White House Protest Corps

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Today’s New York Times reports that the State Department has withdrawn funding for seven Palestinians from Gaza who were to be awarded Fulbright scholarships to study in the United States.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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