Tag: Benjamin Netanyahu

Obama gives Civil Rights in Israel a hard push

July 1, 2015July 1, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

President Obama’s administration clearly attacked Israel’s extremists who insist that everything Israel does, including crimes, is good. While Obama does not support a boycott of Israel proper, the State Department issued a clarification reminding the world that it does not support the illegal settlements. The statement came out just as more American Christian Churches prepared to…

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Ambassadors for Peace and Divisiveness: Nasr and Oren   

June 19, 2015September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

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

May 24, 2015 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

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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Time to Control Israel’s Nuclear Hypocrisies

April 13, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania 2 Comments

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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Talking with Israeli journalists about Palestine-Israel

April 10, 2015April 10, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Over the past few weeks, I have interviewed several Israeli journalists as well as Palestinian journalists to examine the challenges facing Palestine-Israel peace. Two Israeli journalists I interviewed are Seth Frantzman, the Op-Ed editor of the Jerusalem Post, and Ricky Ben David, the News Editor of the Times of Israel. By Ray Hanania One of the…

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Arab and Israelis journalists analyze the Israeli elections

March 31, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Journalists Mohammed Najib based in Ramallah and Seth Frantzman offer their analysis of the March 17, 2015 Israeli elections and what they mean. Najib, a Palestinian based in Ramallah, Palestine, and Frantzman, an Israeli based in Jerusalem, each discuss what they believe is the significance of the elections, the potential outcomes and the surprise performance…

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Israel continues violence and land theft at Bil’in

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

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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Palestine Endgame: Confront Israel, peace not achieveable

March 22, 2015 Jafar Ramini 2 Comments

By Jafar M. Ramini It took the Zionists with all their money, political power and influence around the world over a century to steal Palestine from us, the legal owners. They used every trick and every guile in the book to convince the world that they were the only victims and they deserved all the…

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Racism plays hard in Israeli elections

March 19, 2015March 19, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

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

March 18, 2015September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

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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Zoabi seeks to force Israel to be a real Democracy

March 13, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Israeli Arab politician Haneen Zoabi is critical of Israel’s growing fanaticism, but she believes that Israel can be changed to become a true Democracy. Zoabi is one of five Israeli Arabs serving in the Knesset and leading the new Joint List which has brought together under one party list all of the major Israeli Arab political…

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

March 4, 2015September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

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

February 28, 2015September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

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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Principled US Rep Schakowsky opposes Netanyahu speech

February 25, 2015February 26, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

An Israel Supporter Who Won’t be at the Prime Minister’s Speech Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky explains why she cannot support or attend the speech planned by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to an unofficial joint session of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate WASHINGTON, DC/February 25, 2015 – “After much thought, I have made the decision…

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Bias of American mainstream news media on Israel and Iran

February 23, 2015February 25, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

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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Israel’s Supreme Court reinstates Haneen Zoabi candidacy

February 18, 2015February 18, 2015 rayhanania 4 Comments

By Ray Hanania Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overwhelming ruled that Palestinian member of the Knesset Haneen Zoabi has an absolute right to run for re-election, reversing the State’s election board which has been steadily embracing Apartheid-like policies against non-Jews in order to exclude them from the election process. Last week, the Central Election Committee…

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Radio Podcast: Alexandra Halaby on Chapel Hill, Kayla Mueller and more

February 16, 2015February 16, 2015 rayhanania 1 Comment

By Ray Hanania Talk of the Town Radio for Friday Feb. 13, 2015 features a discussion on the Chapel Hill shootings, the murder of American peace activists Kayla Mueller and the celebration of her killing by Israelis and American Jewish activists, and also remembering the killing by Israel of another American, Rachel Corrie. Guests include Alexandra…

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Netanyahu and Congress: Let’s Talk Israel’s Nukes @nytimes

February 11, 2015October 13, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

By Eileen Fleming On Monday at a Likud election rally in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignored the increasing congressional efforts to dissuade him from speaking before the U.S. Congress on March 3rd claiming: “A bad deal with Iran is forming in Munich that will endanger Israel’s existence. … Therefore I am determined…

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