Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
BEIRUT: We’ve been in Haifa Hospital for precisely seven minutes before the power cuts out. The clock on the wall by the reception booth sits proudly between a picture of Yasser Arafat and a plastic sign showing a Kalashnikov rifle struck through with livid red lines. No guns. This is a hospital, after all. “Electricity is one [...]
Sunset Over Slawit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Monday night, English Southern Man Luke Haines ventured north of Watford Gap to Manchester, and I got to see him play live for the first time. The Deaf Institute is a terrific venue, best described by the adjective ‘intimate’. Though not as dangerously overcrowded as last week’s Morrissey gig at Leeds Academy (i.e. there was still room to breathe), the room was still pretty full…...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
France on Friday urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to stay in office despite his recent announcement that he will not seek re-election. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said he will travel to the Middle East in the coming days and would hold talks with Abbas, whose decision was seen in Paris as a new "threat to peace." "I will press Mahmud Abbas to obstinately continue his work...
My World Earth (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Middle East peace hopes were in disarray after Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate Palestinian leader, announced he would stand down within weeks In this photo released by the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Fatah party's executive committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Aides say Abbas has told political allies he won't run in...
M E N O R A H (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Resignation, or rather the threat of resignation, is not an invention of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser used to wield the same weapon to boost his public support, and Yasser Arafat would from time to...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, has said he will not seek re-election at presidential elections he has called for January and that he is not ready to debate the issue. "I have told our brethren in the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organisation] ... that I have no desire to run in the forthcoming election," Abbas said on Thursday in a speech broadcast live from his headquarters in the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Posters in Gaza, ruled by Mahmoud Abbas's enemies in Hamas, already scorn the Palestinian president as being "on the dustheap of history"." His announcement last night that he does not wish to contest the next elections is a clear sign he has been put in an impossible position by Israeli and American pressure to renew peace negotiations. Yasser Arafat's successor as leader of Fatah...
YID With LID (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Palestinian Sources have announced today that the leader of Fatah/President of the Palestinian Territories has decided he will step down because of a lack of progress in peace talks. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will not seek re-election in polls next year, reports suggest. Officials from the Palestine Liberation Organisation told journalists in the West Bank that Mr Abbas "insists...
Chippshots (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The "peace process" had been headed for the mortuary slab ever since George W. Bush's presidency (with his acquiescence in Ariel Sharon's brutalities at Jenin in the West Bank, his concessions to Sharon in the matter of Israel's retention of its illegal mega-settlements in the West Bank, and his double-teaming with Sharon to eliminate Yasser Arafat and then politically emasculate Mahmud Abbas)....
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The group's changed view on US support is an attempt to present itself as the new interlocutor that can help Washington make headway in the Palestinian territories A Very Revealing Article By Sami Moubayed ( Sami Moubayed is editor-in-chief of Forward Magazine in Syria. He is close to the Syrian regime ) Special to Gulf News Published: 00:00 November 3, 2009 "Speaking to a delegation of American...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
South African Judge Richard Goldstone's name may be infamous in Israel, but in the Gaza Strip it is sewn onto souvenir Palestinian headscarves in honour of his controversial war inquiry. Tariq Abu Dia, owner of the President Arafat souvenir shop in Gaza City, says Goldstone, who is Jewish, deserves the honour of appearing on the iconic Palestinian keffiyeh made famous by Yasser Arafat, for whom the...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
by Khaled Abu Toameh Even if Israel were to freeze all construction in the West Bank settlements, this would not mean that peace would prevail in the Middle East the following day. Those who think that Palestinians would take to the streets to express their joy over such a move are living on a different planet and have a short memory. In the summer of 2005, when Israel destroyed all settlements in...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The plot thickens: US media continues with the orchestrated campaign to promote the man who received 2% of the Palestinian vote in the last legislative election-under-occupation (technically, he received 1% percent because the combined list with him and his partner, Hanan Ashrawi received the whopping 2%). "His office, sleek and ultramodern, seems to capture something of the man who is trying...
英文人行道 et cetera, et cetera (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
About Stephen Sackur HARDtalk is broadcast on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News Stephen Sackur, HARDtalk's presenter, has been a journalist with BBC News since 1986. Before taking over on the BBC News 24 and BBC World flagship current affairs interview programme, he had been based in Brussels for three years as the BBC's Europe Correspondent. Prior to this, Stephen was the BBC's Washington Correspondent...
Grace and Truth to You (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I was reading Cheryl Schatz's blog and came across a comment by Lydia regarding the official biography of Dorothy Patterson, wife of Dr. Paige Patterson, President of Southwestern Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. Lydia pointed out that Dorothy Patterson's biographical sketch reveals she shared "a midnight banquet with Yasser Arafat in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces." Incredulous,...
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ssonuagarwal | 10/10/2009
The Nobel Peace Prize committee has decided to award its Prize this year to President Obama. He said he’s “humbled” and the world says it’s stunned. Does Obama deserve the surPRIZE? There are more “no”s than “yes”es, but it is safe to say the Peace Prize – 2009 has divided the world. Ask: Is the Nobel Prize given for achievements? If yes, Obama himself has admitted he hasn’t achieved anything. He doesn’t...
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