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No Brain Transplant for Ariel Sharon, Rest in Agony

As it was the truth in '06, it's just as true today. The crook Ariel Sharon was assassinated by a gang run by today's Israeli President, Shimon Peres.

(ST AUGUSTINE) - As Ariel Sharon loses his battle for a brain transplant, writers of my acquaintance like Rachel Neuwirth, Susan Rosenbluth, Prof. Paul Eidelberg et al, are distributing a research piece more than hinting that Sharon was executed by fellow gangster, Pres. Shimon Peres.

Ms. Neuwirth said, “The apparent reality is that Israel’s government is a cesspool of corruption and treason. Its prime minister appears willing to place his people in mortal peril by destroying their national security, unity, and morale...”

Has the Idea of a Jewish State Become Obsolete?

As we express our hope that Arab countries (and even the U.S. itself) evolve toward a more inclusive and tolerant politics, it is worth asking if the maintenance of Israel as a Jewish state become counter-productive to its own long-term security?

(PORTLAND, OR) - While John Kerry admirably shuttles around like the Energizer Bunny in search of Middle East peace, is there anything new to say about the intractable tension between Israelis on the one hand and predominantly Muslim peoples, especially the Palestinians, on the other?

One layer of the unspoken is Israel’s implicit status as a nuclear power.

BBC Goes Out on a Thin Limb To Illustrate Israeli Land Theft

"How long will the people involved stay in their jobs?" - Anthony Lawson

(SALEM) - A team from The BBC has stepped onto a long and fragile limb with this new video. It pokes the Israeli apartheid system right in the gut. Israel's political platform is based on the belief that the Jews can do anything they want because they are God's "Chosen People".

If anyone objects they are called an antisemite. The system has been in place for years, but these days the rhetoric is wearing thin.

Is it Really The Guardian of the Truth or has it Become The Guardian of Zion?

Freedland probably waited for Ariel Sharon to die in order to spread his laughable reading of history, just to make sure that the ‘immortal Sharon’ would not bounce back and dismiss this gross interpretation as complete nonsense.

(LONDON) - In a uniquely dishonest piece, The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland paid a tribute today to Israel’s veteran PM Ariel Sharon.

According to Freedland, Sharon, “as one of Israel's founders… had the credibility to give up occupied territory – and even to face the demons of 1948”. Freedland speculates also that “Sharon's final mission might well have been peace.” This is indeed a big statement, but how does Freedland support his creative historical account?

Will Lebanon Survive 2014? Should it?

The latest information this morning comes from Hezbollah security guys who guard our building (and my motorcycle—bless them for both favors!) and who have been visibly present throughout Dahiyeh for the past six months, ever since the spate of neighborhood bombings began.

(BEIRUT) - Another week, another terrorist bombing. It’s beginning to look a lot like that here in Lebanon these days. Another apparent suicide bomber detonated a car rigged with explosives in the southern suburbs yesterday killing at least five people and injuring at least 77.

The health ministry released a statement just a short while ago reporting that an additional 67 people were treated in hospitals for wounds and released, while 10 people remained hospitalized with more severe injuries.

Friends of yours, Mr Cameron?

Israel's Appalling Crime­sheet for 2013... Killed 56, injured 1385, carried out 8636 raids and attacks, demolished 172 homes...

(LONDON) - The Palestinian Embassy, for once, has done something useful and released figures that paint a shocking picture of Israel's mega­crimes against their helpless Palestinian neighbours over the past year.

Of course, these statistics for 2013 barely scratch the surface. The stomach­churning story of the rogue regime's inhuman conduct stretches back to World War 2, before its founding, when Jewish terrorists were attacking and murdering British soldiers of the mandated government right up to their departure in 1948.

Israeli Aggression Leaves Little Hope for Peace

In this year 2014, supporters of Israel in the U.S., both secular and religious, should look long and hard at this strategy of delay and defeat employed by the Israeli Prime Minister.

(CHICAGO) - The year 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. That conflict began on July 28, 1914. It did not end until November 11, 1918.

Keep those dates in mind because by July 28, 2014, it is possible that we will witness the start of another conflict, driven by the same stupidity, greed and lust for power that produced the First World War.

The Story of Gaza

The stories themselves don't actually take up that debate. Rather they depict the struggle merely to survive, the bravery that we may in fact all need everywhere if the earth's climate goes the way scientists expect.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Young authors of fiction from Gaza, some of whom say they are finding Palestine on the internet while unable to see it exist in reality, have just published a collection of stories, written in English, marking the five-year anniversary of the 23 days from December 27, 2008, until Obama's inauguration, during which Israel bombed the people of Gaza far more heavily than usual.

They're publishing a new excerpt of the book each of these 23 days on their FaceBook page. You can talk with them in an upcoming Google Hangout.

Every Person Has a Name

Asaf Weitzen, a lawyer who works for the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants and represents 123 of the asylum seekers, said he was disturbed by the fact that in the appeal the asylum seekers have no names, only numbers.

(JERUSALEM) - Ten days ago some 200 asylum seekers from Sudan and Eritrea marched to Jerusalem to protest against their mistreatment by the Israeli government.

They had left a new ‘open’ detention facility in the Negev desert, where they are obliged to spend the night and attend three role calls during the day. They walked for about six hours to the nearest city, Beer-Sheva, my hometown.

Defenceless or Indefensible?

They haven’t finished. The plan is to steal the entire land of Palestine, obviously with no Palestinians in it. And beyond.

(LONDON) - Israel, since its inception, has portrayed itself as the little, defenceless lamb surrounded by a sea of voracious wolves. The Arabs. Therefore it is the duty of the world to support it and protect it at all costs.

Every aggression, every expansion and every theft of Arab land and resources it commits is justified under the banner of ‘self defence.’