Karen AbuZayd, Commissioner General of UNRWA and on International Human Rights Day Commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA), Karen Abu Zeid, confirmed reports stating that Egypt is installing an iron barrier along its border with the Gaza Strip, and added that the United States is financing the project. Speaking at a forum organized by the American University …
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Adib S. Kawar – Democratizing Colonialism!!! (part of the First Word War)
Colonizers try to justify their invasion and colonization of other peoples’ lands by means of various claims, unlike the earlier western colonizers of the 18th and 19th and early 20th centuries, modern colonizers try to justify their invasion of these lands by claiming that they are aiming at democratizing and liberating the targeted countries, peoples and lands. European invaders of …
Read More »GOOD MUSLIMS VS. BAD MUSLIMS NOW GOOD EUROPEAN VS. BAD EUROPEANS, By Yvonne Ridley
I’ve never met Egypt’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit but he reckons I am a very bad European along with the 1400 other peace activists from the Gaza Freedom March who are trapped in Cairo on New Year’s Eve. Gheit made this unexpected demonisation via his Foreign Ministry to the local media after telling them that 100 “good Europeans” had …
Read More »IF YOU ARE NEUTRAL IN A SITUATION OF INJUSTICE, YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSOR, By Desmond Tutu
Galloway in fresh Gaza convoy plea A British politician leading a convoy of medical and food supplies destined for the Gaza Strip has again appealed to Egypt to allow the group easy access to the coastal strip. George Galloway urged the authorities on Sunday to grant the Viva Palestina convoy access to Gaza through the Red Sea port of Nuweiba. …
Read More »Hello everybody is a comment on the British Chilcott Inquiry on the Iraq War in Guardian UK
Blair has over and over again exposed himself as a liar, a cheat and a P.M. who believed that he could do whatever he liked, including go to war against Iraq without regard to any arguments against it. He’s still a dangerous megalomaniac.. The many thousands who died because of his decision to agree with and support Bush in an …
Read More »The Middle East’s Master Pimp, By Yvonne Ridley
December 27, 2009 “ICH” Cairo – December 26, 2009 — The activities of the rent boys who parade up and down Al-Shawarby Street in Cairo provide a good metaphor for the relationship the Egyptian Government has with Israel and the US. Both are quite shameless and ruthless; prepared to do whatever it takes to please … in order to secure …
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