The Israeli government and settler circles, which overlap more than a bit, are reeling this week after the nation’s high court ruled that it really meant it when it ordered that a hilltop outpost on the West Bank must be torn down this month. The outpost, dubbed Migron, stands under an array of cell phone [...]
Noisy Neighbors – China’s Global Times reacts to the Hong Kong election Sunday, by a small elite circle, of Leung Chun-ying as new Chief Executive with an opinionated ode for the region and the mainland to improve their sometimes fractious relationship. “Both sides need to look at each other rationally … We are both Chinese, and can [...]
We’ve missed this and everyone is talking about it: a massive anti-Arab gathering that took place in Israel on Monday. Chanting “Death to Arabs,” hundreds of Beitar soccer fans crowded into a mall in Jerusalem after their team won a match and what spilled out …words escape me: The Independent: Hundreds of fans, mostly teenagers, [...]
Global Spin
War Crimes – The Global Mail details more damning evidence of Sri Lankan army atrocities at the 2009 end of the civil war, highlighting the murder of a Tamil Tigers colonel. “Of the mass of available evidence, the most compelling trail is that of Colonel Ramesh. His death provides a crack of light that illuminates [...]
In the often Sisyphean exercise known as U.S.-Latin American relations, old bad habits die hard on both sides. Even the Obama Administration, which came to power pledging a less high-handed hemispheric policy, snubbed Brazil this week by not designating President Dilma Rousseff’s trip to the U.S. next month as a high-level “state visit.” That’s largely [...]
“They didn’t believe that anyone in the international community was willing to stop them, and they were right.” That is the lucid explanation offered by John Holmes, the British diplomat and former chief of the U.N.’s humanitarian operations, as to why, in 2009, the Sri Lankan government was willing to risk international condemnation and accusations [...]
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s three-hour press conference at the close of the National People’s Congress, China’s annual Communist Party-controlled parliament, was his last before he is expected to step down next year. The content was similar to that of the past nine times Wen has addressed the media at the end of the NPC, but [...]
Active Stills has posted an amazing series of photographs from the Women’s Day demonstration against the occupation at Qalandiya checkpoint Thursday: There is also video here. Women’s Day March against Occupation: Qalandia from ListenIn Pictures on Vimeo. And this text: On March 8, 2012 Palestinian women organized a protest at the Qalandia checkpoint to make [...]
Israeli airstrikes kill 11, Palestinian sources say Gaza (CNN) — Eleven Palestinians were killed and at least four critically injured Friday and early Saturday after a series of Israeli airstrikes targeted suspected militants across Gaza, according to Palestinian medical officials. Reuters VIDEO: Israeli airstrike kills two in Gaza City 9 Mar (48 sec) – A [...]