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Archive for June, 2007

NY Times, Washington Post slammed by Jewish organizations for Hamas op-eds

Monday, June 25th, 2007

The op-eds were by Hamas’s Ahmed Yousef, and were attacked by the usual suspects - CAMERA, the Anti-Defamation League, the Zionist Organization of America.
http://tinyurl.com/24hoj8

Israeli Police uncover weapons lab in home of Jewish settler

Monday, June 25th, 2007

In a raid on the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, police found equipment used to manufacture bullet casings, as well as reference books on how to manufacture weapons and explosives. Police also found 15 Uzi semiautomatic rifles, three of which had been restored to function properly. Police have yet to determine what the weapons were [...]

Plight of Palestinian refugees worsening in most parts of Middle East

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Some 4.4 million Palestinians remain refugees nearly 60 years after the start of the 1948 war. About one third of these refugees still live inside camps. Examples of conditions in various countries: Jordan hosts about 1.8 million Palestinian refugees including some 130,000 people who fled from Gaza in 1967. These refugees, as opposed to most [...]

A Visit to Fatah’s Torture Chamber

Monday, June 25th, 2007

A building formerly occupied by Fatah’s intelligence service in Gaza was long notorious for torture and execution. Now Hamas is in control — and is letting former inmates visit the chamber of horrors. The cells are small, perhaps six feet by six feet, with only an overhead lamp to provide light. The toilet is [...]

Collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in Lebanon

Monday, June 25th, 2007

“I managed to escape the fighting with my wife and kids and my aunt,” Mohammad begins. “But as soon as we got out the camp, the soldiers separated us into two groups. They let the women and children go, and handcuffed the men.” Then, Mohammad says, they were blindfolded and driven away in a large [...]

Kidnappers of BBC reporter afraid to release him

Monday, June 25th, 2007

Hamas blames PA officials for interfering in British hostage case and alleged that officials from the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah coaxed British hostage kidnappers not to release him. “We have monitored calls coming from Ramallah telling the kidnappers not to release the hostage, so Hamas won’t get credit for it,” Abu Zahri claimed.
http://tinyurl.com/2fudlp

Hamas: Kidnappers of [...]

The time has come to release Barghouti

Monday, June 25th, 2007

One of the leaders of the Palestinian people has been incarcerated for approximately five years now in Israel. The time has come to release him. For years, Marwan Barghouti has tried to persuade Israelis to end the occupation through negotiation. He has gone from one Israeli party headquarters to the next, meeting with politicians across [...]

Occupied Palestine and Israel: Weekend News and Articles

Monday, June 25th, 2007

House okays Egypt aid cut over Gaza smuggling, human rights
The House of Representatives voted Friday to withhold $200 million in military funds for Egypt until Cairo shows it is stopping weapons-smuggling from Egypt to the Gaza Strip and improving human rights abuses.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/874065.html

Lieberman slams plan to free PA tax funds as gesture to Abbas
Minister of Strategic [...]

My visit to Jenin, April 2002

Monday, June 25th, 2007

This blog needs an urgent resuscitation … a sentence which is an oxymoron in itself as every resuscitation is urgent.

I am tired of posting articles exclusively, interesting and up to date as they may be - I need something more alive. I like interaction with people, feedback - I hate having monologues. Talking to a [...]

Where was the media?

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

While the media keeps fueling the bullshit of peace through Fatah and Abbas….and all is well now that Hamas is being isolated…. what a CROCK!!! Olmert rejected Rice proposal of agreement with Abbas.

“Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected, during his visit to the United States last week, a proposal by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that [...]