PALESTINE AT THE U.N. TODAY

by Citizen Paul
23 October 2008 — The Palestine quagmire began at the United Nations more than 60 years ago.
That’s when under considerable American pressure the U.N. General Assembly voted to “partition” Palestine between a Jewish State and a Palestinian Arab State.
The entire Arab world voted against it. It was an immensely contentious [...]

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HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?! The Single Most Important Hour About the Middle East Imbroglio

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Americans are demanding answers to this question from Washington policy-makers about the endangered economy.
The same demand should be made from the same policy-makers about what has happened in the critical Middle East region.
Robert Fisk is in fact asking this question and answering it.
If anyone has the [...]

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WHERE THE ECONOMIC CRISIS BEGAN: How the Securities & Exchange Commission Opened the Floodgates For Abuse in 2004

By Citizen Paul

Oct. 9, 2008 — If you’re still looking for the smoking gun that helps explain why our current financial crisis was allowed to happen, one of the most critical answers can be found in a little-publicized Securities and Exchange Commission ruling made in April of 2004. With the unanimous vote of all five [...]

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Breaking the silence challenges the Israeli army

By Citizen Paul

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“Jerusalem-born Shaul was so horrified by what
he witnessed and the kind of person he felt he was
turning into that he decided to do something about it.”

7 October: The Israeli Army — along with the Shinbet and Mossad and Border Police — are the institutions that do the actual repression, dispossession, torture, and killing of the Palestinians.

Those in the Israeli Knesset and Government draft the laws, issue the orders, and pretend to make it all “legal.”

Those in our own government — both the Congress and the White House — make all of us Americans seriously complicitous because we provide ever-greater amounts of money, guns, and the constant political excuses to make it all possible.

I met Yehuda Shaul the second day I was in Jerusalem in May. Knowing that I wanted to meet with serious and courageous Israelis, a dinner with three of them was quickly arranged at “Cafe Europe” on Saladin Street, where I also met the owner, an extremely engaging and interesting Palestinian, Jad. I’ve detailed this long, more than 3 hour, dinner and discussion in our upcoming publication SAVING ISRAEL FROM ITSELF, AND SAVING AMERICA FROM ISRAEL.

This week, a press agency in Rome, Italy, wrote the following about Yehuda and the organization he founded, Breaking The Silence (BTS). This short article further underscores how important it is we Americans know about, encourage, and support these courageous and principled Israelis. As Yehuda says and I so agree, we have to do something about this!

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