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International">Protest Forces Israel to Call Off Gaza Airstrike
Israel halted an airstrike against the house of a suspected Palestinian militant after neighbors surrounded the building.
Welcome the New Neighbors:
An ambitious new group blog called Good Neighbors is "designed to increase dialogue and understanding between all of the neighboring countries in the Middle East including Jordanians, Lebanese, Israelis, Palestinians, Egyptians, Saudis, Iranians, and Syrians on a cross-country level, as well as to increase understanding, respect and dialogue among the various strata of society within our countries." Quite a challenge.
NAM Awards Winner: Ray Hanania
The writer has received a New America Media Ethnic Media Award for 2006 for a series of humorous commentaries on Israeli-Palestinian relations, reprinted here. NAM recognized outstanding ethnic media reporters this week in Washington, D.C.
Israel Encourages Citizens to Return to Homeland
For the first time, Israeli government officials are touring the United States and Canada to help Israeli immigrants connect to employment opportunities and invite them to return home.
WSU law professor candidate protested
A pro-Israel group says the son of a prominent Palestinian intellectual should not be considered for a law professor post at Wayne State University, and local leaders of Palestinian and Arab descent say the effort is part of an attempt to marginalize their community in Metro Detroit.
palestine journal: 16 november - the lame duck massacres
soooo... while the lame-duck congress in the US goes ahead with passing some of the most draconian laws yet, like the one they passed yesterday that makes protesting animal cruelty at a circus or an animal lab a terrorist act (!) -- which, by the way, goes right along with their stated priorities of 'who is a threat'...... ie. not bin laden or the saudis who fund him.... but instead, as the FBI has stated publicly on multiple occasions, their 'Number One Domestic Terrorist Threat' is the 'animal liberation front', an organization that has never ever been charged with killing or hurting anyone, but whose only purpose is to rescue animals from cruel conditions (!)....
Israeli aircraft strike Hamas car
Israeli missiles hit a car carrying Gaza militants, injuring several people, after Palestinian rockets hit Israel.
Kill Hamas Now: "They ... have to disappear, to go to paradise, all of them, and there can't be any compromise."
"Israel's deputy prime minister [Avigdor Lieberman] on Saturday said Israel should assassinate Hamas' leadership, ignore the moderate Palestinian president and walk away from international peace efforts, the latest in a string of hard-line positions voiced by the newest member of the Cabinet."
Labels: Israel, links, Middle East, Palestine
posted by Chris & Jonah @ 1:41 PM
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Wow, great links, chris. Important issues...
This one seriously gets me going:
"protesting animal cruelty at a circus or an animal lab a terrorist act"
okaaaayyyyyyy....A terrorist act. Hmmmm. I can't even offer an intelligent response to this.
Off to find a circus so I can protest animal cruelty. Maybe I can hijack an elephant or something.
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