By Jonathan Lis The government has approved the legalization of 13 outposts; five cannot be legalized, because they are on private Palestinian land, and are slated for evacuation. posted June 07, 2012 by Haaretz With the government announcing plans to legalize 13 of the 18 West Bank settlement outposts against which petitions to the High […]
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by Doron Tsur Changes in the currents of the global economy, far more serious than the debt crisis in Greece and Spain, are afoot. Their impact on Southeast Asia may be much more severe than any damage caused in Europe and North America. posted June 07, 2012 by Haaretz One of the most important natural
by Chemi Shalev posted June 9, 2012 by Haaretz In wide-ranging interview, Former ambassador Richard Williamson says U.S. Republican candidate will make military threats against Tehran credible, arm Syria’s rebels, and visit Israel before going anywhere else. Q. Governor Romney has said that he thinks that the US should arm the rebels in Syria. Given
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by John Rosenthal posted June 9, 2012 by National Review It was, in the words of U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan, the “tipping point” in the Syria conflict: a savage massacre of over 90 people, predominantly women and children, for which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad was immediately blamed by virtually the entirety of
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posted June 7, 2012 by Al-Manar The Israeli occupation had announced plans on Wednesday to build 851 new homes for settlers in the occupied West Bank after parliament defeated a bill to sanction all settler apartments on privately-owned Palestinian land. Palestinians insist Israeli settlements, built on land Israel captured in a 1967 war, will deny
“This is unacceptable. It cannot be tolerated,” by Robert Dreyfuss posted June 7, 2012 by The Nation Leon Panetta, the over-his-head U.S. secretary of defense, is in Afghanistan today after a day on which the greatest number of civilians were killed so far in 2012. But Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, isn’t there. He’s in
posted June 4, 2012 by Spiegel A German shipyard has already built three submarines for Israel, and three more are planned. Now SPIEGEL has learned that Israel is arming the submarines with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. The German government has known about Israel’s nuclear weapons program for decades, despite its official denials. Germany is helping Israel
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posted June 9, 2012 by Russia Today After dozens were reported slaughtered in the Syrian village of al-Qubair, UN observers have been seeking to establish the truth on the events. Yet as the government and opposition accuse each other, the team admits it can’t say who was to blame. The United Nations monitors reached al-Qubair
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by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours posted June 9, 2012 by The Electronic Intifada SHUAFAT REFUGEE CAMP, occupied East Jerusalem – A group of Palestinian Jerusalemites steps down from a crowded bus to let two Israeli soldiers climb aboard and check identity cards, below the aluminum roof of this newly operational checkpoint terminal. Outside, Israel’s concrete wall snakes
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by Ali Abunimah posted June 6, 2012 by The Electronic Intifada For the first time since their hunger strikes began, an independent doctor has been allowed to visit Mahmoud Sarsak and Akram Rikhawi in the Israeli jail where they are held, confirming the imminent danger to their lives. After 80 and 56 days of hunger
