Settler attack sparks clashes near illegal outpost, soldiers injure 3
Israeli settlers living in an illegal outpost on the village lands of Iraq Burin attacked a group of locals in the area, sparking clashes, Palestinian security forces said. Armed Israeli border police arrived shortly after the attack began, the report said, ultimately injuring three civilians who were transferred to hospital my Red Crescent ambulances for treatment. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the clashes took place "at the illegal outpost at Bracha" southeast of Iraq Burin, built on 44 dunums of private Palestinian land, according to Peace Now, an Israeli NGO.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Palestinian homes on 'David's Garden' spared for now
SILWAN, East Jerusalem – Outside the Bedouin-style protest tent in the heart of this Palestinian neighborhood, the anger is palpable, but controlled. Muhammad (surname undisclosed) turns to an Israeli TV reporter: "Would you agree to have your neighbor’s house moved on top of yours just because they knock his house down so as to build a park there. Would you agree?"
http://original.antiwar.com/
Israeli court scolds police for limiting protests (AP)
JERUSALEM – Israel's Supreme Court has reprimanded Jerusalem police for not permitting groups to protest the eviction of Palestinians from their homes in favor of Jewish settlers. The weekly protests in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheik Jarrah have become a rallying point for Israel's embattled doves, drawing several hundred people. Protesters now want to hold a much larger demonstration opposite the disputed homes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
Al Jazeera video: The real Ajami
"The Oscar-nominated film Ajami is centered on a neighborhood in Israel with the same name. It takes a snapshot of life in this rough Arab-Jewish neighborhood. The makers of the film find themselves in a real life drama when one of the producers Tony Copti, and his brother were arrested, beaten and later released without charge. Tony Copti says this has become a common phenomenon for many of Ajami's Arab residents. According to him Israel is trying to push Arabs out of Jaffa by using scare tactics due to increased property prices in the city. Sherine Tadros reports from Ajami, Jaffa."
http://palestinianpundit.
Hundreds protest police brutality at Jaffa rally
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Jaffa Saturday to protest police violence toward citizens, which they say has been escalating. "We are calling out, together, against violence, violence from the police," said Gabi Abad, head of the Arab Jaffa organization. "The body that is supposed to protect us is attacking us. "We tell the police - we are against violence, especially against the innocent," he added.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Jaffa residents hold anti-police march
Tensions in largely Arab area running high since arrest of two brothers who starred in the movie 'Ajami'; demonstrators carry signs reading 'Jaffa is not a training ground'
http://www.ynetnews.com/
'Ajami' casts harsh light on Israel's other Arab conflict (AFP)
JAFFA, Israel (AFP) – In the mixed neighbourhood of the Israeli film "Ajami," Jews and Arabs rub shoulders on the same quiet, leafy streets, never knowing when someone is going to draw a knife. The film, the third Israeli production to be nominated for an Academy Award in as many years, offers a rare look at the country's Arab minority, a fifth of the population often overshadowed by the larger Middle East conflict.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Al-Aqsa clashes
Islamic conference slams Israel's Al-Aqsa action (AFP)
JEDDAH (AFP) – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference Saturday accused Israeli police of sacrilege by occupying Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque and called for international intervention to "end Israeli aggression."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Police vow 'firm hand' against Jerusalem rioters
Police officials accuse Arab youth of taking advantage of decision not to restrict age of worshipers on Temple Mount so as not to harm freedom of worship. Some 20 police officers, 60 Palestinians injured in clashes Friday. 'Any attempt to cause disturbances will be handled highhandedly,' source threatens
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Solidarity / Activism / BDS
Video: Russell Tribunal on Palestine - Barcelona, Spain
Based on the Opinion of the International Court of Justice issued on the 9th of July 2004 and on the relevant UN resolutions, this Russell Tribunal on Palestine is a civic initiative promoting international law as the core element of the Israeli-Palestinian issue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Video: Russell Tribunal on Palestine - Barcelona, Spain (conclusion)
Press TV 100303 - At the closing of the session Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, enumerated Tel Aviv's international-law violations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Holocaust survivor doesn't fear Nazis or Zionists
'I met spritely 86-year-old Dr Hajo Meyer, a survivor of the Nazi death-camps, at the House of Commons. At a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony, Dr Meyer spoke about the Nazis and pleaded for an end to the war against Palestinians. Israel, he said, was “dehumanising the Palestinians as the Nazis tried to dehumanise me”. But when a dozen protesters tried breaking up the meeting, shouting pro-Israel slogans and hurling abuse at Dr Meyer, they met their match. The plucky professor – barely over 5ft – refused to back down. “I grew up under Hitler and lived through Auschwitz. I’m not scared of people like you,” he told the burly protestors.'
http://jewssansfrontieres.
The David Project swarms an Apartheid Week event and pathos prevails over logos / Philip Weiss
I was at the Apartheid Week event Thursday night at NYU, "The Indigenous Struggle: A Call for the Boycott of Israel." The talk was a BDS call against Israel by groups of Native Americans, South Africans, and Palestinians ... Seemed like it was going to be a pretty unremarkable night in the anti-war movement until a few minutes into the talk, when streams of pro-Israel jihadis began streaming into the room. I’d say that between a quarter and a third of the audience were members of this group, obviously organized, wearing blue and white, along with printed T-shirts countering the BDS movement, encouraging folks to "Buy Israel" or Israeli products, with "The David Project" emblazoned on the back.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/
JVP takes on the epic battle inside the Jewish community
The other night I went to a fundraiser for Jewish Voice for Peace that left me so charged that when I walked out of the apartment and on to a downtown New York street I heard myself singing an old Woody Guthrie tune. What was the song– and why did it pop into my head? The first thing to be said about the evening was that many Jews were gathered who are unapologetic in support for BDS.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/
Violence / Aggression
Palestinian boy seriously hurt at protest
A Palestinian boy was seriously wounded in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, after he was shot in the head with a rubber-coated bullet, activists said. Ehab Fadel Barghouthi, 14, was among at least three injured when Israeli forces opened fire during a demonstration against the confiscation of land for Israel's separation wall. He remains unconscious and in critical condition in the intensive care unit of the Ramallah hospital. Barghouthi was shot with a rubber-coated bullet that struck him in the forehead above his right eye and entered his skull ... Numerous eyewitnesses confirmed stone-throwing did take place at the time of the shooting, but all affirmed Barghouthi did not partake in it
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Top Islamic judge among injured in Hebron rally
Tayseer At-Tamimi, the chief Islamic judge in Palestine, along with others were hurt after inhaling gas while leaving the Ibrahimi Mosque after performing Friday prayers in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas at the Muslim leader as he exited the mosque, witnesses said. He was transferred to the Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron for treatment. Israeli soldiers also fired on others while they were leaving the landmark.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Blockade / Gaza
Egypt closes Rafah crossing
Egyptian authorities shut down the Rafah crossing after it was opened for five days for travelers in both directions. The Gaza crossings administration said that the total number of travelers who left Gaza was 4,427, while 580 were refused entry by Egypt.
The total number of travelers who returned to Gaza reached 819 during the four-day period, the administration said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
6 British parliamentarians enter Gaza
A British delegation of six parliamentarians arrived in Gaza through the Rafah crossing on Friday, received by a UN convoy which will take the group around the coastal enclave during its three-day visit ... "Observing first-hand what suffering the Palestinians in Gaza live under" was the request under which the delegation entered the area, where it was granted entry by Egyptian and de facto government border officials.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
EU foreign policy chief to visit Gaza (DPA)
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, said Saturday she was planning to stop in Gaza during an upcoming Middle East trip later on this month. It would be the first high-level visit in over a year of an EU representative in the area
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Report: Hamas losing control in Gaza
In a letter to Hamas political chief Khaled Meshal, the group's senior military commander has admitted losing control in Gaza, the Arabic-language newspaper A-Sharq Al-Awsat reported on Saturday. According to the London-based newspaper, quoted by Army Radio, Ahmed Jabri sent an urgent dispatch to the Damascus-based Meshal, warning him that the security situation in Gaza is "deteriorating". "Recently a series of explosions has raised fears in Gaza," Jabri wrote. Gaza had descended into "anarchy", he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Fatah: Gunmen open fire at party leader's car in Gaza
Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a Fatah leader's car on Friday, in the western Gaza City district of Tel Al-Hawa, while it was parked opposite the home of a Fatah Revolutionary Council member, a party statement said. According to Fatah, at 10 pm, Sulaiman Ar-Rawwagh was visiting Revolutionary Council member Abu Juda An-Nahhal in his home, when "heavy gunfire was heard around the house. When both leaders went out to check, they found Ar-Rawwagh's car riddled with bullets."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Gaza study: 88% of women denied inheritance rights
A study by the Women's Issues Center in Gaza City found that 88% of women in the coastal enclave are denied their rights around inheritance, and 67% of them are unwilling to speak out and change the situation. The study, released Wednesday, was the result of a conference held earlier in the hear titled Women and Inheritance, which was intended to discuss what women's organizations called a trend in denying women, through social pressure, their rights to inheritance under Islamic law.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
James Zogby: A game-changing act to promote peace
...What Baird proposes is that Mitchell visit Gaza to assess needs and that the U.S. act unilaterally to circumvent the blockade by using "roll on/roll off" ships to supply Palestinians what they need to rebuild their society. It is important to note that this entire effort could be administered by and coordinated with the United Nations agencies on the ground in Gaza insuring that no political advantage be gained by Hamas as a result.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Photoessay: for the children / Eva Bartlett
... GIVE and Local Initiative, two Gaza-based organizations, are visiting these 50 or so children, throwing a party today, alleviating their stress and boredom, if temporarily. The groups bring loud-speakers for the music which will drown out Israeli gunfire from border towers and military jeeps, drown out the zananas’ whines or F-16s roars.
http://ingaza.wordpress.com/
Israel's Arab helpers
Egyptian forces discover 3 smuggling tunnels
Al-Arish -- Egyptian forces discovered several tunnels on Friday, all apparently used for smuggling goods into the Gaza Strip ... "This is the third time in which Egyptian authorities have taken over smuggling tunnels of such a kind," the source said. "They have previously seized two tunnels for smuggling cars, during the last year, when dozens of cars were smuggled into Gaza." The source added that two other tunnels were found, and that all three were sealed off pending demolition.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Egypt bans Hamas spokesman from testifying at brother's hearing
Egyptian Authorities banned Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri on Saturday from traveling to Egypt to give testimony at his brother's court hearing.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
War criminals
IDF to release new findings defending Gaza war strike
The Israel Defense Forces will soon release new findings about a strike near the Ibrahim al-Maqadma Mosque during last year's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, in an effort to refute the Goldstone Report's claim that it targeted civilians. The report cited this incident as key evidence for its accusation that Israel deliberately targeted civilians during the operation. The new evidence is based in part on Hamas and Islamic Jihad reports which show that more than half the casualties in the strike were armed members of these two groups.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
The butcher of Gaza is coming to dinner / Mahmoud El-Yousseph
Attention all US law enforcement agencies! Be on the lookout: a war criminal is coming our way. The Butcher of Gaza is coming to America. One year after the war on Gaza, during which the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) murdered 1,400 Palestinians including 400 children, the IDF and war criminal Lt. General Gabi Ashkenazi will be coming over for dinner ... Ashkenazi will be present at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan on Tuesday, March 9th.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.
Israeli victims?
In case you were wondering how the UK government is going to justify changing the law to allow Israeli war crimes suspects a free pass to enter and leave the UK without the fear of prosecution, yesterday's Guardian showed the way in an article by Alan Travis and Ian Black: "Changes in the law to remove the threat of foreign politicians becoming victims of "politically motivated" war crime arrests every time they visit Britain have been postponed until after the general election." So that's it. Israelis suspected of crimes against humanity are to be considered victims now. Poor little lambs.
http://jewssansfrontieres.
Spies
Haaretz celebrates Mossad the Good
Israeli media have been filled with counter-spin stories about the good work being done by its intelligence agencies, which have come in for a beating recently, for mankind. It’s a subtle hasbara counter-offensive designed to counteract the horrible PR from the Dubai assassination fiasco ... But Haaretz published a second story that is far more troubling and pernicious. A distinguished Israeli-Danish journalist with supposedly impeccable progressive credentials, Nahum Pundak, outed himself as a former Mossad agent. The story, written by Yossi Melman, who himself is known as a sometime conduit for stories the Mossad wishes exposed in the Israeli media, presents Pundik as a man who, in becoming a Mossad agent, sought to do good, only good. Mmm, can we think of any reason why the Mossad might want to put forward the image of the liberal journalist with a conscience joining forces with the Mossad to bring enlightenment to the Third World?
http://www.richardsilverstein.
Political developments / Diplomacy
Mitchell arrives Saturday for pre-talks
US President Barack Obama and his Middle East Envoy George Mitchell can "save what can be saved" when the latter arrives in Ramallah on Saturday ahead of rumored talks, presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudaineh said. Mitchell is expected to meet with both Palestinian and Israeli leaders to discuss terms for the resumption on indirect talks, four days after the Arab League gave the go-ahead for talks within a four-month timeframe.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
US repudiates UN council remarks on Mideast clash
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A U.S. official denied on Friday that Washington had consented to a U.N. Security Council statement to reporters voicing concern about the fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinians.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/
Erekat: Violence is Israeli response to peace overtures
Bethlehem - Ma`an - Violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound is Israel's answer to the Arab League's offer to renew peace negotiations, chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erakat alleged on Friday, as dozens of Palestinians and Israeli police officers were injured in Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
US vows to assign blame if Israel-PA talks fail / Akiva Eldar
The United States government has committed to playing a role in indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and promised that if the talks were to fail, the U.S. will assign blame and take action, according to a document sent by the U.S. to the Palestinian Authority, which Haaretz obtained on Friday. The U.S. government sent the document to the Palestinians responding to their inquires regarding the U.S. initiative to launch indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Sha`ath slams Panama president's Jerusalem remarks
Fatah Central Committee Member Nabil Sha`ath sharply condemned on Saturday President of Panama Ricardo Martinelli's remarks in which he referred to Israel as the "guardian" of the holy city of Jerusalem ... "After Martinelli became president of Panama, the whole policy of the republic changed and it became the only country in Latin America to vote in favor of Israel in the UN. Once again, the president of Panama is challenging its neighboring countries and international law during his visit to Israel."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Other news
Palestinian children killed in crash with Israeli military (AFP)
(AFP) – Four children were among six Palestinians killed on Friday when their car collided with an Israeli military jeep in the West Bank, emergency services said. The crash, which occurred near the Jewish settlement of Ofra in the Ramallah area, also killed a man and a woman, as well as injuring another Palestinian and four Israeli soldiers. Among the dead were the driver, one of his wives and the children aged 10, three, two and two months, said Palestinian medical officials.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Two Israeli brothers die of heart attacks minutes apart
Two brothers collapsed and died one after the other on Saturday while working in their olive grove in the Arab village Jadeidi-Makr in the northern Galilee. Paramedics who arrived on the scene found one brother in critical condition along the dirt road leading to the olive grove, and transferred him to a Nahariya hospital for treatment, where he died shortly after admission. The second brother was found dead among the trees, apparently from a heart attack.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
A possible truce to our [Israeli] bus wars
...In the past decade, dozens of the country's public bus lines have become segregated, meaning that women enter only via the back doors and sit in the back, while men use the front doors and sit in the front. Additional private lines have been established to provide single-sex transportation ... There is no reason why Israel cannot have buses with special enclosed sections for Haredi men who want to travel in a single-sex environment. On lines popular with the ultra-Orthodox, passengers could have two entrances - one for the standard mixed-gender section, and another with seating exclusively for men who want to travel in a male-only environment.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Opinion / Analysis / Human interest
Canada's aid politics fuel Palestinian division / Jesse Rosenfeld
In a uniquely Canadian way - politely, subtly - the Conservative government has made a clear statement in support of Israel’s divide-and-conquer rule over the Palestinian Territories. By slashing funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and instead pumping money into the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) judicial sector - specifically toward training police, prosecutors and judges - Canada is playing politics with aid.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Israel must change to change its image / Abdaljawad O A Hamayel
Israel has come out with several different schemes to sharpen its image on the world stage of late. Trying to develop a stronger and more comprehensive media strategy is one of the ways the country seeks to attract support in the West and internationally. Palestinians and their international supporters, however, have thus far been able to sustain a somewhat ‘conspiratorial attack’ on Israel. This attack has severely undermined the Israeli image of a liberal democratic haven amidst a sea of dictatorial states.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
It's easier to be a Zionist if you don't live there / Philip Weiss
Bradley Burston is a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz who grew up in California and emigrated to Israel many years ago. He loves Israel, is a true Zionist. But recently he wrote a piece honestly describing the desperate crisis that Israel is in, due to racism, militarism, the closing-down of Israeli society. Well Burston got a ton of hate mail, he now reports. And a lot of it was–surprise– from overseas, surely from the States– from Zionists who don’t have to live in the Jewish state, and are presumably getting a lot of their information from the likes of Richard Cohen:
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/
Liberal Ha'aretz strikes again
Ha'aretz online has a Reuters photo running on its front page right now. Interesting change that Ha'aretz has made to the original accompanying caption. Very professional. Very liberal.
http://lawrenceofcyberia.
The power of nonviolence / Ziad AbuZayyad
...As the number of participants in these peaceful demonstrations grows - whether in East Jerusalem or in West Bank villages threatened by the separation fence or settlement activity - Israel's reaction is becoming increasingly tougher. After all, the Israel Defense Forces has long been used to countering Palestinian violence with even harsher and fiercer measures, which it has justified to itself and to the world by saying they were a response to violence. Today, however, with the widespread adoption by Palestinians of peaceful means of protest, the task of repression has become more difficult, with the use of excessive force unjustified and subject to Israeli and international condemnation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
A million hungry souls / Guy Bechor
Syria can no longer hide the immense transfer it has embarked on in respect to more than one million of its miserable citizens, after a UN report two weeks ago exposed the bitter truth successfully concealed thus far: More than 300,000 Syrian families have been uprooted by authorities from their homes in eastern Syria and abandoned in the country’s major cities without any means of making a living ... What would have happened had Israel handed over the Golan to Syria? Where would the Syrians deliberately and immediately relocate their million uprooted citizens to, in order to take over the area and be kept away from the major cities? The answer is clear – the Golan Heights; there is water there.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Pushing the boundaries of identity: an interview with Jennifer Jajeh
Jennifer Jajeh's critically acclaimed one-woman show, I Heart Hamas and Other Things I am Afraid to Tell You, pulls no punches ... The Electronic Intifada contributor Uda Olabarria Walker interviewed Jajeh before she opened her show in Minneapolis in late February 2010.http://electronicintifada.net/
Language, poetry, and singularity: The Arab Jews
A joint Arab-Jewish identity seems an impossibility given the current political situation in the Middle East. And yet it was a reality, exemplified by Arabic-speaking Jews and their writers. In his extensive essay Reuven Snir investigates the complex history of Arab Jews
http://www.qantara.de/webcom/
Iraq
Friday: 1 Iraqi killed, 9 wounded
Excerpt: On the last day of legal campaigning, no significant violence took place; however, at least one Iraq child was killed and nine more were wounded in minor attacks. Clerics used the prayer day to urge Iraqis to vote. In the U.K., British Prime Minister Gordon Brown testified at an inquiry, saying the war in Iraq was justified but the United States failed to head warnings over post-war chaos. In election news, Iraqis who live abroad begin voting in national elections.
http://original.antiwar.com/
Iraq car bomb kills 3 in Najaf
Reporting from Najaf, Iraq - A car bomb exploded in the Shiite holy city of Najaf early Saturday, killing three people and wounding 54 others on the eve of Iraq's national elections, police said. The car detonated in a parking lot used by religious pilgrims, about 900 feet from the Imam Ali shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
In Baghdad, Sunnis await election with unease
Most Sunni Arabs are hopeful that the Iraqi parliamentary elections will correct an imbalance in power and give the minority more representation, but they also worry about an adverse outcome.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
Change party roils Kurdish elections
The upstart opposition party is giving the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan a tough fight in Sulaymaniya, in northern Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan region.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
Suicide bombs before Iraq election show Al Qaida still active
ABU GHRAIB, Iraq — As early voting begins for the Iraq election this weekend, tribal sheiks say Al Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is alive and well on the outskirts of Baghdad - a belt of communities crucial to the capital's security ...In Sheikh Tamimi's view there's a difference between Al Qaida's indiscriminate killing and more political sectarian violence. "Al Qaida kills Sunnis because they are disloyal, they kill Shiites because they're rejectionists and infidels, they kill Christians because the Christians don't support them...they kill everyone," he says.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
Iraq election: In Syria, disillusioned refugees trudge to the pollst
Candidates in the Iraq election have focused attention on Syria, which has the largest number of Iraqi expatriates. Sunni candidates in particular are seeking out extra support, given Iraq's Shiite-dominated politics.
http://www.csmonitor.com/
U.S. and other world news
Israel Lobby gets Congress to stick it to Turkey / MJ Rosenberg
Yesterday the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the Armenian genocide resolution. That is the bill, kicking around for years, that recognizes the Armenian genocide as precisely that - genocide ... The Israelis are trying to teach the Turks a lesson. If the Armenian resolution passes both houses and goes into effect, it will not be out of some newfound compassion for the victims of the Armenian genocide and their descendants, but to send a message to Turkey: if you mess with Israel, its lobby will make Turkey pay a price in Washington.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
'JPost' and 'BBC' say the lobby worked against Armenian genocide resolution before
The Jerusalem Post says that the Turks didn’t ask Israel for help to block the Armenian genocide resolution in the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee– as they did on a similar measure in 2007:
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/03/
Turkey warns US over Armenian 'genocide' vote (AP)
Foreign Minister Davutoglu cautions Obama administration of negative diplomatic consequences if it doesn't impede American resolution on World War I-era killing of Armenians. US Secretary of State Clinton says will 'work very hard to ensure the resolution does not go to the house floor'
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Turkish filmmaker takes aim at U.S. and Israel (Reuters)
ISTANBUL, March 5 (Reuters Life!) - Israel may not like it, but a popular Turkish TV and film franchise which once depicted a Jewish doctor stealing organs from Muslim prisoners in Iraq now has plans to release a film set in Palestine. "Valley of the Wolves: Palestine" is projected to cost over $10 million, making it one of the most expensive Turkish films.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Senate debates indefinite detentions
Civil liberties advocates and U.S. constitutional law scholars lost no time in condemning proposed legislation introduced in the Senate Thursday that would hand the government the power to indefinitely detain terrorism suspects without charge and to conduct trials through military commissions only. Typical was the response from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which said the proposed legislation would "deal a swift blow to due process and the rule of law."
http://original.antiwar.com/
US sees a terror threat -- Pakistan sees a heroine
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Relations between the United States and Pakistan often have a through-the-looking-glass quality, where almost nothing appears quite the same from the other side. The latest example is the case of Aafia Siddiqui.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
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