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January 31, 2006

Stubborn Realities and the Palestinian Elections By James Zogby 

Palestine: The Only Democracy in the Middle East By Remi Kanazi 

Western Cultural Colonialism and the Palestinian choice By Gilad Atzmon 

Hamas, Israel, and the United States By James Hall 

A Vindictive Response to a Hamas Victory By Linda Heard 

Tonight it could be you: Fifty years Israel's religious, social, and political apartheid By Jenny Jobbins

January 30, 2006

US Secretary of State Rice Can Do Better Than Beating on Hamas and Punishing the Palestinian People By Hassan El-Najjar 

Letters to the Editor, January 30, 2006

Apocalypse Now: Israel's HAMASTERIA Shocks the World By Mohamed Khodr 

Fateh Was Not an Alternative By Kristoffer Larsson 

Politics of Extreme Unction: Revolutionary Rights By Ben Tanosborn

January 29, 2006

Western Media and Lynching of Hamas on the "Destruction of Israel" Baseless Claim, A Commentary By Hassan El-Najjar

Hamas: Bush Doesn't Have A Clue By Sam Hamod 

Stolen Youth Revisited: Israel's War on Palestine’s Children Intensifies By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

To Talk With Hamas By Uri Avnery 

It's hard work to be a Muslim: Why demonizing Islam is NOT a good idea By Jane Stillwater 

A Faithful State of Union Address By Vince Isner 

Some Irresponsible Scandinavians  Arab News 

Problem With Democracy: Chooses the Wrong Party By Robert Fisk

January 28, 2006

Letters to the Editor, January 28, 2006

An Open Letter to Stephen Harper Concerning his Statement About Hamas By Ismail Zayid 

Boycott Israel: Global civil society ought to boycott Israel until it ends its apartheid-like treatment of Palestinians By Mazin Qumsiyeh 

Dialogue at Davos Arab News 

Hamas Victory Means Palestinians Want Their Lives Back By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Media Value Muslims & Hungarians Vastly Less Than Whales By Gideon Polya 

Neo-Orientalists of the Rand Corporation, Part II By Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

Palestinian Democratic Choice Must Be Respected By Jonathan Steele

January 27, 2006

Hamas Victory and the Old Israeli Trick of Renouncing Terrorism By Hassan El-Najjar 

Sharon's Vision: An Israel From Nile to Euphrates By Hassan Tahsin 

Where to now, Palestine? Some Reflections on Hamas Victory By Gilad Atzmon 

Hamas Responds By Yamin Zakaria 

The Night the Americans Came and Took Me Away By Ali Fadhil 

The Philippines Paying the Price of Free Trade Policies By Mohammad Aquil A. Tiburon 

January 26, 2006

Will Israel Pull America Into Another Quagmire in Iran By Sam Hamod 

Examining the Jewish Holocaust Still a 'TABOO', WHY? A Comment By Hilmi Salem 

Diplomacy As a Real Option: Avoiding Iraq Fallout with Iran By Ramzy Baroud 

Why I Now Genuflect to Charles Krauthammer By Jason Miller 

A Reality Check for Africa's Leaders By Bashir Goth 

More than any coup, the people's hunger is the Filipino regime's most threatening foe By Zaynab Ampatuan 

January 25, 2006

George Bush Still Has an Appetite for Further Conquests By Tariq A. Al-Maeena 

Israeli Nuclear Terrorism By Steve Jones 

Humane Canada Is More Visible in The World Than US, Britain, and Israel By Deepak Sarkar 

Israeli Policies and Death of Americans and Muslims By Mohamed Khodr 

Urgent appeal to save Iraq's Academics By Ian Douglas 

Iran's Nuclear Issue Becomes a Hornet's Nest  By Linda Heard 

Why Nobody Is Raising the Issue of Israel's N-Might By Sir Cyril Townsend 

Chirac's France Behaving Like a 'Rogue State' By Gwynne Dyer 

January 24, 2006

Al-Jazeerah Enters its 5th Year: Hope Continues Despite Challenges and Distractions By Hassan Ali El-Najjar 

Palestinian Voters: Engaged But Realistic By James Zogby 

Iran: Insane Chutzpah By Frank Scott 

Living at Ground Zero: Osama bin Forgotten is baaack! By Jane Stillwater

January 23, 2006

Peace Activist, a Poem, By Deepak Sarkar 

Middle East: America's democracy advance puts secularism into retreat By Abid Mustafa 

Saudi-Chinese Relations: Energy First, but Not Last By Abdulaziz Sager 

Israel in the Iranian Nuclear Fray Arab News 

January 22, 2006

Islam and the West: Who Hates Whom? The Danish Case By Fahmi Howaidi 

Pity the Orphan: Hamas Election Victory, the New Israeli Pretext for Continuing the Occupation By Uri Avnery 

Will We Get a Spielberg Epic on Palestine Catastrophe? By Robert Fisk 

Rugova Death a Major Setback for Kosovo Talks By Ismet Hajdari 

New Strategic Saudi Relationships Arab News

January 21, 2006

Letters to the Editor, January 21, 2006

Chirac's Nuclear Threat Arab News

A Preview of Coming Attractions: The Alito Confirmation By Ben Tanosborn 

God Bless Canada By John Chuckman 

Pakistan: Why Blame America? By Yamin Zakaria 

A Monstrous Rehabilitation By Azmi Bishara 

Israel Restricting Palestinian Voting in Jerusalem, Undermining Peace Camp By Ghassan Khatib 

Will Sharon's Successors Follow in His Footsteps? By Mohammad Daraghmeh

The prejudice in US-RP treaties By Zaynab Ampatuan 

January 20, 2006

Letters to the Editor, January 20, 2006

Full Text of Bin Laden Tape Addressing the American People 

Free Ahmed Sa'adat and his Comrades from Jericho Prison 

You Can't Go Home Again By Sheila Samples 

Terrorism and Racial-Profiling By Michael Saba 

January 19, 2006

Avoiding a War with Iran By Mike Whitney 

Solidarity with Tariq Aziz and All Iraqi Prisoners By Carsten Kofoed 

Bird flu goes on Hajj? By Jane Stillwater 

The French Reign of Toxic Terror By S Faizi 

A Position Paper About the Upcoming Canadian Elections, Issued By Canada Palestine Association, Vancouver 

Divestment From Israel In Its Fifth Year: A History and Method for US and European Activists By Eyad Kishawi

US Rendition of Suspects to Prisons Worldwide: A Documentation By K Gajendra Singh 

January 18, 2006

Letters to the Editor, January 18, 2006

The Dogs of Israel Hunt Palestine, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

War of Terror, a Poem, By Deepak Sarkar 

What Shall We Do With Politics As We Are Deprived of Our Basic Needs in Gaza? By Rami al-Meghari 

How the West and the West Bank Were Won By Jason Miller 

Sanctions Won't Deter Iran By Linda Heard 

Is Iran's plan for an oil exchange trading in Euros the real issue? Or is it Israel? By Enver Masud 

Sectarian Agendas Pushing Iraq to Disintegration By Tariq Ali 

Chavez, Oil and American anxiety By Abid Mustafa 

Chile Elects Woman President in Cultural Revolution By Emilio Rappold 

Health Care in a Third World Country: Better Than What We Get Here By Jane Stillwater 

January 17, 2006

In Memory of Martin Luther King Jr: I Have a Dream  for America and Arabia By Hassan El-Najjar

Avnery's 'With Friends Like These' Denies the Fundamental Truth About Israel By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Reinventing Sharon, Tom Friedman Style By Mike Whitney 

Sharon's Last Act, Palestine's Last Chance By James Zogby 

The Need for Nuclear Proliferation By Yamin Zakaria 

Release Tareq Aziz and All the Detainees in Occupied Iraq By Ibrahim Ebeid 

The 1981 US-Israeli Raid On Iraq By Douglas Valentine 

Norwegian Capitulation Regarding Boycott of Israeli Goods By Mohamed Khodr 

January 15, 2006

Eye of the Hurricane: The Jamarat Hajj Tragedy By Jane Stillwater 

More Lies About Iran By Mike Whitney 

Canada Elections-Another Minority Government? By Minhaj Qidwai 

Weighing the Options: The Next Path for Israel and Palestine By Remi Kanazi 

Report on Rendition Arab News 

Why Countries With Majority Jesus Loving Democratic People Need Guns Without Control? By Deepak Sarkaro

January 14, 2006

Long Live Pakistan under the US Bombing Raids By Abid Ullah Jan 

The Media Exalting of Sharon By Ramzy Baroud 

A Troop Withdrawal Argument, Tailored for George Bush By Gerald Rellick 

Au'voir Afghanistan: A Debriefing By Ben Tanosborn 

The Invasion of Iraq: The Greatest Strategic Disaster in US History By David Hirst 

January 13, 2006

Letters to the Editor, January 13, 2006

First Amendment or Israel First By Mohamed Khodr 

Israeli Apartheid in the Middle East By Kristoffer Larsson 

Might the Arabs Have a Point? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Burma's Lost Kingdoms: Splendors Of Arakan by Pamela Gutman, A Book Reviews By Habib Siddiqui 

Tectonic Plates Begin Shifting in British Politics By Brigitte Dusseau 

January 12, 2006

On the Other Side of the Israeli Wall, Palestinians Pray for Peace, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Beauty as a Political Weapon, Three in One: Gilad Atzmon Interviewed by Manuel Talens 

Bush's New Policy Shift on Middle East By David Dumke 

Environmental Concerns Arab News 

January 11, 2006

The New World Tyranny Should Be Recognized and Rejected By William Hardiker 

A Criminal Government is the Problem in Denmark By Carsten Kofoed 

Israeli Elections: Three Fingers, No Fist  By Uri Avnery 

Of Sharon's Brutalities and Failures By Fawaz Turki

Politics of Chaos: Gaza's Turmoil in Context By Ramzy Baroud 

Syria and Lebanon Need Forgiveness and Reconciliation By Linda S. Heard 

The Hajj: from pilgrimage to holiday By Bashir Goth 

Parliament Must Impeach Blair to Regain Trust By Michael Rose 

January 10, 2006

Letters to the Editor, January 10, 2006

End the Shame of NSEER By James Zogby 

Greetings for Eid Al Adha By Mirza A. Beg 

The Soul of Hajj By Habib Siddiqui 

Haj: Joy and Lessons Arab News 

January 9, 2006

Politically Correct Racism Sustains Israel and US Empire By Gideon Polya 

Israel, Let Me Count the Ways By Mark Glenn 

Sharon: A Napoleon, Made in Israel By Uri Avnery 

Post-Sharon Israel Arab News

January 8, 2006

Ariel Sharon: Mr. Security or Insecurity By Minhaj Qidwai 

Man of the Year: Patrick Fitzgerald By Gerald Rellick 

Christian Fundamentalism Drives American Extremism By Ray Hanania 

Palestinians Won't Miss Sharon By Richard H. Curtiss 

Devotion, a Poem, By Deepak Sarkar

January 7, 2006

Earth to Hillary and Other Democrats Supportive of Israeli Aggression and American Imperialism By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Sharon's Departure Arab News 

Gaza: Ready, Aim, Cease-fire By Remi Kanazi 

Seeking Knowledge: Our National Imperative By Habib Siddiqui

January 6, 2006

Letters to the Editor, January 6, 2006 

Palestinian Welcome Smashed Against the Israeli Wall, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Afghanistan: The NATO Quagmire By Sarah Meyer 

Of Sharon, Arafat, Abramoff, and the Media By Mazin Qumsiyeh 

Political Hemorrhaging Implications of the Sharon Stroke By Remi Kanazi 

When Sharon Meets His Maker By Gilad Atzmon

How the US Transportation Security Administration Identifies a Terrorist By Michael Saba 

January 5, 2006

Letters to the Editor, January 5, 2006

Israel Breathes Fear into Arab East Jerusalem, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Israeli Checkpoints as Grim Milestones By Danny Rubinstein 

Palestinian Elections Are Vital By Ghazi Hamad 

An Abundance of Hope for New Year By Ramzy Baroud 

An Attempt To Address Democracy Within Islamic Context By Ali Al-Hail 

Gas War Exposes Central Europe's Vulnerability By Andrew McCathie 

January 4, 2006

Letters to the Editor, January 4, 2006

The Guerilla War on Iraqi Oil By Mike Whitney 

Falling Into the Neoconservatives' Trap By Abbas J. Ali 

Democracy and Decent Society in the Arab World By Ali Al-Hail 

From Egypt to Iraq: An Israeli Expansionism By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

On Father's Day, Send Your Cards to Tom Instead of George By Jason Miller 

With no Palestinian state in sight, aid becomes an adjunct to occupation By Ghada Karmi 

Statement by Freedom Socialist Party in response to New York Post article: 'Harlem Radicals Probed' 

Thinking the Unthinkable: Possible American Collusion in September 11 Attacks By William Hardiker

January 3, 2006

Letters to the Editor, January 3, 2006

Israeli Marat-Sade Diplomacy Prevails Over Palestine, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Domestic Spying & Incident of Intimidation of Military Families By Robin Vaughan 

Exploiting Fear and Insecurity in the US By James Zogby 

Democratization Process Brings Palestinian Politics to a Crossroad By Ramzy Baroud 

'Isa (Jesus): His Life and Mission By Habib Siddiqui 

Neo-Orientalists of the Rand Corporation, Part I By Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

Paul Martin: Silence is appeasement By Bill Henderson 

Peretz Program: Who Needs a Camel? By Uri Avnery 

QUARTET: The Exclusion Of Hamas Equals The Exclusion Of Peace and Stability By Ali Al-Hail 

The American Imperial Plan and the Iraqi Oil Ministry By Sarah Meyer 

The Spoils of War: Israel's corruption was inevitable By James Brooks 

Waging War on Shadows By Jim Kirwan

January 2, 2006

Only Justice, Not Bombs, Can Make Our World Safe By Robert Fisk 

Khaddam's Statements: Questionable Catharsis Arab News

 

 
Earth, a planet hungry for peace

 Apartheid Wall

   
The Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid Wall built inside the Palestinian territories, here separating Abu Dis from occupied East Jerusalem. (IPC, 7/4/04).

 

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03).

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