The following is a statement issued by Jewish Voice for Peace this morning. I am not Jewish myself, but I deeply admire the intelligent and brave American Jews who increasingly stand up for humane (Epicurean) values against the regime in Israel. I apologise for the length of the post, but feel it should be reproduced …
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Apparently the Obama administration has placed a hold on the transfer of Hellfire missiles to Israel, making clear that routine military shipments to Israel will now come under scrutiny. According to a senior White House official in the Wall Street Journal, this decision means “the United States is saying ‘The buck stops here…It’s not OK …
There is some scepticism in knowlegable quarters about the reliability of the horror stories coming out of Iraq. How much of it is an attempt to get the West more involved? But the brutal violence of the ISIS extremists, founded, funded and encouraged by the Saudis and their medieval version of islamism, is undoubted, and …
I can do no better than to quote a person calling himself “US Citizen” on the Mondoweiss blog: Good news? There will be when the US recognizes a two-State solution – separation between Israel and the United States.
A battle over gun politics that first put the store chain Target in the crosshairs in Texas has begun to spread around the United States. Recently, several people have openly carried handguns into Target stores in Virginia and Oklahoma and posted pictures of themselves on Target’s Facebook page, responding to mounting pressure on Target by …
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