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Remember Gaza: One of History's Great Crimes
by Stephen Lendman
Israel wages cold, calculated premeditated aggression on Gaza. Doing so is well-planned long before conflicts begin.
Operation Protective Edge (OPE) is the latest example. It raged for 51 days. From July 8 through August 26. It left large parts of Gaza in ruins.
Mostly residential neighborhoods, vital infrastructure, schools, hospitals, mosques, UN refuges and other non-military targets.
It murdered over 2,200 Palestinians in cold blood. Including around 600 children and 300 women.
It wounded over 11,000. Including about 3,300 children and 2,100 women. Around 80% of casualties were civilians. Many are disabled for life.
Israel considers them legitimate targets. It wages terror wars against non-combatants. Doing so is called Dahiya or the Dahiya Doctrine.
Rebuilding Gaza
by Stephen Lendman
It's a Herculean task. With no assurance Israel won't destroy it again at its discretion. For duplicitous reasons. Or none at all.
Billions of dollars are needed. Experts believe around $8 billion.
Perhaps more once the enormity of what's needed is fully understood. Longtime Israeli collaborator/illegitimate Palestinian president Abbas seeks $4 billion.
It's woefully inadequate. No one's sure how much is needed until more detailed assessments are made.
In early September, the Palestinian Economic Council for Reconstruction and Development estimated $7.8 billion to rebuild.
Obama Doublespeak Duplicity
by Stephen Lendman
Demagogic doublespeak dots his rhetoric. So do mumbo jumbo Big Lies. They systematically drown out truth.
It's consistent Obama policy. He mocks democratic values. Justifying the unjustifiable. Defending the indefensible. Supporting the unthinkable.
Believing militarism is the be all and end all. Waging permanent wars on humanity. It may not survive on his watch.
Removing him is a moral imperative. An urgent necessity. He presides over a police state apparatus. He institutionalized tyranny. It's headed toward full-blown.
A youthful spin on the right-to-die movement
Mary Shaw
Terminally ill 29-year-old newlywed Brittany Maynard is the new face of the right-to-die movement - a movement previously associated primarily with much older people.
Maynard suffers from a glioblastoma brain tumor - the deadliest form of brain cancer - and her doctors have predicted that she has only a few months to live, at most. So on November 1, Maynard plans to take her own life using medications prescribed by her doctor in accordance with Oregon's Death with Dignity law. Maynard moved from her native California to Oregon in order to take advantage of the law.
To date, only 4 U.S. states - Montana, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington - have legalized physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, allowing them to die on their own terms. It allows them to choose a quick and dignified death over a painful, lingering one.
Nobel Hypocrisy 101
by Stephen Lendman
Nobel tradition is horrific. Disreputable. Long and inglorious. War criminals win peace prizes. Past honorees include a rogue's gallery of some of the world's worst.
Peace advocates are spurned. Ignored. Shut out for doing the right thing. Especially in today's highly-charged atmosphere.
Selection is politicized. It's longstanding policy. It's no surprise.
Nobel Committee members violate their own rules. Alfred Nobel's will was clear and unequivocal.
It says Peace Prize recipients "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Worthy candidates are routinely passed over. History's most famous peace advocate never won.
Mahatma Gandhi was nominated five times. Nobel Committee members never recognized his accomplishments. They're hugely important to this day.
Renouncing Judaism
by Stephen Lendman
Decades of Israeli high crimes against peace are reason enough for all Jews for justice to do it. Shlomo Sand for one.
On October 10, he headlined his London Guardian commentary " 'I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew.' " More on this below.
Zionism harms Jews and non-Jews alike. Its roots date from the late 19th century. In his book titled "Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine," Joel Kovel said:
Zionism seeks "the restoration of tribalism in the guise of a modern, highly militarized and aggressive state."
It "cut Jews off from (their) history…It "led to a fateful identity of interests with antisemitism the only thing that united them."
UK Vote on Palestinian Statehood: Hold the Cheers
by Stephen Lendman
On Monday, MPs will vote up or down on whether to recognize Palestinian statehood. Doing so is non-binding. It's largely symbolic.
Labour Friends of Palestine proposed the motion, stating:
"This House believes that the Government should recognize the state of Palestine alongside the State of Israel."
The vote follows Sweden's newly-formed center-left Prime Minister, Stefan Lofven, announcing his intention to recognize Palestinian statehood.
It's the first EU country to do so. Likely not the last. It's the 135th to recognize what's long overdue.
Vets Win Expansion Of Freedom Of Speech and Right To Assemble
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
Veterans For Peace Three Year Campaign Removes Curfew as Vets and Allies Protest the Wars, Honor The Dead
Each October 7 for the last three years, the date of the US invasion of Afghanistan, members of Veterans For Peace and their allies have gathered at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Lower Manhattan for a soulful ceremony. Their purpose: to mark another year of a war in Afghanistan and call for peace, to honor all whose lives are destroyed by war and to expand the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble. This year, they were finally able to do so without facing a small army of police threatening arrest if the ceremony went past the arbitrary 10 pm curfew placed on the memorial.
And this year, veterans and allies had more reasons to gather: to protest new wars being waged by President Obama without approval of Congress or the United Nations and to remember the much-loved Jacob David George, a veteran of three tours in Afghanistan, who died of ‘moral injury’ three weeks before.
Racist Extremism in Israel
by Stephen Lendman
Israel is no democracy. It never was one. For sure not now. Netanyahu is a world-class thug. He exceeds the worst of Sharonian evil.
Extremists around him reflect hardline fascist rule. They control Knesset poiicy. They hold over 80% of its seats.
They overwhelm moderate voices. They treat Arab representatives like potted plants. They have no say whatever. Israeli Arab citizens are enfranchised in name only.
Peace, equity and justice are convenient illusions. Hardline rule prevails. State terror reflects official policy. So does institutionalized racism.
Jews alone are wanted. Muslims are persecuted for praying to the wrong God. Occupied Palestinians have no rights whatever.
Freedom Walking for Palestine and BDS
by Stephen Lendman
In the 1960s, US Freedom Riders challenged racist injustice and related human rights abuses. Their activism made a difference.
They rode interstate buses across segregated southern states. They risked life and limb at times doing so.
They endured arrests for trespassing, unlawful assembly, as well as violating state and local Jim Crow laws.
They highlighted racial injustice. They did so because it matters.
They provoked violent reactions. They bolstered civil rights activism.
They gave the Movement more credibility. More meaning when it was needed most.
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