Obama’s speech in Cairo was full of nice politically correct (PC) expressions of love for Islam and Muslims but dishonestly evaded the central issue of ongoing US Alliance occupation and devastation of Muslim countries and abusive mass imprisonment of the conquered populations of these Occupied Territories including Occupied Somalia (not mentioned), Occupied Palestine, Occupied Syria (not mentioned), Occupied Lebanon (not …
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Sri Lanka’s ‘Invisible’ people By Kumari Jayawardena
The timeliness of this book review is underlined by these words of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the people of Sri Lanka on May 19, on the occasion of the country’s ‘30 year war’ coming to a close: “We have removed the word minorities from our vocabulary three years ago. No longer are the Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, Malays and any others …
Read More »Political Options For Jerusalem’s Future By Dan Lieberman
Israel’s latest strategy for complicating the peace process is to delay discussions of Jerusalem’s future. Steering debate to other agendas enables Israel to establish more “facts on Jerusalem ground,” which consists of annexing lands, constructing bypass roads and housing and preparing for the decisive moment that will allow expansion of the Maale Adumim settlement and the development of the E1 …
Read More »Shanghai Forum: Superpower politics and Central Asian oil
Who said the Cold War was dead? It appears that what happened in late 1991 was a premature announcement of the death of the cold war that existed between the two superpower-led blocks – one led by the United States and the other by the Soviet Union. With the disintegration of the mighty Soviet Union, it was said that the …
Read More »Zionism: more than traditional colonialism and apartheid By Lasse Wilhelmson
(June 10,Stockholm, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Jewish colonisation of Palestine under the Zionist slogan “the land without people to the people without a land” started almost a hundred years ago and reached its first climax with the proclamation of The Jewish State of Israel in 1948. A second climax is now in the offing through the ongoing colonisation of the …
Read More »Israel turning West Bank dry for Palestineans
A deepening drought in the Middle East is aggravating a dispute over water resources after the World Bank found that Israel is taking four times as much water as the Palestinians from a vital shared aquifer. The region faces a fifth consecutive year of drought this summer, but the World Bank report found huge disparities in water use between Israelis …
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