Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Subject: txt intl islm owg - The International Atomic Energy Agency is, as Jonathan noted , deeply disturbed by its latest findings on Iran. It is also deeply disturbed by its latest findings on Syria, which it detailed in another report released this week. Syria’s explanation of the uranium traces found at a Damascus research reactor did not fit the facts, the report said, nor did these traces...
Developing your Web presence (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Here follows the second part of an interview with Dalia El Massri (from Khan Younis, Gaza), this time concentrating on the living conditions in Gaza and how they are affected by the ongoing siege. (The first part, on Hamas, can be found here ). All photos by Dalia El Massri taken on 05/11/2009. Q: The siege continues unabated and we're told that economic conditions in Gaza are at an all time low, with...
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1126605.html The settlers camp remains pure By Zvi Bar'el 8 November, 2009 "Not all of the settlers are Teitels," shout the settlers from their bunkers. "We must not smear an entire community because of one killer," chants their chorus, closing ranks whenever one of "their own," alone or in collaboration, killer or hilltop youth, deviates...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It's amazing what some reporters believe about Saudi Arabia... I have attended three conferences in recent days in the Middle East. One of them, organized in Tel Aviv by Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), with the assistance of the Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Embassy in Israel, specifically concerned the media. Titled “Giving the Middle East context: Reporters...
Developing your Web presence (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
H/T Jews sans Frontieres. Cambridgetab.co.uk A Labour BP is at the centre of a RACE ROW after appearing at the Cambridge Union . Dr Denis MacShane, MP for Rotherham , ordered an Egyptian student to "apologise for all Jews killed by Hamas." MacShane was participating in a debate on the Middle East last Thursday (October 29th) when he came out with the SCANDALOUS SLUR. The student, Ossama el...
Jews sans frontieres (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
There's a double entendre there if you look for it. Denis MacShane is one of the prime movers behind the stupid working definition of "antisemitism" and he is also quite racist himself. See these reports on his contributions to a Cambridge Union debate titled, This House believes that Israel demands too much and gives too little in the peace process. After setting out roughly what was said...
Media Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I have attended three conferences in recent days in the Middle East. One of them, organized in Tel Aviv by Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), with the assistance of the Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Embassy in Israel, specifically concerned the media. Titled “ Giving the Middle East context: Reporters view the world they cover ,” it featured leading Middle...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The military wing of Hamas refused on Tuesday to comment on Israeli report that the Islamic movement had test-fired a rocket that could reach deep inside Israel. "We are not interested in responding to the Zionist intelligence reports, they can say whatever they want," said Abu Obaida, spokesman for Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades of Hamas. Major General Amos Yadlin, head of Military Intelligence...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A young man looks for his mother’s grave in a cemetery in Beit Lehia that was destroyed by tanks in January. Israel’s three-week-long attack has given rise to charges of war crimes on both sides. Photograph by Christian Als. What really happened during the Israeli attacks? by Lawrence Wright November 9, 2009 New Yorker In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip, there...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The military wing of Islamic Hamas movement on Tuesday said it will not stop attempts to capture Israeli soldiers and exchange them for Palestinian prisoners. "We will continue our efforts to capture soldiers until freeing the last Palestinian prisoner in the prisons of the (Israeli) occupation," said Abu Obaida, spokesman for Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades of Hamas. In statements published...
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Summary: Get your Morning Coffee: Iran may OK nuke deal, Israel starves Palestine for water says Amnesty, sex and the Saudis. Top Story: IRAN "WILL ACCEPT NUCLEAR DEAL," KINDA Iranian state TV is reporting that the country will accept the nuclear deal offered by the UN, but only with "very important change," though those "changes" weren't reported. According to El Am...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
By TAGHREED EL-KHODARY RAFAH, Gaza — Dusty sacks filled with cans of Coca-Cola were being loaded onto trucks by young boys, headed for supermarkets in Gaza City. Thousands of motorcycles were lined up on display in a nearby stadium, ranging in price from $2,000 to $10,000. The tunnels emerged as a lifeline for Gaza two years ago. Profits are high, but precarious. Israel regularly bombards the...
Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Ha'aretz, Monday 26 October 2009 As occupier, Israel must face up to Goldstone report By Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz Correspondent Goldstone was born in June 1967. I am not referring to the judge from South Africa, but to his report, or more precisely, the notion that Israel needs a synonym for the soul-searching it must carry out after 42 years of occupation. In the 575 pages of the report that is loaded...
The Osterley Times (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Zvi Bar'el has a really interesting article in today's Ha'aretz newspaper, talking about the Israeli reaction to the Goldstone report, and how the Israelis are wrong to view Goldstone's report as merely a reaction to the invasion of Gaza, but how, in fact, Goldstone uses the word " continuum", meaning that he is viewing the Israeli actions in Gaza as part of what Ber'el refers to as "...
Pine River World News (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The following article is from The Jerusalem Post. S. African alleges El Al a Mossad front © The Jerusalem Post By Lionel Slier, Johannesburg October 22, 2009 An internal South African labor dispute has mushroomed into allegations that El Al Israel Airlines is employing undercover Mossad agents in its South African operations. The matter began a few weeks ago, when, after being dismissed, allegedly...
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