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This is NOT an IMC and it is a disgrace to Indymedia and its Principles of Unity. Currently there is a group that has formed organically of people from the old group and new members from all over the Bethlehem district. They wish to proceed with the IMC project but are trying to establish their policies concretely. It is the general feeling in the community that Bilal would like to start some kind of seperate political organisation. This is perfectly acceptable but in doing so he is using his...

ATLANTA — After mounting a successful campaign to encourage thousands of Republican voters to oust Rep. Cynthia McKinney in last week's Democratic primary, a small group of Atlanta-area political operatives are hoping for Jewish backing in their bid to unseat her father from his seat in the Georgia State House....

Like a feudal lord’s castle—or a West Bank settlement—the village is built on a hill. The rocky hill and the land on which the village is built stands in sharp contrast to the fertile Lebanese soil it borders. Apparently the disparity began to get to the Israelis. About a year ago—in full view of the U.N. troops s...

This was ignored by the US media despite attempts by justice workers to get it out: "Yet as I typed out the press release that would be faxed to dozens of American media, I knew no American newspaper or TV station back home would read this press release, care and actually do a story. And no one did. "...

Excerpted from The Fateful Triangle. Americans are typically very ignorant of recent history in the Middle East (except for all the propaganda we are given). Chomsky cuts through some of this with eye-opening analysis. Chomsky is by the way one of the very few people who saw the Israeli invasion of Lebanon as a moral issue while most of the rest of the left and liberals (who are usually the most decent members of society) maintained a DEAFENING silence....

Anti-Semitism has become like a flit gun to squirt at every inconvenient fly on the window-pane... used mostly to whack critics of the disgusting conduct of successive Israeli governments and security forces and settlers towards the Palestinians... the term Anti-Semitism [is used] to attack people outraged by the way McKinney and Hilliard were driven from Congress, and by the horrible persecution of Palestinians in Israel. It's a debauch of a term that once meant something awful, a term that ...

...it is hardly surprising to discover that the Jewish state and Zionists lobbies are fairly active behind the scenes. It all makes far more sense when you find out that America's current divorce from humanism is closely associated with Israeli interests. A brief study of the history of Israel will reveal that from its very early days Zionism specialised in tracing dark political motivations and interests in order to abuse them to the very limit. Zionism is a very singular political method ai...

There is a time for everything in this life, and now it is my time to leave Indybay. Here are my reasons....

San Francisco constantly struggles with itself to solve the question of how many ***holes it's possible to fit into a square mile. How many cybersissies can you cram into a phone booth? How many Gaia-peddling belly-floppers? How many self-absorbed monkish Nerf balls of ideological irrelevance? How many dayglo lemon-meringue fashion tarantulas? How many gaunt, cellophane-wrapped nipple-tweakers? How many prune-twatted hipster debutantes?...

Friedman likes to blame Arafat for "provoking the Israelis into brutalizing Palestinians" and for provoking the "ritual sacrifice" of Palestinian children: "The Palestinians seem to have no qualms about putting up their youths to be shot at." He adds that Israelis seem to have no qualms about shooting at Palestinians, but it's clear that in his book the basic fault lies with the Palestinians....