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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Look at all these war crimes!

New York, May 18: An investigation continues in Midtown after police say a knife-wielding man was shot and killed by officers Wednesday morning at the corner of 49th Street and Eighth Avenue. Omaha, May 20: The knife-wielding suspect critically wounded by police trying to take him into custody at 165th and West Maple Road Friday morning has died. He was identified as...

05/23 Links Pt2: No one has a monopoly on values; Breaking the Silence: Sabotaging Israel from within

From Ian: No one has a monopoly on values Since the media is never wrong, it takes care to create an imaginary reality for us in which the citizens of Israel are dying of hunger in the streets, the survivors are fascist occupiers, and those who believe in the sanctity of the land of Israel are messianic or right-wing extremists. There is no other option. Let's suppose for a minute that the Left was in power, and senior officers were to take matters...

World Religion News reports: Medical marijuana or medical cannabis which is the use of cannabis and its cannabinoids to treat disease or improve symptoms. The legalization of medical marijuana has seen the market getting flooded with marijuana products, like marijuana lotions, marijuana edibles, and so on. The medical marijuana industry is booming. 2016 is slated to see...

This poster comes from the official Fatah website. It shows all the major leaders of Hamas. The caption says "baby killers." It is referring to a fatal house fire in Gaza earlier this month that killed three children. Hamas blamed Fatah (and Israel) for the electricity shortages that cause people to have to use candles; Fatah blamed Hamas for making it impossible for...

05/23 Links Pt1: Netanyahu: Millions of children are taught that Jews are apes and pigs; 'Son of Hamas': Islam is the problem

From Ian: How Do You Define a War Crime? What does Hamas’s massive tunnel-building project mean to the people of Gaza? The answer can be summed up in one word: fear. They live in fear that the structures being dug beneath their homes will start a conflict that will bring down another round of death and destruction upon their families. Speaking off the record to the New York Times’ Gaza correspondents, various residents said anonymously what they...

The Truman Library has a "student activity" sheet asking questions about how the US decided to recognize Israel. The questions being asked are at odds with history. Have the class review the documents regarding the complex issue of recognizing Israel. Look at the history of Palestine, the United Nations proposal, Truman’s friendship with Eddie Jacobson, and the world...

Heidi Levine in Gaza The Israel Foreign Press Association issued a statement last week condemning Hamas: On Thursday, FPA member Heidi Levine, a photographer for SIPA Press, was detained by Hamas security men for more than three hours before she was allowed to leave Gaza. As she exited, Hamas security told her she was banned from the territory, claiming her work “reflects...

Middle East Eye reports: Israel said late on Sunday it was lifting a ban imposed last month on private imports of cement to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. More than 1.2 million tonnes of construction materials have entered Gaza since the mechanism was set up in 2014, much of it for war reconstruction. According to an Israeli official, 80 truckloads of cement enter Gaza weekly,...

HRW lies again about international law

HRW's Sari Bashi From the New York Times: Sari Bashi, a spokeswoman for Human Rights Watch and expert on international law regarding warfare, said that building tunnels in residential neighborhoods was not explicitly prohibited. But she said militant groups had “an obligation to take all feasible measures to protect civilians, including not taking the armed conflict...

Last week I reported that Jordan had greatly reduced the number of permits that it gave to Gazans for travel through its territory. Reuters caught up with the story four days later. But in a bizarre case of burying the lede, you cannot tell what Jordan did until you are well into reading the story. The headline doesn't say it. The photo is not of the bridge to Jordan...

From Ian: NYTs: As Hamas Tunnels Back Into Israel, Palestinians Are Afraid, Too Residents said they had heard thudding noises below an incongruous-looking nearby shack that they think covers a tunnel entrance. They said they were too afraid to ask the truck drivers or other men they see around the shack what was going on. “How can we say they are helping when they are building...

I do not know how many of you are familiar with Michael Burd and Alan Freedman's radio show, Nothing Left, from J-AIR out of Melbourne, but you definitely should be. I say this, of course, because they have been foolish enough to put me on the show a few times and therefore my ego impels me to write this. The thing of it is, J-AIR is a niche...

On Friday, AP revealed that the Ploughshares Fund, a group that the Obama administration aide Ben Rhodes had identified as a key partner in creating a pro-Iran deal "echo chamber," had given over half a million dollars to J-Street: In The New York Times Magazine article, Rhodes explained how the administration worked with nongovernmental organizations, proliferation...

On Friday, I wrote about a French medical advice site that erased Israel from the map and said that travel to Israel was less safe than Syria. EoZ readers wrote to the site to complain, and Alyssa Cohen Kaplan received this reply: There is no willingness on our part to take a position for or against anyone . Some of our country sheets certainly require revision . We have...

The 25th anniversary of the "naqba" you never hear about

25 years ago, in 1991, Kuwait expelled over 350,000 Palestinians. And no one mentions this anniversary. Many of the Palestinians in Kuwait had lived there for over a generation. Entire families were raised there. But after the PLO embraced Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, the Palestinian residents became targets. There were four fatal bomb attacks in Palestinian neighborhoods...