Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing
PA official: Settlers torch Nablus lands
Nablus – Ma'an – Dozens of Israeli settlers from the hilltop Migdalim settlement on Thursday torched fields belonging to Palestinians in the northern West Bank, an official said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
U.S.: Israel's East Jerusalem demolitions pose obstacle to peace
U.S. State Department criticizes Israel's recent demolition of three Palestinian homes, saying 'it undermines trust.'
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Egypt condemns Israel's demolition of Arab houses in East Jerusalem
CAIRO, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit Wednesday condemned Israel's move to demolish houses owned by Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Israel is racing against time to impose facts on the ground before proximity talks with the Palestinians are over, the Egyptian foreign minister was quoted by the state-run MENA news agency as saying. "This reflects Israel's intention to set obstacles in the way of peace talks," he added. On Tuesday, Israeli bulldozers demolished what officials said are four structures in two Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Hamas MP told: Leave Jerusalem or stay in jail
RAMALLAH: The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday ordered the Hamas lawmaker Mohammad Abu Tir to leave the disputed city by the start of next week or remain in detention. The court decided that the Jerusalem-based lawmaker will be released from detention and expelled if he deposits 50,000 Israeli shekel (about $12,000). In addition, Abu Tir will remain in detention if he does not deposit this sum along with a self-bail of 100,000 shekel (about $25,800) and another 100,000 shekel from a third party.
http://arabnews.com/
For many years, the IDF has been trying to remove Palestinians from the Beqa Valley, east of Kiryat Arba and Givat Harsina. The army has demolished homes, destroyed farmers’ crops and their cisterns for collecting water (See “Don’t Say … #167). On Tuesday, 6th July 2010, personnel from the Civil Administration backed up by the Border Police, and accompanied by labourers, came to the area and began to uproot water drip irrigation pipelines belonging to Palestinian farmers in the Beqa Valley. The workmen also uprooted the protective covers of tomato crops. They similarly destroyed the irrigation system for approx. 35 dunams belonging to six families. Any Palestinian at the site, or who came to it, was violently forced to a distance – the IDF used blows and beatings, tear gas and stun grenades. Some Palestinians required medical treatment as a result, including a pregnant woman in her eighth month and a four year old child.
Libyan Flotilla, Solidarity/Activism/Boycott, Sanctions & Divestment
Report: Israel struck deal with Egypt to let Libya aid reach Gaza
According to A-Sharq Al-Awsat, ship sent by Gadhafi's son agreed to dock in Egypt after receiving assurances that they could begin a building project in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Gaza aid ship in Israeli stand-off
The Libyan aid ship, the Amalthea, originally bound for the Gaza strip, has been diverted to a port in Egypt after the Israeli navy warned the vessel against trying to break an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian coastal territory, and is now moving very slowly towards El Arish port. An Al Jazeera reporter on board said the vessel, carrying 2,000 tonnes of food and medicine, was met by a "wall" of Israeli gunships as it approached the Palestinian territory. Sherine Tadros reports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
`Reject Israeli rhetoric, break the siege`
Gaza – Ma'an - Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh urged a Libyan aid ship to proceed toward Gaza and called on other land and sea convoys to continue their work, calling the Israeli rhetoric on easing the siege "unacceptable." Speaking Wednesday at the naming of a Gaza street "Martyrs of the Freedom Flotilla Street," Haniyeh again praised the strength of the men and women aboard the six ships, particularly those on the Mavi Marmara, aboard which nine passengers were killed by Israeli commandos.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Palestine's possible Gandhi: Budrus activist Ayed Morrar talks to Palestine Note
Washington - "Budrus," Julia Bacha's successful documentary about one West Bank town's success in beating back the Israeli separation barrier with nonviolent resistance, is centered largely on the efforts of Ayed Morrar. Morrar led the organizing effort behind the nonviolent movement against Israeli plans to build its separation wall through his town. In response the Western media's mantra of "where is the Palestinian Gandhi?" (or Martin Luther King Jr.) Morrar's name has been mentioned as a possible candidate for that mantle.
http://palestinenote.com/cs/
US to Gaza
This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has mounted a huge public relations campaign spreading the lie that by letting a few more items into Gaza the blockade has been lifted. This is not the reality. Gaza is still under siege, vital building materials and other supplies are banned, exports of goods from Gaza are denied and neither ships nor people can travel without permission from Israel, permission which Israel will not give. Gaza is essentially an open-air prison under a U.S.-backed Israeli blockade. We are planning to launch a U.S. boat to Gaza, joining a flotilla of ships from Europe, Canada, India, South Africa and parts of the Middle East due to set sail in September/ October of this year. In order to succeed in this essential but costly human rights project, we need significant financial support.
http://ustogaza.org/
Disco group Boney M. to headline Ramallah music festival
The Palestine International Festival will kick off with British-Palestinian singer Shadia Mansour in Bethlehem on Monday.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-
New Report: People versus Oppression
July 9th, 2010-- One year ago, Stop the Wall and Addameer released a report entitled “Repression Allowed, Resistance Denied”, which detailed the repression of Palestinian human rights defenders active against the Wall since 2002.Today, in the 6th anniversary of the ICJ ruling against the Wall, The campaign publish this new document covering the ongoing repression between March - June 2010.
http://stopthewall.org/
Silencing Dissent/Aiding Apartheid
Egypt again bars Jordanian activists from Gaza (AFP)
AFP - Jordanian activists and trade unionists slammed Egypt on Thursday for denying them entry to the Gaza Strip for the second time in less than a month to deliver aid to the blockaded Palestinians.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
US university suspends Muslim student group for Palestine protest
In response to intense political pressure by multiple pro-Zionist organizations, the administration at the University of California, Irvine recently decided to suspend Muslim students' right to assemble and practice their faith together on campus. Brian Napoletano reports for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Israelis inciting anti-Israel boycotts could soon be forced to pay dearly
Knesset approves in initial reading bill that would allow targets of boycotts to sue boycotters for large sums.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Violence/Aggression
Rights groups investigate Israeli fire death
Bethlehem - Ma'an - Investigations by two rights groups in Gaza found the death of a woman on Tuesday was caused by Israeli fire, in an incident that the Israeli military has yet to comment on. A document with sworn affidavits and a second report based on an independent investigation were released by two Gaza rights organizations on Wednesday, and both said the death 32-year-old Ni'meh Yousif Abu Sa'eed An-Nabaheen was caused by fire from soldiers manning the unilaterally-declared buffer zone on the Gaza border.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Palestinian Family Allegedly Beaten By Jerusalem Cops For Cheering For Germany, Max Blumenthal
Why did the Jerusalem police react with such brute force to a non-violent protest last Friday in Sheikh Jarrah? According to Moshe Strol, a retired Israeli cop, the cops received politically motivated orders. In a response to former government attorney Michael Ben-Yair’s letter protesting police behavior in Sheikh Jarrah and activist Haggai Matar’s accusation of police discrimination against leftists and Arabs, Strol wrote (translation by Noam Sheizaf at Promised Land).
http://maxblumenthal.com/2010/
Group: YMCA building attacked in Gaza
Bethlehem - Ma'an - Unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle threw a hand grenade into a YMCA building in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a local human rights group reported. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said in a statement Wednesday that shrapnel from the grenade spread over a playground connected to the central Gaza City facility but no damage or injury was otherwise reported.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Detainees
IOF troops detain 11 West Bankers, shoot Palestinian child
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 11 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank districts of Ramallah, Bethlehem, Al-Khalil, and Jenin, radio Israel reported on Wednesday.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Soldiers Kidnap Nine Palestinians, Including Two Women In Nablus
Israeli soldiers conducted an arrest campaign targeting leaders and members of the leftists Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and kidnapped nine residents, including two women, in Beit Forik Village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Under Suspicion of “Contacting Foreign Agent," Israeli Security Unit Kidnaps A Man in the Golan
Israeli officers of the “Regional Unit for International Investigation”, operating under the Israeli Security Agency, kidnapped an Arab resident from Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, under suspicion of what was described as “spying, and contacting a foreign agent”.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
The Siege (Gaza & West Bank)/Humanitarian and Human Rights
25% of pre-siege goods entering Gaza
Gaza – Ma'an – Israeli authorities informed their Palestinian counterparts Thursday that a single Gaza crossing would be open for the transfer of commercial goods and some sanitation supplies. Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh said he received word that the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip would be opened for the transfer of 140-150 truckloads of goods.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Haniyeh: Israel hasn't changed siege
Gaza – Ma'an – Israel's decision to block a Libyan aid ship from docking in Gaza proves its siege is "an act of terror," the Gaza-based Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Thursday. The ship, confirmed to have docked in the Egyptian port of Al-Arish on Wednesday night, was unloading cargo Thursday following a deal reportedly struck between Israel and Egypt allowing the supplies to be transferred into Gaza over land.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Amnesty International: Daily Life in Gaza: Loss, Despair, and Hopelessness
The New York Times today published a major front page story on the daily life in Gaza. The story chronicles the adversity, disunity, and sheer loss that dominates daily life in Gaza, and the Times' website includes some very powerful images and video footage. Civilians in Gaza suffer from a complete lack of opportunities, high unemployment, and scarce resources, including water and electricity, the article concludes. The article also claims that the root of the current suffering is the loss of opportunity and the inability of Palestinians in Gaza to produce for themselves. Since these options do not exist for Gazans, men stay home throughout the day, some taking sedatives to numb their loss, and women struggle to ease their husband's pain and fill their children's bellies. Despite international criticism over the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the international concern over the May 31 flotilla incident, the blockade has continued uninterrupted for three years, and the daily struggles and overwhelming despair of the Palestinian inhabitants of Gaza have been largely overlooked and misrepresented internationally.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Ministerial visit to Silwan sparks discrimination calls
Jerusalem - Ma'an - Israel's Jerusalem municipality delivered notices to homes in the Silwan neighborhood Wednesday morning prohibiting parking on residential streets ahead of a visit to the area by the country's Minister of Agriculture. Wadi Hilwa Information Center director Jawwad Siyam says Palestinian residents would face fines if they parked on streets outside their homes, and stressed that the municipal planners provided no alternatives for the hundreds of vehicles that had no place to go.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Water in Gaza: “it’s not a simple problem”
For the last year Mark Buttle has been the coordinator for the “WASH cluster,” the group of aid organizations working on water, sanitation and hygiene in the Gaza Strip. A chartered water engineer, Buttle has worked for a development-oriented nongovernmental organization (NGO) for more than a decade, including in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and has been based in Gaza since May 2009. He spoke to The Electronic Intifada contributor Sarah Irving about the challenges faced by international agencies working in Gaza.
http://www.tadamon.ca/post/
Arabs, Israel's second class minority
In a recent column in The New York Times, Thomas Friedman reflected on the strong Israeli economy, quoting a recent survey that put the number of Israeli millionaires at 8,419. Such a figure is testimony to the successes of entrepreneurs who transformed Israel’s economy into one worthy of membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. However, what Friedman didn’t mention is that Arab Israelis, who represent over one-fifth of the Israeli population, are virtually absent from this enviable list. Indeed, the growth of the economy has widened the gap economically and socially between Jewish and non-Jewish Israelis.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Flotilla Fallout
Flotilla journalists to sue Israel
Group of more than 30 reporters to demand compensation from Israeli government.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
US Government considers listing Turkish charity as ‘terrorists’
The US State Department is considering whether to designate a Turkish charity as a ‘terrorist group’ after the organization sent a ship of medical and school supplies to the Gaza Strip in May.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Political/Other Developments
Lisbon to summon Israel envoy for criticizing Mottaki visit
Ahead of meeting between Iranian FM and his Portuguese counterpart, Ehud Gol says it is disappointing some European countries acting contrary to decisions of European institution they are part of'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Mubarak reportedly nixed Bibi meeting over home razing
(JTA) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reportedly may have had reasons other than poor health to postpone his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A source close to Mubarak told an Egyptian paper that Mubarak did not meet with Netanyahu as scheduled this week because a home was razed in east Jerusalem on Tuesday, Army Radio reported. Other sources, however, said it was because the Libyan aid ship was set to arrive in an Egyptian port. Previous reports had said that the meeting was postponed due to Mubarak's health.
http://www.jta.org/news/
Abbas puts peace with Israel on par with Hamas unity
Bethlehem – Ma'an - President Mahmoud Abbas says making peace with Israel is just as challenging as negotiating with his rival Hamas. During a trip around East Africa and Eastern Europe, Abbas made a stop in Bucharest on Tuesday, where he was interviewed by the Romanian Journal and negotiated some tough questions.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Fatah to meet over cabinet reshuffle
Bethlehem - Ma'an - Fatah's Revolutionary Council is scheduled to meet Monday to discuss indirect talks, elections, and a government reshuffle with party leader and President Mahmoud Abbas. Speaking with Ma'an radio, council secretary Amin Maqbul said outstanding issues within the party would also be discussed, particularly those that were transferred to the body during Fatah's sixth conference last August.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Obama's Backseat to Mideast Peace Talks Before Elections (Time.com)
Time.com - The Israeli-Palestinian tussle over proposed direct peace talks may be more about gaming the deadlock than settling the conflict. But don't expect the U.S. to force the issue in an election season.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Other News
Politician sanctioned by Knesset speaks out
She was the first woman to be elected on an Arab party's list to the Parliament of Israel, the Knesset. But Haneen Zoabi has recently angered many of her fellow MKs for taking part in the flotilla convoy to Gaza on which nine persons were killed in May. Haneen Zoabi condemns what she sees as Israel's "crimes" against Palestinians and "racist" policies. This week, the Knesset has voted to revoke her diplomatic privileges. She will not be allowed to leave the country, have a diplomatic passport or get her legal fees covered by the parliament.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
Ministers to vote on 'Jewish' pledge of allegiance
According to proposal, citizenship applicants to pledge allegiance to 'Jewish, democratic state'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Jerusalem's serial stabber confounded cops 12 years ago
For 12 years knifing of Palestinians in Jerusalem remained unsolved; only now police revealed Jewish extremist Chaim Pearlman is the alleged killer.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-
Israeli terrorist says Shin Bet asked him to murder Sheikh Raed Salah
The Israeli police arrested Tuesday night an Israeli terrorist claiming that the internal security Shin Bet offered him a sum of money in order to assassinate Sheikh Ra'ed Salah.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Soldier Who Shot Bound Palestinian Convicted Of “Unbecoming Behavior”
An Israeli Court in Tel Aviv issued a ruling, on Thursday, convicting the Israeli soldier who shot a bound and blindfolded Palestinian in Ni’lin village near Ramallah, with unbecoming behavior and misusing his weapon.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Eight Greenpeace activists arrested for infiltrating Israel power station
Activists were protesting use of coal to fuel power plant; earlier this month, three were arrested for commandeering coal freighter en route to Israel.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Analysis/Opinion/Human Interest
‘Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ says violent resistance is natural response of people humiliated by collective punishment, Philip Weiss
One of the wonderful things about the Israel/Palestine issue is that when folks wake up and see Palestinians as fellow human beings, they tend to move fairly quickly toward ideas of liberation. It's happening all over. Here's a great piece by anthropologist Hugh Gusterson, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of all places, slamming Israel's "sledgehammer" policy of collective punishment as a response to Palestinian resistance. And describing with great sympathy the corner that Israeli expansionism has placed Palestinians in. And, finally, celebrating the international "freedom riders" whose presence is so vital to the Palestinian cause.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/
Rattling the Cage: Why we're so unpopular, LARRY DERFNER
Now it’s not enough for Israel to have its own coast, its own territorial waters, its own airspace – no, we’ve got to control Gaza’s coast, Gaza’s territorial waters, Gaza’s airspace, too. The Gaza Strip is part of our sphere of influence. Let any Turkish ship, Libyan ship or any other ship we don’t like try to sail into Gaza, and they’ll get a taste of gunboat diplomacy, Israeli-style. Let anyone try to fly a plane in or out of Gaza and they’ll be at the mercy of the Israel Air Force.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/
Architectural planning for a different future
If you live under a colonial regime, the first thing you are prevented from doing is thinking about a future," proclaims Sandi Hilal, one of the founders of Decolonizing Architecture. "This is the first thing that the occupation imposes on you. And to propose in Palestine right now a future where you can plan, imagine, is something which is very important."
http://electronicintifada.net/
Israel's Confidence-Destroying Measures, By James Gundun – Washington, D.C.
Despite Israel's perceived strength it really isn't in a position to bargain. America is now the only dependable ally, having lost Europe after the Gaza war. Turkey has renewed the diplomatic vigor against Israel's hostility towards Iran and unilateral actions in the Palestinian territories while the Arab League, sensing blood, is circling the waters. The Palestinians hold a strong hand and don’t need to rush into direct talks. Nor is the traditional fear of obstructing direct talks as high with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu squeezed internally from both sides and masquerading around “peace."
http://palestinechronicle.com/
What Would Einstein Have Said about Gaza?, César Chelala
“I saw the horrors that the fighters had created. I saw bodies of women and children, who were murdered in their houses in cold blood by gunfire, with no signs of battle and not as the result of blowing up the houses…I have seen a great deal of war, but I never saw a sight like Deir, Yassin.”
http://www.
United against Peace, William A. Cook
A confluence of news stories emerged this past week that, if related, shed an unusual light on the deteriorating crisis in the mid-east, most especially on Palestine and Iran. On June 27th, Ha’aretz made this observation about discussions at the G-8 meeting in Ontario: “World leaders ‘believe absolutely’ that Israel may decide to take military action against Iran to prevent the latter from acquiring nuclear weapons,” citing a statement made by Italy’s PM Silvio Berlusconi.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Iraq
4 killed in Tikrit bombing
At least four people were killed including three policemen and 11 others were wounded in a car bomb explosion in central Tikrit, a police source said. Four policemen were killed in a separate incident in an armed attack, northern Babel, Alsumaria reporter said.
http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/
Six killed, 20 wounded in Iraq attacks: officials (AFP)
AFP - A series of six attacks in Baghdad and a shooting west of the capital killed six people, including three daughters and the grandson of a Sufi Muslim order's leader, Iraqi officials said Wednesday.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Wednesday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 26 Wounded
At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 26 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. Meanwhile, U.S. authorities transferred 55 high-level detainees, including Tariq Aziz, to their Iraqi counterparts. Also, Turkey is considering building a new army that will handle their war against PKK rebels.
http://original.antiwar.com/
Iraqi reporter risks it all for the story
Falah Azzawi doesn't mince words as he shows how the Iraqi people are suffering under the current government. And that's a life-threatening pursuit. It is another broiling morning in Iraq's capital as TV reporter Falah Azzawi, decked out in ketchup-colored shirt and tie, enters an alleyway with his microphone.
http://feeds.latimes.com/%7Er/
Flights resume between Iraq and Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's national carrier has resumed flights to Iraq for the first time since 1991. Saudi Arabian Airlines contracted with the privately-owned Al-Wafeer Airlines to run daily flights between the two countries. The airplane landed in Basra airport today at 8:15 am.
http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/
How American Right-Wing Christians Are Waging 'Spiritual Warfare' in Northern Iraq, Michael Reynolds
Evangelicals have established schools, radio stations and churches in northern Iraq -- all with the blessings of the Kurdistan government and assistance from U.S. taxpayers.
http://www.alternet.org/
Lion, wolves and bears draw the crowds at Baghdad pet shop (AFP)
AFP - Sabah Alazawi is doing a roaring trade these days at his Baghdad pet shop -- and not only because he has a lion for sale. Along with dogs, he also offers bears, wolves, monkeys and vultures.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Lebanon
Lebanon arrests 'dangerous' suspected Israel spy
Tareq Raba'a is second telecoms engineer arrested in last month for alleged espionage; if convicted, he could face death penalty.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Moussawi: to Hang Spies to Put End to Shameful Phenomenon
15/07/2010 Member of the Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Hussein Moussawi said on Thursday that the victory of the Resistance in the July 2006 war prevented the Israeli enemy of achieving its goals. Moussawi said that the Israeli spies were accomplices in all the Zionist aggression's repercussions, stressing the need to hang them to put an end to this shameful phenomenon. He noted that those who defend the agents will only show Lebanon as a divided country towards its national principles and causes. "How can we turn into a unified national society if we are unable to confront those who have violated national principles?" Moussawi wondered, urging the need to establish a capable state with a national bloc comprised of the army, people, and Resistance. The Hezbollah MP concluded his statement by calling to adopt the human and social rights for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, adding that rectifying Lebanese-Palestinian ties would serve to facilitate their return to their homeland and eliminate naturalization fears.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Hizbullah 'ready' for conflict but says imminent war unlikely
BEIRUT: Hizbullah fired the latest shot in its war of words with Israel Wednesday when the party’s second in command said it was ready for conflict and knew where to target in the event of renewed hostility. Sheikh Naim Qassem, Hizbullah’s deputy secretary general, speaking on the fourth anniversary of the 2006 war, warned Israel against a fresh onslaught on south Lebanon. “We have a bank of broad and accurate Israeli targets and any Israeli move would not pass without a price,” Qassem was quoted as saying in an interview with An-Nahar.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Aoun and Nasrallah agree to continue cooperation
BEIRUT: Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader MP Michel Aoun stressed Wednesday continued cooperation and coordination to face the latest domestic and regional challenges.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Hizbullah demands changes in French security-pact text
BEIRUT: Hizbullah is demanding the revision of a security accord between France and Lebanon over the definition of the word “terrorism,” a party official said on Wednesday. “We want a text that either clearly defines ‘terrorism’ as per Lebanese and Arab laws or the omission of the clause that deals with counterterrorism entirely,” Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah told AFP. “France’s definition of terrorism includes Palestinian resistance movements and that clashes with Lebanese law, which is in line with the Arab League’s definition,” he added.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Syrian opposition activist says Lebanese authorities ordered him to leave
BEIRUT: A Syrian opposition activist granted refugee status by the United Nations said Tuesday that Lebanese authorities had ordered him to leave. "I went to the General Security bureau today to reclaim my passport, only to find that the words 'to travel by July 20, 2010' were stamped on it," former Syrian MP Maamun Homsi told AFP on Tuesday.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Film shows domestic workers barred from entering beach club
BEIRUT: Video footage of a popular Beirut beach resort denying entry to a migrant worker as part of its “racist” door policy has been released by a local NGO this week as part of a direct-action anti-racism campaign. The video, released by advocacy group IndyACT, shows a beach club denying entry to a black woman activist who is accompanying three other activists as they attempt to gain access to Sporting beach club. As the group tries to pay to enter the club, the cashier can be heard asking: “Who is the girl?” One of the activists then replies that the lady accompanying them is their maid, to which the cashier replies: “She is not allowed in.” When the activists remonstrate with the cashier he tells them maids are not allowed in the beach club. The activists ask the cashier: “What if I tell you she is not a maid? She is my black African friend who wants to enter the beach with me,” to which the cashier replies: “No she cannot.”
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Marwahin Massacre: A Crime against Humanity
15/07/2010 A crime against humanity, a crime that is impossible to be justified on any military grounds. This is the least that can describe what happened during Israeli aggression against Lebanon in the southern Lebanese village, Marwahin. 23 people, mainly children were killed while they were trying to flee Marwahin in a pick-up when it was fired upon by an Israeli Apache Helicopter at close range in July war four years ago. And as usual Israeli occupation army claimed that it took such great care to avoid civilian casualties.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Sa'ar 5 Surprise… When the Resistance Shocked the Enemy!
14/07/2010 Four years have passed on the July 2006 war but its repercussions and aftermaths continue to be witnessed…
Everyone in Lebanon remembers well the war in which the Resistance imposed itself a strong power, in which the Resistance told the whole world that the undefeatable army wasn't anymore a truth, in which the Resistance made it clear for Israel that attacking Lebanon wasn't anymore a "picnic." Everyone in Lebanon remembers well the war in its 33 days full of steadfastness, heroism, courage, bravery and audacity.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Fadlallah and the Western media's dangerous complicity
There is a lot to say about Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the Lebanese Shia Muslim cleric who passed away on 4 July 2010 at the age of 75. Unfortunately, much of what there is to say is being left unsaid for more of the same sensationalist reporting on this region and its people. Matthew Cassel comments for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Iran
Iran's Amiri talks about US "abduction"
An Iranian man who says he was kidnapped and interrogated for 14 months by US authorities in the United States, has returned to his home country Iran where he was reunited with his family. Shahram Amiri says he was abducted by US and Saudi agents at gun point while on a pilgrimmage to the Saudi city of Mecca last year and taken to the US where he was allegedly physically and psychologically tortured. The US government has denied all the allegations, saying the man was free in the US and was not held against his own will. Speaking to Al Jazeera, Amiri said: "For 14 months I was put under a number of pressures in the US. And in reality the freedom to communicate with my family and to express myself in an ordinary fashion was not granted. "Behind the scenes this was very politically motivated," he said. Although there were assumptions that Amiri was a nuclear scientist and thus could hold in depth information about Iran's nuclear programme, he and the Iranian government have insisted that he is merely an academic researcher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Inside Story - Spy or prisoner?
What lies behind the case of Iranian Shahram Amiri? And could it cast some light on whether or not Iran intends to develop a nuclear weapon?
Shahram Amiri, who disappeared last year during a pilgrimage to Mecca, leaves US overnight. 'We got better deal,' American official says.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Think tank: Israel attack against Iran would spark long war
Oxford Research Group says furthermore that attack on nuclear facilities wouldn't prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear bomb.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/di
Prices Soar as Sanctions Hit Ordinary Iranians
Some worry about higher food prices, some fret about overseas travel and others about business, but it is clear that ordinary Iranians are feeling the effects of sanctions.
http://abcnews.go.com/
U.S. and other World News
Israel's nuclear program implicated in U.S. investigation
According to Institute for Science and International Security researchers U.S. based Israeli company Pelogy violated export regulations.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Saudi Arabia: Charges Against Rights Activist Frivolous
(New York) - Prosecutors should immediately drop charges against Shaikh Mikhlif bin Dahham al-Shammari, a human rights activist, and release him, Human Rights Watch said today.
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/
Afghanistan Rights Monitor SLAMS Washington Spin About “Progress” in Afghanistan
The Afghanistan Rights Monitor’s (ARM) mid-year report on Civilian Casualties of Conflict (.pdf) blasts the happy-talk coming out of the Obama Administration about the deteriorating security situation and its effect on civilians.
http://seminal.firedoglake.
Extrajudicial Killing: Carl Levin Wants To Expand Drone Strikes In Pakistan
The top Senate Democrat on defense issues said on Tuesday that he would like to see an expansion of the U.S. military's controversial drone-strike operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
www.TheHeadlines.org
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