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

by on 13. Dec, 2011 in Newsletter Links

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

by on 13. Dec, 2011 in Newsletter Links

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’

by on 13. Dec, 2011 in Newsletter Links

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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Israeli Army Calls the Ex-detainees for Interrogation

by on 15. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

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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Video: A weekend of terror in Occupied Palestine

by on 15. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

by Seham   Mondoweiss November 13, 2011   IDF thugs attack Palestinian and International activists in June; though this video is months old, it merits all the exposure we can give it.   see here: http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/a-weekend-of-terror-in-occupied-palestine.html Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this post

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Why the Washington Post won’t fire Jennifer Rubin

by on 14. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

By Glenn Greenwald   SALON Saturday, Nov 12, 2011   Several weeks ago, I wrote about a truly twisted, deranged rant by neocon royal family member Rachel Abrams. Abrams — wife of Iran-contra convict and Bush 43 official Eliot Abrams, step-daughter of Norm Podhoretz, half-sister of John Podhoretz, and a Board Member of Bill Kristol’s [...]

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Jim Lobe: “Israel’s Advocate” to Leave White House for Pro-Israel Think Tank

by on 14. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Jim Lobe’s blog on U.S. foreign policy can be read at http://www.lobelog.com.   IPS — November 11, 2011   WASHINGTON, Nov 10, 2011 (IPS) – Dennis Ross, President Barack Obama’s topMiddle Eastaide who has attracted criticism for his allegedly strong pro-Israel sympathies, will leave his post at the end of this month, the White House [...]

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How racist laws imprison a nation

by on 11. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

 November 3 2011 at 09:55am  By Nurit Peled-Elhanan  Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an Israeli peace activist, and one of the founders of the Bereaved Families for Peace. After the death of Elhanan’s 13 year-old daughter in 1997, she became an outspoken critic of the [...]

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The Bedouin vs Israel’s bulldozers

by on 08. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

As Jewish settlers move into the desert to make it ‘bloom’, an ancient way of life is under threat. In Alsra, Catrina Stewart speaks to Arab families on the fault line   Catrina Stewart   The Independent Friday 04 November 2011   At the top of an unmarked track leading into the smallvillageofAlsra, in theNegevdesert, [...]

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Reporters again turn State Dep’t briefing into moshpit, scorning US ‘impotence’ in the conflict

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

by Philip Weiss   Mondoweiss    on November 3, 2011 The discourse is changing. Here is yesterday’s daily press briefing at theStateDepartment– and once again you see a group of reporters emboldened to ridicule the Obama administration’s position on Palestinian rights. Notice the scorn for the Obama administration for doing nothing in response to Israeli settlement [...]

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Stephen M. Walt: Romney flunks foreign policy … again

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

FOREIGN POLICY      Tuesday, November 1, 2011 – 11:54 AM In a remarkable statement of foreign policy myopia and domestic political pandering, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced last week that the United Statesshould largely subordinate its Middle East policy-making to Israel. In response to a reporter’s question about moving the U.S.embassy to Jerusalem, Romney said [...]

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Israel Navy tracks new Gaza-bound flotilla

by on 03. Nov, 2011 in General

Two ships leave Turkey carrying between 20 to 30 pro-Palestinian activists; IDF says plans to intercept vessels, offer them to dock at Ashdod or port in Egypt.    By Anshel Pfeffer and Natasha Mozgovaya    HAARETZ    Wed, November 02, 2011   The Israeli Navy is tracking two ships, believed be part of a new flotilla [...]

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