The news day is about 20 minutes old and every cable channel is already yelling about stopping Trump. Really?
March 18, 2016
By Tracy Connor
An American man (click here) described as an ISIS defector says he made a "bad decision" to follow a young woman to Iraq — and claims he left ISIS because he doesn't share the terror organization's views....
According to this man who left Virginia, USA to join Deash, there are fighters for this genocidal regime from every ethnicity around the world.
...Khweis, the American-born son of Palestinian immigrants in Virginia, spoke calmly and even smiled as he described his odyssey.
He said he left for Europe in December and wound up in Turkey where he met an Iraqi girl who said she was from Mosul....
The Palestinian conflict with Israel is a common thread with many American defectors. The killer on the military base in Texas had roots to Palestine. Israel isn't interested in settling a peace with the Palestinians and that has to be one of the highest priorities in USA middle east policy. Falling into fear and war resultant from that fear, for the USA, is the worst possible path for USA foreign policy. Israel has to come to the peace table. End of discussion.
March 18, 2016
By Chris Graham and Max Chalmers
UPDATE: The University of Sydney has released a statement justifying the decision to cancel the booking for the talk but reversing the initial decision. It reads:
This is common practice by The West. Emad Burnat, the filmmaker of "Five Broken Cameras" came to the USA to attend the Academy Awards where he was nominated. (click here) and was simply stopped in Los Angeles. A Saudi-Pakistani fiance can enter the USA without any concern to go on to kill Americans and her husband in the process, yet Palestinians that come to the USA are corned, detained and require intervention by others in order to enter the country. Speak the word Palestinian and watch what happens next.
The USA is rightfully the ally of Israel, but, it should never be it's co-conspirator to kill Palestinians and remove them from their land.
...“We need a U.N. (click here) that is a model of equal treatment and anti-discrimination at a time when we’re seeing an alarming rise in anti-Semitism,” she said. “At the same time, West Bank settlement growth raises honest questions,” and undermines the prospects for a two-state solution.
From the Jerusalem Post:
...Meir Huberman was born in 1941 in the Soviet Union, (click here) the son of Holocaust survivors who made aliya in 1950. He hebraicized his name to Dagan and was a man of contradictions and controversy. There was not one Meir Dagan. There were many....
The hopes of peace with Palestine that Ariel Sharon carried in his administration is ending with the loss of a generation of men.
...The person who groomed Dagan's image as a fearless officer and a man of action with a "knife in between his teeth" was Ariel Sharon. The two met when Sharon was head of southern command at the height of his fight against the Palestinian terror groups in Gaza. He appointed Dagan, then a major in the artillery as a commander of an elite jeep unit that at its outset was coined the "Balloon Reconnaissance Unit" because of the jeeps' large tires that allowed the vehicles to pass through sand. Later its name was changed to the "Rimon Reconnaissance Unit."...
The example of Dagan cannot be ignored. He was a man that fought in the worst of battles for Israel's sovereignty. He paid the price to Israel in putting his life on the line for his country. Yet, such men with strong ties to the Holocaust cast aside the leadership of Netanyahu. This is not an extremist view. It is a view of which many in Israel hold as their truth and future.
The USA needs to realize in it's leadership and alliance with Israel, there are many views of life in Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu is an extremist with no respect for the peace many in Israel want above all else.
March 18, 2016
By Tracy Connor
An American man (click here) described as an ISIS defector says he made a "bad decision" to follow a young woman to Iraq — and claims he left ISIS because he doesn't share the terror organization's views....
According to this man who left Virginia, USA to join Deash, there are fighters for this genocidal regime from every ethnicity around the world.
...Khweis, the American-born son of Palestinian immigrants in Virginia, spoke calmly and even smiled as he described his odyssey.
He said he left for Europe in December and wound up in Turkey where he met an Iraqi girl who said she was from Mosul....
The Palestinian conflict with Israel is a common thread with many American defectors. The killer on the military base in Texas had roots to Palestine. Israel isn't interested in settling a peace with the Palestinians and that has to be one of the highest priorities in USA middle east policy. Falling into fear and war resultant from that fear, for the USA, is the worst possible path for USA foreign policy. Israel has to come to the peace table. End of discussion.
March 18, 2016
By Chris Graham and Max Chalmers
UPDATE: The University of Sydney has released a statement justifying the decision to cancel the booking for the talk but reversing the initial decision. It reads:
In the course of a regular screening process, campus security was alerted to the fact that Mr Abunimah did not yet have a valid visa. As a result, the event was cancelled.
As Mr Abunimah now has a valid visa, the event can proceed as planned
The University is an institution deeply committed to free speech and open debate, and we welcome all those on campus who wish to engage in public discourse.
As Mr Abunimah now has a valid visa, the event can proceed as planned
The University is an institution deeply committed to free speech and open debate, and we welcome all those on campus who wish to engage in public discourse.
Just two days after a prominent Palestinian-American journalist was finally granted a visa from the Australian Government after lengthy and unexplained delays, the University of Sydney has cancelled one of the public events he was to speak at, also without explanation....
This is common practice by The West. Emad Burnat, the filmmaker of "Five Broken Cameras" came to the USA to attend the Academy Awards where he was nominated. (click here) and was simply stopped in Los Angeles. A Saudi-Pakistani fiance can enter the USA without any concern to go on to kill Americans and her husband in the process, yet Palestinians that come to the USA are corned, detained and require intervention by others in order to enter the country. Speak the word Palestinian and watch what happens next.
The USA is rightfully the ally of Israel, but, it should never be it's co-conspirator to kill Palestinians and remove them from their land.
20 January 2016
Sadly, 2016 has begun much like 2015 ended (click here) – with unacceptable levels of violence and a polarized public discourse across the spectrum in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.
Stabbings, vehicle attacks, and shootings by Palestinians targeting Israeli civilians – all of which I condemn -- and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces, have continued to claim lives.
But security measures alone will not stop the violence. They cannot address the profound sense of alienation and despair driving some Palestinians – especially young people.
The full force of the law must be brought to bear on all those committing crimes – with a system of justice applied equally for Israelis and Palestinians alike....
Palestinian frustration is growing under the weight of a half century of occupation and the paralysis of the peace process....
The growth of anti-semitism is the responsibility of Israel and it's continued invasion into Palestinian territories. Israel has the capacity to end hate rather than propagate it.
The current violence aiming at citizens is new and is occurring under Prime Minister Netanyahu and his pivot to the extremist right in Israel.
Conflict leads to a backlash of conflict. For Israel to begin a hard right turn against Palestine is completely counter productive and violates every diplomatic document that exists in the history of the two peoples.
The current violence aiming at citizens is new and is occurring under Prime Minister Netanyahu and his pivot to the extremist right in Israel.
Conflict leads to a backlash of conflict. For Israel to begin a hard right turn against Palestine is completely counter productive and violates every diplomatic document that exists in the history of the two peoples.
March 18, 2016
She ended her talk with a series of questions: Addressing the Palestinians, she asked how boycotts or efforts to delegitimize Israel would promote dignity and security for the Palestinian people and further the cause of a Palestinian state. For Israel, she asked what to say to members of the international community expressing honest — rather than anti-Semitic — frustration with the conflict. And she asked for an explanation for continued settlement expansion.
The first-of-its-kind HaaretzQ conference was held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The gathering brought out hundreds, mainly those aligned with the political left.
After Power spoke, Knesset Member Aymen Odeh, an Arab citizen of Israel and the leader of the Joint List political coalition — comprising mostly Arab members of Israel’s parliament — took the stage to raucous applause.
“Good afternoon my friends,” he said in English, then in Arabic and Hebrew.
“As a Palestinian, I cannot accept a world in which there is no place for Palestinians to shape their own future,” he said. “As an Israeli citizen, I know that Israel cannot be a true and just democracy so long as it occupies another people.”
“The occupation is the Palestinian people’s tragedy, but it’s also Israel’s prison,” he went on. “We must liberate both peoples from the prison of occupation.”
Explicitly invoking Martin Luther King and the civil rights struggle, Odeh spoke about the challenges of being what he called “unwanted” in Israel — of sending out resumes knowing your Arab name will outweigh your academic achievements, or hearing your Prime Minister tell his supporters on election day that Arabs are “coming out in droves.”...
From the Jerusalem Post:
...Meir Huberman was born in 1941 in the Soviet Union, (click here) the son of Holocaust survivors who made aliya in 1950. He hebraicized his name to Dagan and was a man of contradictions and controversy. There was not one Meir Dagan. There were many....
The hopes of peace with Palestine that Ariel Sharon carried in his administration is ending with the loss of a generation of men.
...The person who groomed Dagan's image as a fearless officer and a man of action with a "knife in between his teeth" was Ariel Sharon. The two met when Sharon was head of southern command at the height of his fight against the Palestinian terror groups in Gaza. He appointed Dagan, then a major in the artillery as a commander of an elite jeep unit that at its outset was coined the "Balloon Reconnaissance Unit" because of the jeeps' large tires that allowed the vehicles to pass through sand. Later its name was changed to the "Rimon Reconnaissance Unit."...
...The acquaintance with Sharon turned into a real friendship that lasted their whole lives. It blossomed especially in the sands of Sinai and the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War....
...However, more than anything, Dagan will be remembered as a brave man who did not hesitate to express his opinion, his truth and his world view, even if it meant that he butted heads with his superiors, especially Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he did not hold in very high esteem, saying, "I do not believe in his leadership."...
The example of Dagan cannot be ignored. He was a man that fought in the worst of battles for Israel's sovereignty. He paid the price to Israel in putting his life on the line for his country. Yet, such men with strong ties to the Holocaust cast aside the leadership of Netanyahu. This is not an extremist view. It is a view of which many in Israel hold as their truth and future.
The USA needs to realize in it's leadership and alliance with Israel, there are many views of life in Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu is an extremist with no respect for the peace many in Israel want above all else.
