Ottoman Archives Help Palestinians Reclaim Their Land

Ahmed Melhem at Al-Monitor writes about the release of 140,000 microfilm pages from the Ottoman archives by Turkey.  These documents are helping Palestinians to prove ownership of property expropriated by Israel under the pretext they were state property and prove the Palestinians owned the land hundreds of years before the establishment of Israel. Turkish officials had announced as early as 2015 that they were handing Ottoman documents to the Palestinians to help them claim ownership of properties taken over by Israel. Daily Sabah, a pro-government paper, quoted Kudret Bulbul, head of the...

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Time To Break The Silence On Palestine

"To hold fast to the image of God in every person is to insist that the Palestinian child is as precious as the Jewish child.”    From an excellent op-ed at The New York Times by Michelle Alexander. Rabbi Brian Walt, who has spoken publicly about the reasons that he abandoned his faith in what he viewed as political Zionism. To him, he recently explained to me, liberal Zionism meant that he believed in the creation of a Jewish state that would be a desperately needed safe haven and cultural center for Jewish people around the world, "a state that would reflect as well as honor the highest...

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Benjamin Ferencz: The Immoral Killing Of The Iranian General

The New York Times has published a letter from former war crime prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz. Ferencz was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials.  His website is here.  From his Bio. The U.S. had decided to prosecute a broad cross section of Nazi criminals once the trial against Goering and his henchmen was over. General Telford Taylor was assigned as Chief of Counsel for 12 subsequent trials. Ferencz was sent with about fifty researchers to Berlin to scour Nazi offices and archives. In their hands lay overwhelming evidence of Nazi genocide by German doctors, lawyers, judges, generals,...

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Concerned Veterans For America Launch Campaign To Bring Our Troops Home

Concerned Veterans For America is running an $1.5 million dollar ad campaign on TV in key states and digitally nationwide calling for a complete withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan. Sign the letter of support that will be forwarded to the White House and your congressional representative  here  Dear Officials: I’m writing today to ask that you support withdrawing troops from Afghanistan as soon as possible.  As tensions continue to rise in the Middle East, our troops in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria are put in dangerous positions they don’t need to be in. Our service members accomplished...

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Jordan’s Abdullah: Israel Imposing ‘Unthinkable Solution’ On Palestinians

Jordan’s King Abdullah II accuses Israel of trying to “impose an unthinkable solution” on Palestinians as hopes fade for a two-state solution backed by the international community. Speaking to lawmakers at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, he says Israel’s construction of settlements in the West Bank and “disregard of international law” could be summed up as “one state turning its back on its neighborhood, perpetuating divisions among peoples and faiths worldwide.” The Jordanian monarch carries the hereditary title of “custodian” of holy Muslim and Christian sites in...

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Trump Approval At 77%

In Israel.  Not as popular everywhere else. from Mondoweiss: 36,000 respondents were surveyed across 33 countries. 64% of them indicated that they don’t trust Trump “to do the right thing regarding world affairs”, while just 29% said they have confidence in him. 54% said they had favorable views of the United States, while 38% had unfavorable views. The lowest approval for Trump exists in Mexico and Germany. Just 8% of Mexicans have confidence in him, while 13% of Germans do. The countries with the highest numbers are the Philippines and Israel: 77% and 71% respectively. The President only...

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A Most Unholy Alliance

Matt Welch at Reason writes about a new political alliance between so-called libertarian Justin Amash and a new group of "McCain Republicans" formed by Rick Wilson, John Weaver and Jeff Timmer calling themselves "The Lincoln Project". Wilson, author of the 2018 bestseller Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, previously worked on campaigns for George H.W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, and Evan McMullin, and was appointed to a Defense Department job by Dick Cheney. Timmer, an Amash constituent and former executive director of the Michigan...

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