By The Daily Star

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Editorial

The supposedly "re-launched" Palestinian-Israeli peace process has had a phony feel to it from the beginning at Annapolis in November 2007. The Israelis have shown little willingness to abandon the maximalist positions that caused the Oslo process to break down in 2000, and the Americans have refused ( Read more... )

Nobel Peace Laureate Calls for Global Condemnation of Israeli Army Actions against Orphans in Hebron
June 11th, 2008 | Posted in Press Releases, Hebron Region
“This behavior is immoral, unethical and illegal”

“What are the UK and Tony Blair dong about this?”

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Jun 12, 2008

By Mike Ferner

Yesterday, a 17-member delegation of Veterans For
Peace presented some 23,000 petitions to Congressman
John Conyers (D-MI), demanding the impeachment of
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.  Conyers, chair of
the House Committee on the Judiciary, ( Read more... )

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner shot by Israeli army in Palestine

Irish peace laureate on terrorist cells in Hebron

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:48:29 -0700

Subject: International support for Orphanage Hebron.

Dear all,

I received this personal document/urgent appeal this morning from Mairead McGuire -Northern Ireland Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

If you know ( Read more... )

 
Jimmy Carter has snubbed the lecture circuit cash cow to devote his post-presidential life to brokering peace in the Middle East and fighting disease. So why is it that so many Americans can't stand him?

Jonathan Freedland asks him

• Jonathan Freedland
• The Guardian,
• Saturday June 7 2008
• Article history

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Update
I stumbled upon a link to Swiss Air 111 and Richard Tomlinson while perusing the Ehud Olmert money laundering link. An Israeli firm was involved in the Swiss Air crash.

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41 years ago today the USS Liberty was attacked by Israel, killing 34 U.S. servicemen ( Read more... )

FOCUS IMPERIUM

By Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst

When George Bush, the US president, responds to Palestinian complaints of Israel's siege, refusal to negotiate over Jerusalem and the refugees, and settlement expansion by saying 'Give 'em a state', I am reminded of Marie Antoinette's response to starving French peasants: Let ( Read more... )

Yaman Salahi, The Electronic Intifada, 5 June 2008


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Israel needs a Palestinian state -- or at least the illusion of one -- to mask the reality of apartheid where millions of Palestinians, soon to be the majority population between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, are ruled by a Jewish sectarian government in which they have no rights.

Arjan El Fassed and Ali Abunimah, The Electronic ( Read more... )

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Israel Must Be Held To Same Nuclear Scrutiny as Iran

Linda Heard, sierra12th@yahoo.co.uk  
Successive Israeli governments have perfected the art of announcing one ( Read more... )