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Israeli scientist calls for nuclear disclosure
An Israeli scientist is calling for his country to end a decades-long silence over its reported nuclear weapons capability and open its nuclear reactor to inspection. Uzi Even, a Tel Aviv University chemistry professor and former worker at Israel’s Dimona reactor, said US President Barack Obama’s campaign for global nuclear arms reduction is a sign… Continue reading
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Hey Elton!
Palestinian civil society has called on Elton John to respect their boycott call and cancel his June 17th concert in Tel Aviv. If he does so, he’ll be joining Santana and Gil-Scott Heron, who recently cancelled their spring concerts in Israel. This video suggests six reasons why Elton should join the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions)… Continue reading
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Mohsen Saleh – Ten Israeli Negotiating Strategies
Israel has a negotiating strategy that is designed to prolong the negotiations, allowing more time for the construction of facts on the ground and putting it in a position to impose its will on the “final-status” talks. In fact, the strategy can be broken down into 10 distinct sub-strategies, done in the article that follows. Continue reading
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Joseph Massad – The Language of Zionism
“Colonialism is peace; anti-colonialism is war.” This is the unalterable equation that successive Israeli governments insist must determine the basis of all current and future relations between Israeli Jews and the Palestinians. Indeed, the deployment of the rhetoric of peace between Palestinians and Israeli Jews since the 1970s has been contingent on whether the Palestinians… Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation online magazine latest publications from 2-8 May, 2010
2010-05-02 Rafe MAIR (Canada) As Tehran and Jerusalem Exchange Pleasantries “As we remember, in January 2013, the US invaded Canada to divert to themselves oil destined to go by pipeline from the Tar Sands to the BC coast thence to China. In the fall of this year you’ll also recall that Mexico, under a coalition… Continue reading
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Four Beaten and Arrested at Al-Walaje Sit-In by Mazin Qumsiyeh
Our ten hour ordeal with the occupation forces started at 8:30 AM as we gathered in the small village of Al-Walaje. A tiny store with an elderly women who insisted on making me coffee and not charging me. Idyllic setting except for the heavy bulldozers now carving the hills to separate the remaining people from… Continue reading
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Ittijah General Director Ameer Makhoul Arrested by Israeli Authorities
This morning at 3:10 a.m., Israeli Security Agency (GSS) agents accompanied by Israeli police raided Ameer Makhoul’s family home in Haifa and arrested him. Mr. Makhoul is a human rights defender and serves as the general director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations and as the Chairman of the Public Committee for… Continue reading
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Sameh A Habeeb – Israel, Judaism and Anti-Semitism
There are moments when I remember the Israeli soldiers storming my home in 1992; they hit my mother and beat my 10-year old cousin. Although I was only 7, I still remember every single detail as if happened yesterday. During the Second Intifada, Israel bombed my neighbourhood several times. Many of my friends were killed.… Continue reading
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Irish Parliamentarians call for “Veto” against Israel OECD membership By Omar Barghouti
Irish Senators and Members of Parliament (TDs in Irish) are leading the way in explicitly calling on the Irish government to VETO Israel’s membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an exclusive club of 30 of the richest industrialized states. Continue reading
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It’s political, not personal – Hossam el-Hamalawy interviews Charles Glass
Hossam el-Hamalawy meets up with renowned journalist Charles Glass in Cairo Continue reading
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Did Ahmadinejad Actually Say, Israel Needs To Be Wiped Off The Map?
5 May, 2010 — Information Clearing House Ahmadinejad Interview With Russian Television – 5 May, 2010 Part 1 Part 2 President Ahmadinejad: Bin Laden Is In Washington May 5, 2010 George Stephanopoulos Interviews Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Continue reading
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Another Palestinian Protest Leader Jailed But Not Silenced
Iyad Burnat, a leader in the popular struggle against the Israeli wall, was banned by Israel’s military from crossing the West Bank borders into Jordan on Saturday. Burnat is head of the local committee against the wall and settlement in the central West Bank village of Bil’in. The villagers of Bil’in have been organizing weekly… Continue reading
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Israeli Democracy: Bubble about to Burst? By Inna Michaeli
Just last Wednesday a new poll was published, solicited by the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, indicating that a vast majority of Jewish Israelis think that human rights organizations that expose immoral conduct by Israel should not be allowed to operate freely. Most of the respondents also stated that Israeli citizens who support international… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 