West Bank and Gaza: Medium-term Development Strategy for the Health Sector (World Bank Country Study)
FRESH MEAT (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Abbas Won't Seek Re-Election in Threat to Peace Efforts - TIME "It's time for you to find another donkey." With those words, according to Palestinian sources, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas told the Palestine Liberation Organziation (PLO) executive committee that he would not seek re-election in January. The 74-year-old leader, on whom U.S. peace efforts in the Middle...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Gino Gordon ran for two touchdowns and Collie Winters passed for another as Harvard remained unbeaten in the Ivy League with a 34-14 against Columbia yesterday in New York. ...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Tony Karon in The National on the dawning realisation by the US-backed Palestinian Authority: The sad truth dawning on Ramallah, now, is that there will be no salvation from Washington. Not now, possibly not ever. A sad truth, perhaps, but the kind that can set free those who recognise it. In the shocked aftermath of the [...]
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A mother and father. A tiny baby born in the humblest of circumstances. An influence that reaches beyond the ages with power...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Dominic Randolph threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Freddie Santana with 1:03 remaining to seal Holy Cross' 24-20 comeback win over Lehigh on Saturday.
The Truth Will Set You Free (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Palestinian Victims? Monday, April 22, 2002 By: Robert Tracinski From the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights When a whole society lionizes terrorists and accepts them as its leaders--what right do they have to complain when their wish for blood and death is granted? As Israel pulls out of the West Bank--a foolish move that will only allow Palestinian terrorists to regroup--the media is being...
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nidal Hasan, the accused murderer of thirteen at Fort Hood, served as an adviser on homeland security policy. See video below. Nidal Hasan on morning of shootings WorldNetDaily links to a document published by the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University. Hasan's name appears on page 29 of a report titled "Thinking Anew - Security Priorities for the Next Administration...Presidential...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
"On Friday, modest groups of Fatah members and others marched in Ramallah and elsewhere in the West Bank to voice support for continued leadership by Abbas. Local Palestinian media continued running news headlines about various organizations or politicians discouraging him from retirement." I in fact watched footage of some of the "demonstrations" on Arab TV stations. They were...
The Lead (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mourners gathered in prayer last night at Fort Hood to pray, grieve and remember. Chaplains have been on duty around the clock since a gunman opened fire into a crowd of soldiers and civilian Army personnel around 1:30 p.m. CST Thursday.
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Baum: New technologies are allowing Israel to maintain control over its occupation remotely You Have to See This Video; it is Excellent! More at The Real News "This week, the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erakat, announced that because Israeli settlements continue to grow (with de facto US support) and annex the land planned for a future Palestine, the Palestinians may have to abandon hopes...
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rafiq Ismail is Nidal Malik Hasan's uncle. Ismail spoke to Fox News reporter Reena Ninan in Ramallah from the West Bank, Palestine. See that video below. Nidal Malik Hasan is the accused Fort Hood shooter. First reporting on Nidal Malik Hasan said that his parents immigrated to the U.S. from Jordan. Now we know that this Uncle lives in Palestine. His parentage being Jordanian still makes sense because...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mahmoud Abbas, the beleaguered head of the Palestinian Authority, has finally but belatedly admitted that the so-called Peace process with Israel has completely failed and that the Palestinian people will have to seek an alternative to it. In a speech in Ramallah Thursday evening, Abbas rightly blamed Israel for the collapse of the political process, saying that the PA had carried out "all our...
Military Times - News (Free subscription) | yesterday
FORT HOOD, Texas — An Army psychiatrist who authorities say went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader was deeply troubled by it, the leader said Saturday.Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, said he was disturbed by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s...
Poetry Where You Live (Free subscription) | yesterday
Waiting, with wonder how they must have been even in the struggles the journey they were on going to the home, to Bethlehem town wondering what God had planned for them Waiting, with wonder so we are now at the birth of the holy child the life he would live so that live he may give for each one of us living and dead Alive in the Lord, at the end of this coil when our days here on earth are done going...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here’s a peek of things that may be to come, courtesy of Dallas. The A-train commuter railway is more than a year away from rolling into Lewisville, but plans are already in the works for the city’s first transit-oriented development. Hebron 121 Station will be part of a 427-acre city reinvestment zone on the northeast corner of [...]
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