Iran this, Iran that. The only possible purpose of a preelection attack on Iran is to undermine Obama’s campaign. The other more successful purpose is to accelerate the colonization of Palestinian lands in the West Bank. Major olive producing village ordered to uproot 1,400 trees by May 1 “Earlier this week, Israel ordered Palestinian farmers in [...]

We should not forget that the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from their homeland, the Nakba, began two months before Independence Day. Some of the villages were not exactly ethnically cleansed, like Dier Yassin and Turanto, bur were actually emptied by massacres perpetrated by the Ergun and the Stern Gang, run by leaders who were [...]

And once again, thanks Tuttle for keeping these issues upfront.

Since Carter published his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, the mainstream media, under censorship pressures by the right wing Israel Lobby, have been reluctant to give him even the back pages. During the last DNC convention, Carter and his wife had to walk in almost in cognito, out of sight, lest his presence draw attention. [...]

First let me say that it was highly unlikely that the Israelis were not apprised of the Flytilla before it got off the ground, and in fact warned airlines that if they flew into Tel Aviv, they would be financially responsible to fly the participants out, at their own cost. Many planes did not even [...]

The failure of the flytilla is not all Israel’s success in stopping it in its tracks. Even if all of the participants had found their way to the West Bank, it would have failed in its purpose. That purpose of course was to publicize the occupation and colonization of the Palestinian territories, as well as [...]

Sorry, but it looks as if the Youtube version of the documentary has been blocked.

Here is another sources: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/peace-propaganda-and-the-promised-land/

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land
(with Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Arik Ackerman, founder of Rabbis for Human Rights, and numerous others)

Part I:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCL6WdnuNp4

Part II:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo2HW4T7wK4

It is hard to know which is more important: Israeli propaganda and lies or American press censorship of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rick Steves may not be as significant a writer as Gunther Grass, as he only publishes travel guides and produces a popular PBS show on European travel, but he too recently spoke out about [...]

Just a followup note from Mondoweiss: ‘Israel’s policy endangers world peace’ — Jakob Augstein and Gideon Levy have Gunter Grass’s back http://mondoweiss.net/2012/04/israels-policy-endangers-world-peace-jakob-augstein-and-gideon-levy-have-gunter-grasss-back.html Annie Robbins: “It’s starting to dawn on me how important Gunter Grass’s poem is. The naysayers predictably took their first loud shots against it (and him), that’s to be expected. But the pushback has [...]

Jeffrey Goldberg is a Netanyahu spokesman. Not worth listening to.

Jeffrey Goldberg is a Netanyahu spokesman. Not worth listening to.

Interesting that a “Support Israel” ad accompanied your diary. Walt is essentially saying the writing is on the wall. AIPAC has supported the right wing Likud position, Ben Gurion’s Greater Israel dream, for at least the past 20 years. Similarly, Likud under Netanyahu, has been against the two state solution, the Oslo land for peace [...]

Good read from Juan Cole’s Informed Consent.

Happy Palestine Land Day: Israel Earmarks 10% of West Bank for Settlements: White

Ben White writes in a guest editorial for Informed Comment:

http://www.juancole.com/2012/03/happy-palestine-land-day-israel-earmarks-10-of-west-bank-for-settlements-white.html

It doesn’t look good for Obama. Netanyahu seems intent on giving the US eight dollar gasoline and oil before the November elections, wrecking the recovery and exacting his revenge.

Thanks as always Tuttle.

Thanks Israel for our undying friendship, tax monies, and totally dedicated suck up congressional members. Is there anything else we can do to prevent you from putting our country into a deep economic depression?

It is hard to believe that Netanyahu would go for more than Ben Gurion’s dream of a Greater Israel, which, except for Rabin’s peace hiatus, has been pursued by all Israeli governments, left of right (Livni, Wikileaks). Israel already took the Golan, which exceeded that dream, and are unlikely to ever give it back to [...]

Interestingly, if you were to quote that link to Mondoweiss on Daily Kos, you would be immediately banned. It seems that the right wing likudniks who now overwhelm the site have gotten Kos to ban pretty much everything they wish, including peace activists like Phil Weiss and his collaborators.

When Barak broke the 2008 ceasefire, he claimed that he never agreed not to kill terrorists. Of course, in response, Hamas resumed rocketing southern Israel, but then agreed to resume the ceasefire. Instead, we got the Gaza massacre of that year in which 1400 Palestinians, mostly civilians were killed, the child deaths reaching over 400. [...]

Speechless.