Palestinian Rejection: End of Oslo Peace Process and the Trump-Netanyahu Apartheid "Steal of the Century"
Juan Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
The Palestinian leadership has entirely rejected what is known of the Trump plan for Israel and Palestine, and warned that they see it as destroying the Oslo Peace accords. The Trump administration did not consult the Palestinians in drawing up …
globalresearch.ca/price-trolling-impeachment-end-oslo-peace-process-trump-netanyahu-apartheid-steal-century/5702085
Palestinians Call on World to Reject Trump 'Peace' Deal
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
Opponents decry the plan as little more than a distraction from the domestic scandals of the U.S. president and Israeli prime minister.
truthdig.com/articles/palestinians-call-on-world-to-reject-trump-peace-deal/
Trump Unveils Controversial Peace Plan for the Middle East
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
The president, with Netanyahu at his side, details the proposal to create a state of Palestine while ceding major West Bank blocs to Israel.
truthdig.com/articles/trump-unveils-controversial-peace-plan-for-the-middle-east/
US didn't discuss 'deal of century' with Moscow, Russia's UN envoy says
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The US did not hold consultations with Moscow on a plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia has said. | "We were not consulted, we don't know what this plan consists of," he said in response to a question from a reporter. | Israeli envoy to the UN Danny Danon, meanwhile, said that his country was looking forward to the unveiling of the plan, TASS reported on Tuesday. | US President Donald Trump previously announced that the White House would unveil a plan for peace in the Middle East on Tuesday.
rt.com/newsline/479348-us-palestinian-un-russia/
Europe keeps Trump's Israel-Palestine 'peace plan' at arms' length, but other US allies rush to embrace – except Turkey & Jordan
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Reactions to US President Donald Trump's 'deal of the century' Israel-Palestine peace plan fell mostly along the lines of existing alliances, with close US allies backing the plan and rivals denouncing it – barring some surprises. | Europe hedged its bets on supporting the deal, weighing the importance of upholding international law against the need to appear loyal to Washington. Germany "welcomed" anything "aiming to inject new momentum" into the "stalled" peace process, but only went so far as to promise to "carefully examine the proposal" and discuss the resulting questions with other EU members. Foreign Mi…
rt.com/news/479424-israel-palestine-deal-foreign-reactions/
Netanyahu says Israel is offering Palestinians 'conditional' & 'limited' sovereignty, new capital will be at Abu Dis
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is willing to offer the Palestinian people the chance of "conditional, limited sovereignty" under the peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump. | Trump announced earlier Tuesday that the deal would see a Palestinian capital formed in East Jerusalem, while simultaneously calling the holy city Israel's "undivided" capital. | Speaking to reporters after Trump's comments, Netanyahu said the US recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, "by which I mean, within its fences." | Netanyahu clarified that the proposed Palestinian capital under the peace plan w…
rt.com/news/479423-netanyahu-palestine-conditional-sovereignty/
Trump proposes a two-state solution for Israel-Palestine in 'win-win opportunity' for both sides
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Donald Trump has proposed a two-state solution for Israel-Palestine which would see the Palestinian capital located in east Jerusalem, in a move the US president called a "big step towards peace." | Trump said that Israel had agreed to negotiate on the basis of a conceptual and detailed proposed map for the first time. If Israel agrees to the proposed map, the US will recognize it, he said. | The plan will "more than double the Palestinian territory" and "no Israelis or Palestinians wil…
rt.com/news/479412-trump-two-state-solution-israel/
To rig primary against Bernie, DNC chair Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-01-28
With Senator Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of foreign policy hacks and corporate lobbyists to sabotage his nomination. | Source…
mronline.org/2020/01/28/to-rig-primary-against-bernie-dnc-chair-tom-perez-nominates-regime-change-agents-israel-lobbyists-and-wall-street-consultants/
How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-28
Russia, China and Iran are already being blamed for using tech to undermine the 2020 election. Yet, the very technologies they are allegedly using were created by a web of companies with deep ties to Israeli intelligence.
mintpressnews.com/media-israel-intelligence-2020-elections-cyber-security/264361/
Killing Free Speech in America
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-28
No group in the United States has labored so hard as the friends of Israel to destroy the First Amendment to the Constitution, which commits the government to prohibit any "abridging the freedom of speech…or the right of the …
globalresearch.ca/killing-free-speech-america/5702090
Netanyahu withdraws hopeless bid for immunity hours before parliament session, leaving Gantz hanging in mid-air
rt.com | 2020-01-28
In an 11th-hour decision, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his request to parliament to grant him immunity from prosecution. The move apparently undermines his rival Benny Gantz's US visit. | Netanyahu, who is facing prosecution on several corruption charges, sought immunity from the parliament, but the bid didn't have the necessary support to pass. The motion was expected to be defeated on Tuesday, but hours before the session the PM announced he was withdrawing his petition. | The statement was published as Netanyahu visited the United States, where President Donald Trump is scheduled…
rt.com/news/479358-netanyahu-immunity-gantz-plane/
Pipeline or a Pipedream: A Conflict is Brewing Between Israel and Turkey over Natural Gas
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-28
Considering the massive deposits of natural gas needed to fuel struggling European markets, it is almost certain that Mediterranean natural gas will eventually become a major source of political disputes, if not all out war.
mintpressnews.com/conflict-brewing-israel-turkey-natural-gas/264410/
Motion to withdraw from Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons treaty filed in Iran's parliament
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The Iranian threat to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, moved forward on Tuesday after a motion to do so was filed in the Iranian parliament. | The motion reported by the parliament's official website brings Iran closer to breaking away from the 1968 treaty which laid the foundation for the nuclear deterrence architecture of the Cold War. The NPT allows only five nations
Israeli PM Netanyahu officially indicted over corruption charges after he withdraws immunity bid
rt.com | 2020-01-28
Israel's attorney general has submitted an indictment against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over three corruption cases after he withdrew his request to be granted immunity against prosecution. | The indictment was filed by Avichai Mandelblit to the Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday, paving the way for Netanyahu's trial. | The move became possible after the PM officially stopped seeking parliamentary immunity from prosecution earlier that day. The parliament was due to convene on Tuesday to vote on the formation of a committee to discuss Netanyahu's request. | The PM was in Washington for the release of…
rt.com/news/479376-netanyahu-court-trial-launched/
On the Eve of the Release of Trump's 'Deal of the Century
Richard Falk | zcomm.org | 2020-01-28
The peace plan is substantially an imposed Israeli victory, not in any reasonable way the basis for reaching a political compromise…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-the-eve-of-the-release-of-trumps-deal-of-the-century/
Noam Chomsky Is the Antidote to Trump's Facism
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2020-01-28
In addition to the obvious terrors
Auschwitz liberation commemorated in Poland amid state-led campaign for historical revisionism and war
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
Duda's and Steinmeier's condemnations of fascism and anti-Semitism stands in stark contrast to the political record of their own governments.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/ausc…
Trump/Pence #OutNow Mass Organizing Meeting
Refuse Fascism Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-01-28
Unitarian Universalist Center | 1187 Franklin Street | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/25/18830097.php
Seventy-five years after World War II: The ideological preparations for fascism and war
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
Christoph Vandreier, the author of the book "Why Are They Back?" spoke on how the ideological preparations for war and fascism are taking place 75 years after the end of World War II.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/humb…
Auschwitz liberation commemorated in Poland amid state-led campaign for historical revisionism and war
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
Duda's and Steinmeier's condemnations of fascism and anti-Semitism stands in stark contrast to the political record of their own governments.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/ausc…
Flood the Streets Demanding Trump/Pence #OutNow!
Refuse Fascism Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-01-28
Corner of Powell & Market, San Francisco | (close to Powell Street BART station)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/26/18830109.php
It's Media–Not Bernie Sanders–That Have an Antisemitism Problem
Alan MacLeod | fair.org | 2020-01-28
Have you heard the news? Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders is antisemitic. Yes, yes, he's Jewish, and has a long history of anti-racist activism–but that doesn't matter. | So goes the story in several prominent media outlets, who accuse him of leading "the most antisemitic [campaign] in decades" (Washington Examiner, 12/13/19). While unable to point to Sanders' own actions or words, the…
fair.org/home/its-media-not-bernie-sanders-that-have-an-antisemitism-problem/
It's Media–Not Bernie Sanders–That Have an Antisemitism Problem
Alan MacLeod | fair.org | 2020-01-28
Have you heard the news? Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders is antisemitic. Yes, yes, he's Jewish, and has a long history of anti-racist activism–but that doesn't matter. | So goes the story in several prominent media outlets, who accuse him of leading "the most antisemitic [campaign] in decades" (Washington Examiner, 12/13/19). While unable to point to Sanders' own actions or words, the…
fair.org/home/its-media-not-bernie-sanders-that-have-an-antisemitism-problem/
Conservative Justices Sanction Stephen Miller's Anti-Immigration Agenda
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-28
Not even an impeachment trial can slow down the White House's anti-immigrant agenda. | Even as Chief Justice John Roberts presided over the Senate's trial of President Trump on Monday, the Supreme Court gifted senior White House adviser and documented white nationalist Stephen Miller by lifting a lower court's nationwide injunction against discriminatory new rules that represent the strongest effort to restrict legal immigration into the U.S. in more than a century. | On Holocaust Memorial Day, all…
truthout.org/articles/conservative-justices-sanction-stephen-millers-anti-immigration-agenda/
India's Supreme Court greenlights Modi government's internet shutdown in Kashmir
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
While declaring internet access "constitutionally protected," India's highest court did not order the Modi government to end its nearly six-month long suspension of internet service in Kashmir.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/kash…
India's Supreme Court greenlights Modi government's internet shutdown in Kashmir
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
While declaring internet access "constitutionally protected," India's highest court did not order the Modi government to end its nearly six-month long suspension of internet service in Kashmir.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/kash…
US Supreme Court considers ending ban on public funding for religious schools
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
On January 22, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, a deeply reactionary case which takes aim at both the democratic principle of separation of church and state and the right to free, universal public education.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/espi…
Price of Trolling Impeachment
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-01-28
End of Oslo Peace Process and Trump-Netanyahu Apartheid "Steal of the Century"
zcomm.org/znetarticle/price-of-trolling-impeachment/
SPLC sues Alabama school district for violating students' due process rights after cell phone is mistaken for gun
splcenter.org | 2020-01-28
Andre and his friend were taking turns on a cell phone, playing a video game called Last Day on Earth: Survival
German government bans neo-Nazi group "Combat 18 Deutschland"
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
It was above all the fact that the close links between the militant neo-Nazi scene, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground (NSU) and the secret service could not be so easily covered up after the murder of leading Christian Democrat Walter Làºbcke that persuaded Seehofer to take action.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/comb…
Newly released PHOTOS of top Nazi officer give rare glimpse of life inside Sobibor death camp
rt.com | 2020-01-28
The new release of photos belonging to a Nazi commander at the Sobibor death camp sheds new light on the Holocaust site, of which very few images were known to exist. Sobibor was destroyed by the Nazis after a prisoner uprising. | …
rt.com/news/479384-sobibor-nazi-camp-photos/
German government bans neo-Nazi group "Combat 18 Deutschland"
wsws.org | 2020-01-28
It was above all the fact that the close links between the militant neo-Nazi scene, the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground (NSU) and the secret service could not be so easily covered up after the murder of leading Christian Democrat Walter Làºbcke that persuaded Seehofer to take action.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/28/comb…
Tanya Plibersek's patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-01-28
nationalism Peter BoyleIssue 1251 Australia patriotism Racism our common causeJanuary 28, 2020When, in 1774, the British essayist Samuel John…
greenleft.org.au/content/tanya-pliberseks-patriotism-last-refuge-scoundrel
Trump unveils long-hyped Middle East peace plan which Palestinians have already rejected (WATCH LIVE)
rt.com | 2020-01-28
US President Donald Trump is unveiling his 'Deal of the Century', a long-awaited plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Palestinians have already said they are not accepting whatever Trump is going to offer. | Trump is presenting his plan alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony in the White House in Washington, DC. The Israeli leader said his proposal is "the opportunity of a century." Trump believes that while the Palestinians will reject it initially, "in the end they will" because "in fact it's good for them." | The rosy expectations are not shared by the Palesti…
rt.com/news/479393-trump-deal-century-announcement/
Finnish President Says Concerned Over 2 Recent Anti-Semitic Incidents in Country
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-28
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – On 27 January, the synagogue in the Finnish southwestern city of Turku
Der Spiegel Apologises After Claiming American, Not Soviet Troops Liberated Auschwitz
sputniknews.com | 2020-01-28
January 27 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation by the Soviet Red Army of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where about 1.5 million people, predominantly Jews, were killed by Nazi forces between 1940 and 1945.
sputniknews.com/europe/202001281078161620-der-spiegel-apologises-after-claiming-american-not-soviet-troops-liberated-auschwitz/
Israeli Court Orders Palestinians to Leave Jerusalem Building and Turn It Over to Israeli Settlers
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-27
An Israeli court, yesterday, ruled in favor of evicting a Palestinian-owned building in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem and turn it over to an Israeli settler organization, according to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center. It said that the Israeli court rejected all objections by the Dweik family, which owns …
imemc.org/article/israeli-court-orders-palestinians-to-leave-jerusalem-building-and-turn-it-over-to-israeli-settlers-in-occupied-jerusalem/
Israel's Auschwitz Commemoration: A Kidnapping of Jewish history
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-01-27
As world leaders gathered in Jerusalem to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, Zochrot, an Israeli NGO that works to raise awareness among Israeli Jews of the injustices faced by Palestinians, posted a comment on their Facebook page.
mintpressnews.com/israel-auschwitz-commemoration-legacy-jewish-suffering/264329/
Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians, Confiscate Agricultural Equipment And Uproot Olive Trees in Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-27
Israeli soldiers invaded, late on Sunday at night and on Monday at dawn, Hebron city, in addition to Doura town and the al-Fawwar refugee camp, in southern West Bank, abducted two Palestinians and confiscated agricultural equipment, in addition to uprooting olive trees. Media sources said several army jeeps invaded, on …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-abduct-two-palestinians-confiscate-agricultural-equipment-and-uproot-olive-trees-in-hebron/
Israel Resumes Aerial Herbicide Spraying Along Gaza's Perimeter Fence, Deliberate Destruction of Palestinian Farming
GISHA | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-27
On Tuesday, January 14, 2020, Israeli crop-duster planes flew along the perimeter fence separating Gaza and Israel, spraying chemicals assumed to be herbicides into the Strip. Israel continued to conduct aerial herbicide spraying along additional sections of the perimeter fence …
globalresearch.ca/israel-resumes-aerial-herbicide-spraying-gaza-perimeter-fence/5701944
PA Threatens to Give up Oslo Accords over US "Deal of Century"
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-27
A high-ranking Palestinian official has threatened that the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority would withdraw from key provisions of the Oslo Accords in the case that US President Donald Trump unveils his so-called "Deal of the Century" to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat said, …
imemc.org/article/pa-threatens-to-give-up-oslo-accords-over-us-deal-of-century/
Trump to Unveil Middle East Peace Plan on Tuesday
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-27
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Monday that his administration would unveil his long-delayed peace plan at noon local time on Tuesday. Trump made the remark to reporters as he greeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. | RELATED: | 'These Chains Will Be Broken': An Account of Palestinian Resistance | The peace plan, which Trump claims will be beneficial for both the Palestinians and Israelis, was rejected by the President of the Palest…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-to-Unveil-Middle-East-Peace-Plan-on-Tuesday-20200127-0004.html
Israeli Army Abducts Seventeen Palestinians In West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-01-27
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, at least seventeen Palestinians in several parts of the occupied West Bank; twelve of the abducted Palestinians are from Jenin governorate, in northern West Bank. Two other Palestinians were abducted on Sunday at night. The …
imemc.org/article/army-abducts-seventeen-palestinians-in-west-bank/
Santa Fe Denies Permit for Mural Art Depicting Plight of Palestinian Children
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
The stucco wall on Santa Fe's Old Pecos Trail is now papered with images of Israeli soldiers terrorizing Palestinian women and children. This art was created by Navajo artist Remy at the request of Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine (SFJP), of which I am a member. For the past six years, we have been creating art depicting the conditions of Palestinians under the Israeli occupation. Guthrie Miller, the owner of the wall where the art has been located since 2014, has supported this effort.
truthout.org/articles/santa-fe-denies-permit-for-mural-art-depicting-plight-of-palestinian-children/
To rig primary against Bernie, DNC chair Tom Perez nominates regime-change agents, Israel lobbyists, and Wall Street consultants
Kevin Gosztola | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-27
With Senator Bernie Sanders surging in the polls, DNC chair Tom Perez has put forward a cartoonishly neoliberal cast of…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/27/dnc-perez-regime-change-agents-israel-lobbyists-wall-street-rig-game-bernie/
Women Are Leading the Fight Against Fascism in India
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-01-27
On the 4th of December 2019 the Hindu nationalist Bharatya Janata Party (BJP)-led government of India introduced the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in parliament. By the 11th of December the bill had been enacted into law after being pushed through parliamentary votes, and signed by the President. The rules of the law are still being written and yet Home Minister Amit Shah announced on the 10th of January 2020 that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is now in operation. By doing so, the BJP has chosen to ignore t…
truthout.org/articles/women-are-leading-the-fight-against-fascism-in-india/
A Historian Reflects on the Return of Fascism
Lawrence Wittner | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-27
Back in 1941, the year of my birth, fascism stood on the brink of conquering the world. During the preceding decades, movements of the Radical Right–mobilized by demagogues into a cult of virulent nationalism, racial and religious hatred, and militarism–had made great strides in nations around the globe. By the end of 1941, fascist Germany,…
counterpunch.org/2020/01/27/a-historian-reflects-on-the-return-of-fascism/
Societies must unite against 'global crisis of antisemitic hatred', Guterres urges
news.un.org | 2020-01-27
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, and the six million Jews and others murdered on Nazi orders during the Holocaust, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told a ceremony in New York on Monday that the world must "re-commit to preventing any repetition of those crimes".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/01/1056042
Shu'fat Revealed as Capital of Future Palestinian State under US Plan
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-27
The forthcoming US Middle East peace plan, known as the "Deal of the Century," includes a transition period of four years, as the US administration believes that Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian president will refuse the plan but his successor may accept it, Hebrew media reported, according to Al Ray. The "deal" …
imemc.org/article/shufat-revealed-as-capital-of-palestinian-state/
Commission Calls for National Resistance to "Deal of the Century"
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-01-27
On Monday, the Commission of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege in Gaza, called for Palestinians to participate in national events rejecting the "Deal of the Century", Shehab News Agency reported. In a press statement, the commission encouraged all Palestinians to unite in total rejection of the …
imemc.org/article/commission-calls-for-unity-against-deal-of-the-century/