In the film, when German soldiers forced Jewish musicians to play for them at a checkpoint, I thought to myself: “that’s one thing Israeli soldiers have not yet done to Palestinians.” I spoke too soon, it seems. Israel’s leading newspaper Ha’aretz reported last week that an Israeli human rights organization monitoring a daunting military roadblock near Nablus was able to videotape Israeli soldiers forcing a Palestinian violinist to play for them.

… except in the presence of a male guardian.

From Al-Qabas, via Kuwait Unplugged

[via: AraBlog, Chan'ad]

Few minutes ago, on Jordan TV - 8:00 pm news, it was announced that King Abdulla of Jordan removed his brother, Prince Hamza from the Crown Prince position!

Prince Hamza is the elder son of Queen Noor, wife of late King Hussain.

[Chan'ad Bahraini wrote]

The second Bahrain Bloggers Meetup will be held this Thursday, so I’m writing this to encourage more of you to show up. As we’ve said before, you don’t have to have your own blog to join us. Everyone in the Bahrain online community is invited, which includes all of you anonymous commenters and [...]

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Genevieve Cora Fraser “The use of prison is central to the occupation,” Kay said. “Since1967 , Israel has detained more than600 , 000Palestinians. Since the intifada until 30June of this year,2 , 650children have been arrested and imprisoned.” Under Israeli jurisdiction, Palestinian children have no right to a lawyer nor are they permitted to know [...]

Imagine a world where Teletubbies pack heat and Spongebob goes undercover. That’s apparently what US government designers had in mind when they followed President Clinton’s 1997 order to add child-oriented Web pages to government sites. Today, the results are bizarre - cryptographic coloring books, drug-sniffing dog cartoons, and spy-satellite sing-alongs. Are they giant inside jokes? [...]

According to Lycos News:

US Marines of the 1st Division dressed as gladiators try to control a horse and stage a chariot race reminiscent of the Charlton Heston movie–complete with confiscated Iraqi horses at their base outside Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 6 , 2004. For U.S. Marines tapped to lead an expected attack on insurgent-held [...]

…I see an old man in a red kaffiyeh lying against the back wall. Another is face down next to him, his hand on the old man’s lap — as if he were trying to take cover. I squat beside them, inches away and begin to videotape them. Then I notice that the blood coming [...]

Via Guardian Blog: Two students - one Israeli and one Palestinian - are writing diaries for EducationGuardian.co.uk. They’re part of the Olive Tree peace project, which has funded 14 students from Israel and the occupied territories to live and study together in London.

Education reporter Polly Curtis more about the project here: Yael Litmanovitz and Firas [...]