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  Stop blaming Israel for every grievance in the Middle East  :      Information Clearing House: ICH MAY 01, 2011 "The Independent" - -First came the Arab spring (followed, in some lands, by the harshest of winters) and now Hamas and Fatah have signed a deal for unity. Naturally, Israel is as panicked as are Arab despots by the shifts and quakes, the shaking ground beneath their boots. Israel depended on an everlasting, adamantine status quo. Nothing will ever be as it has been. Successive Israeli governments and their global cheerleaders and backers across the world are guilty of crimes against the humanity and rights of the Palestinian people, they who were made to pay for the European Holocaust. Hitler's unspeakable annihilation project can't be laid to rest and shouldn't. But excruciating historical experiences do not entitle a nation to grab land, to humiliate, to destroy the livelihoods of others and to expect no censure; in effect to be above international...

Palestinian workers risk life to seek work opportunities in Israeli : "RAMALLAH, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Mohammed Omar's body still have imprints of burns due to an attack inside an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, but he still risks his life to seek work opportunities in Israel in order to feed a family of four."

Palestinian workers risk life to seek work opportunities in Israeli : "RAMALLAH, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Mohammed Omar's body still have imprints of burns due to an attack inside an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, but he still risks his life to seek work opportunities in Israel in order to feed a family of four."

  Donald Trump's Lunacy Reveals Core Truth About the Republicans :      Information Clearing House: ICH : "The Republican primary voters heard the message right: the black guy is foreign. He's not one of us. Trump answered these charges by saying: 'I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.'"

 As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Does Not Speak For Me  :      Information Clearing House: ICH April 30, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- At the end of one of my first journeys to the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2004, I endured a shocking experience at Ben-Gurion Airport. I never imagined that Israeli security forces would abuse a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor, but they held me for five hours, and strip-searched and cavity-searched every part of my naked body. The only shame these security officials expressed was to turn their badges around so that their names were invisible. The only conceivable purpose for this gross violation of my bodily integrity was to humiliate and terrify me. But it had just the opposite effect. It made me more determined to speak out against abuses by the Israeli government and military.

Birth Certificate just Jim Crow all Over Again | Informed Comment There isn’t actually any mystery about the phenomenon of birtherism, the denial that Barack Obama is a US citizen and has a right to vote and hold office, or why obnoxious billionaire Donald Trump is resorting to it in his farce of a presidential bid. Birthers are concentrated in former slaver, former Jim Crow states, which were forced to stop legal discrimination against African-Americans by the intervention of the Federal government from the 1960s, but many of whom retain a commitment to race and caste hierarchies as a way of ordering their societies.

America and the Arabs: No freedom dividend | The Economist : "THE Egyptian people's opinion of America has not changed for the worse. That, for now, is the only consolation America can derive from a fascinating opinion poll just published by the Pew Research Centre. This shows that although nearly two out of three Egyptians are happy with the way things are going in their own country, the end of the Mubarak regime, and the role some people say Barack Obama played in helping to ease out the dictator, have not made them any better disposed towards the United States. Only one in five Egyptians have a positive view of America and only 15% would like to see closer ties. A majority (54% to 36%) would like to annul the peace treaty with Israel. More Egyptians (82%) say that better economic conditions are important to them than say that about honest multi-party elections. The institution that has come out best from the upheaval is the army: 88% say it is having a positive impact on th...