Palestinians

Abby Martin speaks with Eran Efrati, a former IDF soldier who recounts his experience, assignments and killing protocols along with what he witnessed as a soldier.

As for the bishop, newly minted and still shiny from promotion, one wonders if he has ever visited the Holy Land to see, feel and smell the cruel stench of the occupation up close and personal. To his credit, however, his Lent appeal goes to support the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza. Academics say sending children to the Naughty Corner breaches their human rights. Isn’t it the same for priests?

Image: UN: Israel demolished homes of 1,177 Palestinians in Jerusalem and West Bank in 2014

Image: Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas has done everything that the Obama administration asked of him, and has precisely nothing to show for his efforts. Photo: Jim Young / REUTERS (Courtesy My Cat Bird Seat)
 
 

“What are you doing in heaven’s sake?” My mom shouted at me and rushed to slap me on my head before I jumped running away. “Are you crazy? You are burning souls.” “Souls? They are just damned ants.” I retaliated. “No, …

 At the time of writing Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. the Zionist lobby and its stooges in Congress (I think they are best described as traitors) are on a collision course with the Obama administration.

by Alan Hart

A longer version of my headline would be this. How President Obama could take on and defeat the Zionist lobby and secure for himself the freedom to put America’s own best interests first in the Middle East and wider Muslim.

After providing days of Holocaust coverage the BBC is slammed for inviting ‘anti-Israel MP’ George Galloway to a chat show

 by Stuart Littlewood

BBC TV are being bad-mouthed for inviting MP George Galloway onto the Question Time panel in the Finchley and Golders Green constituency next week.

Image: France’s President François Hollande addresses a Paris ceremony commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 27 January (Presidency of France)

 

The planned crackdown raises concern that French authorities will use their powers to further censor speech critical of Israel under the guise of combating anti-Semitism

 
 

  In western countries, under the hard influence of America, a country in turn under the hard influence of the world’s best organized and financed lobby, the Israel Lobby, we have come to regard Israel’s behavior as normal, but it is, of course, not normal, not in any detail. What is normal about holding several million people prisoner for half a century?

 

 
 John Chuckman