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The ‘Stooge-Like’ Palestinian Authority

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Paul R. Pillar - Apr. 14 (News Analysis) - As Israel changes “the facts on the ground” through settlement of Palestinian land, the prospects of a two-state solution fade from unlikely to impossible. That has made the Palestinian Authority into a “stooge” organization and helps explain the resignation of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad,

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Obama Hearts Israel (and Bibi)

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Paul R. Pillar - Mar. 22 (Opinion) - Watching President Obama’s three-day love-fest toward Israel left critics and even some supporters cringing at his excessive embrace of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and everything Israel has ever done. But Obama’s “game-change” metaphor on Syria may be the most troubling,

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Obama prepares for West Bank visit

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Mar. 21 (News Report) - Barack Obama travels to the West Bank for talks with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, a day after making his first trip to Israel as US leader.

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UN report suggests Palestinian rocket killed baby in Gaza

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Mar. 12 (News Report) - It is likely an errant Palestinian rocket, not an Israeli air strike, killed the baby of a BBC picture editor during fighting in Gaza last November, a UN report has indicated, challenging the widely believed story behind an image that became a symbol of what Palestinians said was Israeli aggression.

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Responding to prisoners’ death, Gaza militants fire rocket at Israel

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Joel Greenberg - Feb. 26 (News Report) - JERUSALEM — Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday fired a rocket into Israel for the first time since a cease-fire reached three months ago ended an Israeli offensive against the militant Islamist group Hamas, police said. Read full article >>

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Israel election setback for Binyamin Netanyahu as centrists gain ground

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Harriet Sherwood - Jan. 23 (News Analysis) - Exit polls prompt speculation that prime minister may seek more moderate coalition Binyamin Netanyahu appears to have suffered a major blow in Israel's general election after television exit polls indicated the narrowest of victories for the rightwing-religious block. There was also a surprisingly strong showing for a new centrist party formed last year, prompting speculation that the prime minister may seek a more moderate coalition to govern Israel for the next few years. Predictions by three television news channels gave 61 parliamentary seats to the rightwing and religious parties, and 59 to the centre, left and Israeli-Arab parties. Netanyahu remains on course to continue as prime minister as his rightwing electoral alliance, Likud-Beiteinu, looks set to be the biggest party with 31 seats out of 120 in the next parliament. But Yesh Atid, a new centrist party led by a former television personality, was predicted to come second with 18 or 19 seats. Yesh Atid concentrated its ...

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Op-Ed Columnist: Break All the Rules

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - Jan. 23 (Opinion) - At a time when we measure our secretaries of state more by miles traveled than milestones achieved, what’s the next secretary to do? Here’s a plan.

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Human Rights Watch blasts Hamas for targeting Israeli civilians with rockets

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Times of Israel - By Stuart Winer - Dec. 25 (News Report) - Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel’s civilian population have no lawful justification and are a war crime, Human Rights Watch said in a scathing report published on Monday, assigning Hamas blame for civilian deaths in Israel and Gaza during last month’s Operation Pillar of Defense.

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Whitewashing Hamas

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Times of Israel - By David Eliezrie - Dec. 10 (Opinion) - One has to wonder about both the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times lately. In two articles that appeared this past weekend they took a strange parallel view of Gaza that raises serious questions.

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Hamas chief Meshaal makes historic Gaza visit

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - Dec. 07 (News Report) - The leader of Hamas has arrived in the Gaza Strip, ending 37 years of exile from the Palestinian Territories with a visit that underscored the armed group's growing confidence. Khaled Meshaal said on his first-ever visit to the Gaza Strip on Friday that he hoped to become a "a martyr" in the Palestinian territory.

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What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Noam Chomsky: - Dec. 04 (News Analysis) - An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”

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Canceled Nukes Meeting: A Setback for Obama?

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Dana Liebelson - Nov. 29 (News Analysis) - The day after Thanksgiving, when Americans were still digesting on La-Z-Boys and watching football, the State Department quietly announced that the 2012 conference for a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons had been canceled by the United States. It doesn't quite qualify as inconvenient news deliberately dropped over a holiday weekend (Israelis and Palestinians were probably watching the news, not sleeping off turkey), but it comes close. The cancelation, apparently due to circumstances in the region, doesn't reflect particularly well on President Obama, who had made nuclear non-proliferation a priority in his administration. In 2009, shortly after his inauguration, he appeared in Prague and presented an ambitious vision to achieve a world without weapons of mass destruction. Since then, he has worked toward that goal—holding nuclear summits in Washington and South Korea —but with mixed results. The summit in Seoul for example, dissolved into squabbles between the US and Russia, ...

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Official: Hamas will seek more weapons

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Nov. 26 (News Report) - Israel and Hamas on Monday resumed indirect discussions over their fragile cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, a top Hamas official said, but he warned that violence could flare again if negotiators did not quickly come to an agreement.

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Hamas polices Gaza border after IDF fire k... JPost - Middle East

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Jerusalem Post - By Yaacov Lappin, Reuters - Nov. 23 (News Report) -

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As Bus Bomb Hits Tel Aviv, Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Egypt's Mediator Role and Gaza's Ongoing Torment

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Sharif Abdel Kouddous - Nov. 21 (News Report) - The Israeli bombardment of Gaza has entered its eighth day with the Palestinian death toll now topping 139. More than 1,200 people have been injured. Earlier today, 21 people were injured in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv when a bomb exploded aboard a crowded bus. International efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far been unsuccessful. We're joined from Gaza City by Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous. [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Gaza rocket fired at Jerusalem

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Nov. 20 (News Report) - Israel says up to 150 targets were hit on Thursday night — Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip say they have launched a rocket on Jerusalem - the first time the holy city has been targeted from Gaza. — Israel Army radio said the missile landed just outside the city …

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Gaza rockets fired toward Jerusalem land in We... JPost - Defense

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Jerusalem Post - Nov. 20 (News Report) -

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Mr. President: Call Off Benjamin Netanyahu

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Marc Ash - Nov. 18 (Opinion) - Understand this now, the ongoing assault of Gaza by the Israeli military harms the people of Gaza, harms the people of Israel and harms the people of the United States, and that may only be the beginning. You will either confront the Israeli right wing now, or confront them after unimaginable carnage and global security destabilization. The rockets fired by Hamas have no military significance. Their sole aim is to focus world attention on the situation. It is a classic Gandhian strategy, not - as you well know - a realistic threat to the safety of Israeli citizens.

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Stop pretending the US is an uninvolved, helpless party in the Israeli assault on Gaza | Glenn Greenwald

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Glenn Greenwald - Nov. 17 (Editorial) - A central premise of US media coverage of the Israeli attack on Gaza - beyond the fact that Israel is justifiably "defending itself" - is that this is some endless conflict between two foreign entitles, and Americans can simply sit by helplessly and lament the tragedy of it all. The reality is precisely the opposite: Israeli aggression is possible only because of direct, affirmative, unstinting US diplomatic, financial and military support for Israel and everything it does. This self-flattering depiction of the US as uninvolved, neutral party is the worst media fiction since TV news personalities covered the Arab Spring by pretending that the US is and long has been on the side of the heroic democratic protesters, rather than the key force that spent decades propping up the tyrannies they were fighting.

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"Nowhere to Run": Israel Fires Over 500 Strikes in Gaza, Civilian Toll Grows in Humanitarian Crisis

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Mohammed Omer, Amy Goodman - Nov. 16 (News Report) - "One thing that we ought to talk about here is the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. This is a situation of targeting a population of civilians, exactly like Israel is shooting in a fishbowl. And there is no shelter, and there is nowhere to run for the general population. Gaza is living in a very dire situation."

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Israel and Gaza militants in deadly exchanges - live updates

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Haroon Siddique, Paul Owen - Nov. 15 (News Report) - Follow live updates as Gaza militants and Israel trade fire after commander of Hamas's military wing killed.

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Netanyahu calls early Israel poll

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Oct. 10 (News) - Israel's prime minister calls an early general election, following the failure to agree the annual budget with his coalition partners.

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SECRET VIDEO: Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By David Corn - Sep. 18 (Breaking News) - During a private fundraiser earlier this year, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a small group of wealthy contributors what he truly thinks of all the voters who support President Barack Obama. He dismissed these Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, who don't assume responsibility for their lives, and who think government should take care of them. Fielding a question from a donor about how he could triumph in November, Romney replied: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax. Romney went on: ...

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No justice for Rachel Corrie

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - By Neve Gordon - Sep. 05 (Opinion) - Twenty-three-year-old Rachel Corrie traveled to Gaza at the height of the second intifada intending to initiate a sister city project between Olympia, Washington, her home town, and Rafah as part of her senior-year project at Evergreen College. After a two-day seminar in the offices of the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank, she continued on to Rafah to join ISM members, who were demonstrating against the Israeli military's massive demolitions of houses on the Egyptian border. Less than two months after her arrival, on March 16, 2003, Corrie was crushed to death by a Caterpillar D9R Israeli military bulldozer.

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The Know-Nothings Ride Again

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Lawrence Davidson - Aug. 12 (Opinion) - In 2012, the political descendants of America’s Know-Nothings demonstrated that they had seized control of the Republican Party, which for much of the past six decades has held the White House and looks to reclaim that immense power again,

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