Perhaps it it time to bring criminal and civil charges against the PLO, USA, Syria and Lebanese Forces for the massacres in Lebanon.
By Sami Jamil Jadallah
As was expected, the Palestinian leadership sitting in Ramallah and around the world did not make a mention of or remembers the massacre of some 5,000 Palestinians civilians massacred in [...]

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I admit I have missed the news when it was announced end of last July, but better late than never.
Honored to be Bahraini by soul for living in Bahrain for the last four years, I am very happy to know that Wafaa Ganahi, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, won the [...]

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What motivates me to write about Shulamit Cohen is my encounter with her corrupt son David Kishik, whom I met years ago in the course of my journalistic work, and who turned the Israeli Military-Civil Administration Headquarter in the West Bank into a central for furthering his lucrative business transactions and private projects around land [...]

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This June marks the fortieth anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Four decades of control maintained by force of arms have enabled Israel to impose its will on the occupied territories and to remake them in its own image.
Here is FAQ on the 1967 war:
1. How did the [...]

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June 2007 marks the 40-year anniversary of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights.
The ICNP (International Coordination Network on Palestine) has launched during last year’s annual UN civil society conference on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people a global Call for Action Days on June 9-10, [...]

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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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11.08.2006 Source: URL: http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/83898-Nuclear_War-0

Such was the conclusion reached in the U.S. Russian generals and political scientists disagree only about its exact starting date.
Our world is on the brink of another world war. It will originate August 22nd in the Middle East. The prediction was presented not by Vagna or Nostradamus but by an American political [...]

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Everyone knows Michel Hayek for his famous predictions, future forecasts and consultations. He is Lebanon’s top psychic.
On 2004 New Year’s Eve, he predicted the death of Beirut MP and An-Nahar General Manager Gebran Tueni. That evening, as has been the case for nearly a decade, Hayek appeared on LBC television to offer 16 predictions for [...]

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Saudis plan to fence off border with chaos
Via: Times online
Just what Iraq’s need. Saudis Arabia plan to fence off Iraq. They have invited bids for the construction of a security fence (isn’t that the same name used for what is called the Israeli Apartheid Wall?) along the entire length of its 900km (560mile) desert border [...]

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Yesterday I was reading “Bloggers: an army of irregulars” by Paul Reynolds from the BBC. He talks about what big business and the mainstream media can learn from blogs :
For many in the “mainstream media”, as bloggers call us, weblogs are at best a nuisance and at worst dangerous.
They are seen as the rantings and [...]

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This article first appeared on Global Voices. The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogsphere. The selected posts reflect different deviations in opinions and reactions related to the infamous Danish Cartoons.
Dalya Younis of Geraldine Kingdom blog writes:

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In the spirit of the “constructive and hot discussion” in the last two day regarding anonymity and blogging, and as a compliment to that, I’m please to share with you BlogSafer press release.
It is a wiki based project, which means that anyone and everyone is welcome to share and edit the content (until it is [...]

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It was the worst concert I’ve ever seen. Coming out from the syrian palerlemnt house, and watching it live on TV (Arabic link):
Syrian lawmakers demanded on Saturday that former Vice President Abdel-Halim Khaddam be tried for treason and corruption after he publicly broke with President Bashar al-Assad.
Speaking from Paris, where he moved after resigning as [...]

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A car bomb explosion killed anti-Syrian Member of Parliament and journalist Gebran Tueni in Beirut this morning. Tueni is Publisher, Chairman of the Board, General Manager and Editorialist of AN-NAHAR (Arabic) since 01/01/2000.
Lebanon has been rocked by a series of bombings and assassinations since the killing of the former Prime Minister, Rafik al-Hariri, on 14 [...]

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Human Rights Watch released its long-awaited report on Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa. This report examines Internet trends and policies in the Middle East and North Africa region as they affect freedom of expression, focusing particularly on Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. Human Rights Watch selected these four countries for closer [...]

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A UN report cited “converging evidence” pointing at involvement by both Syrian and Lebanese senior security officials in the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri.
Bloomberg - Unnamed Syrian:
An unnamed Syrian living in Lebanon “who claims to have worked for the Syrian intelligence services in Lebanon, has stated that approximately two weeks after the adoption [...]

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The young Syrian female correspondent of an Arabic-language TV network said that the Syrians “were in shock over the assassination of Brigadier General Kenaan . . . excuse me, the suicide of Brigadier General Kenaan.” [Jihad el Khazen - Dar al Hayat]

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[Cartoon: Mahjoob]
From right to left: Russian style, Samurai Style, French Style, and last the Syrian Style.

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A Syria-based rights group said that state authorities “made up” a scenario involving a distraught woman who claimed that she had been beaten in order to put pressure on a prominent human rights activist and lawyer -Anwar Al Bunni.” A woman threw herself on the ground at the Damascus high court shouting that she had [...]

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