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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Abbas’s forces murder resistance Chief in Qalqilia

I can never understand treason, what makes a person kill his own flesh and blood for the sake of their enemy? Abbas and his US trained killers will fall as the collaborators before them. by Anwar Kheir in the northern West Bank, [ 31/05/2009] QALQILIA, (PIC)– American-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) forces in the northern West [...]

Israeli spies crushed in Lebanon -cartoons

Israelis Begin Biggest Drill: ‘Turning Point 3′

“Israel” begins major drill, preparing for regional war, Press TV Israel has launched its largest-ever military exercise to test its capabilities against potential missile attacks, bombings and riots. Over the past few months, Israel has been busy making plans for fresh confrontation in the Middle East. The drill is widely believed to be in line [...]

Toothless counsel

Opposition forces have been reduced by Arab regimes to servile advice givers, neglecting the aspirations of the people whose interests they exist to better defend, writes Azmi Bishara, source Some Arab opposition forces criticise this regime or that for pursuing policies that run counter to its own interests. On what grounds does the opposition presume [...]

Things you don’t want to hear if you have a headache

I woke up today with a mean headache, I don’t feel sick nor do I regularly have these kinds of headaches. Maybe the reason was the insistent banging of the plumber changing some pipes and other things in our house. It is not a way you want to wake up especially if you are not [...]

“Israel”: Prussia on the Mediterranean?

by Roane Carey, May 28, 2009, source It is an assumption almost universally acknowledged among the liberal American intelligentsia that while the Israeli occupation is repressive and abhorrent, Israel itself is an open, fully democratic state with a lively, argumentative and very free press. Perish the thought. After spending three months in Israel on a [...]

Threat of the ‘thought police’ alarms “Israel’s” Arab minority

Freedom to oppose Israel’s right to exist among acts that right-wing politicians are attempting to outlaw By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem, The independent Saturday, 30 May 2009 Israeli Arab leaders have called an emergency meeting today to discuss their growing alarm over a series of “racist and fascist” bills being promoted by right-wing members of [...]

Palestine was, is and will always be an Arab country-cartoon

“Israel” Scared of Opposition Victory: Lebanese Elections Fateful

Al manar, 28/05/2009 “The Lebanese upcoming elections are fateful because it will determine the identity of the side that will dominate and therefore, control the country.” The previous quote is not for one of the Lebanese candidates for the upcoming elections. It is also not a quote for a Lebanese official urging his supporters to [...]

Accept us as a racist, terrorist state or suffer our wrath…

“Israel” has always been like that nothing really is changing in its behavior but the change is in the rhetoric. The time has come to generate phase 3 of their old plan. I heard an analyst say the first phase was the first occupation of Palestine in 1948, the second phase was after 1967 war [...]

“Israel’s”: “Existential Threats”

by Dina Jadallah Global Research, May 28, 2009 The last few days have witnessed an inflection point in the history of Israel. It has effectively shed its democratic veneer and blatantly embraced its racist, fascist and colonialist ideology. I am referring to the passage of three bills in the Knesset. One would require loyalty oaths [...]

Biden; A Wolf in a Sheep Clothing

By Dr. Elias Akleh, source The surprise quick visit of the American Vice President Joe Biden to Lebanon last Friday May 22 marked the 14th visit by an American official during the last six months. The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton preceded Biden’s visit with her own brief stop in Beirut last month. This [...]

Der Spiegel Report exposed for the lie it is, it is a copy of a previous lie 6 months earlier

We have a saying al kizeb hablu aseer (lying has a short rope, meaning it is quickly exposed) Der Spiegel Report Published on Syriatruth.Net 6 Months Ago by Hanan Awarekeh, almanar 26/05/2009 The report published by the German magazine Der Spiegel days ago concerning an alleged “involvement” of Hezbollah in the assassination of former Lebanese [...]

President with a mission? Biblical Prophesy and the Iraq War: Bush, God, Iraq and Gog

By CLIVE HAMILTON, counter punch The revelation this month in GQ magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime memos with quotations from the Bible prompts a question. Why did he believe he could influence President Bush by that means? The answer may lie in an alarming story about George Bush’s Christian millenarian [...]

Finally! Hope Convoy finally makes it into Gaza

by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Tuesday May 26, 2009 The European Hope Convoy carrying aid to Gaza, managed to enter the Gaza Strip, on Monday evening, via the Rafah border terminal , after reaching an agreement with the Egyptian Authorities who initially refused to allow the aid convoy into the coastal region. Rami [...]

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