BREAKING: A Good Laugh for Us Fellow Viners (includes funny links to The Dictator)

Introducing The Dictator to the Vine--we need laughs in the midst of this Great Recession, our dueling candidates for president, death in Afghanistan, threats against Iran, and the plunging Euro. What is it with our obsession with satirising dictators? Thank the Lord we  …

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Palestinians Mark Nakba with Protests

Al Jazeera:  More than 760,000 Palestinians, estimated today to number 4.7 million with their descendants, fled or were driven out of their homes. About 160,000 Palestinians stayed behind, and now number about 1.3 million, or 20 per cent of the population of Israel. CoH, p …

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Rahm Emanuel's Father Specialized in Terrorist Bus Bombings in Palestine | Veterans Today

  Laurie Anulewicz not even his real name he uses in politics. this lizard is full of it. wake up fast, or remain dumbed down.” rumor” has it, that with Nato coming, the possibility of “The Sears Tower” will be blown up and they will blame i …

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Iran Hangs 'Mossad Agent' For Allegedly Killing Nuclear Scientist

Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Majid Jamali Fashi was hanged at Tehran's Evin Prison after being …

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How Israeli leader Netanyahu is using Israel lobby assets, including those within the Democratic Party itself, to sabotage Obama's reelection

In an extraordinary article for Huffington Post, dissident, former Israel lobbyist M.J. Rosenberg has blown the whistle on the gangster ethic of Zionist Jewry in general, and on the intention of Netanyahu to wring both the powerful Israel lobby, and its influence over the U.S. Co …

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European FMs sharply criticize Israel, settler violence

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Opening Up Jewish Eyes - By Judy Andreas

I am a daughter of Jewish parents who grew up with a conventional set of beliefs. Although I had never had the "chosen people" nonsense fed to me, I was conditioned by certain factors in my childhood. My Jewish education wa …

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'Destruction of Israel' is logical result of its own actions-- Tirman at Huffpo

At Huffington Post, there is a very good piece by John Tirman, exec. director of MIT's School of Int'l Studies, on how Israel is bringing the one-state solution on itself

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Israeli Occupation Forces Kidnap 18 Palestinians, Destroy Crops, Attack Protesters, May 10, 2012

APARTHEID IN 21ST CENTURY

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Israel: strong economically, roughly 200 nucs, little threat from Iran, more US aid, Netanyuahu government very much in control

The obsession with victimhood has prevented people in Israel and the United States from focusing on the gravest threat to Israel's existence as a Jewish and democratic state: demography. If there is no progress toward a two-state solution, at some point Israel will not to …

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