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"Settlements" in Palestine and how they happen

Anne Baltzer, Jewish American Author , Wake up from your slumber!

Apartheid – Israel Builds Racist Colonies On Stolen Palestinian Land & US Taxpayers Pay For It." Apartheid – Israel Builds Racist Colonies On Stolen Palestinian Land & US Taxpayers Pay For It.... » read this article

British MP tells Allston audience its time end to Gaza Strip blockade

Jillian Taratunio , Allston/Brighton TAB

Editor's Note: Allston is a municipality in the heart of Boston. - LMB George Galloway slammed the collective punishment Israel imposed on Palestinian people living in the Gaza Strip during a speech on Monday night at the Palestinian Cultural Center of Peace in Allston. Galloway, who is a member of... » read this article

Palestinian child: "My heart broke when my Mum and Dad died in front of me"

2 minute Interview with 2 Palestinian children , PNN

Editor's Note: This article contains 2 reports: first a videotaped interview of 2 Palestinian children; second, a report on birth defects in Palestinian newborns, resulting from the Israeli slaughter in Gaza in 2008 and 2009. - LMB January 28, 2010 Newborn in Gaza with severe defects PNN/ Ramallah. Health professionals... » read this article

Phyllis Bennis on the Goldstone Report

Laura Flanders interviewing Phyllis Bennis , GRITtv

Published on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by GRITtv A report issued yesterday by a UN fact-finding mission led by South African judge Richard Goldstone condemns both Israeli and Palestinian war crimes during Israel's recent invasion of the Gaza Strip. The report however reserves its harshest criticism for Israel's treatment of... » read this article

For Israel, a reckoning

John Pilger , JohnPilger.com

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the growing boycott, disinvestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine. Based on the anti-apartheid campaign that helped bring down the racist regime in South Africa, BDS is becoming a catch-cry for freedom in countries whose... » read this article

A ‘very difficult’ thing for Israel

Cengýz Çandar , Hurriyet Daily News

Friday, January 15, 2010 Was Turkey able to repel Israel? Yes, it was. Famous for usually being obnoxious and because of that, leading the U.S. administration in a pretty dance, making its European allies sick and tired, Israel bowed before Turkey and apologized for the first time. Turkish President Abdullah... » read this article

When Does It Become Genocide?

Nadia Hijab , Counterpunch

Editor's Note: Quotes appearing before Nadia Hijab's article have been added by Axis of Logic. Say it isn't genocide. - LMB "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography... » read this article

U.S. Mourns the Loss of Lebanon

Cherifa Sirry in Egypt. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic, Naharnet, Washington Post

It is only a few years ago that Rafiq el Hariri was assassinated and barely a few hours after his assassination the US and Zionist controlled media were already blaming Syria. The pro-Syrian government in Lebanon resigned. The US' fueled and financed "Cedar's 'revolution' " took place while world media... » read this article

The Transformation of Hamas

Fawaz A. Gerges* , Voltaire Network

Editor's Note: We have no way of knowing the accuracy of the author's assessment of Hamas at this point in time. For example, he suggests, but offers no evidence that Hamas is interested in a two-state solution. Certainly, there is no reason to believe that he has the authority to speak for Hamas and... » read this article

Onward, Christian Zionists

Irving Wesley Hall , Alternative Focus

Christian Zionists believe that in order to fulfill Biblical prophecy, Israel must conquer most of the Middle East. They are a growing force in American politics with ties to many powerful pro-Israel groups in Washington. Once considered a marginal doctrine among evangelicals, the dispensationalist theology of Christian Zionism includes a... » read this article

How the United States Lost the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Mujahideen Won

Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. , Axis of Logic

Wars are planned, financed and fought by governments, not by groups or ordinary people. Wars are based on political agendas bent on complete control over resources, people and territory. Most wars have multiple reasons, domestic, foreign and global outreach. The U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are fought to maintain... » read this article

Ray McGovern: Obama, Afghanistan and Iraq

Interview - Ray McGovern , Dandelion Salad

In spite of our disagreement with Ray McGovern's clearly pronounced respect for the Obama administration's foreign policies, we still find this Interview with Ray McGovern well worth posting because of his incisive analysis of the true reasons for the insane escalation of the war in Afghanistan, of the ridiculously false... » read this article

The Northwest Flight 253 intelligence failure: Negligence or conspiracy?

Bill Van Auken , WSWS

31 December 2009 In the five days since the abortive attempt by the 23-year-old Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to detonate an explosive device onboard Northwest Flight 253, information has surfaced that indicates an ostensible breakdown in US intelligence and security that is extraordinary in both its character and scale.... » read this article

Obama administration prepares public opinion for attack on Yemen

Patrick Martin , WSWS

Editor's Note: It's no surprise that 2010 will end the decade with more of the ever expanding "war on terror". Below, Patrick Martin reports on the preparation of public opinion for opening another front on the U.S./Israeli 'war on terror', this time in Yeman. The recent arrest of the 'Christmas Bomber' in Detroit is an... » read this article

Mazin Qumsiyeh film: Christmas 2009 in Bethlehem

Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home , Axis of Logic

This is a 9 Minute video I just put out on life in the Bethlehem area during Christmas, 2009. It starts with a Jewish guy who joined the demonstration in Al-Masara asking that the soldiers disobey orders and not join in oppressing the Palestinians. In addition to the usual struggles... » read this article

Timeline 2000-2010: Middle East

Eric Walberg , EricWalberg.com

2000 - Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak resigns, marking the end of the Oslo peace process; 2nd Intifadasparked by Ariel Sharon visiting Temple Mount with armed escort; Mohammed Al-Dura killed by Israeli sniper; Bashir Al-Assad inherits the Syrian presidency on the death of his father Hafiz. 2001 - Taliban control... » read this article

U.S. Creates Its Antithesis in Iraq

Nicola Nasser , Submitted by author

Nowhere it is more obvious than in Iraq that the existence of an election law, elections themselves and the constitution they are based on are not indicators of democracy or legitimacy, because these mechanisms are merely symbols of the antithesis of the mechanisms of democracy as practiced back home by... » read this article

"David Becomes Goliath". Volume II of the Series: Zionism, the Real Enemy of the Jews

Publisher Review , Clarity Press, Inc.

About the Series Title Alan Hart’s passionate concerns about the dangers Zionism poses to regional and world peace is matched by his fear that it, Zionism, is also a threat to the best interests of Jews everywhere and the moral integrity of Judaism itself. Why is Zionism the real enemy... » read this article

A 55 feet deep underground steel wall

Cherifa Sirry (Axis of Logic). Ann Wright (Common Dreams) , Axis of Logic. Common Dreams.

Editorial comment: As an Egyptian, it shames me to read and hear about this underground steel wall between Egypt and Gaza. While some countries and people fight for their sovereignty, present-day-Egypt allows the US 'Corps of Engineers' to dig, poke around and dictate on Egyptian territory in order to appease... » read this article

Turkey's Shifting Diplomacy

ALASTAIR CROOKE , New York Times

BEIRUT — While the United States and Europe have been struggling to find a path forward in the Israel-Palestine conflict, Afghanistan and Iran, the strategic ground upon which their assumptions about the region rest has begun to shift dramatically. Most significantly, Turkey has finally shrugged off the straightjacket of a... » read this article

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Berlusconi, Israel, and The Big Brother
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