Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with gaza www.salem-news.com 2010 Eileen Fleming, author, reporter and now a candidate for US House of Representatives from Florida, began documenting the ongoing saga of Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's Nuclear Whistle Blower, in June 2005. In 1987, Vanunu was convicted of espionage and treason. Fleming contends he was only guilty of revealing Israel's nuclear Facility at Dimona. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/mordechai-vanunu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/mordechai-vanunu.php Tue, 22 May 2012 23:12:00 PDT On Sunday 60 Minutes did a rather disgraceful segment to please Zionists. I was sufficiently disgusted to send the following hasty response via their web site. Tonight’s segment on Israel (May 20, 2012) gave a totally distorted picture of the Middle East conflict. http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/sixty-minutes-rd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may222012/sixty-minutes-rd.php Tue, 22 May 2012 00:02:00 PDT My beloved husband, Ziad Jilani, was executed by Israeli Border Policeman, Maxim Vinogradov on June 11, 2010. There is undeniable evidence that my husband was lying unarmed and wounded on the ground, posing no threat when Israeli Border Policeman Maxim Vinogradov shot him point blank in the head. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/gaza-death.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/gaza-death.php Mon, 21 May 2012 22:58:00 PDT On the face of it, Baron Cohen’s The Dictator is a horrid film. It is vulgar, it isn’t funny and if it has five good jokes in it, they appear in the two minute official trailer. In short, save your time and money – unless of course, you are interested in Jewish identity politics and neurosis. http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/baron-cohen-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may212012/baron-cohen-ga.php Mon, 21 May 2012 05:41:00 PDT For the global community, there is nothing more consequential than the catastrophic failure after World War II to learn the correct lessons. Instead, the world continued with the business of war as usual (and war is business). One of the most destabilizing forces in the world was created and sustained for 100 years before the USA took on nurturing it after WWII. I am of course speaking of Zionism. http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/nakba-actions-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may202012/nakba-actions-mq.php Sun, 20 May 2012 00:26:00 PDT Neve Gordon, a 47-year-old Israeli-born professor and author, greeted this year’s 64th anniversary of the Nakba with an essay for CounterPunch that included this revealing confession: "I first heard about the Nakba in the late 1980s, while I was an undergraduate student of philosophy at Hebrew University. This, I believe, is a revealing fact, particularly since, as a teenager, I was a member of Peace Now and was raised in a liberal home..." http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/neve-gordon-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/neve-gordon-jw.php Fri, 18 May 2012 13:21:00 PDT The Canadian Boat to Gaza, in cooperation, with international initiatives in the US, Australia and other countries, is launching a new initiative to challenge the illegal and inhumane Israeli blockade of Gaza. This new initiative: Gaza's Ark, will build a boat in Gaza, using existing resources. http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/gaza-ark.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may182012/gaza-ark.php Fri, 18 May 2012 01:25:00 PDT Ha'aretz reported yesterday that, “Israel, Iran, Pakistan and North Korea were ranked most negatively by 24,000 people surveyed in an annual BBC poll.” It would appear that in spite of the extensive Hasbara campaign and the Jewish lobby buying every morally lax living politician, people of the world increasingly see Israel for what it is. http://salem-news.com/articles/may172012/israel-popularity-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may172012/israel-popularity-ga.php Thu, 17 May 2012 16:34:00 PDT This is the final call to attend and register for the Munich Conference to launch the International Movement for One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel. It will be held in Munich Germany on June 30 - July 1, 2012. If you did not register, please take the time to do so and to read the information below. http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/ods-conferencega.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may162012/ods-conferencega.php Wed, 16 May 2012 17:51:00 PDT On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we also celebrate an amazing resilience and success of the Palestinian endogenous people against incredible odds: http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/nakba-anniversary-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/nakba-anniversary-mq.php Tue, 15 May 2012 21:49:00 PDT After nearly a full month of fasting, 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners ended their mass hunger strike, reaching an agreement with the Israeli Prison Service to attain certain core demands, according to Addameer. Supporters laud the achievements of the prisoners’ movement and can only hope that Israel will implement any policy changes in good faith. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/palestinian-hunger-strike.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/palestinian-hunger-strike.php Tue, 15 May 2012 12:49:00 PDT It is the dawn of yet another sad anniversary. Today, every Palestinian around the globe remembers the day we were all made homeless. When will it ever end? Much has been said and written about the so-called “Arab Spring.” Some of it welcoming, some hopeful and others down right hostile. http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/2012-nakba.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may152012/2012-nakba.php Tue, 15 May 2012 08:58:00 PDT America has always been a bully. Americans are convinced that they have a God-given right, or destiny, to expand the country’s borders from “sea to shining sea”. “The land of the free and the home of the brave” was conquered with complete disregard for the rights of America’s original inhabitants. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/american-bully-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/american-bully-pb.php Sat, 12 May 2012 20:58:00 PDT Victors’ celebrations harbor shadows that lurk in the soul as revelers dance in remembrance. They bury in laughter the suffering screams of those displaced and destroyed, furiously hiding forgotten faces framed in fear from mocking the glorious dance should they be awakened once more by the reverie. http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/sins-fathers-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may122012/sins-fathers-bc.php Sat, 12 May 2012 20:31:00 PDT One of our regular contributors and good friend, Anthony Lawson, recently sent us an interesting article, which was, in turn, sent to him by a young Californian, Nicolaus Jannasch. The article started as a senior class project, and before writing it, Nicolaus had contacted Anthony about a series of videos which Anthony has put together on AIPAC, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/young-americans-al.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/young-americans-al.php Thu, 10 May 2012 20:10:00 PDT A national grassroots organization has a mission underway to educate Americans about Palestine’s rich cultural and historical heritage. They are is calling on the U.S. Department of State to intervene on behalf of 2,500 Palestinian political prisoners, who are engaged in a lengthy hunger strike to protest their inhumane and illegal incarceration as well as Israel’s illegal use of administrative detention. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/amp-release.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/amp-release.php Thu, 10 May 2012 19:12:00 PDT *"We did not go into the battle [the hunger strike] because we love to be hungry or in pain, but for our dignity and the dignity of our nation,"* Thaer Halahlef, 33 years old from Hebron, 73 days on Hunger strike. Dignity is such a word that makes us shudder. http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/dignity-palestine-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may102012/dignity-palestine-mq.php Thu, 10 May 2012 14:00:00 PDT I've been clenching my ears over the latest 'underwear scare'. I don't want to hear the dirty details of a saga like this at first. I know that the story will unfold if I just hang on. Well, the underwear sprang a hole and something leaked out... The AP reports in Officials: Al-Qaida bomber was CIA informant http://salem-news.com/articles/may082012/underwear-salad-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may082012/underwear-salad-tk.php Tue, 08 May 2012 23:22:00 PDT As news about Israeli political parties merging dominates headlines, this one is being overlooked. The US House of Representatives Defense Appropriations Subcommittee yesterday approved almost $1 billion for Israel's anti-missile defense programs - the Arrow 3, upgrading the current Arrow system, David's Sling, and Iron Dome. http://salem-news.com/articles/may082012/israeli-missiles.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may082012/israeli-missiles.php Tue, 08 May 2012 14:39:00 PDT Take this test to find out how much you know about the gradual shift in Israeli political thought over the decades. Not long after Israel celebrated its 64th Independence Day on April 26, a friend prepared a quiz of sorts. She read out loud political quotes to about ten guests who were having dinner at my house, and asked us to identify the politician who had uttered each statement. http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/zionist-quiz-ng.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may072012/zionist-quiz-ng.php Mon, 07 May 2012 12:15:00 PDT On May 2, 2012, Israeli press reported that the Military Censor announced that the Israeli Defense Forces have launched a new system to monitor information on Facebook, Twitter, blogs and news sites. “The new system will examine information using keywords labeled in advance.” http://salem-news.com/articles/may062012/vanunu-punished-ef.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may062012/vanunu-punished-ef.php Sun, 06 May 2012 17:19:00 PDT Palestinian political prisoners illegally held in Israeli jails are on hunger strike and some are near death. The population of strikers includes 200 child prisoners, 27 Palestinian legislative council members, and 456 prisoners from Gaza who have not been allowed family visits since 2007. http://salem-news.com/articles/may052012/resistance-update-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may052012/resistance-update-mq.php Sat, 05 May 2012 19:19:00 PDT This is a very interesting review of The Wandering Who by Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh in the current Holy Land Studies Journal. "I see in Atzmon writings a number of memes that are seeping into the common discourse. A meme is a persuasive idea that spreads in a population like a useful gene spreads in a population..." http://salem-news.com/articles/may052012/mazin-gilad.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may052012/mazin-gilad.php Sat, 05 May 2012 17:27:00 PDT The mounting public criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu triggered the recall of a comment made to me by one of its former Directors of Military Intelligence. “If we had a government consisting of only former DMI’s, we’d have had peace with the Palestinians long ago.” http://salem-news.com/articles/may052012/israel-coup-ah.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may052012/israel-coup-ah.php Sat, 05 May 2012 15:25:00 PDT In describing the trial of Jesus before Pilate, Luke the Evangelist brilliantly described the mood of the crowd when he wrote: "But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed." (Luke 23:23 NIV) http://salem-news.com/articles/may052012/methodist-failure-ef.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may052012/methodist-failure-ef.php Sat, 05 May 2012 14:34:00 PDT Generals and secret police chiefs get together for an attack on the politicians. In some countries, they arrest the president, occupy government offices and TV stations and annul the constitution. http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/war-putch-ua.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/war-putch-ua.php Fri, 04 May 2012 21:15:00 PDT Human rights defender, Dr. Meir Margalit has spent two decades as an elected member of the Jerusalem City Council, promoting building and planning rights of Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem. Fighting discriminatory building policies, he has also supported the rebuilding of hundreds of homes that were demolished due to Israeli policies that violate human rights. http://salem-news.com/articles/may032012/meir-margalit.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may032012/meir-margalit.php Thu, 03 May 2012 12:46:00 PDT Several groups are banding together to stand in solidarity with Palestinian and Arab political Prisoners engaged in a hunger strike. Thousands of Palestinians in Israeli jails are political prisoners who deserve protection and fair treatment in accordance with the 4th Geneva Convention. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/arab-prisoners-mq.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/arab-prisoners-mq.php Wed, 02 May 2012 19:15:00 PDT In a recent Haaretz article, leading Israeli columnist Gideon Levy affirms that Zionism is pretty irrelevant as far as Israelis are concerned. Similar to the line I myself develop in The Wandering Who, Levy contends that Israelis do not understand what Zionism stands for. For them it is an archaic notion. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/zionism-dead-kicking-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/zionism-dead-kicking-ga.php Wed, 02 May 2012 14:16:00 PDT Our regular readers know about the Samouni family in Gaza and the relationship our writer Ken O'Keefe established with them in the wake of their terrible loss. Nearly 30 Samouni family members were killed in the brazen Israeli attack on Gaza known as 'Cast Lead' in 2008/2009. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/okeefe-samouni.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/okeefe-samouni.php Wed, 02 May 2012 12:36:00 PDT