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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, 20096 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......
Israel begins Gaza ground offensive
January 3rd, 20090 Israeli soldiers advance near the border with central Gaza during a ground operation by the Israeli army late January 3, 2009. Israeli troops clashed with Hamas fighters as they advanced into Gaza on Saturday in the first ground action of an eight-day offensive on the Palestinian enclave, a witness and the Israeli army said....
Hundreds protest Gaza bombardment in second local demonstration
January 3rd, 20090 DEARBORN - About 500 people from varying ethnic and religious backgrounds showed up in front of the steps of City Hall on Friday to protest Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip over the past week, and to hold a candlelight vigil for victims of the conflict. Protestors brave the cold at the steps of Dearborn City Hall on Friday......
Thousands gather in Dearborn to protest Israeli airstrikes
December 31st, 20080 Second demonstration scheduled for Friday, 5 p.m. in front of Dearborn City Hall. DEARBORN – Several thousand demonstrators marched, chanted and waved flags, signs and banners along Warren Avenue in Dearborn on Tuesday, protesting Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that have killed more than 370 people since Saturday, including at...
Gaza war is a repeat of the 2006 and 1982 wars
December 31st, 20080 Israeli tanks move just outside the northern Gaza Strip December 29, 2008. Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas targets in Gaza on Monday, the third day of an offensive that has killed more than 300 Palestinians, many of them civilians. Hamas defied the strongest assault against Palestinian militants in decades by launching a rocket...
Arab Americans to protest Israeli assaults on Gaza
December 28th, 20080 DEARBORN - Arab American organizations called the community to action on Saturday in condemning and demanding and end to Israeli airsrikes on Gaza that began Saturday, killing more than 280 as of Sunday afternoon. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest near the Israeli Embassy in London December 28, 2008, against the Israeli...
Community leaders call for actions to stop the killings in Gaza
December 28th, 20080 Community leaders call for actions to stop the massacre against Palestinians in Gaza Bodies of Palestinian policemen lie on the ground of their destroyed police compound following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008. Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed at least 275 Palestinians, health......
Hundreds die in Israel raid on Gaza
December 27th, 20080 Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip December 27, 2008. Israeli warplanes and helicopters pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 208 people in one of the bloodiest days for the Palestinians in 60 years of conflict with the Jewish state. REUTERS/Baz Ratner At least 220...
2008 year in review
December 26th, 20080 The Arab American News' top headlines and front pages of 2008 International • Iraqi refugees struggling in U.S., want to go back • Hundreds of thousands cross downed Gaza wall • George Habash leaves legacy of resistance • Afghan torture scandal widens • Hizbullah commander killed in Syria blast • Hamas renews......
Auto meltdown
December 26th, 20080 PHOTO: REUTERS/Rebecca Cook A 63-year-old Ford auto dealership has been bought out as pressures increase to thin the number of Detroit-area dealerships. A worker carries away a Ford logo sign from Al Long Ford auto dealership in Warren in the photo at left, taken Dec. 23. The image illustrates the intense uncertainty...
UNIFIL troops treat Lebanese children
December 26th, 20080 AIN IBL, LEBANON - Ten toddlers at a nursery school in this southern Lebanon village had a surprise visit from an unlikely version of Santa Claus this week when French United Nations soldiers dressed up to hand out Christmas gifts. A French UNIFIL soldier with a toddler at the Ain Ibl nursery school in South Lebanon, where the......