Noam Chomsky
Guillotining Gaza
. . . For Palestinians to be permitted to peek out of the walls of their Gaza dungeon, Hamas must recognise Israel, renounce violence and accept past agreements, in particular, the Road Map of the Quartet (the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations).
The hypocrisy is stunning. Obviously, the United States and Israel do not recognise Palestine or renounce violence. Nor do they accept past agreements. While Israel formally accepted the Road Map, it attached 14 reservations that eviscerate it. To take just the first, Israel demanded that for the process to commence and continue, the Palestinians must ensure full quiet, education for peace, cessation of incitement, dismantling of Hamas and other organisations, and other conditions; and even if they were to satisfy this virtually impossible demand, the Israeli cabinet proclaimed that ‘the Roadmap will not state that Israel must cease violence and incitement against the Palestinians.’
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George Bisharat
Biography
The mirage of the two-state solution
40th Anniversary of the Six-Day War. Solution on which all agree impossible to achieve
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JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
Rockets, Napalm, Torpedoes & Lie
Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty, Revisited
Sheldon L. Richman
“Ancient History”: U.S. Conduct in the Middle East
Since World War II and the Folly Of Intervention
Jerusalem Post
Ahmadinejad: Bombs won’t fix world
… The Iranian president also said he did not deny the Holocaust but that he merely “raised questions on it.”
“I said that in World War Two sixty million people were killed. They were all humans with self-respect. Why (do we talk of) just six million? If it happened, it is a historic event, so why do they not allow for an independent investigation? Moreover, how are the Palestinians at fault? These questions need to be answered,” said Ahmadinejad.
Homeostatic Truths
May we see in the enemy the face of our Father
Surah 41. Ha Mim Sajdah: Revelations Well Expounded
http://www.ishwar.com/islam/holy_quran_(pickthall)/sura041.html
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The good deed and the evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed with one which is better, then lo! he, between whom and thee there was enmity (will become) as though he was a bosom friend.
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But none is granted it save those who are steadfast, and none is granted it save the owner of great happiness.
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Anat Biletzki
Grieving Gaza
I write as an Israeli. Some of us, as Israelis, are grieving over what we have become. Blaming the other side with a roster of rehearsed clichés cannot mitigate the grief…
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Anat Biletzki of B’Tselem speaks at Jewish Voice for Peace |
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10 min – 17 May 2007 –
Professor Anat Biletzki of B’Tselem, the Israeli Center for Reporting on Human Rights in the Occupied Territories |
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Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff
ANALYSIS / The ball is now in Hamas’ court in Gaza
Twenty-two days after launching its campaign against Hamas, Israel announced on Saturday it was pulling the plug. But the cabinet’s decision to declare a unilateral cease-fire while maintaining a military presence in areas seized by the Israel Defense Forces is only a conditional cease-fire.
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