Urdu Video: Lord Tariq on Gaza and Baroness Warsi
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]
On Israel’s Defeat in Gaza
FP: by David Rothkope — In the end, Israel lost in large part because despite its massive military and resource and advantages and Palestinian poverty and the comparative weakness of Hamas’s fighters, the Palestinians have one secret weapon that, like the images and narrative of the past conflict, trumps the […]
When Israel Remembers Their Covenant, They Will Change The World
Huff Post: by Dr. David Liepert — Up here in Canada, I’m a pretty popular Muslim, even though I’ve been defending Israel’s right to live safely and securely in God’s Holy Land for as long as I’ve been a Muslim. More important than that though — by far — is […]
CONFERENCE CALL WITH NCIC-RESHMA INAMDAR
This is a quick report: Dear Sister Reshma: Assalamo Allaikum Wa Rahmatullah! May Allah bless you for hosting the conference call on a very, very important issue. I am glad you had GAZA in your mind when you sent the invitation. I was in my car and cell phone died […]
9 Facts About the Israel-Palestine Conflict On Which We Can All Agree
Huff Post: by Qasim Rashid — Simply open your mouth on Israel-Palestine, and faster than you can blink you’ll be labeled either a heartless Zionist or a Hamas terrorist. Both extreme labels are equally fruitless. If we cannot find a middle ground in dialogue, how can we expect Israel and […]
What about a Palestinian’s right to freedom?
Epigraph: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, […]
Gaza: how international law could work to punish war crimes
Source: The Guardian UK By Geoffrey Robertson The security council will be vetoed, but now that Palestine is a state there’s another route to justice For three weeks, the world has […]
Boston subway ads are shocking– ‘and so is the reality on the ground’
Mondoweiss: by Annie Robbins — (Photo:Ads Against Apartheid) Bostonians have been checking out the “ONE WORD” campaign in their subway system, describing Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. The ad campaign was launched this week by Ads Against Apartheid (AAA), a local Boston-based nonprofit. The ads are currently running in Boston’s downtown State Street Station where they […]
The Guardian’s view on the killing of children in Gaza
theguardian: Editorial — Displaced Palestinian Hajar Muharram, five, sits in a classroom where her family of seven now lives, at a UN school, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Wars kill people, including teachers in their classrooms, nurses in their hospitals, and farmers in their fields. But […]
An open letter for the people in Gaza
Source: The Lancet We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect health and lives. We are also informed people; we teach the ethics […]
An open letter for the people in Gaza from doctors and scientists
Source: The Lancet We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect health and lives. We are also informed people; we teach the ethics […]
Tales of horror, from Gaza to Gujranwala
Dawn.com: by Murtaza Haider — It was supposed to be a month of peace and tolerance. It turned out to be anything but. A mob attacked homes belonging to Ahmadis in Gujranwala, causing the death of three innocent civilians. In the backdrop of religious chants and slogans, the youth ransacked private property […]
Jon Stewart Learns What Happens When You Talk About Israel
Huff Post: by Ed Mazza — http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:03cc340e-e845-4c5a-bd68-d3b1849adfa8 Many have accused Jon Stewart of being pro-Hamas for expressing sympathy for the residents of Gaza, where more than 500 people have been killed — including at least 100 children — in recent fighting with Israel. So on Monday night’s “Daily Show,” just about the entire roster of […]
Gaza doctor to Obama: Do you have a heart?
World Bulletin — Mads Gilbert Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor who volunteers at the overburdened Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip, has written a letter addressing US president Barack Obama. Dearest friends, The last night was extreme. The “ground invasion” of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, […]
How the occupation of Gaza corrupts the occupier
theguardian: by Owen Jones — As CNN’s Diana Magnay reported on the bombs falling on Palestinian heads from Sderot on the Israel-Gaza border last week, a crowd of Israelis whooped and cheered. Watching the missiles and explosions light up the sky was, Magnay declared on-air, “an astonishing, macabre and awful thing”, […]
Massacre fails to break Gaza
Summary Israeli warplanes and tanks Sunday battered a crowded neighborhood of Gaza City, killing at least 65 Palestinians in the deadliest single incident of an onslaught that has claimed well […]
Hundreds of French Jews Immigrate To Israel During Gaza Offensive
Huff Post : by Sophia Jones — JERUSALEM — Undeterred by the relentless rounds of cross-border hostilities between Israel and Hamas, hundreds of French Jewish immigrants gleefully accepted their Israeli identity cards at a ceremony here on Thursday afternoon. “I came because of anti-Semitism,” said teary-eyed Veronique Rivka Buzaglo, one […]
Both Sides Report Deadliest Day in Gaza War
The NewYork Times: by Anne Barnard and Isabel Kershner — GAZA CITY — After weeks of escalating conflict in Gaza, both sides reported death tolls that made clear Sunday was the deadliest day so far in the war. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that 87 Palestinians had died, and the […]
Despite war, Israel must act with magnanimity
Israel must strive for a cease-fire that would allow Gazans to live honorably and prevent another violent round in the near future. Haaretz Editorial | Jul. 19, 2014 | By Zvi Bar’el | Jul. 19, 2014 | 11:25 PM Israel’s ground operation in the Gaza Strip, which is the second […]
Egyptian military block activist aid convoy to Gaza
Summary Egyptian soldiers in north Sinai prevented an aid convoy of activists from reaching the Rafah border crossing with the embattled Palestinian Gaza Strip on Saturday, an AFP correspondent said. At least 333 Palestinians and three Israelis have died in the unrest, the third conflict to erupt in and around […]