“You can’t use them as human shields, it is against the law.” - A foreign peace activist telling Israeli soldiers who forced two Palestinian youths to stand in front of their jeep in Ramallah to avoid stones being thrown at them. The activist recorded the incident on tape prompting the Israeli army to suspend the […]

As Israel’s massacre of 19 civilians last week disappears off the media’s radar, Israel has started taking a more PR-friendly approach to illegal assassinations. Something that would allow them to launch a missile into a refugee camp in the middle of the night without the world getting pissed off. Calling 10 minutes in advance to […]

Sine 2004 about 9 Israelis have been killed by the very crude Qassam rockets that militants have fired into Israel. This past Wednesday a 57 year old Israeli woman died, the first Israeli casualty in the past 16 months. A total of 13 Qassam rockets had landed that day and during her funeral 4 of […]

Gaza: While the world looked elsewhere, another week of death and misery
By Donald Macintyre In Beit Hanoun
Published: 11 November 2006
Majdi Saad Athamneh couldn’t easily explain why he had come back after Friday prayers yesterday to the now empty, four-storey breeze-block building where it had all happened two days earlier. “I don’t know,” he said […]

I thought long and hard about an appropriate way to remember November 9th 2005 and to honor the fallen, the martyrs, the victims of a crime. Last year I was in a daze and couldn’t articulate any of my thoughts, even rage needed a visual depiction. At first I wanted to do something creative but […]

Four Months. 247 Palestinians dead. 155 of them, “official” civilians. 57 children. 996 wounded. 337 of them are children.
You know that the slaughter of Palestinians has reached new heights when Israel actually apologises. It’s a rare event and it usually comes at a very high cost. This was the price tag:

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I always found one western view particularly interesting in this post 911 world of ours, and that is the idea that if and when a Muslim ever does something nutty all 1.5 billion are expected to condemn and protest. If this doesn’t happen then Muslims forfeit the right to complain about anything happening to them. […]

“We were not in Iraq when they killed nearly 3,000 people on September the 11th, 2001.”
(Cheers, applause.)
George W. Bush speaking on Monday afternoon, October 30th 2006, at a rally held at Georgia Southern University

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Remember that silly U.S. terror watch list that people threw a fit about simply because it contained thousands of common Arab names? Well evidently that list just helped apprehend one of Saddam’s son in this Daily Show story.

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Fellow Jordanian blogger Oula Farawati is writing an interesting article for Living Well Magazine about Jordan post Amman Bombings and how people feel about security. It’s an important topic given that we are approaching the one year anniversary of that dreadful day that changed a lot in our kingdom. In her latest post Oula poses […]

Five years after 9/11 and two months away from elections, the White House still doesn’t know who they’re fighting exactly or what to call them or where they are, which kind of makes it hard to fight them not to mention what the speechwriters have to go through. Maybe it’s in their best interest to […]

It was quite a sight to see former President Bill Clinton do battle with Chris Wallace on Fox News when asked about Osama Bin Laden. The interview was supposed to be about the Clinton Global Initiative and it went like any other interview until Wallace asked whether Clinton had done enough to get Bin Laden. […]

A few months ago I was wondering if Sajida Rishawai, the would be suicide bomber of last year’s Amman bombings, would actually get the death penalty and would it be a just punishment for the crime. Ashraf Al-Akhrass, the groom of the wedding that was attacked, who pleaded with the court back in May to […]

5th Anniversary

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