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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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Holy Land Principles steps up pressure for Fall vote

June 30, 2015June 30, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Having gained the magic 3% of the vote for its Resolution at GE and Intel, Holy Land Principles Inc. is giving concentrated attention to Cisco. The giant high tech company will have its annual meeting in the Fall, when Holy Land Principles, Inc. will present its Resolution, urging Cisco to sign the Holy Land Principles….

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A home denied: the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine

June 28, 2015July 3, 2015 Jafar Ramini 1 Comment

A home denied. Looking back at the truth of Zionism and its leaders in ethnically cleansing Christian and Muslims from Palestine to create their exclusive state, Israel. By Jafar M. Ramini They came uninvited. The Zionist zealots arrived on our shores with the Bible in one hand and a machine gun in the other. They…

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Photos: Palestinians show support for Freedom Flotilla

June 26, 2015June 26, 2015 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Photo Array of Palestinians showing support for Freedom Flotilla. Palestinian children, who were targeted by Israeli soldiers during the Gaza War in the summer of 2014, carry signs and show support for the newest Freedom Flotilla seeking to break the oppressive blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Israel blockade prevents basic food and other essentials from…

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Solidarity Hunger Strikes Continue in Tampa, FL for Khader Adnan

June 22, 2015June 22, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Solidarity Hunger Strikes Continue in Tampa, FL for Khader Adnan By Dezeray Lyn Several organizers of a BDS group in Tampa continue hunger striking as mass action is planned this week at the Red Cross building in Tampa in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners. In a Tampa courtroom today, a Palestine solidarity activist made a statement on…

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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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Healing Israel Palestine Requires Truth, Justice and Forgiveness

June 15, 2015June 15, 2015 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

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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Global support grows for hunger striking Palestinian prisoner

June 13, 2015April 13, 2019 rayhanania 1 Comment

Global support for Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan grows as a Mass Solidarity Hunger Strike is organized to rally against Israeli civil rights violations and civilian abuses. Protestors target illegal policies of administrative detention and urge international support to free dissidents from Israel’s prison Gulag By Dezeray Lyn Members of the Palestine solidarity organization the International Women’s Peace…

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Peace in Israel, Palestine doesn’t come by building walls

June 13, 2015September 29, 2018 rayhanania 1 Comment

To normalize or not to normalize. How much is too much or too little? There is an in between called compromise.It’s clear that the direction most Israelis and Palestinians are headed is away from peace and actions that might help end the conflict. When the brutality of the Israeli occupation increases, the thought of reaching…

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USS Liberty Survivor Onboard with FREEDOM Flotilla

June 12, 2015June 12, 2015 USS_Liberty Info 3 Comments

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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Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11

June 11, 2015June 12, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Book Release: Former Saudi Ambassador Robert W. Jordan published a new book Desert Diplomat on Saudi Arabia after 9/11. An inside look at US-Saudi diplomacy at a crucial time in American history In the spring of 2001 George W. Bush selected Dallas attorney Robert W. Jordan as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia. After the attacks…

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World sees Israel’s brutality in Occupied Palestine

June 11, 2015September 29, 2018 Mohammed Asad No Comments

Palestinian artists are helping to send the message that reminds Israel that the World sees Israel’s brutality, its destruction and the human trauma Israel has created in the Gaza Strip. A new generation of Palestine children see Israel for what it really is By Mohammed Asad The artwork of several foreign and local activists/artists who draw…

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How Silverstein and Feigenholtz Strengthen Extremism and Violence

June 11, 2015June 13, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Instead of introducing a law to urge Israelis and Palestinians to make peace and avoid violence, Illinois Legislators State Sen. Ira Silverstein and State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz introduced a law to strip Americans of their Constitutional Rights of Free Speech and to defend Israel’s extremist policies including its discrimination against Christians and Muslims, the theft of civilian lands and…

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Two months in Palestine: A Snapshot of oppression

June 8, 2015June 8, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Activists spends two months in Palestine struggling against Israeli Apartheid policies to champion the rights of Palestinians, and sees Israeli oppression firsthand By Dezeray Lyn The wholesale occupation and pillaging of the West Bank and what is left of the Palestinian territories has been raging on now for 67 years. There are internationals filing into…

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Free Vanunu to Norway: International Intervention Required

June 6, 2015October 13, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

By Eileen Fleming On Wednesday Mordechai Vanunu wrote regarding this Norwegian media report translated by Google: Norway opening the door very slightly for asylum or emergency passport for the Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu. Minister Vidar Helgesen said ‘We would consider it.’ Helgesen said Norway had asked Israel to take humanitarian considerations in this matter,…

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Establishing USS LIBERTY Remembrance Day Despite Congress

June 4, 2015October 13, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

By Eileen Fleming On Monday at Arlington National Cemetery Congressional Representatives will again be MIA at the annual honoring of the USS LIBERTY; However growing numbers of supporters will be there in body or spirit for the 48th year the survivors remember that day in infamy when Israel attacked their lightly armed spy ship…

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Bassiouni under attack from extremists who hate Israel, peace & moderates

May 29, 2015September 29, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

No one has done more than Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni to help educate Americans on the just cause of the Palestinian people, and in recent years on confronting the distorted stereotypes against Islam. One of the world’s preeminent lawyers, Bassiouni has fought for the rights of the weak regardless of their race or religion. Now he’s…

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Holy Land Principles focuses on CISCO

May 28, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

CISCO NOW FOCUS OF HOLY LAND PRINCIPLES: GE, CORNING & INTEL RESOLUTIONized Three major American companies doing business in Palestine/Israel – Israel/Palestine have now been served with Shareholder Resolutions on the Holy Land Principles— an 8-point corporate code of conduct. GE, Corning and Intel have all been “ RESOLUTIONized.” Fr. Sean Mc Manus— President of the…

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