Philip Giraldi in CNI: In 1992, the AIPAC President bragged how he “got almost a billion dollars in other goodies [for Israel] that people don’t even know about.” In 2012, Israel’s former commander-in-chief said that between 2009 and 2012 American taxpayers had paid for more of his country’s defense budget than had Israeli taxpayers. Other special interest groups have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert it as far from the national interest…
Israel to demolish homes of anti-occupation activists’ families
Israel is threatening to demolish the home of Abbas Qar’an, his wife, and their four children, which was built in 1960. Two other anti-occupation activists’ families have received similar demolition notices.
Today marks the 69th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre
Over 100 men, women and children were murdered by members of the Zionist terror groups Irgun and Stern Gang at Deir Yassin. The massacre was part of “Plan Dalet,” an ethnic cleansing operation designed to remove non-Jewish inhabitants from historic Palestine in order to create a Jewish state.
Israel has never recognized the Palestinian right to self-determination
Henry Siegman: “No Israeli leader would give up any part of his country’s territory. But it is Palestinian leaders who are accused by Israel of refusing to make concessions for peace, a lie US administrations consistently repeat to imply a non-existent equivalence between Israeli and Palestinian resistance to a two-state agreement.”
The New York Times hasn’t published a pro-BDS op-ed in three years
In the meantime, the newspaper has published seven opinion columns that took a clear position against the Palestinian-led boycott movement, including two during the month of March. One is titled “Why Israel Is Nothing Like Apartheid South Africa.”
A different take on David Friedman, Trump’s new ambassador to Israel
Ynet News op-ed: If David Friedman, the settlers’ own flesh and blood, is capable of changing direction, his words will carry more weight when he comes to the settlements and says there is no other solution apart from two states.
Book review of Alison Weir’s “Against Our Better Judgment” – by Ziad Hafez
By Ziad Hafez, Contemporary Arab Affairs — This short book is quite powerful and displays historical accounts and analyses supported by a solid documentation showing scholarly knowledge and objective reporting. It is an indispensable tool for any researcher on the root cause of Middle Eastern turmoil, and contains explosive, meticulously documented information about the Zionist movement in the United States, Europe, and Palestine…
Israeli sniper shot photographer Tom Hurndall in the head 17 years ago
Fourteen years ago this month, Tom Hurndall, a 22-year old student and photographer, was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in Gaza as he tried to rescue small Palestinian girls from Israeli gunfire.
Ben & Jerry’s: Stop selling ice cream in illegal Israeli settlements! [ACTION ALERT]
Phone Ben & Jerry’s Vermont headquarters this week at (802) 846-1500 (8:00 am to 4:00pm EDT) to demand an immediate stop to the marketing and sales of its “peace & love” ice cream in illegal, Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
New book describes how Zionist terrorism created the modern state of Israel
State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel by Thomas Suarez explains how violence and terror were used by Zionist militias against Arabs and the British to transform Arab Palestine into a Jewish state.