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Weekend Briefing—9th-10th July 2010

Posted: 10 July 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: Allison Kilkenny, BP, Carol Rosenberg, espionage, Gitmo, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, Iraq War, Israel, John Mearsheimer, mortgage crisis, mortgage fraud, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama Administration, Oscar Grant, police brutality, Robert Cavnar, Russia, Somalia, war crimes

News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:

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Two-State Illusion: NATO’ization of Palestine

Posted: 22 May 2010 by Editors in Palestine-Israel, Political Science
Tags: Alan Dershowitz, apartheid, Arab League, European Union, fascism, France, Israel, Israel lobby, John Mearsheimer, Middle East, Middle East peace process, NATO, Newspeak, Nicolas Sarkozy, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, Saeb Erekat, settlements, two-state solution, US, West Bank, Zionism

The proposed end to Israeli occupation of the West Bank is a NATO occupation of 40,000 troops.

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An American President Acknowledging the ‘Occupation’ of ‘Palestine’ Is Not News

Posted: 6 June 2009 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, Palestine-Israel, Political Science
Tags: 2008 election, 9/11, Abbas, Afghanistan, AIPAC, al-Qaeda, Alexander Cockburn, Ali Abunimah, Arafat, Cairo Speech, Camp David Summit, Dennis Ross, fascism, Fatah, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, George Bush, Hamas, Hillary Clinton, human rights, international law, Iraq, Israel, Israel lobby, John Mearsheimer, Martin Indyk, Middle East, military aid, Mubarak, Netanyahu, Newspeak, NY Times, Obama, Oslo Accords, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestinian Authority, PLO, Robert Fisk, Saudi Arabia, settlements, Stephen Walt, terrorism, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, torture, two-state solution, UN, UN 242, UN Security Council, US, War on Terror, West Bank, Zionism

In 2002, then-president George W. Bush (like his father and many other presidents) tossed ‘brave rhetoric’ around while signing checks to Israel. His rhetoric was as fresh and promising as President Obama’s this week in Cairo, in that it wasn’t. (more…)