Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Syria appoints ambassador to Iraq

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"Syria has appointed Nawaf al-Fares as its ambassador to Iraq, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Damascus reported. Al-Fares, who was sworn...

Al-Jazeera Video: Palestinians despondent as Israeli polls near - 16 Sep 08

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".... The Palestinians main fear is that whoever wins will maintain the status quo: a military occupation consisting of checkpoints, wa...

The two-state solution is nearly dead. But there's one last chance to save it

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The arrival of a new Israeli leader must bode well for the peace process, right? Wrong, say veteran negotiators Jonathan Freedland The Guard...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The Palestinians of Sabra-Shatila: 26 years after the Massacre - Part One

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A Very Good Piece By Franklin Lamb The Peoples Voice ".....On September 16 , 2008, at precisely 10:30 am, Fairouz Husseini and a gather...

Ad-Dameer Association demands Abbas to release a detained Palestinian reporter

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" The Ad-Dameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association demanded the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas to issue direct orders...

Palestinian Journalists Block demands an investigation regarding the increased incidents of harassment against journalists by the PA

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By Iqbal Tamimi Palestine Think Tank "The Palestinian Journalists block has sent me a number of e-mails expressing their serious conce...

Israel denies Palestinians access to land around settlements

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Report, B'tselem , 16 September 2008 "For years, Israeli authorities have both barred Palestinian access to rings of land surroundi...

Rights group: Probe IDF failure to protect Palestinians from settler violence

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"The Israel Defense Forces must investigate its soldiers' failure to prevent a group of settlers from attacking and wounding eight ...

Zion Uber Alles.....

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Yitzhar's rabbi: The state stole Israel from the Jews "....."The proper and healthy thing, and this applies to the events of S...

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(Click on cartoon by Emad Hajjaj to enlarge) Wielding the Oil Weapon..... The Non-Arab With Guts and Vision..... Viva Chavez!

More Than the Film Stands Between Iran and Egypt

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Analysis by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani "CAIRO, Sep 16 (IPS) - Despite several goodwill gestures from Iran, Egypt appears a...

'The Forgotten Fighter': Nablus's Will to Live

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By Frank Barat Palestine Chronicle "Many Palestinians that I met during my travels in the West Bank told me that to know what Palestine...

Real News Video: Bolivia crisis worsens as emergency summit is held

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Forrest Hylton: US is being shut out as South American regional body tries to solve crisis on its own "The ongoing conflict in Bolivia ...

فليرحل عباس مع بوش واولمرت

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فليرحل عباس مع بوش واولمرت عبد الباري عطوان ".... اما استمرار عباس في السلطة بعد فترة انتهاء رئاسته، فسيكون موضع تشكيك دستوري في شرعيت...
Monday, September 15, 2008

Unfinished Business of Ethnic Cleansing

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The Expulsion of Palestinians from Jaffa By JONATHAN COOK CounterPunch Jaffa. "......Jaffa is one of half a dozen “mixed cities” in Isr...

Meanwhile in Bolivia....By Carlos Latuff

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(Click on cartoon to enlarge) "Brazilian media portrayal of the CIA-backed coup mongers in Bolivia."

US Contractors Training Georgian Military in Acts of Sabotage

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Photographic Evidence by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Global Research , September 14, 2008 "On September 14, 2008 a truck of Russian peaceke...

For Palin, It’s a (Christian) Man’s World

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By Chris Hedges "Sarah Palin may be a governor and a vice presidential candidate, but in the hyper-masculine world of the Christian rig...

Abu Marzouk: Abbas's position insinuates he relinquished RoR

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"DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk, the deputy political bureau chairman of Hamas, has rejected PA chief Mahmoud Abbas's posi...

Abu Mazen: don’t mess with the right of return

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By Khalid Amayreh " In recent days, the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas made two extremely worrying pronouncem...