1 day ago by Pepper

Natural Growth. Well, what is natural growth? If you ask me however- I’d say it’s the way a child grows, or plants do… or kittens…It’s the way your life grows…. you grow- from child to teenager, teenager to adult, young to old. It’s the way your hair grows, thins and greys. It’s also the way cities ...

Irrationality Itches - irritch.com · 3 references

5 days ago by MERC

Jerusalem Post journalist Ron Friedman writes about the proposed deportation of some 1200 children born to illegal foreign workers in Israel: " In a country where the word 'deportation' is laden with emotional baggage, the Israeli government is grappling with the dilemma of whether to deport the chi ...

Middle East Reality Check - middleeastrealitycheck.blogspot.com · 10 references

12 days ago by Elias

By Franklin Lamb – Lebanon Known simply as the ‘General’ Michel Naim Aoun was born in a peaceful mixed Christian-Shia area of Haret Hreik, now a core Hezbollah area. He rose from poverty to become the head of Lebanon’s newly created Eighth army following the September 1983 battle of Souq el Gharb ag ...

INTIFADA - intifada-palestine.com · Rank: 32,145 · 30 references

17 days ago by Fred Stopsky

Israel and Palestinians argue over the “right of return” of Palestinian refugees who were uprooted from their homes during the Israel war of independence. An estimated 700,000 Palestinians fled the country and now they and their children constitute a population of over 4,000.000. There currently are ...

The Impudent Observer - theimpudentobserver.com · Rank: 33,600 · 75 references

23 days ago by K Hoffart

How to engage Iran Ms. Ebadi suggested that the nature of Iran's regime is more crucial to U.S. security than any specific deals on nuclear energy. Iran's people are not as wedded to the nuclear program as the regime wants outsiders to believe. A democratic government would be unlikely to build a nu ...

Middle East Notebook - mideastnotebook.blogspot.com · Rank: 100,780 · 1 reference

27 days ago by Muzna

في الاعتصام، اعلام فلسطينية وخطب طويلة والكثير من الكوفيات، شبان يبحثون عن فتيات اقل احتشاماً من جاراتهم، ورجالٌ يزعجهم اعتلاء زميلاتهم للمنابر، صحفيون يتوقون لقصة لم يرووها بعد، ونساء يُتقنّ الرواية لأن الحكاية لم تكتمل، اطفال يجدون في الساحة التي تبعدهم عنها عزلة مخيماتهم، مداً فقدته ازقتهم، ممثلو ...

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28 days ago by Muzna

آمال الناس في اعادة بناء بيوت لهم دمرتها حرب الجيش مع مسلحي فتح الاسلام عام ٢٠٠٧، يدمرها اليوم صمتنا وقبولنا بأن يبقى عشرات الآلاف من اللاجئين الفلسطينين اللذين لهم علينا واجب حقوقي دون مسكن. شاركوا اليوم في اعتصام تضامني مع نهر البارد.. او زوروا مدونة نهر البارد للمزيد من المعلومات

Muzna's Stories - hakaya.blogspot.com

31 days ago by Elias

By: Dan Lieberman “Israel has revealed its nature; a nation built on actions normally termed war crimes by world institutions; a nation that does not follow international law; and a nation that does not heed United Nations Resolutions. Distracting and deceiving the world community with contrived and ...

INTIFADA - intifada-palestine.com · Rank: 32,145 · 30 references

39 days ago by Alex

In the wake of the War of Independence in 1948, when Israel was invaded by the armies of five of its Arab neighboring countries, 860,000 Jewish refugees fled from Arab countries to Israel, and, at about the same time, about 70% of the Arab population of Mandatory Palestine fled to Arab states from t ...

Israel & Jewish Life Blog - jerusalemist.com · Rank: 64,167 · 1 reference

43 days ago by Signs of the Times

An authoritative and highly critical United Nations inquiry released last week concluded that Israel "committed actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity" during its three-week offensive against Gaza in December last year. The report is one of the most damning ever made of Is ...

Take the Power Back - theholtman.com