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UN Investigator: Israel Engaged in Ethnic Cleansing
Israel's expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem and eviction of Palestinians from their homes there is a form of ethnic cleansing, a United Nations investigator said on Monday. United States academic Richard Falk was speaking to the UN Human Rights Council as it prepared to pass resolutions condemning settlement building in the West Bank and East.. More -
A Daa'iyah, Except in One's Own Family - II
Dear caregivers and Daa‘iyahs (callers to Islam) – male and female, Your role is no less important than that of the other. Together you bring up your child with a good upbringing -- you and not anyone else. First: The role of the father when he is a Daa‘iyah: Dear father, your role is extremely important. You are the head of the.. More -
A Daa'iyah, Except in One's Own Family - I
This is how he is and it is clear to everyone. From the rise of dawn to the fall of night, the Daa'iyah (caller to Islam) is out of his home, ardently fervent for his religion. He is eager to do anything to serve the religion of Allah The Almighty. He wishes he could change the world. This is his main concern. That is also the main concern of our.. More -
Yemen: 'Chaos by Design'
The political and economic problems facing Yemen: Yemen is probably the hardest [state in the region] in terms of economic challenges and development challenges. The people of Yemen are the poorest in the region. The state in Yemen is by far the weakest, compared to Libya in the sense of [the] absence of a real state, real institutions. I think that.. More -
What would spark the next Fukushima?
The gung-ho nuclear industry is in deep shock. Just as it and its cheerleader, the International Atomic Energy Agency, were preparing to mark next month's 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident with a series of self-congratulatory statements about the dawning of a safe age of clean atomic power, a series of catastrophic but entirely avoidable.. More -
Israeli military not able to crush West Bank uprising
Top commanders in the Israeli military are 'warning' that the military is completely incapable of crushing an Egypt-style popular uprising in the West Bank, assuming one actually begins. “There is nothing for it,” one of the commanders noted, and while the Israeli military apparently developed a major program last year to plan a response.. More -
Failing in Afghanistan successfully
While we have been fixated on successive Arab breakthroughs and victories against tyranny and extremism, Washington is failing miserably but discreetly in Afghanistan. The American media's one-obsession-at-a-time coverage of global affairs might have put the spotlight on President Obama's slow and poor reaction to the breathtaking developments starting.. More -
The Cost of US Terrorism in Afghanistan: Incalculable
Recent polls suggest that while a majority of U.S. people disapprove of the war in Afghanistan, many on grounds of its horrible economic cost, only 3% took the war into account when voting in the 2010 midterm elections.The issue of the economy weighed heavily on voters, but the war and its cost, though clear to them and clearly related to the economy.. More -
The battle for Brega
In the distance and high above, a Libyan air force jet circled over the town of Brega, a key oil port in eastern Libya around 330km from Sirte, one of Muammar Gaddafi’s last remaining strongholds. As scores of revolution fighters armed with AK-47 assault rifles, shotguns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers watched from their staging point.. More -
The story of Prophet Sulaymaan- II
The queen of Sheba, upon receiving the letter from Sulaymaan, may Allah exalt his mention, was very disturbed and hurriedly summoned her advisors. They reacted as to a challenge, for they felt that there was someone challenging them, hinting at war and defeat, and asking them to submit to his conditions. They told her that they could only offer advice,.. More -
Settlers rampage in W. Bank, damage Palestinian property
Israeli settlers damaged houses and cars in two Palestinian villages on Tuesday, witnesses said, after Israel's demolition of homes in an unauthorized settler outpost. Villagers in Hiwwara in the occupied West Bank said settlers threw petrol bombs into a house, broke the windows of another, and burned several cars in the overnight rampage before moving.. More -
Sins of the father, sins of the son
The sheer brutality of the Libyan suppression of anti-government protests has exposed the fallacy of the post-colonial Arab dictatorships, which have relied on revolutionary slogans as their source of legitimacy. Ever since his ascension to power, through a military coup, in 1969, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has used every piece of revolutionary rhetoric.. More -
'Gaddafi committing genocide'
The Libyan deputy ambassador to the United Nations has called on the country's ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, to step down and face trial over war crimes and genocide. "He has to leave as soon as possible. He has to stop killing the Libyan people," Ibrahim Dabbashi told CNN on Monday. "The Libyan people have been patient enough for the last.. More -
Egypt's forgotten children
One of the untold stories of Egypt's popular revolution is the plight of homeless children caught up in the unrest. As the country adjusted to a new political reality during the protests, Cairo’s estimated 50,000 street children also found that the rules of the game had changed. The drop-in centers that they rely on for food, clean water and.. More -
Gadhafi tries to crush Libyan protests with brute force
Of all the revolutions and attempted revolutions sweeping the Middle East, the one in Libya is the murkiest. It's taking place in a police state, ruled by one man since 1969, where the handful of foreign journalists are barred from leaving the capital, outgoing international phone service is shut off and, as of early Saturday, the Internet was shut.. More
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