Activists from the U.S.-based group "Pastors for Peace" met on Friday with relatives of five Cubans imprisoned in the United States on espionage charges. | Mirta Rodriguez, mother of Antonio Guerrero, and Olga Salanueva, wife of Rene Gonzalez, attended the meeting aimed to help release the five Cubans arrested on charges of spying in Florida in 1998.
In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...
Critically analyzing the political ideology of Zionism, or criticizing Israel's policies toward the Palestinians, almost invariably leads to attacks from th...
In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...
Keywords: return theWidgetNone; | return theWidgetOne; | return theWidgetTwo; | function set_class(obj) | function get_class(obj) | function open_window(link) | The people of Bil'in were joined by several groups of internationals, including a group of rappers from Britain and the U.S. A large part of the demonstrators managed to approach the soldiers who had already entered the gate. | About 200 protestors;
In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...
Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. | South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Wednesday that he supports the Olympia Food Co-op's boycott of Israeli products.
In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...
Keywords: According to a report by a leading Israeli human rights organisation, BíTselem, Israeli illegal settlements take up 16% of the West Bank whilst 300,000 settlers occupy 121 settlements with about one hundred outposts which controls 42% of the West bank. Additionally 12 neighbourhoods have been put in place annexing it with the Jewish municipality.
The end of (military) history? | U.S. soldiers run to firing positions after coming under attack by Taliban insurgents in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 27. | This article originally appeared on TomDispatch. | "In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history."
In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...
An Israeli human rights group has claimed that Israeli army authorities recently revived a sweeping 40-year old military order prohibiting demonstrations against the Separation Barrier in the West Bank, and that measures have been taken to suppress immediate and future demonstrations against the Separation Barrier.
Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. | Five International Solidarity Movement volunteers participated in a demonstration against the bufferzone near Nahal Oz border crossing, east of Gaza City on Wednesday (July 28th).
Keywords: in even the most technical of matters. | Palestinian architects are often asked to draw inspiration from the grand Islamic architectural tradition and the local cultural heritage, said Palestinian architect Omar Yousef, with a hint of sarcasm.
Six weeks after the Freedom Flotilla ships were forcibly boarded in international waters, their passengers illegally jailed and the cargo impounded by the Israeli authorities, the office of the United Nations Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East (UNSCO) has promised to deliver the full humanitarian aid cargo to UN. agencies in Gaza.
Should Israel Pay for American Protester's Lost Eye? | Henochowicz, who was holding a Turkish and American flag and was not near the rock throwers, was hit in the eye. "The IDF maintains that the tear-gas canister bounced off a wall, and that they acted impeccablybut what wall? Where?" Henochowicz asks in this week's Village Voice cover story.
The Olympia Food Co-op's decision to honor the international call for boycott of Israeli goods has inspired an inundation of phone calls, e-mails, and petition signatures supporting the solidarity gesture, including an endorsement from South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. The Archbishop endorsed the boycott with the following statement:
Keywords: return theWidgetNone; | return theWidgetOne; | return theWidgetTwo; | function set_class(obj) | function get_class(obj) | function open_window(link) | TEL AVIV, July 28, 2010 (WAFA)
In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...
South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu issues statement of support for boycott announced by food co-op in Rachel Corrie's hometown of Olympia, Washington.
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Should Israel Pay for American Protester's Lost Eye? | Henochowicz, who was holding a Turkish and American flag and was not near the rock throwers, was hit in the eye. "The IDF maintains that the tear-gas canister bounced off a wall, and that they acted impeccablybut what wall? Where?" Henochowicz asks in this week's Village Voice cover story.