Tag: West Bank

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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Celebrate Vinfest in Taybeh, Palestine

February 23, 2015February 26, 2015 Maria Khoury No Comments

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…

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Press Release: Group to promote bilateral US-Palestine business ties

February 12, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

New American group hires Palestinian consulting firm to promote bilateral U.S.-Palestine businesses linkages With a clear eye on a post-occupation Palestine, the effort expects these linkages will contribute to ending the Israeli military occupation that stifles Palestinian economic growth (January 21, 2015 – Chicago, USA & Ramallah, Palestine) – The newly established U.S. non-profit organization, Americans…

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Future of Middle East: Between a rock and a hard place

February 10, 2015February 18, 2015 Jafar Ramini No Comments

By Jafar M. Ramini I am in a quandary, torn like no other time before between throwing in the towel and calling it a day or continuing on the same path with no end in sight. What brought this state of confusion and uncertainty in my mind and heart is the wall-to-wall media coverage of…

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The war is in English and the Arabs are losing

January 22, 2015June 12, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania Wars are fought with many armaments. Some of them blow up. Others cause things to blow up. And still more can undermine entire nations simply with a few words. In the Arab-Israeli war, the Arabs are losing. They have been losing for a long time, but they are losing even more, now….

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Strawberry harvest continues in Gaza Strip, Palestine

January 20, 2015 Mohammed Asad No Comments

By Mohammed Asad Palestine Strawberries from the Gaza Strip are ranked as being among the world’s best. Every year, the Palestine Strawberry industry employs hundreds of farmers to harvest the strawberry crops to pick, package and ship the popular fruit to locations around the world. Despite exporting restrictions imposed by Israel’s military occupation, which controls the flow of…

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Celebrating the Baptism of Christ on the Jordan River

January 18, 2015January 18, 2015 Maria Khoury No Comments

By Maria C. Khoury, Ed. D. It was simply a most glorious celebration of the Epiphany on the Jordan River today according to the Old Julian calendar. There were hundreds of priests, nuns and thousands of people from all walks of life coming to the precious site where over 2,000 years ago “…the heavens were…

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

January 13, 2015September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

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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Analysis: Palestinian leadership not immune to change

January 8, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

By Amer Sabaileh The Palestinian leadership is facing many problems and conflicts not only with Israel in trying to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, but also facing major serious conflicts from within its ranks. Intra-Palestinian squabbles are no longer along the Fatah-Hamas divide that define these conflicts, but now it is within the…

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

January 2, 2015September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

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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Israel’s Wall in the Little Town of Bethlehem

December 18, 2014October 9, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

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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Exclusive: Hamas leader Meshaal: Israel risks religious war over Jerusalem

December 17, 2014December 18, 2014 Ali Younes No Comments

By Ali Younes For Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, this year was an emotional roller coaster that had the potential to destroy his fledgling and increasingly powerful organization or make it even more powerful and relevant than ever before. Speaking to chairman of Hamas political Bureau in the Qatari capital, Doha last week on wide range…

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Palestinians can’t condemn Israeli atrocities if they don’t condemn their own

November 21, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania 2 Comments

Without condemning Palestinian atrocities against Israelis, the Palestinians lose the moral high ground and weaken their ability to condemn the many atrocities committed by Israelis. Arab fanatics, however, argue that Palestinian atrocities are not atrocities at all, and the only atrocities are committed by Israelis. That false logic undermines the powerful cause of the Palestinian people….

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Israel Palestine Religion VS Spirit and Imagination

November 20, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming Sixty-six years of political conflict in Israel Palestine, the so-called Holy Land has focused on borders, settlements, checkpoints, terrorism and human rights has now morphed into Debates over access to sites in Jerusalem’s Old City, where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven and where Jews believe their holy ancient temples…

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Living in Urban Palestine

November 19, 2014November 23, 2014 rayhanania No Comments

By Yousef Khatib Camillo Sitte believed that there is an art in the planning of cities; so then that would define the “city” an urban landscape, a defining measure of cultural value. Various historical and contemporary critics of urban landscapes, express that architecture and urbanism have always been products of social, cultural, political, economic and…

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Daily Kos Censorship and Apartheid Israeli Style

November 18, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

By Eileen Fleming The Daily Kos promotes itself as a weblog with political analysis on US current events from a liberal perspective. Seven years after my first banning at the Daily Kos which I documented here: It Sure Smells Like a Right Wing Zionist Cabal at The Daily Kos , I returned on Sunday with: Charlie…

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Netanyahu Seeks Nation-State of the Jewish People – EU Proposes Sanctions

November 16, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming On Sunday in Jerusalem at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would push forward the “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People” the most extreme of a series of similar legislative proposals that have been raised this year. Netanyahu said, “The justice…

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Fighting Father Dave Smith Talks Vanunu Gaza Syria

November 5, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info No Comments

By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News Fifteen years ago Reverend Dave Smith established The Order of Fighting Fathers a global group of priests and regular people, committed to Fighting the Good Fight against injustice, prejudice, drugs and poverty, by challenging and encouraging each other to spread the truth in love in the…

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