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What The Media Wants You To Forget The corporate media have been given their orders to throw the focus back on to Iran . Here is a recap of what they are trying to make you forget. 1. Last Spring,   Rose Gottemoeller, an assistant secretary of state and Washington's chief nuclear arms negotiator, asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.   Israel refused. 2.   The United Nations passed a resolution calling on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections.   Israel refused. 3.   The IAEA asked Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and to submit to inspections.   Israel refused. 4.   Iran's formal notification to the IAEA of the planned construction of the backup fuel-rod facility underscores that Iran is playing by the rules of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which Iran has signed. 5.   Iran allows IAEA inspections   of all its facilities. 6. Contrary to face-savi...

4 Israelis shot dead by terrorists in West Bank By YAAKOV KATZ AND YAAKOV LAPPIN 31/08/2010 Barak: " Israel will exact a price from the murderers"; victims, from Beit Hagai, shot while driving, include 2 men, 2 women, one reportedly pregnant . In response to Tuesday night's shooting attack which killed four Israelis near Kiryat Arba, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, “This is very grave incident. The IDF and Israeli security forces will do everything they can to capture the murderers. Israel will not allow terrorists to lift their heads and will exact a price from the murderers and those who sent them."   The four victims, described by a settler spokesman as a couple who had been in a vehicle and two additional people who were hitching a ride, were driving on Route 60 near the entrance of Kiryat Arba when their vehicle came under fire. Barak added that the attack "is likely an attempt by the low-life terrorists to prevent the diplomatic process and t...

Dozens of Israeli fathers have been jailed, a day after a protest by Ultra-Orthodox Jews in support of the men, who have defied a supreme court ruling on school integration. Meanwhile, 22 mothers of pupils at an Ultra-Orthodox girls' school in an illegal Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank  have been given a stay of arrest while the court considers a plea to let them stay at home to care for their young families. The settlers' news website Channel 7 and public radio said Judge Edmund Levy decided that the court would reconvene on Sunday to discuss the request. Israeli media said that some of the mothers were pregnant, while others had children with special needs. The 35 fathers who turned themselves in at the  Jerusalem police headquarters on Thursday evening were taken to Maasiyahu prison in the central Israeli city of Ramle to serve an initial two-week jail sentence for contempt of court. Rally in Jerusalem Around 100,000 Ultra-Orthodox...

By  Khaled Ahmed June 13, 2010 Ayesha Siddiqa in her June 6 column in  The Express Tribune  made a very interesting comparison between Pakistan and Israel: both were supposedly formed on the basis of religion, both are national security states with illegal nukes and are internationally isolated. The comparison is favourable to neither. There are minor differences, however. Pakistan has a constitution which says it is a religious state. Israel doesn’t have a constitution, so its legal status is undecided. But were the two demanded in the name of religion? It is not certain. The only document that lays out the nature of the Israeli state is proclamation of  Madinat Yisrael  of 1948. (Stat e  in Hebrew is madina!) This is the proclamation about the foundation of the state. It speaks of Israel as a homeland of all Jews. It says the values of the state of Israel will be based on the teachings of the Hebrew Prophets. The Proclamation of Independence, read over ...

Captured and detained by Israel, an American tells his story - - - After two days in an Israeli jail, 64-year-old Paul Larudee speaks out BY ANIKA ANAND - THURSDAY, JUN 3, 2010 17:55 ET Sixty-four-year-old Paul Larudee, an American citizen and longtime pro-Palestinian activist, was on board one of the ships carrying humanitarian relief to Gaza that was raided by the Israeli navy on Monday. He dove into the Mediterranean Sea, only to be captured and held in an Israeli prison for two days. This was not Larudee's first brush with Israeli authorities, but it was easily his most dramatic. He spoke with Salon about the raid and his captivity this afternoon from Greece, where he arrived after being released by Israel. At around 4 a.m. on Monday, Larudee's ship was boarded by as many as 500 Israeli soldiers. After the ship's captain called an alert, Larudee immediately walked out onto the deck and found that Israeli soldiers had broken the windows of the wheelhouse (the area wh...