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Gideon Levy on Israel's addiction

Levy: Israel is in a "coma" and needs outside help to get over its addiction to the... more

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Why the Afghan Surge Will Fail

Conn Hallinan | November 12, 2009 Before the Obama administration buys into General... more

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Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys -- The Very Dark Side of the Afghan Occupation | | Al

Nothing good ever comes from war.

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Israel: Remote control occupation?

Baum: New technologies are allowing Israel to maintain control over its occupation... more

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Twin Bombings Rock Central Baghdad, at Least 100 Killed

Iraqi police say two car bombs have claimed the lives of more than 100 people in... more

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Purim in Hebron.

Hebron, Palestine - March 2008. Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian school during... more

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Territorial Domination in the West Bank

Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied territories of Palestine is about more... more

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Riz Khan- The question of Palestinian refugees-22 Sep 09-Pt1

On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud... more

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Iraqi shoe thrower Muntazer al-Zaidi inundated with offers and gifts

As his size 10s spun through the air towards George W Bush, Muntazer al-Zaidi – the... more

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Water shortage threatens two million people in southern Iraq

And what is Turkey's solution to this crisis for the Euphrates River? Why build more... more

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Jewish Mother realizes Zionist upbringing was wrong

A woman tells the story of how exposing the atrocities of the colonization of... more

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Israeli Police have evicted nine Palestinian families living in 2 houses in occupied East Jerusalem

Jewish settlers moved into the houses almost immediately. The US has urged Israel to... more

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Israeli Atheist appeals to Obama against Zionism

"Save Us From Ourselves"

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Is America becoming a Police State?

on June 7 the D.C Metro Police imposed a series of checkpoints that had set the stage for a martial-law-like occupation in Washington, D.C.’s Trinidad neighborhood. After the ANSWER Coalition, along with other concerned organizations and individuals, took to the streets maintaining a presence at the checkpoints nearly every day or night they were in effect. On June 12, in the face of growing community outrage, the MPD announced the temporary suspension of the checkpoints.

When ANSWER members were at the checkpoint on Saturday night and on the following days, they noted that the majority of cars attempting to pass through were diverted because police claimed their reason for entering the neighborhood was not “legitimate” or because they did not provide identification.

Community residents who were allowed to pass through also objected. One woman, who lives on the block just west of the checkpoint, was questioned as to why she was driving onto a block immediately adjacent to her own. She was attempting to find parking with her young son in the car. Another resident described the checkpoint as a “nerve wracking” experience that she dreaded on her entire ride home from work.

The police had long planned to institute this illegal and unconstitutional checkpoint system, but needed a pretext to set it into motion. A terrible weekend of violence in Washington, D.C. that took nine lives finally provided the opportunity.

In their literature, ANSWER asserted that if the Metropolitan Police Department could establish a checkpoint and pass system in Washington, D.C., it would become a model employed against Black and Latino communities in urban areas throughout the United States.

Where the police set up their first checkpoint makes clear what is really behind this new “anti-crime” crackdown.

The Trinidad neighborhood is a mostly Black neighborhood, but it sits close to the H St. Northeast area, which the city government and developers have an aggressive plan to gentrify. But to attract new, mostly white, well-to-do people who generally make up the majority of gentrifiers, the city has to overcome its reputation for crime and violence.

Accordingly, the D.C. police hope to create the illusion of “safety” through the complete lockdown of poor Black neighborhoods close to mixed or totally gentrified neighborhoods.on June 7 the D.C Metro Police imposed a series of checkpoints that had set the stage... more

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Israel turns a deaf ear to Obama's pressure to stop settlement activity

On Sunday, July 12th, Prime Minister Netanyahu offered Palestinians an immediate... more

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Zionism, anti-Zionism and the state of Israel

Haim Bresheeth is an activist and film-maker of Israeli origin, living in Britain, where he is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. He is co-author of “The Gulf War and the New Word Order” (with Nira Yuval-Davis) - an edited anthology on the first Gulf War, and “Introduction to the Holocaust” (with Stuart Hood). His documentary films include A State of Danger (BBC2, March 1989) - a film on the early stages of the first Palestinian Intifada. He is currently researching: Palestinian Cinema, Global Media Markets, Cinematic Narrative Structures, Film and memory.

Understanding the Occupation

"Most of my family was destroyed in the holocaust - in different concentration camps and in the Warsaw ghetto and I was born in a refugee camp in Italy immediately after the war... I'm not saying this in order to elicit some sympathy because this is nonsensical on this audience [mostly Jewish] obviously. I'm saying this in order to explain why its so easy for me to understand the Palestinians in Gaza and in the rest of Palestine. It is very easy for me to understand them because they live in a combination of a concentration camp and Warsaw ghetto for so many years that we have stopped counting...

Israeli Governments

"I don't think there is the slightest difference between the different Israeli governments in one important respect - the Zionist project was, is, and will be about the dispossession and expulsion of the Palestinian population of Palestine. It was this, it is this, and it will be this - every Israeli government has done this - it doesn't matter if it was Barak and now Sharon or Netayahu before him - it was no different..."

Water

"Israelis use 41 times more water than Palestinians - well what does it mean? Think about it. Its not just that they have very large swimming pools in the occupied territories - which of course they do, it also means the Palestinians do not have proper water supply for their agriculture which is the only industry such as it is that they are running here and there - there is no other industry that they were allowed to develop all those years. They weren't even allowed to open a bank during the Israeli occupation. Its interesting - most of the water in Israel comes from the West Bank... Palestinians cant even have their tomatoes growing, I'm not even talking about having a wash, cleanliness - I'm talking about very simple things - you cant even grow anything because the water will be cut off for a week at a time. I was in Gaza and my Gazan hosts were apologising to me an Israeli that they cant give me water to drink when we are having lunch with pitta's because the water was turned off..."

Wanting Peace?

"They [Israel] will do everything to make you believe that they want peace - I even believed it once and most of you have believed it - I know that. They will do everything to make sure that people in the West believe that they want peace - they will go to meetings, they will sign documents - they will do all that and then they will make damn sure that there is no chance of any of this happening..."
Boycott Israel

"If you are making sure in every shop you go everyone knows that because they hold Israeli products you don't buy there - if you bring about the destruction of the Israeli economy which Mr. Sharon is doing such a great job of and you help him in that destruction, more Israelis will come to their bloody senses and will realize that justice is not divisible, peace is not divisible, humanity is not divisible - you cannot divide them. We will have peace - they will have peace, we will have water - they will have water, we will have human existence if they will have it..."Haim Bresheeth is an activist and film-maker of Israeli origin, living in Britain,... more