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ISIS/Daesh is on the retreat in Syria, which is very good news for the people of that beleaguered country and for the world. However, the Syrian tragedy is far from over and rebuilding the country, even under the best circumstances of an end to the war, will take many years. Our little international delegation — […]
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‘Say Hello to Zenobia’: A report from Palmyra rising from the ashes
April 20th, 2016 
Awake Goy ISIS/Daesh is on the retreat in Syria, which is very good news for the people of that beleaguered country and for the world. However, the Syrian tragedy is far from over and rebuilding the country, even under the best circumstances of an end to the war, will take many years. Our little international delegation — […]
13-year-old Palestinian boy shot in head (and no one is executed for the attack)
April 5th, 2016 Awake Goy Violence / Detention — West Bank / Jerusalem Israeli forces shoot, injure 13-year-old Palestinian in Jerusalem JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 2 Apr – Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teen in the back of the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet while he was walking to school in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday morning, […]
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No Comments »Meanwhile In San Francisco – $400/Month To Live In A Box In Someone’s Living Room
March 31st, 2016 Awake Goy We’ve spent quite a lot of time documenting the inexorable rise in housing prices across some of the world’s red hot markets. Take Vancouver, for instance, where according to National Bank, one third of all homes sold in 2015 went to Chinese buyers whose voracious demand has driven prices into the stratosphere […]
Posted in World News Tags: 40th, bedouin, Commemoration, day, evictions, land, march, negev, Palestinians, protest No Comments »Pollster Luntz tells secret anti-BDS conference most US Jewish students don’t see Israel as ‘civilized’ or a ‘democracy’
February 22nd, 2016 Awake Goy Here’s the story in Hebrew. In a nutshell: Minister Gilad Erdan has organized a secret conference in Jerusalem, with 150 top supporters of Israel. American right wing pollster Frank Luntz [who has earlier stated that Zionism is becoming a dirty word for US elites] presented statistics: – The Ministry of Tourism’s attempt to market Israel […]
Posted in World News Tags: bedouin, community, demolishes, elementary, israel, Jerusalem, school No Comments »Israel arrests human rights campaigner Ezra Nawi and puts gag order on case as part of growing ‘witch hunt’ against activists
January 20th, 2016 Awake Goy In the last nine days, Israeli authorities have cracked down on activists associated with Ta’ayush, the Jewish-Palestinian partnership that works to stop settlement growth in the occupied territories. There is a gag order on the case, but details have emerged. Israeli authorities have arrested Ezra Nawi, the great campaigner against human rights abuses in the […]
Posted in World News Tags: alhiran, approves, bedouin, court, demolition, hiran, israeli, Jewish, supreme, town, umm, village No Comments »Israeli society is crumbling under the weight of occupation
October 19th, 2015 Awake Goy According to classical political theory, human beings enter into a social contract and renounce their right to exercising unlimited violence in order not to fall prey to the violence of others. In Thomas Hobbes’s vision of the Leviathan, they invest the sovereign with that right, so as to be better protected from arbitrary force in […]
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