My letter to NH Sen. Jeanne Sheheen re. West Bank Settlements

Dear Senator Sheheen, I am writing asking you to take a stand and support President Obama on the issue of settlement expansion in the West Bank of Palestine. The Israeli government has been illegally occupying the West Bank since 1967 against UN242, and in so doing denying the native population the very rights that we as US citizens have fought wars to secure. And the Israelis do this using my hard-earned tax dollars. The current efforts to build 1600 units of Jewish-only housing in...

Freedom of Speech

Glenn Greenwald recently wrote of that hag Ann Coulter's visit to Ontario Canada to speak at the University of Ottawa, and the reminder by that university's Vice Provost to watch her words: "You will realize that Canadian law puts reasonable limits on the freedom of expression. For example, promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges." This is a law written for and about the brutal bigotry and social...

Israeli intelligence, our constant companion

The Great Jeff Stein, writing at the Website of the Washington Post: Another big week for Israeli spies — new and old. In the latest chapter of the Dubai assassination drama, Britain gave the boot Tuesday to an Israeli diplomat, asserting that Israel was involved in the forgery of U.K. passports used in the January killing of a senior Hamas operative. Meanwhile, declassified FBI documents from a 25-year-old Israeli spy scandal here surfaced on the Internet. Lest one think the Israelis might...

Israeli intelligence, our constant companion

The Great Jeff Stein, writing at the Website of the Washington Post: Another big week for Israeli spies — new and old. In the latest chapter of the Dubai assassination drama, Britain gave the boot Tuesday to an Israeli diplomat, asserting that Israel was involved in the forgery of U.K. passports used in the January killing of a senior Hamas operative. Meanwhile, declassified FBI documents from a 25-year-old Israeli spy scandal here surfaced on the Internet. Lest one think the Israelis might...