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A Shattered Dream

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask for what you can do for your country.” John F. Kennedy.

(LA MANGA, Spain) - One of the most arduous tasks on earth now is being a Palestinian. No matter what direction we might look there is either a siege, a wall, an occupation, subjugation, deprivation and/or demonisation.

This hapless and hopeless position is born of many factors. The first is that the cause of the Palestinians was taken out of their hands from the moment that Zionist intentions in Palestine were made clear.

Livni Warns Israel It Faces A Worldwide Boycott

This is not what we expect to hear from an Israeli minister.

(CHICAGO) - Justice Minister Tzipi Livni is the Israeli cabinet minister with the task of finding a way back to peace talks. At the moment, she is one more frustrated negotiator.

Livni was so frustrated that she kicked off the month of July with a speech in which she said that if negotiations with the Palestinians don’t start up again soon, Israel will face a worldwide economic boycott.

EU Takes Tougher Stance on Israeli Settlements

'Earthquake' directive will prohibit EU states from signing deals with Israel unless settlement exclusion clause is included.

(JERUSALEM) - Future agreements between the European Union and Israel must include the explicit exclusion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank or East Jerusalem, according to a new EU directive described by an Israeli official as an "earthquake".

The EU guidelines, adopted on 30 June, will prohibit the issuing of grants, funding, prizes or scholarships unless a settlement exclusion clause is included.

Israel Lobby Tries (And Fails) to Intimidate Another UK MP

If there is such a thing as a Palestinian holocaust it is a slow motion one.

(LONDON) - The word 'holocaust' is centuries old and has several meanings, one being "any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life". For those interested in the figures, Israel's B'Tselem shows that between year 2000 and the start of Israel’s ‘Cast Lead’ assault on Gaza in 2008 the Israelis’ vast standing army, equipped with the most advanced American-funded weaponry, killed 4,790 Palestinian civilians in their homeland.

Of these, 952 were children. Yes, 952 young Palestinian lives horribly snuffed out and their parents left desolated.

The Death Merchants of Tel Aviv

Apparently some 6,684 Israelis are making a living selling death around the world.

(LONDON) - Haaretz reported today that there are more than 6,800 arms exporters working in Israel.

As of the end of 2012, there were “6,684 individuals dealing with security exports in 1,006 companies and 312 independent businesses. The Israeli Defence Export Controls Agency issued 1,900 marketing permits and 8,716 export permits.”

Why a `Palestinian Gandhi` Has Never Emerged - and Probably Never Will

The implicit demand for morality in the struggle sounds like acceptance of the claim that the Israeli army is moral even when it kills civilians, and is seen as a concession to the world’s one-sided vision.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Several masked men marched through the center of Ramallah early last week and called for the launch of a third intifada.

Hidden faces radiate tremendous power: whether they are those of soldiers wearing black ski masks when they burst into bedrooms in the middle of the night, guns drawn...

Israel`s Response to Arab League Shows it May be Palestinians With No Peace Partner

Many of Israel's strongest supporters in the U.S. lament the way Israel rejected the Arab League initiative and Kerry's efforts to re-start the peace process.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Israel frequently says that it has "no partner for peace." In fact, the real situation seems far different.

In 2002, the Arab League launched a peace initiative saying that if Israel withdrew to its pre-1967 borders it could be recognized by the entire Arab world. More recently, in May, Qatar's Prime Minister tried to revive the Arab peace initiative, moderating it to hew closer to the outlines presented by the Obama administration since 2011.

Another Attack on the Jaber Family by Israeli Settlers

The settlers' goal is to terrorize the Palestinians to leave their land, which would then be grabbed up by settlers in the name of the state of Israel.

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE) - For three hours on Friday, dozens of settlers from Kiryat Arba invaded the land and gardens of the Jaber family – Atta, Rudina and their three children – in al-Baqaa, near Hebron.

Accompanied by the Israeli police and led by Malachi Levinger, the son of the violent settlement pioneer Moshe Levinger who himself has been implicated in many attacks on families in the al-Baqaa area, they uprooted his plants and replaced them with their own.

Zionist Racism

Imagine if a politician in another country had bragged about lowering a minority group’s birthrate – like Netanyahu and his new ambassador to the U.S. did.

(BETHLEHEM) - In this week’s news: Hamas and Fatah rift widens as they picked sides in Egyptian rift; both ended up harming the Palestinian case for perceived factional interests.

Hamas supporters defended their association with President Morsi and Fatah leaders put their support behind the Egyptian military that deposed Morsi.

UK Government Still Won`t Come Clean on Israel`s Nukes

Politicians like Alistair Burt insult the intelligence of Parliament and the British public.

(LONDON) - The British government leads the charge to impose and tighten sanctions on Iran and makes other dire threats on the mere suspicion that the Islamic Republic may have nuclear weapons ambitions.

But its ministers continue to sidestep simple questions about Israel’s unsafeguarded nukes.