Land and Property Theft and Destruction
Home Evictions: Living the Unimaginable
Imagine one day that your home is invaded and you and your family are forced onto the street. Imagine now, that others are allowed to occupy your house, one which has belonged to your family for generations. Imagine that every day since then, your family is subjected to harassment by both the police and the new occupants of your home; that the paltry tent you set up for shelter is repeatedly torn down.
http://www.miftah.org/Display.
King Solomon Undermines Silwan Refugees
A recent flurry of demolition orders in Silwan have raised fresh tensions between Palestinian residents and the ever-growing settler community. The settlers' claim to the land derives from the alleged presence of King Solomon's treasures, buried deep beneath Wadi Hulwah, a densely populated suburb of Silwan. Today an archaeological site, the ‘City of David', threatens to drive yet more Palestinians from their homes. We went to find out more. Written and photographed by Valentine Van Vyve.
http://www.palestinemonitor.
Israel’s Municipality Hands Out More Demolition Orders To Palestinians In Jerusalem
The Israeli municipality handed out, on Wednesday, a new wave of demolition orders to Palestinian home owners near Jerusalem’s old city.
http://www.imemc.org/index.
Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment
Up against the wall: challenging Israel's impunity
Neither foreign governments nor the UN have joined the Palestinian communities who have been destroyed by Israel's wall in their efforts to dismantle it. Still, Palestinian villages show incredible perseverance and creativity in protesting the theft of their land and tearing down pieces of the cement blocks or iron fencing. They do so in the face of overwhelming repression. Jamal Juma' comments for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Tell Congress: No to $3 Billion Budget Request for Military Aid to Israel
Click here to write a letter to your Senators and Representative below telling them that you oppose $3 billion in military aid to Israel this year because of its human rights abuses of Palestinians and that you would rather see that money spent on domestic priorities in your state and Congressional district.
http://salsa.
Report: Rachel Corrie's parents to seek compensation from Israel
Seven years after American left-wing activist was run over by IDF bulldozer while trying to prevent demolition of Palestinian home in Gaza, her parents expected to sue Israeli Defense Ministry.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Carleton students launch divestment campaign
view Carleton University divestment campaign video on-line Photo: Israeli apartheid wall on Palestinian lands. Carleton students have released a report detailing how the Carleton University Pension fund invests in companies involved in violations of human rights and of international law.
http://www.tadamon.ca/post/
UCLA Associated Students has condemned any and all academic sanctions/reprecussions against the Irvine 11
The Associated Students at the University of California, Los Angeles has officially passed a resolution that condemns any action that is to be taken place against the Irvine Eleven. This momentous decision follows suit after the same position has been taken by the Associated Students at the University of California, San Diego.
http://intifada-palestine.com/
"Why Do I Boycott Israel"--New comic by Ethan Heitner
A new comic by Ethan Heitner illustrates the plethora or reasons for engaging in boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns against Israeli occupation and apartheid.
http://endtheoccupationblog.
Pro-Apartheid
Harvard center condemns, then defends, fellow's pro-genocide statements
Leaders of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University have condemned and then defended statements by Martin Kramer, one of the center's fellows, which endorsed a cut off of UN food and other humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugee children besieged in the Gaza Strip as a means to reduce the Palestinian birthrate and thus the Palestinian population.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Violence/AggressionIsraeli troops injures a Palestinian villager and detain him in northern West Bank
A Palestinian farmer from the village of Kufer Dan, northern West Bank, was injured on Wednesday by Israeli troops that later detained him.
http://www.imemc.org/index.
IOF attacks Beit Lahia in north Gaza
Gaza Strip, Feb. 24, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)- A number of Israeli military vehicles penetrated partly on early Wednesday the areas adjacent to the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. Local sources said that 2 Israeli vehicles suddenly struck the liberated zone 'Dugit', to the north of Beit Lahia town, and began razing lands. Recently, Israel has escalated its attacks on the border areas of the Gaza Strip, where Israeli occupation forces deliberately carry out limited incursions into areas along the border amid heavy fire and land razing.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
IOF sets up checkpoints in Jenin
February 24, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli occupation forces raided Jenin after midnight this morning, also carrying out a training operation and setting up checkpoints. Eyewitnesses told the SAFA news agency that Israeli occupation forces were stationed in the western mountains of Jenin and did not break into any houses or make arrests, indicating it was a military training operation. Nevertheless, witnesses said the raid caused fear among the residents. The Israeli occupation forces have raided more than one village southeast of Jenin over the past month, practicing archery and other military tactics. The IOF set up a checkpoint at the crossroads between Jaba, Maithaloun and Sanur villages, then began searching citizens' vehicles in the early dawn. Jenin residents complained about the marked increase in the operations of the occupation army and settlers, particularly at checkpoints.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
Israel conducts limited incursion in northern Khan Younis
Feb. 24, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)- Several Israeli military vehicles partly penetrated on Wednesday morning the Al-Amour area in Khan Younis, amid sporadic shooting towards the Palestinian farmers. Eyewitnesses reported five Israeli armored vehicles, four bulldozers and three jeeps, which penetrated about 250 meters to the north of the Sufa Crossing and stopped in the Al-Amour area.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
ISRAEL-OPT: Gaza fishermen under fire
Source: IRIN Sami al-Qouqa, a 30-year-old former fisherman from al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, lost his left hand when his fishing boat came under fire from an Israeli gunboat on 12 March 2007, in an incident documented by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Detainees/Illegal Arrests
The Israeli military detain 14 Palestinian civilians from the West Bank
Israeli troops detained on Wednesday 14 Palestinian civilians during pre dawn invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.
http://www.imemc.org/index.
Israeli troops detain eight civilians during raid in the West Bank
Eight Palestinian men were detained on Tuesday by Israeli troops during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.
http://www.imemc.org/index.Eight Palestinian men were detained on Tuesday by Israeli troops during invasions targeting a number of West Bank communities.
IOF troops raid northern Gaza, round up 23 Palestinians within 24 hours in WB
Israeli occupation forces mounting armored vehicles escorted bulldozers into northern Gaza Strip where they combed and bulldozed cultivated land at dawn Wednesday, local sources told the PIC reporter.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Siege/Humanitarian/Human Rights
Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 24 February 2010
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
In seaside Gaza, fish in short supply
With their fishermen at risk of being shot at by the Israeli navy, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are finding new ways to supply the blockaded territory with a staple that is in short supply.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Israeli construction ban forces Yatta children to learn in tents
Hebron – Ma'an– A collection of Bedouin settlements in Area C southeast of Yatta has tried for years to obtain the necessary permissions for the construction of small school building for some 40 students who until now have been schooled in a tent.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Hebron's living hell
Our sobering taste of life in Hebron included other devastating stories and the presence of Israeli guard towers, camouflage netting, checkpoints, a wall spray painted with graffiti that included a tribute to the Golani brigade, one of the Israeli army's most aggressively violent units, and to Betar, a right-wing youth organization. I passed a concrete block obstructing the road, spray painted with an arrow and the words "This is apartheid." Alice Rothchild writes from Hebron.
http://electronicintifada.net/
War Criminals
The Second Battle of Gaza: Israel’s Undermining Of International Law, Jeff Halper
February 22, 2010, The International Court of Justice / The Hague, The International Court of Justice / The Hague, The Israeli attack on Gaza in December 2008/January 2009 was not merely a military assault on a primarily civilian population, impoverished and the victim of occupation and besiegement these past 42 years. It was also part of an ongoing assault on international humanitarian law by a highly coordinated team of Israeli lawyers, military officers, PR people and politicians, led by (no less) a philosopher of ethics. It is an effort coordinated as well with other governments whose political and military leaders are looking for ways to pursue "asymmetrical warfare" against peoples resisting domination and the plundering of their resources and labor without the encumbrances of human rights and current international law. It is a campaign that is making progress and had better be taken seriously by us all.
http://www.uruknet.info/index.
Refugees
Guest Post: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon Deserve Civil Rights
Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon face a very uncertain future. They deserve better. When Palestinians were kicked out of their homeland at gun point in 1948, some found a safe haven in Lebanon, where they were received with an open arms. Lebanese provided them shelters, food and other life essentials years before the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) took over. For that I am grateful, because I was born in one those 12 refugee camps 59 years ago.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2010/
Abbas concerned that tensions in Ain al-Hilweh could trigger more clashes
SIDON/BEIRUT: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas expressed Monday his fears of a second clash inside the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in south Lebanon. Meanwhile, talks circulated that Fatah's commander in Lebanon, Brigadier Sultan Abu al-Aynayn, might leave Lebanon for Ramallah in the occupied West Bank after being relieved of his duties.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Zionism
Tel Aviv presents: Municipal program to prevent Arab boys from dating Jewish girls
Maariv reported on February 23 that the Tel Aviv municipality launched a “counselling program” to “help” Jewish girls who date and/or marry Arab boys. Grassroots and governmental campaigning against interfaith mingling is nothing new in Israel: Just a few months ago there was a “task force” set up by the municipalioty of Petah Tikva, which is basically a suburb of Tel Aviv. The job of the task force was to patrol the city at night and break up Arab-Jewish dates. The London Times also covered the activities of a concerned parents’ group vigilante gang patrolling the rapidly integrating Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev, intimidating mixed couples. On top of that, we have the activities of a huge, quasi-paramilitary group called Yad Leachim that goes on army-style”rescue operations” of Jewish women from their Gentile husbands (homegrown terrorist Jacob Teitel boasts working with them for a while, which they deny), and, lest we forget, the insane Jewish Agency campaign about non-Jewish partners kidnapping 50% of the young Jews in the Diaspora. But this is the first time officially sanctioned racism, funded by taxpayers, has come to Tel Aviv, Israel’s liberal heartland.
http://coteret.com/2010/02/24/
Political Developments and Diplomacy
Palestinian state a 'vital interest' for Israel: Abbas (AFP)
AFP - The creation of an independent Palestine is a "vital interest" for Israel, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Tuesday, while reiterating his refusal to enter talks unless Jewish settlement building ends.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Palestinian president warns of 'religious war' (AP)
AP - The Palestinian president warned Tuesday that the region could plunge into a "religious war" over Israel's plans to recognize a disputed West Bank shrine as one of its own national heritage sites.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
PM's Office: Abbas' war threats hypocritical
Cabinet's decision to include Rachel's Tomb, Cave of Patriarchs in list of national heritage sites sparks international law. Head of Netanyahu's National Information Directorate says in response, 'These are the burial sites of the Jewish people's forefathers'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Knesset member calls for assassinating Haneyya
Member of the Israeli parliament (Knesset) Yariv Levin has called for liquidating Ismail Haneyya, the Palestinian premier in Gaza Strip, similar to what happened to Qassam leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Extra-Judicial Assassination
WATCH: Dubai identifies 15 new suspects in hit on Hamas chief
Dubai has identified 15 new suspects in the assassination last month of a Hamas official at a luxury hotel, bringing the total number of people believed involved in the death to 26, officials said on Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Assassins caught on video reveals possible Mossad-Fatah link
In deference to its friends and allies, Israel usually makes efforts to spread a cloak of ambiguity and uncertainty over the regular assassinations of perceived enemies carried out by its spy agency Mossad.
http://www.vancouversun.com/
Israel refuses to help Britain with inquiry into fake passports
Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman yesterday flatly rebuffed David Miliband's request for cooperation with an investigation into the use of forged British passports in the assassination of a Hamas leader.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Opposition leader praises Hamas commander killing (AP)
AP - Israel's parliamentary opposition leader on Tuesday praised the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month, in the first such comment from a top official.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Lieberman is dying to say it
When Europe's blood pressure went up over the use of fake European passports in the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, changed his line from ambiguity to deniability. There is no proof of Israeli involvement, he retorted. And that is that.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/
Ben Eliezer: "I used fake passports to meet Bashir Gemayel & Dany Chamoun..."
http://friday-lunch-club.
Mossad's Latest Blunder
The hit team, though ridiculously large, was less incompetent: the victim died, and they all got out of Dubai safely. The fact that they left enough evidence behind for the Dubai police to figure out what happened does not exclude Mossad from consideration: it has bungled operations before.
http://www.
Arab Spies/Collaborators
Haaretz exclusive: Hamas founder's son worked for Shin Bet for years
The son of a leading Hamas figure, who famously converted to Christianity, served for over a decade as the Shin Bet security service's most valuable source in the militant organization's leadership, Haaretz has learned.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Abu Zuhri: Claiming son of Hamas leader was an agent a Zionist plot
Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri described as a Zionist plot the Hebrew press reports claiming that the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of Hamas's political leaders, was an agent for the Israeli intelligence.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Fatah report says Ghuneim has connection with Mossad
A report revealed that Abu Maher Ghuneim, the head of Fatah commission for mobilization and organization, was recruited by the Mossad and leaked secret files related to Fatah.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Hamas slams Abbas’s militias for kidnapping one of its leaders in W. Bank
Hamas deplored Abbas’s militias for kidnapping Abdeljalil Ali against the backdrop of his brother’s participation in a conference for the support of the resistance option in Beirut.
Hamas slams Abbas’s militias for kidnapping one of its leaders in W. Bank
Hamas deplored Abbas’s militias for kidnapping Abdeljalil Ali against the backdrop of his brother’s participation in a conference for the support of the resistance option in Beirut.
Reuters - Lebanon's military prosecutor indicted three Lebanese with spying for Israel on Wednesday as part of an espionage investigation lasting nearly a year in which at least 27 suspects have been detained.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Other News
Knesset report: 60% of 2009 murder victims Arab
Data presented in Knesset Internal Affairs Committee show 71 out of 121 murder victims in 2009 were Arab. Last three years see increase in dimensions of crime within Arab sector. MK Zahalka accuses police of discrimination in treatment of cases.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Nablus media on strike over PA fees
Nablus – Ma'an – Nine radio and TV stations in Nablus halted broadcasts at 3pm on Tuesday, protesting the Palestinian Authority's decision to shut down their operations within 48 hours for failure to pay a number of fees.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Israeli diplomats ordered to cut ties with PMO, Defense Ministry
The Foreign Ministry's worker committee announced on Tuesday that it would adopt an unprecedented series of labor sanctions, due to an ongoing dispute with the government.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Chutzpah
Settlers: New Palestinian city will harm security, the environment
Right-wing activists have begun organizing a campaign against the new, Palestinian city of Rawabi, which recently began taking shape in the West, Bank. The activists claim the new city will cause traffic jams, pollution, security issues and will only benefit Palestinian elites., Advertisement, Rawabi's construction began some two months ago north of Bir Zeit, about 10 kilometers from Ramallah. The new city is supposed to have 5,000 housing units for some 25,000 people. Most of the designated city falls in Area A, under civil and military Palestinian Authority control.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Human Interest
Talal Shihadeh – The Abraham Mosque of Hebron
I was 12 years old when my family forced to move from Hebron, on 1977. I don't know if I was lucky or not, as I was born in this historical holy city, which is located in the south of the West Bank (WB)., I was born in the old city, very close to the Abraham Mosque. Immediately after the WB was occupied in 1967, the occupation government established the first settlement on the Hebron citizens' land, which called Qiriat Arbaa. The majority of the settlers who are living there are American., In the early 70s, the settlers in Hebron were less than 100. They amount to almost 8,000 in Hebron these days. They never travel without their arms and the guardianship of the Israeli Occupation Force IOF.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Growing Up As A Girl In Gaza
To talk to girls growing up in Gaza is to encounter a mass of contradictions. On the one hand, Gaza is a deeply conservative, patriarchal society where girls marry relatively young (the average age was 18 in 2006), usually to men identified – or at least approved – by their parents. A woman's place is generally accepted to be in the home, caring for her husband and children (an average of 6.5). On the other hand, there also is a growing and vibrant diversity of spirit and ambition among the girls of Gaza. Take 14-year-old Assala, for example. She lives in a relatively poor section of Gaza City and attends an UNRWA school from 12 to 4 p.m. Because the school buildings – many of which were decimated by the Israeli invasion last year — are overcrowded (the average class size is 45), students often must meet in shifts for half days only. Assala has four brothers and a sister; her mother and father were just 14 and 18 when they married. However, Assala knows her mother secretly wished she had attended university (in fact, her mother still hopes to enroll, to study religion) and that has become her dream as well.
http://www.palestinemonitor.
Analysis/Opinion
Let the good times roll: NYT’s Kershner and Bronner are listed as authors by ‘Israel Hasbara Committee’
Ethan Bronner and Isabel Kershner, the two Jerusalem correspondents for the New York Times, are named on a long list of authors for the "Israel Hasbara Committee." David Frum, Krauthammer, Caroline Glick, David Horovitz, David Horowitz and Bob Dylan are also on the list. Mostly rightwingers. Dennis Prager, Efraim Karsh. Ed Lasky. The hits go on and on.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/02/
Behind Brand Israel: Israel's recent propaganda efforts
"The Delegitimization Challenge" report from the influential Israeli think tank the Reut Institute has put the spotlight on efforts by Israel and the Zionist lobby to counter the growing movement for justice in Palestine, and specifically, the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign. The work done by Reut has rightly attracted attention, but it is only one (particularly prominent) example of a wider trend, as the Israeli government and global Zionist groups mobilize to fight the threat to the apartheid system. Ben White analyzes for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Big Story-The Jewish Lobby in Britain
Press TV's journalist Amina Taylor, searches for the truth behind the headlines of the most important stories in the UK. This time it is the Jewish Lobby.
http://www.
Why does Israel continue to dismiss Obama's Mideast peace efforts?
Most Israelis, including the heads of the defense establishment and politicians led by the prime minister and the foreign minister, categorically state that U.S. President Barack Obama will never solve the Israeli-Arab conflict. This lack of confidence in and sympathy for Obama have accompanied him, unjustifiably, since the day he began campaigning for the presidency - and has only intensified following his election. The disrespect toward him and his administration is unwarranted; there is no doubt that it is connected to Obama's ethnic background.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
"What Does Netanyahu Want?"
It is widely accepted that Israel’s hard-line Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, does not want peace with the Palestinians or even with Syria -- or, at least, not the sort of peace that would involve ceding territory. The right-wing coalition he heads would not allow it. But does he want war?
http://www.thejerusalemfund.
Israel's conditions make talks with the Palestinians futile
The contrast is startling between the slow pace of attempts to restart talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority headed by President Mahmoud Abbas and the relentless Israeli drive on many fronts to dominate and effectively destroy the concept of a distinct and sovereign Palestinian people in the historic land of Palestine. Israeli actions in recent weeks clarify the futility of trying to negotiate peace with an Israeli state.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
A dialogue with ‘Times’ videographer yields surprise ending
After reading the recent post here about the New York Times coverage of protests by Palestinians, termed a "West Bank Spectacle," I posted a comment to the blog of reporter/videographer Jaron Gilinsky. He responded, and a dialogue quickly developed. Below are excerpts…
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/02/
NPR’s Totenberg suggests the PLO is a terrorist organization
In a piece yesterday on National Public Radio, legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, who ought to know better, seemed to describe the Palestine Liberation Organization as a terrorist organization.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/02/
What Next for Bibi and Obama?
There is increasing doubt in the Arab World and elsewhere that Israel is seriously interested in negotiating peace with its neighbors the Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. That doubt has once again emerged in the wake of its ill-conceived policies and bloody actions of late which Israel mistakenly believes will give it more security and longevity and offers it the chance of usurping additional Palestinian properties.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Book review: Joe Sacco draws life into history's "footnotes"
In his new book-length work of serial art journalism, Footnotes in Gaza, Joe Sacco seeks out the recollections of the remaining Palestinian witnesses and survivors of the November 1956 massacres at the Gaza refugee camps of Rafah and Khan Younis. The result is a powerful oral history -- his research as detailed and meticulous as his crosshatched drawings, its 386 pages of sequential comic strip-style narration emotionally devastating. Maureen Clare Murphy reviews for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Iraq
Silencer guns kill 67 in one day in Baghdad
Last Sunday 67 corpses were brought to Baghdad morgue all shot with silencer guns, medical sources said. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said silencer guns have instilled fear and terror in Baghdad and most of the victims were civil servants, former Baathists and army officers. The latest victim has been a university professor who was shot dead on Monday as he drove home. The sources named the victim as Dr. Thamer Kamel, head of the human rights section at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific research. Unidentified gunmen with silencers were also reported to have killed another person in al-Qanat area. The gunmen drive in mainly four-wheel vehicles and quickly disappear from the crime scene.
http://www.azzaman.com/
Bombing targets Iraqi Judge
Anti-terrorism Investigation Judge Mohammed Abdul Ghafour was killed today due to a bomb explosion in his house yard in Baghdad. Unknown gunmen planted the bomb in the judge’s house yard in Al Dora District, security sources said.
http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/
Tuesday: 14 Iraqis Killed, 16 Wounded
With elections just a couple weeks away, the Iraqi government will continue using fraudulent bomb-detection devices even as Baghdad residents brace themselves for more pre-election violence. At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 16 were wounded in light violence today.
http://original.antiwar.com/
Five dead, including three Christians, in Iraq attacks (AFP)
AFP - Five people were killed, including three Christian men and a policeman, in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Tuesday, less than two weeks ahead of a nationwide general election.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Former Iraq PM Allawi defends tour of Arab states (AFP)
AFP - Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi on Tuesday defended his two-week tour of Arab states and denied it was linked to next month's general election in which he leads a secular coalition.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Allawi blames Iraqi Government for failed Arab relations
Head of Al Iraqiya List Iyad Allawi held Iraqi Government responsible for the failure of external relations with some Arab countries. Allawi criticized the statements of some members of the ruling party over his recent visit to Saudi Arabia.
http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/
Iran and Syria to support Allawi as Iraq PM
Tehran and Damascus have agreed to support head of Al Iraqiya List Iyad Allawi as next Iraqi Prime Minister, an informed governmental source speaking on condition of anonymity told Alsumaria News. Syrian and Iranian government have agreed in principle to endorse Allawi as Prime Minister.
http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/
Iraq: Support Given to Orphans and Poor Families in Basra
Life for Relief and Development recently completed a project to help improve health and hygiene among orphans and poor families living in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Life partnered with its sister organization in Iraq, the Al-Rafd Charity, to implement this project.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
Nir Rosen: Stop the Iraq madness!
This blog knows all too well that no one is right all the time, and that it is important to listen to people who know their stuff and disagree with you. So when I saw Nir Rosen, a fellow at the NYU Center on Law and Security, make some comments that sharply disagreed with my pessimistic views on Iraq, I asked him to write a guest post for Best Defense explaining his take on the situation. Nir, who has been knocking around Iraq lately, graciously did so.
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com
Tom Friedman's Iraq War
In his New York Times column today (2/24/10), Tom Friedman presents a bizarre view of the Iraq War. Attempting to answer the question of whether Iraq is dysfunctional because of its culture (the "conservative" argument) or because of its politics (the "liberal" argument), he writes...
http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/
Lebanon
Verdict in 'Hizbullah cell' trial due in April
BEIRUT: An Egyptian Court will pronounce its verdict in the so-called "Hizbullah cell" trial on April 28, Media reports said on Tuesday. The 26-member Hizbullah cell - made up of 18 Egyptians, five Palestinians, two Lebanese and a Sudanese - stand accused of plotting attacks against ships in the Suez Canal and tourist sites in Egypt as well as spying. Most of the men were arrested between late 2008 and January 2009.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
British Daily Reveals Mossad Behind Moghniyyeh Assassination
While media outlets are preoccupied these days with publishing details of the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Mabhouh in Dubai, and the time Dubai police is accusing the Israeli Mossad of standing behind the crime, British Daily 'The Independent' confirmed the responsibility of the mentioned Mossad in the assassination of Hezbollah top military commander Imad Moghniyyeh (Hajj Redwan) in Syria two years ago.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Major Drug Dealer Arrested in Car of Lebanese Forces MP
Drug task force agents arrested Butros Habshi, a major drug dealer wanted on 59 outstanding warrants in connection with drug trafficking. Habshi was in the car of MP Elie Kairouz when he was arrested. Kairouz is one of the lawmakers representing the Lebanese Forces in the Parliament. But Kairouz denied any relation with the arrested man, calling the reports about a link "untrue" and "baseless."
http://almanar.com.lb/
U.S. and other world news
U.S. Ordered Afghan Strike That Killed 27 Civilians
The airstrike Sunday hit a group of minibuses in a remote part of the south near the border between Uruzgan and Daykundi provinces.
http://online.wsj.com/article/
Legal bid over MI5 torture guidance
A British human rights group has launching legal action against the government over guidelines the UK's intelligence agencies on how to interrogate prisoners held overseas. Reprieve, which represents former Guantanamo Bay detainees, says unpublished guidance from 2002 and 2004 is unlawful because it condones complicity in torture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
ElBaradei says he's ready to face Mubarak in elections
CAIRO: Former UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei has said he is prepared to run for president of Egypt even against veteran incumbent Hosni Mubarak, newspapers reported on Tuesday. ElBaradei said he was "prepared to run for president, if the people ask me to, no matter who will run against me in elections," he told Dream TV, in excerpts of an interview carried by independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
www.TheHeadlines.org
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