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The Wall of Shame

It is common knowledge that the Palestinians have long been direct victims of the directionless, spineless and hypocritical polices of the Arab leadership. It is equally common knowledge that the...

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Obama's Budget Ducks Pentagon Cuts

The results of the special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy reverberated like a “shot heard ’round the world” — or at least one heard...

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The Divisive Role of the 'Resistance Bloc'

It seems the world has been moving aimlessly in endless eddies. This was evident at the ‘Arab International Forum for the Support of the Resistance’ held in Beirut in mid-January....

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The Holocaust Backfires

Ynet reports: Peres in Berlin, Netanyahu in Auschwitz, Lieberman in Budapest and Edelstein at the UN headquarters in New York all plan to attack the Goldstone report into the Gaza...

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Pentagon Time: Tick…Tick…Tick…

Back in 2007, when General David Petraeus was the surge commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, he had a penchant for clock imagery. In an interview in April of that...

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Something About Yemen

“The instability in Yemen is a threat to regional stability and even global stability” — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Yemen is a regional and global threat” —British Prime...

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Gaza school children traumatized and hungry PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 05:22
Nearly half a million children in Gaza returned to overcrowded and dilapidated schools on 1 February, many attending in a shift system, with missing textbooks, stationery or uniforms.
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Gaza's untold story PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mamoon Alabbasi   
Monday, 28 December 2009 00:03

One year on since Israel's criminally-insane war on Gaza, many are still unaware of the roots of the 'conflict' and the plight of the Palestinian people. Israel would like to have us believe that its latest onslaught was a direct response to resistance rockets or even Hamas's democratic accession to power, forgetting that both of which came into existence as a response to Israeli policies.

Last Updated on Monday, 28 December 2009 23:21
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Israeli-besieged Gaza's Christians look to tunnels for Christmas gifts PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 05:46
GAZA CITY - This year Santa had to ditch his sleigh in Egypt and crawl through a smuggling tunnel to bring a little Christmas joy to the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip.
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Egypt sexual harassment hits "savage" levels PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 02:45
Egypt's deputy parliament speaker said women needed a law to protect them from sexual harassment which had reached "savage" levels in the country, Al-Destour newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Child soldiers on the rise in Yemen PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 14 December 2009 05:51

SANAA - The huge poster hanging in the press conference shows a Yemeni boy dressed in a traditional brown robe, holding a detonator in one hand, while with the other he lifts his gown to reveal packages strapped to his legs.

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Torture systematic in Egypt 'police state' PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jailan Zayan - CAIRO   
Friday, 04 December 2009 03:02

Egypt has become a police state where citizens receive no protection from torture, human rights groups said in a report published on Thursday.

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In Cairo, out of slum into joblessness PDF Print E-mail
Written by Administrator   
Friday, 04 December 2009 00:56
CAIRO - When government workmen came in a truck to take Ahmed Mohamed’s furniture to his new home just outside Cairo, the 32-year-old fisherman was overjoyed: His dream of quitting the slum where he had lived for years seemed to be coming true.
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Nearly third of Egyptian children malnourished PDF Print E-mail
Written by watan   
Friday, 06 November 2009 02:48
CAIRO- Despite a number of positive economic indicators, Egypt has a hunger problem: Nearly a third of all children are malnourished, according to a new report compiled by the Ministry of Health and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
Last Updated on Friday, 06 November 2009 18:51
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'Goldstone' headscarves in Gaza PDF Print E-mail
Written by watan   
Wednesday, 04 November 2009 04:07
South African Judge Richard Goldstone's name may be infamous in Israel, but in the Gaza Strip it is sewn onto souvenir Palestinian headscarves in honour of his war inquiry.
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Enemy within: rape in US military ranks PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 30 October 2009 00:17
NEW YORK - As with suicides, the rate of sexual assaults within the US military now exceeds that of the general population.
Last Updated on Friday, 30 October 2009 19:20
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Gaza school children traumatized and hungry

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Nearly half a million children in Gaza returned to overcrowded and dilapidated schools on 1...

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Gaza's untold story

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One year on since Israel's criminally-insane war on Gaza, many are still unaware of the...

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Israeli-besieged Gaza's Christians look to tunnels for Christmas gifts

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GAZA CITY - This year Santa had to ditch his sleigh in Egypt and crawl...

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Egypt sexual harassment hits "savage" levels

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Egypt's deputy parliament speaker said women needed a law to protect them from sexual harassment...

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Child soldiers on the rise in Yemen

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SANAA - The huge poster hanging in the press conference shows a Yemeni boy dressed...

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Torture systematic in Egypt 'police state'

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Egypt has become a police state where citizens receive no protection from torture, human rights...

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