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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 21 December 2012: Israel’s assault on Gaza killed 177, mostly civilians
21 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Europe Trying To Convince U.S To Obtain Security Council Resolution Against SettlementsIMEMC – Nimir Hammad, Political Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas, stated that several European Countries are exerting efforts meant at convincing the United States to obtain a serious resolution at the United Nations General Assembly… Continue reading
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ICH 21 December 2012: NRA Wants Guns in Every School
21 December 2012 — Information Clearing House House Approves Bill Authorizing $633 Billion in War Spending By David Alexander Reuters The Republican-controlled House approved the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 315-107. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33406.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 20 December 2012: Cut off from water and electricity grids, Arab Abu Farda stands alone
20 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Despite US criticism, Israel continues with plan to construct 6,000 new settlement unitsIMEMC – The US State Department issued a statement this week that included a rare criticism of Israeli policy, calling the ongoing construction of settlements on Palestinian land a “pattern of provocative action” that… Continue reading
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ICH 20 December 2012: UK Government warned on direct Syrian intervention
20 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria: Palestinian Camp Empties Pending Government Counter-Attack By Franklin Lamb Souha said she passed about a dozen bodies on the steps and front ground next to the Abdul Qader Al-Hosseini mosque as she left Yarmouk. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33391.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 19 December 2012: Election committee bans Palestinian MK Zoabi from participating in elections
19 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Several Palestinians Injured In Jenin, Two Children KidnappedIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported Wednesday that several residents have been treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation after the army fired gas bombs at them near… Continue reading
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ICH 18 December 2012: What If Children Mattered No Matter Where They Lived –
18 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Obama’s War on Syria and Its Implications By Shamus Cooke The Obama administration has already declared war on Syria, even if it isn’t “official” yet. Consider the facts, all of them acts of war: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33365.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 17 December 2012: Israel approves 1,500 more settler homes in East Jerusalem
17 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In NablusIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, different parts of the of the northern West Bank district of Nablus, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped five Palestinians including a school headmaster, and a Palestinian security officer. … Continue reading
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ICH 17 December 2012: ‘Useless, useless, useless’: the Palestinian verdict on Tony Blair
17 December 2012 — Information Clearing House West has Lured al-Qaeda into Syria to be killed: Nasrallah By Tehran Times “I warn al-Qaeda: the Americans and the European countries and Arab and Islamic countries have set a trap for you in Syria, and opened for you a battlefield so you come from across the world… to… Continue reading
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Military Escalation, Dangerous Crossroads: Russia-US Confrontation in Syria? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
On December 14, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed a Pentagon order to deploy 400 US missile troops to Turkey. According to Washington, the security of Turkey, NATO’s heavyweight, is threatened. US military personnel will to be deployed to Turkey in the coming weeks to operate two US Patriot missile batteries. Continue reading
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Western media and the Brotherhood: Secrets behind the love affair By Hani Shukrallah
Why does the Western media refuse to see the epochal resurgence of Egypt’s revolutionary spirit? Because love is blind Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 16 December 2012: Under siege: One Bedouin family’s struggle to live in Israel
16 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Four Youths In HebronIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, broke into and searched dozens of homes and kidnapped four youths before taking them to an unknown destination. … Continue reading
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International Law and the Iran Impasse by Asli Bâli
Israel, the United States and their principal Western partners all now seem agreed upon a spring 2013 make-or-break deadline by which Iran must accept a Western-backed deal or face an array of threatened military operations aiming to damage or destroy its nuclear facilities. In the meantime, a crippling international sanctions regime, reinforced by even more… Continue reading
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Canada-Syria: White dominions, brown colonies By Eric Walberg
France and Britain have begun to circle Syria like vultures (my apologies to vultures, who politely wait for their prey to die). They plan to save Syria from chemical bombs – a surreal replay of Suez 1956, where France and Britain cooked up a pretext to invade Egypt with the US posing as the more… Continue reading
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Egypt erupts in anger. Democracy is not the final word (II) By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
Without doubt, the ground reality is that Islamism does enjoy majority support among the people of Egypt and it becomes all at once highly debatable today to argue that Morsi is imposing an agenda of ‘Islamization’. Continue reading
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New at SCF 9-15 December 2012: Palestine / Egypt / USA / NATO / Gold / Iran
15 December 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Winner`s Parade in the Gaza Strip, or When «a Pillar of Cloud» Cleared 15.12.2012 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ No matter how hard Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with the Israeli propaganda machine claim that the outcome of operation «a Pillar of Cloud» against the Gaza Strip… Continue reading
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ICH 14 December 2012: 159 Killed in Syria: 27 Killed in Connecticut
14 December 2012 — Information Clearing House US-Backed Syrian Opposition Demands Support for Al Qaeda By Tony Cartalucci US-handpicked opposition leader, Moaz al-Khatib wants US to reconsider terror listing for Al Qaeda’s al-Nusra front. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33315.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 14 December 2012: Israel Starts Removing Mines Close To Border With Jordan- To Build Settlements
14 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and BethlehemIMEMC – PLO Negotiations Affairs Department Issued Their Latest Fact Sheet entitled “Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and Bethlehem”. … Continue reading
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America’s Power Game: Iranian People Victims of US Economic Sanctions By Kourosh Ziabari
The reality is that if the United States and its European allies had compelling evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, they wouldn’t hesitate for a moment to launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, and what troubles them is that Iran is not really seeking nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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NSA: The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case: The CIA’s 1987 Damage Assessment Declassified
When Naval Investigative Service analyst Jonathan Pollard spied for Israel in 1984 and 1985, his Israeli handlers asked primarily for nuclear, military and technical information on the Arab states, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union — not on the United States — according to the newly-declassified CIA 1987 damage assessment of the Pollard case, published today… Continue reading
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ICH 13 December 2012: US ‘Tortured and Sodomised’ Suspect – European court rules
13 December 2012 — Information Clearing House European Court of Human Rights Finds US/CIA Guilty of Torture By Amrit Singh The CIA stripped, hooded, shackled, and sodomized el-Masri. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33307.htm Continue reading