The Latest News from the US, Israel and Palestine

December 31, 2009

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From the US

JPost: Peace talks framework may bridge goals

Huffington: Did Obama Take His Eyes off the Palestine Ball?

Haaretz: U.S. tax dollars fund rabbi who excused killing gentile babies By Akiva Eldar

Newsmax: Obama: U.S. Knew of Nigerian Terror Threat but Did Not Act By: Jim Meyers

JTA: After Oren flap, Rosenthal focuses on anti-Semitism—for now

ZOA: ZOA To Obama: Stop Funding & Training Fatah Killers

The Intelligence Daily: The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians By Francis Boyle

PTT: Obama, an "F" in Political Theory (First Word War)-WRITTEN BY ATILIO BORON And Translated by David Brookbank, members of Tlaxcala

PTT: Nima Shirazi – The New York Crimes: All The Lies That Fit to Print





From Israel

JPost: Rattling the Cage: A taboo question for Israelis

Haaretz: 28 kilometers of distilled apartheid By Gideon Levy

JPost: Hamas: We uncovered Israeli plot to gather info on Schalit

JPost: 'Evangelicals deserve our support'

BESA Center: Israel: Understanding the Settlement Moratorium by Max Singer

Haaretz: Retired judge: Israel's neglected Arab youth is 'a ticking bomb'




From Palestine

ALARAB ONLINE Happy New Year Palestine. Happy new year humanity!

JTA: Egypt allows 100 protesters to enter Gaza

Viva Palestina Update: Egypt To Allow Convoy To Enter Gaza-Galloway Statement

REUTERS: Egypt's Gaza wall months from completion-Israel

Daily Star: 'Israel is the persecutor,' says Holocaust survivor on hunger strike for Gaza

PTT: Egypt Approves Gaza Freedom March Passage, Viva Palestina Blunders Paperwork and Blames Egypt

PTT: Gaza, We'll Never Forget (a video by Haitham Sabbah)




Opinions and Commentaries

Common Dreams: National Lawyers Guild Urges Government of Egypt to Heed International Law Obligations and Allow Safe Passage to Gaza for Gaza Freedom March and Viva Palestina Convoy Members

ZNet: Lessons Of Gaza By Dave Bleakney

REVIEW: Joe Sacco's 'Footnotes in Gaza': An uneasy balance between history and forgetting

Israel Shamir: What Should Be Done in Palestine-Israel Shamir’s Talk at the Ankara Conference

The Peoples Voice: Arresting Peaceful Protesters in Occupied Palestine

Common Dreams: Israeli War on Gaza: New Year Reopens Wounds of the Old by Eva Bartlett




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Palestine is as much an American problem, as it is an Israeli and Palestinian problem,

That this problem is made in the USA, and perpetrated and perpetuated by American politics and foreign policy,

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