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Juan Cole continues his thoughts on why protests in the streets have little, if any, effect on the US policy towards Israel, and what needs to be done. The US Senate and the US House of Representatives are not afraid of street protests in San Francisco. And why should they be? What sort of threat [...] Photo from TimesOnline article. (Khalil Hamra/AP) Ira Chernus, professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder on AlterNet For more than 40 years, I’ve been watching my own Jewish people in wartime, repeating the same self-defeating pattern over and over. Most Jews say that they want Israel to be more secure, and [...] If a Stop the Gaza Invasion protest is filled with speakers saying we must stand with Palestinians even if this means decades more of struggle and conflict, then by definition it is not an antiwar rally. Antiwar means figuring out how to end the violence, not calling for more by saying our side must [...] AFP photo from BBC From Hope man. He is Israeli and lives near Gaza. He blogs with Peace man, who is Palestinian and lives in Gaza. We are now 2 weeks into the war. 1 week since the ground incursion and Peace man and I have been in very little contact since the. He [...] Neither side wants a cease-fire. How much more carnage will there be? And to what end? Nobody is winning here except the warlords. Cardinal Martino, president of the Vatican’s Council for Justice and Peace, made the comment to Italian online site Il Sussidiario. “Defenceless populations are always the ones who pay,” he said. “Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration camp.” [...] They call themselves Peace Man and Hope Man, one is Israeli, the other Palestinian. They live on opposite sides of the Israel-Gaza border. They blog about what it’s like. This blog is written by 2 friends. One lives in Sajaia refugee camp in Gaza and the other lives in Sderot, a small town near Gaza [...] What everyone needs to take but probably won’t. Harry’s Place And even if you hold Israel responsible for the current conflict, try to look at things from an Israeli point of view. Do you really think Israeli commander said, “There are Palestinian civilians sheltering in that building. Let’s blast them”? It’s certainly possible. And [...] “729″ is the country code for Israel Boycott Israel has a huge amount of links and information about the growing number of campaigns to boycott Israel, plus lots more. Lest there be any doubt on the subject, this site is not anti-Jewish. Many of the sites linked to on this page are run by [...] Huh. But the UN says they provide Israel with coordinates of their facilities specifically so they won’t be targeted. So why the deaths at the school, then? Are Gaza hospitals are being targeted? Craig Murray notes the immensely unbalanced coverage on the BBC. I watched BBC World News for a timed hour yesterday. In that [...] |  | ||||
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