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*One State Solution
*Weapons of Mass Destruction
*Media Coverage
*Israeli propaganda
*The situation in the Occupied Territories
*Israeli attack on Jenin and Ramallah March-May 2002
*The Gaza Ghetto
*The Israeli attacks on Lebanon
*Some Jewish voices
*Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority
*The American connection
*History
*The illegal settlements
*Hamas
*"The only democracy in the Middle East"
*The role of international human rights organizations
*The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty
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General

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*The Israel Lobby in the UK
*Zionism
*United Nations Resolutions concerning Israel.
*Media Bias - Palestine and Israel.
*The 'democratic' state of Israel.
*Rachel Corrie. “A beautiful young American girl Rachel Corrie is no more. While trying to protect the helpless, while standing in clear view of the Israeli army bulldozer operator's view, while knowing in her heart that no civilized or even uncivilized human being will run over her, lovely Rachel was run over in cold blood and murdered.”
*The Situation in the Occupied Territories.
*Israel's 'Accidents'.
*Did you know?. Some facts about Jews and Palestinians.
*Two Unfortunate Accidents of Geography by Jason Collett, 27 June 2003.
*Israel - Palestine: Facts Worth Noting by Aeldisi, 03 July 2003.
*Arms sales to Israel breach guidelines: UK government turning blind eye to human rights abuses by Richard Norton-Taylor, 05 November 2003. “Large quantities of British arms and internal security equipment are being sold to Israel despite the government's public criticism of the country's human rights record and growing violence there.”
*Charges against the state of Israel by Marwan Barghouti, 03 October 2002.
*Blind Faith - War Without End in Israel by Michael Hammerschlag, July 2002.
*Offending Valerie - Dealing with Jewish Self-Absorption by Kathleen Christison, 07 February 2003.
*Build Bridges – Not Walls by S. A. Abidi, 28 February 2004.
*A grotesque choice by Max Hastings, 11 March 2004. “Israel's repression of the Palestinian people is fuelling a resurgence of anti-semitism.”
*Strategic Balance - Israel vs Palestine. A comparison of the military resources of the parties in the conflict.
*Exodus of the Palestinian Christians by Abe W. Ata, 18 May 2004.
*Days of Infamy – Events you won't find in any history book.
*The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict from Jews for Justice in the Middle East, 08 February 2005.
*The Problem with Neutrality Between Palestinians and Israel by Kathleen Christison, 10 July 2004.
*Want Security? End the Occupation by Marwan Barghouti, 16 January 2002.
*What Happened to Palestine? The Revisionists Revisited by Michael Palumbo, September – October 1990.
*Truth or myth about Israel? Read between quotation marks by Charley Reese, 13 June 1999.
*American/Israeli State Terrorism of the Palestinian People in America: Rogue State.
*Israeli Bedouins seek UN action by Khalid Amayreh, 23 May 2006. “Leaders of the 180,000-strong Bedouin community in southern Israel are urging the UN to pressure Israel into stopping what they call "systematic ethnic cleansing".”
*Jewish tribalism comes clean by Jonathan Cook, 30 June 2006. “As far as Israeli Jews are concerned, a Palestinian citizen of Israel who demands that his Palestinian identity be recognised automatically raises doubts about where his loyalties lie, the assumption being that he cannot be at once a Palestinian and loyal to Israel. Of course, no Jew would accept such an attribution of double loyalties in his own case. An American Jew, however Zionist, would denounce as anti-Semitic any suggestion that he is not always a loyal American citizen.”
*A way out of the Gaza crisis by Arthur Neslen, 04 July 2006. “Out of sight of the international press pack, a bid to resolve the Gaza crisis, involving a dialogue between a Jewish religious leader and Hamas representatives, continues and is well advanced.”
*A country lost in its own region by Antony Loewenstein, 10 November 2006. “Israel is a nation in serious decline. Its President may face indictment on charges of rape, the "peace movement" is virtually non-existent, corruption is rampant (a 2005 World Bank report found that the Jewish state's economic corruption was one of the worst in the developed world) and the military establishment is addicted to military solutions that have failed.”
*Realities of death by Azmi Bishara, 16 November 2006. “The value of life has little to do with the value accorded to death and the latter, writes Azmi Bishara, is determined as much by who did the killing as by the identity of the victim.”
*Interview with Jeffrey Blankfort from San Francisco Independent Media Center, 20 November 2006. (In nine parts)
*Woman beaten on Jerusalem bus for refusing to move to rear seat by Daphna Berman, 17 December 2006. “A woman who reported a vicious attack by an ad-hoc "modesty patrol" on a Jerusalem bus last month is now lining up support for her case and may be included in a petition to the High Court of Justice over the legality of sex-segregated buses.”
*Israel Rejects Peace and Palestine's Right to Exist by Genevieve Cora Fraser, 19 March 2007.
*Lihish'tah'weel: The strategic basis for peace in Palestine by Ricardo Levins Morales, March 2007. “Lihish'ta'weel in essence represents a movement for two Rights of Return: for Palestinians to return to places that were stolen from them, for Jews to return to the expansive roots of Jewishness that have been stolen as well, and with equally devastating results”
*Interview with Arab writer and activist Hisham Bustani from Senza Censura, 22 March 2007. “The question of Palestine is not complicated at all, but those who refuse to see the simplicity of judging an incident where a racist colonialist-settler entity functionally-attached to Imperialism is built over the destruction, killing and expulsion of an entire population are the ones who act smart and start taking about how complicated things are.”
*Palestine: Information with Provenance. A large database of articles, multimedia and references to books plus maps relating to Palestine. [Highly recommended]
*Research Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. An extensive collection of links and information.
*The War Against Islam: a large index of articles about Palestine/Israel
*The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is a 140-page magazine published 10 times per year in Washington, DC, that focuses on news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S. policy in that region.
*The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - a list of links by Tomis Kapitan, Professor of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University.
*Intifada.com. brings you the Palestinian side of the story. We also advise you on how to help.
 Bibliography of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, History of Palestine, Zionism and Arab Nationalism.
* The Jewish Tribal Review. “A compilation of links to online articles about Jewish and Zionist influence in popular culture, Jewish ethnocentrism, Jewish power, Jewish wealth, American Judeocentrism, and Jewish political lobbying.”
*Palestine Solidarity Campaign “an independent, non-governmental and non-party political organisation with members from many communities across Britain - and increasingly throughout the world.”
*Palestinians for Peace and Democracy “is a grassroots movement dedicated to educating the public about the plight of the Palestinian people and their struggle toward freedom and statehood. A just and lasting peace in the Holy Land is the ultimate goal for the movement.”
*The Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem has 41 Chapters and 1091 pages, with voluminous footnotes and 60 pages of photos. It deals with the ancient and modern history of Palestine, the political and religious questions and all United Nations Resolutions and the Principles of International Law and Justice relating to the Palestine Question.
*An index of articles and transcribed books about Israel and Palestine.
*PeacePalestine. A lively blog with links and articles about Palestine and Israel from many sources.
*Ma'an News Agency“ (Ma'an means 'together' in Arabic) is a Palestinian on-line News agency that publishes up-to-the-minute news in Arabic, English, and Hebrew.”
*Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon by Anders Strindberg, 01 August 2006. “As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism.
Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelenting aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long Arab-Israeli conflict.”

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One State Solution

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*A unitary Arab-Jewish homeland could bring lasting peace to the Middle East by Ahmad Samih Khalidi, 29 September 2003.
*Relative Humanity, the Essential Obstacle to a Just Peace in Palestine by Omar Barghouti, 13 December 2003. “Far from admitting its guilt in creating the world's oldest and largest refugee problem, and despite overwhelming incriminating evidence, Israel has systematically evaded any responsibility.”

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Weapons of Mass Destruction

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*Correspondent: ISRAEL'S SECRET WEAPON from the BBC, 17 March 2003. A transcript of the BBC programme.
*Israel Gets U.S. Nuke Technology by Sari Bashi, 22 February 2000.
*Israel Now 6th Largest Nuke Power by Amir Oren, 08 October 1999.
* Israel's Weapons of Mass Destruction.

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Media Coverage

See Media Bias - Palestine and Israel.

Israeli propaganda

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*Israel's 'Accidents': Israeli standard reply for an atrocity.
*The Only Thing "Generous" is the Propaganda by Tom Gorman, 24 June 2002. More on "Barak's generous offer".
*I wonder why Bush doesn't let Sharon run his press office by Robert Fisk, 26 June 2002.
*The propaganda war: common myths held by the American public by Raff Ellis, 13 September 2002.
*Exploring, Rather Exposing, Some Myths About Israel-Palestine by Robert V. Keeley, April 2002.
*Inevitability of Suicide Bombers by Andy Martin, 18 April 2002. “Israeli propaganda experts have tried to spread the myth that recent Palestinian suicide bombers represent some horrible new form of terrorist warfare. In point of fact, suicide missions and terror tactics are as American as apple pie.”
*Remember The Palestinians by Charley Reese, 3 May 2002.
*Israel turns to P.R. firm for makeover amid violence by Peter Hermann, 29 July 2001.
*The Shame of It All by Jennifer Loewenstein, 17 August 2005. “A great charade is taking place in front of the world media in the Gaza Strip. It is the staged evacuation of 8000 Jewish settlers from their illegal settlement homes, and it has been carefully designed to create imagery to support Israel's US-backed takeover of the West Bank and cantonization of the Palestinians.”
*Myths - Barak's Generous Offer.
*Myths - The Israeli army was not to blame for any damage to Palestinian libraries or cultural institution.
*'Israel's right to exist': Is it a real issue? by Jeff Handmaker and Gentian Zyberi, 28 March 2007.
 The Electronic Intifada “will equip you to challenge myth, distortion and spin in the media in an informed way, enabling you to effect positive changes in media coverage of the Palestinians and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”
* Glossary of Occupation by Paul de Rooij, 12 September 2002. “Language is a powerful yet deceptive thing. It can be used to convey someone's plight and it can also be used to hide unpalatable sordid deeds. Nowhere are words adulterated more for political ends than in Israel and Palestine today.”
*Democracy, History, and the Contest over the Palestinian Curriculum from the George Washington University, November 2001. “First, it will be necessary to clear up some misconceptions prevalent about the curriculum and the textbooks: the Palestinian curriculum is not a war curriculum; while highly nationalistic, it does not incite hatred, violence, and anti-Semitism. It cannot be described as a ‘peace curriculum’ either, but the charges against it are often wildly exaggerated or inaccurate.”

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The situation in the Occupied Territories

See The Situation in the Occupied Territories.

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Israeli attack on Jenin and Ramallah March-May 2002

See The Situation in the Occupied Territories/Israeli attack on Jenin and Ramallah March-May 2002.

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The Gaza Ghetto

See The Situation in the Occupied Territories/The Gaza Ghetto.

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Israeli attacks on Lebanon

See Middle East/Lebanon.

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Some Jewish voices

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*First the Carrot, Then the Stick: Behind the Carnage in Palestine by Norman G. Finkelstein, 14 April 2002. “If Israelis don't want to stand accused of being Nazis they should simply stop acting like Nazis.”
*"Our girl was killed by a suicide bomber.. but it is the terror of Israel's occupation that 's to blame for her death" by Alexandra Williams, 25 June 2002.
*I would have done the same by Yitzhak Frankenthal, 07 August 2002. “My son was killed by a Palestinian fighter. But Israel's occupation is to blame for his death.”
*Israeli Repression and the Language of Liars by Tim Wise, 8 May 2002. “And in my Hebrew School, where we were taught that Jews were to be 'a light unto the nations', instead of this dim bulb, this flickering nightlight, this barely visible spark whose radiance is only sufficient to make visible the death-rattle of the more noble aspects of the Jewish tradition. Unless we who are Jews insist on a return to honest language, and an end to the hijacking of our culture and faith by madmen, racists and liars, I fear that the light may be extinguished forever.”
*I first saw the underbelly of Israel when I was 18 years old by Ora Wise, 7 January 2003.
*Collective Self-Deception: The Most Common Mistakes of Israelis by Gilad Atzmon, 28 August 2003. “It is hard to believe but Israeli people do regard themselves as innocent beings. Even those very Israeli people who ethnically cleansed the Palestinians and terrorized them for decades (such as Peres and Sharon) have the chutzpah to regard themselves as victims. ”
*The end of Zionism by Avraham Burg, 15 September 2003. “Israel must shed its illusions and choose between racist oppression and democracy.”
*Insulted by Israel by Yehia Ghanem, 28 March - 3 April 2002. “Nor is it fair to compare apartheid rule in South Africa with the conduct of Israel and those who support it. The South African apartheid regime never engaged in the sort of repression Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians. For all the evils and atrocities of apartheid, the government never sent tanks into black towns. It never used gunships, bombers, or missiles against the black towns or Bantustans.”
*The time to act is now by Haim Bresheeth, 2 - 8 May 2002. Haim Bresheeth urges the world to remember the Holocaust.
*Strangling the Messengers - Palestine & the High Price of Truth-Telling by Dennis Bernstein, Summer 2002.
*Israel can halt this now by Oona King, 12 June 2003. “I have sadly come to the conclusion that, given the scale of the atrocities and collective punishment waged by the Israelis against the Palestinians, I have no choice but to boycott Israeli products. On reflection, whether Jewish or not, you might decide to do the same.”
*Israel, Zionism and anti-Semitism by Oren Medicks, 07 July 2004.
*Double Standards by Gideon Levy, 20 July 2004. “What would happen if a Palestinian were to shoot an Israeli university lecturer and his son in front of his wife and their young son? That's what happened 10 days ago in the case of Dr. Salem Khaled, from Nablus, who called to the [Israeli] soldiers from the window of his house because he was a man of peace and the front door had jammed, so he couldn't get out. The soldiers shot him to death and then killed his 16-year-old son before the eyes of his mother and his 11-year-old brother. It's not hard to imagine how we would react to the story if the victims were ours [i.e. Jewish]”
*Good morning to the Israeli left by Gideon Levy, 13 February 2005.
*We need a post-Zionist leap of faith by John Rose, 02 April 2005. “Assimilation with space for Jewish identity offers us a better future.”
*No peace with Sharon by Gerald Kaufman, 07 December 2005. “The Gaza withdrawal has been a veil for continued persecution and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”
*Women Who Suffer by Nurit Peled-Elhanan, March 2005. “Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Dr. Elhanan's speech made on International Women's Day in Strasbourg in March 2005.”
*Who are the real terrorists in the Middle East? by Oren Ben-Dor, 26 July 2006. “Israel's successful campaign to silence criticism of its initial and continuing dispossession of the indigenous Palestinians leaves the latter no option but to resort to violent resistance. In the wake of electing Hamas – the only party which, in the eyes of Palestinians, has not yet given up their cause – the Palestinian population of Gaza and the West Bank were subjected to an Israeli campaign of starvation, humiliation and violence.”
*Hundreds of Palestinian 'suspects' have been kidnapped from their homes and will never stand trial by Arik Diamant, 05 July 2006.
*Israel does not act or speak for every Jew by Andrew Benjamin, 04 August 2006. “Israel, in its present manifestation, sustains anti-Semitism.”
*Jews against Zionism (Google directory). The category has been removed, but a locally saved version is available. Some links may be broken.
*Gush Shalom. “Gush Shalom is the hard core of the Israeli peace movement.”
*Jews Against Zionism “This site was created to provide historical documentation refuting the misconception that all Jewry supports Zionism (the existence of the so-called "State of Israel") for website visitors seeking information on the history of Zionism, its historical and current day impact on the Jewish community worldwide and the danger it presents to us all.”.
*Jews Not Zionists. “It is our hope that the information presented on this site will be of benefit to all and that we soon merit the peaceful dismantlement of the so-called "State of Israel" and that Jewish-Muslim brotherhood be restored as prior to the arrival of the Zionist scheme on the global scene.”
*Neturei Karta, a Jewish group opposed to Zionism. “In addition to condemning the central heresy of Zionism, we also reject its policy of aggression against all peoples. Today this cruelty manifests itself primarily in the brutal treatment of the Palestinian people. We proclaim that this inhuman policy is in violation of the Torah.”
*A Jewish Voice for Peace. “A Jewish Voice for Peace is a diverse and democratic community of activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights. We support the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.”
*The writings of Israel Shamir. “Israel Shamir is a critically acclaimed and respected Russian Israeli Writer and Journalist.” or a source of “classic anti-Semitic repertoire”?
* Letter from Israel by Ran HaCohen.
*Breaking the Silence. “Things that were once exceptional have become the norm. Israeli society must know the price it is paying for every soldier serving in the occupied territories. Israeli society must realize the trap we are caught in, because while the army is trying to deal with the threat posed by terror, it is creating a disaster.”
*Alfred Lilienthal. “This website is dedicated to Christians, Jews, Muslims and Non-Believers, living and dead, who have had not only the courage to place their concern for mankind above their allegiance to any group or sect but also the willingness to do battle in behalf of this conviction.” See especially Terror: The Double Standard.

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Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority

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*The collaborator who failed by Tom Segev, 11 May 2002. “For, as long as Yasser Arafat agreed to collaborate with Israel and ignore the expansion of the settlements, he was a partner.”
*Leader cannot escape the scorn of his own people by Robert Fisk, 17 May 2002. “If Mr Arafat has been humbled in front of his own people, he has only himself to blame. His cronies and elderly friends dominate business and the media in the West Bank, and until recently it was Mr Arafat's tired old men – speaking execrable English – who would inevitably turn up to represent the Authority on satellite news shows, where they were constantly outdone by Israel's spokesmen.”

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The American connection

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*Christian Fundamentalists.
*The Neocons.
*Serving Two Flags: Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Administration by Stephen Green, 28 February 2004.
*George W's bloody folly by Jonathan Freedland, 26 June 2002. “Bush's fantasy Middle East plan is bound to fail. It will strengthen those who want war, not peace.”
*The Cost of Israel to U.S. Taxpayers: True Lies by Richard H. Curtiss, 01 November 1997.
*Israel: America's Shame and Humanity's Stain by Mohamed Khodr, 09 January 2003.
*Who controls US foreign policy? by Mitchell Plitnick, 14 May 2003.
*Israel seeks pipeline for Iraqi oil by Ed Vulliamy, 20 April 2003.
*Our Vichy Congress by George Sunderland, 10 May 2002. “So it has come to this: members of the world's greatest deliberative body, the heirs of Clay, La Follette, and Taft, now identify themselves with a radical political movement that grew out of the terrorism of Judeo-Fascist and Mussolini admirer Vladimir Jabotinsky; Menachim Begin, co-conspirator in the bombing of the King David Hotel; and Ariel Sharon, the butcher of Sabra and Shatila.”
*The Israeli Crisis – America's Albatross by William A. Cook, 28 February 2004. “Alan Cranston in 1984 created an amendment to the U.S. Foreign Aid bill that compels the U.S. government to provide Israel enough Economic Support Funds to meet its debt burden to the United States, an act of generosity not offered to California, the state he represented!”
*Is America a Servant to the Will of Israel? by Genevieve Cora Fraser, 02 May 2004.
*The Jewish Divide on Israel by Esther Kaplan, 24 June 2004.
*Three Years and Counting? How Time Flies by Michael Neumann, 23 September 2004. “[T]he US is harming itself, greatly, by its alliance with Israel, even as it is being humiliated all over the world, even as its weakness grows more apparent day by day.”
*The Coronation Viewed from Israel: King George by Uri Avnery, 25 January 2005.
*Columbia University and the New Anti-Semitism by M. Junaid Alam, 02 March 2005.
*Report: Pollard stole 10-volume intelligence 'Bible' by Batsheva Tsur, 11 January 1999.
*Israel finally admits Pollard was its 'agent' by David Makovsky, 12 May 1998.
*Two Souls by Uri Avnery, 08 June 2002.
*The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions by Jeffrey Blankfort, May 2003.
*The U.S. double standard on rights by Edmund R. Hanauer, 15 January 2006. “Washington's policies toward Palestinians makes a mockery of U.S. claims to uphold human rights. It tarnishes our reputation among citizens of other democracies. It makes it easier for anti-U.S. terrorist groups to find recruits by arguing that the United States hates Muslims and Arabs – witness U.S. support of Israel's displacement of Palestinians. It betrays the values of millions of Americans who expect our elected leaders to support human rights, including freedom and self-determination, for all.”
*The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, 23 March 2006. “For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread 'democracy' throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state?”
*Its Origins and Growth: The Power of the Israel Lobby by Kathleen and Bill Christison, 16 June 2006.
*The Shame of Being an American by Paul Craig Roberts, 22 July 2006.
*The Anti-Empire Report: Some things you need to know before the world ends by William Blum, 22 July 2006.
*The meaning of the Second Lebanese War by Daniel X., 22 July 2006.
*The De-Zionization of the American Mind by Jean Bricmont, 12 August 2006.
*The mystery of America by Gideon Levy, 08 October 2006. “It happens once every few months. Like a periodic visit by an especially annoying relative from overseas, Condoleezza Rice was here again. The same declarations, the same texts devoid of content, the same sycophancy, the same official aircraft heading back to where it came from.”
*The Armageddon Lobby: Dispensationalist Christian Zionism and the Shaping of US Policy Towards Israel-Palestine by Rammy M. Haija, May 2006.
*The Politics of Servility by William A. Cook, 07 November 2007.
*American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) from the International Relations Center, 2005.
*Who we are from AIPAC ("American Israel Public Affairs Committee: America's pro-Israel Lobby", according to its web site). “The New York Times has called AIPAC the most important organization affecting America's relationship with Israel, while Fortune magazine has consistently ranked AIPAC among America's most powerful interest groups. Through more than 2,000 meetings with members of Congress – at home and in Washington – AIPAC activists help pass more than 100 pro-Israel legislative initiatives a year. From procuring nearly $3 billion in aid critical to Israel's security, to funding joint U.S.-Israeli efforts to build a defense against unconventional weapons, AIPAC members are involved in the most crucial issues facing Israel.” [The page has been removed. An archive version is available from the Wayback Machine].
* The 'Israeli Art Student' Files: Media coverage of Israel's underground in the US and the 9/11 connection from Antiwar.com.
*U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis by David S. Cloud and Helene Cooper, 22 July 2006.
*America's Pro-Israel Foreign Policy Is Wrong on All Counts by Paul Findley, 13 November 2006.
*James Petras' New Book: The Power of Israel in the United States by Stephen Lendman, 29 October 2006.
* Republican Paul Findley Dares to Speak Out – Again “Paul Findley served on Capitol Hill for 22 years. During this time, he had many encounters with Israel's lobby, which exhibited considerable control over Congressional decisions with respect to Israel and the Mid-East. He speaks of treachery and treason among the highest seats of the land, and how many Congressmen put Israel's interests ahead of that of America's.” [A Google streaming video].

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History

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*As the Arabs see the Jews by His Majesty King Abdullah, November 1947. “This fascinating essay, written by King Hussein's [king of Jordan until 1999] grandfather King Abdullah, appeared in the United States six months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In the article, King Abdullah disputes the mistaken view that Arab opposition to Zionism (and later the state of Israel) is because of longstanding religious or ethnic hatred. He notes that Jews and Muslims enjoyed a long history of peaceful coexistence in the Middle East, and that Jews have historically suffered far more at the hands of Christian Europe.
Pointing to the tragedy of the holocaust that Jews suffered during World War II, the monarch asks why America and Europe are refusing to accept more than a token handful of Jewish immigrants and refugees. It is unfair, he argues, to make Palestine, which is innocent of anti-Semitism, pay for the crimes of Europe.
King Abdullah also asks how Jews can claim a historic right to Palestine, when Arabs have been the overwhelming majority there for nearly 1300 uninterrupted years? The essay ends on an ominous note, warning of dire consequences if a peaceful solution cannot be found to protect the rights of the indigenous Arabs of Palestine.”
*List of Palestinian Localities destroyed after the creation of the State of Israel (1948) by Christoph Uehlinger.
*List of 425 ethnically cleansed Palestinian villages and towns. [78K]
*Ethnic cleansing attended the birth of Israel by John Pilger, 30 May 2002. “More than 50 years later, the country is still in denial about its bloody past. Those who speak out risk their jobs.”
*The UN Report Prepared for Ralphe Bunche from a UN committee, 01 October 1948. “In view of the tragic assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte by identified Jewish terrorists on September 17 of this year, the following report has been prepared for the use of Dr. Bunche, Count Bernadotte's immediate replacement.”
*The Israeli invasion of Lebanon 1982 by John Rose, 1986.
*The Lavon Affair by David Hirst, 1984.
*The Case of Jerusalem – The Holy City by Habib Siddiqui, 26 October 2005.
*After the rhapsody, the bitter legacy of Israel and the left by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, 24 March 2006. “Liberals were once happy to overlook the country's crimes, seeing only a model democratic state.”
*Olmert should have more of an insight than most into terrorism by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, 14 September 2006. “Sixty years ago the sort of atrocity that Israel's leaders habitually condemn helped bring the country into being.”
*A Review of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe by Stephen Lendman, 08 February 2007.
*The Jews of Iraq by Naeim Giladi, 16 March 1998.
 Palestine Remembered. “PalestineRemembered.com was founded because of the absence of any other major website dedicated to educating the world of the 425 towns destroyed by Israelis in 1948.”
*Israel: The Hijack State by John Rose, 1986.
* The massacre of Deir Yasin by Esam Shashaa.
* Deir Yassin Remembered.

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The illegal settlements

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*The Sky's the Limit by Dan Ephron, 27 May 2002. “Israel's economy is a shambles. But the perks to people willing to settle in the occupied territories keep coming. Is this any way to make peace?”
*Settlements Expanding Under Sharon by Daniel Williams, 31 May 2002.
*On poets and pogroms by Gabriel Ash, 16 December 2002. “A basic tenet of the Jewish settlers' religious doctrine is that Jews have the duty to conquer every piece of land in "Greater Israel", an ill-defined territory that can stretch as far as Iraq, and includes areas in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.”
*'That weasel word' by Omayma Abdel-Latif, 10 April 2002. An interview with Tom Paulin. “His publication of the poem "Killed in the Crossfire" in the Observer newspaper almost a year ago caused an uproar within pro-Israel circles with predictable consequences: the usual accusations of anti-Semitism followed almost immediately.”
*Bitter harvest in West Bank's olive groves by Chris McGreal, 14 November 2003. “Jewish settlers wreck fruit of centuries of toil to force out Palestinian villagers.”
*Riot on Tel Rumeida Street by Aaron Zanthe, 26 November 2005. Jewish settler terrorism in Hebron.
*Monitoring Israeli Colonizing activities in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza for some very good maps.

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Hamas

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*We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid by Khalid Mish'al, 31 January 2006. “Palestinians voted for Hamas because of our refusal to give up their rights. But we are ready to make a just peace.”
*Making (Non) Sense of the Funding Cut-Off: Hamas and Israel's "Right to Exist" by Virginia Tilley, 12 May 2006.
* If Hamas Must Renounce Violence, So Should Israel by Linda McQuaig, 19 February 2006.

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"The only democracy in the Middle East"

See The 'democratic' state of Israel.

The role of international human rights organizations

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*Amnesty International: The Case of a Rape Foretold by Paul de Rooij, 03 December 2003.
*International Human Rights Organizations and the Palestine Question by Nabeel Abraham and Janice Terry and Cheryl Rubenberg and Lisa Hajjar and Hilary Shadroui, January-February 1988.
*Interview: Amnesty International on Jenin by Dennis Bernstein and Francis Boyle, Summer 2002. Dr. Francis A. Boyle is a professor of International Law and former board member of Amnesty International. “Amnesty International is primarily motivated not by human rights but by publicity. Second comes money. Third comes getting more members. Fourth, internal turf battles. And then finally, human rights, genuine human rights concerns.”
*Amnesty International: A false beacon by Paul de Rooij, 12 October 2004.
*Discourse of the mean spirits: False mantras, euphemisms and naked hypocrisy by Paul de Rooij, 12 August 2006.
*How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon by Jonathan Cook, 07 September 2006.
* Amnesty International&Israel: Say it isn't so! by Paul de Rooij, 31 October 2002.
* Between South Africa and Israel: UNESCO's Double-Standards by Omar Barghouti and Jacqueline Sfeir, 03 March 2005.

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The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty

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*Statement by the Senior Counsel to the USS Liberty Court of Inquiry 09 January 2004.
*A fair probe would attack Liberty misinformation by Thomas Moorer, 16 January 2004. “The American people deserve to know the truth about this attack. We must finally shed some light on one of the blackest pages in American naval history. It is a duty we owe not only to the brave men of the USS Liberty, but to every man and woman who is asked to wear the uniform of the United States.”
*USS Liberty Memorial. “The USS Liberty Memorial Web Site is a creation of Jim Ennes and Joe Meadors, survivors of the attack, with support and encouragement from the USS Liberty Veterans Association.”
*USS Liberty Attack page from Rense.com
* Rockets, Napalm, Torpedoes & Lies by Jeffrey St. Clair, 24 October 2003.
* Streaming documentary on the USS Liberty.

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  *The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), “a nonprofit organization dedicated to informing Americans about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and assisting in a peaceful solution that brings security for both peoples.”
*Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, with many links.
 Anti-Zionism NOT Anti-Semitism “A page of links in English on the current crisis in Palestine for beginners.”
* Protest Arbitrary Imprisonment by Sam Bahour and Paul de Rooij, The Electronic Intifada, 22 October 2002. About the Israeli arrest of Haytham Hammouri and his sentencing to six-months imprisonment without charges or trial.
*PLO Negotiations Affairs Department.

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