Shadi Fadda brings us today's headlines relating to Palestine and other news from around the internet.Land Theft and Destruction
Israel Orders Demolition Of 11 Homes And Public Structures Near Hebron
According to local sources, Israeli Authorities have ordered the demolition of Palestinian property in the towns of Al Baq'a and Ithna outside of Hebron.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57784
According to local sources, Israeli Authorities have ordered the demolition of Palestinian property in the towns of Al Baq'a and Ithna outside of Hebron.
http://www.imemc.org/index.
Panorama: A Walk in the Park Part 1/3
BBC Panorama: A Walk in the Park, from 18 January 2010. Jane Corbin walks through the disputed streets and parks of Jerusalem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Panorama: A Walk in the Park Part 2/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Panorama: A Walk in the Park Part 3/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Israel brings 240 new Jewish immigrants to occupied Palestine
The Hebrew radio reported that 240 Jewish immigrants arrived in Israel in the context of campaigns organized by Zionist organizations to bring Jews from Latin America and Africa.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment
Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
At a quarter to two AM tonight, Mohammed Khatib, his wife Lamia and their four young children were woken up by Israeli soldiers storming their home, which was surrounded by a large military force. Once inside the house, the soldiers arrested Khatib, conducted a quick search and left the house. Roughly half an hour after leaving the house, five military jeeps surrounded the house again, and six soldiers forced their way into the house again, where Khatib’s children sat in terror, and conducted another, very thorough search of the premises, without showing a search warrant. During the search, Khatib’s phone and many documents were seized, including papers from Bil’in’s legal procedures in the Israel High Court.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Further arrests in Bil’in and Ni’lin
January 28th, 2010-- Occupation forces raided the villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin, arresting a resident from each village. These arrests come only several days after a delegation of diplomats visited Ni’lin to hear testimony from residents arrested or shot by Occupation forces.
http://stopthewall.org/
Israeli arrests aimed at quashing popular resistance continue
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee - Press release - The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees – the leadership of the popular struggle – who are then charged with incitement when arrested. The charge of incitement, defined under Israeli military law as "an attempt, whether verbally or otherwise, to influence public opinion in the Area in a way that may disturb the public peace or public order," is a cynical attempt to punish grassroots organizing with a hefty charge and lengthy imprisonments. Such indictments are part of the army`s strategy of using legal persecution as a means to quash the popular movement.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_
Further arrests in Bil’in and Ni’lin
January 28th, 2010-- Occupation forces raided the villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin, arresting a resident from each village. These arrests come only several days after a delegation of diplomats visited Ni’lin to hear testimony from residents arrested or shot by Occupation forces.
http://stopthewall.org/
Diplomats hear testimony of Ni’lin repression
January 27th, 2010-- Fifteen European diplomats carried out a fact-finding visit to the village of Nil’in yesterday to listen to the testimonies of residents targeted for arrest by Occupation forces. Many human rights defenders in the village have been subject to a campaign of arrests for their involvement in activities in protest of the Wall.
http://stopthewall.org/
Take Action: "Cheer or Jeer" Your Representative for Signing or Not Signing Letter on Gaza Blockade
Learn more about a letter sent by 54 Members of Congress to President Obama about Israel's blockade of Gaza and steps that you can take to help us change U.S. policy toward Israel/Palestine to support human rights, international law, and equality.
http://endtheoccupation.org/
UK MPs back EU campaign to end Israeli siege of Gaza
London, Jan 27, IRNA -- MPs from all three Britain’s main political parties have welcomed the work of the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza in arranging the recent EU delegation of over 60 parliamentarians to visit Gaza.
Former shadow foreign secretary Gerald Kaufman, who led the largest European delegation since last year’s Israeli massacre of more than 1,400 Palestinians, said the visit was a “tangible act of solidarity with the 1.5 million people living under siege.”
http://twocircles.net/
Danish bank excludes Wall building companies
January 27th, 2010-- Danish Bank (Danske Bank), the biggest financial group in Denmark, has excluded Elbit Systems, Magal and Africa Israel from its investment portfolio because of their involvement in providing equipment for the Wall and in settlement construction. As was the case in Norway, the PKA divested explicity because of Elbit and Magal’s involvement in the construction and maintenance of the Wall. Divestment on these grounds is critical in building the case against Elbit, Magal and other companies involved in the Wall and settlements, and more victories are sure to follow.
http://stopthewall.org/
Brethren Church Leader Deported from Israel
In early January 2010, On Earth Peace, an agency of the Church of the Brethren reported that the executive director Bob Gross was detained and deported by Israeli authorities when he arrived at the Tel Aviv airport as part of a Christian peacemaking delegation meant to build connections with Israelis and Palestinians who are working for a non-violent resolution to their conflict.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Canadian students launch campaign to divest from the occupation, Adam Horowitz
For the past several months, Students Against Israeli Apartheid – Carleton (SAIA), a student group at Carleton University in Ottawa that is committed to supporting the Palestinian struggle for freedom, has been conducting research on Carleton’s investments in Israeli apartheid. The Carleton Pension Fund currently lacks any ethical guidelines, with its only mandate being the maximization of profit. SAIA has discovered that the Pension Fund, which provides retirement income for Carleton staff and faculty, currently has some $2,762,535 invested in five companies that are complicit in the oppression of the Palestinian people. In light of these findings, SAIA has launched a campaign calling on Carleton to immediately divest from the offending corporations: Motorola, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman, L-3 Communications, and Tesco supermarkets, as well as to adopt a socially responsible investment policy for all of its investments.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Why Are They Really Demonstrating in Sheikh Jarrah?
In the last few weeks, the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah was featured in the headlines in Israel and abroad as a result of weekly demonstrations that take place in protest of the evacuation of Palestinian families from their homes and the entry of Jewish Israeli settlers into their homes. As a result of the hard-lined policy that the Jerusalem police have taken towards the demonstrators and the arrest of dozens of them, a significant part of the public discourse about this matter revolves around freedom of expression and the severe harm to the right to demonstrate in a democratic state. Along side this principled and important discussion, this short survey seeks to clarify the historical process of this matter until the issuing of the evacuation order, as well as the current political implications.
http://www.alternativenews.
Send $300 billion to Detroit, not to Israel
Was there any excuse for a bunch of armed European settlers to occupy Palestine? No. Was there any excuse for those armed gangs—now called the “Israel Defense Forces”– to ally themselves with the most racist regimes on Earth, including Apartheid South Africa? No. Was there any excuse for handing $300 billion to Israel, as it mass-murdered so many Palestinians and Lebanese? No– but Congressman Dingell admits that Israel really did get $300 billion from your pocket, from the U.S. Congress.
That $300 billion should be spent to re-build Detroit, not to fortify the Israel Defense Forces. I hope the Detroit City Council will send that message to Congress. It would solve a lot of problems, in Detroit and worldwide.
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Aggression/Violence
Israeli gunboats open fire at Palestinian fishermen
Gaza, January 28, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli military boats opened heavy machinegun fire against Palestinian fishermen sailing off the coasts of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. The fishermen were forced to sail back to the shores to avoid injury, so no casualties were reported. The Israeli military boats are in regular attack of Palestinian fishing boats claiming that the fishermen cross the three-mile mark.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
Army Attacks Reporters In Nablus
Israeli soldiers attacked on Thursday a number of Palestinian reporters in the village of Burin, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
http://www.imemc.org/index.
Witnesses: Israeli forces enter Qalqiliya, check IDs
Qalqiliya – Ma'an – Israeli military vehicles entered the city of Qalqiliya on Wednesday afternoon, stopping a number of residents and asked for identification, witnesses said. Four military jeeps entered the city a few meters away from the Palestinian Preventative Security headquarters, where they asked a number of residents for their ID cards, the witnesses said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Testimony: New Israeli intelligence officer harasses Nablus residents
Nablus – Ma'an – Stripped almost naked in the January cold, Issam Mismar, 42, a father of five, was introduced to an Israeli soldier claiming to be the new intelligence chief in Nablus district. "I’m the officer Oren, a new officer in the area, I came to personally get to know you. How are you and how are your kids?” Mismar remembered the man, holding a computer and sitting in a military jeep, telling him.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Badge of terror
Haaretz - Editorial - There is no way to describe the West Bank settlers` attack on the Palestinian village of Bitilu but as a well-planned terror attack. The settlers` "military" organization and violent resistance to the cabinet decision to destroy the illegal outpost of Givat Menachem, as described by Chaim Levinson in Haaretz yesterday, are no different from the activities of other terrorist organizations. This includes the incitement, ranting and raving preceding the act of vengeance on Bitilu, the attempt to set a house on fire, the injuring of villagers with stones, and the threat to continue these violent tactics.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Israeli Injustice System
Rabbi ordered released in mosque arson case
JERUSALEM (JTA) – A Jerusalem court ordered the release of the head of a West Bank yeshiva who was arrested for his alleged involvement in an arson attack on a nearby mosque. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, one of the leaders of the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, was arrested Tuesday by the Shin Bet security service. The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court judge said Wednesday that police had no grounds to keep the rabbi in custody, but delayed implementation of the decision until late Wednesday night to enable the police time to appeal, Ynet reported. Shapira had been questioned Tuesday by police, at which time he reportedly refused to answer questions about the arson. He then was placed under arrest and transferred to the Shin Bet.
http://jta.org/news/article/
2 yeshiva students suspected of mosque arson released for house arrest
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court released for house arrest the two yeshiva students from the settlement of Yitzhar arrested on suspicion of involvement in the torching of the mosque in Palestinian village of Yasuf. They are the only suspects currently detained by security forces for the incident. A hearing on their case and that of rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, another suspect in the affair, will be held Thursday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Jerusalem Palestinian Man Sentenced to 10 Years For ‘Smuggling” Palestinian Workers
Israeli sources reported Wednesday that a Palestinian man from Jerusalem was sentenced by the Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem to 10 years and 9 months imprisonment after being “convicted of smuggling Palestinian workers into Israel”, and trying to evade arrests.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57782
Israeli sources reported Wednesday that a Palestinian man from Jerusalem was sentenced by the Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem to 10 years and 9 months imprisonment after being “convicted of smuggling Palestinian workers into Israel”, and trying to evade arrests.
http://www.imemc.org/index.
Detentions
MIDEAST: Pray the PA Way or Face Arrest, Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Jan 27, 2010 (IPS) - The Palestinian Authority (PA) is using West Bank mosques as a new battleground in its political offensive against its opponents within Hamas as well as critics from its own Fatah party.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?
Humanitarian Crisis
Egypt hands Emirate aid for Gaza over to Israel
Al-Arish – Ma'an – Food aid from the United Arab Emirates entered Israel en route to Gaza on Thursday morning, including 500 tons of flour and 200 tons of sugar. Omar Hadhud, Palestinian liaison officer at the Al-Oja commercial border between Israel and Egypt, 10 kilometers south of the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, said the food aid was sent through with coordination from Israel.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Othman: The PA asked EU to stop paying for fuel needs of Gaza power plant
European commission spokesman Shadi Othman revealed that the European union stopped paying for fuel shipments used to operate Gaza power plant at the request of the Palestinian authority.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Gaza: Fourth death in week due to faulty generators
Gaza – Ma'an – A faulty electricity generator set fire to a Jabaliya home in the northern Gaza Strip Thursday morning, killing one woman and injuring two others, medics said. The death is the fourth related to faulty generators in a week, following the death of three children from carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator stored indoors.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Would-be Gaza migrants face endless hurdles
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Abu Luay sold his wife's gold to pay for a visa to Germany, but if the Egyptian border does not open soon he will lose his only ticket out of Gaza, where life is an endless struggle against conflict and an Israeli siege. Like him, untold numbers of Palestinians are scraping together large sums of money to pay travel agents for visas in a desperate bid to leave the densely populated Gaza Strip enclave. But theirs is a gamble that rarely pays off.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/
What One Hand Giveth, the Other Hand Taketh Away
Since Israel sent a search and rescue team and doctors to help earthquake-devastated Haiti, op-eds and articles have praised Israel’s important provision of relief and also attempted to hold up a mirror to the country, showing closure-devastated Gaza just over our shoulder. Some in Israel asked, how is it that aid is rushed half a world away when children are living in half-destroyed homes just an hour’s drive from Tel Aviv? Others argued that Israel’s positive actions in Haiti should stand alone, even if the Israeli government over-publicized the efforts (in his blog this week, Ami Kaufman adds English subtitles to a popular Israeli satire spoofing the over-focus on Israeli rescue efforts in Haiti – worth watching!). Israel’s Foreign Ministry justifiably expresses pride in Israel’s humanitarian actions in Haiti, but it also boasts, for example, in the MFA round-up for 2009 that aid to the Gaza Strip increased by 900% in 2009. Is that really something to be proud of?
http://www.gazagateway.org/
Israel`s NGO crackdown spells trouble
Seth Freedman - The Guardian - Last week saw the latest move in the Israeli government`s clampdown on those working in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Ending a decades-old policy of granting work visas to employees of NGOs operating in the region, Israeli officials are now issuing NGO workers with tourist visas instead, prohibiting them from working in areas under Israeli jurisdiction, including Area C (which makes up 60% of the West Bank) and all of East Jerusalem.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_
War Criminals
Rogue State: Israeli Violations of U.N. Security Council Resolutions
Following is a list of United Nations Security Council resolutions directly critical of Israel for violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Conventions, international terrorism, or other violations of international law.
http://dissidentvoice.org/
At Yale, Judge Goldstone faces down his accusers, Philip Weiss
Judge Richard Goldstone gave a speech at Yale last night and though he said he would not be talking about Gaza, his report came up again and again, and in fact the anti-Goldstoners tried to turn the event into a circus. They waved Israeli flags, and two of them held up a banner comparing the judge’s report to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the accusers of Dreyfus. A group followed the judge afterward into the wine-and-cheese on the second floor, and surrounded him and some barked at him, and though now and then the judge held up his hand and turned away at a loud voice, he seemed ready for anything, and more than held his own, and left the crowd with an education in what it means to try and advance the regime of international law.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Agents of Imperial Terror: Aggression and the Goldstone Report, Jennifer Loewenstein
At the Nuremburg Tribunal in 1945 'Aggression' was defined as 'the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.' Chief Counsel for the United States at Nuremburg, Justice Robert Jackson, defined the aggressor as the state that is the first to commit such actions as ‘invasion of its armed forces, with or without a declaration of war, of the territory of another state.’ Jackson also called attention to the principle of universality, or the simple but too often overlooked fact that what applies to our enemies must apply equally to ourselves. For one state or court of justice to apply international law according to the perceived national security interests of the few, or a one-sided interpretation of ‘evil,’ poisons both the letter and the spirit of the law. Some 65 years after the end of the Nuremburg Tribunal, the definitions and caveats of global justice remain the same; but they are no more universally applied today than they are remembered or summoned to spare various regions of the world the devastation and suffering they are now experiencing. Indeed, at times such as during Israel's Operation Cast Lead exactly one year ago, one could argue that they were consciously suppressed.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Testimony to Goldstone: ‘What happened at the mill is total destruction’, Adam Horowitz
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Hamas clears itself of UN Gaza war crimes charges (AFP)
AFP - The Islamist Hamas movement said Wednesday it has investigated allegations in a UN report into last winter's Gaza war and absolved Palestinian armed groups of any atrocities.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailyne
HRW claim Hamas 'did target civilians in Gaza war' (AFP)
AFP - Human Rights Watch on Thursday rejected Hamas claims that the Islamists did not target civilians during Israel's devastating Gaza offensive just over a year ago.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Political Developments and Diplomacy
Abbas: Palestinians will accept only Jerusalem as our capital
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared on Thursday that Palestinians would not accept any alternative to Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, despite other proposals.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Hamas signals new readiness for Palestinian unity
Group may patch up difference with rival Fatah in time for elections in June, leaders say.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Hamas: Shalit held in good conditions
Gaza rulers say captive Israeli soldier held in good conditions, in full compliance with Geneva Convention. Cairo paper claims prisoner exchange talks will resume next week.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Cohen hails political and security relations between Israel and Egyptian regime
Outgoing Israeli ambassador to Egypt Shalom Cohen hailed the political relations and security coordination between Israel and the Egyptian regime.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Other News
Does NYT's Top Israel Reporter Have a Son in the IDF?
Foreign editor treats potential conflict as none of our business. The New York Times refuses to confirm or deny a report that its Jerusalem bureau chief, Ethan Bronner, has a child who is an enlisted member of the Israeli Defense Force--even though such a relationship would pose a serious conflict of interest.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?
Arab MK slams Holocaust denial, wins praise from Jewish colleagues
Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List ? Ta'al), one of the most vocal critics of government policy in the Palestinian territories, evoked praise from his fellow lawmakers after delivering what Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin called "one of the best speeches he has ever heard in the plenum" about the Holocaust.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Algeria v Egypt clash is dividing Palestinian supporters
The rivalry has also spread to the Palestinian arena, where politics, as is always the case on the Palestinian street, has played a significant role. “I used to support Egypt,” said Mohammad Khaddam, 37, an unemployed engineer from Gaza City. “But since then I’ve been detained by Egyptian security for eight hours just for being Gazan and Egypt is now building a wall to starve us.” Tonight, Mr Khaddam, who spoke over the phone, will be watching the game at the Beach Hotel in Gaza and will be cheering Algeria. He won’t be alone, he said. “Gaza’s ties with Egypt go back a long way. These don’t disappear overnight,” acknowledged Mr Khaddam. “There will be plenty of people supporting Egypt, but in Gaza now, thanks to the Egyptian government’s anti-Palestinian policies, more will support Algeria.”
http://www.thenational.ae/
U.S. ties Israeli billionaire with Chinese intelligence
The Admiralty complex is one of the trademarks of Hong Kong's urban landscape. Overlooking the port, the complex used to house the soldiers of the British army and the headquarters of the Royal Navy in the region. Today it is part of the city's business center. One building there houses a group of companies nicknamed the 88 Queensway Group (the address of the building), which the U.S. administration suspects is nothing more than a cover for activity conducted by the People's Republic of China's foreign intelligence. Wu Yang, one of the group's senior directors, provided the Registrar of Companies in Hong Kong with an address that matches the address of Chinese foreign intelligence.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Analysis/Op-ed/Human Interest
How surrendering Palestinian rights became the language of "peace", Joseph Massad
The 1993 Oslo agreement did not only usher in a new era of Palestinian-Israeli relations but has had a much more lasting effect in transforming the very language through which these relations have been governed internationally and the way the Palestinian leadership viewed them. Joseph Massad comments.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Lift the blockade of Washington, Philip Weiss
I know I’m optimistic, and out of touch with reality, and clutch at straws… but these two items suggest that the Birnam Woods are marching on Dunsinane, to echo the famous prophecy the witches gave to Macbeth. First, a letter signed by 54 congressmen urging Obama to press Israel to lift the blockade of Gaza. This wouldn’t have happened a couple years back and of course it may be too late anyway, but: A lot of good people on this list. Brian Baird, Keith Ellison, Earl Blumenauer, Lynn Woolsey, Jim McDermott, Donna Edwards, Maurice Hinchey. (My antiwar wannabe-progressive congressman, big John Hall, is nowhere to be found, of course.)
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Holocaust remembrance is a boon for Israeli propaganda ,Gideon Levy
Israel's bigwigs attacked at dawn on a wide front. The president in Germany, the prime minister with a giant entourage in Poland, the foreign minister in Hungary, his deputy in Slovakia, the culture minister in France, the information minister at the United Nations, and even the Likud party's Druze Knesset member, Ayoob Kara, in Italy. They were all out there to make florid speeches about the Holocaust. Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and an Israeli public relations drive like this hasn't been seen for ages. The timing of the unusual effort - never have so many ministers deployed across the globe - is not coincidental: When the world is talking Goldstone, we talk Holocaust, as if out to blur the impression. When the world talks occupation, we'll talk Iran as if we wanted them to forget.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
It's Not a New Turkey, It's The Right Time, Ramzy Baroud
Uri Avnery’s assessment of the recent Israeli-Turkish diplomatic and political row - that “the relationship between Turkey and Israel will probably return to normal, if not to its former degree of warmth” – seems sensible and daring. In my view, however, it is also inaccurate. Simply put, there is just no going back. In a recent article entitled “Israel Must Get Used to the New Turkey,” Suat Kiniklioðlu, Deputy Chairman of External Affairs for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) wrote, “Israel appears to be yearning for the golden 1990s, which were the product of a very specific situation in the region. Those days are over and are unlikely to come back even if the Justice and Development Party (AKP) ends up no longer being in government.”
http://palestinechronicle.com/
Norman Finklestein on Cross Talk on Holocaust: Murder Revenues
Sixty-five years ago, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops. Peter Lavelle asks his guests what the legacy of the Holocaust is today. Is its memory being abused? Does Israel use Holocaust as a blackmail weapon? Norman Finkelstein and Israel W. Charny discuss the issue in a heated debate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Iraq
Wednesday: 4 Iraqis, 1 Iranian Killed; 8 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Wounded
As the Arbaeen holiday approaches, an increase in pilgrims visiting holy sites could put them at greater risk. The first confirmed attack against Shi'ite pilgrims, who were visiting from Iran, occurred today in the capital. At least four Iraqis were killed and eight more were wounded. Also, one Iranian woman was killed and five more were wounded. A U.S. soldier was also wounded in an attack.
http://original.antiwar.com/
Staff at Baghdad hotel strike over security (AFP)
AFP - Staff at the Rasheed, Baghdad's biggest hotel and host to politicians, diplomats and foreign businessmen, have gone on strike demanding a "risk bonus" as compensation for the dangers they face.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Iraqi Crisis Report: Few Clues to Grisly NGO Killings
It was a quiet afternoon at the Mawtini Organisation when the killers arrived. Seven men in long, black coats entered the offices of the NGO, which provides aid for widows and orphans, pulling out handguns and swiftly screwing on silencers as they walked. Within minutes, four people had been murdered, including a receptionist shielding her child and a retired civil servant who was there visiting his wife. The intruders planted a bomb near the building that exploded when police arrived, injuring two members of the security forces. The shootings at Mawtini on January 18 were an unusually brazen and brutal attack on an Iraqi NGO, which are rarely targeted even in turbulent Baghdad.
http://www.iwpr.net/EN-icr-f-
U.S. and Other World News
Howard Zinn (1922 - 2010): A Tribute to the Legendary Historian with Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein and Anthony Arnove
We pay tribute to the late historian, writer and activist Howard Zinn who died suddenly on Wednesday of a heart attack at the age of 87. Howard Zinn’s classic work A People’s History of the United States changed the way we look at history in America. It has sold over a million copies and was recently made into a television special called “The People Speak.” We remember Howard Zinn in his won words and we speak with those who knew him best: Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein and Anthony Arnove.
http://www.democracynow.org/
How the Great Howard Zinn Made All Our Lives Better
Howard Zinn was above all a gentleman of unflagging grace, humility and compassion. No American historian has left a more lasting positive legacy on our understanding of the true nature of our country, mainly because his books reflect a soul possessed of limitless depth. Howard’s PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES will not be surpassed. As time goes on new chapters will be written in its spirit to extend its reach. But his timeless masterpiece broke astonishing new ground both in its point of view and its comprehensive nature. The very idea of presenting the American story from the point of view of the common citizen was itself revolutionary. That he pulled it off with such apparent ease and readability borders on the miraculous. That at least a million Americans have bought and read it means that its on-going influence is immense. It is truly a history book that has and will continue to change history for the better.
http://palestinechronicle.com/
U.S. deeply involved in secret Yemeni strikes
U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan tops $1 trillion
The cost to U.S. taxpayers of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 has topped $1 trillion, and President Barack Obama is expected to request another $33 billion to fund more U.S. troops this year.
http://www.reuters.com/
NGOs slam “militarised aid” in Afghanistan
In a joint report eight NGOs, including Oxfam and Care, claim militarised aid usually takes only a short-term approach. They argue that the military should concentrate on improving security, leaving reconstruction to local authorities and aid organisations.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/
Afghan warlord, accused of atrocities, is reinstated by Karzai
He is among Afghanistan's most notorious warlords, accused of widespread abuses including the massacre of thousands of Taliban prisoners. Now he's back, reinstated by President Hamid Karzai in a top army post despite Western demands for sweeping reform..More on: Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum
http://www.google.com/hostedne
Australian soldier sentenced to hang in Afghanistan
A former Australian soldier has been sentenced to death in Afghanistan for shooting dead an Afghan colleague then trying to blame the killling on the Taliban, Times Online reported.
http://en.trend.az/regions/
Iran executes two over poll unrest
Iran has hanged two men over widespread protests that followed the country's disputed presidential election in June last year, an Iranian news agency has said. The pair were convicted of being "Mohahareb" or enemies of God, and members of an outlawed pro-monarchist group called the People's Mujahideen. "Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmani Pour whose cases were confirmed by a Tehran appeals court were hanged on Thursday morning," the ISNA news agency said. They were also charged with plotting to topple the Iranian government, ISNA said quoting officials. The executions were the first carried out for election-related incidents.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez announced on Monday, January 25, that the Venezuelan government will forgive any Venezuelan debts held by Haiti.
http://embavenez-us.org/news.
Less than 1 cent of US quake aid dollar goes in cash to Haitian government
Graphic shows breakdown of U.S. aid to Haiti.
http://www.courant.com/news/
www.TheHeadlines.org
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