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29 years after the massacre at Shabra-Shatila....

How much longer until we find the missing and grant civil rights to the rest?

(SABHA, Libya) - Sabha, now the district Capitol, is about 400 miles south of Tripoli in the Saharan desert, and is one of the four main areas that NATO concedes is still controlled by pro-Gaddafi loyalists,(the other three are Sirte, Bani Walid, and Jufra) and for that reason NATO has intensified its, sometimes, seemingly indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas.

Today, NATO is desperately wanting to announce “mission accomplished” and put an end to its ill-conceived mission “to protect Libya‘s civilians”, that President Obama assured the World nearly 7 months ago, “will last days, not weeks.”

Testimony: Witnessing the Transition to fear in Tripoli

As the sounds of tanks and firefights and the smell of death that filled the air grew more and more distant, I remembered the peaceful, welcoming and safe city I had driven into.

(TRIPOLI Voltaire) - Evacuated by the ICRC from the Rixos hotel where she had been blocked for five days, Lizzie Phelan offers her first impressions after the fall of Tripoli. Danger, death and fear reign have engulfed the capital of the "New Libya", while NATO and its collaborators are peacocking around.

With her collegues from Telesur, Russia Today, the Centre for Research on Globalization and Voltaire Network, Lizzie Phelan (PressTV) is one of the few journalists to have taken the risk of providing a factual account of the situation in Libya.

Once Upon a Time in Syria

Should the House of Assad fall, I wonder what the resulting Syrian government's relations will be with Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Israel.

(SALEM) - In 1999, we visited Syria as well as Jordan, Israel, and Baalbeck in Lebanon. We arrived in Syria on the eve of the Israeli elections.

The majority of Arabs and Israelis probably agreed that the prospects for peace in the region improved immeasurably with the election of Ehud Barak as Israel's prime minister.

Lifta: Palestine`s Last Village Faces Bulldozers; Lifta to be razed for new Jewish-only holiday homes

A song for Lifta.

(LONDON) - I think of Lifta... I smile.... like a flower
Lifta… The healing touch of my grandmother
The aroma of her bread, baked with tenderness and love

Lifta...The hand of my mother against my face
Her gentle fingers running through my curls
Lifta…The smile of "Amal" my childhood friend

A Palestinian State Redeems the U.N`s Historic Nakba (Catastrophe)

May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.” --Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Nakba Day Yawm an-Nakbah, meaning "day of the catastrophe" is generally commemorated on May 15, the day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israeli independence day.

For the Palestinians it is an annual day of commemoration of the displacement that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948. - Wikipedia

Yes, I am

“To smile when confronted with the most severe oppression, is an act of Resistance rooted in unparalleled beauty.” ~ Jonathan Azaziah

(LONDON) - Yes, I am a Palestinian
Yes, I am a Muslim
Yes, I am a humanist
Yes, I am a woman
Yes, I am a mother
Yes, I am a grandmother
And YES I am a freedom fighter

I fight for my right to think freely
I fight for my right to speak my mind

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who`s the Fairest One of All?

Is it morally acceptable to think, talk and act for the self-interest of the tribe against the interest of the whole world?

(LONDON) - Is it not an oxymoron to call oneself "atheist Jew"?
Is it OK for a "progressive Jew" to be a supremacist?
Is it not schizophrenic, for those who call themselves "progressive Jews", to be simultaneously, pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli?

Is there a problem with Jewish identity?
"Is it good for Palestinians" to rally behind some anti-zionist Jews even as we know that they act primarily for Jewish self-interest?

Of course the Flotilla is a Political Provocation

Fighting ethnic cleansing in Israel requires creative approaches.

(GAZA CITY) - As the launch of the Freedom Flotilla – Stay Human approaches, increasing numbers of Zionist officials and commentators illuminate the depths of their moral and intellectual bankruptcy by arguing that it is a political – not humanitarian – project.

Like its predecessors, from the successful Free Gaza boats of 2008 to the Freedom Flotilla that suffered lethal violence by Israeli commandos in international waters last year, this Flotilla is an unabashed act of solidarity with a people fighting colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid.

Demonizing Islam, Cui Bono ?

“O you who believe, do not consume each others' properties illicitly. Only mutually acceptable transactions are permitted. You shall not kill yourselves. God is Merciful towards you.” (4:29)

(LONDON) - Why are the zionists and their NWO allies fervently waging war against Muslims and Islam?

Why are they spending so much time, money and energy to disfigure this belief system and to dehumanize its followers? Why do they loath the Qur’an and spread abhorrent lies about it?

Alcohol Possible Contributing Factor in Serious Crash

Serious injury traffic crash happened on Highway 34 east of Interstate 5.

(LEBANON, Ore.) - Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers are investigating a Sunday morning two-vehicle serious injury traffic crash that occurred at the intersection of Highway 34 and Seven Mile Lane east of Interstate 5.

Troopers say four people were injured, one critically, and alcohol is being investigated as a contributing factor.