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!Yesterday I forwarded this insightful observation made by Susanne Scheidt, the coordinator of Al-Awda Italia, and person who is exquisitely informed on events in the Middle East. Since then, [...]

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First of all, please meet Handala (Hat tip: Ben Heine for his great artwork):

Handala (or Hanzala) is the most famous of the Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali’s cartoon characters. From approximately 1975 through 1987 Naji Al-Ali created cartoons that depict the complexities of the plight of Palestinian refugees. These cartoons are still relevant today and Handala, [...]

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I’ve been watching the latest Palestinian refugees crises for a week now. Thousands of Palestinian refugees fled from Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon as one week of clashes by the Lebanese army and a militant group known as Fath al-Islam has left dozens of soldiers and fighters (better described as terrorists) and an [...]

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Quoting this blog:
Help us look for Dan Halutz!
minals and human rights abusers. Also be sure to ask if THEY have seen the elusive Dan Halutz and could help locate him!
Thank you for your support and remember to keep your eyes peeled!
Please address your correspondence to these administrators and cc messages to ajmeharvard at gmail dot [...]

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This is not the first time that Israeli society is repairing the blunders of a past war by means of a new war. People remember Menachem Begin’s observation that the first Lebanon War came to heal the trauma of the Yom Kippur War. That will be the case this time, too. The third Lebanon War [...]

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If you read only one thing today, it must be this piece…
By Sara Roy
We have nothing to lose except everything. Albert Camus
[Image by bendib]
During the summer my husband and I had a conversion ceremony for our adopted daughter, Jess. We took her to the mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath where she was totally submerged in [...]

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“Other observers are concluding that Israel and the Bush administration must foment a civil war in order not to “lose” Lebanon and be driven from the region.”…
…”Their reasoning is that if Bush and Olmert can provoke Hizbullah into turning its guns on Lebanese rivals, which it has never done and refuses to do, (Nasrallah recently [...]

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How the Lebanese town of Aita al Shaab won the war and lost almost everything? An excellent story of the Lebanese and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon who you do not hear about in America.

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Israel’s Prime Minister said on Thursday that the summer 2006 war with Lebanon had been pre-planned, backing up similar claims made by Hizbullah that the conflict was “anticipatory.” According to Israeli daily Haaretz, Ehud Olmert told the Winograd Commission that as early as March 2006 - a full four months before the outbreak of the [...]

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The results are out and I was not surprised to see that the images of the Zionist crimes are winning so many awards this year.
First of all, the grand prize was selected by the international jury of the 50th annual World Press Photo Contest and it went to a color image of the US photographer [...]

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Update: Steve suggested changing the title of this post and passed this photo (Thanks Steve):

It is funny to hear and use the word, “misused.” What do you expect these bombs to be used for? I mean, what is the “good use” of cluster bombs? Hunting dinosaur , elephants, whales? Why are they manufactured for? [...]

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“Anthem for Someone’s Child” (written and recorded in memory of all the children killed in the Middle-East conflicts and forming the centrepiece of the http://www.forsomeoneschild.com/ website) has received the “Best Songwriter” award (France) in the national category in the 2006 Music Aid International Music Awards Contest.
The song brought tears to my eyes and I [...]

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In the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, in between 168 indexed countries, our beloved Arab countries makes sure to be among the worst.
Here is the list in order from “best” to “worst“:
Kuwait - 73
United Arab Emirates - 77
Mauritania - 77
Qatar - 80
Morocco - 97
Lebanon - 107
Jordan - 109
Bahrain - 111
Algeria - [...]

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Did you know that there are few journalists in Washington who can throw the White House off its stride? Bob Woodward is one of them. Woodward�s new book, “State of Denial,” paints a damning picture of White House policy in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion. The White House is now in full damage-control mode [...]

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Seems that letting people die and starve does not make you popular, Condi.
The least they could have done was put her in one of her chic suits…
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This from a demonstration waiting for Rice in Lebanon. [Hat tip: Editerette]

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At Stop the War’s CEASEFIRE NOW demonstration on August 5, they asked people to bring children’s shoes to lay at the Cenotaph in Whitehall to signify the high proportion of fatalities among young children resulting from Israel’s barbaric attacks on Lebanon’s civilian areas, then taking place. The response was extraordinary and very moving and after [...]

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Some of the best reporting from Lebanon and Gaza in recent months has been through the eyewitness accounts of freelance journalists and photographers.
A slideshow and talk and reporter Penny Quinton will take place at the National Union of Journalists head office - London, on Monday 9 October.
The meeting is organised by Media Workers Against [...]

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On 27 September 2006, a war criminal responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan, and whose refusal to call for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza sanctioned Israel’s barbaric attacks, addressed the Labour Party Conference in Manchester.
The Independent said Tony Blair made “the speech of the century” at the [...]

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If you do not read anything else today, read the speech by Nurit, an Israeli women who lost her daughter to a Palestinian suicide bombing. I came to know that all in the audience, Christians, Muslims, and Jews literally cried. Read it and judge for yourself.
Education or mind infection?
By Nurit Peled-Elhanan*
Speech given at Connecticut College, [...]

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Did you know that the world can’t Wait to drive out the Bush Regime? “On October 5, people everywhere will walk out of school, take off work, and come to the downtowns & townsquares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to join us - making a powerful [...]

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