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Monthly Archives: November 2009

“Our Sons are not terrorists, the real terrorists are the Zionist child-killers”

Families of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli Jails: “Our Sons are not terrorists, the real terrorists are the Zionist child-killers” From Khalid Amayreh in al-Khalil, Middle East Monitor, November 29, 2009 Abu Yasser is an elderly Palestinian farmer living in the southern part of the West Bank. He keeps his eyes glued to Al-Jazeera Television channel [...]

“Israel’s” Arab Women Workers Need Not Apply

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth, source Israel’s finance minister was accused last week of trying to deflect attention from discriminatory policies keeping many of the country’s Arab families in poverty by blaming their economic troubles on what he described as Arab society’s opposition to women working. A recent report from Israel’s National Insurance Institute showed [...]

Hezbollah New Manifesto: We Want Strong, United Lebanon

by Hussein Assi, Al Manar 30/11/2009 Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah announced on Monday the Resistance party’s new political document that was approved during the party’s General Conference that lasted for months. Sayyed Nasrallah held a press conference through a giant screen at al-Jinan hall on the airport road to declare the new political [...]

UN Partition of Palestine

by Mazin Qumsiyeh PhD, Australians for Palestine, 29 November 2009 The UN General assembly voted 29 November 1947 to recommend partition of Palestine to give the Zionist movement control over 55% of Palestine and leave the Palestinians with 45% of Palestine. The Palestinian natives were then more than 2/3rd of the population and owned 93% [...]

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Plight

By Bianca Zammit* and Fadi Skaik**, November 29, 2009, source There are currently approximately 11,000 Palestinian prisoners being held captive in Israeli jails across Israel. Whilst their imprisonment is of itself in direct contravention of international law, the whole arrest, judiciary and imprisonment process compromises their basic human rights. In Gaza, the families of prisoners [...]

Muslim, Christian Authorities Slam Swiss Referendum to Ban Minarets

What is most disturbing about this is the revisiting of Europeans back to their bigoted ideas that existed but flared up in certain moments of time. Fascism and Nazism were just two examples. Every society has its racists and bigots but when it comes to take a good chunk of society then that is an [...]

Swiss Daily: “Israel” Eavesdropped on UN Sessions over Hariri’s Assassination

Darn Zionists can’t trust them pfft (not a shocker), just ask the Americans. I think they pretty much spy on everyone and possibly themselves maybe out of paranoia or because they have done so much heinous crimes they want to know if others are on to them. Al Manar 30/11/2009 A Swiss newspaper said that [...]

Salehi: 10 new Iran sites, reaction to P5+1 move

Salehi: 10 new Iran sites, reaction to P5+1 move Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Press TV After Iran announced its plan to construct ten new enrichment plants, a senior nuclear official says the decision is a strong response to a new resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog. “We had no plan to build many nuclear sites [...]

Israeli War Criminal Welcomed in Australia

By Sonja Karkar, source The news that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was in Australia and was welcomed by the honourable members of our parliament came as somewhat of a shock. It is one thing to have allowed a man on corruption charges as well as facing war crimes indictments into Australia at all; [...]

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

This may sound cynical but this day is like putting a bandage on a gunshot wound and expecting it to heal by itself. We are talking about people who have suffered for decades and an enormous amount of neglect and collaboration with the Zionists came from the UN itself. What is the purpose of the [...]

Behind the Swiss minaret vote

By Alan Fisher in Bern, al Jazeera Down in the little town of Waggen Bei Olten, about a 30 minute drive from the Swiss capital of Bern sits a rare landmark. In this unremarkable town next to the railway tracks, stands one of only four mosques in Switzerland with a minaret. It’s been there for [...]

Ahmad: The Palestinian people reject partition today as they did 62 years ago

29/11/2009 GAZA, (PIC)– The head of Hamas’s refugee department, Husam Ahmad, said that the conspiracy in 1947 which lead to the adoption of the partition resolution (181) aimed to legitimise the Balfour declaration. In a press statement on Sunday Ahmad said that 62 years on this conspiracy has not stopped, as those international parties behind [...]

IOF troops arrest a disabled Palestinian boy on his way to hospital

29/11/2009 KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– IOF troops arrested a 19-year-old disabled Palestinian boy Ahmad Samir Asfour, from the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on his way to a hospital in Jerusalem, according to local sources. The family of the Palestinian captive said, in a statement it distributed through the Prisoners’ Studies Centre, that their [...]

Likudniks Slam Obama’s Regime as Anti-Semitic

Ah the Israelis are using their best weapon “anti-Semitism”. Not sure how the meek request of the supposedly most powerful man in the World, Obama,to stop land theft has to do with being some type of racist other than saying no to the rabid killing thieves. Though we all know that no US admin. really [...]

Settlers tried to occupy the home of Hajja al-Kurd in Jerusalem

29/11/2009 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A number of extremist Jewish settlers tried to occupy the home of Hajja Rifqa al-Kurd in Sheikh Jarrah suburb in occupied Jerusalem a couple of days ago, local sources revealed on Saturday. “At around 2:00 am I heard some noise near my brother’s house which has been closed for the past [...]

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