Volvo equipment enabling torture, facilitating occupation

by David Cronin, The Electronic Intifada Volvo prides itself on being a byword for sturdiness, safety and reliability. After a careful examination of the vehicle-maker’s investment in Israel, perhaps it should also become synonymous with enabling torture. The Swedish company has a direct shareholding of 26.5 percent in the Israeli company Merkavim, manufacturer of the [...]

Israeli Occupation Forces Demolish Palestinian Mosque, Buildings in West Bank

Al Manar 25/11/2010 Israeli occupation forces have razed a Palestinian mosque and more than 10 other structures in two areas of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, violating the primary rights of Palestinian people. Most of the demolition activity took place in the village of Khirbet Yarza in the northern Jordan Valley, where residents said [...]

US investors are funding Arab property takeovers in Jerusalem

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Rights groups in Jerusalem are warning that Israel has discovered new ways to circumvent US and international pressure to hamper Jewish settlement activity in the holy city by utilizing the judicial system to legally back the confiscation of homes and eviction of their residents. Less than 24 hours ago on Tuesday a [...]

“Israel” has put 200,000 Palestinians before military tribunals since 1990

MEMO The military tribunals are, claims the report, the backbone of Israel’s occupation apparatus. A report from the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs has claimed that 200,000 Palestinians have been tried by Israeli military tribunals since 1990. What the report describes as “unfair and arbitrary” trials in Israel have led to thousands [...]

IOF troops advance in northern Gaza amid intensive shelling and target motor bicycle

IOF troops advance in northern Gaza amid intensive shelling GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced into northern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning amidst intensive firing, eyewitnesses reported. They said that IOF soldiers mounting ten armored vehicles and tanks suddenly advanced in the northern Beit Hanun town. The forces targeted Palestinian workers who collect gravel [...]

More than a bribe: Obama surrenders Palestinian rights

by Ramzy Baroud, source The Middle East policies of US President Barack Obama may well prove the most detrimental in history so far, surpassing even the right-wing policies of President George W. Bush. Even those who warned against the overt optimism which accompanied Obama’s arrival to the White House must now be stunned to see [...]

“Israel” razes homes, erases village of Abul Ajaj, seizes building, and resumes work on light rail project

“Israel” Razes Palestinian Homes in Occupied E.Jerusalem, Jordan Valley Al Manar 24/11/2010 Israeli police on Wednesday razed a house in occupied east Jerusalem, shortly before the Palestinian owner arrived home with a court order halting the demolition.    Scores of police and a single bulldozer were involved in the operation, which leveled the small house [...]

‘“Israel” Still Spying on Lebanon’s Telecoms Network’

Al Manar 23/11/2010 The Israeli aggression against Lebanese Telecoms network continues to be uncovered day after another…   On Tuesday, a much-awaited press conference over the Israeli ongoing violations was held at the Parliament by Telecoms Minister Charbel Nahhas, the head of the Information and Telecoms parliamentary bloc MP Hasan Fadlallah and the head of [...]

RTP: Britain assists Israelis in war crimes

Press TV Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) has lashed out at British arms companies for giving assistance, and encouraging war crimes and rights abuses by Israeli authorities. The three-day international tribunal in London was held to investigate corporate complicity in Israeli regime’s violations of international laws and regulations and human rights abuses as far as [...]

US Letter on Freeze Deal has been Completed

US Letter on Freeze Deal has been Completed: JPost Al Manar 24/11/2010 The parties have finalized the text for the US letter to Israel concerning the terms of a renewed settlement freeze, according to Middle East expert David Makovsky.   Makovsky highlighted, however, complicating factors in the effort to get from a deal on paper [...]

“Israel” holds entire family in detention

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A squad of more than 50 armed Israeli soldiers abused and abducted a 52-year-old Palestinian woman in Al-Khalil Tuesday morning after carrying out a fierce raid on her home. The victim Shahira Hafidh Burqan suffers from a number of illnesses in her old age and requires urgent medical attention. Four of her sons [...]

Honoring Helen Thomas

A Great Journalist, Traduced By Hacks by JAMES ABOUREZK, source These remarks were delivered at a tribute for Helen Thomas, Thursday, November 18, at the  Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in  Washington DC D.C., sponsored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). I’m very proud to be asked to speak at a tribute to one of the [...]

My Friend Barack

by Ralph Nader, source After nearly two years out, I can imagine George W. Bush writing his successor the following letter: Dear President Obama: As you know I’ve been peddling my book Decision Points and while doing interviews, people ask me what I think of the job you’re doing. My answer is the same: He [...]

The Project for a New American Century: Maintaining dominance through aggressive wars

Israelis setting up a “regime” in Ghajar, Obama wants to “free Lebanon from terrorism” and UN will hide in “Israel”

RB comment: The Israelis are supposedly going to give Al Ghajar village back so the UN says it has done its duties according to 1701 even though it constantly violates Lebanese airspace, waters, and land. Yet, now it is going to set up a “regime there”??? While the Israelis are showing themselves in the limelight [...]