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Peter Hart> Misremembering Gaza, Again

Misremembering Gaza, Again Posted on 05/04/2012 by Peter Hart     FAIR The New York Times shouldn’t be trusted to report on future wars if it can’t get the facts about previous wars right. فداك روحي يا فلسطين  (photo added by WAMMToday) Once again, the Times misleads readers about the lead up to Israel’s invasion of [...]

Jeff Halper> Is the Two-State Solution Dead?

Americans for Middle East Understanding Current Issue > 2012 – Volume 45 Is the Two-State Solution Dead? Jeff Halper    Posted 3/28/12      AMEU Let’s say it clearly and categorically: the two-state solution is dead. If the possibility ever genuinely existed—a subject historians are welcome to debate—it is gone as a political option. We should even [...]

Richard Falk> The Massive Palestinian Hunger Strike

The Massive Palestinian Hunger Strike By Richard Falk     Thursday, 03 May 2012 10:10     MWC News Traveling below the Western Radar Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1300 hunger strikers in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? It would [...]

Stephen Lendman> New York Times Publishes Hate Ad

New York Times Publishes Hate Ad By Stephen Lendman     Saturday, 05 May 2012 08:59     MWC The Times notoriously provides one-sided Israel/Palestine coverage. Jewish rights and all things Israel matter. Palestinians don’t count.  Times articles, commentaries, and editorials turn a blind eye to egregious violations of international laws, norms and standards. Endorsing wrong over [...]

‘We have cancelled your booking’ — the criminalization of travel to the West Bank is laid bare to the world ~ by @Mondoweiss | #Airflotilla2

Reblogged from Occupied Palestine | فلسطين: BREAKING – Exclusive by @972Mag : “Political contract” required to enter Israel? by Laura Durkay on April 14, 2012 | Mondoweiss Follow @Mondoweiss French activists protesting European airlines canceling flytilla passenger flights, 2011.          (Photo: Abu Nawfal) This Sunday, I was planning to fly to Tel Aviv with up to [...]

Demonizing Gunter Grass

Demonizing Gunter Grass  By Robert Parry   April 10, 2012   ConsortiumNews Exclusive: German poet Gunter Grass is under withering attack for writing a poem that urges Germany to stop supplying nuclear submarines to Israel, objects to Israel’s threat of war against Iran and suggests both countries accept nuclear inspectors. That last idea has opened Grass to charges [...]

Occupy Wall Street not Palestine by Mira Dabit from Ramallah

Occupy Wall Street not Palestine by Mira Dabit from Ramallah Submitted by Crystal Zevon on Tue, 02/28/2012   OccupyPeaceHouse.org In the heart of a revolution transcending one locale, what connects us? That question looms deep in my mind as I walk through the streets of Ramallah, a city I know so well. I look ahead and am [...]

Uri Avnery> A Shining Victory for Non-Violence

How Khader Adnan Exposed the Irrationality of Administrative Detention A Shining Victory for Non-Violence by URI AVNERY     Counterpunch WEEKEND EDITION FEBRUARY 24-26, 2012  A PALESTINIAN village, somewhere in the West Bank. In the middle of the night, banging on the door and shouts in Arabic: “Israeli army. Open up!” Somebody – most often [...]

FAIR Blog» Iran> This Is What Propaganda Looks Like

Iran: This Is What Propaganda Looks Like 02/01/2012 by Peter Hart    FAIR Alarmist corporate media coverage of the “threat” from Iran is everywhere, thanks to a Senate appearance yesterday by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. But Clapper said very little in his remarks that would justify the propagandistic coverage we’re seeing.  His main [...]

Glenn Greenwald> The “anti-Semitism” smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on

The “anti-Semitism” smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on BY GLENN GREENWALD   Salon.com [Editorial Note:  This is an amazing article.  When I first started reading it, my eyes glazed over a bit thinking it was just one of those insider media things that names a lot of media writers and essentially does not amount [...]