Bethlehem: General strike over heritage sites

February 23, 2010 Bethlehem – Ma’an – The committee of Palestinian factions in Bethlehem declared a general strike on Tuesday in Bethlehem governorate in protest of Israel’s claim on sites in Bethlehem and Hebron as “heritage sites.” The factions urged schools, institutions, and shops to participate in the strike. The committee also called on Palestinians [...]

Iran to reveal evidence of Jundallah ties with US

Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Press TV Iran says it has irrefutable evidence confirming that terrorist ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi had been aided and abetted by the US government before his arrest. The leader of the Jundallah terrorist group was on a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Kyrgyzstan when he was tracked down by Iranian [...]

Open Letter to Obama’s Envoy to the OIC: The US Has to Repair a Long History of Mistrust

by Khalid Amayreh, IOL Dear brother Hussein, like many Muslims around the globe, I am glad that President Obama has appointed you as his Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Needless to say, the repair of American-Muslim relations require, first and foremost, honesty, integrity, and good will — characters I am sure [...]

Israeli Environmental Terrorism in the Holy Land

By Tammy Obeidallah, source Israelis have duped much of the Jewish and Christian religious communities into accepting their claim to Palestine is based on a belief that the land is holy—that their spiritual and emotional connection to this land reaches across millennia. Yet through the willful decimation of natural resources along with its native inhabitants, [...]

Hamas slams PA for selling real estate in J’lem to Israelis and new plans for Jerusalem-area settlement

Hamas slams PA for selling real estate in J’lem to Israelis 22/02/2010 GAZA, (PIC)– The Movement of Hamas on Monday strongly denounced the Palestinian Authority (PA) for allowing some of its officials to sell Palestinian real estate in occupied Jerusalem to Israelis as treason against the Palestinian people. Spokesman Fawzi Barhoum added that this treasonable [...]

Harvard Fellow calls for genocidal measure to curb Palestinian births

Report, The Electronic Intifada A fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Martin Kramer, has called for “the West” to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide. Kramer, who is also a fellow at the influential Washington [...]

Israeli troops attack Sunday Mass with tear gas in Beit Sahour

by Ghassan Bannoura, February 22, 2010, source Israeli troops fired tear gas and concussion grenades on Sunday midday at a Mass held by residents of Beit Sahour, a city in the southern West Bank. Residents from Beit Sahour, along with international supporters, gathered at the evacuated Israeli military base of Ush Ghrab east of the [...]

Iran arrests Jundallah ringleader, Rigi who has links with CIA, Mossad

Iran arrests Jundallah ringleader, Rigi Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Press TV Abdolmalek Rigi, ringleader of the Pakistan-based terrorist group of Jundallah, was captured in an operation on Tuesday. Reports say Rigi was captured on a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan. Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar told reporters that Rigi was arrested outside the country as [...]

New suspects in Dubai terror operation identified

Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Press TV Dubai police have identified four more suspects, carrying British and Irish passports, in the terror operation against Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh last month. “The UAE has identified two British suspects holding British travel documents, and as part of the ongoing investigation has shared the information with the British government,” [...]

Opposition Grows Against Egypt-Gaza Barrier

By Adam Morrow and Khaled al-Omrani CAIRO, Feb 22, 2010 (IPS) – Activists and opposition groups are stepping up pressure on the Egyptian government to stop constructing a barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip. Officials say the barrier will prevent cross-border smuggling, but critics say it will seal the fate of the people [...]

Mossad’s Murderous Reach: The Larger Political Issues

By James Petras, source On January 19 Israel’s international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake photos and signatures, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh. The evidence is overwhelming: The Dubai police presentation [...]

“Israel’s” new ‘attack on freedom of speech’

by Jonathan Cook, February 22, 2010, source NAZARETH // The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a “McCarthyite” campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago, critics say. In a sign of the growing backlash against the [...]

Pal. Protest Israeli Sites Plan, Decision Amount to “Declaration of War”

by Batoul Wehbe, Al Manar 22/02/2010 Israel has announced it will add two sites in the occupied West Bank to its “national heritage list”, prompting an angry reaction from Palestinians and left-wing Israeli politicians. Palestinians clashed Monday with Israeli occupation troops in the West Bank town of Hebron. Dozens of youths hurled rocks at an [...]

EU Strongly Condemns Use of European Passports in Mabhouh’s Killing in Dubai

Al Manar 22/02/2010 EU foreign ministers said Monday they “strongly condemn” the use of “fraudulent European passports” by the suspected killers of a Hamas commander in Dubai. “We strongly condemn the use of fraudulent EU member states’ passports and credit cards acquired through the theft of EU citizens’ identities,” the foreign ministers said in a [...]

US blitz kills 33, injures several Afghan civilians

Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Press TV Fresh air strikes by the United States have killed at least 33 civilians and injured several others in southern Afghanistan, the Afghan interior ministry says. Afghan authorities announced that the fatalities included four women and a child. US-led forces said that they fired by mistake on a group of [...]