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Two ships leave Turkey carrying between 20 to 30 pro-Palestinian activists; IDF says plans to intercept vessels, offer them to dock at Ashdod or port in Egypt. By Anshel Pfeffer and Natasha Mozgovaya HAARETZ Wed, November 02, 2011 The Israeli Navy is tracking two ships, believed be part of a new flotilla [...]
Dr. Hanan Chehata The Middle East Monitor October 29, 2011 In an exclusive and extensive interview with the Middle East Monitor Prof. Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in theOccupiedPalestinianTerritories, talks about the on-going intransigence ofIsraeland its continued failure to abide by international law. In his frank interview Prof. Falk [...]
Our writer presses Assad’s key adviser on the violent battle for Syria’s future Independent Friday, 28 October 2011 Bouthaina Shaaban is one of only six Syrians onAmerica’s personal sanction list against the Assad regime. She is political adviser to the President. A middle-aged mother and author who speaks perfect English, as much at [...]
Ex-Ambassador reveals how links made by ‘advisers’ set alarm bells ringing By CRAIG MURRAY Daily Mail 15th October 2011 The real reason Liam Fox had to resign was not a grubby little money scandal about firms funding Adam Werritty as he jetted round the world with the Defence Secretary. It was much [...]
By ANTHONY SHADID and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK The New York Times Published: September 29, 2011 CAIRO— By force of this year’s Arab revolts and revolutions, activists marching under the banner of Islam are on the verge of a reckoning decades in the making: the prospect of achieving decisive power across the region has [...]
Richard Falk is Albert G Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Research Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has authored and edited numerous publications spanning a period of five decades. His most recent book is Achieving Human Rights (2009). If Israel really [...]
News Dissector Danny Schechter writes the newsdissector.com blog. Comments to dissector@mediachannel.org. Z Net Monday, September 19, 2011 ISTANBULTURKEY, September 19: Let me begin with shvitz, a Yiddish term I believe that refers to special baths. When the hotel I was staying at inIstanbuladvertised that guests were welcome to enjoy the Turkish [...]
by Simone Daud Mondoweiss on September 16, 2011 Azmi Bishara has emerged as the Arab world’s leading political analyst. A few years ago he anticipated thatTunisiawould be the first Arab dictatorship to face a democratic revolution. His nightly coverage of the Arab uprisings on al-Jazeera has not only been intelligent and accurate, it [...]
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