On Monday, Hussein Said Hussein Abu Aliya found olive trees poisoned, he said, by settlers. By ISABEL KERSHNER The New York Times Published: October 12, 2010 TURMUS AYA, West Bank — Palestinians from villages like this one in the West Bank governorate of Ramallah still remember when the olive harvest was a joyous occasion, with [...]
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TIME: Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace
(The ADL is not happy with Time. They sent the magazine a letter today in response to its current cover article, “Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace.” The gist of the article is that Israel is doing so well economically that affluent Israelis don’t really care about making peace with the Palestinians. Why Israel Doesn’t [...]
Muslims flock to anti-terror camp
News24 – 10 August 2010 Coventry – “Follow the Prophet Mohammed, don’t follow bin Laden!” That was the message from an anti-terrorism summer camp led by a top scholar which attracted hundreds of young British Muslims this week. Al-Hidayah (The Guidance) was led by Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, who earlier this year issued a fatwa, or religious [...]
The Zionist Imam >hey?
By SVEN BEHRISCH The Jerusalem Post – July 19, 2010 Opposition to Israel is an offense against Allah. What should one think about a Muslim Imam who encourages Israeli settlers to go on building? A leader of Italian Muslims who doubts the Palestinians’ right to any part of Israel? A pupil of the Grand Mufti [...]
Video: It’s about money, not peace: Norman Finkelstein on Netanyahu visit to US
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Jeffrey Blankfort : No Cause for Celebration —- Sestak, Israel and Iran
CounterPunch - 19 May 2010 Readers who are already celebrating the long overdue departure of Arlen Specter from the the US Senate should be advised, to borrow a phrase from noted plagiarizer, Joe Biden, that there was “no space between” the foreign policy positions of long-time Pennsylvania Senator and the ex-Navy admiral, Rep. Joe Sestak who [...]
Robert Fisk: Walls Never Work: In the Middle East or in Ireland
Israel’s illegal claim to West Bank Arab land is based on holy texts, not on a king’s fiat The Independent UK - 2 January 2010 We were walking round Milltown Cemetery last week, me and David McKittrick – Our Man in Belfast and among my oldest friends – and the wind came biting down from Cave [...]
No Unilateral Declaration of Palestinian State, Says Erekat
Posted By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler Antiwar.com – 16 November 2009 JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority has embarked on a new strategic drive to get renewed international recognition for the borders of the future Palestinian state. Last Thursday it gained backing for this approach from the Arab League. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on [...]
Offering Israel new opportunities for obstruction
Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 8 July 2009 Israel has never been short of pretexts for obstructing progress towards a Middle East peace settlement. But recent moves to push Arab and Muslim states to normalize ties with Israel as a reward for agreeing to freeze settlement construction will likely provide Israel with more opportunities [...]
Netanyahu’s “brilliant” peace plan
Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah, Hasan Abu Nimah is the former permanent representative of Jordan at the United Nations. Co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah is author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (Metropolitan Books, 2006) The Electronic Intifada, 17 June 2009 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed [...]
Netanyahu’s Illusory Concession on Palestine
The Israeli prime minister endorsed the idea of a Palestinian state, while rejecting it in the particular. Michelle Goldberg* On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a remarkably intransigent speech at Bar-Ilan University, intended to both mirror and answer the speech President Barack Obama gave in Cairo last month. Netanyahu flatly refused to call [...]
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