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Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail

by RAINman on 01. Sep, 2010 in Opinion

Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 30 August 2010
As US officials arrived in Jerusalem last week to meet with Palestinian Authority and Israeli government officials, Nora Barrows-Friedman interviewed Ramallah-based lawyer and former PLO advisor Diana Buttu about this week’s US-brokered direct talks between the two parties for The Electronic Intifada.
Nora Barrows-Friedman: What are the [...]

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“Like living in a big factory” in Gaza

by RAINman on 25. Aug, 2010 in Opinion

Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 24 August 2010
“Uff, uff, uff, you can never get time to rest or sleep quietly and you can’t even work. Wherever you are, you hear sound of power generators which makes it seem we are all living in a big factory,” Ahmad al-Bar explained, expressing the frustration of many Palestinians in [...]

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Why do they fear our cemeteries?

by RAINman on 19. Aug, 2010 in Opinion

by Bouthaina Shaaban
Media Monitors Network – Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Bouthaina Shaaban is Political and Media Advisor at the Syrian Presidency, and former Minister of Expatriates. She is also a writer and professor at Damascus University since 1985. She’s got Ph.D. in English Literature from Warwick University, London.
After the whole village of al-Araqeeb was razed to [...]

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Turkey must oppose Uribe appointment to flotilla probe

by RAINman on 19. Aug, 2010 in Opinion

Open letter, various undersigned, 18 August 2010
The following open letter to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister of Turkey, was issued by various Palestinian organizations on 17 August 2010:
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
We are writing to you from under a brutal, hermetic siege now entering its fourth year to express our outrage against the nomination of the notorious [...]

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Gaza’s record-breaking children

by RAINman on 17. Aug, 2010 in Opinion

Vittorio Arrigoni writing from occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine
Electronic Intifada – 16 August 2010
Gaza’s kids truly are record-breakers. They survived Israel’s 2008-09 winter invasion and every day they put up with a state of war during a so-called ceasefire. Smeared in blood, they’ve crawled through the rubble of shelled buildings, taking care of [...]

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Saving Women and Preventing Genocide: The Real Reasons We’re in Afghanistan Now

by RAINman on 12. Aug, 2010 in Opinion

By Bretigne Shaffer
Information Clearing House – August 11, 2010
“LewRockwell” – So now the cheerleaders for war would have us believe that they are more concerned for the welfare of Afghan civilians than are those who wish to end the US occupation.
First we have White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sanctimoniously imploring the editors of [...]

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Calling Gaza a prison camp is an understatement

by RAINman on 10. Aug, 2010 in Opinion

There may be some semblance of civil life and stability in Gaza, but it is our freedoms that are under siege
Laila El-Haddad
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 August 2010
It’s three years since I’ve been back to Gaza. Much has happened since my last visit. Fatah waged a failed coup and now rules only the West Bank, while Hamas is in [...]

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ALLISTER SPARKS: A rabbi’s pain in choosing between truth and ethnic loyalty

by RAINman on 04. Aug, 2010 in Opinion

The avalanche of personal abuse hurled at me for suggesting that Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein owed Judge Richard Goldstein an apology now that Israel had officially confirmed several of his comission’s most serious findings about the Gaza War was no surprise.
BUSINESS DAY – 4 August 2010

The avalanche of personal abuse hurled at me for suggesting [...]

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When it comes to waterboarding, labels matter

by RAINman on 07. Jul, 2010 in Opinion

The press’s failure to call waterboarding torture impedes honest discussion of the darkest years of the Bush presidency
Dan Kennedy
guardian.co.uk –  6 July 2010
On 18 September 1945, barely a month after the Japanese surrender had brought second world war to a close, a sickening story appeared on page two of the New York Times. Headlined “Shanghai [...]

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For Netanyahu, to Freeze or Not to Freeze is the Question

by RAINman on 06. Jul, 2010 in Opinion

by Joharah Baker
Media Monitors Network – Tuesday, July 6, 2010
A follow-up to this article will certainly be written after September 25, the cutoff date for the end of the Israeli government’s so-called moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank. For now, however, the question is whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will heed to [...]

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Castro: Finding out the truth in time

by RAINman on 30. Jun, 2010 in Opinion

(Taken from CubaDebate)
By Fidel Castro
Information Clearing House – June 29, 2010

“Granma” — When I was writing one of my previous reflections, as a disaster for humanity was rapidly approaching, my greatest concern was to fulfill the elemental duty of informing our people.
Today I feel calmer than 26 days ago. As things continue happening in the [...]

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National unity remains elusive under occupation

by RAINman on 24. Jun, 2010 in Opinion

Rami Almeghari writing from occupied Gaza Strip
Electronic Intifada – 24 June 2010
During his recent visit to the Gaza Strip, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mousa received from Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas a memorandum putting forward Hamas’ terms for signing an Egyptian-brokered reconciliation deal with its rival US-backed Fatah.
Dr. Ahmad Yousef, [...]

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