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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Who attacked the mosque in Gaza City in which 21 people allegedly died during Israel's counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead last winter in Gaza? The question was one of many debated Thursday night by retired South African Judge Richard Goldstone and former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold at a special event hosted by Brandeis University and broadcast live over the internet. It was...
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Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Baird explains his Mideast position on Al Jazeera TV Saturday, November 7 | 7:00 p.m. BY KATHIE DURBIN COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER Rep. Brian Baird D-Vancouver U.S. Rep. Brian Baird appeared on the Al Jazeera television network last week to discuss his House vote in support of a United Nations report that concluded Israel violated international human rights conventions in its bombing of Palestinian Gaza...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is still hard for Nada Joma'a, a 14-year-old girl from the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City, to forget the time when an Israeli missile destroyed her house, killed her mother and cut her leg during the 22-day Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip that ended on Jan. 18. "It's the hardest memories I have ever had in my life. I can't forget the scene when the missile hit our house,...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A senior Hamas official on Wednesday warned of "dangerous consequences" facing the Palestinians if President Mahmoud Abbas went ahead to stage elections without national agreement. "The elections should be held with national understanding for the sake of the Palestinian interest," Khalil al-Hayya said at a news conference in Gaza city. Abbas, who heads Fatah party, has decreed presidential...
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Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
If you’re a foreign aid worker with twenty bucks to blow in Gaza City -- something, by the way, few Gazans can do on account of their being totally immiserated by Hamas -- you can buy this commemorative Richard Goldstone...
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Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Gaza Strip, Gaza – South African Judge Richard Goldstone’s name may be infamous in Israel, but in the Gaza Strip it is sewn onto souvenir Palestinian headscarves in honour of his controversial war inquiry. Tariq Abu Dia, owner of the President Arafat souvenir shop in Gaza City, says Goldstone, who is Jewish, deserves the honour of [...]
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France24 (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
South African Judge Richard Goldstone's name may be infamous in Israel, but in the Gaza Strip it is sewn onto souvenir Palestinian headscarves in honour of his controversial war inquiry. Tariq Abu Dia, owner of the President Arafat souvenir shop in Gaza City, says Goldstone, who is Jewish, deserves the honour of appearing on the iconic Palestinian keffiyeh made famous by Yasser Arafat, for whom the...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Gaza City - The Islamist Hamas movement denied Wednesday that it has test-fired a long-range rocket capable of striking deep into Israel, saying the claim, made by the head of Israeli military intelligence, was propaganda. Such claims are untrue, ...
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Heavenly Worldliness (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
These are examples of recent prayer points regarding persecuted Christians in various places. In the wake of coordinated bombings at seven Iraqi churches over a three-day period in July, a senior Iraqi church leader has spoken of a feeling of “powerlessness and despair” amongst Christians and has warned of the possibility of a “new exodus of Christians from Iraq”. He said that...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A young man looks for his mother’s grave in a cemetery in Beit Lehia that was destroyed by tanks in January. Israel’s three-week-long attack has given rise to charges of war crimes on both sides. Photograph by Christian Als. What really happened during the Israeli attacks? by Lawrence Wright November 9, 2009 New Yorker In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip, there...
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GayandRight (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Well, it's nothing special when on terrorist talks to another... 1. On October 28 Fathi Hamad, interior minister of the de facto Hamas administration, gave a speech at a conference in Gaza City sponsored by the Association of Factions and [Trade] Unions. In his speech he described the close ties between Hamas’ interior ministry and the terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip (“the...
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( . . . ) (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Despite being written in semi-legalese, The Goldstone report [warning: 600-page PDF] never ceases to be an interesting read. I keep finding these dry little statements of fact that are either heartbreaking or pithy wordings that somehow encapsulate the breadth of the crimes committed. Here are a couple of the ones I found today. First off, the account of the shelling of the United Nations Relief and...
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Israel & Palestijnen Nieuws Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Volgens andere berichten eist Hamas wel degelijk een deel van de opbrengst op als belasting. Hoe dan ook, het is duidelijk dat de mensen in Gaza niet van de honger omkomen. RP -------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/world/middleeast/22rafah.html'_r=3&ref=middleeast The New York Times Rafah Journal Goods Flood Gaza's Tunnels, Turning Border Area Into a Shopping Mecca By TAGHREED EL-KHODARY...
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Soccer news (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
If everyday Palestine especially Gaza Citizen look a war, More than 5,000 fans from around Gaza crammed into the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City for what is an increasingly rare occasion these days: a game of Soccer. The "Gaza Dialogue and Tolerance Cup final" between Al Shate (a mixed team of Hamas and Fatah members that represents the 80,000 strong Al Shate refugee camp) played Al Salah...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Craig Nelson, Associate Editor Hamas yesterday declared that it would not allow elections in the Gaza Strip early next year, further ratcheting tensions between the Islamist movement and Fatah. The Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza City said last week’s decree by the president, Mahmoud Abbas, calling for parliamentary and presidential voting on January 24 was made “by someone who has...
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