Profound Quotes

"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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ANOTHER CHILD WAITING TO DIE IN GAZA « Desertpeace

Gaza, May 15, (Pal Telegraph) – Yasser Ahmed Al Swasi is a 12 year old child living in the Gaza Strip where the ongoing siege still suffocates 1.5 million Gazans. Gazans are not permitted to leave the strip, even for medical care denials are frequent. Yasser hasn’t left his own bed for two years, as [...]

Fierce firefights reported as Israeli troops move into Gaza - Nation - The State

Fierce firefights reported as Israeli troops move into Gaza - Nation - The State.

US-Israel Balance Echoes Tensions of 1991 by Helena Cobban — Antiwar.com

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Barack Obama in Washington Monday, amid speculation that their two administrations may be heading for a confrontation worse than any they have known since 1991-92.
In 1991, as today, the U.S. president was determined to bring Israel into peace talks with the Arabs on the basis of [...]

MIDEAST: Families Down to a Meal a Day

MIDEAST: Families Down to a Meal a Day
By Erin Cunningham
GAZA CITY, May 13 (IPS) - Um Abdullah cannot remember the last time she was able to feed meat to her eight children. She does know that for the past week the single meal she cooked for them each day consisted only of lentils. And that [...]

Navy forces kidnap fishermen near Gaza City while jet fighters bombard open areas :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dall’Iraq occupato :: news from occupied Iraq :: - it

Thursday May 07, 2009
Israeli naval forces kidnapped on Thursday midday Palestinian fishermen off the Gaza City shore while jet fighters shelled open areas in the city.
Local sources said five Palestinian fishermen were kidnapped by the Israeli navy, witnesses reported that troops sunk the boat after thy kidnapped the five men.
Also on Thursday midday Israeli jet [...]

Truthdig - Reports - Israel’s Bad-Faith Negotiating Position

President Netanyahu will probably tell President Obama that he will be happy to negotiate but only on conditions that cannot be met, including total suppression of Hamas, denial of a sovereign Palestine state in full control of its territory, and without removing established Israeli colonies or Israeli air and water rights.
Since none of this can [...]

OpEdNews » America’s Shame

Why does Israel have a right to exist, but Palestine doesn’t?
This is the question of our time.
For sixty years Israelis have been stealing Palestine from Palestinians. There are maps available on the Internet and in Israeli publications showing the shrinkage over time of what was once Palestine into what Palestine is today–a small number of [...]

OpEdNews » Who Will Stop the AIPAC Jews Before it is Too Late?

I wonder the same thing. When is it too late, I wonder, to stop Israel from destroying itself? When is it too late to tell AIPAC attendees that more violence and hatred is not the answer? When is it too late to open the hardened hearts of my people, once victims of a terrible holocaust, [...]

IDF fired missile that killed 30-40 people in a Gaza school (1st Lead) - Monsters and Critics

New York - United Nations investigators found that Israeli missiles killed 30 to 40 Palestinians in the immediate vicinity of the Jabalia school in Gaza Strip, where hundreds of others had taken refuge during the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to a report released Tuesday.
The attack against the Jabalia boy school, also known as the al-Fakoura school, [...]

YouTube - UN Report: Israel to blame for UN Building attacks

UN Finds Israel responsible for the attacks on it’s buildings in the “Cast Lead” Palestinian attack. It is now compiling a WAR-CRIMES report that will look at BOTH sides of the conflict.
YouTube - UN Report: Israel to blame for UN Building attacks.