WTF! Baseball and Israeli colonialism in the same news?

According to Huffington Post, some news is so big it needs its own page, and on matters relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel is now featured in its own foreign policy page. Other foreign countries, like Afganistan and Iran, of course, are also featured, but given that non-coverage or silence has been the preferred pro-Israel mode in mainstream American media, this trend may suggest another breakdown in the censorship that has prevailed in the US, keeping the US public ignorant of the reality. The only downside is that Huffington Post, albeit attracting a million or so visitors daily, resides in the blogosphere and is not part of our mainstream news media. Nonetheless....

You can learn quite a bit about the crap that is going on in the Middle East by getting feed from organizations like B'Tselem. B'Tselem is the Israeli information center for human rights in the occupied territories, meaning the occupied Palestinian territories. B'Tselem, more than any other organization, has for years kept abreast of developments during Israel's continuing colonization of the remainder of original Palestine.

Under the right wing Likud government today, that colonization continues undeterred, right in the face of Obama's Cairo speech. Who does he think he is? A US president? Look at what happened to Bush's Road Map and the Bush Initiative. Israel eats such proposals for breakfast.

Today, B'Tselem alerted the US about a piece of legislation going through Congress intended to relieve Israel and its perpetrators of any war crimes charges in its massacre of Palestinians in Gaza late last year, i.e., rejection of the Goldstone Report.

This announcement from AlterNet.Org carries a plea from the International Rescue Committee:

Right now, thousands of the world's children suffer abuse and exploitation because they do not have the same basic human rights most adults have. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child seeks to protect children by defining them as human beings and not property. Only two countries have failed to declare this commitment to protect the world's children: Somalia and the United States.

....and Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian physician, on The Daily Show this Wednesday, Oct 28th.

Anna in Palestine is Anna Baltzer, a Jewish American peace activist, granddaughter of Holocaust victims, and Fullbright scholar, who since 2003 has dedicated her life to peace activism in the Middle East, specifically, the plight of the Palestinian people. Dr. Barghouti, who finished 2nd behind Abbas in the 2005 Palestinian presidential elections, is founder of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Workers.