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“We are all Gaza”:  West Bank protests Israeli Brutality, Divide & Rule Tactics

“We are all Gaza”: West Bank protests Israeli Brutality, Divide & Rule Tactics

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By Daoud Kuttab (Maan News Agency) Analysis: Gaza and the West Bank are one political entity The admission was buried deep in a long drawn out analysis by Israel’s leading columnist. Nahum Barnea revealed that one of the yet to be declared results of the war on Gaza is the realization that the attempts to […]

Apartheid
The Battered People of Gaza:  “We’re not Abandoning the Resistance & No Peace until the Blockade is Lifted”

The Battered People of Gaza: “We’re not Abandoning the Resistance & No Peace until the Blockade is Lifted”

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Paul Mason, Channel 4 News (Gaza City) “In the destroyed suburb of Zeitoun in Gaza City Paul Mason finds local support for Hamas still strong.” They look you in the eye and say we are not giving up our support for the Resistance (Hamas) and there will be no peace until the Israeli siege on […]

Apartheid
Israel’s Indiscriminate Killing of Civilians is a Feature, not a Bug of its Strategy (The Young Turks)

Israel’s Indiscriminate Killing of Civilians is a Feature, not a Bug of its Strategy (The Young Turks)

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By Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks “As Israel showed signs of scaling back its ground offensive in Gaza, its war from the skies continued Sunday, as an airstrike outside a U.N. school in southern Gaza killed at least 10 people. The bloodshed sparked some of the harshest U.S. criticism of Israel since the war began. […]

Apartheid
When will the Madness Stop?  Inside the Collapsing Hospitals of Gaza

When will the Madness Stop? Inside the Collapsing Hospitals of Gaza

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Channel 4 News: “Paul Mason meets some of the victims of the latest shelling in Gaza, including a two-year-old child, as the outside of a UN school in Rafah is hit. The UN says the strike is a ‘criminal act’ and ‘the madness must stop’.” Channel 4 News: ‘This madness must stop’ – inside the […]

Apartheid
Israel’s Repeated Bombing of Schools and Schoolchildren Is a War Crime & Should be Punished

Israel’s Repeated Bombing of Schools and Schoolchildren Is a War Crime & Should be Punished

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By Alan Smith, University of Ulster The shelling of Jabalia Elementary Girls’ School in Gaza on July 30 by Israeli forces was a shocking example of modern military action. The shelling was the sixth time a United Nations school has been struck since the current hostilities began. Increasingly and tragically, education is at the centre […]

Bill of Rights
Are the 17 Intel Agencies now the Fourth Branch of Government?

Are the 17 Intel Agencies now the Fourth Branch of Government?

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By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch.com The Fourth Branch The Rise to Power of the National Security State By Tom Engelhardt As every schoolchild knows, there are three check-and-balance branches of the U.S. government: the executive, Congress, and the judiciary. That’s bedrock Americanism and the most basic high school civics material. Only one problem: it’s just […]

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The Hateful Likud Charter Calls for Destruction of Any Palestinian State

The Hateful Likud Charter Calls for Destruction of Any Palestinian State

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By Jonathan Weiler Since virtually every comment on Hamas in American media includes the assertion that the group’s Charter rejects Israel’s right to exist, it’s worth noting the following from the Likud Platform of 1999: a. “The Jordan river will be the permanent eastern border of the State of Israel.” b. “Jerusalem is the eternal, […]

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Do you Think your Smartphone Location Data is Private?  The Police Don’t

Do you Think your Smartphone Location Data is Private? The Police Don’t

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By Hanni Fakhoury via EFF The Fourth Amendment protects us from “unreasonable” government searches of our persons, houses, papers and effects. How courts should determine what is and isn’t reasonable in our increasingly digital world is the subject of a new amicus brief we filed today in San Francisco federal court. At issue is historical […]

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“Mr. Netanyahu is Engaged in the Liquidation of an Entire Nation” – Powerful Palestinian Statement from West Bank

“Mr. Netanyahu is Engaged in the Liquidation of an Entire Nation” – Powerful Palestinian Statement from West Bank

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BBC: Spokesman for Fatah, Dr Husam Zomlot tells the BBC News that Israeli PM Netanyahu is guilty of ‘ liquidation of an entire nation’. ‘We haven’t got any rockets in West Bank yet Israel kills everyday’ – BBC News

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