IOF troops assassinate Qassam fighter in W. Bank and PA brags about frustrating resistance operations

IOF troops assassinate Qassam fighter in W. Bank 26/04/2010 AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) assassinated at dawn Monday a Palestinian resistance fighter affiliated with the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, called Ali Al-Suweiti during armed clashes with him in Beit Awa area, southwest of Al-Khalil city. The Qassam Brigades confirmed the [...]

Palestinian mother recounts detention of 13-year-old son

April 25, 2010 Bethlehem – Ma’an – “He was shivering and crying hard, he grabbed onto my nightgown and looked at me terrified, as sniffer dogs and armed soldiers scrabbled around me,” the mother of 13-year-old Ahmad Salim As-Sabah described. As-Sabah was taken from his family home in Tuqu, south of Bethlehem, at 2am Thursday [...]

Shaaban: Scud Missiles Transfer ‘Ridiculous Lie’

Al Manar 26/04/2010 Syrian President Bashar Assad’s adviser Buthaina Shaaban said that the “rumors circulated through Israeli President Shimon Peres’s comments in which he cited some media outlets with ties with the Mossad, over the Scud missiles’ transfer to Hezbollah from Syria, as well as the US official reaction, brought back to memory the picture [...]

French law stigmatizes Muslims

Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Press TV Muslims in the French city of Nantes, where a woman was fined for driving while wearing an Islamic veil, have expressed concerns over stigmatizing Muslims. “The Muslims of Nantes are worried by this systematic stigmatization which goes against the values of the Republic,” the collective of Nantes mosques said [...]

Netanyahu Commits to Colonizing East Jerusalem; First Palestinian Expelled under new Policy

by Juan on April 23, 2010, source The new Israeli policy of deporting Palestinians from the West Bank on arbitrary grounds has kicked in with Ahmad Sabah, who has just been deported to Gaza and separated from his family in the West Bank. The measure contravenes the Geneva Convention of 1949 on the treatment of [...]

Israeli Attack Threat

by Gareth Porter, April 24, 2010, source The Barack Obama administration’s declaration in its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that it is reserving the right to use nuclear weapons against Iran represents a new element in a strategy of persuading Tehran that an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a serious possibility if Iran does [...]

Clashes in Sheikh Jarrah zone after settlers curse Prophet Muhammad and IOA to demolish 2 Nablus homes

Clashes in Sheikh Jarrah zone after settlers curse Prophet Muhammad 25/04/2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Violent confrontations broke out Saturday evening between Palestinian young men and Israeli settlers in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem after the settlers uttered offensive remarks against Prophet of Islam Muhammad (PBUH). At the pretext of performing Talmudic rituals, about 120 [...]

Protester critically injured by live Israeli fire at Gaza rally

Gaza – Ma’an – Six people were injured, one seriously, by live fire from Israeli forces as Gaza residents and international solidarity activists gathered in the central Strip on Saturday to protest the enforcement of the no go zone. Eyewitnesses confirmed early security source reports, saying first three, then six were injured, one seriously as [...]

UK Ordered to Pay to Iran over 1970 Arms Deal

Al Manar 25/04/2010 An arbitration court in The Hague has ordered the British government to refund $650 million to Iran over an outstanding 1970s arms deal. The British government has confirmed the court’s ruling and that the compensation money for Iran is now sitting in bank accounts waiting to be withdrawn, ABC reported on Sunday. [...]

From Neptune to Gaza

In excerpts from a speech prepared for the Hetherington Memorial Lecture, Ramzy Baroud argues for a history of the people, by the people and for the people. By Ramzy Baroud, source Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune. [...]

Earth Day in “Israel”: Apartheid Showing Through the Greenwash

By Stephanie Westbrook, source On April 22, as part of the global Earth Day celebrations, homes, offices and public buildings in 14 Israeli cities turned out the lights for one hour in an effort to “increase awareness of the vital need to reduce energy consumption.” The Earth Day celebrations included scenes of green fields, wind [...]

Six decades of dispossession

Founded on ethnic cleansing, erasing the Palestinians remains the modus operandi of the state of Israel, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank, source. April 23, 2010 With a strange combination of self- righteousness and self-gratification, Israel this week celebrated its 62nd anniversary. Using skilfully fabricated sound bites, Israeli leaders sought to deflect blame for [...]

Israelis Scared Existence of Entity Threatened by New Balances!

By HUSSEIN ASSI and HASAN HIJAZI, Al Manar Day after another, the Israeli “fears” seem to be higher and higher… Dangers are surrounding the so-called Israeli State from all directions. The existence of the Zionist entity is in itself threatened by the new balances of terror or power in the region. The previous statement was [...]

Netanyahu Ready to Agree to Palestinian State within Temporary Borders

Al Manar 23/04/2010 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is amenable to an interim agreement in the occupied West Bank that would include the establishment of a Palestinian state within temporary borders. Netanyahu considers such an interim step a possible way to unfreeze the stalled political process that was created because of the Palestinian leadership’s refusal [...]

Syrian Scud Missiles Transfer to Hezbollah Remains Israeli Hypothesis

Al Manar 24/04/2010 A day after two US officials said there were “no indications” any Scud rockets were transported into Lebanon, a US diplomat said Syria is providing a “wider array” of missiles to Hezbollah. “We are concerned with the broadening nature of cooperation between Syria and Hezbollah. They are providing a wider array of [...]