The revelations from the Palestine Papers may have angered many Palestinians. But how does it affect the future of negotiations towards a two-state solution? Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports from occupied East Jerusalem.
Continue reading …The revelations from the Palestine Papers may have angered many Palestinians. But how does it affect the future of negotiations towards a two-state solution? Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports from occupied East Jerusalem.
Continue reading …The revelations from the Palestine Papers may have angered many Palestinians. But how does it affect the future of negotiations towards a two-state solution? Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports from occupied East Jerusalem.
Continue reading …Click here to view this media Rep. Steve Cohen’s “Big Lie” theory really got the RWNM up in arms. Megyn Kelly told a guest on her show that nobody ever made a Nazi reference to attack the left on FOX News, ever/ She knows she said, because she watches the network, do you? here at C&L we’ve documented the many cases of FOX News hosts using the “Nazi” analogy. Glenn beck frequently uses it as has Bill O’Reilly. Well, Jon Stewart and the Daily Show rebutted Megyn’s claim and strung together a host of Fox Newsers using the Nazi analogy which included BillO and someone even used it on Kelly’s own show. Bill O’Reilly got very upset about Stewart’s piece and so he responded to it in his Personal Segment and briefly addressed his audience in his very own way. O’Reilly: Jon Stewart didn’t defend the man but he believes there’s this hypocrisy in play and that I your humble correspondent am a part of it. [O'Reilly from 2008]: If you look back at what happened in Germany and what Hitler and his cutthroats did back then and the hate filled blogs of what they’re doing now. And here is the context of that letter and that statement… Bill then goes through the back story explaining why he compared the Huffington Post to Hitler. It turns out that Bill was infuriated not by an article or a blog post on the Huffington Post, but rather a nasty comment — that was later deleted — about Nancy Reagan. Now the high comedy begins, watch…. I’ll submit to you ladies and gentleman that my comparison of the vile Nazi propaganda machine is dead on. you can make the call on that. Jon Stewart didn’t mention Nancy Reagan or the context of my remarks, he just used a short clip of a much longer statement…. {} Congressman Cohen directed his comments at Republicans who oppose Obamacare and classified them as using Nazi propaganda techniques. That’s what he did. I pointed out a hateful post on the Huffington Post that should never have appeared, should have been taken down. Did you just see that? He conned his audience into thinking that his Nazi analogy was taken out of context and appropriate because he used it to attack the Huffington Post, but Rep. Steve Cohen’s was not because he used it against Republicans. That’s FOX Logic, ladies and gentleman fronm your humble author… Oh, by the way. using the incredible C&L archives I found a few other times Bill has been justified to call people Nazis. .. Back in December of 2005, Bill O’Reilly called people who protested an Ann Coulter appearance zealots and Nazis.. Click here to view this media O’Reilly: The far left in this country, the zealots, these are zealots-are Nazis…and this is exactly what the Nazis did. He did it again back in 2007 when he attacked Kos during his attack on Jet Blue: Click here to view this media OReilly: “It’s like the Ku Klux Klan. It’s like the Nazi party.” Colbert: “Exactly! The Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis were both notorious for allowing people to express unpopular views in an open and free forum.” He also did it while he talked to Ms. Hamm, who actually disagreed with him over the same comment. O’Reilly: What’s the difference between the KKK and Arianna Huffington? What’s the difference? Ham: I think there is a difference,. O’Reilly: I don’t see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis. It’s her, It’s her, It’s her…I didn’t say she’s a Nazi. Ham: Alright. O’Reilly: There’s no difference between what the two do. So in O’Reilly World, as long as he thinks he’s applied the proper context to call somebody a Nazi — in this case, a deleted comment from an anonymous person — in which he smeared the entire Huffington Post, then that’s A-OK. Media Matters writes : So O’Reilly’s defense for comparing the “hate-filled blogs” to Nazis is that one random commenter on the Huffington Post said something cruel about Nancy Reagan in a comment that was later deleted. Funny how the full context doesn’t actually make his Nazi analogy seem all that reasonable. And he’s also cool with painting people he disagrees with as “The KKK.” Very twisted logic indeed.
Continue reading …Saeb Erekat, the PLO’s chief negotiator, has condemned the release of the Palestine Papers. He has also called for the source of the leaks to be revealed. And he’s accused Al Jazeera of slander
Continue reading …Click here to view this media The Shawna Forde murder trial got into full swing the past couple of days, with some riveting testimony featuring the sole survivor of Forde’s killer Minuteman-gang home invasion, Gina Gonzalez — some of it on the taped 911 call she made the night her daughter and husband were shot and killed. The Arizona Star has been covering the trial assiduously, including this stark account of Gonzalez’ testimony yesterday : She testified about people posing as law enforcement officers coming into her home and shooting and killing her husband, Raul “Junior” Flores, shooting and wounding her, then turning the gun on their 9-year old daughter Brisenia. “He’s all out of bullets by then because he’s used them on me and Junior. So he stands there and he loads the gun right in front of her (Brisenia),” Gonzalez says. Prosecutor Kellie Johnson asks, “And is this something you can see happening?” Gonzalez answers, “I can hear it happening. I can hear her telling him to ‘please don’t shoot me.’” The child is shot and killed. The jury also heard the now-famous 911 call Gonzalez made before the killers came back and she opened fire on them: Click here to view this media The Star has the report from the courtroom of the 911 dispatcher’s testimony: Remsburg was called to the stand to lay the foundation for the dramatic and seemingly-never-ending call placed shortly after 1 a.m. May 30. “Somebody just came in and shot my husband and daughter,” Gonzalez tells Remsburg. As she pleads for help and starts to tell Remsburg details of what has happened, she suddenly starts yelling. “They’re coming back! They’re coming back in!” At least five gunshots are heard before Gonzalez yells out “Get the (expletive) out of here!” and more gunshots ring out. (She later asks if her shooting at the gunman will be “held against her” and Remsburg laughs and tells her it was clearly self-defense.) When she gets back to the phone, Gonzalez again pleads for Remsburg to hurry. “They shot my husband and they shot my daughter and they shot me. Oh my God, I can’t believe this is happening.” There are also, as always, some telling details in the less-spectacular testimony and evidence presented in the court, particularly Gonzalez’ encounter with a teal van beforehand: The day before the slayings, Gonzalez said she and Brisenia were out in their yard looking for some missing car keys when a teal minivan drove by very slowly. The woman inside reluctantly waved at her when she waved at the van, Gonzalez said. She’d never seen the van before and she knows just about everyone in town from working at The Mercantile, Gonzalez said. The incident was so odd, she mentioned it to detectives and they later found the van at suspect Albert Gaxiola’s house, with Jason Bush’s blood in it. And then there’s the jewelry belonging to Gonzalez that turned up in Forde’s possession: The jewelry stolen from her home that night (and later found in Forde’s possession) was stuff she rarely wore: a belt buckle she’d had since she was 17, her wedding ring, earrings belonging to her late mother-in-law, etc. The belt buckle had a “G” on it for her name and she was able to show detectives she had a bracelet matching one of the necklaces that was recovered. Be sure to read Will Bunch’s excellent take on the story. The L.A. Times report is here. Our ongoing coverage of the Forde case is here.
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