London Review of Books         * LRB     * 14 January 2009     Israel¹s Message Ilan Pappe In 2004, the Israeli army began building a dummy Arab city in the Negev desert. It¹s the size of a real city, with streets (all of them given names), mosques, public buildings...

Commentary No. 249, Jan. 15, 2009 "Chronicle of a Suicide Foretold: The Case of Israel" The state of Israel proclaimed its independence at midnight on May 15, 1948. The United Nations had voted to establish two states in what had been Palestine under British rule. The...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/04/us-iraq-rebranding-occupation

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With the Gaza "cease fire" in place for one week (after Israeli forces murdered at least 450 Children), the Beit Sahour vigil that was held daily for the past 22 days will be transformed to increased action.  Tomorrow (Monday) at 10 AM local, Palestinian Civil Society...

http://www.alhewar.org/INTIFADAH%20PAGE/the_new_intifidah.htm

SUBJECT: War With Iran

We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. Israel’s leaders would calculate that once the battle is joined, it will be politically untenable for you to give anything less than unstinting support to Israel, no matter how the war started, and that U.S. troops and weaponry would flow freely. Wider war could eventually result in destruction of the state of Israel. This can be stopped, but only if you move quickly to preempt an Israeli attack by publicly condemning such a move before it happens.

The Economist:The role of the media; "It has conquered the American House of Representatives, too, which voted on January 9th by 390-5 for a bill declaring "unwavering commitment" to Israel. " "Israel is now better prepared. The tactics it deploys on the media front...

The population of Gaza is completely fenced in, and for the last three weeks - since the start of Israel's air, sea and then land assaults - there has been no escape route, no possible exist from the Israeli assault. More than 1,000 Palestinians have already been...

As Bob Ostertag perceptively writes at Huffington Post: ' Steven Erlanger's lead on a front page story in the New York Times today ... went on at great length rationalizing Israeli conduct during their assault on Gaza. It ran the same day that Israel hit a fourth UN...