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Posts Tagged ‘Shimon Peres’

US-Israel Relations: New Horizons or Same Matrix of Control?

By Guest Post • Jul 30th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria
The current standoff between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the issue of 'settlements' has raised the prospect of defining a new chapter in US/Israel relations.
Media reports suggest that since Obama’s administration took office a new sense of optimism prevails regarding a “peace deal” between [...]

Khalid Amayreh – Masters of hypocrisy

By Khalid Amayreh • Jul 3rd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

Peres is the President of the country that adamantly refuses to allow millions of Christians and Muslims in occupied Palestine to access their respective religious places in al-Quds.

(…) this writer, who lives not far from Jerusalem, has been utterly unable to enter the city for the past 15 years, even for a brief prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. This is while people from around the world can easily and freely visit the holy city.

So, one is really at loss trying to reconcile this hateful racist policy of religious discrimination against Palestinian Christians and Muslims with Peres’ call for religious tolerance.

Shimon Peres Interview – How do you sleep at night?

By Guest Post • Feb 24th, 2009 • Category: Interviews, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Video, War, Zionism

thanks very much to one of our attentive readers, Rodney, who sent this video from Australian TV, where Shimon Peres makes one outrageous claim after another, including that the Gaza checkpoints have always been open. If you can stand someone lying through their teeth, this is the man for you.

cartoon of the day

By Carlos Latuff • Jan 12th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

Carlos Latuff on the Nobel Laureate Shimon Peres. Click on pic to enlarge.

STEVE AMSEL – The Peace Train Won't be Stopping in Israel

By Steve Amsel • Oct 24th, 2008 • Category: Human Rights, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine

WRITTEN BY STEVE AMSEL
I am more disappointed in the fact that Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) accepted the invitation to perform in Israel than the fact that he was denied entry, on ’security grounds’.
I am even more disappointed that Mercedes Sousa accepted the invitation as well and is here at the moment to perform. This, despite [...]