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Vol. 9 No. 26…Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race…June
30,
2006
Intuit’s Vibe
By Genevieve Cora
Fraser
In the search for a
durable peace
Except further inward
squeezed
Ever further by the
belt
Tightened around its
neck
The Apartheid Wall of
Hate
Shoring up
By piece by
Peace...We mean the piece
Where
Throw-away Jews
aplenty
Have been shipped to
Israeli shores
Binyamin’s Brinkmanship
Dumps the Welfare of
its people
Off the back of
Lowers taxes for the
rich
Fewer benefits for
the poor
Working jobs once
reserved
For Palestinian cheap
labor
Now starved and
assaulted
Concentrated in camps
Behind Apartheid Prison walls
To Netanyahu’s
private enterprise
Engineered by the IDF
Terror Machine
instigating a steady
Supply of suicide
martyrs stoking
Public fear that
supports
Zionist hardliners
preserving Peace
By killing their
partner state
As
Into Israeli
settlement dream homes
Palestinian criminals
all incarcerated
For a life time of
hell
As American bought
power
Backed by a Quartet
of shameful
Acquiescence brings
Israeli
Bootstraps ever
higher for leverage
To stomp ever stronger on Arafat’s humbled head
Anti-Semitism or Simple Criticism?
By Rev. Ted Pike
Several years ago, Jewish lobbyists persuaded Congress to create a special
federal agency dedicated solely to silencing "virulent criticism" of
On October 16, 2004, George Bush signed into law the Global Anti-Semitism
Review Act. It establishes a special office within the U.S. State Department to
monitor global anti-Semitism. This is more "Hate Crimes" legislation,
orchestrated by the international Jewish religious, educational and fraternal
organization, B'nai B'rith and its Anti-Defamation League. The new
"Department of Global Anti-Semitism" is designed to make critics of
Veteran Jewish activist Gregg Rickman was recently sworn in by Condoleezza Rice
as head of the office of global anti-Semitism. What is anti-Semitism? It is the
racist belief that Jews, because of heredity, are evil, greedy, subversive,
degenerate, etc. Hitler believed this. So do the KKK and some "Christian
identity" and white supremacist groups. Dehumanization of Jews is evil,
un-Christian, un-American.
On the other hand, if the actions of individual Jews, Jewish institutions,
Jewish religious or secular leaders, or the nation
Harakat al-Muqawama
al-Islamiyya (HAMAS)
Beginning in the late 1960s, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin preached and conducted
charitable work in the
According to UPI and L'Humanité, the Israeli intelligence agency
(Mossad) brutally oppressed Fatah (Movement for the National Liberation of
Palestine) and the Palestinian Left, while supporting the early stages of the
Islamic movement. Various sources claim it received support to give "a
religious slant to the conflict, to make the West believe it was between Jews
and Muslims," thus supporting the controversial thesis of a "clash of
civilizations."
In December 1987, Yassin founded Harakat
al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya (HAMAS) or "Islamic Resistance Movement" as
the Muslim Brotherhood's local political arm following the eruption of the
First Intifada (1987-1993), a Palestinian uprising against Israeli control of
the
In 1988, Hamas published its official charter.
Opposed to
According to the U.S. State Department, Hamas is
funded by
After the collapse of the peace process in the
late 1990s, Hamas' popularity rose as Yasser Arafat's fell. Hamas' popularity
grew as it provided social services to Palestinians living in the occupied
territories. These include schools and hospitals. Much of its annual budget
funds relief and education programs, schools, orphanages, mosques, healthcare
clinics, soup kitchens and sports leagues.
During the second Intifada, Hamas and the Islamic
Jihad Movement spearheaded the Palestinian uprising. Hamas has conducted many
attacks on
On January 26, 2004, senior Hamas official Abdel
Aziz al-Rantissi offered a 10-year truce, or hudna, in return for a complete
withdrawal by Israel from the territories captured in the Six Day War, establishment
of a Palestinian state and acceptance of the Palestinian right of return. Many
of Hamas' leaders, including its founder and spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed
Yassin and Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, have fallen victim to Israeli targeted
assassinations.
Today, Hamas is the most influential Palestinian
movement. In January 2006, it became the majority party of the Palestinian
Legislative Council. (Sources: www.adl.org/main_israel/hamas_facts.htm,
www.cfr.org/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas)
On May 27, 2006, the
Recalling South African apartheid and expressing support for CUPE and the
Palestinian people, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU),
In an impassioned letter of solidarity addressed to CUPE, COSATU president
Willie Madisha catalogued
To read the Israeli boycott resolution adopted by CUPE, see www.cupe.ca.
Does the Pro-Israel
Lobby work against
By Mohamed Elmasry
Recently renowned American academics, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of
Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University, wrote a major research paper titled "The Israel Lobby
and U.S. Foreign Policy," which reported on how powerful the American
pro-Israel lobby is and how it is working against American national interests.
Both are leading political scientists with a respected track record. Prof.
Mearsheimer authored "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics" and Prof.
Walt wrote "Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S.
Primacy."
So you'd think that in free
The tactics traditionally employed by influential lobbyists against its critics
are twofold: first, try to suppress publication of the offending research (much
harder now, thanks to the Internet), and secondly, to smear the researchers'
reputations, harass them, have them fired from their jobs, etc.
In fact, Mearsheimer and Walt say the American pro-Israel lobby is so strong
that they doubted their paper would be printed in any American-based
publication. One clear reason why is found in their warning that the pro-Israel
lobby has pushed to exaggerate to the media and public the importance of
protecting Israel as a key part of American foreign policy.
The Mearsheimer-Walt report calls AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs
Committee) the "de facto agent for a foreign government," and notes
that it has forged an ominous alliance with conservative evangelical Christian groups,
many of whom believe that Jesus Christ will literally build a physical
"New Jerusalem" at the biblical Second Coming.
"The thrust of
The authors also question the argument that
Today the
About Me: Mohamed Elmasry is a professor
of electrical and computer engineering at the
Disgruntled feels: Asymmetrical!
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently expressed "deep regret"
for army operations that have killed Palestinian civilians in
Disgruntled says: On Thursday (June 22,
2006), US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced the arrest of an alleged
domestic terrorist cell. The seven black men had no weapons, money or other
assets with which to purchase the things necessary to carry out their alleged
plot to blow up the
Disgruntled wants to know: Jewish-
American Neo-conservatives with powerful positions in the
Mailbox: E-Mails, Faxes and Phone Calls
Email lrprice@snet.net
...The White House on Tuesday defended Dictator Bush's prolific use of
statements that tend to limit the impact of bills he signs into law, saying
they help him uphold the Constitution and defend the nation's security. Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter opened hearings on Bush's use of
bill signing statements saying he reserves the right to revise, interpret or
disregard a measure on national security and constitutional grounds. Such
statements accompanied some 750 statutes passed by Congress - including a ban
on torture and renewal of the Patriot Act.
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The State of Israel controls every gate into
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"Escaping the Matrix and Democracy...What is democracy?" The
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When Israelis massacre Palestinians, it is not a massacre. When Palestinians
fire home-made rockets at
Email myers@cyberone.com.au
Netanyahu: IDF has operational capability to wipe out all of
Email moreinfo@couplescompany.com In a latest appeal for international intervention to rein in Israel's excessive and disproportionate use of force, Abbas urged US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a phone call Saturday to exert pressure on Israel to stop its military operations in the Gaza Strip.... with the full evacuation of all non-Palestinians and all journalists from Gaza, the only conclusion I see is Israel is going to use this to go in and retake Gaza, killing hundreds, perhaps thousands in the process and try to spin it so the killings of civilians are portrayed as "necessary", "self-defense", "Part of the war on Terror" and "retaliation", just like we do in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course with the society already weakened by lack of food, medicine and under near constant shelling, (fatigue and stressed out on top of starving and sick) Gaza in essence will be like SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL.
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