Posts Tagged israel
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
June 7th 2010
(CNN) — Longtime White House reporter Helen Thomas has retired effective immediately, Hearst Corporation said Monday.
The media conglomerate had employed Thomas as a syndicated columnist for its newspaper chain. Her retirement comes amid a furor created last week by her controversial comments regarding Jewish people.
Thomas, 89, was considered the dean of the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country’s siege on Gaza.
Up to 16 people were killed and more than 30 people injured when troops stormed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday, the Israeli Army Radio said.
The flotilla was attacked in international waters, 65km off the Gaza coast.
Footage from the flotilla’s [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
March 24, 2010
If a British would have said this about Israelis, it would have been an uproar and huge wave of protests accusing the British diplomat of being an anti-Semitic racist nazi but if a Jew says it, no one cares, it’s ok. Not to mention that the British diplomat would also be forced to [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
02/16/2010
Syracuse.com- Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Dubai police appealed for an international manhunt today after releasing names and photos of an alleged 11-member European hit squad accused of stalking and killing a Hamas commander last month in a plot that mixed cold precision with spy caper disguises such as fake beards and wigs.
The case - [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
SudanVision- The tragedy of Arab suffering that goes on in Southern Sudan has yet another act to be added. It seems as though this bleeding Arab country stands no chance of relieving those sufferings due to the separatist trends which had waged disturbances in that region for decades.
In addition to that disturbances started to spread [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
October 16, 2009
PressTv- The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted a resolution, endorsing the Goldstone report on the Gaza war, despite efforts by Israeli leaders to block the motion.
On Friday, 25 member-states of the council voted for the resolution, six voted against and 11 abstained. The “draft resolution … is therefore adopted,” UNHRC President [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Israel has reportedly received an assurance by US President Barack Obama that it would not be pressured into accounting for its alleged nuclear arsenal or signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
In a meeting with, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu obtained President Obama’s guarantee that the White House would continue a 4-decade-old secret deal to allow [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
‘Iran plays by IAEA rules, West fails to score points’
Update October 1st, 2009: IAEA thanks Iran over notification. See bottom.
The head of Iran’s nuclear program says the US and its allies labeled Tehran’s newly-announced under-construction nuclear plant secretive while the themselves admit they knew about the plan.
“The Americans say that they knew of the new [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — A United Nations report issued Tuesday says both Israel and the Palestinians committed actions amounting to war crimes during Israel’s military incursion into Gaza from December 27 to January 18.
Although the U.N. investigation found that Palestinian militants also committed war crimes, the overwhelming majority of the criticism in a summary of [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
August 31st, 2009
NewsRescue- The president of the African Union (AU), Muammar Gaddafi in a summit meeting Monday, declared Israel responsible for all the woes facing Africa, and called on member-states to cut diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv.
Israel is “behind all of Africa’s conflicts,”
Muammar Gaddafi said on Monday and demanded the closure of all Israeli embassies [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
August 18th, 2009
BY MORTEN BERTHELSEN
Haaretz.com
A leading Swedish newspaper reported this week that Israeli soldiers are abducting Palestinians in order to steal their organs, a claim that prompted furious condemnation and accusations of anti-Semitic blood libel from a rival publication.
“They plunder the organs of our sons,” read the headline in Sweden’s largest daily newspaper, the left-leaning [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Updated July 6th 2009
Reportedly released
Monday July 6th- Reports just in, that former US lawmaker, Cynthia McKinney was released from Israeli custody and taken to Ben Gurion International Airport on Monday.
June 30th 2009- The Green party presidential candidate in the last United States election, Mrs Cynthia McKinney has been kidnapped by Israeli defense forces along [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
June 23 2009 PakAlert:
A tribal leader who earlier defected from Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud and revealed the militants group’s ties with the US and Israel has been shot dead.
The assassination of Qari Zainuddin comes days after he revealed that their comrade was pursuing a US-Israeli agenda across the violence-wracked country.
Zainuddin, a 26-year-old rising tribesman [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
GAZA CITY (AFP) – Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter on Tuesday met Hamas leader Ismail Haniya in the Gaza Strip, where he called for a lifting of Israel’s merciless blockade, saying Palestinians are being treated “like animals.”
Following the talks, Carter called for an end of “all violence” against the Palestinians.
“This is holy land for [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
To President Obama
NewsRescue recently published an article on the Pope’s recent comments, calling the European Hitler’s Holocaust of European Jews, an unprecedented event in history.
Click to see article
Our editorial team, discussed how such a statement by the Pope of the world was either- intentionally markedly mis-informative, markedly dishonest or markedly ignorant. Everyone interested in the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Barack Obama has repeated his call for Israel to stop settlement construction after holding talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president.
Declaring that Washington was a “stalwart ally” of Israel, the US president nonetheless said that “stopping settlements” was part of Israel’s responsibility under the 2003 “road map” peace plan.
He also reiterated his commitment to a [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
In a small anonymous home in the West Bank, a Palestinian academic has set up a project which is almost unheard of in the Occupied Territories.
Hassan Musa is the curator of a museum exhibition dedicated to the Jewish Holocaust in Europe.
The cracked white walls of this makeshift museum in the village of Ni’lin are covered [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
A United Nations inquiry into the war in Gaza has found that Israel was to blame for at least seven direct attacks on UN operations - including schools and medical centres.
The UN report, commissioned by Ban Ki-Moon, the UN secretary-general, said the Israeli military intentionally fired at UN facilities and civilians hiding in them during [...]
