Archive | February 5, 2011

Moment of Reckoning for Arabs

19:11 02/04/2011 The world is watching the Arabs. By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai The magic of poetry is invariably lost in translation. Yet I must share these extraordinary lines by Faiz ahmed Faiz, South Asia’s revolutionary poet, with the readers, written for extraordinary times like ours. It’s as though he had those marching on […]

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Ministry of captives condemns PA summoning of captive’s wife in Ramallah

[ 04/02/2011 – 09:06 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The ministry of captives in the Gaza Strip has strongly condemned the PA security forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah for summoning wife of a Palestinian captive incarcerated in an Israeli occupation jail, describing such behavior as a stab in the back of the […]

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Israelis Discover a New Love for Mubarak by Pierre Klochendler

    by Pierre Klochendler, February 05, 2011– Antiwar.com JERUSALEM – Around the world, peoples revel in anticipation of the fall of a regime that has denied its citizens their basic rights. But most Israelis are haunted by nightmare scenarios of ‘the day after’, as if their country’s stability was anchored in the continuity of […]

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Israeli settlers cause environmental damage to Bethlehem villages

[ 04/02/2011 – 07:53 PM ]   BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli settlers on Thursday caused environmental damage to fields belonging to residents of the villages of Husan, Wadi Fokin and Nahalin to the west of Bethlehem when they pumped large amounts of waste water the fields. Olive trees and plantations of Palestinian farmers in the villages […]

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Fierce confrontations with IOF in Jerusalem

[ 04/02/2011 – 11:28 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– IOF troops on Friday intensified their presence in occupied Jerusalem, especially around the Aqsa Mosque fearing demonstrations in support of the Egyptian people’s revolution. The troops only allowed men over the age of 50 years to enter the mosque to perform their Friday prayers and […]

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Egypt revolution impacts Gaza fuel supply

PressTV -Sat Feb 5, 2011 1:9AM Gazans have to wait for hours to receive fuel to heat up homes, businesses, and schools. Gaza’s fuel supplies have dropped significantly due to the situation in Egypt, causing serious problems for Palestinians living in the territory. Tel Aviv frequently shuts the borders of Gaza, and Israeli courts have […]

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A Villa in the Jungle?

19:23 02/04/2011 If Mubarak is cut off from reality, Binyamin Netanyahu is no less. By Uri Avnery – Israel We are in the middle of a geological event. An earthquake of epoch-making dimensions is changing the landscape of our region. Mountains turn into valleys, islands emerge from the sea, volcanoes cover the land with lava. […]

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ei: Settlers kill 2 Palestinian teens, soldiers attack funeral

Report, The Electronic Intifada, 4 February 2011 Palestinians carry the body of Uday Qadous who was shot and killed by an Israeli settler near the village Iraq Burin in the occupied West Bank on 27 January. (Rami Swidan/MaanImages)                         Israeli settlers shot and killed […]

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