Nothing new… Just one more!

“They (the soldiers) have no idea how much I love her,” the father said, chain-smoking and wiping away his tears. “How can I enter the house and never see her again?”

30 Israeli Soldiers Killed 8-Year-Old Palestinian Girl
Associated Press

YAMOUN, West Bank, 19 March 2006 - Eight-year-old Akbar Zayed was on her way [...]

By ALISON WEIR

“The trend toward secrecy is the greatest threat to democracy.”
- Associated Press CEO, in a speech about the importance of openness

“The official response is we decline to respond.”
- Associated Press Director of Media Relations, replying to questions [...]

Example: Pro-Israel activists block travel reform
By Ori Nir, The Forward, March 17, 2006

Jewish organizations played a leading role in defeating the effort, launched in response to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, to ban privately funded trips for members of Congress…[Complete article]

“What is this?” you are asking. Ok, bear with me a little please…

Dear friends,

Please [...]

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Some sad facts: Middle Eastern audiences are literally disconnected from the rest of the world and the rest of their countrymen. Less than four per cent of people in the Arab world are internet users, according to ITU data. The penetration rate is just 3.7% - in a region with an 8.59% penetration in landline [...]

The Dutch just came up with one of the most stupid ideas I heard of to keep - what they think would be - radicals away from their land: expose the immigration applicants to nudity and gay men kissing each other.

I don’t think only radical Muslims feel disgusted by looking at such things, even Christians [...]

-Tell your representatives that you are outraged by the myriad international law and human rights violations that the Israelis have committed in the past week and that you are alarmed by reports that the attack on the Palestinian prison in Jericho was done in collusion with the United States and Britain. Tell your representatives that [...]

Dear friends,

As I have been repeating over and over, the situation here is moving rapidly downhill. The most recent hostage-taking in Jericho by Israel is just one more notch downward. Today’s Israeli military attack (as I write) on Jenin, AGAIN!!!!, is another. Olmert’s statement 2 days ago that the [...]

Today is the time to ask the moderate non-Muslims to please stand up and let themselves be counted.

“I don’t mean to sound harsh or anything but I don’t like what the Muslim people believe in, according to the Koran. Because I think they preach hate.”

This is what one of the many ordinary Americans interviewed by [...]

Israeli aggression, American/British betrayal… Nothing new!

Another act of aggression by the Israeli state, emboldened by western governments’ hostility to Hamas.

Al-Jazeera broadcasted footage of a brutal Israeli raid on a prison in the Palestinian town of Jericho; while BBC and western media focus on the reaction of the Palestinian street, as expected.

Israeli forces hit Jericho prison [...]