BREAKING NEWS: Humanitarian Ship to Gaza is a Floating Prison: Cairo is Obeying Orders from Tel Aviv

by Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research, May 25, 2011 Below is the transcript of my interview on March 23 with Press TV, which focuses on the decision by Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs to allow the ship to berth and unload its humanitarian cargo in the port of al Arish.  Egypt has broken its promise. […]

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Aqsa foundation: New nearby settlement poses serious threat to Aqsa Mosque

[ 24/05/2011 – 05:02 PM PIC ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Senior Israeli cabinet ministers and officials are set to celebrate this Wednesday the opening of a settlement complex planned to house 1,000 Jews in the Palestinian Ras al-Amud neighborhood situated on the Olive Mount in Jerusalem. The settlement poses a threat to the Aqsa Mosque […]

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Second Freedom Flotilla will include 600 activists from 40 countries

[ 24/05/2011 – 05:29 PM PIC ] AMMAN, (PIC)– The sequel to the Gaza flotilla attacked by Israeli occupation forces in May 2010 will include 600 passengers from 40 countries, according to the latest figures given by Jordanian Lifeline committee chairman Wael al-Saqa. So far, forty activists from Jordan alone are registered to participate in […]

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UN: Israel should end eviction of Palestinians from their homes

May 24, 2011, 19:48 GMT| – Monsters and Critics New York – Israel should end the forced eviction of Palestinians from their homes in the occupied Palestinian territories, the UN humanitarian emergency coordinator said Tuesday. Both Palestinian and Israeli civilians are victims of the on-going conflict, Valerie Amos said following last week’s visit to Israel […]

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The Military Officer Who Sent Me a Husband

Kawther Salam | May 24, 2011 It is difficult to imagine the depths of the filth sloshing around in the heads of the officers of the zionist occupation state, the same people who style themselves as officers of a “civil administration” and as “Coordinators of Government Activities in the Territories” (COGAT). In fact there is […]

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Hamas calls for immediate release of Sheikh Natshe

[ 25/05/2011 – 07:05 PM | PIC ] AL-KHALIL, DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Hamas strongly condemned the Israeli detention of Sheikh Nabil Al-Natshe, one of the prominent social figures in Al-Khalil, describing his arrest as a flagrant violation of human rights. It said in a statement on Wednesday that the Israeli step was meant to prevent Palestinian […]

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Ahrar: Prisoner Rajoub on verge of death

[ 25/05/2011 – 07:24 PM | PIC ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli Ofer jail have appealed to all local and international human rights groups to save the life of their comrade Yasser Al-Rajoub after his health seriously deteriorated. Fuad Al-Khuffash the director of the Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights […]

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Rae Abileah of CodePink on Disrupting Netanyahu’s Congress Speech: “He’s the Main Obstacle to Peace” – video

DemocracyNow.org – May 25, 2011 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech was warmly received by Democrats and Republicans in Congress on Tuesday. According to ABC News, Netanyahu received 29 standing ovations during his address—four more than President Obama received during his State of the Union address earlier in the year. However, there was at least […]

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Nakba Denials Must Be Condemned

by Yousef Munayyer  In a rebuttal to Michael Medved’s Daily Beast article on how the media distort the Mideast debate, Yousef Munayyer writes that the U.S. knew all along that the creation of Israel would endanger the Palestinian people. When Palestinian refugees were gunned down by Israeli soldiers upon marching towards their homeland during unarmed […]

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Labor in Palestine: The Work of Resistance Gets a New Push

 May 25, 2011 | 10:07 am| By Michelle Chen  – Working In These Times Members of the Palestinian Popular Committee hold a protest calling for the boycott of Israeli settlement goods sold in Palestinian areas, on September 24, 2010, in Maasarah, near Bethlehem.   (MUSA AL-SHAER/AFP/Getty Images) There are a few values that trade unionists […]

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The man who has nothing to say but No

The BiBi No Speech Dima Khatib | 24 May 2011 | Jews for Justice for Palestinians Now that was one speech I shall never forget. I plan to store it in my memory in the same box as this season’s Arab leaders’ speeches, except that it was not a dictator’s pre-overthrow speech, it was rather […]

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Campaign to vilify Gaza flotilla underway in Europe

David Cronin |The Electronic Intifada |25 May 2011 Italians rally in support of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, May 2011. (“Flickr) A campaign of vilification against the flotilla that will soon try to break Israel’s siege of Gaza appears to be gathering momentum in Europe. Over the past few weeks newspapers in the Netherlands have published articles […]

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Amidst long hours waiting to pass to Jerusalem

25 May 2011 | Shahd Abusalma   | International Solidarity Movement Last night, I went to bed at 11 pm, much earlier than I’m used to. I forced myself to stay under my blanket. The room was very dark and no sound could be heard but the sound of me moving in bed continually. I wanted […]

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Egypt to open Rafah border permanently

Egyptian state news agency quotes military sources as saying the border with Gaza will be opened starting from Saturday. Last Modified: 25 May 2011 18:27 There have been several attempts, some successful, to break the blockade on the Gaza Strip [GALLO/GETTY] Egypt will permanently open its Rafah border crossing starting from Saturday, the country’s official […]

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US, Israel dealt blow to Arab peace plan

PressTV | Wed May 25, 2011 6:22PM Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah secretary general has described the latest speeches by the US president and the Israeli prime minister as a final blow to Arab peace initiative. Addressing thousands of his supporters in the eastern village of Nabi Sheet on the occasion of “Liberation […]

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