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The Decline of Israel: Interview with Jonathan Cook
In a wide-ranging interview with the New Left Project, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook describes the increasingly repressive nature of Israeli society and the prospects for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict Continue reading
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ICH 21 February, 2010: 'Netanyahu Authorized Dubai Assassination'
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,366,350″ www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq: 4,694 icasualties.org/oif/ Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,658 icasualties.org/oef/ Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan $963,285,180,251 www.costofwar.com/ Subscribe to this feed using your newsreader ichnews.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Continue reading
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Israel’s Right To Exist? By Alan Hart
On Monday 12 October, Prime Minister Netanyahu opened the Knesset’s winter session by blasting the Goldstone Report that accuses Israel of committing war crimes and vowing that he would never allow Israelis be tried for them. But that was not his main message. It was an appeal, delivered I thought with a measure of desperation,… Continue reading
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Media Lens: “An Existential Threat”: The US, Israel and Iran
The sanctions threat is to ensure that Iran does “not compromise on uranium enrichment by the end of next month.” The Guardian told its readers that not only are sanctions supposed to pre-empt any Israeli military action against Iran, “they are also a bargaining chip offered in part exchange for a substantial freeze on Jewish… Continue reading
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Shmuel Amir – Two Speeches: Obama in Conflict with Netanyahu?
The content of the speech itself was fairly typical of those given by previous prime ministers, its primary purpose being to explain to the world, Israelis included, that it is impossible to put an end to the occupation and settlement. The reason for this is not “God forbid!” that Israel wants to continue the occupation… Continue reading
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Netanyahu’s “brilliant” peace plan By Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah
Netanyahu wants Palestinians to become committed Zionists. They can prove this by declaring, “We recognize the right of the Jewish people to a state of their own in this land.” As he pointed out, it is only the failure of Arabs in general and Palestinians in particular to commit themselves to the Zionist dream that… Continue reading
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Susan Abulhawa – Does Israel Really Have a Right to Exist?
That Israelis simply take property belonging to Palestinians is not a right. That is theft. That Israel cut off the movement of food, medicine and other basic goods to the Gaza strip, causing massive malnutrition, economic collapse and misery because Palestinians elected particular leaders is not a right. That is an affront to humanity. That… Continue reading
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Khalid Amayreh – Netanyahu’s Kafkaesque vision of Palestinian statehood
Undoubtedly, Netanyahu’s speech caricatured a thoroughly arrogant and megalomaniac leader, not unlike Adolf Hitler, a Fuehrer who thinks non-Jews living the “Land of Israel” are children of a lesser God, or wretched Untermenschen, who should serve as “wood hewers” and “water carriers” for the Jewish master race. And if they refuse servitude and enslavement, they… Continue reading
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Netanyahu Chooses Warehousing By Jeff Halper
Although the Obama Administration may truly desire viable two-state solution and even understands all Israel’s tricks, it is also clear that without significant pressure it cannot be achieved. And here is where the real problem arises. Israel’s trump card has always been Congress, where it enjoys virtually unanimous bi-partisan support. And Obama’s own Democratic Party,… Continue reading
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Obama, Netanyahu and Iran
Never before has such an open, detailed and thorough study of Israel’s offensive options been published. The authors of the 114-page study meticulously gathered all available data on Israel’s military capabilities and its nuclear program, and on Iran’s nuclear developments and aerial defenses, as well as both countries’ missile inventory. Continue reading
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The Middle East from Bush/Sharon to Obama/Netanyahu: Results and Prospects with Gilbert Achcar
Professor Gilbert Achcar teaches Development Studies at the School of African and Oriental Studies at the University of London. His latest book is Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy. Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice (2009) (with Noam Chomsky). Continue reading
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Dr Ahmed Yousef – Israeli Elections: From Bad to Ugly
Pundits have asked Palestinians of every persuasion what they think of Israeli elections over the past several weeks. Opinions are varied and thoughtful; yet the truth is that to prefer one of the leading groups over another is an exercise in futility. Continue reading