Palestine’s ‘Turbulent Priest’ Delivers Blistering Easter Message

By Stuart Littlewood – London, source Fr Manuel Musallam recently retired at the age of 71 after serving as the parish priest of the Holy Family Church in Gaza for 14 years. For most of that time the Israelis would not allow him to visit his family and friends in the West Bank. So, in [...]

My Beautiful Palestine

By Samah Sabawi, source This is to all of the Palestinian parents in exile and the long trail of olive trees they’ve planted around the globe. A few days ago, my father emailed me a photo of my mom and him standing proudly next to my newest sibling; a young olive tree they’ve planted in [...]

Jerusalem: Words, Lies and No Action

By Sonja Karkar, source ‘There isn’t one I haven’t heard’ or so goes one of the lines in a well-known American musical. Yet, this time the world is imbuing the words with new meaning when it comes to US/Israel relations. The hope is that at long last the US is going to discipline Israel. Alas, [...]

Land Day; A Day of Fidelity to the Holy Land and Palestinian Killed, 12 Hurt in Gaza

Land Day; A Day of Fidelity to the Holy Land Al Manar 30/03/2010 “There, behind these borders lies our holy land, my dear.” This is what Hajj Abu Imad tells his grandsons whenever they go to the Lebanese-Palestinian border, south of Lebanon. The peak of Hajj Abu Imad’s frequent visits to the border, is on [...]

British MPs Slam Weapons Exports to “Israel”

Al Manar 30/03/2010 A cross-party group of MPs will call Tuesday for a review of the way arms sales are approved after the government admitted British equipment was “almost certainly” used in the assault on Gaza last year, the Guardian reported Monday “It is regrettable that arms exports to Israel were almost certainly used in [...]

“Israel” Unveils ‘Green’ Strategy to Defeat Enemies

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth, source Under cover of a sudden interest in developing new green technologies, the Israeli government hopes to weaken the Gulf states by making their oil redundant and thereby defeating ‘Islamic terror’. Uzi Landau, the national infrastructures minister, outlined a vision of a world without oil this week to Israel’s most [...]

Talk about US/”Israel” Crisis

By Dr. Elias Akleh, source During the last two weeks people were faced with a propaganda campaign trying to convince them that there developed a crisis in the American Israeli relationships due to Israel’s announcement of approving the building of 1600 Jewish only housing units in occupied east Jerusalem Palestinian suburb of Shu’fat on the [...]

UK Tabloid: “Israel” ‘Forged Thousands of IDs’ and Algerian authorities arrest Mossad agent

UK Tabloid: “Israel” ‘Forged Thousands of IDs’ Al Manar 29/03/2010 The British secret intelligence service (MI6) suspects that airline staff working for the Israeli secret service Mossad may have copied thousands of British passports, some of which were used in the assassination of senior Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, the News of the World [...]

20,000 Palestinian homes under demolition threat

Press TV Palestinian officials warn that more than 20,000 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem al-Quds could soon face demolition orders from Israeli municipal authorities. Ahmad Ruweidi, the Palestinian Authority’s legal advisor on al-Quds affairs, said Israeli courts will soon hand demolition orders to Palestinian homeowners over what Tel Aviv calls violation of construction rules over the [...]

“Israel” enforces Al-Aqsa restrictions

March 28, 2010 Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli forces imposed tightened entry restrictions for Palestinians into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, banning men under 50 from access. The move follows an increase in security procedures on the even of the Jewish Passover. Residents living beside the compound, known in Arabic as Al-Haram [...]

UK MPs: Britain should no longer be US poodle

Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Press TV British lawmakers have urged their government to be ‘less deferential’ towards the US, stressing that the UK’s image as Washington’s ‘poodle’ is highly damaging. The Commons Foreign Affairs committee in the lower house of parliament issued a report on Sunday calling for a ‘hard-headed’ approach to the Anglo-American liaison. [...]

“Cabbing” for ‘Israel’?

by Stuart Littlewood, source  There can be few sights more pathetic than ex-ministers and chums of Tony Blair offering to use their government contacts to help influence policy on behalf of business clients. “I’m like a cab for hire,” said Stephen Byers when secretly filmed by a Channel 4 TV ‘Dispatches’ programme. Byers could be [...]

Another Arab summit: another exercise in political impotence

By Khalid Amayreh, source Once again, hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims around the world are affronted with another Arab summit conference, which is taking place in Serte in Libya. There, flamboyant dictators, dynastic despots and presidents-for-life have converged on the North African Arab nation to perform an annual futile ritual known as the [...]

Helen Thomas on her one question for Obama: video

Israeli Army Invades Khan Younis, Israeli Leaders Weigh Resumption Of Assassinations

by Saed Bannoura, IMEMC & Agencies – Sunday March 28, 2010 Several armored military vehicles carried on Sunday morning a limited invasion into Khan Youni, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The latest attack comes admits talks of a likely resumption of assassinations in the coastal region. Israeli Finance Minister called for “reoccupying” [...]