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Palestine`s Quislings

A Hand in the Till Not on the Tiller.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - A picture is indeed sometimes worth a thousand words. A photo of Secretary of State John Kerry disembarking from his plane in Tel Aviv showed chief US negotiator Martin Indyk walking along at his side with a grin on his face as if he had just heard a new Palestinian joke in the plane on the way over.

It looked like Israel’s American legal team had arrived and just couldn’t wait for the first photo op with a glowering Benjamin Netanyahu.

Defending Good and Evil

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. --George Orwell

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Typically, people argue to defend what they do (or believe), attacking opposing views where they can, and ignoring arguments they haven't considered.

The more that kind of activity serves as American foreign policy--whether it’s in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Syria or Iraq, the more the USA can expect revenge from understandably vengeful victims of American terrorism.

Angry Sabboth Goy

Once again, the angry man who saturates his rant with racial references to black vs. white decided to join forces with the Zionist Jewish Lobby in its campaign against freedom of speech. This time the Angry Arab chases a Black comedian.

(LONDON) - Angry Sabboth Goy AKA Angry Arab stated today that Dieudonne is an anti-Semite and should be rejected from the pro-Palestinian community.

"The French branch of the Palestine solidarity committee was right in categorically rejecting Dieudonne and his antics. He does not belong to our camps. All anti-Semitic haters and racists should be excluded from the pro-Palestine struggle. The Palestinian cause is too precious and noble."

Israel`s Ariel Sharon Dead at 85

Former Israeli prime minister dies eight years after going into a coma following a stroke.

(TEL AVIV al Jazeera) - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died, Israeli Army Radio and medical sources have announced. He was 85 years old and had been in a coma since 2006, when a stroke incapacitated him at the height of his political power.

"Ariel Sharon has passed away," said Shlomo Noy, a spokesman for Sheba medical center in Tel Aviv, where Sharon was being treated for most of the past eight years, on Saturday. Officials at the hospital announced a week ago that Sharon's health had deteriorated sharply and that he was in "grave condition" with his family at his bedside.

Reviewing NAFTA and the Environment

To put the budgetary numbers in perspective, the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in California alone registered $34.5 billion in cross-border trade in 2012, according to the local chamber of commerce.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - As possible, new trade agreements stir debate on the world stage, a North American citizen advisory panel is urging that a new emphasis be placed on the ecological costs of increased trade and money flows.

In a statement, the Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC), a trinational group consisting of representatives from the three member nations of NAFTA, called on the leaders of Canada, the United States and Mexico to demonstrate a “revival of political will” and undertake a “new mission” with enhanced public involvement in trade and environmental matters.

Rape is ALSO an `Incident to Service`?

"EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW" is written above the main entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court Building. Any ideas on how to make this happen for veterans and active duty military men and woman?

(WASHINGTON, DC) - As of 2014 the U.S. Congress has yet to make a "Rule" preventing injurious, non-consensual experiments on and rape of U.S. Military Personnel, i.e., by a Law of the Land NOT by a Dept. of Defense (DOD) Administrative Decree!!

The U.S. Congress’s 2014 Dereliction of Duty? Any "EQUAL JUSTICE" for service women & men ideas?

Israel-Palestine: Is Peace Possible On Obama`s Watch?

If Rosenberg is right about the process he describes as being underway in America’s Jewish community, the day IS coming when an American president WILL be able to break free from the Zionist lobby’s stranglehold on policy for the Israel-Palestine conflict.

(LONDON) - The answer to my headline question could be, not necessarily would be, “Yes” IF President Obama was prepared to put America’s own best interests first and use as necessary all the leverage he has to oblige Israel to accept that peace with the Palestinians requires a complete end to its occupation of the West Bank.

With East Jerusalem the capital of a Palestinian state or, preferably, Jerusalem an undivided, open city and the capital of two states, Israel back to its 1967 pre-war frontiers subject only to minor and mutually agreed border modifications is an Israel the Palestinians could and would make peace with. But...

Colombia: Second Break-In at the Offices of CPDH and ANDAS

Initiate an immediate, exhaustive and impartial investigation into the above-mentioned breaks-in, as well as into the intimidation and threats against CPDH, ANDAS and their members, with a view to identifying those responsible and bringing them to justice in accordance with international standards-William Nicholas Gomes

(WASHINGTON, DC) - On 6 January 2014, the Valle del Cauca offices of the Comité Permanente por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos – CPDH (Permanent Committee for the Defence of Human Rights) and of the Asociación Nacional de Ayuda Solidaria – ANDAS (National Association of Assistance and Solidarity) were broken into.

This is the second time in three months that their offices have been broken into and sensitive information taken.

Pressures Mounting... A Palestinian-Hezbollah War in Lebanon?

The Sunni and the Shia just as with the Palestinians and Hezbollah need each other for many reasons including to confront growing Islamophobia...

(AIN EL HELWEH CAMP, Lebanon) - It’s not just the leadership of the Zionist regime still occupying Palestine, six decades after the 1948 Nakba, that appears to be salivating at the current stoking of current tensions between the Palestinian Resistance and in some respects, its historic off-spring Hezbollah.

From Tel Aviv, to Amman, Riyadh, the Gulf Kingdoms to Washington DC and beyond, the forces allied against the Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah-Palestinian Resistance are working on yet another project to weaken and hopefully destroy all four.

Afghan Taliban Denies Role In Case Of `Suicide Attack` Girl

The 10 year old girl detained by police on January 6 in the southern province of Helmand, said she refused to carry out the attack. Authorities say they are searching for her brother.

(KABUL Radio Free Europe/Radio Libert) - A Taliban spokesman has denied any involvement by the group in the case of a young girl who says her Taliban brother dressed her in an explosives-filled vest and told her to carry out a suicide attack against Afghan police.

Spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi denounced the story as "propaganda" from the Afghan government.