Don’t infantilize the people

Only Rational Thinking Can Save The World Andre Vltchek, Dissident Voice, April 14th, 2017 The West has brought the world to the brink of total collapse, but its citizens, even its intellectuals, are stubbornly refusing to grasp the urgency. Like ostriches, many are hiding their heads in the sand. There seems to be an acute

Temple Mount, a Christian Holy Place

EU UNESCO draft disregards Jewish connection to Temple Mount Itamar Eichner, YNet News, 15.07.2016 The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem is fuming over a draft decision distributed on Thursday by representatives of the European Union at meetings of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee in Istanbul on the subject of the Israeli capital’s Old City that completely ignores

Palestinians & Jewish History

Palestinians Negate Jewish History Alex Grobman, Arutz Sheva (Israel), 10-5-2016 A recent speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reinforces the necessity for PA recognition to ensure genuine peace according to Itamar Marcus, the director of Palestinian Media Watch… In a speech in Morocco, Abbas described Jewish history in Jerusalem as a “delusional myth”, declaring

Zionism & Jewish Values

Former UK Chief Rabbi: Anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism By Ari Soffer, Aritz Sheva, 4/4/2016 Britain’s former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has written a blistering oped slamming modern-day anti-Zionism as the “new anti-Semitism.” In his Newsweek article, published Sunday, Rabbi Sacks refers to figures showing how escalating anti-Semitism has left many Jews considering leaving Europe

The Vatican & the Pharisees

Vatican recognizes ‘Palestinian state’ Press TV, 13-5-2015 The Vatican has officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty. According to the treaty the Holy See switched its diplomatic relations from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to the state of Palestine. On November 29, 2012, the United Nations General Assembly voted to upgrade Palestine’s

The Temple dilemma

Orthodox Judaism and the Temple dilemma Motti Inbari, Times of Israel, 5-1-2015 Over the past decade, there has been a steady increase in rabbinical rulings that permit the entry of Jews to the Temple Mount. The only limitation was to observe the restrictions regarding purity when doing so… Since the destruction of the Second Temple,

The Temple Mount Myth

Zoabi: Israel is a ‘Terror State’ Presence of Jewish Temple on Temple Mount is a ‘myth.’ By Uzi Baruch, Tova Dvorin, Israel National News, 11/14/2014 Arab MKs are among the Israeli Arabs readying to protest in Umm Al-Fahm Friday, as frustrations build in the Arab city over the Temple Mount and the shooting of terrorist

Why Syrians support Bashar al Assad

Why Syrians support Bashar al Assad By Tim Anderson, Pravda 30.09.2014 The sudden reversion of Washington to a ‘war on terror’ pretext for intervention in Syria has confused western audiences. For three years they watched ‘humanitarian intervention’ stories, which poured contempt on the Syrian President’s assertion that he was fighting foreign backed terrorists. Now the

Interview with Gaddafi

Play ‘An Interview with Qaddafi’ opens in London Libya Herald, 8 June 2014 A new play now showing at a London theatre sets out to tell a different story of the 2011 revolution, claiming Muammar Qaddafi was a benign figure and the NATO intervention as a capitalist conspiracy revolving around the World Bank. In An

Putin versus the Neocons

Leaked phone call on Ukraine lays bare Washington’s gangsterism Bill Van Auken, World Socialist Website, 10-2-2014 The US media has shown remarkably little interest in the tape of a telephone call between Victoria Nuland, the State Department’s top official on Europe and Eurasia, and the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, which was posted on