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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
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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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
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
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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Nadia Hilou: In praise of a brave Christian Palestinian woman

Posted on February 27, 2015March 2, 2015 By rayhanania 1 Comment on Nadia Hilou: In praise of a brave Christian Palestinian woman
Nadia Hilou: In praise of a brave Christian Palestinian woman

Nadia Hilou, a lone Arab-Israeli Christian voice for families and children, was vilified and attacked by extremists in the Arab community in the Middle East and in the United States because she dared to work for peace from inside the system. Hilou was the first Arab Christian woman to serve in the Knesset and as…

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Honoring USS Liberty’s Dr. Kiepfer and USS Liberty Vets

Posted on February 25, 2015March 31, 2017 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Honoring USS Liberty’s Dr. Kiepfer and USS Liberty Vets
Honoring USS Liberty’s Dr. Kiepfer and USS Liberty Vets

By Eileen Fleming   [Kerrville, Texas] USS Liberty’s lone physician, Dr. Richard Kiepfer, entered eternity last Friday from his home adorned with icons of St. Francis of Assisi. Kiepfer was the Chief Medical Officer and only physician on the USS Liberty during Israel’s brutal attack on America’s premier spy ship as it navigated in international…

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RX: ZX Money and Suicide #JimKaz #BigPharma

Posted on February 21, 2015September 29, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on RX: ZX Money and Suicide #JimKaz #BigPharma

By Eileen Fleming   It’s always about the money and so pharmaceutical companies eager to grab the attention of doctors and patients are using the letters X and Z in the naming of non-and highly addictive drugs. X branded drugs include prostate cancer treatment Xtandi, lung cancer drug Xalkori, and Xgeva for cancer that has…

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Suicide Prevention: Break the Silence #JimKaz

Posted on February 18, 2015January 9, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Suicide Prevention: Break the Silence #JimKaz

By Eileen Fleming [Ventura, California] I learned of my brother’s suicide via Facebook last week and because all suicides are preventable I must now learn and share all I can learn regarding WHY 53 year old James A. Kasmir went on a drinking binge and put his head in a noose then died by self-inflicted…

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Jon Stewart and the new Fourth Estate

Posted on February 15, 2015October 4, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Jon Stewart and the new Fourth Estate
Jon Stewart and the new Fourth Estate

By Eileen Fleming   The real impact of Jon Stewart and how the bogus anchor influenced real anchors is a story in progress; but for this reporter it all began when The Daily Show went back on the air nine nights after THAT DAY we call 911. Watch it HERE Jon began by asking, “are…

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

Posted on February 11, 2015October 13, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Netanyahu and Congress: Let’s Talk Israel’s Nukes @nytimes
Netanyahu and Congress: Let’s Talk Israel’s Nukes @nytimes

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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Amnesty International Calls for Action to Free Vanunu

Posted on February 4, 2015August 20, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Amnesty International Calls for Action to Free Vanunu
Amnesty International Calls for Action to Free Vanunu

By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday Amnesty International emailed this update and action request in support of a free Mordechai Vanunu: Once again, the Israel High Court of Justice (HCJ) has rejected Vanunu’s petition against restrictions on his freedom of movement, association and expression, in their decision dated 25 January 2015. In summary, the judges basically…

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Boehner’s Boner Bibi’s Toast Vanunu’s Freedom Soon or Later

Posted on January 31, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Boehner’s Boner Bibi’s Toast Vanunu’s Freedom Soon or Later
Boehner’s Boner Bibi’s Toast Vanunu’s Freedom Soon or Later

By Eileen Fleming John Boehner’s latest boner –meaning a clumsy or stupid mistake- was inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint Session of Congress two weeks before the Israeli elections in March.  Boehner’s invite inserted Bibi into the middle of the dispute between the President and Republicans over Iran’s nuclear program which…

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Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire with Love Peace and Nonviolence

Posted on January 17, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire with Love Peace and Nonviolence
Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire with Love Peace and Nonviolence

Saturday’s email included one from Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire who concluded with “Lots of love, Mairead” and as we read her; we recalled this quote attributed to Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Mairead’s email contained: PRESENTATION TO NOBEL SUMMIT, ROME, ITALY 12TH DECEMBER,…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Eileen Fleming, Palestine & Jordan

Martin Luther King, Jr. Letters to Manifestos

Posted on January 15, 2015January 14, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Martin Luther King, Jr. Letters to Manifestos
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letters to Manifestos

Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed in the United States on Jan. 19 this year, but he was born on Jan. 15, 1929. In his manifesto from Birmingham Jail, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. directly challenged his “fellow clergymen.” By Eileen Fleming I have taken a few liberties with King’s masterpiece, added a…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine & Jordan

Orwell’s Nightmare Vanunu’s Reality and Roi Tov’s Silencing

Posted on January 13, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Orwell’s Nightmare Vanunu’s Reality and Roi Tov’s Silencing
Orwell’s Nightmare Vanunu’s Reality and Roi Tov’s Silencing

By Eileen Fleming   Israeli dissident and prolific writer, Roi Tov was born in South America and grew up as Reuven Schossen, in a tight-knit communist kibbutz along the Jordan Valley. After four years of service in the Israeli Defense Force, Captain Schossen became a reservist and graduated with four degrees; three in chemical physics….

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Facebook Breaks the News on Mordechai Vanunu

Posted on January 3, 2015August 20, 2019 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Facebook Breaks the News on Mordechai Vanunu
Facebook Breaks the News on Mordechai Vanunu

By Eileen Fleming   On Saturday Mordechai Vanunu’s attorney Michael Sfard wrote on his Facebook Wall regarding Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s latest petition for his right to leave Israel: 11 year after Mordechai Vaanunu was released from prison but placed in an administrative cell made of limitation orders barring him from communications with non-Israelis, the State…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Eileen Fleming, Palestine & Jordan, Video

AIPAC Commends Obama’s Failure to Recognize Palestine’s Rights

Posted on January 2, 2015September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments on AIPAC Commends Obama’s Failure to Recognize Palestine’s Rights

By Eileen Fleming AIPAC praises failure of UN resolution to recognize Palestine as a state, an effort by Palestinians to kickstart the peace process killed by Netanyahu’s extremist government On December 19, President Obama signed bills to bolster the ‘special relationship’ with Israel, support Syrian rebels, to disrupt Native American land rights, and to protect…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Palestine & Jordan

Breathing in a new life in 2015 and Exhaling 2014 with a Deep Sigh

Posted on December 29, 2014September 24, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment on Breathing in a new life in 2015 and Exhaling 2014 with a Deep Sigh
Breathing in a new life in 2015 and Exhaling 2014 with a Deep Sigh

By Eileen Fleming The first thing we take in life is a breath and the last thing we give up is a breath. But unlike any other function of the body, breathing relies equally on the voluntary and involuntary nervous systems. In the West, most of us never focus on even one of the 20,000…

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Arab World, Bloggers, Eileen Fleming, Health, Palestine & Jordan

Israel’s Wall in the Little Town of Bethlehem

Posted on December 18, 2014October 9, 2018 By USS_Liberty Info No Comments on Israel’s Wall in the Little Town of Bethlehem
Israel’s Wall in the Little Town of Bethlehem

By Eileen Fleming   Banksy, the graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter depicts 21st century Bethlehem reality onto holiday greeting cards and informational cards with this message:   Towering walls and militarized fences now encircle Bethlehem, turning the 4,000-year-old city into a virtual prison for its Palestinian Christian and Muslim citizens. Bethlehem has…

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