“I want the Iranians to know that if I’m president, we will attack Iran. In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them.”
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by Stephen Lendman
Touching the most sensitive nerves has risks. Nearly always hostile responses follow.
Criticizing Israel is the third rail of US politics. It’s also largely off limits in scoundrel media managed news, op-eds, and editorials. Gunter Grass took the risks. He acted forthrightly. His new poem “What Must Be Said” explained that he’ll no longer be silent on what’s long been known but virtually never discussed publicly.
Israel’s nuclear armed and dangerous. A previous article discussed it. Portions are repeated below to explain what’s vital to know. Read more…
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by Stephen Lendman
Gaza children: life amid ruins
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Major media scoundrels suppress reports about daily Israeli state terror. Most Americans, and many others, can’t imagine what Palestinians endure.
Every imaginable depravity’s included. Torture and murder are state policy. So are forced dispossessions, violence as a weapon of choice, collective punishment, apartheid worse than South Africa’s, isolation, home demolitions, land theft, mass arrests, economic strangulation, and much more. Read more…
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by Stephen Lendman, Senior Contributing Editor
Netanyahu
Irresponsible anti-Iranian political and pack journalism rhetoric sound ominously like spurious Iraqi WMD threats in the run-up to the 2003 war. In his January State of the Union address, Obama said:
“Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal.” Read more…
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Are we getting a reprieve from the warmongering—however momentary? Contributing editor Steve Jonas files the following item:
“Exciting! Amazing how Peres has suddenly gotten his backbone back after all these years. What it really means is that the pro-peace, pro-settlement element of the Israeli ruling class, represented by Peres, is seeing where its true best interests lie. —Best, SJ
Israel backing down from Iran threats?
Israel is backing down from her threats to bomb Iran. In a scathing loss of face for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, diplomatic sources in Israel have revealed that President Shimon Peres will meet privately with President Obama at the White House before – repeat before Netanyahu. High level sources in Israel have just leaked a sanitized version of the President’s plan to the Israeli press. But, there is much more to the story. In his meeting at the White House, Peres will inform Obama that Netanyahu has performed poorly in his handling of the Iran nuclear crisis and that bellicose statements from the Prime Minister’s cabinet have been both self-intimidating and self-destructive. Read more…
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7 September 2011
Bill Van Auken, WSWS.ORG, a socialist organization
The sheer scale of the protests Saturday—encompassing 5.5 percent of Israel’s population of 7.75 million, the equivalent of 18 million people protesting in the US—underscores the movement’s profound historical significance.
Nearly half a million people poured into the streets of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and towns and cities across Israel on Saturday to raise the banner of “social justice” and protest against low wages and the rising costs of housing, food, transportation, education and other basic social necessities that are rendering life intolerable for the majority of the population. Read more…
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By Barak Ravid
Reports Haaretz
Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“The eastern Mediterranean will no longer be a place where Israeli naval forces can freely exercise their bullying practices against civilian vessels,” a Turkish official was quoted as saying.
As part of the plan, the Turkish navy will increase its patrols in the eastern Mediterranean and pursue “a more aggressive strategy”. Read more…
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