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POPSIsrael: Rise of the Right Today, after years spent getting to know Kahane's followers, I am sure that they will remain loyal to their rabbi's ideology and will fight against a two-state solution, as they have in the past with other Israeli governments. But this time they will be fighting from within the seat of power.
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POPSIsrael gives its American sugar-daddy the finger The Israeli settlements are built on illegally occupied Palestinian land. Plain & simple. If it's illegal to start with, why should a settlement be allowed to grow naturally? The Occupied Territories are not part of Israel, they are conquered land. Palestinian land. And international law forbids military occupiers to colonize foreign territory. This the the basic fact that The Israel Lobby 's propaganda campaigns aims to obscure. This is what all those UN resolutions condemning Israel and their brutal Apartheid (the ones the US AUTOMATICALLY blocks) are about. The settlements, and the illegal colonists who live in them, have to go. And don't get started on the "This is the land God promised to us" bullshit. Go ask God for billions of dollars a year, not the American Taxpayer.
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POPSIs TV news one-sidedly in support of Israel? The American media gives a wholly one-sided presentation of the illegal occupation of Palestine, no history, no context, to the point where many Americans think the Palestinians are the one illegally occupying land in the "Occupied Territories". Israel is wholly dependent on American money, weapons, and political cover. And keeping the American populace in the dark about what's really going on in our name, with our tax dollars allows Israel to continue it's policy of racism, apartheid, oppression, and ethnic cleansing of the original inhabitants. Israel gets more American foreign aid, on sweeter terms, than any other nation, and more than lots of them pooled together. Wake up, America, and look more closely at what your tax dollars are buying. The slaughter in Gaza was just the most recent.
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POPSRabbi: "Why I Didn’t Celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut" I wonder: if we Jews are ready to honestly face down this “dual reality” how can we possibly view this day as a day of unmitigated celebration? But we do - and not only in Israel. Indeed, there is no greater civil Jewish holiday in the American Jewish community than Yom Ha’atzmaut. It has become the day we pull out all the stops - the go-to day upon which Jewish Federations throughout the country hold their major communal Jewish parades, celebrations and gatherings. I wonder: how must it feel to be a Palestinian watching the Jewish community celebrate this day year after year on the anniversary that is the living embodiment of their collective tragedy? ... fta
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POPSBBC Documentary on Israel's Illegal Nuclear Weapons Program So many people get their knickers in a twist over Iran possibly getting nuclear weapons. While that's not a good thing, let's not forget that Iran lives next door to a rogue nuclear state that has started several wars against it's neighbors, namely Israel. Can anyone name a country that Iran has invaded?
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POPSA Religious War in Israel’s Army In many cases, the religious nationalists have ascended to command positions from precisely the kind of premilitary college course that Mr. Zamir runs — but theirs are run by the religious movements rather than his secular one, meaning that the competition between him and them is both ideological and careerist. “The officer corps of the elite Golani Brigade is now heavily populated by religious right-wing graduates of the preparatory academies,” noted Moshe Halbertal, a Jewish philosophy professor who co-wrote the military code of ethics and who is himself religiously observant but politically liberal. “The religious right is trying to have an impact on Israeli society through the army.”
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POPSMore & more Jewish Israelis support expelling Arab citizens of Israel This is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple. It is driving people from their homes and ancestral lands, stripping them of their citizenship, all based on their religion & ethnicity. This is what American tax $$$ pays for. Supporting a racist, ethno-state. So much for the myth of Israeli democracy. Remember, they're talking about the roughly 1 million citizens of the state of Israel who happen to be Arab. This includes Christians as well as Muslims. They're talking about stripping them of their citizenship and expelling them. All paid for by American tax dollars.
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POPSIsrael: "No on belongs here more than you" Why do I suspect that this advertising campaign isn't targeted at the Palestinians who have been living there for thousands of years, nor their descendants who have been driven out Israeli colonists from Europe?
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POPSCar accidents are a greater threat to Israelis than Hamas 3 years of automobile accidents killed more Israelis than 8 years of Palestinian terrorism from all factions , not just Hamas (the boogey-man-du-jour). And the IDF killed that many Gazans, mostly civilians, in 22 days. I'm not defending Hamas or terrorism, no matter who carries it out. I'm just pointing out the numbers people might not be aware of.
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POPSMcClatchyde: IDF used Gazans as HUMAN SHIELDS "There is powerful evidence that Israel used the tactic that they are accusing Hamas of using," said Fred Abrahams, a Human Rights Watch senior researcher who's investigating what happened in Gaza during the recent Israeli military offensive, which killed more than 1,200 Palestinians. The Abed Rabbo case also is under investigation by the Israeli human-rights group B'Tselem, which led a long campaign that eventually persuaded the Israeli Supreme Court to order the Israeli military in 2005 to stop using Palestinians as human shields. "The testimony seems pretty extensive and presents grave suspicions that Israeli soldiers forced Palestinians to perform dangerous tasks," said B'Tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli. "And the fact that we're seeing these allegations on such a wide scale leads us to suspect that this was policy and not the decisions of one or two random soldiers."
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POPSMuammar Qadaffi - "The One State Solution"
A two-state solution will create an unacceptable security threat to Israel. An armed Arab state, presumably in the West Bank, would give Israel less than 10 miles of strategic depth at its narrowest point. Further, a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would do little to resolve the problem of refugees. Any situation that keeps the majority of Palestinians in refugee camps and does not offer a solution within the historical borders of Israel/Palestine is not a solution at all... Assimilation is already a fact of life in… This successful assimilation can be a model for Isratine. If the present interdependence and the historical fact of Jewish-Palestinian coexistence guide their leaders, and if they can see beyond the horizon of the recent violence and thirst for revenge toward a long-term solution, then these two peoples will come to realize, I hope sooner rather than later, that living under one roof is the only option for a lasting peace.
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POPSIs there really an ancient hatred between Jews & Arabs? Zionism as a political movement espoused the idea that the only place Jews could be safe from the history of pogroms, persecution, and murder they had suffered was in a Jewish state. That's fine as far as it goes, except they chose Palestine to establish this homeland, and espoused the motto A land without a people, for a People without a land . That was a lie. Palestine had people living there continuously for generations, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish. Was there a country called "Palestine" in the early 20th century? No, up until the end of WW1, most of the middle east was just "The Ottoman (Turk) Empire". Today's map of the Middle East was drawn in the 20th century in the aftermath of WW1. Israel declared itself a state in 1948. But to say that Palestine was, at the beginning of the 20th century, "A land without a people" was a lie. http://ifamericansknew.org
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POPS"De Israel Lobby" (Dutch TV Documentary, English language version) Finally the question arises to what extend the pro-Israel lobby ultimately determines the military and political importance of Israel itself. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell's ex chief-of-staff) explains how the lobby's influence affects the decision-making structure in the White House. The lobby, Congress, the White House and Israel itself seem to have ended up in a suffocating embrace: will it ever change and how could it?Tony Judt and Richard Perle conclude by raising the crucial matters: what is the alternative? And what other friends can Israel count on? Tony Judt is right: If Israel does not change it's ways and start treating the Palestinians like human beings, the American population may get sick & tired of writing the checks for apartheid and demand their leaders stop supporting Israel. And then Israel will have no friends at all AND the 5th largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Nobody wins in that scenario.
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POPSIs Israel doing more damage to it's own interests than Hamas? This raises a question that every Israeli and its supporters now needs to ask. What is the strategic purpose behind the present fighting? After two weeks of combat Olmert, Livni, and Barak have still not said a word that indicates that Israel will gain strategic or grand strategic benefits, or tactical benefits... In fact, their silence raises haunting questions about whether they will repeat the same massive failures made ... during the Israeli-Hezbollah War in 2006. Has Israel somehow blundered into a steadily escalating war without a clear strategic goal or at least one it can credibly achieve? Will Israel end in empowering an enemy in political terms that it defeated in tactical terms? Will Israel’s actions seriously damage the US position in the region, any hope of peace, as well as moderate Arab regimes and voices in the process? To blunt, the answer so far seems to be yes.
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POPSThe Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields In 2001 Ariel Sharon stated unequivocally that "Israel would never buy gas from Palestine" intimating that Gaza's offshore gas reserves belong to Israel. In May 2007, the Israeli Cabinet approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "to buy gas from the Palestinian Authority." The proposed contract was for $4 billion, with profits of the order of $2 billion of which one billion was to go the Palestinians. Tel Aviv, however, had no intention on sharing the revenues with Palestine. The military occupation of Gaza is intent upon transferring the sovereignty of the gas fields to Israel in violation of international law.
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POPS"Occupation 101" [2006 Israel/Palestine Documentary] This is what the American Taxpayer foots the bill for to the tune of $2-3 BILLION EVERY YEAR. This is what Jimmy Carter, The Rev. Desmond Tutu, and people who were there mean when they say "Israel's 40-year-plus military occupation of Palestinian lands most closely resembles Aparthed South Africa". This is what the rest of the world sees, and why they wonder why the American public doesn't see things the same way. This is what the government is buying with our tax dollars, America. Yours and mine. I think it behooves you to take a closer look at what you're paying for. And maybe start asking questions about why we never hear this point of view regarding what we're paying for. The full movie is available online.
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POPSUS foreign aid to Israel: Just how much? Everything that Israel does in the occupied territories... All the illegal settlements Israel builds on Palestinian land, all the "jews only" roads that cross Palestinian land, cutting Palestinian communities off from one another and making travel almost impossible for non-jews... Everything that people like Jimmy Carter, The Rev. Desmond Tutu, and people who were actually there says looks frighteningly similar to (and often WORSE THAN) Apartheid South Africa... Is all made possible buy American Tax $$$. So just how much money are we talking about?
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POPSUN General Assembly calls Israel an "Apartheid State" For those of you who are old enough to remember the time, what did you do and where did you stand on the issue of South African Apartheid? I know where I stood then and still do now. I'm with the UN Declaration of Human Rights . South Africa was forced to change when the civilized world turned it's back on them and enforce embargoes and divestment on them. Everything old is new again. Go to IfAmericansknew.org for more details on what manner of Apartheid our American tax dollars buys in Occupied Palestine.
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POPSPalestinian MP Mustafa Bargouti intereviewd on The Real News Mustafa Barghouti is part of the Palestinian National Initiative which advocates a two-state solution, the rejection of political violence, corruption, & religious fanaticism, and a non-violent resistance to occupation in the mode of Ghandi & Martin Luther King, Jr. We're all equal human beings, and we are entitled to equal rights, and equal duties. -Mustafa Barghouti For more independent journalism not funded by advertising, check out The Real News .
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POPSOccupied Palestine: Worse than South Africa under Apartheid If the people who lived under and struggled free of apartheid say "This is worse", the world needs to listen up and take note. South Africa was made a pariah state by the WHOLE WORLD because of Apartheid. And what Israel is doing, according to those who lived it, is WORSE than what PW Botha et al did.
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