Netanyahu Is Israel’s Ted Cruz
MJ Rosenberg
Last Saturday marked the 18th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On November 22, we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Both assassinations were tragedies that altered their respective countries in profound ways.
But there is one giant difference.
Peres suffering from Portnoy’s Complaint?
Shimon Peres’ guilt-edged insecurity these days is far more important when it comes to the masking—and unmasking—of an abettor of racist Zionism. His complaint, like Portnoy’s Complaint, is also emblematic of the times during which he has lived and his uncertainty as to whether he has squandered his life in an evil cause.
Franklin Lamb
Beirut
Editor’s Note : Here’s a song written and sung by Finian Cunningham, a political analyst whose incisive analysis are frequently featured here at Veterans News Now.
“Jerusalem the Red Line”
Hamas chief calls for massive armed resistance to protect it… but how?
by Stuart Littlewood
The other day Hamas’s political chief, Khaled Meshaal, criticised the Palestinian Authority for “criminalizing armed resistance”.
He claimed that, by dropping the armed resistance option, Arab States and the PA had lost the ability to deter Israel and its never-ending violations.
Islamophobic Injustice
Paul Balles
Sami Al-Arian’s story is one of the most appalling tales of brutal, horrifying, unjust treatment of a Palestinian victimized by Americans.
Al-Arian, born as a Palestinian refugee in Kuwait, went to America in 1975.
According to his website biography, he began teaching computer science at the University of South Florida in 1986, and was active politically in Muslim causes.
Israeli Perpetual Terrorism
Israel’s settlement building has been met with little protest by the so-called “international community”: The Israeli settlement of Har Homar near Jerusalem is expanded on land confiscated from Palestinian owners in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. (Magnus Johansson/MaanImages)
