No To Duban III

Reports: Palestinians "Separate and Unequal" Under Israeli Occupation
A couple of recent reports provide important information on the reality of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and highlight again the imperative of ending that occupation. The first, Unsafe Space: Israeli Authorities’ Failure to Protect Human Rights amid Settlements in East Jerusalem, was published by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), and “draws attention to an alarming reality that is taking hold in East Jerusalem“: The authorities...

Israeli group snivels Arab men are taking our daughters
Some 200 people held a demonstration in central Bat Yam Monday evening against relationships between local Jewish Women and Arab men. One of the protestors called out, “Any Jewish woman who goes with an Arab should be killed; any Jew who sells his home to an Arab should be killed.” During the rally, held under the banner, “We Want a Jewish Bat-Yam”, demonstrators also insulted the prophet Muhammad and made Racist remarks against Arabs and their saints. Police forces mai...

How Europe aids the occupation: David Cronin interviewed
In his new book Europe's Alliance with Israel: Aiding the Occupation, Journalist David Cronin traces the intricacies of the relationship between the State of Israel and institutions such as the European Union and NATO. In doing so, it exposes the bad faith behind Europe's position as a neutral force and its claims to support the basic rights of the Palestinian people. Sarah Irving interviews David Cronin for The Electronic Intifada. Sarah Irving: Your background is mainly as a writer on Europea...

Right-wing activists rally to 'keep Bat Yam Jewish' by kicking Arabs out
Protesters say Arabs living in coastal city hassling Jewish Women, call 'Jews lets win - daughters of Israel for sons of Israel'....

Brooklyn-Jenin: Why didnt the judges prevent the demolition in Lod?
As fifty Children lose their homes under the auspices of the Supreme Court the question should be asked: Does the Supreme Court act in the service of a Racist ideology in the spirit of Rabbi Eliyahu and his cohorts? One morning, when the storm started shaking the treetops and the dogs howled in terror because of the thunders and the flashes of lightning, fifty Children of different ages went out to school in the city of Lod, Israel. During the day most of them worked diligently on their studie...

Welcome to the psychopathic state where conscience is 'persona non grata': Death to Jewish women who date Arabs
© Ofer Amram 'We will not allow it.' Bat Yam rally 200 people demonstrate in city center against 'Arabs who are taking our daughters'; leftists wave signs reading 'Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies'. Some 200 people held a demonstration in central Bat Yam Monday evening against relationships between local Jewish Women and Arab men. One of the protestors called out, "Any Jewish woman who goes with an Arab should be killed; any Jew who sells his home to an Arab should be killed." Durin...

Stockholm Bomber's Mosque Website Links To Extremist Imam...Funny so does the Islamic Information Society of Calgary
"Preachers at the Luton Islamic Centre told last week how they had tackled Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, 28, the Suicide Bomber who blew himself up in Stockholm last weekend, over his Extremist views. However, the centre's website carries a link to a lecture by Dr Bilal Philips , a Muslim preacher who was barred from entering Britain by the Home Secretary in July because of his Extremist views.... "His previous speeches include claims that there is no such thing as Rape in marriage and that the ...

EU sends election monitors to Sudan
Published: Dec. 20, 2010 at 10:41 AM Brussels, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- More than 100 members of an election monitoring group were deployed to Sudan ahead of the January Referendum, the European Union announced. Voters in South Sudan will cast ballots for self-determination in a referendum that is part of a peace deal brokered in 2005. Catherine Ashton, Europe's top foreign affairs authority, said European Member States consider the comprehensive peace agreement a priority. "The forthcoming referendum i...

'The Threat of Insolvency': Bond Leader Pimco Sees Euro Zone in Danger
European leaders proudly announced agreement last week in efforts to save the euro. But Pimco, the world's leading investor in sovereign bonds, says that the measures are not enough. Some countries may have to temporarily leave the common currency union. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as has been adequately documented, got what she wanted at the EU summit in Brussels late last week. European leaders agreed to the inclusion of a stability mechanism in the Lisbon Treaty -- one which allows for...

Enough of ethnic cleansing in the womb
A group of New Zealanders are calling authorities to account for a genocidal campaign. Every year, particularly in Asia, thousands of Abortions of unborn girls are carried out, solely because they are girls. This is the sad phenomenon known as “gendercide”, a term that, taking into account other forms of violence against women, even the liberal Economist magazine says is no exaggeration. The term echoes the word “Genocide”, familiar to all of us as a description of Nazi...

Moral Principles and Human Happiness
Among the few tasks that are more tedious than reading the writings of Immanuel Kant is the task of reading the writings of philosophers debating about the writings of Immanuel Kant. The dispute between Professor Hadley Arkes and me over the grounds of moral judgment is, happily, only incidentally about Kant. The criticisms I made of Arkes’ claims could be restated without mentioning Kant or any other historical figure, which is evident enough from my review of his book and initial reply. Wha...

Where Does Hate Come From?
Daniel Little has a question: Hate as a social demographic : Every Democracy I can think of has a meaningful (though usually small) proportion of citizens who fall on the extreme right by any standard: Racist, White supremacist, hateful, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, nativist, nationalist, or violently anti-government individuals and groups. In the United States we have many, many organizations that are basically racist and potentially violent hate groups. They provide a basis for...

Israel/West Bank: Separate and Unequal
(Jerusalem) - Israeli policies in the West Bank harshly discriminate against Palestinian residents, depriving them of basic necessities while providing lavish amenities for Jewish settlements, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The report identifies discriminatory practices that have no legitimate security or other justification and calls on Israel, in addition to abiding by its international legal obligation to withdraw the settlements, to end these violations of Palestinians' ...

Lukashenko lauds police, OSCE bashes vote
Published: Dec. 20, 2010 at 11:35 AM MINSK, Belarus, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko praised security authorities for arresting Protesters and opposition politicians after clashes erupted following demonstrations against the result of the country's Presidential Election. "What (protesters) tried to carry out in Minsk yesterday is not Democracy, it is banditism," Lukashenko was quoted as saying by Belarus' state-run news agency BelTA. "Vandals and thugs lost their human...

Human Rights Campaign to Rest After DADT Repeal?
“If you can fight and die for your country, there’s absolutely no reason why you can’t be granted the full set of rights” that others have, including the ability to marry a same-sex partner, said Fred Sainz, a vice president at the Human Rights Campaign, a Gay Rights group. With the Military’s policy repealed, he said, “Americans will deduce that on their own. We won’t have to say a thing.” Ah, yes, your work is done. Seriously, who even thinks tha...

Fmr. US ambassador threatened retaliation to bully EU into biotech crop acceptance, cable shows
Stumble This! Reacting to a French pledge to represent the "common interest" in considering Biotech foods, a former US ambassador recommended publishing a "retaliation list" of European locations where genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were being grown in hopes that Activists would destroy them and "cause some pain" for officials, a leaked diplomatic cable shows. In a confidential communication dated Dec. 14, 2007 and released by Wikileaks on Sunday, then-US Ambassador to France Craig Rober...

Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, The Great Fear
This network is obsessively fixated on the supposed spread of Muslim influence in America. Its apparatus spans continents, extending from Tea Party Activists here to the European Far Right. It brings together in common cause right-wing ultra-Zionists, Christian Evangelicals, and Racist British Soccer Hooligans. It reflects an aggressively pro-Israel sensibility, with its key figures venerating the Jewish State as a Middle Eastern Fort Apache on the front lines of the Global War on Terror and u...

Interview with Cuban independent journalist Miguel Galban Gutierrez
Our good friend Raul at Pedazos de la Isla has an interview with Cuban opposition member and independent Journalist Miguel Galban Gutierrez. Independent journalist, independent union worker, and mechanical engineer, Miguel Galban Gutierrez is a dignified Cuban who was punished by the Castro tyranny or acting like a free man in a totalitarian land.  He was condemned to the Prisons of the island during the Black Spring, and now resides in Spain- free, but exiled.  He has launched his own...

Report Ready on Israeli Sovereignty on the Temple Mount
State Comptroller Michal Lindenstrauss has prepared a report on Israel’s approach to Waqf excavations on the Temple Mount and on Israeli Sovereignty there in general. Only a small portion will be made public, at a date of the Comptroller's choosing. A subcommittee of the Knesset Control Committee, named the Audit Committee of the Security Establishment re: Foreign Affairs, has reviewed the report and determined which sections can be published. Subcommittee chairman MK Otniel Shneller (Kadi...

How the South rationalizes secession
Secession is making a comeback. Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of South Carolina’s Secession from the Union, a political act that set in motion the events that led to the Civil War, but one needn’t look very far into the past to hear the rumblings of disunion and the Rhetoric of states’ rights. In April 2009, Rick Perry, the Republican Governor of Texas, suggested that his state might ponder Secession if "Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American People." In r...

Almost 100 Gaza laborers shot this year for collecting rocks; Abbas wanted Israel to help attack Hamas, per WikiLeaks
and other news from Today in Palestine Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing 11 more families in Occupied West Bank are ordered to leave their homes inside 24 hours. Where is the U.S.?, Philip Weiss The U.N. in Israel/Palestine is circulating the following information today about a village in the Occupied West Bank, east of Nablus. Ma'an confirms the news. Where is the American President or Secretary of State?  We want to inform you that 11 Palestinia...

Jerusalem scrambles as European states move to upgrade ties with Palestinians
Reports indicate Palestinians urging about a dozen EU states to upgrade the PA's diplomatic status; Israel orders envoys abroad to take 'urgent' action against Palestinian efforts at UN....

The State of Israel vs. Jonathan Pollak
The verdict in the case of Israeli Activist Jonathan Pollak, charged with illegal assembly for his participation in a January 2008 Critical Mass ride against the siege on Gaza, will be handed down on December 27, 2010 at 10:00 at the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court. If convicted, Pollak is expected to be sentenced to three to six months in Prison. A conviction in this case will activate an older three month Suspended Sentence, imposed on Pollak in a previous trial for protesting the construction of t...

Tron and the Jewish Question
Forget about the rerelease of Shoah; for a Holocaust film geared towards the digital generation, go see Tron: Legacy. Much like the 1982 original—one of the great, unheralded masterpieces of contemporary American cinema—the sequel is, in large part, a tale of religious persecution. The movie’s villain is Clu, a computer program run amok; much like anyone who’d ever been exposed to Windows 7, Clu is enraged by the existence of glitches and errors, and dreams of a perfect ...

Anne Applebaum - In Belarus, a slide toward Eastern aggression
On Sunday, the nation of Belarus held Presidential Elections. On Sunday evening, the police officers of Belarus handed out their verdict. By midnight, tens of thousands of people had been chased out of the main square in central Minsk, hundreds had been arrested and hundreds more severely beaten. Young People limped away from demonstrations with broken arms, bloody heads. Seven out of nine Belarusan Presidential Candidates were in jail. One of them, Vladimir Neklyayev, was beaten unconscious a...