Israel-Palestine

A Debate on Peacemaking: Ending Occupation or Apartheid
 

Via RT…

[Prefatory Note: Below is an Open Letter prepared under the direction of Vida Samiian of State University of California at Fresno on behalf of California scholars defending against any effort to abridge academic freedom anywhere in the world, but particularly in California and the United States. The group has been recently sensitive to issues surrounding Israel/Palestine, Zionism, and alleged Anti-Semitism, but it also references attacks elsewhere in the world that encroach upon academic freedom.

If you think Obama is spineless when confronted by Ron Lauder and the usual suspects, just think of how bad it will be when we have President Clinton or President Rubio, proxies for their Israel firster donors Haim Saban and Paul Singer respectively. The new president and his or her staff will have to learn how to perform proskynesis whenever Netanyahu enters the oval office.

 

Image: Saban thought-bubble: “You’re going to appoint WHO as secretary of state???” Courtesy Tikun Olam

Image:French President Francois Hollande (R) holds a press conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on September 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/FRANCOIS GUILLOT)
 

The Palestinian worker left to bleed to death in Tel Aviv
Family of Ihsan Abu-Sitta
Middle East Monitor

Reviving the Israel-Palestine Negotiations: The Indyk Appointment
 
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by Richard Falk
Appointing Martin Indyk as Special Envoy to the upcoming peace talks was to be expected. It was signaled in advance. And yet it is revealing and distressing.

President Obama’s actions are unlikely to stray outside the parameters the Israel lobby is willing to accept. But there is a growing movement that is challenging the lobby’s stronghold on U.S. politics.