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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Israelis are barbaric murders period…attack on Freedom Flotilla

How many times do we need to say this? How many people need to die so something is done about it?! They kill the Palestinians, persecute and oppress them every day but no one does anything about it. They starve the people of Gaza and no one does anything about it. When a group of [...]

“Israel” faces child abuse claims: video

‘A Battle for the High Seas. And the High Ground’

By Lauren Booth, source If you’re hoping to see news about the extraordinary events taking place in the Med sea around Cyprus on either the BBC or Sky this weekend. Forget it. For now. Despite the fact that almost three dozen Brits are amongst the 700 brave souls heading to Gaza on a fleet of [...]

Two families ordered to evacuate homes in Sheikh Jarrah, settlers burn shop

30/05/2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Two Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem were ordered on Saturday to evacuate their homes within 45 days, local sources said. An Israeli lawyer sent the two families a warning that they would pay around 100 dollars for each extra day if those 45 days elapsed without abandoning [...]

USS Liberty: American Servicemen Expendable; Don’t Embarrass “Israel”

By Tammy Obeidallah, source Within the United States, there has been a growing awareness of Palestinian suffering. This has been manifested in the many demonstrations held during Israel’s assault on Gaza from December 2008-January 2009. The boycott of Israeli goods is gaining speed, as well as the campaign to recognize the Israeli government’s treatment of [...]

Freedom Flotilla exposes international community’s failure

by Allegra Pacheco, The Electronic Intifada, 28 May 2010 The Freedom Flotilla of nine vessels sailing to the Gaza Strip is exposing the partisan nature of the response of the United Nations and the international community to Israel’s three-year siege on Gaza. The siege — enforced by land, air and sea — has blocked the [...]

New US National Security Strategy

By Ali Younes – Washington, D.C., source The Obama administration released its National Security Strategy Thursday (May 27) which is consistent with president Obama’s approach on issues of international cooperation, terrorism, and nuclear policy. The document is largely an internationalist approach by an internationalist president who seeks cooperation with the world’s economic powers and international [...]

Sayyed Nasrallah’s Speech: Beginning of New Era in Conflict…

by Wael Karaki – Hussein Assi, Al Manar 28/05/2010 Two days following the “marine deterrence” speech delivered by Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah in the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Resistance and Liberation, the Israeli enemy kept a “suspicious calm”…   In his latest speech, Sayyed Nasrallah set a new formula that will [...]

Obama, “Israel” Denounce UN Nuclear Document; Iran Praises it

by Batoul Wehbe, Al Manar 29/05/2010 Again and again the US emerges to behave in a double standard and selective manner by disguising Israel’s nuclear weapons program while on the other hand accuses Iran of preparing to manufacture a nuclear bomb. At a UN conference on Friday US President Barack Obama welcomed a nuclear non-proliferation [...]

Hamas: Flotilla Shows Whole World Opposes Gaza Siege

Al Manar 29/05/2010 Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyyeh said Saturday that if Israel behaved like pirates and attacked the Freedom Flotilla expected to make its way to Gaza later in the day, then the Palestinians would have won. “The flotilla’s message is clear and it will reach the entire world,” Haniyyeh said Saturday [...]

Netanyahu: ‘you can go to hell’

By Khalid Amayreh, source Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has been making impossible conditions he says Palestinians must meet in order for peace to be possible. In a press interview released Thursday, 27 May, the characteristically arrogant and self-absorbed Zionist prime minister said the two most important conditions for peace in the Middle East were [...]

Haaretz: Illusions Allow Us To Ignore That Threats Are Closing In On Us

by Mohamad Shmaysani Al Manar 28/05/2010 ‘Turning Point Four’ has ended in occupied Palestine and the home front’s readiness to tolerate a new type of war in which border fronts are less significant and rockets are a dominating factor has been experienced: The home front is not ready enough to live up to the expected [...]

The man that “shoed” Bush Pt3: video

First two parts

…Human Rights Activist: I Was Tortured

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth, source   A leading human rights activist from Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority was charged yesterday with the most serious security offences on Israel’s statute book, including espionage.   Prosecutors indicted Ameer Makhoul, the head of Ittijah, an umbrella organisation for Arab human rights groups in Israel, with spying on security [...]

Netanyahu: “Obama Failed to Subjugate Me on Settlements, I Triumphed”

Al Manar 28/05/2010 “I triumphed over the US administration, I had the upper hand at the end of the rift that happened between me and President Barack Obama,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a closed meeting with high-ranking officials of his government, Maariv newspaper reported.   According to Maariv, Netanyahu indicated that his [...]

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