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GAZA YOUTH’S MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE: “We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community! We want to scream…” – read more below!

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  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq

    Dreoilin,

    Somebody else wrote this in response to the WSJ article, but it is exactly my sentiment.

    The entire premise of this article is bogus. The first line claims that Iran has “announced its intention to build a nuclear bomb.” This alleged announcement has never been made by Iran. Quite the contrary, the Iranian government has repeatedly stated its explicit rejection of nuclear weapons and has vowed time and again never to produce a nuclear bomb. The findings of the IAEA, as well as all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, continue to show that Iran has no nuclear weapons program (and hasn’t for at least seven years), and quite possibly, never even had one to begin with.

    Furthermore, Iran is the leading proponent of a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the Middle East and states this desire constantly and consistently. Only Israel refuses to endorse this proposal due to its unmonitored arsenal of 400 nuclear warheads.

    Whoever wrote this WSJ article is either grossly misinformed or, more plausibly, is a deliberate liar in the service of warmongers. Same goes for the editors who approved of and signed off on this piece of garbage. As I highly doubt there are even any fact-checkers working for the WSJ, I won’t bother condemning them too.

  • somebody

    Guest Media Alert – Tilting Towards Israel

    Journalist Jonathan Cook Reveals The Bias In ‘Balance’ On Israel-Palestine

    Towards the end of last year, we sent out two media alerts – Put The Palestinians On A Diet and Too Toxic To Handle? – about the corporate media’s failure to report the release of documents detailing Israel’s deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza. “The idea”, explained a senior Israeli official, “is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” The human rights group Gisha published explicit Israeli formulas for the amount of food, animal feed and poultry to be allowed into Gaza, and the cold calculation of “breathing space”: the number of days before these essential supplies would run out.

    We exposed the near-uniform silence of the media to these shocking revelations, as well as the media’s failure to respond to many impassioned and articulate emails from the public. A rare exception, triggered by Media Lens’ revelations, was provided by Mehdi Hasan in the small-circulation New Statesman last week.

    This whole episode is yet another example of the supposed truth seekers of the fourth estate being both supine to power and dismissive of the public. For a better understanding of why this might happen in the case of Israel-Palestine, we are fortunate to be able to turn to the authentic insight and bravery of a journalist like Jonathan Cook. He is rare indeed: someone with inside knowledge of how the media operates who is prepared to speak out. A recent Cook article gives a superb account of his experiences in trying to report honestly on the Middle East, first for the Guardian, and later as an independent journalist based in Nazareth (full unabridged version).

    /…..

    http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=594:guest-media-alert-killing-journalism&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=

  • dreoilin

    “… Whoever wrote this WSJ article is either grossly misinformed or, more plausibly, is a deliberate liar in the service of warmongers …”

    Exactly, Mark. Thanks for posting.

    They (the ‘journalists’ at the WSJ) are utterly without shame.

  • Courtenay Barnett

    Posted from ” Angry Arab news service” – instructive to the new generation of Palestinian youth:-

    ” Abu Maher Yamani dead

    A giant of Palestinian/Arab struggle has died. Abu Maher Al-Yamani a veteran leader of the Movement of Arab Nationalists and of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has died in Beirut. This was a unique struggle: a giant in the contemporary history of Palestinian struggle. A man who lived in Beirut but refused to allow the Lebanese scene to corrupt him as it has corrupted many leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement. For years, he was chosen as the PFLP’s representative in the Executive Committee of the PLO: and that enraged Arafat. Because Arafat favored representative that he could buy and sell. Not with Abu Maher. This man used to ride his bike during the Lebanese civil war: he said that gasoline is precious and that it should be left for the fighters. I last saw Abu Maher maybe in 2005 when he introduced me to a Palestinian audience in Beirut. He told me privately that a volume of his memoirs would not be published until after his death because it may cause embarrassments due to its treatment of internal matters in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. I offer my condolences to his family. Why does the young radical Arab generation know about Che but not about Abu Maher Al-Yamani? I wonder.”

  • Anonymous

    “Palestinian women explain why they are willing to die in a fight against Israel.”

    Well, approvingly showing video of women saying they want to be suicide bombers isn’t actually going to help the Gazans cause. Given that they yearn to walk into shops or up to checkpoints and detonate themselves, what would be the smartest thing for Israel to do?

  • glenn

    Mark: As Gig wrote above, the WSJ is just another filthy Murdoch organ now. It used to be quite reasonable, at least as you go when the investor classes are talking with one another. Since the takeover, the editor and a bunch of chief staff have been kicked out and replaced with compliant stooges. The remaining staff understand the message, alright. You can no longer expect anything truthful from it than you would from Fox “news” or The Sun.

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq

    The Second Coming – Asia 1

    The activists have arrived in Gaza while the aid cargo is due to arrive soon by boat.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12108592

    According to Palestinian officials the Asian aid convoy – dubbed Asia 1 – includes a boat carrying 300 tonnes of medicine, food and toys, as well as four buses and 10 power generators for hospitals.

    It is the latest effort by international activists to break Israels blockade on the impoverished Gaza Strip.

    In May 2010, nine activists on board a Turkish aid ship were murdered when Israeli naval commandos stormed their aid flotilla, sparking an international outcry.

    The aim of the Asian organisers was to enter the Strip on December 27th, the second anniversary of Israel’s devastating war on Gaza that left more than 1,300 casualties, many of them women and children and a trail of irreparable destruction including 200 schools and 50,000 homes.

    http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_egyptian-clearance-for-gaza-aid-convoy-from-india_1488945

    The Israeli navy is closely monitoring the vessels progress.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/1228/1224286362273.html

    The activists say they want to display solidarity with the Palestinian people in their resistance against Israel.

    english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8910141345

  • Clark

    Thanks to everyone for their kind wishes. Ingo, that’s a lovely image, thank you. Glenn on Orwell and Huxley, yes, their two worlds seemed opposites, and yet both are occurring simultaneously. The Telescreen is the PC or mobile, it never turns quite off and it tracks your every move, yet no one is forced to have one, they pay for a new one even though their old one still works – we don’t like old things, we like new shiny things, ending is better than mending…

  • tungsten

    Activists, intellectuals……anybody!

    Get your asses down to Balboa on Sunday!

    http://newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/6556/Activists-and-Intellectuals-please-join-us-LET-GAZA-LIVE-DEMONSTRATION-VIGIL.aspx

    This is the sort of rally Craig used to speak at in his younger days.

    Remember those halcyon times long ago when Craig told adoring fans that Zionism was “bullshit”!

    Still if a bloke’s on the ADL blacklist he can’t be all bad!

    See you at Balboa everyone!

    P.S.Stay OUT of the Fountain!

  • ingo

    Thanks for that somebody, this gas field looks like trouble ahead, I hope that it will not be a new Jerusalem.

    The borders are not clearly defined, as far as one can see from Adels paper, but is it a huge boulder lying in the corridor of ME history I feel.

    This made me smile today, a new breed of pidgeon so it seems….(;-)but what lies behind it?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/8240213/Saudi-Arabia-captures-Israeli-spy-vulture.html

  • somebody

    This brave and elderly woman will not be silenced by the Zionist lobbies in the US. Pity there are no such public figures in the UK.

    http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153755.html

    ‘Zionists control US foreign policy’

    Fri Dec 3, 2010 6:19PM

    Renowned American Veteran author and White House journalist Helen Thomas

    says the “Zionists” are in full control of the US foreign policy and its other institutions.

    Thomas, a former White House journalist, said Israel can never be criticized in the US because Zionists are in control of the American foreign policy as well as its main institutions.

    “I can call a president of the US anything in the book, but I can’t touch Israel, which has Jewish-only roads in the West Bank,” Thomas said.

    The 90-year-old national columnist says the White House, Congress, Wall Street and Hollywood are all owned by the Zionists.

    “Congress, the White House, Hollywood, and Wall Street are owned by the Zionists. No question, in my opinion,” she said.

    Thomas also said that she stands by the comments she made about Israel earlier this year, which was condemned by the local Jewish community.

    Thomas had said that Israelis should get out of Palestine and return to their homes in Europe and the US.

    In an interview, Thomas said that criticizing Israel was the reason she was forced to resign from Hearst Newspapers and was ostracized in Washington.

    The longtime White House correspondent, who grew up in Detroit as the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, was in Dearborn for a workshop on anti-Arab bias.

    Jewish groups have called Thomas’ earlier remarks unfair and bigoted. They have also slammed Thursday’s remarks.

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  • Anonymous

    If you ever want to look like you will believe anything at all without evidence just quote “presstv”

  • dreoilin

    Either Helen Thomas said what she did, or she didn’t.

    Throwing muck at ‘presstv’ is hardly good enough.

    We all know why she was turfed out of the White House press corps.

  • Ingo

    Thanks Clark. T

    his is the first write up by a west African Journalist on the Ivory coast electoral wrangling, he pretends to be without bias.

    I got my doubts, some of the comments do not make the affair clearer and I wish we had the expertise of Ian Orr, giving us a different view of this episode in West Africas history.

  • technicolour

    dreoilin, seconded. still, worth bearing in mind Chomsky’s analysis (that sounds so pretentious, perhaps a victory of the propaganda). I think he’s a solid researcher: here he is on Meersheimer and Walt, and the ‘Israel Lobby’:

    “M-W focus on AIPAC and the evangelicals, but they recognize that the Lobby includes most of the political-intellectual class — at which point the thesis loses much of its content. They also have a highly selective use of evidence (and much of the evidence is assertion). Take, as one example, arms sales to China, which they bring up as undercutting US interests. But they fail to mention that when the US objected, Israel was compelled to back down: under Clinton in 2000, and again in 2005, in this case with the Washington neocon regime going out of its way to humiliate Israel. Without a peep from The Lobby, in either case, though it was a serious blow to Israel. There’s a lot more like that. Take the worst crime in Israel’s history, its invasion of Lebanon in 1982 with the goal of destroying the secular nationalist PLO and ending its embarrassing calls for political settlement, and imposing a client Maronite regime. The Reagan administration strongly supported the invasion through its worst atrocities, but a few months later (August), when the atrocities were becoming so severe that even NYT Beirut correspondent Thomas Friedman was complaining about them, and they were beginning to harm the US “national interest,” Reagan ordered Israel to call off the invasion, then entered to complete the removal of the PLO from Lebanon, an outcome very welcome to both Israel and the US (and consistent with general US opposition to independent nationalism). The outcome was not entirely what the US-Israel wanted, but the relevant observation here is that the Reaganites supported the aggression and atrocities when that stand was conducive to the “national interest,” and terminated them when it no longer was (then entering to finish the main job). That’s pretty normal.

    Another problem that M-W do not address is the role of the energy corporations. They are hardly marginal in US political life — transparently in the Bush administration, but in fact always. How can they be so impotent in the face of the Lobby? As ME scholar Stephen Zunes has rightly pointed out, “there are far more powerful interests that have a stake in what happens in the Persian Gulf region than does AIPAC [or the Lobby generally], such as the oil companies, the arms industry and other special interests whose lobbying influence and campaign contributions far surpass that of the much-vaunted Zionist lobby and its allied donors to congressional races.”

    That was a few years back. It’s possible now that that the Israeli government is so psychopathic that nothing, including a US president, will stop it. And that all these different interests are now fundamentally (pun intended) the same: screw the poor and vulnerable; maximise corporate profits. I’m sure all of them would have liked to get rid of Helen Thomas, that brave reporter.

  • Anonymous

    Saudi Arabia captures Israeli ‘spy vulture’

    Saudi Arabian security services have captured a vulture that is suspected of being a Mossad spy sent over by Israel to gather information about the country.

    The large bird, which was carrying a GPS transmitter and a tag bearing the identification code R65 from Tel Aviv University, strayed into rural Saudi Arabian territory at some point last week, according to a report in the Israeli daily Ma’ariv.

    Residents and local reporters told Saudi Arabia’s Al-Weeam newspaper that the matter seemed to be linked to a “Zionist plot” and swiftly alerted security services. The bird has since been placed under arrest.

    The accusations went viral, according to the Israeli Ha’aretz newspaper, with hundreds of posts on Arabic-language websites and forums claiming that the “Zionists” had trained the birds for espionage.

    The incident comes amid growing paranoia among Israel’s neighbours over the nation’s growing military might.

    Several weeks ago an Egyptian official reportedly claimed that a shark that attacked tourists off the coastal resort of Sharm el Sheikh was also acting on behalf of the Israeli spy service.

    http://tinyurl.com/329rx6g

  • Suhayl Saadi

    Yes, technicolour (2:40pm), I think that’s it. Whereas in the past, there might have been – there were – varying agendas b/w the USA and Israel, any significant differences there might have been b/w those who call the shots in US action abroad and those who do so in the Israeli state now are so close together in their instrumentalisation of US Foreign policy that it has largely ceased to make much difference.

    Arguably, for the Palestinians, it never really has made any difference.

    But in terms of, eg. attacking Iran/ Saudi Arabia/ Pakistan, the divergences may still – and almost certainly do – exert traction. Thankfully.

    Nonetheless, both Chomsky and Zunes (both of them, hugely admirable and both of whom face constant aggressive attacks from Israel/ uber-Zionists in the USA, etc.) have been criticised for what is seen by some (and I don’t mean rabid anti-Semites) for what some see as attempts to deflect criticism away from the importance and precise mechanisms of the USA-Israel axis.

    Big oil (more specifically, Big US oil) is a powerful lobby, yes, but it was definitely over-ruled over the invasion of Iraq. None of the lobbies (yet) singly exert totalitarian control over US foreign policy.

    So as one might expect, there are various, often overlapping (that was your point, I think, that they have developed a toxic confluence of interests) groups within the elites of the empire.

    Nonetheless, there is no question that for anyone in the public eye or in media employ in the USA, it is likely to be professional suicide to criticise Israel, or even, in some situations, to not offer sufficient support of its actions.

    This is anecdotal, I realise, but I distinctly recall being told (they literally bent over and whispered in my ear) by a prominent oppositional US journalist/writer/commentator, who happened to be Jewish, that they “have to be very careful what [they] say in the US in relation to Israel”.

    So, an atmosphere of de facto self-censorship and probably also editorial censorship, is created in the USA. And this catalyses the power and influence of the Zionist lobby in a way in which no other lobby is catalysed (think, oil, arms, tobacco, pharma, evangelical Rightwing, etc. etc.). It also renders to the lobby a numinous power generated by fear, so they may even seem larger than they are. But the effect then is that their power grows.

    This is why the Mearscheimer and Walt essay was so ground-breaking in the USA and why it garnered so much notice. If someone had penned a similar report on, say, the arms industry (and of course there have been many), no-one would’ve batted an eyelid.

  • Suhayl Saadi

    Of course, I realise that criticising Israel has not been “professional suicide” for Chomsky and Zunes. The flak and difficulties that Mearscheimer and Walt have encountered since publishing their essay is instructive. I think that for the vast majority of those working in the world of information in the USA, it has become a distinct and barely-spoken (whispered, in my case, even in the safe confines of deepest England) fear. And this has definite implications, esp. when so many power struggles are fought on what is basically a PR industry platform.

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