Mideast Conflict

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• Israel showing bad faith

  
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  From the Center for American Progress via email: The Israeli newspaper Haaretz highlights a confidential European Union report that "accused both the Israeli government and the Jerusalem municipality of working deliberately to alter the city’s demographic balance and sever East Jerusalem from the West Bank ." The ...
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• Is Likud an enemy of the Jewish people?

  
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  Ben Armbruster at ThinkProgress : Part of the Obama administration’s plan to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to the negotiating table has been to call on the Israeli government to freeze all settlement building and expansion throughout the occupied West Bank. Yet despite agreeing to freeze all settlement ...
  1 week ago

• World’s largest prison still has doors sealed shut

  
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  Pam Rasmussen at Op-Ed News : It has been nearly one year since Israel launched “Operation Cast Lead,” on Dec. 27, 2008. It was at 11:30 a.m. that 88 Israeli aircraft flew above the Gaza Strip and simultaneously struck 100 targets within a span of just 220 seconds. Thirty minutes later, a second wave of 60 jets ...
  2 weeks ago

• Israel claims to have stopped Iranian arms ship

  
  Breaking Tweets — Authority: 420
  Per BBC , the Israeli Navy has seized a ship reportedly headed by Iran carrying weapons disguised as civilian cargo, yet Iran has denied the allegations. The Israeli Navy has reported that the arms ship was on its way to Hezbollah, where fights between Israeli and Iranian forces has been active. Several hundred ...
  4 weeks ago

• TwitPics: 13 Aban, November 4 Iran protests

  
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  Supporters of the Iranian government and the opposition have both taken to the streets in Tehran today. Supporters are rallying to commemorate 13 Aban , which corresponds to November 4, the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover by Iranian students. The opposition, on the other hand , is protesting the ...
  5 weeks ago

• What really happened during the Israeli attacks?

  
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  Another post on Israel and its Gaza attacks. Lawrence Wright in the New Yorker : In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip, there is a small crossing station not far from a kibbutz named Kerem Shalom. A guard tower looms over the flat, scrubby buffer zone. Gaza never extends more than seven ...
  5 weeks ago

• "Ongoing U.S. efforts to protect and coddle Israel"

  
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  Another column lamenting the inability of the US to treat Israel as an adult nation. Glenn Greenwald quotes the column referenced in the previous post, then adds: It’s simply impossible to imagine that sort of harsh and blunt critique [what Gideon Levy wrote – LG] being voiced by any establishment political ...
  5 weeks ago

• "America, stop sucking up to Israel"

  
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  Things are bad—so bad that even some Israelis think we’re on the wrong track. Take a look at Gideon Levy’s article (with the title shown above) in Haaretz : Barack Obama has been busy – offering the Jewish People blessings for Rosh Hashanah, and recording a flattering video for the President’s ...
  5 weeks ago

• Imagine: Pro-Israel AND Pro-peace

  
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  In an email from the Center for American Progress: More than 1,500 participants from the United States, Israel and elsewhere attended the first annual conference of the "pro-Israel, pro-peace" lobbying group J Street in Washington, DC this week. The group has sought to promote policies toward the Middle East that ...
  6 weeks ago

• Benjamin Netanyahu says that what the US has done constitutes "war crimes"

  
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  Glenn Greenwald : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded yesterday to the U.N. Report finding Israel guilty of war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity by pointing out that Hamas committed war crimes — a fact nobody disputes but which doesn’t exonerate Israel in any way.  Netanyahu argued, ...
  6 weeks ago

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