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E.U. considers ties with Israel
BRUSSELS (IPS) — Senior European Union figures have signalled that they could push ahead with plans to strengthen formal ties with Israel, even though more than 1,000 have now been killed by the bombardment of Gaza. Two conflicting statements about E.U.-Israeli relations were delivered Jan. 14, as the number of Palestinians, about...
Killing of insurgent described
January 17th, 20090 A court martial in Canada heard on January 6 the basics of the government's case against Captain Robert Semrau. He is charged with killing a wounded Taliban in Helmand Province on October 19. According to the prosecution, following a battle which began with an ambush by Taliban fighters, the Taliban were beaten. Returning to the...Children of Gaza, run to the angels
Loay Soboh, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy, waves at Shifa hospital in Gaza before his transfer to Saudi Arabia for treatment January 12, 2009. According to doctors, Soboh lost his eyes in an Israeli air strike. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah Ironically, it was in Palestine, 20 years ago, that I concluded that there is no God. For how...
Pro-Israel pardons and leniency too costly to continue
January 17th, 20090 Palestinians mourn in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, after their relative was killed during Israel's offensive January 14, 2009. International efforts to stop the Gaza war intensified on Wednesday and Israel pressed its demand that Hamas not be allowed to rearm under a ceasefire, sending warplanes to drop bunker-busting...Producer hopes film will educate
After its world premiere at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi on January 7, the ground-breaking IMAX film "Journey to Mecca" made its North American debut at the Henry Ford IMAX in Dearborn this past Wednesday, and creator/producer Taran Davies was in town to promote it. Moroccan ambassador to the U.S., Aziz Mekouar, was in town as...
Israel shells U.N. headquarters in Gaza
January 17th, 20090 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, engulfing the compound and a warehouse in fire and destroying thousands of pounds of food and humanitarian supplies intended for Palestinian refugees. John Ging, head of United Nations Relief and Works Agency...GCC in security-sympathy fix over Gaza
DUBAI (IPS) - As Israel's assault on Gaza continues into a third week, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries remain distressed on two fronts — mounting Arab anger over Palestinian causalities and concern over Tehran and Tel Aviv using Hamas to settle their differences. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah (R) welcomes Emir of...
Jewish group selling olive oil to benefit Palestinian farmers
January 16th, 20090 As one of the top local advocates for peace and a ceasefire in the Middle East, the Jewish Voice for Peace's Detroit chapter works constantly to find ways to help the battered Palestinian population. A sample label from bottles of Palestinian olive oil being sold locally by the goup Jewish Voice for Peace. One creative way to...
Video: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on Gaza
January 13th, 20090 The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c Strip Maul Barack Obama InterviewJohn McCain Interview Sarah Palin VideoFunny Election Video Members of the group Jewish Voice for Peace have been circulating an email urging people to send messages of thanks to the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon...
تظاهرات حاشدة فـي منطقة ديترويت تندد بالحرب على غزة والمذابح الإسرائيلية
January 11th, 20090 ديربرون، خاص لـ «صدى الوطن» اندفع عدة آلاف من العرب والمسلمين الأميركيين، يشاركهم بعض النشطاء الأميركيين من دعاة السلام في تظاهرة غاضبة عصر يوم الثلاثاء الماضي، على شارع وورن في...U.S. abstains as Security Council passes ceasefire resolution
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Thursday night calling for an immediate and durable cease-fire between Hamas and Israeli forces in Gaza. The U.S. abstained from the 14-0 vote. The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the crisis in Gaza, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York...Israel may face charges for war crimes
RAMALLAH (IPS) — Israel has committed war crimes and should be prosecuted in an international court, said Raji Sourani, head of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza. Palestinians mourn beside bodies of Palestinians killed at a U.N school, during their funeral in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip January 7,...
Over 800 killed in Gaza
January 10th, 20090 Palestinian father Magdi al-Samuli mourns over the bodies of his three children, killed by an Israeli tank shell early on January 5, 2009, upon their arrival at the morgue of Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital. A disproportionate number of fatalities among Palestinians in Gaza have been children and women. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem RAMALLAH...
Bush plan made assault on Gaza possible
January 10th, 20090 WASHINGTON (IPS) — Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair elections for the Palestinian parliament and was still the leading faction in a fully legitimate government. U.S. President George W. Bush looks down...Gaza’s off-shore gas reserves
The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. This is a war of conquest. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline. British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens-based Consolidated......
Israel. Always the victim?
A Palestinian medic carries the body of a girl killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza January 6, 2009. Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip killed more than 30 Palestinian civilians on Tuesday, medical officials said, and international efforts to secure a ceasefire focused on an Israeli demand to prevent Hamas from rearming....The Gaza ghetto uprising
A protester participates in a candlelit rally to denounce Israel's attacks on Gaza, in front of the Israel embassy in Seoul January 6, 2009. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won One is often baffled by the ironies of international relations and the alliances they foster. Take for example the Israeli colonial settlement that has declared war on the......
Ontario Union: Bar Israeli teachers
University employees in the Ontario Branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are calling for a ban on Israeli teachers in Ontario universities in reaction to Israel's bombing of Gaza's Islamic University. Sid Ryan, president of CUPE Ontario According to Sid Ryan, President of CUPE Ontario, "In response to an...1982 massacre rendered through dark, distorted lens
WASHINGTON (IPS) - Recently opened in wide release in the United States, Ari Folman's new animated documentary detailing Israeli involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacre sheds new light on the Israeli side of that conflict, as well as the one unfolding today. "Waltz With Bashir", already an award-winning documentary and the...Hajj, Muslim history unfolds in IMAX film
DEARBORN — Of all the events in human history, it's hard to find many more suited for an IMAX documentary than the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Renowned traveler Ibn Battuta's journey from Tangier, Morocco to Mecca is faithfully reproduced in "Journey to Mecca." The IMAX screen's massive size and impeccable sound and visual...
News briefs
January 10th, 20098 Grant opportunity for Arab American organizations The Center for Arab-American Philanthropy (CAAP) is offering support and capacity-building grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 for Arab American organizations. Funds are available through individual donors and support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The deadline to apply for......
Community protests Gaza genocide
January 9th, 20090 The streets of downtown Detroit were painted red, green and black on Thursday, Jan. 8 as more than 1,000 protested Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip. Pro-Palestinian protesters lined Michigan Avenue by the McNamara Federal Building in downtown Detroit on Thursday as passing motorists honked in support of their cause....
Israel’s collective punishment of Gaza, chemical weapons, deaths of women and children all supported by U.S.
January 9th, 20090 Since Israel began its war on Gaza 14 days ago, more than 800 Palestinians – about half of them women and children – have been killed. Some 3,200 Gazans – about half of them women and children – have been wounded. Israel's "Operation Cast Lead" marks an escalation of Israel's two-year blockade of the Gaza......
Networks’ int’l news coverage at record low in 2008
January 9th, 20090 WASHINGTON (IPS) — Despite two wars involving more than 200,000 U.S. troops and a global economic crisis, foreign-related news coverage by the three major U.S. television networks fell to a record low during 2008, according to the latest annual review of network news coverage by the authoritative Tyndall Report. Squeezed out by...
Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN school in Gaza
January 6th, 20090 People look at bodies of Palestinians near a U.N.-run school in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip January 6, 2009. Israeli tank fire killed up to 40 Palestinians at a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medical sources at two hospitals said. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah The civilian death toll in Gaza increased......
