ever wonder why the palestinian is so mad? A report about Israel and it’s plans for an expansion of their illegal settlements on the West Bank. The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on her first trip to the Middle East, is meeting Israeli leaders in the hope of making some progress on peace talks. While one of the main issues is Israel’s building of settlements in the West Bank, the Israeli organisation ‘Peace Now’ has released a report suggesting Israel plans to build another 73000 …

STRATFOR : www.stratfor.com In a major policy speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu offered immediate peace talks to the Palestinians, in any of three Arab capitals. But he refused to stop expanding existing Jewish settlements on the West Bank and imposed conditions that would make a Palestinian state a castrated country.

A change of tact for Benjamin Netanyahu, but his support for a two-state solution with the Palestinians, came with strings attached: [Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister]: “If we receive this guarantee for demilitarization and the security arrangements required by Israel, and if the Palestinians recognise Israel as the nation of the Jewish people, we will be prepared for a true peace agreement and to reach a solution of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state …

thing Brzezinski wants is some nutter destabilizing the middle east or attacking & destroying oil-fields just because of an overdue Palestinian/Israel issue while he is going after Pakistan, China & his hated Russia. Maybe Iran would even get offered a seat on the next G14-20 board if the Israel/ha-mas peace talks stay stable and succeed!! This would put Iran on the same eye level with Russia! Now that would totally piss Russia off demonstrating that Russia is only a regional power just like …

Interview with special guest Lenni Brenner. Brenner is an author of several books regarding Israel, and we talk about the current Palestinian conflict in Gaza with Israel. We also talk about Israels apartheid policies that mirrored South Africa and the Jim Crow South. Lenni Brenner now lives in New York City. See an article about his political activities in UC Berkeley in the 1960s Lenni Brenner was born into an Orthodox Jewish family. He became an atheist at 12, and a Marxist at 15, in 1952 …

Leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian faction that governs the Gaza Strip, continue to be shut out of meetings with US leaders on the Middle East conflict. Al Jazeera’s Ayman Mohyeldin discusses their being excluded and who Mahmoud Abbas actually represents.

Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — Ismail Haniya, Hamass leader in the Gaza Strip, said Gaza will not falter when he appeared on television — from a hiding place because Israeli war planes had bombed his office. His determination, even as he left open the door for a negotiated end to the fighting, at a time when almost 1000 Palestinians have died under Israeli attack is part and parcel of Hamass self-declared reason for being: maintaining an armed struggle against a country whose existence it refuses …

GAZA, Jan. 10 (UPI) — Israeli troops were to set to allow a lull in Gaza hostilities Saturday after killing 15 men identified as “Hamas terrorists” in fighting, officials said. An Israeli Army spokesman said it would institute a three-hour suspension of its military actions in Gaza Saturday afternoon to allow residents to gather supplies, the third time in since the beginning of its attacks on Hamas 15 days ago that Israel has paused for a short periods to allow for humanitarian needs, CNN …

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt and the Palestinian Authority said Saturday they did not envisage any international forces in Egypt or on the Gaza border under a possible truce agreement between Israel and Gaza. Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said Egypt had received no request. “No one has asked for this, and this is a non-issue for us,” he said. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after talks in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said: “We want an international presence …

George Galloway talks about the war on Gaza and the peace process, which the Government of Israel uses to blackmail the Palestinians and the rest of the world. From Talksport show, January 2nd, 2009.