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Land and property theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing/Apartheid
Israeli
troops cordon Issawiya town, hand demolition orders
Amid high
tension, the Israeli police forces tightened Tuesday its siege on
Issawiya town in occupied Jerusalem after they raided the town yesterday
in the context of ethnic cleansing campaigns.
MESS Report / Palestinian villagers trapped by
permanent red light
1,800 Sheikh Sa'ad residents denied road access to Jerusalem despite the
fact that they are considered residents of the city.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/
mess-report-palestinian-villagers-trapped-by-permanent-red-light-1.291803
Settlers set up tent around Palestinian water spring
Ramallah
–
Ma'an – Residents of the Dura Al-Qar'a village east of Ramallah said
residents of an illegal West Bank settlement erected a tent near the
village's water springs on Monday.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286801
Al-Aqsa
Foundation concerned over Sultan's Pool dig
Jerusalem – Ma'an
– The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage expressed concern
over excavations carried out on the Sultan's Pool, adjacent to the Old
City of Jerusalem last week, saying it feared the "Islamic site would be
destroyed." According to a statement by the Israeli Antiquities
Authority (IAA), what was uncovered was a Mamluk bridge, "covered over"
in the early 20th century.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=287011
Interview:
ethnic
cleansing inside the green line
Rawia Abu Rabia, a social
activist and human rights lawyer with the Association for Civil Rights
in Israel, represents her community and advocates for their human
and civil rights as the state continues to discriminate and uproot
citizens across the country. Nora Barrows-Friedman interviewed Abu Rabia
on the ongoing displacement of Palestinians inside Israel.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11284.shtml
Activism/Solidarity/Boycott,Sanctions
and
Divestment
Weekly Stop the
Wall Repression Update
May 25th, 2010-- Click here for this
week's update on the most significant cases of arrests and violence
against Palestinian human rights defenders and on means of collective
punishment of communities or families where human rights defenders are
active.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/2273.shtml
Al Walaja, Beit Jala protest illegal wall
construction
Al Walaja village, close to Bethlehem, faces the threat of being totally
isolated from the surrounding countryside by an apartheid wall which is
currently under construction. When it is finished the only access
villagers will have to the outside world is through a tunnel which can
be opened or closed at the whim of the Israeli authorities. This
nightmarish prospect is being protested each Sunday by the villagers,
supported by Israeli and international sympathisers. This Sunday, 23
May, approximately 70 protesters attempted to march from the village to
the site of the wall’s construction. Before they could reach their
objective they were met by a squad of a dozen border police who ordered
them to disperse. They chose instead to sit in the roadway, where they
were addressed in English and Arabic by a resistance
leader, who emphasised the justness of their cause.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/05/12497
PSP: 4 injured in Beit Ummar clashes
Hebron
–
Ma'an – Three Palestinian teenagers and an adult were injured on Monday
after clashes took place near the Beit Ummar town north of Hebron, the
Palestine Solidarity Project said. PSP spokesman Muhammad Awad said the
clashes were centered in front of the Karmi Tsur settlement, with
Israeli forces responding with tear-gas canisters and rubber bullets.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286850
Solidarity
Ships Sail To Gaza Thursday
The Greek-Swedish solidarity
ship, carrying humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip, sailed earlier
on Tuesday morning after several hours delay due to technical
difficulties, while the rest of the ships will sail to meet in Cyprus
before heading to Gaza
http://www.imemc.org/article/58763
Jordanian, Saudi aid en route to Gaza
Ramallah – Ma'an – A delivery of Jordanian and Saudi Arabian aid is en
route to Gaza, after arriving at the Allenby Bridge crossing between
Jordan and the West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian Authority Minister
of Endowments said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286818
Palestinians step up non-violent resistance: Yet
another round of peace talks
In recent days, a Palestinian teenager was
shot dead in the West Bank, allegedly by an Israeli settler, and army
gunfire killed an elderly farmer in the Gaza Strip, near the Israeli
border. The letters also address “the numerous Israeli provocative
statements of the last few days”, Erakat said, in reference to
statements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials that
Israeli settlement construction would continue in occupied Arab East
Jerusalem. Following the meeting with Abbas in the West Bank’s political
capital Ramallah, Mitchell went to East Jerusalem with Erakat for
further consultations. “Our discussions with Mitchell revolve around all
the final status issues and we will focus on the questions of borders
and security during
the four months of proximity talks”, Erakat said.
http://www.mmorning.com/ArticleC.asp?Article=7982&CategoryID=6
Protest the extended detention of rights defender
Ameer Makhoul
In a hearing at Petach Tikva Magistrates' Court on Thursday, 20 May
2010, a judge extended Ameer Makhoul's detention for a third time until
Tuesday, 25 May 2010. Mr. Makhoul, a human rights defender and the
director of Arab nongovernmental organization network Ittijah, has been
in Israeli detention since he was arrested from his family home in Haifa
in the early morning hours of 6 May.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11283.shtml
The
Twilight
Zone on Capitol Hill, Henry Norr
The U.S. Campaign to End
the Israeli Occupation has boiled down last week's House
"debate" on authorizing another $205 million in military aid to Israel
into a three-minute video entitled The Twilight Zone on
Capitol Hill. They call it a "spoof." I don't find it the least bit
amusing, but if you want a quick taste of the rhetoric our legislators
use to justify giving their constituents' dollars to Israel, this is a
place to start.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/05/the-twilight-zone-on-capitol-hill.html
Even picnics in Israel are political | Neve Gordon
Our
farewell picnic to Ezra Nawi before his prison term for peaceful protest
carried a new message to most Israeli picnics. Picnics, like almost
everything else in Israel, are often political. Oz Shelach underscores
this point in his collection
of short stories, Picnic Grounds, where he describes how a history professor
takes his family on a picnic in the pine forest near Givat Shaul, a
Jerusalem neighbourhood.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/may/25/political-picnics-israel-palestine
Violence and Aggression/Detainees
Tanks Bomb Gaza Homes;
Troops detain Civilians From The West Bank
Israeli tanks
stationed at the Gaza Strip borders with Israeli bombarded on Tuesday
residents homes and farmers in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Tank shells caused damage to homes and some shells landed near farmers
while they working on their lands near Beit Lahyia town. They escaped
unharmed, local sources reported.
http://www.imemc.org/article/58765
Palestinian Woman Accuses Israel Of Sexual Harassment After Arrest
Jerusalem
–
PNN - A Palestinian women from East Jerusalem is accusing Israeli
authorities of torture, imprisonment under harsh conditions, and sexual
harassment after being arrested. ImageShirin Isawi, an attorney, said
that she was chained to a chair and not allowed to use the toilet or eat
during interrogation. "They put food far away from me, without removing
the chains," she said.
After a particularly harsh round of
interrogation, Isawi said that she vomited blood and was dragged to the
infirmary and thrown on the floor by a warden. Isawi also said that
interrogators threatened her with deportation and mocked her Islamic
faith and head covering.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8203
Officer
accused
of killing Naalin boy
Border Guard officer allegedly
fired weapon negligently at anti-fence rally, killing 11-year old.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3894027,00.html
Israel detains 9 Palestinians in the WB
West Bank, May 25,
2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained today
nine Palestinians from the cities of the West Bank Ramallah, Bethlehem
and Hebron. IOF detained three of the detainees from Tarqomya. The
detainees are: Mohammed Ftafta, 24, Jehad Tnina, 25 and Khalil Qbaja,
24, Wafa news agency reported.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/palestine/west-bank/6141-israel-detains-9-palestinians-in-the-wb
Siege/Humanitarian Issues/Human Rights/Restriction of
Movement/Discrimination
Fatah official barred from travel by Israel
Ramallah – Ma'an – Israeli authorities barred Fatah Central Committee
member Tawfiq At-Tirawi from traveling to Jordan via the Allenby Bridge
in the West Bank city of Jericho on Monday, the official said. The ban
on the Fatah official's travel is the second since April, when Israel
prevented At-Tirawi from traveling through the King Hussein border
crossing between northern Israel and Jordan.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286811
Israel's
Attempt to Arm South African Apartheid Regime with Nuclear Weapons
"The Unspoken
Alliance": New Book Documents Arms, Nuclear and Diplomatic Ties Between
Israel and Apartheid South Africa
Israeli President Shimon
Peres has denied reports he offered to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid
South Africa when he was defense minister in the 1970s. On Sunday the
Guardian newspaper of London published top-secret South African
documents revealing that a secret meeting between then defense minister
Shimon Peres, and his South African counterpart PW Botha, ended with an
offer by Peres for the sale of warheads "in three sizes." The documents
were first uncovered by senior editor at Foreign Affairs Sasha
Polakow-Suransky, author of the new book "The Unspoken Alliance:
Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa."
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/25/israel
Israeli 'nuclear offer' explained by investigator
Sasha Polakow-Suransky, who uncovered alleged evidence of an Israeli
offer of nuclear arms to South Africa, talks to Al Jazeera.
Polakow-Suransky is also a senior editor at the Council on Foreign
Relations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVIWvnsUzNQ&feature=youtube_gdata
Reaction to 'Israeli nuclear weapons offer'
For decades Israel has neither confirmed or denied it has nuclear
weapons. But that policy of ambiguity now appears to have been
undermined. South African government documents, once classified as top
secret, are said to show an agreement for Israel to supply nuclear
warheads in 1975, during the years of aparthied rule. Shimon Peres,
Israel's incumbernt president was is alleged to have been involved in
the deal 35 years ago, has been forced to make a strongly worded denial.
Yossi Melman, an intelligence correspondent with the Haaretz newspaper,
spoke to Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv about the claims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhgQ3Y1_SmE&feature=youtube_gdata
Israeli 'nuclear ambiguity' under scrutiny
Israel's policy of 'nuclear ambiguity' under fresh scrutiny as officials
try to quash reports that the country offered to sell nuclear weapons to
South Africa in 1975.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a48bf120-6748-11df-a932-00144feab49a.html
Israeli minister attacked in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, May 24 (Reuters) - Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters threw
stones at Israeli cabinet minister Eli Yishai and slashed the tyres of
his vehicle in Jerusalem on Monday, but he was whisked away from the
scene unharmed, police said. Yishai, who is Israel's interior minister
and an Orthodox Jew himself, was paying a condolence call in the largely
religious Meah Shearim neighbourhood when he was attacked.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE64N1G1.htm
Political Developments
Progress
in
indirect talks 'depends on Israel': Abbas (AFP)
AFP -
Progress in indirect peace talks begun earlier this month depends on
Israel, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said during an official visit
to Vietnam on Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100525/wl_mideast_afp/mideastusdiplomacyvietnam
Hamas
Hamas
makes
arrests over torching of UN summer camp (AFP)
AFP - The
Hamas rulers of Gaza on Tuesday said they had arrested a group of
suspects over the torching of a UN children's summer camp, in which
attackers also threatened the head of a UN agency.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100525/wl_mideast_afp/mideastunrestgazaun
Tougher
sanctions against motorcyclists, says Gaza ministry
Gaza –
Ma'an – Severe penalties will be handed down to unlicensed
motorcyclists, the de facto Ministry of Transportation announced
Tuesday. Gaza Transport Minister Usamah El-Esawi said that following
over 200 injuries resulting from motorcycle accidents and 14 deaths
since the beginning of 2010 in the Strip, the ministry will immediately
implement harsher sanctions and a campaign to locate unlicensed
motorcycles.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=287016
Al-Aqsa
Brigades warn Hamas against execution of leader
Bethlehem –
Ma'an – Almost one year after the sentence was handed down, the West
Bank's Al-Aqsa Brigades warned the Hamas government against the
execution of the group's leader. If Shadi Ahmad is executed, "the
response will be unprecedented," Al-Aqsa officials said in a statement,
threatening to retaliate against the "highest ranks of Hamas in the West
Bank."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=286886
Riz
Khan
- The challenges facing Hamas
The attempts to isolate Hamas
over the past few years have produced mixed results: The movement has
been confined to the Gaza Strip, but the Palestinian political process
has stagnated, as have Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. To explore the
challenges Hamas is facing, Riz speaks to Mousa Abu Marzouk is the
deputy chairman of Hamas' political bureau.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-hgJ0Jbk68&feature=youtube_gdata
Hamas
faces
dilemma on way to reconciliation, talks with Israel
GAZA,
May 25 (Xinhua) -- Unlike its Islamic rivals who control Gaza, the West
Bank-based Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has settled on the
U.S.-proposed indirect peace negotiations with Israel in parallel with
adopting non-violent resistance against Jewish settlement activities.
In Gaza, Hamas, which took over the coastal enclave by force in 2007,
has been maintaining a ceasefire with Israel since the end of Gaza war
last year; neither allowing other factions to fire rockets into Israel
nor encouraging peaceful demonstrations against Israel's attempts to
enforce a buffer zone along its borders with Gaza.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/indepth/2010-05/25/c_13315130.htm
Other
News
The
new
frontiers of Israeli (public) diplomacy, ctd.: Finnish travel agent
humiliated after admitting that her fiancé is Egyptian
A
travel agent from Finland was humiliated at the Eilat airport. She was
stripped, her bra was taken for x-ray by a man and her personal effects
were corrupted. She claims the reason for the nightmare is that she has
an Egyptian fiancé.
http://coteret.com/2010/05/25/the-new-frontiers-of-israeli-public-diplomacy-ctd-
finnish-travel-agent-humiliated-after-admitting-that-her-fiance-is-egyptian/
Anat Kamm: My testimony is inadmissible in court
Ex-soldier accused of passing secret army documents to Haaretz reporter
Uri Blau claims her admissions in spying case were obtained through
false promises.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/anat-kamm-my-testimony-is-inadmissible-in-court-1.292050
Israel police seek charges against foreign minister
(Reuters)
Reuters - Israeli police said on Monday they had recommended charging
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with violating public trust in a case
involving an alleged information leak.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100524/wl_nm/us_palestinians_israel_lieberman
Fraying Jewish-Arab ties could shatter calm in
Israel, study warns
Deteriorating inter-ethnic relations threaten to break the relative calm
between the two groups, report to Knesset shows.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/
fraying-jewish-arab-ties-could-shatter-calm-in-israel-study-warns-1.292051
500 academics, students sign letter protesting
Israel's refusal to grant Noam Chomsky entry
The letter reads: : Under democracy, we do not silence voices that
express an opinion which is different than the dominant one.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/
500-academics-students-sign-letter-protesting-israel-s-refusal-to-grant-noam-chomsky-entry-1.292032
Haaretz expose: All the corruption charges being leveled against Ehud
Olmert
Former prime minister to be questioned on Tuesday in
Holyland affair, over allegations he accepted bribes totaling more than
NIS 1 million from real estate developers to promote their interests in
several projects.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/
haaretz-expose-all-the-corruption-charges-being-leveled-against-ehud-olmert-1.292047
Analysis/Opinion/Human
Interest
May Is About
Memories, Eva Bartlett
GAZA CITY, May 23, 2010 (IPS) - This
is the month for Palestinians to remember their Nakba, or "catastrophe",
in which more than 700,000 women, men and children were pushed off their
land and rendered homeless refugees by the Zionist attacks before,
during and after the founding of Israel in 1948.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51544
Israel's Transfer Scheme, Hussein Shobokshi
The eyes of the Arab world are intensely focused on fears of a possible
Israeli strike against Lebanon or Syria or even Iran. But the biggest
fear lies in the secret scheme that is being whispered against the West
Bank. Israel continues to believe that the biggest obstacle to its
expansionist policy and settlement construction activities is the
Palestinian human "numbers" on the lands of the West Bank. This intense
and major Palestinian presence is the "truth" that is facing and
delaying Israel's expansionist designs.
http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=21058
Tea Party Candidates Are Owned By Israel? Rand Paul
and Israel, Philip Klein
I've obtained a document that the Rand Paul campaign is circulating to
those interested in his views on Israel, and it's interesting to see how
the positions he's taking as a Republican Senate candidate in Kentucky
differ from those adopted by his father, Rep. Ron Paul, a harsh critic
of U.S.-Israel ties.
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/04/22/rand-paul-and-israel
Republican
Party
aligns itself with settler movement– game on!, Philip Weiss
Republican
chairman
Michael Steele appeared
at
a pro-settler rally in New York on Sunday, with all kinds of
hard-core nuts there, Matt Duss reports, and said Obama was leaving
Israel "to fend for itself." Crazy. But it shows the political stakes
here. And does suggest that the lobby is in play, politically, which
would be a great thing. This means that Democratic-aligned publications
are finally permitted to do reporting on tax breaks for the settlers.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/05/republican-party-aligns-itself-with-settler-movement-game-on.html
Dershowitz falsely suggests that Chomsky is against
the existence of Israel, Philip Weiss
In this interview
with Jerusalem Post, Dershowitz says that the left wants to
revolutionize 1948-- end Israel/create one democracy in
Israel/Palestine-- and that makes his 80 percent case for Israel (80
percent good, that means!) easier. Notice below that he uses strawmen
Norman Finkelstein and Noam Chomsky. But both men are for the two-state
solution! Chomsky has vestiges of Zionist idealism... And I believe many
on the left would accept the existence of Israel if it ceases to be an
occupier practicing Jim Crow against an ethnic-religious minority. But
Israel doesn't seem to want to give up those practices; and, putting on
my realist hat, the terrible reality is that it's one state right now,
how do you go about creating a viable Palestinian state? Dershowitz
of
course notions such a thing. The notions never end, and meanwhile the
world gets Kosovo, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan-- many other states. Excerpt
begins with Dershowitz's description of a hasbara corps on college
campuses, something like Haim Saban's scheme. Second question gets to
his misrepresentations of Finkelstein and Chomsky.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/05/dershowitz-falsely-suggests-that-chomsky-is-against-the-existence-of-israel.html
It wasn’t Edward Said that upset the students; it was the very word
‘Palestinian’, Josh Cohen
I remember AP week at Hunter High
School in New York all too well. The SATs were pro forma. The Advanced
Placements were this realer chance to prove—to yourself, to the kids
surrounding you, to the college that had already accepted you—what you
were definitely going to become in your near adult future. The tests
were given in school, and the jokes about the Chinese kids suddenly
showing themselves to be even more numerous than we’d imagined were
funny. You bet, extrapolate a census from one of those testing rooms and
you’d likely have concluded that Chinese- and Korean-Americans ruled New
York City—them, but also, of course, us. And yet when it came to tests
and grades the Jew jokes were fewer—we were the jokers, that was part of
it—we were more visible on stage and at parties, having more mixed sex,
from Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/05/
it-wasnt-edward-said-that-upset-the-students-it-was-the-very-word-palestinian.html
Living the Nakba in Gaza
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - This is the month for
Palestinians to remember their Nakba, or "catastrophe," in which more
than 700,000 women, men and children were pushed off their land and
rendered homeless refugees by the Zionist attacks before, during and
after the founding of Israel in 1948.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11282.shtml
Israel's Permanent War on Palestine
(PCHR)
provides
weekly snapshots of Israeli killings, targeted assassinations,
arrests, home demolitions, destroyed farmland, assaults on peaceful
protesters, community incursions, home invasions, and more besides
full-scale attacks at its discretion - a decades-long onslaught against
1.5 million Gazans and over 2.5 million West Bank and East Jerusalem
Palestinians.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/opinions/views/6133-israels-permanent-war-on-palestine
Mass graves for piles of lies, Bouthaina Shaaban
When Israel has proven its aggressive nature to the whole world, when
the savagery of its wars against its neighbors for over 60 years and the
blockade it is imposing on unarmed civilians in Gaza have been exposed,
and when its government has shown the extent of its extremism, the
United States embarked on an effort to start negotiations of any kind
between Israel and the Palestinians. It is acknowledged by everyone that
these negotiations are not based on a clear frame of reference,
particularly in relation to Jerusalem and the return of the refugees.
This is meant as a cover to the policies of those who launched the war
on Gaza and have never stopped robbing the Palestinians of their land,
destroying their homes and killing their children. Benjamin Netanyahu’s
extremism is such that he wants to give a religious Jewish
interpretation to the ethnic cleansing of Arab East Jerusalem.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=115206#axzz0osroRaJA
The
Big Match: Football V Occupation
Palestine sits modestly at
174th in the FIFA world rankings, held jointly with the Seychelles and
Somalia. But such a position belies the revolution that has taken place
in Palestinian football over the last two years.
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1416
Iraq
Monday: 1 US Soldier, 3 Iraqis Killed; 7 Iraqis
Wounded
At least three Iraqis were killed and seven more were wounded in the
latest violence. Also, one U.S. soldier was killed while conducting
security operations. With the occupation winding down and foreign
reporters having gone home, fewer reports manage to get out of the
country unless a major story occurs.
http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2010/05/24/monday-1-us-soldier-3-iraqis-killed-7-iraqis-wounded/
Iraqi lawmaker shot dead in Mosul
An
Iraqi MP from the secular Iraqiya bloc is shot and killed by gunmen in
the northern city of Mosul.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/world/middle_east/10150863.stm
Deadly gold robbery in Baghdad
Gunmen storm gold market in
Iraqi capital, shooting shopkeepers and planting bombs.
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2010/05/201052594158834402.html
Al-Qaida in Iraq denies World Cup plot allegations (AP)
AP -
Al-Qaida in Iraq has denied government allegations that suspected
militants in Iraqi custody were planning to attack the World Cup in
South Africa.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_al_qaida
Najaf
cemetery
witness to Iraq's tragic history (AP)
AP - Pictures
of the two brothers stare out, side by side, separated by the gulf of a
quarter century. Rahim Jabr died in 1981, a foot soldier in the bloody
eight year war with Iran, while Naeem was a casualty of the savage
sectarian fighting that gripped Baghdad in 2006.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_history_s_graveyard
JORDAN:
Addressing
the Psychosocial Needs of Young Displaced Iraqis
An
IOM programme is currently providing much needed psychosocial support to
thousands of Iraqi children and teenagers who have fled to Jordan to
escape violence in Iraq. The Australian funded programme, which is
carried out in partnership with the Jordanian Ministry of Education,
UNICEF, national and international NGOs, aims to improve the mental
wellbeing of traumatized children through a range of interactive events,
including drawing, story telling and plays performed in selected schools
and host communities throughout Jordan.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MDCS-85SC98?OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P
Iraq:
Up
to date information regarding "honour killings" in Iraq of both Men and
women
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,RDCI,,,4bfb93b62,0.html
Iraqi
workers
and the occupation
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=5130
Iraqi
workers
and occupation Pt. 2
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=5137
Iraqi
workers
and occupation Pt. 3
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=5140
Crazy: Some in CIA wanted to create fake Saddam Hussein sex video,
report asserts
A little-noticed blog post by a veteran
intelligence reporter averred Tuesday that the CIA's Iraq Operations
Group weighed a plan prior to the
2003 Iraq invasion that sought to discredit Saddam Hussein by portraying
him as gay.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0525/cia-wanted-paint-saddam-hussein-gay-report-asserts/
Lebanon
What Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri seeks from
White House visit
In his first official White House visit, Lebanon Prime Minister Saad
Hariri is looking for President Obama to help ease tensions with Israel.
His coalition government includes a member of Hezbollah, whose fighters
say they are readying for a fresh war.
http://rss.csmonitor.com/%7Er/feeds/world/%7E3/YoIpVw4_tlc/
What-Lebanon-Prime-Minister-Saad-Hariri-seeks-from-White-House-visit
Sayyed
Nasrallah
to Mark Resistance and Liberation Day
25/05/2010 Hezbollah
Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah will deliver a speech
Tuesday marking the 10 anniversary of the Resistance and Liberation Day,
at the Sayyed Al-Shouhadaa compound in Beirut’s southern suburb. His
eminence is expected to tackle the latest developments in Lebanon and
the region, in addition to the military exercises conducted by the
Zionist entity dubbed “Turning Point 4.”
http://almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=139021&language=en
Israel still reeling from its ejection from south
Lebanon
BEIRUT: In what was supposed to remove a pretext for Hizbullah attacks
against military targets, Israeli Premier Ehud Barak on May 24, 2000,
ordered the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, ending 18 years
of southern occupation.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=115216
Sleiman on Eve of Resistance Day: Israel Scared of
Our Strength
Ten years have passed on the victory day… Ten years have passed on the
Resistance and Liberation Day, the day that opened a new page in the
history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the day in which Lebanon emerged
as victorious and Israel defeated, the day that paves the way for a
shining future in the possibility of returning all Arab rights…
http://almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=138943&language=en
Obama to raise Syria concerns with Lebanese PM
(Reuters)
Reuters - President Barack Obama hosted Lebanese Prime Minister Saad
al-Hariri at the White House on Monday, with the U.S. leader expected to
raise concerns about Syria arming Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100524/pl_nm/us_lebanon_usa
Chomsky weighs in on Middle East's recurring
'current crisis'
BEIRUT: Look back at the titles of Noam
Chomsky's lectures over the years and you will notice a familiar title:
"The current crisis in the Middle East." The reason for this, Chomsky
says, is because often he is asked to give for titles for speaking
engagements years in advance, and it is a title that is always relevant.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=115217
Chomsky in Burj Al-Barajnah camp
My sister Mirvat (third from left in white shirt) accompanied Chomsky to
the Burj Al-Barajnah camp. Chomsky knows that his praise for Salam
Fayyad has displeased many people.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2010/05/chomsky-in-burj-al-barajnah-camp.html
Israel
Can’t
Take My Ice Cream Stick from Me Anymore
25/05/2010 I
remember the summer of 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon. I was nine
years old and my father had promised to give me half a Lira (Lebanese
pound) to buy ice cream. But the footage showing Israeli tanks crossing
the border into south Lebanon was enough to deprive me of my treat for
the rest of the day and deprive southerners of their freedom for the
next 18 years. I’m not sure about the relevance of this lead to the rest
of the article, but I think this retrospection is as useful as looking
at the post 2000 withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from most of
south Lebanon. The pullout was not just an event; it was a historic
precedent. True, Israel withdrew from Jordan and Sinai after Amman and
Cairo were coerced to sign agreements with the triumphant, undefeatable,
and arrogant Zionist state.
http://www.almanar.com.lb/newssite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=138985&language=en
A
new low for Octavia Nasr: "Even if tehy belong to the Shiite sect of
Islam"
"Fakih's modern looks and open-minded interests are
indicative of a portion of Lebanon's population that is Western-oriented
and non-conservative even if they belong to the Shiite sect of Islam."
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-low-for-octavia-nasr-even-if-tehy.html
U.S.
and Other World News
Antiterror tactic is assailed, defended, Detainees
held without charges
The Pakistani men detained last week in connection with the attempted
Times Square bombing were handcuffed, given prison jumpsuits to wear,
and held behind bars. But they have not been charged with any crime.
Their arrests are
part of a controversial law enforcement tactic that allows US
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly called ICE, to hold people
for civil immigration violations while investigators attempt to build
criminal cases against them.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/22/antiterror_tactic_is_assailed_defended/
Alaska soldier ordered to remove Facebook video (AP)
AP - An Alaska-based soldier is under investigation for allegedly
posting a video on his Facebook site showing Iraqi children being
taunted.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100525/ap_on_re_us/us_soldier_facebook_video
US Appoints First Cyber Warfare General
The
US
military has appointed its first senior general to direct cyber warfare
-- despite fears that the move marks another stage in the
militarisation of cyberspace.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/24/keith-alexander-first-cyb_n_587275.html
Jailed American hikers engaged in Iranian prison
WASHINGTON: Two of the three US hikers held in Iran for nearly a year on
spying charges were engaged in Tehran's infamous Evin prison and plan to
marry shortly after their release, their mothers said Monday.
The
mothers of Shane Bauer, 27, and Sarah Shourd, 31, said they learned the
news during their emotional reunion with their children.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=115209
Jordanian 'murdered his daughter'
A man who had been raping his daughter for years, is said to have killed
her while trying to abort the baby he fathered.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/world/middle_east/10149552.stm
Kuwait writer charged with damaging national
interest
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait charged a prominent author and
government critic on Monday with damaging national interests and
undermining the status of the Gulf state's ruler. Mohammad Abdel-Qader
al-Jassem, also a journalist and lawyer, categorically denied the
charges, insisting his trial is purely political.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=115208
Damascus gives old Jewish quarter new life
A historic area of the Syrian capital, all but abandoned in the 1990s,
is enjoying rejuvenation as part of plan to turn its grandiose houses
into hotels and art studios.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/f64b596e-6366-11df-a844-00144feab49a.html
Facebook 'outstrips' Arab papers
There are now more Facebook users in the Arab world than newspaper
readers, a survey says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/world/middle_east/10150748.stm |
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