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Zionist lobby’s new orders for Obama

Alan Hart argues that new instructions issued to President Obama by Israel through its stooges in Congress, in the form of House Resolution 1734, might be a sign of panic that the White House is about to end its veto of UN Security Council resolutions which are critical of Israel and/or call for the recognition of a Palestinian state inside 1967 borders..

Apartheid Israel-style: law to keep Jews and Arabs apart

Jonathan Cook reports on a draft apartheid law, currently going through the Israeli parliament, which would enshrine in law the right of Jewish community associations to accept only Jews, making it impossible for Israel’s Arab citizens take up residence in Jewish neighbourhoods...

Jews, Judaism and Jewishness

Gilad Atzmon explains why it is essential for the pro-Palestinian movement “freely to explore the true nature of the ideology that drives the Jewish state and Jewish politics”, and to acknowledge that the Jewish ideological, political and cultural discourse is “foreign to universalism and to the ideas of true equality”...

What US House Resolution 1765 tells us about the peace camp

Sama Adnan argues that efforts to educate the US public about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the need for a just solution to this conflict will remain incomplete and essentially toothless without pro-peace political actions committees that raise funds for congressional candidates who push for an end to Israel’s occupation...

Who is the real Barack Obama?

Lawrence Davidson argues that Barack Obama’s transformation from a progressive before becoming president to an anti-progressive president is probably due to his having no firm principles in the first place, a matter that has led him to internalize the Washington political culture where expediency and opportunism are core...

Obama’s last card – will he play it?

Alan Hart argues that, with the help of pressure from the European Union, US President Barack Obama could be nudged into signalling the end of American tolerance of Israeli crimes and violations of international law, or else the US can look forward to sharing Israel’s growing international isolation and pariah status...

No such thing as justice in the Holy Land, Palestinian Church leaders tell the Irish

Stuart Littlewood views a recent tour of the Republic of Ireland by a delegation of Church leaders from Palestine during which they described in meetings with Irish politicians the situation in their homeland under Israeli military occupation and the plight of the dwindling Christian community there...

Shameful traits of the USA and Israel

Paul J. Balles views two shameful traits shared by the US and Israel and represented in the views of Joseph A. Klein: abhorring criticism and diverting attention from their own faults when criticized by levelling the same criticism at others...

Israel’s war on Jerusalem children: 1,200 arrested in one year

Jonathan Cook reports on the brutality meted out by Israeli police to Palestinian minors, some as young as seven years old, including arrests, interrogation without the presence of a lawyer or parent, and physical violence...

Farewell to Afghanistan

Sama Adnan considers the crippling impact of the US intervention in Afghanistan on the American economy and society, highlighting among other things that while President Obama has cut federal salaries in order to save 2.5 billion dollars a year, the US continues to spend 100 billion dollars annually on the Afghan war...

Your reality or mine? Private reality, the media and the manipulation of information

Lawrence Davidson considers the problems of private realities – the fact that ”there are people who do occasionally attain power whose private realities are fantasy driven” and the fact that “most individual realities are ... the artificial creations of a manipulated information environment brought to us by way of the government and its allied media”...

WikiLeaks and the wicked disinformers

Paul J. Balles debunks false arguments of “national security” expounded by the likes of Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post to bludgeon the whistleblower website WikiLeaks and argues that, rather than damaging legitimate US national interests, WikiLeaks is exposing matters of legitimate public interest...

Is Julian Assange Europe’s Nelson Mandela?

Christopher King urges everyone who cares about justice and the truth to stand by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with donations to help him defend himself against politically-motivated, vexatious prosecution by criminal governments and their lickspittles anxious to hide their dirty secrets...

Obama to Netanyahu: “You win”

Alan Hart argues that US President Barack Obama’s admission that he has given up trying to persuade Israel to freeze illegal settlement building proves that the makers of the USA’s Middle East policy “are Israel’s leaders and their lobby in the US … not the man who occupies the Oval Office in the White House”...

And what will Santa bring the kiddies of Gaza?

As Christmas approaches, Stuart Littlewood remembers the besieged and starving people of Gaza – many of whom have to scavenge through rubbish tips for food to survive – forgotten by religious leaders and the “criminals who inflicted ... savagery and torment, and continue to deny them their human rights”...

Israel’s racist rabbis: wave of edicts urge “Hate the gentile”

Jonathan Cook views the vile racism disseminated by prominent Israeli rabbis, from edicts prohibiting the renting of homes to gentiles, to justifications for murdering Palestinian babies, to utterances defining non-Jews as talking animals and equating them with donkeys whose sole purpose is to serve Jews...

Chickens come home to roost: US technology goes to North Korea via Israel and China

Paul J. Balles views the latest breed of chickens that may come home to roost in the USA: American military technology given to Israel courtesy of US tax dollars, sold by Israel to China, which supplies it to the North Koreans who in turn threaten to use it against the US and its allies...

A just peace, not religion is the solution in the Middle East

Uri Avnery argues that only Palestinian statehood and a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offer a chance to stem the tide of religious fundamentalism that is filling in the gap left by the failure of secular Arab nationalism and compounded by the utter uselessness and treachery of Arab rulers...

Wikileaks shocker: did Mahmoud Abbas know in advance about the devastating blitz on his countrymen in Gaza?

Stuart Littlewood scents the whiff of treason in the Wikileaks disclosure that Palestinian “President” Mahmoud Abbas had been forewarned by Israel about its planned onslaught on Gaza and had failed to sound the alarm at the UN and other forums to deter Israel’s slaughter of fellow Palestinians...

“GOD-TV” evangelical Christian channel funds Israeli ethnic cleansing

Neve Gordon looks at how an evangelical Christian TV channel with a viewership of nearly half a billion people, including 20 million in the USA and 14 million in Britain, is funding a project to ethnically cleanse Israel’s Bedouin citizens from their ancestral land...