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Obama-The Cairo factor
Posted by smeddum on June 5, 2009
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Living with 75 tons of depleted uranium in Gaza
Posted by seumasach on May 27, 2009
25th May, 2009
Gaza is littered with the depleted uranium Israel uses to strengthen its warheads. Now there will be many children born with deformities and even more precious land beyond human habitation or farming.
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Is Obama Taking on the Israel Lobby?
Posted by smeddum on May 8, 2009
Is Obama Taking on the Israel Lobby?
It sure looks like it
by Justin Raimondo, May 08, 2009
The elaborate pretenses that surround any discussion of Israel are fast making it impossible to say a word about that country without uttering a number of increasingly obvious lies. Read the rest of this entry »
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In Massive Switch, Lieberman Suddenly Open to Peace Israeli FM Backs Off Previous Claims Peace Talks Were Dead
Posted by smeddum on May 5, 2009
In Massive Switch, Lieberman Suddenly Open to Peace
Israeli FM Backs Off Previous Claims Peace Talks Were Dead
by Jason Ditz, May 04, 2009
Antiwar.com
Less than a month after Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman publicly declared all peace talks with the Palestinians were dead, the controversial Yisraeli Beiteinu head used a visit to Rome to insist that the government was dedicated to producing a peace deal with the Palestinians, and said he was confident that the Netanyahu government would “reach a secure and definitive peace” with not just the Palestinians, but all the Arab nations as well. Read the rest of this entry »
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Iran, Syria vow to bring Israel to justice
Posted by seumasach on March 1, 2009
1st March, 2009
Iran and Syria vow to support the rights of Palestinian people by bringing Israeli leaders to justice for their recent war crimes in Gaza.
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Pilger: The Politics of Bollocks
Posted by smeddum on February 10, 2009
7/2/09
by John Pilger
Growing up in an Antipodean society proud of its rich variety of expletives, I never heard the word bollocks. It was only on arrival in England that I understood its majesterial power. All classes used it. Judges grunted it; an editor of the Daily Mirror used it as noun, adjective and verb. Certainly, the resonance of a double vowel saw off its closest American contender. It had authority. Read the rest of this entry »
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Turkey probes Israel ‘war crimes’ in Gaza
Posted by seumasach on February 8, 2009
6th February, 2009
ANKARA – A Turkish prosecutor has launched an investigation into whether Israel committed genocide and crimes against humanity in its offensive in Gaza, his office said Friday.
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Turkish snub changes Middle East game
Posted by alfied on February 4, 2009
By M K Bhadrakumar – Asia Times
There are different ways of looking at the Justice and Democratic Party, or AKP, which rules Turkey. Militant secularists and Kemalists allege it is a Trojan horse of Salafists whose members masquerade as democrats. Others say the AKP is so extremely moderate that it might get ostracized as infidel if it were transplanted to Iran or Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
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Erdogan urges world to recognize Hamas
Posted by seumasach on February 1, 2009
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1st February, 2009
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for recognition of Hamas which won a landslide victory in Palestinian elections.
In an interview with The Washington Post published Saturday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said isolating Hamas is the reason for the ongoing tensions in the region.
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France Summons Israeli Ambassador Over Convoy Attack
Posted by seumasach on January 29, 2009
28th January, 2009
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Israel stymies French push to lift European boycott of Hamas
The French Foreign Ministry summoned Israeli ambassador Daniel Shek today over an incident in which a convoy of French diplomats, including the nation’s consul general were blocked from crossing the Gaza border for over six hours and shot at by Israeli troops.
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Israel stymies French push to lift European boycott of Hamas
Posted by seumasach on January 28, 2009
28th January, 2009
Using intense diplomatic pressure over the past two days, Israeli officials blocked a French attempt to weaken Jerusalem’s stance with Hamas at the pre-written closing statement of the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels last night.
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