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Heroes, Muses, Jon Stewart and Mordechai Vanunu

Posted on July 26, 2015April 13, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Heroes, Muses, Jon Stewart and Mordechai Vanunu
Heroes, Muses, Jon Stewart and Mordechai Vanunu

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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Iran Deal and the Real Deal: Israel’s WMD and AIPAC

Posted on July 17, 2015June 12, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Iran Deal and the Real Deal: Israel’s WMD and AIPAC
Iran Deal and the Real Deal: Israel’s WMD and AIPAC

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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Michael Oren’s hate campaign against Obama, peace

Posted on July 7, 2015September 24, 2018 By rayhanania No Comments on Michael Oren’s hate campaign against Obama, peace

Former Israel Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, is the point person in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hate campaign against President Barack Obama, and against the movement to bring peace. Oren’s attacks are a sophisticated strategy to broaden the assault against both Obama and peace, and cast critics of Israel’s extremist policies as “anti-Semites”…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Editors Picks, Israel, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania

Calling for American Revolution II

Posted on July 2, 2015April 9, 2016 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Calling for American Revolution II
Calling for American Revolution II

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…

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Obama hosts Iftar in honor of Ramadan

Posted on June 23, 2015June 23, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Obama hosts Iftar in honor of Ramadan

President Obama hosted his annual Iftar dinner, a tradition at the White House originally started under the administration of former President Bill Clinton and organized by then First Lady Hillary Clinton. The guest list was inclusive and consisted of representatives of several American Muslim communities and also the diplomatic corp representing Islamic nations including those…

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Ambassadors for Peace and Divisiveness: Nasr and Oren




Posted on June 19, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Ambassadors for Peace and Divisiveness: Nasr and Oren




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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Netanyahu thanks U.S. for blocking a Nuclear Weapons Free Middle East

Posted on May 24, 2015 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on Netanyahu thanks U.S. for blocking a Nuclear Weapons Free Middle East

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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Heated Rhetoric at 2015 NPT Review Conference

Posted on April 28, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Heated Rhetoric at 2015 NPT Review Conference

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…

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U.S. Documents Corroborate Mordechai Vanunu RE: Israeli WMD

Posted on April 17, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 7 Comments on U.S. Documents Corroborate Mordechai Vanunu RE: Israeli WMD

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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Time to Control Israel’s Nuclear Hypocrisies

Posted on April 13, 2015September 24, 2018 By rayhanania 2 Comments on Time to Control Israel’s Nuclear Hypocrisies

Time to Control Israel’s Nuclear Hypocrisies Israel is doing everything it can to undermine any deal on nuclear energy with Iran, not to make the world safer but to preserve its hegemony in the world. Conflict is the engine that sustains and drives today’s Israel, which is governed by extremists and fanatics who thrive in…

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Israel continues violence and land theft at Bil’in

Posted on March 26, 2015March 26, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Israel continues violence and land theft at Bil’in

The Government of Israel continues to destroy lands owned by Palestinian farmers and villagers along the green line, built a wall to separate the village of Bil’in from their rightful lands, and even arrested, imprisoned, shot and killed their residents to prevent Palestinians from protesting Israel’s actions. But justice trumps evil and Israel’s Jewish-only nature will lose By Ray…

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Tunisia: From Arab Spring to ISO String

Posted on March 23, 2015September 24, 2018 By Abdennour Toumi No Comments on Tunisia: From Arab Spring to ISO String

By Abdennour Toumi Ankara, Turkey — The Bardo Museum massacre shocked Tunisians who thought they were safe from ISO dystopia. Years ago a dynamic change took place in the streets of Tunisia that launched a concerted struggle that is still taking place, whether in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt or Yemen.  But this change is obstructed by solid…

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Racism plays hard in Israeli elections

Posted on March 19, 2015March 19, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Racism plays hard in Israeli elections

Netanyahu’s party took the most seats in the Israeli Knesset election by using a last minute racist push that is similar to the efforts to prevent Blacks from winning office in America. But the key is while Obama and Europe have stood up to Netanyahu’s racism and Apartheid-like policies, where is the Arab World to stand…

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US Israel Nuclear Entanglements and Occupation of Palestine #FreeVanunu #FreePalestine

Posted on March 18, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on US Israel Nuclear Entanglements and Occupation of Palestine #FreeVanunu #FreePalestine

By Eileen Fleming Decades of US Israel nuclear entanglements and occupation of Palestine have reaped a tangled mass impeding movement. Once anyone or thing is entangled; extrication does not come easily but is possible. From Jerusalem on Monday, The New York Times reported, Netanyahu Says No to Statehood for Palestinians…Mr. Netanyahu’s chief challenger, Isaac Herzog of…

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Obama names Rob Malley as special adviser

Posted on March 10, 2015March 10, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Obama names Rob Malley as special adviser

Obama names prominent Middle East diplomat Rob Malley as the Special Assistant to Middle East, North African and Gulf Region. The appointment was immediately attacked by pro-Israel extremist groups led by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), a group with a history of racist anti-Arab bashing that represents the interests of a foreign country, Israel. (Updated)…

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Responding to Netanyahu and The New York Times Re: Vanunu, Israel’s WMD and Occupation Palestine

Posted on March 4, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Responding to Netanyahu and The New York Times Re: Vanunu, Israel’s WMD and Occupation Palestine

By Eileen Fleming On Wednesday Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower marked the 7th anniversary of the establishment of his YouTube Channel: Vanunu Mordechai   Joined Mar 4, 2008-Mar-4-2015.and my words still very clear and strong,without any answers,still waiting to real freedom.freedom of speech and freedom of movements,from this the only Non democracy state in the middl east…

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Congress and Media must address Israel’s WMD and State Torture of Vanunu

Posted on February 28, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Congress and Media must address Israel’s WMD and State Torture of Vanunu

By Eileen Fleming   President Obama’s timely declassification of this 1987 report on Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Aljazeera’s SPY CABLES  must be the final straw to force USA Media and Congress to end their cooperation in Israel’s Nuclear Deceptions and State torture of Mordechai Vanunu. This Tuesday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address Congress…

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Bias of American mainstream news media on Israel and Iran

Posted on February 23, 2015February 25, 2015 By rayhanania No Comments on Bias of American mainstream news media on Israel and Iran
Bias of American mainstream news media on Israel and Iran

You can better appreciate the bias of the mainstream American news media when you look closely at the issue of Israel, Iran and Nuclear weapons. No country has been more violent than Israel and yet Israel wants you to look closely at Iran. And while Israel wants the world to closely scrutinize Iran’s nuclear ambitions,…

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