RT: Israel has chosen to attack Gaza in order to avoid reaching a longer-term peace settlement that was being negotiated with the help of Hamas’ military leader Ahmen Jabari, who was assassinated in an Israeli attack Wednesday, says Israeli activist. Israeli peace activist Gershon Baskin spoke to RT confirming that […]
By Shaimaa Fayed REUTERS Fri Nov 16, 2012 10:13pm IST REUTERS – Iraq’s envoy to the Arab League said it would invite Arab states to use oil as a weapon to press for a halt to Israeli attacks on Gaza, but later appeared to withdraw the remark, saying Baghdad would […]
Please, please read this recent blog post by my friend Abby Okrent. I will have more to write about Israel’s most recent outrages in Gaza very soon. http://rabbibrant.com/ Dear Mr. President, My younger brother was an early believer in you. He worked for your Senate campaign. At the age of […]
Source: New Straits Times BANGI: Gaza is in great need of basic medical supplies, which have dwindled since the recent intensified aerial attacks by the Israeli army, killing at least 20 people and injuring 200 individuals, including children. Hatem Shurrab, Media Manager at Islamic Relief Palestine (IRP), said that medical […]
Thousands of protesters chanted the Arab Spring slogan “the people want the downfall of the regime” in Jordan’s capital on Friday. Demonstrations against rising prices are gathering force in a country so far spared the brunt of Middle East unrest. The mainly urban Muslim Brotherhood joined hitherto largely rural protests […]
Sobbing and shaking with unbearable grief, Jihad Masharawi is pictured cradling the body of his murdered 11-month-old son Omar yesterday. As the might of Israel’s military – gunboats, tanks, and aircraft – pounded the Gaza Strip in pursuit of Islamic militants, Omar was one of 11 young Palestinians killed on […]
By Julius Odeke the Independent, Uganda An advocacy group says the Ugandan Army’s quest to apprehend Joseph Kony and other senior leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army is destined to […]
Source: Yahoo News ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan decried Israeli’s air strikes on Gaza on Friday as a pre-election stunt and said he would discuss the crisis […]
War always was, and still is, a very powerful tool for wiping social problems off the table, for hiding the worsening housing crisis and the daily price increases for basic […]
Reseracher Warns against “Pakistanisation”of Indonesia The Human Rights Chief of the United Nations has condemned violence and discrimination against Christians and Muslim minorities in Indonesia. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said she had met with leaders of Christian communities as well as the Islamic minority, Shiite and […]
Merapi volcano’s ‘spirit keeper’ walks line between tradition and technology guardian.co.uk: Two years after eruption killed 350 in Indonesia, Mbah Maridjan’s son has taken over his role appeasing Mount Merapi […]
icscotland.co.uk: Hamas bears “principal responsibility” for the escalating crisis between Gaza and Israel, Downing Street has said. Number 10 also called rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas “completely unacceptable”. It […]
Source: http://www.indianmuslimobserver.com/2012/11/indian-american-muslims-condemn.html By Staff Reporter Muslims in India and around the world are condemning the attempts by some miscreants who are trying to illegally build a full fledged Hindu temple along the wall of the world renowned, four hundred year old Charminar monument in Hyderabad city, thereby disfiguring it. The […]
Source: Dawn.Com By Mohammad Ali THE study of religion has been a phenomenon of interest. It is because of this curiosity that historically different perspectives have been developed to understand, interpret and extract meaning from religious concepts and practices. Some of the dominant approaches have been theological, jurisprudential, spiritual etc. […]
Pakteahouse: Akbar Zaidi and the critical re-evaluation of Jinnah By Yasser Latif Hamdani This morning writing in The News, Akbar Zaidi, a respected economist, called for a critical re-evaluation of Jinnah’s role in Pakistan’s history. Just to re-cap this was business as usual – Jinnah’s democratic credentials are questionable because of […]
France 24: By Charlotte BOITIAUX For one group of angry French soldiers’ wives, posing semi-naked has become a way of protesting against a computer glitch that has left their husbands unpaid. Their Facebook campaign, “Un paquet de Gauloises en colère” (a group of angry Frenchwomen) — which features the wives, girlfriends, […]
Rfi: France The remains of Albania’s King Zog I were flown back to his country on Thursday after being exhumed in a cemetery near Paris. Zog, who reigned from 1928 to 1939, died in France in 1961. Details.
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar As tensions mount in the coming hours and days with the Israeli troops and tanks advancing toward Gaza menacingly, United States President Barack Obama begins to realize that he has a forked tongue. Gaza becomes the litmus test of what he can claim […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar So many wars to launch, so little time. When you’re the political leader of the most militarized nation on the planet – as is the case with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu – you gotta find ways to play with your toys. More: