Video by rosaingaza on Mar 12, 2012 At approximately 2:00 am on Monday 12 March 2012, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a house lived in by Bahjat Mohammed Idrees Hammad, near Shuhadaa Jabaliya Primary School, north of Gaza city. As a result, 31 people, including 21 children and six women, were injured. The [...]
Afghan police and residents gather around a van containing the bodies of civilians killed in the shooting. Photograph: I Sameem/EPA The news of a horrific brutal massacre of civilians in Afghanistan arrived in spurts yesterday accompanied with the news one lone soldier had come forward to turn himself in. 16 people, 9 of them children [...]
[Ikhras Note: Once again the world-renowned cartoonist and artist of conscience Carlos Latuff is subjected to a vicious Zionist smear campaign. Support our Brazilian brother and comrade. Read his response reproduced below and help distribute widely.] By Carlos Latuff Nothing new under the sun – More lies spread by the #Israel lobby Inc. In recent days, pro-Israel blogs have [...]
For East Jerusalem Palestinians, taking out the trash is more than a chore The people who live in Qalandiyah and Kfar Akeb, who are residents of Jerusalem but on the other side of the security fence, sometimes have to walk many kilometers to throw out their household garbage on the other side of the Qalandiyah [...]
Brandeis SJP protesting Tel Aviv Club Night (Photo: Zena Ozeir) This past Saturday, some 20 members of Students for Justice in Palestine held a protest on the Brandeis University campus outside a party organized by the Brandeis Zionist Alliance. The title of the party was Tel Aviv Club Night and it marked the end of [...]
Reblogged from Desertpeace: The online activism proved “the power of a different kind of media, one that uses corporate media’s silence to create a different kind of noise,” said Peter Hart, the activism director for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a media watchdog group. Hart authored a piece for the FAIR blog that chastised the corporate media’s [...]
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MAAN NEWS AGENCY MARCH 3 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in exile says the faction has no plans to shutter its offices in Damascus, despite unrest in Syria. Maher al-Taher said Saturday the leftist faction’s offices in the Syrian capital are operating as usual [...]
Mani Shankar Aiyar says one can never get anywhere by only being pragmatic. (AN photo by Boutros Ayad) ARAB NEWS MARCH 1 2012 Published: Mar 1, 2012 21:52 Updated: Mar 1, 2012 21:52 DAMMAM: Indian diplomat Mani Shankar Aiyer wants Delhi to continue to champion the cause of the Palestinians. In an interview with Siraj [...]
The expression, If Americans Knew would seem to apply more than anyone these days to Robert Wright, the Atlantic journalist who today reports that his friend Fadi Quran has been released from administrative detention, five days after Wright reported Quran’s arrest in Hebron in the Atlantic, also with cold outrage. Why is he outraged? Wright [...]