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POPSIsrael Defies U.S. on Settlements Here's the latest response to the USA & EU request for a settlement freeze, ending of seizing Palestinian land, etc. 1. We will continue building our settlements. 2. We approved the building of more settlements a few days ago. 3. We'll think about slowing down construction in the future. 4. But if we do slow down construction it will only be a temporary gesture. 5. Also....the West Bank all really belongs to Israel. From now all we call them Judea and Samaria. 6. We're open to discuss how long we would slow down construction if we do "slow," construction at all. Humm...well, at least this position is very clear. It really has ALWAYS been the Israeli position but not so blantant -- at least now there is no "pretenses for peace."
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POPSRice & Livni The reason why I clipped this is because if she is indeed lesbian, I cannot condone her hypocrisy regarding her silent consent while Mr. Bush pandered to religious conservatives by launching a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. I could care less if Condi is a lesbian and I could care less if she is closeted. Hell, I'm closeted. But BY GOD, it's one thing to be closeted and it's another to support a party that doesn't give a rat's behind about your civil rights. Such a waste of an intelligent woman's possibilities for the better good in this world.
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POPSFacility1391: The Zionist Guantanamo "on the moon" 
It is also the only detention facility that the state prevents the International Red Cross from visiting. Nor, as far as can be ascertained, have Knesset members ever visited the place, and many of the politicians who have been asked about it in the past few weeks said they had never heard of it - including some who have held senior positions in the government, such as Prof. David Libai, who was justice minister in the government of Yitzhak Rabin and a member of the ministerial committee that deals with the secret services: "I will not say a single word about the subject, for the simple reason that I am not familiar with it. This is the first time I have ever heard about such a thing." If a former justice minister doesn't know about it, a disturbing question arises: who does? Dan Meridor, another former justice minister and chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, is aware of the facility's existence: "I'm not sure there's anything wrong here," he says. "I reme
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POPSTHE NEW SABBATH????!!!!???? Hmmm...changing times and laws...adding to and removing from The Word...now where I have read those things before???!!! An interesting happening for interesting times....
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POPSThe Apartheid State Israeli Solution
Like in the Gaza Strip now Israel would control all income and cash into the Apartheid State and prohibit or restrict critical social needs like petrol, concrete, full and free medical care, "luxury goods," like cigarettes and chocolate, etc. The newly released "Master Plan," for the removal of Arabs from East Jerusalem -- http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&Do=&ID=37582 -- continues the evictions and destruction of Palestine under the charade of building "green zones" and "preserving historic buildings." It looks like the pretense of a 'two-state solution,' will be a U.S. funded Club Med & Military Camp next to a Palestinian outhouse -- at best. If I was Palestinian, political action and legal court action at the UN, World Court, ICC, etc. for war crimes and policies of genocide might bear some fruit. Plus, lobby to get all Palestinians declared political refugees would help escape. Raise cash Gotta start bribing(lobbying) US & EU politicians like A
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POPSHa'aretz:"Israeli occupation is both brutal and cruel" What is the tipping point when history repeats itself and 60 years later we have a full blown Nazi state in the Middle East. Goebbels might not qualify in the Zionist propaganda machine so well does it function. Convincing the Arab victims that they're to blame and the Zionists are the victims of their numerous atrocities, is some coup. Their latest ploy of requiring Arab-Israel citizens to pass a loyalty test could only come from those whose double/duel loyalty has rightly been questioned! What better than accuse others of your own shortcomings!
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POPSRafael Eitan: "And what did you do to the Indians?" Yossi Sarid is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. Sarid was member of the Meretz-Yachad party in the Knesset until he withdrew from politics shortly before the 2006 elections. Sarid holds a Master's degree in Political Science from New School for Social Research, New York. He writes a weekly column for the daily, Haaretz, which during the 2006 political campaigns published his ongoing commentary on the Israeli political scene.
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POPSHaaretz: "Israeli government is destined to fail"!!!! This is highly depressing news as Israel faces bold and crucial decisions; it's bad news for the peace process and for economic recovery, and it's bad news for every worried Israeli. Israel sent the world a message last night that it is not headed for peace and change. Netanyahu's second government is in no way better than his first, and all the hopes that he has changed have been proved unfounded in a single stroke. All that remains is to hope that Israel's largest government ever - half the Knesset members in the ruling party are ministers or deputy ministers - will also be the government that makes way for its successor with the greatest speed. ... Haaretz
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POPSIsraeli Foreign Minister advocates wiping countries off the face of the map. In May 2006, Lieberman called for the killing of Arab members of Knesset Whereas Ahmadinejad was humiliated by Columbia University president Lee Bollinger on his visit to that university, which provoked public protests, Lieberman's acceptance into the Israeli government has been greeted mildly and he was allowed to come to the Brookings Institution and meet with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Lieberman is a Central/Eastern European ultra-nationalist in the mold of Slobodan Milosevic and Jorg Haider, and it is shameful that he was allowed into the government and more shameful that this travesty has passed without a peep in the civilized world.
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POPSBBC: "Israel's unwieldy government" Perhaps the most significant part of the incoming PM's speech was his oblique reference to Iran's supposed ambitions to obtain nuclear weapons. In an apparent reference to Tehran, Netanyahu said the biggest threat to Israel and the world came from "the possibility of a radical regime armed with nuclear weapons". Israeli military intelligence assesses that Iran is close to getting the bomb. Netanyahu feels strongly that this cannot be allowed to happen. So, although Netanyahu was careful to say to the Knesset that Israel's existence was not in jeopardy, he believes these will be testing times for the country. In these circumstances, he wanted a government of national unity. He didn't get it, but did achieve something close. ... BBC
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POPS Netanyahu Names Steinitz Finance Minister Former IDF chief Moshe Yaalon will be appointed minister of strategic affairs and will also serve as vice premier. MK Dan Meridor will be appointed to the post of minister in charge of secret services and deputy prime minister, and will also be a member of the National Security Cabinet and the Kitchen Cabinet. Benny Begin was named as minister without portfolio and as a member of the National Security Cabinet and the Kitchen Cabinet. Following nightly meeting at Knesset PM-designate informs Steinitz he will be appointing him finance minister in his new government; Officials in Netanyahu's office stress Bibi will be in charge of strategic economic policy
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POPSIsraeli Left: "Decide on a Jewish State OR a Democratic one"!!! This whole block, which has just been defined as "the left", is represented now by 14 parliamentary seats out of the 120 seats in the Israeli Knesset. To them one may hesitantly add four out of the 13 representatives of the Labour party in the newly elected Knesset, who are close in their political stance to Meretz. Hence 18 out of 120 is what's left of the Israeli left, and even that only if one is willing to engage in some intellectual gymnastics and expand the notion of "left" way beyond its traditional boundaries. As for the Labour party, labelling it a traitor for joining a rightwing government involves a certain amount of wishful thinking regarding its true nature to start with. The answer to the question "when has the Labour party transformed?" is "never", when it comes to its patterns of dealing with Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and "in the mid 1980s, just like most Labour parties in the west" when addressing its stance on social and economic issues. On society and economy,
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POPSUri Avnery: Israel Officially Declares War on the Palestinian People Until 2002, Palestinians who married Israeli Arabs (which was very common, because the 1948 borders of Israel cut across Arab villages and clans) became Israeli citizens. Then the Knesset passed a law preventing Israeli Arabs from bringing their spouses with them into Israel. Jewish and Arab petitioners challenged the law in the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Ministry of Justice lawyers defending the law blatantly asserted that Israel is at war with the Palestinian people. Via Philip Weiss
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POPSIsraeli Arabs May Jeopardize Existence of The State of Israel A visit to Arab towns in Israel (for example Gush Dan or En Nasira) will show that people live there in large separate houses and have more than just one car for a family. The majority of Arabs have large families and receive low incomes, that is why they have been relieved of tax payments. In addition, they receive allowances from the government. The government creates and maintains the infrastructure of the towns, in which those families live. Israel makes a mistake when it uses one and the same approach in evaluating the well-being of its people. The Arab population lives on governmental allowances and does not pay taxes. One may not say that the Arabs do not do anything at all, of course. However, the cost of products, which they make, is a lot less than the assistance, which they receive.
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POPSThe Fifth Annual Israeli Apartheid Week March 1 - 8, 2009 Abu Dis * Arhus * Atlanta * Barcelona * Berkeley * Bethlehem * Birzeit * Boston * Caracas * Chicago * Copenhagen * Edinburgh * Edmonton * Fredericton * Greensboro * Halifax * Hamilton * Hebron * Jenin * Jericho * Johannesburg * Kingston * Kristiansand * London (UK) * Madrid * Mallorca * Malmo * Manchester * Montréal * Nablus * New York City * Oakland * Oslo * Ottawa * Oxford * Peterborough * Pisa * Puebla * Qalqilya * Salfit * San Francisco * Toronto * Tulkarem * Vancouver * Washington * Waterloo
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POPSExit Polls Give Israel's Livni Shock Lead However, some analysts noted that soldiers, whose votes could account for a couple of seats, had not been counted in exit polls and that could favor Netanyahu as tallying continues through into Wednesday. One television station put the right-left split at 64 seats for the right to 56 for the left, which could deny Livni the premiership and persuade President Shimon Peres to ask Netanyahu to try to form a coalition government.
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POPSIsraeli Elections too Close to Call; Far Right Parties Ascendent From the article: "A victory for the Israeli Right that is forced into unstable coalitions and dependent on small parties like Lieberman's would not want genuinely to pursue a viable peace with the Palestinians, and would not be able to even if it wanted to, as McClatchy points out. That outcome may make severe problems for President Obama." A neocon wet dream come true.
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POPSStories Jews Were Told: Israel, Zionism and Palestine Donna Nevel, a community psychologist, is a long-time organizer for Israeli-Palestinian peace and justice. She was a co-coordinator of 1989's Road to Peace conference, which brought together representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Israeli Knesset (Parliament) for the first time in the United States.
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POPS"The Holocaust is Over: We Must Rise from its Ashes""Nation of Victims" Avraham Burg was religious. He was quickly swept into mainstream public life, becoming first an adviser to the then PM Peres, then a Knesset member, then Speaker of the Knesset, head of the Jewish agency and the World Zionist Organisation and the almost-victorious candidate for the Labour Party leadership in 2001. It was not until his last year as a Knesset member that he began to build a reputation as something of an enfant terrible in Israeli intellectual and political life. ... Independent
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