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 …
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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 …
Read More »Muslims Must Not Pay Price for Europe’s Identity Crisis, By Ramzy Baroud
It seems that the targeting of Muslims and Islam has become a kind of national theater in France. Unlike theater, however, the disturbing trend can, and will turn ugly – in fact to a degree it already has – if the French government doesn’t get a grip on reality. The world, including France, is a complex, multifaceted and fascinatingly diverse …
Read More »‘Israel resembles a failed state’, By Ali Abunimah
One year has passed since the savage Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, but for the people there time might as well have stood still. Since Palestinians in Gaza buried their loved ones – more than 1,400 people, almost 400 of them children – there has been little healing and virtually no reconstruction. According to international aid agencies, only 41 …
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