Arab European League (AEL) interviews Dr. Ibrahim Alloush, Palestinian activist and professor of Economics in Jordan.
By Brahim Harchaoui
…Regarding the Iraqi resistance, we must keep in mind that it helped coax the Americans into a major strategic, military, economical, financial, and political quagmire (along with the Afghani resistance). Yet the Iraqi resistance is also has also suffered many a setback. One cause for this has been the siege the Iraqi resistance has been reeling under since its inception. Unlike o ther resistance movements in the region, the Iraqi resistance not only receives no serious support from abroad, but is virtually under siege. This siege is not only laid by the Americans and the enemies of our nation like the Zionist State and the Arab regimes, but also by some layers and groups who are considered as anti-American by some. These layers and groups pledge allegiance, without any question, to Iran and its cronies in Iraq. All these groups collaborated to demonize the Iraqi resistance. Still, this did not diminish the great potential of the resistance. Some of the greatest blows the Iraqi resistance suffered had to do with the discovery of some of its piles of weapons and funds. Thus the resistance is unable to continue as well as it once did without funds and weapons. Just think how much money the U.S. Government lost in this war. Then think how much local Iraqi resources had to expend to defeat the U.S. Government gloriously as it did. But do not get me wrong, th e resistance apparatus is still intact and ! the resi stance remains the strongest player in Iraq. Furthermore, the battle for the liberation of Iraq is still going on. And the Iraqi resistance continues to prepare for the final battle to cleanse the occupation….
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Palestinian Christians Exodus
By Khalid Amayreh, IOL Correspondent
Palestine, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, is losing many of its young Christians who, reeling under the yoke of the Israeli occupation and economic hardships, are seeking a better life abroad. “They can’t easily adapt to the hardships associated with the stressful situation stemming from the Israeli occupation,” Dr. Jamal Khadr, a priest at the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, told IslamOnline.net. In recent decades, thousands of Christians left the occu pied West Bank for a new life abroad, especially in North and South America, Australia, Scandinavia and even Africa…Dr. Khadr, also a professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Latin Seminary, says most of the emigrants are young Christians who are distressed by occupation and crises…
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America’s Imperial Wars: We Need to See the Horrors
Dave Lindorff
…We may read about wedding parties that are bombed by American forces–something that has happened with some frequency in both Iraq and Afghanistan– where the death toll is tallied in dozens, but we are, as a rule, not provided with photos that would likely show bodies torn apart by anti-personnel bombs–a favored weapon for such attacks on groups of supposed enemy “fighters.” (A giveaway that such weapons are being used is a typically high death count w ith only a few wounded.) Obviously one reason for this is that the US military no longer gives US journalists, including photo journalists, free reign on the battlefield. Those who travel with troops are under the control of those troops and generally aren’t allowed to photograph the scenes of devastation, and sites of such “mishaps” are generally ruled off limits until the evidence has been cleared away. But another reason is that the media themselves sanitize their pages and their broadcasts. It isn’t just American dead that we don’t get to see. It’s the civilian dead–at least if our guys do it…
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Don’t Ask Palestinians if They Recognize Israel
Hanna Kawas
…Do you want me to recognize the rape and dismemberment of my country Palestine? Do you want me to recognize the thief who stole my land and murdered my people? Do you want me to recognize a racist apartheid state that to this day does not allow me to go back home to live, nor be buried in my homeland where I was born? Do you want me to recognize a state with elastic borders that keeps committing injustices and war crimes on a daily basis?…Would we have asked the South African blacks to recognize Apartheid, before we took note of the legitimacy of their struggle? Would we have asked the French resistance to recognize the Vichy government and the Nazi regime before we acknowledged the credibility of their goals? No, and it is grossly unfair to tell Palestinians that they must recognize the state that is building an annexation wall on their land and massacring civilians in Gaza, before those same Palestinians will be allowed to have a say in their future….
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Ben-Gurion and Massacre of Deir Yassin
By Iqbal Jassat
The minutes of a meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive on 12 June 1938 records a chilling statement made by David Ben-Gurion: “I am for compulsory transfer; I do not see anything immoral in it”. Ben-Gurion, an ardent Zionist was a migrant from Poland where he was born in 1886. Since his arrival in Palestine as a 20-year old, Ben-Gurion was destined to be heralded as not only the founder of the State of Israel and its first prime minister, but also as the mastermind o f the ethnic cleansing of Palestine…
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Gaza needs more aid
Mel Frykberg
John Ging, head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza, has urged Israel to ease aid flow restrictions that are having a devastating effect on the 1.5 million inhabitants. Ging says the amount of aid being allowed into Gaza at present is “wholly and totally inadequate. It’s having a very devastating impact on the physical circumstances and also the mindset of people on the ground,” Ging told IPS. According to a report released last month by the UN Office for the Coordinati on of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on average 127 aid trucks a day are entering Gaza…
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Abbas phones Netanyahu with Passover wishes
Ma’an news
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas telephoned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday and offered him warm wishes on the Jewish holiday of Passover, according to reports in the Israeli media. The reports, some citing sources in the prime minister’s office, others citing a statement circulated by Netanyahu’s staff, indicated that Abbas’ call was meant to signal the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) willingness to deal with Netanyahu’s new right-wing government. The Isr aeli news agency Ynet quoted one source close to Netanyahu who said the conversation was “warm and friendly.”..
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