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Israeli Police Hit In Palestinian Car Attack
A Palestinian has rammed his car into a group of Israeli pedestrians in Jerusalem, according to the BBC. He injured six policewomen, police say.
It happened on the seam of East and West Jerusalem, on the same junction as a previous attack last year.
Police say the driver tried to stab people before he was shot and seriously wounded by a security guard.
Who Is ‘J Street?’
J Street is an advocacy group based in the United States whose aim is to promote American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Israel-Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. It was founded in April 2008.
J Street states that it “supports a new direction for American policy in the Middle East – diplomatic solutions over military ones”, “multilateral over unilateral approaches to conflict resolution”; and “dialogue over confrontation” with wider international support.
J Street describes itself as a pro-Israel organization which supports peace between Israel and its neighbors.
Wkipedia: “…the organization seeks to provide a political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who believe that a ‘two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essential to Israel’s survival as the national home of the Jewish people and as a vibrant democracy.'”
Recently, The Anti-Defamation League blasted the “left-wing lobby group” J Street for running an “inflammatory and repugnant” campaign against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Algemeiner: “Though it calls itself a ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace’ group, J Street has actively lobbied against sanctions on the Iranian regime, devoting its energies to attacking Netanyahu almost exclusively. Its latest petition campaign, around the slogan ‘Israel’s Prime Minister is not the spokesman for all Jews,’ is directed at Netanyahu’s forthcoming speech to the US Congress on the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear ambitions.”
“At the height of the controversy surrounding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled speech to Congress, J Street’s petition campaign that attempts to distance itself and American Jews from Israel’s duly elected prime minister is inflammatory and repugnant,” ADL National Director Abraham Foxman said in a statement. “It exacerbates an already heated and politicized moment for U.S. Israel relations at a critical juncture in the West’s negotiations with Iran.”
The newspaper The Algemeiner calls J Street a “left-wing Jewish organization.”
In other words, J Street is a pro-peace Jewish organization that does not agree with everything Netanyahu does.
Foxman’s condemnation of J Street comes shortly after the ADL chief himself said that Netanyahu’s speech to Congress should be scrapped, arguing that the invitation to the Israeli prime minister extended by House Speaker John Boehner “looks like a political challenge to the White House.”
Interview With Jimmy Carter On Israel
Video by MSNBC Hardball / Boycott Censorship
Here is an older video of former president Jimmy Carter talking about the situation in Israel. Video from 2009 (?). It is the view of this website that Carter seemed accurate. He says the situation in Palestine is akin to apartheid.
Israel Rejects Palestine Peace Deal
According to the BBC, US Secretary of State John Kerry met the chief Palestinian negotiator in London over moves to set a timetable for an end to the Israeli occupation.
The European parliament settled on a compromise resolution recognizing Palestinian statehood and the two-state solution in principle as long as peace talks progress on Wednesday.
Rivaling the Europeans, Kerry was expected to urge the Palestinians not to push for a UN Security Council vote on a draft resolution calling for Israel to leave the occupied territories by November 2016.
A separate draft would set a two-year deadline for a final peace treaty.
Israel looked for reassurance from the US that it would veto both resolutions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he saw no reason why Washington would not “stand by its position for the past 47 years that a solution to the conflict will be achieved through negotiations”.
Secular Talk video.
Guantanamo Prisoners Who Were Locked Up For More Than A Dozen Years Enjoy Freedom In Uruguay – No One Dies
Four of the six men released this week more than a decade incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay took their first walk in freedom on Friday in Uruguay, stopping to buy a bit of cheese and bread on a stroll through Montevideo, the capital. No one died.
According to the U.K. Daily Mail, the men – four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian – are staying at a house in a middle class neighborhood as guests of a major labor union, which has been asked to help by President Jose Mujica.
The union’s executive secretary, Gabriel Melgareo, said Friday that four of them managed to avoid journalists and went on a 6-mile walk along the Rio de la Plata river on Thursday.
The men have been accepted as refugees by Uruguay.
“They were enchanted by the blue sky of Montevideo, the tranquility of the city, the ability to walk through the streets in absolute calm,” Melgareo said.
Bakery worker Laura Larrobla said of the men who stopped by to purchase cheese, yogurt and bread, “They looked good, although they only talked through an interpreter,” she said.
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Who Is Walid Shoebat?
Wikipedia states: “Walid Shoebat…is a Palestinian American Christian who claims to have converted from Islam. Shoebat claims to have been a ‘Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorist’ in a CNN television interview.
“He is a self-proclaimed ‘expert on the dangers of Islam’ and also claims to be a strong supporter of the state of Israel. Born in the West Bank to an American mother, Shoebat claims he firebombed an Israeli bank.”
Wikipedia also claims that Shoebat was introduced as a “terrorism expert” on several television programs, including CNN and HLN in 2006 and 2007.
David Pakman video.
Hatchet Attack On Israeli Synagogue
Two Palestinians armed with a gun, knives and axes stormed a synagogue complex in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in West Jerusalem’s Har Nof area on Tuesday morning. They killed four men in the middle of their morning prayers, the Israeli police said.
Cenk Uygur video.
Malala Yousafzai Donates $50K To Rebuild Gaza Schools
Malala Yousafzai is the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Prize. She also just won money for her human rights advocacy, and she’s giving it all away to help children in Gaza rebuild their schools.
Wikipedia states: “On the afternoon of 9 October 2012, Yousafzai boarded her school bus in the northwest Pakistani district of Swat. A gunman asked for her by name, then pointed a pistol at her and fired three shots. One bullet hit the left side of Yousafzai’s forehead, travelled under her skin through the length of her face, and then went into her shoulder.
“In the days immediately following the attack, she remained unconscious and in critical condition, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, for intensive rehabilitation.”
Anyone who has been following her story knows that this sort of display of compassion is no surprise.
Israel-Palestine: Is This A Debate? Russell Brand The Trews
Just a couple of months ago, the Israel-Hamas war was raging on. They have since declared a truce and disappeared from the headlines.
Now, British Members of Parliament (MPs) are on the verge of backing a historic parliamentary vote that would call on the British government to unilaterally recognize the state of Palestine. Politicians on both sides of the deeply divisive issue believe that the motion will be passed.
The resolution, due to be debated on Monday, also has the support of most Liberal Democrat MPs and a number of Tory backbenchers who have so far been given a free vote on the issue. Government ministers are expected to abstain.
Let’s take a look at a Hannity Segment from July with Russell Brand.
OK, Fine. 