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No Brain Transplant for Ariel Sharon, Rest in Agony

As it was the truth in '06, it's just as true today. The crook Ariel Sharon was assassinated by a gang run by today's Israeli President, Shimon Peres.

(ST AUGUSTINE) - As Ariel Sharon loses his battle for a brain transplant, writers of my acquaintance like Rachel Neuwirth, Susan Rosenbluth, Prof. Paul Eidelberg et al, are distributing a research piece more than hinting that Sharon was executed by fellow gangster, Pres. Shimon Peres.

Ms. Neuwirth said, “The apparent reality is that Israel’s government is a cesspool of corruption and treason. Its prime minister appears willing to place his people in mortal peril by destroying their national security, unity, and morale...”

Has the Idea of a Jewish State Become Obsolete?

As we express our hope that Arab countries (and even the U.S. itself) evolve toward a more inclusive and tolerant politics, it is worth asking if the maintenance of Israel as a Jewish state become counter-productive to its own long-term security?

(PORTLAND, OR) - While John Kerry admirably shuttles around like the Energizer Bunny in search of Middle East peace, is there anything new to say about the intractable tension between Israelis on the one hand and predominantly Muslim peoples, especially the Palestinians, on the other?

One layer of the unspoken is Israel’s implicit status as a nuclear power.

BBC Goes Out on a Thin Limb To Illustrate Israeli Land Theft

"How long will the people involved stay in their jobs?" - Anthony Lawson

(SALEM) - A team from The BBC has stepped onto a long and fragile limb with this new video. It pokes the Israeli apartheid system right in the gut. Israel's political platform is based on the belief that the Jews can do anything they want because they are God's "Chosen People".

If anyone objects they are called an antisemite. The system has been in place for years, but these days the rhetoric is wearing thin.

US Peace Brokers - `Neutral` in Favour of Israel

They were brought up on the narrative of one side. From childhood on, they have internalized the history and the terminology of one side (ours). They couldn’t even imagine that the other side has a different narrative, with a different terminology.

(LONDON Redress News & Analysis) - A former Israeli army chief of staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?”

Lenin, in his Swiss exile, once inquired about the party affiliation of a newly elected member of the Duma. “Oh, he is just a fool!,” his assistant asserted. Lenin answered impatiently: “A fool in favour of whom?”

Is it Really The Guardian of the Truth or has it Become The Guardian of Zion?

Freedland probably waited for Ariel Sharon to die in order to spread his laughable reading of history, just to make sure that the ‘immortal Sharon’ would not bounce back and dismiss this gross interpretation as complete nonsense.

(LONDON) - In a uniquely dishonest piece, The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland paid a tribute today to Israel’s veteran PM Ariel Sharon.

According to Freedland, Sharon, “as one of Israel's founders… had the credibility to give up occupied territory – and even to face the demons of 1948”. Freedland speculates also that “Sharon's final mission might well have been peace.” This is indeed a big statement, but how does Freedland support his creative historical account?

Let`s Talk About Circumcision

The idea that Judaism is inextricably linked to circumcision must be challenged and corrected.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - When my beloved son was born I didn’t circumcise him. It was an easy and natural step, which I saw as an expression of my existence as a free man.

I’m opposed to circumcision, and also have reservations about the use of the term “brit milah” (“covenant of circumcision”). It involves cutting the infant’s sexual organ, and I am opposed to the cutting of the sexual organs of boys and girls.

Friends of yours, Mr Cameron?

Israel's Appalling Crime­sheet for 2013... Killed 56, injured 1385, carried out 8636 raids and attacks, demolished 172 homes...

(LONDON) - The Palestinian Embassy, for once, has done something useful and released figures that paint a shocking picture of Israel's mega­crimes against their helpless Palestinian neighbours over the past year.

Of course, these statistics for 2013 barely scratch the surface. The stomach­churning story of the rogue regime's inhuman conduct stretches back to World War 2, before its founding, when Jewish terrorists were attacking and murdering British soldiers of the mandated government right up to their departure in 1948.

Israeli Aggression Leaves Little Hope for Peace

In this year 2014, supporters of Israel in the U.S., both secular and religious, should look long and hard at this strategy of delay and defeat employed by the Israeli Prime Minister.

(CHICAGO) - The year 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. That conflict began on July 28, 1914. It did not end until November 11, 1918.

Keep those dates in mind because by July 28, 2014, it is possible that we will witness the start of another conflict, driven by the same stupidity, greed and lust for power that produced the First World War.

The Story of Gaza

The stories themselves don't actually take up that debate. Rather they depict the struggle merely to survive, the bravery that we may in fact all need everywhere if the earth's climate goes the way scientists expect.

(WASHINGTON, DC) - Young authors of fiction from Gaza, some of whom say they are finding Palestine on the internet while unable to see it exist in reality, have just published a collection of stories, written in English, marking the five-year anniversary of the 23 days from December 27, 2008, until Obama's inauguration, during which Israel bombed the people of Gaza far more heavily than usual.

They're publishing a new excerpt of the book each of these 23 days on their FaceBook page. You can talk with them in an upcoming Google Hangout.

Gay Jews Have `Higher Souls` than Gentiles, Says Deputy Minister

Habayit Hayehudi's Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan says same-sex marriage is prohibited just as marriage between Jews and gentiles is.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Homosexual Jews have "higher souls" than gentiles, gay or straight, the deputy minister for religious services told the Israeli daily Maariv in an article published on Friday.

Even so, he would oppose any same-sex marriage bill, just as he would oppose marriage between a Jew and a gentile, said Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan, a member of the right-wing Habayit Hayehudi party.