Land theft / Destruction / Settlements
Greece must intervene in sale of land to Israel, delegation says
A delegation of Palestinian Orthodox Christians called on the Greek government to take appropriate action against the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilios III for leasing church land to Israeli officials and called for the deal to be nullified. The delegation returned from Greece on Friday.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Palestinian olive grove destroyed in the night
Christian Peacemaker Team 15 Jan - In the afternoon of 14 January Palestinians discovered that a family owned olive grove in Khoruba valley had been recently destroyed. Twenty mature olive trees were broken at their trunks. The family believes that Israeli settlers from the Ma’on settlement and Havot Ma’on outpost are responsible for the vandalism. A Palestinian farmer informed internationals who documented the destruction that this was the fifth time since 1997 that settlers have destroyed the olive trees in this grove.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Military bulldozers create third entrance to illegal Nablus settlement
Israeli bulldozers began overturning land to make way for a third entrance to the illegal settlement of Shavi Shamron in the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday, according to Ghassan Daghlas, Palestinian official responsible for the settlement file in the West Bank. "A number of Israeli bulldozers, accompanied by dozens of workers, began bulldozing several dunums of farmland confiscated by the Israeli army to open a third entrance to the settlement," Daghlas said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Network of road gates tightens its stranglehold on Shufa village
15 Jan - The village of Shufa continues to struggle with restricted road access and no electricity grid connection, as a new road gate is established at the entrance to the village ... The increasing number of road gates in the region contribute to slowly creeping network of apartheid roads and restriction of movement for Palestinians living in the West Bank. Shufa village has been split in half and isolated by roadblocks and apartheid roads.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Violence
Teenager attacked by settlers in Sheikh Jarrah
A Palestinian teenage girl was attacked by settlers on Saturday evening in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Amina Nashashibi, 16, was pulled by the hair and beaten whilst attending a demonstration in the area, Ma'an's reporter said. Settlers verbally attacked demonstrators. The reporter said Israeli police were present at the scene.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Israeli tanks shell Beit Hanoun
Israeli tanks operating near the northern Gaza border near Beit Hanoun targeted civilian properties with heavy artillery fire, witnesses said late Friday night. Eyewitnesses said tanks were spotted at the border, and noted a heavier than usual weaponry used by the forces. They said the fire hit civilian homes on the outskirts of the town, causing material damages but no injuries. Families said the louder than usual tank fire terrified their children.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Militant groups claim attack on Gaza tower
The Al-Aqsa Brigades and the Imad Mughaniyah group, armed wings of Fatah, and the Abu Al-Qumans military council, claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack against the largest transmission tower west of the Erez border crossing, northern Gaza ... According to the statement the tower was hit directly. Residents told Ma'an that loud explosions were heard near the Erez crossing, but that the cause was unknown.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Solidarity / Activism
Israeli forces invade Bil'in following Friday demonstration, shoot live ammunition
Eight demonstrators were injured today in Bil’in along with dozens who suffered tear-gas inhalation during a regular Friday protest against the Wall and subsequent army invasion into the village. The army used live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear-gas grenades and canisters against the unarmed crowd.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Night raids and arrests of West Bank popular leaders continue
15 Jan - In the early hours of the morning, dozens of soldiers invaded the village of alMaasara – a site of weekly peaceful demonstrations for over three years – and surrounded the houses of Popular Committee members Mohammed Barjiya and Mahmoud Zwahre. Both Barjiya and Zwahre were warned about that repercussions will follow if they do not stop organizing protests in the village. Zwahre was even threatened that a child may end up dead.
http://www.popularstruggle.
Fatah members join anti-wall protests; Sha'ath injured
Anti-wall rallies continued Friday in Palestinian villages affected by Israel's separation wall, seeing at least ten injured including members of the Fatah party who were out at two sites showing support for villagers. In addition to the weekly protests in Bil'in, Na'lin and Al-Ma'asara, an anti-wall protest was staged in the Jerusalem-area village of Nabi Salaeh, northwest of the holy city. Fatah leaders Tawfiq At-Tirawui and Mahmoud Al-A’lul, both members of the party's Central Committee, participated in the event.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Hebron: Israeli military targets Palestinian children for searches and detention
15 Jan Christian Peacemaker Team Hebron In the last month, the Israeli military has been detaining children for extended lengths of time in the Old City, and at times appearing to be “practicing” soldiery by randomly selecting boys off the street and searching them. In one incident, a fifteen-year-old neighbor of the Hebron team was cutting a rope on a package of materials in his father’s shop when soldiers saw him. They grabbed him, blindfolded him, and led him off to their military gate at another checkpoint close to a settlement. The father followed the soldiers, pleading for his son, trying to explain why the son needed to use a knife.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Anti-solidarity
Canada cuts funding to anti-Israel groups
VANCOUVER – The Canadian government has recently decided to cut back or entirely withdraw the funding to organizations that encourage a boycott of Israel or Israeli products, including pro-Palestinian and Christian groups. One such organization is the Kairos welfare agency, which lost $7 million – half of its annual budget. Kairos is a social apparatus serving 11 Catholic and Protestant groups and churches promoting the "liberation theology" within the Canadian legal and educational establishments.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Canada redirects funding for UN relief agency
Is Canada pulling the plug on the UN's Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides education, health and other social services in 59 Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East? Will UNRWA's Canadian funding be diverted instead to training Palestinian police forces and building courthouses and prisons? That's certainly what was suggested on Wednesday by Treasury Minister Vic Toews in both the Jerusalem Post and a news release from B'nai Brith Canada.
http://www.thestar.com/living/
Detention
Grassroots activist Wa'el al-Faqeeh to stand trial January 19
Political prisoner Wa’el Al-Faqeeh has been detained without charge by Israeli authorities for over a month, and is now facing trial in Salim military court on the 19th of January. The abduction of Al-Faqeeh from his home, along with 4 other activists in the Nablus region, marked the beginning of the recent surge in Israel’s targeting of leaders of Palestinian popular resistance.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Women prisoners smuggle letters detailing harsh conditions
The Palestinian Detainees' Society said on Saturday that 34 women detainees await news on a prisoner swap deal, having contacted the society by smuggling letters. The women prisoners wrote of the poor living conditions inside Israeli jails, where they are punished arbitrarily. The detainees further wrote of not having access to hot water, not being given blankets, cramped cells and poor electricity. The cells in particular lack decent access the light and fresh air. The facilities are outdoors, the women wrote, and lack privacy. [End]
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
13 leftists detained in East Jerusalem rally.
Thirteen leftist activists, including the director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Hagai Elad, were detained Friday in a rally in east Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarah neighborhood. About 70 Arab and Jewish leftists took part in the weekly protest to demonstrate against the Jewish takeover of homes in the neighborhood. The signs held up by protestors included "Jews and Arabs against evictions"
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Hamas: PA forces detained 15 across West Bank
Hamas accused the PA security forces on Friday of arrested 15 members of the Islamic movement, in a statement. "Security forces arrested one of its affiliates from Qalqiliya, one from Nablus, one from Hebron, three from Tubas and nine from Tulkarem" [End]
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Israel releases 5 detained from Balata refugee camp
Israeli authorities released five Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons on Saturday, all from the Balata Refugee Camp in eastern Nablus. Abdul Rahman Abu Jneid was amongst those released, having served 26 months in several different Israeli prisons. He commented on poor living conditions within the jails and the prison administration's neglect of detainees' needs, adding that prisoners are punished arbitrarily to force them into confessions
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Blockade / Gaza war aftermath
Seven Palestinians injured Saturday in blaze in Gaza smuggling tunnel
Witnesses said the fire broke out in a tunnel used to smuggle fuel after a fuel leak. Rescue teams, firefighters and ambulances arrived at the scene and pulled out the seven casualties. They were admitted to a hospital in the border town of Rafah, where medics said three were in critical condition.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Newspaper: Egypt will fortify its security system around the wall
GAZA, (PIC)-- An Egyptian newspaper revealed that the Egyptian authorities intend to make its security system around the steel wall more complicated through building observation towers, installing sensors and surveillance cameras to prevent any attempt to smuggle anything into the Gaza Strip. Al-Shorouq newspaper on Saturday quoted informed sources as saying that in the northern part of this security system, there will be 10 observation towers overlooking the sea guarded by gunboats.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Report: Egypt further fortifies borders with Gaza, this time at sea
Egypt is building a small sea port for patrol boats monitoring the country's border with Gaza in an effort to further block the Palestinian enclave's access to smuggling routes, Reuters reported Friday. "The new anchorage will enhance the work of the Egyptian patrol boats on the sea border with Gaza and prevent any attempts of smuggling by sea," Reuters quoted an Egyptian security source in North Sinai as saying. The anchorage, according to the report, will be 10 meters deep and 25 meters long, and used to moor border patrol boats charged with ensuring Palestinian fishing boats stay in Gazan coastal waters. Egypt has said it believes the boats are being used to carry out smuggling operations, though there have never been reports of such incidents.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Delegation of EU lawmakers enters Gaza
European Members of Parliament arrived in Gaza on Friday via the Rafah crossing to assess the situation in the besieged Strip in the aftermath of Operation Cast Lead, Israel's assault on Gaza last winter. "A delegation of 55 EU parliamentarians are on a two-day visit, during which they will tour areas destroyed by Israel's war," the de facto Committee to End the Siege said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
British lawmaker says Gaza blockade 'evil' (AP)
Gerald Kaufman leads visit to Gaza, says Israeli officials should be tried for war crimes
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Italian organization builds new waste station in Gaza
The Gaza Municipality, in conjunction with the International Italian organization of Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI), have begun the construction of a waste station inside the Al-Yarmuk landfill site west of Gaza City, which will eliminate up to 90% of its refuse. "Improving the living conditions in the Palestinian territories and stopping the leakage of waste into the water and soil, which causes contamination and pollution [are the aims of the project]," said COOPI representatives.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Gush Shalom weekly ad in Haaretz
HAITI-GAZA In far-away Haiti / A terrible disaster / Has occurred. / Within a few hours / An Israeli aid mission / Was organized. / In near-by Gaza / Hundreds of houses / Lie in ruins. / The inhabitants do not ask / For an aid mission. / Only that the / Israeli government / Stops preventing / Building materials / From coming in.
http://zope.gush-shalom.org/
Freedom of the press
Detention of top Ma`an journalist condemned
As Israeli authorities prepared to expel Ma'an News Agency's chief English editor later this week, media rights groups have blasted his ongoing detention as an assault on freedom of the press. Jared Malsin was originally scheduled to be deported without a hearing on Thursday morning. Protests by US authorities in Tel Aviv resulted in a temporary reversal, and an injunction filed by Ma'an delayed the expulsion until at least Sunday ... court documents indicated that Malsin's detention was directly related to his work at the news agency, quoting airport officials as noting that he authored articles "inside the territories," among them some which "criticized the State of Israel."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
IFJ condemns 'this intolerable violation of press freedom'
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Friday called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on the chief English editor of Ma'an News Agency ... "We condemn this intolerable violation of press freedom," said Aidan White, IFJ general secretary. "The ban of entry in this case appears to be a reprisal measure for the journalist's independent reporting and that is unacceptable." The IFJ represents over 600,000 journalists in 125 countries, the largest union of media professionals worldwide
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Political developments
Fayyad denies EU to cut aid to PA it talks remain derailed
Caretaker Prime Minister Salam Fayyad denied that the EU has threatened to decrease the amount of aid given to the Palestinian Authority if no new developments are achieved in the peace process, he told Ma'an's reporter in Hebron on Saturday. "I have no idea about this issue at all," Fayyad said. Diplomatic EU sources in Paris said on Friday that the EU will not maintain its current level of support for the PA in 2010, if there are no developments in the peace process.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Report: Mitchell brings no guarantees for Abbas
French sources tell Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that US has refused to provide Palestinian president with guarantees he demanded for renewal of talks, including total freeze of settlements, because they lack Israel's approval
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Mash`al asks for meeting with `Abbas to end division
Head of the Hamas politburo Khalid Mash'al asked Egyptian leadership to prepare President Mahmoud Abbas for a bilateral meeting in an effort to end division, he told reporters following a speech in a Beirut conference Friday.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Hamas, Islamic Jihad: No truce with Israel
Hamas and Islamic Jihad, declared on Friday that no suspension of hostilities has been agreed upon with Israel. Senior Hamas leader Ayman Taha said "there is no agreement for a truce [with Israel]. No one has offered us an agreement to consult on," during a telephone interview with Ma'an.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Kafarna: The PA betrayed Sa'adat and comrades
GAZA, (PIC)-- Nasser Kafarna, the member of the PFLP political bureau, has accused the PA leadership of betraying Ahmad Sa’adat, the secretary-general of the PFLP, who is detained in Israeli jails, and the Palestinian prisoners for agreeing to go to negotiations with the Israelis without first releasing those captives.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Israel and Turkey
Turkish human rights group seeks to prosecute Barak for alleged Gaza war crimes
An Islamic human rights group on Friday petitioned a prosecutor to start legal proceedings against Defense Minister Ehud Barak for alleged crimes committed against Palestinians during the Gaza war. The demand came two days before the Defense Minister is scheduled to visit Turkey, where he is expected to try and mend strained relations following last year's war in Gaza and an Israeli official's humiliation of the Turkish ambassador.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Fools in the driver's seat / Doron Rosenblum
If we were dealing with a seasoned and cunning prime minister like Ariel Sharon, we might have thought that the grotesque appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as foreign minister was a brilliant and sophisticated move designed to position the man as the government's lightning rod, the person who makes the prime minister seem like a glowing light of responsibility and moderation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
"Kill another Turk..." / Uri Avnery
Turkish television aired a rather primitive series, in which Mossad operatives kidnap Turkish children and hide them in the Israeli embassy. Valiant Turkish agents free the children and kill the evil ambassador. One can ignore such an obnoxious story altogether or protest mildly. But our illustrious Foreign Minister thought that this was the right occasion to demonstrate to all and sundry that we are no longer abject ghetto Jews who take everything lying down, but proud, upright Jews of a new breed. So the Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon, summoned the Turkish ambassador to the Foreign Office in Jerusalem for a carefully staged exhibition of national pride.
http://dissidentvoice.org/
Other news
Palestinian artist paints 1400 'White Phosphorus' works of art
By Iqbal Tamimi. ...The exhibition was held at Rashad El-Shawa Centre in Gaza, where 1400 paintings in white and black were exhibited hanging free like the phantoms of all the people who were the victims of the last Israeli aggression on Gaza. The number of paintings was the same number of the innocent people who were killed by the Israeli offensive on Gaza last year, the attack that left many children disabled, badly burned and disfigured by the white phosphorus bombs used by the Israeli army.
http://www.middle-east-online.
Israel is due, and ill-prepared, for a major earthquake
In Israel the last destructive earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale, occurred in 1927. Its epicenter was the Dead Sea, and its effects were felt in Jerusalem, Nablus, Jericho, Ramle and Tiberias, resulting in 500 deaths and injuries to 700. An earthquake in 1837 killed 5,000 people. According to the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius, in 31 B.C.E., 30,000 people lost their lives in an earthquake. On average, a destructive earthquake takes place in Israel once every 80 years...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Shalit 'ill-omened' tank taken out of service
The tank termed an "ill omen" from which soldier Gilad Shalit was captured from, and in which two Israeli soldiers were killed in 2006 has been taken out of service by the Israeli army. Following Shalit's capture, the Siman 3 tank remained in service but broke down in 2007 after it was bombed by Palestinian fighters. The tank was repaired and sent back to the Gaza Strip. During Operation Cast Lead, on 8 January 2009, a soldier was killed inside the tank by a Palestinian sniper.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Graphic novel revisits 'forgotten' Gaza killings (Reuters)
(Reuters) Comic book meets investigative journalism in "Footnotes in Gaza", a graphic novel by Joe Sacco that focuses on two days in Gaza in 1956 when Palestinians said hundreds of civilians were killed by Israeli forces. Sacco and his researchers found almost nothing written in English about the episodes, despite UN estimates at the time putting the death toll at nearly 400 -- 275 in Khan Younis on November 3 and 111 in nearby Rafah on November 12.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Enas Muthaffar: Simply put, I'm a filmmaker
In the first of a series dedicated to Palestinian film, Ma’an interviews Palestinian filmmaker Enas Muthaffar, who, in addition to making several short films and documentaries, has worked as assistant director on several Palestinian films, including Paradise Now and Salt of this Sea.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Analysis / Opinion
Israel declares war on peace NGOs / Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM – One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged. Now, Israel is fighting back with a report on the reports, picking on international NGOs such as Amnesty, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Trocaire, Finn Church Aid, Diakonia and Cordaid.
http://original.antiwar.com/
Al Jazeera Focus: What the Gaza war meant for Israel / Orly Halpernl
... Now, one year since Operation Cast Lead, not only have the so-called red lines for what you can do to your enemy moved dangerously forward, but so have the lines of what the government can do its own people. Israeli polls and surveys reveal that Israeli society and government are less tolerant than ever of views that oppose the government stance, which is held by the mainstream. Last month the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) revealed an alarming trend in its annual survey on the protection of human rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories - the conditioning of rights. "The realisation of the entire spectrum of rights is now more than ever dependent on what we say or believe, what ethnic group we belong to, how much money we have, and more," says the ACRI.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Chomsky/Abunimah (the left and Zionism)
Here is an exchange at KPFA in California between Noam Chomsky and Ali Abunimah and Jeff Blankfort touching on BDS and the Israel lobby. Actually, Chomsky declined to engage with Abunimah and Blankfort, so host Khalil Bendidb interviewed Chomsky on an earlier show, then on this show he asked Abunimah and Blankfort to respond. I find it somewhat uncomfortable. Chomsky is a giant, and Abunimah and Blankfort are friends of this site, and there is a sense of a torch being passed here, or of the older left not being suited for the new conversation about Israel/Palestine. Chomsky is defensive and a little brittle here; at his worst moment, he compares BDS to breaking a store window during the Vietnam War upheaval.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Many strings attached / Saleh Al-Naami
The majority of Palestinians believe that restarting talks with Israel at present would be detrimental to their future -- ..."Restarting talks between Israel and the PA will have several negative effects on several tracks," a leading Hamas member who wished to remain anonymous told Al-Ahram Weekly. "These include the prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas; the future of national dialogue and ending internal Palestinian divisions; and the probability of another war by Israel against the Gaza Strip."
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/
Haiti Gaza / Philip Weiss
I’m moved by the American response to the Haiti disaster, by the sense of connection Americans are expressing to Haitians across traditional barriers of class, race, nation, and geography. Is this the Obama effect? Yes. Would the three network anchors have rushed across seas to Haiti under such circumstances 3 or 5 years ago? No; the U.S. is making progress, multiculturalism has won. So what about the Palestinians? Why, a year ago, didn’t the American anchors race across seas to join them in Gaza as US-purchased munitions were used against those defenseless people? Why didn’t they provide up-close stories about the voices in the rubble and the torn-apart families?
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Iraq
UPDATE: Thursday: 33 Iraqis killed, 127 wounded
At least 33 Iraqis were killed and 127 more were wounded in today’s attacks ... Twenty-seven people were killed and as many as 111 were wounded during an apparently coordinated bomb attack in the holy city of Najaf. A car bomb blew up on a street that leads to the Imam Ali Shrine, and then two more blasts occurred at a nearby market. A bomb in Baquba left two dead and 10 wounded at a market.
http://original.antiwar.com/
Iraq arrests Qaeda chief tied to 2003 blast at UN HQ (AFP)
The Iraqi army said on Saturday it had detained a suspected Al-Qaeda leader implicated in the 2003 bombing of the UN's Baghdad headquarters which killed 22 people. Ali Hussein Alwan al-Azawi, nicknamed Abu Imad, suspected of being a top commander in Al-Qaeda front organisation the Islamic State in Iraq, was captured in an operation in the capital, Baghdad military command spokesman Qassem Atta told a news conference.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Lebanon
Report: Israel reassures Lebanon before IDF exercises
Just days after defense minister's threat to Beirut, Israel clarifies that troop deployment along northern border is for exercise, not incursion into Lebanon. Arab paper reports US warns Beirut: If Hezbollah obtains STA missiles, may not be able to prevent Israeli response
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Jordan
Israel experts check Jordan embassy after bomb attack (AFP)
AMMAN (AFP) – Israeli security experts paid a visit to Jordan on Friday to evaluate risks of any attacks against the Jewish state's Amman embassy a day after a bomb attack on a convoy from the mission ...The minister said however that the delegation was "in no way involved in the ongoing investigation which is totally in the hands of the Jordanian authorities."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Yemen
Yemen says airstrike kills al-Qaida military chief (AP)
SAN`A, Yemen – Yemeni warplanes struck outside a desert village near the border with Saudi Arabia on Friday, killing six al-Qaida operatives, including the group's top military leader in the country, security officials said. The military chief, who escaped a government attack targeting him last month, was one of Yemen's most-wanted militants and had plotted to assassinate the U.S. ambassador.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
The Empire discovers Yemen / Philip Giraldi
It was another one of those Orwellian moments that have occurred so frequently over the past eight years. On January 4th Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that "… we see global implications from the war in Yemen and the ongoing efforts by al-Qaeda in Yemen to use it as a base for terrorist attacks far beyond the region." ... The White House’s identification of a new enemy was good news for those who had become concerned that the war on terror, now called overseas contingency operations, was not expanding quickly enough.
http://original.antiwar.com/
Yemen 'must resist foreign forces'
A group of Muslim leaders have said Yemenis have a religious duty to resist foreign military intervention in the country ... Mohamed Vall, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Sanaa, Yemen's capital, said that the religious leaders' decision to oppose any military intervention would carry great weight in the country.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
YEMEN: Southern rural areas forced to rely on trucked-in water
SANAA, 14 January 2010 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of residents in rural areas of Beidha, Taiz and Dhalea governorates in Yemen’s southern highlands have run out of water, and are having to have it trucked in, according to government officials. The water they normally rely on - rainwater harvested in catchment tanks or ponds during the rainy (summer) season - has run dry.
http://www.irinnews.org/
Egypt
Egypt's Brotherhood gets new leader
Egypt's main opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has named Muhammad Badie as its new leader following the resignation of Muhammad Akef ... The Brotherhood is officially banned but controls a fifth of seats in the Egyptian parliament after it fielded independent candidates in the last general elections in 2005. Badie told reporters that the Brotherhood rejected violence and aimed to achieve gradual reforms.
http://english.aljazeera.net//
Egypt police bar activists from town after Copt deaths
Other
Normal life in Port-au-Prince / James North
The news coverage of the Haitian earthquake is understandably showing people who are stunned and in agony. But before the disaster, Port-au-Prince was a very different place — poor, certainly, but incredibly busy. Everyone was working at something, from dawn into the night ... Over the past few days, certain mainstream commentators have shown more than their usual foolishness to trying to explain why Haiti is so poor. We will have more to say here at this site about this in the days to come. But for now we can at least safely conclude that Haiti is not poor because Haitians are lazy, or do not value education.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
NPR hearts racial profiling
" I was listening to NPR this morning and NPR correspondent Deborah Amos sounded oh-so-enthusiastic about racial profiling. Here is the description of the interview . The transcript isn't yet up, but the audio is. Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel has a reputation for excellent security. Rafi Ron was the airport's chief of security but since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he's been a consultant to Logan International Airport in Boston. Ron talks to Deborah Amos about whether Israel uses racial profiling to screen passengers — a practice that's generally off limits to federal law enforcement in the United States.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
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