Category: Middle East

Why the delay on who killed Arafat?

A report by one of the world’s leading medical journals has supported earlier findings that Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was poisoned to death nearly a decade ago, Mehr news agency reported… Read More

One of the world’s leading medical journals has supported the possibility that Yasser Arafat, the longtime Palestinian leader, was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium 210.… Go to Article

RoadMap to Apartheid

[PShift (4zzz fm 102.1 Fridays at noon) broadcast on 20 Sept 2013 – ‘Roadmap to Apartheid’]

Six years ago, almost to the day, a Palestinian citizen was killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday morning in Al-’Ayn refugee camp, west of Nablus, during an Israeli incursion into the refugee camp which began on Tuesday 18 September 2007.… Go to Article

Refugees shot trying to leave

WILL THIS BE AUSTRALIA NEXT WEEK?

Two Palestinian refugees killed in emigration attempt from Egypt

Two Syrian-Palestinian refugees killed attempting illegal passage from Alexandria to Europe

Zeinab El Gundy, Wednesday 18 Sep 2013

Two Palestinian refugees, formerly detained at El-Gomrok police station in Alexandria (Photo: refugeesmovement Facebook page)

Egyptian security forces on Tuesday foiled an attempt by Syrian and Palestinian refugees to emigrate from Alexandria to Italy by sea, killing two of the refugees.… Go to Article

Rain of fire: US attempt to destablise Middle East

"I dream of snakes ... 
I kill one and a yet bigger one appears ..."
         - Cuban troubadour, Silvio Rodriguez

I refer to the NYT article With the World Watching, Syria Amassed Nerve Gas which does not give any detail of the material released by wikileaks however it does make the following statement:

Sarin gas has been identified by the United States as the agent loaded atop small rockets on Aug.

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Palestinian film at GOMA – ‘Salt of this Sea’

Milh Hadha al-Bahr (Salt of this Sea) 2008 Ages 15+

Milh Hadha al-Bahr (Salt of this Sea) 2008 Ages 15+

Sun 14 April 3.00pm / Cinema A

35MM, COLOUR, DOLBY SR, 109 MINUTES, PALESTINE/BELGIUM/FRANCE/SPAIN/SWITZERLAND, ARABIC/ENGLISH/HEBREW (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) / DIRECTOR/SCRIPT: ANNEMARIE JACIR / CINEMATOGRAPHER: BENOÎT CHAMAILLARD / EDITOR: MICHÈLE HUBINON / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: PYRAMID

INTERNATIONAL

‘Born and raised in Brooklyn, Soraya travels to Palestine to retrieve her grandfather’s savings, frozen in a Jaffa bank account after his 1948 exile.… Go to Article

Remember Palestine: Al Nakba 2013

Rally
Friday May 17, 5:30pm
King George Square, Brisbane

May 15 marks the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) day. In 1948, more the 780,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homeland and more than 500 Palestinian villages depopulated and destroyed by Zionist terrorist death squads that were set up in Palestine under the protection of the British mandate.… Go to Article

Occupied Palestinian Territories and Byron Council’s Draconian Rules

Dear Mr Hill (Byron Shire compliance officer),

Council’s requirements for us (Byron Friends of Palestine) to use Railway Park are extremely draconian and seem designed to thwart any spontaneous community action; fortunately we do not live in the Occupied Palestinian Territories but it is increasingly beginning to feel as though we do.… Go to Article

Bahrain: no hope for the Al Khalifa regime

Bahraini nurse calls on international support after police kill 16 yr old during crackdown on anniversary of democracy protests.

Hussain Al Jaziri, 16 years old, was killed by Bahraini security forces yesterday as the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters intensifies around the second anniversary of Bahrain’s ‘forgotten Arab Spring’.… Go to Article