Claiming impartiality, Europe leans towards IsraelInter Press Service (IPS)
January 7, 2009 BRUSSELS -- In carefully crafted official statements, diplomats have portrayed the European Union as something of an honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet even though almost all of the people killed over the past fortnight have been Palestinians, some top-ranking leaders in the 27-country bloc have tacitly offered their support for Israel's bombing and invasion of Gaza.
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, the Union's ... President-Elect Obama flunks Gaza testInter Press Service (IPS)
January 6, 2009 CAIRO -- With the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip now in its second week -- and as the Palestinian death toll approaches 600 -- U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has continued to remain silent. Obama's reticence, say Egyptian commentators, indicates that he will be no more even-handed on the issue of Palestine than preceding U.S. administrations. "Obama's silence shows he is just as biased towards Israel as outgoing U.S. President George B... Palestine's Guernica -- Debunking the Zionist medias Gaza mythsAl-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
January 1, 2009 By Mustafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative The Israeli campaign of "death from above" began around 11am on Saturday morning and continues as I write these words. The bloodiest single day in Palestine since the war of 1967 is far from over following Israel's promise that this is "only the beginning" of their campaign of state terror. Approximately 400 people have been murdered thus far, but the body count con... Spinning Gaza -- How the Jewish-run media justifies Israeli bloodlustWith Israels barbarous attack on the Gaza Strip now well into its second week, the Palestinian death toll has risen to almost 700, including large numbers of women and children. While Israel says its objective is to destroy the Palestinian resistance group Hamas -- which was democratically elected in 2006 legislative elections -- it is, in reality, systematically murdering the Gaza Strips civilian population. Even before the assault, the Gaza Strip had been subject to an international em... True Blood Libel Jewcy.com
December 5, 2008
What a medieval "anti-Semitic myth" has in common with HBO's vampire series
All of a sudden, and quite out of the blue, life expectancy has lengthened -- to forever. Vampires are everywhere again, from the high-haired matinee idols driving tween box office in the form of Twilight -- a film written by a Mormon who t...
The lowest of the low Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
December 3, 2008
While Arab activists and intellectuals rally to the cause of Palestinian refugees, officialdom in Ramallah denounces their efforts, reports Khaled Amayreh
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has strongly denounced a recent conference on the plight of Palestinian refugees held in the Syrian capital,...
Kristallnacht in Hebron Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
November 27, 2008
Unconcerned about arrest by the police or prosecution by the Israeli justice system, fanatical Jewish settlers in the Palestinian town of Hebron (Al-Khalil) have been attacking Palestinians, damaging and ransacking their property, exactly like Nazi thugs did to Jewish-owned property in Germany 80 years ag... Obamas Home Shul The Jewish Daily Forward
November 26, 2008
CHICAGO -- On a recent Sunday afternoon at a historic Chicago synagogue, the sanctuary was packed but the mood was restrained: A longtime congregant had died, and about 300 people had turned out for his funeral service. But amid the solemnity, the occasional mourner discreetly pulled loved ones out to th... Portrait of a Crypto-Jew -- I.F. Stone, a.k.a. Isador Feinstein Celebrated American journalist I.F. Stone, who died in 1989, is best remembered for his journalistic integrity and supposed willingness to speak truth to power. Yet few of his readers ever realized he was a committed Zionist Jew -- real name Isador Feinstein -- as can be seen in this 2006 book review by Christopher Hitchens.
Because so many bon... Former aboriginal leader begins second hate trial The Canadian Press
November 24, 2008
SASKATOON -- A second hate crime trial is underway for former aboriginal leader David Ahenakew. The 75-year-old sat quietly in Saskatoon court as the Crown began presenting evidence he wilfully promoted hatred in 2002 by telling a newspaper reporter Jews were a "disease" and caused the Second World War ... ADL survey: Americans believe religious values are under attack; 59% say Hollywood doesnt share their moral values StreetInsider.com
November 14, 2008
A majority of the American people believes that religious values are "under attack," and that the people who run the television networks and major movie studios do not share the religious and moral values of most Americans, according to a survey from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued today. American A... Bearing out the betrayal Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
November 20, 2008
With Israel's breach of the ceasefire in Gaza, Saleh Al-Naami laments yet another example of Israeli-PA collusion which victimises Hamas
Hassan Karim, 34, has been making the rounds of real estate offices in the hope of finding an apartment to rent in the western part of Gaza city. He is doing all in his pow...
Israeli society swings to the right Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)
November 20, 2008
With Israeli Jewish society drifting towards right-wing extremism, especially with regard to the Palestinian issue, Israeli political parties contesting the upcoming elections, slated to take place on 10 February, are radicalising the tone of their public discourse in the hope of wooing as many potential vote...
Chicago Jews call Obama first Jewish president Haaretz (Israel)
November 13, 2008
Quite a few of Barack Obama's "friends from the past" have popped up recently. It's doubtful whether he even knows their names, but in the Chicago Jewish community many people really are long-time friends of the president-elect. Some of the older people in the community say that they "raised him," while o... Debate flares over Israels access to U.S. secrets The Jewish Daily Forward
October 23, 2008
A bestselling author writing about Americas most secretive intelligence agency is raising eyebrows with his claims that Israeli intelligence has potentially gained access to sensitive American communications information. Investigative writer James Bamford contends in his new book, The Shadow Factory, ...
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