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Vote, NO!

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If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Everyone, please take 5 seconds of your time and vote on CNN. If you scroll down about half way on this article, which asks if Israel aggression is justified.
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It’s Open War

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Nasrallah Declare ‘Open War’. Listen to podcast:
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Hezbollah destroys an Israeli warship off the coast of Beirut, less than hour after el-Sayed Hassan Nasrallah declared “open war” on Israel.
Reports and eyewitness are reporting that the navy vessel was hit but two missiles and is now sending SOS.
Nasrallah said:
To Israelis whom I know that they [...]

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Arabisc: Sunni, Shia’, Peace, War, Israel, Palestine and Lebanon!

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The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices…
The Blazing Middle East
Third day after the beginning of the never ending Middle East conflict; Israel/Lebanon war, the Arabic blogsphere speaks.
Ranging between anger, celebration, condemnation and support, on both sides of the conflict, the bloggers views vary [...]

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Listen, World!

The Palestinian sisters, mothers, wives and daughters of Palestinian prisoners are all saying:

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What can go worse than what we went through? NOTHING!
They want to shoot us? They already did…
They will occupy the land? It is already occupied…
They will cut our food and water supply? We [...]

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Israel is submitting!

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Today Haaretz report: Army would free prisoners without ‘blood on their hands’ in exchange for soldier.
IMHO, this is nothing more than a trial balloon, a statement that somebody in the IOF wants a way to step back from the brink.
Lets look closely at the specific conditions and on certain types of Palestinian prisoners to be [...]

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken, War and Women Rights

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices…
Summer holidays, women rights, war in Iraq and war in Palestine. These are some of the permanent scene in the Arabic language blogsphere these days. Here is some of what few bloggers said:
The daily life of a [...]

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Operation Summer Bloody-Rain, and “We Kill Servers”!

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This is from the battle felid:

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OTOH:
[Source: ynetnews]: More than 750 Israeli websites hacked in recent hours. Among them: Soldier�s Treasury Bank, Rambam Hospital, and Globus Group ticket center. Hackers: You�re killing Palestinians, we�re killing servers.
Hundreds of websites were damaged by hackers in recent hours, following [...]

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What can they do, kill us?

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The Israeli terrorist army sent in troops and tanks, and bombarded bridges and a power station. More to come!
And the new massacre began. Here is some of what Gazans are saying:
“What can they do, kill us? What is the value of our lives if we cannot feed our children?” asked Ali Abu Khaled, a 35-year-old [...]

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The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other?

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A MUST READ!
Here is the summery of latest featured report by The Pew Global Attitudes Project. The report answers the question: “How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other.” [Hat tip: Robin]
You can download the full report from here (PDF)!
Introduction and Summary
After a year marked by riots over cartoon portrayals of Muhammad, a major terrorist attack [...]

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Spinsters World & Women Rights in Arab Land

It’s women again!
A report published by Khaleej Times said that a survey conducted by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Planning reveals a shocking number of “spinsters” across Saudi Arabia. To be precise, the exact number of the unmarried females has been recorded at 1,529,418. Now from the last census I could find, Saudi population has reached [...]

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Bahraini Girls’ school bars men from attending graduation fete

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…Muharraq Girls’ School told their graduates that only female relatives could attend the end-of-year ceremony at the Education Hall. The decision was made to make the students and their families feel at ease, according to the school.
But columnists Sawsan Al Shair, Ali Saleh and Saeed Al Hamad quickly dismissed the unprecedented call as a consecration [...]

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Arabisc: The Arabic Bloggers Ken, Media, Anti-Blogging and the World Cup

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices…
Arabic language and the Internet…
Marwan, from Subzero Blue blog, writes in his Arabic blog about the new Google News service in Arabic. He seems have found something we all have missed for long time. Marwan writes:

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Weblogs soar in Gulf states

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Few days ago, AFP interviewed me by email. Today, I was happy to find that the interview was published in few places.
First, here is Aljazeera version:

Weblogs soar in Gulf states
Internet blogs are giving rise to a new breed of Arab activist as ordinary residents increasingly use them to press for political rights and civil liberties [...]

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices!
This week in the Arabic Language blogsphere:
Let’s start with the hard stuff. Tara from Iraq, has some rare seen images:

Tara then writes:

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Arabisc: Arabic Bloggers Ken

The following is an abbreviated translation from some Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices!
From Egypt… Malek who was scheduled to be free few days ago is now officially free. He just made his first post, titled: Free Morning. Malek writes:

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Samson Blinded: The Book of Israeli Terrorism Manual Banned by Yahoo, Google and Amazon

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The question is why?
I think because it shows and explains why Israel exists and what it has to do to keep on existing. Does Arab need Israel, and vice versa? Does anyone need peace? The answer to all these questions and a lot more, are not what you expect to hear. It�s not the obvious [...]

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Arabisk - The Arabic Bloggers Ken

The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere. It was initially published at Global Voices!
Music…
Amal, in her latest cartoon:

“See my Wawa, kiss my Wawa.” The Wawa is the little tiny hurt “ouch”..

In this cartoon; a poor bleeding Palestinian child is begging from a wealthy Arabian man who seems not giving attention [...]

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Who is searching for sex?

Here is another toy from Google. It is still sitting at Googles Labs, and they call it Google Trends. Fark recently featured the discovery under “obvious” tag, so I went to check it out, and guess what, I came out… blushing
Here is why. Go here and search for the word “sex” (don’t worry, [...]

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Google-bombing for Alaa: Press Release

Bloggers Launch Innovative Campaign to Free One of Their Own
For Immediate Release
Contact: Mary Joyce (MaryCJoyce@gmail.com, Skype name: demoblogger)
On Sunday May 7, Alaa Ahmed Seif El Islam, a prominent Egyptian blogger and political activist, was detained in Cairo by the Egyptian authorities while protesting the earlier detention of political activists rallying for a free judiciary.
Although [...]

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