May, 2009

• 25 May

  Misreading the Map by Leon Hadar

  The Road to Jerusalem Does Not Lead Through Tehran Summary —  Israel is pushing the Obama administration to tackle Iran’s nuclear program before the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Washington shouldn’t listen. LEON HADAR is a Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. =============================================================== As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes to Washington for a meeting with President Barack Obama, …

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• 25 May

  Ground Breaking Report on Israel in International Law presented in the House of Commons

  Friends of Al-Aqsa, in conjunction with the Britain-Palestine All Party Parliamentary Group, hosted an event at the House of Commons on Tuesday 19th May, considering the findings of a report titled: ‘Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid? A re-assessment of Israel ’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law.’  This investigative Report was produced by a team of high-profile international lawyers …

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• 23 May

  Blood on our hands, but this too shall pass , By K Bhadrakumar

  Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran’s death circa May 19, 2009, in circumstances we would never quite get to know, concludes a morality play. As the curtain comes down and we leave the theatre, the spectacle continues to haunt us. We feel a deep unease and can’t quite figure out the reason. Something rankles somewhere. And then we …

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• 23 May

  Congress victory in India stirs hope in South Asia

  Secularism has triumphed in India. So it seems. The Congress Party, under the firm hold of Sonia Gandhi, won the one-month-long election held in five stages. Though the Congress and its allies have fallen short of winning the required 272 seat, with the backing of the Third Front’s BahuJan Samajwadi Party of Mayawati, they have the support of 333 members …

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• 23 May

  Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker loses bid to stop hate speech trial

  Far-right Dutch extremist Geert Wilders lost a legal bid Wednesday to stop his pending trial for inciting hatred and discrimination against Muslims. “The attorney general is of the opinion that there are no grounds” for a further appeal, the Dutch Supreme Court said in a statement. Lawyers for Wilders had sought to overturn a ruling by the Amsterdam Court of …

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• 22 May

  ACJU commends President for crushing terrorism

  The All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama rejoice that the scourge of terrorism has been eradicated from our motherland and praise Almighty Allah for this blessing. We extend our congratulations to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, for his visionary and resolute leadership and to Lt. Col. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the Secretary/Defence, the Service Commanders and the IGP for their dedicated services in liberating the country …

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• 22 May

  Now, Marginalize the communal political parties

  Now since terrorism that plagued the country has been put down, new attitudes and new thinking on how to manage this country of ours must emerge. The president has already set the pace by his speech in parliament on 19th May 2009, when he said that from now there are only 2 different communities, those that are patriotic and those …

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