Yemen forces clash over Saleh before Friday protest
(Reuters) - Presidential guards loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh clashed in the town of Mukalla on Thursday with army units backing opposition groups who are demanding his ouster
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UK, Germany withdraw embassy staff from Yemen over unrest
(CNN) -- Germany and the United Kingdom are pulling nonessential embassy staff out of Yemen, they said Thursday, with the British citing "the rapid deterioration in the security situation."
Report: Former Israeli president may kill himself
JERUSALEM – A lawyer for a former Israeli president convicted of rape fears his client may commit suicide if he is forced to serve his seven-year sentence.
Special report: The revolution in central banking
(Reuters) - On a warm, Lisbon day last May, Jean-Claude Trichet, the ice-cool president of the European Central Bank, was asked whether the bank would consider buying euro zone governments' bonds in the open market.
Dubai police seize arms shipment
Dubai, Uae (CNN) -- Dubai police have intercepted an illegal shipment of 16,000 pistols from Turkey to Yemen, Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, the Dubai Police commander-in-chief, said Thursday.
France urges Syria to embrace dialogue, change
(Reuters) - France urged Syria on Thursday to open up to dialogue and democratic change, after Syrian forces killed six people in an attack on protesters and opened fire on hundreds of youths marching in solidarity.
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In U.S. poll, 60 percent back Libya military action
(Reuters) - Sixty percent of Americans support the U.S. and allied military action in Libya to impose a no-fly zone to protect civilians from forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday found.
Sanctions in 72 hours: How the U.S. pulled off a major freeze of Libyan assets
The Treasury Department team had been working nonstop on a plan to freeze Libyan assets in U.S. banks, hoping they might snare $100 million or more and prevent Moammar Gaddafi from tapping it as he unleashed deadly attacks against protesters who wanted him gone.
The ATFP And Yesterday’s Explosion In Occupied Jerusalem
That was fast. The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP), the Washington public relations firm of the Israeli-sponsored, Western-funded, American-supervised collaborationist Palestinian Authority (PA) in occupied Ramallah made sure to “deplore violence” immediately after the bombing in occupied Jerusalem yesterday.
While the Zionist entity routinely murders Palestinians it is only when an act of violence targets Israel does the ATFP feel obligated to issue a condemnation. The statement expresses the ATFP’s concern with recent events by saying: The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) has been following the escalating violence between Palestinians and Israel over the recent weeks with growing alarm.
That statement wouldn’t be so absurd if the Palestinians actually had an army capable of escalating violence in the face of Israel’s continuing siege of Gaza and killing of Palestinians. And if the ATFP has been following the violence of recent weeks, why was a condemnation issued only after Israel was targeting in a bombing? The ATFP, like the other Washington Arabs, adopts the same bias, prejudice, and sensitivities of American political culture. They released their statement just as quickly as the American media went into frenzy over the explosion.
The language of the ATFP’s condemnation is even more revealing than the timing of their latest outpouring of humanity and concern for “innocent civilians.”
The language of the ATFP’s condemnation is even more revealing than the timing of their latest outpouring of humanity and concern for “innocent civilians.”
The recent violence targeting Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank, the increased firing of missiles against southern Israel, Israeli attacks that have caused civilian casualties in Gaza, and today’s terrorist bombing in Jerusalem are all creating an explosive situation
“Violence targeting Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank” is a distorted, misleading and deceitful description of the reality in occupied Palestine 67. If someone had just arrived on earth and read that sentence he/she would not know the only “Israelis” in the West Bank are members of an occupying military force and armed colonial settlers. There can never be any comparison between the violence of the Israeli colonial occupation and the resistance of the occupied Palestinians neither in scope and intensity nor in its moral assessment. This is true even as the occupied Palestinian people are expected to exercise their right of resistance within a moral and legal framework, and the values of Arab culture which distinguish the entire region from an artificial Zionist state implanted in its midst and acted without any moral or legal constraints since its inception.
Also notice today’s bombing is described as a “terrorist” act, but Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank “caused civilian casualties.” This phraseology prematurely concludes that today’s bombing was a deliberate act of murder certainly carried out by Palestinians while absolving Israel of any act of terror and murder by negating the deliberate intent of Israel’s state terrorism which routinely targets Palestinian civilians.
Hussein Ibish, the PA’s Washington concierge and the empty-tuxedo Ziad Asali issued their press release as part of their continuous campaign to demonstrate their civility, morality, and humanity to the Washington elite by distancing themselves from the violent, immoral Palestinians and ensuring the presence of one US official at all future ATFP galas. Rather than demonstrating any consistent and principled moral stance, such statements of selective outrage and condemnation highlight the hypocrisy, moral bankruptcy, and cheap opportunism of the ATFP.
Also notice today’s bombing is described as a “terrorist” act, but Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank “caused civilian casualties.” This phraseology prematurely concludes that today’s bombing was a deliberate act of murder certainly carried out by Palestinians while absolving Israel of any act of terror and murder by negating the deliberate intent of Israel’s state terrorism which routinely targets Palestinian civilians.
Hussein Ibish, the PA’s Washington concierge and the empty-tuxedo Ziad Asali issued their press release as part of their continuous campaign to demonstrate their civility, morality, and humanity to the Washington elite by distancing themselves from the violent, immoral Palestinians and ensuring the presence of one US official at all future ATFP galas. Rather than demonstrating any consistent and principled moral stance, such statements of selective outrage and condemnation highlight the hypocrisy, moral bankruptcy, and cheap opportunism of the ATFP.
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