September 2011

A formal funeral for the Two-State Solution

by News Sources 09.20.2011

Ali Abunimah writes: The Palestinian Authority’s bid to the United Nations for Palestinian statehood is, at least in theory, supposed to circumvent the failed peace process. But in two crucial respects, the ill-conceived gambit actually makes things worse, amplifying the flaws of the process it seeks to replace. First, it excludes the Palestinian people from [...]

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The FBI trainer promoting a war against Islam

by Paul Woodward 09.20.2011

Danger Room reports: The FBI has publicly declared that its counterterrorism training seminars linking “mainstream” Muslims to terrorists was a “one time only” affair that began and ended in April 2011. But two months later, the Bureau employee who delivered those controversial briefings gave a similar lecture to a gathering of dozens of law enforcement [...]

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Erdoğan says Syria’s oppressors will not survive

by News Sources 09.20.2011

Today’s Zaman reports: Declaring that the time of autocracies is over, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan stated on Friday that the autocratic regime in Syria will collapse just like those in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. “I was in Tunisia yesterday; I greeted people who carried out the Jasmine Revolution. Two days before that, I was [...]

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Tom Engelhardt: Dearest President and Professor Barack Obama

by TomDispatch 09.20.2011

Scamming Washington Exclusive letters from the ScamiLeaks archives By Tom Engelhardt [Note to Readers:  Who hasn’t received one -- or 100 -- of those “Nigerian” letters offering you, in florid prose, millions of potential dollars and with nary a catch in sight?  But who knew that the highest officials in Washington have been receiving them [...]

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Inside Story – In Yemen, new violence, same questions

by News Sources 09.20.2011

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Turkey predicts alliance with Egypt as regional anchors

by News Sources 09.19.2011

Anthony Shadid reports: A newly assertive Turkey offered on Sunday a vision of a starkly realigned Middle East, where the country’s former allies in Syria and Israel fall into deeper isolation, and a burgeoning alliance with Egypt underpins a new order in a region roiled by revolt and revolution. The portrait was described by Foreign [...]

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Street clashes resume in Yemeni capital

by News Sources 09.19.2011

Al Jazeera reports: At least 21 people have been killed and over 100 injured in fresh clashes on the streets of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, a day after 26 anti-government protesters were shot dead and hundreds wounded by troops and gunmen loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh. According to reports, Monday’s deaths occurred as snipers [...]

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Where the 13 United Nations Security Council members stand on the upcoming Palestine vote

by News Sources 09.19.2011

On Friday, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas laid out his plans to seek full membership at the United Nations Security Council this week. In order for the vote to succeed, it needs nine votes and no veto, and then approval by a two-thirds majority of members of the General Assembly. Alternatively, the Palestinians can seek [...]

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Americans support UN recognition of Palestine

by Paul Woodward 09.19.2011

Here are some numbers President Obama should think about: Americans currently view him less favorably than they do UN recognition of Palestine! Obama’s approval rating is 43% while 45% support Palestine. In a poll conducted for the BBC, Americans (among 20,446 citizens from 19 countries) were asked the following question: As you may know, the [...]

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Recognizing Palestine

by News Sources 09.19.2011

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Nick Turse: How Washington creates global instability

by TomDispatch 09.19.2011

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com It was built for… well, not to put too fine a point on it, victory.  I’m talking, of course, about the ill-named Camp Victory, the massive military complex, a set of bases really, constructed around an old hunting lodge and nine of former dictator Saddam Hussein’s opulent palaces near Baghdad [...]

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‘Israel will look like South Africa during the apartheid’ — Israeli ambassador Shalev

by News Sources 09.18.2011

Gabriela Shalev, Israel’s ambassador to the UN from 2008-2010, was interviewed by Shalom Yerushalmi for Israel’s Hebrew daily, Maariv. Translation provided by Viktoria Lymar (Watching America). September is already here, and professor Gabriela Shalev, Israel’s previous ambassador to the U.N., is more pessimistic than ever: “We have no tools, we’re in trouble.” Gaby Shalev, formerly [...]

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Obama is about to squander an historic opportunity

by News Sources 09.18.2011

Gideon Levy writes: What is the American president going to say to his citizens? What will he say to the citizens of the world? How will he rationalize his country’s opposition to recognizing a Palestinian state? How will he explain his position, which runs counter to the position of the enlightened – and less enlightened [...]

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Building boom in Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank

by News Sources 09.18.2011

The Media Line reports: Meir Rubinstein pulls out a directive from Israel’s Defense Ministry that brought to a halt of construction of 210 apartments last year. The mayor of Beitar Illit, the most populous Jewish community in land acquired by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, Rubinstein says he needs to build at least [...]

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Bachmann regrets the fall of Arab dictators

by News Sources 09.18.2011

National Journal reports: Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Friday decried the “Arab Spring” that has toppled three dictators and given rise to pro-democracy protests across the Middle East for promoting the “rise of radical elements” across the region. In a speech to about 400 Republicans gathered for the state party’s fall convention here, the [...]

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The mainstreaming of Walt and Mearsheimer

by News Sources 09.18.2011

Glenn Greenwald writes: There were numerous reasons that Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer were accused in prominent venues of all sorts of crimes — including anti-Semitism — when they published The Israel Lobby, but the most common cause was the book’s central theme: that there is a very powerful lobby in the U.S. which is principally devoted [...]

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U.S. envoys’ paper emboldens Abbas to go before U.N.

by News Sources 09.18.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: A paper special U.S. peace envoys David Hale and Dennis Ross presented to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday that was supposed to sway him away from going to the United Nations was what caused Abbas to take a final stand in favor of going, according to Nabil Shaath, [...]

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Erdoğan tell Arabs his secularism remarks mistranslated

by News Sources 09.18.2011

Today’s Zaman reports: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reiterated his response to Arabs who were discontent with the prime minister’s call to build a secular state, saying that his words were mistranslated and that secularism does not mean being against the religion. Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), which was successful [...]

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Libya: How they did it

by News Sources 09.17.2011

Nicolas Pelham writes: Only when I reached Suq al-Juma, Tripoli’s sprawling eastern suburb of 400,000, three days after the rebels entered the city on August 21, did I feel I was somewhere free of Muammar Qaddafi’s yoke. In contrast to the deserted, shuttered streets elsewhere in the capital, the alleyways behind its manned barricades were [...]

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Inside Story – International interest in Libya

by News Sources 09.17.2011

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Fighters close in on Gaddafi towns

by News Sources 09.17.2011

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The GOP war on voting

by News Sources 09.17.2011

Ari Berman writes: As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop [...]

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Listening Post – The network of Islamophobia

by News Sources 09.17.2011

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White House debates who it has the ‘right’ to kill

by News Sources 09.17.2011

The New York Times reports: The Obama administration’s legal team is split over how much latitude the United States has to kill Islamist militants in Yemen and Somalia, a question that could define the limits of the war against Al Qaeda and its allies, according to administration and Congressional officials. The debate, according to officials [...]

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