By:  Paul J. Balles The Gulf Daily News (Wednesday, 2nd June 2010) headlined a front-page article “The Silence of America”.Questions were submitted to the American Embassy, the White House, US State Department and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The article concluded THE RESPONSE WAS SILENCE. The questions posed in that article deserve a response, but not the twists provided by Israeli apologists or Zionist controlled Washington. Why, after all the years of total blind US support for Israel, would anyone expect anything different? Here are the questions and my answers: 1. What will it take before the US even condemns Israel’s behaviour? a. A provable...

By:  Dr. Alan Sabrosky So the predictable dynamics are unfolding. Anywhere the US does not have a veto, Israel is being condemned for its latest atrocities and for its illegal blockade on Gaza. Israel as usual has its puppets in the US Congress and the US mainstream media coming to its defense. And Israel has rejected demands from the UN, plus all of the major powers (except, of course, the US) to lift the blockade and stand aside. But this crisis does not seem to be going away. An awful lot of people are still mad, and more are becoming...

In an international act of piracy and murder in international waters, the Israeli navy intercepted, boarded, and opened fire on humanitarian activists on a flotilla of ships attempting to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian Gaza Strip. According to news reports, Israeli commandos killed as many as 9 humanitarian activists on board one ship, and have abducted all 700 passengers on board the six boats composing the flotilla who are in the process of being sent against their will to Israel for arrest and/or deportation. The reaction of the Obama Administration to Israel’s attack on the humanitarian aid flotilla,...

BY:  YOUSEF MUNAYYER Hundreds of activists are on their way to the blockaded Gaza strip via a “flotilla” of boats carrying humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, which are badly lacking in the impoverished Palestinian territory. Israel has promised to intercept the good-willed boats and arrest and deport the activists. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has exerted great effort in the past few days to convince onlookers to this confrontation on the high seas that the activists carrying humanitarian goods are terrorist sympathizers, and that everything is just fine and dandy in the Gaza Strip. The ministry has portrayed Israel (the...