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| :: | I've struggled five minutes for an appropriate headline but none comes to mind. Would visitors care to propose one? The winner will receive free access to my web site for one year.
(Alan M. Dershowitz, The Jewish Week: "Why Norman Finkelstein Is A ‘Pariah’") NEW! 07.24.2008
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| :: | A worthy petition
("As many of you are aware there was a major human rights abuse in Ni'lin Village, Palestine on July 7, 2008.") NEW! 07.24.2008
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| :: | Isabel Kershner interrupts the harrowing series on her Sderot beautician for a breaking story on the winner of a knish-eating contest in Haifa
(Haaretz: "Soldier filmed shooting bound Palestinian released from detention") NEW! 07.24.2008
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| :: | Devil in details
(The Guardian: Comment Is Free: "No U-turn. Obama's stance on Iraq is chillingly consistent") 07.23.2008
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| :: | In his first press conference during the past
hour President Achmadinejad declared that Iran had started production of a
rocket-propelled poison gas called the "Isabela I" and known colloquially as the
yenta gas. The president's office in Tehran refused to confirm or deny...
(Boston.com: "Palestinian injures 16 in backhoe attack. 2d in month in
Jerusalem; driver killed") 07.23.2008
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| :: | Filing this breaking news story from under the hairdryer of her Sderot beautician's salon, Isabel Kershner reveals for the first time that, according to secret Israel army archives, no Palestinian has ever been killed. "The results of my research really shocked me," she said. "It was like when Joan Peters discovered that there were no Palestinians in Palestine. I didn't know what to do first: call my mah jong partners or cancel my pedicure."
(The New York Times: "Construction Vehicle Attack in Israel") 07.23.2008
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| :: | World Jewish Congress denounces perfidy of Swiss Banks; Rabbi Israel Singer cries out, "When will the Swiss learn elementary human decency?" (Singer was speaking from Switzerland, where he was depositing stolen cash in his secret Swiss bank account.) Attorney Burt Neuborne to file class-action lawsuit on behalf of needy Holocaust victims. "Of course, I'll do it pro bono. It's for the memory of my deceased daughter." Former New York senator Alfonse D'Amato delivers blistering attack from his room in the Cosa Nostra-Kosher Nosh Senior Citizen Center: "So long as I am alive I will fight for justice for needy Holocaust victims, millions of whom are born every day."
(The Washington Post: ""That allegation is now being investigated alongside evidence that Olmert may have bilked various charities of more than $100,000 by billing multiple organizations for the same flights and hotel stays. Among the alleged victims of the scam are the Holocaust memorial authority Yad Vashem, a group that supports Israeli soldiers and another that helps mentally disabled children...."") 07.22.2008
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| :: | Temper, temper
("'Pot-Kettle' comes to mind Al,...") 07.22.2008
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| :: | Isabel Kershner continues her
award-winning series on the harrowing life-story of her Sderot beautician:
"How my beautician's great-great uncle's cousin once had a cough."
(Haaretz: "Soldier filmed shooting bound Palestinian released from
detention") 07.22.2008
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| :: | Isabel Kershner interrupts the harrowing series on her Sderot beautician for a breaking story on the winner of a knish-eating contest in Haifa
(Reuters: "Israeli Army examines shooting video") 07.21.2008
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| :: | You can run, but you can't hide
(canadianpress.google.com: "Activists say Montreal firms used as fronts for building Israeli settlements") 07.21.2008
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| :: | Unfortunately, true
(blogger.com: "Obama & McCain: I'm the real conservative") 07.21.2008
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| :: | Most important political trial since Bozo the
Clown arrested for littering
(jewishsf.com: "Wiesel in court: ‘All of a sudden I understood the
incident") 07.21.2008
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| :: | Isabel Keshner continues her 60-trillion-part series on the harrowing life story of her beautician in Sderot. Installment #4: "How my beautician's fourth-cousin's grandmother scraped herself one day."
(YouTube.com: "Video: Israeli soldier shoots bound Palestinian demonstrator at point blank range") 07.21.2008
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| :: | A worthy cause
("An Urgent call for donations from Anarchists Against the Wall. The mounting legal costs of the joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle against the occupation, and the heightening legal persecution of Palestinian activists, are forcing us to send this urgent appeal for funds.") 07.20.2008
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| :: | Analysis of Iran-Israel-US relations
(Sajjad Safaei: "Set For War") 07.20.2008
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| :: | ADL spokeperson: "If they really care about peace, they should be dropping cluster bombs on south Lebanon"
(contracostatimes.com: "Richmond man leads group on mission to Gaza") 07.20.2008
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| :: | Diamonds - and hypocrisy - are a Hollywood liberal's best friends
(The Huffington Post: "Susan Sarandon's Double Standards") 07.20.2008
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| :: | Letters to Finkelstein, 2008
LATEST UPDATE, 07.20.2008
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| :: | And the winner is...
(The Jerusalem Post: "Nasrallah 'most admired' Arab leader") 07.18.2008
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| :: | Isabel Kershner continues her Pulitzer-prize-winning series on the harrowing life story of her beautician in Sderot. Installment #3: "How my beautician's great-great-third cousin Abie fought off Arab marauders with chopped liver and gefilte fish." Kershner will also be featured in this week's Times Sunday Magazine. In a shocking in-depth study, "No child left behind," Kershner reveals for the first time that according to classified IDF files no Israeli soldier has ever killed a child.
(alternativenews.org: "The Colour of Water—Thirst in the Palestinian Territories") 07.18.2008
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| :: | "Both demands are backed up by international law": Look who is talking about international law
(Former Foreign Ministry director general, Shlomo Avineri, Haaretz: "Lessons of the swap") 07.17.2008
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| :: | I received this email from The Jewish
Week, a right-wing national U.S. newspaper. Compare the video with what
Isabel Kershner fantasizes in The New York Times: which is a worse propaganda
rag?
(The Jewish Week: "Israeli Soldiers, Jewish Settlers and Palestinians") 07.17.2008
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| :: | Latest on Dr. Sami Al-Arian
(JonathanTurley.org: "Dr. Sami Al-Arian: Affidavits Filed With the Court
Show Government Seeks to Re-Argue Florida Trial") 07.17.2008
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| :: | More merry news from the Shylock Claims Conference
(Haaretz: "Holocaust survivors in need of long-term hospital care strapped for funds.... They reported as much to the hospital and the Claims Conference. But they got a call this week from the hospital's billing department demanding payment and warning that legal steps would be taken otherwise.") 07.17.2008
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| :: | Video: Norman Finkelstein versus Ariel Sharon's Advisor on The Wall
(AlJazeeraEnglish: "Riz Khan - Israel's Separation Wall - 10 July
08") 07.10.2008
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| :: | I won't comment.
(YouTube.com: "Single guy") 07.17.2008
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| :: | But this sack of shit isn't afraid to send thousands of young kids to their deaths in Iraq
(Yahoo! News: "Blair cancels Gaza trip, cites threats against him") 07.17.2008
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| :: | Israeli pilot Ron Arad was not a "murderer" and was not "despised" by Lebanese when he was shot down on a combat mission in 1986. He was only dropping tulips and daffodils on south Lebanon.
(The New York Times: "Israel Releases Prisoners After Hezbollah Returns Dead Soldiers") 07.16.2008
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| :: | Hope Springs Eternal
("you may enjoy this one from the UK artist Banksy") 07.16.2008
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| :: | Isabel Kershner continues her 10-zillion part series on the life story of her Sderot beautician. Today's installment: "How my beautician's great-great aunt Goldie sold blintzes and borscht at the First Zionist Congress."
(electronicintifada.net: "Photostory: Breaking the Silence's tour disrupted") 07.16.2008
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| :: | Diamonds are forever; so are hypocrites
(Inter Press Service: "RIGHTS: Israeli Magnate Draws Activists' Ire. UNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 (IPS) - Having successfully lobbied the U.N. Children's Agency UNICEF to stop accepting donations from Israeli billionaire Lev Avnerovich Leviev, activists are urging celebrities who have made public appearances with Leviev to cut all ties with him. ") 07.16.2008
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| :: | Exclusive to the New York Times: Isabel Kershner tells the harrowing life story of her beautician in Sderot in a special 10 zillion-part series. Today, Installment 2: "How my beautician's great-great-grandfather fought off a mob of Cossacks mounted on horses with his latkes and matzoh ball soup."
(icahd.org: "URGENT ALERT: Families to be evicted in Sheikh
Jarah") 07.15.2008
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| :: | Chomsky on Burma and Violence
(The Bangkok Post: "'Resonant and unwavering'") 07.15.2008
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| :: | The World: 10,000 UN Resolutions on Israel are failures
(Haaretz: "Barak: UN resolution on Lebanon war is a failure") 07.15.2008
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| :: | How to spend your summer vacation
(ICAHD: "THE ISRAELI COMMITTEE AGAINST HOUSE DEMOLITIONS
announces its SUMMER REBUILDING WORK CAMP") 07.15.2008
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| :: | Nasrallah: "I'm so-o afraid."
(Haaretz: "ANALYSIS / Two years on, IDF is starting to look like an army that can fight a war
") 07.15.2008
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| :: | Read it, weep - and then organize! This battle can be won!
("Dear friends and family, After over 10 months of building anticipation while under total secrecy, I can finally tell you about the most exciting piece of litigation I've yet to be involved in. Last Wednesday our office as counsel for the Palestinian village, Bil'in, via Canadian counsel in Ontario and Quebec, possibly made a little bit of history just by filing suit against private corporations building Israeli settlements on the village lands, for violating both Canadian and international law....") 07.14.2008
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| :: | Special to the New York Times. Isabel Kershner begins her 3,957-part series on her beautician in Sderot. Installment 1: "Pogroms in Plonsk. How my beautifician's great-great-grandmother baked apple strudel while a Tsarist mob ransacked her home."
(Defence for Children International: "Israeli soldiers torture 10-year-old in his home Report, Defence for Children International- Palestine Section, 10 July 2008") 07.14.2008
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| :: | It seems no one understands our Messiah. He is either too profound or we are all too stupid. (Another possibility I dare not entertain is that HE is a charlatan.) For the past few weeks HE has been saying that he hasn't changed. I am willing to believe this. But maybe HE could have spent the tens of millions of dollars squandered in the Democratic primary saying what he stood for instead of delivering vacuous homilies and a mind-numbing monosyllabic slogan....
(Haaretz: "Obama backtracks on undivided Jerusalem remarks") 07.14.2008
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| :: | If Isabel Kershner were a reporter and not a party hack.
(Kim Bullimore, PalestineChronicle.com: "Only Arabs Are Terrorists") 07.14.2008
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| :: | Christopher Hitchens and Paul Wolfowitz on "Bringing Democracy to the Arabs"
(The Independent : "British soldiers accused of sickening sex assault on Iraqi boy, 14") 07.13.2008
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| :: | A country gone mad; and a world gone blind, deaf and dumb
(Haaretz : "The general of onions and garlic") 07.13.2008
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| :: | Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter
All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
Isn't it time to arrest this hoodlum?
(The Jerusalem Post: "Barak to US: Time running out on Iran") 07.12.2008
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| :: | Richard Silverstein on Jewish Week
(Tikun Olam: "Finkelstein to Invoke Law of Return if Israel Refuses Entry") 07.12.2008
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