By Craig Murray | August 18, 2019 Following US National Security Adviser John Bolton’s talks with Boris Johnson and his ministers in London last week, FCO officials have been asked to speed up contingency planning for the UK to move its Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with an eye to an “early […]
By Rima Najjar – Global Research – August 18, 2019 For how long will discourse on the plight of the Palestinian people be hostage to the notion that “impartial observers”, i.e., the silent majority on Israel, must be addressed in a manner that accounts for “where they are, not where we’d like them to be”? […]
Army patrol on the road | Image courtesy Kavita Krishnan By Jean Drèze, Kavita Krishnan, Maimoona Mollah and Vimal Bhai | Indian Cultural Forum | August 14, 2019 We spent five days (9-13 August 2019) traveling extensively in Kashmir. Our visit began on 9 August 2019 – four days after the Indian government abrogated Articles […]
Is it because when ‘God’ created this land, with its sweeping landscapes, its proud hills, its sweet streams, its succulent figs, its crunchy grapes, its juicy oranges and its mighty olive trees he was overwhelmed with its beauty? Maybe because of all this he decided to call this land his own and, as such, plagued it or blessed it from[Read More...]
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By Stephen Lendman
Congressional Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were refused entry into the apartheid state.
Netanyahu’s action followed Trump’s hostile tweet, saying: “Rep. Omar and Tlaib…hate Israel & all Jewish people” — a bald-faced Big Lie, a longstanding DJT specialty.
He’s “a disgrace” and an embarrassment to the office he holds, not them, as he falsely claimed.
For how long will discourse on the plight of the Palestinian people be hostage to the notion that “impartial observers”, i.e., the silent majority on Israel, must be addressed in a manner that accounts for “where they are, not where we’d like them to be”? And who defines where these people are in the first place? According to Robert Cohen,[Read More...]
As`ad AbuKhalil reviews Middle East rulers’ reasons for distrusting their own militaries. By As`ad AbuKhalil Special to Consortium News A close association between armies and politics has pertained in the Middle East for a long while. Army leaders have…Read more →
By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | August 14, 2019 The Palestinian Football Association is struggling to survive. Combined US-Israeli pressure on Palestinian organisations that provide aid and support to the Palestinian people is now felt in the field of sports as well. In recent months, the association’s budget has been slashed by more than half, […]
Israel’s man in the House of Representatives By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • August 13, 2019 It is astonishing that in the wake of the two mass killings in Dayton and El Paso that have been attributed both by the media and the Democrats to “racism,” a senior U.S. Congressman has led a delegation […]
The other day, I was interviewed by Vadim Manukyan on the Moscow protests but also on issues related to Syria, Gaza, Venezuela and western corporate media propaganda.
