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A woman holds a banner as she protests during a visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Dec. 11, 2017. Netanyahu urged the European Union on Monday to back a new U.S. peace initiative in the Middle East, after President Donald Trump's unilateral decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital met with widespread condemnation and triggered clashes in the Palestinian territories. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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The EU’s Public Policy on Jerusalem Differs from Reality

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Democratic Party Set to Purge Progressive Reformists

Refusing to face why the Republicans won in 2016, the national Democratic Party rebuffs proposals to make the party more democratic and less corporate-friendly.

Norman Solomon
بواسطة Norman Solomon
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks during a campaign stop at the University Of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016.

With the Democratic Party’s “Unity Reform Commission” now history, major political forces are entering a new stage of contention over the future of the party. Seven months after the commission’s first meeting — and nine months after Hillary Clinton backer Tom Perez won a close election over Bernie Sanders supporter Keith Ellison to become chair of

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Toward a Federal United States of Israel & Palestine?

The only possible route to a one-state solution is for the two existing states to agree to unite to form a single sovereign state.

Dr. David Gerald Fincham
بواسطة Dr. David Gerald Fincham
Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing

Opinion -- They say that the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is dead. Good. Partition was never the right way out of the conflict. The two peoples need to be reconciled: keeping them apart, each limited to only a part of the land they consider to be their homeland, would increase hostility, not reduce it. Israel-Palestine is

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When Washington Cheered the Jihadists

Official Washington helped unleash hell on Syria and across the Mideast behind the naïve belief that jihadist proxies could be used to transform the region for the better.

Daniel Lazare
بواسطة Daniel Lazare
Syrian rebels attend a training session in Maaret Ikhwan near Idlib, Syria.

When a Department of Defense intelligence report about the Syrian rebel movement became public in May 2015, lots of people didn’t know what to make of it. After all, what the report said was unthinkable – not only that Al Qaeda had dominated the so-called democratic revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for years, but that the West

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Ehud Barak’s Disappointing Peace Plan

Ehud Barak has published an article in The New York Times attacking prime minister Netanyahu, he also used the article to publish his disappointing Peace Plan.

Uri Avnery
بواسطة Uri Avnery
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak during a lecture at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 21, 2016. (AP/Charles Krupa)

Ehud Barak has "broken the silence". He has published an article in The New York Times attacking our prime minister in the most abrasive terms. In other words, he has done exactly the same as the group of ex-soldiers who call themselves "Breaking the Silence", who are accused of washing our dirty linen abroad. They expose war crimes to which they

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“We Will Not Serve in Your Army!” Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem Beaten, Arrested for Refusing Draft

Countless videos posted on social media demonstrate the discipline with which the Hareidi community has been protesting and engaging in civil disobedience. Police violence, on the other hand, resulted in many injured and requiring urgent medical attention.

Miko Peled
بواسطة Miko Peled
Israeli police officers spray colored water towards ultra Orthodox Jewish men during a protest against their enlistment in the army at the entrance to Jerusalem, Oct. 23, 2017. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

JERUSALEM -- While U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement to move the Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has dangerously fueled an international powder keg, another keg is burning in the heart of that city. In an ongoing act of principled civil disobedience, the Ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem is standing strong in its

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76 Years of Pearl Harbor Lies

“New Pearl Harbors” are longed for by war makers, claimed, and exploited. Yet the original Pearl Harbor remains the most popular U.S. argument for all things military.

David Swanson
بواسطة David Swanson
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump lay a wreath at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 3, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump is tweeting about a particular spot in Hawaii. He visited it recently on his way to threaten war in Asia. It’s a big feature this week in lots of U.S. magazines and newspapers. It has a lovely name that sounds like murder and blood because Japanese airplanes engaged in large-scale murder there in 1941: Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor Day

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