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Can Arab/Muslim Countries Criticize Israel Under the UN Anti-Blasphemy Resolution?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Islam, Israeli Settlements, Bible, Gaza, West Bank, Judaism, Association for World Education, Pakistan, United Nations, Oic, Fgm, Canada, Arabs, Awe, Occupation, Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt, Torah, UN Human Rights Council, Quran, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Blasphemy, Zionism, Israel, Old Testament, Doru Costea, Sharia, Iheu, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?

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ReThink Interview: Daniel Ellsberg -- the Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks, Part Two

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Battle of Algiers, Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, Afghanistan, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Paul Wolfowitz, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Whistleblowers, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Movie Critic, Counterinsurgency, Pentagon Papers, Machiavelli, Torture, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

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ReThink Interview with Daniel Ellsberg: The Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks (Part One)

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Jonathan Kim, Film, Movies, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Afghanistan, Movie Critic, Pentagon Papers, Counterinsurgency, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.

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Hello World: Obama Needs Your Help with Israel!

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Gaza, West Bank, Israel-Nuclear-Weapons, Occupation, West Bank Settlements, US Foreign Aid, Israel, Obama, US Foreign Policy, Iran Nuclear Program, Middle East Peace, Binyamin Netanyahu, Palestin, World News
Patricia DeGennaro

While Israel pretends not to have the nuclear bomb, Iran says its not making one, while Israel continues to displace Palestinians, Iran continues to imprison opposition.

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U.S. Envoy Arrives In Israel To Kick Start Mideast Peace Talks

AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Occupation, West Bank, Jerusalem, Palestinian, George MItchell, Abbas, Hamas, Hezbollah, Settlements, Peace Accord, Peace Talks, Mideast Peace Talks, Middle East, Settlers, U.N., Israel, Gaza Strip, World News

JERUSALEM — U.S. Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell is in Israel to try and kick start Israeli-Palestinian talks before the two sides meet at t...

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"Natural Growth"? There's Nothing Natural About Destroying Israeli Democracy

Hagai El-Ad | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Democracy, Human Rights, Civil Society, Occupation, Free Speech, Middle East, Natural-Growth, World News
Hagai El-Ad

The price of "natural growth" and the other excuses-du-jour will be the unnatural further demise of Israeli democracy, as well as the prolonged suffering of Palestinians living under occupation.

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Our Suicide Bombers: Thoughts on Western Jihad

John Feffer | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tamil Tigers, Terrorists, Suicide Bombers, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Suicide Bomber, Iraq Occupation, Drones, Jihad, Occupation, Jihadism, Israel, Predator Drones, Politics News
John Feffer

We have our suicide bombers -- we call them heroes. We have our culture of indoctrination -- we call it basic training. We kill civilians -- we call it collateral damage.

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Why a Jewish Settlement Freeze Has Become the Defining Issue

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmood Abbas, Israeli Settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two State Solution, Israel, Occupation, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Settlement activities including the so-called "right to natural growth" are clearly rejected in the road map agreement which Israel signed to and the Knesset approved.

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"It's The Occupation Stupid"

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two-State Solution, One-State Solution, Israel Ground Invasion, Israeli Occupation, Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama, George MItchell, Occupation, George Mitchell Israel, Israel, Israeli Palestinian Negotiations, Advocacy, World News
Daoud Kuttab

Instead of pleading with the Israelis to accept the two-state solution, the US should simply ask the Israelis to end their military control of Arab lands occupied in June 1967.

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Occupation 101: Hebron

J.D. Lasica | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Middle East, Occupation, Palestinians, Hebron, World News
J.D. Lasica

The Israeli occupation is nowhere more evident than in the heart of this once thriving metropolis, whose hillsides hold 166,000 Palestinian residents but whose streets are a ghost town patrolled by the IDF.

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It's About Occupation

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 01.06.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Occupation, Occupied Territories, Israel-Palestine, Quneitra, Golan Heights, Israel Syria, Palestinians, Israel, Syria, World News
Freddy Deknatel

My old landlord in Damascus is from the Golan. Christian, he fled with his wife and children from Quneitra, the region's capital, after the city fell ...

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How Israel is Wrong and the Palestinians are Misguided

Cenk Uygur | Posted 01.31.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Martin Luther King, Occupation, Nelson Mandela, Palestinians, Mahatma Gandhi, Israel, Video, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hamas, Israeli Airstrikes, Gaza, Gaza City, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, World News
Cenk Uygur

Israel is occupying the West Bank (and effectively Gaza because they control the borders, the airspace, etc.). What are they going to do with it -- hold on to it forever?

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Calling All Salespeople: To the Yoga Mat!

Cecilia Michelson | Posted 01.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, Salesperson, Fashion Retail, Sales, Work, Occupation, Selling, Salespeople, Retail, Balance, Yoga Maneuvers, Career Success, Life, Living News
Cecilia Michelson

One day while doing some yoga exercises on the sales floor (albeit modified), I reached a state of enlightenment with respect to my work.

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Olmert Offers Tough Words That Focus on Real Middle East Problem

Ray Hanania | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israel, Suicide Bombings, Programs, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Olmert, Palestinians, Ehud Barak, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, West Bank, Occupation, Isreali Occupatio, Politics News
Ray Hanania

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had tough words to describe the militant actions of Israeli settlers living on occupied lands in the West Bank.

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Obama on the Brink

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Occupation, Afghanistan, Cold War, Pornography of Power, Fisa, Gates, John McCain, President, Obama on the Brink, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Both candidates are embracing, rather than challenging, the fundamental irrationality of Bush's "war on terror," which substitutes hysteria for rational analysis in appraising the dangers the country faces.

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Obama Frames Iraq Right, Bush And McCain Slow To React

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Troops, Timetable, American, Iraq, Campaign, Withdrawal, Military, Surge, 2008, Occupation, 2008 Campaign, Status of Forces, Parliament, John McCain, War, 2008 Elections, Congress, Democracy, 08, 2008 Election, Surrender, Election, Barack Obama, 08 Election, Elections, 08 Campaign, 2008 Presidential Race, Maliki, Politics News
Chris Weigant

McCain's going to have to come up with some new spin to explain why Obama and Maliki are now singing from the same songbook on timetables for withdrawal.

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Watch: 140 Arrested In San Francisco Iraq War Protest

The Uptake | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq War, Arrests, Police, Occupation, theuptake.org, War, Protest, 2008 Election, Iraq, Offthebus, Home News
The Uptake

With the Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq, protests against the continual occupation sprung up all over the United States. In a somewhat dramatic...

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