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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise with Israel but offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must end their divisions. Sounding conciliatory after raising the political ante against Abbas following his call for national elections last month, Mashaal said the Islamist group Hamas "stretches its hand" to Abbas' Fatah...
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report By Thalif Deen The report, which was favourably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, received overwhelming support Thursday in the 192-member General Assembly. The vote was 114 in favour and 18 against, with 44 abstentions. The 18 countries that voted against the resolution included the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany,...
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Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Hamas has condemned PLO representative to the U.N. Riyadh Mansour for depicting the resistance as harm to Israel by Palestinian elements, and has called for him to be prosecuted. Hamas government spokesman Taher Al-Nunu accused the Palestinian ... November 6, 2009, 2:47 pm
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Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In response to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud 'Abbas's announcement that his decision not to run for reelection in 2010 was not a gambit, Hamas expressed hope that this was indeed the case, and stated that Abbas's move ... November 6, 2009, 12:46 pm
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What Really happened (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it. The report, which was favorably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, received overwhelming support Thursday in the 192-member General Assembly. WRH permalink
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Shimshon 9 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Hamas authorities on Thursday asked several educational institutions in southern Gaza Strip to segregate males and females in compliance with Islamic norms.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
After the ill-judged scattershot "satire" of Borat (which hit far too many soft targets – ageing American feminists, for heaven's sake!) Sacha Baron Cohen raises his game somewhat with Brüno (2009, 18, Universal). Fired from his Eurotrash TV show Funkyzeit , the eponymous, gay Austrian fashionista goes west to become a "straight" star "like Tom Cruise". En...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Hamas took to hanging posters of Abbas throughout Gaza calling him a traitor and allowing people to throw their shoes at his image, a deep insult in the Arab world." (thanks Jean-Baptiste)
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Not a sheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
When the Israelis respond to many years of Hamas rockets hitting their country by hitting back in a measured way, the world's "human rights" organisations, the United Nations and of course much of the world's media (especially the BBC) voiced their horror at the "disproportionate" response and gave credence to Hamas's claims of "civilian" deaths. Oddly now that Saudi Arabia...
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Rene's Apple (Free subscription) | yesterday
The first rule of foreign policy, as in medicine, is "do no harm." This means that is you're Barack Obama and you're unschooled in diplomacy, as you are in all matters governmental, you should proceed cautiously. Instead, the Obama team has badly blundered in the Middle East, and is in fact doing harm there rather than good. As always, it must be kept in mind that this Administration has...
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Not a sheep (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Guardian report that "The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret in both the US and Britain, but according to previously unpublished documentation...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York Times Egypt extends borders opening before Gaza pilgrims Xinhua GAZA, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Egypt kept its borders open to allow travel of Gazans seeking pilgrimage in Mecca, officials said on Saturday. Early on Thursday, 800 Palestinians have managed to travel through Rafah border crossing, ... Stop seeking compromise with Israel: Hamas leader Reuters Israeli concern over Abbas move BBC News...
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eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Barry Rubin (Don’t forget to hop over to Prof. Barry Rubin’s blog to subscribe to his updates) Now that the UN General Assembly has endorsed the Goldstone Report–a collection of Hamas propoaganda without any independent investigation–the ball is in the court of the Obama Administration. The non-courageous abstention of Britain and France highlights that fact. [...]
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And, yes, I DO take it personally (Free subscription) | yesterday
once again, one of our foremost truth-tellers comes forward... Goldstone and Gaza By JIMMY CARTER Published: November 5, 2009 Judge Richard Goldstone and the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict have issued a report about Gaza that is strongly critical of both Israel and Hamas for their violations of human rights. On Wednesday, a special meeting of the U.N. General Assembly began...
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Nadia Marques de Carvalho | 26/09/2009
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell After 30 years of a harsh, totalitarian and dogmatic Islamic theocracy, the June 12 th elections in Iran have provided a platform for people, for the first time, to voice their opinion on not only the vacuum of democracy but also criticise how Islam is being used as a veneer for this abusive, austere and autocratic...
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Fascinating contention, Nadia! I very much enjoyed it! And I agree: false binary between moderates and extremists. On a different, more provocative...
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