Why Mr. President? Open Letter to Mahmoud Abbas

By Nidal Azza, source (This open letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was first published in Arabic by Ma’an News, Palestine, in early March 2010.) Since the adoption of the strategy of the “peace of the brave” which seeks to achieve Palestinian rights through negotiations, Palestinian officials have never missed an opportunity to raise the [...]

The South Reduced: How News Promotes Mistaken View of the World

By Ramzy Baroud, source I am not good at flying kites. But during a recent visit to the Olympic Village of Beijing, I felt compelled to do so. Despite the cold and late hour, there were many kite runners around me. A salesman insisted that I try my hand before committing to any purchase, and [...]

Sayyed Nasrallah to Al-Rai: Israeli Project Nearing End

Al Manar Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah stressed the goal of the uproar over the alleged Scud Missiles transfer from Syria to Hezbollah “is to pressure Syria and Hezbollah and to prevent us as a resistance from defending ourselves.” Sayyed Nasrallah was speaking during an interview with the Kuwaiti television Al-Rai on Thursday. “Their [...]

Jerusalem’s secret land deals: video

Clinton: Syria’s Provocations May Plunge Middle East into War

Al Manar 30/04/2010 Syrian President Bashar Assad is pursuing dangerous policies that could unleash war on the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Thursday night. In a speech to the American Jewish Committee in Washington, Clinton said that Syria’s transfer of weapons to Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon risks throwing the region [...]

“Israel” finds allies in Europe’s Christian fundamentalists

by David Cronin , The Electronic Intifada, 28 April 2010 Flip through any issue of a major newspaper from the past decade and it is a safe bet you will be confronted with a warning about the dangers of religious extremism. So how could the mainstream media have failed to notice the growing influence of [...]

“Israel’s” dog and pony show

By Sherine Tadros, on April 28th, 2010, Al Jazeera An “educational” helicopter tour reveals the facts on the ground that are being made at the expense of Palestinian statehood. I recently jumped at the chance to take an all expenses paid helicopter ride over Israel and part of the West Bank. The trip was courtesy [...]

Sayyed Nasrallah: Egypt Court Sentences Badge of Honor

Al Manar 29/04/2010 Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said that the verdicts in Egypt against the freedom fighters who were offering support to the resistance in the Gaza Strip are politicized and unfair. Speaking to the Kuwaiti Al-Rai television to be broadcast Thursday, Sayyed Nasrallah said that “when those brothers were arrested in Egypt, [...]

Humanity: Ahmed Deeb is killed

by Eva Barlett, In Gaza, April 28, 2010 4:57 pm April 28 An SMS informs me that the young man from Sheik Radwan who was shot by an Israeli soldier today is dead. A visit to Shifa hospital confirms it. Ahmed Deeb, 21, was among protesters closest to the border fence at the former Nahal [...]

Hamas Says Egypt Gassed 4 Gaza Tunnel Workers ‘in Cold Blood’

Al Manar 29/04/2010 Hamas movement on Thursday accused Egyptian security forces of killing four Palestinians by pumping poisonous gas into a cross-border smuggling tunnel on Wednesday. Egypt has been under pressure by Israel to seal off the hundreds of tunnels that are a key economic lifeline for the blockaded Palestinian territory. Israel and Egypt have [...]

Two little girls murdered by Israeli soldiers in Jordan valley

29/04/2010 NABLUS, (PIC)– Two little girls were killed Wednesday evening when the vehicle they were riding along with their father and brother was deliberately hit by an Israeli armored jeep in the Jordan Valley area in the West Bank. Palestinian medical sources said that Jannah, eight years, and Massa, 10, died while their father Imad [...]

Fomenting Armageddon: Jerusalem’s Colonization and Western Apathy

By Dr. Ahmad Yousef, source The Israelis are instigating a Jewish holy war staged in Jerusalem; and they are playing a superb game of propaganda painting the Palestinians as the “real” fundamentalists, despite the fact that the Knesset has more active right-wing political parties than any state in the civilized world. It’s a strategy that [...]

US hegemony, not “the lobby,” behind complicity with “Israel”

by Stephen Maher, The Electronic Intifada, 27 April 2010 Many of Israel’s critics blame an “Israel lobby” for the near-total complicity of the US in Israeli annexation, colonization and cleansing programs in the occupied West Bank. This complicity continues to the present, despite the “row” that erupted after the Israeli government humiliated US Vice President [...]

Netanyahu versus Hamas

By Khalid Amayreh, source It should be amply clear by now that the current Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu combines many of the characters that would make any human being detestable if not evil. He is undoubtedly a pathological liar, a virulent, odious racist as well as arrogant Jewish supremacist. He claims to be speaking [...]

Did he think before he spoke? Gates: Hezbollah More Armed than Most Gov’ts

The US and “Israel” with all thier weapons from the nuclear to the DIME to bunker busters and phosphorus bombs said that a small group has more weapons than most governments! Are you stupid or are you stupid?! Let’s just say you added too much pepper and salt to your lies. Gates: Hezbollah More Armed [...]