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Monthly Archives: March 2010

UN rights body condemns “Israel”

Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Press TV The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed three resolutions in condemnation of Israel’s “grave human rights violations” in the occupied Palestinian territories. The United States, however, voted against the resolutions, which condemned Israel over its policies related to Palestinian and Syrian territories, Haaretz reported. One of the resolutions [...]

The US’ choreographed “outrage” at “Israel”

by Stephen Maher, 23 March 2010, EI The speeches at AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby group, on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Netanyahu’s subsequent meeting with US President Barack Obama are widely seen as drawing to a close what Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren [...]

Good-Bye: Truth Has Fallen and Taken Liberty With It

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, source There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword. That was a time when people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal, or financial interest. Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. Americans have [...]

“Britain Has Dealt a Blow to Israeli Arrogance”

by Hanan Awarekeh, Al Manar 24/03/2010 British expulsion on Tuesday for an Israeli diplomat responsible for forgery of passports used in the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January has been considered as a blow to Israeli arrogance on all levels by the Israeli media. However, Israel is trying to contain this [...]

‘Palestinian Life is Cheap’

By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Mar 24, 2010 (IPS) – In early February, 41-year-old Fayez Ahmed Faraj, a father of nine from the city of Hebron, 30 miles south of Jerusalem, in the southern West Bank, was shot dead in his home town by Israeli soldiers after he allegedly tried to stab one of them. After [...]

Live Israeli gunfire suspected in Palestinian deaths: video

No Sign of Breakthrough in Netanyahu-Obama Meeting

Al Manar 24/03/2010 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama met twice during a dramatic evening in the White House, but no signs emerged of a breakthrough in a row over Israeli settlements. Obama hosted Netanyahu in the Oval Office late Tuesday for 90 minutes, but with the two sides embroiled in [...]

Israeli bulldozers demolish Gaza homes, farms

Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Press TV Israeli bulldozers have demolished several Palestinian homes and destroyed farmlands in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip after Israeli tanks opened fire on them. In the early hours of Tuesday, a number of Israeli army bulldozers uprooted trees and then leveled several homes after tanks opened fire on [...]

Killing Sovereignty: How Washington Murdered Privacy at Home and Abroad

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, source In the Swiss newspaper Zeit-Fragen, Professor Dr. Eberhard Hamer from Germany asks, “How Sovereign is Europe?” He examines the issue and concludes that Europe has little, if any, sovereignty. Professor Hamer writes that the sovereign rights of Europeans as citizens of nation states were dissolved with the coming into force [...]

EU Boosts “Israel” Ties, Ignores Illegal Settlements

By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Mar 22, 2010 (IPS) – Diplomats representing the European Union (EU) have drawn up a new plan for strengthening their relations with Israel despite the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Spain, the current holder of the EU’s rotating presidency, is eager that work proceeds on formally upgrading [...]

“Israel” is stealing Palestinian and Arab water

by Sawsan Ramahi, MEMO, March 22, 2010 Briefing Paper – Mar 2010 World Water Day is upon us. Initiated by the United Nations in 1992 during its Conference on Environment and Development, 22 March 1993 was chosen as the first international day for water aiming to draw attention to the importance of fresh water and [...]

UK to Expel Israeli Diplomat over Dubai Hit; Israeli Rightist MKs: ‘British Are Dogs’

UPDATE: Diplomat expelled Al Manar 23/03/2010 Britain will expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of British passports in an assassination in Dubai, Sky News television reported on Tuesday, without disclosing its sources. The UK Foreign Office declined to comment but said Foreign Secretary David Miliband would make a statement on the matter at 3:30 [...]

Israelis spew lies (again and again) why don’t you say you own the world and get it over with!

Netanyahu Says Al-Quds Not a Settlement, It Is “Israel’s Capital” by Al Manar 23/03/2010 Defying the international community and insisting on impeding the so-called “peace talks”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told thousands of participants at AIPAC’s annual conference on Monday that occupied Jerusalem (Al-Quds) is not a settlement. The Israeli prime minister met Monday [...]

Iraq Accuses “Israel” Of Stealing Ancient Manuscripts

by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Iraqi Tourism Ministry accused the Israeli Mossad, Israel’s Security Agency, of involvement in the theft and of ancient Iraqi manuscripts that were illegally transported out of Iraq and sold in Israel. The manuscripts are part of the Jewish archive at a number of museums in Iraq. They [...]

A Thousand Carnations for Palestinian Mothers

by Reham Alhelsi, source March 21, 2010 A thousand carnations for the Palestinian mother steadfast in Jerusalem; you who grew up in the heart of Palestine, know every house, every alley and every corner and cherish every stone of Jerusalem. You refuse to leave despite the daily terror and harassments from Zionist colonists. You cling [...]

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