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If Talks Fail, Boycotts Will Arrive `On Steroids`

Kerry has five months left in his self-imposed time frame to reach a peace agreement. He is trying everything in his diplomat notebook. He warns Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu of a flood of boycotts he could face.

(CHICAGO) - John Kerry returned for talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah this week, bringing a warning that if the peace talks fail, Israel could confront a “boycott campaign on steroids“.

The U.S. Secretary of State also brought a “framework agreement” for the two sides to discuss. Learning of the contours of the proposed agreement, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was quick to voice his opposition.

ISRAEL: Jewish Mom Makes Case for Intactivism

What kind of a state is this?! What is this? Where do we live? Could the Religious Court force upon me anything during the divorce? In particular, religious oppression, unnecessary cutting of the penis of a helpless baby?

(TEL AVIV) - “Help! I’m asking for the help of the public! I am a mother to a baby. The Rabbinical Court is forcing me to cut my year old son against my will (circumcise him) while subjecting me to heavy financial sanctions daily!

After my exposure to the information regarding circumcision, I refuse to mutilate my baby. I don’t have the right and I do not agree! He was born whole and he will stay whole! His integrity is his full right!

A Jew Argues for Child Rights Over Religious Circumcision

Censuring circumcision in Europe is about child protection, not anti-Semitism.

(TEL AVIV) - Circumcision without consent violates a person’s right to bodily integrity, a cornerstone of post-Holocaust human rights law.

Two years ago, in response to an article I wrote questioning circumcision, the British historian Geoffrey Alderman dedicated his column to my character assassination, describing me as “a leading anti-Jewish Jew of the younger generation.”

APN Commends Congress for Giving Iran Diplomacy a Chance to Work; Applauds Activists for their Engagement

Americans for Peace Now is the sister organization of Shalom Achshav, Israel's preeminent peace movement.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Americans for Peace Now (APN) today issued the following statement:

“As Congress goes into its winter recess, we commend those members of Congress who stood firm and rejected efforts, both in the House and Senate, to pursue legislative initiatives that would undermine the interim agreement with Iran and threaten the chances of reaching a permanent agreement with Iran – an agreement that offers the best chance to resolve U.S. and international concerns about Iran’s nuclear program and nuclear ambitions..."

Snow and Subservience

It is highly disturbing to see this trend of destruction, collusion, lack of direction, and continued people suffering.

(BETHLEHEM) - It is snowing here in Palestine. My visitors from Gaza (a child being treated and his father) wish to go back to their family even though their wife tells us that they have no water and no electricity and that parts of the refugee camp that they live in is flooded (in Rafah).

But we are all concerned for the even more precarious position of refugees from Syria (both Palestinian and Syrians who escaped the fighting and now live in tents in a snow blizzard).

The Prawer Plan has been Cancelled

As we celebrate the Prawer Plan being scrapped, we understand that this victory is temporary.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - We've just received the welcome news from our allies on the ground that the Prawer Plan to forcibly relocate over 40,000 Israeli Bedouin from their ancestral lands is no longer under consideration by the Israeli Knesset.

The recent demonstrations on both sides of the Green Line, and throughout the world, succeeded in raising enough doubt about this plan to help take it off the table.

Israeli Knesset Member`s Blood Rejected in Govt. Drive Because She`s African

It happened after attending Mandela’s memorial...

(TEL AVIV) - The day after returning from anti-Apartheid leader Nelson Mandela’s memorial in South Africa, Israel’s first Ethiopian-born Knesset member Pnina Tamano-Shata (Yesh Atid), had her blood refused in a government donation drive because she is African.

Volunteers at a Magen David Adom (Red Star of David—Israel’s Red Cross) booth set up inside of Knesset told Tamano Shata that she could not give blood because she is has “the special kind of Jewish-Ethiopian blood.”

Where is Palestine`s Mandela?

The last thing Netanyahu wants is a Palestinian leader who commands the respect of his people and will not accept crumbs from Zionism’s table.

(LONDON) - The answer to my headline question is that he, Marwan Barghouti, is in an Israeli jail where he has been since his arrest in Ramallah by an IDF unit in 2002, after which, in 2004, he was sentenced to five life terms in prison.

Some months before his arrest one of Israel’s security agencies tried and failed to assassinate him. A missile was fired at his bodyguard’s car and killed the bodyguard. (If the attempt on Barghouti’s life had succeeded, his killers would not have been brought to justice because as well as bulldozing Palestinian homes and stealing Palestinian land and water, Israel kills, murders, with impunity).

Israel`s Isolation Grows as it Falls Out with Romania and the Netherlands

And there’s more to come. In January 2014 Israel can look forward to new EU guidelines banning the funding of projects linked to the Jews-only colonies in the occupied West Bank and the illegally annexed Arab East Jerusalem.

(LONDON Redress News & Analysis) - It’s been yet another bad week for Israel. First, its loyal poodle Britain fired its first-ever warning shot, signalling that it may have just about had enough of the apartheid state’s deceptions and violations of international law.

And now, the Zionist entity has got into a diplomatic row with Romania, which has told Tel Aviv that it will not allow Romanian construction workers to be employed in the illegal, Jews-only colonies in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s military radio reported on 10 December.

Fallujah Birth Defects and More...
Listen to Tim King on the Barry Chamish Show

American and Israeli journalist discuss political and military realities on the day of the year targeted for human rights...

(ST AUGUSTINE) - Tim King was a featured guest on the Barry Chamish Radio Program last Tuesday, 04 December 2013. The program was unique and interesting and didn't take long to move into very controversial territory.

An Israeli military vet, Barry Chamish has been called Israel's top investigative reporter and he has spent years researching and revealing some of Israel's most unpleasant truths. Tim King, a former U.S. Marine, as a news editor, covers human rights violations in places like Palestine, Sri Lanka and Burma on Salem-News.com.