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Powerful map: Zionist illegal settlement expansion plans
http://www.palestinecenterblog.org/2010/03/powerful-map-israel-settlement.html
* Palestinians can use route 443, but Israel will seize Palestinian land to ‘secure’ it. The Zio-Nazi Defense Forces intends to seize 50 dunams from the Palestinian village Bitunia “to prevent terror attacks” on Route 443, which will open to Palestinian traffic in 10 weeks. “Given the need for steps to prevent a terror attack, 49.2 dunams of land from the village Bitunia are being expropriated for security needs, to build the Ofer crossing,” states an order signed by GOC Central Command Avi Mizrahi.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157741.html
* Ban meets evicted Sheikh Jarrah families
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met on Saturday with two Palestinian families who were forcibly expelled from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem … Ban vowed to follow up with the families and do his best to stop settlement activities in Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270292
* Ramat Shlomo: Inside the town that will test Obama to the limit
The US President wants the expansion of Ramat Shlomo to stop immediately. But its Jewish residents tell Donald Macintyre that the land was given to them – by God ???
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/
ramat-shlomo-inside-the-town-that-will-test-obama-to-the-limit-1923143.html
* East Jerusalem: One bit of land, two opposing communities
By Orly Halpern in Ramat Shlomo – In the neighbourhood of Ramat Shlomo, ultra-orthodox Jewish residents remain indifferent to the diplomatic storm http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/19/israel-east-jerusalem-ramat-shlomo
* Violence against Palestinians
Nablus: 4 dead in 24 hours
Zio-Nazi soldiers shot dead two Palestinians near Nablus in the northern West Bank on Sunday. Palestinian security sources identified the victims as 19-year-old farmers Muhammad Faysal and Salah Muhammad Qawariq. Both were from the Awarta village, southeast of Nablus, and were en route to farmland carrying agricultural tools and herbicide, the same sources said. Zio-Nazi’s army said the two attempted to stab a soldier who was on a “routine patrol” near the Awarta military checkpoint.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270362
* Two Palestinian children killed in Nablus
Palestinian medical sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that two Palestinian children were killed by Israeli military fire in Iraq-Burin village, south of Nablus. The two children were identified as Aseed Abdul-Nasser Qadous, 16, and Ibrahim Abdul-Qader Qadous, 16. … Local sources reported that the clashes took place near the Bracha illegal Israeli settlement, and that both Zio-Nazi soldiers and Zionist settlers opened fire at the protestors. A group of fundamentalist armed settlers from Yitzhar and Bracha illegal settlements attacked the village under the protection of the Israeli troops, local sources reported.
http://imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=58250
* Army explanation ‘simply impossible’
Ma’an – Live ammunition killed two 16-year-old Palestinian boys in the northern West Bank [Iraq Burin] over the weekend, despite the Nazi military’s denials, medical officials and human rights advocates said Sunday. Useid Qadus died of a gunshot wound to the head [see X-ray], medics at Nablus’ Rafidiya Hospital told Ma’an, after a military incursion into his village as the army attempted to suppress a demonstration. Muhammad Qadus died of chest wounds sustained in the same incident … Zio-Nazi’s army has maintained that its forces used rubber-coated bullets to disperse a violent riot, following a Ma’an inquiry into allegations that both boys sustained injuries consistent with live ammunition.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270326
* PA: Recent killings aimed at impeding US, Quartet efforts
Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh said Sunday that recent killings of Palestinians in Nablus and Israeli escalation indicated Israel’s attempts to impede international efforts aimed at restarting the peace process.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270445
Activism / Resistance / Solidarity / BDS
* Gaza residents test no-go zone for second day
Hundreds of Gazans, joined by international peace activists and Palestinian farmers, on Sunday marched on Zionist Apartheid’s 200-meter buffer zone for the second day. Popular committee coordinator Mahmoud Az-Zeq … appealed to Palestinian factions to participate in the rallies in support of farmers who have been prohibited access to their lands as a result of the closure.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270437
* Palestinians riot following death of 2 protesters
Some 100 people clash with security forces near Gush Etzion settlement of Tekoa. They hurl stones at security forces, who use crowd dispersal means against them — The Zio-Nazi army is continuing its ‘investigation’ ? of Saturday’s incidents, in which two Palestinian protesters were killed.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865595,00.html
* Mass protests in Yemen in solidarity with Jerusalem and Aqsa Mosque
Different Yemeni cities witnessed on Friday massive popular rallies in solidarity with the Palestinian people against the serious violations committed by Zionist against them and their holy sites.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/
* Mauritania formally severs diplomatic ties with Zionist regime (Reuters)
Mauritania has fully severed diplomatic ties with Zio-Nazi regime in ‘Israel’, the northwest African country’s foreign minister said late on Saturday, completing a process that began last year. At one time it was one of only three Arab countries to have full diplomatic relations with Zio-Nazi regime,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157868.html
* Should California divest from Zionism?
Two new ballot initiatives were cleared for circulation this week by the Secretary of State’s office. This is the stage where backers must get over 400,000 signatures from Californians to qualify for the ballot. Of the two, the most notable one would prohibit state retirement funds from investing in the Zio-Nazi regime of ‘Israel’.
http://laist.com/2010/03/18/2_new_ballot_initiatives_cleared_fo.php
* Retaliation by Palestinians
Under fire: More rockets hit southern Palestine
Rocket fire from Gaza continues throughout Saturday, prompting residents in south to take cover in secure rooms; no injuries or damages reported in strikes. Meanwhile, visiting UN chief calls for end to rocket attacks, Gaza siege
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865390,00.html
* Mahmoud al-Zahar: Qassams helping Zionism
Hamas strongman unsatisfied with renewed rocket fire, hinting it is aimed at undermining organization’s rule in Gaza. ‘We are aware of the fact that there are elements wishing to help the enemy divert the attention from what is happening in Jerusalem,’ he says
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865530,00.html
* Times watch / James North
There’s a disappointing story in the New York Times today (19 March) about that fatal rocket attack on Israel yesterday. It plays pretty big, on page three. In the first paragraph we are informed that the rocket was fired from “Hamas-controlled” territory. It isn’t till we reach the fifth or sixth paragraph that we are told that “Ansar al-Sunna, a small, fiercely anti-Western jihadist group that challenges Hamas” takes responsibility for the attack. And then, much lower down, it says that Hamas “has made some efforts to prevent rocket fire by smaller militant groups.” So, basically, Israel went in, destroyed the Gaza police force, smashed everything to pieces, and now is holding the Hamas government responsible for everything that happens in every square inch of its territory.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/times-watch.html
* Blockade / Humanitarian issues
UN chief says Gaza suffering under Zionist blockade
21 Mar – The UN chief has said Zionist’s blockade of Gaza is causing “unacceptable suffering,” during a Middle East visit to reinvigorate the peace process. Ban Ki-moon told Gazans that “we stand with you” as he visited an area damaged by Zio-Nazi’s offensive 14 months ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8578611.stm
* One Gaza crossing open
Zio-Nazi regime partially opened Gaza’s Kerem Shalom crossing on Sunday to allow limited quantities of aid and goods into the besieged coastal area, Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270320
* Gaza fishermen detained by Egypt coast guard
Three Palestinian fishermen were detained on Saturday night by the Egyptian coast guard, held on charges of illegally entering the country’s territorial waters. The fishermen claimed they were having engine trouble and were dragged along by the current, Ma’an’s Egypt correspondent reported.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270309
* Pro-Zionist regime of Mu-Barak in Egypt destroys tunnel under Gaza border in bid to curb smuggling (dpa) Egyptian security forces on Sunday destroyed a large tunnel under the country’s border with the Gaza Strip that smugglers had used to get cars into the territory, police said … In related news, police said that Mu-Barak security Dogs arrested three Gaza fishermen after they ventured into Egyptian territorial waters, the fourth such arrests in two months. Zionist army has also closed the Gaza Strip’s Mediterranean coastline out of fear weapons could be brought into the territory by sea, leading some Gazan fishermen to risk fishing in Egyptian territorial waters.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157862.html
Other news
* Obama invites defiant Zionist PM for talks (AFP)
JERUSALEM (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Sunday invited Zio-Nazi Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet him at the White House, even as the Zionist leader rebuffed a key US demand to halt settlement construction in east Jerusalem. The invitation for the Tuesday meeting to discuss Middle East peace efforts was handed to Netanyahu by Obama’s Middle East envoy George Mitchell at the start of a meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu’s office said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100321/wl_afp/mideastconflict
* Nearly half of Zionist’s supports Quartet call for Zionist illegal settlement freeze
19 March -Two polls published in today show 41-46 percent of Zionist’s back the Quartet’s call for an illegal Zionist settlement freeze in East Jerusalem – contrary to Netanyahu’s claim of a consensus on the issue.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0319/
Nearly-half-of-‘Israel’-supports-Quartet-call-for-Israeli-settlement-freeze
* US Vice President Joseph Biden lays wreath at tomb of Theodor Herzl
Merom gave Biden a copy of Herzl’s book, Altneuland, a novel devoted to Zionism. In response Biden said: “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. I also see myself as a Zionist.”
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/Updates/
Personal+Stories/Archive/2010/mar11a.htm
* Palestinian MP issued visa too late to visit Canada
OTTAWA—A prominent peace activist and Palestinian MP has cancelled a three-city speaking tour after the Canadian government took too long to grant him a visa. “It is clear I cannot make it,” Mustafa Barghouti said from Ramallah on Friday after having learned that Canada would issue him a visa two weeks after he applied. Barghouti was scheduled to speak on Palestinian politics and peace in the Middle East at three public events in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa over the next few days and was also expected to meet several MPs in Ottawa Monday.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/782477–
palestinian-mp-issued-visa-too-late-to-visit-canada?bn=1
* US silencing Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer
Effectively canceling a planned speaking tour, the US consulate in the Netherlands has put an extended hold on the visa application of award-winning Palestinian journalist and photographer Mohammed Omer, scheduled to speak on conditions in Palestine, on 5 April in Chicago. In 2008, Omer became the youngest recipient of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, for his firsthand reportage of life in the besieged Gaza Strip … Rather than cancel the meeting, organizers are calling on supporters to write letters and emails calling for the US consulate’s approval of Omer’s visa. They are also proceeding with the event as planned, via live satellite or skype, if necessary.
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/us-silencing-palestinian-journalist-mohammed-omer/
* ‘Current Knesset is the most racist in Zionist history’
The Zionist racist regime passed at least 21 bills aimed at discriminating against the country’s Arab citizens making the current Knesset as being the most racist Zionist parliament since the country’s founding, according to a report released Sunday by civil rights groups … “There has never been a Knesset as active in proposing discriminating and racist legislation against the country’s Arab citizens,” said the report’s authors Lizi Sagi and Nidal Othman.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157857.html
* Zionist education ministry censors Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On March 17, the following note appeared on the Promised Land blog: “And this also happened this week: the office of the minister of education forbade distributing a booklet for kids about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, because it didn’t like two articles in the declaration, as well as some of the illustration in the booklet.” The relevant link was to an article in Hebrew. I asked Noam which two articles had been specified, and he replied that the nrg.co.il article implied Article 14 and Article 18. These two articles are as follows:
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/
israeli-education-ministry-censors-universal-declaration-of-human-rights.html
* Hundreds protest deportation of foreign workers’ children
Hundreds gathered in Levinsky Park in southern Tel Aviv Saturday evening to protest against the possible deportation of 1,200 children of foreign workers at the end of the current school year. Demonstrators held signs reading “Israeli children – Zionist citizenship” and “I want to stay”, and chanted “There are no illegal children” and “No to deportation”. An inter-ministerial committee formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to decide soon on what will happen to the children when the school year ends.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157680.html
* State to invest NIS 700m in developing Arab towns
The state intends to allocate NIS 700 million for accelerating economic growth in 10 Arab, Druze and Circassian communities who comprise 30% of Israel’s total population of minorities. The final touches are being put on the proposal, which is slated to be submitted to the cabinet for approval on Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157295.html
* West Bank businessman eyes creation of new city – if Israel agrees
Town will cut West Bank unemployment by 10 per cent, Palestinian developers say – … “When we picked the area of Rawabi, we were very careful to pick it so that we would have minimal interaction with the illegal Zionist occupation, or Zionist regime,” says [Bashar] Masri. However, some interaction is inevitable. The whole project hinges on the construction of an access road from Ramallah, the West Bank’s economic, cultural and political hub. For that, too, he needs permission from the Zionist regime.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157842.html
* It seems that not all Israelis are in favor of this new city:
A new Palestinian threat / Susie Dym
Proposed new Palestinian city is not good news for Zionism – …The distance of the new proposed city from seacoast is a mere 40 km, which also happens to be the current Palestinian low-tech rocket range, such that the Palestinian city if allowed to be built can easily be (ab)used as a launching pad for rockets right onto the entirety of hyper-populated Tel Aviv and Gush Dan.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865192,00.html
* Shas journal: Obama is a stone-throwing Palestinian
The official Shas journal “Day to Day” published Thursday an editorial depicting United States President Barack Obama as “a Palestinian stone throwing youth in East Jerusalem, and not a strategic leader.” … The article went on to refer to Obama’s criticism of Zionist’s decision to continue the settlement building, which stirred fervent international responses, as “a creative solution coming from an Islamic extremist.”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157442.html
* PA forces arrest man suspected of impersonating zionist soldier
Palestinian Authority security services arrested a man on Sunday suspected of impersonating Zionist soldier in Zubaba, near Jenin. A police report said that, following questioning, the suspect admitted to disguising himself as Zionist soldier, erecting a traffic checkpoint in the village, forcing passengers to dismount in Hebrew.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=270489
Analysis / Opinion / Human interest
* The doomsday weapon / Uri Avnery
IT IS already a commonplace to say that people who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat their mistakes. Some 1942 years ago, the Jews in the province called Palaestina launched a revolt against the Roman Empire. In retrospect, this looks like an act of madness. Palestine was a small and insignificant part of the world-wide empire which had just won a crushing victory against the rival power – the Parthian Empire (Persia) – and put down a major rebellion in Britain. What chances could the Jewish revolt have? God knows what was going on in the mind of the “Zealots” … If Obama decides to fight back and activate his doomsday weapon – the accusation that Zionist regime policy puts the lives of American servicemen at risk – this would have catastrophic consequences for Zionism.
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1269137362
* Netanyahu did one thing right in the Jerusalem debacle / Gideon Levy
…Intentionally or not, the prime minister has revealed the lies about Jerusalem and presented things truthfully. Intentionally or not, Netanyahu has put the capital’s occupied parts that the world does not recognize in their proper place: Ramot is the same as Psagot; Neveh Yaakov is the same as Kokhav Yaakov. There is no difference between Yitzhar and French Hill. They are all settlements, including Ramot, which was built in no-man’s-land. Intentional or not, you have to appreciate Netanyahu’s move. A revelation has come forth in Jerusalem: Most of it is a settlement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157755.html
* Who’s in favor of a Palestinian intifada? / Zvi Bar’el
How can you find out if someone is a leftist? You ask him whether he thinks an intifada will take place. If he responds, “Yes, no doubt. Pretty soon,” we have a dangerous leftist. If he responds, “That’s silly, a few riots and a Qassam rocket are not an intifada,” we have a proud Jew who believes that the Arabs have already learned their lesson. This is one of the new characteristics of the left-right clash, but not of the real danger that lurks behind the Temple Mount’s thick walls, or beyond the fence surrounding the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157756.html
* US may end up boosting Zionist premier / Edmund Sanders
Building in Jerusalem has wide support, a benefit for Netanyahu.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/mideastemail/la-fg-
jerusalem-housing20-2010mar20,0,4679286.story
* Taking sides / John Mearsheimer
… First, the events of the past week make it clear in ways that we have not seen in the past that Zionis is a strategic liability for the United States, not the strategic asset that the Zionist lobby has long claimed it was. Specifically, the Obama administration has unambiguously declared that Zionist’s expansionist policies in the Occupied Territories, including East Jerusalem, are doing serious damage to US interests in the region.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2010/03/19/taking-sides/
* Zionist’s troubling tilt toward apartheid / Robert Parry
Today a virulent form of Zionism is turning Zionist state of ‘Israel’ in the direction of an intolerant apartheid state.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/031910.html
* Book review: Higher education under occupation
Gabi Baramki’s Peaceful Resistance: Building a Palestinian University under Occupation (Pluto Press, 2009) is a memoir of Palestine’s flagship university, Birzeit, by its former acting president. The memoir is an indispensable tool for teaching Westerners about the ways in which Palestinian education exists and flourishes under a constant state of siege and the barriers to academic freedom that Palestinians experience on a daily basis.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11148.shtml
* Film review: This Palestinian life / Ben White
The strength of This Palestinian Life is hinted at in the title; what [Philip] Rizk explicitly sets out to do is share the personal, everyday stories that do not feature in media coverage of Palestine/Zionist. As Rizk comments in the film, the Palestinians he talks to do not represent ‘the severest cases’, in terms of experiences of Zionist occupation, but are the kind of stories ‘most rarely told’. These are glimpses of lives lived in defiance of Zionist apartheid rule, examples of sumoud, of steadfastness.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15823
* Palestinian entrepreneur finds success here (St. Louis)
Salah Orsan grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan. In search of a better life, he came to the United States in 1990 at the age of 23. Today, he owns a handful of businesses with his wife, Billie, whom he met in St. Louis.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/0/
4C20FFC9292E3960862576EB0005E99F?OpenDocument
* Iraq, other Mideast
Saturday: 17 Iraqis wounded
Excerpt: No Iraqis were reported killed on the seventh anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion on Iraq. Back in the U.S., however, thousands of demonstrators gathered in Washington to protest the war. At least 17 Iraqis were wounded in separate attacks. In the final stretch of ballot counting, the Iraqiya bloc has again pulled ahead of the State of Law coalition by a few thousand votes, but State of Law still maintains a lead in the number of provinces won.
http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2010/03/20/saturday-7-iraqis-wounded/
* Iraq electoral commission rejects vote recount (AFP)
BAGHDAD (AFP) – Iraq’s electoral commission rejected a call by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for a manual recount of votes cast in the country’s March 7 polls, commission chief Faraj al-Haidari told AFP on Sunday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100321/wl_mideast_afp/iraqvoterecountreject
* Separating fact from fiction in Iraqi war films / Marjorie Miller
The Times’ former foreign editor assesses ‘Green Zone,’ ‘The Ghost Writer’ and ‘The Hurt Locker.’
http://link.latimes.com/r/ZEZWGA/NGYDC/2OEU2A/IQS89/UUN021/28/h
UAE becomes fourth-biggest arms buyer
ABU DHABI // The UAE is near the top of a list of the world’s biggest weapons importers and is set to continue increasing its hi-tech defensive capabilities, according to a new report on international arms transfers … Only China, India and South Korea spent more. The UAE was ahead of Zionist regime, in sixth place. The nearest Arab country was Egypt, in 15th place, with $2.5 billion in imports. The US is by far the biggest supplier of arms to the UAE, the third-largest US weapons client.
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100321/NATIONAL/703209834/1042/rss
* Pro-Zionist Mubarak regime appoints a new chief of Al Azhar
Mr el Tayeb, 64, replacing Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, who died last week, ‘thank God’ is a former Grand Mufti of Egypt and is currently head of Al Azhar University. It is in the latter role that he has demonstrated his opposition to the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists in general.
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100321/FOREIGN/703209829/1002/rss
* Lethal landmine legacy from battle of El Alamein
Today however, Egyptian Bedouin are not merely onlookers but reluctant combatants in a battle against death and injury in their ancestral lands. The Allied and Axis forces are long gone from North Africa but their lethal legacy remains – millions of rusting landmines, bombs, mortars and artillery shells lying in wait for the unwary shepherds and their children.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8576292.stm
* Saudi woman threatened for poem attacking clerics
A Saudi woman received a death threat last week after she appeared on “Poet of Millions,” Abu Dhabi’s version of the game show “American Idol” — which features aspiring poets instead of singers — and recited a poem attacking clerics for “terrorizing people and preying on everyone seeking peace.” This week she returned to perform a similar poem and was rewarded by the judges who made her the first female contestant to reach the show’s final round.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/entertainment/movies/4951-saudi-woman-threatened-for-poem-attacking-clerics
* Islamism: Why the west gets it wrong / Roger Hardy
…After 30 years’ experience travelling in the Muslim world – most of that time as a regional specialist with the BBC World Service – I’m still constantly startled by how many ways there are of being a Muslim in the modern world.The failure to see Islam’s extraordinary diversity has in turn hampered our efforts to understand Islamism – the notion that it is an ideology as well as a religion. Islamism is, at root, a reaction to western power.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/mar/16/islamism-west-muslim-brotherhood
U.S. and other world news
* Why this AIPAC conference is different from all other years / Nathan Guttman
Pro-Zionist activists hope the conference emerges as a pivotal point back toward warmer ties between America and Zionist regime. They certainly want to avoid it becoming a source of deeper conflict caused by AIPAC delegates booing Clinton during her speech, as some commentators have suggested could happen … This year, the lobby has built its annual conference, and its entire lobbying agenda, around the issue of Iran.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157874.html
* My life with AIPAC – plus its internal strategy document for this week / MJ Rosenberg. The lobby wants to paper over the differences the United States has with Zionist State – especially before the big AIPAC rally this weekend and certainly before the President meets with Prime Minister Netanyahu.I know, from my years at AIPAC, that it wants Obama to back down. I also know that even the slightest retreat from our demands will be presented by AIPAC as a great victory. “All is back to normal,” AIPAC will say. And the whole world — especially Israelis and Palestinians — will see us as chumps.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mj-rosenberg/my-life-with-aipac-what-t_b_506933.html
* Video: How Zionist’s lobby challenges rule of law in America
This week the Iranian satellite television channel PressTV is broadcasting a 25 minute interview with IRmep director Grant F. Smith about the Zionist lobby’s history of challenges to rule of law and governance in the United States. “Autograph” with Susan Modaress reviews key findings from the book “Spy Trade” and may be streamed online via YouTube
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2010/02/17/how-israels-lobby-challenges-rule-of-law-in-america-video/
* Kissinger’s 1974 plan for food control genocide
The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control, and also, implicitly, war and famine.
http://community.marketwatch.com/groups/us-politics/topics/kissingers-1974-plan-food-control
* Suspects in NY synagogue bomb plot say FBI was involved
…The dismissal motion identified the government’s agent as Shaheed Hussain, a “professional informant” for the FBI. The defense claimed he was directed to visit suburban mosques, find members with anti-American leanings and recruit them to join a fake terror plot supposedly funded by a Pakistan-based group … The defense alleged that Hussain tried to incite the defendants by blaming Jews for the world’s evil and telling them that attacks against non-Muslims were endorsed by Islam. Nevertheless, they said, he failed to motivate the defendants to any action on their own.
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157652.html
* The mysterious case of the Grey Lady of Bagram / Robert Fisk
Dr Shams Hassan Faruqi sits amid his rocks and geological records, shakes his bearded head and stares at me. “I strongly doubt if the children are alive,” he says. “Probably, they have expired.” He says this in a strange way, mournful but resigned, yet somehow he seems oddly unmoved. As a witness, supposedly, to the mysterious 2008 re-appearance of Aafia Siddiqui – the “most wanted woman in the world”, according to former US attorney general John Ashcroft – I guess this 73-year-old Pakistani geologist is used to the limelight.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-
the-mysterious-case-of-the-grey-lady-of-bagram-1923808.html
* Families sue over Guantanamo deaths
The families of two prisoners who died at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are asking a federal court to reconsider its ruling dismissing their lawsuit, which seeks to hold federal officials and the U.S. government accountable for their sons’ torture, arbitrary detention, and ultimate deaths.
http://original.antiwar.com/fisher/2010/03/19/families-sue-over-guantanamo-deaths/
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