I'd like to meet:
American Voters. American Taxpayers. Anyone who wants to learn. Everyone who wants to teach.
LET FREEDOM RING WITH A BUCKSHOT!
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Israel: Not My 'Ally'
Text: ROADMAP TO PEACE Apr 30, 2003 U.S.DEPARTMENT OF STATE
SETTLEMENTS
GOI* immediately dismantles settlement outposts erected since March 2001.
Consistent with the Mitchell Report, GOI freezes all settlement activity (including natural growth of settlements.)
*GOI = Government of Israel
Israeli settlements "problematic" - Rice 5/4/08 Reuters
RAMALLAH, West Bank, May 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday described Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as "particularly problematic" to efforts to establish a Palestinian state.
Rice says Israeli settlement plans "not helpful"
By Reuters
03/12/08
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticized Israel on Wednesday over plans to build hundreds of new homes in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank and said it did not help the peace process."The United States considers the expansion of settlement activity to be not consistent with Israeli obligations under the road map and we have made that very clear. I have also said that it is certainly not helpful for the peace process," Rice told U.S. lawmakers, in a rare public criticism of Israel.The Palestinians have denounced settlement expansion plans as a blow to U.S.-brokered peace talks, which were briefly derailed last week following an Israeli offensive into Gaza.Rice, who was in the region last week to revive stalled talks, said both sides needed to fulfill their obligations under a 2003 Middle East "road map" for peace that required Israel to halt all settlement activity and for Palestinians to rein in militants.U.S. Gen. William Fraser, appointed by Rice to help oversee those commitments, is set to hold a meeting on Friday with both sides to discuss the issue."I can assure you that we are following very closely to assure that U.S. dollars are not being used to support the settlement activity," Rice told a hearing of a House of Representatives appropriations sub-committee.(Reporting by Sue Pleming; Editing by Eric Walsh)Source:(c) Reuters 2008. . All Rights Reserved
Israel announces new West Bank settlement construction 5/21/08
Israel breaks promise to U.S. with settlement: MSNBC Dec. 26, 2006
Updated: 6:48 p.m. ET Dec 26, 2006
JERUSALEM -
Israel has approved a new settlement in the West Bank to house former Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, breaking a promise to the U.S. to halt home construction in the Palestinian territories.
Hebron, West Bank 4/20/07
This isn't the first time settlers have seized a building or established an outpost. Why is this particular incident such a big deal?
Read Why Here
Israel expands West Bank settlements: Guardian Limited July 27, 2004
Months after Ariel Sharon announced his dramatic plan to pull Jewish settlers out of Gaza, portraying it as a sacrifice for peace, the government is grabbing more land for West Bank settlements.
Israel's Settlement Project - Counterpunch Aug 7, 2007
On 10 January 2007, the Jerusalem Post reported that settlement activity had increased three times the natural growth rate in Israel during the previous year, citing Israel’s Interior Ministry figures of 5.8 percent growth compared to 1.4 percent in 2005.
IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE RESISTANCE
END THE OCCUPATION
Israel plans to expand settlement Aug 2, 2004
It has emerged that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has given the go-ahead for 600 new homes in the largest Jewish settlement in the West Bank.
Peace Now Reveals: Massive Land Reserves Allocated To Settlements, But Settlers Still Grab More
Seeking New Israeli Settlers, Synagogue Draws Protesters NY Times
A real estate fair in Teaneck, N.J., seeking Americans to buy homes in the West Bank met some opposition.Published: February 26, 2007
TEANECK, N.J., Feb. 25 — As several dozen people screamed at one another across West Englewood Avenue on Sunday, waving Palestinian flags, Israeli flags and clenched fists, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky stood inside Bnai Yeshurun synagogue, smiling. He proclaimed the day a success.
Jerusalem Post
Real Estate website advert for a penthouse in the illegal settlement of Har Homa. An interactive real-estate map of Israel on the same website doesn't even show the Gaza Strip or the West Bank - every inch is shown as Israeli real-estate territory!Har Homa has just been given permission for another 1000 units. And I went down the road, and I went to the Palestinian village, and I saw there were houses, they were being pulled down because there weren’t any permits for the Palestinian homes. And through the rubble and through all the dust I could see Har Homa shinning in the distance with its permission for another 1000 units - illegal and getting in the way of peace..
Movies:
Republican Paul Findley Dares to Speak Out -- Again !
Paul Findley served on Capitol Hill for 22 years. During this time, he had many encounters with Israel's lobby, which exhibited considerable control over Congressional decisions with respect to Israel and the Mid-East. He speaks of treachery and treason among the highest seats of the land, and how many Congressmen put Israel's interests ahead that of America's.
Heroes:
Mr. John Brown/The Abolitionists/The Underground Railroad
John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial
November 2, 1859
I have, may it please the court, a few words to say. In the first place, I deny everything but what I have all along admitted -- the design on my part to free the slaves. I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter when I went into Missouri and there took slaves without the snapping of a gun on either side, moved them through the country, and finally left them in Canada. I designed to have done the same thing again on a larger scale. That was all I intended. I never did intend murder, or treason, or the destruction of property, or to excite or incite slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.
I have another objection; and that is, it is unjust that I should suffer such a penalty. Had I interfered in the manner which I admit, and which I admit has been fairly proved (for I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case)--had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends--either father, mother, brother, sister, wife, or children, or any of that class--and suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right; and every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.
This court acknowledges, as I suppose, the validity of the law of God. I see a book kissed here which I suppose to be the Bible, or at least the New Testament. That teaches me that all things whatsoever I would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. It teaches me, further, to "remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them." I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons. I believe that to have interfered as I have done--as I have always freely admitted I have done--in behalf of His despised poor was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments--I submit; so let it be done!
Ms. Cynthia McKinney
Cindy Sheehan for Congress '08! GO CINDY!!!
Lt. Ehran Watada thankyoult.org
Rachel Corrie
1979-2003
Rachel was killed when an Israeli soldier bulldozed her.
She was trying to protect a family's home in the Gaza Strip.
Rosa Parks
Alison Weir, Founder
If Americans Knew
PROMISES (pbs.org)
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1859 A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN
by Henry David Thoreau
Walden circa 1908
