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.
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.”
“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 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.
By Stephen Lendman
Iranian soldiers march in the annual military parade on Sept. 22 in front of the mausoleum of Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran. Images of such parades, which even a small nation can stage, serve to strike fear in the hearts of Americans, always a quick-to-stampede public.
IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, Iran faced four harsh rounds of sanctions. At issue is its alleged nuclear threat. No evidence proves it. Last May, its Bushehr nuclear plant began operating. In September, it began supplying the national grid with 60 megawatts of electricity, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) spokesman Khadem Qaemi said operations were at 40% of capacity.
Earlier in 2011, the IAEA said no information suggests “possible military dimensions” to its plans.
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.