The pitfalls of Palestinian national consciousness

by Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada, 25 August 2009 The sixth congress of the Fatah movement, held in Bethlehem earlier this month, gave us a front row seat to the closing act of an important period of Palestinian nationalism. True, the conference was held on Palestinian soil, but, ironically, under the watchful eye of Israeli [...]

How settlements in the West Bank are creating a new reality, brick by brick

Continuing our series of exclusive reports, we look at how Israel’s growing infrastructure in the region threatens not just the form but the very possibility of a future Palestinian state by Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem, guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 August 2009 There is a hilltop east of Jerusalem with striking views down into Jericho, across the [...]

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Swedish Daily Publishes 2nd Article on ‘Israeli Army Organ Harvesting’

First article: Our Sons Plundered for Their Organs Swedish Daily Publishes 2nd Article on ‘Israeli Army Organ Harvesting’ by Hanan Awarekeh, almanar 24/08/2009 Despite Israel’s harsh protests, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published a second article accusing the Israeli occupation army of harvesting Palestinian organs. In the article, published Sunday, Oisín Cantwell and Urban Andersson report from [...]

Radioactive US weapons taking toll in Iraq

Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Press TV Years after the US attacks on Iraq, people in the Persian Gulf state are suffering form the consequences of radioactive contamination caused by the use of depleted uranium. Iraq’s Environment Minister, Narmin Othman Hasan, said Monday that depleted Uranium (DU) weapons used by US-led troops against Iraq during the1991 [...]

Settlers Push Palestinians to Sleep on the Street

By Mel Frykberg EAST JERUSALEM, Aug 24 (IPS) – Israel’s continued policy of Judaising East Jerusalem in order to establish facts on the ground before the future of that part of the city is decided, has left dozens of Palestinians homeless and sleeping on the streets. Hundreds more are at risk, amidst allegations of document [...]

Abbas Failed To Do the Honorable Thing

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan, source Nations and organizations reward success. They elect and re-elect leaders who deliver and advance the interests of their constituency and they terminate the tenure of the failure, the incompetent and the corrupt. The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had to step down when he was investigated for alleged corruption, and [...]

American evangelicals support of “Israel” while religious wars are breaking out in it

The ultimate hypocrisy that many Americans and Israelis show is when they criticize the religious fanaticism of others. Moreover, it is unthinkable to them to find a Muslim who follows his/her religion properly, they deem that a threat to the whole of civilization. Yet, the truth shows they are the religious fanatics and want the [...]

The battle for the mosque at Beersheba

by Jonathan Cook August 22. 2009 The walls have been freshly plastered and painted white, the sculpted stone window frames are filled with frosted glass and the builders are hanging spotlights from the ceiling. The municipality of Beersheva, the capital of southern Israel, is racing to put the finishing touches to repairs of the city’s [...]

Zionist group holds a meeting to ‘counter’ the Arabs in the Negev

by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC August 22, 2009 The Arabs48 news Website reported that a Zionist organization calling itself Ha-Shomer Ha-Hadash (The New Guard), held a meeting on Thursday to ‘counter’ what they described as ‘the Arab embezzling of Israeli lands in the Negev and the Galilee”. The group disregarded the fact that the lands [...]

“Ramadan Hard Without Them”

IslamOnline.net & News Agencies August 23, 2009 GAZA CITY — Almaza Samuni used to anxiously await the holy fasting month of Ramadan; her favorite time of the year. But this year Ramadan is different. “I’m sad because my mother is not around to make the meals for breaking the fast,” the orphaned child told Agence [...]

No sign of voters on election day in Afghanistan despite official claims

by Tom Coghlan, TheTimes Kabul, August 22, 2009 At 8am, an hour after the Afghanistan’s presidential polls opened, the polling station at the Haji Janat Gul High School, a dusty collection half-finished buildings designated for use by Kuchi nomads, was entirely empty of voters. But the apparent lack of voter activity was deceptive, insisted election [...]

‘Af-Pak ‘ mission allows Blackwater to kill more

Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Press TV The Obama administration is still using Blackwater in Afghanistan-Pakistan drone killings The Obama administration has retained services of the notorious Blackwater guards to carry out drone attacks in Afghanistan, a new report reveals. Despite controversial records of indiscriminate civilian killings in Iraq during the Bush administration, the shadowy US-based [...]

New US plan to “resolve conflict in Middle East” asks Palestinians to sanction occupation

August 21, 2009 Ramallah / PNN – A new “plan for peace” is coming out of Washington that many consider to be disturbing at best. It includes keeping major Israeli settlement blocs in the West Bank. The plan keeps the Israelis as occupiers, but with a few twists like in Oslo, such as political prisoners [...]

Farwana: “All facts on the ground prove Swedish report correct”

by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC August 21, 2009 Former Palestinian detainee, researcher Abdul-Nasser Farwana, stated that all facts on the ground, since decades, prove that the Israeli occupation executed Palestinian detainees after they surrendered and refused to hand their bodies to their families. Hundreds of bodies were transferred to the families days, months or even [...]