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Between June 12th and 19th 2007, in West Jerusalem, Clemens Messerschmid, presented his a two-part lecture series sponsored by the Alternative Information Center, titled "Till the Last Drop: The [...]
What is the power and influence of "The Lobby" (a.k.a. AIPAC) on US Foreign Policy?
The explanation for the support is to be found in the activities of the Israel Lobby, also known as the Jewish Lobby, or as AIPAC (the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee), which uses its formidable influence to shape American foreign policy in [...]
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Podcast: Hizbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday Hezbollah guerrillas would fire rockets at Tel Aviv if Israel attacked central Beirut.
"If you strike Beirut, the Islamic Resistance will strike Tel Aviv and it is able to do so," Nasrallah said.
"(If) at any time you decide to stop [...]
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Podcast: Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Saturday U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice aimed to impose conditions on Lebanon and to serve Israeli interests during her diplomatic mission to the region.
"Rice is returning to the region to try to impose her conditions on Lebanon again [...]
Podcast: “I would like to declare that, after this escalation, we have gone beyond the Haifa phase," Nasrallah said in a TV address broadcast on Al-Manar television channel, vowing to move “to the phase of beyond ‘beyond Haifa', if need be."
Here is the full speech (Arabic):
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Podcast: Interview with Karen Abu Zeid, head of the United Nations Refugee Works Agency, talking about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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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 [...]
Audio Interview: Palestinian Children in Israeli Jails
Stefan Christoff, The Electronic Intifada, 20 May 2006. [Hat tip: Robin]
Listen to an interview with Ayed Abu Eqtaish, a child rights activist from Defense for Children International [Palestine Section] and Adam Hanieh of Sumoud, a political prisoner solidarity group based in Toronto. This interview was recorded during the April/May [...]
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Alaa Abd El-Fatah, one of the Egyptian political activists, and one of the first bloggers in Egypt was arrested today together with around ten more activists during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with sixty activists who were arrested over the past two weeks in a non-violent sit in, as well [...]
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If anyone is interested, you can hear my interview with Radio Open Source on tonight show, The al-Jazeera Effect. The show will be on air at midnight GMT, which is too late for me to be on live (3:00 am - local Bahrain time).
My host - Chris Lydon - had [...]
First, let’s read the news in the last few days again:
The drawings have touched a raw nerve in part because Islamic law is interpreted to forbid any depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.
Indonesian Muslims went on a rampage inside the lobby of a Jakarta building housing the Danish embassy on Friday in protest over cartoons that [...]
Norwegian magazine has published the Prophet cartoons:
A Norwegian Christian magazine has published a set of controversial caricatures of the prophet Mohammed after months of uproar in the Muslim world over a Danish paper's decision to print the same cartoons. Repeating a move by conservative Danish paper Jyllands-Posten last September, Magazinet published the controversial drawings in [...]
Tonight is the last BBC World Have Your Say programme for the year. Debora and I will be on air later at the show. I we'll be talking about blogging in the Middle East and the most memorable moments in 2005.
This will be my second interview with Have Your Say team in less than a [...]
