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Why a `Palestinian Gandhi` Has Never Emerged - and Probably Never Will

The implicit demand for morality in the struggle sounds like acceptance of the claim that the Israeli army is moral even when it kills civilians, and is seen as a concession to the world’s one-sided vision.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Several masked men marched through the center of Ramallah early last week and called for the launch of a third intifada.

Hidden faces radiate tremendous power: whether they are those of soldiers wearing black ski masks when they burst into bedrooms in the middle of the night, guns drawn...

Israel`s Response to Arab League Shows it May be Palestinians With No Peace Partner

Many of Israel's strongest supporters in the U.S. lament the way Israel rejected the Arab League initiative and Kerry's efforts to re-start the peace process.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Israel frequently says that it has "no partner for peace." In fact, the real situation seems far different.

In 2002, the Arab League launched a peace initiative saying that if Israel withdrew to its pre-1967 borders it could be recognized by the entire Arab world. More recently, in May, Qatar's Prime Minister tried to revive the Arab peace initiative, moderating it to hew closer to the outlines presented by the Obama administration since 2011.

Another Attack on the Jaber Family by Israeli Settlers

The settlers' goal is to terrorize the Palestinians to leave their land, which would then be grabbed up by settlers in the name of the state of Israel.

(OCCUPIED PALESTINE) - For three hours on Friday, dozens of settlers from Kiryat Arba invaded the land and gardens of the Jaber family – Atta, Rudina and their three children – in al-Baqaa, near Hebron.

Accompanied by the Israeli police and led by Malachi Levinger, the son of the violent settlement pioneer Moshe Levinger who himself has been implicated in many attacks on families in the al-Baqaa area, they uprooted his plants and replaced them with their own.

Zionist Racism

Imagine if a politician in another country had bragged about lowering a minority group’s birthrate – like Netanyahu and his new ambassador to the U.S. did.

(BETHLEHEM) - In this week’s news: Hamas and Fatah rift widens as they picked sides in Egyptian rift; both ended up harming the Palestinian case for perceived factional interests.

Hamas supporters defended their association with President Morsi and Fatah leaders put their support behind the Egyptian military that deposed Morsi.

Notes on Status of Our World

There is a game of occasionally supporting one faction over another as long as that faction leaves Israel and Western Corporate interests alone. This is the strategy of divide and conquer.

(BETHLEHEM) - Citizens of Western Countries must demand that their governments stop supporting this sick game of divide and conquer that also fosters Christian, Islamic and Jewish fanaticism.

Long-term, there will be separation of religion from state politics whether in Palestine (Israel as a “Jewish state”) or in Egypt or elsewhere. We will have our own renaissance.

And Now They Want The Temple Rebuilt

Jewish secularism is a bizarre concept. It is a racially driven tribal affiliation motivated by supremacist inclinations.

(LONDON) - Haaretz reported today that one third of Israeli Jews want the Temple rebuilt in Jerusalem.

Apparently dozens of movements in Israel are attempting to change the status quo at Haram Ash-Sharif, widely considered the third holiest site in Islam. They aim towards a resurrection of the Jewish Temple at the site.

Israel`s Indigenous Invaders

How Israel justifies the immanent relocation of thousands of Palestinian Bedouin by characterizing them as invaders.

(JERUSALEM) - On June 24th the “Prawer Plan for the Arrangement of Bedouin-Palestinian Settlement in the Negev” passed its first reading in the Israeli parliament.

If implemented, the Plan will constitute “the largest single act of forced displacement of Arab citizens of Israel since the 1950s,” expelling an estimated forty thousand Palestinian Bedouin from their current dwellings.

Alice in Holy-land

In this land of wonders, Alice saw... murderers get Nobel peace prizes, thieves are the guardians of peace and security, war criminals are the law,

(LONDON) - Alice was falling up, then rising down,
With a quantum leap, transcending
Into a parallel universe

Were every thing is upside down,
And nothing is what it seems to be;
In a forgotten land, once called Palestine.

12% of Israelis Admit Paying Bribes

Considering Israel being The Jewish State, we are entitled to assume that the above statistics tells us something about Jewish culture and politics.

(LONDON) - Israeli press reported today that 12% of Israelis paid a bribe in the past year, and political parties and religious organizations are perceived as Israel's most corrupt public institutions, according to the Global Corruption Barometer 2013 published today by Transparency International.

12% of the respondents said that they paid a bribe in the past year. Almost one in ten Israelis (9%) who came in contact with government real estate services said that they paid a bribe.

Rising Above

“To smile when confronted with the most severe oppression, is an act of Resistance rooted in unparalleled beauty.” ~ Jonathan Azaziah

(LONDON) - Soaked in humiliation
Standing in the corner
Of the security-check cubical
All alone

No mum to hold my hand
Or calm down my fear
No dad to hide my shame
And wipe my tears away