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Decades of Palestinian Displacement in East Jerusalem
by Stephen Lendman
The UN General Assembly's 1947 Resolution 181 internationalized Jerusalem as a separate body (a corpus separatum), administered by a UN Trustee Council, a policy still binding but not followed. Nor have other resolutions or international law provisions Israel rejects, ones interfering with its military occupation, affecting E. Jerusalem Palestinians repressively since June 1967, more still after passage of the July 30, 1980 Basic Law, declaring "Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel."
Yet on June 30, 1980, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 476 (America abstaining), declaring "all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying Power, which purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal validity and constitute a flagrant (Fourth Geneva) violation."
“Redeem Aiyana’s Dream” Hundreds from across U.S. march in Detroit against police murder of 7-year-old
By Diane Bukowski
DETROIT – A mother and child from New York City led a march of hundreds from across the nation in downtown Detroit June 26 to condemn the Detroit police killing of seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones in May. The U.S. Social Forum, a national gathering of activists in Detroit, had just concluded.
Marchers carried dozens of signs displaying Aiyana’s photo, which declared in bright red, “Redeem Aiyana’s Dream,” and “We Say No to No-Knock Raids.” They chanted, “Don’t kill our kids, don’t shoot our kids,” and “The system is wrong, we’ve got to be strong, Aiyana Jones, she has a name, her family is not to blame.”
The Israeli stranglehold on CNN
Commentary by Khalid Amayreh
In 1978, the famous American Jewish author Alfred Lilienthal wrote his masterpiece book "the Zionist connection: what price peace?", in which he described in great detail the Jewish-Zionist stranglehold on the American media, especially the so-called agenda-setters.
Lilienthal, who died two years ago, knew what he was talking about. He explained that the Zionist cabal controlling the American media had only one mantra to invoke, one cause to serve, and one goal to achieve, namely Israel. Every other consideration, whether professional ethics or simple honesty, was subject to Zionist expediency.
Saudi Arabia's betrayal to the Islamic world
Kourosh Ziabari
The corrupt king of Saudi Arabia Malek Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz whose clandestine connections with the families of Osama Bin Laden and George W. Bush have made him a notorious and unpopular figure in the Islamic world has recently made unbelievably controversial remarks which leaved no doubt that this tyrannical monarch is moving towards ushering himself as the new stooge of the United States in the Persian Gulf region.
The Saudi King who has seemingly started attempts to merge his country with the imperialist world told the French Defense Minister Hervé Morin in a meeting held after the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre that "two states in region do not deserve to exist: Israel and Iran."
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE AFTER THE FLOTILLA Part 1 — Change is in the wind
By Jack A. Smith
There are times in world politics when a relatively small incident can trigger a major chain of events, depending on circumstances. Another way of expressing this is contained in the ancient Chinese proverb, "A single spark can start a prairie fire" — particularly when conditions include a warm gusty wind and the grassland is dry.
This analogy comes to mind in the aftermath of the violent illegal interdiction by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) of the six ships and nearly 700 people in the humanitarian Gaza Freedom Flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea over a month ago, killing nine Turkish supporters of Palestinian national rights and wounding about 50 other voyagers. Is it possible this incident may represent the start of a transitional moment leading toward substantial change for the Palestinians, Israelis and perhaps the Middle East in general? We think yes, and the process has already begun. How far it goes, nobody knows, but conditions are ripe for change.
Understanding the BP Oil Tragedy: Time Blindness
Joel S. Hirschhorn
A loss expected to happen next year looks smaller than that same loss happening next week. Worse yet, a loss or catastrophe that may happen (indeed, is highly likely to happen) decades away is essentially invisible, unthinkable or unworthy of attention now. In other words, humans suffer from an intrinsic thinking defect best described as time blindness. It is the inability to correctly foresee and take seriously long term consequences of current actions.
No wonder that people easily spend decades eating unhealthy foods or living a sedentary lifestyle, or both, without appreciating or internalizing the inevitable negative and serious health impacts, from heart disease to all kinds of cancers, for example.
Deteriorating Conditions for Israeli Arab Citizens
by Stephen Lendman
In April 2010, the Mossawa Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel published a report titled, "One Year for Israel's New Government and the Arab Minority in Israel," assessing the climate for Israeli Arabs - citizens comprising 20% of the population but none of the rights and protections afforded Jews.
Mossawa calls them "a potentially formidable force for peace and coexistence between Palestinians and Israeli Jews" if only they were respected as equals. They're not and face systemic discrimination, despite their wanting to be active participants and partners for peace in a nation as much theirs and Jews. Why not! They lived there for centuries without persecuting the minority Jewish population.
Ray McGovern and Robert Parry on Truth Unflinching and the Price of Integrity
Michael Collins
(Washington, DC) Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and investigative journalist Robert Parry spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC last night. They were guests of The McClendon Group which holds periodic meetings at the press club featuring investigative reporters and newsmakers. Parry publishes and reports at Consortium.News.com. McGovern is on the steering committee of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
They focused on the risks of integrity in both journalism and government service. Parry had a successful career with AP and Newsweek, where he was a leader in Iran-Contra reporting. McGovern's career in intelligence spanned three decades and put him in front of presidents and cabinet members for daily intelligence briefings by the CIA, among other duties.
Both received awards and acknowledgments for their efforts. Yet both left the beaten path of conformity to establish their own independent critiques of conventional wisdom and establishment mythologies. They chose telling the truth as they knew it and saw it over the comfort of corporate and government perquisites and security.
36 Nonviolent Nuke Resisters Arrested at Y-12 National Security Complex
eileen fleming
Sr. Ardeth Platte smiling with joy at the empire's minions
[July 5, 2010: Oak Ridge, Tennessee] Priests and nuns, atheists, anarchist and one clown were among the 23 arrested by the State and 13 by the Federal Government for nonviolently resisting Nuclear Weapons at Y-12 in the morning of July 5, 2010.
Those facing State charges were arrested for obstructing the road way, one for failing to obey a police officer and Federal charges are for trespassing.
Before the nonviolent action that lead to the arrests the crowd made commitments to bear witness every Sunday at 5:55 PM at the site for a vigil and sing Keep Your Eyes on the Prize and the names of all who offered themselves against the insanity of nuclear war will be named out-loud until every one of them has been freed.
Zionist crimes and the price of silence
By: Salim Nazzal
I devote this article to my friend Dr. Ebba Veregland, the friend of Palestine in Norway, who was among the first who broke the silence about the Zionist crimes, and who devoted and still much of her life defending the right of Palestinians to be a free nation.
In 62 years of continuous Zionist war crimes, Zionists have succeeded in misleading the international public opinion, which stood silent, and even supported them while they were expelling, murdering and displacing Palestinians.
In their 62 years of committing quantitative and qualitative war crimes against innocent Palestinians. Modern history does not give us one single example of such a genocidal murderous regime lasting for seven decades whilst still managing to present itself as a ‘democracy’ or its perpetrators and beneficiaries as ‘poor victims.’ This demonstrates Zionism’s huge powers of manipulation and deception, which no fascist regime has ever exceeded. Yet with each Zionist crime Palestinians have never stopped asking the same question: where is the world’s will to punish the Zionists? Palestinians’ appeals, however, have always fallen on deaf ears, to the extent that many of them came to the conclusion that Jews dominated the world and nobody was able to confront them. But despite that there was brave men and woman in Europe and the USA who broke the silence and sought to inform the public about the Zionist crimes.
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