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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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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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A new poll by the Dubai-based Public Relations firm Asda’a-Burson Marsteller shows that Youth in the Arab World are wary of the rise of ISIS and the failure of the “Arab Spring,” but see a future driven by the Gulf State including Saudi Arabia and recognize the continued injustices of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. By Ray…
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Israelis insist that Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East. But what kind of Democracy is a country that discriminates against people based on race and religion and continually reinforces that discrimination? More importantly, what kind of people live in an apartheid-like country and pretends that they do not discriminate? By Ray Hanania For years, I always avoided…
By Eileen Fleming [Orlando, Fl.] Bob Dylan rolls through my territory this Sunday marking my first event at Walt Disney Theater’s Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and Dylan’s 27th year of his Never Ending Tour. From August 15, 2002 until April 19, 2012, Dylan was introduced at the beginning of every concert with…
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Shareholders Pressing GE and Corning to Adopt Principles to Ensure American Companies in Palestine-Israel Practice Fair Employment Shareholders concerned about fair employment by American companies in Palestine-Israel —especially national, racial, ethnic or religious minorities— will press two huge American corporations this month to adopt the Holy Land Principles to govern the way they treat their…
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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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Every year, Holy Land Christians commemorate many religious traditions, some of which may have been forgotten by many mainstream Christians in the West. But in Taybeh and in Jerusalem, Palestine, the traditions live on including this celebration of the annual Miracle of the Holy Fire By Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. Although I am in…
By Eileen Fleming On Palm Sunday 2015, Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu resurrected his Facebook and Causes connections which ended my Administrative duties over the last three years while Vanunu was on sabbatical from the WWW. Vanunu inherited 21,000+ supporters at what had been known as TNT/Telling Nuclear Truths which he re-christened “Mordechai vanunu”. Vanunu…
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By Eileen Fleming On Monday The New York Times broke the news that Trevor Noah will succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’ and quoted the 31-year-old South African, “I didn’t live a normal life – I grew up in a country that wasn’t normal.” Mr. Noah grew up in Soweto, the son of a…
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By Eileen Fleming Israel’s internal Security Agency is best known by the acronym Shabak or Shin Bet and is similar to the FBI. This report argues Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s cases of libel and extortion against them by way of definition: Libel is defamation by written words which becomes a criminal act when published. Extortion…
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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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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…
Photo Array: Practicing the traditions of the Christian religion in the birthplace of Christianity, Palestine, with some of the remaining Christians who survive the pressures of the Middle East conflict. Children taught to honor their religious history at celebration in Taybeh, Palestine. By Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. Today was a glorious celebration for the…
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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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Come celebrate the Taybeh Vinfest this weekend, Feb. 27-28, 2015, in Taybeh, Palestine. The festival will feature local and regional entertainment and art. By Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. The Taybeh Vinfest is a wine festival happening this weekend on 27- 28 February at the new Taybeh Winery in Palestine. It aims to introduce the new Palestinian…
A look back at the Oscars and the Academy Awards night from 1978 when Palestine and Israel clashed on stage for the first time. Here’s one of several columns I published over the years reflecting on that moment, this one published in 2006. By Ray Hanania A very special Oscars Night BY RAY HANANIA (Originally…
By Ray Hanania Civil rights activists from around the country are targeting a convention being held by RE/MAX Realty in Las Vegas beginning March 2 to protest their ongoing support of illegal Jewish-only settlements in occupied Palestine that discriminate against Christians and Muslims. The annual convention will bring RE/MAX representatives from around the world to…
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