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APO Spirit at the Big Fat Kurdish Wedding! By Abdennour Toumi Derbassiya, Turkey — Here in Turkey Kurdistan is very dear to the hearts and minds of Kurds across the region, including Mesopotamia and other historical places, and I wonder if any people have occupied such a unique position before. Certainly Kurdistan is very dear in…
The Palestinian Nuclear Option: the Road to ICC Membership By Ali Younes As soon as the war on Gaza that started on July 8 and lasted for 51 days ended the pressure started mounting on Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to file an application with the International Criminal Court ( ICC) as a way to punish…
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Mandy Patinkin for Israeli Prime Minister Stephen Colbert for SECURITY By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday Mandy Patinkin announced on The Colbert Report that he wants to run for Prime Minister of Israel after the fourth season of Homeland. In the series Mandy Patinkin plays CIA Middle-East Division Chief Saul Berenson and he prefaced his announcement…
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US Israel Nuclear Ambiguity Declassified and What Vanunu Said By Eileen Fleming After 45 years of top-secret status documenting America’s colluding role in Israel’s nuclear ambiguity; the worldwide ‘secret’ ended last week with declassified papers made public by the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP). In March, Obama decided to release the documents revealing American…
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Farmers protest Turkish economic policies By Abdennour Toumi Mardin, Turkey — Last week, fire and barricades blocked the roads for three days as farmers protested their electricity and water being cut off to irrigate their corn fields. In the southern districts of Derik and Kiziltepe. Residents of these districts are angered by the lack of water and…
In a videotaped message: Captured Lebanese soldiers plead with government to free them from ISIS Lebanese soldiers have only 3 days to live By Ali Younes In a taped video message posted on Youtube today Lebanese soldiers who were captured by the terror group the “Islamic State” fighters (also known as ISIS or ISIL) earlier…
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Iran Torture Jon Stewart ROSEWATER Israel Torture Vanunu Youtube By Eileen Fleming Jon Stewart’s directorial debut “Rosewater” premiers at this weekend’s Telluride Film Festival ahead of its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September-a trailer can be viewed at YouTube HERE “Rosewater” is based on the best-selling memoir by Maziar Bahari, Then…
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Hamas Israel Ceasefire, International Court and Palestinian Resistance Unity By Eileen Fleming On Tuesday evening, Israel’s 50-day’s of assault on the Gaza Strip ended with an indefinite ceasefire mediated by Egyptian officials in Cairo based on the understandings that ended the Israeli war against the Gaza Strip in 2012. Three months ago, Israeli Prime Minister…
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Palestinian Children return to school as Israeli war crimes continue By Mohammed Asad The start of the school year began normally in the Palestinian territories except on the Gaza Strip where Israeli military war crimes targeting civilians and destroying civilian homes and property continues. Many believe the Israeli Army is intentionally targeting civilians and destroying civilian…
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Sex, Stem Cells, ALS #IceBucketChallenge By Eileen Fleming As of Saturday morning, The ALS Association had received $62.5 million in donations compared to $2.4 million during the same time period last year (July 29 to August 23). On Saturday morning three friends unexpectedly stopped in and one of them is being worked up for ALS…
By Mohammed Asad with Eileen Fleming On Thursday three more Palestinian children were killed in the Gaza Strip according to Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra, “The three children, aged 7, 8 and 11, were killed in an Israeli strike in eastern Gaza City.” Israel also killed 17 Palestinians including three commanders of the Ezzeddin al-Qassam, the…
Obama, Kerry silent on murdered Gaza children, civilians in latest war crime By Mohammed Asad (EDITOR’S NOTE: Warning, some photos may be too gruesome to view, except for President Obama, John Kerry or War Criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and his Israeli rightwing supporters): President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who each held separate press conferences…
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Palestinian civilians determined to rebuild lives in face of Israeli Gaza war crimes By Mohammed Asad Palestinian civilians returned to their destroyed homes and properties during a brief truce in the Israeli war crimes against civilian areas of the Gaza Strip. Israel’s military forces, the “IDF,” have intentionally targeted civilians as witnessed by the devastation of…
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Israel’s Security, Palestine’s Liberation and All that Jazz By Eileen Fleming Israels security, Palestine’s Liberation: Monday at midnight in Cairo the current cease-fire talks are due to end. On Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would only accept a proposal for a long-term cease-fire if Israel’s security needs were met. A senior Israeli official said….
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Palestinian Jewish Martyr Jesus was never a Christian By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News Until my first trip to both sides of The Wall in the so called Holy Land I was a ‘church lady’ who taught Sunday School to middle and high school students at an Episcopal Church. After my…
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Shame on the men and women who hurl curses at President Jimmy Carter at every opportunity they get – all we see on the internet is ugliness displayed towards him. What is wrong with their sense of gratitude? Of course, a majority of good decent Israelis respect and honor him, but we don’t hear much…
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From Joan Rivers to Vanunu and Iran by way of WMD By Eileen Fleming Last Wednesday Joan Rivers was asked by the celebrity website Splash News Online about Israel’s Operation Protective Edge and replied, “When you declare war, you declare war. They started it. We now don’t count who’s dead. You’re dead. You deserve…
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Children with PTSD in Gaza: AIPAC and MLK in USA By Eileen Fleming Exclusive to The Arab Daily News Palestinian health officials report that since Israel’s Operation Protective Edge began on July 8th, more than 1,900 people including at least 450 children have been killed. More than 9,000 civilians including at least 3,000 children…
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