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Les Blough
Do you try to promote peace in your “little corner of the world”? Do you consider yourself to be an anti-war activist? If your answer to these questions is “yes”, you like many others, may be feeling discouraged during these dark times on earth.
Ramzy Baroud
It matters little whether the mastermind behind the killing of three Americans in Gaza on Wednesday, October 15, was a Palestinian group or Israeli intelligence. What?s of relevance, however is that the Palestinian people, their leadership, resistance and aspirations will wholly bear the brunt of the incident.
Aljazeera
The Israeli army has launched a further two missile strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip, killing at least eight Palestinians and wounding scores more. The latest attack, the day’s fifth, was aimed at an unknown target. The fourth - minutes earlier - struck a car in Nusayrat refugee camp, killing three. The vehicle took a direct hit from what witnesses said was a missile fired by an Apache helicopter, killing its two occupants.
Kareem M. Kamel
As the al-Aqsa Intifada in Palestine enters its fourth year, one cannot but note the epic sacrifices that the Palestinian people have made over a period of 36 months, during which they were subjected to mass murder, assassination, torture, arrest, detention, house demolitions, curfews, daily humiliation at check points and the brutal practices of an Israeli occupation that is both funded and supported by the world?s sole superpower.
Neil Clark
Critical to the neo-con plan to obtain control of the resources of the Middle East is a need to portray Arabs not just as mendacious, but also as “barely capable” of running their own countries without benign outside interference. The neo-con notion that Arabs need “civilising” and “assistance” in shaping their future differs very little from the attitudes of the first British imperialists in Africa more than a century ago.
Jihad UnSpun
The rape of Iraq - civilisation, history, economy, homeland and future is crowned now by a shameful record of sexual torture of 4000 reported cases of rape of Muslim women in traditional Arab dress. Peasant women in their black gelabas and in their forties and fifties are forced to perform fellatio on members of uniformed cowboys under the gun. Group rapes and military orgies became the order of the day. Women are pulled out of their homes by the hair across the desert sands to host the liberating troops between their legs. Keep cheering victory!
Zuheir Kseibati
When Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatens Syria and warns it against opening its harbours and airports to Iran, which it claims could wage an attack against Israel, he is really saying that there are high chances he will repeat the attack he had made against the Iraqi nuclear reactor, this time against Iran, hence leading Tehran to retaliate. When U.S. President George Bush repeats his criticism of the UN, and hints at its impotence, as he did on the eve of the war against Iraq, this suggests that another war is on the way.
Musil Shihadeh
In seeking to solve disputes using arbitration of a third party, one has to be sure that such a third party is utterly neutral to the disputants, and that the arbitrator would genuinely employ justice, fairness and international legality in reaching the proper judgment on these issues. Can anyone nominate the USA as an honest arbitrator in helping to solve the Palestinian-Israeli problem?
Turkey May Decline to Send Troops
Amid rising casualties in Iraq, last week’s UN Security Council resolution was seen by the USA government as legitemation of its calls for more international troops to be sent to its aid. Turkey announced last week that it would be the first state with a Muslim population to do so. However, investigators into last week’s attack on the Turkish embassy in Baghdad suggest that the bombing may have been the work of Kurdish separatists, and now the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Erdogan, has hinted that he may not send troops there after all.
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