January, 2010

• 10 January

  AbuZayd (UNRWA) confirms Egypt installing wall along Gaza border, by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Report post

  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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• 10 January

  Bended Knees: Zionist Power in American Politics, By James Petras

  Obama want to see a stop to settlements: Not some settlements, not outposts, not natural growth exceptions”. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, May 2009 “What the prime minister has offered in specifics of a restraint on the policy of settlements…..is unprecedented, there has never been a precondition, it’s always been an issue within negotiations.” Hillary Clinton, BBC, November 1, 2009 …

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• 8 January

  TURNING POINT IN TURKEY, By Ameen Izzadeen

  A military coup against a civilian government is heard of. But seldom or never do we hear that a civilian government coup against the military. The aim of this column is not to analyse what happened in Sri Lanka after the defeat of the LTTE. Rather, in keeping with the world watch logo, the focus is going to be on …

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• 7 January

  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 …

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• 6 January

  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 …

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• 5 January

  Growing to be A World Citizen

  We believe with Sir Richard Livingstone, that “Men are born to FOUR CITIZENSHIPS.. They should be able to live as good members of their Family, of their Community, of their Nation and of the Whole Human Society and that “many of the world’s troubles can be traced to a failure in one or other of these citizenships – to our …

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• 5 January

  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. …

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