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 […]
Source: by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – http://www.globalresearch.ca “Hegemony is as old as Mankind…” -Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. National Security Advisor The term “New Middle East” was introduced to the world […]
Source: Huffington Post Author: Hamza Hendawi BAGHDAD — Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq’s ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate – and unequal. Sunnis are locked out of key jobs at universities and in government, their leaders banned from Cabinet meetings or even […]
The Yeshiva World: A 65-year-old Israeli man has taken tzedakah to a new level, giving of himself, quite literally, by donating more than 272 units of blood to Magen David […]
The Palestinian Chronicles: By Samah Sabwai I’ve been down this road before: Someone tries to teach me how to use words that can ‘open doors’. Offering me tips in communication. […]
Source: Associated Press Author: Sinan Salaheddin BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdish region has halted oil exports over a payment row with the central government in Baghdad, the latest dispute in a long-troubled relationship between the two administrations. Furious over the move, Baghdad on Monday accused the Kurdistan Regional Government […]
The United States and allied countries are boosting their support for Syrian rebels fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. On Sunday, the Obama administration and at least 60 other governments agreed to pay the rebels $100 million dollars in aid. The United States has also pledged to send […]
Haaretz: Where is Mandela when we need him? This is the time to leave the ghetto on the one hand, and the alienation on the other, and move toward a […]
Source: CNN Author: Mohammed Tawfeeq Najaf, Iraq (CNN) — An Iraqi woman who died in California after a brutal beating was laid to rest in her native country Saturday. Shaima Alawadi, 32, was taken off of life support last week after being found unconscious in her living room in San […]
Wafa: RAMALLAH, March 31, 2012 (WAFA) – The three Palestinian Arabic dailies Saturday focused on the Palestinian marches marking the 36th anniversary of Land Day in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The prime headlines reported on the violent Israeli crackdown against protesters, killing one Palestinian in […]
Source: AFP Author: Wissam Keyrouz and W.G. Dunlop BAGHDAD — Despite the absence of key leaders, heavy-handed security measures and resolutions seen as soft, the fact that Iraq managed to host an Arab summit at all has been hailed as a success. Delayed by a year as a result of […]
Source: The Christian Science Monitor Author: Hamza Hendawi & Lara Jakes, Associated Press Fewer than half the leaders of the Arab world showed up at an Arab summit in Baghdad on Thursday, a snub to the Iraqi government, but the leaders agreed on an appeal to Syria’s regime to stop […]
Haaretz: Damning U.S. war simulation forces Ehud Barak to reconsider attack plans; Americans pledge more money for Iron Dome antimissile system. At 8:58 P.M. on Tuesday, Israel’s 2012 war against Iran came to a quiet end. The capricious plans for a huge aerial attack were returned to the deep recesses […]
Arabs prepare for ‘Jerusalem March’ Hundreds of thousands of people expected to take part in pro-Palestinian protest over weekend; marches to be held across region. Anti-Israel fly-in taking shape Ynet […]
Palestine Chronicle: A year after his arrest and detention by the Israeli military in Bethlehem, Hamza, a 17-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, is seeing a social worker to try […]
International Middle East Media Center: The al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage issued a press release on Wednesday morning stating that dozens of Israeli soldiers and fundamentalist settlers broke into […]
Using Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Other Internet Tools, Pakistani Terrorist Group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Incites Violence against Shi’ite Muslims and Engenders Antisemitism Introduction This paper examines the role of Pakistani terrorist group […]
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA; At least 27 Indonesian delegates departed for Karachi in Pakistan on Friday to join “Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ)”. From Pakistan, the convoy will travel by land then […]
Source: New York Times Author: Jack Healy BAGHDAD — As Arab leaders converge on Baghdad for a landmark summit meeting this week, they will be treated to carefully chosen glimpses of a new Iraq: gleaming hotel lobbies, renovated palaces and young palm trees lining an airport highway once called the […]
Ha’aretz: Ha’aretz has long had a reputation as Israel’s most distinguished newspaper, read by the economic, political, and intellectual elites. It’s language and the lack of a sensationalist front page are among the factors that make it the secular Hebrew language daily with the smallest circulation. It is also the […]