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palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

One of the most interesting aspects of the Israeli national security state is the IDF military censor and the ways in which it stymies the free flow of ideas and information within Israeli society. Unlike in the U.S., where the NSA and the covert side of the CIA operate in almost total secrecy (except when someone like Edward Snowden comes along), Israel is a place more uncertain and anxious about such things. There the military censor even publicly addresses criticism of her role. Not because she wants to (I would argue), but because the military constantly feels the need to justify the restrictions it places on Israelis and the sacrifices it forces them to accept. One of the ten most powerful armies in the world has an inferiority complex that compels it to self-justify.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/07/01/the-poison-pill-of-israeli-and-wikipedia-censorship/

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While former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has received significant scrutiny over allegations that she unethically used her position for personal financial gain, current Secretary of State John Kerry is now being hit with similar charges. If you haven't heard about it, that's because it's happening abroad.

As The Times of Israel reports, Kerry allegedly pressured the Israeli government to make energy policy decisions which would be favorable to Noble Energy, a Texas oil company in which he holds as much as $1 million in stocks. The Israeli government has considered forcing Noble to break into smaller companies on antitrust grounds, as the corporation (in partnership with Delek Energy) effectively monopolizes the Israeli natural gas market.

Kerry reportedly encouraged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "forgive" Noble and Delek, and his State Department also helped negotiate export deals between Noble and several countries near Israel. In December, a State Department representative said the agency would continue to support Noble's natural gas deals in the Middle East, because it "strongly believe[s] that these deals would enhance energy security in the region." Bonnie Kristian.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42249.htm

Israel Project urges Drexel to withdraw honor for anti-Israel activist Chomsky

The U.S.-based Israel education group The Israel Project (TIP) on Friday sent an email asking supporters to sign a petition urging Philadelphia’s Drexel University, “Don’t honor hate. Withdraw your award to hateful extremist Noam Chomsky.”

http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2015/6/23/israel-project-urges-drexel-to-withdraw-honor-for-anti-israel-activist-chomsky#.VY5yNv33c4Q=

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Turkey on Wednesday said it was holding talks with Israel over a deal to reconcile the two former allies following a deadly Israeli commando raid on a Turkish aid vessel bound for Gaza.

"It's quite normal for the two countries to talk for the normalization of the ties. How can reconciliation be achieved without holding any meetings?" Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in Ankara.

Cavusoglu's comments came a day after Israel's Haaretz daily reported that Israeli and Turkish officials had held secret talks in Rome on Monday in a bid to restore relations between the two countries.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=766141

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Ban Ki-moon hat kritisiert das israelische Gewalt gegen palästinenscher kinder http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Jun-19/302840-netanyahu-denounces-uns-ban-over-gaza-children-remarks.ashx aber er hat abgelehnt israel auf Liste aller Länder die nicht achten die kinder in Konfliktgebieten zu stellen http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/ban-silent-israel-absence-list-shame-150619044109798.html

Why has Israel embraced al-Qaida’s branch in Syria?

Amos Yadlin, a retired Israeli general, has offered a candid explanation for Israel’s partnership with al-Nusra.

“There is no doubt that Hizballah and Iran are the major threat to Israel, much more than the radical Sunni Islamists, who are also an enemy,” he told The Wall Street Journal. “Those Sunni elements who control some two-thirds to 90 percent of the border on the Golan aren’t attacking Israel. This gives you some basis to think that they understand who is their real enemy — maybe it isn’t Israel,” he reasoned.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-has-israel-embraced-al-qaidas-branch-syria/14619

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Representatives from the Israel regime and Saudi Arabia have secretly met five times since the beginning of last year to discuss their positions against Iran.

The five bilateral meetings were held over the last 17 months in India, Italy, and the Czech Republic, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

The outlet cited one participant, Shimon Shapira, a retired Israeli general, as saying, "We discovered we have the same problems and same challenges and some of the same answers."

http://alwaght.com/en/News/11220/Israel-Saudi-Arabia-in-Secret-Talks-on-Iran-Report

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In 2009, a U.S. State Department diplomatic cable gave one of the first glimpses of what is becoming a burgeoning alliance between Israel and the Arab states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The cable quoted Israeli Foreign Ministry official Yacov Hadas saying, “the Gulf Arabs believe in Israel’s role because of their perception of Israel’s close relationship with the United States,” adding that GCC states “believe Israel can work magic.”

Israel and the Gulf states also shared an interest in countering what they saw as rising Iranian influence in the Middle East. So while the two sides sparred in public — Israel’s “Cast Lead” military operation had just claimed more than 1,400 lives in the Gaza Strip and was condemned by Saudi Arabia, in a letter to the United Nations, as “fierce aggression” — they enjoyed “good personal relations” behind closed doors, Hadas said, according to one cable. Hadas reportedly added that the Gulf Arabs were still “not ready to do publicly what they say in private.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42057.htm

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Canada's foreign minister on Wednesday reaffirmed his country's ironclad support for Israel and said the realities of the Middle East left the Jewish state no choice but to defend itself.

http://news.yahoo.com/canada-pledges-unwavering-support-israel-143520276.html

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These are desperate times for Israel. While Prime Murder Benjamin Netanyahu forms a new government with people who have said that Palestinians are not human, and who have openly called for genocide against them, he and they continue to talk about their security concerns, how the Israeli army is the most moral in the world, etc., etc. Yet beyond the ivory towers in which they have ensconced themselves, few people are buying the tattered goods they are selling.

Let’s look at a few examples.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/22/israel-on-the-run/

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A longstanding staple demand of the US Palestine solidarity movement is ending our country's military aid to Israel. It has been a goal of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation for years. It is often seen as the premier contribution US citizens and activists can make to the Palestinian cause. Indeed, when asked by Americans what they can do to support Palestine, Palestinians all too often tell us to stop our government from paying for the weapons Israel uses to kill them and demolish their homes.

Based on aMemorandum of Understanding between the US and Israel, that amount is projected at $30 billion over a decade (2009-2018), or roughly $3 billion per year. In one of its more noteworthy projects, the US Campaign designed leaflets and posters and even an interactive graphic map showing the percentage of each locality's tax dollars that go to military aid to Israel and what sorts of things – green jobs, education, housing – that money could be used for instead.

Recently, in an eye-opening report, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) has documented another kind of warfare to which the US Palestine solidarity movement must attend.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=765564

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Amateur photographer Ahmad Nazzal captured Israeli forces spraying 'skunk water' at a Palestinian child during the Kafr Qaddum weekly march in the occupied West Bank on Friday.

Five-year-old Muhammad Riyad appears standing in front of Israeli forces wearing a Palestinian Keffiyeh before the forces begin chasing him with skunk water, the boy eventually falling to the ground.

The foul-smelling liquid has been used by the Israeli military as a form of non-lethal crowd control since at least 2008 and can leave individuals and homes smelling like feces and garbage for weeks.

Skunk water was developed by Israeli company Odortec Ltd. in conjunction with the Israel policeand is generally sprayed from specially designed trucks up to a range of 30-40 meters, according to Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=765453

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The Harper government is signalling its intention to use hate crime laws against Canadian advocacy groups that encourage boycotts of Israel.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-cites-hate-crime-laws-when-asked-about-its-zero-tolerance-for-israel-boycotters-1.3067497

Israeli Extremism Will Encourage Global Boycott

(Omar Barghouti is a Palestinian activist and one of the founders of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. He is the author of “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights.” )

Israel has elected the most fanatic government in its history. But many Palestinian human rights activists and politicians expect this government, an unpalatable cocktail of right, far-right and fundamentalist Jewish parties, to be the mother of all silver-lined clouds.

This drastic shift to the right cannot, in the short term, bode well for Palestinians languishing under Israel’s regime of oppression. The siege of Gaza, the illegal construction of settlements, especially in Jerusalem, the destruction of Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley and the Naqab (Negev) will get worse, exacting an even steeper human price.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/05/08/can-the-us-make-peace-with-netanyahus-new-government/israeli-extremism-will-encourage-global-boycott

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Ahead of Election Day tomorrow, the ultra Zionist www.webelieveinisrael.org.uk published its list of Sabbos Goyim operating within British politics.

“With Polling Day in the General Election this Thursday, here is a list of all the parliamentary candidates who have sent positive replies to the Fairness for Israel Charter,” the Zionist outlet informed its followers.

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2015/5/6/naming-and-shaming-the-list-of-israels-agents-within-british-politics