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Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner can do the right thing and support Middle East peace by rejecting a bill sponsored by pro-Israel activist Il Rep. Sara Feigenholtz and urge the Illinois General Assembly to support peace based on Two-States, non-violence and the respect of human rights. Rauner can also take a strong stand to defend the…
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The results of a comprehensive report prepared by the Euromid Observer for Human Rights about the repercussions of the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, which enters its ninth year next June By Mohammed Asad It has been nine months since Israel agreed to a ceasefire that ended its third and most massive military…
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By Eileen Fleming Forty-eight years after Israel’s attack, survivor and President of the USS LIBERTY Veterans Association, Ernie Gallo is no longer waiting for an act of congress; but is leading others to get Congress to act. On Monday Gallo’s following Letter was hand-delivered to the Orlando offices of Senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio….
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Jordanian Military court accuses Journalist of undermining country By Ali Younes He was designated by the military prosecutor as a “special case” and “very dangerous criminal” thus he was led in and out court with his hands tied behind his back, his legs,neck and waist shackled in iron making him looking like the movie character…
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By Jafar M Ramini These are very difficult times for us. We Palestinians are going through an emotional upheaval that stirs our hearts and squeezes our tear ducts. For it was on May 15th 1948 that the Jewish terrorist armies attacked many villages and towns in Palestine destroying over 600 of them and driving around…
Intel, the multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, is being pressed to sign the Holy Land Principles— a corporate code of conduct for American companies doing business in Israel-Palestine. The 8-point set of Principles is based on the Mac Bride Principles that have proven so effective in Northern Ireland. Fr. Sean Mc Manus, originally…
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By Eileen Fleming On Wednesday The Vatican concluded its first treaty that formally recognized the State of Palestine. The treaty signals that the Holy See has switched its diplomatic recognition from the Palestine Liberation Organization to the State of Palestine and it concerns the activities of the Catholic Church in Palestinian territory. As of…
Supporters of the foreign government of Israel are using their influence in local governments to bully and intimidate and label critics of Israel as “anti-Semitic,” introducing laws that undermine the American Constitutional right of free speech of Americans who challenge Israel’s extremist policies that oppress Christian and Muslims in Israel and in the Occupied West Bank…
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Last week, former President Jimmy Carter traveled to Israel and Palestine but was rebuffed by Israeli leaders. Carter, who ushered in the peace process in the 1970s that Israel has since turned into a circus of rejection, doesn’t want to be reminded that peace requires it to end its war crimes and to compromise by returning Palestinian…
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By Eileen Fleming Ernest A. Gallo ‘retired’ from the CIA to Florida and became an activist and author of LIBERTY INJUSTICES: A Survivor’s Account of American Bigotry Since 2002 Gallo has served as the Chairman and Liberty Foundation President of the USS liberty Veterans Association and travels extensively to ignite fires in his listeners…
Increasingly, Dubai is demonstrating how profit and greed can overcome principle and justice, opening its doors without a whimper or a protest to allow Caterpillar, a company with a 60 year history of supporting Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes, lands and lives to establish a base there. Caterpillar announced this week that it is building a…
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At least two dozen wives of Palestinian political detainees held in Israel’s gulag of concentration camps and detention centers have had babies from their husbands’ sperm smuggled out of the brutal system which has been condemned with using torture. By Mohammed Asad The wives of Palestinian detainees in Israel’s large gulag detention system carry their babies who were born using…
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By Eileen Fleming On Thursday Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu reported: May 7.2015 The latest news in my case, the Freedom again was postponed. The freedom we are waiting for, it did not come, and instead, I got the renew of restrictions, for the 12th year since 2004. Paying a libel suit to the Israel…
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By Eileen Fleming The genesis of Mother’s Day in the U.S.A. began with Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker who organized for a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community. Fifteen years later, Julia Ward Howe, a Boston poet, pacifist, suffragist, and author of the lyrics to the “Battle Hymn of…
Al-Jazeera America has faced one major political hurdle after another as it tries to break through the politically motivated bias that dominates the often biased and racist mainstream American news media which prioritizes pro-Israel news above facts. Now, the allegations of one obscure employee is being used to challenge the professionalism of the news organization which provides the…
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Jordan River Valley and Great Lakes Region Linked through Sister Waters Agreement coordinated through the Sister Cities Program and Midwest and Middle East municipal mayors Mayors and city officials from across the Great Lakes and the Jordan River Valley signed a pioneering agreement this month linking their communities through a “Sister Waters” partnership. In October…
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By Eileen Fleming (Washington/New York)—On Monday Iran led the call by non-aligned nations for Israel to give up its nuclear weapons as the 2015 NPT Review Conference got underway. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted that the 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is demanding that “Israel, the only one in the region that has neither…
Pro-Israel activists and elected officials who put a foreign country’s interests before the interests of Americans are behind a widespread campaign to extend an Israeli law that could jail any Israeli who criticizes Israel or advocates a boycott of Israel to now include Americans. The Israeli law, approved in 2011, and the American laws are based…
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