Rebel Newsflash: Who's Aiding Judaisation? (plus 41 more items) |  |
- Who's Aiding Judaisation?
- Jewish leaders ask Obama to denounce Farakhan
- Obama's economic intervention
- Chicago: "The National Capital of Police Repression"
- Al-Shabab: A regional threat?
- Redundant but Dangerous Language
- Somaliland: A radical change?
- Writing for the Future – Book Review
- Resistir e Vencer - To Resist is to Win
- The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle – Book Review
- The New Warlord of Oz
- The National Security Product
- UN Chief Dilly-Dallying on Panel to Probe Israeli Killings?
- Wednesday: 16 Iraqis Killed, 32 Wounded
- Wednesday: 40 Iraqis, 1 US Soldier Killed; 64 Iraqis Wounded
- "You're Going to Be on Glenn Beck Tonight...."
- Talking peace in the Philippines
- Palestinian Children Under Occupation
- The story of a people's resistance told in "Budrus"
- Challenging the Jewish National Fund
- India's Israeli-Arab tightrope walk
- One-State Debate Explodes Myth about Zionist Left
- Palestinian Chef Finds Occupation Hard to Digest
- One-State Debate Explodes Myth About Zionist Left
- Ending the Gaza Blockade Might Help Israel as Much as Gaza
- The Complexity Conundrum
- Holy Land 5 case reveals double standard in enforcement of US law
- Liberate all ghettos
- Tuesday: 11 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Killed; 32 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Wounded
- Tuesday: 12 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Killed; 38 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Wounded
- Obama's Costly Appeasement of Israelis
- Analyst: Israel's Next War Could Be Lebanon
- Sources: Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Program
- Pavlov's Dogs of War Revisited
- Post-9/11 Militarism Helps BP, Hurts America
- US voters can demand Palestine's freedom
- Monday: 1 British Contractor, 17 Iraqis Killed; 55 Iraqis Wounded
- Fighting racism through sports
- Palestinians in Gaza denied PA passports
- Netanyahu: I Deceived US to Destroy Oslo Accords
- Open Letter to John Lydon: 'Rise' against Racism
- Vanishing Jaffa: The Forgotten History of Andromeda
| Posted: 22 Jul 2010 12:19 AM PDT 
Since 1860, when the American Jewish tycoon Judah Touro donated $60,000 -- a fortune for that time -- towards the construction of the first Jewish settlement outside the old walls of Jerusalem, public and private American funds have aided the creation and territorial expansion of Israel. Israel today is the foremost recipient of US aid. According to a USAID green paper, between 1946 and 2008 Israel has received more aid than Russia, India, Egypt and Iraq. In fact, the US has poured more money into Israel than it did into the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. However, a recent New York Times article adds a new dimension to the story.  |
| Jewish leaders ask Obama to denounce Farakhan Posted: 21 Jul 2010 11:45 PM PDT  Louis Farakhan's letter to Abe Foxman, national director Anti-Defamation League on June 24, 2010 – has really pinched Jewish Lobby's nerves – that's major Jewish involvement in African slavery. After running a smear campaign against Minister Farakhan for decades – recently the leaders of several Jewish organizations has called on US President Barack Obama for public denunciation of the leader of the Nation of Islam for his so-called 'anti-Semitism' for asking Abraham Foxman to have honest discussion over Jewish role in Black slavery. Dr. Raphael in his book "Jews and Judaism in the United States: A Documentary History" (1983) wrote: "Slave trading was a major feature of Jewish economic life in Surinam which as a major stopping-off point in the triangular trade. Both North american and Caribbean Jews played a key role in this commerce; records of a slave sale in 1707 reveal that the ten largest Jewish purchasers (10,400 guilders) spent more than 25% of the total funds (38,605 guilders) exchanged".  |
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| Chicago: "The National Capital of Police Repression" Posted: 21 Jul 2010 10:01 PM PDT  That's what Frank Donner called Chicago in his 1990 book, "Protectors of Privilege." As an ACLU attorney, he explained how city police and US intelligence agencies targeted alleged internal subversion, and while it operated "was the outstanding example of it its kind in the United States (in terms of) size, number, and range of targets or operational scope and diversity." He referred to "wide-open, no-holds-barred style surveillance" (and vigilantism), unmatched anywhere in the country - (institutionalized) guerrilla warfare against substantial sectors of the city's population," using illegal, criminal methods, including intimidation, physical confrontation, and flagrant abuse, at times involving torture. That was then. What about now?
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| Redundant but Dangerous Language Posted: 21 Jul 2010 07:41 PM PDT  Each time Israel fails to keep its 'side of the bargain', the Palestinian Authority responds with the same redundant language. The cycle has become so utterly predictable that one wonders why the Palestinian Authority officials even bothers protesting Israeli action. They must be well aware that their cries, genuine or otherwise, will only fall on deaf ears. They know that their complaints could not possible contribute to a paradigm shift in Israel's behavior, or the US position on it.  |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2010 07:11 PM PDT  Although the international media has under-reported it, the world has recently witnessed a major event in the Horn of Africa - a free, fair and generally peaceful election in Somaliland. On July 2, Isse Yusuf Mohamud, the chairman of Somaliland's election commission, announced that Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo, the leader of the opposition Kulmiye Party, won the presidential election with 49.59 per cent of the 538,246 votes cast. The incumbent president, Dahir Riyale Kahin, came a distant second with 33.23 per cent of the votes.  |
| Writing for the Future – Book Review Posted: 21 Jul 2010 07:04 PM PDT
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| Resistir e Vencer - To Resist is to Win Posted: 21 Jul 2010 06:44 PM PDT  Resistir e Vencer, to resist is to win, a simple phrase from the life of Gusmao describing the struggle in Timor-Leste. Today there are various meanings attributed to the idea of resistance and struggle. In a recent article by Ramzy Baroud, Baroud discusses resistance with a remarkable degree of clarity and precision. His main point commences with the observation. "Resistance is not a band of armed men hell-bent on wreaking havoc. It is not a cell of terrorists scheming ways to detonate buildings. True resistance is a culture. It is a collective retort to oppression."  |
| The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle – Book Review Posted: 21 Jul 2010 06:28 PM PDT
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| Posted: 21 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  The Order of Mates celebrated beside Sydney Harbour the other day. This is a venerable masonry in Australian political life that unites the Labor Party with the rich elite known as the big end of town. They shake hands, not hug, though the Silver Bodgie now hugs. In his prime, the Silver Bodgie, aka Bob Hawke or Hawkie, wore suits that shone, wide-bottomed trousers and shirts with the buttons undone. A bodgie was a Australian version of the 1950s English Teddy Boy and Hawke's thick grey-black coiffure added inches to his abbreviated stature.  |
| Posted: 21 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  Those who are agonizing over whether Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri was a double agent or just an agent or whether he was kidnapped or a defector are really missing the point. Amiri was just a small cog in the Greatest Show on Earth, the $100 billion a year US intelligence community. United States intelligence is a huge and expensive bureaucracy and the information it produces must be consumed even when it does not necessarily make Americans safer. More important than that, it is a product that must have enough bells and whistles to impress Congress, the media, and the White House to keep the money flowing. What that all translates to is that every success, no matter how minor or even debatable, must be spun and promoted to the fullest while every failure must be concealed. The tendency to do so is not unique to the intelligence community and one has only to look at the military's contrived narratives relating to Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch, both of which were completely fictitious but supportive of a tale of heroism and self-sacrifice that the Pentagon was promoting.  |
| UN Chief Dilly-Dallying on Panel to Probe Israeli Killings? Posted: 21 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  When the Security Council condemned the killings by Israeli military forces of nine Turkish civilians on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last May, it also released a presidential statement "taking note" of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's proposal for an international investigation of the incident. But nearly two months later there are no signs of the proposed "prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation."  |
| Wednesday: 16 Iraqis Killed, 32 Wounded Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:46 AM PDT  At least 16 Iraqis were killed 32 more were wounded in various attacks across the country. The worst violence collapsed a building in Diyala province, which has suffered several attacks in the last few days. Six people were killed and 14 more were wounded during a car bombing in Abu Saida. The blast occurred near a mosque and brought down a residential building.  |
| Wednesday: 40 Iraqis, 1 US Soldier Killed; 64 Iraqis Wounded Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:46 AM PDT Updated at 8:24 p.m. EDT, July 21, 2010 At least 40 Iraqis were killed 64 more were wounded in various attacks across the country. The worst violence collapsed a building in Diyala province, which has suffered several attacks in the last few days. A U.S. soldier was also killed in Diyala when a roadside bomb blated his vehicle. Meanwhile, Deputy U.K. Prime Minister Nick Clegg called the 2003 invasion of Iraq illegal. Also, five U.S. governors revealed their secret trip to Iraq.  |
| "You're Going to Be on Glenn Beck Tonight...." Posted: 20 Jul 2010 11:43 PM PDT  We've had some back and forths on Glenn Beck, but stories like this give him a soft spot in my heart. A fuzzy video of an Agriculture Department official opened a new front Tuesday in the ongoing war between the left and right over which side is at fault for stoking persistent forces of racism in politics.  |
| Talking peace in the Philippines Posted: 20 Jul 2010 10:17 PM PDT  Benigno Aquino III, the newly-installed president of the Philippines, won the office by the largest plurality in the nation's history. Perceived as a lacklustre senator for years, the son of the nation's two icons of democracy now has Filipinos believing that he may just be able to work miracles.  |
| Palestinian Children Under Occupation Posted: 20 Jul 2010 09:56 PM PDT The Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations is a Beirut, Lebanon-based organization engaged in "strategic and futuristic studies on the Arab and Muslim worlds, (emphasizing) the Palestinian issue." In July 2010, it published the latest in its "Am I Not a Human?" series titled, "The Suffering of the Palestinian Child under the Israeli Occupation," saying: Palestinian children grow up "under the Israeli occupation, surrounded by cruelty, oppression, killing, starvation and destruction." Yet, like all children, they dream of playing and living normally and safely. Instead, their father may be dead or in prison, their brother killed, their home destroyed, and their mother forced to give birth at an Israeli checkpoint, risking her and the newborn.
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| The story of a people's resistance told in "Budrus" Posted: 20 Jul 2010 09:45 PM PDT
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| Challenging the Jewish National Fund Posted: 20 Jul 2010 09:31 PM PDT
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| India's Israeli-Arab tightrope walk Posted: 20 Jul 2010 07:59 PM PDT  India and Israel were born within months of each other. While the former became an independent state on August 15, 1947, the latter was born on May 14, 1948, following the decision of the United Nations to partition British Mandate Palestine. India, which had opposed this partition, remained officially cold to the Jewish state. In May 1949, it voted (in vain) against the admission of Israel into the UN. In early 1950, after recognising the state of Israel, a visibly reluctant New Delhi allowed it to set up an "immigration office" in the port city of Mumbai. This eventually morphed into a "trade office" and then into a consulate.  |
| One-State Debate Explodes Myth about Zionist Left Posted: 20 Jul 2010 07:27 PM PDT  A fascinating debate is entering Israel's political mainstream on a once-taboo subject: the establishment of a single state as a resolution of the conflict, one in which Jews and Palestinians might potentially live as equal citizens. Surprisingly, those advocating such a solution are to be found chiefly on Israel's political right.  |
| Palestinian Chef Finds Occupation Hard to Digest Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  Nasser Abdulhadi is a mild-mannered man who runs a restaurant. He was always known as the jovial sort. One day, his friends say, he stopped being jovial. He chose instead to fight for a world title for one of his country's national dishes, and through that to gain worldwide recognition for Palestine. Nasser's campaign began when he heard from a friend who had flown in from the U.S. that the Israeli national airline, El Al, had served mosakhen, a dish made of bread, chicken, and onion spiced with purple sumac, as an "Israeli national dish."  |
| One-State Debate Explodes Myth About Zionist Left Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  A fascinating debate is entering Israel's political mainstream on a once-taboo subject: the establishment of a single state as a resolution of the conflict, one in which Jews and Palestinians might potentially live as equal citizens. Surprisingly, those advocating such a solution are to be found chiefly on Israel's political Right. The debate, which challenges the current orthodoxy of a two-state future, is rapidly exploding traditional conceptions about the Zionist Right and Left.  |
| Ending the Gaza Blockade Might Help Israel as Much as Gaza Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  In the wake of Israel's botched attack on a Turkish ship bringing relief to Gazans from Israel's (and Egypt's) economic blockade of Gaza, the Israelis have responded to intensely negative world opinion by relaxing the blockade. That move may help Israel as much as Gazans. Ending the counterproductive economic embargo and blockade would help both parties even more. Israel is now letting more goods flow into Gaza, but the blockade was surprisingly porous to begin with. When economic sanctions (prohibitions on imports, exports, financial transactions, or movements of people) are imposed, the economic pain often dissipates over time because prices get bid up, thus creating big profits for smuggling. However, when such sanctions are enforced physically with a naval blockade and border closings (a land blockade), one would expect less attenuation of pain over time.  |
| Posted: 20 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  Many years ago I read a science fiction story in which earthmen are conducting a war against a primitive people in a far distant star system: the natives, while less developed than their Terran overlords, were putting up quite a fight, and the colonizers, in an effort to stamp out the insurgency, launched an effort to utilize their chief advantage – high technology – and finally crush the enemy, which was armed with little more than bows and arrows. The story details the invention of one super-weapon after another: mobilizing all their vast scientific and financial reserves, Terran scientists make breakthrough after breakthrough in an astonishing and continually ascending arc of accelerated technological development: an invisibility cloak, a weapon that reads the mind of the enemy, and other wonders of the science fictional imagination, which are wheeled out, one after the other – alas, to no avail.  |
| Holy Land 5 case reveals double standard in enforcement of US law Posted: 20 Jul 2010 12:11 PM PDT
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| Posted: 20 Jul 2010 05:59 AM PDT
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| Tuesday: 11 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Killed; 32 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Wounded Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:58 AM PDT As the British inquiry into the Iraq war revealed new insights into the internal machinations behind the invasion, violence soldiered on back in Iraq. At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 32 more wounded in various attacks. Five Iranians also died and five more were wounded in an attack on pilgrims. More casualties also resulted from the guerilla war between Turkey and PKK rebels. The former head of Britain's M15 spy agency, Eliza Manningham-Buller, testified at the (Chilcot) Iraq war inquiry that there was no credible evidence linking Iraq to the 9/11 attacks, but elements in the U.S. government, particularly then-U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, created alternative intelligence to spur on the war. She added that the war subsequently "radicalized" British youths and actually raised the threat of terror in Great Britain. The threat of blowback was eventually realized in the 7/7 bombings. British operations ended in Iraq last year, but soldiers remain in Afghanistan, where Prime Minister David Cameron and his predecessor Gordon Brown insist the troops help reduce the potential of attacks in the United Kingdom.  |
| Tuesday: 12 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Killed; 38 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Wounded Posted: 20 Jul 2010 04:58 AM PDT Updated at 9:01 p.m. EDT, July, 20, 2010 As the British inquiry into the Iraq war revealed new insights into the internal machinations behind the invasion, violence soldiered on in Iraq. At least 12 Iraqis were killed and 38 more wounded in various attacks. Five Iranians also died and five more were wounded in an attack on pilgrims. More casualties also resulted from the guerilla war between Turkey and PKK rebels. Meanwhile, a meeting between Ayad Allawi and Nouri al-Maliki, leading contenders to be the next prime minister, did not end in success.  |
| Obama's Costly Appeasement of Israelis Posted: 19 Jul 2010 07:39 PM PDT  It was a session replete with superlatives when the assistant secretary of state for political and military affairs, Andrew J. Shapiro, spelled out in unprecedented detail the Obama administration's approach to U.S.-Israel security cooperation, reassuring the Israelis of "preserving (their country's) qualitative military edge."
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| Analyst: Israel's Next War Could Be Lebanon Posted: 19 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  While speculation over a possible Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities intensifies, at least one influential analyst is calling on Washington to focus more on the likelihood of a new war breaking out between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and how to prevent or contain it. In his eight-page "Contingency Planning Memorandum" released last week by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), retired U.S. ambassador Daniel Kurtzer argued that Israel was more likely than Hezbollah to initiative hostilities and that it could "also use a conflict with Hezbollah as the catalyst and cover for an attack against Iran's nuclear facilities."  |
| Sources: Amiri Told CIA Iran Has No Nuclear Bomb Program Posted: 19 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  Contrary to a news media narrative that Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri has provided intelligence on covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, CIA sources familiar with the Amiri case say he told his CIA handlers that there is no such Iranian nuclear weapons program, according to a former CIA officer. Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism official, told IPS that his sources are CIA officials with direct knowledge of the entire Amiri operation.  |
| Pavlov's Dogs of War Revisited Posted: 19 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT  Super Dave Petraeus, newly installed as top banana in the Bananastans*, is practicing the exploding-cigar kind of diplomacy Dick Cheney and his cabin boys perfected during the Li'l Bush regime. Following policies outlined by the neoconservative cabal in their September 2000 manifesto Rebuilding America's Defenses, Dick and the Destroyers' negotiations with Iran amounted to a bad practical joke. Making an unacceptable demand as a precondition to talks – namely that Iran give up its UN-guaranteed right to refine uranium for peaceful purposes – ensured that talks would never take place. When the Iranians refused to knuckle under to an outrageous demand, Team Cheney could say they tried diplomacy and it didn't work, and continue to press for war.  |
| Post-9/11 Militarism Helps BP, Hurts America Posted: 19 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT Down on the bayou, reporters and activists have been pulled over and questioned by British Petroleum security guards and local police because they might be "terrorists." Journalists have been kicked off public property, detained, harassed, and forced to hand over their photographs – and their Social Security numbers. They've been prevented from renting boats or flying below 3,000 feet over the coast. They've been threatened with arrest. It all sounds pretty In the Heat of the Night, but this goes way beyond the press butting up against powerful interests in the Gulf, or even the government and BP engaging in elaborate CYA message control. Look closer and witness the future. See how they get away with militarizing every law enforcement operation, every domestic emergency response situation, because for years Americans have allowed this creeping militarization to happen. In a post-9/11 world, every problem requires a military solution, and too often in these crises, the people are the problem.  |
| US voters can demand Palestine's freedom Posted: 19 Jul 2010 07:03 AM PDT
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| Monday: 1 British Contractor, 17 Iraqis Killed; 55 Iraqis Wounded Posted: 19 Jul 2010 06:49 AM PDT Updated at 7:50 p.m. EDT, July 19, 2010 An attack in northern Iraq killed one Briton and as many as three other foreign nationals. At least 17 Iraqis were killed and 55 more were wounded in that attack and in other violence across the country. Meanwhile, Ayad Allawi outlined his plans for the new government should he become the next prime minister. He also met with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who blamed Iraq's security woes on the United States, during a trip to Damascus.  |
| Fighting racism through sports Posted: 18 Jul 2010 11:45 PM PDT
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| Palestinians in Gaza denied PA passports Posted: 18 Jul 2010 10:51 PM PDT
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| Netanyahu: I Deceived US to Destroy Oslo Accords Posted: 18 Jul 2010 10:20 PM PDT
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| Open Letter to John Lydon: 'Rise' against Racism Posted: 18 Jul 2010 08:58 PM PDT  We are academics and students from Gaza representing more than 10 academic institutions therein. Our parents and grandparents are refugees who were expelled from their homes by the nascent Israeli army in the 1948 Nakba. We have since lived in the ghetto of the Gaza Strip refugee camps, like the more than 6 million Palestinian refugees all round the world. They still have their keys locked up in their closets and will pass them on to their children. UN resolution 194 guarantees our right to return our villages. Many of us have lost our fathers, some of us have lost our mothers, and some of us lost both in the last Israeli aggression against civilians in Gaza.  |
| Vanishing Jaffa: The Forgotten History of Andromeda Posted: 17 Jul 2010 08:48 PM PDT  On June 14, 2010, hundreds of Orthodox Jewish protestors took to the streets in Jaffa to riot against what they see as a "desecration of Jewish grave sites" in the luxury housing project in Jaffa, known as the Andromeda Hill. Reporting the event, the Israeli media turned it religious-secular Jewish conflict, or in simple words, a Jewish-Jewish conflict.  |
To what extent should a government intervene in economies? Is the Obama administration interventionist? And in an election year to what extent is the move politically motivated?
Is al-Shabab taking its fight beyond Somalia and into the Horn of Africa and does it pose a regional threat?
Most Palestinians, Arabs and their sympathizers know all too well that turning Palestine into Israel involved a truckload of falsification, but few know the extent and detail of the deception, or the full spectrum of the lived history that was submerged in the process. In "Hidden Histories," Jerusalemite Basem L. Ra'ad takes the reader on a time and space travel that shuttles between the ancient Cana'anite civilization and occupied Palestine today, affirming the demographic and cultural continuity of the Eastern Mediterranean over successive millennia.
Israel is an amazing place as one puts together the implications from Start-Up Nation. It is a fount of free enterprise can-do entrepreneurial spirit. There are no resistances, although something called an Intifada concerned the authors somewhat, without being specified as to what it is/was. There are no freedom fighters nor insurgents, no guerrillas nor rebellions. For that matter there are no Palestinians as the word has been expunged from the authors' vocabulary completely (unless it was in a boring anecdotal section that I skim read and missed - not likely). Israel, except for a few wandering Arabs, was "largely a barren wasteland."
Event-based storytelling is an infamous form most prominent in the science fiction sub-genre of the Space Opera. The main failing of the style is the general inability of event progression to effectively substitute for character development. Budrus is an event-based story without all but the most minimal character development, yet it still succeeds by compellingly capturing a moment. Director Julia Bacha combines conventional point-and-shoot with in situ interviews, beautiful and sometimes chaotic footage of protests, maps, graphics and a bit of expository text to piece together a lovely film exploring the evolution of the West Bank village of Budrus' resistance to Israel's wall, and its reclaiming of its destiny.
For anyone taking a road trip along the highways of the part of Palestine that became Israel in 1948, one is bound to spot a blue and green structure in the shape of a bird marked with the Hebrew letters KKL, which stands for Keren Kayemeth L'Yisrael, the Hebrew name of the Israeli branch of the Jewish National Fund (JNF). All around the bird one will see expanses of forests planted sometime in the past few decades. A walk through one of these forests will take the visitor past fruit trees, cactus plants, terraced hillsides and the ruins of buildings. In some cases, these ruins are explained in a JNF brochure pointing to their ancient history; in other cases, one is left to the devices of one's imagination. In all cases, these sites are what remains of some of the more than 500 villages depopulated and destroyed through the course of Israel's establishment, the homes of millions of Palestinian refugees struggling to return to them for more than 60 years. By walking through a JNF park or forest, one inhales the fresh smell of the greenwashing of Palestine's Nakba.
"I had no intention in my mind and my heart but to help the Palestinian indigenous people who are and have been facing unusual economic distress ... nothing in my life was as satisfactory and as self-fulfilling as knowing that I could sign a check. It is the only evidence you have against me, signing the check."
The action that we recently undertook on the terrain of the old Warsaw Ghetto -- to spray the words "Liberate all ghettos" in Hebrew and "Free Gaza and Palestine" in English -- has been used by some commentators in Israel and the Jewish community in Poland to accuse us of anti-Semitism.
In response to Israel's deadly attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla, more than 800 labor and community activists picketed America's sixth largest port in Oakland last month. The result was a historic blockade of a large Israeli cargo ship for 24 hours. Across the world, dockworkers and activists engaged in similar actions. In Sweden, the Dockworkers Union completed a week-long boycott of Israeli ships and containers, resulting in the blocking of 500 tons of goods to and from Israel.
Halla Shoaibi stood behind a table overlooking the basketball court at Ramallah's Sarriyet sports complex. "Ready!" she shouted, setting one minute on the clock overhead. A whistle blows, and a Palestinian teenager takes his mark just beneath the basket shooting as many lay-ups as he can before the horn sounds. 
Nidal Abdo lives in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Four years ago he was at a friend's house in the nearby al-Bureij refugee camp when Israeli tanks moved in. When Abdo tried to escape the area, Israeli soldiers shot him in his left foot. Due to the injury, Abdo still can't walk or stand for long periods of time. He needs a metal rod inserted into his foot and because the surgery can't be performed in Gaza, his doctors have referred him abroad.
There is one video Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, must be praying never gets posted on YouTube with English subtitles. To date, the 10-minute segment has been broadcast only in Hebrew on Israel's Channel 10. 
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