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Is Iran really a nuclear threat?

[email protected] May 2, 2018 ayatollah bomb, ballistic, gareth porter, history, iaea, Iran deal, iraq, irgc, jcpoa, khomeini, laptop documents, mek, Mossad, Netanyahu, saudi arabia, shahab 3, wmd

Investigative journalist Gareth Porter dispels myths about Iran’s alleged nuclear program: Israel has been crying wolf about Iran & nukes since the 1980s (including likely forging documents), while the IAEA has been declaring Tehran’s compliance; the Ayatollah has maintained that WMDs are “unIslamic,” and Iran hasn’t used any (even against Iraq’s WMDs); Iran needs ballistic missiles as a deterrent since it has no air force; and it has never threatened aggression toward Israel.

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Amira Hass: As if Israel Did Nothing Shameful Before the Advent of Smartphones

[email protected] April 23, 2018 Amira Hass, history, smartphone, umm al hiran

Amira Hass writes in Ha’aretz that Israeli soldiers who kill unarmed Palestinians didn’t pop up for the 1st time three weeks ago. Nor did the army’s excuses start only then. Gross violation of human rights (and Israeli denial) are as old as the state itself – even older. The actions excuses continue unabated in spite of smartphones and security cameras.

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The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended: A Revealing Family Story

[email protected] April 21, 2018 1929, 70th anniversary, Bernadotte, Bisharat, folke bernadotte, golda meir, hanna ibrahim bisharat, history, Nakba, villa harun al rashid

As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian refugees describes his remarkable family history – family members harbored Jewish neighbors in 1929, helped Count Folke Bernadotte, after Israel confiscated the family home, Golda Meir lived there… and discusses the continuing injustices endured as Palestinians resist Israel’s violent colonization.

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Israel advocacy groups demand questionable changes to Virginia textbooks

[email protected] April 17, 2018 aliza craimer elias, five ponds press, history, houghton mifflin harcourt, institute for curriculum services, israel lobby, mcgraw hill, national geographic, prentice hall, textbook, virginia, whitewash

Pro-Israel curriculum provider Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS) is working with local Jewish groups and the Virginia Department of Education to whitewash Virginia textbooks by removing words like “occupied” and “settlements” and replacing them with more favorable terms like “captured” and “communities.”

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The Intolerable Hypocrisy of the American Jewish Congress

[email protected] December 19, 2017 AJC, Balfour Declaration, brandeis, history

The American Jewish Congress claims to respect Palestinians’ rights while lauding the means by which Israel was created: the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

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The ‘Last Martyr’: Who Killed My Neighbor, Kamal Al-Assar?

[email protected] December 19, 2017 broken bones, history, Kamal Al-Assar

During the First Intifada a new Israeli stratagem was devised: the “broken bones” policy. Once captured, youth had their hands and legs broken by soldiers in a systematic manner. In my neighborhood, children with casts and crutches seemed to outnumber those without…. Kamal was perhaps the last martyr in an uprising that was not meant to liberate land, but liberate people from the idea that they were meant to exist as perpetual victims; and it did…

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Three articles with background on Trump’s Jerusalem move & the Adelson connection

[email protected] December 7, 2017 adelson, ali abunima, history, Jerusalem, partition plan, Trump

Background on President Trump’s announcement regarding Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The issue has its roots in history and in the hearts of billions of adherents of the world’s three most populous religions. Billionaire Israel partisan Sheldon Adelson pushed for Trump’s move…

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The Real Story of How Israel Was Created (It wasn’t the UN)

[email protected] November 30, 2017 history, UN

Israel and its partisans have been celebrating Nov. 29 as the 70th anniversary of the UN partition vote that some people believe created Israel. In reality, this vote was obtained through bribes and threats, was opposed by the U.S. State Department, and has no force of law…

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The Balfour Declaration: World Zionism and World War I

[email protected] November 9, 2017 Balfour, churchill, history, weizmann, WWI

Only a relatively few historians acknowledge just how close Britain came to losing the First World War. Zionists gave a hand behind the scenes in exchange for help in creating a state.

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Who wrote the Balfour Declaration and why: The World War I Connection

[email protected] October 24, 2017 Balfour Declaration, First World War, history, Leopold Amery, Louis Brandeis, Rothshild, WWI

The Balfour Declaration was the result of a “gentleman’s agreement” in which Zionists promised to bring the U.S. into WWI on the side of Britain if Britain would promise to facilitate their goal of creating a Jewish state. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis played a key, hidden role…

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