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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Time to stop US barbarism in Middle East and Afghanistan

By PAUL J. BALLES, Source Paul J. Balles argues that the time has come “to stop making excuses for American military barbarism abroad” and “to stop creating terrorists by US terrorism in the Middle East”. Reuters reports “Ninety-three children and 25 adult women are among a list of 140 names of Afghans who villagers say [...]

May 17 2009, 26 Years on Foiling Humiliating Agreement with “Israel”

By Mohamad Shmaysani, al manar 17/05/2009 In 1983, Lebanon was recovering from a fierce Israeli war launched under the pretext of crushing the Palestinian resistance. That same year, Lebanon nearly became the second Arab state to sign a peace deal with the Israeli entity, or did it? On the 17th of may [1983], then Lebanese [...]

Zionist group planning to build homes on top of demolished Palestinian homes in Jerusalem

Saturday May 16, 2009  by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Hatim Abdul-Qader, Jerusalem Affairs advisor to the Palestinian Prime Minister, stated that the Ateret Cohanim Zionist group is planning, in collaboration with the Jerusalem Municipality, to build homes for Jewish settlers on top of Palestinians homes demolished by the municipality. The planned construction would [...]

Right to return through resistance

West Bank Becomes Waste Land

By Mel Frykberg* RAMALLAH, May 15 (IPS/IFEJ) – Israel has found a cheap and easy way to get rid of its waste, much of it hazardous: dump it into the West Bank. A few Palestinians can be bought, the rest are in no position to complain. “Israel has been dumping waste, including hazardous and toxic [...]

Rumsfeld’s renegade unit blamed for Afghan deaths

Special Forces group implicated in three incidents that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians / MarSOC was set up by former defence secretary despite opposition from within the Marine Corps By Jerome Starkey in Kabul, The Independent Saturday, 16 May 2009 A single American Special Forces group was behind at least three of [...]

McChrystal was Cheney’s chief assassin

It keeps getting better…pfft! Related news: Cheney killed Hariri? American journalist Wayne Madsen says so… Fri, 15 May, Press TV Seymour Hersh says that Dick Cheney headed a secret assassination wing and the head of the wing has just been named as the new commander in Afghanistan. In an interview with GulfNews on May 12, [...]

The subversion of liberation

When leaders in struggle confuse themselves with recognition of the rights of the people they claim to defend, everyone suffers, including the national cause, writes Azmi Bishara , Al Ahram Weekly The Scottish philosophers of the Enlightenment, from Ferguson through Adam Smith, taught us that such emotions as the yearning for recognition and affection from [...]

61 Years of On-Going Nakba: the Old Still Live through Us and the Young Never Forgot (cultural theft by Israelis)

By Reham Alhelsi, Palestinian think tank On 18/07/1948 David Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary: We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return…. The old will die and the young will forget.” (1) Today, 61 years after the Nakba of 1948 and despite the on-going Zionist terror and ethnic cleansing, we [...]

Nakba Day…”They Killed Anyone They Saw”

by Al Jazeera Nakba Day…”They Killed Anyone They Saw” By Khalid Amayreh, IOL Correspondent OCCUPIED WEST BANK — Mohammed al-Saghir Abu Sharar was 37 when the Hagana and other Jewish terrorist gangs attacked al-Dawayema, a village located 18 kilometers northwest of Al-Khalil (Hebron) in 1948. “When they came they started killing the civilian population en [...]

[BAPD] Palestine: Is the cause alive and well?

Blog About Palestine Day What is it like to live under occupation? When the Israelis invaded the second Arab capital, Beirut after Jerusalem, in 1982 I was about a year old. I don’t remember anything about that day or the devastation that occurred because of it. I was told I used to run away from [...]

Covering up “Israel’s” Gaza crimes with UN help

by Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 13 May 2009 In my last article, I considered how UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon might handle the inquiry into Israeli attacks on UN facilities in the occupied Gaza Strip last winter. I hoped for the best but feared the worst given press reports that Ban had been [...]

“Israel” Expanding ‘Beautifully’ In Jerusalem

By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, May 14 (IPS) – Even as Pope Benedict XVI tries his best during his current Holy Land visit to pay reverence to the attachment of all three monotheistic faiths to Jerusalem, on the ground a less lofty imprint is already furthering Israeli control over the Holy City in [...]

Spiritual journey cannot help but have political overtones

by Jonathan Cook, The National May 14. 2009 NAZARETH// Pope Benedict XVI upset the schedule on his first day in Israel by leaving an interfaith meeting in Jerusalem early on Monday night after a leading Muslim cleric called on him to condemn the “slaughter” of women and children in the recent assault on Gaza. The [...]

List of 140 Afghan dead includes 93 children

This disregard for human life by the coalition is beyond despicable, one death is enough! They drive a person mad with their excuses and trying to wiggle out of their atrocious acts. News I added the other day about this attack List of 140 Afghan dead includes 93 children Wed May 13, 2009 By Hamid [...]

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