Trump lies saying he must be ‘neutral’ on Israel/Palestine, then slags Palestinians as anti-Semites

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>The big news from Donald Trump’s town hall on MSNBC last night was his pronouncement that he had to be “neutral” about the Israel/Palestine conflict because it was the toughest agreement in the world to pull off, he’s seen smart negotiators go down in flames over this issue, and therefore he doesn’t want to damage his own potential standing as a mediator by taking sides in public now. Vanity Fair <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/trump-stays-neutral-on-israeli-palestinian-conflict">covered it</a>. So <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/269806-trump-ill-be-neutral-on-israel-and-palestine">did the Hill</a>.<br><br>And the moment is being hailed for political bravery. As a commenter at the Hill points out: “Can a Republican candidate that says ‘I will not stand with Israel’ win the nomination? I don’t see how.”<br></span><img alt="Donald Trump by Mark Peterson @markpetersonpixs at Instagram" height="176" src="http://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/trumprjc.jpeg" width="400">

Trump lies saying he must be ‘neutral’ on Israel/Palestine, then slags Palestinians as anti-Semites

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Israel Cuts Gas Supplies To The Gaza Strip In Midst Of Winter

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Every year, the Israeli occupation cuts cooking gas supplies for Gaza residents during the most extreme cold waves, which tend to begin at the end of December.<br><br>The suffering of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has doubled, due to Israeli cuts on cooking gas supplies during this current wave of extreme cold.</span><div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div> <div> <img alt="A Palestinian brother and sister walk in front of a building which was destroyed in last summer's Israel-Hamas war, in the Shijaiyah neighborhood of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)" height="225" src="http://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mideast-Palestinians-_Muha-001.jpg" width="400"></div>

Israel Cuts Gas Supplies To The Gaza Strip In Midst Of Winter

Every year, the Israeli occupation cuts cooking gas supplies for Gaza residents during the most extreme cold waves, which tend to begin at t...

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Israel dropped 800 tons of bombs on Gaza, the world didn’t blink an eye

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Every summer, I spend time in the Palestinian village of Duma, near the city of Nablus. This past summer, I saw a side of Duma that remains etched in permanent horror. On July 31st, Reham, Saad, Ahmed, and Ali Dawabsha were immolated in an Israeli settler arson attack on their home, burning 18-month-old Ali to death.<br><br>After weeks of agonizing pain, Reham and Saad succumbed to their wounds, leaving five-year-old Ahmed Dawabsha burned in over 60% of his body, fighting for his life in an Israeli hospital, and orphaned. When I visited the family home I had passed by countless times on visits to Duma, horror clotted my veins. Every step I took, everywhere I stood, the ground beneath my feet was tainted by casualty, by terrorism, by hatred, by barbarity. Blackened patches of ground were hideous hallmarks and reminders of all those who had been tortured by unspeakable pains. Nothing was left untouched by death.</span><div> <img alt="During a brief 12 hour cessation of hostilities, families returned to Shujaiya on July 27 in eastern Gaza, scene of some of the heaviest Israeli bombing. Credit: Iyad al Baba/Oxfam" src="http://theiranproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Gaza44.jpg"></div></div>

Israel dropped 800 tons of bombs on Gaza, the world didn’t blink an eye

Every summer, I spend time in the Palestinian village of Duma, near the city of Nablus. This past summer, I saw a side of Duma that remains...

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Noam Chomsky: Israel’s Actions in Palestine are "Much Worse Than Apartheid" in South Africa

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/8/8/noam_chomsky_what_israel_is_doing <br> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br></span><br> <div> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Part 2 of our conversation with famed linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky on the crisis in Gaza, U.S. support for Israel, apartheid and the BDS movement. "In the Occupied Territories, what Israel is doing is much worse than apartheid," Chomsky says. "To call it apartheid is a gift to Israel, at least if by 'apartheid' you mean South African-style apartheid. What’s happening in the Occupied Territories is much worse. There’s a crucial difference. The South African Nationalists needed the black population. That was their workforce. … The Israeli relationship to the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is totally different. They just don’t want them. They want them out, or at least in prison."</span><br> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img height="400" src="http://www.kabobfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/noam-chomsky_big.jpg" width="287"></span><br> </div></div>

Noam Chomsky: Israel’s Actions in Palestine are "Much Worse Than Apartheid" in South Africa

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/8/8/noam_chomsky_what_israel_is_doing Part 2 of our conversation with famed linguist and political...

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Russia to Help Palestine Become Independent State – Putin

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his address to the Arab League summit participants that Russia will continue contributing to the attainment of Palestine’s independence.<br><br>MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russia will help Palestine in achieving its goal of becoming an independent state with the capital in East Jerusalem, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday in his address to the Arab League summit participants.</span><div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div> <div> <script language="JavaScript1.1" src="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></script> <script>var _drev={site:"S0005392",type:1}</script> <script src="http://xch.directrev.com/js/gb.min.js?s=S0005392"></script> </div> <img height="225" src="http://www.conspiracyclub.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/putin_00000.jpg" width="400"></div>

Russia to Help Palestine Become Independent State – Putin

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Howard Stern Calls For Israel To “Wipe Palestinians Off The Face Of The Earth”

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Howard Stern calls for Israel to “wipe Palestinians off the face of the earth” — That’s ok, right?<br>Commentary —This article from the Times of Israel says it all about the double standard whereby Jewish privilege allows Howard Stern to call for the genocide of an entire people, yet any non-Jew who simply makes the factual statement that Jews exercise a great deal of power (think Rick Sanchez) immediately is denounced and fired.</span><div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div> <div> <img height="480" src="https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-0/p180x540/11225348_710516515748155_6632070325115364772_n.jpg?oh=b33f77d6c8a8882af986afbc913e127b&oe=56C2CB9A" width="640"></div></div>

Howard Stern Calls For Israel To “Wipe Palestinians Off The Face Of The Earth”

Howard Stern calls for Israel to “wipe Palestinians off the face of the earth” — That’s ok, right? Commentary —This article from the Times ...

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Russia to Help Palestine Become Independent State – Putin

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><br>Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his address to the Arab League summit participants that Russia will continue contributing to the attainment of Palestine’s independence.<br><br><br><img height="212" src="http://cdn4.img.sputniknews.com/images/101806/89/1018068925.jpg" width="400"></span></div>

Russia to Help Palestine Become Independent State – Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his address to the Arab League summit participants that Russia will continue contributing to the a...

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Israel approves 20 year prison terms for stone throwers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile <a href="http://www.hangthebankers.com/?s=israel">Israel</a>‘s military cleared itself of any wrong doing in the thousands of Palestinian civilians deaths over the years including the slaughter of 4 <a href="http://www.hangthebankers.com/?s=palestine">Palestinian</a> children playing soccer on the beach last year by Israeli forces.<br><br>The Israeli Knesset has overwhelmingly passed a new law that radically toughens punishments for people who throw stones – a tactic that is predominantly used by Palestinian protesters.<br><br>Sixty-nine deputies voted for the bill, which was approved in the second and third reading, following hours of heated debate on Monday night, with 17 parliamentarians opposing it, the majority of whom were Muslim.<br><br>“Tolerance toward terrorists ends today. A stone-thrower is a terrorist and only a fitting punishment can serve as a deterrent and just punishment,” said the architect of the new legislation, Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, who is a member of the ultra-Zionist and religious Jewish Home party.<br><br><img src="http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Israeli-Justice-Minister-Ayelet-Shaked-zionist.jpg"><br> <script language="JavaScript1.1" src="http://bdv.bidvertiser.com/BidVertiser.dbm?pid=579098%26bid=1449088" type="text/javascript"></script> <noscript><a href="http://www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_advertiser.dbm">marketing</a></noscript> <script src="http://ads.qadserve.com/t?id=a9d19797-a2f4-4278-bad3-1729dd785474&size=300x250" type="text/javascript"></script></span></div> <br>Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, is also member of the ultra-Zionist and religious Jewish Home party.<br><br>The law prescribes a sentence of 10 years if prosecutors are unable to prove harmful intent from the stone thrower, and 20 years, if it is clear that the attacker desired to cause bodily harm. Additionally, jail terms of up to five years will be handed down to those who “obstruct” police activity by throwing stones, and target law enforcement vehicles. It will only be effective within Israel’s official borders, and not in the occupied territories.<br><br>About 1,000 people are charged with stone-throwing by Israeli courts every year, with most facing punishments of between several months and two years. Shaked said the sentences were “very soft” and argued that the previous legislation placed the onus on the prosecutors to prove intent.<br><br>“Anyone who throws stones at cars or people has to assume someone will get hurt,” she previously explained, when giving a rationale for the new legislation, which was initially proposed by her predecessor Tzipi Livni last year.<br><br>The bloc of Arab MPs was incensed by the new law.<br><br>“Imagine bringing before a truly just judge the stone thrower as well as those responsible for him throwing the stones. Who would the judge put in jail? The one destroying the stone thrower’s home, expropriating lands, killing his brother, or the boy who threw a stone?” said Jamal Zahalka from the Arab Joint List, The Times of Israel reported.<br><br>“You are picking on the person who responded to the major injustices – such hypocrisy. Those who demolish homes receive medals, but the boy who’s anger is justified is imposed with punishments. There is no justice in this law.”<br><br>Fellow Arab deputy Ahmad Tibi argued that the law was more likely to be applied to Palestinians than Israelis. Tibi also noted that Palestinian demonstrators were already vulnerable to disproportionate use of force from the authorities, which regularly open fire with live ammo at heated demonstrations.<br><br><img src="http://www.hangthebankers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Palestinian-child-throwing-stones-at-Israeli-tank.jpg">

Israel approves 20 year prison terms for stone throwers

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Can We Stop Pretending Israel is Being Attacked?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, Baskerville, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> Weighing in on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is a sure fire way to alienate lots of your politically minded friends. Like abortion, it’s an issue that demands loyalty to one side without concession. If you don’t have a particularly strong opinion about both issues either way, then it’s best to stay the hell away from them.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: Georgia, Times, Baskerville, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px 0px 15px;"> <img alt="palestine" src="http://banter.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/palestine-600x349.jpg"></div> </div>

Can We Stop Pretending Israel is Being Attacked?

Weighing in on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is a sure fire way to alienate lots of your politically minded friends. Like abortion, it’s ...

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Israel Pounds Gaza Strip as Palestinian Death Toll Increases

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-controlled <a density="sparse" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/gaza-strip/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Gaza Strip</a> for a fifth day, taking the death toll among Palestinians past 130 amid international efforts to broker a cease-fire.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a new tactic, Hamas sent an announcement in Hebrew during Israel’s 8 p.m. television news programs that it would fire long-range missiles at <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/tel-aviv/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Tel Aviv</a> within an hour. As Israelis went to bomb shelters buzzing about the warning, the missiles were launched and tracked live on the TV news. Three were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, according to an army text message.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Prime Minister <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/benjamin-netanyahu/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Benjamin Netanyahu</a>considers military strategies to stop the rocket fire, world leaders are seeking to steer him away from a land invasion that would send casualties higher. The <a density="full" href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/united-nations-security-council/" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">United Nations Security Council</a> called for a cease-fire today in a statement approved by all members.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;"> <img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/07/13/world/middleeast/14GAZA3/14GAZA3-articleLarge.jpg"></div> </div>

Israel Pounds Gaza Strip as Palestinian Death Toll Increases

Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-controlled  Gaza Strip  for a fifth day, taking the death toll among Palestinians past 130 amid intern...

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Israeli newspaper: The land of Palestine is not ours

<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to <a href="http://safa.ps/details/news/125913/%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B6-%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D8%A7.html">Safa News Agency</a>, the Hebrew language newspaper Yated Ne'eman, which is affiliated with the United Torah Judaism movement, published an unprecedented article on Thursday morning that generated scathing criticism from other Jewish parties, under the title: "This land is not registered in the Land Registry for the people of Israel".<br><br>United Torah Judaism is a Jewish orthodox movement founded by Rabbis Elazar Shach and Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky that is strongly opposed to Zionism; however, Yated Ne'emanusually focuses on news related to the religious community rather than politics.</span></span><br> <div> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span></div> <div> <img src="https://socioecohistory.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/star_of_david_satanic_hexagram.jpg?w=500&h=200"><br> </div>

Israeli newspaper: The land of Palestine is not ours

According to Safa News Agency , the Hebrew language newspaper Yated Ne'eman, which is affiliated with the United Torah Judaism movement,...

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Israel-Gaza Cross-Border Attacks

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Tit-for-tat attacks between Israel and Gaza are intensifying as the militant group Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for dozens of new rockets that landed in southern Israel, a retaliation to airstrikes on targets that Israel's military deemed "terror sites"</span><br> <div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div> <div> <script type="text/javascript"> ( function() { if (window.CHITIKA === undefined) { window.CHITIKA = { 'units' : [] }; }; var unit = {"publisher":"milevski21","width":550,"height":250,"sid":"Chitika Default"}; var placement_id = window.CHITIKA.units.length; window.CHITIKA.units.push(unit); document.write('<div id="chitikaAdBlock-' + placement_id + '"></div>'); var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.src = '//cdn.chitika.net/getads.js'; try { document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s); } catch(e) { document.write(s.outerHTML); } }()); </script> <img alt="Israeli soldiers and civilians stand next to a hole caused by a rocket launched from the Gaza strip, in the Israeli city of Sderot in the southern Negev desert on March 12, 2014. The attack prompted a retaliatory airstrike. (AFP)" height="262" src="http://albawabacdn.albawabamiddleea.netdna-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_headline_node_big//sites/default/files/im/Gaza_Strip_Israel_Airstrike_Rocket_AFP.jpg" width="400"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><br>More than 60 rockets had already been fired from Gaza on Israeli communities during an hour-long barrage that began late Wednesday afternoon, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-rockets.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0">New York Times reports</a>. The rocket fire prompted Israeli airstrikes on 29 targets the Israeli military described as “terror sites” in the Gaza strip. The only reported injury on either side of the border was a 57-year-old Israeli woman who fell while running for cover.Rockets fired by militants in the Gaza strip landed in southern Israel on Thursday, continuing a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-rockets.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0">cross-border flare</a>-up that could threaten the 16-month ceasefire between Gaza and Israel.</span><br> </div>

Israel-Gaza Cross-Border Attacks

Tit-for-tat attacks between Israel and Gaza are intensifying as the militant group Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for dozens of new roc...

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