Search results

Ford Model T - 100 Years Later <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/S4KrIMZpwCY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed...

How Israel Brought Gaza to the Brink of Humanitarian Catastrophe By Avi Shlaim January 08, 2009 Part 2 The timing of the war was determined by political expediency. A general election is scheduled for 10 February and, in the lead-up to the election, all the main contenders are...

How Israel Brought Gaza to the Brink of Humanitarian Catastrophe Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions By Avi Shlaim...

Red Cross Finds Starving Children with 12 Corpses in Gaza 'House of Horrors' By Martin Fletcher, in Jerusalem January 08, 2009 (Reuters) - The ICRC believes there are more wounded sheltering in the ruins of shelled houses in Gaza and has demanded that the Israeli military provide...

An Unnecessary War by Jimmy Carter January 8, 2009 I know from personal involvement that the devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided. After visiting Sderot last April and seeing the serious psychological damage caused by the rockets that had fallen in that...

Are propagandists reading from the same script? By Linda S. Heard Jan 8, 2009, I’m beginning to think that Israeli politicians, officials, diplomats and spokespersons are walking about with cloned brains. Since their country’s massacre of Palestinians in Gaza, they’ve been appearing on...

UN: Israel Admits Claims About Attacked School Baseless International Outrage Can Safely Resume as Israel Backs off Allegations by Jason Ditz January 7, 2009 UN Relief and Works Agency spokesman Chris Gunness reported this evening that the Israeli army is privately briefing diplomats...

GAZA-NO PLACE IS SAFE January 07, 2009 <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uWP0GU0wVSk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed...

Yuan-settlement test to start Source: Xinhua Januart 7 2009 CHINA'S central bank said yesterday that it plans to implement a pilot program that would settle overseas trade with the Chinese currency instead of the US dollar. The People's Bank of China will expand financial cooperation...

CAR PARTS MADE FROM COCONUTS Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Coconuts are the seed of the coconut palm tree, which grows throughout the tropics. The top 5 coconut-growing nations in the world are the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Brazil and Thailand. Researchers in Texas are making car...

Satyam chairman resigns amid $1bn fraud Rhys Blakely in Mumbai January 7, 2009 One of India's biggest-ever corporate scandals took a sensational new turn today when the chairman of Satyam, the IT services giant, admitted he had orchestrated a $1billion (£669 million) fraud, and resigned...

Chronology of Israel's relationship with Gaza Recent events in Israel's troubled relationship with the Gaza Strip leading to the conflict. 19 June 2008 Ceasefire 24 June 2008 Hamas succeeds in getting other various groups to stop rocket attacks 26 June 2008 Hamas warns Israel that...

Real Estate War in Gaza History and "Morals" of Ethnic Cleansing By Victoria Buch PART 2 The above explains the mass participation of otherwise normal and more-or-less decent Israelis in the ongoing ethnic-cleansing projects. How else can you account for a dying elderly man and his...

The Real Estate War in Gaza The History and "Morals" of Ethnic Cleansing By Victoria Buch January 06, 2009 PART 1 I arrived in Israel 40 years ago. It took me many years to understand that the very existence of my country, as it is today, is based on an ongoing ethnic cleansing of...

China Announces The World's Largest Solar Plant By Bridgette Steffen January 6, 2009 From the Three Gorges Dam to the Great Wall, China is known for its monumental projects that count among the biggest and grandest in the world. Recently the nation announced its latest supermassive...

Read this to understand more on the conflict. Israel’s New War Ethic 2009-01-06 Not unlike raising animals for slaughter on a farm, the Israeli government maintains that it is providing Palestinians with assistance so that it can have a free hand in attacking them, notes Neve Gordon...

Who Broke Ceasefire First-Watch This CNN Video January 6, 2009. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KntmpoRXFX4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess"...

Friendly-Fire Deaths Test Israel's Will In Gaza Published on 01-06-2009 News of two fatal incidents came as Israeli tanks advanced under cover of darkness towards the town of Khan Younis while heavy fighting continued on the eastern edge of Gaza City. For the first time since operation...

Israeli leaders to debate "final" Gaza push By Dan Williams 07 Jan 2009 JERUSALEM, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Israeli leaders will debate on Wednesday whether to order their armed forces to storm into the Gaza Strip's urban centres, the planned culmination of an 11-day-old offensive, political...

The Unspoken Goal Of Bringing Down Hamas Amir Oren Haaretz Correspondent January 7, 2009 This morning the Israel Defense Forces operation in the Gaza Strip approaches a critical juncture: To be - deeper in, at a higher cost - or not to be. The operation in its current format has...