Iraq war declared over, but war party persists

by Ramzy Baroud, source In a White House Statement on October 21, US President Barack Obama pledged that his country would finally withdraw forces from Iraq. “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over,” he said. Providing some context to Obama’s announcement, a CBSNews.com report published on the same day stated, “The [...]

Palestine: Child wounded, settlers burnt or uprooted 7500 olives trees & Israelis kidnap 7 family members

IOF troops seriously wound Palestinian child in east Jerusalem OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Local sources in occupied Jerusalem said that Asil Ara’ra, was seriously wounded Wednesday morning by bullets from a nearby IOF training grounds near the village of Anata to the east of Jerusalem. The same sources said that the Murabiteen committee condemned this incident [...]

Peres, Ashton defend Abbas after attack by Israeli FM

Al Manar Israeli President Shimon Peres came to the defense of Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday after Israel’s far-right foreign minister called the president an obstacle to peace, Ma’an news agency reported. “Abbas and Prime Minister (Salam) Fayyad are serious leaders that want peace and are working to prevent violence and extremism in our region,” said [...]

Zionist lobby made German church ban Palestinian Nakba exhibition

Moqawama A German church in the western city of “Duesseldorf” has called off plans for hosting an exhibit on the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe), the daily German “Rheinische Post” reported. Claiming that “the exhibit was one-sided,” the Zionist German Lobby Pressure succeeded in banning the exhibition for the second time in the German city after a [...]

Bahrain regime sentences more protesters to jail terms & fresh protests

Bahrain regime sentences more protesters to jail terms Al Manar Bahraini regime sentenced 13 more protesters for taking role in anti-government demonstrations which have been oppressed by the US and Saudi-backed government since February. A defense attorney announced on Tuesday that a civilian court sentenced a Kuwait-born Canadian citizen, Nasser al-Ras, to five years in [...]

Tunisia’s Ennahda enters coalition talks

Press TV Tunisia’s Islamic Ennahda Party has started coalition talks with major parties as it takes lead in the early results of the country’s historic elections. Leftist parties, including Ettakatol, say they have entered talks with the once-banned Ennahda Party for the formation of an interim coalition government in Tunisia. The Tunisian electoral commission announced [...]

Despite Saleh pledge to quit, Yemen violence resumes killing 18

Al Manar Although Yemeni embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh vowed to resign, violence flared across the country killing approximately two dozen. The dead included two civilians, nine troops and seven dissent soldiers, medics said on Wednesday. The deaths, both in the capital Sanaa and in the country’s second largest city, Taez, came after Saleh told [...]

Harvesting olives as a statement of resistance

by Ben Lorber, The Electronic Intifada Palestinian villages across the West Bank are undertaking their annual olive harvest this October, amid fears of harassment and violence from Israeli settlers and soldiers. While the Palestinian olive harvest is a tradition that stretches back countless generations, the phenomenon of settler violence during the olive harvest is only as [...]

I Wish to Tell You about Gaza

by Lillian Rosengarten, source Gaza life exists in a cage, an open air prison that has been kept mostly isolated from the world. Its citrus trees have been uprooted. Flowers are no longer exported. Nor are vegetables, fruit or olives, formerly a thriving export business. Since 2000, the Israeli army destroyed 114,000 olive trees. The [...]

Sayyed Nasrallah interview (24/10/2011)

Sayyed Nasrallah: Hezbollah Against STL Funding, Syria Overcomes Danger by Marwa Haidar, Al Manar As his eminence assured Hezbollah’s absolute and final refusal to fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the party‘s Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah voiced confidence that Syria has overcome the danger, stressing that Syria has been targeted because of its resisting [...]

Palestine: IOF artillery blasts southern Gaza, 4000 new units in OJ & Zionist plan to isolate the village of Eksa

IOF artillery blasts southern Gaza RAFAH, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened artillery fire at southern Gaza Strip at a late hour on Monday night targeting the vicinity of the Gaza international airport to the east of Rafah city, local sources said. They said that IOF army tanks took part in the shelling and fired [...]

PA Security arrest 7 Hamas supporters & a document reveals Abbas discussed the overthrow of Arafat with Preres

PA Security arrest 7 Hamas supporters RAMALLAH, (PIC)– PA security forces arrested 7 Hamas supporters in Nablus and al-Khalil, five of them after being freed from Junaid jail in Nablus. In Nablus district, the PA Preventive Security arrested freed captive Zahi Kusa after raiding his home last night. He already spent a number of long [...]

Political, royal decision to ban Press TV in Britain

by Sara Taha, Al Manar Press TV has been banned in the United Kingdom after a political decision supported by the “Israel Lobby” and the “British Friends of Israel”, and backed by the Royal family came out; claiming that the Iranian backed TV channel does not work in accord with the Ofcom. The British authorities [...]

Egypt to release Israeli spy in return for freedom of 25 jailed Egyptians & bars noted Palestinian writer from traveling through Rafah crossing

Egypt to release Israeli spy in return for freedom of 25 jailed Egyptians NAZARETH, (PIC)– Israel officially announced that an agreement was reached with Egypt by which Cairo would release the suspected spy Ilan Grapel in return for the freedom of 25 Egyptians held in Israeli jails. A statement for the Israeli premier’s office said [...]

Turkey rallies against hijab ban

Press TV More than a hundred thousand people in Turkey have staged a demonstration in the Turkish southeastern city of Diyarbakir in protest to the government’s Hijab ban. Demonstrators called for the freedom to wear Islamic hijab, urging the government to guarantee this right in Turkey’s new Constitution. Chanting slogans in support of the right [...]