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July 17, 2014 " ICH " - " Truthdig " - -  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas put a prominent, public face on the immigration crisis this week when he was detained by the U.S. Border Patrol in McAllen, Texas. After a number of hours and a national outcry, he was released. He first revealed his status as an undocumented immigrant three years ago in a New York Times Magazine article, and has since made changing U.S. immigration policy his primary work. Vargas was in Texas to support the thousands of undocumented immigrant children currently detained there by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Border Children: ‘They Don’t Speak English, But They Understand Hate’

NBC News Pulls Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children Report No Evil NBC News Pulls Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children By Glenn Greenwald July 17, 2014 " ICH " - " The Intercept " - Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately. According to an NBC source upset at his treatment, the executives claimed the decision was motivated by “security concerns” as Israel prepares a ground invasion, a claim repeated to me by an NBC executive. But late yesterday, NBC sent another ...

Witness to a Shelling: First-hand Account of Deadly Strike on Gaza Port

  Protesters demonstrate against Israel’s attacks on Gaza at the Hague on 12 July. ( Robert Soeterik ) Gaza needs more than condemnation The Palestinians of Gaza, naively, went to the polling station in January 2006, mistakenly believing the Bush doctrine of bringing democracy to the Middle East — in spite of him being responsible for the brutal massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan. People voted, but not for the preferred choice of the Israelis, or their American backers and the Arab dictators. The Palestinian choice was against the peace process industry, against the fiction that is the ever-slippery two-state solution , against the corruption of the Oslo -era nouveau riche . The outcome was a surprise not only for the Oslo camp, but also for the winners themselves: Hamas . And Palestinians, especially those in Gaza, were made to pay a heavy price for this transgression: the imposition of a severe siege described by Isr...