With Washington’s bipartisan blessing, Israel is sabotaging a Palestinian plea for U.N. recognition By Rashid Khalidi | Salon AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Reuters/Ali Hashisho Once again Israel is doing its utmost to block Palestinian aspirat…
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#DissolveThePA ~ by Yasir M. Tineh
PA stands for Palestinian Authority, The legislative body currently governing the West Bank. August 14, 2011 by Yasir M. Tineh Headed by Mahmoud Abbas the PA is recognized as the government in control of Palestinian security and civilian affairs. T…
Why So Serious ? ~ by @YasirTineh
Yasir M. Tineh | Aug 7, 2011 Revolution has fueled the MENA region this year & the least to say is that 2011 has been one of the most productive years in voicing Human Rights in countries where that seemed rather bleak in recent history. It is…
Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Releases Comprehensive Report Titled ‘Hamas’s Gaza – Four Years Later”
WASHINGTON, July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – On July 20, The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) released a comprehensive report titled “Hamas’s Gaza – Four Years Later” which assesses the situation in Gaza…
Americans: facing the world and facing ourselves
By Lawrence Davidson * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz | July 19, 2011 Facing the world It was the Scottish poet Robert Burns who, in a poem in 1786, wrote: “O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us…
In Attempt to “Mute the Truth” Israel “Succeeds” in getting it’s own EL AL LIVE BLOG @ Al Jazeera !
In an attempt to mute the truth, IOA is banning the Press from boarding on an airplane, labeling them as terrorists. So press takes back on IOA and now AJ has a real blog for the July8 #Airflotilla mission putting even more attention on that, which…
In Attempt to “Mute the Truth” Israel “Succeeds” in getting it’s own EL AL LIVE BLOG @ Al Jazeera !
In an attempt to mute the truth, IOA is banning the Press from boarding on an airplane, labeling them as terrorists. So press takes back on IOA and now AJ has a real blog for the July8 #Airflotilla mission putting even more attention on that, which…
Why I blew the whistle about Palestine | Ziyad Clot
Israel’s attack on Gaza and the disastrous ‘peace talks’ compelled me to leak what I knewIn Palestine, the time has come for national reconciliation. On the eve of the 63rd commemoration of the Nakba – the uprooting of Palestinians that accompanied t… Continue reading
Why I blew the whistle about Palestine | Ziyad Clot
Israel’s attack on Gaza and the disastrous ‘peace talks’ compelled me to leak what I knewIn Palestine, the time has come for national reconciliation. On the eve of the 63rd commemoration of the Nakba – the uprooting of Palestinians that accompanied t… Continue reading
Ed Miliband’s Libya response shows he is no longer ‘son of Gordon Brown’
After his criticism of the Iraq war, the Labour leader can approach challenge of a new intervention from first principlesJames Callaghan, as a defeated Labour prime minister, was asked how he thought his successor, Margaret Thatcher, was handling the F… Continue reading
Qatar’s decision to send planes to Libya is part of a high-stakes game
The tiny Gulf state is keen to gain influence out of proportion to its size through diplomacy and al-JazeeraIn an air-conditioned room down an alley in the old market of Qatar’s capital Doha, enthusiasts of “damah” gather most evenings. The ancient boa… Continue reading
Libya: the morality of intervention | Bernard Kouchner
The Libyan crisis has shown how a united Europe can be used as a force for common goodCould we leave Colonel Gaddafi’s victims to die in full view of our TV cameras? I think not. It is quite understandable that the UN’s courageous decision to reso… Continue reading
Libya: Military coalition continues attacks on Gaddafi – in pictures
Latest scenes from Benghazi and Tripoli as rebels take advantage of the continued bombing campaign Continue reading
Germans voice disquiet over absence from Libya military action
Commentators warn Germany ‘lost credibility’ by abstaining from UN security council resolution but opinion poll backs decisionGermany’s decision to join Russia and China in abstaining from the UN security council resolution authorising military action … Continue reading
Turkey and France clash over Libya air campaign
Tension mounts over military action as Ankara accuses Sarkozy of pursuing French interests over liberation of Libyan peopleTurkey has launched a bitter attack on French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s and France’s leadership of the military campaign agains… Continue reading