The presence of Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas is one of the most contentious issues of our times. The settlements are regarded as illegal under international and Israeli law. But while the Israeli government says it will remove them, efforts by the Israeli army to do so are meeting hostile resistance from some settlers.

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Today’s New York Times reports that the State Department has withdrawn funding for seven Palestinians from Gaza who were to be awarded Fulbright scholarships to study in the United States. It is hard to determine if the decision to take…

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Scott McClellan. Ancien porte-parole du pr
ésident, cet ex-fidèle raconte les dessous des manipulations orchestrées par la Maison Blanche dans un livre qui fait scandale aux Etats-Unis. «Dissimuler la vérité». L’écho important que suscite l’ouvrage provient surtout des mauvaises intentions prêtées par McClellan au président Bush et à ses proches

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fBush has talked about freezing settlements, freezing checkpoints, negotiating final borders, and proving to the Palestinian public that Hamas is not the answer. All sounds nice. And then there were the seven students from Gaza. Seven students–they can’t get seven students out of Gaza in order to study in the U.S.

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Sorry to disappoint David Ben-Gurion. The memories of the Nakba are alive and well. We expect to meet Zionist lobbyists in Washington DC June 1-4, and to remind them that the story of the Nakba is written on the pages of history with indelible ink.

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Find a protest, make a protest, turn up the heat on these bastards.

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Today’s GDP report showed an “increase” in 1st Q growth of +0.9%, upwardly revised from the previous +0.6% from 4/30/08. But this “increase” was due solely to a “decrease” in Imports. Today’s revision came from a $25.4 billion DECLINE in US spending–in this case on imports.Thus, a “decrease” in US spending gave an “increase” in GDP growth.

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The West Bank village of Bil
’in has become famous for several years now as the site of weekly protests against the construction of the wall. The route of the wall separates the village itself from 60% of its farmland (mostly olive groves). Israeli settlers under the protection of the Israeli army started on Monday morning to install homes on land

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Senators Joseph I. Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, prominent surrogates for Senator John McCain
’s presidential campaign, stepped down Wednesday from their positions with an independent group that released a pair of Internet advertisements attacking Senator Barack Obama on Iraq.

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The vision of The Freedom Theatre builds upon a unique project, Care and Learning, run by Arna Mer Khamis in Jenin Camp during the First Intifada and documented in the film Arna’s Children (2004). Arna’s project focused on using theatre and arts to address the children’s immediate trauma, chronic fear and depression resulting from the violence…

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