President Obama addresses the AIPAC, the over bearing, Zionist lobby who has strong financial control over our law makers(Congress, Senate) through our corrupted political system and shapes our foreign Policy.

President Obama welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House Friday, one day after the president’s policy speech on the Arab world and Israeli-Palestinian relations called for a return to pre-1967 borders, a state Mr. Netanyahu called “indefensible.” After a closed door meeting, Netanyahu reiterated that “Israel has certain security requirements.”

An informative documentary sponsored by the American Task Force on Palestine on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

We strongly support President Obama in his renewed effort towards Middle east peace process inspite of tremendous pressure from Israel and very strong Jewish lobby .If Israel sincerely believes in peace and understands in all seriousness that status quo is not sustainable, then Israel needs to cease decades of illegal occupation, annexation, blockade. Stop the continuous encouragement of Palestinian lands, put a stop to building of settlements, building of walls.
Israel refuses the 230 binding UN resolutions, it refuses One state solution, it refuses two state solution. Israel also refuses to sign the NPT treaty. Israel refuses the Palestinians’ right to come back home. It is high time that Israel realizes that more that 4 decades status quo is unsustainable and unacceptable in this age of political awakening around the world. World is watching, new generation is tired of all the excuses for maintaining status quo by denying Palestinians right of existence. It is high time Israel steps up. It is time…

While politicians are trying to bring peace to the Middle East, thousands of Palestinians say they’re living under apartheid. A barrier almost 700-km long has been dividing the West Bank for eight years. Israel says it’s for security, but Palestinians insist it’s segregation. Paula Slier went to check on what’s hiding behind the ‘peace facade’.

Hecklers disrupt Netanyahu’s speech at U.S. Jewish conference
Protesters chant ‘loyalty oath delegitimizes Israel’ during Prime Minister’s speech at Jewish Federations General Assembly. By Sara MillerTags: Israel newsJewish worldBenjamin NetanyahuPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the Jewish Federations General Assembly on Monday was marked by repeated heckling from members of the audience, who were then unceremoniously escorted from the plush ballroom.
The first heckler, who interrupted Netanyahu barely moments after he began his 30 minute speech, was ejected while shouting “the loyalty oath delegitimizes Israel”.
The prime minister, unperturbed by the interruption, responded by saying, “I was going to talk about delegitimizing Israel but they really have the wrong address.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the Jewish Federations General Assembly in New Orleans, November 8, 2010.
Subsequent interruptions of regular intervals protested Israel’s occupation, claiming that it too delegitimizes Israel.
The unprecedented scale of interruptions did not bear well with the audience, who after the first heckler’s interruptions responded with chants of “Am Yisrael Chai” [The nation of Israel lives], and “Bibi, Bibi” [Netanyahu's nickname].
Hannah King, a 17-year-old student and member of the Jewish Voices for Peace, which organized the protests, told Haaretz that the protesters had been escorted out of the hotel, where they were handed over to the police, although she did not believe that they had been arrested.
King said that she had been driven to act as she felt Israel’s behavior went against her Jewish upbringing.

“We believe that the actions that Israel is taking, like settlements, like the occupation, like the loyalty oath, are contrary to the Jewish values that we learnt in Jewish day school,” she said. “This is not Tikkun Olam. Oppressing people in refugee camps is not Tikkun Olam. And it is a hypocrisy that I cannot abide.”
“We must be tough on all countries that abuse human rights but I care about Israel because for me it’s personal,” King explained. “I don’t believe that Netanyahu heard our message but our message was aimed at the other young Jews at the convention.”

J Street urges Israel to halt settlement building until borders finalized
Pro-Israel lobby ‘profoundly disspointed’ by news of approval to build nearly 1,000 houses beyond Green Line. By Natasha MozgovayaTags: Israel newsEast JerusalemIsrael settlementsJoe BidenBenjamin NetanyahuThe pro-Israel lobby J Street issued a statement Monday criticizing Israel’s announcement that it had approved the construction of over 1,000 Jewish homes beyond the Green Line in Jerusalem.
J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami.

“J Street is profoundly disappointed that the Israeli government has chosen this moment to announce yet another large round of construction in East Jerusalem,” the statement said.
The news coincided with a trip to the United States by Netanyahu, which included a meeting with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. It was during a trip by Biden to Israel earlier in the year that a diplomatic row erupted between the allies over Israeli plans to build 1,600 new Jewish homes in another East Jerusalem neighborhood, Ramat Shlomo.
“The latest negotiations designed to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hang by a thread, and the United States is working tirelessly to find a way to keep hope for a diplomatic two-state resolution to the conflict alive,” the J Street statement said, adding that the news was even more disappointing “Netanyahu is in the U.S. this week, participating in important discussions with Vice President Biden and other American officials over how to resume peace talks and how to address the Iranian nuclear program.”
Earlier this year, Israel announced the construction of over 1,600 new houses for ultra-Orthodox families in East Jerusalem.
“I condemn the decision by the government of Israel to advance planning for new housing units in East Jerusalem,” Biden said, as the timing of the announcement was strongly criticized by both the left wing parties in Israel and the U.S. administration.
The American-Jewish lobby urged Israel to delay any further construction over the Green Line “until negotiations over the border have been finalized, in the interest of its long-term security and survival as a democracy and as the homeland of the Jewish people.”
Last month, over 120 leaders of Jewish organizations from around the world and important Jewish figures met in Jerusalem for a two-day conference for a meeting organized by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute to deliberate the impact of the peace process and possible concessions to be expected and demanded a role in determining the fate of Jerusalem and other key issues in Mideast peace talks.
Participants in the conference were former presidential adviser Elliott Abrams; Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations; former U.S. ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer; the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman; the senior vice president of Bna’i B’rith International, Daniel Mariaschin; Pierre Besnainou, a leading figure of the Jewish community in France; and others.