{"id":91418,"date":"2013-11-15T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=549bf54c845d0f374a356158c4f2b168"},"modified":"2013-11-15T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:27:15","slug":"dead-in-the-water-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/dead-in-the-water-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead in the Water Peace Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Call it the curse of Zionism. Traditional Jews deplore it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truetorahjews.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">True Torah Jews Against Zionism<\/span><\/a> (TTAZ) say it:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">advocates &#8220;a political and military end to the Jewish exile;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">fosters &#8220;pseudo-Judaism&#8221; based on secular nationalism;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">coercively seeks &#8220;armed materialism&#8221; in place of &#8220;a Divine and Torah centered understanding;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">endangers all Jews worldwide;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">wants to disassociate Jews and traditional Judaism from ideological Zionism; and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px;\">calls Israel a &#8220;Zionist State,&#8221; not a Jewish one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Jews and Arabs once coexisted peacefully. Zionism changed things. Believing it protects Jews is &#8220;probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the Jewish people,&#8221; TTAZ says.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;(H)atred of Jews and (claimed unique) Jewish suffering is the oxygen of the Zionist movement.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It needs hatred. It manufactures it. Inciting it is longstanding policy. So is manipulating it advantageously. It&#8217;s to justify Zionism&#8217;s existence.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It&#8217;s the enemy of Jews and non-Jews alike. It&#8217;s a curse. It&#8217;s a hugely destructive cancer system. It perpetuates myths. Reality exposes its dark side.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Calling Palestine &#8220;a land without people for a people without land&#8221; is a longstanding Big Lie. It&#8217;s right out a PR wizzard&#8217;s playbook.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Other notions turn truth on its head. Israel didn&#8217;t make the desert bloom. It&#8217;s not a democracy. It&#8217;s militantly polar opposite. It&#8217;s worse than apartheid South Africa.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Regional Arab states aren&#8217;t hostile. Israel&#8217;s only enemies are ones it invents. It needs pretexts to justify over-the-top viciousness.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It blames Palestinians and other victims for its crimes. It deplores peace. It thrives on violence and conflict.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Israel is its own worst enemy. It risks perishing on the sword it brandishes. It mindlessly pursues destructive policies. It makes more enemies than friends.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">America and Israel are the world&#8217;s two most hated countries. It&#8217;s for good reason. Hegemonic nations aren&#8217;t loved. They&#8217;re deplored.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They believe unchallenged dominance is the be-all-and-end-all. War is the strategy of choice.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Resource control is sought. So is turning ordinary people into serfs. Rule of law principles don&#8217;t matter. Democracy is a convenient illusion.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Human and civil rights are old-fashioned. Police state harshness is official policy. So is anything goes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Previous articles discussed so-called Israeli\/Palestinian peace talks. They&#8217;ve been stillborn on arrival for decades.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They represent the greatest hoax in modern times. They&#8217;re fake. They&#8217;re more sham than real.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They have no legitimacy whatever. Grand illusion masks Israeli\/Washington intolerance of peace. Both nations deplore it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Israel doesn&#8217;t negotiate. It&#8217;s all take and no give. It demands unconditional Palestinian surrender.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Most often it gets what it wants. Imagine talking peace while waging war. Imagine claiming one thing while doing another. Imagine repeated Big Lies.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Longstanding Israeli policy includes state-sponsored terror, militarized occupation, multiple daily community incursions, mass arrests, imprisonments, torture, targeted assassinations, land theft, bulldozed homes, ethnic cleansing, and slow-motion genocide.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Imagine all of the above and then some being longstanding Israeli policy. Imagine a nation based on conquest and dominance. Imagine one institutionalizing racism.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Imagine one considering Arabs subhuman. Imagine a bloody impasse with no end. Imagine blind destructiveness and hate.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Imagine suffocating an entire people out of existence. Imagine exploiting, persecuting, impoverishing and slaughtering them. Imagine fantasy substituting for reality.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">On November 13,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/13\/world\/meast\/mideast-peace-talks\/?hpt=wo_c2\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\"> CNN headlined<\/span><\/a> &#8220;Palestinian negotiating team resigns.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Palestinian UN mission spokesman Rabii Hantouli said:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;The team resigned due to the Israeli illegal practices, especially settlement activities.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Negotiator Mohammed Shtayyeh added:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Resigning was in response to &#8220;increasing settlement building and the absence of any hope of achieving results.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Abbas has not accepted our resignation.&#8221; Israel bears full &#8220;responsib(ility) for the failure of negotiations.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">According to chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;It is time for the international community and the Quartet members to stop treating Israel as a government above the laws of man and hold (it) accountable.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">An unnamed PLO official said talks are suspended in practice. Further ones aren&#8217;t scheduled.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Abbas said he&#8217;ll keep negotiating. &#8220;Either we can convince (the team) to return\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00a6or we form a new delegation,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He lost credibility long ago. So did Erakat. He&#8217;s a longstanding blowhard. He says one thing. He does another. He resigned many times before. He threatened to do it other times.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">In 1991, he was deputy head of Palestine&#8217;s Madrid Conference delegation. He was involved in follow-up talks.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He was chief Oslo negotiator. He and others involved betrayed their own people. He unconditionally surrendered to Israeli demands. Palestinians got nothing in return.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Two decades later, Israel&#8217;s settler population tripled. Erakat has no credibility. Al Jazeera&#8217;s 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/palestinepapers\/\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">Palestine Papers<\/span><\/a> exposed more duplicity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He accepted all East Jerusalem settlements except one. He abandoned diaspora Palestinians right of return beyond tokenism.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He agreed to numerous other Israeli demands. He collaborated against his own people. He did it secretly. He did it unapologetically.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Abbas was very much involved. Both men and others are traitors. They can&#8217;t be trusted. They&#8217;re on the wrong side of history.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Since Oslo, Palestinians got nothing in return for renouncing armed struggle, recognizing Israel&#8217;s right to exist, enforcing occupation harshness, letting settlements expand, and leaving major unresolved issues for later final status talks.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They include Palestinian self-determination, the right to return, the future of settlements, borders, water and other resource rights, and recognition of East Jerusalem as Palestine&#8217;s exclusive capital.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Expect sham peace talks to continue. Expect Israel to concede nothing. Expect occupation harshness to persist. Expect unlimited settlement expansions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/sjlendman.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/judaizing-palestine.html\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">previous article<\/span><\/a> discussed longstanding Israeli plans to Judaize Palestine. Netanyahu disingenuously told Housing Minister Uri Ariel to &#8220;reconsider&#8221; plans for 24,000 new units.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He said one thing. He meant another. A day later, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Diplomacy-and-Politics\/Netanyahu-vows-to-build-thousands-more-homes-in-settlements-331657\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">Jerusalem Post<\/span><\/a> headlined &#8220;Netanyahu vows to build &#8216;thousands more homes&#8217; in settlements.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">A day after allegedly announcing one thing, he said:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;In recent months, we built thousands of homes in Judea and Samaria, and in the coming months we plan to build thousands more.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;It was never easy, but we did it responsibly despite international pressure.&#8221; At the same time, he added:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;(T)here&#8217;s no point in creating friction with the international community. (T)here&#8217;s no point in wasting resources, energy and political capital on something that won&#8217;t have a real result. That hurts settlements.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Labor opposition leader Shelly Yacimovich expects unlimited settlement expansions while Netanyahu &#8220;pretend(s) to negotiate with the Palestinians.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Peace Now said expanding settlements during peace talks &#8220;empty (them) from any meaning and simply make (them) absurd.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">A Palestinian Foreign Ministry statement is less than meets the eye. It called Netanyahu&#8217;s statements &#8220;misleading. He makes statements to the media that the plans are frozen, but on the ground building goes on.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">They&#8217;ve gone on for decades. They accelerated during Abbas&#8217; tenure. He pretends to care. He quietly lets what demands strong opposition continue.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">His public statements or ones made for him have no credibility. He&#8217;s complicit with Israel&#8217;s worst policies. His security forces enforce them. He&#8217;s the enemy of all Palestinians. Why they put up with him, they&#8217;ll have to explain.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">A Final Comment<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Henry Siegman teaches Oriental and African studies at the University of London. He heads the US\/Middle East Project. It&#8217;s a Council on Foreign Relations initiative.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;s no friend of Palestine. He supports what&#8217;s good for America and Israel. He endorsed Kerry&#8217;s no peace\/peace process. At the same time, he strongly criticized Netanyahu.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">On November 12, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmep.us\/usmep\/2013\/11\/12\/netanyahu-is-destroying-kerrys-peace-process-and-the-state-of-israel\/\"><span style=\"color: #1255cc;\">headlined<\/span><\/a> &#8220;Netanyahu is destroying Kerry&#8217;s peace process &#8211; and the State of Israel,&#8221; saying:<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;(I)rreversible facts on the ground&#8221; prevent Kerry&#8217;s peace process from succeeding. (F)ailure is foreordained.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It isn&#8217;t &#8220;because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict uniquely defies solution.&#8221; It&#8217;s because Netanyahu&#8217;s &#8220;strategic goal,&#8221; like most previous Israeli leaders, &#8220;continues to be permanent control of all of Palestine.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;ll be remembered for having opposed all previous peace initiatives. Current talks perpetuate &#8220;the illusion&#8221; of his commitment to a two-state solution.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;s Judaizing Palestine. He&#8217;s committed to &#8220;driv(ing) the settlement project to its intended conclusion.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;s uncompromisingly hardline. He&#8217;s &#8220;determin(ed) never to allow an &#8216;independent, viable, sovereign&#8217; Palestinian state.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;It most certainly cannot happen within the framework of a peace process based on (a) lie (and) pretense that the US believes him.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He demands what no Palestinian leader could accept. He insists that Israel maintain total West Bank\/East Jerusalem control. He wants Palestine stripped of &#8220;every vestige of sovereignty.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">His intransigence reflects his intent to blame Palestinians for failure he&#8217;s &#8220;methodically orchestrating.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Ongoing talks are doomed. This time isn&#8217;t just &#8220;another setback in the long history of&#8221; failure.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Netanyahu seeks a Greater Israel. He&#8217;s making it &#8220;no longer recognizable. It&#8217;s more &#8220;anachronistic ethnocracy&#8221; than democracy.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">He&#8217;s creating &#8220;disaster.&#8221; He&#8217;s relying on military superiority to enforce policy. Palestinian resistance is certain to grow.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;(U)pheaval and suffering&#8221; will harm both sides. Anti-Israeli sentiment will increase. Millions of Palestinians won&#8217;t be denied. They deserve rights equal to Jews.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Netanyahu&#8217;s waging a losing battle. Pyrrhic victories mask longer term defeat. He&#8217;s blind to reality. So are most Israelis willing to put up with him.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">His new book is titled &#8220;Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px;\">http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Call it the curse of Zionism. Traditional Jews deplore it. 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