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Why, Really, Has Netanyahu Put Settlement Expansion on Hold?

Given that an Obama showdown with the Zionist lobby is a possibility, (not a probability), it’s worth recalling what Eisenhower said when, from the bully pulpit, he took on the Zionist lobby and won.

(LONDON) - His own explanation was that he wants to avoid or minimise the prospects for an “unnecessary confrontation” with the international community, for which read President Obama and the European leaders who would follow his lead (with the arguable exception of the French whore).

I think it’s more than reasonable to believe that Netanyahu was concerned, possibly even alarmed, by the explicit nature of U.S. Secretary of State Kerry’s condemnation on 6 November of Israel’s on-going colonization of the occupied West Bank.

GOLIATH Life and Loathing in Greater Israel

Zionist book burners of all sorts discredited the book and its author. Nevertheless, Blumenthal may have learned the necessary lesson.

(LONDON) - Max Blumenthal’s Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel is a good read: A personal journey of a young American righteous Jew who finds plenty of faults in other Jews in general and in The Jewish State in particular.

Blumenthal is a very good writer, his flow is fantastic. His delivery is overwhelmingly juicy on the verge of gossipy. He doesn’t pretend to be objective, precise or accurate.

Voice of Palestine Interviews Alan Hart

Our final piece of music is by Lebanese singer Walid Tawfiq, Have Patience O Yasser. We dedicate it to all those Palestinian leaders and martyrs who have been assassinated by Israeli intelligence forces.

(LONDON) - This week Voice of Palestine interviews Alan Hart, British author and journalist.

Alan talks with us about the 9th anniversary of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the new evidence pointing to his murder, as well as the dysfunctional state of affairs of the Palestinian Authority and challenges facing the Palestinian diaspora.

TKMaxx Stop Selling Products That Fund Apartheid & Occupation In Palestine

Apartheid was not acceptable in South Africa so what makes it right in Palestine ?

(LONDON) - We urge TKMaxx who claim to be an ethical high street retailer to take a look once more at its ethical and moral values when trading with Israel.

Israel a state which profits from the land it seized back in 1967 through its large scale ethnic cleansing and ongoing occupation in Palestine. We as customers deserve the right to buy products without a guilty conscious. Dead Sea products made by companies being boycotted are labelled “ made in Israel” most are likely sourced directly or indirectly through illegal Israeli colonies on Palestinian land.

Netanyahu`s Two State Mask has Slipped

Kerry's effort to re-launch the peace process was based on the illusion that Netanyahu is committed to a two-state solution; its failure means that it's only a matter of time before the Palestinians fight back.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - No one familiar with Secretary of State John Kerry’s many years of service to the nation would dare underestimate his intelligence or diplomatic skills.

Yet no one familiar with the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the failure of half a century of negotiations to produce anything other than Israeli measures intended to create irreversible facts on the ground in order to prevent a two-state outcome, can believe that the peace process Kerry managed to relaunch against all odds can succeed.

BDS Won`t Work, Zio Leaders Tell Methodists...

Thank heaven for organisations like JVP. There can surely be no doubt who Mr Arkush's "rejectionists of peace" really are.

(LONDON) - Of course, it wasn't going to be long before the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) stuck their oar into the Methodists' big debate on BDS (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel, which included a public consultation questionnaire.

The BoD has now published their 33-page 'Response to the Methodist Church in Britain's Inquiry into the Tactic of BDS'

Wind of Change?

The Balfour Declaration, had consequences and repercussions that are still deeply felt even now as I am sitting here to write.

(LONDON) - If you live anywhere in Britain, especially in London you couldn’t have missed during this last month, the sea of red poppies adorning many a chest.

The red poppy has become a symbol of the British legion, to commemorate those who gave their lives, needlessly, during the First World War.

Irina Bokova Regrets Loss of US Voting Rights

Universality is critical to UNESCO’s mission, to achieving the ambitions that have guided the Organization since 1945.

(GENEVA) - Legislation from the 1990s has prevented the United States of America from paying dues to UNESCO since the Organization voted to admit Palestine in 2011.

Member States that do not pay dues for two years lose their right to vote in UNESCO’s General Conference. That rule came into effect for the United States today.

Slip-Sliding Away: American Jewish Support for Israel

…with Israel and the US increasingly at odds over the prospect of peace with the Palestinians, can Israel still count on the unconditional support of American Jews?

(LONDON Redress News & Analysis) - “A large majority of Israelis, nearly four in five, believes Israel’s future is dependent on the country’s ties to American Jewry, a new poll of Israeli public opinion has found,” reports the Times of Israel. If the poll is accurate, then Israelis are in for a shock.

As we reported last month, a recent poll of American Jews by the Pew Research Centre confirms that American Jews are turning away from Israel...

The Price of Friendship

Disappointed because the US would not make war on another of Israel’s enemies, Israel is working on two fronts to destroy peace talks with Iran.

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - The price of friendship is world resentment. This week two birds of feather were denied their voting rights in UNESCO, a cultural and scientific arm of the UN, for not paying their dues for the past 3 years because they did not like a vote taken by the a world body 3 years ago.

Palestine was granted UNESCO membership when over 107 nations supported Palestine’s membership into UNESCO, but once again the US and Israel stood in opposition to world opinion by voting against...