“Israel” still holding passport of British Journalist from Gaza Flotilla

Via Friday-Luch-Club Posted on June 26, 2010 by realistic bird by EPA MEMO, June 25, 2010 A campaign has been launched by the Friends of Al-Aqsa organization for the government to take action to address the theft of yet another British Passport by the Israeli authorities. Al Jazeera journalist Jamal Elshayyal was on board the [...]

Kenneth O’Keefe Says it All. Must See Video

Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 5:13AM Gilad Atzmon In the following videos you can watch a BBC presenter going out of her way to justify the Israeli hasbara murderous narrative.  She is no doubt the devil’s advocate but she fails.  Sentence by sentence,  Ken O’Keefe manages to teach her and us what kindness  and humanity [...]

Ramulla Traitor: Ready for direct negotiations with Israel

[ 26/06/2010 - 03:51 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Former Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas stated on Saturday that he was ready to go into direct negotiations with Israel “on condition of progress in the issues of security and borders, which are being discussed under indirect negotiations.” He made the statement two days after the Zionist [...]

Zionist settlers planning to hire security company to expel Jerusalemites

[ 26/06/2010 - 03:17 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A group of Zionist settlers in occupied Jerusalem announced plans to hire a private Israeli security company to carry out orders to expel four Palestinian families in the Jerusalem township of Silwan. The families include 40 individual members. The settlers alleged that the families reside on [...]

The Golden Rings of Betrayal

Intifada Palestine26. Jun, 2010 NOTE: On the 21st of June Haaretz published an article, “Lebanon allows Gaza-bound ship to sail to Cyprus.” Two ships may be involved, one with a contingent of Americans, approximately 10, another with a group of women including Nuns, the Miriam. This new effort at breaking the Israeli siege of Gaza [...]

Mizan center calls on UN to end Israel’s crimes of torture in Palestine

[ 26/06/2010 - 03:02 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Al-Mizan center for human rights on Friday appealed to the UN to activate its convention against torture and put an end to Israel’s crimes of torture in the occupied Palestinian lands. In a statement on the international day against torture, Al-Mizan center highlighted that this occasion comes [...]

Israeli killing leaves Jerusalem children fatherless

Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 25 June 2010 The family Ziad Julani left behind — Moira with her three daughters; Hannah 17, Mirage, 15, and Yasmin 7. (Mel Frykberg/IPS) RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) – “Where is my daddy? Why is he not coming home? I want my daddy,” sobs seven-year-old Yasmin, her big blue [...]

Is Afghanistan the wrong war, at the wrong time, for the wrong cause?

P U L S E Seumas Milne is generally better informed on Afghanistan than most commentators, but he undermines his case with the typical leftist tendency to impute imagined strategic considerations to every foreign policy misadventure. As Gareth Porter has correctly noted, US Afghan policy is rooted in domestic political considerations. There are no American [...]

Anti-wall marches persist despite IOF quelling

[ 26/06/2010 - 10:39 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked different peaceful anti-wall marches on Friday in West Bank villages. Injuries and breathing problems were reported during the attacks. In Bil’in village, as the protesters were marching towards the segregation wall, the IOF troops fired tear gas and stun grenades and [...]

Afghanistan looking more like Lebanon?

Via Friday-Lunch-Club WaPo/ here “… If the Taliban does come to power in part of Afghanistan — say, controlling the south and sharing power in Kabul — Afghanistan could start to look like Lebanon: Hezbollah controls large portions of the country, operates its own military forces and delivers services to large parts of the population, [...]