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I
am Nasim Shaheen, a Palestinian human rights activist, and the
sister of Hussam Shaheen. I am writing to you on the third
anniversary of my brother’s arrest. Hussam Shaheen is the
Secretary of International Relations for the Fateh Youth
Organization and has been in an Israeli jail since January 28,
2004. Within a few days, it will be the third anniversary of his
imprisonment.
U.S.-Tailored Iraqi Oil Alarm for Producers, Consumers-
By
Nicola Nasser*
Visit of the Palestinian Singer Rim Banna
On 4th December 2006,
Patanjala Yoga Kendra received Rim Banna, a world-famous Palestinian
Singer, composer and song-writer from Nazareth. She was accompanied
by her husband Leonid Alexeienko, daughters Baylassan, Qumran and
son Ursalem. Rim Banna is a well-known shining star in the world of
modern Arabic music.
On 30 June, Dr. Hassan, a
42-year-old colleague, arrived to the Cairo airport on his way to
Gaza were he hoped to pass the summer vacation after spending his
year studying and
working in France.
Hillary Clinton and the Israel Lobby
George
W. Bush's position on Iran is "disturbing" and "dangerous," reads a
position paper written in late 2005 by American Israel Public
Affairs Committee (AIPAC). One year ago the Bush administration
accepted a Russian proposal to allow Iran to continue to develop
nuclear energy under Russian supervision. Needless to say, AIPAC
wasn't the least bit happy about the compromise.
...Why more may not enoygh if the goal is to quell an insurgency
By : Linda Robinson
Can a
surge of U.S. and Iraqi troops into Baghdad accomplish what last
summer's Operation Forward Together failed to achieve? In announcing
the imminent deployment of more U.S. soldiers to Iraq and additional
Iraqi forces, the Bush administration aims to stabilize the capital
city, quell a spiraling civil war, and thereby rescue its foundering
policy. The plan also includes a new promise by the Iraqi government
When I published my book Blood and
Religion last year,
I sought not only to explain what lay behind Israeli policies
since the failed Camp David negotiations nearly seven years ago,
including the disengagement from Gaza and the building of a wall
across the West Bank, but I also offered a few suggestions
about where Israel might head next.
Over 50,000 March in Istanbul in Funeral Procession for Slain Turkish-Armenian Editor Hrant Dink
Bt Amy Goodman
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Today is the funeral of prominent
Turkish newspaper editor Hrant Dink who was shot dead outside of his
office last Friday. Dink had recently received death threats by
Turkish nationalists for his writings about the Armenian genocide of
1915.
The Hope Flowers School in Al Khadar.
Case Number related to demolition: 107/02
We are kindly asking you and the Civil
Administration NOT to continue with your plans to demolish the
cafeteria building of the only school for peace and co-existence
between Israeli and Palestinian
children
and youth in the Palestinian
.
Statement
of the CC of our Party MLCP on the assassination of
Hrant Dink
A Palestinian patient has died on Thursday evening at the Huwwara checkpoint
Ma'an - A Palestinian patient has died
on Thursday evening at the Huwwara checkpoint, south of the city of
Nablus in the north of the West Bank. Israeli soldiers stationed at
the barrier refused to let him pass, as the car which carried him
had no permit.
Ma'an's correspondent in Nablus reported that Tayseer Muhammad
Ibrahim Al-Qaysi, aged 45, suffered from cancer of the liver, and
was on his way back from Jerusalem after having been treated at the
Al-Muttala' hospital. When he arrived at the Huwwara barrier, the
Israeli soldiers prohibited him to pass into Nablus in a car, under
the pretext that the car did not have a special permit. The man was
forced to make the journey on foot, and died immediately, as his
health was in critical condition.Al-Qaysi was married and had 8
children. He worked in a local restaurant in Nablus.
536 Palestinians went missing or were murdered in Iraq in 2006
Ma'an
-The Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee member,
Dr Zakariyya Al-Agha, who is also in charge of refugees' affairs,
confirmed on Wednesday that the numbers of dead or missing
Palestinians in Iraq had mounted to around 536 over the past
year.The total number for the past three years has now reached
22,100.
Emails with
pictures of saddam hanged are being sent, the moment that you open
these emails your computer will crash, and you will not be able to
fix it!
If you get an
email along the lines of "Osama Bin Laden Captured"
or "Osama Hanged" don't open the attachment.
FIFTH PALESTINIANS IN EUROPE CONFERENCE IN HOLLAND
The General Secretariat of the Palestinians in
Europe Conference, the Palestinian Return Centre, London, the
Palestinians in Holland Forum and Palestinian Return networks are
pleased to invite all Palestinian institutions and individuals on
the European continent to the Fifth Palestinians in Europe
Conference which would take place in Rotterdam on Saturday 5th May
2007.
Secretary of Fatah proposes solutions to the current crisis
Secretary of the Fatah movement, Farouq Quaddomi, on Monday sent a
message to the secretary generals of the Palestinian resistance
factions in which he discussed the current crisis and proposed
Norwegian senior group for a Just peace between Israel and a free and independent Palestinian state.
Oslo - Safsaf : Israel
prides itself on being a democratic country.
Yet Israeli policy denies family unification in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, and since March 2006 also
Israel's purging of Palestinian Christians-Jonathan Cook
Israel is happy to see Christians leave, at least of the indigenous
Palestinian variety.
Palestinians from Iraq are refugees once again: Syrian government allocates small plot for new camp
The Ministry of
Refugees announced Monday that the Syrian government has agreed to
allocate 10 dunams of land to build houses for the hundreds of
Palestinian refugees fleeing Baghdad.
Nothing but
Iraq
Translated from
the
Arabic by
Shareah Taleghani
I remember as-Sayyab screaming into the Gulf in vain:
Iraq, Iraq. Nothing but Iraq.
And nothing but an echo replies
I remember as-Sayyab, in that Sumerian space
A woman triumphed over the sterility of mist
She bequeathed to us earth and exile . . .
For poetry is born in Iraq,
So be Iraqi to become a
poet, my friend.>>>>>
Zakaria Shahin
Cain's Apple
Tr. By: Hussam Obeid
Introduction
When pretext is far worse than crime, it amounts to something far
more dangerous, and then justice loses all its meaning, and words
lose the limits of depiction, and where killing becomes >>>>>>
Children of the Second Intifada
Yassmin A.
Moor writing from Fairfax, USA,
Recently an article was published reporting the shooting of two children inside a United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) school in one of Gaza's refugee camps.>>>>>
I was born in Beirut but moved to Sweden in 1984
Safsaf - Sverge :My name is Nabila Abdul Fattah. I am 25 years old and I was born in Beirut but moved to Sweden in 1984 because of the civil war. >>>>
Letter from the People of Beit Hanoun to John Bolton
Safsaf - Gaza :To John Bolton, the American ambassador to the Security Council; Well done John Bolton for working as the devil's advocate, the lawyer of our butcher . You are supposed to be the US ambassador of peace in the United Nations and its Security Council !!!!!!! When will you stop raising your hand for Veto>>>>
800-year-old Um An-Nasr Mosque in Beit Hanoun Destroyed by the
Israeli Forces, a report by Yousef Alhelou
By Yousef Alhelou
Safsaf - Gaza : The An-Nasr mosque in
Beit Hanoun, which was completely destroyed by the Israeli shelling
during the invasion of Beit Hanoun, is a historic mosque that was
built 800 years ago.The imam of the mosque, Sheikh Shihda Abu Zreiq,
said on Friday that the occupation has ruined “the house of God",
which was built in the year 637 according to the Islamic calendar,
following the “Um An-Nasr" battle between the armies of Sultan
Mahmoud Qutob and the Crusaders' armies in the area between Gaza
City and Asqalan (today's Ashkelon). The Muslim armies triumphed in
the battle.The imam said that the Israeli occupation army did not
intend to kill Palestinian fighters in particular. They also killed
children, women and old people. The sheikh called on the Arab and
Islamic world to learn the lessons of these incidents.
President Abbas visited Beit Hanoun including the destroyed mosque
and he promised the people there to rebuild it again.While we were
looking at the destroyed mosque, a man said to me, I have prayed in
this mosque for 31 years and now I'm going to miss it.
Beit Hanoun massacre by Yousef Alhelou
Catastrophe in
Beit Hanoun, a report from Yousef>>>
Gaza: From "Summer Rain" in the south to "Autumn Clouds" in the north>>>
Autumn clouds pile up above Beit Hanoun>>>
Dark clouds raining blood over Beit Hanoun>>>
Safsaf -Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip
PLO Chief assigns blame to both Fatah and Hamas for rise in internal violence
Bethlehem - Ma'an – The head of the PLO political bureau, Farouq Qaddoumi has leveled blame at both Hamas leaders and the office of the president for the rise in hostility in the internal Palestinian>>>
Interview
with Hamas-Leader Khaled Meshaal
Hamas ready for peaceful coexistence with Israel within the borders
of 1967.
By Rainer Rupp
12/18/06 "Information Clearing House" -- - Khaled Meshaal is the political leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement,Meshaal.>>>