Israeli Police Discover Ring of Neo-Nazi Immigrants

israelnationalnews.com

Israel Police have uncovered a group of at least 20 neo-Nazis who immigrated
to Israel from the former Soviet Union under the Law of Return.

Police are not yet certain how to proceed, due to the lack of legal basis
for prosecuting Israelis espousing anti-Semitic ideology.

The neo-Nazi group was discovered following the arrest on drug charges of a
20-year-old IDF soldier. A swastika tattooed on his arm aroused police
suspicions, and neo-Nazi material was later discovered in his home.

"Palestinian Defiance" (Part Two)

Mustafa Barghouti Interviewed by Éric Hazan, New Left Review

What is your view of Fatah? From the outside it appears an amorphous nebula in which opposite tendencies coexist. The majority seems to stand behind Arafat and the Authority, but other factions carry out suicide bombings, which the pa condemns. It tilted left when the left was strong, and now seems to be tilting right, towards Hamas’s positions, especially on women.

Palestinian Defiance, Part Two

Mustafa Barghouti Interviewed by Éric Hazan

New Left Review

Palestinian Defiance, Part Two

Mustafa Barghouti Interviewed by Éric Hazan

New Left Review

"Palestinian Defiance"
Mustafa Barghouti Interviewed by Éric Hazan, New Left Review

The Ramallah doctor and activist, general secretary of the Al Mubadara coalition, on struggles against the Israeli Occupation, from the popular movement of the first Intifada to the tactical errors of the second, via the disaster of Oslo. As Abu Mazen is levered into place, what alternatives can combat both IDF stranglehold and the flyblown Palestinian Authority?

"Targeting the University"
Joseph Massad, Al Ahram Weekly

Having usurped political power, the far right has now set its sight on sabotaging the academic world, writes Joseph Massad, an assistant professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University.

Targeting the university is the latest mission of right-wing forces who have hijacked not only political power and political discourse in the United States but also the very vocabulary that can be used against them. The campaign of the last three years or so to attack US universities as the last bastion where a measure of freedom of thought is still protected is engineered to cancel out such freedom and ensure that scholars will not subvert the received political wisdom of the day.

Targeting the University

Al Ahram Weekly

Having usurped political power, the far right has now set its sight on sabotaging the academic world, writes Joseph Massad, an assistant professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University.

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Venezuelans Rally Today for Posada Carriles´ Extradition

Caracas, (Prensa Latina) — Thousands of Venezuelans are taking part Wednesday in a rally in front of the National Assembly to extradite Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles to this Latin American nation.

Posada Carriles, fugitive from Venezuelan justice since 1985, is the mastermind behind the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in October 1976 that killed 73 people, as well as other murders, tortures and disappearances when he headed the Venezuela´s Political Police Unit of Special Operations.

The National Assembly approved on Tuesday a petition, which was proposed by "Podemos" party members Flores and Ismael Garcia.

On May 13, the Venezuelan government handed over Posada Carriles´ extradition request to the Legal and Extradition Office at the US Department of State, and so far, it has only confirmed receipt of the document.

The US immigration court in El Paso, Texas, will hold a hearing on June 13, to analyze charges of illegal entry to United States, without alluding the criminal´s terrorist actions.

Posada Carriles´ lawyer Eduardo Soto and other rightwingers in South Florida are pressing to have him release on bail and bring the legal proceedings to a Miami court.

Watergate Scandal's "Deep Throat" Reortedly Comes Clean

A former
FBI official claims he was "Deep Throat," the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair reported Tuesday.

W. Mark Felt, 91, who was second-in-command at the FBI in the early 1970s, kept the secret even from his family until 2002, when he confided to a friend that he had been Post reporter Bob Woodward's source, the magazine said.

"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," he told lawyer John D. O'Connor, the author of the Vanity Fair article, the magazine said in a news release.

"Fallujah: An Unnatural Disaster"

Joe Carr

Today, I did what few internationals have dared to do, I went to
Fallujah.

Fallujah is completely surrounded by US Forces, the only way in or out is
through one of four very restrictive checkpoints. People normally have to
wait hours, but since we had our magic US passports, we made it through
in
about 45 minutes. We did not observe them searching any cars, soldiers
just held-up traffic and slowly checked IDs. Like Palestine, these
checkpoints seem to have little to do with security and more to do with
harassment and intimidation.

Fallujah is devastating to drive through. There is more destruction and
rubble than I've ever seen in my life; even more than in Rafah, Gaza. The
US has leveled entire neighborhoods, and about every third building is
destroyed or damaged from US artillery. Rubble and bullet holes are
everywhere, the city is indescribably ravaged. It looks like it's been
hit
by a series of tornados; it's hard to believe that humans could actually
do this. I have a new understanding of the destructive potential of
modern
warfare.