November, 2012

• 20 November

  A RESPONSE TO AN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN Nishthar Idroos

  

  You did not create yourself nor did you descend from apes and monkeys. It certainly cannot be attributed to a vigorous, virile and wholesome ancestry; you know what I am talking about.  Humanity shares a common heritage. Whether you speak for the white people or black people, whether you speak for the Americans or Anglo Saxons this is entrenched reality, we are one human race with  one …

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• 20 November

  Israel Kills Family Of 9 In Gaza: By Al Jazeera

  

    Al Jazeera's Nadim Baba, reporting from Gaza, has said that the search continues for survivors of an Israeli air strike that killed nine members of the same family in Gaza. Our correspondent said rescue workers worked frantically to pick up the debris from "the massive crater where the residential building stood". Five children were among the nine members of the …

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• 20 November

  Why Gaza must suffer again The four guilty parties behind Israel’s attack By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth

  

  A short interview broadcast by CNN late last week featuring two participants – a Palestinian in Gaza and an Israeli within range of the rocket attacks – did not follow the usual script.   For once, a media outlet dropped its role as gatekeeper, there to mediate and therefore impair our understanding of what is taking place between Israel and …

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• 18 November

  Gaza crisis: US must choose between justice and hawkish Jews By Ameen Izzadeen

  

  Just a week after his reelection, President Barack Obama is facing a big foreign policy crisis – the escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip following the killing of Hamas’ military wing leader Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari on Wednesday by Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic secret service.    Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and Hamas’ angry reaction to them are …

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• 18 November

  Israel’s latest bloodbath in Gaza By Latheef Farook

  

    Once again Israel   unleashed its killing machine in Gaza as part of its long term strategy   to drive out Palestinians from there   in the same way  Palestinians were driven out around seven decades ago. The ultimate purpose is to annex Gaza into greater Israel. To achieve this end Israel adopts its ruthless policy of crime, conspiracy, violence, deception and …

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• 18 November

  The U.S. Elections and Syria By Thierry Meyssan

  

  News outlets in the West and the Gulf have lauded the U.S. elections as further proof of the vitality of "the most powerful democracy in the world". By contrast, as the year began, these same outlets described the referendum and the legislative elections in Syria as "farces" and called for the overthrow of the "dictatorship". Which is which exactly? Let’s …

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• 15 November

  Tolerance in Islam by Asiff Hussein

  

  Published by Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum   It has often been argued by non-Muslims that Islam is not a tolerant faith and that it has been propagated by force of arms rather than by peaceful means; by compulsion rather than through conviction. This perception has been widely propagated in the writings of certain biased Western scholars who left …

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