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APN Welcomes Obama`s Commitment to Middle East Peace and Engagement with Iran

President Obama recognizes a Palestinian State as integral to peace.

(Washington, D.C.) - Americans for Peace Now (APN) welcomes President Barack Obama’s commitment to continue pursuing Arab-Israeli peace and to continue focusing on peacefully preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

APN also joins the President’s call on friends of Israel in the US and worldwide to “recognize that Israel’s security as a Jewish and democratic state depends on the realization of a Palestinian state.”

31 Years on Sabra-Shatila Massacre: Justice Delayed but Gaining Ground

“If you don’t want the Lebanese to kill them, we will kill them.” - Ariel Sharon

(SHATILA CAMP, Beirut) - Each year, during the third week of September, Lebanon and this region, as well as international supporters, pause to reflect upon and commemorate the victims one of the twentieth century’s most horrific and cynical crimes perpetrated by a member state of the United Nations.

The Sabra-Shatila massacre took place September 16-19th in Beirut, a well-documented 48 hours of slaughter that saw the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp surrounded and sealed off by the occupying Israeli army, whose intent was to block and force back inside the killing field anyone seeking to escape...

The Epic Struggle of A Trapped Student

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(GAZA) - Last night, I had a dream that I was running, running and running, and I kept running till I glanced an emergency exit.

Though I cannot remember whether I made my way out, I woke up feeling breathless. Strangled. Suffocated. I cannot even find a better word to describe that feeling, but I think it would suffice to say I woke up to another morning in Gaza! Every night I sleep hopefully that tomorrow is a “better” day only to have a “bitter” one instead. My mornings in Gaza are as salty as the tap water I wash –or rather taint– my face with.

Power Outages Rage in Gaza

Cutting off essential services like electricity to the civilian population in Gaza is a serious breach to international humanitarian law.

(GAZA) - On the 19th of September 2007 Israel further tightened its blockade against the Palestinians in Gaza by disrupting and reducing their already limited supply of electricity.

Tel-Aviv’s decision to besiege the civilians in the tiny coastal enclave has disrupted all aspects of life for a population whose number has now exceeded 1.7 million.

MJ Rosenberg on Anti Zionist Zionists

I actually admire Rosenberg for sharing this fascinating conversation with the rest of us.

(LONDON) - In the following piece, MJ Rosenberg courageously reports on a recent encounter with a bright American Jewish boy.

“You may not realize it,” the boy tells Rosenberg, “but your premise is Zionist. You think Jews are, by definition, connected to Israel and have to care about it. But that isn’t who I am. I’m an American kid whose religion is Jewish.”

The Warmongers Will Play Along with Commonsense for a While but Eventually Come Back onto their Original Course

Henry Bellingham: “What is the Party doing, please, to rein in its dangerous loons before it's too late?”

(LONDON) - My MP Henry Bellingham has replied promptly to a letter on 26 August about the US and UK’s eagerness to “jump the gun” on Syria.

This was before the famous vote in Parliament and while media headlines were screaming: "Britain is planning to join forces with America and launch military action against Syria within days in response to the gas attack believed to have been carried out by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces against his own people..."

The Return of the Golems

In 2009 I wrote a piece titled “A Nation of Golems” reflecting the control of our representatives by the Zionist forces that occupy our Congress.

(LAVERNE, CA) - How did it come to this? Centuries ago in ancient Prague before the Jewish people established a state for Jews, before they had the means to impose their will on the people of the mid-east, the Jewish population huddled in ghettos behind walls carved out of cities fearful of annihilation, isolated from the communities that surrounded them, condemned by discrimination, envy and ignorance.

Out of that destructive environment, in the city of Prague, Rabbi Lowe sought a solution to the isolation and weariness of his congregants by seeking consolation and security through the magical creation of a creature fashioned from the mud of the Vltava River that runs through Prague.

Jeff Blankfort on Zio Con wars, Palestine and Paul Jay

In 2011, at what was billed as Move Over AiPAC, several of us were on a panel on AIPAC, the only one in the two day conference and our large room was packed with every seat taken, and we only got the panel through the help of a couple of the panelists in taking care of the logistics.

(LONDON) - Following is Jeff Blankfort's email to Paul Jay (The Real News Network) after reading his 'deconstruction' of my work.

Jeff allowed me to publish his straight forward and illuminating text.

They Don`t Want Us to Know About Israel`s Nukes

So let's ask about the rogue state's chemical weapons...

(LONDON) - UK Foreign Office ministers seem to have great difficulty answering simple questions about Israel’s terror capabilities.

It’s as if they don’t want to admit to the awful truth about the violent and lawless regime to which they’ve pledged everlasting support. Here’s a very recent example.

Resurrection - a Novel by Anthony Ashton

This is a shameless attempt to promote my book, Resurrection—which, despite its title, is not at all religious...

(BANGKOK) - When finishing a video promoting a book I've just written, I was rudely interrupted by Baroness Deech having a go at Nigel Kennedy for telling the truth about Apartheid Israel.

Though having taken a vow of activist-silence until the book was up and running, I could not pass by this blatant slur on a very talented and honest man in a lie told by a Member of the House of Lords, so I dropped everything to have a go at Her Ladyship.