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Report: Bulldozers Do Work in West Bank Hours After ‘Settlement Freeze’ Expires
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Sayyid in Palestine-IsraelTags: arms trading, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Likudniks, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East, Middle East peace process, military industrial complex, Obama Administration, settlement expansion, West Bank, Yesha Council, Zionism
Daily Briefing—23rd-24th Aug 2010
Posted: 24 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, AIG, arms trading, Blackwater, Bushehr, Cordoba House, Efraim Diveroli, Eli Lake, Federal Reserve, Ground Zero Mosque, Iran, Iraq, Iraq election, Iraq War, Iraqiya, Israel, Iyad Allawi, Jeff Stein, Middle East, Moqtada al-Sadr, net neutrality, Nouri al-Maliki, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, Park51, Ray Odierno, Ron Paul, Scott Horton, Somalia, stem cell research, Stephen Walt, Sudan, Taliban, Thomas Hoenig, United States, Warfare and Conflict, Wikipedia, Xe, Zionism
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Weekend Briefing—20th-22nd Aug 2010
Posted: 22 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Alexander Cockburn, Blackwater, BP, Bushehr, Colombia, Constanza Vieira, Daphne Eviatar, David Sirota, drones, economic crisis, general strike, George Donnelly, Gulf oil spill, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Iraq, Iraq election, Iraq War, Israel, Jason Ditz, Kenya, Lebanon, Middle East, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, peace process, public opinion, Scott Horton, Somalia, South Africa, Stephen Walt, tea party movement, TF 121, TF 373, TF 42, TSA, Wikipedia, Xe, Zionism
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Evening Briefing—19th Aug 2010
Posted: 19 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACTA, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War Logs, AIG, Baha'i, BP, China, CIA, Death Penalty, Dennis Kucinich, Eden Abergil, extrajudicial assassination, Federal Reserve, Gaza, Gaza blockade, general strike, Ground Zero Mosque, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, IDF, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Islam, Islamophobia, Jason Ditz, John Robbins, Keith Olbermann, Monsanto, MSNBC, national debt, NBC, NY Times, Pakistan, Park 51, Phillipines, religion, Roderick Long, Sharia Law, South Africa, Taiwan, Task Force 373, terrorism, TF 373, unemployment, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, Zionism
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Flaunting Zionist I.D.F. Soldier: ‘I Would Gladly Kill, Slaughter Arabs’
Posted: 19 August 2010 by Sayyid in Palestine-IsraelTags: Ariel Sharon, Eden Abergil, Facebook, IDF, Islam, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Israel-Lebanon War, Middle East, nationalism, Newspeak, Palestinians, religion, torture, War, Warfare and Conflict, Zionism
Eden Abergil, former Israel government militant, proudly posted pictures with bound and blindfolded prisoners to her Facebook profile. She is defending her pride and went so far to say she would “gladly kill Arabs—even slaughter them”, adding: “In war there are no rules.”
Yousef Munayyer, executive director at The Jerusalem Fund & The Palestine Center, debated this is much bigger issue of racism and dehumanization with Richard Hellman, president at the Middle East Research Center on “The Alonya Show” at RT where host Alonya Minkovski goes a bit fair, asking if this is Israel’s Abu Ghraib. The images were extraordinarily graphic from Abu Ghraib, but more importantly, more people paid attention to it, yet not enough. Her point that the “dehumanization” aspect is striking and goes to the root of the problem (8:41):
Daily Briefing—18th Aug 2010
Posted: 18 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, ANP, Austrian Economics, Big Pharma, China, Colombia, Cordoba House, David Petraeus, dot com bubble, DR Congo, economic crisis, France, free press, government transparency, Ground Zero Mosque, Haiti, ICC, Iceland, illegal immigration, Illinois, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Jonathan Cook, Justin Raimondo, Keynesianism, Kyrgyzstan, Latin America, M. Junaid Levesque-Alam, Madagascar, media, Milburn Line, mortgage crisis, Nancy Pelosi, New York, Obama Administration, odious debt, OIC, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, PSCs, public opinion, Rod Blagojevich, Rohit Chopra, Secure Communities, South Africa, South Korea, Spencer Ackerman, Timothy Geithner, United States, USD, Vincent Fernando, war crimes, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, Yousaf Raza Gilani, Zionism
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Chomsky’s Lectern: U.S.-Israel ‘Prefer Expansion Over Security’ (mp3)
Posted: 16 August 2010 by Noam Chomsky in Chomsky's Lectern, Palestine-IsraelTags: al-Quds, Arab nationalism, Black September, Bush Administration, Christian Zionism, Cuba, democracy, Democrats, Diego Garcia, East Jerusalem, electoral politics, Gaza, GOP, Guatemala, Hamas, Hezbollah, India, international law, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iraq, Israel, Israel lobby, Jordan, journalism, Kathleen Wells, Latin America, Lebanon, media, Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood, neoconservatism, Newspeak, Nixon Doctrine, NPT, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, NWFZs, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, Palestinians, Reagan Administration, Republicans, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, settlement expansion, Shah of Iran, Syria, terrorism, UK, US, Wall Street Journal, War on Terror, West Bank, Zionism
Prof. Noam Chomsky discussed the history of the ‘special relationship’ between the U.S. and Israel, how the mainstream media manufactures consent for it, how it relates to the manipulation of language regarding factions like Hamas and Hezbollah, the U.S.-Israel ‘preference for expansion over security’, and the history of U.S.-Israel active rejection of establishing the Middle East as a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone with Kathleen Wells at Race-Talk (38:19):
Daily Briefing—10th Aug 2010
Posted: 10 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Ahmed Moor, AMISOM, BP, Carol Rosenberg, CCR, Chicago, civil liberties, civilian casualties, climate, climate change, criminal justice, democracy, DNA, drug war, EUR, euro, Federal Reserve, George Donnelly, global warming, Gulf oil spill, ICE, India, Iran, Israel, Kashmir, Leslie Lefkow, Los Angeles, Maria Burnett, marijuana, Mel Frykberg, Mexico, Netanyahu, Omar Khadr, protectionism, Robert Gates, sales tax, Sharia Law, Somalia, Taliban, Uganda, USD, war spending, Wikileaks, Zionism
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U.K. Prime Minister: Israel and Egypt Turned Gaza Into ‘Prison Camp’ (Video)
Posted: 27 July 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Angela Merkel, Brazil, Britain, Buah Administration, David Cameron, David Friedman, Egypt, EU, France, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Germany, human rights, international law, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Mavi Marmara, Middle East, Newspeak, Nick Clegg, Nicolas Sarkozy, Obama Administration, Palestine, Rafah, Recep Erdgoan, Turkey, UK, US, War on Terror, Zionism
David Cameron, British prime minister and leader of the national Conservative Party, said Tuesday, “Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.” He also called out governments on double standards against the Turkish State (1:04):
Obama Again Confirms ‘Unbreakable, Special Bond’ With Israel
Posted: 7 July 2010 by Little Alex in Palestine-Israel, Political ScienceTags: Avigdor Lieberman, B'Tselem, Dov Weisglass, economic sanctions, Ehud Olmert, Eli Lake, fascism, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gaza Massacre, Goldstone Report, human rights, ICRC, Indonesia, international law, Iran, Israel, Johnathan Lis, Middle East, Netanyahu, Newspeak, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama, Obama Administration, Operation Cast lead, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, peace process, Red Cross, Seymour Hersh, Susan Rice, two-state solution, UN Security Council, US, War, West Bank, Zionism
The U.S. and Israeli presidents publicly affirmed their ‘special, unbreakable bond’ and sought to justify Israel’s nuclear proliferation, Patty Culhane reported today at Al Jazeera English (2:41):