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Justice for Mohammad Othman

By Guest Post • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Weeks of solitary confinement. Six military hearings. Sleep deprivation. No access to a lawyer. No criminal charge.
Mohammad Othman, a prominent Palestinian activist involved with War on Want partner, Stop the Wall, has been detained without charge by Israeli authorities. His detention is illegal – and he now faces the risk of torture. We need to [...]



Israeli Confessions – The Founding Fathers and Mother of Israel

By Haitham Sabbah • Nov 12th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Video, War, Zionism

Source: neverbeforecampaign
The Founding Fathers, and Mother, of Israel
By Earlaiman
Only by their actions have they spelled out more clearly their deliberate and premeditated intent, which provides more than adequate self-incrimination for condemnation and conviction as perpetrators of War Crimes, Genocide, and other Crimes Against Humanity.
When will enough be enough? When the last Palestinian is [...]



Sami Jamil Jadallah – Major Nidal Hasan and Rabbi/Senator Joseph Lieberman.

By Sami Jamil Jadallah • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, War, Zionism

“If we kill a gentile who had sinned or has violated one of the seven commandments… there is nothing wrong with the murder,” Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira head of the Od Yosef Yeshiva in the illegal Jewish settlement of Yitzhak was quoted in the Israeli newspaper Maariv. Rabbi Shapira (no doubt an American Jew) recently published [...]



Ayman Nijim – The Palestinian Status Quo and the Proclaimed Elections

By Guest Post • Nov 11th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

The Palestinian political situation now is somehow vague and it is unclear whether there will be elections in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, or separate elections in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The Palestinians and the international community may ask on the optimal means behind reaching an acceptable government with [...]



Jeff Gates – Today's Ancient Warfare: Facts vs. Beliefs

By Haitham Sabbah • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

By Jeff Gates *
In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception, false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon.
Recall Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories? Iraqi meetings in Prague with Al Qaeda? Iraqi purchases of yellowcake uranium [...]



Aadel M Al-Mahdy – War of Words

By Guest Post • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

A response to the first entry in Palestine Think Tank and Tlaxcala's First Word War:
“Logos", plural “Logoi” is Greek , meaning “Word” or “Reason”. In Arabic “Kalimah” means “Word”, Plural “Kalaam” Hence, “’Elmul-Kalam” means “Science of word” which means “Linguistics”. It is also worth mentioning that the “word” is sharper than a mighty sword.
Well, linguistically [...]



AshkeNazi threatens Gaza with another “little holocaust”

By Khalid Amayreh • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH
There seems to be a perfect conformity between Gabi Ashkenazi and his last name. The Israeli chief of staff is considered one of the main Israeli  war criminals responsible for the virtual genocide against the Gaza Strip during the past winter. On his murderous hands, he carries tons of innocent blood, including [...]



Tear down THIS wall!

By Mary Rizzo • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

A group of Palestinians from the popular committees and Fatah movement tore down a part of the Apartheid Wall separating occupied East Jerusaelm from the rest of the West Bank.
  
On Monday 9 November a hundred Palestinians waving Palestinain flags and wearing florecent jackets saying "WE ARE GOING TO JERUSALEM" took down a piece of the [...]



Yousef Abudayyeh – Muslim & Arab Organizations in the US that condemned the killing in Texas should be ashamed of themselves

By Yousef Abudayyeh • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Arabian Coffee House, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Newswire, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Muslim organizations and the people who run them in the US should be ashamed of themselves for what they have done to add to the misery and discrimination that Arabs and Muslims face in the United States of America.
These sad and bankrupt organizations are always the first to condemn any tragedy that happens here or [...]



Mamoon Alabassi – Noam Chomsky: no change in US 'Mafia principle'

By Guest Post • Nov 7th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Top American intellectual sees no significant change of US foreign policy under Obama.  
As civilised people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the basis of Washington's foreign policy under President [...]