Orlando, Florida (CNN) – Hillary Clinton supporters rejected an effort Saturday to add a call for "an end to occupations and illegal settlements" in Palestinian territories into the Democratic platform. Clinton's backers argued that the current language in the party's platform, calling for negotiations for a two-state solution in Israel to give Palestinians a homeland, are enough and that going …
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BDS is a war Israel can’t win – by Stanley L Cohen
Israel's apologists would call the BDS campaign "immoral", but the slander is laughably false. Israeli think-tank fellow Yossi Klein Halevi, writing recently in the Los Angeles Times would have American readers believe that the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement is “immoral” and threatens the peace of "the region's only intact society", while simultaneously boasting it can't touch Israel's health and …
Read More »How Obama Could Stop Those Israeli Settlements By Robert Wright
According to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Bibi Netanyahu has delivered "the worst possible slap in the face" to President Obama. Olmert was referring, of course, to Netanyahu's announcement that Israel will proceed with a settlement project that, the New York Times reported, "has long been condemned by Washington as effectively dooming any prospect of a two-state solution." (An …
Read More »Is an Israeli military strike on Iran imminent? By Latheef Farook
Is an Israeli military strike on Iran imminent to destroy its nuclear processing facilities? One after the other, under one pretext or the other, the United States whose foreign policy is shaped and molded by powerful Jewish lobbies, backed by United Kingdom and Europe, invaded countries in the Middle East and turned the region into a virtual graveyard. First …
Read More »US Iran Policy in ‘Lockstep’ with Israel? President Obama Risks Becoming a Major-League War Criminal By Dave Lindorff
It’s a relief to know that President Obama’s “preferred” solution to dealing with disagreements with Iran is diplomacy, as he said yesterday in an interview on NBC TV, but at the same time, it’s profoundly disturbing that he is simultaneously saying that, as an AP report on the interview put it: he would “not take options off the table to stop Iran …
Read More »Exclusive: Israel Warns US Jews: Iran Could Strike Here By RICHARD ESPOSITO
Engineering Consent For An Attack On Iran – Presstitute Alert Israeli facilities in North America — and around the world — are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase. "We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase … …
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