Israel should never forget its Mideast atrocities
The major problem in the Grass affair is not the way Israel blackmails every German. Rather, it’s Israelis’ inability to understand this country other than through the way it’s portrayed […]
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A Q Farhat
A Retired Asst Professor of Pediatrics currently working in Canada.
An Indonesian Mom is on a Book Mission
The Jakarta Globe: It’s not like Vera Makki didn’t have her hands full already. The 35-year-old works in public relations, is a lecturer at the University of Indonesia and, most important, is a wife and the mother of an 8-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son. But Vera still found time […]
World is keen to cash in on Indonesia boom
NZ keen to cash in on Indonesia boom Prime Minister John Key and Trade Minister Tim Groser are in the Indonesian capital A must-seize opportunity to cash in on Indonesia’s […]
New entry requirement to Israel
Israel forces tourist to pledge to avoid pro-Palestinian activities as condition for entry Haaretz: A 30-year-old Swedish tourist was forced to sign an ‘obligation form,’ written in broken English, when […]
Defining Street Children
The Jakarta Globe: Frequently at Sahabat Anak (Child’s Friend), people ask us, “Who is a street child?” A street child lives a complex life and as someone once remarked to […]
A moral society promotes peace
The Barrie Examiner: By Maidah Ahmad (Re: ‘Death penalty won’t solve anything’ in the March 28 edition of the Examiner) The writer’s letter promoting Christian philosophy of justice and punishment […]
Abraham’s Tent: The Story of How Peace Grew From Camp
Adults can’t seem to figure out the peace thing, but how about Israeli and Canadian kids—with Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Hindu backgrounds—who spent two weeks with each other at camp? […]
Foundation: Israelis enter Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
JERUSALEM (Ma’an News) — Jewish worshipers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday accompanied by Israeli forces, the Al-Aqsa Mosque Foundation said. Security guards at the compound prevented the Israelis […]
Tsunami Warning for Sumatra Indonesia After Magnitude 8.5 Earthquake
The Jakarta Globe: Indonesia issued a tsunami warning Wednesday after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.5 hit waters off westernmost Aceh province. Said, an official at Indonesia’s Meteorology […]
Indonesia to OK UN Deal to Protect Migrant Workers
The Jakarta Globe: Indonesian migrant workers are a step closer to securing legal recognition of their right to protection after the House of Representatives agreed in principle to ratify an international convention on the issue later this week. At a hearing between House Commission IX and officials from the Foreign […]
Israeli historian: Israel needs borders for its own good
The Daily News: by Ben Lynfield JERUSALEM: With international attention distracted by Iran and Syria, Israel’s fateful entanglement in the West Bank hardly gets a mention in the news these days. Over the years, much has been written about the now 45-year-old Occupation’s deleterious effect on Palestinians. But in a […]
Israeli Arabs are the 0.5 percent
Netanyahu says Israel’s Arab citizens are the only ‘truly free’ Arabs in the Middle East, yet he considers even us a burden. Haaretz: By Oudeh Basharat: As it turns out, last summer’s social protests were actually aimed at the Arabs and the ultra-Orthodox. They only seemed to be against big […]
Repairing the broken hearts of both Jews and Muslims
HAARETZ: By Dylan Kaplan The remedy for healing the broken heart of “scorned lovers” is trying again to love. The truth is that it is in the best interest of […]
Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey
The Jakarta Globe: Sandwiched between the Indian and the Pacific oceans and home to more than 1,000 ethnic groups and 300 distinct languages, Indonesia looks different to each person who […]
Israel bans Günter Grass over poem
Arutz Sheva: Gunter GrassInterior Minister Eli Yishai has banned German poet Gunter Grass from entering Israel. Yishai declared Grass “persona non grata” in the Jewish State on Sunday, saying his […]
Pictures: AMJ Fiji Serving Humanity
Courtesy: Ashfaaq Ahmad Khan, National President, MKA,Fiji. The Youth branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Fiji, classified as Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Fiji has been actively taking part in helping severely affected flood […]
Multi-hued Jerusalem
Photos: Faithful flock to Jerusalem Many religious followers, agnostics visit holy sites ……….. Jerusalem…, draws more types of disciples than the average person would expect. It is a magnet for […]
25 Indonesian maids on death row in Saudi—report
Global Nation: RIYADH—Twenty-five Indonesian maids are on death row in Saudi Arabia and 22 others have been pardoned and sent home, local media reported on Friday, adding that Jakarta will […]
Good Friday & Passover: A festive coming-together in the Holy Land
Christians and Jews mark holy day in holy city A festive coming-together in the Holy Land. Thousands of Christians and Jews gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate their key festivals, as […]
Can everyone be made more spiritual by stimulating the VMAT 2 Gene?
OPERATION FUNVAX: The Alleged Governments Solution to Religion Control PROJECT FUN-VAX is allegedly a “live” US Government Operation that develops, plans and executes the release of a biological agent designed […]