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Cleansing without water: Israeli forces destroy 1,000 meter water pipe donated to Palestinian town in West Bank


IMEMC News & Agencies
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:38 UTC
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Israeli bulldozers, on Thursday, destroyed a water pipe being used in connecting the West Tubas district's Atoof village with Khirbet Yezra, in the northern Jordan Valley.

Head of Al-Maleh local council, Aaref Daraghmeh, said that the pipe had length of 1,000 meters, and was donated by Agricultural Relief to provide the residents of Yezra with water, since the area has no water sources.

According to the PNN, Dr. Hanna Issa, professor and expert on international law, strongly condemned the action, saying that occupation authorities provide settlers with water, while depriving Palestinians of their own sources.

Comment: What possible justification could Israel have for doing such a thing - except, perhaps, for the goal of making life even more difficult for the oppressed Palestinian population living the West Bank.

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Netanyahu and his wife are being sued for 'racist and physical abuse' of African bodyguard and maid

Zeidy David
Counter Current News
Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:01 UTC
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Benjamin Netanyahu has long been accused by Palestinians and African refugees of being a racist. But now the Israeli Prime Minister is being sued by a former bodyguard who says that he was constantly subjected to racist and physical abuse.

Manny Naftali, 35, says that Bibi and his wife Sarah did not just provide him with a job, primarily as a bodyguard, they also provided him with constant abuse. The former soldier says that the humiliating treatment by Mrs Netanyahu was the worse, and it occurred almost entirely with her husband's knowledge.

The lawsuit was just filed with Jerusalem district labour court. Mr Naftali explains in the suit that he worked for 20 months at the Balfour Street residence.

During that time, he describes one particularly disturbing incident when Mrs Netanyahu complained him about a Shabbat meal.

"We are sophisticated Europeans," she explained to the Moroccan-descended Naftali. "We don't eat as much food as you Moroccans. You are stuffing us, so that when they photograph us abroad, we look fat."

It is unclear why the meal was being blamed on their African Jewish bodyguard.
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SOTT Focus: The Truth Perspective: Myth and Reality in Palestine: Interview with IMEMC's Alexandra Halaby


Sott.net
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 19:00 UTC
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This week, The Truth Perspective interviews Alexandra Halaby, North American Spokesperson and Media Liaison for Palestine's International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC). Ms. Halaby will be discussing recent events in Palestine and Israel, the conditions of Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as the history of the conflict, the recent Summer war in Gaza, and the various commonly held myths about what is really going on in the regions.

Alexandra Halaby is an experienced journalist, published at Huffington Post, NSNBC International, The World Post, and Palestine Review. She studied Organizational Leadership with a focus on Public Relations at Bethal University and has continued studies at University of Geneva and Pynter Institute for Media Studies. She has also done volunteer work with the United Nations Population Fund for Palestine, American Friends of UNRWA, and is a member of Amnesty International.

The Truth Perspective is brought to you by the SOTT Radio Network and SOTT.net, your one-stop source for independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events. Live every Saturday from 2-4pm EST / 11am-1pm PST / 8-10pm CET.

Running Time: 02:00:00

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Government-approved conspiracy fact: WaPo reports 'CIA and Israel assassinated senior Hezbollah commander in Damascus in 2008'


Raw Story
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:26 UTC
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The CIA and Israel's spy agency Mossad were behind an elaborate plot to kill Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in a 2008 car bomb attack in Syria, the Washington Post reported.

Citing former intelligence officials, the newspaper reported that US and Israeli spy agencies worked together to target Mughniyeh on February 12, 2008 as he left a restaurant in the Syrian capital Damascus.

He was killed instantly by a car bomb planted in a spare tire on the back of a parked car, which exploded shrapnel in a tight radius, the Post said.

Comment: Mossad and the CIA are cohorts in many murders. Why is this being published now? Is there a political motivation? See: Obama will not meet U.S.-bound Netanyahu, but Bibi will address U.S. Congress

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Bad Guys

Ukraine's Aidar battalion fighters attempt to storm military HQ in Kiev


RT
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:03 UTC
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Fighters of the notorious paramilitary battalion Aidar have rallied in Kiev against their disbandment, attempting to storm the Ukraine Defense Ministry's HQ and accusing the regular army of deliberately shelling Aidar's own positions with heavy artillery.

Ukraine's most infamous volunteer squad, the Aidar battalion - condemned by Amnesty International for its unmatched brutality in eastern Ukraine - allegedly came under Grad and Smerch rocket fire by the regular military near the town of Schastya in Lugansk region.

"[Ukrainian] artillery is working against Aidar battalion's positions," said Aidar commander and MP representing Ukraine's Radical Party, Sergey Melnichuk, during a protest outside the Defense Ministry's building in Kiev. Citing his own fighter, Melnichuk claimed that Kiev's artillery targeted the battalion's positions "15-20 times."

Comment: My oh my, what psychopaths fighting each other looks like.

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Rupert Murdoch, corporate media propaganda, and CIA covert ops

Robert Parry
Consortium News
Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:48 UTC
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Comment: As it was then, so it is now. You will likely not read or hear about media moguls like Murdoch visiting Obama in the White House to discuss public opinion strategies, but you can be sure that the very same meetings that occurred during the Reagan administration are happening today. The government and media work very closely together to mould public opinion, to basically tell people what to think. As you can see below, this strategy has been employed for quite a long time.


Through Fox News and a vast media empire, Rupert Murdoch wields enormous political clout in the United States, but his entrée into the world of Washington power came from the notorious McCarthyite Roy Cohn who opened the door into Ronald Reagan's Oval Office, reports Robert Parry.

Rupert Murdoch, the global media mogul who is now a kingmaker in American politics, was brought into those power circles by the infamous lawyer/activist Roy Cohn who arranged Murdoch's first Oval Office meeting with President Ronald Reagan in 1983, according to documents released by Reagan's presidential library.

"I had one interest when Tom [Bolan] and I first brought Rupert Murdoch and Governor Reagan together - and that was that at least one major publisher in this country ... would become and remain pro-Reagan," Cohn wrote in a Jan. 27, 1983 letter to senior White House aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver. "Mr. Murdoch has performed to the limit up through and including today."

The letter noted that Murdoch then owned the "New York Post - over one million, third largest and largest afternoon; New York Magazine; Village Voice; San Antonio Express; Houston Ring papers; and now the Boston Herald; and internationally influential London Times, etc." Cohn sent the letter nine days after Murdoch met Reagan in the Oval Office along with Cohn, his legal partner Thomas Bolan, and U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick.

In a photograph of the Jan. 18, 1983 meeting, Cohn is shown standing and leaning toward Reagan who is seated next to Murdoch. Following that meeting, Murdoch became involved in a privately funded propaganda project to help sell Reagan's hard-line Central American policies, according to other documents. That PR operation was overseen by senior CIA propaganda specialist Walter Raymond Jr. and CIA Director William Casey, but the details of Murdoch's role remain sketchy partly because some of the records are still classified more than three decades later.
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Lip service: US, EU warn Israel of 'detrimental impacts' of building 450 new settler homes


RT
Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:22 UTC
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© Reuters / Ronen ZvulunAn Israeli flag waves on a hill near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Elazar, in the Etzion settlement bloc near Bethlehem.
The US and EU have advised Israel to drop its plans to construct an additional 450 settlement homes in the West Bank, warning that failure to do so would further destabilize the situation in the region and diminish prospects for peace.

On Friday, Israel announced tenders to build new settlements on the Palestinian territories in a move that has been deemed illegal under international law.

In particular, the announced projects include 156 units in Elkana, 114 homes in Geva Binyamin, 102 in Kiryat Araba, and 78 in Alfei Menashe, according to Jerusalem Post. Some of those tenders are being reissued, however, since contractors refused to take many of the projects in the past.

If Israel proceeds with construction, it will become "an obstacle to peace," the European Union said in a statement. In addition, it will further "undermine the viability of the two-state solution."

"Israel should reverse these decisions, thereby putting an end to settlement expansion," the Europeans warned. By refusing to do so, Israel faces the risk of "inflaming the very tense situation on the ground."

Comment: Israel continues to build settlements despite the warnings from other nations and violates international law. Apparently peace between Israel and Palestine is not seriously on Israel's agenda.

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UK: The case of the lost Mark Duggan disc and a "faceless" civil servant

Anoosh Chakelian
New Statesman
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:19 UTC
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© Andy Rain/EPA Mark Duggan's family make a statement outside the High Court in London after an inquest jury found that he was 'lawfully killed' by police. Mark Duggan was shot dead by police in Tottenham in 2011. Sensitive files on Mark Duggan and others have gone missing!

Information concerning three of the UK's most sensitive inquiries has been lost in the post.

It's one of those Whitehall clichés. A civil servant leaves their briefcase full of weapons-grade government secrets on the train. Following the story of a bungling UK spy who did just that back in 2008 with documents on Iraq and al Qaeda, the legislative lost property tale has become a bit of a parable for government incompetence.

And now it's happened again. This time, the Ministry of Justice appears to have lost some very important discs in the post containing information about three of the UK's current most sensitive inquiries: the role of the police in the deaths of Robert Hamill, Azelle Rodney and Mark Duggan. The latter is the most recent case; the fatal police shooting in 2011 sparked the London riots.

The department admits that the documents went missing in the post, and have been lost since early January this year: "Immediate steps were taken, including intensive searches to locate the discs. These searches continue, with police assistance. The discs have not, as yet, been found."

Comment: It is not uncommon for important, sensitive files to go 'missing' in the UK: See Home Office loses pedophile dossier naming big names

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Bad Guys

Ukraine chief of staff 'thwarts Western allegations' by admitting no combat with Russian troops


RT
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 23:17 UTC
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© Reuters / Alexander ErmochenkoMembers of the armed forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic drive a tank on the outskirts of Donetsk, January 22, 2015.
The Ukraine army's chief of staff has admitted that Kiev troops are not engaged in combat with Russian units, thereby thwarting all Western allegations of Moscow's "military invasion," said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.

"Yesterday afternoon the Chief of the General Staff - Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - Viktor Muzhenko officially acknowledged during a briefing for foreign military attachées that Russian troops are not involved in the fighting in the country's southeast," Konashenkov said on Friday.

Given the fact that Muzhenko directly supervises military operations in the southeast, "his statement is a legal fact, which thwarts numerous accusations made by NATO and Western states" concerning Russia's alleged "military invasion" in Ukraine, the spokesman added.

The Russian Defense Ministry, however, was puzzled by a statement from Muzhenko's subordinate, Sergey Galushko, made several hours later. According to Galushko - an employee of the Department of Information Technology - Russian troops are located in the so-called "second echelon."

On Thursday, Muzhenko said "the Ukrainian army is not engaged in combat operations against Russian units." He added, however, that he had information about Russian individuals fighting in the country's east. He also said the Ukrainian army has everything it needs to drive off armed units in Donbass. His speech was aired by Ukraine's Channel 5 television, owned by President Petro Poroshenko.
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Red Flag

Anti-Syriza propaganda begins: Greece framed as 'emerging hub for terrorists'

Stuart J. Hooper
21st Century Wire
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 03:47 UTC
Greece's new anti-austerity and anti-Western Oligarchy ruling party, Syriza, is coming under attack from an all too familiar angle. Keep in mind that this accusation came on the very first day Syriza took office.

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© CNNDoes Greece really have a terrorist problem?
According to CNN, "there may be some 200 people in the country with links to jihadist groups such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or the al Nusra Front". Supposing this is true, should we not instead look to those who funded and created those groups; namely Western nations?

An unnamed "source close to the Greek intelligence services told CNN" of this alleged problem, so for all we know this could be a complete lie; probably from the mind of a pro-Western, anti-Syriza propaganda agent working for Wall Street and the City of London. Accusations of such magnitude require far more than an unnamed source before we can verify their existence in the realms of reality. This spectral source supposedly said "Greece is not a target, just a gateway into Europe and a stop on the fighters' return home", which essentially paints the entire state of Greece as a problem.

CNN says of this source that "he added"; in regard to his alleged statements. How does this unnamed source feel about having his anonymity damaged in this regard? This is an absolute failure in narrative construction, and suggests to us that questioning this piece is not an unwarranted task.

Comment: This outlandish accusation springs out of nowhere within 24 hours of an anti-austerity, pro-sovereignty government in the Eurozone being elected to power. No rest for the wicked in the mainstream media, it seems.

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