"Those who are familiar intimately with Israeli people realise that they are completely uninformed (though not as bad as Canadians) about the roots of the conflict that dominates their lives..."

By Yaakov Katz - Dec. 4, 2008

The [Israel Defence Forces] is drawing up options for a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities that do not include coordination with the United States..."It is always better to coordinate," one top Defense Ministry official explained last week. "But we are also preparing options that do not include coordination."

By Haaretz Staff and Agencies - November 24, 2008

Former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon was quoted as saying, by an Australian newspaper this week, that the West must consider all options necessary to stop Tehran's nuclear program, including assassinating Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad..."We have to confront the Iranian revolution immediately"...There is no way to stabilize the Middle East today without defeating the Iranian regime. The Iranian nuclear program must be stopped."

Yesterday, the Israeli Navy said they would stop our vessel once it reached Israel's territorial waters. Apparently to save face, they said they would harm our boat, arrest us and tow us IF we entered Israeli waters. The problem for Israel is that the Dignity had no intention of getting anywhere near those waters.

Remembering one of the true greats. Said is sorely missed when we need him most.

Major Victory for Free Speech Rights

August 19, 2008, New York – A group of 52 local activists today announced a $2 million settlement in their lawsuit against the City of New York. The activists were illegally arrested on April 7, 2003 while protesting against the Iraq war in front of a military contractor's offices in midtown.

The Bush administration's possible blockade on Iran threatens a widened Middle East war.

I agree that: "it is ill advised to sacrifice the blood of our citizens for the terrorists in the White House..."

"I agree that: "a lost life is a lost life irrelevant whose it is.."

I agree that: "we cannot hear their cries.."

Important and major geopolitical moves indicate big things brewing in a developing Middle East war. Russia has moved forces into South Ossetia and a huge US naval armada is now heading for Iran as the world watches the Olympic Games.

By Prof. James Petras - July 30, 2008

On July 18, 2008 The New York Times published an article by Israeli-Jewish historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli nuclear-genocidal attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million Iranians – 12 times the number of Jewish victims in the Nazi holocaust...Morris is a frequent lecturer and consultant to the Israeli political and military establishment and has unique access to Israeli strategic military planners...Morris’ views are not the idle ranting of a marginal psychopath, as witnessed by the recent publication of his latest op-ed article in the New York Times.

CAIRO - For decades, the U.S. has jealously guarded its role of sole arbiter of the Arab-Israeli dispute. In light of recent shows of support for Israel by U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama, however, many Arabs fear that Zionist influence on the U.S. body politic — across the political spectrum — has made the notion of ‘U.S. even-handedness’ a contradiction in terms.

By URI AVNERY - July 19/20, 2008

On Wednesday, [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah became the most important and powerful person in Lebanon. Three months after the crisis that almost caused a civil war, when [Lebanese] Prime Minister Fuad Siniora demanded that Hezbollah turn over its private communication network, Lebanon has become a unified country. Demands like the disarming of Hezbollah have become a pipe dream. Lebanon is also united in the demand for the liberation of the Shebaa farms [from Israel] and for the delivery by Israel of the maps of minefields and the deadly cluster bombs left by [Israel's] army after the second Lebanon war.

By Andrew G. Marshall - July 10, 2008

...[W]hy [was] Iraq...occupied[?]...If the answer is...to spread democracy and freedom and rid the world of tyranny and terror, then it doesn’t make sense that the British or Americans would orchestrate terror...However, if the answer to the question...was not to spread democracy and freedom, but to spread fear and chaos, plunge the country into civil war, balkanize Iraq into several countries, and create an "arc of crisis" across the Middle East, enveloping neighboring countries, notably Iran, then terror is a very efficient and effective means to an end.

Veteran Israeli peace activist, journalist and author Uri Avnery weighs in on the debate over whether a U.S./Israel attack on Iran is imminent.

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil leapt $5 to a new record high near $147 a barrel on Friday, spurred by growing worries of threats to supplies from Iran and Nigeria and the possibility of a strike by Brazilian oil workers next week.