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Now that Palestine Has its Birth Certificate...
The Game is Up for Israel`s Pimps and Hirelings

“It is not enough to deplore, condemn. What we need is for the United Nations - for you, excellencies, your governments and the General Assembly in which you serve - to take seriously its responsibility...”
- Roger Waters of Pink Floyd

(LONDON) - Hanan Ashrawi is a Palestinian Christian who has been around a long time in Palestinian politics and held many key posts.

As a student in Lebanon during the 1967 war she was prevented by Israel from going home to the West Bank for 6 long years.

Zed Wants Lindsay Lohan to Apologize for `Racist` Gypsy Remarks

Lohan reportedly had an altercation with a fortune teller when she reportedly uttered the racist Gypsy slur.

(RENO, NV) - Distinguished religious statesman Rajan Zed has asked for an immediate public apology from Hollywood diva Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls) for suggesting gypsies were thieves.

Supreme Court Ruling Affirms the Right to Videotape the Police

Illinois' eavesdropping law is one of the harshest in the country...

(CHICAGO Chicago Tribune) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal of a controversial Illinois law prohibiting people from recording police officers on the job.

Even audio recording of an officer on duty or in public, is a felony punishable by 15 years in prison.

Are Israel`s Jews, Some of Them, on Their Way to Becoming Nazis?

The headline was provoked by the announcement that Netanyahu is joining forces with Yisrael Beiteinu, the ultra-nationalist group led by Avigdor Lieberman...

(LONDON) - Some and perhaps many will regard my headline question as offensive but I make no apology for asking it.

I take comfort from the fact that my decision to pose it is fully supported by one of my very dear Jewish friends - Nazi holocaust survivor Dr. Hajo Meyer.

Man Accused of Qur`an Burning Dies in Police Custody

Nobody knows the reality or what the real factors are behind this death - LEAD's Chief and President PCC Lahore Advocate Sardar Mushtaq M. Gill

(NANKANA SAHAB, Pakistan) - On 22 November 2012 Mr. Nadeem, 22 years old, was accused of Qur'an burning by residents of Mohala Usmani Khoo Nankana Sahab.

He died in the custody of Police at the Warburton police station.

Democrats Make Sure Gitmo Stays Open

Oregon's Ron Wyden did not vote in favor of keeping 'Gitmo' open.

(PORTLAND, OR) - President Barack Obama signed an order in 2009 to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility would be shut down within the year.

The nominally Democratic (but far right in fact) Senate voted 51-45-5 to prevent closing of the illegal Guantánamo prison in Cuba.

Cleveland Anarchist Bomb Plot Aided and Abetted by the FBI

It was another set up...

(LONDON The Guardian) - On 20 November, district court Judge David D Dowd Jr sentenced three anarchists with the Occupy Cleveland movement to prison terms ranging from 8 to 11.5 years for attempting to bomb a highway bridge last spring.

US Attorney Steven Dettelbach trumpeted the successful prosecution: "These defendants were found to have engaged in terrorist activities..."

In Israel, Some Rebel Against Circumcision

"The main issue which still troubles me a little is the social one, that one day he may come to me and say 'Mom, why did you do that to me? They made fun of me today'" - Gali, a nursing mom in Israel

(TEL AVIV ) - Circumcision is one of Judaism's most important laws and for generations of faithful it has symbolized a biblical covenant with God.

But in Israel, more and more Jewish parents are saying no to the blade.

Let`s hear it for the WCC... Dissing The Doctrine

And even madmen manage to convey unwelcome truths in lonely gibberish. - W. H. Auden

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Recently, writing in the Los Angeles Times, John Gehring enthused over the Vatican's "five decades of sweeping reforms" and announced that the Catholic faith and the Church "stand at a crossroads."

However those more aware, might respond that, rather than a crossroads, the Vatican stands at a traffic circle.

Beating of War Drums

Either war is obsolete or men are. --Buckminster Fuller

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - So often, news gets reported quickly and is then forgotten. The following, from CBS, provides an example of an under-reported event:

“A handful of soldiers gathered Thursday morning at Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park on the Chicago River, to announce their opposition to NATO, and announce that they’re giving back their service medals on Sunday, at the start of the NATO summit.”