Israel Is Becoming Terrified of The U.S. Empire’s Decline, by Rainer Shea + Strange Slow Dance Between Israel and The Gulf States, Despite Annexation

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by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist
July 9, 2020

Mao said that “All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful.” We’re seeing this now in the case of Israel, whose fascistic president Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to annex the West Bank as a show of the supposed strength of the Zionist project; behind Netanyahu’s confident appearance, his actions have been driven by fears of a decline for the global empire that props up Israel.

Trump Administration Dangles $50 Billion Bribe for Palestinian Surrender by Finian Cunningham

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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation, July 3, 2019
July 6, 2019

President Trump’s senior aide on Mideast affairs Jared Kushner tried last week to sell his much-vaunted “deal of the century” for a Palestinian-Israeli peace settlement. The core of it was a purported foreign investment plan worth $50 billion.

Abby Martin Interview with Ahed Tamimi and Her Family + How Palestine’s Tamimi Family Resists Israel’s Occupation

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with Abby Martin

teleSUR English on Jan 10, 2018

Recently, the struggle for Palestinian human rights gained international attention surrounding a new icon of resistance–16 year old Ahed Tamimi.

Chris Hedges: Bring Down the Israeli Apartheid State

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with Chris Hedges

RT America on Dec 10, 2017

Mohammad Saba’aneh, Palestinian Cartoonist, discusses the Israeli occupation of Palestine through his political cartoons.

Palestine 101: Not That Complicated

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USCPR on Nov 29, 2017

Many people are held back from taking a stand on the issue of Palestine/Israel by the common misconception that it is “complicated.” Here, we explain the steady continuation of the more than 100 year old settler colonial project that is Zionism.

Abby Martin: Inside the Hotbeds of Israeli Settler Terror, Part 2

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Warning

This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.

Updated: video replaced Dec. 15, 2016

Dandelion Salad

with Abby Martin

teleSUR English on Dec 15, 2016

Abby Martin goes on-the-ground to the epicenters of state-backed settler terrorism in Palestine’s West Bank, in Part II of her report on illegal Israeli settlements and home demolitions.

Abby Martin: The Demolition of Palestinian Homes for Israeli Settlements Reached a 10-year High in 2016

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Dandelion Salad

with Abby Martin

teleSUR English on Oct 31, 2016

The demolition of Palestinian homes for Israeli settlements reached a ten-year high in 2016. While this activity led by the fanatical settler movement is illegal under international law, it is completely aided and abetted by the Israeli government.

Abby Martin: Inside Palestine’s Refugee Camps

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Dandelion Salad

with Abby Martin

teleSUR English on Oct 6, 2016

In her first on-the-ground report from Palestine, Abby Martin gives a first-hand look into two of the most attacked refugee camps in the West Bank: Balata and Aida camps.

Abby Martin: How Palestine Became Colonized

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with Abby Martin

teleSUR English on Sep 28, 2016

Previewing Abby Martin’s on-the-ground investigation in Palestine, The Empire Files looks at the long history of Zionist colonization, expansion and expulsion of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants.

Racism Against Jews Is Not Acceptable

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Posted with permission from Palestine Solidarity Committee – Seattle

Originally posted Jan. 5, 2009

A statement by Palestine Solidarity Committee

Palestine Solidarity Committee’s mission is support independence, security and self-determination for all the peoples of Israel/Palestine, and to change U.S. policy in the Middle East by educating Americans in ways that American funds and foreign policy are used to maintain the Israeli military occupation which violates Palestinian human rights and generates violence from both sides. We object to the Israeli government’s policies of occupation, apartheid, and dispossession of Palestinians. In opposing these policies and US support for them, our objections are directed at the unjust practices of a political regime, not against the Jewish people of the world.

Norman Finkelstein: Stabbings in West Bank Mean Despair + Third Intifada Goal is to End Illegal Gaza Siege

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Finkelstein: Stabbings in West Bank mean despair, First Intifada started same way (P.1)

RT on Oct 18, 2015

RT discusses the new outbreak of violence in the West Bank with American political scientist Norman Finkelstein.

Israel-Palestinian Talks: Washington Acts Like Matchmaker… Between Rapist and Victim by Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
East Africa
Crossposted from www.strategic-culture.org/
August 5, 2013

After two days of intercourse in Washington between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, US Secretary of State John Kerry emerged like a benevolent matchmaker satisfied that his efforts at brokering a marriage of sorts had at last borne fruit.

Kerry announced that the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams had agreed to begin (once again) earnest talks to deliver on a final peace settlement that would deal with all outstanding “final status issues”.

Amer Nassar (17) and Naji Abdul-Karim Balbeisi (18) Shot Dead By Israeli Defence Force Troops by Felicity Arbuthnot + Israel Violates Cease-fire in Gaza

by Felicity Arbuthnot
Writer, Dandelion Salad
London, England
April 4, 2013

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“We have an appointment with death,
We have become familiar with our shores of despair …” — Samih al-Qasim, b. 1939

On Wednesday late evening (3rd April) and overnight, two unarmed teenagers, cousins Amer Nassar (17) and Naji Abdul-Karim Balbeisi (18) were shot dead by Israeli Defence Force troops.

Sodastream presents…How to profit from Occupation, Oppression and Apartheid

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by Stephanie Westbrook
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Italy
Jan. 19, 2013

stephinrome·Jan 15, 2013

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Chris Hedges: The tragedy of Gaza, the West Bank and Israel (2009; repost)

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In case you missed this when it was first posted in 2009. Unfortunately, it is still relevant today.

with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Dec. 24, 2009

The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009

stanheller55
December 22, 2009

In this brilliant speech, former New York Times Mideast Bureau Chief Chris Hedges said, “The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction” on Gaza was aimed at “creating squalid, lawless, and impoverished ghettos in the West Bank and Gaza where life for Palestinians will be barely sustainable.”

The goal is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple.