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Human Rights: Politicians and more

This week in Palestine there were twice efforts to break through the apartheid wall in AbuDis, there was rebuilding of demolished homes in Khirbet Makhoul, there was resistance to persistent Jewish colonial attacks on the third holiest site in Islam, there was successful pressure to release three peace activists detained at a checkpoint

(BETHLEHEM) - Netanyahu tells Obama to keep illegal sanctions on Iran and that he can get AIPAC to help resolve the US budget conflict (a conflict caused in large part by trillions spent for Israel on behest of AIPAC)!

Livni tells J Street that the Israeli Occupation Army is a great army and that its is only fighting terrorists (even though she admitted her own parents were members of the Irgun terror organization and have met while robbing a British train).

NYC Is My Mecca

Gilad Atzmon is coming from London for a unique studio recording at Zeb's in New York City.

(LONDON) - As an Israeli boy of a patriotic background, I was destined to become a military man. But then, at seventeen, as I was getting myself ready for my IDF compulsory service, the unexpected happened. On a late night jazz radio programme, I heard Charlie Park first time.

I was knocked down. The music was more organic, poetic, sentimental and wilder than anything I had ever heard before.

A Wall for a Wall: Mirroring Racism

“Here’s a piece of disgusting news, so disgusting in fact that it beggars belief. Israel and its army of occupation are not just brutal, inhuman and utterly devoid of morality. Israeli army sprays sewage on the streets of the Palestinian town of Abu Dis" - Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association,

(LAVERNE, CA) - Now that our President has handed over the resolution of the Syrian debacle to the United Nations, perhaps justice demands that he hand over resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict to that international body as well.

One can turn to the reality of the illegal machinations of the Israeli Zionist government any day of the week and see and know and feel the terror that exists for the occupied people who are defenseless before the impunity granted to the state of Israel for crimes that any other member nation of the UN would, as is true of Syria, be brought for justice before the International Courts.

Me, Gilad Atzmon and the `Truth`

The more he beat me, the more disturbed I became,
The more disturbed I became, the more he beat me
– how’s that for a vicious cycle?

(LONDON) - Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: Roy Bard is a known figure within Britain’s far left, anti-war and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement.

He is a member of the Indymedia UK collective, a leading British anti-capitalist media outlet. I first encountered Bard five years ago. At the time the site was subjected to an international Jewish ‘anti’-Zionist campaign: a cabal of ethnic activists demanded that Indymedia deleted my articles...

APN Welcomes Obama`s Commitment to Middle East Peace and Engagement with Iran

President Obama recognizes a Palestinian State as integral to peace.

(Washington, D.C.) - Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes President Barack Obama’s commitment to continue pursuing Arab-Israeli peace and to continue focusing on peacefully preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

APN also joins the President’s call on friends of Israel in the US and worldwide to “recognize that Israel’s security as a Jewish and democratic state depends on the realization of a Palestinian state.”

Power Outages Rage in Gaza

Cutting off essential services like electricity to the civilian population in Gaza is a serious breach to international humanitarian law.

(GAZA) - On the 19th of September 2007 Israel further tightened its blockade against the Palestinians in Gaza by disrupting and reducing their already limited supply of electricity.

Tel-Aviv’s decision to besiege the civilians in the tiny coastal enclave has disrupted all aspects of life for a population whose number has now exceeded 1.7 million.

MJ Rosenberg on Anti Zionist Zionists

I actually admire Rosenberg for sharing this fascinating conversation with the rest of us.

(LONDON) - In the following piece, MJ Rosenberg courageously reports on a recent encounter with a bright American Jewish boy.

“You may not realize it,” the boy tells Rosenberg, “but your premise is Zionist. You think Jews are, by definition, connected to Israel and have to care about it. But that isn’t who I am. I’m an American kid whose religion is Jewish.”

The Return of the Golems

In 2009 I wrote a piece titled “A Nation of Golems” reflecting the control of our representatives by the Zionist forces that occupy our Congress.

(LAVERNE, CA) - How did it come to this? Centuries ago in ancient Prague before the Jewish people established a state for Jews, before they had the means to impose their will on the people of the mid-east, the Jewish population huddled in ghettos behind walls carved out of cities fearful of annihilation, isolated from the communities that surrounded them, condemned by discrimination, envy and ignorance.

Out of that destructive environment, in the city of Prague, Rabbi Lowe sought a solution to the isolation and weariness of his congregants by seeking consolation and security through the magical creation of a creature fashioned from the mud of the Vltava River that runs through Prague.

Jeff Blankfort on Zio Con wars, Palestine and Paul Jay

In 2011, at what was billed as Move Over AiPAC, several of us were on a panel on AIPAC, the only one in the two day conference and our large room was packed with every seat taken, and we only got the panel through the help of a couple of the panelists in taking care of the logistics.

(LONDON) - Following is Jeff Blankfort's email to Paul Jay (The Real News Network) after reading his 'deconstruction' of my work.

Jeff allowed me to publish his straight forward and illuminating text.

Palestinian Authority Cedes Fundamental Rights to Israel

It’s hard to see what the PA hopes to achieve from the new round of discussions.

(LONDON Redress) - The chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has admitted conceding fundamantal Palestinian rights in return for a resumption of “peace” talks with Israel.

In a speech to members of his Fatah faction in Ramallah on 2 September, reported by the Israeli news website Ynet, he said he had conceded to US pressure not to lobby international institutions...