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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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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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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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By Eileen Fleming On Saturday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to thank the U.S. for blocking a decision that would task the UN secretary general with convening an international conference on making the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone by March 2016. U.S. Under Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller…
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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…
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…
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…
Do Arabs in the Middle East and Arab World have an apathetic attitude towards life and the pursuit of happiness? The growing problem of litter throughout is one sign they don’t care much about their societies at all By Abdennour Toumi Ankara, Turkey — Spring is here! It brings the aroma of fresh flowers, mowed grass and…
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…
By Eileen Fleming [East Jerusalem, Israel] Today Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu marked the first day into his twelfth year of open-air captivity after 18 years behind bars writing Update #18 to the Petition to World Media and Israel We are not free until Vanunu is FREE: April 21-2004-2015,Vanunu waiting for freedom NOW to leave…
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On Wednesday The National Security Archive of George Washington University published documents corroborating much of what Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu has been saying for twenty-nine years. The documents detail the discovery of Israel’s nuclear deceptions, debates over Israel’s lack of candor and efforts to pressure the Israelis to answer key questions about the…
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By Eileen Fleming Last week on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, US Sen. Elizabeth Warren talked about government corruption and how the power of one in solidarity with people of like mind can change government policy. The Democrat from Massachusetts represents one of the largest and most influential Jewish communities in the country. American…
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When the West created the Arab States after their colonization and occupation of the Middle East region after World War I, did they abandon their promises of implementing Democracies? Today’s Arab countries are not Democratic and have never been in a large part because of the failures of the Democratic West. By Abdennour Toumi Ankara, Turkey…
