“Israel” devours East Jerusalem

Regardless of the opinions of foes or allies, Israel is pressing ahead with inflammatory colonisation projects in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, writes Khaled Amayreh, source. Dismissing the international community, including its guardian-ally, the United States, Israel has approved a wide-ranging plan to obliterate the remaining vestiges of the traditional Arab-Islamic identity of East [...]

What Were They Thinking? STL actions in Lebanon

by Franklin Lamb, Al Manar Beirut, 　 What were the International Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) investigators imagining as they walked into Dr. Iman Charara’s private obstetrics and gynecology clinic this week demanding personal information on her patients? Perhaps more interestingly, what was Jeffrey Feltman’s ‘Special STL Unit’ housed on the 6th floor of the U.S. [...]

Caterpillar Corporation stops shipment of armored bulldozers to Israeli military

by Saed Bannoura, IMEMC Peace activists around the world are celebrating Friday’s announcement that the Illinois-based company, Caterpillar, has decided to hold off shipment of dozens of armored bulldozers to the Israeli military while a trial about the killing of Rachel Corrie is ongoing in Israel. Corrie was run down by a Caterpillar D9 armored [...]

Israeli settlers seize Palestinian home by force and IOF assists settlers in expanding settlement

Israeli settlers seize Palestinian home by force AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers seized the house of Palestinian citizen Fayez Al-Salayme in the Baqa’a village, east of Al-Khalil, by force and expelled him and his family out of it. Local sources on Saturday said that the settlers beat up Salayme, who is carried to hospital for treatment. [...]

Yemen makes bomb-plot arrest

RB comment: There has been conflicting news since yesterday regarding this incident. I have posted the following as a record where the issue stands but one hopes in the coming days some more light is shed on it because the timing and the shift of focus to Yemen is unsettling. I’m reposting a link to [...]

Hiding behind Lies: Replying to Rupert

by William A. Cook, source ‘I keep reading between the lies.’ — (Goodman Ace) Rupert Murdoch’s recent speech before the ADL gathering at their dinner gala opened with this flattering observation, ‘You have championed equal treatment for all races and creeds.’ What he omitted from that statement is the ADL’s treatment of the Palestinian people [...]

US Palestinians converging to help shape homeland’s future

by Andrew Dalack, The Electronic Intifada When activists from across the United States convened in August 2008 for the US Palestinian Community Network’s first Popular Conference, few people knew what to expect. The energy at the conference was palpable as organizations, individuals and families from our communities across the country, as well as solidarity forces [...]

Welcoming Muslims for the Love of Christ

by Mahmoud El-Yousseph, source In the small Tennessee town of Cordova sits Heartsong Church, who welcomed their Muslim neighbors in a time of distress. The church’s act of generosity is deeply gratifying to me as a Muslim. This story was not found in mainstream media, but rather on an Arabic website whose name translates as [...]

UNESCO Defines West Bank Sites Palestinian and Ibrahimi mosque closed for Muslim worshipers

UNESCO Defines West Bank Sites Palestinian, Netanyahu Slams Naming as “Absurd” Al Manar 30/10/2010 Israel was “outraged” on Friday after UNESCO had defined holy shrines in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds as Palestinian sites. The board of the UN’s cultural organization, in its biannual session which ended last week, considered the Ibrahimi Mosque and [...]

Jewish settlers burn old church in Jerusalem

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A group of extremist Jewish settlers set a one hundred year old Christian church on fire in Jerusalem on Friday causing substantial damage to its first floor. Zakaria Al-Mashriqi, a leader in the church, denounced in a press release the “sinful crime” that targets destabilizing relations among heavenly religions and inciting strife [...]

Thousands of Palestinians commemorate the Kafr Qasem massacre and four shot and others injured in Ma’sara

Thousands of 1948 Palestinians commemorate the Kafr Qasem massacre NAZARETH, (PIC)– Thousands of  Palestinians from the 1948-occupied Palestinian territories participated on Friday in a rally to mark the 54th anniversary of the Kafr Qasem massacre under the slogan “against institutional racism and the Israeli racist onslaught”. Arab members of the Knesset participated alongside the residents [...]

‘Israeli commander admits Gaza crimes’

Press TV An Israeli commander has confessed to crimes committed by the Israeli army during the 22-day onslaught on the Gaza Strip, a report says. Colonel Ilan Malka, who headed the Givati Brigade during the December 2008-January 2009 war against Gaza, has admitted to the killing of civilians during the Israeli incursion into the coastal [...]

UAE rejects US claims on Flight 201

Press TV The United Arab Emirates’ Civil Aviation Authority has rejected claims that a US-bound Emirates’ flight from Dubai contained “suspicious” parcels from Yemen. Fighter jets were scrambled on Friday to accompany an Emirates plane into New York’s JFK airport after a security alert, US media reported. Emirati authorities, however, said flight 201 carried no [...]

Such is the Peace Process: Obama as a Salesman

by Ramzy Baroud, source It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to claim that the resumption of peace talks between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority have thus far yielded nothing of value, at least not as far as settling the decades-long struggle. For one, the media has paid the talks little attention, aside from the [...]

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