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White House Correspondent Helen Thomas began her career with JFK and ended it under Obama. The Era of Trump calls to mind what Helen Thomas advised: “We should back up the president when he does the right thing and drop him when he doesn’t.” By Eileen Fleming President Obama held his first news conference in…
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Mother of Mother’s Day & Women’s March to Ban the Bomb Mother’s Peace Day was a call to all mothers to rally for Peace. Mother’s for Peace faded away after President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the day as Mother’s Day in 1914. Anna Jarvis is known as the “Mother of Mother’s Day” who fought against the “hordes of…
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Vanunu Mordechai breaks the news of his latest Supreme Court Appeal at TWITTER *FINAL UPDATE: On 10 May 2017, Vanunu tweeted Israel continues the restrictions against its nuclear whistle blower By Eileen Fleming UPDATE April 19: Vanunu tweeted, “Next news coming soon we will hear if they continue all the restrictions…” [April 21 marks 13…
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Rabbi is defined as a Jewish scholar or teacher. By Eileen Fleming Rabbi Evan Hoffman’s lecture Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Whistleblower, Traitor, Apostate streaming at The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTotah Online site is NOT scholarly; But it is a slanderous screed of Vanunu rife with erroneous historical facts. The YU Torah Online site is paid…
Jared Kushner became known as “the eyes and ears” of Donald Trump during the campaign and he is now expected to play a key role in efforts to bring peace to the Middle East. By Eileen Fleming Jared Kushner is the grandson of Holocaust survivors and he was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household. Trump’s…
On Thursday “in the land of the free and the home of the brave” Pope Francis addressed the World, challenged Congress and provoked America to break out of its cycle of rampant apathy fostered by politics, corporate interests and a media which encourages polarization on our one small world bleeding from hatred, greed, poverty, pollution…
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Writer and columnist Eileen Fleming sits down with The Arab Daily News to discuss her new eBook, “Heroes, Muses and the Saga of Mordechai Vananu.” Eileen’s ebook will be released this week on Kindle and speaks to the ongoing saga of the oppression of Vanunu by Israel’s government By Ray Hanania In this exclusive interview…
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Jon Stewart’s sixteen-year stint at The Daily Show ends on the 70th Anniversary of America’s Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. The still not free Mordechai Vanunu was kidnapped from Rome by Israel’s Mossad a few days before the British newspaper The Sunday Times ran a front page story under the headline: “Revealed: the secrets of Israel’s…
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This week AIPAC’s executive director, Howard Kohr ordered his staff to cancel their summer vacations in response to the Iran Deal which has been welcomed by the International community except for Israel. By Eileen Fleming On Monday, the U.N. Security Council is scheduled to vote on a resolution circulated to council members Wednesday…
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Last Tuesday in Toronto, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Israel’s former president Shimon Peres was in the house for a U2 concert. On the anniversary of Operation Protective Edge, Bono said, “We understand, president Peres, that you have tried to be a voice of reason and have dedicated a great part of your life –…
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The latest witch-hunt to discredit Alison Weir, [founder and executive director of If Americans Knew and president of the Council for the National Interest] is disgracing her attackers as it underscores the dire need to educate Americans: In particular our elected representatives regarding Israel’s attack on the USS LIBERTY; which this activist reporter contends is…
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In 2005, inspired by Jon Stewart, the Daily Show Correspondents, Brenda Starr, Dorothy Day and Mordechai Vanunu, my childhood dream of becoming a Reporter became reality. On Wednesday Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower wrote: Vanunu Mordechai is ready to leave israel for ever and ever,after 18 years prison+11years in east jerusalem.FreedomNow. Time come to start new Life,in…
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In her July 2nd declaration, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wrote Israeli-American businessman and donor Haim Saban, expressing “alarm” over BDS and affirming her dedication to always “stand up for Israel” if she becomes president. By Eileen Fleming In 2006, Dr. Ilan Pappe informed this reporter: When Zionism began in the 19th century it…
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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical…It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. – Thomas Jefferson, 1787 By Eileen Fleming On his tombstone, Thomas Jefferson expressed that he wanted to be remembered…
By Eileen Fleming Every day in Gaza at least one person attempts suicide. In the USA someone dies by suicide every 12.8 minutes. Last week the Palestine News Network reported that the suicide rate in the Occupied Territories jumped 68.4 percent last year. The Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, which was destroyed during last summer’s…
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By Eileen Fleming Israel’s former ambassador to Washington, USA born Michael Oren exemplifies the latter and Kameel Nasr from Lebanon and Boston the former. Oren served as Israel’s ambassador in Washington from 2009 to 2013 and is now a Knesset member in Israel’s center-right Kulanu party. Launching his new book “Ally: My Journey Across the…
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By Eileen Fleming Everything is connected and when it comes to Israel Palestine: America is deeply connected! The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.-Gandhi Forgiveness is the intentional and voluntary process by which a victim undergoes a change in feelings and attitude regarding an offense and lets go of negative…
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By Eileen Fleming USS LIBERTY survivor Joe Meadors is a former U.S. Navy signalman who exemplifies the USS Liberty Survivors’ Creed: I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength…
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