Fisa court oversight a look inside a secret and empty process | Glenn Greenwald

The Guardian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

NSA 's massive domestic spying apparatus, various NSA defenders - beginning with President Obama - have sought to assure the public that this is all done under robust judicial oversight. "When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone ...

Armed groups formed by Zionist organizations such as Irgun Stern and Haganah were responsible for collective killings to force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and residential areas during and after the 1948 war unleashed by the pr

Pravda - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Prensa Latina The finding of the remains of dozens of people in a collective tomb in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv could witness today, 65 years later, Israeli militia ...

Google challenges U.S. gag order citing First Amendment

Prison Planet - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Washington Post June 18, 2013 Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. ...

Time to Leave Conflict Behind Panellists Say as International Meeting on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Considers Viability of Two-State Solution

United Nations - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

BEIJING, 18 June ‑ The United Nations Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace this afternoon heard appeals to leave perpetual conflict behind, as experts grappled with ways to revitalize the two-State solution and re-engage the international community in that effort, amid regional turmoil and, by some accounts, societal and political indifference within ...

Star-studded party for Israeli presidents 90th birthday

WHP CBS 21 - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

In this handout image provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli President Shimon Peres holds a press conference for the Arabic media ahead of the month of Ramadan on July 26, 2011 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Mark Neyman, GPO via Getty ...

Light Up the West Bank - By Alec Ross

Foreign Policy - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Afghans take over, peace office opens: a ridiculous mouse? Syria aid M.I.A.; Iran's shady plans to go nuclear; Middies charged with rape; The services are "acting like children;" And a bit more. - by Gordon ...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict No Less Urgent Secretary-General Stresses amid Fears that Syria Crisis Could Engulf Already Tense Region

United Nations - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

BEIJING, 18 June ‑ With regional tensions rising over relentless fighting in Syria, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today ...

Tycoon Rami Levy eyes shopping mall for Israeli settlers

Electronic Intifada - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

has reported that the mall will cost 100 million shekels ($27.5 million) and is slated for completion within two years. Some 3,000 square meters of the complex will be devoted to a Rami Levy supermarket. In total, it will have 11,000 square meters of retail space and 5,000 square meters for offices. Other Israeli companies indicating an interest in having branches in the mall include the ...

Turkeys Erdogan meets top Hamas officials for talks on Palestinian reconciliation

Canada.com - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

In this photo released by the Turkish Prime Minister's Press Office, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, seen during a meeting with Khalid Mashaal, the Hamas chief in exile, center, and Gaza’s prime minister Ismail Haniyeh in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The meeting is expected to focus on talks on Palestinian reconciliation.(AP Photo/Yasin Bulbul, Prime ...

Israeli premier pressure on Iran nuclear program must not ease despite election of reformist

Canada.com - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

JERUSALEM - Israel's prime minister says the international community must not ease pressure on Iran because of the election of a reformist president. Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he believed Iran's president-elect Hasan Rowhani spoke moderately but backs enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. The comments came after Russia's foreign minister was quoted as saying Iran was ...

Tel Aviv-based group threatens Australian professors over Israel

IMRA - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Tel Aviv-based group threatens Australian professors over Israel boycott Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center June 13, 2013: A Tel Aviv-based civil rights group warned Australian supporters of a proposed boycott against Israel on Thursday that their activities were racist, and in violation of Australian Federal anti-discrimination laws. Recently, faculty and students at Sydney University ...

Palestinians ‘aiding US peace drive’

IOL - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

JERUSALEM - The Palestinian administration in the West Bank has tried to help the latest US peacemaking drive by quietly cutting off funds for grassroots campaigners against Israel's occupation of the territory, a senior Israeli general said on ...

These ‘build build build’ comments go to the heart of Israel’s problems

War in Context - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Naftali Bennett has just become the latest Israeli official to declare the two-state solution a dead end. Speaking at a conference for Jewish settlers, he said the idea of negotiating for an independent Palestinian state alongside an Israeli one was ';futile'; and ';hopeless'; and that the only Israeli approach to this conflict should be to ';build, build, build'; ...

Israel should give Rouhani a chance

War in Context - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

toward Iran in recent years, we really don't know much about what is going on in the Land of the Ayatollahs. The United States, Israel and other Western nations have launched sophisticated cyber-attacks against the nuclear reactor systems in Bushehr. Intelligence agencies know the exact role of every nuclear scientist in Iran, and where they can be found at any given moment. But despite ...

Israeli leaders respond with scowls to Rouhani’s election

War in Context - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

For most Israeli politicians, the news of the election of moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani as president of Iran, is not good. That it is considered good news by anyone else makes it that much worse. In Poland last Wednesday, two days before Iranians went to the polls, Israeli Prime Minister ...

Why Rouhani won — and why Ayatollah Khamenei let him

War in Context - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

One explanation is that the Ayatollah simply miscalculated and found himself, once again, overtaken by events when Rouhani's candidacy surged with little forewarning. Indeed, it is likely that Khamenei really did expect Iranians to vote for the conservatives. After all, the conservatives have held all the cards in Iran since 2005; they dominate its institutions and dictate the terms of the ...

An emerging Sunni-Shiite alliance in Baghdad

War in Context - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

An alliance combining Shiite and Sunni currents in Baghdad succeeded last Saturday, June 15, in forming a local government without the participation of the State of Law Coalition. The latter was the largest winning bloc in ...

Hamas and Hezbollah’s strained relations

War in Context - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

The conflict in Syria has stressed the relationship between the Palestinian Sunni Hamas movement and the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah organization, transforming it from one of ';intimacy'; between allies to a tension-inducing ';quarrel'; after Hamas took a position against the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad ...

Israel installs digital ‘Multi-Sensor’ system on Lebanon border

World Tribune - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV -- Israel’s military has been installing a digital security system along the border with Lebanon. Military sources said the network was comprised of advanced sensors that could detect infiltration attempts from several kilometers. They said the so-called Multi-Sensor System, a project reported at $60 million, was led by prime contractor Elbit ...

Palestinian writers refused visas for travel to UK

The Guardian - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Two Palestinian writers have been refused visas to travel to the UK and speak at a festival celebrating contemporary Arab art.The Gaza-based husband and wife writers, Ali Abukhattab and Samah al-Sheikh, were due to talk about their writing at London's ICA on 28 June but have been barred from coming - to the disappointment and frustration of festival organisers.Omar al-Qattan, chairman of ...

Barbra Streisand Jumps Right Into Delicate Subjects In Israel

Web Pro News - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Barbra Streisand is touring Israel right now and has broached a very delicate subject on her first major stop: the treatment of women by Orthadox Jews. The iconic singer was there to receive an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and will perform two concerts in Tel Aviv, as well as sing for Israeli President Shimon Peres’ birthday, but on Monday she spoke ...

Egypt Brotherhood backs Syria jihad denounces Shi’ites

War in Context - Tuesday 18th June, 2013

Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood blamed Shi’ites for creating religious strife throughout Islam’s history, as the movement joined a call by Sunni clerics for jihad against the Syrian government and its Shi’ite allies. In a striking display of the religious enmity sweeping the region since Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah committed its forces behind Syrian President ...