Palestine Think Tank

THE REAL ORIGINS OF BARAK "HUSSEIN" OBAMA
By Jeff Gates* (2nd in a series)
Be not deceived by Barack Hussein Obama's middle name or by the fact that he spent several childhood years in Indonesia. His political career is a product of a Westside Chicago Ashkenazi network with roots that trace directly back to organized crime of [...]

The following are excerpts from press releases that have been issued by American individuals and groups apologizing for senseless acts of violence committed by the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan including but not limited to Operation Desert Storm; Operation Desert Fox; Operation Enduring Freedom; Operation Iraqi Freedom; Operation Vigilant Resolve; Operation Achilles; Operation Phantom [...]

Juan Cole is an expert on the Middle East. He knows Arabic and Farsi and probably a handful of other languages. He knows more about the Arabic and Islamic world than most Arabs and Muslims can hope to learn in a lifetime. But he supports the empire. I have attended one of his lectures in which [...]

By Maidhc Ó Cathail
Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of the Iraq War, now wants the United States to help refugees. No, not the estimated 4.8 million Iraqis forced to flee their homes in a war he and other pro-Israeli neoconservatives planned as far back as 1992. Instead, the unlikely humanitarian, having brought "democracy" to the [...]

By Jeff Gates*
"It's very good….Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)".
–Response of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when asked on September 11, 2001 what the attacks meant for U.S.-Israeli relations.
Game theory war-planners rely on mathematical models to anticipate and shape outcomes with staged provocations. For the agent provocateur, the [...]

Our nation is still recovering from the November 5, 2009, shootings at Ft. Hood in Killeen, Texas.  We are waiting for some sense of normalcy to return after such a shocking event.  How unbelievable it is for this tragedy to occur; after all, our occupations had been going so well until this point.  Just ask [...]

By Jeff Gates *
In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception, false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon.
Recall Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories? Iraqi meetings in Prague with Al Qaeda? Iraqi purchases of yellowcake uranium [...]

Top American intellectual sees no significant change of US foreign policy under Obama.  
As civilised people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the basis of Washington's foreign policy under President [...]

“You are a terrorist, you are not welcome in the land of Palestine”. A Palestinian from the Hamdan family shouted these words in the face of Tony Blair, Quartet Representative for “Peace” in the Middle East, when he arrived at the Iron Cage at the entrance of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. A bodyguard of [...]

The time has come, the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—
Of cabbages—and kings…      (Lewis Carroll)
These kleptocrats throw themselves at the feet
of Western plutocracies: they spurn 
the real source of power – their own people –
seeking clientage under Western boots.
Lesser rogues gravitate to bigger ones:
this is the law of global hegemony. 
This tendency emerges [...]