Aftermath of Israel's attack on Gaza flotilla
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/
Sheikh Raed Salah shot in head, critical
Bethlehem – Ma'an - Sheikh Raed Salah was critically injured by Israeli forces that attacked the Freedom Flotilla Monday morning, and was receiving treatment at Israel's Tel Hashomer Hospital for gunshot wound to head, sources said. Salah is the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Massive protests are expected in the north, with Palestinian citizens of Israel already labeling the incident an attempted assassination.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Conflicting reports on condition of Israeli Arab Muslim leader onboard Gaza flotilla
Arab media says Islamic Movement head Sheikh Raed Salah is seriously wounded; Salah's deputy: If it turns out Salah has been killed, Israel will be directly responsible.
http://www.haaretz.com/
Police checking whether Sheikh Raed Salah among injured
Police forces headed by Tel Aviv District Commander Shahar Ayalon have arrived at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer in order to examine whether one of the Gaza sail passengers seriously injured during the Navy raid is Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic Movement's northern branch.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Israel 'attacks' Gaza aid fleet
Two reportedly killed and 30 injured after troops board ships trying to break Gaza siege.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Death toll from Gaza aid attack hits 20
The death toll from the Israeli navy's takeover of a Gaza aid convoy has risen to 20 while Israel carefully censors reports on the casualties from the attack. Gaza Freedom Flotilla came under fire early on Monday by Israeli navy forces in international waters more than 150km (90 miles) off the coast of Gaza. The six-ship aid fleet was soon stormed by commandos descending from helicopters. At least 20 people were killed in the takeover of the Gaza aid convoy, a Press TV correspondent reported, saying that more than 50 people were also wounded in the attack.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.
Up to 16 killed in Israeli attack on aid flotilla bound for Gaza
JERUSALEM, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Israeli forces on Monday attacked an international flotilla carrying aid to besieged Gaza, killing up to 16 and wounding more than 30 others, an Israeli television reported. The clash happened after Isreali soldiers tried to stop the flotilla from reaching Gaza. Israel's private Channel 10 television said Israeli forces opened fire after being attacked by a number of passengers.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Report; “15 killed, 30 wounded, After Army Attacks Freedom Flotilla”
In what activists have termed a 'massacre on the high seas', Israeli commandos dropped from a helicopter onto humanitarian aid ships bound for Gaza and began to open fire. Israeli media have reported that 15 have been killed and at least 30 wounded in the Israeli attack.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Report: At least 10 activists killed as Israel Navy opens fire on Gaza aid flotilla
Over 60 pro-Palestinian campaigners wounded after six-ship convoy sailing for Gaza Strip ignored Israel's order to turn back, Turkish news reports. IDF confirms two commandos also wounded.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
"We Have Three Dead!" Gaza Flotilla: Communications Lost During Urgent Cry for Help from Turkish Ship Mavi Mari
A live feed from Turkish TV aboard the lead ship, in the nine ship Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the Mavi Mari was interrupted shortly after a frantic call for help from the ship was issued. The last things heard from the Turkish TV live feed from the Mavi Mari: "We have 3 people killed." Then it goes dead.
http://pacificfreepress.com/
World in shock at deadly Gaza ship raid (AFP)
AFP - Shock and outrage swept the globe Monday after Israeli commandos stormed a flotilla of aid ships bound for Gaza, as the Jewish state's foes and allies closed ranks in condemning the deadly raid.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
UN 'shocked' by Flotilla deaths, EU seeks explanation
Bethlehem - Ma'an - The UN office for the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process issued a statement saying they were "shocked by reports of killings and injuries of people on board boats carrying supplies for Gaza, apparently in international waters." The response came following an attack by Israeli military and naval forces on six aid ships bound for Gaza, where sources said 10-16 civilian activists were killed.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Abbas: Israel has committed a massacre on the Gaza flotilla
Turkey says Israel's attack on Gaza aid convoy violated international law, summons Israeli ambassador over attack which killed at least 10 left-wing activists.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/di
Hamas convenes emergency meeting
Haniyeh urges international community to intervene after IDF raids ships making their way to Strip. Palestinian officials refer to operation as 'crime', call on Turkey to sever its ties with Israel. MK Barakeh congratulates Israel on 'pirate army's victory'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Turkey: Israel attack on Gaza aid convoy violated international law
Turkey summons Israeli ambassador over IDF attack on Gaza aid flotilla, which killed at least 10 left-wing activists.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Netanyahu mulls cancelling U.S. trip in wake of Gaza flotilla deaths
Netanyahu was due to head to Washington at the invitation of President Barack Obama; Ben-Eliezer: I can only voice regret at all the fatalities.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Barak speaks with Turkish ministers after Gaza ship incident
Defense minister telephones Ankara officials, holds emergency meeting with IDF chief of staff. Meanwhile, Minister Ben-Eliezer says, 'It was obvious this was media provocation. We are not Shiite suicide attackers, soldiers must defend themselves'. [What the hell is a Shiite suicide attacker??]
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Report: Arab League to hold urgent meeting on Gaza flotilla takeover
Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told al-Jazeera news network that the secretary-general of the Arab League responded to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' request to convene an urgent meeting on the takeover of aid ships traveling to Gaza.
Earlier, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh urged the Arab League, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and the United Nations Security Council to hold urgent meetings on the takeover of the Gaza aid flotilla.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Abbas announces three-days of mourning
Ramallah – Ma'an – President Mahmoud Abbas declared three-day mourning in Palestine with flags lowered to half-mast in response to the Israeli attack on Freedom Flotilla on Monday morning. Reports said between 10 and 16 solidarity activists bringing aid and construction materials to the besieged Gaza Strip were killed, and some 50 more injured.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Haniyeh announces general strike in Gaza
Gaza – Ma'an – De facto government Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced a day-long general strike on Monday, and a Gaza-wide national day called Freedom Day to commemorate the death of Flotilla activists. "The day is to mourn the martyrs of the flotilla," Haniyeh said in a statement, naming 31 May Freedom Day and calling on the UN Security Council to convene an emergency session to take action on what he called a crime in international waters.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Hariri describes Israeli attack on Gaza boat as "crazy move"
Beirut - Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Monday the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla 'is dangerous' and was a 'crazy move.' Hariri described the attack as a 'crazy move' that would inflame the region. The premier called on the international community to take action and said Lebanon is in contact with a number of countries to coordinate responses to the incident.
http://www.monstersandcritics.
EU demands enquiry into Israeli military action
* EU's Ashton calls for free flow of humanitarian aid
* Calls for investigation of Gaza deaths
http://www.alertnet.org/
Ahmadinejad says Israel "inhuman" for flotilla action
TEHRAN, May 31 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel's interception of aid ships sailing to the Gaza Strip on Monday, in which at least 10 people were killed, was "inhuman" and would help lead to the country's demise.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Greece summons Israeli ambassador over attack on Freedom Flotilla
The Greek foreign ministry has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Athens over the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla that left tens of martyrs and wounded in lines of the foreign activists.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER KOUCHNER SAYS "PROFOUNDLY SHOCKED" BY ISRAELI FLOTILLA ACTION, DEMANDS INQUIRY
http://www.alertnet.org/
Syria calls for AL emergency meeting to discuss Israel's blockade on Freedom flotilla
DAMASCUS, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Syria on Monday called for an emergency meeting of Arab League to discuss Israel's blockade on Gaza-bound aid ships "Freedom Fleet", the official SANA news agency reported. Israel's navy which controls Gaza's territorial waters opened fire on the international pro-Palestinian aid flotilla when the fleet trying to enter the Gaza waters. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, including the Israeli- Arab Islamic activist Sheikh Raed Sallah were onboard the flotilla. 16 people were killed and 30 others wounded by the Israeli navy. The Palestinian territory has been under and Israeli blockade for almost three years, with only limited humanitarian aid allowed in.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Police on highest state of alert across country
Israel Police and Prison Service raise state of alert following complication of naval raid on flotilla to Gaza. Police to block roads, prevent entrance to Temple Mount.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Turkey brims with anger over Israeli armed action
ANKARA, May 31 (Reuters) - Turkey told Israel that it would "suffer the consequences" after at least 10 pro-Palestinian activists were killed when Israeli commandos boarded a convoy of aid ships heading to Gaza. About 300 people waving Palestinian flags and wearing black-and-white kaffiyeh headscarves rallied outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul after news of the operation emerged.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Violent protests in Turkey; Israeli envoy summoned
Turkish TV stations say police have blocked dozens of stone-throwing protesters who tried to storm Israeli Consulate in Istanbul over IDF attack on aid ships to Gaza. Israeli ambassador ordered to arrive at Foreign Ministry
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Report: Protesters try to storm Israeli consulate in Turkey
CNN-Turk and NTV televisions show dozens of angry protesters scuffling with Turkish police guarding consulate building in downtown Istanbul.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Israeli Arabs call general strike over Gaza flotilla takeover
(Video) Acting Higher Arab Monitoring Committee head calls incident 'massacre'. Deputy of Islamic Movement official Sheikh Raed Salah, rumored to have been injured in takeover, says 'this was an assassination attempt'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Aussies onboard during deadly convoy raid
An Australian journalist and photographer onboard aid boats headed for the Gaza Strip have not been heard from since at least 10 people were reportedly killed during a clash with Israeli commandos.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/
Shock And Anger Follows Flotilla Massacre
from Palestine Monitor by Palestine Monitor
At least 14 activists were killed and up to 60 injured by live fire from the Israeli navy as they staged a pre-dawn raid on the Mavi Marmara today. The Turkish passenger ship, was carrying around 600 civilians when it was attacked in international waters 75 miles off the coast of Gaza.
http://www.palestinemonitor.
Supporters protest against Israeli attack on Gaza aid flotilla in Turkey
ANKARA, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Supporters for an international flotilla carrying aid to besieged Gaza held protests in Turkey on Monday against Israeli forces' attack on the flotilla that has killed up to 16 people. About 200 people gathered in front of the Israeli embassy in Ankara on Monday morning, chanting slogans and waving Turkish and Palestinian national flags, Xinhua witness saw.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Protests in Gaza against Israeli attack on ''Freedom Flotilla''
Gaza, May 31, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – Thousands of Palestinians protested in different parts of Gaza Strip Monday morning against the Israeli attack on the “Freedom Flotilla” which resulted in killing 16 activist and wounding another 60 so far. The Palestinians protesters carried banners condemned the Israeli crime committed against the pro-Palestinian activists who were on board the ships.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
Protest in Beirut
For those who are in Beirut, there is a protest rally against Israeli war on peaceful activists at noon near the ESCWA building in downtown Beirut.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
From Mazin Qumsiyeh: Time to demonstrate everywhere and write to all you know and all you do not know (media, politicians etc).
Organize your own event (in front of Israeli missions abroad, in front of government buildings, in public squares etc) or join any of the planned emergency demonstrations. In Bethlehem we gather at the Nativity Square and march to the apartheid wall at 2 PM.
Emergency protest after 10 murdered by Israel on Gaza Flotilla - 2pm Downing Street
Emergency protest today at Downing Street. Western governments have allowed this to happen by sitting on their hands as the Israelis issued their threats over the past days and weeks. Join the protests today around the world.
http://gazasolidarity.
Analysis / After Monday's ocean bloodbath, Israel must work fast to prevent a third intifada
If rumors are confirmed that Muslim leader Raed Salah is among casualties of Israel's raid on a Gaza aid convoy, the countries Arab population could explode.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Other Activism/Solidarity, Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment
The Weekly Non Violent Protests Across the West Bank 28-5-2010
http://josephdana.com/2010/05/
British Academic Union Makes BDS History, Severing Links with Histadrut and Boycotting Ariel College
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) expresses its profound appreciation for the courageous positions in support of Palestinian rights taken by the membership of the University and College Union (UCU) at its Congress today in Manchester. The UCU has again firmly and decisively established its unwavering commitment to the Palestinian civil society's campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel until it complies with its obligations under international law and recognizes the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. Making history in the international trade union movement in the West, UCU’s Congress also voted with an overwhelming majority to "sever all relations with Histadrut, and to urge other trade unions and bodies to do likewise." The UCU has today confirmed its established position that it is legitimate to denounce Israel’s oppressive policies and to hold the state and its complicit institutions accountable for human rights abuses, war crimes and ethnic cleansing.
http://www.pacbi.org/
Siege Related Deaths/Other Violence and Aggression
Man killed in tunnel collapse
Gaza – Ma'an – A young man was killed in a tunnel collapse under the Egypt-Gaza border on Monday, medics told Ma'an. Medical sources identified the victim as Sameer Abu Setta, 23, from Der Al-Balah, who said he was pronounced dead upon arrival at the Abu Yousef An-Najjar Hospital.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Settler runs down elderly couple near Beit Ummar
Hebron – Ma'an – Red Crescent medics said that an Israeli settler ran over a couple in their fifties at the Beit Ummar junction north of Hebron on Sunday night. The two were identified as Fatima Sabarneh, 55, who as seriously injured and was transferred to the Al-Ahli Hospital's intensive care unit, while her husband, Abdul Fattah Sabarneh, 59, was moderately injured.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Four Residents Wounded By Settler Fire In Silwan
Four Palestinian residents were wounded by settler fire, on Saturday at night, in Silwan neighborhood, in East Jerusalem. Medical sources described their injuries as mild-to-moderate.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
B'Tselem: Firing at Palestinians near Gaza-Israel fence
The army has classified the area along Gaza's border with Israel a no-go zone, where anybody entering may be shot. This policy endangers the many farmers who work land there and harms the livelihood of tens of thousands of persons.
http://www.btselem.org/
Detainees
Israel detains 6 Palestinians in the WB
West Bank, May 31, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained today six Palestinians from different cities in the West Bank, four of them from Dora town in Hebron, Palestinian source reported. The IOF detained from Hebron Maher Al-Rjoub, 32, and Ismail Amro after raiding their houses in Dora, while they detained Alaa Al-Harbiat from Al-Tabaka village, south of Dora, local sources said.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
Human Rights Violations/Humanitarian Issues/Siege
Israel faces child-abuse claims
Al Jazeera speaks to Palestinian child who says he was abused by Israeli interrogators.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
State won't reveal how many Palestinians are questioned by Shin Bet without a lawyer, Akiva Eldar
The number of Palestinians under questioning by the Shin Bet security service who are not permitted to meet with an attorney is a state secret, the State Prosecutor's Office told the High Court of Justice last week.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-
B'Tselem Testimony: Stuck in Gaza, separated from family
On 21 April '10, Israel deported Ahmad Sabah from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip after he completed a 9-year prison sentence. His wife and 9-year-old son did not get to see him. Sabah, who has no family in Gaza, awaits permission to return to his family.
http://www.btselem.org/
Education in Occupied Palestine, Stephen Lendman
A 2007 UNESCO/Save the Children UK report titled, “Fragmented foundations: education and chronic crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” addressed issues “in emergency and reconstruction situations, as well as in chronic conflict.” It explained that in 1994, the Palestinian Authority established the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) with formal responsibility for the system, including planning, budgeting and coordination throughout the Territories.
http://dissidentvoice.org/
Political Developments/Diplomacy
Charlie Rose Interview with Khaled Meshaal
http://www.charlierose.com/
Charlie Rose Interview with Bashar al-Assad
http://www.charlierose.com/
Hamas renews offer to end fight if Israel withdraws (Reuters)
Reuters - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has stated explicitly that the Palestinian Islamist group will end its armed struggle against Israel if the Jewish state withdraws from Palestinian land it occupied in the 1967 Middle East War.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Hamas leader says American envoys making contact, but not openly
• Khaled Meshal says US 'not brave enough to do so openly'
• Hamas leader praises Russian president for meeting him
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Israel recoils as US backs nuclear move (AFP)
AFP - Washington's unprecedented backing for a UN resolution for a nuclear-free Middle East that singles out Israel has both angered and deeply worried the Jewish state although officials are cagey about openly criticising their biggest ally.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Obama promised to bolster Israel's strategic capabilities, Jerusalem officials say
Obama offered Netanyahu guarantees that the U.S. would not let any decision made during the recent NPT review conference 'harm Israel's vital interests.'
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Other News
Israeli minister in Qatar for first time since Gaza war (AFP)
AFP - Industry and Commerce Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer left for Qatar on Sunday, becoming the first Israeli minister to visit Doha since the December 2008-January 2009 Gaza war, his ministry said.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
With Gaza market gone, Palestinians export to Europe
JERICHO, Occupied West Bank: Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip has denied businessman Mazen Sinokrot access to a third of the Palestinian market and forced him to diversify. Today, instead of shipping chocolate wafers to Palestinians just a two-hour drive from his West Bank factories, he exports cherry tomatoes grown in the Jordan valley to Europe. “We have started diversifying – not increasing our existing capacities, but diversifying in order to at least leverage more profits to stay alive,” said Sinokrot, who is the head of a business group that produces everything from surgical gloves to mineral water.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Israeli radio plays 1962 interview with famous spy (AP)
AP - Israel's Army Radio on Sunday played parts of an interview given by Israel's most famous spy, marking 45 years since his capture and execution.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Gingrich on cover of Adelson’s Israeli daily: US polices could lead to a “second Holocaust”
Sheldon Adelson’s tabloid freebie, Israel Hayom (cynically called by many the “Bibiton” — “Netanyahu paper”) provided a platform for someone who has until now was almost unknow in the Israeli public debate: Newt Gingrich. The cover of this weekend’s (May 28 2010) Friday political supplement, Israel Hashavua (Israel This Week) displays a full page photo of Gingrich, with the banner headline: “The Obama Administration is Denying Reality.” Here is the caption...
http://coteret.com/2010/05/30/
Zionist Parallel Universe
Bernard Henri Levy: I have never seen an army as democratic as the IDF
French philosopher addresses 'Democracy and its Challenges' conference sponsored by the French Embassy in Israel in cooperation with Haaretz.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Analysis/Opinion/Human Interest
Amira Hass / Lexicon of most misleading terms in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Israeli media is rife with false terms and statements that distort the public's perception of reality. "Humanitarian crisis." "There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza," say official Israeli spokesmen such as Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Ministry director general Yossi Gal say repeatedly. And they are correct, because a "crisis" is a sudden change, a deviation from a norm, while what's going on in Gaza has become the routine.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-
MJ Rosenberg: Obama: No Sucking Up to Bibi During This Week's Visit
The word from Israel is that Rahm Emanuel invited Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to Washington for a kiss-and-makeup session this week. It will happen Tuesday. Meanwhile, in Washington the word is that Obama will ease the pressure on settlements and the strangulation of Gaza to keep pro-Israel donors to the Democratic party writing checks for the November election.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
NPR, the CIA, and the settlers: a detective story, Henry Norr
A few weeks back Susie Kneedler highlighted here an National Public Radio report about the recent Israeli military decree allowing the IDF to deport anyone in the West Bank as an "infiltrator" simply for lacking paperwork the Israelis refuse to provide. Kneedler's critique focused on the "she said/she said" quality of the story, which attempted to balance the terror of a Palestinian woman who can't get papers against the reassuring platitudes of an Israeli military spokeswoman, and on odd discrepancies between the audio report and the transcript NPR posted. But it was something else about the piece that caught my eye: The transcript (though not the audio clip) ends with the assertion that "About 365,000 Israeli Jews live in settlements in the West Bank and Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, alongside 2.5 million Palestinians."
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/05/
USS Liberty: American Servicemen Expendable; Don't Embarrass Israel, Tammy Obeidallah
Within the United States, there has been a growing awareness of Palestinian suffering. This has been manifested in the many demonstrations held during Israel's assault on Gaza from December 2008-January 2009. The boycott of Israeli goods is gaining speed, as well as the campaign to recognize the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians as apartheid.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Netanyahu in Canada - the New Republican Stronghold, Jim Miles
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper was elected to a minority government in 2006. Since then he has done his best to set up what could be considered a Republican government for the state of Canada. Except that Canada is not a state of the United States (just a weak willed wimpy ally) nor are there any Republican parties in Canada. Stephen Harper however is as close as it gets.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Israel’s Specialty: Targeting Civilians, Stephen Lendman
Professor Jeremy Salt teaches political science at Ankara, Turkey’s Bilkent University. He’s also the author of The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands. On January 9, 2009, during Israel’s war on Gaza, he wrote “A Message to the brave Israeli Airmen."
http://dissidentvoice.org/
Iraq
Sunday: 2 Iraqis Killed, 10 Wounded
U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen said that the United States remains on track to withdraw 50,000 troops from Iraq in August; however, the political situation will be watched until then. At least two Iraqis were killed and 10 more were wounded in the latest violence, which included an attack on Kurdish rebels launched from Iranian soil.
http://original.antiwar.com/
Official: Girl killed in Iranian shelling over northern Iraq
A 14-year-old Iraqi girl was killed Sunday and dozens of families fled their homes to escape Iranian artillery shells in northern Iraq, according to a Kurdish Regional Security Forces spokesman.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/
Iraqi police recover 1.3 million dollars from bank heist (AFP)
AFP - Police investigating a bank robbery near Najaf in southern Iraq have recovered 1.3 million dollars of the 5.5 million stolen and made one arrest, a local official said on Saturday.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Iraqi resistance leader says ready to talk to U.S.
U.S. administration officials have negotiated with a major Iraqi resistance group but the talks failed due to mounting differences, an Iraqi resistance leader says. In an online interview with Azzaman, Abdulla Al-Hafidh, spokesman for the United Islamic Front, said the U.S. put pre-condition for the resistance groups to lay down their weapons before the withdrawal of its troops. “The negotiations broke down quickly because of U.S. maneuvering. They put forward unfair conditions. They wanted (us) to lay down our weapons before the withdrawal and not after it,” said Hafidh. He said had the U.S. accepted his group’s condition, many other armed factions fighting U.S. occupation troops would have joined the talks.
http://www.azzaman.com/
Police infiltrated in Iraq province
Once US troops leave, security responsibility will fall on a force viewed with suspicion.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
Maliki rejects calls to quit
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki said yesterday his party would not compromise on its choice of government leader, resisting pressure from potential coalition partners for him to step aside.
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.
Lebanon
Israel carries out mock air raids on south Lebanon
BEIRUT: Israeli war planes carried out mock air raids on Sunday over southern Lebanese villages shortly after Israeli threats targeted Prime Minister Saad Hariri. According to the sate-run National News Agency, Israeli war planes preformed mock air raids while flying at medium altitude over Nabatiyeh, Khiam and Marjayoun. Also, Israeli MK surveillance drones violated Lebanese airspace over villages and towns in the area of Nabatiyeh.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Lebanese PM heads to Syria (AFP)
AFP - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri was headed to Damascus on Monday for talks with Syrian leaders amid accusations Syria was supplying Lebanon's Hezbollah with missiles, a government official told AFP.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Randa Slim on Hizbullah
Randa Slim has an excellent piece on Hizbullah in foreign Policy magazine here. It is a short piece, and I would have liked more from Hizbullah officials/leaders themselves about how the nature of their organization and their constituencie(s) could constrain their actions… but overall, right on the mark.
http://mideastwire.wordpress.
U.S. and Other World News
Turkish PM says West unfair, insincere in Iran row: report
Turkey's prime minister Saturday accused Western powers of lacking a "fair and sincere" approach on Iran in a mounting row over a nuclear swap deal with Tehran, Anatolia news agency reported.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
Afghan Child Brides Escape Marriage, but Not Lashes
The ordeal of two Afghan girls who were flogged for running away underscores the fact that forced marriage is a cultural norm in parts of Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
Egypt Islamists condemn vote 'corruption'
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition group, on Sunday denounced “corruption and irregularities” ahead of Tuesday’s elections for Parliament’s upper house. “When we decided to field candidates in this election, we thought the regime would keep some of its promises and was sincere,” the group’s supreme guide Mohammad Badie told reporters, in reference to government vows of holding free and fair elections.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Gulf sex shop offers marriage guidance along with edible underwear
MANAMA: Usually veiled and wearing a modest, flowing abaya, Khadija Ahmad looks an unlikely owner of the conservative Gulf’s first sex shop. She sees nothing wrong, however, with selling “joy jelly,” edible undies or the vibrating accoutrements offered by such niche boutiques around the world, insisting that nothing in Islam forbids the pleasures of the bedroom.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
www.TheHeadlines.org
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