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Archives for August 2015

Apartheid
Israel’s Illegal blockade of Gaza based on "made-up laws"; resistance outlawed

Israel’s Illegal blockade of Gaza based on “made-up laws”; resistance outlawed

contributors

By Azeezah Kanji | (OpenDemocracy) | – – Israel invokes the privileges of engaging in international armed conflict but denies Palestinians their corresponding entitlements under the same body of law. This is the colonial nature of Israel’s legal logic. One year after the onslaught of violence Israel called “Operation Protective Edge,” Gaza is still in […]

Featured
Is Israeli military using Barak in struggle w/ Netanyahu over Iran Deal?

Is Israeli military using Barak in struggle w/ Netanyahu over Iran Deal?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – – The revelations from former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s memoir keep coming. Another excerpt was broadcast by Israel’s Channel 2 on Sunday. Barak gave the interviews as background to his autobiography “Wars (Milhamot) of my Life.” “Bibi is weak, he doesn’t…he doesn’t want to take tough steps […]

Corruption
Youth Revolts are back-- Lebanon, Iraq Shaken by demand for Services, end to Corruption

Youth Revolts are back– Lebanon, Iraq Shaken by demand for Services, end to Corruption

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The master narrative of much Western journalism is that the youth protests of 2011 have been replaced by civil war and terrorism. But while there is plenty of both in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Libya, in fact here and there in the region youth protests have […]

Displaced and Refugees
Slovakia Will Only Accept Christian Migrants

Slovakia Will Only Accept Christian Migrants

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Jo Ankier and Jose Marcelino Orti | (TheLipTV Video News) | – – “Slovakia announced Thursday that it will only accept Christians when it takes in refugees fleeing conflict in Syria under an EU resettlement plan as Europe deals with an influx of migrants. Muslims would not be accepted because they would not feel at […]

Apartheid
Israel issues demolition order for mosque in Palestinian East Jerusalem

Israel issues demolition order for mosque in Palestinian East Jerusalem

contributors

Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli municipality officials delivered a demolition order Friday to the al-Qaaqaa Mosque, a house, and a studio apartment in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, local sources told Ma’an. Majdi al-Abbasi, from the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, said that Israeli municipality members delivered […]

Domestic Terrorism
American Heroes on French Train show Courage, not Billions, needed to Face down Terrorism

American Heroes on French Train show Courage, not Billions, needed to Face down Terrorism

contributors

Deutsche Welle | (Video News Report) | – – “Three Americans are being hailed as heroes, after overpowering a gunman aboard a European high-speed train. Reports say the suspect was armed with an assault rifle and a knife.” Men who subdued train attacker talk to media | DW News

Authoritarianism
How Islamic State is moving its Egyptian battle from Sinai to Cairo

How Islamic State is moving its Egyptian battle from Sinai to Cairo

contributors

By Natasha Ezrow | (The Conversation) | – – Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for a powerful car bomb detonated outside a state security building in northern Cairo which injured 29 people, including six policemen. The Egyptian ministry claimed that: “A man suddenly stopped his car in front of the state security building, jumped […]

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Barak--  Netanyahu was on verge of Attacking Iran 3 Times 2010-12 (Why Listening to him on Iran Diplomacy is Daft)

Barak– Netanyahu was on verge of Attacking Iran 3 Times 2010-12 (Why Listening to him on Iran Diplomacy is Daft)

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In a radio interview, former Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak revealed that the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was on the verge of attacking Iran on 3 separate occasions in 2010-2012, but was consistently blocked by other (even far right wing) cabinet ministers or by […]

Barack Obama
Momentum growing for Iran Deal: Obama Wins Over Jewish Democrat Nadler

Momentum growing for Iran Deal: Obama Wins Over Jewish Democrat Nadler

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Wochit News | (video News Report) | – – “President Barack Obama seeking to reassure a Democratic congressman who represents the most Jewish district in the nation calls the nuclear agreement negotiated with Iran a “very good deal” but pointedly refused to rule out military intervention if Tehran pursues a nuclear weapon. Nadler had been […]

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