On Gaza Drivers, Rumours and Egypt’s Steel Wall

By Ramzy Baroud, source Those pesky taxi drivers of Gaza are always circulating rumours. One story that made the rounds during the first Palestinian uprising in 1987 claimed that an Arab army crossed the Sinai desert to save Palestinians from the daily killings and protracted state of siege which caused untold suffering for civilians. The [...]

International Protesters Beaten in Cairo: Organizers and death of a French citizen

International Protesters Beaten in Cairo: Organizers Al Manar 31/12/2009 Police punched and kicked international activists during scuffles in the Egyptian capital on Thursday which left one person with broken ribs, protest organizers said. “Members of the Gaza Freedom March are being forcibly detained in hotels around (Cairo) as well as violently forced into pens in [...]

Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010

By John Pilger, source December 30, 2009 – “Information Clearing House” – In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate called Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that “passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’.” Barack Obama [...]

Happy New Year Palestine, Happy new year humanity!

by Salim Nazzal, source When Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine great poet was asked in one of the most difficult period in Palestine history, what Palestinians can do now, his immediate answer was to grow up hope. For more than 70 years, Palestinians move from war to war, from occupation to occupation, from exile to exile, from [...]

Egypt further encaging Gaza

by Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada, 30 December 2009 (Click source to view rest of the pictures) As the one year anniversary of the 23-day Israeli massacre in Gaza passes, media attention is rightfully focused on the atrocities and war crimes committed by the Israeli military on the imprisoned population in Gaza. With two separate [...]

US military engineers supervise building of the wall of death and Italian organizations: Egypt equal to “Israel”

US military engineers supervise building of the wall of death CAIRO, (PIC)– A senior Egyptian engineer told the PIC on condition of anonymity that the wall is fully supervised by American military engineers, adding that the blueprints of the wall were prepared about six months ago and its construction started three months ago amid tight [...]

Internal Gaza security foils attempt to locate Shalit and “US Pressing Israel Not to Free Barghouti and Saadat”

Internal Gaza security foils attempt to locate Shalit 31/12/2009 GAZA, (PIC)– The internal security apparatus in the Gaza Strip has revealed that an attempt by the Israeli Shabak security to locate the whereabouts of Israeli captured soldier Gilad Shalit was foiled. The apparatus said that the scheme planned the abduction of one of the commanders [...]

IOF killed 1,594 Palestinians in 2009 and Life of Gazan baby at stake due to lack of baby milk

Tadamun: IOF killed 1,594 Palestinians in 2009 December 31, 2009 RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The international Tadamun (solidarity) institution for human rights has said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) had killed 1,594 Palestinians in 2009 including 473 children and 126 women. In a report released on Wednesday, Tadamun said that the IOF killed 1,460 citizens during [...]

Ignoring 1.5 Million Besieged Gazans, Egypt Authorities’ Main Concern Is Shalit!

by Hanan Awarekeh, al manar 30/12/2009 Forgetting or pretending to forget that there are over 11,000 Palestinian detainees in the Israeli prisons without mentioning that there are more than 1.5 million Gazans living in a big jail, Egyptian authorities seem to be concerned about one Israeli occupation soldier captured by the Palestinian resistance fighters! Egyptian [...]

The Horrors of Media Warfare

By Ali Jawad, source In recent years, policy and decision makers have given increasing attention to the importance of media coverage in the context of wars. Much as a result, we witness ever-more complex ‘media offensives’ in which, stakeholders are willing to go further than ever before in order to hoist their victory flags on [...]

Marchers to Gaza Gather in Cairo; Egypt to Allow 100 Persons into the Strip

Al Manar 30/12/2009 Protest leaders stranded in Cairo accepted an Egyptian offer on Tuesday to allow only 100 out of about 1,300 protesters into blockaded Gaza after the activists staged demonstrations and a hunger strike. The decision split delegates from more than 40 countries who came to Cairo planning to reach the Palestinian enclave, which [...]

UN: “Israel” bombed Gaza ‘back to the mud age’

December 30, 2009 Bethlehem – Ma’an – The UN relief agency UNRWA said on Tuesday that Gaza had been “bombed back, not to the Stone Age, but to the mud age,” because the agency was reduced to building houses out of mud due to Israel’s ban on construction materials entering the Strip. “The Israeli blockade [...]

IOF troops deliberately break the limbs of 3 Palestinian workers

December 30, 2009 BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Four Palestinian workers from the districts of Jenin and Tulkarem were beaten up by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near Walaja village, Bethlehem district, on Tuesday. Local sources said that the workmen were trying to enter Palestine occupied in 1948 through this village since the separation wall had closed all entrances [...]

They Came on a Cold December Day: Gaza in Crisis

By SONJA KARKAR, counter punch They came one cold December day. Not fearless warriors but fearsome hoardes hell-bent on destruction of the genocidal kind that leaves no room for regeneration. That was one year ago in Gaza. The attack shocked a complacent world into finally seeing Israel’s merciless ferocity against the Palestinians already hounded, herded [...]

An International Crime Called Gaza

by Elias Akleh, PTT A fully pre-meditated international crime of genocide has been taking place during the last 62 years in the heart of the Arab World. The victims are the Palestinian people especially those in the Gaza Strip. The assassin is the worst ever terrorist group deceptively called the Israeli Defense Forces under the [...]