Video: Scores dead after US strike in Afghanistan
AljaeeraEnglish
The Afghan president is in Washington DC for high level talks, but back in Afghanistan a deadly airstrike has once again killed scores of civilians. The local governor of a small community in Western Afghanistan claims that more than 100 civilians have been killed in a US led airstrike. The Red Cross confirmed the attack, saying its representatives have seen dozens of bodies. Al Jazeera has filmed exclusive pictures from Farah Province and Nick Clark report s from Kabul…
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Reports of abuse of Palestinians at hands of Israeli soldiers rise in Hebron’s Dura Village
Amin Abu Wardeh for PNN
Reports are flooding in about a rise in the persecution of young Palestinians at the hands of Israeli soldiers in southern Hebron’s Dura Village with the youngest being just six years old. The Israeli organization focusing on Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights, B’Tselem, has noted that in recent days an increase in the number of reports of attacks and harassment by Israeli soldiers against the yo uth of Dura is on the rise. Reports of stone throwing at Road 60 are also on the rise…
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Gaza is Israel’s Warsaw
Zionist Lobby Targets Another Tenured Professor
Doug Henwood
We’re now joined by William Robinson, who is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California in Santa Barbara, someone I met about six or seven years ago at a conference and, although I’ve disagreed with him on some issues, I though he’s a serious and thoughtful guy. I was very distressed to learn, reading Insider Higher Ed, the website, today that he’s being persecuted by the Zionist lobby for an e-mail that he sent a round to some of his students. Welcome William Robinson, tell us the story of what you sent and what’s been happening…
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Israeli activist to be jailed for caring
Ezra Nawi was ridiculed and arrested for trying to protect people’s homes. Only international attention can help him now
Neve Gordon
Without international intervention, Israeli human rights activist Ezra Nawi will most likely be sent to jail. Nawi is not a typical rights activist. A member of Ta’ayush Arab-Jewish Partnership he is a Jewish Israeli of Iraqi descent who speaks fluent Arabic. He is a gay man in his fifties and a plumber by trade. Perhaps because he himself comes from the margins, he empathises with others who have been marginalised – often violently. His “crime” was trying to stop a military bulldozer from destroying the homes of Palestinian Bedouins from Um El Hir in the South Hebron region…
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The Two-State Solution: the Pacifier Slogan
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan
The ‘two-state solution’ phrase was first coined in the 1947 UN General Assembly Resolution 181 to create two independent states in historical Palestine. Israel has been created and recognized within undefined borders and the phrase today implies whether and how to create the second state. The “two-state” solution has different meanings for the different parties involved in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For the Palestinians, it means a sovereign state in all the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem and the refugees right of return to their homes in Israel proper; for the Israelis, it means a slightly different version of the status quo in the occupied lands, a self-rule over disconnected enclaves or “Bantustans” that have the façade of a state with a president, ministers, legislative council, Judiciary, ambassadors and security forces that control the population and guarantee Israel’s security, but no control over Jerusalem, the borders, water resources, shore and airspace…
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