for Esther." The biblical book of the same name "tells the story of a Persian plot against the Jews, who attacked their enemies pre-emptively." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/business/millions-of-computers-hit-by-virus-across-china/398967">10/6/2010 - Millions of Computers Hit by Virus Across China</a>  Once Stuxnet successfully penetrates factory computers in China, those industries may collapse, which would damage China s national security. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-05-02.htm">10/6/2010 - Bill Clinton: Mideast peace would undercut terror</a> Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that solving the Israeli Palestinian conflict would take away much of the motivation for terrorism around the world. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/10/10-02-03.htm">10/6/2010 - Syrian leader: Mideast talks only to help Obama</a> Assad said the current attempt at dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians have brought "no change" and claimed that President Barack Obama only seeks a political boost. "The talks are only aimed at supporting Obama's position inside the U.S," Assad said in his first public comments about the process since the latest round of negotiations began last month. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/leverett200910.html">10/6/2010 - Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, Mr. Ahmadinejad Comes to New York</a> Though we are more concerned about the risk of a bad U.S. decision in this regard than Secretary Powell appears to be, we certainly hope he is right about the chances of an Israeli or U.S. attack against Iran. And, of course, we strongly agree that acceptance of Iran's right to enrich uranium is an indispensable key to a serious and sustainable agreement on the nuclear issue. We hope that the Obama Administration is listening. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131728/">10/6/2010 - J Street Flap Shines Spotlight On George Soros And His Money</a> A tough critic of the pro-Israel lobby and a self-proclaimed non-Zionist, Soros has also led the campaign for democracy in Eastern Europe, a cause shared by many in the Jewish community. He has made business investments in Israel, and provides political donations to Jewish candidates. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/06-2">10/6/2010 - Israel Is Now Punishing Palestinians Shamelessly</a> Behind a modest desk with a view of Beit Jala sits a nameless Shin Bet security service officer who is very pleased with himself. He has just saved the Jewish people in Israel from yet another grave security risk by preventing a 47-year-old woman, for five weeks now, from going abroad for urgent medical tests. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/04/israel-palestine-peace-collapse">10/6/2010 - Obama faces humiliation over Middle East talks</a> Israel's refusal to extend a moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank is the ostensible reason for the halt in direct talks with the Palestinians. Speaking at the weekend after the PLO refused to continue the negotiations, executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi said a line had to be drawn.....Netanyahu may be calculating that big Republican gains in next month's US midterm congressional elections will curtail Obama's capacity to put pressure on Israel. If the process does collapse, Netanyahu will be able to say, publicly, that it was the Palestinians, not he, who turned their backs on peace; and privately, that the inexperienced Obama screwed up, a verdict that the American right will gleefully endorse. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/assad-ahmadinejad-israel-s-actions-prove-it-doesn-t-want-peace-1.316753">10/6/2010 - Assad, Ahmadinejad: Israel's actions prove it doesn't want peace </a> The leaders of Iran and Syria, during a meeting in Tehran Saturday, expressed hope of expanding the anti-Israeli bloc in the region, adding that Israel's actions in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem proved the country did not truly want peace, the Iranian presidential office said in a statement. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3964398,00.html">10/6/2010 - Poet Zach: Israel apartheid state</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131714/">10/6/2010 - Batsheva Dances, Challenging Gender  and Demonstrators</a> on a recent evening, audience members had to make it past a cacophonous demonstration outside. The protesters chants, accompanied by drums, cymbals and a flute, were part of Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, whose demands include the so-called right of return for Palestinian refugees. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131720/">10/6/2010 - What J Street Can Learn From The Tea Party</a> here s the critical distinction with the Tea Partiers: Those who have stuck with AIPAC haven t paid a price. Consider the case of Rep. Jane Harman of southern California, a darling of AIPAC and hawkish Democrats. Harman was opposed in a bitter Democratic primary by Marcy Winograd, a leftist peace activist who would seem to be a prototypical J Street candidate: On the peace process and Israel s need to make concessions, she was holier than the pope. But J Street stayed out of the primary battle, which Harman won (and I am glad she did). <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131722/">10/6/2010 - Of Recognition, and Reality</a> if, as some of their spokesmen have recently confirmed, the Palestinians are refusing to recognize Israel as the Jewish State because such recognition undermines the  the right of return of Palestinian refugees into properties inside Israel, the peace negotiations are, indeed, futile. Israel might well agree to absorb a small number of returnees. But even the most compromise-minded Israelis reject a wholesale  right of return, as this would signal the end of the state s Jewishness. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <b>September</b> <br><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11407188">9/29/2010 - Gaza fisherman 'killed by Israeli navy'</a> n Gaza it is not uncommon to hear the sound of machine-gun fire off the coast, as the Israeli navy fires upon boats it says have breached the limit. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-23-05.htm">9/29/2010 - Obama urges Arabs and Israel to support fragile talks</a> The U.S. brokered talks are in danger of collapsing almost before they have begun because of the September 30 expiration of Israel's self imposed, partial moratorium on new construction in Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank. Israel's refusal so far to maintain the freeze   and the Palestinians' threat to walk out if it does not   have imperiled the negotiations, which aim to resolve the main issues in the conflict within a year. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1380">9/29/2010 - PALESTINIAN FAMILY AWAKES TO DISCOVER VANDALS DEMOLISHED ARBOR OF 100 MATURE GRAPE TREES </a> On the morning of September 20th 2010, the Abdul Rahman Sharif Sultan family of the Al Bweireh neighborhood awoke to find that Israeli settlers had cut down six dunams (6000 m²) worth of their mature grape trees and vines during the night. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/29-2">9/29/2010 - Hungry in Gaza, More and More</a> In the Gaza Strip, where unemployment levels soar up to 65 percent, and more than 80 percent people are food aid dependent, the average income per day per person is just two dollars. According to the WFP and FAO, the food insecure in Gaza are an alarming 61 percent, with another 16 percent vulnerable to food insecurity. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/un-panel-israel-suppressing-footage-of-gaza-flotilla-raid-1.316201">9/29/2010 - UN panel: Israel suppressing footage of Gaza flotilla raid</a> An expert panel investigating Israel's boarding of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla four months ago said Tuesday that Israel is suppressing footage of the incident it seized from the passengers. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26471.htm">9/29/2010 - Obama Administration Silent on IDF Murder of 19-Year-Old American</a> Although the conclusions of the Human Rights Commissioner's report and of the Turkish medical examiners has been big news in Turkey for the past week, the US media has maintained a news blackout, even though one of the murdered victims was an American. It's a sad commentary on the extent to which the US corporate media have become propagandists for the US and Israeli governments. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26470.htm">9/29/2010 - Israelis "Executed" US Citizen Furkan Dogan</a> The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/28">9/29/2010 - Israel Seizes Gaza Aid Boat </a> Yousef Rizka, a Hamas official, said: "The government has received Jewish activists heading to Gaza before. The government positively views all attempts to break the siege on Gaza". <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/jews-for-justice-aid-boat-sets-sail-for-gaza-1.315773">9/29/2010 - 'Jews for Justice' aid boat sets sail for Gaza</a> Richard Kuper, an organizer with the U.K. group Jews for Justice for Palestinians, said one goal is to show that not all Jews support Israeli policies toward Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/10/100510fa_fact_bruck">9/29/2010 - The Influencer</a> He remains keenly interested in the world of business, but he is most proud of his role as political power broker. His greatest concern, he says, is to protect Israel, by strengthening the United States-Israel relationship. At a conference last fall in Israel, Saban described his formula. His  three ways to be influential in American politics, he said, were: make donations to political parties, establish think tanks, and control media outlets......In targeting media properties, Saban frankly acknowledges his political agenda. He has tried repeatedly to buy the Los Angeles Times, because, he said,  I thought it was time that it turn from a pro-Palestinian paper into a balanced paper. ......As Saban has said,  I m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel. <b>If you love Israel so much, why not move there and leave America to those that care more about AMERICAN interests. Some of us count America's (not Israel's) interests as priority number 1.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=189039">9/29/2010 - Turkish president demands apology for flotilla at UN</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/israel-accused-of-war-crimes-by-expert-panel-20100923-15ow9.html">9/29/2010 - Israel accused of war crimes by expert panel </a> ''There is clear evidence to support prosecutions of the following crimes within the terms of article 147 of the fourth Geneva convention: wilful killing; torture or inhuman treatment; wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health,'' the report said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/turkey-lauds-un-report-on-gaza-flotilla-1.315265">9/29/2010 - Turkey lauds UN report on Gaza flotilla</a> Israel refused to cooperate with the panel, preferring instead to work with a separate UN group under New Zealand's former Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer and Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe that is also examining the incident but has yet to publish its findings "Israel is a democratic and law abiding country that carefully observes international law and, when need be, knows how to investigate itself," the Foreign Ministry statement said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8019443/Israel-used-incredible-violence-against-Gaza-aid-flotilla-says-UN-Human-Rights-Council.html">9/29/2010 - Israel used 'incredible violence' against Gaza aid flotilla, says UN Human Rights Council</a> Israel maintains that its soldiers acted in self-defence after coming under attack from activists wielding clubs, axes and metal rods. However the report found that Israeli commandos' response to the flotilla was disproportionate and "betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality". <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-23-06.htm">9/29/2010 - Obama challenges the world: Time for Mideast peace</a> To a hushed audience of global leaders, Obama made Mideast peace the dominant theme of his yearly address to the U.N. General Assembly, a sign of the fragile state of the latest talks and the importance he attaches to their success. Nearly every other topic of his international agenda was shoved to the margins, save for a vigorous call for support of human rights. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-24-03.htm">9/29/2010 - Israel, Palestinians look to salvage Mideast talks</a> Netanyahu  a hard liner who only recently accepted the idea of a Palestinian state  has balked at extending the moratorium, saying that would fracture his pro settlement coalition government. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-says-palestinian-reconciliation-on-the-way-1.315979">9/29/2010 - Hamas says Palestinian reconciliation on the way</a> Hamas' Khaled Meshal said Monday in Damascus that the two groups have taken serious and real steps toward reconciliation and will meet in early October in Cairo. The rival sides had said Saturday they agreed on steps to end divisions. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-23-07.htm">9/29/2010 - Officials: Palestinians will consider compromise</a> Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas himself appeared to back away from the extension demand in comments late Tuesday to prominent American Jewish figures. "I cannot say I will leave the negotiations, but it's very difficult for me to resume talks if Prime Minister Netanyahu declares that he will continue his (settlement) activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem," he said, according to a transcript of the event obtained by The Associated Press. <b>It would appear that the only peace Israel seeks is the peace with which to continue building settlements on Palestinian land.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-28-02.htm">9/29/2010 - Abbas says settlements block Mideast peace deal</a> Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday there will be no peace deal with Israel unless the Jewish state stops settlement construction in areas the Palestinians claim for their future state. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/fatah-official-israeli-settlements-could-kill-two-state-solution-1.315997">9/29/2010 - Fatah official: Israeli settlements could kill two-state solution</a> Expanding Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian territory have reached a point of no return and could kill an internationally backed, two-state solution, a top Fatah official said on Monday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/bulldozers-roll-out-across-west-bank-as-settlement-freeze-ends-1.315917">9/29/2010 - Bulldozers roll out across West Bank as settlement freeze ends</a> Settlers currently have plans for around 2,000 new homes across the West Bank. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131502/">9/29/2010 - Some Zionist Groups Stoke Fear Of Islam for Political Profit</a> At an AIPAC conference in March 2009, to take just one example, terrorism expert Steve Emerson spent 40 minutes stoking the worst fears of the mostly elderly attendees with a talk called  Tentacles of Terror: The Global Reach of Islamic Radicalism. It could just as easily have been called  Scaring the Living Crap Out of Bubbe and Zayde. As long as Jews are encouraged to believe that scary Muslims are hiding under every American bed, the idea is perpetuated that support for the Jewish state is a zero-sum contest between favoring Israel and favoring Arabs and Muslims. For too many American Jews, smearing Islam is seen as a legitimate expression of Zionism. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-25-01.htm">9/29/2010 - Israel: Settlers brace for end of building freeze</a> <b>Peace or piece, can't have both.</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/131425/">9/29/2010 - Delaware Jews First to Host Victorious Tea Party Nominee</a> The crowd, mainly made up of members of the Delaware Jewish community, asked questions about the Middle East peace process, foreign aid to Israel and the possibility of cutting foreign aid in order to deal with the growing deficit. All candidates (including candidates for the House who attended as well) gave answers that satisfied the audience, according to the organizers: They support Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, agree to continue foreign aid to Israel at the level of $3 billion, and do not wish to cut the foreign aid budget. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=189300">9/29/2010 - Hamas claims to have found Israeli 'sleeper cells' in Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=317321">9/29/2010 - Syrian aid arrives at Rafah crossing</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092901811.html">9/29/2010 - Jewish boat activists: Israel treated us harshly</a> The activists' comments contradict military statements that said no violence took place when soldiers commandeered the boat - statements that were released while the activists were still in detention. Military officials declined to comment Wednesday on Shapira's report. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-to-settlers-keep-low-profile-as-building-freeze-expires-1.315765">9/29/2010 - Netanyahu to settlers: Keep low profile as building freeze expires</a> Netanyahu's bureau also approached cabinet ministers requesting that they refrain from giving interviews on the topic. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26465.htm">9/29/2010 - How U.S. Jews Strangle Peace Talks</a> So let s get this straight. When Netanyahu agrees to a settlement moratorium, it s a sign of his commitment to peace. And now that he has let the moratorium end? It s still a sign of his commitment to peace because, as AIPAC now insists, negotiations must proceed without preconditions. It s back to  the problem isn t settlements. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/18/1831539/s-fla-becoming-gateway-for-arms.html">9/29/2010 - South Florida: An arms smuggler's paradise</a> In June, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and a former Israeli aviation executive were charged in Fort Lauderdale federal court with conspiring to export 2,000 AK-47s to Somalia -- after the Israeli allegedly wired $116,000 to a Wells Fargo branch in Broward County. The indictment charged Joseph O'Toole, 79, of California, and Chanoch Miller, 53, an Israeli citizen living in Tel Aviv, with scheming to obtain and transport the AK-47s from Bosnia to Somalia, an embargoed country. Miller was arrested in Miami after traveling here to close the deal. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-25-03.htm">9/29/2010 - Israeli leaders praise Fidel Castro</a> Israeli leaders are praising former Cuban President Fidel Castro for supporting Israel in a series of interviews <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/settlement-freeze-it-was-barely-a-slowdown-1.316074">9/29/2010 - Settlement freeze? It was barely a slowdown</a> The official statistics supplied by the Central Bureau of Statistics describe the story behind the 10-month construction moratorium in the West Bank. The story can be called many things but "freeze" is certainly not one of them. What took place in the past few months is, in the best case scenario, not more than a negligible decrease in the number of housing units that were built in settlements. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26447.htm">9/29/2010 - Why Mitchell Said  No to Hamas</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/sep/24/stuxnet-worm-national-agency">9/29/2010 - Stuxnet worm is the 'work of a national government agency'</a> The "Stuxnet" computer worm, which has been described as one of the "most refined pieces of malware ever discovered", has been most active in Iran, says the security company Symantec  leading some experts to conjecture that the likely target of the virus is the controversial Bushehr nuclear power plant, and that it was created by Israeli hackers. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26451.htm">9/29/2010 - FBI Serves Terrorism Warrants in Minnesota, Chicago</a> "The FBI is harassing anti-war organizers and leaders, folks who opposed U.S. intervention in the Middle East and Latin America," Kelly said before agents confiscated his cell phone. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26442.htm">9/29/2010 - THE THIRD TEMPLE'S HOLY OF HOLIES: ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS </a> In 1965, the U.S. government accused Dr. Zalman Shapiro, the corporation president, of  losing 200 pounds of highly enriched uranium. Although investigated by the Atomic Energy Commission, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other government agencies and inquiring reporters, no answers were available in what was termed the Apollo Affair.29 Many remain convinced that the Israelis received 200 pounds of enriched uranium sometime before 1965.30 One source links Rafi Eitan, an Israeli Mossad agent and later the handler of spy Jonathan Pollard, with NUMEC.31 In the 1990s when the NUMEC plant was disassembled, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found over 100 kilograms of plutonium in the structural components of the contaminated plant, casting doubt on 200 pounds going to Israel.32..........Thus started the subtle, opaque use of the Israeli bomb to ensure that the United States kept its pledge to maintain Israel's conventional weapons edge over its foes.65 There is significant anecdotal evidence that Henry Kissinger told President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, that the reason for the U.S. airlift was that the Israelis were close to  going nuclear. 66......One other purpose of Israeli nuclear weapons, not often stated, but obvious, is their  use on the United States. America does not want Israel's nuclear profile raised.144 They have been used in the past to ensure America does not desert Israel under increased Arab, or oil embargo, pressure and have forced the United States to support Israeli diplomatically against the Soviet Union. Israel used their existence to guarantee a continuing supply of American conventional weapons, a policy likely to continue.145 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26438.htm">9/29/2010 - Why Russia will not sell the S-300 Air Defense System to Iran</a> Serdyukov's military reform and told that in the nearest future Russia would  oddly enough - be importing at least 30% of the weapons and equipment for its army from Israel and NATO countries. Another roundtable speaker from Russia - Gen. V. Dvorkin who, incidentally, paid a visit to Israel a short time ago - urged US senators to OK launching an attack against Iran as soon as possible and even presented a computer model of the conflict to US partners. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-23-08.htm">9/29/2010 - US walks out on Ahmadinejad's UN speech</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-24-02.htm">9/29/2010 - Obama condems Iran leader's 'hateful' September 11 comments</a> Ahmadinejad said in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Thursday that most Americans and nations around the world believe a theory that "some segments within the US government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East, in order also to save the Zionist regime." The Iranian leader defended his actions on Friday. "I did not pass a judgement, I simply made proposals for a humane solution to the problems that have risen as a result of 9/11," Ahmadinejad told a New York press conference. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Military-Grade-Malware-Spurs-Theories-on-New-Cyberwar-Threat-5158">9/29/2010 - Military-Grade Malware Spurs Theories on New Cyberwar Threat</a> "Experts say it took a massive expenditure of time, money, and software engineering talent to identify and exploit such vulnerabilities in industrial control software systems. ... [It was] probably created by a team working for a nation state." Wired's Kim Zetter writes, "If Iran was the target, the United States or Israel are suspected as the likely perpetrators  both have the skill and resources to produce complicated malware such as Stuxnet." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26453.htm">9/29/2010 - Mobilizing Against FBI Raids</a> There was a concern that the FBI motivation covered support of Palestinians and Colombian activists. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-commandos-peacefully-board-jewish-gaza-bound-aid-boat-1.316128">9/29/2010 - Israel commandos 'peacefully' board Jewish Gaza-bound aid boat</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131499/">9/29/2010 - The Floating Palestinian Pep Rally</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/131516/">9/29/2010 - How Christian Are the Tea Party s Political Candidates?</a>  We want to look at the candidates as they mature, and see how they develop and shape their views on the issue of Israel, Read more: http://forward.com/articles/131516/#ixzz11cXaTUdv <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/sns-iran-blast,0,7943926.story">9/29/2010 - Iran says it killed 30 militants behind bomb attack</a> "Investigations showed that intelligence services of America and the Zionist regime (Israel) as well as members of the Iraqi Baath party were behind the blast," Mahmoudabadi said. "Bandits backed by Mossad and the CIA ? carried out the blast." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Israel+Suspected+in+Worm+Sabotage+of+Irans+First+Nuclear+Plant/article19726.htm">9/29/2010 - Israel Suspected in Worm Sabotage of Iran's First Nuclear Plant</a> So who is behind the attacks? The New York Times quotes a former U.S. intelligence office as saying that the attack was the work of Israel s equivalent of America s National Security Agency, known as Unit 8200. According to IEEE Spectrum's December issue, Israel had previously used a cyber-attack to shut off radar systems in Syria, allowing it to evaluate what it believed to be an under-construction nuclear reactor. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/lieberman-presents-plans-for-population-exchange-at-un-1.316197">9/29/2010 - Lieberman presents plans for population exchange at UN</a> Lieberman believes peace with the Palestinians could never be achieved until the Middle East confronts a greater threat, Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/143809.html">9/29/2010 - Anti-Israel IAEA resolution tossed</a> The United States swayed the 151-member states of the UN nuclear agency to reject the Arab-proposed resolution which called on Tel Aviv to open up its nuclear activities to inspection. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131489/">9/29/2010 - When Violence Overcame a Freedom Struggle</a> It started with Molotov cocktails. As the  60s curdled into the  70s, the teenage boys of Meir Kahane s Jewish Defense League, like many other disaffected and angry young men of the time, found the flash and heat of violence irresistible. Dressing up in their bar mitzvah suits to lob balloons filled with chicken blood at the ballerinas of the touring Bolshoi didn t cut it anymore. They began building crude pipe bombs and exploding them at the bottom of a drained pool at Kahane s summer camp in the Catskills. These were the kind of bombs they then placed in the doorways of the Aeroflot and Intourist offices in Manhattan in the fall of 1970, causing a minor diplomatic crisis between the superpowers. The informers and undercover police officers that swelled the ranks of the JDL were warning their superiors that something bigger and more dangerous was in the works. One officer from the NYPD s intelligence unit who had infiltrated the group gained access to their cache of weapons, which were hidden in closets all over Brooklyn. The JDL had enough shotguns and rifles to arm a small militia. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/09/21/end-israel-lobbies-pervasive-and-damaging-influence-in-us-politics/">9/29/2010 - END ISRAEL LOBBY S PERVASIVE AND DAMAGING INFLUENCE IN US POLITICS</a> It s long past time to end one of the most damaging and pervasive cover-ups in the U.S. today and time for people and institutions to confront Israel s lobbies. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=31&article_id=119338#axzz113Y7vIiW">9/22/2010 - Twenty-eight years not enough to heal wounds of Sabra-Shatila massacre</a> American journalist David Lamb wrote about this first night of butchery and the  walls of death:  Entire families were slain. Groups consisting of 10-20 people were lined up against walls and sprayed with bullets. Mothers died while clutching their babies. All men appeared to be shot in the back. Five youths of fighting age were tied to a pickup truck and dragged through the streets before being shot. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7141482.html">9/22/2010 - One killed, two wounded in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza </a> A Palestinian was killed and two others wounded as Israeli airplanes attacked smuggling tunnels along Gaza's southern borders with Egypt, witnesses and security sources said Wednesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-22-06.htm">9/22/2010 - Violence in east Jerusalem clouds peace efforts</a> Wednesday's clashes erupted in the Silwan neighborhood shortly after a 32 year old Palestinian man was killed by a private Israeli security guard watching over Jewish families in the area. About 70 ultranationalist Jewish families live in Silwan, amid some 50,000 Palestinian residents.....The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, an Israeli advocacy group, recently wrote in a report that Israeli security firms act like a private police force for Silwan's Jewish residents. It said the firms often receive government funding and frequently use threats and violence against Arab residents, while police are reluctant to intervene. "What happened to Samir could happen to anybody," said Murad Shafi, a 35 year old neighbor of Sirhan. "You wake up, maybe you shout at someone. Maybe you argue. But in the end, you are dead." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-22-07.htm">9/22/2010 - UN experts: Israel flotilla raid broke int'l law</a> A report by three U.N. appointed human rights experts Wednesday said that Israeli forces violated international law when they raided a Gaza bound aid flotilla killing nine activists earlier this year. The U.N. Human Rights Council's fact finding mission concluded that Israel's naval blockade of the Palestinian territory was unlawful because of the humanitarian crisis there, and described the military raid on the flotilla as brutal and disproportionate....The 56 page document lists a series of alleged crimes committed by Israeli forces during and after the raid, including willful killing and torture. It also alleges that Israel violated the right to life, liberty, freedom of expression and the right of captured crew and passengers to be treated with humanity. <b>This report did not even make the headlines here in the good old USA. Go figure.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/peres-we-are-ready-to-enter-direct-negotiations-with-syria-1.314832">9/22/2010 - Peres: We are ready to enter direct negotiations with Syria</a> Peres went on to harshly condemn Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his countless declarations to "annihilate Israel." <b>Complete BS.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-19-03.htm">9/22/2010 - Israeli FM wants to eject Israeli Arabs</a> Lieberman said Sunday the principle guiding peace talks "must not be land for peace, but a transfer of land and people." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/obama-says-military-action-against-iran-not-ideal-1.314848">9/22/2010 - Obama says military action against Iran not ideal</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/21-3">9/22/2010 - Israel: It's Against Our Interest to Join Anti-Nuclear Arms Treaty</a> The Jewish state is the only Middle East power believed to possess nuclear weapons. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=188656">9/22/2010 - Hamas: We agreed in the past to state within '67 borders</a> Hamas sent messages to the US government in the past stating that the movement does not oppose the formation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital, Israel Radio reported on Monday, quoting the group's Gaza leadership. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-still-using-banned-weapon-against-civilian-protestors-1.314521#send-friend-popup">9/22/2010 - IDF still using banned weapon against civilian protestors </a> the IDF reverted to using the Ruger against protesters in 2009, killing a teenager in Hebron in February and a protester in Nial'in in June. Human rights group B'Tselem asked the military advocate general to make clear that the weapon was not meant for crowd control. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8016900/Israels-investigations-of-Gaza-conflict-inadequate-say-UN-experts.html">9/22/2010 - Israel's investigations of Gaza conflict inadequate, say UN experts </a> The UN investigation accused Israel of deliberately attacking civilians, firing white phospohrous shells and carring out torture during the offensive. "The Israeli operations were carefully planned in all their phases as a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise the civilian population," the report found. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-22-01.htm">9/22/2010 - Israel rejects UN criticism of its Gaza war probe</a> Israel had flatly refused to cooperate with the committee appointed by the UN Human Rights Council to examine the progress of investigations by all parties in the war which left some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/riots-in-temple-mount-western-wall-area-after-palestinian-shot-dead-by-israeli-guard-1.315190">9/22/2010 - Riots in Temple Mount, Western Wall area after Palestinian shot dead by Israeli guard </a> Riots erupted near the Western Wall and Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on Wednesday, after a Palestinian man was shot dead by an Israeli security guard earlier in the day. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-21-01.htm">9/22/2010 - Quartet to urge Israel to keep settlement freeze</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-22-03.htm">9/22/2010 - Egypt accuses Israel of 'chutzpah' in nuclear meet</a> The remarks at the International Atomic Energy Agency's general conference reflect the bitterness dividing Arab nations and Israel and its supporters over whether Israel should open up its nuclear program to the U.N. watchdog's perusal. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-16-01.htm">9/22/2010 - Israeli curbs stymie Palestinian economy: World Bank</a> Among the obstacles to private investment in the West Bank caused by Israeli restrictions, the report listed the "severely curtailed" access to land and water, the unpredictability of access to Israel and the West Bank for investors, and the fact that the lucrative east Jerusalem market "is beyond reach." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/09/22/who-is-spying-on-whom/">9/22/2010 - Who is Spying on Whom? by Philip Giraldi </a> Israeli companies now dominate in the areas of transportation and telecommunications security, both of which are critical national infrastructures that should be restricted only to American companies employing American citizens. One recalls that at the time of the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinski scandal there were reports that the NSA had determined that a foreign nation had been listening in to White House phone calls. That foreign nation was Israel, able to do so because several Israeli companies had the contracts to provide various services relating to telephone monitoring. The Israeli companies involved are still active, having changed their names and shifted their business locations to the US, but their ownership and management continues to be Israeli. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-16-03.htm">9/22/2010 - Israel's settlements key to peace talk progress</a> Palestinian official Raed Fattouh, who coordinates the flow of goods into Gaza with Israel, said the Israeli military also canceled plans to let new cars enter Gaza on Thursday for the first time in four years. The Israeli military had no immediate confirmation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-20-02.htm">9/22/2010 - US group releases West Bank settlements iPhone app</a> Americans for Peace Now (APN), the US partner of Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now, released an iPhone and iPad application on Monday that tracks Israeli settlement activity on the West Bank. "Anyone, anywhere, can now log in and see the realities on the ground," APN president and chief executive Debra DeLee said of the free application, which is available through iTunes. <b>Beautiful.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-17-02.htm">9/22/2010 - World Bank: Palestinians managing reforms well</a> The organization says in a report Friday that if Palestinians maintain financial reforms, institution building and the delivery of public services, they will be ready to handle statehood "at any point in the near future." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mess-report-for-palestinians-settler-abuse-is-only-the-beginning-of-the-ordeal-1.314526">9/22/2010 - MESS Report - For Palestinians, settler abuse is only the beginning of the ordeal</a> Almost every few weeks (or days, depending on the season), the following ceremony repeats itself in Palestinian villages around Nablus: A group of Israeli settlers from one of the outposts in the West Bank hills attacks Palestinian farmers while they are grazing sheep or working the fields, hoping to throw them off Palestinian land. ...a Palestinian from the northern West Bank looking to file a complaint against settlers must appear in person at the Ariel police station - but Palestinians are prohibited from entering Israeli territory. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-22-05.htm">9/22/2010 - Palestinian leader hints at settlement compromise</a> Abbas told American Jewish leaders in New York late Tuesday it would be "very difficult" to continue the talks if building resumes but added that he "cannot say" definitively that he would walk away. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-21-02.htm">9/22/2010 - Israel warns of violence if peace talks fail</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-19-02.htm">9/22/2010 - Egypt's spy chief meets Hamas leader in Saudi: report</a> Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Saudi Arabia this month in an attempt to push for reconciliation between Palestinian factions, the pan Arab daily al Hayat reported. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/09/15/a-bipartisan-look-at-the-israel-lobby/">9/22/2010 - A Bipartisan Look at the Israel Lobby by Philip Giraldi</a> Yes, there is quite a lot to examine and if anyone is seriously interested in genuine threats against the United States AIPAC and the Israel Lobby are good places to start. <b>Another must read.</b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/israel-official-dan-ayalon-air-strikes-cripple-irans/story?id=11699086">9/22/2010 - EXCLUSIVE: Israeli Official Says Strikes on 'Bottlenecks' Could Cripple Iran's Nuke Program</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Mideast_officials_fly_to_US_as_talk_09192010.html">9/22/2010 - Mideast officials fly to US as talks crisis looms</a> So far, Israel has stubbornly refused to extend the partial 10-month moratorium on new construction. The Palestinians have vowed to pull out of the talks if the building resumes. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/09/21/Barak-Options-against-Iran-on-the-table/UPI-91321285070429/">9/22/2010 - Barak: Options against Iran on the table</a> Barak, who met with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen in Washington on Monday, said Iran continues to deceive the international community, the Hebrew daily Maariv said Tuesday. The Israeli defense minister called for harsher measures against Tehran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/22/iran-russia-air-defence-missiles">9/22/2010 - Iran deal with Russia for air-defence missiles scuppered by US and Israel</a> The US and Israel joined forces in opposing the deal because, they argued, the system could help Iran defend itself against potential attacks on its nuclear facilities. Israel also warned that the weapon could fall into the hands of Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon, who are supported by Iran. The CIA has said that it believes the missiles would be deployed to protect Iranian nuclear facilities. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-17-01.htm">9/22/2010 - Carter: Iran rescue effort should have worked</a> The Associated Press purchased a copy of the book, "White House Diary," on Friday, ahead of its release Monday. In it, he criticizes several presidents, including fellow Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, for not bringing sufficient pressure on Israel to stop building settlements on the West Bank. He writes that construction was "especially rapid" during Clinton's administration and he believes Obama has "backed away" from his initial commitment to a settlement freeze. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131316/">9/22/2010 - Shades of Algeria on the West Bank</a> A minority of extremely radical Israeli settlers have adopted rhetoric similar to that of the French ultras, dissociating themselves from a state that they believe has betrayed them. Under the so-called  price tag policy, radical settlers have avenged evacuations of unauthorized outposts with violence against Palestinians and their property  and even, occasionally, assaulting Israeli soldiers. The Israeli army is increasingly stuck in the middle, trying to keep the radical settlers and Palestinians apart. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131312/">9/22/2010 - How History Will Judge Boycotters of the Theater in Ariel</a> To ask of an artist who clearly sees that reality to contribute to the notion that Ariel is, as it so loudly proclaims, just another Israeli city, is to ask that she abandons conscience. Withholding consent is an elementary form of protest, and in this case it comes to remind people that Ariel is not an instance of pioneering Zionism but of Israeli colonization. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/131299/">9/22/2010 - MitzVote: A Post-Primary Users' Guide</a> Golden State Gals: In California, Barbara Boxer, a Democratic U.S. senator, is trying to fend off her challenger: Republican Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who has been gaining ground in the polls as of late. Their campaigns have largely focused on domestic issues, but Fiorina s recent trip to Israel was understood as an attempt to sharpen her foreign policy chops and make an impression on Jewish voters. Read about the California race, the candidates, and the issues here. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131322/">9/22/2010 - Grayson Defying Convention in Fla.</a> While in Congress, Grayson has met several times with Howard Kohr, head of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and attends meetings of the group in his district. A consistent supporter of Israel and Jewish causes, he sometimes finesses controversial issues, like new Jewish housing in Jerusalem and the  Ground Zero mosque, which he dismisses as a distraction. l <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/bill-clinton-s-russian-immigrants-are-obstacle-to-peace-comment-draws-fire-in-israel-1.315244">9/22/2010 - Bill Clinton's 'Russian immigrants are obstacle to peace' comment draws fire in Israel</a> "An increasing number of the young people in the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] are the children of Russians and settlers, the hardest-core people against a division of the land. This presents a staggering problem," Clinton told a roundtable with press in New York. "It's a different Israel. Sixteen percent of Israelis speak Russian." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Hope-for-true-peace-in-Jerusalem-continues-to-663613.php">9/22/2010 - Hope for true peace in Jerusalem continues to endure</a> The Palestinian people are Rosa Parks tired -- physically tired of working, working, working, and then a checkpoint. Tired of trying, trying, trying and always being told no -- no permit to build on to your home, no extension of your work permit, no chance to get your vegetables to the Jerusalem market -- no, no, no! It is always, always, no. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0918/In-West-Bank-corruption-busting-teenagers-shake-up-local-government">9/22/2010 - In West Bank, corruption-busting teenagers shake up local government - CSMonitor.com</a> Such education is "a precondition to be liberated from the [Israeli] occupation and establish a viable Palestinian state," says human rights advocate Issam Aruri, who represents 132 Palestinian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). "Independence is not just raising the flag or having the president walking on a red carpet. That's not a state. The state is ... to feel that our dignity is protected." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3955854,00.html">9/22/2010 - 'Largest flotilla yet' en-route to Gaza</a> "I witnessed the man one meter in front of me being shot in the leg, a man 50 centimeters to the right of me being shot through the abdomen," Ovenden said of the experience. "Neither of them had anything in their hands. There were no Israeli commandos within the immediate proximity. They were shot from above, so it was simply unfeasible -- in that incident I saw  for anyone to claim they were in fearing for their lives when they rang out those shots," <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-22-02.htm">9/22/2010 - Fidel Castro firmly backs Israel's right to exist: report</a> In the same interview Castro criticized Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and said in an interview Tehran should acknowledge Israel's fears for its own survival. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-20-03.htm">9/22/2010 - AP Interview: Gul backs Mideast nuclear-free zone</a> Gul's remarks will likely antagonize the United States, because Washington sees any move to raise the issue of Israel's nuclear arsenal as potentially destabilizing at a time of renewed Israel Palestinian peace talks. Last week, the Obama administration warned Arab nations that they risk contributing to a failure of the Mideast talks if they continue to pressure Israel over its nuclear program. U.S. officials have asserted that it would be possible to have a nuclear free zone in the Middle East even if Israel's arsenal remains intact. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/carter-in-new-book-obama-turned-back-on-settlement-freeze-1.314440">9/22/2010 - Carter in new book Obama turned back on settlement freeze</a> Carter also criticizes fellow Democrat and former president Bill Clinton over his policy on Israel settlement expansion, writing that settlement building was especially rapid during Clinton's administration. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-decides-to-buy-f-35-fighter-jets-despite-row-over-cost-of-deal-1.314213?localLinksEnabled=false">9/22/2010 - Israel decides to buy F-35 fighter jets, despite row over cost of deal</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/mitz-vote/131264/">9/22/2010 - A 'Personal,' International Trip in High Campaign Season</a> Fiorina, the Republican candidate facing incumbent Jewish Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer for a California U.S. Senate seat, traveled to Israel for four days. The trip was funded and organized by the Republican Jewish Coalition. She returned just as the Rasmussen Reports released a new poll that gave her 48% of the vote, putting her one percentage point ahead of Boxer.....Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard CEO, has come under fire from pro-Israel groups for HP s shipments to Iran during her leadership there. (Fiorina has criticized Boxer for her alleged silence on Iran s threat; Boxer s campaign rebutted that claim, pointing to Boxer s Iran statements). And Fiorina is now running neck-and-neck against a Jewish senator....At AIPAC, Bloomfield said, he shepherded several candidates through similar trips. Their purposes, he said, were to establish a relationship between a politician and the organization; for education; and  for the politician to establish bona fides and claim credibility. Senator John McCain and then-Senator Barack Obama took similar trips through Israel in 2008. Ten years before that, George W. Bush, then governor of Texas, traveled there as well  on the first such itinerary organized by the RJC, Brooks said. This cycle, Brooks said RJC also played travel agent to Pat Meehan, candidate for Pennsylvania s 7th Congressional District. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131323/">9/22/2010 - Cantor Gunning for Another Revolution</a> He has been a vocal critic of the Obama administration s approach to Israel. Cantor believes it was a mistake to push for Israeli-Palestinian talks.  Any quest for peace in the Middle East starts with dealing with Iran effectively to ensure that it does not [develop] nuclear weapons, Cantor said. In the book he added that  being a Jewish American has given him  a unique perspective on the good guys. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/09/17/stephen-sniegoski-richard-cohen-%E2%80%93israel-liability-for-us/">9/22/2010 - STEPHEN SNIEGOSKI: RICHARD COHEN  ISRAEL LIABILITY FOR US</a> <b>Great article.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/ed-warner/2010/09/17/the-transparent-cabal/">9/22/2010 - The Transparent Cabal</a> History is full of examples of a determined minority prevailing over a more passive majority. A case in point is the neoconservative effort to bring the United States into war with Iraq largely for the protection of Israel. Despite the dubious reasons the neoconservatives advanced  Iraq has WMDs, ties to al-Qaeda  they managed to overcome the resistance of the military, the State Department and CIA partly by infiltrating them for their own ends. As the book title suggests, much of this was done in the open, a transparent cabal. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em22GzVK8MM&feature=PlayList&p=6BBCDE0FF1CF222E&index=0&playnext=1">9/22/2010 - Pro-Israel Biased Media Is a Threat to Our Security </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26415.htm">9/22/2010 - Lindsey Graham says U.S. Must Prepare to Attack Iran</a> In order to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, he said, a U.S. attack would be preferable to an Israeli attack because the American military is more powerful and more likely to achieve regime change. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3956186,00.html">9/22/2010 - Israeli official: We'll sell arms to Russia's enemies</a> Israeli officials are threatening to sell weapons to "areas of strategic importance" to Russia after Moscow announced over the weekend that it would go through with the sale of P800 missiles to Syria, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/19/powell-unsure-whether-us-winning-afghanistan/">9/22/2010 - Powell unsure whether U.S. is winning in Afghanistan</a> Mr. Powell also said that neither the United States nor Israel is likely to launch a military strike on Iran any time soon. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26392.htm">9/22/2010 - Jewish Groups Denounce  Museum of Tolerance </a>  I m just going to take a minute to tell you a new definition of a Yiddish word called  chutzpah. & It refers to brazen nerve, said Richard Levy, a lawyer working with the Center for Constitutional Rights on a petition filed with several international bodies to halt the construction of the museum in Jerusalem.  This cemetery, which stands in West Jerusalem for a thousand years, is now subject to the bulldozer of this organization. So that s the meaning of the word chutzpah: to say you stand for tolerance, and perform that kind of an act, is the most despicable kind of hypocrisy. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/09/american-public-opinion-and-the-special-relationship-with-israel.html">9/22/2010 - American Public Opinion and the Special Relationship With Israel</a> The data in the Chicago Council s study is consistent with the data that Steve and I presented in our book and in countless public talks. The story remains the same. The bottom line is that the lobby is largely responsible for America s special relationship with Israel, which is harmful to both countries. Alan Dershowitz was spot on when he said,  My generation of Jews & became part of what is perhaps the most effective lobbying and fund-raising effort in the history of democracy. <b>Looks like Mearsheimer caught wind of this poll too.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/poll-vast-majority-opposes-attack-iran/">9/22/2010 - Poll: Vast majority opposes attack on Iran</a> The survey (PDF) also finds an electorate that is far less certain of its support of Israel than US political leaders would suggest. By a narrow margin -- 50 percent to 47 percent -- Americans would oppose the US militarily defending Israel if it were the victim of an unprovoked attack.....Americans "show a rather restrained attitude toward being involved" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the survey states. Fully two-thirds -- 66 percent -- of those polled want the US to maintain a neutral stance in the conflict, while 28 percent want to see the US take the Israeli side <b>Read the last part in the above excerpt. So, if 66 percent of Americans want to stay neutral, then why aren't those numbers also demonstrated on Capital Hill by our so-called 'representaves'? This is a very important question, and the answer is found on all of blogs and my website. And the answer goes against the very principles upon which this nation was founded. If our representatives aren't representing our wishes, then it's time to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26399.htm">9/22/2010 - Israeli Company Hired by State Government to Spy on Pennsylvanians and Other Americans</a> The surprise disclosure that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, through its state Homeland Security Agency, along with a number of local police departments in the state, have been employing a private Israeli security company with strong links to Mossad and the Israeli Defense Force grows increasingly disturbing when the website of the company, called the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, is examined. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0917/Reality-check-Iran-is-not-a-nuclear-threat">9/22/2010 - Reality check Iran is not a nuclear threat</a> Politicians, lobbyists, and propagandists have spent nearly two decades pushing the lie that Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the United States and Israel. After a brief respite in the intensity of the wolf cries over the past two years, the neoconservative movement has decided to relaunch the  Must Bomb Iran brand. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/Arab-states-snub-US-over-Israel-resolution-at-IAEA-meet/articleshow/6569354.cms">9/22/2010 - Arab states snub US over Israel resolution at IAEA meet</a> Arab states refused on Thursday to drop plans to chide Israel over its assumed nuclear arsenal at a UN nuclear conference next week, despite US suggestions that such a move would jeopardise Middle East peace talks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-18-04.htm">9/22/2010 - Iranian president stops in Syria on way to UN</a> The back to back trips underscored the battle for influence in Syria between Washington and Tehran. Seeking to isolate Iran, President Barack Obama has tried  unsuccessfully, so far  to pry Damascus away from its alliance with Tehran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26386.htm">9/22/2010 - Signs of a Rift Between U.S. Politicians and U.S. National Security?</a> Castro s well-timed comments about persecuted Jews may have been a signal that Cuba is again open for business  any business. At the very least, his comments were like a healing balm to nationalist Zionist settlers who have plans to construct another 19,000 home in the West Bank <b>A very good piece.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26372.htm">9/22/2010 - The Hate Mongers Among Us </a> Not long ago an internal poll of friendly foreign intelligence agencies ranked our best and worst allies those who behave as friends to the U.S. versus those who are clearly foes. Israel ranked dead last as a reliable ally. Though their brazen theft of technical and industrial secrets is well known among those in the know, the broader U.S. public remains deceived or in denial. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-30-01.htm">9/22/2010 - Israel set to build wings for some 800 F-35s</a> Israeli and U.S. officials expect final approval of that deal by the end of September. The planes would be delivered in 2015 2017. The cost of the purchase would be covered by an annual U.S. defense grant of $3 billion. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/09/19/weapons-bizarre/">9/22/2010 - Weapons Bizarre by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com</a> The F-35 was designed, in short, to fight a war in the Middle East against a nation that doesn t quite measure up to our technological standards. One that can be expected to deploy large massed armies in its defense  and which, in the case of Iran, will have to be stopped from pouring into US-occupied Iraq. With this move, it is clear that the US is arming its allies in the region  Israel and the Saudis  in preparation for an attack. When Obama said during the last presidential election campaign that he wasn t taking such an attack off the table, he clearly meant it  and I said so at the time, so you can t say you weren t warned. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-16-05.htm">9/22/2010 - Under IAEA pressure, Syria and Iran point to Israel</a> Last month, Davies said a "number of countries" were beginning to ask whether it was time to invoke the IAEA's "special inspection" mechanism to give it the authority to look anywhere necessary in Syria at short notice. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2010/0917/Turkey-a-democratic-superpower-in-the-Middle-East">9/22/2010 - Turkey: a democratic superpower in the Middle East</a> One hears similar criticisms in the United States, where there has been a lot of hand-wringing lately over Turkey s increasingly assertive foreign policy, its deepening ties with Iran, Syria, and Iraq, and its overt criticism of Israel s treatment of the Palestinians. Some have even suggested that Turkey, the only Muslim member of NATO, is turning away from its strategic alliance with the West and instead building an  Islamic axis against America s interests in the region. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0921/Stuxnet-malware-is-weapon-out-to-destroy-Iran-s-Bushehr-nuclear-plant">9/22/2010 - Stuxnet malware is 'weapon' out to destroy ... Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant</a> A geographical distribution of computers hit by Stuxnet, which Microsoft produced in July, found Iran to be the apparent epicenter of the Stuxnet infections. That suggests that any enemy of Iran with advanced cyber war capability might be involved, Langner says. The US is acknowledged to have that ability, and Israel is also reported to have a formidable offensive cyber-war-fighting capability. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-16-02.htm">9/22/2010 - S. African hospital charged in organ trafficking</a> The case first became known in 2003. That year and the next, arrests were made in Brazil and South Africa. Investigators said Brazilians who passed a medical checkup were flown to South Africa, where their kidneys were extracted for transplants into Israeli patients. Eastern Europeans were also donors. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20100919/NEWS/100919006/Paterson-vetoes-popular-AIDS--HIV-housing-bill">9/22/2010 - Paterson vetoes popular AIDS, HIV housing bill</a> The Democratic governor said it was "the hardest veto" he has every issued, but added that the state could not afford the $20 million in yearly subsidies the program would cost. <b>But we can afford the 15 million to invest in Israeli bonds. Story follows.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/press/2010_releases/pr10-08-083.shtm">9/22/2010 - COMPTROLLER LIU ANNOUNCES NYCERS RE-COMMITMENT TO STATE OF ISRAEL BONDS</a> New York City Comptroller John C. Liu today announced, on behalf of the Board of Trustees at the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS), the reinvestment of $15 million in State of Israel Bonds. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/09/16/following-fierce-debate-israel-decides-to-buy-f-35-warplanes/">9/22/2010 - Israel OKs US  Gift of Billions of Dollars in Warplanes</a> The F-35's enormous costs have made it hugely controversial in the US as well, though the question of giving Israel a number of the planes does not appear to have been questioned at all. The planes are expected to be delivered in 2015, assuming development goes according to plans. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6785097-israel-to-buy-us-f-35-fighters-worth-an-estimated-275-billion">9/22/2010 - Israel to buy U.S. F 35 fighters worth an estimated 2.75 billion</a> t Israel will not pay the bill in any event. It will be the U.S. taxpayer since the planes will all be funded as part of U.S. military aid to Israel. Of course no doubt U.S. politicians who have Lockheed Martin related facilities in their areas will praise the job creation involved. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/131300/">9/22/2010 - Israel Buys Twitter Handle From Porn Entrepreneur</a>  We thought we could put it to better use than he did, Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for Israel s Foreign Ministry, told the New York Times. He went on to explain that the purchase was in line with Israel s recent efforts to expand into social media. <b>More BS headed our way.</b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/684140/cs/1/">9/15/2010 - Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israeli tank shells </a> One, a 91 year old farm caretaker was killed along with a 20 year old worker. The teenage grandson of the farm holder also died of wounds sustained in the incident, which occurred close to the Gaza-Israel border. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11301624">9/15/2010 - Israeli army admits three killed Gazans were civilians</a> Hours after the general's statement, at least two Palestinians were wounded in Israeli shelling east of Gaza City, a medic and another witness said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-15-05.htm">9/15/2010 - Israeli aircraft strike Gaza as leaders convene</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/pa-releases-dozens-of-hamas-linked-detainees-despite-rising-tensions-1.313061">9/15/2010 - PA releases dozens of Hamas-linked detainees despite rising tensions</a> The Palestinian Authority said in a statement that the decision to release the detainees was a gesture marking the Muslim holiday of Eid el Fitr which ends the holy month of Ramadan. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-police-accused-of-targeting-jerusalems-arab-residents-2071293.html">9/15/2010 - Israeli police accused of targeting Jerusalem's Arab residents</a> Israeli authorities "practise selective law enforcement and fail to provide even the most minimal protection to Palestinian locals," Acri claimed. "Law-enforcement authorities have become complicit in violating Palestinian rights; in many cases, they do not enforce the law or do so only in a discriminatory manner." Palestinians claim that they are often arrested as suspects when they make complaints against Israelis, that their children are arrested in circumstances that flout Israeli law on the treatment of minors, and that widespread surveillance cameras violate their privacy. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/clinton-israel-must-extend-settlement-freeze-for-peace-talks-to-succeed-1.313709">9/15/2010 - Clinton: Israel must extend settlement freeze for peace talks to succeed</a> "The United states believes that the moratorium should be extended," Clinton told reporters, echoing a view taken by U.S. President Barack Obama. But she then put some of the onus on the Palestinians to take unspecified steps to help Netanyahu to extend the freeze. <b>Huh? 'Help Israel stop robbing you of your land by kowtowing further ot them. That way you can make 'peace' but never get your land back'.. Oh ok..</b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-13-02.htm">9/15/2010 - Pentagon proposes huge sale of warplanes to Saudis</a> The Obama administration is seeking a go ahead from Congress to sell up to $60 billion worth of sophisticated warplanes to Saudi Arabia and could add another $30 billion worth of naval arms in a deal designed to counter the rise of Iran as a regional power.....Washington plans to counterbalance the sales to Arab nations with $30 billion in military assistance to Israel over 10 years. Israel is buying about 20 advanced American F 35 fighter jets worth $4 billion, to be funded by U.S. military aid to the country. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3952077,00.html">9/15/2010 - CNN report: IDF sexually abused Palestinian children</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.airforcetimes.com/community/opinion/air-force-robert-f-dorr-live-with-nuclear-armed-iran-091310w/?sms_ss=email">9/15/2010 - U.S., allies should accept a nuclear-armed Iran</a> An attack on Iran is coming  if you believe what some analysts in the nation s capital are saying. Israel, they predict, will make a pre-emptive strike to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon  and probably sooner rather than later if U.S. conservatives rack up big gains in the Nov. 2 elections. Let s hope the pundits are wrong because the Air Force will almost certainly be drawn into the fight  and it doesn t need to help wage another ill-fated war......Although many Americans want to support Israel, the feeling is not universal. A big reason is the size of the check the U.S. is writing. Just one example: Israel s F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program, estimated at $30 billion, will be paid for by American taxpayers. <b>$30 billion dollars? The American taxpayers could put that money to better use than to continue to arm the most rogue nation in the Middle East.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-12-01.htm">9/15/2010 - Israeli PM: Current settlement curbs won't remain</a> Netanyahu told Mideast envoy Tony Blair, "the Palestinians demand that after Sept. 26, there will be zero building" in the West Bank. "That will not happen," Netanyahu said <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-12-08.htm">9/15/2010 - Netanyahu silent on Obama settlement freeze remarks</a> "Unfortunately I am not yet hearing from the Palestinians the sentence 'two states for two peoples'," Netanyahu said. Palestinians have said they have already recognised the state of Israel in past declarations and in interim peace agreements that set the basis for establishing a state of their own in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-14-01.htm">9/15/2010 - No progress seen on Israeli settlements in talks</a> Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai spoke out Tuesday against the settlement slowdown, reflecting the intense pressure on Netanyahu to resume construction once the moratorium ends. "The freeze in the West Bank is incorrect and its good that it is ending," Yishai told Israel Radio as the meetings in Egypt were taking place. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-10-01.htm">9/15/2010 - Obama presses Israel to extend settlement freeze</a> US President Barack Obama called Friday on Israel to extend a freeze on settlements as he pledged a never say die approach to the new Middle East peace talks, calling the effort "a risk worth taking." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/israel-refuses-to-meet-european-ministers-for-settlement-talks-2077572.html">9/15/2010 - Israel refuses to meet European ministers for settlement talks</a> Israel has said it will not meet a delegation of European foreign ministers, including William Hague, this week as diplomatic pressure mounts on its government to extend a 10-month settlement freeze that ends next week. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2017162,00.html">9/15/2010 - Rachel Corrie v. Israel Trial Contradictions Emerge</a> Oded testified that the interview of the bulldozer driver was halted on the order of a senior commander. He also testified that investigators waited a week to retrieve from another unit the only known videotape of the incident; failed to interview non-military eyewitnesses; ignored the ambulance workers, doctors and other Palestinians who treated her; and did not even visit the scene of her death <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-15-01.htm">9/15/2010 - Los Angeles Company Indicted for Human Trafficking</a> Cushman provided the court with a copy of a 2003 report, "Migrant Workers in Israel  A Contemporary Form of Slavery," published by the Euro Mediterranean Human Rights Network and the International Federation for Human Rights. It states that Orian took 3,000 dollars from each of 19 Chinese workers for the "privilege" of working in Israel for two years. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/09/matthews-says-obama-has-gone-neocon-why.html">9/15/2010 - Matthews says Obama has gone  neocon. Why?</a> As for Obama's neoconservativism, anti-Vietnam-war Democrats like Schumer, Berman, and Lieberman voted for the Iraq war, surely in part because of Israel's security. Just as many Democrats are now pushing for an attack on Iran. The Iran saber-rattling is not a partisan issue; both parties are corrupted (as both existing parties were by the slave power); and the cause of the rot is the Israel lobby. Until the media start talking about it, politicians can't run against it, and voters won't be able to vote against it. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/09/a-jordanian-complains-about-his-king-and-the-zionists.html">9/15/2010 - Jordan King Abdullah anti-semitism and Zionism conversation</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/131071/">9/15/2010 - Bibi Gets Down With the Facebook Generation</a>  Today, social media channels are more vital than ever for Israel s public diplomacy efforts, for administrative transparency and for providing citizens with updated information, Netanyahu said in a statement posted to his website. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26359.htm">9/15/2010 - 'In Whose Name Do They Talk?'</a> Gazans share their views on the talks taking place between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.btselem.org/English/Publications/Summaries/201009_Void_of_Responsibility.asp">9/15/2010 - Void of Responsibility: Israel Military Policy not to investigate Killings of Palestinians by Soldiers </a> B'Tselem protests the sweeping classification of the situation in the Occupied Territories as an  armed conflict, which effectively grants immunity to soldiers and officers, with the result that soldiers who kill Palestinians not taking part in hostilities are almost never held accountable for their misdeeds. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/bbc-bias-panorama-programme-exposed.html">9/15/2010 - BBC Bias: Panorama Programme Exposed </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/poll-americans-support-for-israel-up-following-restart-of-talks-1.313744">9/15/2010 - Poll: Americans' support for Israel up following restart of talks</a> Of 800 people questioned, 58 percent thought the U.S. should support Israel  a jump of 7 percent on a similar poll in July. <b>Israeli PR (read Hasbara) really works on the sheep. Go figure.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/orthodox-jewish-youths-burn-new-testaments-in-or-yehuda-1.246153">9/15/2010 - Orthodox Jewish youths burn New Testaments in Or Yehuda</a> Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/european-jewish-aid-ship-bound-for-gaza-ready-to-sail-1.314005">9/15/2010 - European Jewish aid ship bound for Gaza ready to sail</a> An organization of European Jews that wants to sail an aid ship to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza said Wednesday its ship was ready to go, but its port of departure remained a secret. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/131135/">9/15/2010 - Why Some Jewish Stars Support Israeli Artistic Boycott</a>  Anyone who has strong feelings for Israel like I do, and that believes it is an absolute necessity to strive for peace, understands that the single most obvious obstacle are the settlements, <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/idf-soldier-convicted-of-killing-u-k-activist-in-gaza-released-from-jail-1.312954">9/15/2010 - IDF soldier convicted of killing U.K. activist in Gaza released from jail</a> Military Advocate General Avichai Mendelblit opposed Hayb's early release, citing the potential damage such a move could cause to Israel's relations with Great Britain. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2010/09/04/2740796/major-pro-israel-giver-funds-jihad-watch">9/15/2010 - Major pro-Israel giver funding Jihad Watch</a> A woman who with her husband has contributed large sums to pro-Israel and Jewish groups is the principal funder of a leading foe of the Ground Zero Islamic center.....Aubrey and Joyce Chernick, Politico reported, over the years have contributed to, among other groups, the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles; the Anti-Defamation League; the Zionist Organization of America; MEMRI, a group that distributes translations of inflammatory Arabic language material; the Investigative Project on Terrorism, a group that tracks what it depicts as the threat of radical Islam; the American Jewish Congress; CAMERA, a group that tracks what it says is anti-Israel bias in the media; the Central Fund for Israel, a clearinghouse for monies directed to pro-settler groups; and a number of conservative think tanks. <b>As I noted in a previous news batch: it is the Israeli lobby that is largely behind this anti-Muslim sentiment in America.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-12-05.htm">9/15/2010 - Clinton resuming 'last chance' Mideast peace talks</a> More broadly, the status quo is a drag on U.S. interests. The wars and grievances that flowed from Israel's 1948 founding as a Jewish state have divided the Middle East, and U.S. officials have argued that the conflict begets hatred and suspicion of the U.S. as Israel's principal ally. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-13-03.htm">9/15/2010 - UN nuclear chief chides Iran, defends monitors</a> Beyond Iran, the board  and a subsequent assembly of the 151 IAEA member nations  will focus on allegations of a hidden Syrian nuclear program; something Syria denies. Israel  which is commonly considered to have nuclear arms  is also on the agenda, with Islamic nations pushing the Jewish state to open its atomic activities to IAEA perusal. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/09/09/the-meaning-of-911/">9/15/2010 - The  Meaning of 9-11 by Justin Raimondo</a> Millions pour into the coffers of these groups, all of which are dedicated to one overriding principle, one goal: advancing Israel s national interests in the US. The serpentine convolutions of the Chernick connection, linking one front group to another, encircle the political and temperamental spectrum, ranging from the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles (over $900k) to the many hundreds of thousands given to hardline neoconservative outfits like the Hudson Institute, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, not to mention Pajamas Media ($7 million, in collusion with venture capitalist James "extensively experienced in multimillion-dollar technology transfer and license agreements " Koshland) and a mass campaign to distribute DVDs of the virulently anti-Muslim film "Obsession." <b>And again.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-ahmadinejad-to-visit-lebanon-s-border-with-israel-1.313064">9/15/2010 - Report: Ahmadinejad to visit Lebanon's border with Israel</a> Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make an official visit to Lebanon next month, the Iranian administration said in an official announcement on Thursday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/09/netanyahu-said-iran-was-3-5-years-away-from-nuclear-capability-back-in-95.html">9/15/2010 - Netanyahu said Iran was 3-5 years away from nuclear capability back in  95!</a> One has to question Netanyahu's sincerity because Israel uses this alleged threat. It uses it to distract the world from its oppression of Palestinians, and from Obama's pressure on it to stop settlement activities. Netanyahu has never wanted to stop settlement activity. He needs an existential threat to turn attention away. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3952976,00.html">9/15/2010 - Danny Yatom urges strike on Iranian nuclear sites</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/13-4">9/15/2010 - US to Arabs: Don't Make Israel a 'Pariah' at IAEA</a> Arab countries, backed by Iran, are seeking to build on a victory at an assembly meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency last year when they narrowly won support for a non-binding resolution calling on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation treaty. <b>Israel evidently must remain above the law.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/09/12/US-diplomat-fears-condemnation-of-Israel/UPI-55831284301359/">9/15/2010 - U.S. diplomat fears condemnation of Israel</a> The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. nuclear watchdog fears Arab ambassadors may condemn Israel at the next board of governors meeting, Asharq al-Awsat reported. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/15-6">9/15/2010 - Israel-Iran War: Not Inevitable</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/131066/">9/15/2010 - Now, It's the Jewish Men Who Are Wearing Burqas</a> over the past years, we ve seen the birth of the Jewish burqa-wearers, embracing the most uncomfortable of severe Islamic restrictions  a fully covered body and a veil over the face. Read more: http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/131066/#ixzz10DLezweM <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-15-02.htm">9/15/2010 - Cuba says U.S. embargo has toughened under Obama</a> There has been more leniency, too, in granting of licenses for visits by U.S. performers and academics, but progress has stalled since Cuba detained a U.S. contractor in December on suspicion of espionage. The contractor, Alan Gross, remains behind bars in Cuba, without formal charges. The U.S. says he was not a spy, but was in Cuba installing Internet services for Jewish groups <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/09/09-05-02.htm">9/8/2010 - Mideast crisis looms over Israeli settlements</a> Meanwhile, Israeli aircraft bombed three Gaza smuggling tunnels late Saturday in retaliation for two Hamas shooting attacks that killed four Israelis in the West Bank last week. The airstrikes killed two Palestinians and wounded a third. Two more Palestinians were missing. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130934/">9/8/2010 - Boycotted, Bothered and Bewildered</a> The problem is that this is unlike any boycott Israel has faced before. For one thing, it s working. Israeli news reports tell of factories shutting down and millions of shekels lost. That s never happened before, in all the years of Arab boycotts and campus divestment rallies. Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin called it  a declaration of war against Israel. The Yesha Council, which represents Jewish settlers in the West Bank, called it  economic terrorism. .....Even more awkward, the boycott is an embodiment of something Israel has been demanding for years: that Palestinians pursue their goals non-violently. Boycotts are not violent. Dubbing a settlement boycott illegitimate suggests, in effect, that Palestinians have no right to pursue their goals at all. <b>Pay attention that paragraph. This will surely shape future Israeli policy dealing with the Palestinians. The Israeli government has increasingly been taken over by settler interests over the last decade. They now hold a lot of power.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-05-01.htm">9/8/2010 - Israel picks Gaza war commander as new military chief</a> The Israeli cabinet on Sunday confirmed as armed forces chief Major General Yoav Galant, who directed Israel's 2008 2009 Gaza war, the prime minister's office said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-04-04.htm">9/8/2010 - Palestinian Authority lashes out at Ahmadinejad over remarks</a> The Iranian president, "who does not represent the Iranian people, who falsified elections and took power by fraud does not have the right to talk about Palestine, its president or its representatives," Palestinian Authority spokesman Nabil Abu Rodeina said in a statement distributed by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/irishman-held-in-israel-lsquothreatened-by-top-official-close-to-pmrsquo-14931606.html">9/8/2010 - Irishman held in Israel  threatened by top official close to PM </a> The Donegal man detained in Israel after its commandos shot dead nine people on a flotilla of ships heading for Gaza has told the UN that he received a  serious threat from an official close to the Israeli Prime Minister. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6811J620100902">9/8/2010 - Gaza militants vow wave of attacks against Israel</a> Several armed gunmen held an open-air news conference in Gaza where Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas's military wing, vowed that militants would "respond to the negotiations that aim at selling out (Palestinian) land." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-09/02/c_13475758.htm">9/8/2010 - PNA, Hamas trade accusations over arrests</a> Palestinian National Authority ( PNA) and Islamic Hamas movement on Thursday traded accusations over intensive arrests in the West Bank after Hamas claimed responsibility for two attacks on Israelis. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0902/Why-most-Palestinians-don-t-support-Israeli-Palestinian-talks-or-another-intifada">9/8/2010 - Why most Palestinians don't support Israeli-Palestinian talks  or another intifada</a> A June survey by the Palestinian Center for Public Survey Research found that 71 percent of Palestinians oppose abandoning a two-state solution. A majority also oppose a resumption of the armed uprising against Israel and more than two-thirds doubt that a new nonviolent uprising would achieve their goals either. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/lieberman-this-generation-will-not-see-middle-east-peace-1.312364">9/8/2010 - Lieberman: This generation will not see Middle East peace</a> A peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians will not be achieved in the foreseeable future, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/pa-official-we-won-t-recognize-israel-as-a-jewish-state-1.312983">9/8/2010 - PA official: We won't recognize Israel as a Jewish state</a> Shaath said that the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state would harm Israel's Arab citizens and negate the right of return of Palestinian refugees. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26301.htm">9/8/2010 - Israeli Settlement Construction Booms Despite Ban </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130937/">9/8/2010 - When Would Israel Attack Iran?</a> Under what conditions would an Israeli leader, left or right, civilian or military, actually consider attacking Iran s nuclear infrastructure? By my reckoning, the following set of conditions would have to exist in its entirety: Fifth, it is clear to Israel that neither America nor any other international actor is prepared to deal militarily with Iran, but that Washington is giving Israel at least a  yellow light to move. This is not the case today; the United States itself frequently hints that it might ultimately resort to military means. <b>They will try to getAmerica to attack Iran before they take military action.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-03-01.htm">9/8/2010 - Iran could strike Israeli nuclear site if attacked</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-06-01.htm">9/8/2010 - Israeli FM pushes for new settlement construction</a> Israel's hard line foreign minister said Monday that his party will try to block any extension of Israel's settlement slowdown, a move that could derail the recently launched Mideast peace negotiations. <b>Piece or peace? Israel always chooses piece as in, another piece of Palestine.</b><br><br> <a href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/09/israeli_spies_pitching_us_musl.html">9/8/2010 - Israeli spies wooing U.S. Muslims, sources say</a> t a retired senior FBI counterintelligence official told SpyTalk, "They have always been extremely aggressive, and seem to feel they can operate whenever and wherever they want, in spite of being called on the carpet more than any other country by probably a factor of three times as often." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-07-06.htm">9/8/2010 - Abbas asks US to step into settlement dispute</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3949598,00.html">9/8/2010 - Abbas: No talks without building freeze</a> A 10-month freeze on settlement housing ends September 26, and Netanyahu is under pressure from hardline allies to resume construction <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52751">9/8/2010 - Religious Leaders Condemn Growing Islamophobia</a> In addition to the planned Qu'ran burning, a major rally in Lower Manhattan against the Proposed Islamic centre is also planned for Sep. 11, led by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, two bloggers who have been leading critics of the project. Both have until recently been widely considered "fringe" figures, although their work has been praised or supported by a number of prominent far-right or neo-conservative personalities and groups, such as the Center for Security Policy (CSP), which itself is funded by major U.S. defence contractors and several wealthy Jewish donors who also have supported radical Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem and the West Bank; former U.N. Amb. John Bolton of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the David Horowitz Freedom Center, the Middle East Forum; and the Foundation for Defence of Democracies. <b>All are pro-Israel neocon outfits/individuals. Go figure.They want us to hate all Muslims so that our enemy (Al Qaeda) and theirs (Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran etc) can be conflated into one: Islam. That way, the US can keep fighting Israel's wars. These people have a vested interest in Americans hating Muslims.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-02-02.htm">9/8/2010 - Palestinian leader urges Israel to end settlements</a> The Palestinian leader spoke at the State Department at the opening of face to face peace negotiations with Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26305.htm">9/8/2010 - UN Atomic Agency Curtails Probe of Israel s Nuclear Capability</a> Countries including Canada, the U.K. and U.S. opposed the probe, saying that the inquiry risked turning the IAEA into a political battleground, according to the documents. Others, including China, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey, supported the investigation <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/02-4">9/8/2010 - Settlers Defy Peace Talks With New Construction Across West Bank</a> Pro-settler parties are a majority in Netanyahu's right-wing coalition and a number of cabinet ministers have already backed demands to resume settlement construction. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/settlers-reveal-deep-disdain-for-events-in-washington-2069235.html">9/8/2010 - Settlers reveal deep disdain for events in Washington</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-02-01.htm">9/8/2010 - Why Israelis Don't Care About Peace with Palestinians</a> Now observing 2½ years without a single suicide bombing on their territory, with the economy robust and with souls a trifle weary of having to handle big elemental thoughts, the Israeli public prefers to explore such satisfactions as might be available from the private sphere, in a land first imagined as a utopia <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-01-04.htm">9/8/2010 - Hamas leader rejects talks with Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/us-condemns-murder-of-isr_b_702442.html">9/8/2010 - US Condemns Murder of Israelis -- But Never of Palestinians</a> We did not condemn the Gaza onslaught in which the IDF killed 1,200 Palestinians (including 432 kids). We do not condemn the routine killing of Palestinian civilians by the army or the settlers. We did not condemn the the shooting of the American Jewish girl from Maryland who lost an eye for protesting the Gaza ship raid. We did, however, condemn the Goldstone Report for delineating what the IDF did in Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-02/msci-forces-israel-stock-divestment-harvard-campaign-failed-to-bring-about.html">9/8/2010 - MSCI Forces Israel Sale Harvard Campaign Failed to Bring About</a> Israeli economic growth unexpectedly accelerated to an annualized 4.7 percent in the second quarter, the fastest pace in more than two years, as exports and consumer spending increased, the Jerusalem-based Central Bureau of Statistics said Aug. 16. The median forecast of six economists surveyed by Bloomberg was for growth of 2.9 percent. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-03-02.htm">9/8/2010 - EU trade chief apologizes for Jewish comments</a> The European Jewish Congress, an umbrella group, had demanded a retraction of De Gucht's remarks in which he maintained that Israel frustrates U.S. led peace efforts and warned not to "underestimate the Jewish lobby on Capitol Hill." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-02-03.htm">9/8/2010 - Book says Nazi hunter Wiesenthal worked for Mossad</a> Wiesenthal worked with the Mossad until 1970, operating under the code name "Theocrat" and providing Israeli intelligence information on suspected war criminals, neo Nazi groups that threatened Jewish communities in Europe and German scientists working for Egypt's rocket program. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-06-03.htm">9/8/2010 - US artists support Israelis' settlement protest</a> The names on the letter include Oscar winning actress Vanessa Redgrave, Cynthia Nixon of "Sex and the City" and playwright Tony Kushner. It was organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/09/02-10">9/8/2010 - Unseizing Gaza</a> Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister says Blockade of Gaza Was a  Mistake and Not Effective <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://jfjfp.com/?p=17066">9/8/2010 - Matan Cohen legal appeal  £5,000 needed</a> Readers of JfJfP.com may recall the case of Matan Cohen, a young refusenik who almost lost an eye after being shot in the face by a tear gas canisterMC eye (hosp) on a demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil in. He brought a court case to highlight the violence meted out to such demonstrations by the Israeli security forces. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://jimbovard.com/blog/2010/09/07/washington-post-pervasive-israeli-spying-in-the-us/">9/8/2010 - Washington Post: Pervasive Israeli Spying in the U.S.</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/03">9/8/2010 - Israel Invited to Join Anti-Nuclear Pact</a> By staying outside the NPT, Israel has maintained secrecy over a programme widely believed to have yielded the region's only atomic arsenal -- perceived as an irritant and threat among its neighbours. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/206707/the-false-case-for-attacking-iran">9/8/2010 - The false case for attacking Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-07-03.htm">9/8/2010 - Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic</a> Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, blogged on the magazine's website Tuesday that he was on vacation last month when the head of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington  which Cuba maintains there instead of an embassy  called to say Castro had read his recent article about Israel and Iran and wanted him to come to Cuba. Goldberg asked Julia Sweig, a Cuba U.S. policy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, to accompany him, and the pair spent portions of three days talking with Castro. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-06-05.htm">9/8/2010 - Lebanon PM: accusations against Syria were mistake</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-04-02.htm">9/8/2010 - Israel: Explosions occurred at Hezbollah depot</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/foreign-report-israel-has-one-of-world-s-largest-eavesdropping-intel-bases-1.312198">9/8/2010 - Foreign report: Israel has one of world's largest 'eavesdropping' intel bases</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1377">9/8/2010 - Hebron: God's Justice, Even for the Shops</a> Over the past decade, more than five hundred Palestinian shops have been welded shut and well over a thousand more closed due to Israeli imperial politics. That s about 75 % of the shops in this place, and the impact of such oppression, as you can well imagine, has been devastating. Once the hub of trade, giving life to the entire community, today s Old City struggles simply to survive. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130942">9/8/2010 - Survey Says Young Jews Do Care About Israel</a> <b>They need American Jews to be attached to Israel in order for Israel to survive. Well, WE need AMERICANS to be attached to AMERICA in order for AMERICA to survive. I can't see how the former sentence helps the latter. Two different countries here.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26325.htm">9/8/2010 - During War There Are No Civilians</a> "During war there are no civilians," that s what  Yossi, an Israeli military (IDF) training unit leader simply stated during a round of questioning on day two of the Rachel Corrie trials, held in Haifa s District Court earlier this week.  When you write a [protocol] manual, that manual is for war, he added. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/poll-half-of-israeli-teens-don-t-want-arab-students-in-their-class-1.312479">9/8/2010 - Poll: Half of Israeli teens don't want Arab students in their class</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0902/israel.html">9/8/2010 - EC halts proposed data deal with Israel</a> Mr Martin said the Irish Government had raised concerns in the context of the fraudulent misuse of information on Irish passport holders for an extra judicial killing in Dubai and had articulated its anger about that on a number of occasions. <b>Good move.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/01/tony-blair-west-use-force-iran-nuclear-weapons">9/8/2010 - Tony Blair: West should use force if Iran 'continues to develop nuclear weapons'</a> The west should use force against Iran if it "continues to develop nuclear weapons", Tony Blair said today, aligning himself with US hawks who have called for strikes against Iranian nuclear sites......"The reason for that, let me explain it, is that in my view what was shocking about September 11 was that it was 3,000 people killed in one day but it would have been 300,000 if they could have done it," Blair said, appearing to equate al-Qaida with Iran.....Blair's approach to Iran aligns him with US hawks such as John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the UN, who believes that Israel should have attacked Iran before it started loading fuel into its first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-u-s-threatens-to-shun-military-drill-with-turkey-if-it-bans-israel-1.311506">9/8/2010 - Report: U.S. threatens to shun military drill with Turkey if it bans Israel </a> The U.S. has pressured Turkey in recent months to ease tensions with Israel, which have been increasingly strained since Israel's three-week-long offensive in the Gaza Strip that began in December 2008 in a effort to stop rocket fire from the territory into bordering Israeli cities. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38988030/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/">9/8/2010 - Israel urged to open up atomic program</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/08/08-31-04.htm">9/1/2010 - Palestinian kills 4 Israelis on eve of peace talks</a> <b>Being an ultranationalist settler living in civilian settlements on occupied land is evidently a dangerous thing. Whodda thunk it?</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/08/25/boxed-into-a-corner-on-iran/">9/1/2010 - Boxed into a Corner on Iran by Philip Giraldi</a> To be completely and cold bloodedly serious about the respective positions being staked out by Iran and its chief antagonists in Washington and Tel Aviv, one must first of all remember that Tehran does not currently have a nuclear weapon and there is no real evidence that it even has a program to produce one. It has been basically compliant with the UN inspection regime mandated by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which it is a signatory. Nor is there any evidence that the Mullahs are suicidal....The conversation on Iran, such as it is, has been expressly designed to bring about a war rather than avoid it. The mainstream media disinformation campaign orchestrated by AIPAC has worked just fine. Most Americans already believe incorrectly that Iran has a nuclear weapon and most also support attacking it, a product of the steady diet of hokum that they have been fed <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-29-01.htm">9/1/2010 - Abbas, Palestinians should die: Israeli rabbi</a> "Abu Mazen and all these evil people should perish from this earth," Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual head of the religious Shas party in Israel's government, said in a sermon late Saturday, using Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's popular name. ....The Iraqi born cleric has made similar remarks before, most notably in 2001, during a Palestinian uprising, when he called for Arabs' annihilation and said it was forbidden to be merciful to them. <b>The warships would be descending on Iran if this were an Iranian cleric that said as much about Jews.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-29-04.htm">9/1/2010 - Abbas: No peace talks with settlement building</a> Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned Sunday that he will not back down from his threat to pull out of new peace talks with Israel if it resumes construction in West Bank settlements. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-pa-can-t-give-up-jerusalem-in-direct-mideast-peace-talks-1.310579">9/1/2010 - Hamas: PA can't give up Jerusalem in direct Mideast peace talks</a> Palestinian negotiators are not mandated to surrender Jerusalem or any part of Palestine, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency quoted Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh as saying on Friday, with the Hamas strongman dubbing upcoming direct peace talks as the latest in a string of Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/09/01/99995/obama-netanyahu-condemn-hamas.html">9/1/2010 - Obama, Netanyahu condemn Hamas killings in Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3944714,00.html">9/1/2010 - 'IDF can destroy Lebanon army within 4 hours'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-31-02.htm">9/1/2010 - Abbas seeks active US mediation in Mideast talks</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-01-01.htm">9/1/2010 - Palestinians crack down on Hamas after shooting</a> Palestinian security forces arrested more than 250 Hamas members in an overnight sweep throughout the West Bank after the Islamic militant group claimed responsibility for shooting dead four Israelis on the eve of new Mideast peace talks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-01-02.htm">9/1/2010 - Obama says Mideast peace moment 'must be seized'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-29-03.htm">9/1/2010 - Israel rabbi remarks on Palestinians 'deeply offensive': US</a> "We regret and condemn the inflammatory statements by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said in a statement. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/mahmoud-abbas-if-talks-fail-over-settlements-only-israel-will-be-to-blame-1.310923">9/1/2010 - Mahmoud Abbas: If talks fail over settlements, only Israel will be to blame</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-31-01.htm">9/1/2010 - Israel gave 'licence to kill' on Gaza ship: Israeli Arab MP</a> Outspoken Arab Israeli MP Haneen Zuabi on Tuesday told a UN human rights inquiry into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza bound aid flotilla that its commandos had a "licence to kill." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-26-02.htm">9/1/2010 - Israel govt mulls alternatives to settlement freeze</a> The idea would be to keep the restrictions quiet in order to minimise chances of a public uproar among rightwing Israelis. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-israel-planning-to-attack-hezbollah-arms-depots-in-syria-1.310655">9/1/2010 - Report: Israel planning to attack Hezbollah arms depots in Syria</a> The report is based on Western sources who asserted that Israel has increased its military force level along the northern border in the Golan Heights and Mount Dov areas. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/09/09-01-03.htm">9/1/2010 - NY Muslim groups decry hostile atmosphere</a> Islamic leaders on Wednesday said they would support a move to another location, if that's what the imam and his supporters choose to do. But they emphasized that Muslims also were killed in the terrorist attacks and were first responders. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/30-0">9/1/2010 - 'Palestinian Gandhi' Convicted for Protesting; U.S. Silent</a> Last week, an Israeli military court convicted Abdallah Abu Rahmah, whom progressive Zionists have called a "Palestinian Gandhi," of "incitement" and "organizing and participating in illegal demonstrations" for organizing protests against the confiscation of Palestinian land by the "Apartheid Wall" in the village of Bilin in the West Bank, following an eight month trial, during which he was kept in prison <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130690/">9/1/2010 - The Egyptian Plumber and My  Eurabia Problem</a> for Jews, Israelis and Americans in Europe, the first impulse is often to worry about Arab migrants. A 29-year-old Tel Aviv native in East Berlin (where I ve been living since March), summed it up best when she told me the reason that she doesn t like to visit Neukölln, the Turkish-Arab district in the southeastern part of the city:  I m an anarchist. I think Middle Eastern immigration to Germany is good. But I lived through the second intifada, and Muslims scare me. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=186154">9/1/2010 -  Sinner singer given 39 lashes by rabbis</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26275.htm">9/1/2010 - How to Kill Goyim and Influence People: </a> Palestinian Israeli member of Knesset Jamal Zehalka subsequently demanded that the Israeli Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein put Yosef on trial for incitement. "If, heaven forbid, a Muslim spiritual leader were to make anti-Jewish comments of this sort," Zehalka said, "he would be arrested immediately." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1376">9/1/2010 - Hebron: Soldiers Practice Break and Enter</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/27-3">9/1/2010 - Obama Resists Pressure for Red Line on Iran's Nuclear Capability</a> Gates appears to have been trying to maneuver Obama into adopting a policy under which the United States would have a reason for threatening Iran unless it agreed to divest itself of its low enriched uranium stocks and end enrichment. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130702/">9/1/2010 - Losing a Mentor, Gaining an Opponent</a> In the coming years, he wants to see the Jewish population of the West Bank  which he always refers to by the biblical regions it covers, Judea and Samaria  swell to a million. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130678/">9/1/2010 - At Ground Zero, a Fight We re All Losing</a> said Gingrich,  There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. (So now the state of religious freedom in Saudi Arabia becomes the standard against which we are urged to measure ourselves.) <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130674/">9/1/2010 - The Israeli Right s  Post-Nationalism Excuse</a> George Will, the conservative Washington Post columnist, was in the Israeli prime minister s office a few weeks ago and came away with a fascinating new take on Israel s image troubles. <b>George Will, a neocon. Whodda thunk it?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130708/">9/1/2010 - Yizkor for Jabotinsky: The Prophet Half-Heeded</a> At New York s only memorial for him, an evening organized by Americans for a Safe Israel and held at Manhattan s Park East Synagogue, the keynote speaker was Douglas Feith, a prominent neoconservative who was under secretary of defense for policy in George W. Bush s administration. Early on in his talk, Feith highlighted this distinction about Jabotinsky. <b>That's the same Douglas Feith that was making the case for war against Iraq. <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/article/2003/mar/24/00007/">Read Whose War by Patrick J. Buchanan for more information</a></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130707/">9/1/2010 - Anniversary of WTC Attack To Prompt Rallies Amid Holy Days</a> The rally will be held on the corner of Park Place and West Broadway, half a block from the proposed site of the Islamic community center and two blocks from Ground Zero. In addition to Wilders, the rally will feature a videotaped address by John Bolton, ambassador to the United Nations during the second Bush administration, and speeches by Republican political candidates and by a conservative radio host <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130703/">9/1/2010 - New Goldstone Follow-Up Probe Will Hold Hamas Accountable for First Time</a> After the second follow-up, Human Rights Watch issued a statement saying that Israel s military investigations have fallen  far short of addressing the widespread and serious allegations of unlawful conduct during the fighting. But Hamas, it said, has  announced no serious investigations whatsoever. Now, the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council, which provided the mandate for the Goldstone Report, is launching its own inquiry to judge for the first time the quality of the aforementioned investigations. And according to several human rights groups, it also will examine whether Hamas has scrutinized its own actions, as is frequently demanded of Israel....Israel has refused to participate in the Human Rights Council s investigation, just as it refused the demands of the original Goldstone Commission. It has, however, been producing the reports that have been delivered to Ban and the G.A., detailing Israel s own investigations into the 30 incidents described in Goldstone s report. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/25/2010-08-25_fbi_paid_informant_in_bronx_synagogue_bomb_plot_97k_who_provided_terror_suspects.html">9/1/2010 - FBI paid informant in Bronx synagogue bomb plot $97K, who provided terror suspects with fake bombs</a> Defense lawyers contend that without the informant - who they say entrapped the suspects - their bumbling clients would never have tried to blow up two synagogues in Riverdale and shoot down missiles. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/25/2010-08-25_fbi_paid_informant_in_bronx_synagogue_bomb_plot_97k_who_provided_terror_suspects.html#ixzz0ysf1kstr <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/leaked-cia-memo-cites-u-s-jews-among-exporters-of-terrorism-1.310391">9/1/2010 - Leaked CIA memo cites U.S. Jews among exporters of terrorism</a> "Some American Jews have supported and even engaged in violent acts against perceived enemies of Israel," the report reads. "In 1994, Baruch Goldstein, an American Jewish doctor from New York, emigrated to Israel, joined the extremist group Kach, and killed 29 Palestinians during their prayers in the mosque at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron which helped trigger a wave of bus bombings by Hamas in early 1995." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://lataan.blogspot.com/2010/08/israel-orders-massive-military-fuel.html">9/1/2010 - ISRAEL ORDERS MASSIVE MILITARY FUEL STOCKS FAR IN EXCESS OF THAT REQUIRED FOR NORMAL OPERATIONS </a> The only conclusion one can draw, if Israel is not planning to actually invade Iran, which, clearly, it could not, is that Israel is planning to use the gasoline and the diesel fuel for some other ground incursion  and that can only mean an invasion of Lebanon and possibly the Gaza and West Bank when an attack against Iran is launched. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/peres-warns-iaea-chief-of-iran-nuclear-threat-1.310165">9/1/2010 - Peres warns IAEA chief of Iran nuclear threat</a> Israel is also widely believed to have an arsenal of around 200 nuclear warheads  but as the country has not signed the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, the IAEA has no inspection rights in the country and has not been allowed access to Israel's main nuclear installation at Dimona. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130705/">9/1/2010 - West Bank Security Barrier Draws Artists and Advertisers</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130743/">9/1/2010 - Lawsuit Accuses IRS of Screening Israel-Related Charities</a> A hawkish pro-Israel activist group has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Internal Revenue Service is impeding or denying applications for tax-exempt status from nonprofit organizations that oppose the Obama administration s Israel policies. But experts in nonprofit tax law say that the allegations seem far-fetched <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/130352/">9/1/2010 - Israeli Police Ban Leftist Protests, Fearing Violence; O.K. Rightist Protests Despite Violence</a> In a separate development that I m sure is totally unrelated, police in Jerusalem over the past year have arrested dozens of left-wing demonstrators protesting against Jewish settlers moving into the mostly-Arab Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, despite repeated court rulings that the arrests were an illegal violation of the demonstrators rights <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/130744/">9/1/2010 - First They Came for the Sharia Court. Then They Came for the Bet Din</a> Permitting people to settle their disputes in their own religious courts is not a  replacement of American law, but a time-honored expression of religious freedom and accommodation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-31-03.htm">9/1/2010 - Bollywood comes to Holy Land for film about Jesus</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <b>August</b> <br><Br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/mossad-in-america/">8/25/2010 - Mossad in America By Philip Giraldi</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/192890">8/25/2010 - PA Claims US Threatened to Withdraw Aid</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/un-official-criticises-israel-over-flotilla-probe-2060509.html">8/25/2010 - UN official criticises Israel over flotilla probe</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/19-2">8/25/2010 - UN Report: IDF Barring Gazans' Access to Farms, Fishing Zones</a> 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. <b>Lovely people, aren't they?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7958784/Benjamin-Netanyahu-rejects-demands-to-continue-settlement-freeze.html">8/25/2010 - Benjamin Netanyahu rejects demands to continue settlement freeze</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26199.htm">8/25/2010 - Declassified: Massive Israeli Manipulation of US Media Exposed </a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=185380">8/25/2010 - Russia: Israel need not fear reactor </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-support-for-israel-is-decreasing-new-poll-shows-1.308855">8/25/2010 - U.S. support for Israel is decreasing, new poll shows</a> 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. <b>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).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/iran_unveils_long_range_bomber_drone_8CvLKX48uNQrfmrdagy2wN?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=">8/25/2010 - Iran unveils long-range bomber drone</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-24-05.htm">8/25/2010 - UN official says Israel not co-operating with Human Rights Council probe of Gaza flotilla raid</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-direct-israeli-palestinian-talks-illegitimate-coerced-by-u-s-1.310013">8/25/2010 - Hamas: Direct Israeli-Palestinian talks illegitimate, coerced by U.S.</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-20-02.htm">8/25/2010 - Israel tells UN it will stop Gaza aid flotilla</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/technology/26cyber.html">8/25/2010 - Military Computer Attack Confirmed</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/lieberman-settlement-building-should-restart-in-september-1.310143">8/25/2010 - Lieberman: Settlement building should restart in September</a> 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 <b>Peace, perhaps?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-23-02.htm">8/25/2010 - .Israel faces difficult choice on settlement freeze</a> "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. <b>Peace or piece. Can't keep taking someone else's land and expect them to be at peace with it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/abbas-end-of-settlement-freeze-would-end-direct-peace-talks-1.309608">8/25/2010 - Abbas: End of settlement freeze would end direct peace talks</a> 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. <b>Peace or piece. Israel chooses piece every time - as in, another piece of Palestine.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/un-report-idf-barring-gazans-access-to-farms-fishing-zones-1.309022">8/25/2010 - UN report: IDF barring Gazans' access to farms, fishing zones</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/netanyahu-rejects-peace-talks-based-on-1967-borders-1.307430">8/25/2010 - Netanyahu rejects peace talks based on 1967 borders </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=185846">8/25/2010 - Amnesty Int'l Finland: Israel scum state</a> 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. <b>Well, Israel in fact does flagrantly violate international law and has since its inception.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=185166">8/25/2010 - Aussie parties support Israel</a> 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. <b>Why, it's just like it is here in America - the power of Israel and its lobbies over Western governments.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gilad-atzmon-united-against-knowledge.html">8/25/2010 - United Against Knowledge</a> 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. <b>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).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3939953,00.html">8/25/2010 - Palestinians: Arab states are not paying</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67J4HR20100820">8/25/2010 - Cyprus says will not allow Gaza-bound aid ship</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=309344">8/25/2010 - PLO defends Abbas statements on Jewish rights</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-19-02.htm">8/25/2010 - Palestinians learn about the Holocaust in Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=309423">8/25/2010 - Fatah accepts Haniyeh unity invite</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=185813">8/25/2010 - Jews elected to new Australian parliament</a> 3 chosen, including Israel's most ardent representative in parliament. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/08/internet-killed-israeli-pr-an-interview-with-minor-demographic-threat.html">8/25/2010 - Internet Killed Israeli PR An interview with Minor Demographic Threat</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11461.shtml">8/25/2010 - Is Canada passing information on its citizens to Israel?</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-19-01.htm">8/25/2010 - US jobless claims jump to 500,000; nine-month high</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26202.htm">8/25/2010 - America Has Disgraced Itself</a> 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. <b>Good point.</b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/130169/">8/25/2010 - A Threat From Within</a> 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. <b>Then why exactly is my government sending billions of American taxpayer dollars to Israel, when clearly, that money could be better spent at home?</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/130167/">8/25/2010 - Canada Halts Mail to Gaza </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=118484#axzz0xOQDvLJg">8/25/2010 - Aid ship Mariam now looks to set sail from Greece</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/08/20/don_t_fall_for_the_hype_the_peace_process_is_still_going_nowhere">8/25/2010 - The Peace Process is Still Going Nowhere Stephen M. Walt</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-20-03.htm">8/25/2010 - Report: Iran needs year to develop nuclear weapon</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130171/">8/25/2010 - Statement of Muslim American Imams and Community Leaders on Holocaust Denial</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://america-hijacked.com/2010/08/22/will-us-navy-board-iranian-ships-for-aipacisrael-next-month/">8/25/2010 - Will US Navy board Iranian ships for AIPAC/Israel next month?!</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/08/24/gary-hart-is-right/">8/25/2010 - Gary Hart Is Right</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE67N20N.htm">8/25/2010 - Senior Hezbollah member killed in Beirut clashes </a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/24-3">8/25/2010 - Two Minutes to Midnight?: Cutting Through the Media's Bogus Bomb-Iran Debate</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26219.htm">8/25/2010 - The Erosion of America's Middle Class</a> 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. <b>America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel</b><br><br> <a href="http://defensetech.org/2010/08/16/israel-places-order-for-20-f-35-jsf-u-s-picks-up-the-tab/">8/25/2010 - Israel Places Order For 20 F-35s; U.S. Picks Up The Tab</a> 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 <b>America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel</b><br><br> <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/17/news/economy/cities_risk_double_dip/index.htm">8/25/2010 - 22 cities in danger of a double-dip recession</a> 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.) <b>America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/38744090">8/25/2010 - US Says Bankruptcies Reach Nearly 5-Year High</a> 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. <b>America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-18/al-qaeda-plans-for-war-with-israel/">8/25/2010 - Al Qaeda Already Gaming Out War Between Israel and Iran</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-25-04.htm">8/25/2010 - Bad news on homes, goods adds to air of recession</a> 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 <b>Let's send a few more billion to Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1375">8/25/2010 - Hebron: Open Shuhada St. Action Changes Tactics</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-25-05.htm">8/25/2010 - Pentagon computers attacked with flash drive</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-22/obamas-silent-jewish-majority/">8/25/2010 - Obama's Silent Jewish Majority</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-25-03.htm">8/25/2010 - Iran says it's ready to sell arms to Lebanon</a> Iran is prepared to sell weapons to Lebanon if Beirut asks for help in equipping its military, Iran's defense minister said Wednesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jm4HCKCEI-bBAzKKWe6zCrwWTYWAD9HNA3CG1">8/25/2010 - Fidelity: 401(k) hardship withdrawals, loans up</a> <b>Let's give a couple more billiion to Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-08/22/c_13455880.htm">8/25/2010 - Iran to supply Lebanon with anti-missile system: report</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://thetruthwins.com/archives/40-bizarre-statistics-that-reveal-the-horrifying-truth-about-the-collapse-of-the-u-s-economy">8/25/2010 - 40 Bizarre Statistics That Reveal The Horrifying Truth About The Collapse Of The U.S. Economy</a> 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. <b>America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3940260,00.html">8/25/2010 - Steinitz demands ultimatum for Iran</a> 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 <b>Whose war is this?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/16/headlines/us_to_fund_israeli_purchase_of_20_f_35_joint_strike_fighters">8/25/2010 - US to Fund Israeli Purchase of 20 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters</a> 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. <b>America can ill afford to buy planes for the defense of Israel</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130177/">8/25/2010 - Battle for Jewish Votes In a Florida Race That Threatens To Oust Incumbent</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-25-01.htm">8/25/2010 - Lebanon moves to address widespread use of weapons</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/08/08-13-01.htm">8/18/2010 - Police: Israeli also suspect in stabbing in Israel</a> Ramle's roughly 3,000 member Arab Christian community is tight knit, and residents were extremely cautious about discussing Abuelazam's past. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-17-01.htm">8/18/2010 - Israel has '8 days' to hit Iran nuclear site: Bolton</a> <b>John Bolton (and all others like him) should be stripped of his US citizenship and put on the next plane to Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-15-05.htm">8/18/2010 - Israel to buy world's most advanced warplane</a> Delivery of the first F 35s, which are still not yet operational, is expected only in 2015, the paper said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1373">8/18/2010 - Israeli Military and Policemen Shut Three Palestinian Shops</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/12-1">8/18/2010 - Netanyahu Rejects Peace Talks Based on 1967 Borders </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/13/trita_parsi_jeffrey_goldberg/">8/18/2010 - A campaign for war with Iran begins</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/08/11/hillarys-enemies-list/">8/18/2010 - Hillary s Enemies List by Philip Giraldi</a> 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. <b>All Americans should read this.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/13-7">8/18/2010 - Point of Return: Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-18-08.htm">8/18/2010 - Palestinian who attacked Turkish Embassy captured</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/11/the_weak_case_for_war_with_iran?page=0,0">8/18/2010 - The Weak Case for War with Iran</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/59290">8/18/2010 - Israeli troops invade southern Gaza; Palestinian fighters fire 5 shells across border</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-15-03.htm">8/18/2010 - Israel: No conditions for talks with Palestinians</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-16-01.htm">8/18/2010 - On Facebook: Israeli soldier posed with bound Arab</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/2010/08/17/Commentary-Guns-of-August/UPI-76331282056061/">8/18/2010 - Commentary: Guns of August?</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/21-lebanon-grants-palestinian-refugees-right-to-work-sk-06">8/18/2010 - Lebanon grants Palestinian refugees right to work </a> The Lebanese constitution prohibits the naturalisation of the refugees. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/16793332?story_id=16793332">8/18/2010 - The Israeli authorities try to expel Hamas s MPs from East Jerusalem</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/features/u-s-jewish-voters-revolt-against-obama-1.308316">8/18/2010 - U.S. Jewish voters revolt against Obama </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/16-1">8/18/2010 - Formalizing Israel s Land Grab</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/16-9">8/18/2010 - Storm over Israeli 'Abuse' Photos </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3936672,00.html">8/18/2010 - Christian students to defend Israel abroad</a> 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 <b>Wow.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000581912">8/18/2010 - Harvard University fund sells all Israel holdings</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/turkey-sets-up-own-gaza-flotilla-inquiry-1.307581">8/18/2010 - Turkey sets up own Gaza flotilla inquiry</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129965/">8/18/2010 - Remembering Tony Judt, Heartsick Lover of Zion</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-18-03.htm">8/18/2010 - US spending $16,000 for imam's Mideast tour</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-17-02.htm">8/18/2010 - Israeli military confronts new foe: the Internet</a> The security obsessed Israeli military is confronting a new adversary  trying to control what its own soldiers post to the Internet. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/no-place-in-university-dorms-for-arabs-who-didn-t-serve-in-idf-1.307448">8/18/2010 - No place in university dorms for Arabs who didn't serve in IDF</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/idf-filmed-aiming-tear-gas-at-al-jazeera-reporter-in-west-bank-1.8426">8/18/2010 - IDF filmed aiming tear gas at Al-Jazeera reporter in West Bank</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-01-02.htm">8/18/2010 - Gaza Strip: Crisis Takes a Psychological Toll on Locals</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-12-03.htm">8/18/2010 - Destroyed Muslim graves in Jerusalem were 'fake': Israel</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/alleged-mossad-spy-granted-bail-in-germany-can-return-to-israel-if-he-wants-1.307899">8/18/2010 - Alleged Mossad spy granted bail in Germany, 'can return to Israel if he wants'</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52482">8/18/2010 - Israeli Generals and Intel Officials Oppose Attack on Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129998/">8/18/2010 - When Shuls Were Banned in America</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-15-01.htm">8/18/2010 - Obama warns Turkish PM over stance on Israel, Iran: report</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26173.htm">8/18/2010 - 25,000 Jews live in Iran</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/John--Bolton--Iran--Nuclear--israel/2010/08/13/id/367449?s=al&promo_code=A80B-1">8/18/2010 - John Bolton: Russia's Loading of Nuke Fuel Into Iran Plant Means Aug. 21 Deadline for Israeli Attack</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/15/jobless-millions-death-american-dream">8/18/2010 - Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many</a> 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 <b>This is hardly the time to get sucked into yet another war in the Middle East, at Israel's urging (again).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26154.htm">8/18/2010 - How Propagandists Function</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26148.htm">8/18/2010 - A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran</a> The neocons seem to be as strong now as under George W. Bush, with their Real-Men-Go-to-Tehran-type macho undiminished. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/13-0">8/18/2010 - Iraq to Iran: Propaganda for War</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/romania-says-it-will-stand-by-israel-in-event-of-conflict-with-iran-1.307614">8/18/2010 - Romania says it will stand by Israel in event of conflict with Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130012/">8/18/2010 - These Jewish Interns Campaign for Washington, Not Against It</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0812/Repercussions-of-an-Israeli-attack-on-Iran">8/18/2010 - Repercussions of an Israeli attack on Iran - CSMonitor.com</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1374">8/18/2010 - "Captain, Where Is Your Sense of Decency?"</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/aug/09/opinion/la-oe-zenko-israelnuke-20100809">8/18/2010 - Israel, the bomb, and openness</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/12/goldberg/index.html">8/18/2010 - How propagandists function Exhibit A - Glenn Greenwald</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/081210a.html">8/18/2010 - Why Israel Wants a US War with Iran</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-15-02.htm">8/18/2010 - AP: Arab nations lobby U.S. on anti-Israel vote</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-12-02.htm">8/18/2010 - Lebanon debates giving Palestinians rights</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130007/">8/18/2010 - ADL Continues To Suffer Harsh Criticism for Its Opposition to Mosque Near Ground Zero</a>  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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130009/">8/18/2010 - HIAS Fights To Extend Welfare Benefits for Indigent, Non-Citizen Refugees</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/130013/">8/18/2010 - At the Death Camps, Muslim Leaders Grapple With Jews Pain</a> 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. <b>It goes both ways, folks.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-16-02.htm">8/18/2010 - Hamas leader: Ground zero mosque must be built</a> Mahmoud al Zahar said Muslims "have to build everywhere" so that followers can pray, just like Christians and Jews build their places of worship. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/13/evidence-of-israeli-nuclear-test">8/18/2010 - CIA evidence of an Israeli nuclear test</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/08/04/a-cakewalk-against-iran/">8/11/2010 - A Cakewalk Against Iran by Philip Giraldi</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1367">8/11/2010 - Hebron: "Settlers Heat up the Air in Al Bweireh"</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1366">8/11/2010 - At-Tuwani: Palestinian fence damaged in village</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-u-s-downgrades-saudi-arms-deal-over-israeli-concerns-1.306886">8/11/2010 - Report: U.S. downgrades Saudi arms deal over Israeli concerns</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26117.htm">8/11/2010 - Eyes on the Skies Over Bushehr Nuclear Reactor</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26127.htm">8/11/2010 - Will Israel Really Attack Iran Within a Year?</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/191973">8/11/2010 - Russia Ready to Launch Iranian Nuclear Power Plant</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52439">8/11/2010 - Homeless Take On Israeli Forces</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/10-5">8/11/2010 - Israel Threatens to Pull Out of UN Gaza Probe</a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/08/02/no-blank-checks-for-the-gop-or-likud/">8/11/2010 - No Blank Checks for the GOP  or Likud by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.njdc.org/blog/post/u.s._funding_for_israeli_missile_defense_programs_reaches_new_high">8/11/2010 - U.S. Funding for Israeli Missile Defense Programs Reaches New High</a> <b>Our government must protect Israel at all costs, even as its own citizens go hungry. Thank Israel's lobby.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/08/10-9">8/11/2010 - Israel/Gaza: Wartime Inquiries Fall Short</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26115.htm">8/11/2010 - The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7933016/Israel-accuses-US-of-bias-over-State-Department-caution.html">8/11/2010 - Israel accuses US of bias over State Department caution </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=118051#axzz0wJqyykHM">8/11/2010 - Libya to fund Gaza homes after Israeli freed</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/93735">8/11/2010 - Swedish activists get ready to set sail for Gaza</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Sending+Canadian+boat+Gaza+moral+thing/3352219/story.html">8/11/2010 - Sending a Canadian boat to Gaza is moral thing to do</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-07-02.htm">8/11/2010 - UN names Israeli, Turk to Gaza flotilla probe</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-08-01.htm">8/11/2010 - U.S. bomb shelter advice misses mark says Israel</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/34318/Student_from_Gaza_tells_story_of_deportation">8/11/2010 - Student from Gaza tells story of deportation</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/not-enough-evidence-to-convict-suspected-jewish-terrorist-pearlman-1.306988">8/11/2010 - 'Not enough evidence to convict suspected Jewish terrorist Pearlman'</a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/11-2">8/11/2010 - UN Chief May Be Heading for Showdown with Israel</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1371">8/11/2010 - Shuhada Street: Keeping the quiet (when there s no peace to be kept)</a> The soldier shrugged.  We can t let CPTers walk on this street. That s the order we ve been given. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-05-02.htm">8/11/2010 - Polish court orders alleged Israeli spy extradited</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-06-02.htm">8/11/2010 - Older Gazans recall Israelis, youth sees only army</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-08-02.htm">8/11/2010 - Israeli nuclear whistleblower out of prison again</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-09-04.htm">8/11/2010 - Israel threatening to quit UN probe into flotilla</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-07-01.htm">8/11/2010 - Tony Judt, author of 'Postwar,' dies at 62</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26136.htm">8/11/2010 - U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know</a> 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. <b>America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129822/">8/11/2010 - Jewish Leaders Enter Fray Over Islamic Center Near Ground Zero</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/08/08/speak-no-evil/">8/11/2010 - Speak No Evil by Philip Giraldi </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/08/05/mayor-bloombergs-monumental-folly/">8/11/2010 - Mayor Bloomberg s Monumental Folly by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> 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. <b>Not sure I agree with Pat on this one, but the comments are interesting.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/lebanon-we-ll-reject-u-s-military-aid-if-weapons-can-t-be-used-against-israel-1.307380">8/11/2010 - Lebanon: We'll reject U.S. military aid if weapons can't be used against Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Editorial-Board-Blog/2010/0806/China-is-a-barometer-on-whether-Israel-will-attack-nuclear-plants-in-Iran?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fcommentary+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+Commentary%29">8/11/2010 - China is a barometer on whether Israel will attack nuclear plants in Iran</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-11-01.htm">8/11/2010 - Syria, Iran underline support for Lebanon against Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-10-01.htm">8/11/2010 - Lebanon: US military aid halt is 'unwarranted'</a> "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." <b>I would think Congress would have more important things with which to concern itself. Such as things having to do with AMERICA.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0806/Israel-Lebanon-border-clash-has-Israel-complaining-of-Hezbollah-s-influence">8/11/2010 - Israel-Lebanon border clash has Israel complaining of Hezbollah's influence - Yahoo! News</a>  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. <b>Israelis will complain about anyone that doesn't bow down and kowtow to them.</b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1369">8/11/2010 - Ongoing action alert: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-09-02.htm">8/11/2010 - Hezbollah accuses Israel of Hariri assassination</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129835/">8/11/2010 - Israel Fights Isolation With New Measures</a> In other, quieter ways, Israel is trying to re-establish its credentials as a country that abides by international law and respects human rights. <b>re-establish? When has Israel ever abided by international or humanitarian law? Ridiculous. Good luck with it!</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26113.htm">8/11/2010 - Decline of the Middle Class as Metaphor for the Decline of America</a> <b>America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/us/07cutbacksWEB.html?_r=1&hp">8/11/2010 - Governments Go to Extremes as the Downturn Wears On</a> 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. <b>America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/new_jersey/camden-closing-library-system-20100806-apx">8/11/2010 - Camden Closing Library System</a> 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. <b>America's falling to pieces as we shovel billions to the Middle East to make it a safer place for Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/5/social-security-red-first-time-ever/">8/11/2010 - Social Security in the red this year</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129826/">8/11/2010 - The Mosque and Us</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26100.htm">8/11/2010 - Arab Majority Backs Nuclear Iran</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3931210,00.html">8/11/2010 - American VIP humiliated at airport</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129830/">8/11/2010 - Obama Administration Presses Palestinians To Enter Direct Talks With Israel</a> 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. <b>A joke.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-05-01.htm">8/11/2010 - Iran Holocaust-denying website angers Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/08/04-3">8/4/2010 - Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1365">8/4/2010 - Soldiers and Police Arrest Son and Son in Law in Baqa'a Valley</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-02-02.htm">8/4/2010 - Blast in Gaza wounds 24 Palestinians</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/27/david-cameron-gaza-prison-camp">8/4/2010 - David Cameron: Israeli blockade has turned Gaza Strip into a 'prison camp'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-03-02.htm">8/4/2010 - Gaza girls turn to fishing to feed family</a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-29-02.htm">8/4/2010 - Kites fill skies over Gaza as children reach for record</a> <b>The triumph of the human spirit alive and well in the children of Gaza.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2951495.htm?site=alicesprings">8/4/2010 - Lobby group alleges mistreatment of young Palestinian prisoners in Israel</a> 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. <b>Since when is Defense for Children International a 'lobby group'?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-02-03.htm">8/4/2010 - Rockets fired at Israel, Jordan resorts; 1 dead</a> The rockets appeared to have been fired from Egypt's Sinai peninsula, an Israeli police spokesman said, though Egypt denied the claim. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-29-03.htm">8/4/2010 - Settlers seize home in Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-31-02.htm">8/4/2010 - US money transfer sites used in Dubai assassination: report</a> 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. <b>You don't say?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/29/israeli-settlers-jerusalem-palestinian-eviction">8/4/2010 - Israeli settlers evict Palestinian family from their home of 70 years</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-31-01.htm">8/4/2010 - PLO official says Obama sent warning to Abbas</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_559924.html">8/4/2010 - UN faults Israel's human rights </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7920330/Fury-as-Israel-president-claims-English-are-anti-semitic.html">8/4/2010 - Fury as Israel president claims English are 'anti-semitic' </a> 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. <b>You speak the truth about Israel and you get called an 'anti-Semite'.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-03-03.htm">8/4/2010 - Lebanon, Israel clash near border; at least 4 dead</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3929584,00.html">8/4/2010 - Lebanese president: Stand up to Israel</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=183229">8/4/2010 - US boosts Israeli missile funding</a> US House appropriators have pushed funding for Israeli missile defense programs to its highest level ever, with $422.7 million now slated for 2011. <b>Americans need that money more than Israel does.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sharmine-narwani/chas-freeman-lets-rip-on_b_659571.html">8/4/2010 - Chas Freeman Lets Rip on Israel as a Strategic Liability </a> 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. <b>All Americans need to read the excerpt of Freeman's speech.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/assad-we-ll-support-lebanon-in-face-of-criminal-israeli-aggression-1.305771">8/4/2010 - Assad: We'll support Lebanon in face of criminal Israeli aggression</a> Three Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist were killed Tuesday when Israeli soldiers exchanged fire with Lebanese soldiers at the border. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/08/02/no-blank-checks-for-the-gop-or-likud/">8/4/2010 - No Blank Checks for the GOP  or Likud by Patrick J. Buchanan </a> 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. <b>The mainstream media has still refused to pick up this story.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-02-01.htm">8/4/2010 - Israel to take part in UN probe of flotilla raid</a> 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. <b>Israel will attempt to whitewash.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/israel-arab-citizens-knesset-zoabi">8/4/2010 - Israel's harassment of citizens could ignite uprising, warns Arab politician</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138931">8/4/2010 - Turkey Summons Israel Ambassador over Barak Remark</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-israel-has-crept-into-the-eu-without-anyone-noticing-2040066.html">8/4/2010 - Robert Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=137452&sectionid=351020204">8/4/2010 - Turkey summons US diplomat</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129690/">8/4/2010 - The Law of Return at 60: Revisiting (and Revising) a Zionist Pillar</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/damascus-syria-saudi-ties-are-none-of-u-s-s-business-1.304807">8/4/2010 - Damascus: Syria-Saudi ties are none of U.S.'s business </a> 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. <b>They are, thanks to Israel. Israel's problems have become OUR problems.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/book-condoning-murder-has-another-rabbi-in-hot-water-1.304836">8/4/2010 - Book condoning murder has another rabbi in hot water</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/29-1">8/4/2010 - A Peaceful Boycott Should Not be a Crime </a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/08/huffpo-corrects-times-smear-that-arabs-dont-care-about-palestinians.html">8/4/2010 -  Huffpo corrects  Times smear that Arabs don t care about Palestinians</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.lobelog.com/foxman-really-outdoes-himself-on-mosque-issue/">8/4/2010 - Foxman Really Outdoes Himself on Mosque Issue </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-03-04.htm">8/4/2010 - Beck s Holocaust comments prompt Fox News meeting</a> 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. <b>Beck is another pandering nitwit.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-04-01.htm">8/4/2010 - Flare-up over tree accents Israel-Lebanon tension</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0802/Price-for-a-potential-Israeli-strike-on-Iran-A-Palestinian-state">8/4/2010 - Price for a potential Israeli strike on Iran A Palestinian state.</a> <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/07/28/who-owns-general-petraeus/">8/4/2010 - Who Owns General Petraeus by Philip Giraldi</a> 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. <b>The mainstream media ignored this story, as one would expect.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/08/08-03-01.htm">8/4/2010 - Does the Middle East Face an Israel-Lebanon Regional War?</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/07/the-summer-camp-of-destruction-israeli-high-schoolers-join-in-the-destruction-of-a-bedouin-town/">8/4/2010 - The  Summer Camp Of Destruction: Israeli High Schoolers Assist The Razing Of A Bedouin Town</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/28/ethnic-cleansing-israeli-negev">8/4/2010 - Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://lynch.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/19/is_an_attack_on_iran_really_back_on_the_table">8/4/2010 - Why put an attack on Iran back on the table?</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3925216,00.html">8/4/2010 - Rabbis oppose Yitzhak's arrest</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/30-0">8/4/2010 - Activist Supports Probe of Aid Raid </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-07-28/republicans-israel-bomb-iran.html">8/4/2010 - Republicans offer Israel green light to bomb Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGoLrbJU7mk">8/4/2010 - AIPAC Goes to College: Teaching Americans to Put Israel First </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26051.htm">8/4/2010 - The Real Aim of Israel s Bomb Iran Campaign</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/07/29/2740258/australia-approves-new-iran-sanctions">8/4/2010 - Australia approves new Iran sanctions</a> <b>Outside the pro-Israeli lobby in America, its counterparts reside in Canada, Australia and Britain.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0730/War-on-terror-s-other-cost-undeserved-anger-at-all-Muslims">8/4/2010 - War on terror's other cost: undeserved anger at all Muslims</a> We encountered not one single moment of hostility, not from anyone anywhere in that devoutly Muslim country. It was 1998. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-arabs-have-no-choice-but-to-build-illegally-1.304777">8/4/2010 - 'Israeli Arabs have no choice but to build illegally'</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <b>July </b> <br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/world/middleeast/23mideast.html?_r=1&ref=world">7/28/2010 - Israeli Forces Kill Unarmed Palestinian</a>  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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1572432.php/Israeli-soldiers-kill-Palestinian-in-West-Bank">7/28/2010 - Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in West Bank </a> The three Palestinian fatalities come after a period of relative quiet. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://neocon-watch.blogspot.com/2010/07/congress-on-behalf-of-israel-about-to.html">7/28/2010 - Congress, on behalf of Israel, about to declare war on Iran</a> <b>The mainstream media in America has thus far ignored this issue.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/07/27/who-voted-for-war-with-iran-mr-obama/">7/28/2010 - Who Voted for War With Iran, Mr. Obama? by Philip Giraldi</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3923944,00.html">7/28/2010 - American Jews don military uniforms for volunteer service</a> 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," <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-25-03.htm">7/28/2010 - Israel, U.S. sign deal to upgrade Arrow missile shield</a> 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. <b>America pays, and pays again (in more ways than one) for Israeli 'security'.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/27-3">7/28/2010 - British PM Calls Gaza 'Prison Camp'</a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/un-rights-body-names-team-to-probe-gaza-flotilla-raid-1.303683">7/28/2010 - UN rights body names team to probe Gaza flotilla raid </a> 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. <b>Laughable.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3923576,00.html">7/28/2010 - 'Arab man attacked for talking to Jewish girl'</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1363">7/28/2010 - Palestinian shepherd videotapes Israeli settlers </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/24/c_13413599.htm">7/28/2010 - Israeli forces crush West Bank demo, injuring three </a> Three people, including a British activist, were injured Saturday afternoon when Israeli forces dispersed a demonstration in the West Bank, witnesses said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-26-03.htm">7/28/2010 - US presses Abbas to resume direct peace talks</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-27-02.htm">7/28/2010 - British PM visits Turkey: Iran, Gaza on agenda</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138835">7/28/2010 - House Republicans Giving Green Light for Israeli Strike on Iran</a> <b>Such a move puts our troops in the region in grave physical danger.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,707691,00.html">7/28/2010 - US Cash for Israeli Settlements Making a Mockery of the Moratorium</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26007.htm">7/28/2010 - Resolution Green-Lighting Israeli Strikes on Iran Introduced by House Republicans</a> 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." <b>John Bolton is a traitor to the American people, and ought to be treated as such. He works FOR ISRAEL.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26031.htm">7/28/2010 - Israel s Secret Police Exposed </a>  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. <b>Really now. That explains a lot.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-23-02.htm">7/28/2010 - Ex-UN prosecutor De Silva probes Israeli boat raid</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3923891,00.html">7/28/2010 - UK seeks war crimes law change</a> If approved, the law will spare Israeli politicians and high-ranking IDF officers war crimes arrest warrants upon their arrival in the UK. <b>Looks like the Israeli lobby wins in Britain too.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/oliver-stone-jewish-control-of-the-media-is-preventing-free-holocaust-debate-1.304108?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.208%2C">7/28/2010 - Oliver Stone: Jewish control of the media is preventing free Holocaust debate</a> 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." <b>Stone later backpedaled though, in the face of the heat of the lobby.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-25-02.htm">7/28/2010 - Israel slams UN council's Gaza flotilla probe</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3924725,00.html">7/28/2010 - Turks protest Israeli volleyball team</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/israel-arab-citizens-knesset-zoabi">7/28/2010 - Israel's harassment of citizens could ignite uprising, warns Arab politician</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3062297,00.html">7/28/2010 - Israel's sex trade booming</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25990.htm">7/28/2010 - Why Jordan is Occupied by Palestinians By Robert Fisk</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-27-04.htm">7/28/2010 - Natural gas could lead to new Lebanon-Israel war</a> 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. <b>Just one more resource for Israel to thieve from the Arabs.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-22-01.htm">7/28/2010 - Gaza smugglers cut underground Egyptian steel wall</a> 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. <b>Where there's a will, there's a way.</b><br><br> <a href="http://palestinenote.com/cs/blogs/news/archive/2010/07/28/nobel-winner-desmond-tutu-back-boycotts-of-israel.aspx">7/28/2010 - Nobel-winner Desmond Tutu backs boycotts of Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129542/">7/28/2010 - A Victim of Madoff and Changing Priorities, the American Jewish Congress Calls It Quits</a> 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. <b>Isn't that interesting?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/23-0">7/28/2010 - Israel Gets Brutal With Media</a> "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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25991.htm">7/28/2010 - Whatever Happens, Israel Can Always Count On U.S. Evangelicals</a> Thousands of Christians from across the United States descended on Capitol Hill on Thursday in order to lobby Washington lawmakers on behalf of Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/07/27/reading-the-tea-leaves/">7/28/2010 - Reading the tea leaves</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/adl-accepts-oliver-stone-apology-over-holocaust-u-s-jews-remarks-1.304640">7/28/2010 - ADL accepts Oliver Stone apology over Holocaust, U.S. Jews remarks</a> "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." <b>Are you f'king kidding me, Oliver Stone? You are 100 % CORRECT. Why the hell did you back down from the truth?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/28/israel-link-sheikh-uae-coup">7/28/2010 - Israel linked to exiled sheikh's bid for 'coup' in Gulf emirate of RAK</a> Israel is aiding an exiled Arab sheikh who is vying to seize control of a strategically important Gulf emirate only 40 miles from Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-lauds-new-eu-nuclear-sanctions-on-iran-1.304232">7/28/2010 - Israel lauds new EU nuclear sanctions on Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/25/pipes-to-get-obama-to-act-netanyahu-should-threaten-to-nuke-iran">7/28/2010 - Pipes: To Get Obama To Act, Netanyahu Should Threaten To Nuke Iran </a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-un-north-korea-arms-proliferation-destabilizing-the-middle-east-1.303720">7/28/2010 - Israel to UN: North Korea arms proliferation destabilizing the Middle East </a> <b>Hey pot, this is the kettle calling.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26015.htm">7/28/2010 - Terror s Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone By Ray McGovern</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3062297,00.html">7/28/2010 - Israel's sex trade booming</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129547/">7/28/2010 - Caterpillar Caught in Web Of Middle East Politics</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/saber-kushour-rape-deception-charge">7/28/2010 - 'My conviction for rape by deception has ruined my life'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1364">7/28/2010 - Israeli Military Assaults Palestinians and Activists in Nonviolent Shuhada St. Action </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/129453/">7/28/2010 - Israel's 'Rape by Deception' Verdict Belies Racism </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0723/uss-liberty-survivor-death-gaza-flotilla/">7/28/2010 - USS Liberty survivor Death was possible on Gaza freedom flotilla</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129543/">7/28/2010 - Pennsylvania Senate Race Turns Into Battlefield for Dueling Pro-Israel Groups</a> 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. <b>What about the INTERESTS OF AMERICA?</b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11410.shtml">7/28/2010 - Holy Land 5 case reveals double standard in enforcement of US law</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/exclusive-haim-saban-stone-should-join-mel-gibson-retirement-19614">7/28/2010 - Haim Saban to CBS: Cancel Oliver Stone's Showtime Series</a> <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1297219/Judge-faces-anti-semitism-probe-speech-attacking-Israel-helps-free-arms-factory-protesters.html">7/28/2010 - Judge faces anti-Semitism probe after speech attacking Israel helps free arms factory protesters</a> Summing up in the criminal damage trial, he compared Israel to the Nazi regime and accused the country of ignoring international law. <b>The judge spoke the truth.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-27-03.htm">7/28/2010 - Ahmadinejad says expects U.S. to attack MidEast soon</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/oliver-stone-apologizes-for-saying-jews-control-the-media-1.304387">7/28/2010 - Oliver Stone apologizes for saying Jews control the media</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10717185">7/21/2010 - Man killed and child injured by IDF strike on Gaza</a> An Israeli tank shot at a group of Palestinians approaching the fence that separates Gaza from Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/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.html">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</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/16/idf-kills-mother-gaza-israel">7/21/2010 - Mother of five killed by Israeli artillery fire close to Gaza buffer zone</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-palestinian-killed-after-idf-fires-at-figures-near-gaza-border-1.303253">7/21/2010 - 2 Palestinians killed as IDF clashes with militants near Gaza border </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-18-03.htm">7/21/2010 - Some Gaza women smolder over Hamas' water-pipe ban</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/15-6">7/21/2010 - Israel Chokes Gaza Despite Announced Easing</a> "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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/idf-convicts-commander-soldier-in-shooting-of-bound-palestinian-1.302101">7/21/2010 - IDF convicts commander, soldier in shooting of bound Palestinian</a> 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. <b>And again.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/police-suspect-alleged-jewish-terrorist-killed-four-palestinians-1.302122">7/21/2010 - Police suspect alleged Jewish terrorist killed four Palestinians</a> <b>How much time will he serve if convicted, one month, one year?</b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1362">7/21/2010 - Al Khalil/Hebron: Israeli Border Police Demolish Water Infrastructure in Al Baqa'a Valley</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1360">7/21/2010 - Al/Khalil/ Hebron: Israeli Police Invade Palestinian Home, Arrest Father in Old City</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1361">7/21/2010 - Al Khalil/Hebron: Israeli Border Police Demolish Cistern in Al Beqa'a Valley</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/18/palestinian-territories-solar-power-car">7/21/2010 - Palestinians build solar car from scratch</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/for-first-time-in-nine-months-israel-razes-palestinian-homes-in-east-jerusalem-1.301681">7/21/2010 - For first time in nine months, Israel razes Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem</a> <b>I doubt it was the first time in 9 months. Israel= just like the Nazis.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/ashton-israel-must-allow-gaza-to-resume-exports-1.302389">7/21/2010 - Ashton: Israel must allow Gaza to resume exports </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0717/1224274901113.html">7/21/2010 - Medics prevented from treating dying Palestinian mother</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=eu-foreign-policy-chief-tours-gaza-checks-embargo-2010-07-18">7/21/2010 - EU foreign policy chief tours Gaza, checks embargo</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iron-dome-success-excites-but-army-balks-at-the-bill-1.303099">7/21/2010 - Iron Dome success excites, but army balks at the bill </a> 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 <b>As millions of Americans go hungry.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/israel+rearms+ready+for+war+with+iran/3713487">7/21/2010 - Israel re-arms ready for war with Iran</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/poll-most-americans-would-back-israel-attack-on-iran-1.302222">7/21/2010 - Poll: Most Americans would back Israel attack on Iran</a> <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/we-will-continue-to-shield-israel-militarily-and-diplomatically-u-s-official-says-1.302208">7/21/2010 - We will continue to shield Israel, militarily and diplomatically, U.S. official says</a> 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." <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/07/16/2740086/obama-official-guarantees-levels-of-defense-funding">7/21/2010 - Obama official assures on Israel defense aid</a> An Obama administration official committed to sustaining a 10-year defense assistance program to Israel, saying that advanced technology is endangering Israel. <b>Did you see what's going on in America lately? <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25952.htm">More Americans face foreclosure</a> the economy has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/20-4">not yet fully recovered from the recession</a>, and yet OUR PRIORITY IS TO MAKE SURE THE CRIMINAL STATE can continue to plunder and pillage in the Middle East?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/19-5">7/21/2010 - Iranian Scientist Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Programme</a> 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. <b>Really now? Pay particular attention to the last two paragraphs.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/idf-destroys-west-bank-village-after-declaring-it-military-zone-1.303098">7/21/2010 - IDF destroys West Bank village after declaring it military zone </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=181854">7/21/2010 - 'Israel convinces US with credible military plan on Iran'</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-17-02.htm">7/21/2010 - Abbas says Israel must accept foreign border force</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129361/">7/21/2010 - IDF Recognizes Help From Israeli Human Rights Group</a> <b>This is all part of the game.</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/129396/">7/21/2010 - Gaddafi Jr.: We Docked in Egypt After Israel OK'd Gaza Reconstruction Aid</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-theyre-all-grovelling-and-you-can-guess-the-reason-2028720.html">7/21/2010 - Robert Fisk: They're all grovelling and you can guess the reason </a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-21-01.htm">7/21/2010 - Israel Jails Arab for Bedding Jew Under False Pretenses</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-16-01.htm">7/21/2010 - Israelis see Obama as pro-Palestinian: poll</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/20/israeli-soldier-tom-hurndall-released">7/21/2010 - Family of Briton killed by Israeli soldier demand meeting with ministers</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-18-02.htm">7/21/2010 - Netanyahu says he will oppose conversion bill</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/07/18/bibi-unmasked/">7/21/2010 - Bibi Unmasked</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/print/">7/21/2010 - A hidden world, growing beyond control</a> * An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances. <b>How many Israeli spies are in that group?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/07/19/sayanim-israeli-operatives-in-the-u-s/">7/21/2010 - Sayanim - Israeli Operatives in the U.S.</a> 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). <b>A great piece by Veterans Today.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/20-12">7/21/2010 - Democracy Depends on Diverse Media, Senators Say</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10683549">7/21/2010 - Iran urges US to drop 'cowboy logic' over nuclear issue</a> Mr Ahmadinejad added that the US's real concern was not that Iran may make a bomb, but its rise as a regional power. <b>Israel is behind that concern.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25958.htm">7/21/2010 - Iranian Scientist Would Not Play Curveball</a> 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. <b>Ray McGovern is former CIA.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/19">7/21/2010 - Demands for Release of Nuclear Whistleblower as Israel Holds Vanunu in Solitary Confinement</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25953.htm">7/21/2010 - The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out</a> <b>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?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-s-nuclear-program-implicated-in-u-s-investigation-1.302006">7/21/2010 - Israel's nuclear program implicated in U.S. investigation </a> 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. <b>These people are not our allies, not even close.</b><br><br> <a href="http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0714/study-attack-iran-start-long-war/">7/21/2010 - Study: Attack on Iran would be  start of long war </a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25957.htm">7/21/2010 - Israel set to force all citizens to swear oath to Jewish state</a> <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-20-01.htm">7/21/2010 - 4 Reasons Israel Hasn't Bombed Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/focus-u-s-a/food-co-op-in-rachel-corrie-s-hometown-boycotts-israeli-goods-1.302980">7/21/2010 - Food co-op in Rachel Corrie's hometown boycotts Israeli goods</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129364">7/21/2010 - Presbyterians Tone Down Report On Israel After Jewish Lobbying</a> 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.  <b>The truth about Israel must be whitewashed at all costs.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-18-01.htm">7/21/2010 - Israeli minister to lay West Bank foundation stone</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/20/AR2010072005958.html">7/21/2010 - New sanctions crimp Iran's shipping business as insurers withhold coverage</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/in-sign-of-warming-ties-turkey-fm-reportedly-meets-hamas-chief-1.303016">7/21/2010 - In sign of warming ties, Turkey FM reportedly meets Hamas chief</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/jul/20/translation-arabic-language-fundamentalist-muslim">7/21/2010 - Bad translation makes fundamentalists of us all</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/alleged-mossad-agent-fights-extradition-to-germany-1.302819">7/21/2010 - Alleged Mossad agent fights extradition to Germany</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iran-fm-nuclear-fuel-talks-to-commence-in-september-1.302183">7/21/2010 - Iran FM: Nuclear fuel talks to commence in September</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3922024,00.html">7/21/2010 - 'Mossad agents' expelled from Mauritius</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25914.htm">7/14/2010 - U.S. Congress United in its Support of Israel, says Republican Minority Whip</a> 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. <b>Behold the treason.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-10-01.htm">7/14/2010 - Palestinian village to be encircled by barrier</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/07/14/Woman-killed-five-injured-near-Gaza-City/UPI-91731279110056/">7/14/2010 - Woman killed, five injured near Gaza City</a> In a separate incident, two Palestinians were injured by Israeli artillery fire near a Gaza refugee camp. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-13-02.htm">7/14/2010 - Israeli bulldozers raze 6 east Jerusalem buildings</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/13/palestinian-homes-bulldozed-israeli">7/14/2010 - Palestinian homes bulldozed as Israeli freeze on demolitions appears to end</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/israel/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/07/09/israel_gets_away">7/14/2010 - It's official: Israel has gotten away with it -- again</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-08-03.htm">7/14/2010 - Obama says Israel unlikely to surprise US with Iran attack</a> "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. <b>Israel didn't give us any warning when they attacked USS Liberty.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-12-02.htm">7/14/2010 - Strong Russian remarks on Iran please Washington</a> 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. <b>Did it have anything to do with the recent spy exchange between US and Russia, mewonders? I think so.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/settler-released-hours-after-arrested-over-killing-of-palestinian-youth-1.301272?utm_source=NET+NEWS+GLOBAL">7/14/2010 - Settler released hours after arrested over killing of Palestinian youth</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-01-04.htm">7/14/2010 - Palestinian villagers battle plans to wall them in</a> "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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-09-01.htm">7/14/2010 - Obama tells Abbas he is committed to Palestinian state</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-doubts-mideast-peace-deal-possible-by-2012-1.301304">7/14/2010 - Netanyahu doubts Mideast peace deal possible by 2012</a> "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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0711/netanyahu-military-threats-stop-iran-building-nukes/">7/14/2010 - Netanyahu: Only US military threats can stop Iran from making nukes</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-08-02.htm">7/14/2010 - Netanyahu signals no extension of settlement freeze</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-11-02.htm">7/14/2010 - Israel says won't let Libyan aid ship reach Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-13-01.htm">7/14/2010 - Israel: Gaza aid ship diverts to Egypt</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-conservatives-form-new-pro-israel-lobby-group-1.301678">7/14/2010 - U.S. conservatives form new pro-Israel lobby group</a> 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. <b>The neocons are back in full force.</b><br><br> <a href="http://counterpunch.org/leupp07062010.html">7/14/2010 - Petraeus, Palin, Boot and the Power of Israel </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3917483,00.html">7/14/2010 - Case against soldier who fired shots in Silwan closed</a> 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' <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25897.htm">7/14/2010 - US Treasury Grants Tax Exemptions to Funders of Illegal Israeli Settlements</a> 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. <b>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, <a href="http://www.ussliberty.com">even war crimes against US citizens</a>.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-11-03.htm">7/14/2010 - Abbas: No point in direct talks with Israel now</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25901.htm">7/14/2010 - Exposed: The Truth About Israel's Land Grab In The West Bank</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=180695">7/14/2010 - 'US will attack Iran if it must' </a> 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. <b>These traitors must be stopped.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-10-02.htm">7/14/2010 - Presbyterians: End Israel aid over settlements</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/16/netanyahu-in-2001-america_n_649427.html">7/14/2010 - Netanyahu In 2001: 'America Is A Thing You Can Move Very Easily' </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/israel-bans-gaza-woman-from-studying-human-rights-in-west-bank-1.301372">7/14/2010 - Israel bans Gaza woman from studying human rights in West Bank</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25930.htm">7/14/2010 - Israel's New 'Video Game' Executions</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/189850">7/14/2010 - MK Ben-Ari: Sink Libyan Ship</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/world/middleeast/13flotilla.html">7/14/2010 - Israeli Military Finds Flotilla Killings Justified</a> <b>Israel exonerates itself. No kidding?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/ireland-seeks-to-block-israel-access-to-data-on-eu-citizens-1.301180">7/14/2010 - Ireland seeks to block Israel access to data on EU citizens</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/11/israel-academics-bds-boycott">7/14/2010 - Israeli academics hit back over bid to pass law that would criminalise them</a> 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." <b>Israel is not a democracy. It's a sham.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20100709%2FNEWS%2F7090322">7/14/2010 - Woods Hole movie screen goes dark CapeCodOnline.com</a> "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." <b>More fascism on display by Israel-supporters.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/35144/childrens-group-boycotts-israel">7/14/2010 - Children's group boycotts Israel</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/129147/">7/14/2010 - Vodka Ad Too Sexy For Brooklyn Hasidic Community</a> <b>Imagine the national outrcy if it were Muslims that had or wanted to have those ads banned?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/12-0">7/14/2010 - The Hypocrisy of Preaching Nonviolence to Palestinians</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hmaKsSfPsbleEB-Hs16JlU2JCnVwD9GTJ0OO0">7/14/2010 - critics US too low-key on Islamic radicalism talk</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/129174/">7/14/2010 - Obama Should Keep Bush's Word, But Bibi Needn't Keep Olmert's? </a> 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. <b>JINSA is a neocon (pro-Israel) 'thinktank'.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/john-mearsheimer/2010/07/08/israels-nukes-harm-us-national-interests/">7/14/2010 - Israel s Nukes Harm US National Interests by John Mearsheimer</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/opinion/09iht-edcohen.html?_r=2&ref=opinion">7/14/2010 - The Israel-Turkey Imbroglio</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25928.htm">7/14/2010 - Castro: War on Iran 'Imminent'</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25923.htm">7/14/2010 - Scott Horton Interviews Lawrence Wilkerson</a> "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." <b>Several more neocons who deliberately deceived Americans into going to war with Iraq.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25925.htm">7/14/2010 - The Unchallenged Power of the Israel Lobby </a> 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). <b>Perle is one of the neocons responsible for deliberately deceiving Americans into going to war with Iraq.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25915.htm">7/14/2010 - Obama: 'I Have Met Israel and It Is "Us"'</a> 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. <b>And again.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/09-2">7/14/2010 - Wealthy Reap Rewards While Those Who Work Lose</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://palsolidarity.org/2010/07/12892/">7/14/2010 - Hebron  dance protest against Israeli soldiers and settlers</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-11-01.htm">7/14/2010 - Hezbollah says it has list of targets in Israel</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-08-01.htm">7/14/2010 - CNN fires veteran editor for Mideast over Tweet</a> 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. <b>Have sympathy for Israeli Jewish terrorists (such as Begin, Sharon, and more), and you'll get accolades and opportunities.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25899.htm">7/14/2010 - "Christian-Zionism" Is Trouble for Israel and the USA </a> <b>These people are not real Christians. They are impostors.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/unprecedented-police-brutality-at-east-jerusalem-protest-1.301039">7/14/2010 - 'Unprecedented police brutality' at East Jerusalem protest </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/obama-warns-erdogan-international-gaza-flotilla-probe-bad-for-turkey-1.299783">7/14/2010 - 'Obama warns Erdogan international Gaza flotilla probe bad for Turkey'</a> 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. <b>What? Now who would give Obama that idea?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/obama-yields-to-bibi-plus_b_637091.html">7/14/2010 - Obama Yields to Bibi, Plus Me vs. Petraeus </a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/129238/">7/14/2010 - 'Many Jewish Neighborhoods in J lem Will Remain in Israel' </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=180788">7/14/2010 - Israel is waiting for Palin</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129224/">7/14/2010 - Bringing Judaism Out of the Home, and Into the Public Square</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0709/Passing-of-Shiite-cleric-Fadlallah-spells-trouble-for-Lebanon">7/14/2010 - Passing of Shiite cleric Fadlallah spells trouble for Lebanon</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/lieberman-s-settlement-bars-russian-israeli-families-from-buying-homes-1.301170">7/14/2010 - Lieberman's settlement bars Russian-Israeli families from buying homes</a> "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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/iara-lee/slandering-the-good-guys_b_649604.html">7/14/2010 - Slandering the Good Guys: Some Basic Facts About IHH </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/129189/">7/14/2010 - The Israel Project to N.Y. Times: Expose Anti-Israel NGOs, Too  Like the New Israel Fund </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/israel-steps-forced-evictions-west-bank-palestinians-2010-07-01">7/7/2010 - .Israel steps up forced evictions of West Bank Palestinians</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1359">7/7/2010 - Al Khalil/Hebron: Israeli Border Police Destroy Vegetable Fields in Al Baqa'a Valley</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-02-02.htm">7/7/2010 - Turkey and Israel try fence-mending after ship raid</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/un-general-assembly-cancels-session-on-gaza-flotilla-1.300602">7/7/2010 - UN General Assembly cancels session on Gaza flotilla</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-07-04.htm">7/7/2010 - Sen. Lieberman says force may be needed in Iran</a> 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. <b>Lieberman = agent of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-30-03.htm">7/7/2010 - Obama set to sign Iran sanctions bill: W.House</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-06-03.htm">7/7/2010 - Obama backs Israel on nuclear conference</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-01-02.htm">7/7/2010 - Palestinian PM meets Israeli minister</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=180725">7/7/2010 - Sen. Lieberman: US ready to strike Iran if it must</a> 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. <b>Lieberman is one of Israel's top agents on Capitol Hill.</b><br><br> <a href="http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/rights-group-files-foia-requests-regarding-israel-attack-flotilla-delivering-aid-gaza">7/7/2010 - Rights Group Files FOIA Requests Regarding Israel Attack on Flotilla Delivering Aid to Gaza Center for Constitutional Rights</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-07-06.htm">7/7/2010 - Obama denies any Israel, US rift</a> 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. <b>The lobby put the screws to Obama,no doubt, resulting in his total turnaround in behavior.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-05-05.htm">7/7/2010 - Turkey wants Israel apology</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/abbas-no-direct-talks-without-progress-on-borders-and-security-1.299440">7/7/2010 - Abbas: No direct talks without progress on borders and security</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/obama-warns-erdogan-international-gaza-flotilla-probe-bad-for-turkey-1.299783">7/7/2010 - 'Obama warns Erdogan international Gaza flotilla probe bad for Turkey' </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/04/growing-consensus-israel-abusing-its-status-as-indispensable-us-ally/">7/7/2010 - Growing Consensus: Israel Abusing Its Status as  Indispensable US Ally</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3915558,00.html">7/7/2010 - Gazans: We were used as 'human shields'</a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/05/us-binyamin-netanyahu-settlements">7/7/2010 - US to press Binyamin Netanyahu to extend freeze on settlements</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-05-04.htm">7/7/2010 - Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank</a> 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 <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-06-04.htm">7/7/2010 - Israeli settlements cover 42 percent of West Bank</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-04-01.htm">7/7/2010 - Israel ministers reject bill to foil settlement freeze</a> <b>Peace or piece? Israel chooses to take another piece of Palestine.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-01-01.htm">7/7/2010 - Gaza gets chocolate but no cement as embargo eases</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/05/israeli-fm-stokes-tensions-with-turkey/">7/7/2010 - Israeli FM Stokes Tensions With Turkey</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/german-parliament-expected-to-pass-motion-urging-israel-to-end-gaza-blockade-1.299473">7/7/2010 - German parliament expected to pass motion urging Israel to end Gaza blockade</a> "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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-06-01.htm">7/7/2010 - Israeli army: Gaza war troops to be disciplined</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://politics.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2010/07/06/despite-rift-israel-gets-more-us-aid-than-iraq.html">7/7/2010 - Despite Rift, Israel Gets More U.S. Aid Than Iraq</a> More than any other nation, including war-torn Iraq, Israel gets the most U.S. aid, according to the Feds. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-05-02.htm">7/7/2010 - Israel eases Gaza closure, but restrictions remain</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-secret-document-affirms-u-s-israel-nuclear-partnership-1.300554">7/7/2010 - Report: Secret document affirms U.S.-Israel nuclear partnership</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/2-700-houses-to-be-built-as-soon-as-west-bank-settlement-freeze-ends-1.300114">7/7/2010 - 2,700 houses to be built as soon as West Bank settlement freeze ends</a> <b>And again.</b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/politics/10470914.stm">7/7/2010 - Blair to receive US peace medal</a> "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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3915394,00.html">7/7/2010 - Israeli judge Learn from Nazis</a> <b>Israel has learned from the Nazis alright.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-abbas-agrees-to-israeli-control-over-jewish-holy-sites-in-jerusalem-1.299798">7/7/2010 - Report: Abbas agrees to Israeli control over Jewish holy sites in Jerusalem</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3913044,00.html">7/7/2010 - JA adopts plan aimed at securing Jewish future</a>  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. <b>How ironic.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3914552,00.html">7/7/2010 - Lieberman no-show at US Embassy's 4th of July party</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=180032">7/7/2010 - Judge grants ex-Israeli spy US asylum</a> <b>'Oh ok, as long as he was good for Israel, he can stay.'</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/why-are-so-many-israelis-arrested-over-illegal-arms-deals-worldwide-1.299308">7/7/2010 - Why are so many Israelis arrested over illegal arms deals worldwide?</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/ben-eliezer-meets-with-turkish-fm-in-effort-to-resolve-bilateral-crisis-1.299275">7/7/2010 - Ben-Eliezer meets with Turkish FM in effort to resolve bilateral crisis</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-05-03.htm">7/7/2010 - With Obama meeting scheduled, Israel eases Gaza import limits</a> 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 . <b>So the easing of the blockade will be reversed once the dog and pony show is over?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/34111/no-israel-visit-dustin-hoffman">7/7/2010 - No Israel visit for Dustin Hoffman</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/news/clinton-u-s-to-contribute-150-million-to-auschwitz-birkenau-foundation-1.299808">7/7/2010 - Clinton: U.S. to contribute $150 million to Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation</a> 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. <b>We're looking at unemployment here that rivals that of the Great Depression, is this really necessary? Did American perpetrate the Holocaust?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3914018,00.html">7/7/2010 - Report: Turkey may expand Israeli flights ban</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-07-05.htm">7/7/2010 - Polish court orders Mossad spy suspect extradited</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/news/idf-objector-sprays-free-gaza-graffiti-on-warsaw-ghetto-wall-1.300138">7/7/2010 - IDF objector sprays 'Free Gaza' graffiti on Warsaw Ghetto wall</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/eu-foreign-ministers-accept-israeli-invitation-to-visit-gaza-1.300215">7/7/2010 - EU foreign ministers accept Israeli invitation to visit Gaza</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/07/the-general-the-journalist-and-the-power-of-israel/">7/7/2010 - The General, the Journalist, and the Power of Israel</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=180636">7/7/2010 - Analysis: President now working with the PM, not against him</a> 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." <b>Translation: the Israeli lobby put the screws to Obama and it worked.</b><br><br> <a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/07/02/what_to_read_this_fourth_of_july_weekend">7/7/2010 - What to read this Fourth of July weekend by Stephen M. Walt</a> 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 <b>Beware of the evils of the passionate attachment (in present times, this would be the attachment to Israel).</b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/petraeus-fed-his-pro-israel-bona-fides-to-a-neocon-writer-including-pathetic-recitation-of-meeting-wiesel.html">7/7/2010 - Petraeus emails show general scheming with journalist to get out pro-Israel storyline</a> <b>Very interesting.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/05/us-israel-support">7/7/2010 - US questions its unwavering support for Israel</a> "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. <b>Americans need to get Congress back from chokehold of the Israeli lobby.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-trying-to-block-u-s-saudi-arabia-defense-contract-1.299848">7/7/2010 - 'Israel trying to block U.S.-Saudi Arabia defense contract'</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-03-01.htm">7/7/2010 - Palestinian who planned Munich attack dies in Syria</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/06/30/executive-privilege/">7/7/2010 - Executive Privilege by Philip Giraldi </a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-07-02.htm">7/7/2010 - Israel: Hezbollah storing weapons inside villages</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/fpmatters/201007060005">7/7/2010 - Me, General Petraeus & The Lobby</a> Why the panic? Why the rush to consult neocon Max Boot? Why the nervousness? <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2010/07/general-petraeus-israel-emails">7/7/2010 - General Petraeus s leaked emails about Israel</a> 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: <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/070810.html">7/7/2010 - Neocons, Likud Conquer DC, Again</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/129110/">7/7/2010 - Bibi's Trifecta: Reach Out to Turkey, Boost Fuad, Diss Lieberman </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/patrick07072010.html">7/7/2010 - Israel and the Infinite Limits of US Patience : No Woodshed for Netanyahu </a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-07-03.htm">7/7/2010 - Analysis: A critical US-Israel issue is left open</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3916571,00.html">7/7/2010 - Military official: Iran did not send radar to Syria</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/07/03/in-israel-subsidies-not-to-learn/">7/7/2010 - In Israel, Subsidies Not to Learn</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25880.htm">7/7/2010 - Does Israel Make Us Safer?</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25883.htm">7/7/2010 - American Opinion On Israel - And The Congress's</a> <b>Interesting.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25887.htm">7/7/2010 - Islamo-fascism, Judaeo-fascism, Bapto-fascism, and Why We Need More Bars</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-215327-8-epstein-hopes-gazans-will-be-free-to-pursue-their-lives-in-dignity.html">7/7/2010 - Epstein hopes Gazans will be  free to pursue their lives in dignity </a> 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! <b>Hedy Epstein is a very brave individual.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=511493">7/7/2010 - Seven European Ships Will Join 2nd Gaza Aid Flotilla</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/07/07/senators-raise-prospect-of-us-attack-on-iran/">7/7/2010 - Senators Raise Prospect of US Attack on Iran</a> 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. <b>Passionate attachment, right there.</b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1356">7/7/2010 - Hebron - Freedom Flotilla release</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/04-2">7/7/2010 - Israel's Foes Embrace New Resistance Tactics</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/129045">7/7/2010 - Israel s Stealth Foreign Minister</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/129109/">7/7/2010 - Histories Again Collide On the Hills of Jerusalem</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/129011/">7/7/2010 - Labor Minister, Ex-Gen. 'Fuad' Ben-Eliezer: Time's Up. World Is Tired of Us. Bibi Must Decide </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/33594/fury-methodists-vote-boycott-israel">7/7/2010 - Fury as Methodists vote to boycott Israel</a> 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. <b>Oh dear.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-02-01.htm">7/7/2010 - Iran moves radar to Syria: US official</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://neocon-watch.blogspot.com/2010/07/sean-hannity-displays-his-true-colors.html">7/7/2010 - Sean Hannity Displays His True Colors - Blue and White (Israeli Flag) When Caller Mentions USS Liberty</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/129089/">7/7/2010 - Peoplehood Vs Israel</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/07/07-07-01.htm">7/7/2010 - Guns belonging to Israel PM's security detail 'missing'</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/06/30/bikini-models-protest-vodka-ad-ban-hasidic-jewish-communities-brooklyn/">7/7/2010 - Bikini Models Protest Vodka Ad Ban in Brooklyn Hasidic Jewish Communities</a> 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 <b>I thought only the Islamists were the ones offended by women's unclothed bodies?</b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <b>June </b> <br><br> <a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/FERB-86VD9T?OpenDocument">6/30/2010 - Children in West Bank facing worse conditions than in Gaza</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://amconmag.com/article/2010/aug/01/00010/">6/30/2010 - Sinking Ship - The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself. By John J. Mearsheimer </a> 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. <b>An absolutely superb piece by Mearsheimer. If you're American (like me), please read it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201006/2940536.htm">6/30/2010 - Gaza aid victims shot more than once - report</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-30-01.htm">6/30/2010 - Israel police arrest Hamas man set for expulsion</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=179622">6/30/2010 - Palestinian family fears Gaza expulsion</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138268">6/30/2010 - US Approves New Iran Sanctions</a> 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. <b>AIPAC is pulling the strings.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-29-02.htm">6/30/2010 - Palestinians seek new partner: American Jews</a> "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." <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-28-04.htm">6/30/2010 - Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/razing-of-palestinian-homes-in-e-jerusalem-approved-despite-250-shortfalls-in-plan-1.298826">6/30/2010 - Razing of Palestinian homes in E. Jerusalem approved despite 250 shortfalls in plan</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-24-02.htm">6/30/2010 - Fearing expulsion, Palestinians stay home</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-26-01.htm">6/30/2010 - Racing Palestinian girls speed into record books</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/g-8-fully-believes-israel-will-attack-iran-says-italy-pm-1.298597">6/30/2010 - G-8 'fully believes' Israel will attack Iran, says Italy PM</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/abbas-israel-must-not-expel-hamas-politicians-from-jerusalem-1.298082">6/30/2010 - Abbas: Israel must not expel Hamas politicians from Jerusalem</a> Abbas warned that expelling the politicians to the West Bank would set a dangerous precedent and would create new obstacles for peace. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-s-frustrated-with-netanyahu-over-stalled-proximity-talks-1.298854">6/30/2010 - U.S. frustrated with Netanyahu over stalled proximity talks </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3911962,00.html">6/30/2010 - Indictment: Settlers attacked Arabs in Tel Aviv</a> Two youths from West Bank settlements charged with attacking Arab brothers with knifes; spitting, cursing their Russian friend for 'hanging out with Arabs' <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/planning-committee-to-release-blueprint-outlining-takeover-of-east-jerusalem-1.298472">6/30/2010 - Planning committee to release blueprint outlining takeover of East Jerusalem</a> 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. <b>Wow.</b><br><br> <a href="http://methodist.org.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=opentogod.newsDetail&newsid=453">6/30/2010 - Methodist Church to boycott goods from illegal Israeli settlements</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/israel-foreign-minister-n_n_629088.html">6/30/2010 - Israel Foreign Minister: 'No Chance' For Palestinian State By 2012 </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/un-urges-israel-to-rethink-east-jerusalem-construction-plans-1.298040">6/30/2010 - UN urges Israel to rethink East Jerusalem construction plans</a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1358">6/30/2010 - HEBRON/AL-KHALIL: Settlers destroy Palestinian crops and slash water piles in the</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-we-will-not-apologize-to-turkey-over-gaza-flotilla-deaths-1.294373">6/30/2010 - Israel: We will not apologize to Turkey over Gaza flotilla deaths</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-24-01.htm">6/30/2010 - Israel's Likud backs West Bank settlement growth</a> 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. <b>Double crossers.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-25-01.htm">6/30/2010 - Iran cancels aid ship to Gaza: report</a> "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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138318">6/30/2010 - US Military Chief: Doesn t Trust Iran but Israel, US  in Synch </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/06/16/is-benjamin-netanyahu-rational/">6/30/2010 - Is Benjamin Netanyahu Rational? by Philip Giraldi</a> 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. <b>I encourage my fellow Americans to heed (former CIA) Philip Giraldi's words.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3909745,00.html">6/30/2010 - War crimes suit filed against Barak, Livni in Belgium</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=179244">6/30/2010 - IDF draws up new Gaza war doctrine </a> 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. <b>Is this the same type of 'evacuation' (expulsion) that the Israelis employed in the 40s?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/25-4">6/30/2010 - Gaza: Allow Access to Gilad Shalit</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=179475">6/30/2010 - British trade union calls for boycott</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3910172,00.html">6/30/2010 - Peres to Austrian chancellor: Terror groups overtook Gaza flotillas</a> 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." <b>Note to Peres: I don't think anyone (besides the US) is buying it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-lieberman-changes-policy-invites-european-diplomats-to-gaza-1.298107">6/30/2010 - Report: Lieberman changes policy, invites European diplomats to Gaza</a> 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. <b>Something tells me that a whitewash is in the making, in order to ease the international pressure with respect to Gaza.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25800.htm">6/30/2010 - Jon Voight to Obama: You are Harming Israel and Promoting anti-Semitism</a> <b>Maybe Jon Voight could better serve ISRAEL'S interests by MOVING THERE. This here is AMERICA.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkCBK4-5tRI">6/30/2010 - YouTube - Israelis Enjoy Massacre (Shocking)</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/29/palestinian-boycott-israeli-settlement-goods?CMP=AFCYAH">6/30/2010 - Palestinian boycott of Israeli settlement goods starts to bite</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bdbA2Ka3Bo&feature=related">6/30/2010 - Palestinian Children Beaten by Israeli Soldier </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3910550,00.html">6/30/2010 - Barak: Clear mines from Israel-US ties</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3910444,00.html">6/30/2010 - US says Gaza flotillas 'irresponsible'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-28-03.htm">6/30/2010 - Turkey closes airspace to some Israeli flights</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3910714,00.html">6/30/2010 - Hamas says asked by US to keep silent on talks</a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/06/24/2739756/new-australian-pm-supportive-of-israel">6/30/2010 - New Australian PM supportive of Israel</a> 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. <b>Australia has its own version of AIPAC, the powerful Israeli lobby.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=179570">6/30/2010 - US: Turkey must show commitment </a> <b>Turkey's crime? It dared stand up to Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128914/">6/30/2010 - Sidelining Conflict</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/us/26religion.html?ref=us">6/30/2010 - American Jews Who Reject Zionism Say Events Aid Cause</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11350.shtml">6/30/2010 - Exclusive: Leaked documents show PA undermined Turkey's push for UN flotilla probe </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138279">6/30/2010 - Sen. Kerry in Israel: Praise for Israel, Worried over Iran</a> . 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0626/nyt-calls-zionist-terrorism-romantic/">6/30/2010 - New York Times reporter calls Zionist terrorism  romantic </a> "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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128943/">6/30/2010 - Jewish Groups Turn a Cold Shoulder To Turkey, as Turks Refuse To Budge</a> 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. <b>As the Jewish groups turn, so too does the US Congress.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-29-01.htm">6/30/2010 - Obama meets Saudi King Abdullah at White House</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0627/report-warships-stationed-iranian-coast/">6/30/2010 - Report: US warships stationed off Iranian coast</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/focus-u-s-a/focus-u-s-a-the-u-s-will-have-to-confront-iran-or-give-up-the-middle-east-1.297931">6/30/2010 - 'The U.S. will have to confront Iran or give up the Middle East'</a> 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. <b>Amitai Etzioni naturally <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitai_Etzioni">has ties to Israel</a> (he served in the Haganah, the Jewish terror organization).</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/06/23/punishing-turkey/">6/30/2010 - Punishing Turkey by Philip Giraldi</a> 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." <b>Punishing Turkey - all because of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-28-05.htm">6/30/2010 - Hezbollah not interested in dialogue with US</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-24-03.htm">6/30/2010 - Congress faces grim numbers in new Gallup poll</a> 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. <b>Maybe they ought to try representing OUR interests for a change.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-27-03.htm">6/30/2010 - CIA's Panetta: Iran has enough uranium for 2 bombs</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-27-02.htm">6/30/2010 - Chavez: Israel and US 'empire' are enemies</a> "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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25831.htm">6/30/2010 - Palin: Obama administration selling out Israel</a> <b>Who chooses to take the side of a foreign nation over their own? It's treason.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128937/">6/30/2010 - Erekat Voices Frustration With Israel s Unwillingness To Play  End Game </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://thedailynewsegypt.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=120352&catid=1&Itemid=183">6/30/2010 - Iran says Egypt barring Gaza aid ship from Suez Canal</a> 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.<br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/06/29/2739830/kagan-explains-barak-remarks">6/30/2010 - Kagan explains Barak remarks</a> "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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=281041">6/30/2010 - ISRAEL 'PLOTS TEHRAN RAID' </a> Preparations are underway to launch the military attack from Azerbaijan and Georgia, reports our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej, quoting military sources. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/us-millitary-surrounds-iran/1192">6/30/2010 - Chances of Israeli Bombing Increase</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25815.htm">6/30/2010 - Congresswoman Raises Red Flag on Hezbollah-Cartel Nexus on U.S. Border</a> <b>AIPAC is no doubt behind this effort..</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/infrastructure-minister-warns-hezbollah-israel-will-fight-for-its-gas-fields-1.298077">6/30/2010 - Infrastructure Minister warns Hezbollah: Israel will fight for its gas fields</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/06/will-mainline-american-protestants-give-palestinian-christians-a-voice.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feedburner%2FWDBc+%28Mondoweiss%29">6/30/2010 - Will mainline American Protestants give Palestinian Christians a voice?</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/30-5">6/30/2010 - Barred from Jerusalem for Crime of Being Palestinian</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ministers-reject-bill-to-prevent-discrimination-in-state-schools-1.298601">6/30/2010 - Ministers reject bill to prevent discrimination in state schools</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128934/">6/30/2010 - On Gaza, an About-Face That Was Overdue</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.factbat.com/blog/2010/6/25/the-real-sean-hannity.html">6/30/2010 - THE REAL SEAN HANNITY</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128939/">6/30/2010 - In Brooklyn, Passengers Aboard the Flotilla Ship Give Eyewitness Accounts</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/06/will-the-ny-times-ever-retract-michael-orens-falsehoods/">6/30/2010 - Will The NY Times Ever Retract Michael Oren s Falsehoods?</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.570news.com/news/world/article/71120--venezuela-s-chavez-meets-with-syrian-president-bashar-assad-vows-to-fight-us-imperialism">6/30/2010 - Venezuela's Chavez meets with Syrian President Bashar Assad, vows to fight US 'imperialism'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-29-01.htm">6/30/2010 - This Is What Jewish Democracy Looks Like</a> 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? <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/king_of_israel_4TnxlcufrRkd7JOG132hKN">6/23/2010 - Long Island Rep. Pete King says House Dems forced to choose between Israel and Obama - NYPOST.com</a> 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. <b>Do Americans fully understand the treason within that statement?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/mayor-defends-plan-to-raze-palestinian-homes-in-east-jerusalem-1.297635">6/23/2010 - Mayor defends plan to raze Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1564554.php/Report-German-government-to-demand-sea-aid-to-Gaza">6/23/2010 - Report: German government to demand sea aid to Gaza </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/poll-most-palestinians-want-peace-with-israel-1.297196">6/23/2010 - Poll: Most Palestinians want peace with Israel</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/06/17/top-ten-myths-about-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/all/1">6/23/2010 - Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict</a> <b>A superb and concise look at the top myths employed Israel's defenders. Well worth the read.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65F4ZP20100616">6/23/2010 - Turkey set to freeze ties with Israel: report</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128821/">6/23/2010 - Push To Sanction Backers of Gaza Flotilla Gains Steam in U.S.</a> 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. <b>Afraid the truth will get out?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/17">6/23/2010 - Human Rights Groups say Israel's 'Easing of Blockade' Does Not Go Far Enough</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-21-04.htm">6/23/2010 - U.N. agency calls for full lifting of Gaza blockade</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/israeli-authorities-must-stop-demolitions-palestinian-homes-2010-06-16">6/23/2010 - Israeli authorities must stop demolitions of Palestinian homes</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-bars-german-minister-from-gaza-1.297107">6/23/2010 - Israel bars German minister from Gaza </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-21-02.htm">6/23/2010 - Jerusalem revives plan to raze Palestinian homes</a> 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. <b>And now that Obama has been reduced back down to the kowtow bow (to Israel), the Israelis resume their Nazi-like ways.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=179110">6/23/2010 - No need for aid flotillas, says Blair</a>  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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-18-02.htm">6/23/2010 - Iran says UN sanctions show double standard</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/20/netanyahu-vows-to-tighten-gaza-blockade/">6/23/2010 - Netanyahu Vows to  Tighten Gaza Blockade</a> 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. <b>That didn't last long.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138231">6/23/2010 - Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-17-01.htm">6/23/2010 - Israel loosens chokehold on Gaza</a> 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. <b>Watch what Israel does not what it says.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/06/18/israeli-blockade-eased-only-in-english-but-u-s-media-eat-it-up/">6/23/2010 - Israeli Blockade 'Eased' Only in English, but U.S. Media Eat It Up</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-20-01.htm">6/23/2010 - Israel drafting new list of goods banned from Gaza</a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-23-01.htm">6/23/2010 - Israel cannot put Gaza responsibility on Egypt: Mubarak</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-lebanon-forbids-launch-of-gaza-bound-flotilla-1.297194">6/23/2010 - Report: Lebanon forbids launch of Gaza-bound flotilla</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-un-we-reserve-the-right-to-stop-lebanon-gaza-bound-flotilla-1.297012">6/23/2010 - Israel to UN: We reserve the right to stop Lebanon Gaza-bound flotilla</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-adds-turkish-organizers-of-gaza-flotilla-to-terror-watch-list-1.296590">6/23/2010 - Israel adds Turkish organizers of Gaza flotilla to terror watch list</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/17/canada-support-israel">6/23/2010 - Canada: Israel's new defender</a> 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. <b>Canada has fallen victim to its own Israeli lobby. Shame.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/barak-israel-needs-daring-initiative-to-thwart-international-isolation-1.296423">6/23/2010 - Barak: Israel needs 'daring initiative' to thwart international isolation</a> <b>Why not try acting in a legal and ethical way instead of trying to cover up for more and more crimes?</b><br><br> <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/16/us.turkey.armenia/">6/23/2010 - Lawmakers warn Turkey of payback over Iran, Israel policies</a> "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." <b>What other nation's lawmakers are doing this besides ours? Why is that, you figure?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/former-spanish-pm-if-israel-goes-down-we-all-go-down-1.297004">6/23/2010 - Former Spanish PM: If Israel goes down, we all go down </a> 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. <b>Aznar is a very deluded man. I wonder what the Israelis have on him..</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/culture/unofficial-bob-dylan-website-bans-israelis-in-wake-of-gaza-flotilla-1.295749">6/23/2010 - Unofficial Bob Dylan website bans Israelis in wake of Gaza flotilla</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/knesset-to-hold-session-on-armenian-genocide-1.296894">6/23/2010 - Knesset to hold session on Armenian genocide</a> 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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-22-01.htm">6/23/2010 - Army mulls charging soldier for Gaza war killings</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/15/libby-davies-israel.html">6/23/2010 - Calls for NDP MP to resign after Israel comments</a> 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." <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phyllis-bennis/turning-points-israel-cav_b_621958.html">6/23/2010 - Israel Caves Under Flotilla Pressure</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-20-04.htm">6/23/2010 - US signals better relations with Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2010/06/putting-names-to-faces.html">6/23/2010 - Lawrence of Cyberia Putting Names To Faces</a> 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. <b>Poignant look at the people Israel killed aboard the Turkish ship.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1-/10793-twitterers-paid-to-spread-israeli-propaganda-internet-warfare-team-unveiled.html">6/23/2010 - Twitterers paid to spread Israeli propaganda Internet warfare team unveiled Atlantic Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/18/they-call-a-man-a-robber-if-e-stuffs-is-marchin-clobber/">6/23/2010 - They Call a Man a Robber if  e Stuffs  is Marchin Clobber by Philip Giraldi</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-23-02.htm">6/23/2010 - Swedish dockers block Israeli cargo in Gaza protest</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://globalcomment.com/2010/chuck-schumer-helen-thomas-and-the-media-a-tale-of-two-statements/">6/23/2010 - Chuck Schumer, Helen Thomas, & the Media A tale of two statements</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-18-01.htm">6/23/2010 - Elton John aside, Israelis feel growing isolation</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/06/16/2739633/lawmakers-resignation-demanded-over-israel-comment">6/23/2010 - Israel comment spurs calls for lawmaker s resignation</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/palestinian-jerusalemites-go-work-abroad-and-get-residency-revoked-upon-return-1.297136">6/23/2010 - Palestinian Jerusalemites go work abroad and get residency revoked upon return</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-20-06.htm">6/23/2010 - Obama sets meetings with Saudi, Israeli leaders</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHUWu9T1ti8&feature=related">6/23/2010 - YouTube - Israeli soldiers ate chocolate while shooting children</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-16-03.htm">6/23/2010 - U.S. targets bank, shipping in new Iran sanctions</a> 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. <b>Lieberman is one of Israel's main agents in Congress.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21-5">6/23/2010 - Gaza: End of the Siege?</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Ex-Mossad-Chief-Strike-Iran/2010/06/22/id/362673">6/23/2010 - Ex-Mossad Chief Strike Iran Now</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-19-01.htm">6/23/2010 - Israel warns UN over Lebanon to Gaza aid bid</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-21-01.htm">6/23/2010 - Lebanon permits Gaza-bound ship to sail to Cyprus</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3907116,00.html">6/23/2010 - Report: Egypt refuses to stop Iranian ships</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-u-s-israeli-warships-cross-suez-canal-toward-red-sea-1.297068">6/23/2010 - Report: U.S., Israeli warships cross Suez Canal toward Red Sea</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-17-02.htm">6/23/2010 - Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest school ruling</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/Opinion/62068/VIDEO-%26-PHOTOS%3A-Peter-King-Calls-For-U.S.-Removal-From-UN-Human-Rights-Council.html">6/23/2010 - Peter King Calls For U.S. Removal From UN Human Rights Council</a> 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. <b>King is a traitor to America.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ultra-orthodox-parents-evading-jail-time-in-segregated-school-row-to-spend-shabbat-at-home-1.296746">6/23/2010 - Ultra-Orthodox parents evading jail-time in segregated school row to spend Shabbat at home</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdJIWsbXIak">6/23/2010 - YouTube - Ron Paul Exposes Israeli Agent Nancy Pelosi</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/17-6">6/23/2010 - Global Poll Shows Muslims Leery of US and Obama</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/syria-israel-raid-on-gaza-flotilla-raises-risk-of-mideast-war-1.296723">6/23/2010 - Syria: Israel raid on Gaza flotilla raises risk of Mideast war</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-hezbollah-prepares-retaliation-for-potential-nasrallah-assassination-1.297695">6/23/2010 - Report: Hezbollah prepares retaliation for potential Nasrallah assassination</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/22-0">6/23/2010 - Giving Peace Advice to Terrorist Can Be Illegal</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3909266,00.html">6/23/2010 - Lebanon: Israel fully responsible for any attack</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/15/turkey_and_the_neocons">6/23/2010 - The Critic of My Friend is My Enemy Stephen M. Walt</a> 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 <b>Great article.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128818/">6/23/2010 - Muslim Student Group May Face Suspension at Irvine</a>  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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-germany-rejects-israeli-call-to-halt-probe-into-mossad-role-in-dubai-killing-1.297099">6/23/2010 - Report: Germany rejects Israeli call to halt probe into Mossad role in Dubai killing</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/21-0">6/23/2010 - Fighting Talk: The New Propaganda by Robert Fisk</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-18-03.htm">6/23/2010 - Amnesty slams new jailing of Israeli whistle-blower</a> Amnesty International accused Israel Friday of subjecting nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu to "inhuman" treatment by sending him back to jail. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3908553,00.html">6/23/2010 - US warns citizens against participating in Gaza flotillas </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.sisterhood.forward.com/articles/128803/">6/23/2010 - Minority Man - Dor Guez Examines Arab Christians in Lod</a>  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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/06/2010623192950445611.html">6/23/2010 - Case filed over Gaza assault</a> A war-crimes complaint has been filed in a Belgian court against 14 Israeli officials including Ehud Barak, the defence minister. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-silent-expulsion-1.297577">6/23/2010 - The silent expulsion </a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/balkan-summit-condemns-israeli-raid-on-gaza-flotilla-1.297909">6/23/2010 - Balkan summit condemns Israeli raid on Gaza flotilla</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-minister-hits-back-erdogan-is-the-enemy-not-turkey-1.297057">6/23/2010 - Israeli minister hits back: Erdogan is the enemy, not Turkey</a> "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. <b>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.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128820/">6/23/2010 - Israel s Sex-Segregated Buses Riding High</a> 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. <b>I suppose the Muslims make them do it?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128816/">6/23/2010 - Israel s Flotilla Raid Commission Is Criticized for Its Scope and Its Members</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128809/">6/23/2010 - The Flotilla Probe</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/128775/">6/23/2010 - Male-Only Voting in Crown Heights Prompts Complaints</a> <b>And again.</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/128582/">6/23/2010 - Diving Into the Gene Pool: New Research on the Origins of the Tribe</a> The bottom line: Jews aren t strangers who stumbled into the Holy Land. And neither are the Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/33-greeks-to-sue-israeli-officials-over-gaza-flotilla-raid-1.297930">6/23/2010 - 33 Greeks to sue Israeli officials over Gaza flotilla raid</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/06/17/shouldnt_we_defend_israel_105996.html">6/23/2010 - Will We Defend Israel?</a> <b>Ed Koch clearly has a passionate attachment to Israel and he should do the rest of us Americans a favor, and move there.</b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/report-israel-police-shot-palestinian-instead-of-arresting-him-1.296422">6/16/2010 - Report: Israel Police shot Palestinian instead of arresting him</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10306193.stm">6/16/2010 - ICRC says Israel's Gaza blockade breaks law</a> Israel's blockade of Gaza is a clear violation of international humanitarian law, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25676.htm">6/16/2010 - Uzi Dayan: Israel Must Announce Turkish Warships Casus Beli</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100615001&lang=e">6/16/2010 - Amnesty International Criticizes the Israel Gaza Commission over Transparency and Accountability</a> 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'. <b>Read that again.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/un-seeks-international-gaza-flotilla-probe-despite-internal-israeli-inquiry-1.296192">6/16/2010 - UN seeks international Gaza flotilla probe, despite internal Israeli inquiry</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1563521.php/UN-calls-for-Israel-to-change-policy-in-Gaza-Strip-Roundup">6/16/2010 - UN calls for Israel to change policy in Gaza Strip (Roundup) </a> '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.' <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.btselem.org/English/Press_Releases/20100614.asp">6/16/2010 - B'Tselem's Annual Report 2009-2010: Easing of movement along with continuation of the Gaza siege and the settlement enterprise</a> 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 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=178398">6/16/2010 - Abbas: Israeli probe plan no good</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/14/israel-gaza-flotilla-raid-inquiry">6/16/2010 - Israeli cabinet approves internal inquiry into Gaza flotilla raid</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/palestinians-welcome-turkey-involvement-in-gaza-fayyad-says-1.295714">6/16/2010 - Palestinians welcome Turkey involvement in Gaza, Fayyad says</a> "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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/abbas-tells-u-s-jews-i-would-never-deny-jewish-right-to-the-land-of-israel-1.295293">6/16/2010 - Abbas tells U.S. Jews: I would never deny Jewish right to the land of Israel</a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.btselem.org/english/Gaza_Strip/20100616_Soldier_to_be_charged_with_killing_two_Gazan_women.asp">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</a> 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. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-16-02.htm">6/16/2010 - US lawmakers blast 'disgraceful' Turkey over Iran, Israel</a> 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. <b>Capitol Hill = Israeli-occupied territory.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-13-02.htm">6/16/2010 - US expects 'prompt' inquiry of Gaza flotilla raid</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-11-02.htm">6/16/2010 - Ordinary Gazans hurt most by 3-year blockade</a> 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." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-14-01.htm">6/16/2010 - Israel under fire after unveiling Gaza inquiry panel</a> The Turkish foreign ministry later said in a statement that Ankara "strongly condemns" Israel's failure to respond to a proposal by UN chief Ban Ki moon to set up a commission made up of "one Turkish, one Israeli and three international experts." <b>Well what did you expect, this is Israel we are talking about.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-15-02.htm">6/16/2010 - Israel: UN to take seized flotilla goods to Gaza</a> The International Committee of the Red Cross has joined a chorus of demands to lift the blockade, saying Monday that the blockade constitutes "collective punishment" in violation of international law. Although the Red Cross has repeatedly condemned the blockade, it was the first time it has explicitly declared the embargo illegal. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/09/israel-threatens-war-if-turkish-pm-tries-to-deliver-gaza-aid/">6/16/2010 - Israel Threatens War if Turkish PM Tries to Deliver Gaza Aid</a> Israeli Army commander and top Likud member Uzi Dayan today warned on Israeli Army Radio that Israel would consider any attempt by the Turkish military to protect future aid ships from attack an  act of war. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-15-01.htm">6/16/2010 - Ireland expels Israeli over forged passports</a> Ireland announced Tuesday it's expelling an Israeli embassy official in punishment for the alleged Mossad use of forged Irish passports to assassinate a top Hamas militant in Dubai, further damaging strained Irish Israeli relations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-10-04.htm">6/16/2010 - Hamas rejects Israel-approved snack foods for Gaza</a> "Gaza does not need soft drinks, soda and fruit salad. Gaza needs raw materials, cement, and spare parts for the local factories," al Zaza said. "We have local factories that can make soda and soft drinks. If the border opens, Gaza's factories can export fruit salads and potato chips to the entire region." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/10303301.stm">6/16/2010 - Arab League chief Amr Moussa in first visit to Gaza</a> The Head of the Arab League is visiting the Gaza Strip, the first senior Arab official to do so since the Islamist militant group Hamas took over in 2007. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/turkey-we-ll-review-israel-ties-unless-international-gaza-flotilla-probe-held-1.296137">6/16/2010 - Turkey: We'll review Israel ties unless international Gaza flotilla probe held</a> The foreign minister was responding to Israel's announcement Monday that it was setting up its own inquiry, which will include two international observers <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25698.htm">6/16/2010 - Saudi Arabia Gives Israel Clear Skies to Attack Iranian Nuclear Sites</a>  The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way, said a US defence source in the area.  They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [US] State Department. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/region/iran/gulf-states-not-to-back-attack-against-iran-1.640331">6/16/2010 - Gulf states not to back attack against Iran</a> Riad Kahwaji, General Director of the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, said the "[Times] report, in my opinion, is part of the psychological warfare between Iran and the US, because there is no need for Saudi-Israeli cooperation to allow the Jewish state to attack Iran." <b>Well which is it?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/ahmadinejad-israel-u-s-trying-to-sabotage-iran-s-relations-with-saudi-arabia-1.295932">6/16/2010 - Ahmadinejad: Israel, U.S. trying to sabotage Iran's relations with Saudi Arabia </a> Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday charged Israel and the United States of trying to sabotage relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a day after Riyadh denied a report in the Times claiming it had agreed to allow Israel to use its airspace to attack Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25731.htm">6/16/2010 - Possible Western Pennsylvania Link to Israeli Nukes Boosted</a> A recently declassified federal report bolsters a long-simmering Cold War theory that uranium was illegally shipped from an Armstrong County plant in 1965 to Israel to support its nuclear arms efforts. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/03/south-africa-nuclear-trigger-israel">6/16/2010 - Apartheid-era minister carried 'nuclear trigger' in hand luggage to South Africa</a> An apartheid-era cabinet minister carried a "nuclear trigger" to South Africa from Israel as part of Pretoria's efforts to build an atom bomb, according to a report in a Johannesburg newspaper. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/10-1">6/16/2010 - EXCLUSIVE: New Video Smuggled Out From Mavi Marmara of Israel s Deadly Assault on Gaza Aid Flotilla</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/10-2">6/16/2010 - Israeli Document: Gaza Blockade Isn't About Security</a> As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of the Gaza Strip Wednesday, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxKiJdNTpVM">6/16/2010 - White Phosphorus burns on a Palestinian boy reported by The Guardian</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvwJAhyYMU">6/16/2010 - Ray McGovern on Israel's Terrorism Non-ZioNews</a> <b>McGovern, former CIA analyst, describes some of Israel's crimes against Americans such as those aboard the USS Liberty.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25728.htm">6/16/2010 - Phantom Iranian Ship sails for Gaza</a> that's what makes the reports of a "phantom" Iranian ship headed for Gaza so unsettling, because it could be used as a justification for another war. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-16-01.htm">6/16/2010 - UN: Israel dismantles some West Bank checkpoints</a> Philippe Lazzarini, head of the U.N. humanitarian affairs office in Jerusalem, says Israel has removed 121 checkpoints, easing Palestinian movement between villages and towns, but 505 checkpoints and dozens of road obstacles still hinder travel....Lazzarini said Wednesday that Israeli officials were also limiting Palestinian access to lands in the Jordan River valley and to farmlands cut off by Israel's separation barrier that juts into parts of the West Bank. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-14-03.htm">6/16/2010 - UC Irvine suspends Muslim group over disruption</a> The University of California, Irvine, has suspended a Muslim student group for at least a year because of a protest that disrupted a talk by Israel's ambassador and led to the arrests of 11 students. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/abbas-to-obama-i-m-against-lifting-the-gaza-naval-blockade-1.295771">6/16/2010 - Abbas to Obama: I'm against lifting the Gaza naval blockade</a> Abbas told Obama that actions easing the blockage should be done with care and undertaken gradually so it will not be construed as a victory for Hamas. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/rep-peter-king-to-introduce-resolution-defending-israel-95760779.html">6/16/2010 - Rep. Peter King to introduce resolution defending Israel</a> he will send a  Dear Colleague letter out on Monday, calling on all House members to join in a resolution that will be introduced in the next few days. The resolution will include  many paragraphs on Israel s right to defend itself, take issue with the critics of Israel, call for the U.S. to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council, and demand that the administration oppose any UN investigation of Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/u-s-sources-turkey-vote-against-iran-sanctions-a-slap-in-the-face-1.295480">6/16/2010 - U.S. sources: Turkey vote against Iran sanctions - a slap in the face</a> Israel and the United States on Wednesday hailed a UN Security Council vote to impose a fourth round of sanctions on a defiant Iran, which immediately vowed to continue with its nuclear program. Turkey and Brazil were the only votes against the sanctions, while Lebanon abstained. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-13-01.htm">6/16/2010 - Israel's Barak calls off Paris visit amid threats</a> Israel's defense minister is canceling a planned visit to Paris amid threats by pro Palestinian groups to have him arrested there. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65F5Q620100616">6/16/2010 - U.S. targets bank, shipping in new Iran sanctions</a> 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. <b>What would Israel do without its agents in Congress?</b><br><br> <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/iran-warns-israel-of-retaliation-if-its-gaza-bound-aid-ship-is-attacked-1.641833">6/16/2010 - Iran warns Israel of retaliation if its Gaza-bound aid ship is attacked</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/israel_flotilla_attack/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/06/14/times_square_flotilla">6/16/2010 - Democrats demand flotilla "terrorists" be denied entry into U.S.</a> <b>Congress needs a reboot at this point. Its incessantly doing the bidding of Israel to the detriment of American taxpayers.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-11-01.htm">6/16/2010 - Israel plans to send bill to Palestinians over boycotts</a> The Land of Israel, a right wing parliamentary lobby group committed to Jewish settlement of the West Bank, submitted the bill with the support of 25 politicians from right wing and centrist parties. If approved, it could theoretically force the Palestinian Authority (PA) to pay thousands of dollars in compensation to Jewish businesses affected by the Fayyad led boycott campaign, a scenario that would likely spark furious reaction from Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/Israeli-Nuclear-Missile-Boats-Off-Iranian-Coast-6-14-2010.asp">6/16/2010 - Israeli Nuclear Missile Boats Off Iranian Coast </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-09-05.htm">6/16/2010 - Israel apologizes for sending link to flotilla parody</a> The video, which promptly went viral, has stirred up further outrage about the fallout from the raid, with some calling for the video's apparent creator, a Jerusalem Post columnist, to be fired for spoofing the circumstances of an attack claiming nine fatalities. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,699101,00.html">6/16/2010 - 'First It Was Piracy, and Then It Was Kidnapping'</a> Mankell: I think there were 24, including the crew. The Israeli soldiers were wearing masks, and they told us to go below deck. Some of us were somewhat older, and we weren't moving fast enough for the Israelis, so the soldiers used electroshock weapons to speed us up. It was horrible. People were falling down. They shot rubber bullets at a man who was standing next to me. The soldiers were prepared to use violence on us from the beginning. And all of this in international waters. They had no legal basis for coming on board.....I attended the Palestinian Festival of Literature in Hebron last year. I was scheduled to speak at the opening event in the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem. We were about to begin when the door opened and the Israeli military disrupted the event. I asked them what the reason was, and I was told that I was a security risk. I, an author, I said? I told them I was there to talk about culture. There will be no discussion, they replied, and the event was over. Israel is not an open society -- it just pretends to be. The people are treated just like back then in South Africa. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128654/">6/16/2010 - Reading Washington s Linkage Map</a> If the post-9/11 presence of hundreds of thousands of American troops in the Middle East initially seemed to Israelis to be a blessing, it has now emerged as a serious challenge for Jerusalem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/03/british-survivor-gaza-flotilla">6/16/2010 - British survivor of Gaza flotilla raid 'Israelis ignored SOS calls'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3903429,00.html">6/16/2010 - British firm cuts ties with Israeli company</a> British company RedRat announced to Israeli company Disk-In Pro that despite years of cooperation, it would no longer work with the Israeli company because of Israel's policy in the Gaza Strip. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/06/12/alleged-mossad-spy-arrested-in-hit-squad-case-2/">6/16/2010 - Alleged Mossad spy arrested in hit-squad case</a> An alleged Mossad spy from Israel wanted in connection with the hit-squad slaying of a Hamas agent in Dubai has been arrested in Poland, officials said Saturday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/10/israel-overcomes-tough-turkish-defense-9-0/">6/16/2010 - Israel Overcomes Tough Turkish Defense 9-0 by Philip Giraldi</a> Last week s declaration by Representative Brad Sherman that he would be asking the Attorney General to prosecute as terrorism supporters any and all Americans who participated in the Gaza flotilla should come as no surprise to those of us who have spent years watching congress line up to genuflect to Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/06/02/more-spin-from-israel/">6/16/2010 - More Spin from Israel by Philip Giraldi</a> The Israelis expected to lead the vessels into port like sheep, but to their surprise some of the sheep resisted. .....What were soldiers doing attacking a vessel in the middle of the night in international waters in the first place?....Washington s backing of Israel in what surely must be viewed as a massacre will further erode any support from Islamic countries for US policies and will serve as a recruiting tool for groups like al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Even if one is not a fan of US empire and the current crop of pointless wars, it is heartbreaking to have to witness an increasing number of young Americans delivered up as cannon fodder in a growing confrontation with a Muslim world that is angry with Israel and taking revenge by attacking the United States. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128669/">6/16/2010 - The Sieges of Gaza</a> four years, many rockets and a war later, with Shalit still in prison, it has become clear that the continuing punishment of Gaza s people by Israel has, if anything, strengthened Hamas, and intensified the bitterness toward Israel of Gaza s population. In short, the siege in its current form is not working. It has neither weakened Hamas nor liberated Shalit. And, because its immediate target is a civilian population, it must be defined as a form of collective punishment. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128574/">6/16/2010 - Rep. Frank Compares Israel s Gaza Blockade to U.S. Sanctions Against Apartheid</a> Israel s blockade of Gaza is comparable to sanctions levied by the United States Congress against the apartheid regime of South Africa in 1986, Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank told the Forward in an interview June 3. <b>Barney Frank is a deluded man. If there were sanctions currently against THE STATE OF ISRAEL, THEN maybe he'd have the analogy correct. What a pandering buffoon.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128662/">6/16/2010 - American Jewish Student Loses Eye During West Bank Protest of Israel</a>  It is becoming increasingly common for soldiers and policemen to use riot control devices as weapons, said Michael Sfard, a Tel Aviv attorney who is representing Henochowitz. Since April 2009, this is the third time Sfard has represented protesters hurt by the firing of tear gas.The first protester was a Palestinian, Bassam Abu Rahma, who was killed by a direct hit in Bilin. The other was Tristan Anderson, an American citizen who returned to the United States early this month after spending more than a year in an Israeli hospital, where he was treated for critical wounds he suffered from a tear gas canister. Both of these cases are still under investigation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128668/">6/16/2010 - Israel Tries To Walk a Fine Line In Examination Of Flotilla Raid</a> Israel was aided in this effort by the Obama administration s work among United Nations Security Council members that led to an ambiguous statement calling only for a  prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation conforming to international standards. <b>America stands in the way of justice again, to appease the Israeli lobby.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/israel-and-the-u-s-ruling-on-war-crimes-1.296563">6/16/2010 - Israel and the U.S. ruling on war crimes</a> The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, not all former foreign officials living in the United States can claim immunity from prosecution in U.S. Courts. Its decision could have an immediate impact on Israelis. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/boycott-divestment-sanctions-movement">6/16/2010 - The Boycott Divestment Sanctions Movement</a> The immediate aftermath of the flotilla attack saw a surge in BDS activity across Europe. Most notably, Britain's largest union, UNITE, passed a motion to "vigorously promote a policy of divestment from Israeli companies," along with a boycott of Israeli goods and services. At the same time, the Swedish Port Workers Union announced it would refuse to load or unload any ships coming to or from Israel for nine days, to protest the flotilla raid....."On campuses and in communities across the United States, people are sending a clear message that if the US government won't hold Israel accountable for violations of Palestinian human rights, then civil society will step up and do the job." <b>Beautiful.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-adds-turkish-organizers-of-gaza-flotilla-to-terror-watch-list-1.296590">6/16/2010 - Israel adds Turkish organizers of Gaza flotilla to terror watch list</a> <b>Congress soon to follow.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25736.htm">6/16/2010 - On Israel, Congress Still Obedient</a> As Senator Chuck Schumer said the other day, the blockade is designed to "strangle them [the Palestinians in Gaza] economically." He also said that doing so "makes sense." <b>Note the long list of quotes from US Congressmen with regard to the flotilla incident.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/823487--mcquaig-partner-in-flotilla-farce">6/16/2010 - Partner in flotilla  farce </a> While governments around the world denounced the Israeli attack and Turkey decried it as an act of  state terrorism, Prime Minister Stephen Harper cheerfully followed through with a planned meeting the next day with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. <b>Canada has its own version of AIPAC, Israel's main US lobby, successfully dictating government and media policy.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/news/poll-65-of-jewish-israelis-say-u-s-jews-should-criticize-obama-s-mideast-policy-1.296386">6/16/2010 - Poll: 65% of Jewish Israelis say U.S. Jews should criticize Obama's Mideast policy</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-10-03.htm">6/16/2010 - Arab nations cheer Turkey for tough Israel stand</a> Arab nations burst into applause Thursday as Turkey's prime minister walked to the podium at a summit, reflecting Turkey's meteoric rise on the world stage amid disputes over Israel's blockade of Gaza and U.N. sanctions against Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/dubai-we-won-t-seek-extradition-of-suspected-mossad-agent-held-in-poland-1.295895">6/16/2010 - Dubai: We won't seek extradition of suspected Mossad agent held in Poland</a> The Israeli citizen arrested in Poland, using the name Uri Brodsky, is suspected of working for Mossad in Germany and helping to issue a fake German passport to a member of the Mossad operation that allegedly killed Hamas agent Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January, a spokesman for the German federal prosecutor's office told The Associated Press. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1563490.php/Wife-of-former-Lebanese-general-plans-to-send-aid-ship-to-Gaza">6/16/2010 - Wife of former Lebanese general plans to send aid ship to Gaza </a> The wife of a former Lebanese general said Tuesday that she will send an aid ship from Lebanon to Gaza in the coming days, despite warnings by Israel not to enter its waters. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25673.htm">6/16/2010 - Israeli Request for More Arms from US Raises Fears of Regional Violence</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-denies-pushing-for-gaza-flotilla-probe-at-un-1.295638">6/16/2010 - U.S. denies pushing for Gaza flotilla probe at UN</a> According to a report by The Weekly Standard, an American journal, senior White House officials had told foreign governments that U.S President Barack Obama's administration would back a UN push for an independent committee to probe the Gaza raid. <b>The Weekly Standard is a neocon rag.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=291339">6/16/2010 - 'Arrest me, I'm a terrorist'</a> 'Arrest me, I'm a terrorist' Published Friday 11/06/2010 (updated) 11/06/2010 21:06 Font- Font+ Bethlehem - Ma'an - Responding to US Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) call for the arrest and prosecution of "any US citizens who were aboard or involved with the Freedom Flotilla," several American activists "turned themselves in" Thursday - at Sherman's office. "Arrest me, I'm a terrorist," said one of the activists, several of whom were affiliated with the Free Gaza Movement, Gaza Freedom March, Code Pink, and Freedom Flotilla, when the group arrived at Rep. Sherman's Capitol Hill office to make themselves available for arrest. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/06/10/2739547/designate-ihh-as-terrorist-groups-ask-state">6/16/2010 - Tag Turkish aid group as terrorist, groups ask State Dept.</a> American Jewish groups are calling on the State Department to designate a Turkish relief group, a main organizer of last month's Gaza flotilla, as a terrorist organization.....The ADL also has written to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urging his department to add IHH to its lists of terror-sponsoring organizations, which triggers restrictions on business and banking transactions with Americans. <b>Put these pro-Israeli groups on the list instead.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25688.htm">6/16/2010 - Israel vs Iran: The Risk of War</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/arab-states-israel-nuclear-danger-reinforced-by-its-aggression-1.295362">6/16/2010 - Arab states: Israel nuclear danger reinforced by its aggression</a> Iran is seen by Western nations as an NPT renegade and bomb risk for hiding sensitive nuclear activity. They say Israel is not comparable because it is not in the NPT while Iran is. Many developing nations say that this is precisely the problem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-10-02.htm">6/16/2010 - China reverses stance with Iran sanctions support</a> Israel may have also played a role in persuading China to back harsher sanctions against Iran, according to Israeli officials. In recent weeks, three Israeli delegations have gone to China, and all discussed the Iranian nuclear program, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the talks were secret. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/061010.html">6/16/2010 - Obama Goes with Neocon Flow on Iran </a> Just as the neocons and Israel wanted  regime change in Iraq, they have long hungered for  regime change in Iran, too. A favorite neocon joke at the time of the Iraq War was to speculate on which direction to go next, to Syria or Iran, with the punch-line,  Real men to go Tehran! <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128666/">6/16/2010 - Writer Takes Controversial Look at Israel-South Africa Ties</a>  The Unspoken Alliance: Israel s Secret Relationship With Apartheid South Africa, examines Israel s role as apartheid-era South Africa s leading military supplier, and its willingness to aid the rogue regime s nuclear arms effort. Now, at a time when Israel itself is criticized for imposing apartheid, or something akin to it, in the occupied West Bank, the book argues that part of Israel s political establishment felt an ideological kinship with their South African counterparts that went beyond realpolitik. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://againsttheinsidiouswiles.blogspot.com/2010/06/rep-peter-king-ny-supreme-shill-for.html">6/16/2010 - Against the Insidious Wiles Rep. Peter King (NY) - Supreme Shill for Israel</a> Just exactly who does Representative King represent here? <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-10-05.htm">6/16/2010 - Turkey calls charges turning from West 'dirty propaganda'</a> US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday the European Union's refusal to offer Turkey a swift accession process has partly caused Ankara's foreign policy shift and the deterioration in its relations with Israel. .....Doubts among Western countries about Turkey's shifting foreign policy began in 2009 when Erdogan strongly criticised Israel for its deadly military campaign in Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B3IIO8w8Fw">6/16/2010 - YouTube - Arrest me, I'm a terrorist</a> <b>They turned themselves in on account they were deemed 'terrorists' by Brad Sherman. A very good news report.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/15-6">6/16/2010 - Cashiering Helen Thomas by Ralph Nader</a> In an internet poll by the Washington Post, 92% of respondents said she should not be removed from the White House press room. As an NPR listener, R. Carey, e-mailed: "D.C. would be void of journalists if they all were to quit, get fired or retire after making potentially offensive comments." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25729.htm">6/16/2010 - Bloody Sunday, Bloody Monday </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.fpif.org/articles/democratic_party_defends_israeli_attack">6/16/2010 - Democratic Party Defends Israeli Attack</a> To rationalize what virtually the entire international legal community recognizes as an act of war, congressional Democrats have engaged in a series of falsifications and radical reinterpretations of international law <b>A disgraceful commentary on just how far up Israel's arse Congress really is.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-10-01.htm">6/16/2010 - Israel and the Limits of Toughness</a> the blockade isn't really about arms. It's an ABCD attempt to make life so unpleasant for average Gazans that they turn against Hamas. Of course, the exact opposite is happening: Hamas has turned the blockade against Israel. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100608/OPINION/6080328/-1/NEWSMAP">6/9/2010 - Remembering the USS Liberty</a> Congress never formally investigated the attack and to this day, bitterness lingers among the survivors of the only ship in U.S. naval history that was ever deliberately attacked by an ally. No one at any level  Israeli or American  was ever held accountable for what happened to the USS Liberty. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/08/AR2010060801245.html">6/9/2010 - Death toll rises to 6 after Israeli navy shoots Palestinian divers off Gaza</a> On Monday, the Israeli navy fired on a group of Palestinians in wet suits who the Israeli military alleged were en route to carry out an attack inside Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/91262">6/9/2010 - Four Palestinians slain off Gaza coast</a> Fatah's armed wing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades said the men were members who were training in blockaded Gaza's waters when an Israeli naval force spotted them and opened fire. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/08/june-8th-anniversary-of-israeli-attack-on-the-uss-liberty/">6/9/2010 - June 8th, Anniversary of Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty Veterans Today</a>  I have never believed that the attack on the USS Liberty was a case of mistaken identity, Admiral Moorer has said.  What is so chilling and cold-blooded, of course, is that they [the Israelis] could kill as many Americans as they did in confidence that Washington would cooperate in quelling any public outcry. I have to conclude that it was Israel s intent to sink the Liberty and leave as few survivors as possible. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://againsttheinsidiouswiles.blogspot.com/2010/06/june-8-1967-honor-those-aboard-uss.html">6/9/2010 - June 8 1967 - Honor those aboard the USS Liberty</a> Find out the truth (from the survivors) and most importantly, HONOR THEIR HEROISM, for it was their sheer bravery that prevented Israel from sinking that ship and killing ALL ABOARD. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/08/43rd-anniversary-of-israels-attack-on-uss-liberty/">6/9/2010 - 43rd Anniversary of Israel s Attack on USS Liberty</a> It is naive to think that the Obama team would give a damn about getting the truth out about last week s Israeli attack on the humanitarian relief ship, considering how the U.S. government has vigilantly covered up the IDF killing of 34 American sailors. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-opens-fire-on-two-palestinian-stone-throwers-in-west-bank-1.293951">6/9/2010 - Israeli opens fire on two Palestinian stone-throwers in West Bank</a> Just over two weeks ago, Palestinian sources accused settlers of opening fire and killing a Palestinian teenager who was throwing rocks at Israeli cars near the West Bank city of Ramallah <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-04-01.htm">6/9/2010 - Autopsy shows Gaza activists were hit 30 times: report</a> The autopsy results showed that a 60 year old man, Ibrahim Bilgen, was shot four times in the temple, chest, hip and back, the Guardian said. A 19 year old, named as Fulkan Dogan, who also has U.S. citizenship, was shot five times from less than 45 cm (18 inches) away, in the face, the back of the head, twice in the leg and once in the back, it said. Two other men were shot four times. Five of those killed were shot either in the back of the head or in the back, the Guardian quoted Buyuk as saying. <b>Self defense, huh?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/03-5">6/9/2010 - Turkey Mourns Dead as Controversy Rages; American Teenager Among Slain</a> the Foreign Press Association complained Thursday that the Israeli military had seized journalists' videos and was selectively using footage to bolster its claims that commandos opened fire only after being attacked.....Kevin Ovenden of Britain said a man who had pointed a camera at the soldiers was shot dead through the forehead. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25609.htm">6/9/2010 - American, 19, Among Gaza Flotilla Dead</a> A U.S. citizen who lived in Turkey is among the nine people killed when Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish aid ship heading for the Gaza Strip, officials said today. The victim was identified as Furkan Dogan, 19, a Turkish-American. A forensic report said he was shot at close range, with four bullets in his head and one in his chest, according to the Anatolian news agency. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-05-01.htm">6/9/2010 - Israel boards Gaza aid ship as blockade criticized</a> The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, said the embargo, which had blighted the lives of Gaza's 1.5 million people, was illegal. "International humanitarian law prohibits starvation of civilians as a method of warfare and ... it is also prohibited to impose collective punishment on civilians," she said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/06/the-flotilla-raid-was-not-bungled-the-idf-detailed-its-violent-strategy-in-advance/">6/9/2010 - The Flotilla Raid Was Not  Bungled. The IDF Detailed Its Violent Strategy In Advance.</a> The elite Israeli commando unit known as Unit 13 was tasked with carrying out the mission and its role was known by the Israeli public well before the raid took place. Details of the plan show that the use of deadly force was authorized and calculated. The massacre of activists should not have been unexpected. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-07-02.htm">6/9/2010 - US wants Israeli inquiry after protester loses eye</a> The United States has asked Israel to investigate the incident in which an American woman lost an eye after Israeli forces shot her with a tear gas canister during a pro Palestinian protest in Jerusalem, a U.S. embassy spokesman said Monday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51737">6/9/2010 - Beatings, Abuse, Doctored Evidence Emerge</a> Israeli authorities denied other media access to the imprisoned journalists and activists during the entire period they were incarcerated. Reporters were also prevented from speaking to the FG activists when they were deported from Tel Aviv s Ben Gurion International airport. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-06-01.htm">6/9/2010 - UN chief moving ahead with probe of Israeli raid</a> A Foreign Ministry official says Ban wants former New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer to head the panel, which would include Israeli, Turkish and U.S. representatives. All nine people killed in last week's raid were Turks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25669.htm">6/9/2010 - Report: Israel to ease Gaza blockade in exchange for watered-down probe</a> Israel is prepared to accept a British plan to ease its blockade of Gaza in exchange for international acceptance of a watered-down investigation into last week's deadly raid on a Turkish ship that was headed for the Hamas-ruled territory, the Telegraph reported Wednesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-rejects-un-proposal-for-joint-gaza-flotilla-probe-with-u-s-and-turkey-1.294489">6/9/2010 - Israel rejects UN proposal for joint Gaza flotilla probe with U.S. and Turkey </a> Israel rejected on Sunday a proposal by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for an international investigation into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship and said it had the right to launch its own inquiry. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-navy-reserves-officers-allow-external-gaza-flotilla-probe-1.294536">6/9/2010 - Israel Navy reserves officers: Allow external Gaza flotilla probe </a> "We disagree with the widespread claims that this was the result of an intelligence rift," said the officers. "In addition, we do not accept claims that this was a 'public relations failure' and we think that the plan was doomed to failure from the beginning." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-09-04.htm">6/9/2010 - Israel set to accept 'quid pro quo' Gaza deal: report</a> On the blockade, the Daily Telegraph said Israel has been asked to ease access into Gaza at crossings and allow the UN to convey material needed to rebuild 60,000 homes destroyed or damaged in the 2008 09 Gaza war. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-03-03.htm">6/9/2010 - Turkey honors slain activists, including US teen</a> President Abdullah Gul said Israel committed "one of the biggest mistakes ever in its history." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-06-05.htm">6/9/2010 - Israel rejects international inquiry into lethal raid</a> Israel rejected Sunday a proposal by U.N. Secretary General Ban ki Moon for an international investigation into its deadly raid on a Gaza bound aid ship and said it had the right to launch its own inquiry. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/03/british-survivor-gaza-flotilla">6/9/2010 - British survivor of Gaza flotilla raid: 'Israelis ignored SOS calls'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3898523,00.html">6/9/2010 - Ecuador recalls envoy; Chavez: Israel a murderer</a> Chavez slammed the American response to the events, which he said was too gentle. "The Obama administration condemns terror, as long as it's not committed by the US or Israel," he said <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-07-04.htm">6/9/2010 - Egypt: Gaza blockade a failure, border stays open</a> Under the restrictions at the Rafah crossing point, Egypt is letting in some humanitarian aid but will not transfer large cargo shipments or construction material because the terminal is designed primarily as a crossing for travelers, said the Egyptian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/obama-let-israel-probe-gaza-flotilla-raid-with-u-s-observer-1.293853">6/9/2010 - Obama: Let Israel probe Gaza flotilla raid with U.S. observer</a> A senior U.S. official delivered an American proposal to the two senior Israeli advisers, which would both assuage the international community and also would not be too hard a blow for Israel's wish to undertake its own investigation without massive foreign involvement. <b>Ridiculous. We need to stop abetting Israel as it plunders and pillages whenever and wherever it wants.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3898602,00.html">6/9/2010 - Livni: Keep world from investigating IDF soldiers</a> "The whole world is busy seeing who'll set up the most committees. Today the government has a mission: To leave the world outside the gates, and the IDF outside the international investigation. I don't want to see the world investigating IDF soldiers." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-06-09.htm">6/9/2010 - Activists expelled as Israel resists Gaza inquiry pressure</a> "The humanitarian situation in Gaza is both unacceptable and unsustainable," International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said in London. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-03-04.htm">6/9/2010 - Israel rejects international investigation of raid</a> Israel has refused to cooperate with previous international probes, most recently the U.N. investigation into Israel's 2009 war in the Gaza Strip that concluded that both the Israelis and Hamas militants, who control Gaza, committed war crimes. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-09-03.htm">6/9/2010 - Obama calls situation in Gaza "unsustainable"</a> President Barack Obama urged Israel on Wednesday to help ease restrictions on humanitarian aid and civilian goods for Gaza after a deadly flotilla raid, saying the situation in the blockaded coastal strip was unsustainable. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-08-01.htm">6/9/2010 - Putin condemns Israeli raid on Gaza-bound ship</a> Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday "we condemn this act," and expressed concern that it was conducted in international waters. He was speaking at a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0606/cornyn-defends-israel-killing-us-citizen/">6/9/2010 - Texas senator defends Israel over killing of US activist</a> Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) believes the pro-Palestinian activists who were killed in a clash with the Israeli military had provoked the confrontation. <b>Cornyn= traitor.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25671.htm">6/9/2010 - Israel and Obama Hail UN Sanctions as Defiant Iran Vows to Keep Enriching Uranium</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-07-03.htm">6/9/2010 - Turkey calls on Israel to accept probe into raid</a> "If there is hatred, it is Israel's hatred. If there is terror, it is Israel's state terrorism," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a news conference with Syrian President Bashar Assad. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25619.htm">6/9/2010 - Doubts Grow Over Israel's Value as U.S. Ally</a> "It is time Israel realised that it has obligations to the United States, as well as the United States to Israel, and that it (has to) become far more careful about the extent to which it test(s) the limits of U.S. patience and exploits the support of Americans Jews," he went on, noting the Israeli government "should be sensitive to the fact that its actions directly affect U.S. strategic interests in the Arab and Muslim worlds..."....."When someone as balanced and centrist as Tony Cordesman begins to worry about the extent to which Israel is making itself into a strategic burden for the United States, Israel should pause for some self-reflection," Freeman told IPS.......on the eve of Obama's inauguration, the influential National Journal ran a symposium on the question: "Is Israel a Strategic Liability for the United States?" in which a surprising number of respected national security analysts answered in the affirmative. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/israel-asked-u-s-to-increase-weapons-supply-haaretz-learns-1.294803?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.225%2C2.226%2C">6/9/2010 - Israel asked U.S. to increase weapons supply, Haaretz learns</a> Israel recently approached the United States with new requests for security-related purchases, Haaretz has learned. The requests included Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM ) bombs for the Israel Air Force, as well as a significant expansion of the emergency stores held by the U.S. army in Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/03/lift-the-siege-of-gaza/">6/9/2010 - Lift the Siege of Gaza by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> that 2 a.m. boarding of an unarmed ship with an unarmed crew, carrying no munitions or weapons, 65 miles at sea, was an act of piracy. What the Israeli commandos got is what any armed hijacker should expect who tries to steal a car from a driver who keeps a tire iron under the front seat. <b>God love ya, Patrick J. - ye speak the truth.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-03-01.htm">6/9/2010 - Obama: Israeli raid on aid flotilla was 'tragic'</a> President Barack Obama said Thursday that the deadly Israeli raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip was "tragic", but he stopped short of condemning the actions of Israeli forces. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-06-07.htm">6/9/2010 - Iran Revolutionary Guards ready to escort Gaza ships</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3899714,00.html">6/9/2010 - 'Israel may have ordered Kurdish terror attack' </a> Turkish authorities are accusing Israel of "ordering" a terror attack carried out by Kurdish rebels on the same day the Israeli Navy raided a Turkish-owned Gaza-bound ship last week in revenge for Ankara's involvement in the incident, Turkish newspaper Zaman reported Sunday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-06-04/liberty-survivor-gaza-flotilla.html">6/9/2010 - 1967 USS Liberty survivor was onboard flotilla ship</a> Meadors expects an investigation will show that Israel violated international law and should be held accountable for its actions. He holds the same hope for the USS Liberty case, which has yet to be settled.  We filed a war crimes report with the Department of Defense in 2005. They claim they already investigated the allegation we made, but they can t show us where they have, said Meadors. Meadors said that Israel was the aggressor in the flotilla attack and that the only story being portrayed is Israel s version, because the Israeli forces confiscated all video and recording equipment from the flotilla passengers. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/06/02/more-spin-from-israel/">6/9/2010 - More Spin from Israel by Philip Giraldi</a> The flotilla, consisting of nationals from as many as twenty countries, was unarmed and carrying relief supplies that had been carefully inspected by the Turkish authorities. It was in international waters when it was attacked. More than 600 passengers and crew, apart from those who were killed, were subsequently arrested by Israel for refusing to identify themselves. If all that is correct, then Tel Aviv is guilty of piracy, kidnapping, and murder while the armed attack on a Turkish flagged vessel might be construed as inviting a military response from NATO. One of the vessels bore an American flag and there were at least eight US citizens on board, including a former ambassador and a USS Liberty survivor, suggesting that a strong reaction from Washington would not be inappropriate........US congressmen are already lining up to support the Israeli action and the State Department is silent about the American student who had her eye shot out by Israeli border policemen while demonstrating peacefully against the attack on the flotilla <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-09-02.htm">6/9/2010 - Millions forced to wait for food stamps benefits</a> <b>Americans literally go hungry as we continue to shovel billions of our taxpayer dollars to Israel - which then uses it to starve and imprison a million plus people, and take their land.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/05/26/the-strategic-ally-myth/">6/9/2010 - The Strategic Ally Myth by Philip Giraldi</a> Zuckerman s latest contribution to international harmony is a lengthy piece in the US News & World Report entitled  Israel Is a Key Ally and Deserves US Support. It is a propaganda piece that promotes one of the most persistent fictions put out by the mainstream media, that the relationship with Israel somehow benefits the United States. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/04/in-vino-veritas/">6/9/2010 - In Vino Veritas by Philip Giraldi</a> Ed Peck was one of the eleven Americans who were on board the Gaza flotilla that was attacked by Israeli commandos earlier this week. Peck is eighty-one years old, a former paratrooper (US), ambassador, and worked in the Reagan White House. He is also Jewish. He was deported from Israel after being arrested for something or other as a participant in the attempt to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20006501-503544.html">6/9/2010 - Politicians from Both Parties Rally Behind Israel Following Raid</a> <b>America is another Israeli occupied territory.</b><br><br> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Gaza-Strip/photo//100608/481/urn_publicid_ap_org_baaf9a4d384645b58bc9e35dd23cb465//s:/ap/20100610/ap_on_re_us/gaza_blockade">6/9/2010 - Palestinian girl holding national flag stands</a> A Palestinian girl holding a national flag stands near the border line with Israel, background, during a weekly protest march against Israel, in Beit Hanoun <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=352416">6/9/2010 - Turkish Premier: "Israel Tries To Justify Itself By Exploiting Anti-Semitism"</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/04-9">6/9/2010 - If World Governments Will Not Confront Israel, What Path Should Civil Society Take?</a> after a 12-hour session Monday, the Security Council issued a tame "presidential statement" condemning what has been described by critics as "high seas piracy and banditry". The United States, which has traditionally thrown a protective arm around Israel - whether the Jewish state is right or wrong - was primarily responsible for "watering down" the statement and refusing to adopt a formal resolution against Israel. <b>The fact that the US has aided and abetted Israel's crimes for years is one of the primary reasons that the US is hated both over there and elsewhere. Support for Israel was the primary motive given by the mastermind of 911, Khaled S. Mohammed. Supporting Israel's policies is wrong irrespective of any terrorism against us.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/05-1">6/9/2010 - Maine video producer recounts Gaza flotilla ordeal</a> Hamann said the flotilla was in international waters when it was intercepted by Israeli troops. When they boarded his vessel, Challenger I, they destroyed all video footage and camera memory cards, he said. <b>Read that excerpt again, and the last two paragraphs of the article.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-when-hands-across-the-sea-are-tied-1990801.html">6/9/2010 - Johann Hari: When hands across the sea are tied</a> Everyone now knows the Israeli navy committed a machine-gun massacre on a ship in international waters that was carrying humanitarian aid for the blockaded people of Gaza, who Israeli officials joke they have "put on a diet". .... how many people know that the Israeli government is slowly obstructing and silencing the organisations within Israel that are trying to get the country on to a saner and safer path? <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-ruebner/justice-for-all-a-tale-of_b_601067.html">6/9/2010 - Josh Ruebner Justice for All? A Tale of Two Victims Leon Klinghoffer and Furkan Dogan</a> To determine whether the Pledge of Allegiance's promise of "justice for all" holds true in all circumstances, compare Reagan's aggressive response to the killing of a U.S. citizen on the Mediterranean Sea to the tepid response of the Obama Administration in the same scenario.........The AECA stipulates that weapons provided by the United States can only be used by foreign countries for "internal security" or "legitimate self-defense." Since Israel engaged in act of aggression in international waters, it is self-evident that Israel violated this law. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-06-02.htm">6/9/2010 - Pixies call off Israel concert after Gaza raid</a> The U.S. rock band Pixies has canceled a concert in Tel Aviv this week in the wake of Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza bound aid flotilla. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25634.htm">6/9/2010 - The Truth Behind the Israeli Propaganda By Robert Fisk</a> Propaganda works, you see. We haven't seen a frame of film from the protesters because the Israelis have stolen the lot. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-06-04.htm">6/9/2010 - Vatican says world ignores Christians in Mideast</a> The Vatican said Sunday that the international community is ignoring the plight of Christians in the Middle East, and that the Israeli Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq and political instability in Lebanon have forced thousands to flee the region. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/turkey-halts-all-state-energy-and-water-projects-with-israel-1.294131">6/9/2010 - Turkey halts all state energy and water projects with Israel</a> Britain's University and College Union passed a motion yesterday that would allow for the reintroduction of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The motion, initiated by pro-Palestinian activists, includes not only a recommendation for a boycott but also sanctions and disinvestment from Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-01-07.htm">6/9/2010 - Thousands in Europe vent anger at Israel after deadly raid</a> Angry protestors chanting anti Israeli slogans and waving Palestinian and Turkish flags took to the streets of Istanbul, London, Dublin and Paris as well as a string of other French cities, following Monday's deadly assault. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/06/03/this-says-it-all/">6/9/2010 - This Says It All by Justin Raimondo</a> In a brazen act of international piracy, the Israelis boarded a ship in international waters and killed an American citizen  so what is the American government going to do about it? The answer is: nothing, zero, nada, zilch. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-03-02.htm">6/9/2010 - Turkish group behind flotilla is Gaza's new hero</a> Its bearded 50 year old leader has assumed hero status in the impoverished Palestinian territory, where he says his group plans to spend $25 million on housing, medical care and education. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/07-6">6/9/2010 - In Defense of Helen Thomas - On Apologizing to Apologists</a> On Friday she was asked by a guy who stuck a video camera in her face, for any comments on Israel and she said, "Tell them to get the get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, these people [the Palestinians] are occupied and it's their land. It's not Germany, it's not Poland." She was asked where they should go and she answered, "They should go home, to Poland, Germany and America". The video has been making its way around the Internet. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25608.htm">6/9/2010 - Biden: Israel right to stop Gaza flotilla from breaking blockade</a> In contrast to the barrage of condemnations all over the globe, many in the U.S. Congress expressed support for Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/04/u-s-congressman-put-american-aid-activists-in-jail/">6/9/2010 - U.S Congressman Put American Aid Activists in Jail</a> On a press call hosted by a pro-Israel organization, Rep. Brad Sherman, Democrat of California, told reporters that he intends seek the prosecution of any U.S. citizens who were aboard or involved with the Freedom Flotilla <b>Unreal.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25610.htm">6/9/2010 - Former UN Assistant Secretary Urges Irish-Americans to Defend the Rachel Corrie</a> The issue of the Gaza blockade has tremendous resonance in Ireland, partly because of Ireland's high degree of engagement in international humanitarian causes - John Ging, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, who had called on the international community to break the siege by sending ships loaded with aid, is also Irish - but also, of course, because the Irish people have some experience with the consequences for civilians of a colonial blockade. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/warren-goldstein/surprise-american-jewish_b_596869.html">6/9/2010 - Surprise!!!! American Jewish Leaders Leap to Defend Israel</a> So if intruders charge into your house at night, asking you to stay calm while they steal your possessions, you may not fight back, because that could "force" the intruders to defend themselves. The PR arm of the intruders insists they had the right to invade your house, and that you were responsible for all of the mayhem that followed when you resisted. In what court in the world would that argument hold water? <b>So demonstrates the Orwellian nature of the news we are fed by our pro-Israeli media. Up is down, left is right, black is white.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/03/max-blumenthals-excellent-analysis-of-the-israeli-attack/">6/9/2010 - Max Blumenthal s Excellent Analysis of the Israeli Attack</a> The day after the massacre, spontaneous celebrations broke out in Ashdod, Tel Aviv, and throughout the country, bringing together right-wing elements with everyday Israelis. Over a thousand Israelis gathered tonight outside the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv to rally against the Turkish government and express their support for the raid. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-07-05.htm">6/9/2010 - White House criticizes Thomas for Israel remarks</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://opiniojuris.org/2010/06/02/why-is-israels-blockade-of-gaza-legal/">6/9/2010 - Why Is Israel s Blockade of Gaza Legal? (Updated)</a> I was just on MSNBC talking about Israel, the Gaza blockade and the flotilla attack with Eliot Spitzer, who was guest-hosting for Dylan Ratigan. It was a rather contentious discussion, though quite illustrative of how Israel is (and is not) typically discussed on American television, so I'm posting the whole 8-minute segment below <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/03-7">6/9/2010 - Lying About the Gaza Flotilla Disaster</a> As for the Israeli argument that its soldiers were attacked, that is ridiculous. Israeli commandos were ordered to board a civilian ship in international waters and the government that sent them claims that the resisting passengers attacked them without provocation. This is like a carjacker complaining to the police that the driver bashed him with a crowbar that was under the seat. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.rall.com/rallblog/2010/06/03/syndicated-column-sticks-and-stones-on-the-high-seas">6/9/2010 - STICKS AND STONES ON THE HIGH SEAS</a> A U.N. fact-finding mission recently concluded that Israel s blockade of Gaza should be prosecuted as a war crime at the International Criminal Court if it continues through September <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-07-01.htm">6/9/2010 - Update: Helen Thomas quits after Israel comments</a> Rabbi David Nesenoff, who interviewed Thomas and published the clip on his RabbiLive.com site, told Yahoo! News that she should lose her job with Hearst Newspapers. "Of course they've got to get rid of her," he said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-02-04.htm">6/9/2010 - WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?</a> <b>Sorry, 'Georgie', I doubt the flotilla passengers were 'pro-Hamas' as claimed here. But otherwise, good article which mentions USS Liberty, Pollard and the Lavon Affair.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2010/06/21_miles_off_the_coast_of_pale.html">6/9/2010 - 21 Miles Off The Coast of Palestine</a> it is ironic that, although the two events are in many ways completely different, the Israelis are now preventing Palestinians and supporters of Hamas from doing what the Israeli defence organisation - the Haganah - tried to do over 60 years ago. From 1945 the Haganah, along with the Irgun, had been carrying out a terror campaign against British soldiers in Palestine. Then in 1947 they organised the Exodus operation as an attempt to break the British blockade. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-06-06.htm">6/9/2010 - Helen Thomas high school speech canceled over flap</a> A high school graduation speech by veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas has been canceled because of controversial remarks she made about Israel, the school's principal said in an e mail Sunday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/09-1">6/9/2010 - Helen Thomas Pays for Crossing a Line Others Trample</a> Getting fired for bigoted words? Somehow that fate has not befallen the cabal of right-wing bloviators who have literally built their careers pushing the propaganda war against Latinos, other people of color, gay people, liberals and anyone else they disagree with. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128511/">6/9/2010 - Reactions to Raid on Flotilla A Rorschach Test for Jews</a> As the sun rose on the day following the so-called Freedom Flotilla s attempt to breach the Israeli blockade of Gaza, the American Jewish Committee had already sent out an e-mail blast touting its narrative of the bloody denouement that took place. An hour later came talking points from the Jewish Federations of North America. A succinct storyline had been established even before all the details of the raid that left nine of the activists dead had become clear. <b>And the American mainstream meida lapped it up, lock stock and barrel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128512/">6/9/2010 - Israel on Ballot As Winograd Faces Harman In Hot Primary</a>  In Marcy Winograd s foreign policy, Israel would cease to exist. In Marcy Winograd s vision, Jews would be at the mercy of those who do not respect democracy or human rights, he wrote.  Jane s victory will represent a clear repudiation of these views. <b>Thus is the Orwellian nature of 'Israeli democracy' displayed: one man one vote, rather than the apartheid-like system in place now, is considered anti-democratic.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128506/">6/9/2010 - Most Members of Congress Remain Committed to Israel s Blockade of Gaza</a> Statements by Democratic and Republican lawmakers, who heard the news from Gaza during their Memorial Day recess, showed almost wall-to-wall support for the Israeli position and urged the continuation of the blockade. <b>A testament to the power of the Israeli lobby over Congress.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128509/">6/9/2010 - With AIPAC s Help, Students Invite Oren to Their Colleges</a> Many of the student government presidents who signed the statement attended AIPAC s Washington, D.C., policy conference in March, according to the statement organizers. AIPAC press materials claim that the conference drew more than 213 student government presidents.....At the conference, AIPAC s leadership development director, Jonathan Kessler, described AIPAC s campus-organizing strategy in a speech, video of which was posted online by JTA.  How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? Kessler asked, referring to a University of California, Berkeley student government resolution that was eventually vetoed.  We are going to make sure that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote& This is how AIPAC operates in our nation s capital. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation s campuses. <b>The brainwashing continues.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25637.htm">6/9/2010 - The Hijacking of the Truth: Film Evidence 'Destroyed'</a> much of the video footage confiscated from Marmara passengers remains undisclosed, and Israel has sought to undermine some eyewitness accounts by alleging some of the passengers were terrorist sympathisers bent on martyrdom <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/07/israels-bet/">6/9/2010 - Israel s bet</a> The U.S. military, whose job it now is to tamp down on Islamic extremism, may find it impossible to do so if it is seen as enabling Israel to attack other Muslims. Americans troops may wish to have it explained to them why the  special relationship is so important given how detrimental it is to their jobs. It may very well be the only institution in government that could demand a change in U.S. foreign policy for the sake of the war effort and get away with it. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25659.htm">6/9/2010 - Poll: 49% of Americans Blame Pro-Palestinian Activists for Flotilla Deaths</a> Nearly half - 49 percent - of likely U.S. voters believe that pro-Palestinian activists were to blame for the deaths that occurred when the Israel Defense Forces raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last week, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. <b>Israeli propaganda really does work.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/7801641/Gaza-flotilla-Turkey-accused-of-behaving-like-Iran-by-Israel.html">6/9/2010 - Gaza flotilla: Turkey accused of behaving like Iran by Israel </a> The Turkish ruling party AKP was savagely attacked by an unrepentant Israeli government last night, which said it was behaving like Iran and was "wholly to blame" for the deterioration in relations between the two countries. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0608/Four-reasons-the-US-could-get-Israel-to-talk-about-a-Middle-East-free-of-weapons-of-mass-destruction">6/9/2010 - Four reasons the US could get Israel to talk about a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.wrmea.com/component/content/article/351-2010-may-june/9045-pro-israel-pac-contributions-to-2010-congressional-candidates.html">6/9/2010 - Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2010 Congressional Candidates </a> <b>Notice the highest dollar amounts go to those who are routine and flagrant Israel-defenders, but who also hold key positions on important congressional committees.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=177861">6/9/2010 - Erdogan, Putin: Israel won t get our gas </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/128514/">6/9/2010 - Israel: U.S. Asset or Burden? Asset, Say ADL, AIPAC, 334 Congressmen. Burden, Says Mossad </a> Pro-Israel advocates have maintained for decades that it is an asset, and a darned valuable one. This view has been emphatically restated in the past few days by, among others, the Anti-Defamation League (here), AIPAC and 334 members of the House of Representatives in (a letter) to President Obama <b>THe Israeli Lobby has our Congress over a barrel. Believe it.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1657502/WXXI.Local.Stories/Local.Veteran.Talks.About.Israeli.Attack.on.Flotilla">6/9/2010 - Local Veteran Talks About Israeli Attack on Flotilla</a> A local veteran says the Israeli attack on a flotilla in the Meditteranean brings back painful memories of an incident that occured some 43 years ago this month. John Hrankowski was serving aboard the U.S.S. Liberty when it was attacked by Israeli jets and torpedo boats in the Six-Day War in June of 1967. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/406107/carol-boone/2010-06-07/extra-letters-readers">6/9/2010 - Extra letters from readers</a> The Times Union recently reported on the memorial services for the USS Stark and its crew attacked in international waters by an Iraq aircraft during the Iran-Iraq war. We deservedly remember their sacrifices and the bravery of the crew in saving their ship. But there are no memorial services for the crew of the USS Liberty attacked in international waters by the Israeli navy and air force during the 1967 Israeli war against the Arabs. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/06/08/russian-pm-gas-pipeline-unlikely-to-go-to-israel-2/">6/9/2010 - Russian PM gas pipeline unlikely to go to Israel</a> "Blue Stream II most likely will not be extended to Israel for purely financial reasons," Putin said on the sidelines of a security summit here. "They simply don't need it." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/03/gaza-flotilla-attack-henning-mankell">6/9/2010 - Henning Mankell on Gaza flotilla attack: 'I think they went out to murder'</a> "He said: 'You're charged with entering Israel illegally.' I said: 'That's absurd, you brought me here.' Then he said he knew who I was and that he'd read all my books and liked them. I told him: 'Next time you're in Europe call me and we'll talk about all of this.' <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://opiniojuris.org/2010/06/02/why-is-israels-blockade-of-gaza-legal/">6/9/2010 - Why Is Israel s Blockade of Gaza Legal? (Updated)</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/03/after-israels-attack-on-aid-ship-turkey-spun-as-villain/">6/9/2010 - After Israel s Attack on Aid Ship, Turkey Spun as Villain</a> Israelis were out in force nationwide, protesting in favor of the killings. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://againsttheinsidiouswiles.blogspot.com/2010/06/if-helen-thomas-had-slammed-muslims-or.html">6/9/2010 - If Helen Thomas had slammed Muslims or Christians, she'd still have her job</a> Israel-supporters all the time suggest that the Palestinians go live in Jordan, which they believe is the true Palestinian state, and that's not the only thing they say. But nobody utters a word about it, certainly not the president of the United States. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-08-02.htm">6/9/2010 - Anxious Gazans trying to leave blockaded territory</a> Egypt has cooperated with Israel in enforcing the blockade, in part because it has been fighting homegrown Islamic radicals since the 1990s and feared Hamas' militancy could spill into Egyptian territory. However, Egypt's role in maintaining the blockade has hurt its standing in the Muslim and Arab world. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-01-08.htm">6/9/2010 - As Irish Aid Ship Heads to Gaza, Local Economy Plods On</a> "The proportion of the population dependent on aid has risen to 80%, the number of the poorest of the poor has risen from 100,000 to 300,000 in the past year alone, and unemployment has reached 44%," says Chris Gunness, spokesman for UNRWA, the U.N. body that has been assisting Palestinian refugees since 1949. "How can anyone say there isn't a humanitarian crisis?" <b>Despite the above quote, this article by TIME clearly has the taint of pro-Israeli bias.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100605/bc_neish_returns_100605/20100605?hub=BritishColumbiaHome">6/9/2010 - Canadian says he was 'brutalized' in Israeli custody</a> He also repeated claims that the Israeli soldiers had fired upon the flotilla from helicopters before the raid began, which contradicts Israel's account that the commandos acted in self defence. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/tony-blair-israel-has-a-right-to-defend-itself-1.294986">6/9/2010 - Tony Blair: Israel has a right to defend itself</a> <b>Tony Blair is sick.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-02-03.htm">6/9/2010 - Israeli raid puts Obama between rock and hard place: experts</a> The Obama team was caught Wednesday between a rock and a hard place as it tried to navigate between key allies Israel and Turkey following an Israeli raid on a Gaza bound Turkish ship, analysts said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/08-1">6/9/2010 - Ann Wright: Pirates and PR</a> The Israeli PR machine has done everything possible to portray themselves as the victims of an attack by activists armed with "clubs" and "knives;" however, secret video chips have circulated images of activists using their Gaza-bound humanitarian aid to administer medical assistance to Israeli commandos wounded by their own aggressive assault. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100601/NEWS01/6010322/General-Patton-Museum-plans-veteran-tribute">6/9/2010 - General Patton Museum plans veteran tribute</a> Fellow desert veteran Navy Capt. William McGonagle, who earned his medal in 1967 as commanding officer of the USS Liberty, is also recognized in the exhibit. McGonagle is a graduate of Coachella Valley High School. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-06-08.htm">6/9/2010 - Israel slams 'cultural terrorism' as Pixies cancel gig</a> In recent months, Israel has been hit by a string of cancellations by high profile musicians, including Britain's Elvis Costello, rock guitarist Carlos Santana and rap forefather Gil Scott Heron, after they came under pressure over Israel's policies towards the Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-03-05.htm">6/9/2010 - Israel's use of 'captured' video draws criticism</a> "The Foreign Press Association strongly condemns the use of photos and video material shot by foreign journalists, now being put out by the (military) spokesman's office as 'captured material'," the FPA said in a statement. It said the military was selectively using footage to back its claims that commandos opened fire only after being attacked. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/turkish-paper-releases-censored-photos-of-beaten-israeli-commandos-1.294443">6/9/2010 - Turkish paper releases 'censored' photos of beaten Israeli commandos</a> Turkey's highest circulating paper, Hurriyet, reports that photos were deleted by Israel, but restored by Turkish activists. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/07-0">6/9/2010 - Israel's Flotilla Massacre: Made in the USA</a> A U.S. pattern of using UN Security Council vetoes to protect Israel from accountability for its crimes has ensured that Israel can do whatever it likes with those U.S.-provided weapons, regardless of which U.S. domestic or international laws may be broken. So U.S. complicity in the recent massacre at sea is beyond question. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/07-6">6/9/2010 - In Defense of Helen Thomas - On Apologizing to Apologists </a> On Friday she was asked by a guy who stuck a video camera in her face, for any comments on Israel and she said, "Tell them to get the get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, these people [the Palestinians] are occupied and it's their land. It's not Germany, it's not Poland." She was asked where they should go and she answered, "They should go home, to Poland, Germany and America". The video has been making its way around the Internet. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/06/idf-admits-it-doctored-flotilla-audio-clip-washington-posts-kessler-must-retract/">6/9/2010 - IDF Admits It Doctored Flotilla Audio Clip. Washington Post s Kessler Must Retract</a> The IDF admitted today in a press release that it doctored audio footage from its exchanges with the Gaza flotilla in order to paint the flotilla passengers as anti-Semites. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/06/06/our-enemies-the-israelis/">6/9/2010 - Our Enemies, the Israelis</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.kake.com/politics/headlines/95781334.html">6/9/2010 - Sen. Brown: Israel No Liability To U.S. </a> The Republican Brown was the keynote speaker Sunday night at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee leadership dinner in Boston <b>Another traitor speaks.</b><br><br> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2012005796_edit02gaza.html">6/9/2010 - Israel's allies dismayed by the latest crisis</a> Israel's fits of arrogant, self-absorbed behavior go back to the attack on the United States Navy ship, the USS Liberty. That was eventually buried by diplomatic inquiry as a case of mistaken identity. <b>A brazen scathing attack by the editors of the Seattle Times. Kudos.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128504/">6/9/2010 - Lawmakers Demand Hearing on Holocaust Insurance</a> A bipartisan group of 12 congressmen, including nine Jewish members, has called for a hearing into a bill that would allow litigants to make Holocaust-era insurance claims in U.S. courts.....Among the signatories are Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Florida, the ranking member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, who introduced the current bill in February <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100608/OPINION02/100607036/1006">6/9/2010 - Are American politicians afraid to take on Israel</a> As a veteran and American, I recall the similar murderous Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967, in which the American federal government subsequently became complicit. I would ask of the president, senators and congressmen: Are you afraid of Israel? Do you have a superseding allegiance to Israel over your allegiance to America? Is subservience to the small foreign country, Israel, a condition precedent to holding American national political office? The American-Israeli relationship is now and has been a costly disaster for America and Americans. <b>Great article by a true American patriot.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Walter-Rodgers/2010/0609/Rift-between-Israel-and-the-United-States-Flotilla-incident-didn-t-help">6/9/2010 - Rift between Israel and the United States Flotilla incident didn't help</a> Implicit in this criticism is the assumption that US foreign policy is supposed to mirror Israeli doctrine by following the Israeli prime minister s lead in the Middle East. From Israel s viewpoint, this is not an unreasonable expectation. The Bush-Cheney administration gave the government of Ariel Sharon carte blanche in the Middle East. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_d9a1783a-7067-11df-b85b-001cc4c002e0.html">6/9/2010 - Commando raid revealed</a> On Memorial Day, did we all remember the 34 dead on spyship USS Liberty? Who's to blame if we didn't, since the coverup by government and big media was well-executed <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aN3SS1QMQHvM">6/2/2010 - Israeli Military Kills 5 Palestinians in Gaza Clashes</a> Israeli aircraft  targeted a terrorist squad preparing to fire rockets into Israel, the army said in an e-mailed statement. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-48927020100531">6/2/2010 - Ten dead as Israel storms aid ships</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25580.htm">6/2/2010 - Video: Israel Kills 20 : Attacks Gaza Aid Fleet</a> <b>These may have been the earliest video reports released in the aftermath of Israel's attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-01-06.htm">6/2/2010 - Turkish PM calls Israeli ship raid a 'massacre'</a> Turkey withdrew its ambassador to Israel immediately after the raid, scrapped three joint military exercises and called the U.N. Security Council to an emergency meeting that demanded an impartial investigation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/amnesty-u-s-europe-shielding-israel-over-gaza-war-crimes-1.292505">6/2/2010 - Amnesty: U.S., Europe shielding Israel over Gaza war crimes</a> Amnesty International complained in its annual report released Thursday that the U.S. and members of the European Union had obstructed international justice by using their positions on the UN Security Council to shield Israel from accountability for war crimes allegedly committed during last year's Gaza war. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=10080&LangID=E">6/2/2010 - Gaza aid convoy killings:  Those responsible must be held criminally accountable - UN expert </a> The UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, urged Monday the international community to bring to justice those responsible for the killing of some 16 unarmed peace activist, when Israeli armed commandos stormed a convoy of ships carrying aid to Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.eecho.ie/news/index.aspx?c=ireland&jp=eyojsnsnqley">6/2/2010 - Govt warns Israel to 'exercise restraint' on Irish aid ship</a> Israel is being warned to act with "absolute restraint" when the MV Rachel Corrie approaches Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25589.htm">6/2/2010 - U.S. Blocks Security Council Criticism of Israeli Raid</a> The Obama administration refused to endorse a statement that singled out Israel, and proposed a broader condemnation of the violence that would include the assault of the Israeli commandos as they landed on the deck of the ship. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.eecho.ie/news/index.aspx?c=ireland&jp=eyojsnidqlau">6/2/2010 - Martin: Irish citizens 'kidnapped' in international waters</a> The Minister for Foreign Affairs has accused Israel of kidnapping Irish citizens in international waters. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3896963,00.html">6/2/2010 - Erdogan: Aid ship raid is Israeli state terrorism</a> Irish Prime Minister Taoiseach Brian Cowen called for an international inquiry into the Israeli raid, and expressed concern for the 10 of Irish nationals who took part in the sail. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1559384.php/INTERVIEW-Gaza-Strip-facing-humanitarian-tragedy-warns-UN-expert">6/2/2010 - INTERVIEW: Gaza Strip facing humanitarian tragedy, warns UN expert </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10193249.stm">6/2/2010 - Gaza aid flotilla 'leaves Cyprus'</a> Israeli government press officers have been briefing journalists that the aid flotilla is not necessary. Israel says it allows 15,000 tons of aid into Gaza every week. But the United Nations, which calls the blockade a "Medieval siege", says this is only a fraction of what is needed and less than a quarter of what was coming into Gaza before the blockade was enforced. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-flotilla-shows-whole-world-opposes-gaza-siege-1.292789">6/2/2010 - Hamas: Flotilla shows whole world opposes Gaza siege </a> The Hamas leader in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that if Israel behaved like pirates and attacked the international Freedom Flotilla carrying 10,000 tons of aid meant for Gaza, then the Palestinians will have won. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/01/gaza-flotilla-eyewitness-accounts-gunfire">6/2/2010 - Israelis opened fire before boarding Gaza flotilla, say released activists</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/obama-extends-fencemending-invitation-to-netanyahu-1983928.html">6/2/2010 - Obama extends fence-mending invitation to Netanyahu</a> Barack Obama has invited the Israeli Prime Minister to the White House next week, for an apparent "fence-mending" visit. The President's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel delivered the invitation in person to Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem yesterday, while on a family visit. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/01-3">6/2/2010 - Israelis Opened Fire Before Boarding Gaza Flotilla, say Released Activists</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-01-03.htm">6/2/2010 - UN calls for impartial probe of Israeli raid</a> After an emergency meeting and marathon negotiations that lasted nearly 12 hours, the 15 council members finally agreed on a presidential statement. It was weaker than what was initially demanded by the Palestinians, Arabs and Turkey because of objections by the United States, Israel's closest ally. <b>The US is still abetting Israel's crimes at the UN.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-01-05.htm">6/2/2010 - Turkey wants US condemnation of Israeli raid</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-31-03.htm">6/2/2010 - Obama urges Netanyahu to get facts on Gaza ship raid</a> U.S. President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he deeply regretted the loss of life in an Israeli raid on a Gaza bound aid flotilla on Monday and urged him to quickly collect all the facts about the incident. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-01-01.htm">6/2/2010 - Israel, Egypt ease Gaza blockade after deadly raid</a>In a jab at Israel, Clinton said the situation in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas and under an Israeli blockade, is "unsustainable and unacceptable." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.caller.com/news/2010/jun/02/israel-deports-corpus-christi-man-flotilla/">6/2/2010 - Israel deports Corpus Christi man in flotilla</a> <b>Meadors is a survivor of Israel's 1967 attack on the USS Liberty.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-31-01.htm">6/2/2010 - Israel boat raid sparks condemnations, protests</a> A group founded by Nelson Mandela that includes Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu and former President Jimmy Carter said "the treatment of the people of Gaza is one of the world's greatest human rights violations and that the blockade is not only illegal, it is counterproductive." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-31-04.htm">6/2/2010 - EU seeks inquiry into Israeli military action</a> The European Union called for an immediate inquiry into deaths aboard aid ships seized by Israel's navy Monday and urged Israel to allow the free flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-31-05.htm">6/2/2010 - Arabs demand independent probe of Israeli raid</a> The U.N. Security Council is holding an emergency meeting on Israel's deadly commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip, with the Palestinians and Arab nations calling for condemnation and an independent investigation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/28-2">6/2/2010 - Flotilla Set for Final Leg of Gaza Blockade-Busting Bid</a> "We will now have to go to the north and lose the Cypriot and Greek politicians, but we have members of parliament from Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Norway and Bulgaria. We are going to put them on a boat in Famagusta," <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=34892&Cr=palestin&Cr1">6/2/2010 - UN rights body votes to dispatch independent probe into  attack on Gaza aid convoy</a> Strongly condemning Israel s actions against the humanitarian flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted today to dispatch an independent, international probe into violations of international law resulting from Monday s incident. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1355">6/2/2010 - Hebron URGENT ACTION: The Tent of Nations... Needs to hear from all the Nations</a> "The Tent of Nations," a 100-acre family farm near Bethlehem, Palestine, received nine demolition orders from Israeli civil authorities to destroy buildings, animal shelters, the water system, and even the toilets. The family has had three days to appeal the order ending tomorrow Sunday, May 30. The bulldozers could arrive as early as midnight tonight. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/05/26/the-strategic-ally-myth/">6/2/2010 - The Strategic Ally Myth by Philip Giraldi</a> Zuckerman s latest contribution to international harmony is a lengthy piece in the US News & World Report entitled  Israel Is a Key Ally and Deserves US Support. It is a propaganda piece that promotes one of the most persistent fictions put out by the mainstream media, that the relationship with Israel somehow benefits the United States <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7140282.ece">6/2/2010 -Israel stations nuclear missile subs off Iran</a> Three German-built Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles are to be deployed in the Gulf near the Iranian coastline. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/01-6">6/2/2010 - Obama's Timidity and Deaths at Sea </a> So, you see, the Israeli military resorted to violence only in self-defense. Right........ Muslims do not  hate our freedom, but rather, they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights. <b>A very good article by former CIA Ray McGovern.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-29-02.htm">6/2/2010 - Workers trained in settlements build new Palestinian suburb</a> Khalil is not proud of the work he did in settlements in annexed east Jerusalem, but said he was forced to do so in order to support a family of six. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/01-0">6/2/2010 - Israel and Harman in Tandem: From High Seas to Airwaves</a> Harman, a powerful member of the center-right Blue Dog Coalition, is one of the Israeli government's most valued allies on Capitol Hill. She's a standout -- even in a Congress teeming with fervent apologists for Israel's relentless suppression of Palestinian rights. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-01-02.htm">6/2/2010 - Walking fine line, US doesn't condemn Israeli raid</a> Clinton said life under the blockade in Gaza is "unsustainable and unacceptable." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/05/30/how-disinformation-works/">6/2/2010 - How Disinformation Works by Philip Giraldi</a> The Times story additionally relates that Israeli defense minister Ehud Barack allegedly showed President Obama  classified satellite images of a convoy of ballistic missiles leaving Syria on the way to Hezbollah in Lebanon. The fact is that US intelligence, which has far better capabilities than the Israelis, cannot verify the missile story that the Israelis have been peddling for several months. The Israelis clearly want the US to buy into the scud threat, but CIA analysts have so far found the evidence unconvincing. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/06/us_witness_to_israeli_sea_raid.html">6/2/2010 - U.S. Witness To Israeli Sea Raid Tells What He Saw</a> "We had talked about what to do and how to be non-violent because the last thing you want to do is provoke armed soldiers. I've seen three newspapers since the plane landed in New Jersey, and several times the Israelis have been quoted as saying that their guys were armed with paint guns. Well, indeed they were, as well as pistols and automatic rifles and stun(?) grenades and pepper spray." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-28-01.htm">6/2/2010 - Turkey PM: Critics of Iran should get rid of nukes</a> Nations criticizing an Iranian nuclear fuel swap deal brokered by Brazil and Turkey should eliminate their own nuclear weapon stockpiles, Turkey's leader said Friday <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-30-03.htm">6/2/2010 - US reassured Netanyahu ahead of NPT deal: Israeli official</a> Consternation over the resolution has welled up in Israel, where the top selling Yediot Aharonot daily said Netanyahu's government was "furious with the Obama administration for having failed to prevent the resolution from passing... and for choosing to support it." <b>Israel needs to get with the program. They are not above the law.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/01/most-sycophantic-apology-for-israeli-attack/">6/2/2010 - Most Sycophantic Apology for Israeli Attack</a> The Israeli military attacks an aid ship in international waters and kills at least 10 people. Naturally, Israel is the victim. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/community/tempe/articles/2010/06/01/20100601israel-protest-tempe-raid.html">6/2/2010 - Tempe protest of Israeli raid scheduled today</a> Protestors in Tempe Tuesdaywill join a growing number of international demonstrations condemning Israel's Mondayraid of ships carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists and aid workers from as many as 38 countries trying to reach the Gaza Strip with supplies. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3896361,00.html">6/2/2010 - State official: Obama provided Israel with historic guarantees </a> The source noted that the US had effectively promised Israel that no decision made by the NPT conference would harm Israel's vital interests. <b>One rule for Israel, one rule for the rest of the world.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25598.htm">6/2/2010 - Pro-Israel Dems Defend Raid</a> New York Democratic Reps. Anthony Weiner, Jerrold Nadler, Gary Ackerman, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.) have all vigorously supported Israel s boarding an aid ship bound for the blockaded Gaza  an act that resulted in ten deaths and a U.N. condemnation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0601/Israeli-raid-on-flotilla-an-intentional-message-for-Gaza-and-the-rest-of-the-world">6/2/2010 - Israeli raid on flotilla an intentional message for Gaza and the rest of the world</a> The message from Israel was simple: We don t care about your laws, rights, civilians, or what you think of us. We care only about maintaining our occupation regime through the use of force  and there is nothing you can do to stop us. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/britain-vows-to-change-policy-allowing-u-k-to-arrest-israeli-politicians-1.292603">6/2/2010 - Britain vows to change policy allowing U.K. to arrest Israeli politicians</a> Speaking to reporters early Thursday, the Foreign Secretary said that "we cannot have a position where Israeli politicians feel they cannot visit this country and indeed not just Israel, but this could apply to many other nations as well. So this has to be put right. And that is well understood and agreed in the coalition government." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-02-01.htm">6/2/2010 - Israel trying to limit diplomatic damage from raid</a> International envoy Tony Blair told The Associated Press that Israel should ease the blockade and let more supplies in. He said the blockade was "counterproductive," but said it would be hard to lift it because of Israel's objections. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25596.htm">6/2/2010 - Israeli Murders, NATO and Afghanistan</a> nobody wants or expects military action against Israel. But there is an uneasy recognition that in theory that ought to be on the table, and that NATO is obliged to do something robust to defend Turkey. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/maryriddell/100041811/in-cold-blood-why-israels-state-thuggery-must-be-stopped/">6/2/2010 - In cold blood - Why Israel's state thuggery must be stopped</a> If any basket-case state, or crazed despot, or terrorist group perpetrated such an outrage, the world would be united in outrage. Yet despite a UN security council condemnation and Turkey s (seemingly justified) accusation of state terrorism, the West has sounded strangely muted. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/2010/06/maryland_mideast_peace_activis.html">6/2/2010 - Md. Mideast peace activist recounts flotilla ordeal</a> "The people didn't want to be boarded," he said. "We tried to resist passively, which the Israeli people were not prepared to accept." A fellow American on the ship, Joe Meadors, a Texas activist, was hit with a paintball fired by the commandos, whose heads were covered with balaclavas, said Peck. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3897746,00.html">6/2/2010 - Ex-US envoy Commandos ordered me to 'sit down'</a> 'The Israelis told me, 'You ve broken Israeli law.' I said,  Which one? They said, 'You have entered the country illegally.' I said, 'I m sorry.' But if I m brought into the country under armed escort that is not entering the country illegally. Forcibly. We ll they don t agree with that. I was deported so I suppose that goes on my record. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/128343">6/2/2010 - What s Behind White House Strategy To Woo U.S. Jews</a> Military cooperation, an issue usually discussed privately between the governments of Israel and the United States, has been a key theme of the administration s outreach effort. In public speeches and in private meetings, Obama administration officials have provided Jewish audiences with a detailed list of U.S. measures taken to strengthen Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-31-06.htm">6/2/2010 - Crime writer Mankell held in Israel after aid boat attack: Sweden</a> Mankell, whose books about world weary detective Kurt Wallander have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide and have been adapted to film and television, said he was taking part in the flotilla to show his solidarity towards the Palestinian people. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/01-8">6/2/2010 - Reporting Israeli Assault Through Israel's Eyes</a> Many of the analysis pieces in major papers focused on the fallout for Israel and the United States, rather than the civilians killed or the humanitarian crisis they were trying to address. .....According to Craig Murray (5/31/10), former British ambassador and specialist on maritime law, the legal position "is very plain": "To attack a foreign flagged vessel in international waters is illegal. It is not piracy, as the Israeli vessels carried a military commission. It is rather an act of illegal warfare." <b>Our media is controlled by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, in case you hadn't noticed.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-31-02.htm">6/2/2010 - Obama administration concerned about Gaza incident</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-31-07.htm">6/2/2010 - Analysis: High-seas raid deepens Israeli isolation</a> "The attack on a humanitarian mission ... will only further alienate the international community and isolate Israel while granting added legitimacy to Hamas' claim to represent the plight of the Palestinian people," said Scott Atran, an analyst at the University of Michigan. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25602.htm">6/2/2010 - Netanyahu: World 'Hypocritical' for Condemning Gaza Flotilla Raid</a> <b>He's as bad as Imanutterjob.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/06/02-11">6/2/2010 - Parents of Rachel Corrie Respond to Gaza Flotilla Attack and sailing of MV Rachel Corrie</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/weapons+stormed+Turkish+ship+Report/3092005/story.html">6/2/2010 - No weapons on stormed Turkish ship: Report</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/10206802.stm">6/2/2010 - Activists describe Israeli raid on Gaza aid convoy</a> The activists, speaking on their return home, said as well as firing live and plastic rounds, commandos had administered electric shocks and beaten passengers during the assault. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/05/28/2739354/israel-but-not-just-israel-welcome-to-obamas-jewish-america">6/2/2010 - Welcome to Obama s Jewish America</a> Still, the White House's message was timely: Obama would not be second-guessed by his pro-Israel critics on his friendship to the Jewish community and to Israel. The reception included a traditional reference to the "unbreakable" Israel-U.S. alliance dating back to within minutes of Israel's establishment. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25593.htm">6/2/2010 - Western Leaders are too Cowardly to Help Save Lives By Robert Fisk</a> it is a fact, is it not, that had Europeans (and yes, the Turks are Europeans, are they not?) been gunned down by any other Middle Eastern army (which the Israeli army is, is it not?) there would have been waves of outrage. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25585.htm">6/2/2010 - Mossad Chief: Israel Gradually Becoming Burden on U.S.</a> <b>Former CIA head of the Bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, will tell you the same thing, in the least.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25592.htm">6/2/2010 - All At Sea</a> under article 3 of the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128346/">6/2/2010 - Israel Studies: Scholarly Pursuit or Public Diplomacy?</a> The growth and development over the past decade of what has become known as Israel studies owes much to politically motivated donors who have endowed chairs, imported dozens of visiting Israeli scholars, and set up Israel studies institutes across the country, from Harvard University to the University of California at Berkeley. For these donors  among them, prominent Jewish philanthropists Charles Bronfman and Lynn Schusterman  the academics are pro-Israel soldiers on the heated battlefields of American campuses.....There are now eight institutes or centers for Israel studies in North America, with 11 endowed chairs and dozens of visiting professorships. Every chair, and every institute, bears the name of a rich benefactor; the Schusterman family alone funds 20 visiting Israeli scholars every year.........donors were convinced that the best way for them to combat anti-Israel sentiment would be through endowing chairs and setting up institutes. <b>Hasbara (Israeli propaganda) has now been further entrenched into America. The pro-Israelis are taking over on campuses to make sure that the truth about Israel does not get out.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/06/01-0">6/2/2010 - Video: Israel's Gaza PR Offensive</a> <b>Thusly is the Orwellian nature of all things Israel revealed: Up is Down, Left is Right, Black is White: the Israeli commandos donning balaclavas were acting in 'self defense' by rappeling down onto a civilian ship in international waters and one where the passengers fought back. Mmm k.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/06/01/israel_uss_liberty">6/2/2010 - The U.S.S. Liberty and the culture of impunity</a> Soon after the Liberty attack, [National Security Agency director Lieutenant General Marshall] Carter appeared before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee to discuss the Liberty. [Deputy Secretary of Defense] Cyrus Vance joined him... "Cy Vance just told me to keep my mouth shut," [Gerard] Burke [Carter's chief of staff] recalled his boss telling him.... "There was absolutely no question in anybody's mind that the Israelis had done it deliberately," Burke said. "I was angrier because of the cover-up... The only mystery to me was why was the thing being covered up."... <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/128341">6/2/2010 - Church Report Deemed  Anti-Israel Endangers Jewish-Presbyterian Ties</a> The country s main Presbyterian denomination is set to consider officially endorsing a church report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that Jewish groups are condemning in the strongest terms <b>The Presbyterians evidently know the truth and are actually trying to do something about it, bless their hearts.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-30-01.htm">6/2/2010 - Israel rejects new drive to ban nukes from Mideast</a> Israel declared late Saturday that it would not take part in a 2012 conference on establishing a nuclear free Middle East  an Arab led initiative backed by top ally U.S. and the 188 other signatories to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/27-1">6/2/2010 - The Audacity of the Free Gaza Flotilla</a> Ironically, on one passenger ship will be Joe Meaders, a U.S. citizen who is a survivor of the Israeli air and naval attack on a United States Navy ship, the USS Liberty, in 1967 killed 34 U.S. sailors and wounded 173. The Israeli government has never acknowledged, much less apologized for, the deaths of these sailors, nor the destruction of the USS Liberty. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-30-02.htm">6/2/2010 - Israel recoils as US backs nuclear move</a> Washington's unprecedented backing for a UN resolution for a nuclear free Middle East that singles out Israel has both angered and deeply worried the Jewish state although officials are cagey about openly criticising their biggest ally. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/28-0">6/2/2010 - Gaza Flotilla: This is What Smart Strategy Looks Like</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25563.htm">6/2/2010 - Israel's Most Illicit Affair</a> South African money helped Israel became a major arms manufacturer and exporter and funded its high-tech economy, while Pretoria gained access to cutting-edge weapons and military technology at a time when most of the world sought to isolate and condemn the apartheid regime. For the ensuing two decades Israel continued to publicly denounce apartheid while at the same time secretly propping up the white-minority government and helping sustain racial supremacy. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-29-01.htm">6/2/2010 - Hamas leader says group has no problem with US</a> "We don't have a problem whatsoever with the United States or with American interests," Khaled Meshaal told PBS television in an interview. ......"If America wants democracy and human rights, it has to give the same rights to the people in the region," he argued. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-02-02.htm">6/2/2010 - Gaza convoy raid may boost militancy, experts say</a> Revulsion at the bloodshed on a Turkish vessel sailing to the Palestinian enclave could translate into increased fund raising for transnational militant groups such as al Qaeda or like minded allies, or foster tolerance or even sympathy for such groups among Muslims who are not otherwise ideological. In some cases, it could push passive al Qaeda sympathizers into active participation against Israel or its Western allies, and undermine the international cooperation needed for tracking down illicit funding of militant groups, they said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/58854.html">6/2/2010 - Still Think Israel Doesn t Control the United States? </a> <b>Few Americans know the real reason for the Arab oil embargo of the early seventies: any nation that supported Israel during the Yom Kippur war was a target. That is the reason for this legislation.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/protest-at-dcs-israeli-embassy-060110">6/2/2010 - Protest at DC's Israeli Embassy</a> Protesters have returned to the White House to call on the President to denounce the blockade of the Gaza Strip. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/128347">6/2/2010 - Mosque s Plan To Expand Near Ground Zero Sparks Debate</a> Jewish leaders involved in interfaith dialogue praised Rauf as an important partner.  He s one of the most constructive forces of Islam in the U.S. today, and indeed internationally, said Rabbi David Rosen, the American Jewish Committee s Israel-based director of interreligious affairs, of Rauf.  I think he is a very fair man, and the kind of Muslim voice we need to empower and encourage. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/06/01/bibis-vassal-is-frustrated/">6/2/2010 - Bibi s vassal is frustrated!</a> Apparently the Palestinians were not informed that though they were permitted a vote in 2006, they were only allowed to vote for the Palestinian Authority, which they viewed as corrupt as wrapped up in a peace process that was clearly going nowhere. So a majority voted for Hamas, and since then Hamas ruled Gaza has been gradually starved to death, attacked by the Israeli military, and starved some more all in an effort to make the Palestinians regret their choice at the polls. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/06/06-01-04.htm">6/2/2010 - Time to Call Out Israel's Bad Behavior</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/06/01/ties-with-israel-may-outlast-turkish-anger-at-raid-3/">6/2/2010 - Ties with Israel may outlast Turkish anger at raid</a> other officials were delivering messages of restraint and Turkey said it was not canceling plans to accept $183 million (euro150.56 million) worth of Israeli drone planes this summer. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/06/01/the-mediterranean-massacre/">6/2/2010 - The Mediterranean Massacre by Justin Raimondo</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/05/24/expert-advice-from-the-washington-times/">6/2/2010 - Expert Advice from The Washington Times by Philip Giraldi</a> Scarborough quoted a retired US Air Force Colonel named John Warden (possibly General Jack D. Ripper in alias) who suggested that the United States should deal with Iran by shutting down the country s electrical generation capability for the foreseeable future because  Iran cannot sustain a nuclear research program if they don t have electricity and oil and a bunch of other things like that. John Pike, a  longtime analyst of the Pentagon and intelligence agencies also quoted in the article, suggests that Israel target the workers at the Iranian nuclear sites. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128339/">6/2/2010 - Peter Beinart: In His Own Words</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/128296/">6/2/2010 - Israeli Apartheid Group Banned From Toronto Gay Pride Parade </a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <b>May </b> <br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052102658.html">5/26/2010 - Israel impatient with international effort to thwart Iran's nuclear ambition</a> <b>Israel wants war.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51574">5/26/2010 - Hamas' Turn to Demolish Palestinian Homes</a> The Hamas authorities have been battling increasing incidents of Islamic extremism which have targeted beauty salons, coffee shops, Internet cafes, the YMCA and a Red Cross convoy. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1353">5/26/2010 - PALESTINE URGENT ACTION: Demand that Israel revoke new military orders for deporting Palestinians from West Bank</a> Kairos Palestine (http://www.kairospalestine.ps/), a Palestinian Christian organization with whom CPT Hebron partners, is asking Christians around the world to contact their ambassadors to Israel and the Israeli Military and Foreign Affairs ministries regarding new military orders that could separate families. CPT Hebron asks that its constituents respond to this call. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons">5/26/2010 - Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons</a> Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://af.reuters.com/article/algeriaNews/idAFLDE64O1D820100525?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=algeriaNews&rpc=401">5/26/2010 - Turkey urges Israel to let in humanitarian convoy</a> "We don't want new tensions ... We believe Israel will use common sense towards this civilian initiative." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/20-0">5/26/2010 - US/Israel Challenged on Iran</a> despite the rhetoric, Israel and its supporters in Washington do not view the current dispute over Iran's nuclear program as an "existential threat." Rather, it is viewed as another golden opportunity to bring "regime change" to a country considered one of Israel's adversaries, as Iraq was under Saddam Hussein <b>Ray McGovern is a former CIA analyst.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/24-3">5/26/2010 - Flotilla Aims to Break Israel's Grip on Gaza</a> Five of eight previous protest boats have managed to land in Gaza. But most recently one was rammed at sea by an Israeli navy ship, and another was captured, with all on board being held in Israeli jails for up to a week before they were deported. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-24-04.htm">5/26/2010 - Australia moves to expel Israeli diplomat</a> Israeli radio stations have reported that the diplomats expelled from Australia and Britain were Mossad representatives. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25506.htm">5/26/2010 - Report: Abbas may double territory offered to Israel in peace deal</a> The Palestinians are willing to consider making larger territorial concessions in peace talks with Israel than have been offered in the past, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, quoting officials involved in the proximity talks. According to the report, concessions could reach 4% of the West Bank. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-23-02.htm">5/26/2010 - Gaza assailants vandalize UN summer camp</a> Also Sunday, a U.N. agency reported that three quarters of the damage inflicted on Gaza by Israel's war against Hamas more than a year ago has not been repaired or rebuilt. The report warned that the international community is being increasingly sidelined in Gaza because of Israel's blockade of the territory. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/186745">5/26/2010 - 'Israeli Retaliation Must Include Major Muslim Sites'</a> A new paper from the BESA Center for Mideast Security and Policy says any Israeli response to a non-conventional attack from Arab countries must include an attack on sites of  major symbolic importance for the Muslim world . <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3894211,00.html">5/26/2010 - PA's Abbas slams Iran</a> As to the Palestinian boycott on settlement products, Abbas declared that he too takes part in the campaign. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1354">5/26/2010 - Israeli Imprisonment of Palestinian Children</a> conclusive studies like those done by the Defense for Children International (DCI) Palestine Section have researched and reported on the systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities. From their research I take much of my information. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-24-02.htm">5/26/2010 - EU aid to Palestinians may shrink if talks fail</a> The annual assistance given to the Palestinians over the past 16 years represents the EU's highest per capita foreign aid program. The current seven year budget, part of which funds United Nations support projects, is locked in until 2013. <b>The Europeans give the lion's share of their foreign aid to the Palestinians and the US gives the majority of its foreign aid to Israel, a nation whose economy is doing better than ours. Gazans, who subsist on roughly $2/day, endure conditions that have been likened to those of sub-Saharan Africa.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/05/19/shaping-the-story-on-iran/">5/26/2010 - Shaping the Story on Iran by Philip Giraldi</a> There have been recent reports that Iran has enabled the travel of al-Qaeda leaders to Afghanistan and Pakistan where they will be able to confront and kill American soldiers. If you think you have heard the story before, you have, in another context. In the earlier rendition it was Saddam Hussein who was hand-in-glove with al-Qaeda, helping the group in its nefarious planning to attack the United States and kill Americans <b>Another must read by Philip Giraldi.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/05/21/Congress-OKs-205-million-for-Israel/UPI-74991274462809/">5/26/2010 - Congress OKs $205 million for Israel</a> Israel, facing the threat of a massive missile attack by Iran and its proxies, breathed a sigh of relief after the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved giving it $205 million to buy 10 batteries of a new missile-defense system. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64N0EW20100524">5/26/2010 - Australia expels Israeli diplomat over Dubai hit</a> "These investigations and advice have left the government in no doubt that Israel was responsible for the abuse and counterfeiting of these passports," Smith told Australia's parliament. "These are not the actions of a friend." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/24-2">5/26/2010 - Gaza, Here We Come to Break the Siege</a> <b>Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March, 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/shame-on-you-democracy-vanunu-yells-as-he-returns-to-prison-1.291687">5/26/2010 - 'Shame on you, democracy,' Vanunu yells as he returns to prison</a> Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, released in 2004 after 18 years in prison for leaking Israeli nuclear secrets, began serving an additional 3-month sentence on Sunday for refusing to carry out court-mandated community service. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/qatars-offer-to-help-rebuild-gaza-is-snubbed-by-netanyahu-1979974.html">5/26/2010 - Qatar's offer to help rebuild Gaza is snubbed by Netanyahu</a> Israel has turned down an offer from Qatar for a reopening of diplomatic contacts between the two countries in return for the Gulf state being allowed to import supplies to Gaza to carry out a series of badly needed reconstruction projects. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/strenger-than-fiction/strenger-than-fiction-in-order-to-change-its-image-israel-must-change-its-policy-1.291260">5/26/2010 - Strenger than Fiction / In order to change its image, Israel must change its policy</a> Ultimately perception of a brand hinges on actual behavior and organizational culture, not propaganda. <b>In other words, the world pays attention to what Israel DOES, not what it says. Actions speak louder than words. All the PR in the world isn't going to change that. So Israel ought to instead CHANGE ITS UNLAWFUL AND IMMORAL BEHAVIOR. Rocket science. Getting the governments and mainstream media in Western nations to coverup the Israeli crimes in Anglo countries isn't solving this problem either.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128179/">5/26/2010 - Debate Over Israel Funding Guidelines Continues To Roil San Francisco Jews</a> The new policy followed a fracas at last summer s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, which twice screened  Rachel, an Israeli-made film about Rachel Corrie <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-20-02.htm">5/26/2010 - Singer Elvis Costello cancels concerts in Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-23-01.htm">5/26/2010 - Israeli nuclear whistleblower back in jail</a> In December, Israeli authorities arrested Vanunu, accusing him of having contact with a number of foreigners, including journalists, and a Norwegian woman Vanunu said is his girlfriend. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-24-03.htm">5/26/2010 - Israel denies report on nuclear arms sale offer</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25507.htm">5/26/2010 - Report: PA Willing to Have NATO Forces in Future "State"</a> The newspaper quoted Palestinian sources as saying that Abbas would agree to have North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces monitor the borders of the future Palestinian state, in order to stop arms smuggling to what is supposed to become a demilitarized zone. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128172/">5/26/2010 - A Tale of Two Jerusalems</a> This pattern of inequality extends to housing policy as well. Despite the fact that the city s Arab population has increased 450% since Israel s annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, not a single new Arab neighborhood has been authorized, even as there have been massive expropriations of Arab-owned land to establish new Jewish neighborhoods <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128174/">5/26/2010 - Getting Serious About Iran</a> There is no conceivable solution to the threat of a nuclear Iran that will not require American leadership. All of the options  whether economic sanctions or military action  are impossible without American support. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/05/24/expert-advice-from-the-washington-times/">5/26/2010 - Expert Advice from The Washington Times by Philip Giraldi </a> A copy of The Washington Times was on display with a large front page picture of yesterday s Salute to Israel parade in New York. Next to the picture was an article by Rowan Scarborough entitled  Israel arms may not be enough to stop nukes. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3893122,00.html">5/26/2010 - PM: Radical Islam with nukes  danger to mankind </a> Amid international efforts to impose fresh sanctions against Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Russia to cooperate with Israel in order to curb the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2010/04/22/rand-paul-and-israel">5/26/2010 - Rand Paul and Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll284.xml">5/26/2010 - BILL TITLE: To authorize assistance to Israel for the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/05/20/take-irans-deal-mr-president/">5/26/2010 - Take Iran s Deal, Mr. President by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> Not only did Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and President Lula da Silva of Brazil put their prestige on the line by flying to Tehran, the deal they got is a near-exact replica of the deal Obama offered Iran eight months ago. Why is President Obama slapping it away? Does he not want a deal? Has he already decided on the sanctions road that leads to war? <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128185/">5/26/2010 - Boycott Targets Stars From Elvis to Elton</a>  I must believe that the audience for the coming concerts would have contained many people who question the policies of their government on settlement and deplore conditions that visit intimidation, humiliation or much worse on Palestinian civilians in the name of national security, he wrote. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-23-04.htm">5/26/2010 - Syria defies Western pressure over Hezbollah</a> "A Scud missile is as big as this room. How could it be hidden and smuggled with Israeli planes and satellites all over the region?" Moualem asked, adding that cumbersome Scuds were not suited to Hezbollah's guerrilla tactics. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=176570">5/26/2010 - Visiting MEPs decide to visit Gaza and ignore Israelis </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128124/">5/26/2010 - Comedy Central Vs. The Jews</a> A video game currently available on Comedy Central s website, featuring a character named  Jew Producer and a killer robot named  I.S.R.A.E.L., is raising protests in the Jewish community. The game,  Drawn Together, based on the network s politically incorrect animated series of the same name, depicts  Jew Producer, a character that has a speaker for a head and is taken to task for failing to kill certain animated characters. A robot called  the Intelligent Smart Robot Animation Eraser Lady (I.S.R.A.E.L.) is then sent in to do the job, unleashing destruction and murdering children. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51571">5/26/2010 - Settlement Policy Wrong - European Jews</a> Prominent Jewish intellectuals living in Europe have begun denouncing the Israeli policy of allowing settlements to come up on Palestinian territories as "morally and politically wrong.  <b>In a collective declaration, presented in the Belgian capital Brussels on May 3, hundreds of prominent European Jews also said that the main danger to the state of Israel   lies in the occupation and the continuing pursuit of settlements in the West Bank and in the Arab districts of East Jerusalem." </b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128182/">5/26/2010 - Prominent Jewish Liberals Answer the JCall</a> The statement came in the same week that Peter Beinart, former editor of The New Republic, published a scathing critique of the American Jewish establishment s approach to Israel. His article appeared in The New York Review of Books. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128184/">5/26/2010 - End of Specter Era Brings New Race for Jewish Vote</a> In interviews and meetings with Jewish voters, the retired three-star Navy admiral chose to focus on his close ties with top Israeli military officials and his work on issues relating to Israel s security. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-24-01.htm">5/26/2010 - Syria's Assad says US has lost Mideast peace influence</a> Assad was quoted as telling the Italian daily La Repubblica that Washington "has no influence because they don't do anything for peace. But they remain the greatest power." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/128100/">5/26/2010 - The Moral Crisis of American Zionism, Seen Through the Eyes of a Recovering New Republic-nik </a> <b>Particularly in the younger generations, fewer and fewer American Jewish liberals are Zionists; fewer and fewer American Jewish Zionists are liberal. One reason is that the leading institutions of American Jewry have refused to foster  indeed, have actively opposed  a Zionism that challenges Israel s behavior in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and toward its own Arab citizens.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/128177/">5/26/2010 - Whither Liberal Zionism?</a> In a long and thoughtful essay in the New York Review of Books, Peter Beinart accurately describes how and why so many young American Jews are becoming alienated from Israel and blames the American Jewish establishment for its lock-step support of the Israeli government s current policies and attitudes. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-idf-soldiers-kill-elderly-palestinian-near-gaza-border-1.290477">5/19/2010 - Report: IDF soldiers kill elderly Palestinian near Gaza border </a> Medical officials in Gaza said the man, who was 75 and whose body was only discovered on Saturday when it became light, had been shot several times. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-15-01.htm">5/19/2010 - Palestinians mark displacement in 1948 Mideast war</a> Gaza's Hamas rulers invited their Fatah rivals to participate in Saturday's march, a rare gesture from the Islamic militant group since it seized Gaza and ousted Fatah forces in June 2007. In previous years, different Palestinian factions organized their own events, highlighting their inability to work together on key issues. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/14-9">5/19/2010 - Palestinians Mark 'Catastrophe' Day</a> Tensions between the two sides spilled over into a deadly shooting earlier on Friday when an Israeli settler, whose car had been stoned, shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian youth, Palestinian security sources and activists said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-al-aqsa-martyrs-brigades-claim-responsibility-for-west-bank-shooting-attack-1.290336">5/19/2010 - Report: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claim responsibility for West Bank shooting attack</a> Meanwhile, not far from the site of the shooting, Palestinian sources said settlers opened fire and killed a Palestinian teenager who was throwing rocks at Israeli cars near the West Bank city of Ramallah late Thursday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1351">5/19/2010 - AT-TUWANI RELEASE: Palestinian fence vandalized in At-Tuwani village</a> Palestinians from At-Tuwani village found that the fence built between At-Tuwani and Havat Ma'on outpost had been destroyed during the night. At-Tuwani residents erected the wire netting about two months ago, in an attempt to protect the village from Israeli settlers raids (such as the events of 26 January 2010; see press release at: http://sn.im/w6u87 [www_cpt_org] ) and in response to the ongoing and rapid expansion of the nearby Ma'on settlement and Havat Ma'on outpost. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8680769.stm">5/19/2010 - Human Rights Watch say destruction in Gaza 'unlawful' </a> "These cases describe instances in which Israeli forces caused extensive destruction of homes, factories, farms and greenhouses in areas under IDF control without any evident military purpose," the report said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/05/13-5">5/19/2010 - Israel: Investigate Unlawful Destruction in Gaza War</a> "Almost 16 months after the war, Israel has not held accountable troops who unlawfully destroyed swaths of civilian property in areas under their control," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "Israel's blockade continues to keep Gazans from rebuilding their homes, meaning that Israel is still punishing Gaza's civilians long after the fighting is over." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1556059.php/Sudanese-migrant-shot-and-killed-crossing-from-Egypt-to-Israel">5/19/2010 - Sudanese migrant shot and killed crossing from Egypt to Israel </a> Egyptian security forces shot and killed a Sudanese migrant trying to cross from the north of the Sinai peninsula into Israel, police sources said on Sunday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-europe-stop-your-citizens-from-sailing-to-gaza-with-aid-1.290831">5/19/2010 - Israel to Europe: Stop your citizens from sailing to Gaza with aid</a> Israel warned a number of European states that it would not permit leftist-organizations planning to sail to the Gaza Strip with international aid to complete their mission <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1352">5/19/2010 - At-Tuwani Update: April 2010</a> <b>Many accounts of settler terrorism.</b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/05/13/israelis-no-halt-to-east-jerusalem-construction-4/">5/19/2010 - Israelis: No halt to east Jerusalem construction</a> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hawkish coalition partners vowed Thursday to keep building Jewish settlements and demolishing unauthorized Palestinian homes in contested east Jerusalem  despite indications the Israeli leader has put the brakes on both. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127974/">5/19/2010 - Kadima Bill: NGOs That Assist in War Crime Accusations Should Be Illegal</a> Some 17 lawmakers from the centrist Kadima and parties to its right have submitted a proposal to outlaw any nongovernmental organization that provides information to foreign or international bodies that leads to war crimes accusations against the government or the army. <b>So desperate are they to hide their war crimes. Basic democratic principles get thrown out the window.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25459.htm">5/19/2010 - US Funds Israel s Apartheid Roads Plan</a> USAid, which funds development projects in Palestinian areas, is reported to have helped to build 114km of Israeli-proposed roads, despite a pledge from Washington six years ago that it would not assist in implementing what has been widely described as Israel s  apartheid road plan. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3889421,00.html">5/19/2010 - Obama seeks $205 million for Israel rocket shield</a> President Barack Obama will ask Congress to provide $205 million to Israel to spur production and deployment of a new short-range rocket defense system, administration officials said Thursday.....The money comes on top of annual US assistance to Israel. <b>Think about that as my fellow Americans are jobless and struggling to pay their mortgage and feed their families: we keep shoveling billions to Israel to uphold its state built on apartheid and supremacism.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-fears-iran-nuclear-deal-will-delay-un-sanctions-1.290809">5/19/2010 - Israel fears Iran nuclear deal will delay UN sanctions</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3889572,00.html">5/19/2010 - Russia to sell Syria warplanes, air defense systems</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/mideastgazafblwc2010">5/19/2010 - Yahoo News Video: Gazans can't go to S.Africa, so 'World Cup' comes to them</a> Passionate about football but cut off from the world, the Gaza Strip has its own World Cup, a popular initiative aimed at forcing a lifting of the Israeli blockade on the tiny Palestinian enclave. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127965/">5/19/2010 - Why Christian Zionists Really Support Israel</a> Christians attending these churches will also learn about the miraculous rise of the modern State of Israel and the existential threats it faces today. Many will leave church with a better understanding of the dangers of Iran s nuclear weapons program, Palestinian terror and the international campaign against Israel s legitimacy. <b>Authored by the Supreme Christian ZioNutter in Charge, John Hagee.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=931371&category=LETTER">5/19/2010 - Shared Jerusalem can bring peace</a> We recently returned from a Christian Peacemaker Teams trip (www.cpt.org) to Jerusalem and the West Bank. Our delegation witnessed the fact that religious liberty in Jerusalem is severely restricted. Its holy places are out of bounds for many Christians and Muslims from the West Bank and Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&mpid=121&load=3505">5/19/2010 - Former US General Warns of Chemical Attacks against Israel</a> Gen. Paul Vallely speaks to PJTV exclusively and reveals how Iranian submarines are now equipping Israel's enemies with Scud missiles armed warheads filled with chemical weapons <b>I couldn't watch the whole thing. This man is disturbing. Hard to believe he's a General.</b><br><br> <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/98231-jewish-dems-want-buchanans-column-nixed">5/19/2010 - Jewish Democratic group asks syndicate to nix Pat Buchanan's column</a> Buchanan found himself in hot water last week after he penned a piece saying that if Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is confirmed, the number of Jews on the Court will be highly disproportionate to the U.S. population. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=175710">5/19/2010 - 'Iran entitled to nuclear program' </a> Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva met with Iranian leaders on Sunday, and called the relationship between the two countries  strategic. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/05/14/2394812/obama-administration-selects-rabbis-to-spread-the-word">5/19/2010 - White House meets with rabbis to assuage concerns on Israel</a> The administration officials "spent a considerable amount of time emphasizing that the United States is addressing Israel's security concerns in a manner that [Israeli Defense Minister Ehud] Barak called better than at any previous time, Moline reported. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3889325,00.html">5/19/2010 - Russia spurns Israeli rebuke over Hamas meet </a> Hamas hailed Russia and Turkey for suggesting the movement be included in the Middle East peace process. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/12/elie-wiesel-criticism-jerusalem-residents">5/19/2010 - Jerusalem residents attack writer Elie Wiesel over appeal to Barack Obama</a> "Those same zealous Jews insist on inserting themselves like so many bones in the throats of Arab neighbourhoods, purifying and Judaizing them with the help of rich American benefactors, several of whom you may know personally," Sarid wrote. "Barack Obama appears well aware of his obligations to try to resolve the world's ills, particularly ours here. Why then undercut him and tie his hands?" <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0519/1224270655541.html">5/19/2010 - Israel urged to ensure safety of Irish on aid ship to Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=175557">5/19/2010 - Attorney seeks to bar Goldstone from US </a> A well-known American Jewish attorney who worked to deport former Nazis from the US is urging American officials to bar former judge Richard Goldstone from entering the country over his rulings during South Africa s apartheid regime. <b>The AIPACers never relent.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-17-02.htm">5/19/2010 - Arab-Americans delight in Miss USA victory</a> Fakih was born in Srifa, a village in southern Lebanon that was heavily bombed during the 2006 Israel Hezbollah war. She moved to the United States with her family in 1993 and attended a Catholic school in New York. Her family moved to Michigan in 2003. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/high-school-bans-israeli-palestinian-dialogue-group-due-to-parents-pressure-1.290741">5/19/2010 - High school bans Israeli-Palestinian dialogue group due to parents' pressure</a> According to one 12th grader at the school, "the parents, and it seems the school, too, are apparently trying to protect us, but this really is censorship. We are big enough children to form our opinions by ourselves." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-18-01.htm">5/19/2010 - Banned by Israel, Chomsky gives W.Bank lecture by video</a> Renowned Jewish American scholar and activist Noam Chomsky, who was barred from the West Bank by Israel earlier this week, on Tuesday delivered a lecture to Palestinian students by video link from Jordan. <b>The supreme irony here being that it is the Israelis that barred a Jew from speaking to Arabs.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2010/05/09/declassified-gao-report/">5/19/2010 - Declassified GAO Report Exposes Fatally Flawed Israel Investigations</a> Kennedy delivered a final ultimatum to Israel on July 5, 1963, insisting that Dimona undergo serial inspections  in accord with international standards in order to verify its  peaceful intent. Simultaneously, the Kennedy Justice Department was waging an intense battle behind closed doors to register and regulate Israel s elite U.S. lobby, the American Zionist Council, which was bringing in funds from overseas to lobby. Kennedy s assassination in November traumatized the nation and led to the complete and permanent reversal of both initiatives. <b>Interesting.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/sea-change-former-new-rep_b_578153.html">5/19/2010 - Bombshell: Former New Republic Editor, Peter Beinart, on the Collapse of the "Pro-Israel" Establishment </a> Basically, the decline of the lobby is good news for America, for Jews and for Israel. That is because it is primarily the clout of the lobby that has led the US government to support an occupation that has virtually eliminated America's influence in the Middle East, has turned off younger Jews to Judaism, and will -- unless ended by Israel under US pressure -- lead to Israel's demise. The "pro-Israel" lobby is anything but pro-Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-01-02.htm">5/19/2010 - Chomsky turned away from Israel border, sparking fierce media debate</a> "There were two basic points," Chomsky said. "One was that the government of Israel does not like the kinds of things I say  which puts them into the category of, I suppose, every other government in the world." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-18-03.htm">5/19/2010 - U.S. wants to build up Hezbollah moderates: adviser</a> The Obama administration is looking for ways to build up "moderate elements" within the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla movement and to diminish the influence of hard liners, a top White House official said on Tuesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/brazil-turkey-engineer-breakthrough-iran">5/19/2010 - Brazil, Turkey Engineer Breakthrough on Iran </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127979/">5/19/2010 - Israelis Condemn Goldstone s Role In South Africa During Apartheid</a> The charges were the latest attack on Goldstone s character since the U.N. commission he headed published its report in September 2009. Israeli officials view its findings as threatening the state s very legitimacy, all the more due to Goldstone s reputation as a jurist who helped end apartheid, and also because he is a Jew and self-described Zionist. They adamantly deny the report s war crimes allegations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127972/">5/19/2010 - High School Students Object to AP Test s Use of a Quote by Edward Said</a> But one test question citing the late Palestinian-American scholar and activist Edward Said on the theme of exile is prompting protests from some Jewish students. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-17-01.htm">5/19/2010 - New Miss USA: Islamic fundamentalism in a bikini?</a> Fakih, a 24 year old Arab American whose family hails from Lebanon , has almost nothing in common with the religious zealots who inspire militant Islam. Yet the tiara had scarcely come to rest on her cascading dark tresses Sunday night when the far reaches of the right wing blogosphere went ballistic. <b>You'll notice that most of her critics were Israel-supporters who need for Americans to see all Arabs as terrorists, or they may feel sympathy for the Palestinians.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-arab-mk-israel-s-actions-in-jerusalem-are-a-second-nakba-1.290495">5/19/2010 - Israeli Arab MK: Israel's actions in Jerusalem are a second Nakba </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/31892/mp-attacks-brazilian-president">5/19/2010 - MP attacks Brazilian president</a>  You new companero send rockets and bombs to terrorist Jew-killers in Hezbollah. He swaggers around the world threatening every democracy with the wrath of his hate of freedom. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/05/05/a-timetable-for-war/">5/12/2010 - A Timetable For War by Philip Giraldi</a> Second, the Israeli government having sold the "existential threat" fiction does want a war, but its options are limited. It knows it can only do temporary damage to Iran and wants the United States to do the heavy lifting. That will require contriving a situation that will bring about US entry into the conflict, otherwise an Israeli attack will have only limited value, possibly slowing down Iran s nuclear program but not stopping it while also guaranteeing that the Mullahs will make the political decision to develop a weapon <b>A must read for all Americans.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25394.htm">5/12/2010 - Loose Lips on Iran Can Sink America</a> To punish Iran for its speculative interest in nuclear weapons, Harman called for sanctions to  cripple Iran s ability to import refined petroleum products. (As a Harvard-educated lawyer, she should be aware that, under international law, such a blockade would be an act of war. It also would inflict widespread hardship on the Iranian people.) But Israel s right-wing Likud government and America's neocons have identified Iran as the new enemy.....What concerns me greatly, however, is that the American people are being played again by those both in government and the media who wish to zap Iran. <b>Like Giraldi, McGovern was also in the CIA. Heed their warnings.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-08-01.htm">5/12/2010 - Palestinian approval opens door to Mideast talks</a> The PLO's latest decision was taken partly due to U.S. guarantees "regarding settlement activity, its danger and the need for it to stop," senior PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo said after the body gave its approval. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-to-russia-hamas-is-like-the-chechen-terrorists-1.289918">5/12/2010 - Israel to Russia: Hamas is like the Chechen terrorists</a> The Foreign Ministry also said that it was very disappointed that the Russian president met with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal in Damascus on Tuesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/07-1">5/12/2010 - General 'Tried to Cover Up Truth About Death of Rachel Corrie'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gkrTtaYdp0JR9CbrxJn1t9lO8dBwD9FLA4082">5/12/2010 - Russia urges active US role in Mideast</a> Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged the United States on Wednesday to actively work to achieve peace in the Mideast with the support of other nations, saying there is a "human tragedy" in Gaza...."The Mideast must be a region cleared from nuclear weapons," Medvedev said. "The use of nuclear weapons in the region would be a disaster." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-11-02.htm">5/12/2010 - Israel says N.Korea shipping WMDs to Syria</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-12-01.htm">5/12/2010 - Israel FM: Iran, Syria, NKorea new 'axis of evil'</a> <b>Israel = Chicken Little.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25411.htm">5/12/2010 - A Massacre of Arabs Masked by a State of National Amnesia</a> Among the documents believed to be in the state's possession is a damning report written by Meir Pa'il, a Jewish officer who condemned his compatriots for bloodthirsty and shameful conduct on that day. Equally incriminating are the many photographs that survive. "The photos clearly show there was a massacre," says Daniel McGowan, a US retired professor who works with Deir Yassin Remembered. "Those photos show [villagers] lined up against a quarry wall and shot." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/palestinians-report-first-israeli-violation-of-talks-to-u-s-1.289413">5/12/2010 - Palestinians report first Israeli violation of talks to U.S.</a> A senior Israeli official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that 14 homes in the Ras el-Amud neighbourhood of East Jerusalem were being built privately and that the government had no authority in the matter. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1350">5/12/2010 - CPT Hebron Update 17-30 April 2010</a> There is growing concern about the implications of the new Military Order 1650, which was effective from 13th April 2010. One 19 year-old Hebron man has been deported to Gaza, and many Hebronites who do not have the necessary permanent residency papers will now fear deportation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=175223">5/12/2010 - Largest naval protest yet to sail against Gaza blockade </a> A six-ship flotilla carrying 500 protesters is planned in the largest yet naval protest against the Israeli naval blockade on the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip, Channel 10 reported Tuesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127817/">5/12/2010 - Wiesel s White House Lunch Defuses Tensions</a> Officials at all levels of the Obama administration have participated in the concerted effort to allay concerns within the Jewish community. Administration officials have made phone calls, written letters, and showed up at Jewish and pro-Israel events in recent weeks..... Speaking at his group s annual conference in Washington, the Anti-Defamation League s national director, Abraham Foxman  who has been outspoken in his criticism of the Obama administration s recent approach toward Israel  said that there had been a  re-calibration of tone in relations between the two nations. <b>And that would be because of the immense power of the Israeli lobby.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/why-won-t-israel-allow-gazans-to-import-coriander-1.288824">5/12/2010 - Why won't Israel allow Gazans to import coriander? </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-s-tourism-ministry-is-wiping-palestinians-off-the-map-1.289387">5/12/2010 - Israel's tourism ministry is wiping Palestinians off the map</a> the most recent maps published by the governemt unilaterally annex Palestine to Israel while ignoring the existence of many Palestinian communities. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127822">5/12/2010 - J Street, European Style: New Dovish Lobby Launches</a> The group officially launched itself by presenting a petition to a meeting of the European Parliament on May 3 that condemned Israel s settlement policies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as  morally and politically wrong. These policies, the petition stated,  feed the unacceptable delegitimization process that Israel currently faces abroad. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127821/">5/12/2010 - Israel Showcases Its Brain Power on a Receptive World Stage</a> The State of Israel has been mostly a casual participant in previous world expos. It didn t even show up for the 1964 World s Fair, in New York. When it did appear, in Brussels 1958; Montreal 1967; Seville 1992; Lisbon 1998, and Hanover 2000 (anyone even remember these?), Israel merely decorated ready-made exhibition spaces. Yet, for the People s Republic of China s big coming-out party  the Expo opened on April 30 and will run until October 31  the Jewish state pulled out all the stops. Three years ago, the Israeli government decided that appearing at this expo was a priority, and so it assigned the Foreign Ministry to come up with a budget and design. The ministry earmarked an unprecedented 40 million shekels ($11 million)  half for the building, half for operations  and called a competition that attracted 23 designs. <b>Israel is ingratiating itself to the new and upcoming superpower - China, now that America (its main beneficiary and abettor at the UN) is on the decline.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-11-01.htm">5/12/2010 - Obama asks Abbas to prevent anti-Israel incitement</a> <b>Obama does Israel's bidding.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127718/">5/12/2010 - Rabbi and Editor Michael Lerner's Home Found Vandalized</a> Tikkun s managing editor, Dave Belden, said that the attack comes on the heels of a strong increase in  hate mail from Jewish right-wingers related to Lerner s recent defense of Goldstone. On April 26, Lerner announced that Tikkun would confer its 25th annual ethics award to the South African next year. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/127827/">5/12/2010 - Meet the Liebermans: Wherever You Go, We're Ready To Revoke Your Citizenship </a> <b>Let us then also expel those who pledge allegiance to a nation other than this one.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/syria-israel-would-never-declare-war-without-u-s-permission-1.288651?trailingPath=2.169%2C2.216%2C2.217%2C">5/12/2010 - Syria: Israel would never declare war without U.S. permission</a> Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem denied that the Middle East was on the brink of armed conflict, telling Radio Monte Carlo on Thursday that Israel was unlikely to declare war without first consulting Washington. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/06-4">5/12/2010 - Israel Official Defends Nuclear Ambiguity as 'Strategic Advantage'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64A16R20100511?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews">5/12/2010 - Israel sees no discord with U.S. on nuclear issue</a> Israel voiced confidence on Tuesday that U.S. President Barack Obama would not challenge its long-standing policy of neither confirming nor denying it has nuclear weapons. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/127813/">5/12/2010 - Beverly Hills Mayor Hearts Theodore Herzl </a> The Mayor renamed the 300 block of North Clark Drive Herzl Way, after his personal hero, on Sunday, the 150th anniversary of Herzl s birth <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/palestinians-idf-troops-kill-gazan-at-border-protest-1.285180">5/5/2010 - Palestinians: IDF troops kill Gazan at border protest</a> "These are non-violent demonstrations against the Israeli imposition of the buffer zone," a foreign pro-Palestinian activist who gave her name as Eva told Reuters Television. "The Israelis say they can shoot anyone in this area. But it annexes Palestinian farmland. It annexes land where Palestinians live and work." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703871904575216260958684670.html">5/5/2010 - Neocon John Bolton in the neoconservative WSJ advocating for war on Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/31315/ahmedinejad-accuses-us-israel-planning-iran-nuclear-attack">5/5/2010 - Ahmedinejad accuses US, Israel of planning Iran nuclear attack</a> Delegates from the UK, US, France, Hungary, New Zealand and Holland at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) conference left the room as Mr Ahmedinejad denied that Iran was building nuclear weapons. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/29-3">5/5/2010 - Israelis and Egyptians Are Killing Palestinian Youth Who Challenge the Siege of Gaza </a> In the past four days, one young Palestinian man has been killed and two young women and a young man have been wounded by Israeli snipers as they protested the Israeli bulldozing of 300 meters of Palestinian land into an Israeli "buffer zone." Four young Palestinian tunnel workers have been killed by suffocation and 6 injured as Egypt sprayed a crowd disbursal gas into a tunnel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/arab-states-israel-s-nuclear-program-is-destabilizing-mideast-1.288205">5/5/2010 - Arab states: Israel's nuclear program is destabilizing Mideast</a> On the second day of the month-long meeting at the United Nations, Arab countries were reiterating calls for a nuclear-free Middle East with criticism of Israel's unacknowledged nuclear arsenal and failure to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137289">5/5/2010 - US Will Continue to Back Israel in UN</a> United States officials who spoke to the pan-Arab paper Al-Sharq il-Awsat denied Thursday that America would stop using its United Nations veto to help Israel. The New York Times had reported that US President Barack Obama warned that America would no longer veto anti-Israel resolutions in the UN Security Council. <b>In other words, we will continue to stop the nations of the world from prosecuting Israel for its flagrant violations of international law.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/schumer-im-on-a-mission-f_b_560091.html">5/5/2010 - Schumer: I'm on a Mission From God (to Be Israel's Guardian in Senate) </a> Then there are these quotes from Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Anthony Weiner (D-NY) to the Zionist Organization of America that is currently organizing opposition to President Obama and to any negotiations with Palestinians.....Of course, every one of these legislators criticizes US policies they disagree with and certainly US Presidents. But when it comes to Israel, they are drum majors for Netanyahu (God-appointed in Schumer's case). <b>Treason.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er1vAJObtzM&feature=player_embedded">5/5/2010 - Video: Watch as Israel's Third Reich kicks women protestors and other nastiness</a> <b>These people are protesting the unlawful seizure of their land by Israel. They're lucky they weren't shot or run over by the bulldozer (as was the case with now deceased American girl Rachel Corrie).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/world/hamas-says-egypt-pumps-gas-into-cross-border-smuggling-tunnel-killing-4-palestinians-92383219.html">5/5/2010 - Hamas: Egyptian forces pumps gas into cross-border smuggling tunnel, killing 4 Palestinians</a> Egyptian security forces have sprayed gas into tunnels before, according to Hamas officials and tunnel operators. But Wednesday's incident was the first time people have died as a result, they said. Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/world/hamas-says-egypt-pumps-gas-into-cross-border-smuggling-tunnel-killing-4-palestinians-92383219.html#ixzz0oPaGAqXR <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-04-02.htm">5/5/2010 - Abbas: Mosque fire endangers renewed peace efforts</a> Also Tuesday, residents of the nearby village of Hawara said they saw settlers set fire to an olive grove close to the Jewish settlement of Bracha. The fire there destroyed about 50 trees before Israeli soldiers extinguished the flames. "About 20 settlers came from the settlement and they set a fire here and then they left," Rida Mustafa, a village resident who said he witnessed the attack, told The Associated Press. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-03-02.htm">5/5/2010 - US envoy seeks to launch Israeli-Palestinian talks</a> Senior Israeli officials said Netanyahu, who is reluctant to make concessions to the Palestinians, agreed to the talks in part because of international pressure on Israel. They said Netanyahu will seek security guarantees not only from the Palestinians, but from the international community as well. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127506/">5/5/2010 - Obama on Israel:  No Wedge Will Be Driven Between Us </a> Responding to concerns of the Jewish community over pressuring Israel s government, President Obama has written a letter to Jewish leaders, assuring them that special relations between the United States and Israel will not change......Obama stated that pursuing a two-state solution in the Middle East  is in the national security interest of the United States. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/settlers-attack-palestinian-village-to-protest-police-crackdown-1.287409">5/5/2010 - Settlers attack Palestinian village to protest police crackdown</a> Far-rightists from the West Bank settlement of Yizthar on Thursday marched through a neighboring Palestinian village and attacked local homes, to avenge a series of arrests by Israel Police earlier in the day....Most of the detainess, who included senior settlement officials, were released shortly after their arrests. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-obama-promised-abbas-a-palestinian-state-within-two-years-1.287415">5/5/2010 - Report: Obama promised Abbas a Palestinian state within two years</a> The official also told Al-Hayat that Israel had rejected special U.S. envoy George Mitchell's proposal to withdraw Israel Defense Forces troops from Palestinian-occupied sections of the West Bank, as it did on the eve of the Second Intifada in 2000. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/poll-majority-of-israel-s-jews-back-gag-on-rights-groups-1.285120">5/5/2010 - Poll: Majority of Israel's Jews back gag on rights groups </a> More than half of Jewish Israelis think human rights organizations that expose immoral behavior by Israel should not be allowed to operate freely, and think there is too much freedom of expression here, a recent survey found. <b>Wow.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/30/missile-row-iran-israel-syria">5/5/2010 - Tehran warns Israel against attack on Syria as arms tension mounts</a> "We will stand alongside Syria against any [Israeli] threat," Rahimi said at a news conference with the Syrian prime minister, Mohammad Naji Otri. "If those who have violated Palestinian land try anything, we will cut off their feet," he promised.....The sabre-rattling followed a spate of US statements accusing Damascus and Tehran of arming the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah with sophisticated weapons that could threaten Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/world/05prexy.html?ref=world">5/5/2010 - Obama Tries to Mend Fences With American Jews</a> President Obama had lunch on Tuesday with Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, as part of an effort to mend fences with American Jews upset by the administration s stance against the Israeli government s construction of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. The White House effort, which included remarks by senior White House officials before the national leadership conference of the Anti-Defamation League on Monday night, is part of an attempt to reach out to the Israeli public, as well as to the American Jewish community, administration officials said <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/jewish-terror-suspect-unfit-to-stand-trial-1.288172">5/5/2010 - Jewish terror suspect 'unfit to stand trial'</a> "An Arab who shoots a Jew in Israel is a terrorist, but a Jew who shoots Arabs is insane," <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-29-01.htm">5/5/2010 - Clinton warns Iran, Syria on threats to Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-02-01.htm">5/5/2010 - Hamas short on cash as Gaza blockade takes toll</a> The current crisis reflects Hamas' dilemma: It wants to be both a militant group and a government providing for 1.5 million people. Hamas' refusal to soften its hardline ideology, for fear of losing its militant credentials, has perpetuated a border blockade by Israel and Egypt. The closure has further impoverished Gazans and has put a heavier load on the government. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-01-01.htm">5/5/2010 - European Jews sign petition critical of Israel</a> More than 3,000 European Jews, including prominent intellectuals, have signed a petition speaking out against Israeli settlement policies and warning that systematic support for the Israeli government is dangerous. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127614/">5/5/2010 - Why the COP Is Taking a Moderate Approach to Obama</a> Two statements issued by the Conference of Presidents in March reflected its cautious approach. The March 28 statement, for example, simply asked the administration  for action that reflects the special relationship between the United States and Israel in order to advance the cause of a true peace in the region. This contrasted with statements from other key groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that openly criticized the administration s approach to Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25354.htm">5/5/2010 - Video: Feeling the Hate in New York</a> On April 25, over 1000 New York-area Jewish extremists gathered in midtown Manhattan to rally against the Barack Obama administration s call for a freeze on construction in occupied East Jerusalem and to demand unlimited rights to colonize the West Bank. <b>Comical and yet sick. Watch some of New York's legislators participate in this rally of Israel's most extreme supporters in America. Behold the treason.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/british-candidates-court-u-k-jews-ahead-of-election-1.287686">5/5/2010 - British candidates court U.K. Jews ahead of election</a> They seem generally uninterested matters of community hospitals, transport or the like. Its all Israel and Jews, all the time. And the candidates have no choice but to oblige. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-02-02.htm">5/5/2010 - Peace would make Israel a top global economy</a> Despite a heavy dependence on foreign trade, Israel's economy was not hurt too badly due to the crisis. Growth in the second half of 2009 was strong   the economy expanded at an annualized 4.8 percent rate in the fourth quarter and 0.7 percent for all of 2009. <b>No mention is made of the billions in taxpayer aid given them by America.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-05-02.htm">5/5/2010 - U.S. and other big powers back Mideast nuclear arms ban</a> Israel has tried to fend off Egyptian led scrutiny of its arsenal by urging Cairo to view Iran's atomic ambitions as the regional threat, an Israeli official has said. Egypt says both Israel and Iran are nuclear threats to the region and wants action on both countries. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3882351,00.html">5/5/2010 - Minister Yishai officially invited to White House</a> The decision is apparently the result of the US Administration's desire to forge closer ties with the minister they perceive to be behind the east Jerusalem construction turmoil during Vice President Joe Biden's visit in Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127616/">5/5/2010 - Who Are the Jews Behind Palin in 2012?</a> Not only does she continue to receive the hearty backing of William Kristol, editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard and contributor to Fox News, but at the end of March, Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary and godfather of the neoconservative movement, took to the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal to offer a  defense of Sarah Palin. <b>Neocons love Sarah Palin. And neocons are traitors to America: pro-Israel = anti-America. Support for Israel endangers America's national security. It was the primary motivation given by the mastermind of 911.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/31245/clinton-we-support-israel-against-syria-iran">5/5/2010 - Clinton: We support Israel against Syria, Iran</a> Israel is becoming increasingly concerned over the possible transfer of Scud missiles to Hizbollah, which would allow terrorists to hit Israeli targets more easily.....The US is currently considering renewing its diplomatic relations with Damascus, which has been without a US ambassador for five years. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25360.htm">5/5/2010 - Hillary Clinton Calls Ahmadinejad Anti-semitic President</a>  Iran, with its anti-Semitic president and hostile nuclear ambitions, continues to threaten Israel, but it also threatens the region and it sponsors terrorism, Mrs Clinton said at the American Jewish Committee Annual Gala Dinner here <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8651095.stm">5/5/2010 - Hezbollah: Egyptian jailings 'unjust and politicised'</a> Hezbollah has said the charges are politically motivated and in revenge for the movement's stance on Egypt's support for the Israeli blockade of Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/04/27/2394527/as-britain-votes-liberal-democrats-record-on-israel-draws-scrutiny">5/5/2010 - As Britain votes, Liberal Democrats record on Israel draws scrutiny</a> British Jews, she said, are concerned with  boycotts of Israeli goods, the spike of anti-Israeli resolutions and speakers on university campuses, and the impact of the economy on the social service sector. With the possibility looming that the ruling party will form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, British Jews are preoccupied with the party s record on Israel <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j30RcosDR5YkqJIz6nv4MpdCgy7w">5/5/2010 - US, Egypt negotiate Mideast nuclear-free zone report</a> US officials are in talks with Egypt over a plan to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, part of an effort to block the Iranian nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/arafat-s-jewish-adviser-dies-at-age-86-1.287697">5/5/2010 - Arafat's Jewish adviser dies at age 86 </a> Moshe Hirsch, a member of Neturei Karta, who was close to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, died yesterday at 86, at his home in Jerusalem's Mea She'arim neighborhood. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/05/05-05-01.htm">5/5/2010 - APNewsBreak: IAEA chief focuses on Israel</a> The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog is asking for international input on how to persuade Israel to join the Nonproliferation Treaty, in a move that is sure to add to pressure on the Jewish state to disclose its unacknowledged nuclear arsenal. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2010/04/30/2394597/jewish-groups-boycott-ahmadinejad-in-nyc">5/5/2010 - Jewish groups: Boycott Ahmadinejad in NYC</a> The World Jewish Congress asked its member communities to contact their government representatives to persuade them to participate in the protest walkout <b>See related story in this news batch: their orders were followed by the US, UK and others.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25386.htm">5/5/2010 - Video: Did You Actually Say, Israel Needs To Be Wiped Off The Map?</a> The question and answer is at minute 4:47. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/04-4">5/5/2010 - Can Brazil Save the World from War with Iran?</a> Brazil has likened the current push for expanded sanctions against Iran to the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. In particular, Brazil has expressed the fear that expanding sanctions now will undermine the prospects of a diplomatic solution and therefore set the stage for war later, just as the imposition and maintenance of U.S./U.N. sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s set the stage for the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq in 2003. <b>And well, they're right. Israel is once again leading the US into war.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/2225562,north-korea-smuggling-arms-to-iran-050210.article">5/5/2010 - Israel: N. Korea smuggling arms to Iran </a> Peres provided no proof to back up his claims, but his comments echoed similar allegations last month in which he accused Syria of providing Scud missiles to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25362.htm">5/5/2010 - The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners By Professor John J. Mearsheimer</a> the Palestinians are not going to get their own state anytime soon. They are instead going to end up living in an apartheid state dominated by Israeli Jews......Alan Dershowitz was spot on when he said,  My generation of Jews & became part of what is perhaps the most effective lobbying and fund-raising effort in the history of democracy. That lobby, of course, makes it impossible for any president to play hardball with Israel, especially on the issue of settlements. ......We should not underestimate Israel s willingness to employ such a horrific strategy if the opportunity presents itself. It is apparent from public opinion surveys and everyday discourse that many Israelis hold racist views of Palestinians and the Gaza massacre makes clear that they have few qualms about killing Palestinian civilians. .... the Internet is a game changer. It not only makes it easy for the opponents of apartheid to get the real story out to the world, but it also allows Americans to learn the story that the New York Times and the Washington Post have been hiding from them. ...What is truly remarkable about this situation is that the Israel lobby is effectively helping Israel commit national suicide. Israel, after all, is turning itself into an apartheid state, which, as Ehud Olmert has pointed out, is not sustainable in the modern era. <b>Mearsheimer is a very wise man, heed his words.</b><br><br> <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2010/04/22/rand-paul-and-israel">5/5/2010 - Rand Paul and Israel</a> Rand Paul focuses his statement on condemning foreign aid to enemies of Israel, saying that, "In the Senate, I would strive to eliminate all aid to countries that threaten Israel." But he doesn't address the issue of aid to Israel itself. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/31180/william-hague-i-have-iran-my-sights">5/5/2010 - William Hague: I have Iran in my sights</a> The ex-Tory leader has argued for Britain to adopt the same sanctions regime against Iranian financial institutions as the United States and to seek European agreement on putting a stop to investments in Iran's vast oil and gas fields.......Perhaps the ideological common ground between the Tories and Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud might be a help. <b>The Brits too are about to be dragged into WWIII thanks to Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127579/">5/5/2010 - Tribeca Offers Jewish Style and Substance</a> The weightier of the two films is  Budrus, a documentary by Julia Bacha that examines one West Bank town s reaction to Israel s construction of the security barrier. The town, with a population of 1,500, was set to be divided and encircled by the barrier, losing 300 acres of land and 3,000 olive trees. These trees were not only critical for economic survival but also sacred to the town s intergenerational history <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127613/">5/5/2010 - Oren Speaking at Brandeis Creates a Commencement Controversy</a> Two months after being aggressively heckled by Muslim students in a high-profile incident at the University of California, Irvine, Israel s ambassador to the United States is getting a chilly advance reception at a school one might have expected to be friendlier turf: Brandeis University. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127671/">5/5/2010 - A Funding Clash Forces Choice: Food or Identity?</a> Sharansky was in New York in late April to try to convince members of the agency s governing body to sign on to a first draft of a plan to mold the agency into a promoter of Jewish identity all over the world, including Israel. It would be a dramatic break with its past function, but also would serve to renew the agency s relevance at a time when there no longer seems to be mass immigration to Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/31185/zionist-myth-book-prize-shortlist">5/5/2010 - 'Zionist myth' book on prize shortlist</a> Prof Sand's book disputes that there was a mass exodus of Jews from Palestine in Roman times and suggests that many are descended from converts. The idea of a Jewish nation based on a common ethnic origin emerged among 19th century Jewish historians, he argues. It was used by Zionists to make the case for a Jewish homeland. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <b>April </b> <br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3879109,00.html">4/28/2010 - US: Missile transfers could lead to war</a> Earlier, Israeli officials have warned of the grave consequences of Scud missile transfers to Hezbollah. <b>No kidding? Say I wonder who our lawmakers take their cues from?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-expels-west-bank-palestinian-to-gaza-upon-release-from-prison-1.284729">4/28/2010 - Israel expels West Bank Palestinian to Gaza upon release from prison</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-25-02.htm">4/28/2010 - In Jerusalem, footballs go where people cannot</a> After the 1967 war, Israel annexed Anata along with the rest of Arab east Jerusalem in a move not recognised by any other government. <b>It's not recognized, neither is the wall where it's built (largely on Palestinian territory), because these are all in violation of the Fourth Geneva Conventions; war crimes.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/obama-to-u-s-jews-nothing-will-distance-us-from-israel-1.284689">4/28/2010 - Obama to U.S. Jews: Nothing will distance us from Israel</a> The letter follows a week of open tensions between the U.S. government and Jewish community leaders after World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder took out newspaper advertisements criticizing Obama's Middle East policy. A day later, Nobel laureate Elie Wisel did the same, writing in a full page advertisement in the Washington Post that U.S. pressure would not force a solution to the dispute over Israeli building in East Jerusalem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-24-02.htm">4/28/2010 - Abbas calls on Obama to impose Mideast peace deal</a> Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called on President Barack Obama on Saturday to impose a Mideast peace deal, reflecting growing frustration with what Palestinians see as Washington's failure to wrangle concessions out of Israel's hardline government. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-23-03.htm">4/28/2010 - U.S. envoy Mitchell meets Netanyahu</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-24-01.htm">4/28/2010 - Abbas: No Palestinian state in temporary borders</a> Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he opposes the idea of setting up a Palestinian state in temporary borders. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-27-01.htm">4/28/2010 - Israel warns against giving Iran too much time</a> Iran and the rearming of the Hezbollah militia were major topics of Barak's session at the Pentagon. He met earlier Tuesday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-21-01.htm">4/28/2010 - Mideast peace would thwart Iran ambitions: Obama aide</a> While acknowledging disagreements with Israel, Jones said the U.S. commitment to its ally was "unbreakable." "There is no space   no space   between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel's security," he said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-22-04.htm">4/28/2010 - Netanyahu: Iran provoking Israel-Syria conflict</a> Netanyahu says Iran is trying to convince Syria that an Israeli attack is imminent, which he says is a "lie." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-26-01.htm">4/28/2010 - Obama meets with Israeli defense minister</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/22-7">4/28/2010 - Demonizing Iran: US Media Continue Beating War Drums</a> Aside from the fact that there is no hard evidence that Iran is trying to make a nuclear bomb or even to refine uranium to obtain nuclear-grade material, the paper ignored one crucial point: Israel cannot "go it alone" in any strike on Iran, since its key weapons--F15 and F-16 fighter-bombers--are supplied to it, and kept flying, thanks to the equipment and spare parts provided by the United States <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/palestinian-authority-approves-july-elections-in-west-bank-1.284853">4/28/2010 - Palestinian Authority approves July elections in West Bank</a> The Western-backed government of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad gave the go-ahead on Sunday for local elections in the West Bank in July, despite opposition from rival Hamas Islamists who run the Gaza Strip. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gL2mvHdXBCI3WD_1pBVPNKm2srxA">4/28/2010 - 'All options' open if Syria gives Hezbollah missiles: US</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-26-01.htm">4/28/2010 - Obama meets with Israeli defense minister</a> State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley wouldn't discuss what Israel was telling the United States about Jewish construction. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gDd5lnv3mexsQWpKYvqf_J5m0bIA">4/28/2010 - Mayor pledges more Jewish homes in east Jerusalem</a> Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat pledged that more Jewish homes will be built in east Jerusalem, despite US calls for a freeze there in a bid to boost prospects for Middle East peace. <b>They aren't building 'homes' for Arabs there, do not be fooled. These 'homes' are for Jews only, as all Israeli settlements are.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-22-01.htm">4/28/2010 - Israel to US: No building halt in east Jerusalem</a> Aides to Israel's prime minister said Thursday that his government has officially rejected President Barack Obama's demand that it suspends all construction in contested east Jerusalem, a move that threatens to entrench a year old deadlock in Israeli Palestinian peacemaking. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-22-02.htm">4/28/2010 - Israel rejects US calls for east Jerusalem freeze</a> Benjamin Netanyahu's comments were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV shortly after envoy George Mitchell arrived for his first visit in six weeks <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-25-01.htm">4/28/2010 - Abbas invited to Washington</a> The daily said Obama has informed Abbas that he did not succeed in convincing Netanyahu to freeze settlements in east Jerusalem but that the hawkish premier would refrain from taking "significant" actions there during the talks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/u-s-lawmaker-obama-should-deal-with-iran-nukes-not-criticize-israel-1.284638">4/28/2010 - U.S. lawmaker: Obama should deal with Iran nukes, not criticize Israel</a> Ros-Lehtinen lashed out at Obama for neglecting to deal with the "urgency" of Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons: "After months of generous offers and repeated rejections with one deadline after another passing without action, nothing of substance has been accomplished and Iran continues to relentlessly move forward. <b>Ros-Lehtinen is one of Israel's top agents in Congress. She spends more time on all matters Israel than she does on those of America, evidently.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-23-02.htm">4/28/2010 - Mitchell says U.S. wants Mideast solution soon</a> Obama also wanted to see the Palestinians have a state. "That has been American policy. That is American policy. That will be American policy," Mitchell told Netanyahu, also repeating Obama's pledge of strong and enduring ties with Israel made by the president on the Jewish state's 62nd anniversary this week. Before going into talks in the West Bank Friday evening with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the envoy issued a strong endorsement of Palestinian independence aspirations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-27-03.htm">4/28/2010 - Egypt: Scud controversy ups Israel-Lebanon tension</a> Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit traveled to Beirut on Saturday to discuss the issue and later told reporters there the scud allegations are "lies and are laughable." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3881213,00.html">4/28/2010 - Obama tells Barak US committed to Israel's security </a> Monday's meeting with Obama and Jones was the first in a series of meetings Barak is scheduled to hold with administration officials. The talks are expected to focus on the Iranian nuclear threats, the developments in Lebanon and Syria and the stalled peace negotiations with the Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25327.htm">4/28/2010 - Iran a Threat? I Mean, Really? By Ray McGovern</a> All right. Secretary Clinton concedes that Iran does not directly threaten the United States. Now who are these "friends" to whom she refers? First and foremost, Israel, of course. How often have we heard Israeli officials warn that they would consider nuclear weapons in Iran's hands an "existential" threat? <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51172">4/28/2010 - U.S. Nuclear Option on Iran Linked to Israeli Attack Threat</a> Although administration officials have carefully refrained from drawing any direct connection between the new nuclear option and the Israeli threat, the NPR broadens the range of contingencies in which nuclear weapons might play a role so as to include an Iranian military response to an Israeli attack. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25302.htm">4/28/2010 - An Act Of War By Congressman Ron Paul </a> Mr. Speaker I rise in opposition to this motion to instruct House conferees on HR 2194, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act, and I rise in strong opposition again to the underlying bill and to its Senate version as well. I object to this entire push for war on Iran, however it is disguised. Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one trillion dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing. <b>Ron Paul- one of the few to stand up to Israel's lobby and its minions on Capitol Hill.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/biden-israel-won-t-attack-iran-before-sanctions-allowed-to-work-1.284688">4/28/2010 - Biden: Israel won't attack Iran before sanctions allowed to work</a> On Wednesday, the Obama administration said that progress toward Middle East peace would help thwart Iran's ambitions by preventing it from "cynically" using the conflict to divert attention from its nuclear program. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-clemons/has-chuck-schumer-ever-cr_b_548902.html">4/28/2010 - Has Chuck Schumer Ever Criticized Israel or its Leadership in the Way He Just Unloaded on Obama? </a> Schumer's screed gets to the edge of sounding as if he is more a Senator working in the Knesset than working in the United States Senate. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25323.htm">4/28/2010 - Can The U.S. Beat Israel At Their Game?</a> <b>This guy has some interesting commentary and also made a video about this game theory, the link for which is somewhere in the recent postings of my website.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-28-01.htm">4/28/2010 - Gaza's manly men vie for bodybuilding trophies</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/gadhafi-to-arab-mks-i-m-against-zionism-not-jews-1.284856">4/28/2010 - Gadhafi to Arab MKs: I'm against Zionism, not Jews</a> During the meeting, Gadhafi stressed the importance with which he viewed the delegation's visit, and said: "We are not against Jews, but against Zionism." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1347">4/28/2010 - CPT Al Khalil/Hebron</a> Moslem leaders are encouraging local people to use the Ibrahimi Mosque following the announcement by the Israeli prime minister that the Ibrahimi Mosque complex is now regarded as a Jewish Historical Site. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1349">4/28/2010 - 25 Insanities of the Israeli Occupation in Palestine</a> A young Israeli soldier from Cleveland, Ohio, names the 300+ children killed in Gaza during Cast Lead  collateral damage . <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-27-04.htm">4/28/2010 - Palestinian girls invent 'seeing' walking stick for blind</a> "I didn't look outside, I looked home," Aseel said. That's where she noticed some of the logistical problems that her blind aunt faced. Along with classmates Aseel Sha 'ar and Nour El Arda, she invented an obstacle detecting walking stick. They entered the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair alongside 6 million global contestants, and were chosen to be among 1,500 finalists to attend the world's largest science fair next month in San Jose, Calif. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-28-03.htm">4/28/2010 - Hezbollah slams US accusations</a> In comments published Wednesday in the Arabic language newspaper As Safir, which is close to Hezbollah, Fadlallah said Hezbollah's arms do not compare to "the level of armament of the United States, which it used in its crimes against peoples around the world, from Hiroshima to the more than 100,000 martyrs killed in Iraq and the tens of thousands killed in Palestine, Lebanon and Afghanistan." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-28-04.htm">4/28/2010 - Scuds or no Scuds, south Lebanon beckons tourists</a> "We are defying Israel with projects like these," said Moussa Nasrallah, the Lebanese engineer in charge of the park project. "The idea was to show that this area that was leveled and where Israeli tanks were once positioned is now a booming place." ....."This is a form of civilian resistance, which is even more important than military resistance," he told The Associated Press. "Resistance can be in going to have lunch, dinner or just a drink along the border." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://rebelreports.com/post/538740461/firm-run-by-ex-israeli-special-forces-soldier-wants-us">4/28/2010 - Firm Run by Ex-Israeli Special Forces Soldier Wants US Security Contracts in Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanistan</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/04/28/2394543/abrams-us-must-bomb-iran-before-israel">4/28/2010 - Abrams: U.S. must address Iran s threat to Israel</a>  Israelis are living under the threat of annihilation every day," Elliot Abrams, the Bush administration's National Security Council senior director for Near East and North African Affairs, said April 25 at the Baltimore Zionist District s "U.S.-Israel Relations In A New Era" symposium, the Baltimore Jewish Times reported. "If the world does not act, I believe Israel will act, and I hope the U.S. will. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hezbollah-vows-to-continue-amassing-arms-of-resistance-1.285173">4/28/2010 - Hezbollah vows to continue amassing 'arms of resistance'</a> Israel and the U.S. have accused Syria of supplying Hezbollah with Scud missiles, which are capable of striking deep into Israel. BothBeirut and Damascus have denied this. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25335.htm">4/28/2010 - Video: Tyranny & Politics of Fear, Loyalty to Israel vs. US</a> Post presents an exclusive interview with Colonel Larry Wilkerson on the tyrannical presidency and politics of fear, Israel s interests versus US interests and the question of loyalties, and more: <b>A great video. Five minutes long. Watch it.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-28-02.htm">4/28/2010 - Is Netanyahu Quietly Freezing Jerusalem Settlements?</a> Take Plan number 12705 for the new Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem, which would demolish 40 low rise Palestinian homes built in traditional local stone to make way for modern apartment blocks up to 18 stories high, containing 200 residential units for Israelis. There have been weekly demonstrations at the site since the landowners, Nahalat Shimon International, began evicting the Palestinians who had been living in the area when it was captured by Israeli forces in the war of 1967. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/04/28-0">4/28/2010 - Palestinian Village Inspires Popular Movement</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/04/brit-mp-george-galloway-should-he-be-allowed-into-canada.html">4/28/2010 - Brit MP George Galloway: Should he be allowed into Canada?</a> Leading up to the scheduled court hearing, supporters on both sides of the dispute gathered in front of the courthouse in downtown Toronto. Anti-war demonstrators and freedom-of-speech advocates were protesting on the north side of Queen Street West on Monday morning, while representatives of the Jewish Defence League protested on the south side. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127426/">4/28/2010 - Option of striking Iran never off the table: Pentagon</a> the demonization and isolation of Richard Goldstone is wrong, offensive and, frankly, in violation of the very Jewish values that the community pretends to uphold. That the man cannot even attend his grandson s bar mitzvah in South Africa speaks volumes about the intolerance and ignorance of those who bully in the name of Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100035649/nick-clegg%e2%80%99s-israel-bashing-is-sickening/">4/28/2010 - Nick Clegg s Israel-bashing is sickening </a> <b>Nile Gardiner should move from the UK to Israel, and let the Brits deal with matters of import to Britain.</b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127440/">4/21/2010 - Top Military Brass Concur Mideast Conflict Affects All</a> U.S. Army general David Petraeus might have shocked some pro-Israel activists when he openly spelled out the difficulties caused to American military efforts by the lack of progress in the Middle East, but fellow generals were not taken by surprise.  CENTCOM commanders had always said this was the No. 1 issue that affects everything that goes on in the region, said Anthony Zinni, who headed the U.S. Central Command, known as CENTCOM, a decade before Petraeus. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-15-02.htm">4/21/2010 - Syria denies it gave Hezbollah Scud missiles</a> Syria warned Thursday that Israel was paving the way for new military action by alleging that that Damascus is providing Scud missiles to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1346">4/21/2010 - AT-TUWANI RELEASE: Israeli army fails to protect Palestinian school </a> On Thursday 15 April, 2010, an Israeli settler drove his vehicle into a group of Palestinian schoolchildren as they walked to school in At Tuwani. The children, aged from 6 years old to 15 years old, were able to leap out of the way and none were hurt. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1344">4/21/2010 - CPT Al Khalil/Hebron</a> We are especially concerned that the the Israeli military appear to be targeting young people, especially boys, in the Old City. There have been a number of incidents during the month, including the arrest and detention of the son of a close neighbour and friend of CPT. The usual accusation is that the boys  and in one case, a girl  have thrown stones. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127439/">4/21/2010 - How To Beat Back Israel Divestment Bill Get Organized  Forward.com</a> One anti-divestment student group handed out suggested talking points for those speaking against the bill at the student government meeting. The existence of the talking points, which were posted on the blog Mondoweiss, was confirmed by Naftalin-Kelman, who said that they were not distributed by the Hillel.  DON T try to deconstruct the bill, the talking points read.  Instead, focus on how it is an attack on the Jewish community. ......At an AIPAC conference in Washington in late March, AIPAC leadership development director Jonathan Kessler said that his organization would  make sure that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote, ........................  This is how AIPAC operates in our nation s Capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation s campuses, <b>Really now?</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/12/16/no-fault-espionage/">4/21/2010 - From December: No-Fault Espionage by Philip Giraldi</a> FBI counter intelligence officer John Cole has reported on the frustration of his colleagues over the many cases of Israeli espionage that are dropped under orders from the Justice Department. He provides a "conservative estimate" of 125 worthwhile investigations into Israeli espionage in the US involving both American citizens and Israelis stopped due to political pressure from above. Israeli citizens and diplomats who are caught in the act spying are routinely freed without criminal charges and allowed to return home. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.unog.ch/unog/website/news_media.nsf/%28httpNewsByYear_en%29/5E8B8CEF12412AE8C125770A0032BB78?OpenDocument">4/21/2010 - ISRAELI MILITARY ORDERS  IN BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, WARNS UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR</a> The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk, warned Monday that two Israeli Defense Forces Military Orders* may be in breach of the fourth Geneva Convention and violate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1164297">4/21/2010 - U.S. officials slam pro-Israel Jerusalem ad </a> United States administration officials have voiced harsh criticism over advertisements in favor of Israel's position on Jerusalem that appeared in the U.S. press with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's encouragement. The authors of the most recent such advertisements were president of the World Jewish Congress Ronald Lauder and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel. "All these advertisements are not a wise move," one senior American official told Haaretz. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-18-02.htm">4/21/2010 - Iran nuclear conference urges Israel to join NPT</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-19-03.htm">4/21/2010 - Netanyahu urges 'crippling sanctions' against Iran</a> In an interview broadcast Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Netanyahu said he worries that the international community isn't acting aggressively enough to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-20-01.htm">4/21/2010 - Obama affirms 'unbreakable' US-Israel ties</a> President Barack Obama has said on the Jewish state's 62nd anniversary that the United States shares an "unbreakable bond" with Israel and he was confident the relationship "will only be strengthened" into the future. <b>Sick. Our support for Israel got us 9/11.</b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1345">4/21/2010 - Second Half of Feb.2010 Update</a> Jack spoke to the military after the demonstration:  This is not right. This has been a non-violent demonstration and you have replied with tear gas. This is not right. ......On the regular school patrol at Al Bweireh, four male teenage settlers passed CPTers on the path, two of whom took photos of the CPTers and one settler spat in the direction of the CPTers. Another responded to their greeting of  Shalom with  Jesus pig. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127441/">4/21/2010 - Strain in U.S.-Israel Ties Spurs Anxiety About  Dual Loyalty </a> So totally aligned have the United States and Israeli governments been for most of the past 20 years that American Jews have not been forced to seriously consider that these two identities could be in conflict <b>The issue here is though - that this alignment was brought about by the overwhelming influence of the Israeli lobby.It's more than dual loyalty though. Advocating for policies that put THIS nation, America, in danger, is not dual loyalty. It's TREASON.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/04/14/dr-strangelove-made-in-israel/">4/21/2010 - Dr. Strangelove, Made in Israel by Philip Giraldi</a> While it is perhaps not unusual for American citizens to volunteer with the Israel Defense Forces as White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel did in 1991, it would have to be considered unprecedented for a senior Israeli military officer to obtain a high level position at the Pentagon. In fact, it is hard to imagine that anyone carrying out a security background investigation would approve such a transition under any circumstances, suggesting the possibility that Kass s ascent to high office might have been aided or even godfathered by friends in key positions who were able to override or circumvent normal procedures. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1164185">4/21/2010 - State Dept.: U.S. unsure whether Syria sent missiles to Hezbollah </a> Earlier Tuesday, Lebanon's Western-backed prime minister Saad Hariri denied Israeli allegations that Hezbollah has obtained Scud missiles, comparing them to the false American charges that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction ahead of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. <b>Israel: the monkey on America's back, constantly feeding us phony intel.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-19-02.htm">4/21/2010 - Israeli defense minister says occupation must end</a> Israel must recognize that the world will not put up with decades more of Israeli rule over the Palestinian people, the country's defense minister said in unusually frank remarks Monday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-19-01.htm">4/21/2010 - Netanyahu : No way to 'impose' Middle East peace</a> Arab leaders have ruled out new peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in the absence of a full settlement freeze in the West Bank and annexed east Jerusalem, a notion the Netanyahu government has rejected. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127343/">4/21/2010 - Presence of Brzezinski, Scowcroft at White House Meeting Draws Muted Comment  Forward.com</a> The two, both former national security advisers of previous administrations, are known as supporters of the realist doctrine in foreign policy  a doctrine viewed by many in the Jewish community as unsympathetic to the case of Israel......Realism in foreign policy is seen as an approach that puts a country s own interests first when determining its path in the world, before any other considerations, including moral views of other countries. When it comes to the Middle East, Realists are usually considered to be those who believe that America s interest lay in strengthening ties with the Arab world rather than in supporting Israel unconditionally. <b>Based on an appropriate inference of the above excerpt, then it's safe to presume that the policy that Israel's lobby seeks America to adopt is one that puts Israel's interests over our own. I call that TREASON. Read on.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137123">4/21/2010 - Netanyahu: Less Time to Act on Iran with Each Passing Day</a> Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sounded an urgent note regarding the Iranian threat in a Monday interview on America's ABC network, saying that  we have a lot less time with each day that passes. <b>Who's we?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1050833/1/.html">4/21/2010 - Iran wins regional support for its nuclear programme</a> Syria, Lebanon and Iraq backed Iran's atomic programme on Saturday, which they said has "peaceful" aims, and insisted that Israel be stripped off its nuclear arsenal. ....The three leaders, however, strongly urged for Israel to join the NPT. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gtcA8QHTUI4XYRmJZ6VFRgh4fxDQD9F5KM9O0">4/21/2010 - Israeli president: Iran threatens whole world</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1163243">4/21/2010 - No-one saw, no-one heard 300 Palestinian olive trees uprooted</a> "Every time we go there to take care of the trees, the settlers come down and start a confrontation. They're not letting us near the trees," he said. The financial loss to the grove owners is immense, he said. Another villager, Amran Ali Asaeid, said the damage amounted to thousands of dollars. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7101106.ece">4/21/2010 - Israel warns Syria over Hezbollah attacks</a> Israel has delivered a secret warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad that it will respond to missile attacks from Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese-based Islamist group, by launching immediate retaliation against Syria itself. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-18-03.htm">4/21/2010 - US affirms support to Israel 'will not waver'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14676.htm">4/21/2010 - Deir Yassin Remembered </a> Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25255.htm">4/21/2010 - Nukes And Temples</a> It took four years to complete the work on Hurva. When presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised AIPAC an undivided Jerusalem in 2008, the building of the Hurva synagogue was well on the way -- which signaled continued future attacks on the al-Aqsa Mosque to make way for construction of the Third Temple. Past wars and future was waged against other countries based on unfounded accusations has distracted the international community from the reality of this construction and its implications - the messianic era <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/04/israel-is-debated-at-california-democratic-convention-harman-walks-out-in-huff.html">4/21/2010 - Israel is debated at California Democratic convention, Harman walks out in huff</a> Marcy herself brought up Israel in order to distance herself from Harman. I never thought I'd hear a candidate talk about brutal occupation, lack of water, unnecessary continuous deaths and lack of democracy. Harman in response called Marcy an extremist who wants to get rid of Israel, and Marcy shot back with a democratic state from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. This got a standing ovation. And, Harman stood up and said she did not go to the caucus to debate and strode out. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1164391">4/21/2010 - Palestinians losing faith in Obama administration, poll finds </a> Palestinian hopes that U.S. President Barack Obama will bring an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory have significantly declined in recent months, a public opinion poll published Wednesday has found. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/04/15/1011590/goldstone-barred-from-grandsons-bar-mitzvah">4/21/2010 - Goldstone pressured into not attending grandson s bar mitzvah</a> Following negotiations between the South African Zionist Federation and the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol in Sandton, an affluent suburb of Johannesburg where the event is to take place, an agreement was reached with the family that will keep Goldstone from attending the synagogue service early next month. <b>But there's no such thing as an Israeli lobby...</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daoud-kuttab/has-israel-reneged-on-the_b_541852.html">4/21/2010 - Has Israel Reneged on the Unity of West Bank and Gaza? </a> As part of the Oslo Accords, the Israelis officially accepted the concept that the West Bank and Gaza Strip represent one unit. Article IV of the agreement signed in the White House Lawn in 1993 declared "The two sides view the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a single territorial unit, whose integrity will be preserved." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/127265/">4/21/2010 - Kamm Affair Continues To Roil Israel</a> In a legal procedure earlier this year, made public only recently, Kamm stated the reason that she copied hundreds of classified documents during her army service and later handed them over to Blau.  It was important for me to bring the IDF s policy to public knowledge, she said, describing actions of the Israeli military as  war crimes. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/127267/">4/21/2010 - Jerusalem Quartet Draws Discordant Note in Britain</a> In an April 8 ruling, a court in Edinburgh, Scotland, cleared five pro-Palestinian activists of racism, dismissing charges that they were guilty of racially aggravated conduct against members of the quartet. The case dates to an August 2008 concert at the Edinburgh International Festival that hecklers disrupted repeatedly in protest against Israel s blockade of Gaza, occupation of the West Bank and the musicians alleged links to the Israeli military <b>The Scots didn't fall for the anti-Semite card.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100420/FOREIGN/704199848/1011">4/21/2010 - Israeli Arab brothers win payout for El Al  abuse in New York</a> <b>Which came first, Jewish supremacism over Arabs, or Arab terrorism? How about Jewish terrorism or Arab terrorism? In both cases, the former. And we can't call it Israeli terrorism because Israel didn't yet exist.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24839.htm">4/21/2010 - Video: The Jewish Lobby in Britain</a> <b>The Brits have their own Israeli lobby to contend with.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127394/">4/21/2010 - Democrats and Republicans Each Believe That American Jews Are Leaning Their Way  Forward.com</a> Republicans say that friction between the Obama administration and Netanyahu s government in Israel is taking its toll on Jewish support for the president and his party. Jewish voters, they argue, feel uncomfortable with Obama s pressure on Israel and will make their concerns known by shifting toward the Republican side. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-20-02.htm">4/21/2010 - U.S.-ISRAELI RELATIONS TAKE ANOTHER TURN</a> More and more since the failure of the Oslo Accords in the 1990s and the virtual takeover of Israeli politics by the Far Right, often represented by natively anti American Russian Israelis and ultra conservative Sephardics from the Arab world, relations have deteriorated between the two countries. Israel has become the petulant and demanding dependent, and the U.S. has become the long suffering Sugar Daddy, often angry and insulted but afraid to say anything because of the power of the lobbies. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24428.htm">4/21/2010 - Video- A Closer Look at Israel's Role in Terrorism</a> Game theory war-planners rely on mathematical models to anticipate and shape outcomes with staged provocations. For the agent provocateur, the reactions to a provocation as well as the reactions to those reactions thereby become predictable within an acceptable range of probabilities. With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan poised to expand to Iran and Pakistan, it is time to take a closer look at how conflicts are catalyzed by way of deception. <b>Well worth watching all three parts.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh3wo18oDZU">4/21/2010 - YouTube - Dancing Israelis Arrested on 9-11, Interviewed by Ch. 4</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25246.htm">4/21/2010 - Picnicking on Mount Vesuvius?</a> On March 29, 2010 the US Embassy instructed Americans not to travel to Lebanon citing  safety and security concerns. Simultaneously it warned those who are in Lebanon to seriously consider leaving.....It comes following Opposition charges, emphasized by Hezbollah s Secretary Hassan Nasrallah the preceding week, that the US Embassy in Beirut engages in espionage activities for Israel and cautioning that the collaboration was very dangerous for Lebanon. <b>America is doing Israel's bidding in Lebanon too. Read on.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1164295">4/21/2010 - Report: Assad due in Egypt to discuss fear of Israel-Syria war </a> Syrian President Bashar Assad was due Tuesday night to land in Egypt "within hours," his first visit in four years, several Arab media outlets reported. The urgency of the surprise trip stems from a fear of war between Israel and Syria. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3878518,00.html">4/21/2010 - World poll: Only 19% see Israel in positive light</a> Only Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan are viewed in a more negative light than Israel, according to a poll conducted in 28 countries and published Tuesday by the BBC. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=April2010&file=Local_News2010042131953.xml">4/21/2010 - Western mainstream media distorting realities: Fisk </a> Veteran British journalist Robert Fisk struck a chord with the audience at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday when he pleaded to western journalists to be fair and unbiased towards the sufferings of the people in the Middle East, particularly the Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/12/23/christians-united-for-war/">4/21/2010 - From December: Christians United for War by Philip Giraldi</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100412/158538895.html">4/14/2010 - U.S., Israeli attack on Iran would be 'unacceptable' - Russia military</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/04/07/nuking-the-mullahs/">4/14/2010 - Nuking the Mullahs by Philip Giraldi</a> Two issues likely will determine whether Israel will use nuclear weapons against Iran. The first relates to the ultimate objective of the Israeli attack. An attack with conventional weapons will hardly cripple the presumed Iranian nuclear program and would be designed rather to send a message and to bring the United States into the conflict to finish the job <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-11-01.htm">4/14/2010 - Rights groups slam new West Bank deportation rules</a> Israel's military has issued new orders that human rights groups warned Sunday could lead to the expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank. Under the new rules, anyone caught living in the West Bank without an Israeli permit could face expulsion within as little as three days or be sentenced to up to seven years in prison. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25195.htm">4/14/2010 - New Law Could Deport Thousands of West Bank Palestinians</a> The new order makes it a criminal act for anyone to live in the West Bank without a permit. .....According to an attorney for Hamoked, Elad Cahana, the military commander of the West Bank has never issued such permits so that even Palestinians who were born in the West Bank do not have them <b>Those permits are only granted by Israel. Reminder: West Bank is PALESTINIAN territory.</b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1343">4/14/2010 - AT-TUWANI RELEASE: Settler Youth Harass Palestinians and Internation</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6373C620100408?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews">4/14/2010 - Hamas move on Gaza banks fuels banker concerns</a> Hamas said the funds were seized from a local bank in line with a court order challenging the Ramallah-based authorities' decision to freeze assets belonging to a medical association. The PMA had frozen the funds after the board of the Patient's Friend Association had come under Hamas control. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1162472">4/14/2010 - Gaza militant: Hamas stopping rocket fire into Israel </a> Last week, Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha told the BBC that Hamas was working to curb rocket attacks against Israel by Gaza militants. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-07-02.htm">4/14/2010 - Israel, US have not settled east Jerusalem spat</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136963">4/14/2010 - Turkey to Challenge Israel, Support Hamas</a> A flotilla of ships funded by Turkey will approach Gaza in May, in an attempt to challenge Israeli control at sea - or, as organizers put it,  break Israel's illegal blockade on Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hah_mnNlEdL2F05h25Ib2pRBctegD9EVM1T80">4/14/2010 - Canceled Netanyahu trip spotlights Israel nukes</a> Muslim countries have long complained of a double standard when the West asks them to stay nuclear-free while turning a blind eye to Israel's program. Many Israelis see atomic weapons as their ultimate defense against annihilation in a hostile Middle East. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hd9kAxAmPQiepMZBmilJL5AMwbnwD9F0SG880">4/14/2010 - Clinton defends role of Israel at nuclear summit</a> Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Israel has much to contribute to this week's nuclear security summit even though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is skipping the Washington conference. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-09-01.htm">4/14/2010 - Israel viewed as world's sixth nuclear power: analysts</a> Analysts at British defence specialists Jane's believe the Jewish state has between 100 and 300 nuclear warheads, putting them among the more advanced nuclear weapons states and roughly on a par with Britain. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-14-02.htm">4/14/2010 - Israeli officials say Syria gives Hezbollah Scuds</a> In Washington, the Syrian Embassy dismissed the allegations and accused Israel of trying to divert attention from questions about Israel's nuclear program. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/04/07/nuking-the-mullahs/">4/14/2010 - Nuking the Mullahs by Philip Giraldi</a> The truth is that Israel is fast becoming a pariah nation, like South Africa before the final collapse of apartheid, because no one any longer accepts the legitimacy of its settlement growth and occupation policies. Like South Africa, the Israeli response to criticism has been to become more reactionary and inward looking, constructing a police state internally and waging unending war against its neighbors to maintain cohesion against foreign enemies....To be sure, there is a certain danger in isolating the Israelis too much as it could easily feed the always present Masada complex that might influence a dangerously unstable government to take action that might include exploiting its nuclear arsenal in search of Armageddon <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25228.htm">4/14/2010 - US Generals and Admirals Who Have Accepted Free Trips to Israel</a> We, the undersigned, have traveled to Israel over the years with The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). We brought with us our decades of military experience and, following unrestricted access to Israel's civilian and military leaders, came away with the unswerving belief that the security of the State of Israel is a matter of great importance to the United States and its policy in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean <b>Anyone that signed onto that is a traitor to the United States of America.</b><br><br> <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/youth-despair-as-gaza-jobless-rate-hits-60-per-cent-1.609826">4/14/2010 - Youth despair as Gaza jobless rate hits 60 per cent</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8608053.stm">4/14/2010 - Police smash Israeli organ-trafficking ring </a> <b>They had to do something since they had to stop stealing the organs of Palestinians..</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/2010/04/08/Commentary-Armchair-warriors/UPI-96221270736890/">4/14/2010 - Commentary: Armchair warriors</a> Three former CENTCOM commanders, now retired, with expert knowledge of the Middle East and all the key players, have said that learning to live with Iran as a nuclear power is wiser than bombing Iran. <b>Israel wants us to attack Iran. Beware.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3875661,00.html">4/14/2010 - Obama: Israel should sign NPT</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/11/israeli-groups-attack">4/14/2010 - Israeli groups fight orders allowing army to jail West Bank residents</a> "The orders & are worded so broadly such as theoretically allowing the military to empty the West Bank of almost all its Palestinian inhabitants," said the 10 rights groups <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-09-02.htm">4/14/2010 - Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-14-01.htm">4/14/2010 - Hamas orders Gaza smuggling tunnels shut</a> Hamas ordered the tunnels closed late Tuesday, hours after Israel told its citizens to leave Sinai, saying it had "concrete" evidence that militants were trying to kidnap Israelis. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3875636,00.html">4/14/2010 - ElBaradei: Israeli occupation only understands force</a> The former International Atomic Energy Agency leader criticized the fence which Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak set up along the Gaza Strip border. The fence "hurts Egypt's reputation," he said. "It appears to be participation in the siege of Gaza, which has become the world's largest prison." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/76_Senators_sign_on_to_Israel_letter.html">4/14/2010 - 76 Senators sign on to Israel letter</a> More than three quarters of the U.S. Senate, including 38 Democrats, have signed on to a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton implicitly rebuking the Obama Administration for its confrontational stance toward Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25207.htm">4/14/2010 - Mossad Operation Threatened Against Reporter </a> The Shin Bet claims that Mr. Blau is holding hundreds of classified documents, including some reported to relate to Operation Cast Lead, Israel s attack on Gaza in winter 2008 in which the army is widely believed to have violated the rules of war. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h0V1vq1_0HHkbLFFlv1TgHlIQX9QD9F2BT000">4/14/2010 - Israel tells its citizens to get out of Sinai now</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-13-02.htm">4/14/2010 - .Obama voices frustration on stalled Mideast peace</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/127130/">4/14/2010 - Now It Is Told: An Israeli Story Of Secrecy and Censorship</a>  Ladies and gentlemen, we are living in Iran, blogger Shooky Galili responded in a post on Twitter. Over the next two weeks, at least a dozen other Israelis published blog posts, Tweeted and created Facebook pages about the Kamm story. In each case, the post, Tweet or page was taken down within hours. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1161849">4/14/2010 - In Israel, reality hides under a 'top secret' stamp </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-08-01.htm">4/14/2010 - Israel lifts gag order on ex-soldier spy case</a> Israel lifted months of censorship on a military espionage case Thursday, confirming the house arrest of a former female soldier charged with leaking more than 2,000 military documents to a newspaper. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/09/israel-nuclear-standoff-summit">4/14/2010 - Israel's nuclear standoff</a> What Israeli officials are not talking about is the most probable reason behind this cancellation  Netanyahu's unwillingness to stop settlements in East Jerusalem, despite US requests. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://america-hijacked.com/2010/04/03/bombing-iran/comment-page-1/#comment-2353">4/14/2010 - Obama recalls bunker-buster bomb kits to bar Israeli strike on Iran </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/127131/">4/14/2010 - Worry That New Sanctions Will Not Curb Iran s Nuclear Goals</a> As another set of sanctions against Iran makes its way through the United Nations  the fourth in as many years  heads of American Jewish organizations and pro-Israel foreign policy analysts are wondering if these or any other measures will really be able to change the behavior of the regime in Tehran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2010/04/13/americas-loose-nukes-in-israel/">4/14/2010 - America s Loose Nukes in Israel</a> In the early 1960s, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began documenting suspicious lapses in NUMEC s security, inexplicably lax record-keeping, and the ongoing presence of large numbers of Israelis at the plant. <b>Very interesting article.</b><br><br> <a href="http://newsmax.com/Headline/lieberman-iran-nuclear-attack/2010/04/12/id/355512?s=al&promo_code=9BDE-1">4/14/2010 - Lieberman: U.S. Should Attack Iran's Nuclear Program If All Else Fails</a> Regarding Israel, Lieberman says some of the steps Obama has taken, such as demanding a freeze on the building of Israeli settlements, don t help the peace process and are in fact  missteps. <b>Come again?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.kyivpost.com/news/world/detail/63719/">4/14/2010 - Medvedev: Israeli strike on Iran to lead to global catastrophe</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1162374">4/14/2010 - Netanyahu: Iran wants to destroy Israel and the world remains silent </a> <b>Israel=Chicken Little</b><br><br> <a href="http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/ls100410.html">4/14/2010 - Why Are American Jewish Groups So Intent on Defending Illegal Israeli Settlements and Other Human Rights Violations?</a> this coalition of Jewish groups does not contest any of the facts. Without offering any evidence, they dismiss findings by reputable organizations like the Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International. Instead of condemning these human rights violations, they prefer to misinform the public by suggesting that it is somehow wrong to "take sides" against universally recognized injustice. ....In effect they are calling on students not to apply the same principles applied elsewhere to Israel. These groups want us to ignore reality and to allow Israel to be the one and only human rights violator that escapes accountability and condemnation. <b>Israel and its defenders everywhere are the worst supremacists and hypocrites this world has ever seen.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25184.htm">4/14/2010 - Why Netanyahu Canceled His DC Visit, and Why the GOP Is Applauding </a> Ever since Netanyahu's government took office, there has been a never-ending stream of stories from unnamed sources taking shots at the Obama administration, trying to undermine its standing with the Israeli public, and sending the signal to the Likud echo chamber stateside to swing into action. This would appear to be the latest example and who better today than Liz Cheney to be on the receiving end of the Netanyahu long ball. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127270/">4/14/2010 - Jewish Groups Ask Feds To Change Policy and Include Antisemitism</a> Jewish groups have grown increasingly vocal in recent years over what they see as a surge in campus antisemitism. The University of California, Irvine, an Orange County campus that has garnered national attention for the aggressive anti-Israel activism of its Muslim student group, has emerged as a focus of Jewish communal concerns. <b>Notice how anti-Israeli sentiment becomes 'anti-Semitism'.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/14-7">4/14/2010 - International Attention Focused on Berkeley Divestment Vote</a> AIPAC has recently stated the need for a strategy to combat anti-Israel sentiments on U.S. university campuses. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.christopherketcham.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/The%20Israelis%20Next%20Door%20--%20Hustler%20April%202010%20--%20final.pdf">4/14/2010 - The Israelis Next Door</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1342">4/14/2010 - "Hebron"Border Policeman Burns Palestinian Teacher with Cigarette</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1340">4/14/2010 - "Hebron"Old City Celebrates in a Gesture of Solidarity</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/127071/">4/14/2010 - Israel Builds Another Barrier, This One To Bar Illegal African Immigrants</a> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented the decision as necessary to protect Israel s Jewish majority. In statements released by his office, he argued that the problem with Israel s southwest border is that, since it is one of the few places where people journeying on foot from Africa can enter a Western country, many Africans go there to sneak into Israel......Yaakov Katz, a lawmaker with the right-wing National Union party, told the Forward that he considers sealing the southwest border  a million times more important than the conflict with the Palestinians, given the project s long-term ramifications for the state.  In the last 100 years, the Jewish people has built here a Jewish state. Within 10 years infiltrators could cause this to go down the drain, <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1162220">4/14/2010 - Turkey: World is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear weapons </a> Recep Tayyip Erdogan remarked that Iran's nuclear program is being scrutinized because of its membership in the International Atomic Energy Agency whereas Israel, which has not signed a nonproliferation treaty, is free to do what it wants. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0412/Can-Obama-erase-Bush-nostalgia-in-the-Middle-East">4/14/2010 - Can Obama erase  Bush nostalgia in the Middle East</a> Now as then, US policy continues to be anchored by a cynical bargain with Arab autocrats: If they faithfully support US regional objectives, the US turns a blind eye to their suppression of domestic dissent. It s business as usual. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/18963668">4/7/2010 - Yahoo News Video: Palestinian Christians locked out of Jerusalem</a> Thousands of pilgrims come to Jerusalem from around the world to celebrate Easter on the very grounds where it all happened. But this year, some Christians nearby won't be taking part. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3871639,00.html">4/7/2010 - Ambassador Oren Israel protects US troops</a> Speaking in an interview with CNN, Oren said that if Israel did not exist, extremists in the region would join Al-Qaeda in its anti-American sentiment. "The US is much safer thanks to Israeli-American cooperation," he said. <b>Is this some kind of a sick joke? America is a target of Al-Qaeda because of our support for Israel. It was the primary motivation of Khaled Shaikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 911.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50903">4/7/2010 - Israel Gags News on Extra-Judicial Killings</a> An Israeli journalist remains under house arrest and another lives abroad, after they broke news on Israeli undercover units carrying out assassinations or "targeted killings" of non-combatant Palestinian political opponents. These documents outlined how Israeli assassination squads would plan the killing of Palestinian political leaders and fighters months beforehand and then pass their deaths off as "mishaps" during "failed" attempts to arrest them. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1161137">4/7/2010 - Palestinian official: U.S. bid to revive Mideast talks at dead-end </a> "But it appears that all the consultations that have happened with the Israeli government and the American administration and other states have reached a dead end with Israeli positions insisting on a continuation of settlement." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1339">4/7/2010 - Video: Israeli Police ransack Palestinian homes and damage belonging</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-02-02.htm">4/7/2010 - Israeli planes and helicopters mount Gaza attacks</a> Four air strikes blew up two caravans near the town of Khan Younis, witnesses and Hamas officials said. There were no casualties in this attack. A fifth missile hit a cheese factory in Gaza City, setting it on fire, the witnesses and Hamas officials said. Hospital officials said two children were slightly wounded by flying debris. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3871807,00.html">4/7/2010 - Turkish PM: We cannot ignore murder of Gaza's children</a> "We cannot watch the murder of children in Gaza with indifference. This is not humane," said Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose repeated criticism of Israel recently sparked a diplomatic row between the countries. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-04-01.htm">4/7/2010 - Israel lets clothes, shoes into besieged Gaza</a> Israel allowed a shipment of clothes and shoes to enter the Hamas ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday for the first time in nearly two years, a Palestinian border official said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1337">4/7/2010 - Tuwani Update: March, 2010</a> During March Palestinians encountered frequent harassment by Israeli soldiers and settlers in Khalli, an area of Palestinian-owned land located at the edge of Tuwani village and close to the settlement of Ma'on. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-03-01.htm">4/7/2010 - Holy Fire brings Jerusalem Easter to joyful climax</a> A mass influx of Russian and other visitors from the former Soviet bloc, and the absence of many Palestinians denied permits from Israel to enter the Old City, confirmed the changing face of Christian rites in Jerusalem since the fall of Communism. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-02-01.htm">4/7/2010 - Hamas signals it wants to keep Gaza quiet</a> Hamas made this known just hours after Israeli aircraft pounded multiple targets in the territory in response to the latest rocket attack on southern Israel. Three Palestinian children were wounded in one of the Israeli airstrikes....Most of the recent militant attacks have been claimed by groups considered more radical than Hamas who accuse Gaza's ruling movement of going soft on its main rallying cry of armed confrontation with Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2010/04/01/what-war-with-iran-means/">4/7/2010 - What War with Iran Means by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> As to who starts it, we know the answer. Tehran has not started a war in memory and is not going to launch a suicide attack on a superpower with thousands of nuclear weapons. As with Iraq in 2003, the war will be launched by the United States against a nation that did not attack us  to strip it of weapons it does not have. <b>We know who is behind this war too. Can't say you weren't in the know this time.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25128.htm">4/7/2010 - Obama: Evidence Shows Iran is Developing Nukes</a> U.S. and Israeli efforts are focused on convincing Beijing that the best alternative to preventing a nuclear Iran and a military operation targeting it would be to agree to more severe sanctions - without actively supporting these.....The head of Israel's Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, recently traveled to China and relayed to his hosts details of the Iran's progress toward nuclear arms. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1160722">4/7/2010 - White House in calming message to U.S. Jews: Obama is Israel's friend </a> National Security Council Middle East Senior Director Dan Shapiro stressed to American Jews that that the U.S. did not intend to insist that Israel halt construction in East Jerusalem................Shapiro said that Iran is the most important national security issue facing the United States and that no one should doubt the determination of the U.S. to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. <b>Really now. And how did Iran become the number 1 American national security issue? Two words: Israeli lobby. Israel's problems become OUR problems.</b><br><br> <a href="http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0404/kristol-us-strike-on-iran-israeli-strike/">4/7/2010 - Kristol:  Better for US to attack Iran than if Israel did</a> The Obama administration should be seriously considering a strike on Iran, according to neoconservative Fox News contributor Bill Kristol. An Israeli Deputy Defense Minister said last week that he expected Israel would have to attack Iran within a year. Kristol believes it would be better for the US to attack first. <b>Kristol should be deported to his true homeland - Israel. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1161130">4/7/2010 - Iran vows to strike Israel immediately if attacked</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-06-01.htm">4/7/2010 - Israeli FM warns Palestinians not to declare state</a> Lieberman warned that if Palestinians declared independence, Israel could revoke 1990s peace agreements or annex parts of the West Bank. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1160408">4/7/2010 - Palestinians: IDF drops leaflets over Gaza warning of imminent attack </a> Witnesses said the flyers were dropped in several locations on the border of the salient, including the area east of Khan Younis, where two IDF soldiers and two militants were killed in a clash last weekend. Meanwhile, Israel Navy patrol boats opened fire at a Palestinian fishing vessel off the coast of Gaza early Thursday, an IDF spokesman in Tel Aviv said <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1159942">4/7/2010 - 'British MPs seek review of arms exports to Israel' </a> "It is regrettable that arms exports to Israel were almost certainly used in Operation Cast Lead," The Guardian quoted a report published by the Commons committee on strategic export controls. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1159947">4/7/2010 - Report: Algeria arrests Mossad agent with fake Spanish passport </a> Ennahar El Djadid went on to report that the man has a good command of Arabic, is well acquainted with the city, and even participated in the Muslim prayers in the Bilal Ibn Rabah mosque. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-29-03.htm">4/7/2010 - Jewish leader doubts Carter's apology after ex-president's recent comments on Israel</a> A prominent Jewish leader criticized former President Jimmy Carter on Monday, blasting Carter for saying in a speech this month that the U.S. government has "yielded excessively" to Israel. Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti Defamation League, said that Carter's comments during a recent conference on U.S. Arab relations suggest that he was not sincere in a 2009 apology to the Jewish community. <b>The real issue is: why did Carter issue the apology in the first place? He speaks the truth.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25154.htm">4/7/2010 - Rule by Law or Defiance</a> Because Israel controls our Congress, the President is essentially powerless to confront the forces that maneuver behind the scenes to thwart any U.S. government, Republican or Democrat, from moving toward a just and balanced resolution of the Israel/Palestinian conflict. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1161126">4/7/2010 - Jordan King: Israel's long-term future is in jeopardy </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-04-02.htm">4/7/2010 - Fallout: Electoral Impact of US-Israeli Tensions</a> Obama could cross a red line that severely risked Israel's security. That would undercut his Jewish backing. But no modern president has broadly shifted away from the US Israeli alliance. And there is no indication Obama would veer widely from that precedent. Such a move would, in political terms, likely risk more than his Jewish support. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1338">4/7/2010 - Almost a Reprieve from the Israeli Occupation</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/126991/">4/7/2010 - Communal Groups Mobilize Against  Delegitimizers of Jewish State</a>  De-legitimization is just another way to invoke antisemitism as a silencer, but sounds better because [it s] less exploitative of emotional pain. ....Israeli officials and participants from major Jewish organizations and federations discussed the possibility of creating and funding a mechanism to track and respond to what they see as delegitimization efforts. <b>Good luck.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126976/">4/7/2010 - Heeding Hillary s Words</a> From the results, we learn that American Jews, by a 4-1 margin (82%-18%), support the United States playing an active role in helping the parties to resolve the conflict, and by a 63%-37% margin, those who support American activism say they would continue their support even  if it meant the United States exerting pressure on Israel to make the compromises necessary to achieve peace. <b>Then you ought to do something about it before it's too late.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0401/Peace-for-Israelis-and-Palestinians-Not-without-America-s-tough-love">4/7/2010 - Peace for Israelis and Palestinians Not without America's tough love</a> A legitimate question is, Why should I care? Americans are heavily involved in the conflict: from funding (the US provides Israel with roughly $3 billion annually in military aid) to corporate investments (Microsoft has one of its major facilities in Israel) to diplomatic support (the US has vetoed 32 United Nations Security Council resolutions unsavory to Israel between 1982 and 2006). <b>God bless you, kid.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25153.htm">4/7/2010 - Why there are no  Israelis in the Jewish state</a>  There are even two laws -- the Law of Return for Jews and the Citizenship Law for Arabs -- that determine how you belong to the state, he said.  What kind of democracy divides its citizens into two kinds? <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/127000/">4/7/2010 - An Israeli General Explains Why Stopping Iran Requires a Real Settlement Freeze </a> Haaretz has two opinion essays right now arguing that Israel should freeze construction because it needs to stop Iran s nuclear project and it needs America to lead the effort. <b>Bingo. See last news batch for more. Also take notice of reason number 9.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/04/04-07-01.htm">4/7/2010 - Israel's deadly legacy still lurks in Lebanon</a> Most of the victims are sappers, farmers and unsuspecting children, who mistake the shiny objects for toys. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25162.htm">4/7/2010 - Major Jewish American Organizations Defend Israel's Humiliation of America</a> <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <b>March </b> <br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gnJHlk7vviX8bcc0-vb85dwEyASw">3/31/2010 - Palestinian teen killed as Israelis fire on Gaza protests</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-26-02.htm">3/31/2010 - 2 Israeli soldiers, 1 Palestinian killed in Gaza</a> Two Israeli soldiers and a Palestinian civilian were killed. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/26/91206/with-us-israel-ties-strained-obama.html">3/31/2010 - With U.S.-Israel ties strained, Obama may make bold move</a> The administration is said to be preparing a major peace initiative that would be Obama's most direct involvement in the conflict to date, and would go far beyond the tentative, indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks that were torpedoed earlier in the month. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/03/24/the-crisis-that-wasnt/">3/31/2010 - The Crisis That Wasn t by Philip Giraldi</a> Clinton did make one intriguing comment, perhaps not completely understanding the implications of what she was saying: "We cannot escape the impact of mass communications." She meant that many people have now become concerned about what is going on in Israel and Palestine because of what appears on the internet. But if Israel were truly the cowboy in the white hat upholding truth and justice that would hardly matter, would it? In reality, the narrative of Israeli exceptionalism and entitlement that has been carefully shaped by the Israeli government and its friends in the mainstream media has been thoroughly discredited by alternative sources of information made available through the internet <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-03/27/c_13227243.htm">3/31/2010 - UN chief says Israeli settlement activities illegal </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/03/26/a-defining-moment/comment-page-1/">3/31/2010 - A Defining Moment by Philip Giraldi</a> Earlier this week a letter signed by 300 Congressmen pledged commitment to the  unbreakable bond that exists between the US and the State of Israel. The public, God bless them, have no ability to overturn Congressional knee jerk support for Israel, and besides, the ability of the MSM to control the coverage of the issue means that most Americans will have no clue that there is any school of thought that Israel constitutes a liability. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1336">3/31/2010 - TUBA RELEASE: Israeli soldiers ransack Palestinian homes and damage belongings in Tuba village</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1335">3/31/2010 - AT-TUWANI RELEASE: Israeli army subjects Palestinian school children to verbal abuse and fails to safely escort them to and from school</a> The children require a military escort to and from school because of repeated attacks by Israeli settlers from Ma on settlement and Havat Ma on outpost. When the Israeli military does not arrive on time to accompany the children, they must wait in an area of de facto settler control, a location where settlers have attacked the young Palestinian children on a number of occasions in the past. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1159159">3/31/2010 - Nearly 300 Congress members declare commitment to 'unbreakable' U.S.-Israel bond </a> <b>Read the letter they signed contained in the article. This is treason. Our support for Israel was the reason given by the mastermind of the attack on 911.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1159863">3/31/2010 - Israel fears Obama heading for imposed Mideast settlement</a> It is not just Obama's demands that are perceived as problematic, but also the new modus operandi of American diplomacy. The fact that the White House and State Department have been in contact with Israel's European allies, first and foremost Germany, is seen as part of an effort to isolate Israel and put enormous political pressure on it.....Israeli officials warn that if the United States shirks its past commitments, the willingness of the Israeli public to put its trust in future American guarantees will be undermined - as will the superpower's regional and international standing. <b>Oh the horror of anyone attempting to tell poor little Israel to stop stealing its neighbor's land, destroying existing housing on said neighbor's land, and other acts that are not only immoral but a violation of international law.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/03/25/bibis-hollow-victory/">3/31/2010 - Bibi s Hollow Victory by Patrick J. Buchanan</a>  This is starting to get dangerous for us, Biden reportedly told Netanyahu.  What you re doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Yedioth Ahronoth further reported:  The vice president told his Israeli hosts that since many people in the Muslim world perceived a connection between Israel s actions and U.S. policy, any decision about construction that undermines Palestinian rights in East Jerusalem could have an impact on the personal safety of American troops. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-24-06.htm">3/31/2010 - Saudi: Israel's arrogance challenges the world</a> Saudi Arabia on Wednesday condemned Israel's "arrogant" policies of building settlements in east Jerusalem, saying they violated the rights of Arabs and Muslims and cast doubt on its seriousness in peace negotiations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-31-02.htm">3/31/2010 - Oil rises near $84 with weak US dollar</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-28-01.htm">3/31/2010 - Obama aides: US bond with Israel remains strong</a> David Axelrod tells CNN's "State of the Union" that Israel is a close and valued friend of the United States. He says there's an unshakable bond but that sometimes blunt talk is part of friendship. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-29-01.htm">3/31/2010 - Israel limits access to Al-Aqsa as Passover starts</a> Israel usually locks down the West Bank during Jewish holidays and has been especially wary in recent months as Palestinians clashed with security forces in and around Al Aqsa. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-28-02.htm">3/31/2010 - Christian pilgrims mark Palm Sunday in Jerusalem</a> Most West Bank Palestinians were banned from Jerusalem Sunday in keeping with standing Israeli regulations. Palestinians and backers demanding free access to the holy city briefly broke through a crossing between the West Bank town of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Police drove them back and arrested 12 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1334">3/31/2010 - Al Khalil/Hebron: Soldiers invade home, detain 13-year-old girl</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136767">3/31/2010 - Barak: US Gives Israel Aid, Ammunition and Vital Spare Parts</a> "Even when there are disagreements between friends  and there are also disagreements  it is vital that we remember that the US is friendly toward Israel in a deep and basic sense, Barak explained.  It is the US we turn to when there is a Goldstone Report; it is the US we turn to when an intervention or veto is needed in the [UN] Security Council and it was there that we found support and backing in every central crisis in Israel's history, from the War of Independence onward. <b>They use us to abet their crimes against their neighbors. It got us 911. And it's all possible thanks to the Israeli lobby and its overwhelming influence over our government.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032400879_pf.html">3/31/2010 - Dispute with Israel underscores limits of U.S. power, a shifting alliance</a> President Obama and his aides have cast the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, not just the relationship with Israel, as a core U.S. national security interest. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the head of the military's Central Command, put it starkly in recent testimony on Capitol Hill: "The conflict foments anti-American sentiment due to a perception of U.S. favoritism toward Israel." His comments raised eyebrows in official Washington -- and overseas -- because they suggested that U.S. military officials were embracing the idea that failure to resolve the conflict had begun to imperil American lives. <b>Petraeus speaks the truth. Our support for Israel (and its policies of apartheid and colonialism) has cost us Americans dearly - in more ways than one.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-31-04.htm">3/31/2010 - U.S. seeks 4-month Jerusalem building freeze: report</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-25-02.htm">3/31/2010 - Lengthy talks fail to resolve US-Israeli tensions</a> Netanyahu offered no concessions during his visit on an earlier plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews in the disputed part of the city. Netanyahu's government has refused to back off steady expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in the majority Arab city section. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-25-01.htm">3/31/2010 - Analysis: Netanyahu's choice: Peace or settlements</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126836/">3/31/2010 - The Four Questions About Israel s Future</a> Unlike the days of my parents, Israel, stronger than ever, now has peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, who, along with other Arab states, also fear Iran. We also have a strong bond with the United States, which is determined to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. What we need to do is quickly restore trust between Jerusalem and Washington, so we can face the Iranian threat together. <b>Oh hell no. Someone needs to tell these people to fight their own battles. America has enough problems of its own right now.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126674/">3/31/2010 - A Confrontation That Was Inevitable</a> Either way the message is the same: America has gone to great lengths to defend Israel s security. How far will Israel go to protect America s security? <b>They won't do a damned thing.</b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/126843/">3/31/2010 - Senor Decides Against Running for Senate, Citing Family and Business</a>  Start-up Nation presents Israel in an extremely positive light as a bastion of entrepreneurial spirit and technological achievement. It skirts a discussion of the conflict with the Palestinians, or even the wealth inequality within Israel, thereby dovetailing nicely with recent public relations efforts by Israel to shift attention away from its problems and toward its achievements. <b>Isn't it nice how so many of our current and would-be politicians - particularly those that push and have pushed us to take on Iraq and Iran- have such strong ties to Israel?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-28-03.htm">3/31/2010 - Syria, Libya pressure Palestinians to quit talks</a> Syria and Libya teamed up Sunday to pressure the Palestinian leader to quit peace talks with Israel and return to violence, delegates to an Arab leadership summit said. An adviser to the U.S. backed Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, quickly rejected the suggestion, calling for the 22 nations represented at the gathering in Sirte, Libya, to be "realistic." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/03/31">3/31/2010 - Helen Thomas on Obama, the WH Press Corps, and More</a> DC's most experienced journalist says Obama lost credibility when he dodged question on Israeli nukes <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1158678">3/31/2010 - 'I was stabbed in the back,' says soldier who used human shield in Gaza </a> The soldiers, who served as staff sergeants in the Givati Brigade during Operation Cast Lead, allegedly forced a 9-year-old Palestinian boy to open a number of bags they thought might contain explosive materials. The bags turned out to be harmless. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7076431.ece">3/31/2010 - Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama 'dumped him for dinner'</a> After failing to extract a written promise of concessions on settlements, Mr Obama walked out of his meeting with Mr Netanyahu but invited him to stay at the White House, consult with advisers and  let me know if there is anything new , a US congressman, who spoke to the Prime Minister, said.  It was awful, the congressman said. <b>'Awful'? Really. Just who does this Congressman work for anyway? Did not Netanyahu humiliate the US when it announced those settlement plans JUST as Biden had come in to kick off the start of the peace process? Ridiculous.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/31-2">3/31/2010 - Sarah Palin, Neocon Messiah</a> <b>Sarah Palin has a passionate attachment to Israel and is thus the darling of the neocons.</b><br><br> <a href="http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/03/25/lt-general-robert-g-gard-jr/">3/31/2010 - Scott Horton Interviews Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr.</a> Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr., Chairman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, discusses Israel s ability to drag the US into a war with Iran, the difficulty of destroying Iran s Natanz nuclear facility even with bunker-busting bombs, Pentagon war games that exposed serious US vulnerabilities to Iranian retaliation, the need to vastly reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the US and Russia and why the aircraft carrier-based US Navy is becoming obsolete. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1159300">3/31/2010 - Netanyahu and Obama are at point of no return </a> Defense Secretary Robert Gates has decisively supported General David Petraeus, the first American military man in years to describe Israel as a strategic burden on the U.S. Gates said America's rivals in the Middle East are abusing the standstill of the political process between Israel and the Arabs. He stressed that he had no doubt a lack of peace in the region was influencing American interests there. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1159155">3/31/2010 - Exclusive / Despite row, U.S. and Israel sign massive arms deal </a> Each aircraft costs $70 million. The aircrafts were manufactured specifically for Israeli needs, and include a large number of systems produced by Israel's defense industry. The deal will be covered by American foreign assistance funds. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/126847/">3/31/2010 - Amid Public Clash, U.S. Moves Israel Closer to Talks</a> In her speech to AIPAC, Clinton also articulated aloud, for the first time to this crowd, Washington s new specificity regarding the requirements of a final agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. That agreement, she told the pro-Israel activists, will be  based on the  67 lines, with agreed swaps, and Israel s goal of a Jewish state with secure and recognized borders that reflect subsequent developments and meet Israel s security requirements. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/126831">3/31/2010 - Forgetting About the Rest of the World</a> Do you see a growing interest in China within Israeli society? I think mostly from the economic point of view. There is a deep appreciation of China as a growing, emerging power. More and more Israelis are turning themselves toward China, studying Chinese and wanting to do business with China. My son and his girlfriend are living here in Wuhan. She is from Kibbutz Tzuba in Israel and is studying Chinese here for a year <b>As soon as America finally tanks under the massive economic weight of being bogged down in endless wars in the Midde East, the Zionists turn their ships toward China, the up-and-coming superpower that will take the place of America - like rats deserting a sinking ship. And it was a prediction I made in 2003 that has finally come true - once done using American blood and treasure to the point America falls, the Israel-lovers will kick us to the curb and find another superpower to use.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126835/">3/31/2010 - Understanding the Physics of AIPAC</a> the global environment isn t as favorable for stiff Israeli resistance as it was in Shamir s day. Israel is more isolated in 2010 and more dependent on American support. Its claim that it doesn t have a credible Palestinian partner has fewer takers. And there s a growing sense of urgency. Time is running out on the two-state solution, because of changes in demography as well as land-use. Impatience over the deadlock and fear of what might come next are growing, on the Arab street, in Western capitals and even in the Pentagon. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/126631/">3/31/2010 - Purim in East Jerusalem: How Can We Sing Baruch Goldstein's Song in Sheikh Jarrah? </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25070.htm">3/31/2010 - Israeli Intelligence, Our Constant Companion</a> The 21 documents, obtained by Grant F. Smith, a Washington, D.C. author who has made a career out of writing critical books on Israeli spying and lobbying, detail the FBI s investigation into the theft of a confidential U.S. document on the Reagan administration s position going into the 1984 U.S.-Israel Free Trade Area Negotiations. Acting on a complaint that the document was circulating on Capitol Hill, the FBI discovered that an Israeli diplomat had acquired the paper and given it to officials at AIPAC, the lobbying group whose annual convention drew both Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-27-01.htm">3/31/2010 - Arab League chief urges closer ties with Iran</a> The push to engage Tehran seems to be at least partly fueled by Arab frustration over Washington's failure to get Israel to back down on plans for more Jewish settlements on land the Palestinians want for a future state. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3869713,00.html">3/31/2010 - Turkey makes case against sanctions on Iran </a> In an apparently veiled reference to Israel, the Turkish leader referred to another country in the region that possessed nuclear weapons. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-26-01.htm">3/31/2010 - Israel could use tactical nukes on Iran: thinktank</a> <b>Preparing the US sheep for the war we're about to get dragged into?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25085.htm">3/31/2010 - Saudi: Israel's arrogance challenges the world</a> Mullen added that he had been in contact with IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi twice this week and that the U.S. was concerned with Israel's security because: "It is in our national interests obviously or we wouldn't be so engaged... the United States has considered peace in the Middle East to be a national security interest for decades." <b>To further demonstrate the obeisance to Israel on the part of America's government officials. Petraeus (and Mullen) drop into a low kowtow.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25090.htm">3/31/2010 - Video: An Act of Treason by Members of the United States Congress? </a> <b>Short, but good. The link to the letter appearing in Haaretz is included in this news batch.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-simmons/the-ugly-head-of-america_b_516848.html">3/31/2010 - The Ugly Head of America</a> The hatred and anger towards Muslims in this country and around the world has gone beyond the tipping point. This is not acceptable. <b>The hatred of Islam, Muslims and Arabs is fostered and put forth, in my opinion, by Israel's lobby here in America. It is a means to conflate Israel's enemies with our own, thus making Israel's enemies our enemies.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25118.htm">3/31/2010 - "Reporting" on Iran Should Seem Familiar</a> This misleading "reporting" is hardly confined to Fox News <b>Israel's friends in the media are beating the drums of war.</b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/03/24/the-crisis-that-wasnt/">3/24/2010 - The Crisis That Wasn t by Philip Giraldi</a> the truly amazing part was that the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was so confident of the outcome that it didn t even bother to hide very much of what it was doing, hardly deigning to engage in its usual clandestine arm twisting and slipped under the door "position papers." It immediately issued a public statement slamming the White House, asserting that "The Obama Administration s recent statements regarding the US relationship with Israel are a matter of serious concern. AIPAC calls on the Administration to take immediate steps to defuse the tension with the Jewish State." It then unleashed its friends in Congress and the media. Its brazen campaign against the American president was executed all out on public view, right up front and recorded on the AIPAC website. <b>I conjure you to read this excellent article by former CIA Philip Giraldi, my fellow citizens.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7070211.ece">3/24/2010 - Israeli troops kill four Palestinians as West Bank unrest deepens</a> Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers who said that the men had attacked one of their comrades with pitchforks at a checkpoint outside Nablus. The unrest was prompted by Palestinian anger at restrictions on access to farmland which is close to an Israeli settlement, near the village of Iraq Burin......This followed the funerals of two other Palestinians, Mohammed Kaddous, 16, and his cousin, Osaid, 17, shot dead by Israeli troops confronting stone-throwing Palestinian youths <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-21-04.htm">3/24/2010 - Palestinians warn Israel after troops kill 4</a> Palestinian medics said Mohammed Kaddous, 16, and Osaid Kaddous, 17, were killed by gunfire during a confrontation on Saturday between Israeli forces and Palestinian youths. Ahmad Hammad, a Nablus doctor, showed a Reuters journalist a photograph of what he said was a bullet entry wound in Mohammed Kaddous's chest and an exit wound in his back.....Villagers in Iraq Burin have been staging protests over Israeli imposed restrictions on access to farmland that lies near the Jewish settlement of Har Bracha. Jewish residents there say they are anxious to expand their land holdings rapidly. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD9EH3GC01">3/24/2010 - Gaza rocket kills Thai farm worker in Israel</a> A small Islamist faction calling itself Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the attack. Similar hardline groups, which are inspired by al-Qaida's radical ideology and see Gaza's Hamas rulers as too moderate, have been responsible for most of the attacks since the Gaza war ended in January 2009. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-20-01.htm">3/24/2010 - UN chief says Israeli settlements must be stopped</a> Visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki moon said Saturday that Israeli settlement building anywhere on occupied land is illegal and must be stopped, while a Palestinian teenager was killed in clashes with Israeli troops elsewhere in the West Bank. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-21-02.htm">3/24/2010 - Israel: East Jerusalem construction to continue</a> The Israeli military, meanwhile, said troops in the West Bank shot dead two Palestinians carrying pitchforks and an ax who tried to attack a soldier. A third Palestinian died of a gunshot wound to the head inflicted by an Israeli soldier at a demonstration the day before. His brother died Saturday in the same protest. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-21-03.htm">3/24/2010 - U.N.'s Ban in Gaza, calls on Israel to end closures</a> Ban's visit to the blockaded territory follows a trip made by the European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, who entered the coastal enclave last week. "The Palestinian people are living under very difficult circumstances where normal lives are restricted by closures security checks and road blocks," Ban said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010\03\03-22-04.htm">3/24/2010 - Clinton: US wants biting sanctions on Iran</a> <b>Headline should be changed to : 'Clinton: AIPAC said that the US wants biting sanctions on Iran'</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jzIH4UqUu_u-oEDZJ18I5aPFvl6A">3/24/2010 - Congress speaks in 'one voice' in support of Israel: lawmaker</a> "We in Congress stand by Israel," <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/03/22">3/24/2010 - Besieged Gaza Denied Water</a> 80 per cent of Gazans lack access to clean water. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1157862">3/24/2010 - Egypt destroys tunnel under Gaza border in bid to curb smuggling </a> Anonymous security sources last week told the Egyptian daily al-Shorouq that Egypt had almost completed a reinforced, underground steel wall along the border. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/235119">3/24/2010 - A Third Muslim-World War?</a> "Secure in the support of its powerful friend, the weak ally can choose the objectives and methods of its foreign policy to suit itself," Morgenthau warned. "The powerful nation then finds it must support interests not its own and that it is unable to compromise on issues that are vital not to itself, but only to its ally." <b>This is what George Washington warned us about in his Farewell Address - the evils of a passionate attachment. Read entire article if you can, paying attention to the last paragraph.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-department-of-justice-asked-to-regulate-aipac-as-a-foreign-agent-of-the-israeli-government-88190712.html">3/24/2010 - US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government</a> 2.AIPAC's founder Isaiah L. Kenen was the chief information officer for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New York and for a time duly registered in that role. http://www.IRmep.org/Kenen.pdf The Justice Department ordered Kenen to personally re-register after he formally left the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to head up private lobbying and publicity for the Israeli government at the nonprofit American Zionist Council. Kenen never complied with the order <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-18-01.htm">3/24/2010 - Rupert Cornwell: Obama won't restrain Israel - he can't</a> power lies in the perception of power, and no organisation in Washington is perceived to wield more power than AIPAC, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. For proof, look no further than January 2009, when most of the rest of the world was horrified at the Israeli offensive in Gaza. At that moment the US House of Representatives, by a vote of 390 to five, chose to blame the entire crisis on Hamas. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1157342">3/24/2010 - Obama: No crisis in U.S. ties with Israel </a> "Israel is one of our closest allies, and we and the Israeli people have a special bond that's not going to go away," Obama said in an interview with Fox News. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136585">3/24/2010 - US Lawmakers Stand Up Against Obama for Israel</a> <b>For whom do they work?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-19-01.htm">3/24/2010 - Mideast Quartet tells Israel to halt settlements</a> "The Quartet urges the government of Israel to freeze all settlement activity," UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon said after the meeting of the Quartet of the United States, the United Nations, European Union and Russia. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE62M16A.htm">3/24/2010 - Israeli settlements buried two-state solution -expert </a> With Israel seeking to keep large settlement blocs under any deal, Benvenisti said only 40 percent of West Bank land was actually up for discussion, making Palestinian statehood unviable. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-20-03.htm">3/24/2010 - UN chief backs Palestinian state on Mideast mission</a> The international community "strongly supports" Palestinian efforts to build a state, UN chief Ban Ki moon said, branding all Israeli settlement activity illegal. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-22-03.htm">3/24/2010 - U.S. holds firm against Israel settlement policy</a> A senior Republican member of the House of Representatives, Eric Cantor, criticized the Obama administration's firm line on Israeli settlements, highlighting what could become an emotive issue in this year's U.S. congressional elections. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-23-06.htm">3/24/2010 - Obama fails to move Netanyahu on settlement construction</a> Netanyahu, who was showered with expressions of support Tuesday in a visit to Capitol Hill , has successfully refused White House demands  relayed directly by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton  that Israel halt construction in the eastern sector of the holy city, also claimed by the Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-23-04.htm">3/24/2010 - Netanyahu in U.S.: Jerusalem not a settlement</a> <b>E. Jerusalem is occupied Palestinian territory, according to international law. Any Israeli settlements therein are a violation of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Conventions.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-23-03.htm">3/24/2010 - Israeli leader gets warmer welcome in Congress</a> The bipartisan welcome underscored the breadth of congressional support for Israel even when a U.S. president wants to keep his distance. And it pointed to the limited options, beyond verbal rebukes, that the Obama administration faces in pressuring the Jewish state. <b>Congress is Israeli-occupied territory.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2010/0318/Israeli-settlements-threaten-world-security">3/24/2010 - Israeli settlements threaten world security</a> Zbigniew Brzezinski: Absolutely. It threatens the lives of American soldiers stationed in the Middle East and fighting in Afghanistan because it intensifies support for Muslim extremism. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010\03\03-24-01.htm">3/24/2010 - Israel approves new building in east Jerusalem</a> The Obama administration is seeking "clarification" of the latest building plan and continues to believe Israeli construction in Jerusalem is destructive to the Mideast peace process, said White House spokesman Tommy Vietor. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010\03\03-22-02.htm">3/24/2010 - Clinton: US commitment to Israel 'rock solid'</a> British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said the settlements were "illegal as well as being a roadblock" in the effort to achieve peace through a two state solution. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7069724.ece">3/24/2010 - Israel to ask US for bombs in the fight against Iran's Nuclear sites</a> Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will use a visit to Washington this week to press the US to release sophisticated bunker-busting bombs needed for a possible strike on Iran s nuclear sites. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1158122">3/24/2010 - Abbas: Palestinian people have national right to resistance</a> Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said that the Palestinian people had a national right to resistance against Israeli occupation, adding that his government would not acquiesce to any Israeli demands with which it disagreed. <b>Did our colonists not resist the British occupation in the 1700s?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/03/23-15">3/24/2010 - Pressure on Israel?</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/21/israel-america-palestine-settlements">3/24/2010 - The ties that bind America to Israel are beginning to fray and break</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1158688">3/24/2010 - Two meetings, but no agreement between Obama and Netanyahu </a> the second meeting between the two also ended in disagreement, and they could not even reach a consensus on a joint statement. Netanyahu and Ehud Barak then left the White House for the Israeli embassy in Washington <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136628">3/24/2010 - Former Obama Aide New Head of AIPAC</a> Lee  Rosy Rosenberg, a jazz recording industry veteran capitalist who accompanied U.S. President Barack Obama on his campaign trip to Israel two years ago, takes over on Sunday as the new president of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Rosenberg also served on the president s national campaign finance committee. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.lobelog.com/fact-checking-aipacs-white-house-slam/">3/24/2010 - UnPACking AIPAC s White House Slam, Israeli style </a> according to AIPAC, all responsibility for the disharmony between Israel and the US lies with the misguided American administration, and none with any of the politicians on the Israeli side. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3867174,00.html">3/24/2010 - British warning: Watch your passports</a> Amidst forged passport scandal, Britain updates Israel travel advisory; 'We recommend that you only hand your passport over to third parties including Israeli officials when absolutely necessary; Foreign Office says <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-24-04.htm">3/24/2010 - U.S. presses Israel for Mideast goodwill steps</a> Officials, including U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, held consultations in Netanyahu's Washington hotel even as new settlement expansion plans on disputed land in Jerusalem threatened further strains between Washington and its close ally. "The president asked the prime minister to take steps to build confidence for proximity talks so that progress can be made toward comprehensive peace," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters, referring to indirect negotiations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-24-05.htm">3/24/2010 - Researchers dig up controversy in Jerusalem</a> Archaeologists in Jerusalem are competing to unearth artifacts pointing to the ancient city's Jewish past, which are used to justify Israel's claim to all of it as the indivisible capital of the modern Jewish state. But critics say some of "finds" are really just bending science to prove a "Biblical heritage" that is open to dispute. <b>I could probably find artifacts from MY ancestors all over Europe. Does that mean that I have the right to take by force the property of the current owners? Completely preposterous. Imagine if we all did that. It has no legal basis.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0317/Is-Obama-anti-Semitic-Netanyahu-brother-in-law-causes-ruckus">3/24/2010 - Is Obama anti-Semitic Netanyahu brother-in-law causes ruckus.</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-20-02.htm">3/24/2010 - Analysis: Spat with Israel strengthens US hand</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-24-02.htm">3/24/2010 - Analysis: Obama risks alienating Jewish voters</a> Jewish political activists are also important financial contributors, and their support will be important both in this year's midterm elections and in the 2012 presidential contest. If they decide to pare back those contributions because of misgivings about Obama's support for Israel, that could prove costly to Democratic candidates......Whereas the president usually leads on most foreign policy and national security issues, Congress appears to have a stronger hand on Israel related matters because of the strength of the lobby and strong bipartisan support for Israel. The pro Israel lobby "is almost like a 51st state," said James Thurber, a political scientist at American University. "It's strong. It has one issue." <b>And they are what, 2% of the population. What about the rest of us? I guess we don't matter.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-23-05.htm">3/24/2010 - UK to expel Israeli diplomat over Dubai case</a> Britain plans to expel an Israeli diplomat Tuesday to rebuke Israel for its alleged use of forged British passports in the assassination of a Hamas operative in a suspected Mossad hit, a U.K. government official said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/nd_mystery_hit_9oQse5yfi46JbHUmXrSy2N">3/24/2010 - 2nd mystery 'hit': Israeli jet flyover amid Hungary slay</a> In a possible sequel to the Dubai assassination, Israeli spy planes flew uninvited and unannounced over Budapest the same day a Syrian man was shot to death in his car, Hungarian media reported yesterday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/03/22/1011272/clinton-status-quo-is-unsustainable-settlements-undermine-us-role">3/24/2010 - Clinton: Settlements undermine U.S. role</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/126649/">3/24/2010 - Eric Cantor to the Forward: Administration Is 'Bullying Israel' </a> Cantor and several other Republican lawmakers have criticized the administration s tough stance on Israel in light of the dispute over the Jewish state s approval of another 1,600 homes in contested East Jerusalem. Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, an independent, and Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, have also said that the Obama administration was wrong in pressuring Israel. <b>I'm going to remind readers what former CIA head of the Bin Laden unit has to say about Israel in <a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/291033-3">this CSpan video</a>. Long, but worth the watch.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126685/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=March262010+_+oihhii&utm_term=READMORE">3/24/2010 - Are Israel s Policies a Threat to the U.S.?</a> Suggestions that Israeli policies might threaten American national security thus far seem not to have gained much traction among lawmakers, said an official with a pro-Israel organization in Washington, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said that the prevailing attitude on Capitol Hill is still that Israel is a security asset in the Middle East, not a burden. <b>Congress- AIPAC's overwhelming influence thereof - is the real problem. We've got Congressmen and women that have the passionate attachment to Israel, and the rest are beholden to Israel's lobby. Our support for Israel is in fact a danger to this nation. And anyone in Congress that supports this is betraying the majority of the American people.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-23-01.htm">3/24/2010 - World will do "whatever it takes" to stop Iran nuke: Blair</a> "Iran must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons capability. Iran must know that we will do whatever it takes to stop them getting it," Blair told the pro Israel lobby AIPAC, adding it was a matter of global security. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-21-01.htm">3/24/2010 - Lebanese army fires on Israeli warplanes: military</a> Lebanese anti aircraft guns opened fire on two Israeli warplanes that were violating its airspace at medium altitude on Sunday, the military said....Israel's regular overflights into southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, are a breach of Resolution 1701 <b>Why no sanctions for Israel?</b><br><br> <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/03/sen-lindsey-graham-any-attack-iran-must-be-full-scale?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Motherjones%2Fmojoblog+%28MotherJones.com+|+MoJoBlog%29">3/24/2010 - Sen. Lindsey Graham: Any Attack on Iran Must Be Full-Scale</a> added Graham, a member of the Senate armed services committee, "sometimes it is better to go to war than to allow the Holocaust to develop a second time." And he told the crowd that "time is not on our side" and that this AIPAC conference could be the last of the lobby's annual get-togethers before Iran possesses nuclear weapons. Military action ought to be taken against Iran, he said, before the country acquires a nuclear bomb. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjFkZTMyNGM3OGNjOTk3MTBhYzJlYzQ4NzIyZTdjMTc">3/24/2010 - Netanyahu to AIPAC: Stop Iran or Israel Will</a> After the worst week in U.S.-Israel relations in 35 years, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington Monday and gave a powerful and effective speech at the AIPAC gala dinner at the Washington Convention Center, warning the world to stop Iran  or Israel will  and respectfully but directly challenging the Obama administration on Jerusalem and the peace process.....Netanyahu received scores of standing ovations from the 7,800 guests in attendance, the biggest event in the history of AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee). More than half of the members of the U.S. House and Senate were there <b>Note the comments by Schumer and Graham.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25062.htm">3/24/2010 - Israel & Aid By Ralph Nader</a> Since 1996, the American taxpayers are still sending Israel $3 billion a year and providing assorted loan guarantees, waivers, rich technology transfers and other indirect assistance. Before George W. Bush left office a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Israel stipulated an assistance package of $30 billion over the next ten years to be transferred in a lump sum at the beginning of every fiscal year. Israel s wars and colonies still receive U.S. taxpayer monies....the U.S. economy is mired in a recession, with large rates of growing poverty, unemployment, consumer debt and state and federal deficits. In some states, public schools are shutting, public health services are being slashed, and universities are increasing tuition while also cutting programs. Even state government buildings are being sold off. <b>Read on.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25048.htm">3/24/2010 - Zionism s Dark Forces Don t Want the Lights On</a> blind though AIPAC is for that reason, it s not completely out of touch with reality. It knows that the more Zionism s on-going colonisation is exposed to the light, the more the world understands that Israel is the obstacle to peace. (The world now includes some of the U.S. s top military men who are going on the public record with their view that support for Israel right or wrong is not in the best interests of America). <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865696,00.html">3/24/2010 - Report: Current Knesset most racist of all time</a> Year imprisonment to anyone who denies the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic country  initiated by MK Zevulun Orlev (Habayit Hayehudi) <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100319/world/international_us_hungary_israeli_planes_1">3/24/2010 - Syrian murder, Israeli planes not linked: official </a> Two Israeli airforce planes that made a low-level pass over Budapest this week had nothing to do with the killing of a Syrian man in the Hungarian capital on the same day, Hungarian officials said on Friday. <b>Come on, really, Hungary?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hXmNRxmnP3WWU5Ifcv49sqaXFJqg">3/24/2010 - Israel to replace 'Mossad officer' expelled by UK</a> The Israeli diplomat who is to be expelled from Britain over the alleged forgery of British passports connected to the killing of a top Hamas militant, is a Mossad officer who will be replaced by the Jewish state, Israeli media reports said on Wednesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/03/17/neocons-target-rand-paul/">3/24/2010 - The American Conservative » Neocons Target Rand Paul</a> neoconservatives still set the foreign-policy agenda for the GOP. But they re genuinely worried that the combination of a grassroots movement and an independently-minded candidate will deliver a blow to their power  especially if Rand Paul becomes only the first of many by showing that there is an alternative to Bushes and Kristols. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/03/19/the-adl-targeting-gen-petraeus/">3/24/2010 - The ADL targeting & .Gen. Petraeus</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010\03\03-20-04.htm">3/24/2010 - Squeeze Israel by cutting US aid? Not likely</a> <b>Notice how the author attempts to downplay the amount of aid to Israel by stating that the US aid really only makes its way back into the US anyway (by way of military purchases). Um, yes, SOME of it does, but much of it also comes back in the form of political contributions; a win-win cycle for Israel and its minions here in the US. But there is other peripheral aid Israel receives as well, that makes it the recipient of the most US foreign aid by any country on the planet.</b><br><br> <a href="2010\03\03-22-01.htm">3/24/2010 - Israel Lobby Wants Iran, not the Peace Process to Top the U.S. Agenda</a> The amateur activists were preparing for Tuesday's blitz of Congress that has become a ritual of the annual policy conference of AIPAC, one of the nation's most influential interest groups. This year, according to Aserkoff, as many as 4,000 activists will hold roughly 500 meetings with their members of Congress or their staff. <b>This is possible, this overwhelming influence on Congress by the Israeli lobby, because YOU are not paying attention. The apathy on the part of the American people is half the problem. The lobby fills the void that should be filled by ordinary Americans that have no passionate attachment to Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-24-03.htm">3/24/2010 - Analysis: Israel weathers round with White House</a> a half measure offered by Israel that Washington accepts because it fears the consequences of a full confrontation with Israel and its powerful supporters in the United States. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25047.htm">3/24/2010 - Israel s  No renting to Arabs policy</a>  I have always loved Israel, said Mrs Zakai, 43.  But to see the depth of the racism of our neighbours has made me question why we live in this country. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/031910.html">3/24/2010 - Israel's Troubling Tilt Toward Apartheid</a> the Obama administration s complaint about Atias s housing decision during Biden s visit prompted Netanyahu s brother-in-law, Hagai Ben Artzi, to label Obama as  anti-Semitic, adding:  it's not that Obama doesn't sympathize with [Netanyahu]. He doesn't sympathize with the people of Israel." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126677/">3/24/2010 - Behind the Biden Flap</a> So what explains the tragedy of errors that has marked Israel s officials these last several weeks? Some analysts charge it to incompetence, others to the vagaries of coalition government, which in the current instance has led to an especially unruly Cabinet of 29 members. Some think it all a result of Israel s obsession with Iran, explaining the insult to Vice President Biden as a way of expressing Israel s displeasure with what it perceives as America s sluggishness in implementing meaningful sanctions against Iran, while others think it a clumsy rebuke of the Obama administration or, more Machiavellian, an effort to weaken Obama et al. in the hope that he will be a one-term president and be followed by a Bushier president, one who leaves Israel to its own devices <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/24-10">3/24/2010 - Why AIPAC Feels 'Like Shit'</a> Note how effortlessly this kid moves from "anti-semitism" to "anti-Israel." That's how AIPAC has always recruited youth: Take Americans who have never experienced anti-semitism personally and make them believe that, even if they haven't seen any enemies, those enemies are out there, lurking everywhere, disguised as "critics of Israel," just waiting to pounce on poor, unsuspecting Jews. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-23-02.htm">3/24/2010 - U.S. aviation security pick favors Israeli model</a> President Barack Obama's nominee to oversee security at U.S. airports said on Tuesday he wants to shift screening closer to the Israeli model to include more behavior detection in a bid to thwart terrorism plots. <b>Yes, that's just what we need - to become more like Israel. We wouldn't need much if any security measures were it not for our support for Israel. THAT'S the real problem.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25042.htm">3/24/2010 - AIPAC's Talking Points On Iran and Palestinians</a> AIPAC has also posted their talking points memo regarding making the case for final passage of "crippling" Iran sanctions and pressing for better enforcement of existing sanctions - Crippling Sanctions Needed to Prevent Nuclear Iran . <b></b><br><br> <br><br> <hr> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1156045">3/17/2010 - UN humanitarian chief warns of disaster if Gaza siege continues </a> "If those tunnels were blocked, however undesirable they may be, and however undesirable the effect they're having on the Gazan society and Gazan economy, the situation without the tunnels would be completely unsustainable," said Holmes, who visited the region for four days earlier this month. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24982.htm">3/17/2010 -  This is Starting to Get Dangerous </a>  The vice president told his Israeli hosts that since many people in the Muslim world perceived a connection between Israel s actions and US policy, any decision about construction that undermines Palestinian rights in East Jerusalem could have an impact on the personal safety of American troops fighting against Islamic terrorism. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/03/15/poodle-biden-gets-kicked/">3/17/2010 - Poodle Biden Gets Kicked by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> Israeli and U.S. interests often run parallel, but they are not the same. Israel is concerned with a neighborhood. We are concerned with a world of 300 million Arabs and a billion Muslims. Our policies cannot be the same. If they are, we will end up with all of Israel s enemies, who are legion, and only Israel s friends, who are few. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-16-05.htm">3/17/2010 - Pentagon vs. Israel?</a> "Not surprisingly, what Biden told Netanyahu reflected the importance the administration attached to Petraeus's Mullen briefing: 'This is starting to get dangerous for us,' Biden reportedly told Netanyahu. '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.' <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/12-7">3/17/2010 - Palestinians Should Now Declare Their Independence</a> <b>This is a great article that gives you a history of what happened to the Palestinians in a nutshell, by The Independent UK</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-12-01.htm">3/17/2010 - Gaza swimmers hope to make splash at Asia games</a> "I'm very happy because I will represent Palestine," <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24983.htm">3/17/2010 - The Petraeus Briefing: Biden s Embarrassment Is Not The Whole Story</a> UPDATE: A senior military officer denied Sunday that Petraeus sent a paper to the White House. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/17-7">3/17/2010 - Israeli Raids Target Children</a> Fundamentalist settler groups held an opening ceremony for a synagogue constructed against the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which was seen as a provocation to the Palestinian community in the area........ "arresting, detaining and imprisoning Palestinian children is in direct violation of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-11-04.htm">3/17/2010 - Women in charge in West Bank's key district</a> At 35, Leila Ghanem is the first woman to become a Palestinian governor, the latest in a group of trailblazing women leaders who are slowly winning acceptance in this traditional society....."Yet one more taboo has been broken," <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-15-04.htm">3/17/2010 - US Israel criticism ignites firestorm in Congress</a> The Obama administration's fierce denunciation of Israel last week has ignited a firestorm in Congress and among powerful pro Israel interest groups who say the criticism of America's top Mideast ally was misplaced. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-16-03.htm">3/17/2010 - U.S. affirms bond with Israel as Palestinians riot</a> "We have come to throw stones because that's all we have and the situation in Jerusalem is dangerous," one demonstrator said during a confrontation at an Israeli military checkpoint. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-15-07.htm">3/17/2010 - Mitchell Mideast travel in flux amid U.S.-Israel row</a> In a sign the administration may be trying to appear more even handed, the State Department said it was "deeply disturbed" by unspecified Palestinian comments about Israel's consecration of an ancient synagogue in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, a tinderbox site in the conflict. "We call upon Palestinian officials to put an end to such incitement," <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-13-02.htm">3/17/2010 - Israeli troops, Palestinians clash near Jerusalem</a> Five Palestinians were injured later Saturday in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, Palestinian medics said. Residents of a village near Nablus said they tried to prevent settlers from bathing in a water cistern they depend on for agriculture. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-14-04.htm">3/17/2010 - Israeli leader urges calm over row with Washington</a> "Israel and the U.S. have mutual interests," Netanyahu told the Cabinet, then pointedly added, "but we will act according to the vital interests of the state of Israel." <b>And the US should act according to ITS vital interests. So, why doesn't it?</b><br><br> <a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2010/03/11/1011030/biden-bond-unbreakable-but-us-will-note-missteps">3/17/2010 - Biden: Bond with Israel  unbreakable but U.S. will note missteps</a> "Every time progress is made, it's been made when the rest of the world knows there's no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel's security, none -- no space," the vice president said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1331">3/17/2010 - AT-TUWANI VIDEO AND ARTICLE: Israeli soldiers attacking and arresting Palestinian shepherds</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-16-02.htm">3/17/2010 - US envoy cancels Mideast trip amid US-Israel feud</a> Washington notified Israel early Tuesday that envoy George Mitchell had put off his trip. The visit will be rescheduled at an undetermined time, officials on both sides said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-15-05.htm">3/17/2010 - Israeli envoy sees "historic crisis" with U.S.- report</a> Israeli U.S. relations have hit a 35 year low over a West Bank settlement plan that threatens to derail peacemaking efforts with the Palestinians, Israel's envoy to Washington was quoted as saying on Monday <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25010.htm">3/17/2010 - Petraeus Confirms Link Between Israel-Palestine and U.S. Security </a> Petraeus willingness to publicly  and in uniform with all those decorations on his chest  make the connection between Israeli treatment of the Palestinians and the spread of  anti-American sentiment and the deterioration of the U.S. position in the region  a connection which, of course, is completely evident to any casual observer of Middle East  marks what can only be considered a major breakthrough in the debate over the relationship between the United States and Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-14-01.htm">3/17/2010 - Israeli apology gets cool reception in Washington</a> Even after Netanyahu's apology Sunday, the U.S. condemnation showed no sign of easing. Speaking on NBC television, President Barack Obama's chief political adviser, David Axelrod, called Israel's action an "affront" and an "insult." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-15-01.htm">3/17/2010 - Israel vows more settlement building despite crisis with US</a> Israeli troops wounded 10 Palestinians on Monday as they opened fire on dozens of students hurling stones at a West Bank checkpoint to protest against Israel's actions in east Jerusalem, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-13-01.htm">3/17/2010 - "Insulted" by Israel, U.S. scrambles to save talks</a> In Washington, the Anti Defamation League, which lobbies for Israel with U.S. lawmakers, called Clinton's remarks on the diplomatic debacle a "gross over reaction." "We are shocked and stunned at the administration's tone and public dressing down of Israel," the ADL's Abraham Foxman said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-15-06.htm">3/17/2010 - Netanyahu defies U.S. over Jerusalem settlement</a> The U.S. criticism of Israel prompted a backlash on Monday from U.S. lawmakers and pro Israel lobby groups who urged the Obama administration to tone down its rhetoric. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-14-03.htm">3/17/2010 - Netanyahu voices regret in settlement row with U.S.</a> Writing in the left leaning Haaretz newspaper, commentator Aluf Benn said Netanyahu has reached "the moment of truth." He said Netanyahu must choose between political cooperation with the right and his need for U.S. support in curbing Iran's nuclear program the West says is aimed a producing nuclear weapons, an allegation Iran denies. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-14-02.htm">3/17/2010 - White House: Israel construction plan an 'insult'</a> President Barack Obama's chief political adviser says the Israelis' action was both an "affront" and an "insult." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1155755">3/17/2010 - Deputy FM tells U.S.: Israel won't make any more concessions </a> According to Ayalon, the United States' condemnation on the matter was due to the timing of the announcement and not the content of the issue. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-10-04.htm">3/17/2010 - Biden says Palestinians deserve 'viable' state</a> Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Palestinians deserve a "viable" independent state with contiguous territory, seeking to reassure them of U.S. support after Israel announced plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1155895">3/17/2010 - U.S. gave Israel green light for East Jerusalem construction </a> Israel essentially received an American green light for approving even more building plans in East Jerusalem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-16-01.htm">3/17/2010 - Clinton: Israel must prove commitment to peace</a> the lack of a direct formal reply from Israel forced the cancellation of special Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell's planned visit to the region, the State Department said <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/17/report_petraeus_warns_joint_chiefs_of">3/17/2010 - Report: Petraeus Warns Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mullen that Israel Is Jeopardizing US Security Interests</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126583/">3/17/2010 - Dark Clouds Behind Survey s Silver Lining</a> That sort of millennial Christian theo-politics got a big boost in the course of the Bush presidency and the war on terror, precisely the years in which Gallup shows Republican sympathy for Israel soaring. President Bush repeatedly portrayed America s struggles against Islamic extremism as a war of good against evil, in which Israel s enemies were hardly, if at all, distinguishable from America s. Israel and its most vocal American defenders welcomed Bush s embrace <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/126560/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=March192010+_+otykij&utm_term=Readmore">3/17/2010 - Jews Displaced From Arab Lands Finally Recognized</a> In April 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution urging that every reference to Palestinian refugees raised in international forums be matched by a similarly explicit reference to the uprooting of Jewish communities from Arab countries. <b>Say, I wonder which group was behind that legislation?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1155800">3/17/2010 - Two IDF soldiers charged with using 9-year-old 'human shield' in Gaza war </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126588/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=March192010+_+otykij&utm_term=Readmore">3/17/2010 - We Can t Afford to Give Up on the United Nations</a> Like it or not, the U.N. does matter. Successive Israeli governments have predicated peace negotiations on the terms of Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338. For all the trouble getting agreement from Russia and China, the Security Council is the venue for promoting multilateral Iran sanctions. The International Atomic Energy Agency is the authority to monitor Iranian compliance. And the secretary-general embodies one-quarter of the Mideast Quartet that drives Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy. <b>The supreme irony here is that Israel is and has been in violation of many UN resolutions for decades, has never signed on to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and opened up to inspection its nuclear weapons program, and was found in violation of international law at the ICJ in 2004 for building its wall and settlments on occupied Palestinian territory. Yet, they haven't had to comply with any law, nor have they been punished for non-compliance. Israel and its supporters are the worst supremacists and hypocrites this world has ever seen. One set of rules for them, and one set of rules for everyone else.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126556/">3/17/2010 - Jewish Lobby Sits Out Vote On Armenian Genocide</a> This year, no major Jewish groups lobbied for or against the resolution. As Jess Hordes, Washington director of the Anti-Defamation League, put it,  Inevitably, for some people the enthusiasm isn t as great as it was in the past, because of concerns about Turkey s policy on Israel. ....In the wake of the committee vote, there are signs that Turkey s leaders are reassessing the strategy of distancing themselves from American Jews against the backdrop of chilling ties with Israel. Erdogan has now included a meeting with Jewish leaders as part of his scheduled April visit to Washington. Would siding with Turkey on this issue help shift Turkey back to a more positive approach toward Israel? <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20615.htm">3/17/2010 - Joe Biden: I am a Zionist</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5697.shtml">3/17/2010 - Israel s threatening message to Biden and Obama</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0309/Why-Israel-jailed-me-for-talking-too-much">3/17/2010 - Why Israel jailed me for  talking too much </a> Israel has taken this opportunity to crack down on Palestinians who advocate nonviolent protests against the Israeli West Bank segregation barrier and charged them based on questionable or false evidence. ....Critics in America say the solution is for a Palestinian Gandhi to emerge from within our society. This seems increasingly untenable when unarmed teens and real life Palestinian Gandhis such as Bassem Abu Rahma are killed by an occupying army that regularly meets nonviolence with violence. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-12-02.htm">3/17/2010 - SANDS OF U.S.-ISRAELI RELATIONS CONTINUE TO SHIFT</a> Since the beginning of the Obama administration, the Netanyahu administration's position has been to announce more and more settlements, thus eating up land that either belongs to Palestinians or that would be part of a Palestinian state. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-11-05.htm">3/17/2010 - Why Bibi Humiliated Biden</a> three developments seem to have emboldened Netanyahu <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-15-03.htm">3/17/2010 - US-Israel Showdown?</a> "AIPAC calls on the Administration to take immediate steps to defuse the tension with the Jewish State. ... The Administration should make a conscious effort to move away from public demands and unilateral deadlines directed at Israel." Abe Foxman of the Anti Defamation League, a knee jerk defender of everything Israel does, accused the US of a "gross overreaction" to the Israeli insult <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/126573/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=March192010+_+otykij&utm_term=More">3/17/2010 - Unfriendly Fire</a> Contrary to the spin generated in some quarters, the Obama administration has gone out of its way to support Israel and the Netanyahu government. As the Forward has reported, cooperation between the two nations is flourishing  the Obama administration has worked hard to bolster Israel s qualitative military edge, which had eroded during the final year of the presidency of George W. Bush. America continues to do the heavy lifting required to fend off unfair criticism of Israel in unfriendly venues. And American Jews continue to pour money, resources and energy into ensuring Israel s future. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1155890">3/17/2010 - Corrie's sister to Haaretz: U.S. encouraged family to sue Israel </a> "My father served in the military in Vietnam and was responsible for bulldozer operations," Simpson added. "He said there is no way that what happened to Rachel would have happened on his watch." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-11-03.htm">3/17/2010 - 'I saw Israeli bulldozer kill Rachel Corrie'</a> Within weeks of her death, the Israel Defence Forces accused Ms Corrie and the ISM of behaviour that was "illegal irresponsible and dangerous". In 2004, Lawrence Wilkerson, an aide to the then US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, wrote to the Corries saying Israel had failed to carry out the "thorough, credible, and transparent" investigation promised at the time by Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1156844">3/17/2010 - Rightists prepare banner denouncing Obama as 'PLO agent' </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-15-02.htm">3/17/2010 - Egypt arrests Israeli journalist along the border</a> Egyptian security officials arrested an Israeli journalist as he tried to sneak across the porous Israeli Egyptian border with African migrants, his newspaper reported Monday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article7056755.ece">3/17/2010 - Why is the EU failing to comply with its international law obligations over Israel?</a> If you lived on a street where a neighbour frequently and flagrantly broke the law, you would want something done about it, especially if that neighbour took part of your garden, replaced the fence with a 30ft wall, cut down your trees and redirected your water supply. Suppose the authorities to whom you complained merely denounced the illegalities and took no action? You might think that this situation is inconceivable. But that is precisely what has been happening to the Palestinians for the best part of 60 years. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/126592/">3/17/2010 - Knesset to Biden: For Smooth Relations, Free Pollard </a> With impeccable timing, a broadly representative group of Israeli Knesset members sent a joint letter to Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday and asked him to work to free confessed spy Jonathan Pollard from federal prison in honor of the Passover holiday and  as an expression of the good relations and friendship between our two peoples. It was signed by party whips or representatives of eight of the nine Jewish parties in the Knesset <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8569471.stm">3/17/2010 - Israeli FM reportedly boycotts Brazil's President Lula</a> Mr Lieberman was reportedly upset that Mr Lula refused to visit the grave of the founder of the Zionist movement. Mr Lula also opposes sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program <b>Oh dear.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=171089">3/17/2010 - Foxman: Don't blame the Jews </a> Eytan Gilboa, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan and a specialist on US-Israeli relations, said the government needed to frontally counter this argument because it risked eroding support for Israel among the US public. <b>Notice the knee-jerk reaction by Foxman to label this as anti-Jewish (read, anti-Semitic).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24987.htm">3/17/2010 - Spy Takes US/Israeli Secrets to Grave</a> Extensive evidence now exists that Begin s preference for Reagan led the Israelis to join in a covert operation with Republicans to contact Iranian leaders behind Carter s back, interfering with the President s efforts to free the 52 American hostages before the November 1980 elections. David Kimche could have been a key witness to these events. Ben-Menashe identified the Israeli spymaster as a middleman between Begin and CIA veterans who initially supported former CIA Director George H.W. Bush, who ran against Reagan before ending up as his vice presidential choice. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-11-01.htm">3/17/2010 - Analysis: US hamstrung on Israeli settlements</a> Through a year of ragged relations, the Obama administration had moved from stark demands that Israeli end all settlement building in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, to praise for the Netanyahu government for agreeing to a temporary suspension of settlement activity  except in east Jerusalem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/12">3/17/2010 - Taboo Thwarts Candor on Israel/Iran</a> Israel: Elephant Not Allowed in the Room <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-10-05.htm">3/17/2010 - Gates appeals to Saudis to back sanctions on Iran</a> With China apparently the strongest holdout to sanctions among the five veto wielding permanent members of the UN Security Council, the Americans have turned to their Saudi allies to persuade China to reconsider. Washington hopes the Saudis could guarantee China stable oil supplies in the event of disruption from Iran. <b>And the Saudis in turn probably want progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, progress which we cannot obtain because of Israeli intransigence with respect to illegal settlements. This is a supreme irony since it is Israel that is behind this whole Iran-sanctions push.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/03/15/giving-israel-the-boot/">3/17/2010 - Subservient Superpower by Philip Giraldi</a> The real indication of whether or not the White House will or can begin to break the chains that bind will come at the end of this week when AIPAC holds its annual conference. AIPAC is keenly aware of the need to pull the American colossus back in line and will do so by playing the evil Iran card over and over again and by demanding obeisance from a long line of politicians and media pundits. The AIPAC lovefest will conclude with an address by Hillary Clinton next Monday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-11-02.htm">3/17/2010 - Biden steers past spat over Israel settlement plan</a> Addressing a key Israeli security concern, Biden also said the U.S. is "determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-17-02.htm">3/17/2010 - Arab world says hopes in Obama are dwindling</a> the mistrust has already hurt U.S. policy. U.S. allies Saudi Arabia and Gulf nations have rejected U.S. pressure to make diplomatic gestures to Israel to encourage it in the peace process, citing its hard line on settlements. It could bleed over into other realms, such as U.S. attempt to isolate Iran, which Washington and its allies accuse of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran denies the claims. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126504/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=March192010+_+otykij&utm_term=Readmore">3/17/2010 - Jerusalem Pitches Goldstone Report as a Threat to U.S. Military and its Allies</a> So far, based on the voting on the Feb. 26 U.N. resolution, many of the countries other than America toward whom Israel is aiming this argument seem unpersuaded. <b>I wonder why that is?</b><br><br> <a href="http://investmentwatchblog.com/does-anyone-else-find-it-odd-that-israel-is-the-most-visited-foreign-country-by-us-politicians/">3/17/2010 - Does anyone else find it odd that Israel is the most visited foreign country by US politicians? </a> I like Ron Paul s solution to this issue: You guys want to grab other people s land and blow each other up? Fine. But do it on your own dime and stop dragging us into your stupidity. We have enough of our own problems. We don t need your help and we d really like it if you d stop calling us for help. <b>Amen.</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/126592/">3/17/2010 - Knesset to Biden For Smooth Relations, Free Pollard</a> With impeccable timing, a broadly representative group of Israeli Knesset members sent a joint letter to Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday and asked him to work to free confessed spy Jonathan Pollard from federal prison in honor of the Passover holiday and  as an expression of the good relations and friendship between our two peoples. It was signed by party whips or representatives of eight of the nine Jewish parties in the Knesset <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24992.htm">3/17/2010 - Israeli Crackdown Puts Liberal Jews on the Spot</a> The government of Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to shut down Israel's premier human rights organizations, including B'Tselem, the New Israel Fund (NIF) and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. It is busy expelling or excluding peace activists and foreign nationals from the Palestinian territories. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1155627">3/17/2010 - Poll: Half of Israeli high schoolers oppose equal rights for Arabs </a> Nearly half of Israel's high school students do not believe that Israeli-Arabs are entitled to the same rights as Jews in Israel, according to the results of a new survey released yesterday. The same poll revealed that more than half the students would deny Arabs the right to be elected to the Knesset. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/deafening-silence-from-corporate-media-on-silent-idf-dinner-protest.html">3/17/2010 - Deafening silence from corporate media (on silent IDF dinner protest)</a> Americans who solely read and watch corporate, mainstream media don t know about Goldstone, about the crimes of Israel, about why it is that there is a fundraiser on behalf of a foreign army in New York City, or that hundreds of people, including many Jews, were outraged enough to demonstrate against it. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2010/0317/Israel-crisis-US-must-keep-up-the-pressure">3/17/2010 - Israel crisis: US must keep up the pressure</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/126562/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=March192010+_+otykij&utm_term=Readmore">3/17/2010 - Promoting Israel As a  Cultural Hotbed Isn t Always a Winner</a> Oscar nominations are only one element in Israel s attempt to market itself as a world-leading cultural hotbed. Other elements include the adaptations of popular Israeli TV formats on American networks, which range from psychological dramas like HBO s  In Treatment to game shows and sitcoms, and the sponsoring of Israeli performing and visual arts. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1157014">3/17/2010 - Jordan's Abdullah: Israel trying to rid Jerusalem of Arabs </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1157087">3/17/2010 - Brazil President in West Bank: I dream of a free Palestine </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/the-break-on-palestine_b_501630.html">3/17/2010 - The Break on Palestine </a> Barack Obama abetted the Israeli drive to bury the Goldstone Report by allowing his government to say it was "one-sided and deeply flawed" and also the subject of "grave concerns."........Palestinians. There has been a danger, after all, over several months, that Palestinian protesters, aided by Israelis who sympathize with their cause, would crystallize into a movement essentially non-violent in orientation and catch the conscience of America and the world. The fear of Netanyahu and the Israeli right is that the Palestinian cause will indeed become a non-violent mass movement. Israel has taken strong measures against that possibility, especially in the last few months <b>An interesting read.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1156771">3/17/2010 - 'Government knew of Jewish terrorist's plan to open fire on Shfaram bus' </a> Newly discovered footage of a terrorist attack perpetrated by an Israel Defense Forces soldier in the Arab town of Shfaram five years ago indicates that authorities were aware of plans to commit the attack, a lawyer representing Israeli Arabs suspected of taking part in the subsequent lynching of the gunman said Sunday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1330">3/17/2010 - Hebron: Young men disappearing from the Old City</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1156583">3/17/2010 - 'U.S. administration is ignoring a host of Palestinian provocations' </a> Republican Whip Cantor (R-VA) called the U.S. reaction to the Israeli announcement "irresponsible." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/16/gordon-duff-u-s-tells-israel-you-are-undermining-america-endangering-troops/">3/17/2010 - U.S. TELLS ISRAEL:  YOU ARE UNDERMINING AMERICA, ENDANGERING TROOPS </a> the extent of Israeli involvement in areas that had taken the  special relationship into an area of disaster for the United States. This is what was discovered: <b>Read on.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1154366">3/17/2010 - Capital Anglos mobilize against practice of spitting at Christians</a> One cleric said told a European news site that the spitting was "almost a daily experience." <b></b><br><br> <br><br> <hr> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1155507">3/10/2010 - European Parliament endorses Goldstone Gaza report </a> The parliamentary move, which would give the EU an unprecedented role in evaluating the progress of Israel's war crimes probe, was sharply criticized by Israel. <b>Our Congress would never do so.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/07-1">3/10/2010 - Mullen Wary of Israeli Attack on Iran</a> Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came home with sweaty palms from his mid-February visit to Israel. He has been worrying aloud that Israel will mousetrap the U.S. into war with Iran.....Mullen, for his part, seems acutely aware that the Constitution he has sworn to defend makes no provision for the kind of war he might be sucked into in order to defend Israel. <b>God bless you, Admiral Mullen. Bless your heart.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/03/03/many-voices-calling-for-war-with-iran/">3/10/2010 - Many Voices Calling for War with Iran by Philip Giraldi</a> Sarah Palin is on the Pipes bandwagon, showing up at the mid-February Nashville Tea Party convention sporting an Israeli flag lapel pin and subsequently urging the president to do the right thing in supporting Israel by attacking Iran. .... As Israel knows its air force cannot cripple Iran, its government has had to devise a scheme to get the US to do it instead, which is precisely what is being promoted by Anne Applebaum, Daniel Pipes, and all the other usual suspects who have already brought America fun and games in Iraq and Afghanistan....Cohen and Applebaum together make the case that preemptive war against Iran is somehow both justifiable and inevitable, ignoring the fact that Iran has never threatened the United States. Their Israel-centric view makes it appear completely acceptable for Washington to yet again go to war on behalf of Tel Aviv. <b>Excellent article.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-07-01.htm">3/10/2010 - PLO gives approval for indirect talks with Israel</a> The indirect format is meant to give the Palestinians the necessary political cover to resume talks. However, they warned they would walk away if the outlines of a border deal with Israel have not emerged after four months. They also ruled out subsequent direct talks without a complete Israeli settlement construction freeze. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/9396/pid/895">3/10/2010 - U.S. Can't Afford Military Aid to Israel</a> Data published recently by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation shows that U.S. military aid to Israel comes at a financial and moral price that this country cannot afford to pay. Its website reveals that this same $3 billion earmark for Israel could be used instead to provide more than 364,000 low-income households with affordable housing vouchers, or to retrain 498,000 workers for green jobs, or to provide early reading programs to 887,000 at-risk students, or to provide access to primary health care services for more than 24 million uninsured Americans. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-09-01.htm">3/10/2010 - US pledges 'unvarnished' commitment to Israel security</a> "The cornerstone of the relationship is our absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel's security," said Biden, who was in the region to encourage indirect Israeli Palestinian peace talks and discuss international efforts to halt Iran's nuclear drive. "Progress occurs in the Middle East when everyone knows there is simply no space between the United States and Israel. There is no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel's security." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1154408">3/10/2010 - Irish FM urges EU to pressure Israel to end Gaza blockade </a> "What I witnessed in Gaza, amidst all the rubble and devastation, was a population traumatized and reduced to poverty by an unjust and completely counterproductive blockade." <b>Evidently, the Irish are free from the taint of any Israeli lobby. Good for you, laddies!</b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1329">3/10/2010 - AT-TUWANI RELEASE: Three children detained while gathering herbs</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1154437">3/10/2010 - 'Temple Mount clashes may spark religious war' </a> The permanent Palestinian observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, welcomed the council statement, adding that the U.S. decision not to block it "is a signal that the United States wants this effort to succeed" and Israel to restrain itself. A U.S. official, however, told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the American delegation had not agreed with the statement and said it was adopted due to what the official described as "procedural confusion". <b>Translation: the US was later smacked down by its Israeli massa .</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hkmxLUgJ_CNVX6K_iixOq994smWw">3/10/2010 - US lawmakers push for tougher Iran sanctions</a> <b>Massa Israel pleased!</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-06-01.htm">3/10/2010 - U.S. envoy seeks Mideast talks deal, tension rises</a> A demonstration against Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem by several thousand Palestinians and Israeli peace activists passed off peacefully on Saturday night. Trouble had been feared with settlers who claim a religious right to all of the city. In the West Bank, relatives buried six members of a single Palestinian family who were killed when their car collided with an Israeli military vehicle on Friday. Reflecting popular anger, officials from Fatah said the soldiers were to blame. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/02/24/whats-in-a-name/">3/10/2010 - What s In a Name by Philip Giraldi</a> The Mossad assassination could also result in real consequences from the European governments whose passports were cloned or stolen, though the French and Germans are unlikely to make waves and the British are already backpedalling to make sure they do not offend Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-09-04.htm">3/10/2010 - Biden condemns new Israeli settlement plan</a> "With such an announcement, how can you build trust? This is destroying our efforts to work with Mr. Mitchell," Erekat said. "It's a really disastrous situation. I hope that this will be an eye opener for all in the international community." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-10-01.htm">3/10/2010 - Israel apologizes for embarrassing Biden</a> Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Joe Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem, but made clear it had no intention of reversing the order that has cast a shadow over the latest U.S. push for Mideast peace. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-09-05.htm">3/10/2010 - Israel OKs 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem</a> Israel captured both areas in the 1967 Mideast war and subsequently annexed east Jerusalem. <b>When the world said they wanted to see Middle East peace, Israel thought they meant PIECE, as in, another PIECE of Palestine.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-05-01.htm">3/10/2010 - Violent clashes in Jerusalem, West Bank</a> Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian stone throwers at two contested holy sites and in a West Bank village Friday, seriously injuring a Palestinian woman and a 14 year old boy, officials and witnesses said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-07-02.htm">3/10/2010 - Biden to try to boost Middle East peace prospects</a> An Israeli cabinet minister, commenting on Joe Biden's visit, pointed to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's description of the September 11 attacks in the United States as a "big fabrication" as cause for concern. "What we have here is a madman, and crazy people can do only crazy things," Industry and Trade Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer told Israel Radio. "The Americans ... must see how they can create a reality in which they stop the madman." An Israeli political source said Israel expected Biden's main message would be "Don't bomb Iran," a cautionary note Washington has sounded before in contacts with Israeli leaders.......The Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will meet Biden, was "disappointed" by sanctions proposed thus far by the United States. "This is not what we've been promised," he said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-07-03.htm">3/10/2010 - Arab director of Oscar film sparks Israeli outrage</a> "I cannot represent a country that does not represent me," he added. The remarks brought howls of outrage from cabinet ministers, legislators and a member of the Israeli Film Academy. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-04-01.htm">3/10/2010 - 'Ajami' casts harsh light on Israel's other Arab conflict</a> "It shows you how deep the difference is, how segregated this reality is. And when you live in this reality, it's not surprising that every once in a while you see an outburst of horrifying violence," Shani said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1328">3/10/2010 - AT-TUWANI UPDATE: FEBRUARY, 2010</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24958.htm">3/10/2010 - Rachel Corrie Family Finally Puts Israel in Dock</a> A judge in the northern Israeli city of Haifa was due to be presented with evidence that 23-year-old Corrie was killed unlawfully as she stood in the path of the bulldozer, trying to prevent it from demolishing Palestinian homes in Rafah. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1154423">3/10/2010 - 'Jewish lobby behind U.S. Armenia genocide vote'</a> Pro-Israel lobbyists had previously backed Turkey on the issue ? but changed tack in retaliation for Turkish condemnation of Israel's policies in the Gaza Strip, the Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily said in an editorial, according to Israel Radio reports <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153850">3/10/2010 - Respected Danish journalist admits 'I was a Mossad agent' </a> In the 1960s, Mossad chief Isser Harel used a few journalists, including Yeshayahu Ben Porat and the late Uri Dan, for the purpose of finding the addresses of German scientists who had helped Egypt's missile program. When the addresses were obtained, the Mossad waged a scare campaign on their families and sometimes even sent explosive packages and tried to assassinate the scientists. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24915.htm">3/10/2010 - Bowing to Jewish Pressure </a> Clearly, Israeli lobby has much more influence within the British cabinet than the USA <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/126462/">3/10/2010 - In Israel, the Most Popular 'Jewish Mother' Is an Arab Muslim </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1154922">3/10/2010 - Interpol seeks arrest of 16 more suspects in Dubai hit </a> The international police agency Interpol on Monday issued arrest notices for an additional 16 suspects over the assassination of a Hamas operative in Dubai earlier this year. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24944.htm">3/10/2010 - '4-8 Weeks Left for Diplomacy on Iran'</a> Four to eight weeks remain to test the option of diplomatic engagement as means of stopping Iran s nuclear program before sanctions will likely be imposed, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told an audience of foreign military officers and government officials in Herzliya on Monday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-10-02.htm">3/10/2010 - US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements</a> Biden's handshakes and embraces gave way to one of the strongest rebukes of Israel by a senior U.S. official in years after Israel's announcement during his visit that it plans to build 1,600 homes in disputed east Jerusalem. Israel apologized for the poor timing but is sticking to its plan to build the homes, enlarging one of the settlements that have impeded negotiations with Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/03/04/bunnings-best-game/">3/10/2010 - Bunning s Best Game</a> In George W. Bush s last full year in office, we spent $29 billion for  international affairs. The lion s share of that was foreign aid. In FY 2011, the year for which Congress has begun to budget, spending for international affairs and foreign aid is to jump to $54 billion and continue to surge through the Obama years. What is the rationale for the United States, the world s greatest debtor nation, putting itself deeper in debt to China to send foreign aid to nations that will never repay us and that vote habitually with China and against us in the United Nations? <b>America cannot afford to keep sending foreign aid to countries such as Israel, especially at a time when <a href="http://forward.com/articles/126390/">American Jews are moving to Israel because of a better economy there</a>.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-09-02.htm">3/10/2010 - Israel, Syria announce nuclear energy ambitions</a> Both countries laid out their hopes at an international conference on civilian nuclear energy at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-09-03.htm">3/10/2010 - Israel: Did the Alleged Mossad Hit in Dubai Really Help?</a> If Netanyahu authorized the hit, though, the real question is whether he really considered the strategic implications. Look at the map. If Israel goes ahead and bombs Iran's nuclear facilities, it will need over flight clearances from the Gulf Arabs. Antagonizing the U.A.E. in this way, leaving almost no doubt Israel was behind Mabhouh's assassination, does not seem the best way to facilitate such clearances. Nor does it help build an Arab Sunni coalition against Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hizballah. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/new-fbi-files-alleging-aipac,1199302.shtml">3/10/2010 - New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property and Israeli Espionage Released </a> Declassified files detailing an FBI investigation targeting the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are now available on the Internet <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/2010/03/05/Commentary-Move-over-Dubai/UPI-81071267787141/">3/10/2010 - Commentary: Move over Dubai</a> The worst case scenario came up at the Club of Monaco (retired senior statesmen and women from Europe, the Middle East, including Israel, and the United States) in Doha last week. Diplomatic code was "detonator," which was designed to conjure up an Israeli airstrike against an Iranian nuclear facility that would automatically unleash Iran's asymmetrical retaliatory capabilities against U.S. and pro-U.S. targets up and down the Persian Gulf. Most world governments would assume the United States had given Israel the green light, and Iran, in turn, would feel justified in "counterattacking" throughout the Gulf. Thus, Israel becomes the "detonator." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://en.rian.ru/world/20100310/158151243.html">3/10/2010 - Iranian missiles pose no threat to U.S. and Europe - Lavrov</a> "It is evident that Iran currently poses no threat to the U.S. and European countries... At the moment, Iran has no missiles capable of striking Europe, let alone the U.S., and is unlikely to develop [such missiles] in the foreseeable future," Lavrov said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0309/Why-Israel-jailed-me-for-talking-too-much">3/10/2010 - Why Israel jailed me for  talking too much </a> Israel has taken this opportunity to crack down on Palestinians who advocate nonviolent protests against the Israeli West Bank segregation barrier and charged them based on questionable or false evidence. <b>Great read.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1154921">3/10/2010 - Israel to unveil plans to create nuclear generated power </a> Israel will unveil this week plans to produce nuclear-generated electricity, officials said on Monday, a move that could draw fresh international attention towards its assumed atomic arsenal.....Unlike other countries in the region, Israel has not signed the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which curbs the spread of nuclear technologies with bomb-making potential. Yet Israel does have a delegation at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a UN watchdog. <b>Yeh, that makes sense.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136402">3/10/2010 - Bolton: Israel's Options  Attack Iran or Accept Nuclear Power</a> <b>Neocon John Bolton back making the rounds. His American citizenship should be stripped from him. He works for Israel, not us.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3859491,00.html">3/10/2010 - Barak: Iran not currently posing existential threat to Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1154836">3/10/2010 - Biden's Israel visit is a year too late</a> Biden's visit is designed to open a new chapter in relations between Netanyahu and the U.S. administration, with a two-fold message: recognition of the political importance of Israel and its supporters in America in advance of the November Congressional elections; and giving Netanyahu the credit he's not yet earned for his statement in support of "two states for two peoples" and his settlement construction freeze. He will get it now under the threat of a preemptive war against Iran. <b>Israel has our officials alarmed. Israel is threatening to attack Iran. Such an attack would automatically implicate us, Israel's big brother. Our troops in the region would come under attack. Israel knows this, and is hanging this threat of an attack on Iran over our heads. It's blackmail.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153913">3/10/2010 - Syria hints Israel planted nuclear traces on its territory </a> In a closed-door debate by the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors, Syria reiterated its assertion that the uranium traces came with munitions Israel used to destroy the complex. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/126524/">3/10/2010 - Israel s New PR Scheme: Healthy Zionism or Sinister Stalinism? </a>  We decided to give Israelis who go abroad tools and tips to help them deal with the attacks on Israel in their conversations with people, media appearances and lectures before wide audiences <b>They all must do the Hasbara. Why not cease the illegal settlements and occupation of Palestinian land instead? Would do wonders for Israeli PR.</b><br><br> <a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2010/03/10/1011010/aipac-calls-for-swift-action-to-block-us-companies-supporting-iran">3/10/2010 - AIPAC calls for swift action to block U.S. companies supporting Iran</a> <b>To which Congress will respond, 'Yes Massa!'</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/126513/">3/10/2010 -  Ajami Co-Director Says He Does Not Represent Israel </a>  I m not here representing Israel, he said.  I m an Israeli citizen, but I cannot represent a state that doesn t represent me, Copti, an Arab Israel from Jaffa said. <b></b><br><br> <br><br> <hr> <a href="2010/03/03-02-04.htm">3/3/2010 - Under blockade, coastal Gaza now a fish importer</a> Under a sea blockade, the coastal Gaza Strip has now become a seafood importer. Its desperate fishermen  cut off from plentiful fishing grounds by Israeli patrol boats  have turned to sneaking into Egyptian waters in tiny motorboats to buy their catch and bring it home. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-02-02.htm">3/3/2010 - Jerusalem plan would demolish Palestinian homes</a> Jerusalem's mayor unveiled a plan Tuesday to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes to make room for a tourist center in one of the disputed city's most volatile neighborhoods, drawing criticism from Palestinians and the United Nations...."There is no way the Palestinians can accept the demolishing of houses in Jerusalem and the continuation of building settlements for the Jewish settlers, while the United States is trying to bring the parties together," <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1325">3/3/2010 - Al Khaliil/Hebron: Israeli military respond with tear gas to Open Shuhada Street demonstration</a> Although there was brief localised stone throwing by Palestinian boys watching the demonstrators walk through their neighbourhood, the Palestinian leadership was determined that the demonstration would be free from violence. Despite the Israeli military s prolonged and repeated use of tear gas and percussion grenades the demonstrators discipline held and the action remained non-violent throughout. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-03-02.htm">3/3/2010 - Dubai to use profiling to detect Israeli arrivals</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-27-01.htm">3/3/2010 - Europe wary of following Dubai killers' trail</a> Experts say arresting Israeli agents  or even digging up further evidence that Israel was involved  could be politically costly....."Countries such as Germany have a special relationship with Israel because of their history and therefore wouldn't be interested in investigating," <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-01-01.htm">3/3/2010 - Hamas leader disowns son for spying for Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-28-02.htm">3/3/2010 - Israeli police, Palestinians clash at holy site</a> As in similar incidents in the past, Sunday's protests appeared to have erupted because of rumors that Jewish extremists planned to enter the holy compound, according to the Waqf's director, Abdul Azim Samhadana. He blamed Israeli police for "provoking" the youths. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-01-04.htm">3/3/2010 - U.S. answers not yet enough for Mideast talks: Dahlan</a> A Palestinian official said Monday the United States had yet to give adequate answers to Palestinian queries on a proposal for indirect negotiations with Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1152610">3/3/2010 - 'U.K. police in Israel to probe passports used in Dubai hit' </a> Dubai police said on Friday they have DNA proof of the identity of at least one of the killers of senior Hamas strongman Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the emirate country last month. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24895.htm">3/3/2010 - Two Suspects Entered U.S. After Killing In Dubai</a> Although Interpol is assisting in the investigation and has put out alert notices about the suspects, United States officials have been silent about it. On Monday, the State Department again refused to comment on the case. <b>The US will do nothing.</b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1324">3/3/2010 - AT-TUWANI RELEASE: Israeli settlers intimidate Palestinian school children after</a> As the children ran from the settlers, Israeli military jeeps appeared ahead of them, but stopped while soldiers spoke with the three settlers. Meanwhile, soldiers detained the children, refusing to provide them safe passage around the settlement. One soldier said: "We have things more important to do." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-25-01.htm">3/3/2010 - Syria, Iran affirm ties despite US calls</a> "I find it strange how they talk about Middle East stability and at the same time talk about dividing two countries," Assad told reporters when asked about Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's call Wednesday for Syria to move away from Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1326">3/3/2010 - AT-TUWANI RELEASE: CPT video highlights ongoing soldier-settler collaboration to</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-02-01.htm">3/3/2010 - Netanyahu intervenes in sensitive Jerusalem project</a> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing concern over Israel's international image, persuaded Jerusalem's mayor on Tuesday to put on hold any demolition of Palestinian homes in a municipal tourism project. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-26-02.htm">3/3/2010 - In U.S., Barak signals Israeli autonomy against Iran</a> Washington's clout over its Middle East ally is under scrutiny after Israel's veiled threats to attack Iran preemptively if international diplomacy fails to rein in Tehran's uranium enrichment, a process with bomb making potential. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1152588">3/3/2010 - Arab source: Mitchell wanted to quit over U.S. bias for Israel </a> Peace talks were halted more than a year ago over the war in the Gaza Strip and have not resumed, due largely to a Palestinian demand that Israel first impose a complete freeze on building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and Israel's refusal to do so. <b>Who is the problem here? When the world says peace, Israel thinks they say 'PIECE' as in, another piece of Palestine. To which they reply 'don't mind if we do!'.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-02-05.htm">3/3/2010 - Israel urges U.S. to adopt Cuba-like embargo on Iran</a> "We are a little worried by the pace of developments in the international arena," Lieberman told reporters. "I think that from now on Israel should perhaps change its Iran policy a little, and we should ask the United States to adopt the Cuban model ... Here the United States alone can do everything in order to stop this (Iranian) program." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2010/03/01/us-visits-to-israel-seen-trying-to-prevent-attack-on-iran/">3/3/2010 - US Visits to Israel Seen Trying to Prevent Attack on Iran</a> <b>A form of blackmail: 'give us what we want (sanctions), or we will draw you into a regional war'.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-pushes-g8-nations-on-iran-sanctions/article1486209/">3/3/2010 - Canada pushes G8 nations on Iran sanctions </a> Mr. Cannon signalled that, before the June leaders summit in Huntsville, Ont., Canada will press for the G8 to take action at the meeting on March 29 and 30, when he hosts the foreign ministers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States. <b>Israel's puppets busily doing their master's bidding.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=169982">3/3/2010 - Clinton: Iran sanctions months away </a> The United States is working "expeditiously and thoroughly" to win new international penalties on Iran over its disputed nuclear program, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday night. <b>Israel's puppets busily doing their master's bidding.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-02-05.htm">3/3/2010 - Will the UN put off the Goldstone report another five months</a> One head-scratcher is why Arab countries, which might be expected to relish the prospect of subjecting Israel to international disgrace, would spearhead a move to put off consideration of the report another five months. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153564">3/3/2010 - Did they know? Israel-U.S. startup linked to Dubai hit </a> Thirteen of the 27 suspects used prepaid MasterCards issued by MetaBank, a regional American bank, in order to purchase plane tickets and book hotel rooms, said the Dubai police. The police then tied MetaBank to Payoneer....Payoneer is a privately held New York-based company, with a research and development center in Tel Aviv.....Complicating matters even more is the fact that Payoneer CEO Yuval Tal was a commentator for Fox News during the Second Lebanon War, and described himself as a former Israeli special operations soldier. <b>No kidding?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153584">3/3/2010 - Dubai seeks Netanyahu's arrest over killing of Hamas man </a> "Thirteen of the 27 suspects used prepaid MasterCards issued by MetaBank, a regional American bank, to purchase plane tickets and book hotel rooms," the newspaper said, quoting Dubai police. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n211672">3/3/2010 - SMH: Australia abandons Israel in UN vote</a> At a vote in the UN General Assembly - where Australia has been one of Israel's strongest supporters - the government abstained from a resolution demanding that Israel and the Palestinians investigate possible war crimes during the assault on Gaza that Israel began in December 2008. <b>The poor Aussies too live in Israeli-occupied territory.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1536674.php/14-of-Hamas-murder-team-used-real-Israeli-IDs-reports-Roundup">3/3/2010 - 14 of Hamas murder team used "real" Israeli IDs - reports</a> At least 14 of the 26 suspects named by Dubai police as involved in the murder of Palestinian militant Mahmoud al-Mabhouh belong to real people living in Israel, media reports said Thursday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=February2010&file=Local_News201002287121.xml">3/3/2010 - British journalist warns of Israeli plot to draw USinto war with Iran </a> Patrick Seale who is here attending the Monaco Club conference told reporters on the sidelines of the event that Israel believes that if it wages a war against Iran on its own public opinion would force the White House to intervene, especially if Tehran targets US military interests in the Gulf. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1327">3/3/2010 - Al Khaliil/Hebron February 1-14 2010 Update</a> There is considerable concern among international NGOs about the Israeli authorities' restrictions on visas for many of their staff, refusing them permission to work. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24862.htm">3/3/2010 - Reporters with Conflicts of Interest in Israel </a> Ethan Bronner. He is the Jerusalem bureau chief who has been at the centre of a controversy since it was revealed last month that his son is serving in the Israeli army. Despite mounting pressure to replace Bronner, the NYT s editors have so far refused to consider that he might be facing a conflict of interest or that it would be wiser to post him elsewhere. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8544642.stm">3/3/2010 - Irish town criticised for snubbing Israeli ambassador </a> "I think if a government is responsible for a wholesale disregard for international law then local authorities, as well as our own government, have a responsibility to tell them we expect a higher standard," <b>Right on.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3856102,00.html">3/3/2010 - Report: US tells Lebanon can't stop Israeli strike</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100301/OPINION/702289930/1006">3/3/2010 - That was a war council in Damascus</a> The three-party meeting that took place in Damascus on Friday gathering the Syrian president Bashar al Assad, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was a war council to devise counterattack plans and assign tasks in the event of an Israeli offensive on one or all parties, wrote Abdelbari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds al Arabi. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3853832,00.html">3/3/2010 - Deputy FM: Israel will increase aid to S. America in return for support</a> Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said "Israel intends to increase the aid it sends to South American and Latin American states, but in return it expects support from them in the UN." <b>This is how Israel spends some of our billions of taxpayer aid dollars : buying votes at the UN.</b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/126390/">3/3/2010 - Aliyah an Option for More North American Jews Escaping a Bad Economy</a> With unemployment rates hovering at around 10% (more than double what they were two years ago), one ripple effect of America s recession is increased immigration to Israel. It is no panacea. But unemployment there is hovering at around 8%, while the economy overall has contracted less than in the United States and now appears on the way back to growth.  Israel has proved to be resilient to this particular global shock, <b>Then they don't need the hard-earned taxpayer dollars of true American patriots - those who pledge allegiance to the flag of this country alone.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=905876&category=opinion">3/3/2010 - Obama's inner GOP</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/03/03-01-02.htm">3/3/2010 - Convicted Holocaust denier Zundel released</a> In February 2005, a Canadian judge ruled that Zundel's activities were a threat to national security as well as "the international community of nations," clearing the way for his deportation to Germany later that year. <b>It's the Muslims that are taking over Europe, this being one example of their laws to curb freedom of speech. Find out how many European nations (and also Canada) have these laws, and then tell me again that it's Islam that is the threat to our freedom..</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/03/03/the-annual-armenian-genocide-bloviation/">3/3/2010 - The Annual Armenian Genocide Bloviation by Philip Giraldi</a> <b>Looks like it passed. I wonder why the AIPACers let it slide? Perhaps because Turkey didn't kowtow to Israel with respect to the '08 assault on Gaza?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-25-02.htm">3/3/2010 - US, Israel resume 'strategic dialogue' on Iran</a> The meeting came during a visit to the United States by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak in which he was to meet with several top US officials. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/126055/">3/3/2010 - Israel's North Is 53% Arab </a> New figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics, an agency of the Israeli government, show that if you take Haifa out of the equation, there is already an Arab majority in Northern Israel. Some 53% of residents, the bureau reported, are Arabs. <b>Oh dear, whatever will they do? Execute a repeat performance of 1948-9 (expulsion)?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153020">3/3/2010 - Israel offers 'full intelligence picture' to get China to agree on Iran sanctions </a> At the very least, Israel wants to ensure that China does not oppose the sanctions when they come to vote. <b>What else did they offer to China?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153017">3/3/2010 - Universities across the globe mark Israeli Apartheid Week </a> In Canada, the legislature in the province of Ontario unanimously condemned Israeli Apartheid Week, voting for a resolution that denounced the campus events. "If you're going to label Israel as Apartheid, then you are also... attacking Canadian values," <b>It is especially sad to see Canada fall to pro-Israeli interests.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/hotel-hit-squad-hiding-out-in-israel/story-e6frf7jx-1225835829342">3/3/2010 - Hotel hit squad 'hiding out in Israel' </a> <b>At least two, according ot an article in this news batch, are hiding out in America.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1152316">3/3/2010 - Ahmadinejad: Arab world will usher in new Mideast without Zionists </a> Ahmedinejad's trip comes on the heels of several important overtures to Syria by the U.S., including the nomination of the first U.S. ambassador to Damascus since 2005. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24878.htm">3/3/2010 - A "Good" Terrorist Captured by Iran </a> In a July 7, 2008, article for The New Yorker magazine, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh quoted Robert Baer, a former CIA clandestine officer who worked in South Asia and the Middle East for nearly two decades, as saying that Jundullah was one of the militant groups in Iran benefiting from U.S. support. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24886.htm">3/3/2010 - Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us</a> Edmonds said that Feith and Wolfowitz were involved in plans to break Iraq into U.S. and British protectorates months prior to 9/11. She also claimed that the duo shared information with Grossman on how to blackmail various officials and that Grossman had accepted cash to help procure and sell nuclear weapons technology to Israel and Turkey and, from there, on to the foreign black market. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/126360/">3/3/2010 - Secretary Clinton Urged To Press Israel To Remove Israel s New Barrier  Against Foreign Gefilte Fish </a> Turns out that Israel has imposed a 120% import duty on processed gefilte fish  the famous Jewish Passover staple, and this decision made it to the floor of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. <b>How our government spends its time - and our money.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126460/">3/3/2010 - Why Anglo-Israeli Ties Will Survive Dubai</a> Any remaining doubt that Miliband was doing anything other than simply going through the motions was removed when he later agreed to be guest of honor at a party at the Israeli embassy later this month, hosted by the Israeli ambassador. So much for British  outrage. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/126457/">3/3/2010 - Growing Tea Party Movement Is Still a Great Unknown on Israel</a>  Everyone I ve met at the Tea Party movement is very pro-Israel, he said, explaining that tea partiers are concerned that the Obama administration is  moving away from its allies around the world, and they view Israel as  case in point. .....For most Tea Party movement activists, the ideological chasm separating Paul and Palin on issues relating to Israel is of little interest. Foreign policy questions are rarely raised by Tea Party activists in articles and events. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126455/">3/3/2010 - Campus  Apartheid Week Drew Little, Varied Response</a>  Putting out 10 reasons why Israel is not an apartheid state when the Israeli defense minister said in the last several weeks that Israel is in danger of becoming an apartheid regime may not be successful, <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <b>February </b> <br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-23-04.htm">2/24/2010 - Palestinian president warns of 'religious war'</a> The Palestinian president warned Tuesday that the region could plunge into a "religious war" over Israel's plans to recognize a disputed West Bank shrine as one of its own national heritage sites. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7032863.ece">2/24/2010 - Dubai wants head of Mossad arrested over Hamas assassination</a> <b>Ironically, it will be the Palestinians that will be the ones to be arrested in this case. The Israelis will remain above the law, as usual.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-18-01.htm">2/24/2010 - Death in Dubai: the plot thickens</a> Vienna has been dragged in, with the hit squad using pre paid Austrian mobile phone numbers. Israel is already feeling the international heat after the critical Goldstone report into its conduct during the Gaza war, and will not want its critics to have more ammunition. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24753.htm">2/24/2010 - Britain's Explanation is Riddled with Inconsistencies. It's Time to Come Clean</a> "We have identified five credit cards belonging to these people, all issued in the United States." <b>Strange how nobody is mentioning this US angle here in the States. The reason is probably the same reason why the US is a target by terror groups, while the EU and Australia are not.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-23-01.htm">2/24/2010 - Israel refuses to help Britain with inquiry into fake passports</a> Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday flatly rebuffed David Miliband's request for cooperation with an investigation into the use of forged British passports in the assassination of a Hamas leader. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SKEA-82YJ83?OpenDocument">2/24/2010 - Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 24 February 2010 </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1152040">2/24/2010 - Hamas: Story about leader's son on Shin Bet payroll is Zionist propaganda </a> Hamas on Wednesday attempted to refute the exclusive published in Haaretz about Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a Hamas founder and one of its leaders in the West Bank, who also worked for Israel's Shin Bet security service for 10 years. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1323">2/24/2010 - AT-TUWANI RELEASE: Israeli soldiers arrest Palestinian shepherd, assault</a> Abu Jundiyye, 19, was grazing his flock near Tuba when four Israeli soldiers, coming from the nearby Ma'on settlement, chased him and another shepherd back to Tuba. The soldiers aggressively pursued the two shepherds while Tuba families attempted to keep the soldiers away from them. One soldier head-butted a Palestinian youth who was pleading for an explanation why his brother was being arrested. Another soldier loaded his rifle and pointed it in the air, threatening to shoot, forcing the families to quell their protest. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1322">2/24/2010 - Netanyahu statement on Ibrahimi Mosque leads to unrest in Al Khalil/Hebron</a> Around 0830, Palestinian boys made their own response to the statement by throwing stones near the Qitoun checkpoint in the Yatta Road, while other Palestinians threw stones at soldiers between Bab il Baledeyya and Bab iZaweyya. Press reports have suggested that bottles were also thrown, but CPTers saw nothing thrown apart from stones. The Israeli military's response was to shoot repeated rounds of tear gas at the Palestinians, causing alarm and discomfort to people on the street and in their homes and shops. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126305/">2/24/2010 - U.S. Delays Iran Sanctions While Persuading Israel Not To Attack</a>  The main issue is coordination and exchange of views on Iran, an Israeli diplomat briefed on the talks said.  It is mainly about sharing estimates and intelligence. But another official, based in Israel, said it is clear that both countries have also used these talks to shore up unwritten understandings regarding the way forward on Iran......"as the nuclear issue escalates, dealing with Israel could become as big a challenge for the United States as dealing with Iran. Because Israel is more willing than the United States to use military force,  an eventual U.S.-Israeli crisis is likely, the analysts wrote. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-21-05.htm">2/24/2010 - West Bank shrines on Israeli heritage list</a> One of the sites, in the city of Hebron, has been a flashpoint for decades. Jews call it the Cave of the Patriarchs, where the Bible says the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were buried along with three of their wives. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/7280176/Israeli-immigration-officials-copied-British-passports-used-by-hit-squad-ministers-told.html">2/24/2010 - Israeli immigration officials copied British passports used by hit squad, ministers told</a> The six British citizens whose identities were stolen and used by the killers all had their passports taken away from them briefly during routine checks at the airport, it has been claimed. <b>Notice how all of these stories about the Mossad Dubai incident appear in the BRITISH press? There is a near total blackout about this story in the American media. Also, take note of the excerpt above: Israeli security companies work in the British airports? How about in the airports of the other nations who saw their forged passports being used in this Mossad hit? Israeli security companies provide security at airports in many Western nations, including America (they were at Logan when 9/11 occurred).</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-24-02.htm">2/24/2010 - US slams Israel over designating heritage sites</a> The Obama administration criticized Israel Wednesday for designating two shrines on Palestinian territory as national heritage sites. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1151539">2/24/2010 - UN: Israel 'heritage sites' are on Palestinian land</a> "I'm concerned over the proclamation made over the sites in Bethlehem and Hebron," Serry said, adding that "those sites are in Palestinian territory and bear an importance no only in Judaism but in Islam as well." <b>Most of Israel is in Palestinian territory, but that's never stopped them.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-20-01.htm">2/24/2010 - Israeli forces wound six Palestinians: medics</a> An army spokesman said "Israeli soldiers spotted silhouettes approaching the security barrier separating the Gaza Strip (from Israel), and opened fire at them." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.aidtoisrael.org/">2/24/2010 - US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation How Much Military Aid to Israel</a> <b>The budget deficit in New York State is roughly equal to the amount that New York State taxpayers are paying in aid to Israel. While more Americans go jobless, homeless, and as Paterson is poised to close many state parks in New York State, we are instead giving the hard-earned taxpayer's dollars to a nation that repeatedly commits war crimes, that is stealing and occupying the land of another people, and whose economy is evidently not in the grave state as is the case with ours.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-22-02.htm">2/24/2010 - EU to censure Israel after Dubai killing</a> The statement will increase diplomatic pressure on Israel but is unlikely to have any long term repercussions for EU Israeli ties, diplomats say. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2010/02/22/new-grist-for-hype-on-iran/">2/24/2010 - New Grist for Hype on Iran by Ray McGovern</a> Press reports over the past few days  as well as past experience  strongly suggest that the  new evidence cited by the Times may have comes from the usual suspects  agenda-laden sources, like Israeli intelligence. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-24-01.htm">2/24/2010 - Dubai 15 more suspects in Hamas slaying</a> It brings the total number of suspects using foreign passports to 12 British, six Irish, four French, three Australian and one German. Two other Palestinians also have been detained. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-19-03.htm">2/24/2010 - Credit cards implicate Mossad in Dubai hit report</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/clinton-avoided-nuke-question-student/story-e6frf7jx-1225832790510">2/24/2010 - Clinton avoided nuke question - student </a> If the Americans "so vehemently oppose Iran's nuclear programme,'' she had asked, "then why isn't the US asking Israel to give up their nuclear weapons?'' Ms Clinton gave a lengthy answer detailing the US case against Iran, but did not mention Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1151699">2/24/2010 - Barak heads to U.S. to discuss Iran, Mideast peace talks </a> Barak will devote much of his visit to the Iranian threat and its implications for Israel's relations with its closest neighbors. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-21-01.htm">2/24/2010 - Britain, Ireland to press Israel over passports</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/25/uae.murder.plot/">2/24/2010 - Australia warns Israel over Dubai killing</a> Australia warned Israel Thursday of a possible diplomatic rift if Israel condoned the use of fraudulent Australian passports in the killing of a Hamas leader. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/02/18/israel-goes-rogue/">2/24/2010 - Israel Goes Rogue by Justin Raimondo</a> From identity theft to war crimes  is there anything the Israelis won't do? <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-18-02.htm">2/24/2010 - In Dubai attack, signs of Mossad shadow war</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1150674">2/24/2010 - U.S. Lawmakers Blast Boycott of J Street Delegation in Israel</a> Tension between the Foreign Ministry and J Street was believed to be behind the unprecedented diplomatic rift between Israel and the U.S. Congress. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-21-04.htm">2/24/2010 - UK offers help to Israelis linked to Dubai killing</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-23-03.htm">2/24/2010 - Nearly 20 percent of U.S. workers underemployed</a> In findings that appear to paint a darker employment picture than official U.S. data, Gallup estimated that about 30 million Americans are underemployed, meaning either jobless or able to find only part time work. <b>Again, America can ill afford another war (this time- with Iran).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3854164,00.html">2/24/2010 - US demands Syria distance itself from Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022203528.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns">2/24/2010 - Prepare for war with Iran -- in case Israel strikes</a> <b>In a nutshell: we have to prepare for a war on Iran in case Israel strikes. Because if she does, then we will automatically be dragged along.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/02/21/87061/war-game-shows-how-attacking-iran.html">2/24/2010 - War game shows how attacking Iran could backfire</a> Here's a war game involving Iran, Israel and the U.S. that shows how unintended consequences can spin out of control: <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=169319">2/24/2010 -  S-300 delivery a serious development </a> Should Teheran acquire the system, a potential military strike on Iranian nuclear sites could become far more difficult, but it remains far from clear when and if Moscow intends to transfer the military hardware to Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/19/cnn-poll-american-believe-iran-has-nuclear-weapons/?fbid=jLCeuet8S8-">2/24/2010 - CNN Poll: American believe Iran has nuclear weapons</a> Seven in 10 Americans believe that Iran currently has nuclear weapons, according to a new national poll. <b>Propaganda put forth by Israel's minions in our media works! Congratulations.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1962">2/24/2010 - Audio: Israeli Ambassador:  Don't Expect Much from Obama on Iran </a> In a powerful interview, Yoram Ettinger, a former U.S. consul in the United States, said that Israel should not expect Washington to take on Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/an-attack-on-israel-would-be-considered-an-attack-on-canada/article1470211/">2/24/2010 - 'An attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada'</a> Junior Foreign Affairs minister Peter Kent is suggesting Canada stands ready to throw its full military weight behind Israel, telling a Toronto publication that  an attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada. <b>Canada has become another Israeli occupied territory thanks to the efforts of its influential Israeli lobby. They will likely at some point face the 'blowback' that my country has as a consequence of this support of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1151390">2/24/2010 - Israel is Americans' fifth favorite place </a> Canada remains Americans' favorite country, with an approval rating of 90 percent. That compares to approval ratings of 87 percent for Britain, 80 percent for Germany, 77 percent for Japan and 67 percent for Israel. <b>Israel's rating is that high only because of their hold on the media. We need to change that.</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/02/17/some-straight-thinking-about-iran/">2/24/2010 - Some Straight Thinking About Iran by Philip Giraldi</a> the Annual Threat Assessment and the possibly forthcoming NIE would really only confirm the 2007 NIE s judgment that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, does not appear to have an in-place weapons program, and is still several years away from having a nuclear device even if the political decision is made to proceed.......Why is Iran the target of so much rage even though it has not threatened the United States or any vital American interest? Influence over Congress and the media from Israel and its friends is surely a large part of the answer. <b>America beware.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7034933.ece">2/24/2010 - Meir Dagan: the mastermind behind Mossad's secret war</a> Netanyahu was briefed on plans to kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a member of Hamas, the militant Islamic group that controls Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-21-02.htm">2/24/2010 - Israel unveils new drone fleet that can reach Iran</a> Israel and the U.S. believe Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons; Iran says its program is for peaceful purposes. <b>Notice how the Associated Press continues to say that the US believes Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons when our NIE assessment still does not bear this out. Read the related article by Giraldi in this news batch.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-23-02.htm">2/24/2010 - Attack Iran?</a> Applebaum, not exactly an Iran expert, used her ink in the Post today to warn that President Obama had better start preparing for an Israeli strike on Iran. In fact, that was the title of her op ed: "Prepare for war with Iran." In it, she suggests that "at some point" Israel's restraint vis avis Iran could evaporate, partly because President Ahmadinejad "makes(s) the Israelis paranoid." An Israeli strike, she says, "would be followed by retaliation, some of which would be directed at us, our troops in Iraq, our ships at sea." <b>Worth a read, from a few years back: <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/2004_09_13/article.html">"Four Day War"</a></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1321">2/24/2010 - CPT-Palestine endorses Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement</a> CPT-Palestine has decided to endorse formally the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, as called for by Palestinian NGOs, because sixty years of negotiations and diplomacy have only enabled Israel to solidify its military occupation of Palestine <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://neocon-watch.blogspot.com/2010/03/alleged-iranian-threat.html">2/24/2010 - The alleged Iranian threat</a> <b>Another war conceived in Israel</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-292389/vancouver/gwynne-dyer-mossads-latest-blunder">2/24/2010 - Gwynne Dyer: Mossad's latest blunder</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126326/">2/24/2010 - Zuckerman Run Could Mark New Stage in Politics</a> uckerman came to prominence in the Jewish community during a turbulent term as lay leader of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, a powerful umbrella group on matters pertaining to Israel. His possible Senate candidacy to replace upstate incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/22/israel-pr-campaign">2/24/2010 - Israel's smiling PR drive</a> The ministry for public diplomacy goes to great lengths instructing Israelis how to conduct themselves when engaged in PR on behalf of the state <b>Israeli citizens wouldn't have to if their government would stop stealing and occupying Palestinian land, and attacking the citizens of other nations (Lebanon, as one ex.).</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-22-03.htm">2/24/2010 - The New Poor</a> Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits. <b>The United States can ill afford a new war in the Middle East.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/126327/">2/24/2010 - JCPA Taking Direct Aim at Anti-Israel Boycotters</a> With anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions efforts gaining visibility, the Jewish community s main public-policy coordinating body is for the first time confronting the BDS movement as a specific and stated priority. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/02/02-14-01.htm">2/17/2010 - Attack on Iran's nuclear facilities 'worries' US admiral</a> "The outbreak of a conflict will be a big, big, big problem for all of us, and I worry a great deal about the unintended consequences of a strike," Admiral Mullen said. ......Mullen, who was speaking to journalists during a visit to Israel, went on to say however that US President Barack Obama had been "very clear that from a policy standpoint, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapons." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1318">2/17/2010 - Al Khalil Hebron Settlers from Beit Hadassah harass Palestinian family living nearby</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7254807/Mossads-licence-to-kill.html">2/17/2010 - Mossad's licence to kill</a> Mossad is one of the world's smallest intelligence services. But it has a back-up system no other outfit can match. The system is known as sayanim, a derivative of the Hebrew word lesayeah, meaning to help. There are tens of thousands of these "helpers". Each has been carefully recruited, sometimes by katsas, Mossad's field agents. Others have been asked to become helpers by other members of the secret group. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-11-01.htm">2/17/2010 - Clinton says Blair to play bigger role in Mideast</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-15-03.htm">2/17/2010 - Congressman says US should break Gaza blockade</a> The United States should break Israel's blockade of Gaza and deliver badly needed supplies by sea, a U.S. congressman told Gaza students. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSDAH12274820100211">2/17/2010 - Ahmadinejad warns Israel against any military move</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1149616">2/17/2010 - U.S. vows commitment to Israel, wary of war over Iran nukes </a> "If Russia agrees to sanctions, China will find itself alone and may be forced to line up with the Western powers," an Israeli official said. "That's why persuading the Russian leadership is so important." .....Jerusalem and Washington have held several high-level consultations on Iran in recent weeks. Last month U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones visited Israel for talks with Israeli colleagues, and two weeks ago Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta paid a secret visit to the country. The U.S. officials briefed their counterparts on sanctions the Obama administration intends to levy against Iran, but reportedly asked them to keep a low media profile and to "act responsibly." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1149680">2/17/2010 - Lebanon troops fire at 4 Israeli warplanes flying overhead </a> Lebanese soldiers opened fire on four Israeli warplanes that flew into its airspace, the Lebanon Army said on Sunday, The Lebanese army said in a statement that its units used anti-aircraft fire Sunday to force the Israeli warplanes out of Lebanese airspace. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-17-01.htm">2/17/2010 - Israel says no proof it carried out Dubai killing</a> Six of the men are Britons who immigrated to Israel. The seventh is an American Israeli, whose name Dubai said was on a German passport used by one of the assassins. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1150127">2/17/2010 - Ireland confirms 'Irish' Dubai killers don't exist </a> "We are unable to identify any of those three individuals as being genuine Irish citizens. Ireland has issued no passports in those names," the department said in a statement.....British government sources told the Daily Telegraph earlier Tuesday that the three Irish passport-holders were most likely Mossad agents carrying false documentation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-16-03.htm">2/17/2010 - Hezbollah warns of retaliation for any Israeli hit</a> "If you bomb our ports, we will bomb your ports. If you bomb our oil refineries, we will bomb your oil refineries," said the black turbaned Nasrallah. "If you bomb our factories, we will bomb your factories. If you bomb our electricity stations, we will bomb your electricity stations." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7025821.ece">2/17/2010 - Israel is accused of waging covert war across the Middle East</a> Under the current Mossad chief, Meir Dagan, Israel is believed to have renewed efforts to kill high-level opponents. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-13-03.htm">2/17/2010 - Israel general doubts power to hit Iran atom sites</a> "I think that the State of Israel should not take it upon itself to be the flag bearer of the entire Western world in the face of the Iranian threat," Halutz, whose previous military post was as air force commander, told Channel Two. <b>This is precisely why Israel will get us to do it for them.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-14-04.htm">2/17/2010 - Lebanese troops open fire on Israeli warplanes</a> The Lebanese army said in a statement that its troops used anti aircraft fire Sunday to force the Israeli warplanes out of Lebanese airspace. The army said the planes were in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley in central Lebanon. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6895150.html">2/17/2010 - Two U.S. Democrat congressmen visit Gaza</a> The two U.S. congressmen, who were escorted by United Nations vehicles, visited areas which were bombarded by the Israeli army during last winter's "Operation Cast Lead" military offensive that lasted for 22 days. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-16-02.htm">2/17/2010 - Netanyahu: Israel not planning war with Iran</a> <b>That's because he knows he can get US to do it.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-14-02.htm">2/17/2010 - US military chief discusses Iran on Mideast tour</a> Egypt's state news agency says President Hosni Mubarak met with Adm. Mike Mullen on Sunday. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will travel later in the day to Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-14-03.htm">2/17/2010 - U.S., Israel up pressure for sanctions on Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/02/16/myth-of-the-iranian-nuke/">2/17/2010 - Myth of the Iranian Nuke by Patrick J. Buchanan </a> Last December, however, The Times of London reported it had a secret document, which  intelligence agencies dated to early 2007, proving that Iran was working on the final component of a  neutron initiator, the trigger for an atom bomb..... U.S. intelligence, however, has not confirmed the authenticity of the document, and Iran calls it a transparent forgery. When former CIA man Phil Giraldi sounded out ex-colleagues still in the trade, they, too, called the Times document a forgery. Shades of Saddam seeking yellowcake from Niger. Are the folks who lied us into war on Iraq, to strip it of weapons it did not have, now trying to lie us into war on Iran, to strip it of weapons it does not have? <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-13-06.htm">2/17/2010 - Isolated and battered, Israeli doves hold protest</a> Activists have gathered each Friday since November in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to protest the eviction of Palestinians from their homes to make room for Jewish settlers.....Activists point to a recent campaign vilifying a prominent human rights campaigner, arrests of protesters and attempts by government officials and right wing groups to halt international funding of Israeli organizations they deemed disloyal. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/125416/">2/17/2010 - IDF Turns To Human Rights Watch for Help</a> As human rights organizations continue to be vilified by an Israeli government still smarting from the effects of the Goldstone Report, the Forward has learned that the Israeli military has been in conversation and even actively working with Human Rights Watch, the international organization that has been often  and loudly  denounced by the Jewish world. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1316">2/17/2010 - AT-TUWANI UPDATE: January 2010</a> Despite continuing pressure, harassment, and attacks from the Israeli military and settlers, Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills continued to organize nonviolent actions and marches to assert their right to land access and education. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0211/1224264198217.html">2/17/2010 - Israeli group accuses Irish Gaza investigator of anti-Semitism</a> Desmond Travers was one of four members of the panel headed by retired South African jurist Richard Goldstone, mandated by the UN to investigate last winter s Israeli military operation in Gaza. Israel refused to co-operate with the inquiry, although a number of Israeli human rights groups provided information. After visiting Gaza and questioning witnesses the team produced a report accusing both Israel and Palestinian militant groups of committing war crimes. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1107ap_ml_palestinians_sex_tape.html">2/17/2010 - Abbas aide in sex tape scandal urged to quit</a> The footage of the aide, Rafiq Husseini, has sent shock waves through conservative Palestinian society since it was broadcast on Israeli TV earlier this week. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1149895">2/17/2010 - 'Livni may cause own arrest to shame U.K. into changing law' </a> Livni reportedly added that getting herself arrested was the only way to "shame" the British government into changing the law giving judges the power to arrest visiting Israeli politicians and generals. ....Foreign Secretary David Miliband later announced that Britain would no longer tolerate legal harassment of Israeli officials in this fashion. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1150184">2/17/2010 - At least five Israelis 'share names with Dubai hit squad suspects' </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-12-01.htm">2/17/2010 - Palestinian protesters pose as Na'vi from "Avatar"</a> Palestinian protesters have added a colorful twist to demonstrations against Israel's separation barrier, painting themselves blue and posing as characters from the hit film "Avatar." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1149405">2/17/2010 - Hamas: Next war with Israel will be regional conflict </a> Meshal's visit to Russia angered Israeli officials, who sent a letter of protest to Moscow over the matter. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1149950">2/17/2010 - Russia tells Netanyahu it will hold off on Iran arms deal </a> An hour before Netanyahu's plane took off on Sunday, Russian officials said that Moscow sees no reason to delay the sale of the S-300, a powerful air-defense system, to Iran. In addition, on Friday, Russian intelligence officials leaked comments expressing their displeasure with plans by an Israeli firm to close a major arms deal with Georgia. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24725.htm">2/17/2010 - US senators seek regime change in Iran</a> Senators John Cornyn and Sam Brownback introduced the so-called  Iran Democratic Transition Act bill on February 11, coinciding with the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, in which unprecedented tens of millions of Iranians poured into the streets to rally and celebrate the 31st anniversary. .....Observers point to the fact that both conservative Senators Brownback of Oklahoma and Cornyn of Texas have been on the payroll of pro-Israeli lobby groups in the United States and have regularly submitted anti-Iran measures in congress to satisfy the influential pro-Israeli lobby. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-16-01.htm">2/17/2010 - Suburban homeless: Rising tide of women, families</a> <b>As more Americans are finding themselves jobless and possibly even homeless, the billions of taxpayer dollars continue to flow to the Middle East where Israel sees the lion's share of the foreign aid budget (in many different forms such as aid to Egypt and Jordan for making peace with her). Americans could use that money RIGHT HERE at home, where liberty and justice for ALL reigns, unlike in Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-15-01.htm">2/17/2010 - Saudi official questions new sanctions on Iran</a> Prince Saud al Faisal told a news conference in the Saudi capital that the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions demands a more immediate solution than sanctions. He described sanctions as a long term solution, and he said the threat is more pressing. ....The Saudi minister also said efforts supported by the U.S. to rid the Middle East of nuclear weapons must apply to Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-12-02.htm">2/17/2010 - Obama backs justice for Hariri killers</a> Obama gave the assurance in a telephone call, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, adding the president also emphasized US support for Lebanon's "sovereignty and independence." <b>Then he will step in and ask the Israelis to stop the (illegal) overflights of Lebanon? Doubtful.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-17-03.htm">2/17/2010 - Robert Fisk: Passport to the truth in Dubai remains secret</a> Far too many police forces are now sending their minions to Israel to learn about "terror". The Canadians actually dispatched a team of cops to Tel Aviv who allowed themselves to wear "suicide vests" for publicity pictures. Air France now hands the US details of all its passengers' profiles  which, of course, go straight to the Israelis  despite the fact that Israeli security officers (like hundreds of Arab security officers in the Middle East) may well be involved in war crimes. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-15-05.htm">2/17/2010 - Israel asks Russia for Iran "sanctions with teeth"</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-17-02.htm">2/17/2010 - Israel No reason to think Mossad killed Hamas man</a> "Israel never responds, never confirms and never denies," he said. "There is no reason for Israel to change this policy." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/02/12/secession-in-the-air/">2/17/2010 - Secession in the Air by Patrick J. Buchanan </a> <b>When the tea partiers want to rally against the evils of the passionate attachment that George Washington warned us against, one if not the greatest danger to America (as the war cries against Iran from the neocons and ilk reach near hysteric levels), then I will be there with bells on.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24673.htm">2/17/2010 - Obama, The War President</a> In his speech, Obama warned Iran of "consequences" if it didn't play ball and co-operate on nuclear inspections. It's unclear whether those consequences are of the financial variety or of a pre-emptive military strike by the U.S. or Israel. All this comes at a time when the U.S. has bolstered its naval presence in the Persian Gulf and the neo-conservatives are calling for "regime change" in Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-15-02.htm">2/17/2010 - Quarter of Israeli settlements violate building ban group</a> A quarter of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank have begun new construction despite a government order banning new housing starts, an anti settlement group said on Monday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1150484">2/17/2010 - U.S. lawmakers in Israel 'puzzled' by Ayalon boycott</a> "In our opinion this is an inappropriate way to treat elected representatives of Israel's closest ally who are visiting the country - and who through the years have been staunch supporters of the U.S.-Israeli special relationship." <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-15-04.htm">2/17/2010 - Israeli FM: Palestinian government smearing us</a> Israel's foreign minister on Monday accused the Western backed Palestinian government of spearheading an international smear campaign against Israel and predicted that even if negotiations between the two sides resume, they would fail. <b>Israel has engaged in an international campaign to smear the Palestinians for over 60 years. Please.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-13-02.htm">2/17/2010 - Israeli deputy FM advice to Arab minority sparks anger</a> Arab Israeli MPs were angered on Saturday by advice from Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon that their minority should be transferred to a future Palestinian state. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-13-05.htm">2/17/2010 - More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers</a> <b>How much will another war in the Middle East, being pushed by the same corners that got us into Iraq, cost American taxpayers?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/125428/">2/17/2010 - Democracy in the Balance</a> The human rights groups whose reports are cited in the Goldstone Report are the canary in the coal mine of Israeli democracy. These organizations did their job, recording and reporting, and their findings were used primarily as background material; the most significant quotes used in the Goldstone Report came from military personnel and political leaders. <b></b><br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="2010/02/02-06-01.htm.htm">2/10/2010 - Iran nuclear issue the 'top global security threat'</a> Iran's defiance over its nuclear programme poses the greatest threat to international security, US National Security Advisor James Jones warned on Saturday. <b>Because my Israeli masters tell me so!</b><br><br> <a href="2010/01/01-30-01.htm">2/10/2010 - US accelerating missile defenses in Gulf report</a> The US administration is speeding up deployment of defenses against potential Iranian missile attacks in the Gulf to heed off any possible retaliation, The New York Times reported Saturday. ....."Our first goal is to deter the Iranians," a senior administration official told the newspaper. "A second is to reassure the Arab states, so they don't feel they have to go nuclear themselves. But there is certainly an element of calming the Israelis as well." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1312">2/10/2010 - At-Tuwani Release: Israeli settlers invade At-Tuwani village, enter</a> On Tuesday, 26 January 2010 approximately fifteen Israeli settlers from the Israeli settlement of Ma on and the Israeli outpost of Havat Ma on attacked Palestinians in the village of At-Tuwani. The settlers were accompanied by Israeli soldiers in three army jeeps and the settlement security agent of Ma on. Villagers <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/01/01-31-02.htm">2/10/2010 - Israel closes case on US man wounded in protest</a> Israel's Justice Ministry declared Sunday that no indictments will be filed against police in the case of an American activist who was hit by a tear gas canister and left comatose during a violent demonstration in the West Bank last year. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-07-02.htm">2/10/2010 - Israeli forces detain pro-Palestinian activists</a> In recent months, Israel has intensified its crackdown on those involved in the barrier protests, arresting dozens of Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/08">2/10/2010 - Israel: Attacks on New Israel Fund, Critical Groups, Threaten Civil Society</a> The growing harshness of attacks by Israeli government officials on nongovernmental organizations poses a real threat to civil society in Israel, Human Rights Watch said today......"What we're seeing in Israel is a greater official intolerance of dissent," <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1148274">2/10/2010 - Abbas give in to U.S. pressure for indirect Mideast talks </a> Senior Palestinian sources confirmed Sunday that Abbas has agreed in principle to the U.S. proposal for indirect talks. According to the same sources, Abbas intends to ask for a number of clarifications with the U.S. administration and will consult with Arab leaders prior to giving Washington his final response. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-10-03.htm">2/10/2010 - Lebanon warns of dangerous situation with Israel</a> "We see what's happening on the ground and in our air space and what's happening all the time during the past two months   every day we have Israeli war planes entering Lebanese air space," he said. "This is something that has been escalating, and this is something that is really dangerous," <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1147999">2/10/2010 - UN likely to refer Goldstone findings to The Hague</a> The United Nations is likely to refer the findings of the Goldstone report to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, diplomatic sources in New York said on Saturday. <b>Israel would probably ignore any guilty verdict by the ICJ much like it did in 2004 when the ICJ ruled illegal Israel's wall and settlements. International law doesn't seem to apply to Israel, only to Israel's enemies.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-09-02.htm">2/10/2010 - Obama turns up the heat on Iran</a> He indicated that his administration had made headway in persuading Russia to overcome its traditional resistance to imposing new sanctions on Iran, even if there was still some opposition from China. ....The loudest call for sanctions came from Israel where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for "crippling" measures against Tehran during a gathering of European Union ambassadors in Jerusalem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-05-01.htm">2/10/2010 - Dubai could seek Netanyahu arrest over Hamas murder</a> Dubai will issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if Israel is found to be implicated in the murder of a top militant Palestinian in the emirate, The National newspaper reported on Friday <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1147872.html">2/10/2010 - U.S. Senator Lieberman: Impose sanctions on Iran or attack it</a> The world faces a stark choice between imposing tough sanctions on Iran to stop its nuclear program, or attacking it, United States Senator Joe Lieberman said Saturday. Lieberman is the influential chairman of the Senate committee on homeland security. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/01/01-31-01.htm">2/10/2010 - Israel Slain Hamas leader key arms smuggler</a> Israeli officials said Sunday that a Hamas commander assassinated in Dubai played a central role in smuggling weapons from Iran to Gaza militants. But they refused to say whether Israel was responsible for killing the man it had sought for two decades. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1147852">2/10/2010 - Syria: We're ready for peace, but also for war </a> Lieberman on Thursday said "Assad should know that if he attacks, he will not only lose the war. Neither he nor his family will remain in power." His remarks came after Syrian President Bashar Assad on Wednesday told Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos that Israel was pushing the Middle East toward a new war. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2010/02/05/12758511-qmi.html">2/10/2010 - Wars sending U.S. into ruin </a> Obama s total military budget is nearly $1 trillion. This includes Pentagon spending of $880 billion. Add secret black programs (about $70 billion); military aid to foreign nations like Egypt, Israel and Pakistan; 225,000 military  contractors (mercenaries and workers); and veterans costs. Add $75 billion (nearly four times Canada s total defence budget) for 16 intelligence agencies with 200,000 employees. <b>Much of that money - and that includes aid to Egypt and Jordan to buy peace with Israel - is for the protection of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1147696">2/10/2010 - Four things Netanyahu needs for an Israeli strike on Iran </a> Four-star General Kevin Chilton was in Israel last week. He is head of the U.S. Strategic Command, whose sphere of operations includes responsibility for missiles on submarines and in underground silos, as well as bombers and satellites, and computer-network warfare. If American forces were to take part in an offensive campaign against Iran, Chilton would play a significant part in preparing them for battle and in long-distance missile launches......The crushing blow that comes after the [US] pressure will not be dealt before next year. <b>It's coming, folks. Round 2.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/01/01-27-01.htm">2/10/2010 - Iran's leader predicts Israel's destruction</a> "Definitely, the day will come when nations of the region will witness the destruction of the Zionist regime," Khamenei was quoted as saying. "How soon or late (Israel's demise) will happen depends on how Islamic countries and Muslim nations approach the issue." He did not elaborate. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-01-02.htm">2/10/2010 - U.S. missile test mimicking Iran strike fails</a> The abortive test over the Pacific Ocean coincided with a Pentagon report that Iran had expanded its ballistic missile capabilities and posed a "significant" threat to U.S. and allied forces in the Middle East region. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-06-03.htm">2/10/2010 - Palestinians question US on reviving peace talks</a> The Palestinians insist first on a full freeze of Israeli settlement building in the West Bank. They rejected a partial 10 month freeze imposed in late November as insufficient because it does not include east Jerusalem, where Palestinians hope to establish a capital <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135903">2/10/2010 - Palin: Obama Will Win Again If He Backs Israel and Bombs Iran</a> Speaking on Fox News, Palin stated,  Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decide to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel which I would like him to do. That changes the dynamics of what we can assume will happen between now and three years. Because I think if the election were today, Obama would not be elected. <b>Yes, she really did say this.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-07-04.htm">2/10/2010 - Rights group faults Israel's Gaza war crimes probe</a> "Israel claims it is conducting credible and impartial investigations, but it has so far failed to make that case," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director for Human Rights Watch. "An independent investigation is crucial to understand why so many civilians died and to bring justice for the victims of unlawful attacks." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124917/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=February122010+_+uiihhk&utm_term=CongressionalLetterToEndGazaBlockadeSplitsActivists">2/10/2010 - Congressional Letter To End Gaza Blockade Splits Activists</a> The administration has not responded so far to the congressional letter. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/125218/">2/10/2010 - Do Israelis and Their Politicians Disagree on the 'Bi-National' Issue</a> The belief across the center of Knesset is that Israel needs a peace deal that will take it out of the West Bank, otherwise the only option left will be a single bi-national state in which, as demography runs its course, Jews will be outnumbered (it was this consideration that drove the disengagement from Gaza). <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124867/">2/10/2010 - Dershowitz Explains Critical Goldstone Remark</a> After calling Goldstone  an evil, evil man and  an absolute traitor for his role in a United Nations report charging that Israel s military deliberately targeted civilians, Dershowitz now claims to have stepped back from some of those comments. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124599/">2/10/2010 - Israel Moves To Shut Down Demonstrations Against Security Barrier</a> In related news, Jerusalem police said Thursday that it plans on forcibly shutting down weekly demonstrations taking place in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1147596">2/10/2010 - 'U.S. Jews concerned over state of pluralism in Israel'</a> Ben-Ami added, saying that in that way "perhaps, he will come to see that our purpose is not to represent the government of Israel, our purpose is to represent moderate Jewish Americans in the construction of American foreign policy who believe, as Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in Herzliya this week, that Israel's very future is at risk without a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cpthebron/message/1313">2/10/2010 - AT-TUWANI RELEASE Palestinians plant 450 almond trees in Umm Mraiga, near Jinba village</a> At the end of the 90's, a wide portion of this area was declared by the Israeli Army a  closed military area and used for military training. Since then, the Palestinians of Jinba, despite being the owners of the land, have not been able to access and to cultivate the fields in proximity of the firing area. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.cnionline.org/legislation/house-of-representatives/text-and-signers-of-gaza-lette/">2/10/2010 - Text and signers of Ellison McDermott  Dear Colleague Letter on Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/123907/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=January292010+_+uywky&utm_term=Readmore">2/10/2010 - Mondrowitz Escapes Another Trial</a> The saga of Mondrowitz s escape from extradition began when he was indicted in Brooklyn on multiple counts of sodomy and sexual abuse of five children. He fled to Israel, where courts ruled that because Israel s definition of rape did not include sodomy, Mondrowitz had not broken Israeli law and could not be extradited. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-01-01.htm">2/10/2010 - Israelis disciplined in attack on UN warehouse</a> Israel is trying to stave off the report's central threat of launching war crimes proceedings if it does not carry out an independent investigation into the military's conduct during the fighting. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24597.htm">2/10/2010 - Video: Crocodile Tears</a> Dr. Norman Finkelstein at the University of Waterloo <b>A participant tries to play the Holocaust card on Norm Finkelstein. Think he allowed it?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24594.htm">2/10/2010 - Israel Rewrote the Rules of War for Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124425/">2/10/2010 - West Bank Rabbi, Author of Terror Text, Arrested for Mosque Torching</a> Just a week after the Forward published a feature about a book by two West Bank settler rabbis discussing scenarios for Jews to kill non-Jewish babies and innocents with the supposed blessing of Jewish law, one of the rabbi-authors has been arrested in connection with the recent torching of a nearby mosque. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24598.htm">2/10/2010 - Video: Gaza - Did You Know?</a> On December 27, 2008, Israel launched an Assault on the Gaza Strip. The attack of Dec. 27 caused the deadliest one-day death toll in 60 years of conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Over 3 weeks, 1,417 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-05-02.htm">2/10/2010 - UN chief can't judge if Gaza probes are 'credible'</a> U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki moon said he could not determine whether the Israelis or Palestinians had conducted credible investigations into allegations of war crimes during last year's Gaza conflict, as required under a U.N. resolution <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124900/">2/10/2010 - Shaking the Pillars of Israeli Democracy</a> There s another reason for Israel s current mood of impatience and intolerance. Netanyahu is under enormous international pressure to resume negotiations toward permanent peace agreement with the Palestinians. If and when talks get serious, it s clear that the Palestinians will insist on a sharing or division of Jerusalem. That s a red line for many Israelis. In anticipation, groups on the right are racing to solidify Israeli residential presence in Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, in hopes of making partition impossible. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1147848">2/10/2010 - Report: Assassins of Hamas official used Irish passports </a> Up to seven people were said to have been involved in Mabhouh's killing, four of whom used Irish passports to enter Dubai and who later fled to a "European country" after the killing, police sources in Dubai told the newspaper..... However, both Hamas and Dubai police have said that Mabhouh had enemies across the Middle East, any of whom may have had a motive for his murder. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124915/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=February122010+_+uiihhk&utm_term=Readmore">2/10/2010 - Congresswoman Rues Signing Gaza Letter</a> Clarke s retraction of her support for the Gaza letters echoes similar pressure put on lawmakers in the run-up to J Street s first national conference, in October 2009. Then, too, some members of Congress from strongly Jewish districts came under constituent pressure to withdraw from a list of sponsors for the event. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/02/08/palin-misreads-pat/">2/10/2010 - Palin Misreads Pat</a> Say he decided to declare war on Iran, or decided to really come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://neocon-watch.blogspot.com/2010/02/truth-about-us-israel-relationship-as.html">2/10/2010 - The Truth About the US - Israel Relationship as told by former CIA </a> Anyone that tells us Americans that we are attacked for our freedoms is either grossly misinformed, or a liar. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124478/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=February122010+_+uiihhk&utm_term=ImmigrationDebatePromptsGrowingJewish-LatinoTies">2/10/2010 - Immigration Debate Prompts Growing Jewish-Latino Ties</a> Jewish activists also see the joint work as an opening for cooperation with the Hispanic community on other issues, such as Israel. <b>I've read similar articles in the past which basically state as this one does that pro-Israel groups (which historically are very powerful) are the ones behind the push for amnesty for illegals. Why? Because they see it as a way to get more support for Israel. Let's not forget, it's the Latino community that is expected to become the majority in America in the years to come.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1148585">2/10/2010 - Wiesel: If Ahmadinejad were assassinated, I wouldn't shed a tear</a> "We all know that Ahmadinejad - an open anti-Semite and the world's biggest Holocaust denier - intends to destroy Israel and bring disaster to the entire world," Wiesel told Army Radio commentator Razi Barkai. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/26968/netanyahu-calls-crippling-iran-sanctions">2/10/2010 - Netanyahu calls for 'crippling' Iran sanctions</a> Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called for  crippling sanctions against Iran in a meeting with European ambassadors in Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24624.htm">2/10/2010 - Time for an American Intifada?</a> Republican George W. Bush, another Christian-Zionist president, was induced with phony intelligence to wage war in Iraq. The false intelligence was traceable to Israelis, pro-Israelis or assets developed for that purpose. That invasion had long been a priority goal of those who believe-truly believe-in their right to an expansionist Greater Israel. <b>Intifada literally means to shake off. Yes, it is time for Americans to shake off Israel like a bad set of fleas. It's the reason I have owned and operated the website with the aforementioned name for as long as I've known the true nature of Israel. Read further into the article to find out what went on behind the scenes in the Truman administration when it came time to ponder recognizing the newly-created state of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/08/i_dont_mean_to_say_i_told_you_so_but">2/10/2010 - I don't mean to say I told you so, but...</a> In his testimony to the Iraq war commission in the U.K., former Prime Minister Tony Blair offered the following account of his discussions with Bush in Crawford, Texas in April 2002. Blair reveals that concerns about Israel were part of the equation and that Israel officials were involved in those discussions. <b>Israel is pushing us to attack another country - this time, Iran.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24623.htm">2/10/2010 - Video: Rep. Mike Pence: Israel Should Dictate U.S. Policy</a> Pence is literally saying, Israeli officials should tell us what they want us to do, and we'll support it. That's an insane premise, and if you replace "Israel" with any other country, no U.S. politician would accept it. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24622.htm">2/10/2010 - Senate Passes AIPAC's Iran Sanctions Bill in Five Minutes</a> just last week the Senate passed comprehensive sanctions on Iran -- a bill being pushed by AIPAC neocons and the other "usual suspects" -- in record time. It was brought up with only three senators on the floor; there was a five minute debate and it passed by voice vote. Just like that. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7173446/Tories-would-back-war-with-Iran.html">2/10/2010 - Tories would back war with Iran</a> The Tory policy on Iran differs from the Government's stated position that military action was "inconceivable". ....He said that while for the west Iran was a major diplomatic challenge, for Israel it remained an "existential threat". <b>Oh Canada, you too have been sucked into Israel's problems.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1148851">2/10/2010 - Goldstone co-author: Hamas fired 'something like two' rockets before Gaza war </a> Travers rejects the idea that Israel launched the offensive in Gaza on December 27, 2008, as an act of self-defense in response to Hamas rockets. ....Travers also rejects Israel Defense Forces photographs as proof that Hamas hid weapons in mosques during the conflict. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1148314">2/10/2010 - UN prepares to intervene as Iran declares new nuclear plans </a> "This is additional proof that Iran is ridiculing the world," Barak told members of his Labor party at a faction meeting. "The correct response is to impose decisive and permanent sanctions. I hope that the international community will not turn a blind eye to Iran's declaration." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124920/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=February122010+_+uiihhk&utm_term=EmbattledNewIsraelFundFightsBack">2/10/2010 - Embattled New Israel Fund Fights Back</a> Adopting a notably combative tone under new leadership, the American- based charity is depicting an accusatory report by a new Israeli organization  trumpeted in a front-page story in Maariv, a major Israeli daily  as the last straw in a series of attacks against likeminded groups. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/123925/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=January292010+_+uywky&utm_term=Readmore">2/10/2010 - Rabbinic Text or Call to Terror</a>  The prohibition  Thou Shalt Not Murder  applies only  to a Jew who kills a Jew, write Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar. Non-Jews are  uncompassionate by nature and attacks on them  curb their evil inclination, while babies and children of Israel s enemies may be killed since  it is clear that they will grow to harm us. .... the book s wide dissemination and the enthusiastic endorsements of prominent rabbis have spotlighted what might have otherwise remained an isolated commentary. <b>I'm sorry, but which side was it that I was supposed to believe preaches hatred in their religion?</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-07-03.htm">2/10/2010 - Netanyahu Israel open to peace talks with Syria</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-04-01.htm">2/10/2010 - Israel warns Syria it would lose future war</a> Israel's outspoken foreign minister harshly warned Syria Thursday against drawing the Jewish state into another war, saying the Syrian army would be defeated and its regime would collapse in a future conflict. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1144093.html">2/10/2010 - U.S. Jew indicted as possible Israel spy</a> The FBI searched Nozette's home and computer and found additional proof of his connection to Israel. He visited here several times, but did not report this - as is required by his high security clearance. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-04-02.htm">2/10/2010 - Settler house to be evacuated in Jerusalem</a> The Jerusalem mayor has agreed to evacuate a Jewish settlers' house built illegally in the heart of a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood  but also plans to demolish dozens of Palestinian buildings erected without permission in the area, his spokesman said Thursday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/124479/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=February52010+_+ujkrp&utm_term=Readmore">2/10/2010 - Israelis To Move Security Barrier At Site of Palestinian Protests</a> Khatib told the Forward that the tactics reflect  civilian people asking for justice and looking for peace. When those in attendance approach the barrier and try to open a gate, it is a symbolic act of trying to reach villagers farmland, he said. He condemned the IDF s response as heavy-handed and unnecessary. <b></b><br><br> <a href="2010/01/01-28-02.htm">2/10/2010 - Palestinians irate over new Jerusalem tram</a> "The purpose of this project is to make a bridge between the settlements ... and west Jerusalem and they use our land, Palestinian land," said Ahmed Rweidi, an adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "The train is illegal and the settlements are illegal." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://neocon-watch.blogspot.com/2010/02/tale-of-two-articles.html">2/10/2010 - A Tale of Two Articles </a> <b>Two articles in the Forward demonstrate the influence of the Israeli lobby on American foreign pollicy.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-06-02.htm">2/10/2010 - Hamas wants ICC to judge 'Zionist war criminals'</a> However, he also said he expected that the United States would block any such move. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/124990/">2/10/2010 - From Russia, With No Love</a> he escaped the country in 2003 and emigrated to Israel he was charged for ordering contract killings of Yukos enemies (for which he was tried and found guilty in absentia in 2008). In Israel, Nevzlin has rebranded himself, becoming a prominent Israeli philanthropist through his foundation, NADAV, and its many charitable projects to promote with Nevzlin calls  Jewish peoplehood. <b>Israel seems to give shelter for criminals.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3845182,00.html">2/10/2010 - Arab media: 2 Israeli Navy ships passed through Suez Canal</a> The sources did not provide the exact ultimate destination of the missile boats. However, Egyptian maritime sources quoted in the Arab media estimated that both ships were headed to the Persian Gulf and may reach it within four days. The veracity of these estimates is unclear. The sail through the Suez Canal was coordinated with Egyptian authorities, which reportedly adopted strict security arrangements to ensure the safe passage of the two Israeli ships <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://collegelife.freedomblogging.com/2010/02/08/israeli-ambassador-xxxx-at-uci/15647/">2/10/2010 - 11 arrested for disrupting Israeli ambassador</a> Eleven people were arrested Monday evening during a raucous lecture at UC Irvine where Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren came to talk about U.S.-Israel relations. (UCI earlier said that 12 were arrested.) <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/124485/">2/10/2010 - The Wiesenthal Center Digs Itself Deeper</a> Building on this cemetery denies Palestinian history and humanity  it will leave an irreversible scar on Jerusalem. The museum will never be an  embodiment of human respect and compassion at this location. <br><br> <br><hr><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1145382">2/3/2010 - U.S. lawmakers to Obama: Press Israel to ease Gaza siege </a> Fifty-four members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to put pressure on Israel to ease the siege of the Gaza Strip. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=166973">2/3/2010 - 'Iran, Nazi Germany must be compared'</a> Comparisons between contemporary Iran and Nazi Germany are not only appropriate, but pertinent and true, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said while on a visit to Hungary on the morning of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1145274">2/3/2010 - Settler rabbi arrested over West Bank mosque arson</a> The suspect, Rabbi Itzik Shapira, is one of the heads of the "Od Yosef Chai" yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar. ....The yeshiva is behind the "price tag" policy whereby settlers have vowed to instigate actions against Palestinians in retaliation for the government's enforcement of a construction freeze in West Bank settlements. <b>Terrorist.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/exclusive-israeli-commander-we-rewrote-the-rules-of-war-for-gaza-1887627.html">2/3/2010 - Israeli commander: 'We rewrote the rules of war for Gaza'</a> His remarks reinforce testimonies from soldiers who served in the Gaza operation, made to the veterans' group Breaking the Silence and reported exclusively by this newspaper last July. They also appear to cut across the military doctrine  enunciated most recently in public by one of the authors of the IDF's own code of ethics  that it is the duty of soldiers to run risks to themselves in order to preserve civilian lives. <b>The Israelis have a history of deliberately targeting civilians. Witness Lebanon 2006.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7147874/Israeli-officer-says-rules-of-engagement-ignored.html">2/3/2010 - Israeli officer says rules of engagement ignored</a> Another soldier was blunter: "If you see any signs of movement at all, you shoot. This is essentially the rules of engagement." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/123366/">2/3/2010 - Why the Mistrust Between U.S. and Israel?</a> This sensitivity became apparent after an hour-long interview that the administration s Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, gave on January 6 to Charlie Rose on PBS. Pressed by the interviewer to list the sticks the United States could use in order to pressure Israel to move forward with the peace process, Mitchell answered,  Under American law, the United States can withhold support on loan guarantees to Israel. He mentioned that Bush did so in the past.....The issue even reached American Senator Joe Lieberman, who was on a congressional delegation in Israel and stated that American lawmakers will never allow the administration to cut back on aid to Israel......A recent poll conducted by the New America Foundation found that a majority of Israelis do not believe that Obama is pro-Israel. While the survey showed a good approval rate for Obama in Israel, it indicated that he still has a problem in coming through as supportive of the Jewish state. <b>For whom does Lieberman work, America, or Israel? Could it be any more obvious? As to the second part of the excerpt, who gives a damn what the Israelis think of Obama? He's the president of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.</b><br><br> <a href="2010/02/02-03-01.htm">2/3/2010 - Italy's prime minister links Gaza war to Holocaust</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/in-the-west-banks-stony-hills-palestine-is-slowly-dying-1883669.html">2/3/2010 - In the West Bank's stony hills, Palestine is slowly dying by Robert Fisk</a> Palestinian requests to build houses are either delayed for years or refused; houses built without permission are ruthlessly torn down <b>This goes on not in Israel but in Palestinian territory.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24526.htm">2/3/2010 - Senators Seek 'Crippling' Iran Sanctions</a> The letter is signed by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and David Vitter (R-La.). <b>Say, I wonder if this has anything to do with Israel? Nahh..</b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/lobe/2010/01/27/iran-sanctions-regime-change-take-center-stage/">2/3/2010 - Iran Sanctions,  Regime Change, Take Center Stage</a> With the Senate set to take up major sanctions legislation against Iran by mid-February, neo-conservative and other hawks are calling on the administration of President Barack Obama to pursue a more aggressive course of "regime change" in Tehran.....Under heavy pressure from the so-called "Israel Lobby", the House of Representatives last month approved one long-delayed bill that would, among other things, impose penalties on foreign energy companies that provide gasoline to Iran or invest more than 20 million dollars a year in Iran s energy sector. The vote was 412-12. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1146194">2/3/2010 - Clinton: China risks diplomatic isolation over Iran</a> The United States is the most visible leader in the new push for UN Security Council sanctions, and Clinton spent much of her time in Europe this week lobbying major powers whose support she needs to pass and enforce new economic penalties <b>Our government officials are once again doing the bidding of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1146200">2/3/2010 - The United States is expediting the deployment of missile defenses against Iranian missile attacks in the Persian Gulf, the New York Times reported on Saturday. </a> According to the New York Times report, the Obama administration is also trying to show Israel that there is no immediate need for military strikes against Iranian nuclear and missile facilities. <b>Read the third to last paragraph where Peres is telling the new head of the IAEA that Iran isn't respecting the rules. Iran, unlike Israel, has actually signed on to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and has its nuclear sites opened up for inspection. The Israelis are total hypocrites.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/31/iran-nuclear-us-missiles-gulf">2/3/2010 - US raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles</a> American officials said the move is aimed at deterring an attack by Iran and reassuring Gulf states fearful that Tehran might react to sanctions by striking at US allies in the region. Washington is also seeking to discourage Israel from a strike against Iran by demonstrating that the US is prepared to contain any threat.....The director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, met the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and other senior officials in Jerusalem last week to discuss Iran.....Pro-Israel lobby groups in the US have joined Republican party leaders in trying to build public pressure on the administration to take a tougher line with Iran. One group, the Israel Project, has been running a TV campaign warning that Iran might supply nuclear weapons to terrorists. <b>Beware America, the Israel crowd is now gearing up for our next war for Israel. This time - target Iran.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1146427">2/3/2010 - Obama adviser: U.S. and Israel working very closely on Iran</a> Jones said the United States and Israel are in close coordination over how to handle Iran. "We have very good dialogue with Israel, continual dialogue," he told The Jerusalem Post. "We're working very closely with them." <b>No kidding?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1147285">2/3/2010 - Assad: Israel leading the Middle East to war </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24563.htm">2/3/2010 - Strengthening US 'Defense' In Gulf A Step To War </a> An article in the New York Times by David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt states: "The Obama administration is accelerating the deployment of new defenses against possible Iranian missile attacks in the Persian Gulf." It continues that this move "appears to be part of a coordinated administration strategy to increase pressure on Iran." Since there is about a zero chance that Iran would dare to launch a first strike on the US or its Arab allies, the US would only need to strengthen its missile defenses in order to deal with an Iranian counterattack after the US had first bombed Iran. <b>Oh, you noticed that too, hmm?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1147031">2/3/2010 - U.S. report: Iran's nuclear program gaining ground</a> "Iran's technical advancement, particularly in uranium enrichment, strengthens our 2007 NIE assessment that Iran has the scientific, technical and industrial capacity to eventually produce nuclear weapons, making the central issue its political will to do so," Blair said. Advertisement "We continue to assess Iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons in part by developing various nuclear capabilities that bring it closer to being able to produce such weapons, should it choose to do so. We do not know, however, if Iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons," <b>Last sentence. Iran has not built the bomb, folks, despite all of the BS Israel has been feeding us (for several years now).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581277,00.html">2/3/2010 - Israel Says Iran Can Build Nuclear Bomb by 2011</a> Iran will possess the technology to build a nuclear bomb by early 2010 and be able to produce one the following year, Israeli media quoted Israel's defense minister as saying Monday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/118322/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=November132009+_+hhply&utm_term=Readmore">2/3/2010 - U.S. Eases Pressure on Israel, Leans On Palestinians</a>  I think they received the message, said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, of the Obama administration. Foxman, who has been at the forefront of the effort to ease American pressure on Israel, said that  reality has come to Washington and that Obama and his advisers now understand  that singling out Israel doesn t work. <b>Another example of who is the driver of US foreign policy right here. The author of the related Forward piece in this news roundup is deluded if they think Israel is not the driver. It is. It's all here in print. Read the rest of the article for more proof of Israel's unprecedented influence of our high - level officials.</b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/123368/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=January222010+_+ulhuo&utm_term=Readmore">2/3/2010 - Bereft and Healing, a Father Returns Home to Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/122781/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=January152010+_+kutjhd&utm_term=Readmore">2/3/2010 - Israel s Airport Security, Object Of Envy, Is Hard To Emulate Here</a>  Americans find it hard to swallow a security policy that employs different standards to different groups. While for most Jewish Israelis the policy of profiling in airport security is viewed as acceptable, Arab citizens of the country see it as outright discrimination. <b>Oddly, Israel's history of Arab discrimination has long preceded the Arab terrorism.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/179260">2/3/2010 - Netanyahu Singles Out Iran, Venezuela for Anti-Semitism</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7008004.ece">2/3/2010 - Israel's history of state-sponsored assassination</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1145541">2/3/2010 - Netanyahu at Auschwitz: World must unite to confront new threats </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6edg7OjLyw">2/3/2010 - Video: Israeli Confessions</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1144950">2/3/2010 - Government plans land giveaway to combat troops </a> Land will be allocated in the Galilee, the Negev desert, the Jordan valley and the Golan Heights - with the result that the move is likely to be seen as a continuation of the government's controversial policy of encouraging Israeli Jews to reside in rural regions with large Arab populations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1146191">2/3/2010 - Author David Grossman: Settlers abuse Palestinians </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1146123">2/3/2010 - Swedish mayor calls both Anti-Semitism and Zionism forms of 'unacceptable extremism' </a> Swedish Jews are upset about comments made this week by the mayor of Malmo, who said anti-Semitism and Zionism were both forms of "unacceptable extremism," and urged local Jews to disassociate themselves from Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip. <b>Oh dear.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1145025">2/3/2010 - German firm cancels deal with Iran port due to Israeli pressure </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3176:sunday-herald-auschwitz-survivor-israel-acts-like-nazis&catid=545:zionist-exploitation&Itemid=200514">2/3/2010 - Auschwitz survivor:  Israel acts like Nazis </a> Speaking as his tour got under way, Dr Meyer said there were parallels between the treatment of Jews by Germans in the Second World War and the current treatment of Palestinians by Israeli <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=50152">2/3/2010 - Q&A: ''Hamas Accepts Existence of Israel Within 1967 Borders'' </a> We have already stated repeatedly that we accept the existence of Israel within the 1967 borders as a political reality even if we do not approve its moral legitimacy. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/scheuer/2009/12/30/barack-obama-interventionist-and-ultimate-jihadi-hero/ ">2/3/2010 - Barack Obama, Interventionist and Ultimate Jihadi Hero by Michael Scheuer</a> For Obama and most members of our governing elite, today s Iran fairly screams for Western intervention to break the mullahs backs and install secularism; to destroy an Israeli foe and ensure AIPAC funds to continue to flow into their pockets; and to make them feel good about themselves, no matter the cost to Americans and their children. <b>God love you, Mr. Scheuer. You dare speaketh the truth.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7008985.ece">2/3/2010 - Blair warns that world faces decision to halt Iran s nuclear programme</a> He warned that world leaders, including the British Prime Minister, now faced the same kinds of decision about the dangers posed by repressive regimes as he did seven years ago. <b>Tony Blair - still a stoolie for Israel despite not holding office in the UK.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24574.htm">2/3/2010 - How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran</a> <b>Daniel Pipes is a noted Israel-firster. He and like 'Americans' should be deported to Israel where he can bring no (more) harm to America and her (America First) citizens herein.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-9462-LA-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2010m1d13-Poll-Shows-American-Jewish-not-as-proimmigration-as-leadership">2/3/2010 - Truth about Israeli influence over US foreign policy gets out on C-SPAN </a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/122779/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=January152010+_+kutjhd&utm_term=Readmore">2/3/2010 - Can Tax-Free Donations Fund Settlements?</a> An early January announcement that Israeli authorities had approved a new Jewish settlement on the campus of an American-funded yeshiva in East Jerusalem came just weeks after President Obama issued a statement condemning new Israeli construction in the area. The yeshiva, called Beit Orot, received nearly half a million tax-free dollars in donations from an American affiliate in 2007. And according to one expert, the group constructing the new housing is a subsidiary of Elad, a settlement organization that received $2.7 million in 2007 from its tax-exempt American affiliate. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/22/time_for_george_mitchell_to_resign">2/3/2010 - Time for George Mitchell to resign</a> the main obstacle has been the Netanyahu government's all-too obvious rejection of anything that might look like a viable Palestinian state, combined with its relentless effort to gobble up more land. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2010/01/20/the-terrorism-conundrum/">2/3/2010 - The Terrorism Conundrum by Philip Giraldi</a> Terror is not a nation nor is it a group. It is a tactic. It has existed since men first picked up rocks to strike each other but in its modern form it was developed in Palestine in the 1940s when the Haganah and Stern Gangs struck against civilian targets like the King David Hotel to drive the British out. It was then used by the nascent state of Israel against Palestinian Arabs to force them to leave their homes. Terrorism consists of attacking civilian targets to demoralize the local population and weaken its ability to resist. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/118311/">2/3/2010 - What a Dollar Gets You on Capitol Hill, and What It Doesn t</a> Lawmakers often compete to introduce, sponsor or vote for pro-Israel measures  generally non-binding and mostly meaningless  sense of Congress resolutions  to prove their pro-Israel bona fides without taking any political chances. It s part of their search for bragging rights. One curmudgeonly old chairman blocked a senator s amendment not because he opposed it but because, as he explained,  I ain t gonna be out-Israel d by anyone. <b>I don't agree with the author; not only does the Israeli lobby steer US foreign policy, it is in fact the driver.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0127/breaking57.htm">2/3/2010 - Iran a threat to the world - Peres</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/06-1">2/3/2010 - Counterterrorism in Shambles; Why?</a> Take, for example, what Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the "mastermind" of 9/11, said was his main motive. Here's what the 9/11 Commission Report wrote on page 147. You will not find it reported in the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM): "By his own account, KSM's animus toward the United States stemmed...from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1145197">2/3/2010 - Israel accuses Turkish PM of inciting anti-Semitism</a> The seven-page report, which was submitted to the "septet" of key cabinet ministers a few days ago, also charged that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "indirectly incites and encourages" anti-Semitism. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gXlzTQaiB-PiwHtYxlprhknJMW2g">2/3/2010 - Israel calls UN Gaza report 'anti-Semitic'</a> YNet's report suggested the Israeli leadership is planning an all-out attack on the report to coincide with Wednesday's anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz. <b>Naturally</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1146410">2/3/2010 - U.S. official: Hezbollah arms flow may signal plans for war with Israel </a> The U.S. is concerned that the continued flow of arms to the Hezbollah militant organization could prompt a war between Israel and Lebanon, State Department official Jeff Feltman said in remarks published Sunday by the London-based Al-Hayat daily. <b>Why is this our problem?</b><br><br> <a href="http://blogs.forward.com/jj-goldberg/124822/">2/3/2010 - If America Sneezes, Israel Gets Pneumonia. What Happens When America Gets Pneumonia?</a> As America s role goes on the world stage, so goes Israel. A weak America can t protect an embattled Israel. If Israel doesn t find a way to normalize its relations with its neighbors by the end of the decade, it may have to adjust to life without the protection of the world s sole superpower. <b>Oh the horror.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24559.htm">2/3/2010 - Blair the British Neo-con</a> Though the Chilcot Inquiry is concerned only with Iraq - how Blair s government made the decision to go to war and what lessons should be learned  Blair could not resist beating the drum for war on Iran. He did that four times. One might have been listening to John Bolton or any of America s or Israel s lunatics. When he was going on about terrorism being a threat to all, he threw in:  It s a constant problem for Israel. They get attacked. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/neocon-junket-live-penetration-raids-in-arab-territory.html">2/3/2010 - Neocon junket:  live penetration raids in Arab territory </a> Below is an ad that was in Haaretz lately for the Ultimate Mission to Israel. The trip is a red-meat propaganda trip of a retro-masculine character "live exhibition of penetration raids in Arab territory" pitched to American professionals, accountants, doctors, lawyers. <b></b><br><br> <br><br> <b>January </b> <br><br> Some of these news links are from 2009<br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24291.htm">01-27-10 - US congressmen fighting for Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1141553">01-27-10 - Palestinian official: Israel razed 150 Arab homes in West Bank</a> Atef Hanini, a local Palestinian official, disputed the Israeli justification and said the Palestinian farming community had lived in the area of Tana, east of Nablus, for decades. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/jan/12/graham-us-may-have-use-military-action-against-ira/">01-27-10 - Graham: U.S. may have to use military action against Iran</a> Israel, which Iran s leaders have threatened to destroy, must weigh its options, Graham said, but it does not have the capabilities.  Israel attacking Iran is a nightmare, Graham said. The U.S. may have to act militarily, he said, if other methods fail. <b>What Graham is saying is that since Israel cannot attack Iran, the US must.</b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9298432">01-27-10 - Palestinians fake cancer to flee blockaded Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/20-2">01-27-10 - World Aid Agencies Appeal to Israel to Unlock Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/457626/us_tells_israel_iran_has_eight_weeks">01-27-10 - US Tells Israel Iran Has Eight Weeks</a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/israel039s-gaza-blockade-continues-suffocate-daily-life-20100118">01-27-10 - Amnesty - Israel's Gaza blockade continues to suffocate daily life Amnesty International</a>  The blockade constitutes collective punishment under international law and must be lifted immediately. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/10/26/amnesty-israel-withholds-water-from-palestinians/">01-27-10 - Amnesty: Israel withholds water from Palestinians</a> Amnesty International is accusing Israel of pumping disproportionate amounts of drinking water from an aquifer it controls in the West Bank, depriving local Palestinians of their fair share. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=7664507">01-27-10 - Analysis Iran looms over Obama Mideast peace bid</a> Israel wants to see the Iranian threat dealt with before pursuing peace deals with the Arabs. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9385479">01-27-10 - Israel harvested organs in '90s without permission</a> <b>Wow.</b><br><br> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009587399_apmlisraelpalestinians.html">01-27-10 - 50 Palestinians evicted from their Jerusalem homes</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-10-16-gaza-report_N.htm">01-27-10 - UN vote sends Gaza war report to Security Council </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/17/2716790.htm">01-27-10 - UN rights council endorses Gaza war crimes report </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/04/14/Commentary-Gulf-war-jitters/UPI-12831239721292/">01-27-10 - Gulf war jitters</a> Gulf Cooperation Council members -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman -- are getting ready for what many now assume will be retaliation from Iran following Israeli bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities later this year. Up and down the Persian Gulf, Patriot missile batteries have been quietly deployed around key oil installations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BF06A81&show_article=1">01-27-10 - Scientist appears in court in secrets case</a> A scientist who allegedly tried to sell classified secrets to Israel had worked on the U.S. government's Star Wars missile shield program, and the Justice Department declared Tuesday that he had tried to share some of the nation's most guarded secrets. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24243.htm">01-27-10 - World Has Betrayed Gaza Civilians Rights Groups </a> The world has "betrayed" civilians in the Gaza Strip by failing to end a blockade of the Hamas-run enclave, 16 rights groups, including Amnesty International and Oxfam, said Tuesday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/11/international/i062802D49.DTL">01-27-10 - Palestinians say hopes in Obama 'evaporated'</a> The Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/11/international/i062802D49.DTL#ixzz0eEoV6HI8 <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009878422_apmlisraelgazawar.html">01-27-10 - Gazans welcome UN war crimes report</a> The report echoed findings in a string of human rights reports released in recent months, but it could carry more weight, both because it was authored by a widely respected former war crimes prosecutor, Richard Goldstone, and because at least in theory it opens the way to charges against Israel before the International Criminal Court <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5850IE20090907">01-27-10 - Israel authorizes new settler homes in West Bank</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8815527">01-27-10 - Palestinians, allies reopen Gaza war crimes debate</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/08/15/hamas-crushes-challenge-by-al-qaida-inspired-group-2/">01-27-10 - Hamas crushes challenge by al-Qaida-inspired group</a> The leader of an al-Qaida-inspired group in the Gaza Strip blew himself up during a shootout Saturday with Hamas security forces, ending hours of violence sparked by a rebellious sermon at a mosque near the Egyptian border. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33946915/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/">01-27-10 - Palestinians to seek UN endorsement of statehood</a> Palestinian officials said Sunday they are preparing to ask the United Nations to endorse an independent state without Israel's consent because they are losing hope they can achieve their aspirations through peace talks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49833">01-27-10 - U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged</a> Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told IPS that intelligence sources say that the United States had nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication, however. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1120012">01-27-10 - Palestinians want urgent UN debate on Goldstone Gaza report</a> Palestinian diplomats in Geneva said Friday they are pushing to bring forward a United Nations Human Rights Council debate on alleged war crimes committed by Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in Gaza earlier this year <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hfCovw5NyRLdeUFbjHQ68S7Wm3hg">01-27-10 - Iran's leader predicts Israel's destruction</a> The all-powerful Iranian leader also said that Israel's continued "pressure to erase Palestine from the world of Islamic nations" will fail <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/20/1008595/pentagon-man-arrested-on-israel-spy-attempt-charge">01-27-10 - FBI Alleged spy wannabe asked for Israeli citizenship</a> An FBI agent posing as a Mossad agent contacted Nozette in September. In conversations transcribed in the complaint, Nozette says he is surprised that Israel did not approach him to spy sooner and asks for an Israeli passport, saying he is entitled to Israeli citizenship because his parents are Jewish. He allegedly told the FBI agent that he had top security clearance until 2006 and could remember details that would be of use to Israel. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5AG2P520091117">01-27-10 - Israel angers U.S. by approving new West Bank homes</a> Gibbs also said the United States objected to continued evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/12/11/israel-arrests-palestinian-barrier-protest-leader-2/">01-27-10 - Israel arrests Palestinian barrier protest leader</a> Since 2005, demonstrators led by Abu Rahmeh have marched every Friday from the West Bank village of Bilin to the nearby separation barrier that slices off 60 percent of the village land. Their acts of protest, which have also included chaining themselves to trees, have won praise from Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu and support among Israeli peace activists. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iShXWxopptiNzVWTpbIzH9RtRRGA">01-27-10 - Gaza's Christians look to tunnels for scant holiday cheer</a> "Some of these gifts came from Egypt through the tunnels because the crossings were closed," Emad Barakat, a Gaza City gift shop owner said, pointing to rows of chocolate Santas. "They've been selling well." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7694866">01-27-10 - Israel on edge as US presses to halt settlements</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/world/middleeast/05mideast.html">01-27-10 - U.S. Rebukes Israel Over Settlement Plan</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE58K1BM20090921">01-27-10 - Israel says still has military option on Iran</a> A Kremlin transcript of an interview Medvedev gave to CNN last Tuesday quoted him as saying that an attack on Iran would lead to "a humanitarian disaster" and risk provoking retaliation against Israel that would also affect other nations. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,581277,00.html">01-27-10 - Israel Says Iran Can Build Nuclear Bomb by 2011</a> <br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8120557">01-27-10 - Israel rejects US call to halt Jerusalem project</a> Israeli officials said the country's ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, was summoned to the State Department over the weekend and told that a project made up of 20 apartments developed by an American millionaire should not go ahead. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8522193">01-27-10 - Israeli study Civilians majority of Gaza war dead</a> Well over half of nearly 1,400 Palestinians killed in Israel's Gaza war were civilians, including 252 children younger than 16, a leading Israeli human rights groups said Wednesday, challenging Israel's claim that most of the dead were militants. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1139584">01-27-10 - Israel rejects bill allocating equal land to Jews and Arabs</a> "Since the foundation of the state, the Israel Lands Administration is solely used as Jewish land administration. The director of the Israel Lands Administration has used all the tactics, with the help of the Jewish Agency, to allocate state land only to Jews. Despite the bitter attempt over the decades, not even one Arab town has been established since the state's foundation. Therefore a bill must be passed which stipulates that the Israel Lands Administration will serve all the state's citizens without discrimination on religion or nationality, and will promise an equal allocation of land to better the Arab population of Israel." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1932781,00.html">01-27-10 - Jerusalem Poses New Crisis for Obama As Tensions Rise</a> Spurred by the Obama Administration's efforts to revive final-status negotiations and emboldened by its successful rebuff of Washington's demand for a settlement freeze, Israel has moved to consolidate its control of occupied East Jerusalem by demolishing Palestinian homes and expanding Israeli construction there. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1932781,00.html#ixzz0eEddTAus <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/31/netanyahu-to-obama-stop-i_n_181293.html">01-27-10 - Netanyahu To Obama Stop Iran, Or I Will</a> The American president, he said, must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons--and quickly--or an imperiled Israel may be forced to attack Iran's nuclear facilities itself. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10797286&clienttype=mobile">01-27-10 - Israel on Iran Anything it takes to stop nukes</a> U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates reassured Israel that the new Obama administration was not naive about Iran's intentions, and that Washington would press for new, tougher sanctions against the Iranians if they balk. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/14/tzipi-livni-israel-gaza-arrest">01-27-10 - British court issued Gaza arrest warrant for former Israeli minister Tzipi Livni</a> Livni, head of the opposition Kadima party, played a key role in decisions made before and during the three-week offensive. Palestinian officials and an Israeli human rights organisation say about 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the Gaza offensive. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24439.htm">01-27-10 - Accepting Various Truths</a> Michael Scheuer, a former CIA specialist on the al-Qaida terrorists, complained on C-SPAN recently that any debate about American support for Israel is "normally squelched." "For anyone to say our support for Israel doesn't hurt us is to just defy reality," he added. Another former CIA analyst, Ray McGovern, says the 9/11 Commission report noted that Khalid Sheikh -- the mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks -- cited his violent disagreement with U.S. support for Israel as the motivating dynamic behind the attacks. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/121182/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=December252009+_+kddkku&utm_term=Readmore">01-27-10 - U.S.-Israeli Arms Cooperation Quietly Growing</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE59K15N20091021">01-27-10 - Eyeing Iran, Israel tests missile defenses with U.S.</a> Israel and the United States launched a major air defense drill Wednesday as part of what Israeli public radio called preparation for a faceoff with Iran. <b>Whose war is this?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30871494/">01-27-10 - Netanyahu says all Jerusalem to remain Israeli</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/07/22/israel-cuts-1948-catastrophe-from-arabic-texts">01-27-10 - Israel cuts 1948 'catastrophe' from Arabic texts</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1142048">01-27-10 - Netanyahu Israel will never share Jerusalem with Palestinians</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/01/21/new-israeli-demand-complicates-us-peace-mission-2/">01-27-10 - New Israeli demand complicates US peace mission</a> Washington's Middle East envoy faced a new obstacle Thursday as he launched his latest attempt to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks: Israel wants to keep troops on the West Bank's border with Jordan even if a deal is reached. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3821976,00.html">01-27-10 - Obama approves aid to Israel, PA</a> US President Barack Obama this week signed the 2010 foreign aid budget law which includes $2.775 billion in security aid to Israel. This is the second year the budget is transferred to the Jewish state as part of understandings that the American assistance to Israel in the coming decade will total $30 billion. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=7705138">01-27-10 - Obama Urges Halt to 'Drift' in Mideast Peace Talks</a> Israel rejected blunt U.S. requests to freeze Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1144712">01-27-10 - Bin Laden Attacks on U.S. to go on as long as it supports Israel</a> A purported audio tape of Osama bin Laden aired on Al Jazeera television claimed responsibility for a Dec. 25 attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound plane, and vowed to continue attacks on the United States, as long as it supports Israel. <b>The irony here is that the US media failed to mention Israel in its headlines for this story - but the Israeli news source Haaretz here DID headline it. Americans are being deceived (by our own media, as one example) as to the true reasons for the bullseye on our country.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9C1K97G0&show_article=1">01-27-10 - White House Israeli housing plans dismaying</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/05-4">01-27-10 - War crimes fears force Israelis to cancel UK trip</a> More than 1,400 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, were killed in the three-week offensive, which was launched to quash years of rocket attacks on southern Israel. Thirteen Israelis were also killed. A U.N. investigation has accused both Israel and Hamas militants of committing war crimes during the fighting <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24358.htm">01-27-10 - U.S. Counters Israeli Claim Iran Nuclear Facility Bomb-proof</a> A top U.S. commander on Sunday countered Israeli claims that Iran had constructed its nuclear facilities to be resistant to attack. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/12/12/showdown-looms-over-west-bank-construction-curb-2/">01-27-10 - Showdown looms over West Bank construction curb</a> Extremists have taken to attacking Palestinians each time the government acts against settlers in a strategy known as the "price tag." That phrase was scrawled on the wall of a Palestinian mosque not far from Elon Moreh that was attacked by vandals who burned prayer carpets and holy books on Friday, the Muslim day of rest. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1245924941819&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">01-27-10 - US to give $37.5 million for Arrow-3 missile program</a> <br><br> <a href="http://buchanan.org/blog/us-ships-arrive-in-israel-for-joint-drill-2288">01-27-10 - US Ships Arrive in Israel for Joint Drill</a> The arrival of the ships began a day before Defense Minister Ehud Barak was scheduled to fly to Washington for talks with his American counterpart, Robert Gates. Defense officials said that their talks would focus on the Iranian threat, Israeli-US defense cooperation as well as the role Israel will play in the new American missile defense shield announced last week. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF05Ak01.html">01-27-10 - Iran nuclear leaks 'linked to Israel'</a> That false and misleading charge from an intelligence official of a foreign country, who was not identified but was clearly Israeli, reinforces two of Israel's key themes on Iran - that the 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran is wrong, and that Tehran is poised to build nuclear weapons as soon as possible <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.forward.com/articles/123141/">01-27-10 - U.S. To Store $800 Mil in Emergency Gear in Israel</a> The deal allows Israel access to a wider spectrum of military ordnance, and the U.S. official said his government was considering which forms of military supplies would be added to stores in Israel. Missiles, armored vehicles, aerial ammunition and artillery ordnance are already stockpiled in the country. The agreement is expected to aid Israel in its effort to bolster its weapons stockpiles for use in an emergency. <b>While our men go without necessary equipment in Afghanistan and Iraq, we are instead giving the state of the art equipment to Israel 'in case of emergency'. Courtesy of the Israeli lobby.</b><br><br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8405020.stm">01-27-10 - Egypt starts building steel wall on Gaza Strip border</a> The Egyptians are being helped by American army engineers, who the BBC understands have designed the wall. The plan has been shrouded in secrecy, with no comment or confirmation from the Egyptian government. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24360.htm">01-27-10 - Senators McCain, Lieberman downplay Mitchell's threat</a> Mitchell can threaten Jerusalem, but there will be others ready to defend Israel in Washington: Four senior US senators visiting Israel said Sunday that they oppose attempts to apply pressure on Israel by freezing aid. The senators, including former Republican presidential candidate John McCain, emphasized that they would not allow the US government to authorize such a proposal. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/13/national/w201732D32.DTL">01-27-10 - Bin Laden reportedly calls Obama 'powerless'</a> The purpose of his address Sunday, bin Laden said in the SITE translation, is "to remind you of the causes" of Sept. 11, chiefly "your support to your Israeli allies who occupy our land of Palestine." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009699973_apmlisraelpalestiniansus.html">01-27-10 - US raps Israel over limit on Palestinian-Americans</a> <br><br> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009807623_apususisrael.html">01-27-10 - US harshly rebukes Israel on settlement plans</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1143281">01-27-10 - UN warns 250,000 Palestinians 'vulnerable' to settler violence</a> <br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8635361">01-27-10 - Carter says Israel must stop building settlements</a> Israel must stop building settlements in the Palestinian territories if peace is ever to be achieved in the Middle East, former President Jimmy Carter said Monday night as he received an award at a Virginia university for his humanitarian efforts <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/18">01-27-10 - CIA Working with Palestinian Security Agents</a> US agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BOM4580&show_article=1">01-27-10 - Clinton US wants Israel settlement halt 'forever'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=8727873">01-27-10 - Diplomats Palestinians drop Gaza resolution</a> The Palestinian Authority, under heavy pressure from the United States, has withdrawn its support for a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on alleged war crimes in Gaza, <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://sify.com/news/us-sees-iran-edging-closer-to-nuclear-arms-knowhow-news-international-jmrfkpgbgjf.html">01-27-10 - US sees Iran edging closer to nuclear arms knowhow </a> <br><br> <a href="http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/mar/27/lz1e27ignatiu213329-us-funds-israeli-settlements/">01-27-10 - U.S. funds for Israeli settlements</a> But critics of Israeli settlements question why American taxpayers are supporting indirectly, through the exempt contributions, a process that the government condemns. A search of IRS records identified 28 U.S. charitable groups that made $33.4 million in tax-exempt contributions to settlements and related organizations between 2004 and 2007. <b>Actually, to fund these settlements is to fund war crimes since the settlements themselves are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (article 49).</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/04/21/pity-for-a-constitution-stomper/">01-27-10 - Pity for a Constitution Stomper</a> Congresswoman Jane Harman is indignant. A National Security Agency wiretap reportedly picked up her conversation seeking favors from a suspected Israeli agent in return for Harman lobbying the Justice Department to drop the lawsuit against AIPAC s former top officials. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1119819">01-27-10 - 'U.S. furious over Israeli incitement against Obama'</a> The source, who met in Washington with administration officials and members of Congress, told Haaretz he was stunned by the level of anger there over attempts to portray Obama to the American public as an enemy of Israel because of his efforts to restart peace talks and freeze settlement construction. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/04/25/making-jane-go-away/">01-27-10 - Making Jane Go Away by Philip Giraldi</a> The Israeli on the phone was committing espionage against the United States by trying to influence the actions of a government official and Harman was committing a number of possible crimes by agreeing to cooperate in return for her own personal advancement.......why isn t the MSM interested in aggressively pursuing this story? <b>Because it's about Israel</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/01/12/why-they-are-at-war-with-us/">01-27-10 - Why They Are At War With Us by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> First, the U.S. military presence on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia. Second, U.S. sanctions causing terrible suffering among the Iraqi people. Third, U.S. support for Israel s dispossession of the Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/117/story/75491.html">01-27-10 - U.N. commission accuses Israel, Hamas of Gaza war crimes</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/07/30/telling-israel-no/">01-27-10 - Telling Israel No by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> an Israeli strike on Iran, which Joe Biden foolishly said was Israel s call, would drag this country into a third war in the Middle East and destroy a policy that is visibly succeeding. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23499.htm">01-27-10 - Black Propaganda Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran</a> In sum, the conclusion among Israelis is that the Obama administration won't lift a finger to stop Iran, much less will the "international community." So Israel has pursued a different strategy, in effect seeking to goad the U.S. into stopping, or at least delaying, an Israeli attack by imposing stiff sanctions and perhaps even launching military strikes of its own. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/08/04/war-on-the-internet/">01-27-10 - War on the Internet by Philip Giraldi</a> An Israeli peace activist publication called  Occupation Magazine has printed an article called  The Foreign Ministry presents: talkbackers in the service of the state. It starts  After they became an inseparable part of the service provided by public-relations companies and advertising agencies, paid Internet talkbackers are being mobilized in the service in the service of the State. The Foreign Ministry is in the process of setting up a team of students and demobilized soldiers who will work around the clock writing pro-Israeli responses on Internet websites all over the world, and on services like Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. The Foreign Ministry s department for the explanation of Israeli policy is running the project, and it will be an integral part of it. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010769525_apmlpalestiniansnewcity.html?syndication=rss">01-27-10 - Work begins on first planned Palestinian city</a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/09/28/and-its-not-only-sibel-edmonds-who-says-so/">01-27-10 - And It s Not Only Sibel Edmonds Who Says So by Philip Giraldi</a> John M. Cole, a former FBI Counterintelligence and Counterespionage Manager, has publicly confirmed the FBI s decade long investigation of the former State Department Official Marc Grossman. Cole worked for 18 years in the FBI s Counterintelligence Division. According to Cole, as in over one hundred cases involving Israeli espionage activities directed against the US government, the Grossman case was covered up and buried despite mountains of evidence that was collected. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1144093">01-27-10 - U.S. Jew indicted as possible Israel spy</a> The FBI searched Nozette's home and computer and found additional proof of his connection to Israel. He visited here several times, but did not report this - as is required by his high security clearance <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9B8TGQO0&show_article=1">01-27-10 - Israel: Turkey calls off joint air force drill</a> Turkey has canceled an annual multinational air force drill including the U.S. and NATO because it opposed Israeli participation, the Israeli military said Sunday, in a sign of further deterioration in relations between the two countries. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://sify.com/news/israel-to-build-2-fences-on-porous-egyptian-border-news-international-kblqEcjaidd.html">01-27-10 - Israel to build 2 fences on porous Egyption border</a> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the structure would help preserve Israel's Jewish majority.....the massive influx of African migrants into Israel in recent years has given the project added momentum. U.N. officials and human rights workers estimate some 17,000 to 19,000 people have poured into Israel through the southern border since 2005, most of them from Eritrea, Sudan and other war-torn African countries, searching for a better life in Israel's relatively affluent Western-style society. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5A45YK20091106">01-27-10 - Israel rejects U.N. assembly vote on Gaza war</a> Goldstone's report blasted both sides in the conflict but was harsher toward Israel which refused to cooperate with the judge's investigation. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946636,00.html">01-27-10 - Glimmers in the Holy Land Time to Reset U.S. Mideast Policy</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE59O1HA20091025">01-27-10 - Israel to review its own Gaza war probe source</a> Israel has lobbied against any bid to bring the Goldstone report to the U.N. Security Council. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/10/01/israel-trying-to-dodge-overseas-prosecution/">01-27-10 - Israel trying to dodge overseas prosecution</a> Stung by a damning U.N. report alleging war crimes in Gaza, Israel is taking extraordinary steps to fend off potential international prosecution of its political and military leaders, hiring high-powered attorneys, lobbying Western governments and launching a public relations blitz. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-2813-Westchester-Community-Examiner~y2009m7d10-Those-who-cannot-remember-the-past-are-condemned-to-repeat-it-George-Bernard-Shaw">01-27-10 -  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Bernard Shaw</a> In his usual let-the-words-fall-where-they-may manner, Vice President Biden let it be known one early July weekend that the U.S. would not intervene if Israel decided to militarily attack Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8283910">01-27-10 - Israel recalls Boston envoy over critical memo</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ussliberty.org/pdf/vfw_ussliberty.pdf">01-27-10 - VFW Tribute to USS Liberty</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/121171/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=December252009+_+kddkku&utm_term=Readmore">01-27-10 - Why Palin and Huckabee Dig Settlements</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/israel-offers-palestinians-reject-temporary-settlement-ease-20091126-js3o.html">01-27-10 - Israel offers, Palestinians reject temporary settlement ease</a> The international community considers all Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land seized in the 1967 Middle East war to be illegal and does not recognise Israel's annexation of east Jerusalem. <b>How much of Europe did Nazi Germany get to keep after the war? How much of Iraq, Japan, Nazi Germany did the US keep for civilian 'settlements'? Why is Israel allowed to keep territory taken by military force?</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=823ht5X6z2E&feature=player_embedded">01-27-10 - YouTube - Is Israel spreading misinformation about Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/12/13/israel-funnels-millions-of-dollars-to-settlements/">01-27-10 - Israel funnels millions of dollars to settlements</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.magDtl&dtl=3&mid=2639">01-27-10 - Mission Memorial: Remembering the USS Liberty</a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/24793/irish-slammed-gaza-ban">01-27-10 - Irish slammed for Gaza ban</a> The Israeli government has been sharply criticised in the Irish parliament for refusing Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin permission to visit Gaza. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/28/787353/-The-Media:-Israel-and-Nuclear-Weapons">01-27-10 - The Media: Israel and Nuclear Weapons</a> Congresswoman Jane Harman is indignant. A National Security Agency wiretap reportedly picked up her conversation seeking favors from a suspected Israeli agent in return for Harman lobbying the Justice Department to drop the lawsuit against AIPAC s former top officials. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2010/01/19/israel-accused-of-silencing-political-protest/">01-27-10 - Israel accused of silencing political protest</a> Since the summer, dozens of Palestinian and Israeli activists have been picked up, including those organizing weekly protests against Israel's West Bank separation barrier as well as others advocating international boycotts of Israeli goods. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2009/0616/p06s18-wome.html">01-27-10 - Why Israel and Hamas are meeting with Jimmy Carter</a> <br><br> <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ihGzZwx_SAjCumDMQp-mmC44MQ9A">01-27-10 - Israel pulls textbook over reference to 'ethnic cleansing'</a> Israel's Haaretz newspaper said the secondary school textbook was removed from shelves because it sought to present both Israeli and Arab perspectives on the departure of some 750,000 Palestinians during the fighting that erupted after the creation of the Jewish state. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24400.htm">01-27-10 - For Israel, a Reckoning</a> Palestinian resistance to the theft of their country reached a critical moment in 2001 when Israel was identified as an apartheid state at a United Nations conference on racism in Durban, South Africa. To Nelson Mandela, justice for the Palestinians is "the greatest moral issue of our time." <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL852380020090512">01-27-10 - Pope to meet Abbas, hold mass in Bethlehem</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5891YJ20090910">01-27-10 - Netanyahu draws fire in Israel over secret trip</a> Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Netanyahu had, in fact, flown secretly to Moscow to voice concern over the possible sale of Russian anti-aircraft missiles to Iran <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.raleigh3.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=1873&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2724&hn=raleigh3&he=.com">01-27-10 - Spy Conference: The Strange Pollard Spy Case</a> At the Raleigh Spy Conference last week, Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent Ron Olive spoke about how his team solved the strange spy case involving Jonathan Jay Pollard, who literally passed truckloads of U.S. secrets to Israel in the 1980's. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/09/06/swedens-foreign-minister-cancels-israel-visit-5/">01-27-10 - Sweden's foreign minister cancels Israel visit</a> Sweden's foreign minister abruptly called off a visit to Israel this week, an Israeli spokesman said Sunday, amid a feud over a Swedish newspaper article and a growing gulf between Israel and the international community over West Bank settlement construction <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/05/21/bibi-wins-barack-loses">01-27-10 - Bibi Wins, Barack Loses by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> Undaunted, the War Party has a new war planned for us. Target: Tehran. And Obama may just have boxed himself in. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/05/18/bibis-dead-end/">01-27-10 - Bibi s Dead End by Patrick J. Buchanan</a> In the long run, demography is destiny. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/10/16/is-j-street-changing-course/">01-27-10 - J Street Changing Course by Philip Giraldi</a> There is in fact little difference between J Street s position and that of AIPAC. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/10/20/the-dark-side-of-the-special-relationship/">01-27-10 - The Dark Side of the  Special Relationship by Justin Raimondo</a> The search for Mega and his underlings continues to this day, as U.S. counterintelligence attempts to rip up what appears to be a vast Israeli spy operation by its very deep roots. That s why they went after Ben Ami Kadish, who handed over U.S. secrets to Tel Aviv and shared a handler with Pollard, and why they indicted Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two top officials of AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel lobbying group. That s why they were listening on the other end as Jane Harman promised an Israeli agent to intervene in the Rosen-Weissman case. And now a new front has been opened up in this subterranean war with the arrest of Stewart David Nozette, a top U.S. scientist who worked for the Pentagon, had access to the most closely guarded nuclear secrets, and was the lead scientist in the search for water on the moon. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE59E3VD20091015">01-27-10 - U.N. rights body considers condemning Israel on Gaza</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1143884">01-27-10 - U.S. indicts four Israelis in international bribery case</a> The United States Justice Department indicted four Israeli businessmen Tuesday for allegedly attempting to bribe the defense minister of an African country in order to secure a multimillion-dollar contract to supply his country with military equipment. 18 other businessmen were indicted in the same case. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1143854">01-27-10 - Israel withholding NGO employees' work permits</a> The Interior Ministry has stopped granting work permits to foreign nationals working in most international nongovernmental organizations operating in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, Haaretz has learned. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24362.htm">01-27-10 - Helen Thomas Deviates From the Terrorism Script</a> Brennan's answer -- they do this because they're Evil and murderous -- is on the same condescending cartoon level as the "They-Hate-us-For-Our-Freedom" tripe we endured for the last eight years. Apparently, if Brennan is to be believed, Islamic radicals, in their motive-free quest to slaughter, write down the names of all the countries in the world and put them in a hat and then stick their hand in and select the one they will attack, and the U.S. just keeps getting unlucky and having its name randomly chosen. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/pope-ends-holy-land-trip-with-call-for-twostate-solution-20090515-b5s5.html">01-27-10 - Pope ends Holy Land trip with call for two-state solution</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24363.htm">01-27-10 - Answering Helen Thomas on Why They Want to Harm Us</a> why isn't there a frank discussion by America's leaders and media about the real motivation of Muslim anger toward the United States? Why was Helen Thomas the only journalist to raise the touchy but central question of motive? <b>by yet another former CIA - Ray McGovern</b><br><br> <a href="http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-11-06/news/17181194_1_election-peace-progress">01-27-10 - Abbas says he won't seek re-election in January</a> Abbas' announcement follows months of failed attempts by the United States to restart direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091231/gaza_protest_091231/20091231?hub=World">01-27-10 - Activists in Gaza and Israel protest Gaza blockade</a> Hundreds of protesters gathered on opposite sides of the Gaza-Israeli border crossing on Thursday, to rally against the blockade surrounding the territory. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/13/aipac-iran-us-obama">01-27-10 - Aipac's hidden persuaders Richard Silverstein</a> Israel is in the midst of a massive diplomatic, political and intelligence campaign, both public and covert, that could lead  if those officials behind it have their way  towards a military strike on Iran. It is a war for the hearts and minds of Americans....Aipac's members carried a unified message to Capitol Hill during their lobbying of US senators and members of Congress. They demanded that Congress pass the most draconian sanctions ever proposed against Iran. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/28-3">01-27-10 - Awaiting Gaza March, Holocaust Survivor Stages Hunger Strike</a> An 85-year-old Holocaust survivor was among a group of grandmothers who began a hunger strike in Cairo on Monday to protest against Egypt's refusal to allow a Gaza solidarity march to proceed. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/20/opinion/oe-gordon20">01-27-10 - Boycott Israel</a> <b>Americans can't - it's illegal for any American company/citizen to boycott Israel. And this is the case with ONLY the nation of Israel.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147902355&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">01-27-10 - British lawmaker Gerald Kaufman calls Gaza blockade 'evil'</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/1124/p09s03-coop.html">01-27-10 - Can Obama stand up to Israel</a> President Obama urgently needs to distance Washington from the provocative  and illegal  actions the Israeli government has been undertaking in Jerusalem. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/citizens-group-urges-fair-trial-for-aipac-employees-indicted-under-espionage-act-61947082.html">01-27-10 - Citizens Group Urges Fair Trial for AIPAC Employees Indicted Under Espionage Act</a> The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc. (IRmep) urges the Department of Justice to proceed with its long delayed prosecution of former AIPAC employees Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman. <b>The case was dropped altogether shortly thereafter.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=124x270725">01-27-10 - Differences with US on Mideast 'semantic' Israel</a> Katz, a member of Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, said discussions with Washington will focus on security issues, particularly the "threats by Iran as well as Hamas," the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6074ZC20100110">01-27-10 - U.S. suggestion of sanctions causes stir in Israel</a> "Under American law, the United States can withhold support on loan guarantees to Israel," George Mitchell said on U.S. television on Wednesday after being asked about the kind of pressure that could be brought to bear on Israel. <b>George Bush the 1st tried this but later backed down due to the subsequent and overwhelming pressure brought upon him by the Israeli lobby.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1120498">01-27-10 - Netanyahu vows never to let Israelis be tried for war crimes</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6851624.ece">01-27-10 - Israeli vigilantes target young Arab-Jewish couples</a> For more than a decade, David has considered it his unofficial job to patrol the streets looking for mixed Arab-Jewish couples.  We are protecting the Jewish people, our traditions, our heritage. Some people just get mixed up. We talk to them, explain why it s important for Jews to be with Jews, he said. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/122217/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=January82010+_+kkiyc&utm_term=JewishLeadersFirmonBroadIranSanctionsDespiteUnrest">01-27-10 - Jewish Leaders Firm on Broad Iran Sanctions Despite Unrest</a>  For us, this was always the primary concern, because a nuclear Iran is an existential threat to Israel, said Meagan Buren, director of research and training at The Israel Project, a pro-Israel group active on the Iranian issue. <b>Another war for Israel is in the making. The target this time: Iran.</b><br><br> <a href="http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/12/10/israeli-pm-offers-new-benefits-to-settlers/">01-27-10 - Israeli PM offers new benefits to settlers</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010577061_apmlgazaoneyearlater.html">01-27-10 - Postwar Gaza Scars frozen, Mideast at an impasse</a> A man who lost two daughters and his home can't visit his surviving 4-year-old girl in a Belgian hospital because Gaza's borders remain sealed. A 15-year-old struggles to walk on her artificial limbs, while dozens of other war amputees still await prostheses. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLV11497220091101">01-27-10 - Palestinians accuse U.S. of killing peace prospects</a> Pointing an accusing finger at the United States, the Palestinians on Sunday said Washington's backing for Israeli refusal to halt Jewish settlement expansion had killed any hope of reviving peace negotiations soon. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1136114">01-27-10 - Israeli pleads guilty to leaking classified U.S. documents</a> Politico goes on to report that Leibowitz, the grandson of famous Israeli Torah scholar, philosopher and leftist, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, supports a one-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which most Israelis reject because it would eliminate a Jewish demographic majority. He has also encouraged efforts to get U.S. institutions to divest in Israeli bonds. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8858138">01-27-10 - Israeli officials routinely face UK legal threats</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/489601/j_street_obama_and_israel">01-27-10 - J Street, Obama, and Israel</a> The J Street philosophy is that there is a kind of "silent majority" of US Jews who aren't happy with Israel's expansionist polices and intransigence, and who don't believe they're represented properly by right-leaning groups such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/08-10">01-27-10 - Israeli Detention of Palestinian Activists Must End</a> The Israeli authorities must immediately release, or bring before a fair trial, three Palestinian human rights activists detained in Israel following their protests against the construction of the West Bank fence/wall, Amnesty International said today. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://jta.org/news/article/2009/04/08/1004337/lieberman-stay-out-of-our-politics">01-27-10 - Lieberman  Stay out of our politics </a> Israel's foreign minister said other governments should stay out of Israeli politics....."We have never interfered in the affairs of others, and we expect from others that they not interfere in ours," he added. <b>BS. It is ISRAEL that needs to stay out of the affairs of other nations, particularly my country - AMERICA. Hypocrisy.</b><br><br> <a href="http://www.jewishcincinnati.com/page.html?ArticleID=211810">01-27-10 - Israeli chief rabbi visits mosque that was torched</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/493335/obama_fails_in_middle_east">01-27-10 - Obama Fails in Middle East</a> Next, the Obama adminstration capitulated, refusing to insist on any penalty for Israel's defiant intransigence. Not even a hint of any retaliation by the United States to enforce what it had called the path to a peace deal. No talk of reducing US aid to Israel, or cutting back on US-Israeli military cooperation, or anything. Score: Netanyahu 2, Obama 0. ......Finally, the United States cravenly supported Israel over the Goldstone Report on Gaza, the report that accused Israel (and Hamas) of war crimes <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1917917,00.html">01-27-10 - Israel's New Visa Rule for Foreigners If You Want To Visit Palestine, Stay There</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=7611312">01-27-10 - Obama prods Netanyahu, Iran in Mideast foray</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/03/obama-settlement-demands-stir-rising-tensions-israel/">01-27-10 - Obama Settlement Demands Stir Rising Tensions in Israel</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1143891">01-27-10 - Obama's lost senate seat is a victory for Netanyahu</a> Over the past nine months, Netanyahu has managed to curb pressure from Obama, who enjoys a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. Now, however, Obama will be more dependent on the support of his Republican rivals, the supporters and friends of Netanyahu. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34093117/ns/world_news-world_faith/">01-27-10 - Palestinian nun takes step toward sainthood</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-11-01-mideast-clinton_N.htm">01-27-10 - Palestinians accuse Clinton of hurting peace talks</a> "Calling for a resumption of negotiations despite continued settlement construction doesn't help because we have tried this way many times," <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE59G0YU20091017">01-27-10 - Israel's Netanyahu vows long fight against U.N. report</a> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a lengthy diplomatic battle to "delegitimise" United Nations charges that Israel committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip, an official said on Saturday. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8622592">01-27-10 - Medvedev Israel not planning to strike Iran</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8708176">01-27-10 - Analysis Iran plant could defer Israel strike</a> It may seem counterintuitive, but the news that Iran has a second, clandestine uranium enrichment plant, and has just test-fired long-range missiles, could actually put off any plans for a quick Israeli strike. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm">01-27-10 - Video Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S. Part 1</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3815175,00.html">01-27-10 - Jewish lobby wages war on Christmas trees</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/16/war-crimes-universal-jurisdiction-israel">01-27-10 - Letters We must not renege on war crime laws</a> We are shocked at suggestions by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister Ivan Lewis and foreign secretary David Miliband that Britain may consider changing its laws to avoid any future attempts to prosecute suspected war criminals, Israeli or otherwise. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://mantiqaltayr.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/lobby-denial/">01-27-10 - Lobby Denial</a> Yes indeed, the US Congress, what a joke,  stands staunchly on the side of Israel in its struggle. What a bunch of disgusting traitorous pigs. Your government, ladies and gentleman, has been hijacked whole-sale by a Lobby that does not exist. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23488.htm">01-27-10 - What Role Did The U.S.-Israeli  Relationship Play In 9-11</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1120015">01-27-10 - Netanyahu to have additional meeting with Mitchell on Sunday</a> <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/02/entertainment/main5282933.shtml">01-27-10 - Podhoretz asks Why are Jews liberals</a> "Why Are Jews Liberals?" also praises President Richard Nixon, whose determination to send military supplies during the 1973 Yom Kippur War "saved Israel from a defeat that could have spelled the extinction of the state," Podhoretz writes. But Nixon also complained that "most Jews are disloyal" and even commissioned aides to draw up a list of Jews at the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he suspected a "cabal" was trying to undermine the administration. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/08/26/six-more-months/">01-27-10 - Just 6 More Months to Victory! by Philip Giraldi</a> So what might happen in President Obama s next six months? A number of highly plausible scenarios come to mind. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://forward.com/articles/122216/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=70944733&utm_campaign=January82010+_+kkiyc&utm_term=USAntisemitismEnvoyScoredonCriticismofOren">01-27-10 - U.S. Antisemitism Envoy Scored on Criticism of Oren</a> Two dovish organizations that are members of the Presidents Conference  Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu  have recently issued statements criticizing Oren s attacks on J Street. This, too, is a first in the history of relations between Israeli diplomats and American Jewish groups. <b></b><br><br> <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1143660">01-27-10 - Syria's Mufti Islam commands us to protect Judaism</a> "If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic," Sheikh Ahmed Hassoun, the Mufti of Syria, was quoted as telling a delegation of American academics visiting Damascus. <b></b><br><br> <br><br> <hr> <br><Br><br> <a href="archivelist.htm">Palestine News Archive</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="palestine.htm">Main page for Palestine</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="contents.htm">Site Map</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="mailto:harrietcalahan@yahoo.com">Contact</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<A href="index.html">Main Index</a> <br><br> <font size=1>Copyright 2010 - astandforjustice.org</font> <br> </body> </html>