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Senior BBC official insists that all of Jerusalem is an “Israeli” city By Amena Saleem
The BBC has provided evidence this week that it prefers to use the territorial claims of the Israeli government to the whole of Jerusalem as a framework for its reporting, rather than acknowledging international law. Continue reading
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Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC By Amena Saleem
The American poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” The phrase springs to mind in April 2013, the month that a new director-general took up his post at the BBC and, within two weeks, had installed a line-up of hardline Zionists at the top of the world’s largest publicly-funded news organization. Continue reading
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ICH 30 April 2013: Did Muslims Attack America on 9/11?
30 April 2013 — Information Clearing House Why Would Syria Use Chemical Weapons Now? By Tim Marshall Why attempt a very limited attack, resulting in no obvious military advantage? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34776.htm Continue reading
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Growing Voices Among Palestinians Calling for a Single Democratic Secular State
With negotiations for a two state solution going nowhere, more Palestinians are calling for a single state solution Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 10 April 2013
10 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invade, Uproot, Farmlands in Khan YounisIMEMC – Wednesday morning April 10, 2013, several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded Palestinian farmland east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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BBC defends false claims linking Rachel Corrie to killings of Israeli soldiers By Amena Saleem
The extent to which the BBC is prepared to misreport on the Israeli occupation has been made clear once again. A new ruling by the BBC Trust has defended the corporation’s coverage of the Rachel Corrie case, even though it falsely implied that the unarmed activist was in some way responsible for the deaths of… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 28 March 2013: Just where does Israel’s legitimacy stem from anyway?
28 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Weekly Report: 4 wounded, 30 abducted by Israeli troops this weekIMEMC – In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 21- 27 March 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Israeli forces Continue reading
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ICH 13 March 2013: John Pilger: The New Propaganda Is Liberal – The New Slavery Is Digital
13 March 2013 — Information Clearing House Responsibility to Protect And The Myth of Large Numbers By Vijay Prashad The United States often uses exaggerated civilian casualty numbers to make a case for military intervention in strife-torn regions. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34278.htm Continue reading
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ICH 7 March 2013: US Plots Conquest of Venezuela in Wake of Chavez’ Death
7 March 2013 — Information Clearing House Malaysia Invaded 100’s of Terrorists Land on Beaches, Western Media Mute By Tony Cartalucci The West’s woeful, irresponsible coverage of a burgeoning region-wide destabilization, fits in nicely with its coverage of US-Saudi funded/armed terrorism around the world, including in Syria. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34214.htm Continue reading
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ICH 24 February 2013: Democrats’ Complicity in Political Murder
24 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Washington Backs Syrian Anti-Government Terrorism: By Stephen Lendman Make no mistake. Syria is Washington’s war. It was planned years ago. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34073.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 February 2013: Palestinian students "surrounded by guns" at Israeli universities
22 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Child Injured In Bil’in Weekly Protests, Dozens Treated For Effects Of Teargas InhalationIMEMC – Friday January 22 2013; Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and settlement, and shot one child in the head, while dozens of protesters have been treated for the Continue reading
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Palestinians Disqualify U.S. as Peace Broker By Nicola Nasser
The “unbreakable alliance,” which will be confirmed by the upcoming visit of President Barak Obama to Israel , will disqualify the United States as an honest broker of peace in the Arab – Israeli conflict in Palestine , a Palestinian veteran peace negotiator says. Continue reading
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ICH 21 February 2013: The Moral Decoding of 9-11 – Prof. J. McMurtry
21 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Carnage 53 Killed In Syria Courtesy of US Allies By Daniel McAdams No doubt this bombing against a government building will be blamed on the Syrian government in the Western media, adding to the phony UN body count. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34051.htm Continue reading
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NYT Rewrites a (formerly) Accurate Occupation Headline By Peter Hart
Non-violent protesters came up with a novel way to protest Israeli plans to build more settlement colonies in the occupied West Bank: They occupied the land themselves. The Bab Al Shams tents went up on Friday on privately owned Palestinian land in what Israel designates as the E1 part of the West Bank. Israel’s announcement… Continue reading
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Movie Review: Robbery of Books and Ownership of Narrative By Susan Abulhawa
I finally watched The Great Book Robbery at the University of Pennsylvania this weekend with some friends. It’s a film documenting Israel’s systematic looting of over 70,000 books from Palestinian public and private libraries after Jewish gangs in Palestine proclaimed the state of Israel and ethnically cleansed the native population. Continue reading
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Omar Barghouti: We won’t be silenced about Israel’s crimes
Controversy continues to swirl around a planned forum scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 7, at Brooklyn College to discuss the growing global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. In a letter to Brooklyn College President Karen Gould, nine members of the New York City Council threatened to cut funding for the… Continue reading
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Israeli State Terror Crowd Control Weapons by Stephen Lendman
State terror is official Israeli policy. Community incursions, assaults, and other violent incidents occur daily. Palestinian suffering follows. Continue reading
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ICH 28 January 2013: Revolution in Saudi Arabia?
28 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Hollande is Afraid of His Armies By Thierry Meyssan The trust has been broken between the military chiefs and the soldiers who are in the army to defend the homeland. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33744.htm Continue reading
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The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians
Since the outbreak of the first Intifada in 1987, the world has seen those heinous war crimes inflicted every day by Israel against the Palestinian people living in occupied Palestine: e.g., willful killing of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli army and by Israel’s criminal paramilitary terrorist settlers. Continue reading
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Qatar, Sponsor of Islamist Political Movements, Major Ally of America By Nicola Nasser
In view of the level of “coordination” and “cooperation” since bilateral diplomatic relations were established in 1972 between the U.S. and Qatar , and the concentration of U.S. military power on this tiny peninsula, it seems impossible that Qatar could move independently apart, in parallel with, away or on a collision course with the U.S.… Continue reading
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