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Kawther Salam – Palestinian-Arabs: Wave of Racism in Israel: GENERAL STRIKE

By Kawther Salam • Sep 3rd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Human Rights, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

“We want to live as equal citizens in our country while maintaining our national character, our heritage, our civilization and our memories, including the Nakba, which will remain in our memory and in the memory of our sons, and which no one can erase”, said in a sharp protest and with angry voice the Palestinian-Arab [...]



The Silence of the Antiwar Movement is Deafening

By Guest Post • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Biography, Human Rights, Newswire, Resistance, War

Cindy's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland
WRITTEN By JOHN V. WALSH August 28, 2009 "Counterpunch" — Cindy Sheehan will be at Martha's Vineyard beginning August 25 a short way from Obama's vacation paradise of the celebrity elite but very far from the Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq where the body bags and cemeteries fill up each day [...]



Kawther Salam – Night of Israeli Horror in Jerusalem Hospital

By Kawther Salam • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

The roots and the horror of this crime date back to June 2, 1994, when the Israeli Special Forces and other IDF soldiers stormed the surgery, maternity and pediatric wards of the Palestinian hospital Augusta Victoria (generally known as “al-Motala”) in Jerusalem while they were looking for the BODY of a Palestinian who they mistakenly [...]



Kawther Salam – Israel Stole Palestinian Bodies From Their Graves

By Kawther Salam • Aug 25th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Following the scandalous crime of kidnapping the bodies of the Palestinians by the Israeli occupational military “IDF” and transferring them to the butchery at Abu Kabir in Tel Aviv, and after the criminal sophist Ehud Barak threatened to cause troubles for Donald Boström in court, after reporting about the Israelis murdering Palestinians in order to harvest [...]



Kawther Salam – The Body Snatchers of Israel

By Kawther Salam • Aug 24th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

(photo: numbered graves in secret cemetery in Israel) Independently of the recently published article of the Swedish journalist Donald Boström about the Israelis murdering Palestinians in order to harvesting of organs for sale, and independently of the hysteric screeching and denials by the Israelis, I want to present my readers what I witnessed, saw, observed [...]



Rally: Free Palestinian political prisoner Mohammad Khatib!

By Guest Post • Aug 11th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

Israel continues to imprison Palestinian community activist Mohammad Khatib from Bil’in village in the West Bank.
Mohammad Khatib, along with over twenty other Palestinians from Bil’in, has been arbitrarily arrested during a recent night-time raid carried out by the Israeli army. The agricultural village of Bil’in has gained international attention for its weekly protests against the [...]



Sami, The Bedouin – Adam, "the Terrorist"

By Guest Post • Aug 8th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

(via Uruknet) This picture, of my wife and our little baby I got yesterday evening Aug. 5th 09, a moments before dusk. Today my wife went to visit her brother in the "israeli" jail, and of course she got to take our baby Adam with her.
Adam, our baby, is less than two months, he’s exactly [...]



Khalid Amayreh – Are Israeli courts staffed by Nazi judges?

By Khalid Amayreh • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Our Authors, Palestine, Religion, Zionism

Just as anti-Semitism became official policy in Germany in the mid 1930s, it seems hostility towards Arabs, especially Israel’s own 1.5 million Palestinian citizens, is becoming a de facto official policy of the Israeli state.
 
This ominous orientation is being constantly promoted by a number of manifestly racist cabinet ministers and Knesset members who declare openly that their aim [...]



A new Iran is born amid cries of “We want freedom”

By Guest Post • Jul 3rd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War

WRITTEN BY Mozhgan Savabieasfahani
 
In a wounded and burning Middle East, aching under U.S. and Israeli military boots, with constantly expanding invasions by Israel (Lebanon 2006; Gaza 2009), with close to 2 million dead Iraqis just next door, with millions more Iraqis wounded, made homeless, and poisoned by uranium (some of whom end up in Iran [...]



Israeli ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children – a report

By Haitham Sabbah • Jun 27th, 2009 • Category: Children's Corner, Features, Haitham's Choice, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

DCI-Palestine* released a report which documents the widespread ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children at the hands of the Israeli army and police force – Palestinian Child Prisoners: The systematic and institutionalized ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by Israeli authorities.
The release of the report came just days after an article was published in The [...]