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Gaza Attacked by Israeli Warplanes; Groups Deny Ceasefire

Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Pro-Palestinian marchers line up outside the McNamara Federal Building in downtown Detroit for a march to Central United Methodist Church. Thousands took to the streets to oppose the siege of Gaza. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos Monday, November 23, 2009 12:02 Mecca time, 09:02 GMT Gaza groups deny rocket ceasefire Hamas had announced the ceasefire on Saturday, hours after...

• Gaza groups deny rocket ceasefire - Muslims Against Sharia

Rockets to continue from Gaza...

GayandRight (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Surprise, surprise...some Palestinian factions just can't stop... Despite Hamas's announcement that Palestinian groups have agreed to halt the attacks on Israel, three factions in the Gaza Strip said they were not aware of any agreement in this regard. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine strongly denied that its members were part of a cease-fire agreement. The group's armed wing, the...

Gaza factions deny deal with Hamas to stop rockets

People Daily (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009

Several Palestinian factions Sunday denied reaching a deal with Islamic Hamas movement to suspend rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip. "There is no unanimous decision to stop the resistance," said Kayed al-Ghoul, a senior leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), told Xinhua. Hamas, which controls Gaza, "proposed the halting of the rockets, but we,...

Spitting blood

EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

This is the the Daily Mail's "take" on the continuing fall-out from the Tory non-policy on "Europe". It has a lot of the faithful "spitting blood" at Cameron's refusal to offer a referendum, threatening to vote UKIP. I'll do a proper review of this and other coverage later today. Yesterday, apart from a very successful defence debate in Jersey, I spent some time sitting...

Q&A: 'This Calm Will Not Last'

Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Jon Elmer interviews Palestinian icon LEILA KHALED "AMMAN, Nov 4 (IPS) - Leila Khaled became an instant icon of the Palestinian struggle in 1969, when at 24 she was an operative in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacking of a Boeing 707, the first in a series of high-profile actions intended to put the Palestinians on the political map..... IPS: I wonder if we can talk a bit...

PFLP: Shut down the war criminals wherever they go!

Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009

Protests have recently greeted the leaders and representatives of the occupation state wherever they have traveled - in October 2009 in the United States, former occupation prime minister and war criminal Ehud Olmert has been chased from city to city, shouted down in every venue and exposed for his war crimes. Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon was protested and his speech interrupted at the London...

What does China's ascendance mean for Palestine?

Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009

Monday, October 26, 2009 : George Habash, the late leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), called China Palestine's "best friend." Indeed, he was on an official PFLP visit to China when the conflict between Palestinian forces and the Hashemite Kingdom erupted in Jordan in 1970, the events later known as "Black September."

Israel extends solitary detention of Palestinian faction leader

People Daily (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

An Israeli military court on Thursday ruled to keep a Palestinian faction leader in solitary confinement for another six months, Palestinian sources said. Ahmed Sa'dat, the secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), has been held in solitary confinement for more than a year, the PFLP said in a statement today. The sources said the court, held at Ofar prison near...

Ban Ki-moon: Hizbullah poses threat to stability

Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that the presence of armed Hizbullah and Palestinian terrorists in Lebanon is contributing to tensions and insecurity and could eventually lead to a resumption of hostilities. In his six-month report to the UN Security Council on Lebanon, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, the UN chief focused on implementation of a 2004 resolution that calls for the...

Unpacking PACBI

Solomonia (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009

The first group that tops the list of "Unions, Associations, Campaigns" supporting the PACBI boycott call is the Council of National and Islamic Forces in Palestine, a coalition that includes Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and some of the more violent sub-sets of Fatah. Call me crazy, but I suspect that it's much easier for this Council to get the Palestinian Dentist's...

Palestine 'Right of Return' Still Key Demand After 61 Years in Lebanon

Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009

George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), with his wife Hilda. Habash represented the left wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos WW interviews PFLP leaders ‘Right of return ’ still key demand after 61 years in Lebanon By Joyce Chediac Published Oct 16, 2009 11:24 PM When cameras...

Hamas gaining popularity?

Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009

Ma'an reports on a JMCC poll that shows contradictory results from the last one I looked at from AWRAD. According to this poll, Mahmoud Abbas' popularity has gone down a lot as a result of his Goldstone fiasco; Haniyeh's held steady: The survey released on Sunday by the Jerusalem Media and Communications Centre (JMCC) indicates that if an election were held today, Abbas would receive just 16.8 percent...

Iran to pursue Palestine issue internationally: Speaker

People Daily (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009

Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Tehran will pursue the issues of Palestine, al-Aqsa Mosque and Palestinian refugees and prisoners (in Israel) in the international arena, the official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday. Larinaji made these remarks in a meeting with the visiting delegation of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Tehran on Wednesday, the report said. "We...

The PA Betrayed Its Own People

FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009

[ 07/10/2009 - 07:42 PM ] Courtesy Of The Palestine Information Center GAZA, (PIC)-- Richard Falk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that that the Palestinian authority (PA) in Ramallah betrayed its own people at a moment when the international community was so close to endorse Goldstone’s report accusing Israel of war crimes in the Gaza Strip. "The Palestinians have betrayed...

Who was really behind Lockerbie?

The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009

[This is the heading over an article in the Harvard Law Record , the newspaper of the Harvard Law School, by Kate Spencer, a Scot following the LLM programme there. It reads in part:] Decades later, this question - and now, the question of why al-Megrahi was really released - remain Twenty-one years later after the bombing with which it began, the Lockerbie saga just won’t go away. The most recent...