False Symmetry: Teaching Holocaust in Gaza Schools

by Seraj Assi, source Spring has turned red in Gaza with a new Israeli massacre. Late Monday night Israeli combat planes pounded Northern Gaza and murdered two children and three adults whose only crime was playing football in front of their house. At the same day Haaretz published a report complaining that Hamas protests UN [...]

Libya: Opposition recapture key towns, say Libyans no longer need outside help

Civilian in the city of Misrata killed by snipers (notice he must have gone out to get bread and water from the contents in his car). Second video shows snipers on rooftops in Misrata. Opposition Recapture Key Towns, Say Libyans No Longer Need Outside Help by Batoul Wehbe, Al Manar Libyan opposition fighters were pushing [...]

Bahrain: Riot police vandalism and Kuwait to mediate

Kuwait to mediate in Bahrain Press TV Bahrain’s main opposition party has accepted Kuwait’s offer to mediate between al-Wefaq National Islamic Society and the Bahraini government. “We welcome the idea of bringing in an outside element,” al-Wefaq’s member Jasim Hussein said on Sunday, adding that the society has accepted the offer of Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh [...]

Deadlock in Yemen power transfer talks

Al Jazeera Foreign minister optimistic about transition deal, but president’s camp warns little progress has been made. Abubakr al-Qirbi, Yemen’s foreign minister, has said he hopes a deal to transfer power peacefully from Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, could be negotiated soon, but the opposition says that there is still a large gap between opposition [...]

Syria ‘to lift emergency law’

Al Jazeera Syrian government adviser confirms to Al Jazeera that the country’s emergency law is to be lifted but fails to say when. A Syrian government adviser has confirmed to Al Jazeera that the country’s emergency law is to be lifted. Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, told Al Jazeera’s Cal [...]

Palestine: UNHRC passed decision to open Gaza crossings, 2 killed in raid and Pal. woman beaten for protecting son

European campaign welcomes UNHRC decision to open Gaza crossings BRUSSELS, (PIC)– The European campaign to end the siege on Gaza has said a recently passed decision by the UN Human Rights Council to open Gaza’s crossings will ”lose importance” if left unenforced. ”Although it has come late, it came in the right direction, and it [...]

Tunisian judges call for free judiciary

Press TV Tunisian judges and lawyers have staged a rally in the capital, Tunis, to call for an independent judicial system and the removal of the remnants of ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali’s regime. They also held a gathering on Saturday at the Palace of Justice to mark the “National Day of Judicial [...]

Suspended in time, Lifta under threat

by Jillian Kestler-D’Amours, The Electronic Intifada A natural spring, countless olive trees, a mosque and virtually every stone used to build the village’s unmistakable houses — Yacoub Odeh remembers it all. “Here was where the water went down to the spring. Here was the root of the village. This place name was al-Saha. Saha means [...]

Time for Nasrallah and Obama to Talk?

by Franklin Lamb, Exclusive to Al-Manar -Beirut An experienced Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius , to his credit not among the most biased Israeli Hasbaraspewers from the Zionist daily, dropped by our Hezbollah neighborhood known as Dahiyeh the other day. During an hour meeting with Hezbollah Foreign Relations Officer AmmarMoussawi and his brilliant assistant, and [...]

Protesters return to streets in Yemen

Press TV Anti-government protesters have once again taken to the streets of Sana’a, demanding the ouster of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The protesters, who have been camping in Change Square near Sana’a University since mid-February to demand the ouster of the regime, gathered there on Saturday, Reuters reported. President Saleh has so far rejected [...]

Bahrain: Troops continue crackdown on protesters

Protesters attacked even while they call “peaceful, peaceful…” Troops continue crackdown on Bahrainis Press TV Saudi and Bahraini troops have attacked anti-government protesters in Sitra and several other towns in Bahrain with teargas and shotguns. The forces attacked protesters after Friday Prayers on the north-eastern island of Sitra — the country’s oil center. Other massive [...]

Syria: Protests follow funeral, unknown gunmen present and gov. releases 260 prisoners

Press TV Hundreds of Syrian protesters have gathered in Daraa’s main square following a funeral procession for a demonstrator from the village of Tafas who was killed during a government crackdown. The funeral was held for Kamal Baradan, killed on Friday during demonstrations, Reuters reported. Mourners in Tafas, who numbered in thousands, reportedly torched the [...]

Libya: Feb17 forces retake cities while Gaddafi forces still attack others

RB note: Reports that Feb17 forces retake the city of Brega Libya opposition forces capture Ajdabiya Press TV Libyan opposition forces have wrest back control of strategic oil town Ajdabiya in south of the capital Benghazi following intense battles with pro-Gaddafi troops. Opposition fighters on Saturday pushed forces loyal to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi out [...]

Palestine: Israeli artillery shell blasts factory & HM warns of ‘catastrophe’ in Gaza, protests attacked & more land theft in WB

Israeli artillery shell blasts factory in Gaza GAZA, (PIC)– Artillery shelling by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Saturday started huge fire in a factory for soft drinks in Gaza Strip and inflicted big damage to the facility. The PIC reporter said that an artillery shell slammed into Al-Sattar factory east of Zaitun suburb [...]

Jordanians renew call for premier ouster

Press TV The opposition to Jordan’s government has renewed calls for the ouster of Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit amid violent crackdown on protesters which has left two people dead and many others injured. “We demand the prime minister and intelligence chief [Mohammed Raqqad] quit,” Firas Mahadin of the Youth of March 24 Movement stated at [...]