Fatah strongman, expected to win Palestinian election if freed in Shalit deal, declares intention to run.
Fatah strongman Marwan Barghouti said in an interview on Wednesday that he intends to run in the next Palestinian presidential election, and remarked that the capture of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit by Gaza militants achieved what no negotiations [...]
By Terrell E. Arnold *
09-21-09 – For nearly a century the Palestinian people have felt the pressures of outsiders scheming to take over their homeland. For the past sixty years the invaders have systematically undertaken the ethnic cleansing of Palestine to make way for new Israelis. For this purpose the invaders have constructed a [...]
"Netanyahu: Swapping prisoners for Shalit would harm Israel"
(i.e. Not a hell of a lot. But if he gets killed, they will make him a martyr and exploit it for all it's worth! The dead are always of much greater value to the Israelis than the living.)
Netanyahu also said that he would not serve as [...]
"It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world." – Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Transport Minister (1)
Might Israel release up to 600 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the Israeli soldier captured near Gaza on June 25? Negotiations are underway.
As this story develops, the [...]
Racism, Not Ignorance, Plagues the Media Covering Palestine
Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net
Racism is "the belief that one 'racial group' is inferior to another and the practices of the dominant group to maintain the inferior position of the dominated group. Often defined as a combination of power, prejudice and discrimination." This is how the British Library wished to [...]
