ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: It’s Time For The U.S. To Respond To Israeli Insults
Once again, a top-level American diplomat, while visiting Israel, has been insulted and embarrassed by the host country, and it’s time for the White House to push back!
In 2008, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, while visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to discuss the stalled peace process, was blindsided by an Israeli announcement of expanded [...]
WHERE DO THEY GO FROM HERE? The Iraqi Parliamentary Election And The Formation Of A New Government
The good news is that the Parliamentary elections finally came off in Iraq. The bad news is that voting was down from the 2009 Provincial elections, and that deadly violence continues to plague and terrorize Iraqi society.
But now the true test begins! In the weeks and months ahead, the two winning alliances in this election [...]
THE IRAQI ELECTIONS 2010
HOPE OR DESPAIR:
The Iraqi Parliamentary Elections Are Now Upon Us
“What will matter most is the acceptance by the Iraqi people of the election results.”
Ad Melkert, U.N. Special Representative to Iraq
Today the first voters go to the polls in Iraq in what many consider to be a make-it-or-break-it time for Iraq’s embattled attempts to move beyond [...]
Read More » »Human Rights Abuses
FREEDOM FOR ALL!
Witness in Palestine
A JEWISH AMERICAN WOMAN IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
ANNA BALTZER
Anna Baltzer is a Jewish American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, and the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. She is a three-time volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service, where she documented human rights abuses in the West Bank and supported the nonviolent movement against [...]
THE NEVER BEFORE CAMPAIGN
We received this video from The Never Before Campaign based in Beirut, Lebanon. Through its videos, it presents an authentic picture of the horrific conditions that Palestinians must endure under Israeli occupation. Its goal is to reach people all over the world who will speak up and take action to bring peace and justice to [...]
Read More » »MAPPING THE FUTURE OF IRAQ: AUTONOMOUS REGIONS ALLOWED UNDER THE IRAQI CONSTITUTION
As we pointed out in our 2008 PLAN V FOR VICTORY IN IRAQ, the 2005 IRAQ CONSTITUTION provides the option for Provinces to come together to form semi-autonomous REGIONS. The Constitution recognized the existing KURDISTAN REGION as a viable entity, and as such, can sersee thve as a model to emulate.
Kurdistan includes the three Provinces [...]
Crimes of Israel against Gaza in UN Report
72. The Mission acknowledges that the supply of humanitarian goods, particularly foodstuffs, allowed into Gaza by Israel temporarily increased during the military operations. The level of goods allowed into Gaza before the military operations, however, was insufficient to meet the needs of the population even before hostilities started, and has again decreased after the end [...]
Read More » »Letter to Congress Members Who Voted to Oppose the UN Report on Gaza
November 13, 2009
Dear Congressman Who Voted to Oppose UN Report on Human Rights Abuse in Gaza:
The House’s vote to oppose unequivocally the Goldstone Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (H.Res. 867) on November 3, 2009, was a travesty.
To vote to call on the President and Secretary of State to [...]
Witness in Palestine
A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories
by Anna Baltzer
Composed of Anna’s photographs and writings, Witness in Palestine documents her eight months working with the International Women’s Peace Service in the West Bank, documenting human rights abuses and supporting Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent resistance against the Occupation. Meet Munira, who has lost her freedom and [...]
Mustansiriya
Now read the terrible report of a bombing at this same university January 17th, 2007. Here it is below, in the blog of Zeyad, an Iraqi in the United States whose brother and sister were attending the university at the time of THAT bombing.
Remember Zeyad with the Healing Iraq blog? This is what he had [...]






“Citizen Paul’s®” Open Letter To Mr. Netanyahu and the Citizens of Israel
Message to President Obama
The U.S. State Department Allows Israel to Deny Students’ Scholarships!
WHERE THE ECONOMIC CRISIS BEGAN: How the Securities & Exchange Commission Opened the Floodgates For Abuse in 2004




