U.S.-Israeli Arms Cooperation Quietly Growing Source: The Jewish Daily Forward
Israeli officials have been singing the praises of President Obama for his willingness to address their defense concerns and for actions taken by his administration to bolster Israel's qualitative military edge — an edge eroded, according to Israel, during the final year of t …
Palestinian Popular StruggleSource: Haaretz
Over the past few months, the efforts to suppress the struggle have increased. The target: Palestinians and Jewish Israelis unwilling to give up their right to resist reign of demographic separation and Jewish supremacy.
Tzipi Livni, Israel's former foreign minister, faced a possible arrest if travelling to the United kingdom earlier this month.
The West Banktustan or a South Pacifc Island Archipalego?Source:
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Well gang - it seems La West Bank is looking more and more like some tropical island cluster - replete with Tahitian barbed wire coral reefs and concrete barrier beaches.
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Cypriot representative: Turkish occupation of Cyprus a paradox Source: Financial Mirror
Cypriot Representative to the Third Committee of the UN, Chrysostomos Stavrou, has said it is a paradox that Turkey, a country serving now as a non permanent member of the UN Security Council, occupies part of the territory of Cyprus, a UN and EU member state.
Why has the left in Israel vanished? Source: Haaretz
"The threats uttered against a possible Palestinian declaration of independence by our leaders Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman and Ehud Barak let the Israeli sanctimony (usually tedious and belabored) drop to the floor for a moment, like a woman's slip.
How long will it take the Israelis to realize the Battle is LostSource: Al-Manar TV
Gilad Atzmon - Information Clearing House
November 12, 2009
Let's once and for all stop getting excited about America mounting pressure on Israel to freeze West Bank settlements. The entire fascination with the topic is a product of Zionist spin.
Settlers force Palestinians out of East Jerusalem home Source: Haaretz
Rioting settlers forced a Palestinian family from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah out of their home on Tuesday.....dozens of settlers stormed into the house with hired security guards, and demanded that the family vacate immediately.
When the Tough Should Get GoingSource: Truthdig
The former Marine officer Matthew Hoh, who resigned his Foreign Service post in Afghanistan because he feels the war is pointless and not worth dying for, deserves all the attention he's gotten and more.
Workplace study: 45% of food-service workers smokeSource: USA Today
If you break smokers down by their occupations, the workers who are most likely to smoke are in the food-service industry, says a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
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Two Wrongs Make Another FiascoSource: Common Dreams
Those of us who love F. Scott Fitzgerald must acknowledge that he did get one big thing wrong. There are second acts in American lives. (Just ask Marion Barry, or William Shatner.) The real question is whether everyone deserves a second act.
Afghan Taliban say they pose no threat to the WestSource: Reuters
The Afghan Taliban pose no threat to the West but will continue their fight against occupying foreign forces, they said on Wednesday, the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that removed them from power.
U.S.-led forces with the help of Afghan groups overthrew the Taliba …