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Saturday, May 30, 2009
American Hypocrisy and Israel's Nuclear Secret
For more than 40 years, Israel and the U.S. have been trying to keep the Israeli nuclear arsenal a secret. It is now estimated at 80 to 200 nuclear weapons. The U.S. until now has not pressed Israel to sign the nuclear NPT, which permits only five countries the U.S., France, China, Russia and Britain to have nuclear arms.
The U.S. has opposed all regional calls for a "nuclear-free Middle East." An accord was agreed at a summit between Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and President Nixon on Sept. 25, 1969. According to recently released documents, it is so secret that there is no proper record of it.
The Leading expert on this Mr.Avner Cohen has referred to the secret deal as "don't ask, don't tell," because it commits both the U.S. and Israel to keep Israel's nuclear arsenal asecret.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/06/us-weighs-forcing-israel-to-disclose-nukes/
PHUK OFF PALESTINE
NO, ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH TOMMY, YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP TELLING THESE ZIONIST PHUCKKERS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, UNTIL THEY GET THE MESSAGE.......
Israel has shut down a Palestinian theatre in East Jerusalem.
The action prevented the closing event of an international literature festival from taking place.
Police said they had a court order, after intelligence indicated that the Palestinian Authority was involved in the event.
Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since 1967. This is not recognised by the international community.
The British consul-general in Jerusalem , Richard Makepeace, was attending the event.
"I think all lovers of literature would regard this as a very regrettable moment and regrettable decision," he said.
He also said the festival's closing event would have take place at the British Council in Jerusalem.
Israeli usually takes action against any events in East Jerusalem they see as connected to the Palestinians.
Saturday's opening event at the same theatre was also shut down.
Israel has annexed East Jerusalem and declares it part of its eternal capital.
Palestinians hope to establish their capital in the area.
Israel has shut down a Palestinian theatre in East Jerusalem.
The action prevented the closing event of an international literature festival from taking place.
Police said they had a court order, after intelligence indicated that the Palestinian Authority was involved in the event.
Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since 1967. This is not recognised by the international community.
The British consul-general in Jerusalem , Richard Makepeace, was attending the event.
"I think all lovers of literature would regard this as a very regrettable moment and regrettable decision," he said.
He also said the festival's closing event would have take place at the British Council in Jerusalem.
Israeli usually takes action against any events in East Jerusalem they see as connected to the Palestinians.
Saturday's opening event at the same theatre was also shut down.
Israel has annexed East Jerusalem and declares it part of its eternal capital.
Palestinians hope to establish their capital in the area.
A Decent Read
In the era of embedded media, independent journalists have become the eyes and ears of the world. Without those un-embedded journalists willing to risk their lives to place themselves on the other side of the barrel of the tank or the gun or under the airstrikes, history would be written almost entirely from the vantage point of powerful militaries, or—at the very least—it would be told from the perspective of the troops doing the shooting, rather than the civilians who always pay the highest price.
In the case of the Iraq invasion and occupation, the journalists who have placed themselves in danger most often are local Iraqi journalists. Some 116 Iraqi journalists and media workers have been killed in the line of duty since March 2003. In all, 189 journalists have been killed in Iraq. At least 16 of these journalists were killed by the US military, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. The network that has most often found itself under US attack is Al Jazeera. As I wrote a few years ago in The Nation:
The United States bombed its offices in Afghanistan in 2001, shelled the Basra hotel where Al Jazeera journalists were the only guests in April 2003, killed Iraq correspondent Tareq Ayoub a few days later in Baghdad and imprisoned several Al Jazeera reporters (including at Guantánamo), some of whom say they were tortured. In addition to the military attacks, the US-backed Iraqi government banned the network from reporting in Iraq.
A new report for a leading neoconservative group which pushes a belligerent “Israel first” agenda of conquest in the Middle East suggests that in future wars the US should make censorship of media official policy and advocates “military attacks on the partisan media.” (H/T MuzzleWatch) The report for JINSA, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, was authored by retired US Army Colonel Ralph Peters. It appears in JINSA’s “flagship publication,” The Journal of International Security Affairs. “Today, the United States and its allies will never face a lone enemy on the battlefield. There will always be a hostile third party in the fight,” Peters writes, calling the media, “The killers without guns:”
http://www.alternet.org/media/140223/neocon_us_colonel_calls_for_military_attacks_on_"partisan_media"/
Friday, May 29, 2009
Hilary Clinton Stands Up to Bullying
I wrote an article yesterday on NowPublic which was censored, which has prompted me to start this blog. I believe we in Ireland because of our experience have something positive to bring to the world from our lessons of the past.No i am not anti-semitic. I have people whom I consider friends who are Jewish but then I am not anti-Arabic either. I have been watching almost daily the violence in the middle-east on my TV screen since i was child. The recent bombardment and resulting death of over 1,300 defenceless citizens in Gaza, one third of whom are children by F16 American fixed wing aircraft reminds me of the Warsaw Ghettos and the war crimes committed against the Jewish people.The Zionist leadership are committing murder and war crimes in the name of Israel. I believe our best hope is the intelligent, enlightened Jewish people worldwide (yes, there are many) who can help bring this to an end. There are many who have a vested interest in encouraging cynicism as an excuse to do nothing.
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Hilary Clinton is starting to restore America's reputation abroad after the damage to U.S. credibility by the Bush administration's policies, according to human rights campaigners. In statements over the last month, she has compared China in an unfavorable light with Iran and said the U.S. backed government in Pakistan was "abdicating" to the Taliban.
It came as a shock to many recently when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to say that the Obama administration was throwing in the towel on talks with North Korea. She said talks with North Korea were "implausible, if not impossible."
Fierce criticism from far right media critics contend however, that these truths should remain unspoken. But human rights activists worldwide call Clinton's straight talk refreshing and a glimmer of hope for a more progressive American foreign policy.
What has really impressed international observers however is a statement by the US Secretary of State that there must be no exception to President Barack Obama's recent demand that Israel stop its settlement activity.
Hilary Clinton"s statement is a sharp rebuke to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who told his cabinet on Sunday after a meeting with Obama last week, that there would be natural expansion of existing settlements "There is no way that we are going to tell people not to have children or to force young people to move away from their families," he said
'Very clear'
Speaking to reporters after a meeting with an Egyptian counterpart, Hilary Clinton said that the president was "very clear" with PM Benjamin Netanyahu at their recent meeting that there should be a stop to all settlements.
"Not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions. We think it is in the best interest of the effort that we are engaged in that settlement expansion cease," Mrs Clinton said.
Correspondents and human rights groups say it is the first time that any US official has stood up to Israel's expansionist policies in the Middle-East and Clinton is slowly recovering respect for American foreign policy which has been in a shambles after the Bush administration.
"She's saying the things that nobody else would say but that 99% of the people in Washington agree with." said a Washinton insider.
Clinton's straight talk has raised her profile domestically and also her influence in an administration with foreign policy heavyweights, that include Defense Secretary Robert Gates, special Mideast envoy George Mitchell, Richard Holbrooke and Vice President Joe Biden.
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