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Antiwar.com Original Articles : Helpless in Gaza

Wed, 3 Feb 2010 04:49:16 +0000

Even this article I fear gives too much benefit of the doubt to the Israelis. Every UN warning I've seen has warned that the lack of medical supplies in Gaza is in danger of reaching crisis proportions. Roughly 360 - 380 people have died from lack of adequate medical care (medical care that would normally be available in Gaza) since Cast Lead last year. The humanitarian situation is under control as far as the Israelis are concerned. It's getting worse and worse which is exactly what they want, collective punishment. I'm becoming more convinced that the only thing that can save the Palestinians is a large scale change in public opinion in either the US or Israel and neither is looking too likely now though both have some movements. It's up to us and I agree with paljustice, this is the most important human rights issue of our time because it affects so much else in the world. We've got to fix this. Join Five for Palestine.

News From Antiwar.com : Palestinian Leaders Seek UN Endorsement of Statehood

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:13:18 +0000

The only thing that can get the Palestinians a state is us. Namely US voters. When there's enough of a swing in opinion in the US some lawmakers may be willing to buck the lobby at least partially. Join a group like 5 for Palestine. And before you say, it won't happen let me just say that I too am skeptical but I feel like I'm morally obligated to try, for the Palestinians and for the sake of trying to reclaim democratic input into foreign policy. If that doesn't motivate you think of how angry even just minor influence on the part of some pro-Palestinian groups would make the AIPAC.

News From Antiwar.com : CIA Funneling Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Pakistani Spy Agency

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:59:10 +0000

I wonder how much of this funding depends directly on the CIA's heroine running and how much of the ISI's other 2/3's depends on the same or other illegal drugs and gun running.

Antiwar.com Blog : Another Shoe Drops in the NIAC Story

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:48:55 +0000

Not that I'm defending Timmerman here, and not that I necessarily believe it myself, but Robert Baer has also alleged that the Iranians were somehow involved in 911.

News From Antiwar.com : Emanuel Warns Against Using Settlements as Distraction

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:07:20 +0000

We urge the Palestinians to stop expecting us to stop screwing them over behind the scenes. In fact we'd like them to simply a) move to another country or b) kill themselves so we won't have to. It's much easier on us in the international press, and we'll save on bullets and bombs. Why are you guys making us spend all this money. It's anti-Semitism!!!! Oh and please ignore the fact that my father was a terrorist and still makes anit-Arab comments (i.e. anti-Semitic comments).

Antiwar.com Original Articles : A Manifesto for X Street

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 06:25:40 +0000

I don't know about all the other stuff but there already is a lobby for a more realistic and less biased policy in the Middle East. It's called the Council for the National Interest. http://www.cnionline.org/about/

Antiwar Newswire : Report: FBI not reviewing all of its evidence

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:03:25 +0000

I hope this means the FBI and Justice Dept. will go after telemarketers.

Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton and Charles Goyette : Daniel Luban

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:56:04 +0000

It's an affront to my human rights that I have to listen to this man (Bolton) and am not allowed to slap him till I break my hand.

Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton and Charles Goyette : Daniel Luban

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:44:28 +0000

First the buildings were built to withstand a hit at maximum velocity from a 707. The maximum speed of the 707 is faster than the 757 and force of impact increases exponentially with speed. Plus the planes didn't even have full tanks of fuel when they hit. I realize it's possible that the structure was weakened enough to collapse and I'm not dismissing that either. But how do you explain the Windsor tower in Madrid that burned for over 24 hours with the steel structure still intact and standing when it burned out? Go look at the videos. Virtually everything is gone except steel frame. No steel frame buildings in history ever collapsed because of fire before or since 911. How do you explain the fact that WTC 5 and 6 were much closer to 1 and 2, and received massive damage from debris and yet their steel structure was still standing as well after the fact. And yet building 7, which no photographs of reveal any debris damage to (and most of the building is visible in those images), collapsed from damage to a few columns as per the NIST report. On top of that there were other buildings that were closer to WTC 1 and 2 that were damaged and none of them collapsed. Only WTC 7, the one that had a the NYC counter-terrorism office, a Secret Service office, a CIA office, an office of Housing and Development, an office of the SEC which had hundreds of files related to the Enron scandal in it. And there are multiple, multiple the eye witness accounts from the rescue workers and clean up crew of many secondary explosions even in WTC 7 and of huge amounts of molten metal in the wreckage. Where did that come from? The fire was never hot enough to liquify steel even if it could weaken it. Go on youtube and type in WTC molten metal. You can find a video of a NYC fireman saying "There was all this molten metal. Molten metal running down these rails. It was like being in a foundry." And then there are the people arrested in a white van near the George Washington Bridge that had traces of explosives and some of whom turned out to be former explosives experts for a foreign nations armed forces. This was after the police received a warning that the Bridge was going to be attacked. I realize there is a chance that this really was all coincidence and the towers really did collapse the way NIST said. But there are a lot of unanswered questions here. Don't dismiss it out of hand until you go and do a lot of research on the eye witness accounts of secondary explosions etc. etc. etc.

News From Antiwar.com : Report: Israeli Troops Killed Unarmed Gazans Carrying White Flags

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:58:18 +0000

So basically the IDF is saying we know of at least one occasion where a Hamas militant hid behind people waving white flags so from now on we reserve the right to shoot these people in cold blood. Great defense against war crimes.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Inching Toward Compromise in the Middle East

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:55:22 +0000

Agreed on that last point. But I can't see it ever happening.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Wag The Dog, Again

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:33:09 +0000

While I agree with Mr. Giraldi here that Israel and it's lobby play a big part in this I think there are some factors which make taking control of Iran or at least stifling it's advancement seem like it is in America's interest. Specifically I'm thinking of Brzezinski's focus on Central Asian natural resources and the fact that Iran is a strategic piece in a game we are trying to use to cut Russia and China off from various deals and alignments which are "against American interest". If we hadn't started overthrowing countries and installing dictators perhaps we could just cooperate with China and Russia at this point and buy oil and gas from them. Would they be 'in charge' then? Maybe. That all depends on our ability to develop resource agreements with our close allies (like Canada which has the second largest oil reserves in the world) and our ability to keep producing things others want to buy. Just think if we had focused half the amount we put into defense spending over the last 60 years into research and development. F**k this foreign policy. The instinct to believe that some things are moral and others aren't evolved for a reason.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : An Antiwar Effort Only the Right Can Lead

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:17:01 +0000

I entirely agree with the sentiment of this post. But I'd like to add that to my mind political or ideological commitments like isolationism are secondary. I come from a small town in the south, not the deep south but the south nonetheless. These days most of my views are on the left (although not all) but I've seen and despaired at the huge disconnect between the average red-state suburban or rural citizen and anything like an informed media much less a voice that can speak to them on the part of peace or social justice or any number of other issues. This demographic constitutes a huge part of the voting public. But most of them only get their news from local papers and Fox or CNN. To my mind the main problem is the disconnect in values, as the writer says, but this is itself entangled with religion. Fundamentalist and/or evangelical christianity has within itself the resources to argue against imperialism, to overcome it's narrow Zionism and more. It just takes some critical mass of people from within who appear to be one of the group they are addressing, to point out the inherent tensions and contradictions in the moral acrobatics or simple blindness currently in vogue. This will surprise some who take me at my word. Probably most others won't believe me. But that's the whole point. The world of the fundamentalist christian and the anti-war activist are (for the most part) so far apart that they usually only dismiss each other out of hand.

News From Antiwar.com : US Summons Israeli Envoy to Protest East Jerusalem Evictions

Wed, 5 Aug 2009 19:24:36 +0000

Yeah I've seen your irrelevant quotes before. First of all the very fact that you think that it matters that these quotes come from people who happen to be Arabic shows that you're thinking in racist terms. I could probably go find a lot of quotes from people saying that all humans are one and are all equal. If I find more quotes than you will you decide a Jewish state was a silly idea and in an epiphany start kissing Arabs and inviting them into your home? Whether or not there was an officially recognized nation called Palestine has nothing to do with the morality of kicking people out of their homes idiot. Nor does it relate to the justification for a racist nation founded in an act of ethnic cleansing.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Israeli Wall Bound to Become an Issue Again

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:37:09 +0000

Here's a link to the original commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH02uc1vB4k Here's a parody some (Israeli) friends of mine made with their Palestinian friends at their weekly protest in Bil'in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et8VGyCDt10 And here are some other parodies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fhJXGPbA7I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPxfI5o7ouo

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Netanyahu Activates Ticking Time Bomb

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:58:58 +0000

I know the territories are occupied by Israelis but I wish you'd use the phrase Occupied Palestinian Territories just to emphasize who they really belong to. There are still so few people who know that the occupation is illegal I think we need to take every opportunity to emphasize it. A survey by Glasgow university revealed that a significant number of news viewers there thought that the Palestinians were the illegal settlers in Israel.

News From Antiwar.com : Israel Kept Palestinian Detainees in Ditches Without Food and Water

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:26:42 +0000

F*ck Israel. If this isn't terrorism I don't know what terrorism is. The commenter above is right this is political cowardice. But in the end it's because of US pressure and the only people who can affect that is us, US citizens. http://www.fiveforpalestine.org/site/ http://bdsmovement.net/

News From Antiwar.com : Acquitted Detainees Could Stay in Prison

Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:19:17 +0000

WTF!!! This is ridiculous. Are we all just gonna sit and let this happen?

News From Antiwar.com : Pakistani PM Seeks US Aid for Massive Border Wall

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 18:40:11 +0000

There's obviously some text missing in the first sentence. This is the third anti-War article today with typos. You guys are great but I just wanted to let you know you may need to step up your proof-reading.

News From Antiwar.com : Dozens of Civilians, No Militant Leaders, Killed in US Drone Strike on Pakistan Funeral

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:24:06 +0000

Jesus, how many time have we 'mistaken' a funeral for something else. It seems to me only a person who was told to ere on the side against caution could sit well with this. Fuck the ridiculous calousness of this shit. Erring on the side of in-caution since their foreign enough to impede empathy. Support those who are trying to change things, e.g. Sibel Edmonds. She needs our support http://123realchange.blogspot.com/