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A Brief History of Intolerance in America

by RAINman on 24. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

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Israel tells schools not to teach nakba

by RAINman on 23. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent
The Nation - Sunday, August 22, 2010
NAZARETH // Government officials warned Israeli teachers last week not to cooperate with a civic group that seeks to educate Israelis about how the Palestinians view the loss of their homeland and the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.
Israel’s education ministry issued the advisory after [...]

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FAQ on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

by RAINman on 13. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

IMEU  -  August 11, 2010
What is BDS?
What are the goals of BDS?
Who is calling for BDS?
What are some examples of how BDS was used during Apartheid in South Africa?
What is the call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel?
Who are some of the people endorsing the Palestinian-led BDS campaign?
Who are some of the people that have [...]

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Amazing Map of Middle East

by RAINman on 21. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

This is an amazing, constantly changing map of the Middle East region, illustrating how various “empires” have risen and fallen in the past 5000 years. See it all in just 90 seconds.
see it here: http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

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Cultural history of the Crusades in 2010 United States

by RAINman on 08. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

by Zainab Cheema
Zainab Cheema, a free-lance writer, gets featured on Media Monitors Network (MMN) with the courtesy of Crescent International.
Media Monitors Network -  July 7, 2010
Crusade — a word caught between the lexicon of pedestrian, every day use and the charged memories of civilizational struggle. The mixed history of the Crusades is itself caught within these contradictions. [...]

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Israel’s Attack on Egypt in ‘67 was not ‘Preemptive’

by RAINman on 06. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

- Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent journalist and editor of Foreign Policy Journal. He was among the recipients of the 2010 Project Censored Awards for outstanding investigative journalism, and is the author of “The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination”, available from Amazon.com. Visit: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com.
Palestine Chronicle    July 4, 2010
It is often claimed that Israel’s attack on [...]

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The roots of Israeli exceptionalism

by RAINman on 29. Jun, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti
Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti is an author in political history and history of religion. He is a research coordinator at Qatar Foundation.
Uruknet.info – June 27, 2010
An American academic once told me: “Many people in the Islamic world think America does not believe in human rights, but they are wrong; America believes in human [...]

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Joseph Massad: The language of Zionism

by RAINman on 11. May, 2010 in Analysis

Al-Ahram Weekly – 7 May 2010
The reason for the ongoing “violence” in Israel and Palestine is not on account of Israeli colonialism at all but rather a direct result of mistranslation. Joseph Massad* provides an abridged lexicon of Zionist terminology

“Colonialism is peace; anti-colonialism is war.” This is the unalterable equation that successive Israeli governments [...]

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The Arabs, weak by choice <==

by RAINman on 11. May, 2010 in Analysis

The history of the Arab League since its inception in 1944 suggests that the Arab regimes have long chosen to be weak and irrelevant.

Hasan Afif El-Hasan*
Al Ahram Weekly - 7 May 2010
Nation states in the area from Morocco to Iraq, including the Arabian Peninsula, share a distinct culture and history and speak Arabic, albeit in [...]

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Video : Norman Finkelstein — Zionism’s Version of History

by RAINman on 10. Nov, 2009 in Videos NEW!!!

Interview by Alan Hart
Alan Hart is a former ITN and BBC Panorama foreign correspondent who covered wars and conflicts wherever they were taking place in the world and specialized in the Middle East. Author of Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews: The False Messiah (Zionism, the Real Enemy of the Jews). He blogs [...]

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Confessions of an AIPAC Veteran

by RAINman on 22. Oct, 2009 in Opinion

By Helena Cobban
The Nation - 14 October 2009

If you walk along a certain dusty lane in the walled Old City of Damascus, you’ll come to a heavy door that admits you to the tree-shaded courtyards of the Talisman Hotel. Last January I was part of a small group that stayed at the Talisman. We ate breakfast [...]

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At What Cost the Israel Lobby?

by RAINman on 14. Oct, 2009 in Analysis

Jeff Gates
Uruknet.info – 12 October 2009
More than 46 years ago, President John F. Kennedy sought to preclude a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. In June 1963, he wrote the last in a series of insistent letters to Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Those letters sought what Israel now demands of Iran: international inspections [...]

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