US Audacity of Hope Falters

By Ramzy Baroud, source The US has decided to be ‘flexible’ regarding its once touted call for a total Israeli freeze on the expansion of its occupied territories’ settlements, all illegal under international law. A senior official spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity on August 27. “It was more important that the scope of [...]

Israeli Bodysnatchers

Story Puts Israeli Government in Frenzied Denial Mode By BOUTHAINA SHAABAN, counter punch The investigative report written by Swedish journalist Donald Boström and published in Sweden’s largest newspaper Aftonbladet about Israeli occupation forces killing Palestinians with the objective of stealing their organs has raised a political and media storm in Israel, disclosing up a horrible [...]

Message to President Obama and Americans with a Conscience

By Eileen Fleming, source ‘There comes a time comes when silence is betrayal…History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, [...]

Organ Donation and Theft in Contemporary Jewish Folklore

by Gilad Atzmon, Palestinian think tank Donation According to Larry David In his highly acclaimed TV satire ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’, LA screen writer and comedian Larry David engages courageously with subjects to do with American Jewish identity. In his fifth season (2005) David tackles the subject of organ donation (1). Performing an American eccentric and [...]

Israeli religious schools found to discriminate based on race

by Saed Bannoura, source August 30, 2009 The Israeli Education Ministry announced Sunday that it would cut funding to three state-funded religious schools because they refused to enroll Ethiopian Jews simply because they were black. The state had tried to compromise with the schools, saying that they only had to allow a few Ethiopian Jewish [...]

Iraqi government plays with fire

Why is the Iraqi government accusing Syria of crimes with no evidence except “confessions”? We all know about forced confessions or fabricated ones. Syria has been targeted by such lies before and the truth was revealed so why is Iraq which faces to lose a lot if it gets on Syria’s bad side doing this? [...]

Blackwater trains mercenaries in Philippines

Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Press TV The notorious US private security contractor, formerly known as Blackwater, uses a Philippines location to train mercenaries for Iraq and Afghanistan operations. The company has been lent a former US naval base, northwest of the Manila Bay, “where they can train up to one thousand private military contractors,” Washington-based [...]

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Female ex-detainee reveals suffering of her prison mates in Hasharon

NABLUS, (PIC)– Ex-detainee Sabrin Abu Amara, recently released from Hasharon prison, said that the female prisoners in this jail are living in harsh incarceration conditions in the holy month of Ramadan. Abu Amara told the prisoners’ center for studies that the tension between the prisoners and the prison administration in Hasharon escalated after they prevented [...]

‘Baghdad bombers were recently freed by the US’

How interesting? Did they bother to ask the Americans why were they released? Was there a trial by the Americans there or it is part of Iraqi sovereignty to do that? These bombings have caused a problem between Syria and Iraq, it was better for the Iraqi officials to look closer home than cause problems [...]

Abbas’s election scare

By Khalid Amayreh, source Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, whose term in office had expired in January 2009, has been vowing to organize general elections in January 2010, giving the impression that these elections will be a magical cure for the many problems facing the Palestinian people and their enduring just cause. The call [...]

In a Rotten State

By Eva Bartlett GAZA CITY, Aug 29 (IPS) – Abu Abed can’t make a profit, and although 54 years old, he still has not married. “I can’t pay my rent, I can’t afford a wedding.” His shop, roughly 3m by 4m, costs him more than 3,500 dollars a year in rent alone. His wares are [...]

History of Israeli Organ Harvesting

The New “Blood Libel”? Israeli Organ Harvesting By ALISON WEIR, counter punch Last week Sweden’s largest daily newspaper published an article containing shocking material: testimony and circumstantial evidence indicating that Israelis may have been harvesting internal organs from Palestinian prisoners without consent for many years. Worse yet, some of the information reported in the article [...]

Is the PLO playing with the Palestinian national cause?

August 27, 2009, source Despite rhetorical denials, the PLO and Palestinian Authority (PA), which Fatah constitutes the backbone of both, are moving steadily toward adopting positions that would effectively compromise inalienable Palestinian rights and might even lead to the liquidation of the Palestinian cause. The reported PLO propensity to “deal positively” with dubious “peace plans” [...]

‘United’ Jerusalem Has Two Faces

By Mel Frykberg EAST JERUSALEM, Aug 28 (IPS) – Israel says “united” Jerusalem will be the eternal capital of the Jewish state. However, a quick walk across the Green Line which marks the international border dividing the two parts of the city reveals a city very much divided. Most of West Jerusalem is clean, well [...]