Hope in 2011: Peoples, Civil Society Stand Tall

by Ramzy Baroud, source When the Iraqi army fell before invading US and British troops in 2003, the latter’s mission seemed to be accomplished. But nearly eight years after the start of a war intended to shock and awe a whole population into submission, the Iraqi people continue to stand tall. They have confronted and [...]

Research links rise in Falluja birth defects and cancers to US assault

Defects in newborns 11 times higher than normal ‘War contaminants’ from 2004 attack could be cause by Martin Chulov, guardian.co.uk, Thursday 30 December 2010 A study examining the causes of a dramatic spike in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Falluja has for the first time concluded that genetic damage could have been caused [...]

Right for the Wrong Reasons

by RANNIE AMIRI, source The foreign policy mantra of Israel’s radical, Moldovan-born foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, can be accurately summarized in just four words: always blame the victim. He may be more vocal than most, but it is the paradigm by which all Israeli ministers operate: the victims, not the perpetrators, are responsible for their [...]

Egypt bans activists from Gaza convoy

Press TV Egypt has prevented some 50 Iranian and Jordanian activists on the Asia 1 aid convoy from reaching the Gaza Strip through its soil. The Egyptian embassy in Damascus, Syria, has informed the convoy of a permit that allows only 120 activists to pass through Egypt and then enter Gaza via El Arish port, [...]

Netanyahu drivel: ‘Rejecting “Israel” source of conflict’

‘Rejecting “Israel” source of conflict’ Press TV Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu says that the conflict in the Middle East is rooted in the refusal of other nations to accept an Israeli regime in the region, a report says. “This conflict continues because there is a refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and bring [...]

Iran Urges UN to Help Determine Fate of Ali-Reza Asgari

Al Manar 30/12/2010 Iran’s caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi urged the United Nations to help determine the fate of Iranian former deputy defense minister who reportedly died in an Israeli prison.   Asgari mysteriously disappeared in Turkey in 2007. He was believed to have been abducted and transferred to the Israeli prisons. A Ynet report [...]

Is the British government going to allow a foreign state to threaten its citizens?

MEMO commentary Media reports about the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) being “designated” by Israel have come sooner than expected. They follow closely on the heels of the two besmirched reports written in Israel which described London as the global hub of “delegitimization” of the Zionist state. The media cite Israeli claims that the PRC is [...]

Will 2011 Become 1848?

by Philip Giraldi, source Violence erupted throughout Europe in 1848, a time that was later dubbed the “year of revolution.”  Though the motives and perpetrators varied from country to country and even from region to region, the frequently violent protests sought major changes in the status quo, to include political emancipation and economic reform.  The [...]

Role of Israeli firms raises boycott concerns about Rawabi

by Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) in Palestine, has expressed its concern following reports that Israeli companies have been contracted to take part in the construction of Rawabi, an already controversial Qatari-financed Palestinian real estate development in the occupied West Bank. Rawabi (www.rawabi.ps) is touted by developers [...]

“Israel” decides to raze Al-Sahaba Mosque in O. Jerusalem and demolitions continue

“Israel” decides to raze Al-Sahaba Mosque in O. Jerusalem OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) handed the residents of Suwana area in occupied Jerusalem a demolition order issued against Al-Sahaba Mosque at the pretext of unlicensed construction. Jerusalemite sources said that the IOF gave Suwana citizens three months in order to file their [...]

Judaization of Jerusalem includes “defacing walls of the Old City”

MEMO The Al-Aqsa Foundation stressed that the heritage of Jerusalem is largely Arab and Islamic; Israeli efforts to claim an elusive “Hebrew history,” it says, “are doomed to failure”. A leading Palestinian foundation has accused the Israeli occupation authorities of defacing the walls of the historic Old City with Jewish symbols, including stone reliefs of [...]

IOF soldiers shoot two Palestinians, detain six and settlers attack farmers

Detainees reveal how IOF soldiers shot at, wounded them AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) willfully shot at two Palestinians then arrested them while sitting in their car in Al-Khalil without any justification other than opening the window of their car. One of the two Palestinian detainees, who were wounded in the incident last Thursday, [...]

16 Gazans killed, 38 injured in December 2010

GAZA, (PIC)– Israel carried out in December 2010 more than 105 attacks targeting Gazans, killing 16 and injuring 38, said Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesman for Gaza’s emergency authority, in an exclusive statement to the PIC. The Israeli army launched 17 air strikes on the region, some against civilian targets, and 35 artillery shells, amid intense [...]

“Israel” Rearrests another Hamas MP in WBank

Al Manar 30/12/2010 Israeli occupation troops on Thursday seized a Hamas member of the Palestinian parliament, the fifth to be rearrested recently after serving previous prison terms, local officials said.    MP Khalil al-Rabai was arrested at his home in the village of Yata, south of the city of Khalil, early on Thursday, municipal council [...]

Prominent Rabbis’ Wives Tell Fellow Jewish Women Not To Date Arabs

by Saed Bannoura, IMEMC In a letter published Tuesday in the Israeli press, around two dozen wives of prominent Israeli rabbis followed a recent edict by their husbands for Jews to refuse to rent or sell property to Arabs with an edict of their own: that Jewish women refuse to date or associate with Arab [...]