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CIA Stonewall: Agency Won't Release 7,000 Documents Related to Torture Program
After identifying some 7,000 pages of classified memos, e-mails and other records relating to its forced disappearance, secret detention and torture program, the Central Intelligence Agency has refused to release the documents.
Posted Apr 27, 2008 11:19 AM PST
Category: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS
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Baghdad Green Zone blasted under cover of storm
Militants bombarded Baghdad's Green Zone with rockets on Sunday, taking advantage of the cover of a blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in weeks on the fortified compound.
Posted Apr 27, 2008 11:10 AM PST
Category: IRAQ
"Attacking us under cover of bad weather? Can they DO THAT?!?" -- Official White Horse Souse


BLACK HOLE IN BUSH'S BRAIN
Judging from the campaign rhetoric coming out of both camps, whoever wins the Oval Office will be inclined to continue the failed military policies in Iraq and to pursue a confrontation with Iran. Apparently it does not matter to either party what will follow those actions, or what these disastrous policies have produced as they played-out in Iraq and Afghanistan. It does not matter who gets elected, whether it is "bomb, bomb Iran" McCain, or "obliterate/massive retaliation" Clinton, nothing will change.
Posted Apr 27, 2008 11:08 AM PST
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THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY...
Posted Apr 27, 2008 11:03 AM PST
Category: DICTATORSHIP

The whistleblower's unending story
From the start, though, that protection came into question. Hours after Bush signed, a spokeswoman said the administration believed it applied only to whistleblowers who talked to a Congressional committee pursuing an investigation.
Posted Apr 27, 2008 10:25 AM PST
Category: DICTATORSHIP



From the Nile to the Euphrates; The 'Victims of a Map'
Israel is about to celebrate sixty years of human rights violations against the region, Palestinians and destruction of their ever diminishing lands, reveling, in effect on graves, ancient bulldozed groves and over half a century of decimation of dreams, homes, heritage. The travesty of the theocracy's founding on the above untruth, its betrayal, from the State's inception, is encapsulated in the story of one child, caught in the early displacement of nearly three quarter of a million souls from the land of their birth. A forced flight and fragmentation of families, friends, communities, unceasing over six grinding decades.




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Posted Apr 27, 2008 11:19 AM PST
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Baghdad Green Zone blasted under cover of storm
Militants bombarded Baghdad's Green Zone with rockets on Sunday, taking advantage of the cover of a blinding dust storm to launch one of the heaviest strikes in weeks on the fortified compound.
Posted Apr 27, 2008 11:10 AM PST
Category: IRAQ
"Attacking us under cover of bad weather? Can they DO THAT?!?" -- Official White Horse Souse


BLACK HOLE IN BUSH'S BRAIN
Judging from the campaign rhetoric coming out of both camps, whoever wins the Oval Office will be inclined to continue the failed military policies in Iraq and to pursue a confrontation with Iran. Apparently it does not matter to either party what will follow those actions, or what these disastrous policies have produced as they played-out in Iraq and Afghanistan. It does not matter who gets elected, whether it is "bomb, bomb Iran" McCain, or "obliterate/massive retaliation" Clinton, nothing will change.
Posted Apr 27, 2008 11:08 AM PST
Category: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION

THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY

THE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY...
Posted Apr 27, 2008 11:03 AM PST
Category: DICTATORSHIP

The whistleblower's unending story
From the start, though, that protection came into question. Hours after Bush signed, a spokeswoman said the administration believed it applied only to whistleblowers who talked to a Congressional committee pursuing an investigation.
Posted Apr 27, 2008 10:25 AM PST
Category: DICTATORSHIP



From the Nile to the Euphrates; The 'Victims of a Map'
Israel is about to celebrate sixty years of human rights violations against the region, Palestinians and destruction of their ever diminishing lands, reveling, in effect on graves, ancient bulldozed groves and over half a century of decimation of dreams, homes, heritage. The travesty of the theocracy's founding on the above untruth, its betrayal, from the State's inception, is encapsulated in the story of one child, caught in the early displacement of nearly three quarter of a million souls from the land of their birth. A forced flight and fragmentation of families, friends, communities, unceasing over six grinding decades.

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:07:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "WRITE! Action Alert"
Subject: Letters Needed: WPost Editorial Condemns President Carter To: writealert@yahoo.com
WRITE! For Justice, Human Rights and International Law in Palestine.

The Washington Post editorial writers continue their one sided campaign on the Middle East conflict without any constructive ideas to move forward. Today's dismissal of former President Carter's efforts to break a gridlock in the 'peace' talks by engaging Hamas leaders simply reflects more of the same 'Mr. Zahar and Mr. Carter' (4/17). The majority of Israelis support talks with Hamas and a recent editorial in Haaretz praised Mr. Carter's efforts. Please let the Washington Post know that simplistic, one-sided slogans are no substitute for constructive ideas and sincere efforts for resolving the conflict.

Please write to the Washington Post at letters@washpost.com. Include your name, address, phone number, and limit your letters to 150 words.

Haaretz Editorial: Our Debt to Jimmy Carter http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/974893.html
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Mr. Zahar and Mr. Carter
The former president, on what he says is a road to peace, embraces Hamas terrorists.

Thursday, April 17, 2008; A22

EDITORIAL: Zahar Is a Terrorist

ON THE OPPOSITE page today we publish an article by the "foreign minister" of Hamas, Mahmoud al-Zahar, that drips with hatred for Israel, and with praise for former president Jimmy Carter. We believe Mr. Zahar's words are worth publishing because they provide some clarity about the group he helps to lead, a group that Mr. Carter contends is worthy of being included in the Middle East peace process. Mr. Carter himself is holding what appears to be a series of meetings with Hamas leaders during a tour of the Middle East. He met one militant in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Tuesday and was reportedly planning to meet Mr. Zahar in Cairo today before traveling to Damascus for an appointment with Khaled Meshal, Hamas's top leader.

Mr. Zahar lauds Mr. Carter for the "welcome tonic" of saying that no peace process can succeed "unless we are sitting at the negotiating table and without any preconditions. " Yet Mr. Zahar has his own preconditions: Before any peace process can "take even its first tiny step," he says, Israel must withdraw to the 1967 borders and evacuate Jerusalem while preparing for the "return of millions of refugees." In fact, as Mr. Zahar makes clear, Hamas is not at all interested in a negotiated peace with the Jewish state, whose existence it refuses to accept: "Our fight to redress the material crimes of 1948 is scarcely begun," he concludes.

In that fight, no act of terrorism is out of bounds for the Hamas leader, who endorses the group's recent ambush of Israeli civilians working at a fuel depot that supplies Gaza. The "total war" of which he speaks was initiated and has been sustained by Hamas itself through its deliberate targeting of civilians, such as the residents of the Israeli town of Sderot, who suffer daily rocket attacks.

These facts would hardly need restating were it not for actors such as Mr. Carter, who portray Hamas as rational and reasonable. Hamas is "perfectly willing" for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas "to represent them in all direct negotiations with the Israelis, and they also maintain that they will accept any agreement that he brokers with the Israelis" provided a referendum is held on it, the former president told the newspaper Haaretz. Compare that claim with Mr. Zahar's own words on the opposite page. In fact, Mr. Zahar has called Mr. Abbas "a traitor" for negotiating with Israel -- a label that is, in the Palestinian context, an incitement to murder.

Mr. Carter justifies his meetings with familiar arguments about the value of dialogue with enemies. But he misses the point. Contacts between enemies can be useful: Israel is legendary for such negotiations, and even now it is engaged in back-channel bargaining with Hamas through Egypt. But it is one thing to communicate pragmatically, and quite another to publicly and unconditionally grant recognition and political sanction to a leader or a group that advocates terrorism, mass murder or the extinction of another state. That is what Mr. Carter is doing by lending what is left of his prestige to an avowed terrorist such as Khaled Meshal -- or Mahmoud al-Zahar.

Thank you,

The WRITE! Team*

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New Jewish-American lobby wants to be alternative to AIPAC
By Shmuel Rosner


Test of the 'J Street Project' will be how it affects U.S. policy and how much public support it can engender.


WASHINGTON - On Monday night, Samuel Lewis spoke from a small stage in one of the banquet halls of Washington's Mayflower Hotel to an audience of Anti-Defamation League activists seated around the dinner tables at their annual conference. Lewis, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, was sharing fond memories from the days of the peace treaty with Egypt. Thirty years have passed, but Lewis still gets emotional when recalling that period, and so do his listeners.
The next day Lewis skipped skillfully from the memories of the past to policies of the future when discussing why his part in the new Jewish-American dovish lobby, whose purpose is to promote meaningful American leadership, and push Israel (and its neighbors) toward peace.

In an afternoon conference call, Lewis is also on the line, explaining that not every attempt at persuasion is "pressure" on Israel. "Pressure," he says, "is a scare word." With him on the line are some of the founders, contributors and directors of the "J Street Project," named after the driving force behind the initiative, Jeremy Ben-Ami, former advisor to president Bill Clinton.
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After a long gestation period, two results emerged. One - the lobby, which can by law promote a cause, but cannot donate money; and the other - a political action committee (PAC), which will be the donor arm to those politicians who show sufficient allegiance to the organization's somewhat ambiguous goals. On many issues, the similarity between the goals of the group and U.S. official policy may be confusing. In favor of a diplomatic solution to the conflict with Iran; against Israeli settlements in the territories; Jerusalem as Israel's recognized capital after a solution has been reached between the parties; two states, Israel and Palestine, living in peace and security.

This is a clean, laundered formulation, behind which is a clearly dovish agenda. The two organizations and a host of public figures joining the project illustrate its intent more than its declared goals: Friends of Peace Now and Brit Tzedek Veshalom - Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace. The long list of supporters includes former Senator Lincoln Chafee, not usually on the traditional list of Israel's supporters; Clinton peace-team member Robert Malley; Alan Solomont, a prominent Jewish supporter of Senator Barack Obama; and Victor Kovner, a donor to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Israeli supporters on a seperate list include former minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Foreign Ministry directors general David Kimche, Uri Savir and Alon Liel, former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg, retired Israel Defense Forces generals Amnon Lipkin-Shahak and Amram Mitzna (a former Labor Party chairman and candidate for prime minister in the 2003 election), and Haaretz journalist Daniel Ben-Simon.

The J Street Project supports a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, dialogue with Syria and opposes any use of force against Iran. Its future test: the extent to which it will be able to impact U.S. policy, and how much broad public support it will engender. Its leaders assume that the liberal bent of most American Jews will be to identify with the organization; the heads of more established Jewish groups say that in most cases, people who care are not close to the left-leaning goals of the J Street Project.

During its formative stage, the heads of the J Street Project were reluctant to show publicly their opposition to the strongest and most established Jewish lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). But in yesterday's conversation, this was made officially clear. "I'm not with AIPAC; I do not support AIPAC," Kovner said. The new organization will try to erode AIPAC's strength and restrain what they see as its identification with the American and the Israeli right.

It will not be easy with a budget of $1.5 million now being discussed, not when AIPAC has $100 million in its coffers. J Street Project's people assume that the silent majority of American Jews are on their side. But AIPAC has more than 100,000 registered supporters in almost 20 branches across the U.S.

The heads of the J Street Project hope to ride the new wave of political fund-raising - of which the Obama campaign serves as a model - getting a large number of small donors to strengthen the organization far beyond what appears likely at the outset.

The debate over the need for and the significance of the J Street Project is over what makes up a "pro-Israeli" position. It is not a new debate, but in recent months the election campaign has brought it once more to the fore. Solomont says that in recent years, a pro-Israeli position has been defined by "neocons, right-of-center Jewish leaders and Christian evangelicals," and the J Street Project's other leaders agree with him.

Which candidates qualify for their support? The Project is vague on this point, but the people heading it will not support those who "impose impossible conditions on assisting Palestinians." So let the new debate begin: what defines an "impossible" condition.

Arab Home Razed in Jerusalem
By KARIN LAUB
Associated Press Writer
April 3, 2008
JERUSALEM — An Israeli wrecking crew knocked down Shadi Hamdan's home in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem in just a couple of hours, reducing the upholsterer's savings to a pile of gray rubble.
The demolition of the home, which Israel claims was illegally built, vividly illustrate the toughest issue facing negotiators in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks: conflicting claims over Jerusalem.
Agreeing on how to divide the ancient city, home to 476,000 Jews and 250,000 Arabs, is on the table but has yet to be resolved in talks launched at a U.S.-hosted Mideast peace conference last November. The Palestinians want to establish a capital in east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast War. Israel claims the whole city but has signaled willingness to cede some Arab neighborhoods.
Since 2004, Israel has leveled more than 300 homes in Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods, citing a lack of building permits. However, critics say the permits are virtually impossible to obtain and consider the demolitions part of a decades-old policy to limit Palestinian population growth in the disputed city.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman of Rabbis for Human Rights, a group that fights home demolitions, says Israel is violating the human rights of the city's Arab residents by tearing down their homes.
"Were Israelis and Palestinians to have an equal chance to get a building permit ... it wouldn't be a human rights issue," said Ascherman. "It's a human rights issue because it's intentional and purposeful housing discrimination."
Hamdan's case is especially harsh — his home was destroyed once before, though he lives in an outlying area, Anata, that is among those most likely to become part of a future Palestine in the event of a peace deal.
Already, Anata is cut off from the center of Jerusalem by Israel's West Bank separation barrier.
The single-story structure was first knocked down in 2005 but volunteers rebuilt it over two weeks last summer. Former Jerusalem city council member Meir Margalit, one of Hamdan's supporters, said his group won't be deterred and plans to rebuild again.
On Wednesday, a crane-mounted jackhammer tore down Hamdan's home — two apartments on 1,560 square feet, one for him and one for his parents, 60-year-old Naziha and 70-year-old Hassan. The wrecking crew was guarded by Israeli police, and one Israeli activist was briefly detained for trying to block the demolition.
"I felt my heart would explode," Naziha Hamdan said of watching her house being wrecked. Hamdan, a 30-year-old bachelor, said he'd sleep at his workshop from now on, while his parents would move in with his brother. A small truck arrived to cart off the family's belongings, including a sofa, fridge and window frames.
Hamdan's lawyer, Sami Ershied, said the family applied repeatedly for permission to build on its land in Anata, but was always turned town on grounds that Anata doesn't have a master plan, and without one, permits cannot be issued.
Demolition orders are currently pending against several other Anata houses, he said.
Across east Jerusalem, thousands of residents live in fear of demolition, said Margalit, adding that about 1,000 homes are built there without permits every year.
Israel portrays demolitions as a technical matter — saying it's cracking down on illegal construction across Jerusalem, and that it's doing so without differentiating between Arab and Jewish residents. "It's a matter of enforcing municipal law," said Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev.
(C) Copyright 2008, The Associated Press


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========Begin Article on Bedouin home demolitions========================

Israel Treats Bedouins Unfairly: Report
By DIAA HADID
Associated Press Writer
March 31, 2008
JERUSALEM — Thousands of Bedouin homes in Israel's south are threatened with demolition because they were built on land Israel does not recognize as theirs, a leading human rights group said Monday.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch group said in a report that Israel discriminates against its Bedouin Arab citizens in allocating housing, land and infrastructure in the Negev, a desert that makes up much of Israel's territory, where most of the Bedouins live.
The report touched on a decades-old issue: Israel's refusal to recognize dozens of ramshackle Bedouin villages and encampments in the desert.
Lucy Mair, a consultant to the rights group, said 45,000 homes in unrecognized communities could be issued demolition orders because they were built without permits — which Bedouins cannot obtain in their unrecognized communities. There are 700 current demolition orders against Bedouin homes, she said, quoting information from the Israeli Justice Ministry.
Most of the homes are hastily built shacks, costing around $10,000 to set up, said Hassan Rifai from the regional council, which helps Bedouins rebuild their homes after the authorities knock them down.
In one case, the Israel Land Authority, responsible for managing and allocating land, demolished the homes in one unrecognized village eight times in one year, the report said.
Ortal Tzabar, a spokeswoman for the Land Administration, said it was building 13 new towns and villages, most close to unrecognized villages, and has largely halted home demolitions.
Most of Israel's estimated 160,000 southern Bedouins live in poverty, roughly split between those who live in seven impoverished government-planned towns, and those who live in 35 communities of huts and shacks. Israel recognized six Bedouin communities over the past few years, but so far has not extended services to them, Mair said.
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On the Web:
http://www.mmi.gov.il/static/HanhalaPirsumim/Beduin_information.pdf
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/03/31/isrlpa18387.htm
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From: My son, Rashid

Subject: Worth watching, Man from Plains
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:55:41 +0000
Hey Folks,



I rented a wonderful film over the weekend that I would like to recommend, Jimmy Carter, Man from Plains. Very good film, it is excellent resource for understanding the Israel/Palestine conflict for beginners. I hope to persuade our bookstore director to carry here. It would also make a great Peace Café discussion.



Rashid

Amazon.com
No other American president in recent history has had as significant a public profile after leaving office as Jimmy Carter, but public profile isn't all good--as Jimmy Carter, Man from Plains demonstrates. This documentary, directed by Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia ), captures the blaze of controversy that followed publication of Carter's book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. As Carter launches his book tour, the rounds of interviews make clear that much of the hubbub was sparked simply by the use of the word 'apartheid' in the title. But Man from Plains isn't just a series of media debates, it's also a portrait of Carter--a man lauded for his fundamental decency and criticized for his deep-rooted stubbornness--and a glancing but not simplified discussion of the Palestinian occupation itself. Most of the movie tracks the former president as he travels from city to city, but scenes at events in Plains and footage from Carter's tenure in office give the depiction of Carter some scope. Demme captures Carter's generosity, his earnest spirituality, and--undeniably--his ego, which (as with anyone who's risen to public office) is not small, despite Carter's sense of humility. This well-rounded documentary is essential viewing for anyone who yearns for the day when our elected officials had integrity. --Bret Fetzer