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  Donald Trump's Lunacy Reveals Core Truth About the Republicans :      Information Clearing House: ICH

  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

 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.