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Waging Peace from Afar: Divestment and Israeli Occupation

by RAINman on 23. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

A growing grassroots movement is using the techniques of the anti-apartheid movement to challenge U.S. support for Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.
by Phyllis Bennis
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her books include Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer, Understanding the U.S.-Iran Crisis: A Primer, and most recently Ending the Iraq [...]

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Muslims flock to anti-terror camp

by RAINman on 11. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

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 [...]

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The Zionist Imam >hey?

by RAINman on 20. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

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 of [...]

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Video: It’s about money, not peace: Norman Finkelstein on Netanyahu visit to US

by RAINman on 08. Jul, 2010 in Videos NEW!!!

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Jeffrey Blankfort : No Cause for Celebration —- Sestak, Israel and Iran

by RAINman on 20. May, 2010 in Opinion

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 [...]

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Robert Fisk: Walls Never Work: In the Middle East or in Ireland

by RAINman on 06. Jan, 2010 in Analysis

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 Hill.
“Cloaked in [...]

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No Unilateral Declaration of Palestinian State, Says Erekat

by RAINman on 18. Nov, 2009 in General

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.

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Offering Israel new opportunities for obstruction

by RAINman on 09. Jul, 2009 in Analysis

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 for [...]

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Netanyahu’s “brilliant” peace plan

by RAINman on 18. Jun, 2009 in Analysis, Opinion

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 a peace [...]

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Netanyahu’s Illusory Concession on Palestine

by RAINman on 17. Jun, 2009 in Analysis

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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Global weapons spending hits record levels

by RAINman on 10. Jun, 2009 in General

 
Richard Norton-Taylor     guardian.co.uk
 Worldwide spending on weapons has reached record levels amounting to well over $1tn last year, a leading research organisation reported today.
     Global military expenditure has risen by 45% over the past decade to $1.46tn, according to the latest annual Yearbook on Armaments, Disarmament, and International Security published by the Stockholm International Peace [...]

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THE INFLUENCE GAME: Pro-Israel doves seek DC clout

by RAINman on 26. May, 2009 in General

THE INFLUENCE GAME: New pro-Israel lobby group seeks peace in Mideast, influence in Washington
 ALAN FRAM                                                Antiwar Newswire   AP News
Want a daunting job? Try being a fledgling lobbying group whose goal is [...]

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