21 days ago by markmac

By shared taxis from Tripoli, Lebanon to Beirut - Friday, Oct. 30 The best, and cheapest, way to travel around Lebanon is by what the locals call a servees, taxi cabs that fill up gradually with people heading (roughly) in the same direction. A few thousand Lebanese pounds buys you a seat in an over ...

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32 days ago by Nadia Hasan

Early in the morning, between 5 and 6am, a wave of footsteps and whispering voices can be heard in the narrow alleys of Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp [ Sabbah: Palestinian Refugee Camp] in South Lebanon. It is in the darkness of the early morning hours that hundreds of Palestinian day laborers leav ...

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54 days ago by MERC

The aerial photograph of Jerusalem's glorious blue and gold Dome of the Rock, Islam's 3rd holiest shrine, was in the 2008 Rosh-Hoshanah supplement to The Australian Jewish News. Bizzarely, the caption read: " Jerusalem is the holiest Jewish city in the world." What, one wonders, were the AJN's reade ...

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64 days ago by JNOUBIYEH

By Abdelfattah Abusrour Dear Mr. President: My name is Abdelfattah Abdelkarim Hasan Ibrahim Mohamad Ahmed Mostafa Ibrahim Srour Abusrour. I was born in the Aida Refugee camp, on rented land from Palestinian owners from Bethlehem. My two eldest brothers as well as my father and his father and all tho ...

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66 days ago by Ray

ADC Remembers Sabra and Shatila Washington DC | September 16, 2008 | www.adc.org | Today, marks 26 years since one of the bloodiest and most brutal massacres in recent history, the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Twenty six years ago, shortly after the I ...

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66 days ago by Ray

ADC Remembers Sabra and Shatila Washington DC | September 16, 2008 | www.adc.org | Today, marks 26 years since one of the bloodiest and most brutal massacres in recent history, the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Twenty six years ago, shortly after the I ...

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66 days ago by Ray

ADC Remembers Sabra and Shatila Washington DC | September 16, 2008 | www.adc.org | Today, marks 26 years since one of the bloodiest and most brutal massacres in recent history, the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Twenty six years ago, shortly after the I ...

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66 days ago by JNOUBIYEH

Khalid Amayreh “The ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel was not an unintended consequence, or fortuitous occurrence, or even a ‘miracle’, as Israel’s first president Chaim Weizmann later proclaimed; it was the result of long and meticulous planning,” Ilan Pappe, Professor of Political Science at ...

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68 days ago by K Hoffart

Revealed: UK's first official sharia courts Islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. Tony Badran of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies published a translation and analysis of the al Qaeda in Iraq letters discussed i ...

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74 days ago by Maskil

The recent revolutionary changes in the roles of the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) and Nefesh B'Nefesh (NBN) regarding Aliya from North America provide (perhaps unnecessary) lessons in what happens to institutions that fail to adapt to changed circumstances. Rather than organisational roles, howev ...

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