By RANNIE AMIRI
The release of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, appears imminent. The recent flurry of activity in Cairo of high-profile Israeli and Hamas officials along with their Egyptian and German intermediaries point to a deal taking place in upcoming days, nicely timed to Eid Al-Adha [...]
By RANNIE AMIRI
The release of the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, appears imminent. The recent flurry of activity in Cairo of high-profile Israeli and Hamas officials along with their Egyptian and German intermediaries point to a deal taking place in upcoming days, nicely timed to Eid Al-Adha [...]
The Nation
Taliban fighters in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. Reuters Photos
On October 29, 2001, while the Taliban's rule over Afghanistan was under assault, the regime's ambassador in Islamabad gave a chaotic press conference in front of several dozen reporters sitting on the grass. On [...]
By Khalid Amayreh
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is a manifestly fascist-minded demagogue who thinks that everything Jewish must override everything non-Jewish, regardless of all considerations.
He is also a first-class liar who believes that lying to the world, including Jews, is the first [...]
The 10-month freeze will not halt building in East Jerusalem or that has already been approved [AFP]
Israel's prime minister has announced a 10-month halt to the construction of new settlement houses in the occupied West Bank.
Binyamin Netanyahu told a news conference on Wednesday that [...]
The leaders who led Britain into war will not befound 'guilty', commentators say [GETTY/GALLO]
By Jacqueline Head
Britain's most wide-ranging inquiry into the Iraq war is under way - but in a country where two previous inquiries were branded little more than "establishment whitewash" - is it likely [...]
By Jeremy Scahill
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they [...]
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Republican members of Congress and what masquerades as a “conservative” media are outraged that the Obama administration intends to try in federal court Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of 9/11, and four alleged co-conspirators.
The Republican and right-wing rant that a trial is too [...]
TULKAREM -- Zionist Israeli settler-colonists from the illegal colony of Yitzhar injured a Palestinian man travelling in a public bus on a main road near the settlement on Tuesday, the victim of the attack reported.
The service taxi, carrying seven passengers in total, was assailed by a barrage of [...]
Hamas officials speak at a ceremony honoring Roudah Habib,
released in exchange for a video tape of Shalit
[MaanImages]
FAZA -- Israel has exaggerated the progress of recent prisoner swap talks and manipulated the hopes and expectations of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, Hamas leaders proclaimed late [...]
Peshawar has borne the brunt of recent Taliban attacks in retaliation for a military offensive [AFP]
A new report has accused the US private security firm formerly known as Blackwater of operating a covert assassination and kidnapping programme against suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda members in northwest Pakistan.
[...]
Salam Fayyad (MaanImages)
24 November 2009
By Ben White
Thirty years ago, Israel minister Ariel Sharon told Knesset members that while they "shouted" about the settlements, "we lay another foot of pipe, another mile of road and build another house." Successive Israeli governments have agreed with [...]
There is nothing wrong with an inclusive Jewish nation that wants to live at peace with others. But what made Jewish Zionism dangerous was its hatefulness towards the Palestinian-Arabs, including denying their rights and sabotaging the existence of an autonomous Palestinian homeland, says Dallas Darling.
In her book, [...]
The National
Nov. 23, 9009
By Jonathan Cook
NAZARETH, Israel // South Africa deported an Israeli airline official last week following allegations that Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, had infiltrated Johannesburg international airport in an effort to gather information on South African citizens, particularly black and Muslim travellers.
The [...]
Brazil president declares support for Tehran's quest for "peaceful nuclear energy".
Brazil's president has offered his backing for Tehran's controversial nuclear programme.
Speaking at a joint news conference in the capital Brasilia on Monday after holding talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, his visiting Iranian counterpart, Luis Inacio [...]
IDF tactics are being considered by NATO officials for the war in Afghanistan
By Gilad Atzmon
'Israel is the light onto the nations' says the Torah. Indeed it is, and not just because the Torah says so. Israel is ahead of everyone else in many [...]
"These documents show that planning [for the invasion of Iraq] began as far back as 2002" -- Alex Salmond,Scottish Nationalist leader
Blair told the British parliament in 2002 that there were no plans for war
Leaked British government documents have called into question former premier Tony Blair's' [...]
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By Mike Whitney
Things could get ugly fast. With the Democrats backing-off on a second round of stimulus, the Fed signaling an end to quantitative easing, and Obama moaning about rising deficits; there's a good chance that the stumbling recovery could turn into another sharp plunge. [...]
Israel ordered the construction halted saying some of the land on which the stadium was being built had been designated for its use.
Work on a football stadium being built in the West Bank, and financed by the international football federation FIFA, has been stopped.
Israel ordered the construction [...]
Al Ahram
Clockwise from top left: pro-veil demonstrations in France; "Stop-the-minaret" campaign logo in Switzerland; The Economist cover story on "Eurabia"; a symbolic illustration depicting veiled women on the French flag; a BBC map showing the number of Muslim populations in Europe, hijab -martyr Marwa [...]
Al Ahram
Clockwise from top left: pro-veil demonstrations in France; "Stop-the-minaret" campaign logo in Switzerland; The Economist cover story on "Eurabia"; a symbolic illustration depicting veiled women on the French flag; a BBC map showing the number of Muslim populations in Europe, hijab -martyr Marwa [...]
Contemporary Israeli cinema gives some hope that Israeli society will soon confront, or is confronting, the violence Zionism has done not only to others but also to Israelis, writes Hamid Dabashi*
The consecutive appearance of three major Israeli war films, Joseph Cedar's Beaufort (2007), Ari Folman's Waltz [...]
Contemporary Israeli cinema gives some hope that Israeli society will soon confront, or is confronting, the violence Zionism has done not only to others but also to Israelis, writes Hamid Dabashi*
The consecutive appearance of three major Israeli war films, Joseph Cedar's Beaufort (2007), Ari Folman's Waltz [...]
Continuing in disarray, the Palestinian arena appears locked between warring factions, delayed elections and a moribund peace process with Israel, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah
Having discovered -- rather belatedly -- the futility of open- ended peace talks with Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership is contemplating taking a number of [...]
GAZA CITY — Water in the Gaza Strip is so salty that it is unfit for human consumption, a Palestinian official in charge of water supplies inside the besieged coastal territory said on Saturday.
"The water is no longer fit for human consumption, with analysis and international studies showing" [...]
Hamas had called for halting rocket attacks in Israel to allow Gazans to rebuild [REUTERS]
At least seven Palestinians have been injured in a round of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses said.
Witnesses told Al Jazeera that the first strike hit a [...]
RAMALLAH/NABLUS -- Israeli forces detained six Palestinians from Nablus and Salfit overnight including the commander and four officers of the Palestinian Authority Intelligence Services.
High-level negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli officials have been ongoing since dawn in an effort to have the men released, with American officials entering the [...]
Hopes of Obama's 'change' are continuously raised but have yet to be fulfilled.
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington
There is growing frustration, inside and outside the United States, with the otherwise attractive Obama administration primarily because of its failure to bring about any measurable change in U.S. [...]
There are many sides to globalization.
By Ramzy Baroud
A Muslim family sits across of me in café, in a largely Muslim Asia country. An older woman shyly hunches over and desperately trying to avoid eye contact with the giant plasma screen TV, blazing loud music on the [...]
Hizballah finally feels confident enough to take a much-needed breather.
By Nicholas Noe
Four and a half years after Syrian troops were unexpectedly cajoled out of Lebanon, and more than three years after the end of a (nearly) "open" war with Israel, the Shi'ite movement Hizballah appears not' [...]
Kahane, a US rabbi who emigrated to Israel, advocated the expulsion of all Arabs.
By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth
A plan by right-wing legislators in Israel to commemorate the anniversary this month of the death of Meir Kahane, whose banned anti-Arab movement is classified as a terrorist organisation, [...]
from: Circus Isreal
[circusisrael.blogspot.com]
Japanese author Taro Gomi’s beloved children’s book, Everyone Poops, will soon be available in Hebrew. The book candidly and delightfully presents defecation as a natural bodily function performed by virtually every sentient life form on our shared planet. In Everyone Poops, eliminating waste is unselfconscious, essential [...]
Karzai is due to be sworn in for his second term despite questions over the poll [Reuters]
Afghan authorities have locked down the capital, Kabul, as the city prepares for Hamid Karzai to be sworn in for a second five-year term as president.
Al Jazeera's James [...]
Gaza children study amidst the ruins of Operation Cast Lead.
By Professor Haidar Eid - Gaza Strip
Dear Mr. President,
You will probably not read this letter due to your busy schedule and the huge number of messages you receive from Presidents, Kings, Princes, Sheiks, and Prime Ministers. Who [...]
Pappe abandoned his academic career in Israel and relocated to the UK.
By Jonathan Cook - Nazareth
Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the 'witch-hunt' tactics of the US academic monitoring group [...]
. . . it would be no bad thing if all our Westminster politicians had the Second Principle of Public Life tattooed on their forehead – Integrity: Holders of public office should not place themselves under any financial or other obligation to outside individuals or organizations that might seek to [...]
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained a Palestinian women on Tuesday night in downtown Al-Khalil after she refused to strip for search.
Local and press sources said that the IOF troops ordered Om Wisam Duvesh to take off her clothes for search and when she refused, [...]
GAZA - The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) refused to allow the travel of Palestinian journalist Talal Abu Rahma outside of the Gaza Strip via the Erez crossing to receive an international award that he won recently.
Abu Rahma said on Tuesday that the British embassy in Tel Aviv [...]
Israeli construction in Gilo, an ever-expanding illegal settler-colony built on stolen Palestinian land. The hill on which this illegal settlement is built was a green orchard before the Zionist invaders torn up the fruit trees, flattened the top of the hill and built their illegal settlement [...]
Palestinians sit on the ruins of a demolished house
JERUSLAM – Israeli bulldozers demolished a two-family Palestinian home in the town of Al-Isawiya in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday, the second home demolition in two days.
Residents of the town said Israeli forces entered the village [...]
Construction at the Gilo settlement is expected to add about 900 housing units [EPA] Gilo is an illegal settlement built on stolen Palestinian land near Bethlehem. The Zionist government constructed and Apartheid road known as "the tunnel road" from Jerusalem to Bethlehem that only illegal Jewish [...]
"The US and Israel have avoided the Security Council for more than 16 years. To go back to it today would be a major shift" -- Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has warned the Palestinian leadership against any attempts to unilaterally declare statehood for [...]
Despite Israel and America's best efforts, the Goldstone Report refuses to go away, writes Graham Usher at the United Nations
Last week the UN General Assembly endorsed the Goldstone Report, so named after its principle author the retired and respected South African Judge Richard Goldstone. It calls on Israel [...]
Whatever lies ahead after Abbas's notification of not seeking the Palestinian presidency again, the status quo ante is over for good, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah
The recent decision by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas not to seek a second term in office has already thrown into question [...]
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By Ira Chernus
Nobody seems to know just what Barack Obama said to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the two met recently at the White House. In fact, when it comes to Middle East policy, nobody seems to [...]
By Haaretz Staff
Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of launching an "organized campaign" of lies and misinformation against it in the wake of the organization's support of the Goldstone report, British newspaper the Guardian reported Friday.
The Goldstone report claims Israel and Hamas both committed war crimes during the [...]
By Gideon Levy
President Shimon Peres considers Richard Goldstone a "small man, devoid of any sense of justice, a technocrat with no real understanding of jurisprudence." Same to you, we used to say when we were kids. Indeed, it's amazing to see how aptly these harsh remarks describe Peres himself, a [...]
ANALYSIS / Next round of Gaza hostilities will be more intense
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
The Israeli reactions to the conclusions reached by the Goldstone Commission about Operation Cast Lead are characterized by large doses of affront and anger. But the issue of the next war is [...]
By RANNIE AMIRI
After five long years, and at great expense to a state hoped-to-be-called Palestine, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has finally realized that subservience to the United States and Israel pays little in dividends. Indeed, what he has done to the cause of Palestine, the unity of its people, [...]
