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When they rape you don’t object”: Israeli “satire” show incites hatred of Muslims, Europeans

The popular Israeli web-based satirical show LatmaTV has released a musical video containing crude anti-Muslim stereotypes and mocking Europeans as “dummies” for supposedly allowing their countries to be taken over by Islam and turned into “Eurabia.”   In one sequence, a Norwegian father tells his blonde daughter about Muslims: “When they rape you don’t object [...]

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Gingrich would “instruct” CIA to “hunt down” freed Palestinian prisoners

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 12/11/2011 – 13:16   After declaring that Palestinians are an “invented people,”USpresidential hopeful and former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, has said that he would instruct the CIA to hunt down Palestinian prisoners released last October in an exchange negotiated byIsraeland Hamas, presumably to kill them.   Gingrich [...]

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Newt Gingrich condemned for calling Palestinians ‘terrorists’

Palestinian officials say Republican frontrunner’s claim children are taught to kill in textbooks is based on Israeli propaganda   Phoebe Greenwood in Ramallah   guardian.co.uk, Sunday 11 December 2011 17.33 GMT   Leading Palestinian officials have rounded on the Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich for his description of Palestinians as an “invented” people and “terrorists”. [...]

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Report: Netanyahu endorses loudspeaker ban in Mosques

Ma’an Monday 12/12/2011,   TEL AVIV,Israel– Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday expressed support for a bill to ban mosques from using loudspeakers for the Islamic call to prayer.   “There’s no need to be more liberal thanEurope,” Netanyahu said during a Likud ministers meeting, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.   The ban was [...]

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Haaretz Editorial: In Israel, the life of a Palestinian is cheap

When it comes to shooting a Palestinian, pulling the trigger does not come with a real fear of having to answer to the law.   Haaretz Mon, December 12, 2011   The pictures from Friday’s events in Nabi Saleh are hard to swallow: An Israel Defense Forces soldier opens the back door of an armored [...]

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Response to Richard Goldstone ‘Israel and the Apartheid Slander’

By Mutasem Awad and Hiyam Noir   November 20, 2011   Richard Goldstone’s op-ed published for New York Times and dated October 31 2011, with the offensively noticeable title: “Israeland the Apartheid Slander”, astounded us because of the fallacies, aimed at blurring the truth and to justify the policies pursued by the Israeli occupation for [...]

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A message from Kairos Palestine about BDS

A Frantic Counter BDS Campaign Under Way in Israel   Kairos Palestine November 18, 2011   A Frantic Counter BDS Campaign Under Way in Israel   Statement by Kairos Palestine on “Buy Israel Week”   Bethlehem, 17.11.2011. Anything but subtle – that sums up the desperate campaign recently launched by an assortment of anti-Palestinians conglomerates. [...]

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Removal of Assad will be devastating for Israel: Gilad

Desmond Shephard   Bikya Masr November 16, 2011   The head ofIsrael’s defense ministry’s diplomatic-security bureau warned of a possible “Islamic empire” ifSyria’s President Bashar al-Assad were to be ousted. Amos Gilad said that the removal of the Syrian leader would lead to a “devastating crisis forIsrael.”   His comments come as violence inSyriareached new [...]

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Israeli Army Calls the Ex-detainees for Interrogation

by Mais Azza   IMEMC & Agencies Monday November 14, 2011 12:09   Israelcontinues to breach the terms of the prisoner-swap deal by breaking into the houses of ex-detainees’ throughout theWest Bank, Palestinian news agency, Ma’an reported.   Palestinian officials in charge of the detainees’ , asserted that the Israeli Prison Administration is still punishing [...]

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Sarkozy tries to appease Netanyahu

After being caught calling Netanyahu a ‘liar’ French president sends particularly friendly letter to Israeli PM offering close cooperation on issue of Iran sanctions   Itamar Eichner   Ynetnews Published: 11.13.11,   Days after being caught calling Benjamin Netanyahu a “liar” in a private conversation with US President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy is [...]

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The Nuclear Scientist That Wasn’t

IAEA Errs on “Foreign Expert” in Iran N-programme   By Vladimir Radyuhin   The Hindu November 10, 2011   The latest report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) onIranappears to have falsified information about a Russian scientist who allegedly helpedTehranadvance its nuclear weapons programme.   The report published by aU.S.think tank on Tuesday said [...]

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Ali Abunimah: Bill in Congress seeks to investigate US Boat to Gaza for “terrorist” ties

The Electronic Intifada November 11, 2011   A bill introduced in the United States Congress last month would require the State Department to investigate “The sources of any logistical, technical, or financial support for the Gaza flotilla ships, including the Audacity of Hope, that were set to set sail from Greece on July 1, 2011.” [...]

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