A very disturbing report by the DCI was published on Welcome to Baqa’a Refugee Camp about Palestinian children tortured, prisoned and sexually abused by the Israeli occupational forces. The report states that in 2006 and the first half of 2007:
Only 3 to 5% of the juveniles abducted were granted bail pending trial.
Two teachers tied up a 2nd or 3rd grade female student and took turns in beating her, in one of Amman’s school. The teachers tied her up to the safety net of a window, and had another student watch her being tortured, perhaps to learn a lesson. Read the full story here (in Arabic)
But not […]
Another journalist and blogger was arrested in Egypt! I can’t believe it, how threatening words are for some people (AKA oppressing regimes). Egyptian security forces arrested Abdul-Mon’em Mahmood, who works for Al-Hiwar channel and is also a blogger while trying to leave the country. The arrest happened after two days of chase and police raids […]
Just Foreign Policy together with Jewish Voice for Peace are planning to deliver to the US Senate - particularly the Democratic presidential candidates - a petition against cluster bombs.
Millions of unexploded cluster “bomblets” were left scattered over southern Lebanon after Israel withdrew last summer. Lebanese civilians, particularly children, have been killed and maimed by these […]
Al-Kasaba Film Festival ends tomorrow with Arna’s Children (which is on my to-watch list ). Today I could finally make it to Al-Balad Theater and I watched with my friend Ola and her cousin Goal Dreams. When you know that it’s about the Palestinian football team, you’ll probably think it’s just another documentary about […]
And then people wonder why the hell do some people bomb themselves just to kill a few other people. If Palestinians are denied the simplest rights such as the right to play football, can we expect them to love the tyrant who on the top of everything else deprived them from playing football?
This is not […]
If Palestinians did that, this would make headlines in the U.S media.
Tove Johansson from Stockholm walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a small group of human rights workers (HRWs) to accompany Palestinian schoolchildren to their homes. They were confronted by about 100 Jewish extremists in small groups. They started chanting in Hebrew “We killed […]
It’s unbelievable.
The U.A.E’s Etisalat had finally unblocked flickr only a couple of months ago, obviously in an attempt to win back poor users who were stuck with Etisalat for ages before du -the new telecommunication provider- enters the market (and I assure you BTW, that U.A.E had no choice but allow entrants to their market […]
In a shocking revelation, given headline coverage in a British newspaper, The Independent, it is revealed that there is evidence to suggest that Israel was using uranium based weapons when firing on Lebanon. [Read more]
Can we hope for sanctions against Israel this time? or is Israel untouchable?
This essay contest takes its title from a 1951 poem by Langston Hughes: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?. The poem helped propel the civil rights movement in the US. Today, it will hopefully inspire you to describe your dream deferred for the Middle East, which the UN calls the world’s least free region.
The contest […]
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