Bob Morris Posted on Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:30 am.
A friend, who is strongly progressive, was born in Israel. Her parents moved to the US when she was twelve. Some years ago I asked her about Palestine. She said, “I was twelve. All I knew was they were Palestinians and they were trying to kill us.” Another friend is Palestinian and was born in [...]
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William Boardman Posted on Sun Aug 19, 2012 16:30 pm.
It should be noted that the Jewish Community Relations Council, the American Jewish Committee, and the Anti-Defamation League issued statements condemning the ads
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Bob Morris Posted on Fri Apr 20, 2012 20:34 pm.
Podcast from Aquanomics You should listen to it if you want to know more about the “water apartheid” that Israel is practicing in the occupied territories, and the institutional, logistical and “capacity” constraints that the Palestinians have in taking care of their own water.* Bottom Line: Palestine has enough problems with development, but Israel is [...]
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Thomas Ware Posted on Sat Dec 10, 2011 10:48 am.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, a stupid person’s idea of what a smart guy sounds like, said this week that Palestinians are an “invented” people, a position that could be seen as putting him at odds with the U.S. push for a two-state solution in the Middle East. “Remember, there was no Palestine as a [...]
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Byron DeLear Posted on Thu Feb 3, 2011 11:26 am.
A class action lawsuit has just been filed in New York against former U.S. President Jimmy Carter for his 2006 book, “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid.” The suit, captioned Unterberg et al. v. Jimmy Carter et al., is the latest salvo from the right-wing activist Israel Law Center, which claims to be an “Israeli based civil [...]
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Byron DeLear Posted on Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:30 am.
There’s a common misperception that the constant state of warfare and conflict that besets the Holy Land, Eretz Israel, or in Arabic, Bilad Ash’ Sham, is a result of some cultural or racial flaw—“oh, they’ve been fighting for two thousand years, they’ll never stop.” Even the most cursory examination of human history reveals skirmishes, battles, [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Sat Mar 13, 2010 23:45 pm.
Message from America to the Israeli government: Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. And right now, you’re driving drunk. You think you can embarrass your only true ally in the world, to satisfy some domestic political need, with no consequences? You have lost total contact with reality. Call us when you’re serious. We need to [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Dec 23, 2009 5:15 am.
Andy Carling tells about the documentary film, Heart of Jenin. One year later, [the father, Ismael Khatib] toured round Israel in the company of German film maker, Marcus Vetter, and visited five of the children who had received transplants. Asked why, Khatib said, “It’s not about politics, about Jews or Arabs, it’s about human beings. [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Tue Jun 16, 2009 15:56 pm.
“The starving of 1.5 million human beings of the necessities of life — never before in history has a large community like this been savaged by bombs and missiles and then denied the means to repair itself,” Carter said at a UN school graduation ceremony in Gaza City.
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Bob Morris Posted on Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:36 am.
From The Guardian, citing Israeli newspaper reports Striking testimony has emerged from Israeli soldiers involved in the recent Gaza war, in which they describe shooting unarmed civilians, sometimes under orders from their officers.
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