Mayor to raise funds for E. J’lem Arabs to block Hamas

Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski is planning to enlist world Jewry in a fund-raising drive for East Jerusalem’s Arabs, in a bid to counter Hamas influence in local schools. The money will be used mainly for educational projects in the east of the capital, where an acute classroom shortage means many pupils end up in schools [...]

What is a Crime Against Humanity?

 
How would Israel and USA do in  any Crime Against Humanity rating??
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Leaders respond to Gaza assault

Miliband has urged restraint [EPA]
Israel has been pounding the Hamas-run Gaza Strip for the past five days, leaving more than 100 people dead.

The international community, led by the US and the UK, has voiced concern and urged both sides to step back from the brink to ensure the peace process is not derailed.

Below are some [...]

The first time I was called a self-hating Jew

he first person to call me a self-hating Jew was my father. It was in the autumn of 1967. Dad was 39, a successful businessman who was also, along with my mother, active in the US civil rights and anti-war movements. I was the oldest of his five children and had already, at age 14, [...]

Israeli diplomat postpones meeting after Costa Rica recognizes Palestinian state

“We would like to express our disappointment over this regretful decision of the government of Costa Rica to establish full diplomatic relations with the ’state of Palestine,’” Mekel said. “This act of Costa Rica totally contradicts the traditional friendship that characterized its relations with Israel since its establishment.
Stagno said Costa Rica had hoped to encourage [...]

Anti-Zionism as a form of racism

It has been a staple of public discourse for decades, that those who criticize Israel specifically because they love the country and believe in the more lofty and challenging and just of its ideals, are routinely pilloried for it, berated by rightists as self-haters and anti-Semites and destroyers of Zionism.  Now meet a refreshing new [...]

Palestine in the Mind of America

You would think that showing maps clearly delineating the truncated, obviously non-viable area available for a possible Palestinian state and showing pictures that define Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories would have some kind of impact on an audience of astute but, on this issue, generally uninformed Americans. We recently spoke to a small foreign affairs [...]

Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State

Like the rest of the Baby-Boom Generation, author and activist Norman Solomon, grew up in a nation of dazzling progress and ominous shadows. In Made Love, Got War he traces five decades of American politics and culture to dramatize a set of disturbing trends in American public life–most notably warfare abroad and acquiescence at home. [...]

IDF says two Palestinian children killed by Gaza border fence were laying bombs + PLO: 44 Citizens Slain during Last October by IOF

srael Defense Forces troops on Friday afternoon shot dead two Palestinian children, aged 11 and 13, close to the ruins of the former Israeli settlement of Dugit, in the northern Gaza Strip.
An IDF spokeswoman said the two children and another 16-year-old were trying to place a bomb near the border fence, claiming that it [...]

Inside Israel’s Military Courts - The First Nation to Legalize Torture

Should the United States, seeking to recalibrate the balance between security and liberty in the “war on terror,” emulate Israel in its treatment of Palestinian detainees?
That is the position that Guantanamo detainee lawyers Avi Stadler and John Chandler of Atlanta, and some others, have advocated. That people in U.S. custody could be held incommunicado for [...]