A guy named Ellis Sharp wrote this in an excellent article (Bob Dylan’s Racist Song) in 2005.
Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, envisioned the future Jewish State (Der Judenstaat, 1896) as “a part of the wall against Asia… an outpost of civilization against barbarism.” (See: 1, 2)
Gaza City on Thursday, May 19th, 2011. U.S. President Obama’s speech failed to differentiate him from his predecessor.
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politicaldove asked: I find it incomprehensible how the world is sat doing nothing. Everyone's so caught up in bureaucracy that the Middle East and North Africa situation is completely ignored.
Japan's calls were answered in an instant and rightly-so but this is evidence of the Western double standards we have. It's sickening. Heart goes out to not only the Bahrainis, Yemenis, Japanese and Libyans but also the Palestinians who get roughed about every single day of their lives.
U.S. citizens are largely responsible for the situation of Bahrainis, Yemenis, and Palestinians, because the U.S. provides the decisive support for their oppression. U.S. responsibility in Libya is more limited and obviously the U.S. is not responsible for earthquakes or tsunamis. So it makes sense that the current Japanese situation gets the most attention, followed by Libya, while Bahrainis, Yemenis, and Palestinians are ignored. This distribution of attention follows logically from a strict policy of ignoring one’s responsibilities.
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Demonstrations face heightened Israeli military repression | International Solidarity Movement via mamitamala: jadedhippy
“Article 49: The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
I agree with the opposition to these settlements, but am merely curious - if that’s the verbatim definition, does “transfer” here mean by military or government control? It seems like someone could interpret it strictly like that and then let individual Israelis run rampant, building in Palestine.
Ethnic cleansing and colonial settlement are large developmental projects beyond the scope of private enterprise and are therefore routinely subsidized (see: http://tinyurl.com/2agllh7 ). (The same simple principle applies to the development of an airline industry or the development of the internet for that matter.)
If that video url doesn’t work try this duplicate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcxAzvudgU2010, May 31st.
Norman Finkelstein on RT, comments on Israeli attack on Gaza aid boat.
