***** The flap demonstrates an important sociological trend: American Jews, even mainstream ones indoctrinated to love Israel, are breaking more and more publicly with the Jewish state. The Netanyahu government is proving to be embarrassing to American Jews; they do not want to be associated with rightwing apartheid policies.

The flap demonstrates an important sociological trend: American Jews, even mainstream ones indoctrinated to love Israel, are breaking more and more publicly with the Jewish state. The Netanyahu government is proving to be embarrassing to American Jews; they do not want to be associated with rightwing apartheid policies.

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/01/little-jewboy-moment-highlights-coming-divorce-between-us-jews-and-israel

The shrinking margin of freedom for Palestinian citizens of Israel Israel/Palestine

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/01/shrinking-palestinian-citizens

Stephen Hawking Warns Humanity: Leave Earth Before the Ruling Class Destroys It

http://theantimedia.org/stephen-hawking-warns-humanity-leave-earth-ruling-class-destroys/

I expect to die without friends, and without any notice. Not much different than how I have lived. This does not concern me. That there is less suffering in the world, that is all that concerns me.

I expect to die without friends, and without any notice. Not much different than how I have lived. This does not concern me. That there is less suffering in the world, that is all that concerns me.

Head of atheist organization's Jerusalem home vandalized in apparent Jewish hate crime

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.698653?v=73C765948252E68144B0579C71A0155D

Israeli restrictions and escalating violence threaten to turn Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter into a ghost town

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/01/restrictions-escalating-jerusalems

Benjamin Netanyahu Is Still Trying to Derail the Iran Nuclear Deal (Videos) Posted on Jan 20, 2016

http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/benjamin_netanyahu_is_still_trying_to_derail_the_iran_nuclear_deal_20160120

Pope Francis: Weeping for other people's pain does not only mean sharing in their sufferings, but also........

Weeping for other people's pain does not only mean sharing in their sufferings, but also and above all realizing that our own actions are a cause of injustice and inequality. Once we realize this, we become more fully human, since responsibility for our brothers and sisters is an essential part of our common humanity. Do not be afraid to open your minds and hearts to the poor. In this way, you will give free rein to your... talents, and discover the happiness of a full life.

Israel must immediately halt planned relocation of Palestinian Bedouin, say UN officials

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=53051#.Vp-_j-BOk0M

Israel to announce major land appropriation in Jordan Valley Government to declare 370 acres near West Bank settlement south of Jericho as state land in largest such seizure since 2014

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-announce-major-land-seizure-in-jordan-valley/

Palestine: Jewish Settlers Torch 100 of World's Oldest Olive Trees

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/battle-between-israel-palestine-being-fought-olive-fields-100-trees-torched-1471595

***** MUST READ. Chris Hedges The American Empire: Murder Inc.

http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/the_american_empire_murder_inc_20160103

***** John Wayne was a raging racist. His daughter says he'd be 'standing right here' with Trump

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/19/1471831/-John-Wayne-s-daughter-endorses-Donald-Trump-on-behalf-of-her-long-dead-father?detail=facebook

Hillary's Hypocrisy: Clinging to Obama After Her Racist Dog Whistles in 2008

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/9011244

Inside GILEE, the US-Israel law enforcement training program seeking to redefine terrorism

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/01/enforcement-training-terrorism

Poll: 46% of Israeli Jews don't think Arabs should have equal rights

http://972mag.com/poll-46-of-israeli-jews-dont-think-arabs-should-have-equal-rights/116100/

Human Rights Watch: and all business with Israeli settlement companies.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/end-all-business-israeli-settlements-says-human-rights-watch

As Federal Government Launches New Deportation Raids, Churches Vow To Take In Immigrants by Jack Jenkins

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2016/01/15/3739848/churches-vow-to-offer-sanctuary/

***** Watch MLK Jr. Explain How Government Handouts Created the White Middle Class (VIDEO)

http://usuncut.com/class-war/watch-martin-luther-king-jr-explain-how-government-handouts-created-the-white-middle-class-video/

I have spent virtually my entire life profoundly alone. Although in the proximity of others....

I have spent virtually my entire life profoundly alone. Although in the proximity of others, where I live psychologically is profoundly different from almost everyone else in our culture. For the first third, or even half, of my decades I figured there was something very inadequate about me that caused this. For the next 3rd, two, of my decades I accepted that it had to do with some undeserved goodness in me but the pain of the solitude drove me to try and do the impossible, to merge where I was with where other people are. It is not possible neither in physics or in psychology. By now my solitude is as familiar to me as a beautiful sunrise, the pure smile of a young child, the honesty of a squirrel. There are still moments, like now, when I so wish that I did not live so psychologically alone. But then I kind of laugh. I don't know that Lewis and Clark were at all admirable people, but they certainly set out into essentially unknown territory in search of some truth, and surely they had no illusion that solitude would not be a price of their journey. Through no choice or credit on my part I am built to seek and to live the truth that other people seek to deny with their entire strength because of the cost and pain associated with such truth. By definition such a person is seeking solitude, traveling toward perpetual, unending, never to end... solitude, in the way that Lewis and Clark were, for a time, though in neither case was solitude the goal. Lol. Dorothy Day wrote a book entitled, the long loneliness. I don't think I have read it, & I wonder if this is what she had in mind.

***** 62 people own as much wealth as half the world's population

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/266231-study-finds-62-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-half-of-the-worlds-population

21-year-old Palestinian ‘executed’ at checkpoint; Israelis say he tried to stab a soldier

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/01/palestinian-executed-checkpoint

Zionist Israeli Extremists vandalize Jerusalem church with Hebrew threats: ‘Death to heathen Christians’

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/01/extremists-jerusalem-christians

***** Dr. Martin Luther King Jr: Our Nation was Born in Genocide

http://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-nation-born-genocide/

Over the years, epidemiologists have estimated that exposure to diesel emissions was linked nationally to 125,000 cancer cases and 21,000 pre-mature deaths annually. That’s more people than are killed annually by drunk driving or murdered by guns.

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/18/the_racial_justice_issue_that_americans_must_stop_ignoring_pollution/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Vid. Israeli Gestapo males manhandling Palestinian girl

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1103172979702169&id=233417303344412

***** Hillary Clinton: Israel first

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/15/hillary-clinton-israel-first/

A NEWBRIDGE woman has completed a six day hunger strike which she hopes will lead to Ireland becoming more aware that it needs to do more to stop climate change. Deirdre Lane announced her fast on Vincent Browne’s Peoples Debate from Newbridge which was broadcast on TV3 last Wednesday night.

http://www.kildare-nationalist.ie/2016/01/15/newbridge-woman-stops-eating-to-highlight-need-for-action-on-climate-change/

Sunday Profile: Providing homeless with a sense of worth

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20160116/article/160119683

Video. Israeli settlers telling Palestinians that if they learn to behave, they will be his slaves, otherwise, killed.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1103150606371073&id=233417303344412