“Israel” To Demolish 11 Homes, Cooperative Society and A Clinic In Hebron

by Saed Bannoura, IMEMC, January 27, 2010 The Israeli Authorities decided to demolish eleven Palestinian homes, a Cooperative Society and a Clinic in the Al Baq’a area, and in Ithna town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Local sources in Ithna reported that the army handed seven orders for demolition of their homes [...]

Israelis impose “financial punishments” on Palestinian prisoners!

This is one of these things when you hear about makes you think, no way! This can’t be true! Even if you got the most sadistic psychopathic serial killer on the planet he might not think of this way to torture and hurt people especially people under occupation but yet the Israelis can’t be compared [...]

“Israel” plans to repatriate ‘lost Jewish tribe’ in India

by Jonathan Cook, source January 27. 2010 Nazareth // The Israeli government is reported to have quietly approved the fast-track immigration of 7,000 members of a supposedly “lost Jewish” tribe, known as the Bnei Menashe, currently living in a remote area of India. Under the plan, the “lost Jews” would be brought to Israel over [...]

Pray the PA Way or Face Arrest

By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Jan 27, 2010 (IPS) – The Palestinian Authority (PA) is using West Bank mosques as a new battleground in its political offensive against its opponents within Hamas as well as critics from its own Fatah party. Earlier this month, PA security forces raided several mosques in Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron before [...]

Livni, Barak ‘Wanted for War Crimes’ in Poland

Al Manar 27/01/2010 Israeli leaders are still wanted in Europe, but not in a positive way: Knesset members visiting Poland for ceremonies marking International Holocaust Day were surprised to see ads against Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Opposition Chairwoman Tzipi Livni in the city of Krakow on Tuesday evening. Posters hung not far from [...]

Barak, Mubarak Talks to Focus on Coaxing Abbas to Negotiating Table

Al Manar 27/01/2010 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak was at Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The visit was expected to be dedicated mainly to efforts to renew talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, negotiations for the release of captive occupation soldier Gilad Shalit and security cooperation between Israel [...]

Women struggle in Haiti aftermath: video

While aid distribution in the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake has improved, many are still fighting to survive and some of the most vulnerable are pregnant women. Haiti already had the worst maternal mortality rate in the Western hemisphere and now, with the country’s hospitals in ruins, pregnant women face even more dangers. Al Jazeera’s [...]

UN removes Taliban officials from blacklist

Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Press TV The United Nations has removed five former Taliban officials from its blacklist as part of reconciliation efforts in war-weary Afghanistan. The de-listing, which came on Wednesday, was approved by a special Security Council committee. The UN said in a statement that the five Afghan nationals would no longer be [...]

86 Muslim scholars issue fatwa against Egypt’s steel wall

26/01/2010 CAIRO, (PIC)– 86 Muslim scholars on Monday issued a fatwa prohibiting the closure of the Rafah border crossing and the building of Egypt’s steel wall, stressing that the fatwa (religious edict) issued by Al-Azhar scholars regarding the wall is incorrect and religiously invalid. In a statement signed by them, the scholars said that Egypt’s [...]

Haiti Hypocrisy Hides Another War Crime in Gaza

By Tammy Obeidallah, source The human catastrophe gripping Haiti since a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated that nation on January 12 rightfully dominated nearly every newscast for a week. With devastation of such unimaginable proportions, there are the riveting stories of despair and courage, along with a relatively new and hideous phenomenon: politicization of the disaster and [...]

Agents of Imperial Terror: Aggression and the Goldstone Report

By Jennifer Loewenstein – Madison, WI, source At the Nuremburg Tribunal in 1945 ‘Aggression’ was defined as ‘the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.’ Chief Counsel for the United States at Nuremburg, Justice Robert Jackson, defined the aggressor as the [...]

“Israel’s” PR exploitation of Haiti aid

by Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada Despite logistical problems, the 12 January earthquake in Haiti has seen much of the “international community” pull together to provide food, doctors and other emergency aid for the already poverty-stricken country. But the disaster has also provided apologists for the State of Israel’s human rights abuses an opportunity to [...]

Lebanon, Middle East Reject AIPAC’s H.R. 2278

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut, source It is being reported in Beirut this morning that at exactly 3 a.m. Beirut time, a supporter of the National Lebanese Resistance led by Hezbollah, on duty above the Mediterranean coastal town of Saadyat, between Damour and Saida was watching the skies of over Beirut for signs of Israeli [...]

Wanted: Tony Blair for war crimes. Arrest him and claim your reward

Chilcot and the courts won’t do it, so it is up to us to show that we won’t let an illegal act of mass murder go unpunished by George Monbiot, guardian.co.uk, Monday 25 January 2010 The only question that counts is the one that the Chilcot inquiry won’t address: was the war with Iraq illegal? [...]

Blockade threatens students’ future in Gaza

Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Press TV Many students in the Gaza Strip aspire to a higher education abroad but the Israeli-Egyptian blockade deprives them of setting out on their journey. Hundreds of Gaza graduates receive scholarship to attend universities abroad, but they are trapped in the impoverished coastal enclave. They are going to lose their [...]