To my friend that Sanders is giving hope: I understand, but for me, genocide is a red line. Unless and until Sanders comes out centrally and unequivocally to stop the US genocide of Palestine I frankly don't give a f*** about America or humanity. Unless and until......

To my friend that Sanders is giving hope: I understand, but for me, genocide is a red line. Unless and until Sanders comes out centrally and unequivocally to stop the US genocide of Palestine I frankly don't give a f*** about America or humanity. Unless and until that happens America is already Dead and I say let it decompose as fast as possible. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. But if, as I'm sure he will not, if and when he comes out unequivocally against the genocide of Palestine I, in all likelihood, will devote every penny and every breath and to the campaign he is waging.

The film offers an answer almost immediately: a religious fundamentalist driven by messianic ideology who believes Jews have the exclusive right to the West Bank and may use all manner of subterfuge, violence and law breaking to fulfill the divine imperative of settling the Holy Land.

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/1.700387?v=3CACC98AD3D06879C8CA17A79D688310

Tom Cotton's New Law Would Allow A Product Made In Gaza To Be Labeled 'Made in Israel'

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/tom-cotton-israel-palestinian-territories-label_us_56afcc6fe4b09214b14f3506

Wow. In the eyes of most Israelis, democracy consists of two Jews arguing over the fate of a Palestinian.

http://972mag.com/why-the-israeli-debate-on-the-occupation-misses-the-point/116550/

Hunger-striking Palestinian journalist can no longer speak

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/hunger-striking-palestinian-journalist-can-no-longer-speak

***** Haaretz. Almost all West Bank land deals for illegal settlements forged, investigation finds From straw men to cash-stuffed suitcases, new investigation reveals that 14 out 15 acquisitions by right wing Amana of West Bank lands from Palestinians were forged.

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.700794?v=CA9B56895C09E482F5705880F7F6DC7C

The Clintons' Cynical Race Game: No One Will Say It, but the Clintons' Rise Was Premised on Repudiating Black Voters Here's what Bill and Hillary mean to me: Sister Souljah, welfare reform, Ricky Ray Rector and the crime bill.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/clintons-cynical-race-game-no-one-will-say-it-clintons-rise-was-premised

***** Housing in DC for James work. Wanna help?

You may know that I have been joyful in the clarity of turning down the housing that is available for me because by a factor of infinity I would rather buy one more sleeping bag for one of my children, for 1 more minute of Doctors Without Borders healing one of them, in Palestine than have a roof over my head for one year. But contrary to popular opinion I am NOT an extremist, not a zealot. I am a very practical person. I know what I want far clearer than most people, and I am pragmatically determined to achieve it as best I can.

I do not deny that reducing the likelihood of my untimely demise, or, illhealth is better for my Palestinian family than otherwise. A third of my 2x poverty retirement income going to a roof over my head is inconceivable, but half of that he is something I would have to consider. Among the reasons I am detested by the activist community in DC is because just as dr. King came to see that the church was a fraud, that is what I see among my activist brothers and sisters in DC. They are a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity. And probably that horrific void has a lot to do with why Thomas couldn't stand to be in the world anymore. But to my understanding of it Thomas had one, 1, kindred spirit and she soon became a kindred spirit to me for the same reason. I'm always at war, I don't socialize, and this beloved lesbian turrets sister of mine has a wonderful life of her own, but she saw me on post yesterday and took me to a simple vegan meal. She wants to help me have a roof over my head. She seems to be offering an offer that I can't refuse. Offsetting some of what I would pay for a place by making donations to Palestine each month that I otherwise wouldn't be able to make, and that she otherwise would not be making. She might rise up, and pull out, but she might not.

If you know of any one, or people, that would be interested in helping to make this happen, now would be a good time to let me know. If you know of any people that would like to make small donations each month to charities for Palestine that I would identify that I otherwise would be donating to now would be a good time to let me know.

.... These are some of the Palestine related donations. There are some domestic donations that I make as well.

Wi-Fi
use of restroom facilities in Dc daily
food (friutes, veggies , rice, legumes...)
elf insurance
vigil essentials
Healthcare incidentals
Electronic Intifada
International Solidarity movement
MSF
Mondoweiss
TruthDig
Haaretz
Christian peace maker teams
JVP
Palestine children's relief fund PCRF
MAP medical aid for Palestine
breaking the silence
students for justice Palestine
BDS
Syrian relief
Church World Service
United Palestinian appeal
anera
Southern Poverty Law Center
ACLU
Sea Shepherd
common dreams
(Palestine) Welfare Association
Tikkun
(Jewish)Forward
open Hillel
972
US campaign to end the occupation of Palestine

***** oh my god, through tears, what a magnificent soul. Just died. ", a 95 year old Sabra (native born Israeli Jew), who has plowed its fields, planted trees, built a house and fathered sons, grandsons and great-grandsons, and also shed his blood in the battle for the founding of the State of Israel, Declare herewith that I renounce my belief in the Zionism which has failed, that I shall not be loyal to the Jewish fascist state and its mad visions, that........

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/02/dov-yermiya-who-said-i-renounce-my-belief-in-zionism-which-has-failed-dies-at-101

Hooray! Israeli Academics Face Growing Boycott Pressures

http://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/02/01/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-academic-boycott.html?referer=https://news.google.com

Don’t Shoot the Messenger, Israel

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/opinion/dont-shoot-the-messenger-israel.html?referer=https://news.google.com

"There is no limit to our cruelty. We have no humanity." Netanyahu to Hamas: Israel will strike with 'greater force' than 2014 war if attacked from tunnels

http://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Netanyahu-to-Hamas-Israel-will-strike-with-greater-force-than-2014-war-if-attacked-from-tunnels-443425#article=6017MkMzNzE3RDhBREQ5MjU2ODYwNDZDQkMzMzk3N0M5NzE=

Israeli scum. Demands grow on Israel to release circus teacher for disabled children

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ryan-rodrick-beiler/demands-grow-israel-release-circus-teacher-disabled-children

***** The foundation, the very foundation, of privilege is blissful ignorance of the human suffering they......

***** The foundation, the very foundation, of privilege is blissful ignorance of the human suffering they flood upon the world; and the mass murder, torture, deprivation, theft, plunder... that the privileged incessantly wage is largely to maintain their own blissful ignorance. This is an important new insight for me.  For this reason there is nothing they won't do to destroy the truth, and those who discover and speak it, and/or live it.

Extremely insightful article I'm listening to on alternate, why is David Brooks so very afraid. Brooks is a New York Times writer. http://www.alternet.org/media/why-david-brooks-so-very-afraid

http://www.alternet.org/media/why-david-brooks-so-very-afraid

***** WOW. 'A nation that is in a civil war cannot publish a civics textbook. It’s ridiculous. In the United States in the mid-19th century, the North and the South would have been incapable of agreeing on a civics textbook. One side thought it was acceptable to enslave millions of Africans, the other side fervently believed that slavery must end.....' Haaretz. Israel is in a civil war, not a war of brothers The history of Jewish sovereignty is being repeated before our eyes. Two states have grown back, the State of Israel and the State of Judea. Uri Misgav

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.700430?v=511B74752E46ACB41F7EDC0655C9C6BA

Jewish West Bank settlers are as smug as white South Africans in 1980

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/01/jewish-west-bank-settlers-are-as-smug-as-white-south-africans-in-1980

No, Barack. You are absolutely wrong. Until we are all Palestinians, until we are all Muslims, we are none of us Jews...Obama’s powerful condemnation of anti-Semitism: ‘We are all Jews’..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-powerful-condemnation-of-anti-semitism-we-are-all-jews/2016/01/29/9b32233c-c611-11e5-a4aa-f25866ba0dc6_story.html

**** David Axelrod on PBS about Obama, and Israel. A much more correct and revealing title to this article would be, 'Obama identifies with the intellectual elite, privileged, well intended, ivory tower... segment of the Jewish community, from Chicago, and he and his team remain honestly and criminally blind to the Jewish and Christian Zionist cults.' Profoundly profoundly profoundly enlightening about Obama and Palestine and Israel. Assuming........

***** David Axelrod on PBS about Obama, and Israel. A much more correct and revealing title to this article would be,  'Obama  identifies with the intellectual elite,  privileged,  well intended,  ivory tower... segment of the Jewish community, from Chicago, and he and his team remain honestly and criminally blind to the Jewish and Christian Zionist cults.' Profoundly profoundly profoundly enlightening about Obama and Palestine and Israel. Assuming that Axelrod is speaking honestly, & I believe this to be the case, this makes it clear that Obama, his team including Axelrod, were and are profoundly blind to the evils of the Zionist cults and mafia. This is not really hard to believe or to understand. And this is not in the slightest what Axelrod says, but it is so evident from this huge blind spot in what he says, in him, as representative of the key Jewish advisors that Obama has. Obama and his team where from the Chicago Jewish community, &, the Ivy League Jewish community. That is a pretty godly, idealistic, well intended group. They are also very ivory tower, very removed from reality, and idealistic to a fault. One of the only times I ever saw Obama blindsided was in the first month of his administration with a top security candidate he proposed getting slammed back down his throat by AIPAC. He, his advisors, totally didn't see it coming. This also points to a parallel blindness that he and the administration had, and have. In the Ivy League World, the world of elite, removed, idealists, Obama has been able to be a bridge builder, but had never been confronted with the KKK, Zionist, Cults or anything like them. Neither Obama or his team has ever come to grips with this.   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/david-axelrod-obama-identifies-with-the-jewish-community/

168 Italian academics call for boycott of Israeli universities

http://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-of-italian-academics-call-for-boycott-of-israeli-universities/

Bill and his family were my 2nd family in high school. I'm so desperately, desperately, sad at their, and Sheila's, immense loss, and Bill's cruel, untimely passing. He is......

Bill and his family were my 2nd family in high school.  I'm so desperately, desperately, sad at their, and Sheila's, immense loss, and Bill's cruel, untimely passing. He is sorely missed. The very prettiest flowers are so often picked first. I can't find the words to express how uniquely and profoundly important Bill, his mom, his dad, and even his siblings, were and in their indelible footprints from so long ago are to my life. The love and kindness and acceptance they showed me was utterly unique in my childhood, except for my own parents, and I wonder if I could have survived high school, maybe literally, had they not been such angels in my life. I weep in amazement, wonder and awe at the thought.    http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/starledger/obituary.aspx?n=william-marfuggi&pid=177466292&fhid=8425

We’re No. 16! Why Donald Trump’s boorish American exceptionalism is so wrong

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/30/were_no_16_why_donald_trumps_boorish_american_exceptionalism_is_so_wrong/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

***** I do think that there is a very significant chance that Obama is entering a new and final phase of much tougher movement in favor of Palestinian rights, now in his final year, and that the signal has already been given to the United Nations, France, the EU, etc.

***** I do think that there is a very significant chance that Obama is entering a new and final phase of much tougher movement in favor of Palestinian rights, now in his final year, and that the signal has already been given to the United Nations, France, the EU, etc.

***** A question for you: What is The supremely gratifying competition (and there is never never never... a winner)? This is Not a trick question. (I never knew till just tonight). Post your answers and then I'll post mine.

***** A question for you:  What is The supremely gratifying competition (and there is never never never... a winner)? This is Not a trick question. (I never knew till just tonight). Post your answers and then I'll post mine.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10207271887228380&id=1620551416

***** NYT: Nothing can excuse Israel’s relentless pursuit of the very occupation that undermines it.

Palestinian leaders also have a responsibility to curb that hate — to cease incitement, hold elections, overcome divisions and abandon their sterile retreat into victimhood. But nothing can excuse Israel’s relentless pursuit of the very occupation that undermines it.

Palestinian journalist to continue hunger strike despite risk of death

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/1/28/palestinian-journalist-to-continue-hunger-strike-despite-risk-of-death.html

***** Haaretz: The dozens of Palestinian male and female youths who set out over the last few months to kill Israelis did not do so “because they’re Jews,” as Israel’s propaganda likes to portray it, with a (routinely) broad hint about the Holocaust and the persecution of Jews. They set out to stab or run people over by car because they’re conquerors. They set out to kill their conquerors. They chose violence as a means of resisting a more pernicious violence, that of the occupation.

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.699906?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook

Japan Condemns Israeli Settlement Activity

http://www.imemc.org/article/74758?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Sweden investigating Israeli death threats against its foreign minister

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/sweden-investigating-israeli-death-threats-against-its-foreign-minister

***** Obama bring down the house at the Israeli embassy last night. ***** Until a year ago Obama's greatest supporter, I now oppose him, as a tragic failure. But I will not believe until his last day in office that he won't oppose Israel's oppression of Palestinians. It is a fact that he plays a long game, a brilliant game, and I cannot be convinced that this is not the case for Palestinian human rights, full Palestinian human rights. If he does not turn around on that last day, or by that last day, I will condemn his performance for the rest of my life.

http://mondoweiss.net/2016/01/after-tepid-welcome-at-israeli-embassy-obamas-pro-israel-speech-brought-down-the-house