At least 469 children have been killed and over 3,000 injured in Gaza since the start of the Israeli offensive, a senior UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official said, adding that more than 370,000 Palestinian kids require “immediate psychosocial first aid.”

Kein diplomatisches Blatt vor dem Mund nahm sich am Mittwoch der deutsche Entwicklungsminister Gerd Müller (CSU), als er Katar direkt der Finanzierung des „Islamischen Staats“ bezichtigte. Damit schlug er in die Kerbe des nunmehrigen irakischen Übergangspremiers Nuri al-Maliki, der wiederholt nicht nur das kleine Emirat, sondern auch Saudi-Arabien als Geldgeber der extremistischen sunnitischen Jihadisten benannte.

At Germany’s initiative, Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel.

On the eve of Ms Merkel’s visit to Kiev on August 23, the two leaders exchanged views on the situation in Ukraine.

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Israel’s Move to the Right Challenges Diaspora Jews

This is a brilliant speech– not just in its ideas but its subtle manner, its means of entering a Jewish space and forever changing it. The speech avoids the rhetoric of anti-Zionism, but when you hear this speech, you realize that it is Over for the Israel lobby inside the Jewish Diaspora. It is just a matter of time.

I pose the same question to those in high positions in Jewish institutions in America who enable Israel in the name of the Jewish people everywhere (as you also claim).

What’s your endgame in Gaza?

Then, tell me, what your endgame is in the West Bank and Jerusalem. As leaders you have a strategy – you have to. What is it? Where is it likely to lead us?

You justify everything Israel does. You invoke the Nazis, terrorist Hamas and now ISIS. Jews, indeed the whole world, has heard it all.

Tell us Israel, beyond tomorrow or the next day, what do you have in mind?

At least 2090 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing Israeli offensive rocking besieged Gaza since July 7, Al-Mezan center for human rights said on Thursday.

The center said in a statement issued Thursday that Al Mezan and sister human rights group documented until August 21, 2014, the killing of 2,090 Palestinians whose names were identified. The total death toll includes 494 children and 287 women.

Sleeping in Gaza becomes a prosperity due to the continuous Israeli raids day and night from air, sea and ground.

Sleeping becomes our last priority we would care about because death is everywhere. At home we are counting our last minutes and expecting any moment a strike would hit our house or our neighbor’s house.

The US decision to block the adoption of a UN Security Council draft resolution on aid to Ukraine leaves no doubt the United States wants to continue the armed confrontation in that country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday, commenting on US decision to block the Russia-proposed draft resolution on relief aid to the population in southeast Ukraine.

On August 21, Russia suggested adopting a UN Security Council Resolution to support the delivery of relief aid to the conflict-hit eastern Ukraine.

Ein Jahr nach dem letzten Versuch wollen die U.S.A. wieder einmal Luftangriffe in Syrien legitimieren. Nur diesmal nicht gegen dessen Regierung, sondern die eigenen Invasionsstreitkräfte, die sie und ihre “Alliierten” selbst aufgebaut und ins Land haben einfallen lassen. Lächerlicher geht es nicht.

As predicted, the „sudden“ appearance of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) in northern Iraq weeks ago, has created the rhetorical framework within which the United States and its regional partners will attempt to militarily intervene in both Iraq and Syria. Token US airstrikes have already been underway in Iraq, and it is now revealed that US special operation forces have been operating in Syria, under the guise of attempting to rescue abducted and now slain American journalist, James Wright Foley.