Arab-Israeli MP loses more rights over flotilla
18 Jul 2011: JERUSALEM: An Israeli parliamentary committee on Monday stripped an Arab-Israeli MP of more rights over her participation in a 2010 flotilla seeking to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza, she told AFP. Haneen Zuabi, an MP with the left-wing Arab partyGoldstone's Legacy for Israel
29 Jan 2011: A sprawling crime scene. That is what Gaza felt like when I visited in the summer of 2009, six months after the Israeli attack. Evidence of criminality was everywhere-the homes and schools that lay in rubble, the walls burned pitch black by whiteIsrael razes mosque in Bedouin city of Rahat
08 Nov 2010: RAMALLAH: The Israeli Lands Administration (ILA) inspectors backed by police force on Sunday demolished a mosque in the Bedouin city of Rahat, in southern Israel, saying they were "illegally built." Fayez Abu Sehaiban, Rahat mayor, said that some 5,000UN Atomic Agency Curtails Probe of Israel’s Nuclear Capability
06 Sep 2010: United Nations investigators, ordered to write a report about Israel’s atomic capabilities, said they couldn’t compile enough information to assess the extent of the country’s nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency releasedIsraeli indicted in U.S. for smuggling arms to Somalia
30 Jun 2010: Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry sources adamantly denied yesterday that they were in any way involved in arms shipments to Somalia. Spokesmen for both ministries were responding to news of the arrest in the U.S. of Hanoch Miller, an Israeli armsIsraeli Document: Gaza Blockade economic warfare against Hamas
10 Jun 2010: As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of the Gaza Strip Wednesday, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the Islamist group Hamas, which rulesIAEA meeting to discuss Israel nuclear
08 Jun 2010: The United Nations nuclear agency is expected to discuss Israel's nuclear capabilities at its board of governors meeting in the Austrian capital, Vienna. It is the first time since 1991 that Israel's nuclear issue is included in the five-day meeting ofIsraeli forces kill three Palestinians
02 Jun 2010: The Israeli military has killed at least three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a day after Israeli commandos killed 20 activists aboard six aid ships in international waters. Medics in Gaza announced that the Palestinians were killed in northern parts ofIsraeli Attack on Gaza Aid Ship Violates International Law
01 Jun 2010: Last night, Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish aid ship on its way to Gaza. It is reported that they killed ten to fifteen activists and injured thirty more. The flotilla was attacked in international waters, 65km off the Gaza coast. Organizers said theIsrael admits harvesting Palestinian organs
21 Dec 2009: Israel has admitted that pathologists harvested organs from dead Palestinians, and others without the consent of their families – a practice that it said ended in the 1990s, it emerged at the weekend. The admission, by the former head of the country'sIsraeli director of IFM admits harvesting organs
20 Dec 2009: RAMALLAH: The chief Israeli pathologist and director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir, professor Yehuda Hiss, has admitted harvesting organs from the bodies of dead Palestinians without the consent of their families. Hiss said that heIsraeli army shaken by own extremist rebels
01 Dec 2009: TEL AVIV - The Israeli military has been shaken from within because of a growing number of extremist religious soldiers who say they will refuse to obey orders to evacuate illegal Jewish settlements from the occupied West Bank. So concerned is the topIsrael bids to mend ties with Turkey
24 Nov 2009: Israel's trade minister Monday began a visit to Turkey to mend strained relations, saying Ankara could help resolve the conflict between Israel and Syria. "Turkey can help put things in place in the conflict between Israel and Syria," Benjamin BenIsraeli military offering ever more support to settlers and gives them free rein
29 Oct 2009: During a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem last Thursday, two soldiers held up a banner that sparked a wave of condemnation by soldiers and civilians alike. The slogan on the banner – "Shimshon [Brigade] does not evacuate Homesh" –Goldstone and Erdogan symbolize is that Operation Cast Lead in Gaza has come to haunt Israel
19 Oct 2009: Israel’s calculated method of dismissing criticism of its policies is continuously displayed in the actions and conduct of its leaders. Arrogance and contempt are unmistakably some of the defining characteristics of a leadership foolishly believing thatslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
