Archive for July 24, 2010
He is hailed as a hero in the US
“A newly revealed tape of Netanyahu in 2001, being interviewed while he thinks the cameras are off, shows him in a radically different light. In it, Netanyahu dismisses American foreign policy as easy to maneuver, boasts of having derailed the Oslo acc…
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
expelling shepherds
“Which is crueler? Expelling an urban family from its home in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, or bulldozing a meager tent encampment of shepherds living on private Jordan Valley land they leased, destroying their water tanks, their tents and th…
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
Asma Tubasi from Rafah
“Gaza’s top Tawjihi student felt like she broke the siege against her with determination and the light from her mobile phone, she told Ma’an the day she received the news of her success. Asma Amin Tubasi from Rafah remembers her father telling her to …
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
This should be a front page story in every US newspaper. It is nowhere there. You read it in the Inter press
“Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, accordin…
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
Not in the US press
A child, Yusuf Zurayq, 9, was injured by an Israeli cluster bomb in Shaqra, South Lebanon. US Congress would not notice.
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
Now really, this is Zionism
“The country is in thrall to such anti-democratic sentiment and mob rule racism, manifesting at such breakneck speed that it is hard to keep up. In the last few months alone two Arab citizens of Israel were “disappeared” by the state’s secret police; a…
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
Israel’s honeymoon with Arab dictatorships
“How did you manage to create and develop relations with Arab and Muslim ambassadors, despite the diplomatic situation?”That is the secret of quiet diplomacy, and activity behind the scenes. One of my friends is Egyptian Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz, eve…
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
immediate protection of someone else’s property
“The case involved a group of activists who broke into and vandalised a Brighton factory run by engineering firm EDO MBM. The company was making parts for use in the bomb-aiming equipment on Israeli F16 warplanes. The invasion shut the factory for a w…
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
Can you imagine the international outcry if they were to burn the Torah, for example?
“The Dove World Outreach Center, a non-denominational church in Gainesville FL, is planning to mark this year’s anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with a little bonfire of Korans, the holy book of Islam. They even have a Facebook p…
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
You may cry some more in the future: you will be losing your “soul” because it does not belong to you
“”But after a visit to Israel, I would get on the plane and cry. I felt like part of my soul is here.”"
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
Desperate Zionist propaganda
I mean, I dont remember that Zionist propaganda was that dumb. I mean, it has always been dumb but this dumb? They now remind me of Ba`thist propaganda of the 1960s: “A car bomb that exploded July 15 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, may indicate that Mexica…
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad
American Injustice System
“Similar things have happened elsewhere. The incarceration rate in Britain has more than doubled, and that in Japan increased by half, over the period. But the trend has been sharper in America than in most of the rich world, and the disparity has grow…
Posted on July 24, 2010 by As'ad