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Activists say Montreal firms used as fronts for building Israeli settlements

Posted on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gI4bs7B0MHqgPfid-oBEP4Moeujw

MONTREAL — Murky ownership of two Montreal companies is feeding allegations by U.S. activists that the firms are being used as fronts for Israeli developers intent on building settlements in Palestinian territory. (Keep reading…)

Citizenship law makes Israel an apartheid state

Posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Ha‚aretz
29/06/2008

The government’s decision last week to extend the validity of the Citizenship Law (Temporary Order), for another year, is evidence that the legal barriers preventing severe discrimination against Israel’s Arab citizens and harm to their civil rights have been removed. (Keep reading…)

Looking Into THe Lobby

Posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008

The American Conservative

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20253.htm

09/08/07 “American Conservative” — - For three days in the capital in early June, suspense built over the question of how the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference would greet Barack Obama. There was a lot of grousing about Obama in the hallways of the Washington Convention Center, and AIPAC officials repeatedly warned the faithful to be respectful. “We are not a debate society or a protest movement. Š our goal is to have a friend in the White House,” executive director Howard Kohr said in a strict tone. It wasn’t hard to imagine things going poorly: Obama gets booed on national television. He feels insulted. Conservative Jewish donors and voters turn off to Obama. He becomes president without their support. AIPAC has no friend in the Oval Office. (Keep reading…)

Israel’s Was with Iran and The Zionist Power Configuration in America

Posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

July 2008            

            “My strong preference here is to handle all this (US conflict with Iran) diplomatically with the other powers of government, ours and many others as opposed to any kind of strike occurring…From the US perspective, from the United States military perspective in particular, opening up a third front (Israeli and/or US act of war against Iran) would be extremely stressful to us” testimony of Admiral Michael Mulligan, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  July 2, 2008. (Keep reading…)

Neoliberalism, the ‘New Middle East’ and Palestine

Adam Hanieh | Posted on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(((( T h e B u l l e t ))))~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Socialist Project e-bulletin …. No. 126 …. July 16, 2008 ______________________________________________________________ (Keep reading…)

Seeking Justice Abroad: Bil’in Village Council Submits Case before Canadian Court Against Canadian Corporations for Involvement in Illegal Settlement Construction

Posted on Friday, July 11th, 2008

AL-HAQ PRESS RELEASE

10 July 2008

 

In a continuation of their struggle for justice in the face of unlawful appropriation of their land, the people of Bil’in village yesterday commenced legal proceedings before the Superior Court of Quebec against Green Park International Inc. and Green Mount International Inc. The defendants are Canadian corporations registered in the Province of Quebec who have been involved in constructing, marketing and selling residential units in the illegal Jewish-Israeli settlement of Modi’in Illit in the occupied West Bank, on the land of the village of Bil’in.   (Keep reading…)

Iran: New War Brewing — U.S. Israel Take Dangerous Steps

Posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Winnipeg Sun July 6, 2008

GENEVA — The U.S., Israel and Iran are playing a very dangerous game of chicken that soon could result in a new Mideast war. (Keep reading…)

The Palestinian Return and Right of Return—No Dea

Posted on Saturday, July 5th, 2008

http://www.alternativenews.org/blogs/michael-warschawski/the-Palestinian-return-and-right-of-returnno-deal-20080702.html (Keep reading…)

Targeting Journalists

Posted on Friday, July 4th, 2008

http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2008/07/01/targeting-journalists/

July 1st, 2008

The killing of Gaza-based Palestinian Reuters cameraman received considerable attention 2.5 months ago. Filming at the site of shelling in Gaza earlier in the day, Fadel Shana was himself targeted by shelling from the very tanks he was filming. After the incident, with international outcry from rights groups, journalists associations, and individuals, Israel promised to look into his death. (Keep reading…)

Apology: What Can Israel Learn from Canada

Posted on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

17/06/08 “ICH http://www.informationclearinghouse.info

THIS WEEK, the Prime Minister of Canada made a dramatic statement in Parliament: he apologized to the indigenous peoples of his country for the injustices done to them for generations by successive Canadian governments. (Keep reading…)

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