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HOW ISRAEL SAVED MANKIND BY INVENTING PITTA BREAD
Did you know that
>> Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees per capita in the world!
>> Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation!
>> Israel has the highest number of scientists and technicians per capita in the world!
>> Israel has the highest number of engineers per capita in the world!
>> Most of the cut and polished diamonds in the world come from Israel! [Read more]
Cautionary Warning to Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman.
"Lieberman Tells European Foreign Ministers: Israel Will Not Be Your Czechoslovakia 2010"
The European Community will not allow TelAviv to be the Berlin of 1939 by it attacking Lebanon, Iran and Gaza. The EU must ensure the security of its 27 member states from the now specific danger of a new Middle East war that will see Israel using its undeclared weapons of mass destruction in a conflict that would escalate into Europe.
The West Bank contains approximately 250 settlements, illegal under international law, with 500,000 Israelis who control over 62% of the area in which live 2.4 million Palestinians.
This being a deliberate strategy to establish facts on the ground in order to try to frustrate the establishment of a Palestinian state by the illegal expropriation of land.
The only solution now available is for the UN Security Council to authorise by majority vote an independent Palestinian state in the whole of the West Bank within the next twelve months, with all illegal settlements being dismantled within that timeframe and all illegal settlers to return to their homes in Israel.
Only then will this threat to world peace be permanently removed. [Read more]
The United Nations official enquiry has now reported that there is clear evidence that Israel committed crimes within article 147 of the fourth Geneva Convention: wilful killing; torture or inhuman treatment; wilfully causing great suffering and serious injury to body or health.
There should now be no doubt that the minister who authorised the killings, Ehud Barak, must be brought before the International Criminal Court to face justice, if he should set foot in any European state, including the UK, where it has been proposed to modify the law on Universal Jurisdiction.
By Jane Mayer of the New Yorker. If you are wondering how far PBS is willing to go to placate David Koch to keep their funding? It gives you a look into the special documentry "Citizen Koch" and its fall out. The program was never aired except at Sundance. David Koch resigned from WNET on May 16th.
By Judith Durbin via vocativ.com 5/20
Syrian rebels under siege in a strategic city on the Lebanese border are increasingly turning to social media to wage psychological warfare, according to Vocativ analysts monitoring the region.
The town of Al Qusayr has become ground zero in the war between rebel fighters on the one side and the joint forces of President Bashar Al Assad and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on the other. Some of the most intense fighting has taken place there over the last few days. The New York Times reports both sides consider this battle a turning point in the larger civil war that has been raging for more than two years.
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A collection of links and comments dealing with government spying and intimidation of journalists