Jonathan Cook has published (Mondoweiss) an excellent analysis of what Kerry’s (Israel’s) next strategy for passifying the Palestinians and stalling any talk about statehood.

Kerry’s plan: Palestinians to be cast as fall guys – again

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/06/kerrys-palestinians-again.html

Thanks for this article, Ed. It says a lot about censorship that we live with about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this country.

Socialism is socialism. As far as Obamacare is concerned, it is far from the government run programs seen in Canada or Britain or any other EU country, but it is government regulated, a first step. Perhaps it all can, one day, be transformed into a universal Medicare program for everyone. It would save big bundles [...]

Happy to see that you’re writing again, Fairleft. Have a good holiday season. I suspect that Obama has been having a lot of talks with Bill Clinton, the Republican Lite president, and we will likely see a lot more compromising with the Right that we could ever condone. Still, Social Security and Medicare must be [...]

Did you say that socialists are not Democrats? Historically, it is the establishment and defense of liberal-socialism that makes us Democrats. True, that socialized medicine has been slow in developing, but it is in his contribution, Obamacare, that makes Obama a liberal-socialist as well. There have been Republicans who have contributed (T. Roosevelt, progressive income [...]

“minimizing increases in marginal rates that could stifle risk-taking and robust growth.”

Looks as if we are going to get more trickle-down delusions whether we like it or not.

How’s life been going Fairleft? Good to see back here.

Ed, just out of curiosity, I looked up latest polls on the attack of Iran by Israel or the US. You might be surprised at these results. Reuters/Ipsos Poll conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs. March 8-11, 2012. N=1,084 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.1. “Do you support or oppose the United States taking military [...]

The black hole you speak of is already here in the form of censorship of Israeli-Palestinian issues in the mainstream media, but also in the left wing blogosphere, in the largest liberal sites like Daily Kos and Huffington Post. We hear that international BDS is expanding wildly, but we just aren’t hearing about it except [...]

Thanks, Tuttle, for more of your excellant reporting.

Good luck, and thanks for another insightful writing.

Who could not believe that the Rabin assassination had deep motivations which exceeded the religious extremists that eventually did the nasty deed. Rabin, as such, was defying the Zionist program, the foci of Jobatinsky, Ben Gurion, Meir, Begin, Shamir, even Peres (the hypocrite), and others to take all of original Palestine into Israel, the Palestinians [...]

It is amazing how much we the public don’t know about what is happening behind the scenes in government. It is as if the mainstream media has all along been nothing more than a propaganda machine for the players. Why buy or read newspapers any more if you have to be a political detective to [...]

Note to the editor: first thanks for publishing the diary. In regard to your concerns about copyright, I will just let you know more specifically that I received permission to publish in toto articles by Uri Avnery from his late wife, who was then acting as a site manager for Gush Shalom. The only provisos [...]

Glad to see you’re still around Fairleft bringing interesting topics to the fore. My best, shergald.

Sorry that I can’t be more active right now or recently, but I am glad that you and Teller and a few others are keeping the site apprised of events in the Middle East, especially the ongoing plight of the Palestinian people and America’s complicity in the injustices being perpetrated against them.

Would you then be so kind as to cast these racist events occurring in Israel in a positive light, so that we can learn why they are so positive.

Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass.

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 [...]