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French delegation confirms Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza

In a conference held Monday by the delegation members in Paris, MP Wurz said that what the delegation saw did not look like effects of confrontation between two warring parties, but it was a massacre claimed the lives of hundreds of unarmed civilians in conjunction with the destruction of residential neighborhoods and the displacement of thousands of residents. ..

Revolution, Facebook-Style

Anti-Israel demonstrations in Arab capitals are nothing new. From Amman to Riyadh, governments have long viewed protests against Israel as a useful safety valve to allow citizens to let off steam without addressing grievances closer to home. But in Egypt, this time, the protests were different: some of the anger was aimed directly at the government of President Hosni Mubarak. In defiance of threats from the police, and in contravention of a national taboo, some demonstrators chanted sl..

Gaza 2009, We Will Never Forget

Montage documenting the genocide committed by Isreal in "Operation Cast Lead". ..

Haniyyah Calls On Obama to Back Palestinians’ Right to Liberty and Independence

We join you with our voices in your journey towards change; a change that will bring justice for all people. No one can blame you if you don’t attain justice for all people, but you will no doubt blamed if you don’t repel oppression," Haniyyah continued. ..

Transcript of Obama’s Interview On Al-Arabiya Television

Obama focused on reaching out to Muslims, reminding that he lived in a family that includes Muslims, adding that he lived in the biggest Muslim state, Indonesia , and he is therefore convinced that, regardless of the faith, people still have dreams and ambitions which they seek to accomplish. He pointed out that children in the Muslim world should have a better culture...

Abu Marzouk: Hamas got prepared for the war since last summer

The Hamas leader underlined that the Israeli soldiers during the aggression were wearing electronic tracking devices in order to reveal their whereabouts in case they were captured, adding that Israeli warplanes killed three Israeli soldiers wearing these devices after being taken as prisoners by Hamas fighters. ..

Haneyya gov’t slams Michel’s statements against the resistance as shameless

In a statement, Taher Al-Nunu, the spokesman for the government, said that such statements are blatantly contrary to the international norms and conventions which stress and guarantee the right of occupied people to self-defense against the occupation. ..

Obama: Regime Rotation

“NATO’s top military commander is seeking an important new security role for private industry and business leaders as part of a new security strategy that will focus on the economic vulnerabilities of the 26-country alliance. Two immediate and priority projects for NATO officials to develop with private industry are to secure the pipelines bringing Russian oil and gas to Europe… to secure ports and merchant shipping, the alliance Supreme Commander, Gen. James Jones of the USMarine Corp..

HRW accuses Israel, PA, and Egypt of suppressing pro-Gaza rallies

In Egypt, the influential Muslim Brotherhood, which is the largest opposition group in Egypt, has reported that 860 of its members have been arrested in recent days in connection with demonstrations protesting Israeli actions in Gaza. A January 16 demonstration in Tanta, north of Cairo, reportedly drew 15,000 participants. Police arrested eight journalists and beat some of them on December 31 while they were covering a demonstration in support of Gaza in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. They wer..

Israeli poll: Killing Palestinians shortest way to winning elections

Meanwhile, the same paper said that a number of issues were not solved yet despite the end of the war on Gaza, explaining that the issue of arms smuggling and that of the captive soldier Gilad Shalit were not resolved. ..

Swiss MPs: We witnessed systematic destruction that was beyond our expectation

Anwar Al-Gharbi, the spokesman of the European campaign to lift the siege on Gaza that organized the visit in cooperation with a Swiss society, said that the delegates who arrived in Gaza via the Rafah crossing on Saturday toured the Strip and visited the Shifa hospital and the destroyed premises of the Palestinian legislative council over two days. ..

Outcome of MB Detainees is 7555 in 2008

With just a quick glance at their situation we would realize that 2537 among them have been detained via an order from the public prosecution without being transferred for trial, then orders issued by the persecution to release only 1803 among them and then ministry of internal affairs issued orders to detain 734 of them, Abd Al-Maqsoud added. ..

26 MB Members Detained, Some Tortured

From Daqahliyyah, the following were detained: Ashraf Abdel-Salam, Mohamed EL-Hady, Amr Attia, and Nader Ezzedeen as five from Kafr El-Sheikh were also detained and taken to Borg El-Arab Prison: Mustafa Ghoneim, Mohamed Sha’ban, Ahmed Abu Zeid, Hany El-Sayyed, Abdel-Halim Badr, Mustafa Badruddin, Abdel-Hamid Abul-Ezz, and Mohamed El-Khodragy. ..

Syrian Muslim Brotherhood demands Turkish mediation

Its leadership, since 1982 in exile, the Brotherhood issued a statement during the Gaza attacks and declared they "freeze all opposition to Syrian government temporalily to cooperate against Israel". ..

Resilient Arab regimes deaf to Obama’s words

Even the anti-Western al-Quds al-Arabi felt obliged to make conciliatory noises, moderating its traditional anti-democratic positions. “A new era begins in the US today, an era which proves that Western democracy, even though we have our reservations about it, is still the best, most just method of government as far as ethnic and religious minorities are concerned,” it conceded. ..

Egypt’s intelligence blackmails wounded Palestinians to tell about Hamas

The Al-Jazeera net news website on the internet quoted a number of those wounded Palestinians as affirming that elements of the Egyptian security interrogated them in very harsh manner, and asked them to reveal what they know about Hamas’s military force, adding that the security officers threatened to deny them medical treatment if they refused to "cooperate". ..

European campaign: Delaying dispatch of aid to Gaza entails grave results

The Israeli aggression on Gaza had aggravated the suffering of one and a half million Palestinians who were already suffering from a strangling siege, Madi elaborated, noting that 6,000 wounded Palestinians in the aggression were added to the list of 2,000 patients who were deprived of receiving the minimum limit of necessary medical care. ..

MB Chair Welcomes Arab Reconciliation in Kuwait Summit

MB Chair Mohamed Mahdi Akef welcomed the Arab reconciliation that took place in the Kuwait economic summit between the leaders describing it as "good and necessary at all times."..

Parish Priest Recounts Tragedy of Gaza, Testimony of Father Manuel Musallam

Christine passed away on the morning of Saturday, January 2, 2009, due to fear and cold. The windows of her house were open to protect the children from being hit by flying glass fragments, and as missiles passed over her house and her neighbors fell victim to Israeli attacks, her entire body would shake with fear. When she could not longer bear it, she cried on her Creator’s shoulder and asked Him for a home and shelter with no crying, shouting, or wailing but joy and happiness. ..

Friends of humanity: Israel violated houses of worship during its war on Gaza

In another context, Ilan Malka, a top Israeli infantry commander, admitted that his unit, which ranks as one of Israel’s elite military forces, faced great difficulties during its confrontations with the Palestinian resistance in populated areas. ..