Mubarak names his deputy and new PM, protests continue

Al Jazeera Protests continue as Egyptian president appoints former spy chief as his vice-president for the first time. Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has appointed the country’s head of intelligence to the post of vice-president, in a move said to be a reaction to days of anti-government protests in cities across the country. Omar Soliman was [...]

New protests erupt in Yemen

Al Jazeera Activists calling for the ouster of president clash with government supporters in Sanaa. Dozens of activists calling for the ouster of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s president, have clashed with government supporters in Sanaa, the country’s capital. Plainclothes police also attacked the demonstrators, who marched to the Egyptian embassy in Sanaa on Saturday chanting “Ali, [...]

“Israel” Monitoring Egypt Rage with Concern, and Abbas, his aides are panicking

“Israel”  Monitoring Egypt Rage with Concern, Officials Ordered to Remain Silent Al Manar 29/01/2011 Israel is monitoring the Egyptian developments silently but with concern. Israel, the entity that always has an opinion on any topic, had in recent days been silent on the ongoing protests in Egypt against the 30-year-rule of its ally President Hosni [...]

Tens of Palestinians injured in IOF attack on funeral and Jerusalem man sentenced to 30 days of exile

Tens of Palestinians injured in IOF attack on funeral AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Tens of Palestinian citizens were wounded by Israeli occupation forces’ shooting north of Al-Khalil on Saturday while taking part in the funeral procession of a Palestinian teen killed at the hands of Jewish settlers. Witnesses reported that the participants clashed with the IOF soldiers [...]

Marchers protest concessions on Aqsa Mosque and demand Abbas to step down

Marchers protest concessions on Aqsa Mosque OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Protesters rallied after Friday prayers at the Aqsa Mosque condemning record concessions on the holy site made by negotiators in the Palestinian Authority. Al-Jazeera began leaking last weak some of 1,600 claimed documents revealing that Palestinian negotiators made unprecedented concessions on almost all of Jerusalem and [...]

“Israel” agent details Iran assassination

Press TV An Israeli agent arrested in Iran over the assassination of Iranian nuclear physicist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi says Tel Aviv places high importance on the elimination of Iranian nuclear scientists. Majid Jamali Fashi, the self-confessed Israeli agent who carried out the assassination of Dr. Ali-Mohammadi, says he underwent extensive training in Israel before the operation. [...]

Backing Mubarak and Tunisian People?

by Ahmed Amr – Cairo, source America has never met an Arab despot it couldn’t coddle. Before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Reagan and Bush had a nice working relationship with Saddam Hussein. In fact, when the Iraqi dictator invaded Iran, they went so far as to supply him with chemical weapons and intelligence. After [...]

People Power in the Middle East

by M. Shahid Alam, source From his weekly perch at CNN, Fareed Zakaria, speculated last Sunday (or the Sunday before) whether George Bush could take credit for the events that were unfolding in Tunisia, whether this was the late fruit of the neoconservative project to bring ‘democracy’ to the Middle East. It is quite extraordinary [...]

Price of Dignity: Palestine’s Political Prisoners

by Kim Bullimore – The West Bank, source Currently there are more than 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners locked up in Israel’s jails. This week, I found out that my friend Hasan (not his real name) is one of them. When in Ramallah, I mentioned to a mutual friend that I had planned to ring him [...]

The Palestine Papers and the “Gaza coup”

by Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada It has long been known that following Hamas’ victory in Palestinian Authority legislative elections in January 2006, Israel and its allies, particularly the United States, worked to undermine the Hamas-led government. Their aim was to restore the authority of the Fatah movement led by Mahmoud Abbas, which had controlled [...]

Egyptian protesters are not just Facebook revolutionaries

The internet has galvanised dissidents, but the key events that fuelled the uprising happened offline by Jack Shenker in Cairo, guardian.co.uk Middle-class, urban, web-savvy – the archetypal media image of the young protesters who have shaken Egypt’s dictatorship this week captures only part of the reality. This generation of dissidents, most of whom have lived [...]

PA undermined accountability for Gaza victims, papers reveal

Report, The Electronic Intifada Yesterday Al Jazeera released the final cache of the Palestine Papers, the network’s publication of secret documents culled from the last ten years of negotiations between the Palestinian Authority, Israel and the United States. Among some of the latest revelations are agreements between all three parties to push the United Nations [...]

Israelis kill Palestinian in WB and Palestinian boy martyred in explosion of device in Gaza

Israeli settlers kill Palestinian in WB Press TV Armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have shot two Palestinian men, killing one of them, the mayor of a Palestinian village says. Dozens of armed Israeli settlers invaded Beit Ummar near Hebron village on Friday and started shooting at houses, hitting two youths working on [...]

Jordanians protest government policies

Press TV Thousands of Jordanians have marched against the government’s political and economic policies, demanding the prime minister’s resignation. The demonstrations, which were held following the Friday prayers in the capital Amman and other major cities, were organized by the country’s main political opposition group, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. It was the third consecutive Friday [...]

Protesters across Egypt defy curfew

Protesters across Egypt defy curfew Al Jazeera Live stream: Al Jazeera English A nighttime curfew has begun in the Egyptian cities of Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, after a day where thousands of protesters took the streets, demanding an end to Husni Mubarak’s 30-year presidency.The curfew was implemented on Friday on the orders of the president, along with [...]