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Latest Articles: Israel/Zionism
1.2 million non-Jews feel "Jewish"
Post Date: 2013-10-12 18:59:21 by X-15
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They may not be Jewish, but they certainly feel Jew-ish. Despite having no direct familial or religious ties to Judaism, about 1.2 million Americans feel they have a "Jewish affinity," with many reporting an attachment to Israel and a strong draw to Judaism's cultural practices, according to new research. A survey of American Jews, conducted by the Pew Research Center, also analyzed the nearly 0.5 percent of the U.S. population that consider themselves to be Jewish in some way, even though they belong to a religion other than Judaism and most have no Jewish ancestors or family members. [8 Ways Religion Impacts Your Life] Non-Jewish On political matters, this cohort looks ...
Palestinians and Israelis: Unequal Treatment
Post Date: 2013-10-11 13:36:37 by Stephen Lendman
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Palestinians and Israelis: Unequal Treatment by Stephen Lendman Israeli deaths alone matter. Palestinian ones go unnoticed. Unequal treatment ignores their suffering. Daily crimes against humanity go unreported. Israelis killed make headlines. A previous article discussed IDF Staff Sgts. Tomer Hazan and Gal Kobi. Both were shot and killed. Nine-year old Israeli Noam Glick was shot and wounded. She's in stable condition. Feature stories covered what happened. Israeli soldiers went on a rampage. They sealed off Palestinian communities, refugee camps and surrounding areas. They stormed them. They conducted intensive house-to-house searches. Homes were broken into violently. They were ...
Attack on Jerusalem graves unnerves Christians
Post Date: 2013-10-09 16:36:17 by scrapper2
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Christian leaders in Israel are up in arms over what they say is a string of relentless attacks on church properties and religious sites — most recently the desecration of a historic Protestant cemetery where vandals toppled stone crosses from graves and bludgeoned them to pieces. The attack in the Protestant Cemetery of Mount Zion, one of Jerusalem's most important historic graveyards, has struck a particularly sensitive nerve because some of the damaged graves belong to famous figures from the 19th and 20th centuries, a key period in Jerusalem's history. Among them are a German diplomat, the founder of an orphanage who was a significant contributor to ...
Double Standard Victims of Israel's War on Palestine
Post Date: 2013-10-09 14:37:25 by Stephen Lendman
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Double Standard Victims of Israel's War on Palestine by Stephen Lendman Brutalizing Palestinians is longstanding. Crimes of war, against humanity, and slow-motion genocide reflect it. So do colonization, apartheid and daily state terror. Militarized occupation is lawless and brutal. Previous articles explained. Torture, inhumane and degrading treatment reflect official Israeli policy. Children are treated like adults. In July, Israeli soldiers terrorized a five-year old Palestinian boy. They threatened him and his parents. They handcuffed and blindfolded his father. They handed the boy over to police. They wrongfully accused him of stone-throwing. Many other children face ...
Netanyahu: His Own Worst Enemy
Post Date: 2013-10-09 02:56:11 by Stephen Lendman
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Netanyahu: His Own Worst Enemy by Stephen Lendman He never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to act responsibly. He's too set in his ways. He's too far gone to change. He's off the rails entirely. It shows every time he speaks. He puts his foot in his mouth. One day he'll risk swallowing it. His 2012 UN address was abhorrent. He made a fool out of himself before a world audience. He did again on October 1. His anti-Iranian bluster wore thin long ago. He falsely claims the Islamic Republic wants Israel destroyed. He lies about its peaceful nuclear program. He's viciously anti-Muslim. He considers Arabs subhuman. His governance proves it. He's more ...
DNA Research Sheds Light On Ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews
Post Date: 2013-10-09 00:12:07 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily: Oct. 8, 2013 — Many of the maternal ancestors of modern Ashkenazi Jews were European converts, according to a research project headed by a University of Huddersfield professor. The young science of archaeogenetics has been used to settle a long-standing controversy -- the origin of Europe's Ashkenazi Jews. Are they principally descended from forbears who migrated from Palestine in the first century AD? Or were their ancestors Europeans who converted to Judaism? A new article in the leading journal Nature Communications claims to have settled the question. Analysis of DNA samples has shown that on the female line, the Ashkenazim are descended not from the Near East ...
Gilad Atzmon: Isreal As The Biggest Threat To World Peace
Post Date: 2013-10-07 18:12:18 by Horse
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Report: Indonesia’s last synagogue destroyed
Post Date: 2013-10-07 13:31:08 by X-15
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Indonesia’s last synagogue has been destroyed, a Dutch news site reported last week. Unidentified persons demolished the Beith Shalom synagogue in Surabaya on the island of Java to its foundations sometime earlier this year, according to a report on Indoweb.nl. The synagogue has seen a number of anti-Israel protests staged in front of it and was sealed by Islamic hardliners in 2009, according to the Jakarta Globe. Reports of the synagogue’s destruction have appeared in the Indonesian media since May and were confirmed last week by Indoweb.nl, which quoted the director of the Surabaya Heritage Society as saying that he intended to protest the demolition in talks with government ...
US must choose between Netanyahu and national interests: Expert
Post Date: 2013-10-06 22:55:35 by Tatarewicz
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A political commentator says US President Barack Obama must choose between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the national interests of the United States, Press TV reports. “The United States now is at the point where it has to choose between giving Benjamin Netanyahu what he wants versus doing what is in America’s interests to stay alive,” Mark Glenn, a member of Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, said. He added that the US foreign policy has been dominated by pro-Israel interests for at least a half century. ”I think the United States finds itself in a difficult position right now particularly given the fact that Russia has stepped into the Middle ...
State Dept: Govt Shutdown Threatens Military Aid to Israel
Post Date: 2013-10-05 13:49:00 by X-15
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Officials at all government agencies are trying to play up the “serious” impact that the partial federal government shutdown is having, and while the vast majority of Americans are seeing literally no actual effects, the State Department is hoping to coax Congress back to the table by playing the Israel card. According to the State Department’s spokeswoman Marie Harf today, the department hasn’t had to have any furloughs of employees but that it is “not just business as usual.” Harf warned that if the shutdown was prolonged, the $3.1 billion in annual military gifts to Israel could be delayed a bit, falling out of the “time frame that is expected” ...
What Group in America Does This Quote remind you of the most?
Post Date: 2013-10-05 12:55:30 by Original_Intent
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"...Any man who says he is an American but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." -- Theodore Roosevelt - in a letter to the American Defense Society in 1919 Poster Comment:I would second Teddy's thought. That illustrates part of the problem we face today - people who are ostensibly, ...
Israeli court rejects Israeli nationality status
Post Date: 2013-10-04 17:00:53 by scrapper2
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's population registry lists a slew of "nationalities" and ethnicities, among them Jew, Arab, Druse and more. But one word is conspicuously absent from the list: Israeli. Residents cannot identify themselves as Israelis in the national registry because the move could have far-reaching consequences for the country's Jewish character, the Israeli Supreme Court wrote in documents obtained Thursday. The ruling was a response to a demand by 21 Israelis, most of whom are officially registered as Jews, that the court decide whether they can be listed as Israeli in the registry. The group had argued that without a secular Israeli identity, Israeli ...
Israel and Washington Target Iran
Post Date: 2013-10-03 13:39:30 by Stephen Lendman
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Israel and Washington Target Iran by Stephen Lendman Olive branches aren't in either country's vocabulary. Both nations are modern day Spartas writ large. They live by the sword. They do so irresponsibly. They do it lawlessly. They're ruthlessly out-of-control. They're partners in crime. They deplore peace and stability. They thrive on conflict and violence. They wage one war after another. They threaten humanity in the process. They're rogue states. They make more enemies than friends. Threatening, intimidating, and bullying don't win hearts and minds. Nor does causing unimaginable levels of human suffering. America's media front for Washington. They ...
Netanyahu's General Assembly Dissembling
Post Date: 2013-10-03 02:55:06 by Stephen Lendman
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Netanyahu's General Assembly Dissembling by Stephen Lendman Last year he made a fool out of himself. He did so before a world audience. His cartoon bomb went viral. It bombed. He looked more cartoonish than his prop. One cartoonist showed a picture of Daffy Duck's head exploding. An observer referred to Bibi's "Clint Eastwood chair" moment. Another compared his explosive to what Warner Bros.' animated character Wile E. Coyote used in Looney Tunes cartoons. A Washington Post op-ed asked if his stunt was a "poor choice of a ridiculously-looking, over-simplified bomb cartoon (or) a calculated choice (to) create (an) indelible image everyone would be talking ...
Anti-Iranian Media Bias
Post Date: 2013-10-02 02:49:16 by Stephen Lendman
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Anti-Iranian Media Bias by Stephen Lendman US major media bias is longstanding. It's over-the-top attacking America's enemies. Scurrilous misinformation substitutes for honest reporting and analysis. Doing so is standard editorial policy. Lies, damn lies, and scurrilous ones repeat with disturbing regularity. Syria is wrongfully vilified. So is Iran. Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) provides a vital service. It's a credible media watchdog. It exposes media misinformation, bias and censorship. It features truth and full disclosure. It does so because it matters. In 2001, FAIR called Fox News "the most biased name in news," saying: "When it comes ...
America and Israel v. Iran
Post Date: 2013-10-02 02:47:41 by Stephen Lendman
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America and Israel v. Iran by Stephen Lendman On September 30, The New York Times headlined "Discussing Iran, Obama and Netanyahu Display Unity." On Monday, both leaders met at the White House. "Mr. Netanyahu said he was comforted to hear Mr. Obama declare that Iran's 'conciliatory words have to be matched by real actions.' " "The president said he would take no options off the table, including military action, to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." Both leaders are largely likeminded on Iran. According to Council on Foreign Relation (CFR) Iranian expert Ray Takeyh: "At this point, it's easy for them to agree. Should ...
Op-Ed: Dempsey's Bombshell: No US Attack on Iran, Ever
Post Date: 2013-10-01 20:46:43 by Horse
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On 19 July 2013, Martin E. Dempsey, the Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered an unclassified letter to Senator Carl Levin concerning the risks of US military intervention in Syria. http://www.levin.senate.gov/download/?id=f3dce1d1-a4ba-4ad1-a8d2-c47d943b1db6. While the letter is was ostensibly delivered to the Senate, it actually delivered the equivalent to ten American thermonuclear bombs hitting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem simultaneously. While the letter was supposedly written by Dempsey, it was surely approved and intensely vetted by President Obama himself. So while the letter had Dempsey's signature, it was Obama's policy. The Dempsey/Obama letter ...
Israeli PM most isolated individual in UN: Zarif
Post Date: 2013-09-30 23:21:16 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV: Related Viewpoints: Israel antsy over US’ Iran engagement Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the most isolated political figure in the United Nations. Speaking to reporters in New York on Monday, Zarif stated that we must not allow those who have slaughtered the Palestinian nation over the past 60 years, and their atomic weapons pose a threat to the region and the world, to blackmail the international community in the name of disarmament and human rights. He added that the international community should not allow Netanyahu to continue his lies and allegations about Iran’s nuclear energy program at ...
Israel Starts Campaign to Boost U.S. Military Aid
Post Date: 2013-09-30 19:16:26 by X-15
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Israel's military chiefs are pushing for a bump in the $3.1 billion a year the Jewish state receives in U.S. military aid even though the 10-year agreement doesn't expire until 2017 and America is struggling with domestic economic issues. Among other things, the Israelis are citing a 2008 U.S. law that for the first time legally committed Washington to maintain the Jewish state's technological superiority -- its Qualitative Military Edge, or QME, in military terminology -- over its regional adversaries, particularly Iran, which has been pursuing nuclear technology. The QME, the cornerstone of the strategic alliance between the United States and Israel for the past few decades, ...
Netanyahu Warns Obama: Don't Be Fooled by Iran
Post Date: 2013-09-30 19:13:51 by BTP Holdings
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Netanyahu Warns Obama: Don't Be Fooled by Iran Sunday, 29 Sep 2013 03:48 PM Mortified that the world may be warming up to Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is taking an unpopular message to the White House and the United Nations this week: Don't be fooled by Tehran's new leadership. Netanyahu contends Iran is using conciliatory gestures as a smoke screen to conceal an unabated march toward a nuclear bomb. He will deliver those strong words of caution — and fresh intelligence — in an attempt to persuade the U.S. to maintain tough economic sanctions and not allow the Islamic republic to develop a bomb or even move closer to becoming a nuclear threshold ...
Woodrow Wilson Quote (about the Jews)
Post Date: 2013-09-30 18:51:18 by Horse
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The New Freedom (1913) Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 5. Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. They know that America is not a place of which it can be said, as it used to be, that a man may choose his own calling and pursue it just as far as his abilities enable him to pursue ...
Israel Warned Kenya Before Nairobi Attack Kenya received information warning of an impending attack before terrorists stormed the Westgate mall, according to security sources.
Post Date: 2013-09-30 14:48:18 by Horse
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Israel was among those who warned Kenya's government of the high risk of an attack before the deadly assault on a Nairobi mall by Islamist terrorists, security sources have told the AFP news agency. Cabinet ministers and Kenya's army chief had received information warning of a plan to carry out a major attack, the officials told the news agency, confirming an intelligence report leaked in Kenyan newspapers. "Israel had warned of attacks on their business interests but apart from just being tossed from one office to another, nothing was taken out of the intelligence reports," said one official speaking on condition of anonymity. On September 21, terrorists with automatic ...
Netanyahu in Washington
Post Date: 2013-09-30 14:42:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Netanyahu in Washington by Stephen Lendman Haaretz published a live blog Tel Aviv time. At 6:20 PM, protesters outside the White House chanted: "Arrest Bibi. He is a war criminal. No war on Iran. Free free Palestine." At 6:18PM, Netanyahu arrived at the White House. He and Obama met. Reports said Obama told him negotiations with Iran won't take sanctions or possible military action off the table. Ahead of Netanyahu's arrival, Israeli radio interviewed US ambassador Dan Shapiro. He said Obama remains steadfast. He won't let Iran develop nuclear weapons. Perhaps he had a hard time saying it with a straight face. US and Israeli officials know Iran has no nuclear ...
Netanyahu heads to U.S. to challenge Iran’s charm offensive
Post Date: 2013-09-29 21:02:45 by X-15
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left for New York early Sunday in a bid to challenge Iran’s diplomatic charm blitz last week. “I intend to tell the truth in the face of the sweet talk and charm offensive of Iran” Israeli public radio quoted him as saying as he boarded the plane at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport, Agence France Presse reported. “Telling the truth at this time is essential for world peace and security and, of course, for Israel's security,” he was quoted as saying by the agency. Netanyahu earlier this week described Iranian President Hassan Rowhani's speech to the United Nations General Assembly as “cynical” and ...
Meet the CRIMINAL FAMILY - the CAUSE of all the worlds' problems
Post Date: 2013-09-28 16:51:23 by X-15
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