Link: https://soundcloud.com/davidrovics/vanunu

Link: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/05/no-escape-for-palestinian-women-forced-into-prostitution/

RAMALLAH - Just down the road from the bubble of privilege and power of the Palestinian Legislative Council is one of Ramallah’s houses of ill repute. There, Palestinian women are being exploited and ruined, with no hope of being accepted back into society.

Link: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m97267&hd=&size=1&l=e

Thirteen years ago I knew very little about Israel-Palestine. Like most Americans, this seemed to be a distant, confusing conflict that had little to do with me. I was unaware –again, like most Americans – that American taxpayers give Israel over $8 million per day, more than we give to any other nation.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/04/28/300635/israeli-warplanes-strike-gaza-strip/

Over 160 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and about 1,200 others were injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip from November 14 to 21, 2012.
Israeli warplanes have carried out three airstrikes on Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip, witnesses say. Palestinian witnesses said that the Israeli aircraft bombarded areas in the southern town of Khan Younis and near the town of Rafah in southern Gaza during the early hours of Sunday.

Link: http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/5849-israeli-forces-uproot-more-than-700-olive-trees

On Thursday evening Israeli occupation forces uprooted more than 700 olive trees in Al-Arroub neighbourhood to the south of the West Bank city of Jenin. A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Najat abu-Baker, confirmed that Israeli occupation forces uprooted the seven-year-old olive trees from the Palestinian farms near to the Israeli settlement of Dotan.

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article22587

A Palestinian released from Israeli jails, Rania Saqa, has brought to light that the Israeli regime injected detainees that are out of prisons with dangerous viruses. Noting that Palestinian prisoners suffer from serious and chronic diseases such as bladder cancer and liver disorders, Rania has revealed that the Tel Aviv regime injects prisoners with dangerous viruses before releasing them.

Link: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4368598,00.html

Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate votes in favor of resolution stipulating that US will support Israel in case it was forced to take military action against Iran

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article22510

The Iron Sieve – One out of twenty effective Dear Folks, We hear rumblings of a $350 million cut back, but we shall have to see about that. The American public has been nailed for many many years with off the books funding for Israel that is way beyond the $3 billion a year cartoon figure. That does not include things like American Army Corps of Engineers projects done there which are hidden in the defense budget.

Link: http://www.redressonline.com/2013/03/zionisms-diabolical-blueprint/

The Dalet Plan, or Plan D, was the Zionist terror mob’s diabolical blueprint for the violent and blood-spattered takeover of the Palestinian homeland – some call it the Palestinian holocaust – written 65 years ago and based on three earlier schemes drafted between 1945 and 1948. It was drawn up by the Jewish underground militia, the Haganah, at the behest of David Ben-Gurion, then boss of the Jewish Agency.

Link: http://www.redressonline.com/2013/03/israel-65-years-of-war-crimes/

Deir Yassin massacre, The green light for Zionism’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine. I find myself wondering how many of our present-day leaders, President Barack Obama in particular, are aware of what happened in Palestine that became Israel on 10 March 65 years ago today.

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2013/02/18/a-letter-from-samer-issawi#more18812

‘I turn with admiration to the masses of our heroic Palestinian people, to our Palestinian leadership, to all forces, parties and national institutions. I salute them for standing by our fight to defend our right to freedom and dignity.

Link: http://www.redressonline.com/2013/02/western-medias-positive-spin-on-israel/

Western media are obsessed with presenting a positive spin on everything related to Israel, while trivializing good and accentuating negative news on Palestine.

Link: http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/this-is-one-of-my-most-interesting-tv-interviews-ever.html

This is probably the clearest interview I have given about my thoughts, The Wandering Who, Israel. Judaism, Zionism, Jewishness, Palestine, AZZ, identity vs. identification, the 'left', One State

Link: http://www.davidduke.com/?p=37715

Commentary By Dr. David Duke –I hope you already understand and oppose the Zio Media hate directed against the Palestinian people and against the Iranian people. Iran for instance has signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and allows inspections while Israel has not signed the NPT, has no inspections, and has huge stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article22372

On Christmas Day the World celebrates the birth of Jesus but needs to loudly and publicly proclaim the truth that Jesus was a Palestinian. Goodhearted and honest Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Jews, Animists, Agnostics and Atheists would all agree that Jesus was a wonderful humanitarian, an outstanding moral philosopher. All of us, from Atheists to Zoroastrians, recognize Jesus as the most renowned Indigenous Palestinian.

Link: http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2012/12/16/scurrilous-martin-shermans-racist-hate-commentary-in-jpost/

Martin Sherman held various IDF operational positions. He was one of Yitzhak Shamir’s ministerial advisors. He lectures at Tel Aviv University. Students are advised to avoid him. His anti-Palestinian hatefulness is visceral.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/15/278193/cia-mossad-staged-911-to-save-israel/

Thus the world (and Americans in particular) is having to come to terms with the nasty evidence that, in order to further Zionist interests by initiating a general war against Islam, the CIA and Mossad were heavily involved in the murder of three thousand Americans. The noted analyst Kevin Barrett, has summed up this situation by saying, “Israel has reached the end of its shelf-life.” He continued, “The US is going broke and sacrificing thousands of lives in wars for Israel - wars that damage, rather than aid, US strategic interests.”

Link: http://www.eileenfleming.org/index.php?option=com_easyblog&view=entry&id=6&Itemid=168

After a 19-month wait, Mordechai Vanunu received the disappointing but not unexpected news from Interior Minister Eli Yishai, regarding his historic appeal seeking to revoke his Israeli citizenship.

Link: http://blogs.forward.com/sisterhood-blog/167445/shocking-decline-in-ethiopian-israeli-birthrate/

Gabai interviewed Ethiopian women immigrants and learned from them that they were given Depo-Provera (a contraceptive injection containing the hormone progestin administered once every three months) against their will. While some did not understand what the shots were for, others felt pressured into taking them in response to alleged threats that they would otherwise not be allowed to immigrate to Israel. The shots began in the refugee camps in Gondar, continued in the transition camps in Addis Ababa, and continued on after their arrivals in Israel. According to the women’s testimony, this continuity appears to have been a coordinated effort between the medical staff at the clinics in Ethiopia run by the JDC and doctors in Israeli hospitals and clinics.

Link: http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2012/12/09/219341-hamas-commemorates-25th-anniversary-in-palestine/

On Friday, Dec. 07, 2012, Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Khaled Meshal arrived in Gaza. It was his first time in Palestine in decades. At age 11, his family fled after Israel’s Six Day War. In 1975, he returned briefly. On arrival, he was joyously welcomed. Tight security accompanied him. He entered through Egypt’s Rafah crossing. Symbolically, he kissed the soil and prayed. His stay is short. He’ll remain 48 hours.

Link: http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2012/12/08/us-israel-greatest-slap-heard-around-world/

“A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all”. - Tacitus: Senator and Historian of Roman Empire “It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.” - Yoram Bar Porath; Yediot Aahronot, July 14, 1972.

Link: http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2012/12/07/219303-the-empire-behind-worlds-largest-history-magazine-chain-how-american-history-magazine-censored-palestine/

"...I found out that the magazines are part of a massive and lucrative empire based on bodybuilding and related products: an empire that has been investigated and convicted for using false claims to sell potentially dangerous “nutritional supplements” and for publishing “obscene” magazines, run by powerful people with powerful friends in high places who’ve opposed the regulation of such supplements.

Link: http://mycatbirdseat.com/2012/12/roger-waters-represents-global-civil-society-at-unga/

Roger Waters, speaking on behalf of the Russell Tribunal and Global Civil Society at the UN General Assembly, making a plea for the recognition of Palestine as a non-member observer state, he said:

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/30-11

There's bitter irony in the UN's recognition of a much-diminished Palestinian state on the anniversary of its 1947 partition plan.

Link: http://www.veteransnewsnow.com/2012/11/29/breaking-news-palestinians-win-upgraded-un-status-by-wide-margin/

The UN General Assembly has voted to grant the Palestinians non-member observer state status – a move opposed by Israel and the US. The vote is a huge step forward for the international recognition and self-determination of the Palestinian people. A wonderful result for Palestine’s struggle for Freedom from inhumane Israeli occupation, for 60 years. A disgraceful fact and reality that some zionist-controlled member states continue to support and defend. With the new “observer state” status, the Palestinians will have access to several new legal and diplomatic tools to advance their cause. It has been a difficult month for Palestine, given the violence inflicted on Gaza.

Link: http://www.eileenfleming.org/index.php?option=com_easyblog&view=entry&id=4&Itemid=168

On May 23, 2010, Israel sent Vanunu back to solitary confinement in a maximum prison facility; the final outcome of his freedom of speech trial, which is well documented in BEYOND NUCLEAR: Mordechai Vanunu's FREEDOM of SPEECH Trial and My Life as a Muckraker: 2005-2010 .

Link: http://www.tehrantimes.com/component/content/article/84-perspectives/103544-when-propaganda-masquerades-as-news

The week-long Israeli onslaught against largely defenseless Palestinians in Gaza that began on November 14 provides a basis for assessing how Western corporate media whitewash the war crimes of America’s foremost ally in the Middle East. There are three often intertwined techniques consciously applied to such news coverage -- historical context, sourcing, and objectification of the enemy to be targeted. Such practices can readily transform journalism into propaganda that acts to abet such crimes while at the same time allowing journalistic institutions to still claim the mantle of “objectivity.”

Link: http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_11_24/Russian-expert-warns-of-possibility-of-large-scale-war-in-Middle-East/

In an interview with the Voice of Russia, Russian analyst Konstantin Sivkov said: “Deploying these missiles in Turkey will be dangerous for Syrian military planes – this is obvious. A lesser obvious thing is that Turkey is getting ready for a war against Syria. If an attack on Syria from the territory of Turkey does take place, this will most likely be an attack not of the Turkish army, but of NATO’s forces.”

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/274313.html

U.S. President Barack Obama has reportedly promised the Israeli regime that he will begin deploying U.S. troops in Egyptian Sinai. According to the Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile, in a conversation with the Israeli regime’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, Obama pledged that U.S. troops would soon be en route to the Sinai Peninsula.

Link: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/11/24/251518.html

Russian warships anchored off the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea to prepare the evacuation of Russians in the area, should the conflict in Gaza escalate, The Voice of Russia quoted a Russian Navy Command source on Friday.

Link: http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/2299-gag-rule-on-gaza-a-grand-bargain-with-brutal-power.html

David Atkins, co-writer with Digby at Hullaballoo, responds -- indirectly -- to my recent post ("Blogging and Nothingness") on the silence of leading progressive bloggers about the ongoing, Obama-supported slaughter in Gaza. Below is his response in full, followed by my reply.

Link: http://www.businessinsider.com/uss-new-york-gunston-hall-and-iwo-jima-to-israel-2012-11

The USS New York, USS Iwo Jima, and the USS Gunston Hall had all been winding down six month deployments when the Pentagon ordered the group on reserve to help Americans looking to get out of Israel in the coming days.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/pers-n20.shtml

The Israeli onslaught against Gaza, now entering its second week, has killed and maimed hundreds of Palestinian civilians—men, women and children. A largely defenseless and severely deprived population has been subjected to unrelenting bombardment from air, land and sea. Much of the territory’s already dilapidated infrastructure is being reduced to rubble.

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article22324

“What happened to your face, sweetheart?” a man said at a morgue in Gaza on Monday. He was a member of the Dalu family—one of those who were left—and, according to Reuters, had just been asked to identify his wife; he did, and cried.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/20-2

Farmers on their way to sell vegetables in the marketplace, vendors of purified drinking water and people who just happened to live too close to the targets of Israeli air strikes were among the 34 Palestinians estimated to have been killed in Israel Defense Forces attacks in the past two days alone.

Link: http://youtu.be/FmFSWMBWb7Q

Israel…Butchers Of Gaza

Link: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/elites_will_make_gazans_of_us_all_20121119/?ln

“In disposing of man’s labor power the system would, incidentally, dispose of the physical, psychological, and moral entity ‘man’ attached to that tag,” Karl Polanyi wrote in “The Great Transformation.” “Robbed of the protective covering of cultural institutions, human beings would perish from the effects of social exposure; they would die as the victims of acute social dislocation through vice, crime, and starvation. Nature would be reduced to its elements, neighborhoods and landscapes defiled, rivers polluted, military safety jeopardized, the power to produce food and raw materials destroyed.

Link: http://alhittin.com/2012/11/18/stop-pretending-the-us-is-an-uninvolved-helpless-party-in-the-israeli-assault-on-gaza-gazaunderattack/

A central premise of US media coverage of the Israeli attack on Gaza - beyond the claim that Israel is justifiably “defending itself” – is that this is some endless conflict between two foreign entitles, and Americans can simply sit by helplessly and lament the tragedy of it all. The reality is precisely the opposite:

Link: http://alhittin.com/2012/11/18/stop-pretending-the-us-is-an-uninvolved-helpless-party-in-the-israeli-assault-on-gaza-gazaunderattack/

A central premise of US media coverage of the Israeli attack on Gaza - beyond the claim that Israel is justifiably “defending itself” – is that this is some endless conflict between two foreign entitles, and Americans can simply sit by helplessly and lament the tragedy of it all. The reality is precisely the opposite:

Link: http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/tikkundaily/israeli-minister-goalis-send-gaza-back-middle-ages

Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai, in a moment of disturbing candor, revealed what is for many in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government the ultimate goal of its escalating military campaign on Gaza: “The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for forty years.” Now, part of Yishai’s bombast comes from the fact that, as a known racist and head of the ultra-orthodox Shas party, he’d feel much more comfortable in the Middle Ages himself.