(24. Oktober) „We were shocked by some of the comments that he has made in the past, so it should come as no surprise that he wasn‘t able to get some of the meetings he requested,“ a US official told The Jerusalem Post on Friday.

(23. Oktober) The borders of many Arab states were drawn up by Westerners a century ago, and wars in recent years show that a number of them are doomed to break apart, according to Ya‘alon, a career soldier who became Israel‘s defense minister last year.

The White House refused to give Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya‘alon an audience with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice during his trip to the United States this week, senior American officials confirmed Friday. The reason for the cold shoulder was a number of statements Ya‘alon made six months ago, in which he criticized the Obama administration and Kerry in particular.

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager late Friday during clashes in Silwad village near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, medical officials said. Orwa Abd al-Wahhab Hammad, 14, was shot multiple times with live bullets. He was taken to Palestine Medical Complex where he was pronounced dead. An Israeli army spokeswoman said that soldiers fired at a Palestinian adult who was hurling a Molotov cocktail at forces in the area. Witnesses said Hammad was hit by an Israeli sniper from close range, insisting the soldier shot to kill. Orwa was a US national. His uncle was killed during the First Intifada.

(24. Oktober) A Palestinian teen with U.S. citizenship was killed today by the Israeli army at a demonstration in the West Bank town of Silwad, near Ramallah. Fourteen-year old Orwah Hammad was shot with a live bullet that entered his neck and exited through his head, according to Ramallah hospital staff. He died while being treated at Ramallah hospital around 6 p.m. this evening, Jerusalem time.

In this extract from When Google Met WikiLeaks Assange describes his encounter with Schmidt and how he came to conclude that it was far from an innocent exchange of views.

Julian Assange, the 43-year-old founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, has been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since June of 2012. He occupies a single room in the building, a couple hundred square feet of space cluttered with work and life. He avoids using email and tries to interact with his staff only in person.

Wenn ihr ehrlich mit euch seid, seht ihr die Abwärtsspirale, in die euch die Politik eurer Regierenden getrieben hat. Ihr wisst, dass nur die Extremisten etwas bei diesem Krieg zu gewinnen haben.

„1. no such thing as pali ONLY arab

2. land is ours …all of it !

3. we don‘t steal a thing if its ours!

4 Now go and stick ur head in a oven of zyklon B and do the world a favour !!“

Step should be taken if U.S. vetoes Palestinian end-of-occupation bid at UN Security Council, Saeb Erekat says.

In 2004 award-winning filmmaker Buthina Canaan Khoury made the documentary Women in Struggle about 4 Palestinian women who were former detainees. In her research and through interviews with the women, she documents the physical, mental and sexual torture women experienced during interrogations that led to forced confessions. Rasmea Odeh was one of those women. According to her testimony, she was brutally coerced into confession and served 10 years in an Israeli prison before her release. She was exiled from her Palestinian homeland and eventually immigrated to the United States from Jordan in 1994 as a legal resident where she tried to put her memories of torture behind her. She later became a naturalized citizen.

Germany said Thursday it is analyzing an Italian Constitutional Court ruling that struck down State immunity to civil prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity lodged in other countries.

Palästinensischer Arzt zu Gast in jüdischer Gedenkstätte in Freudental – Mahnmal und Ort der Völkerverständigung

(9.Dezember 2005) Es ist nie passiert. Nichts ist jemals passiert. Sogar als es passierte, passierte es nicht. Es spielte keine Rolle. Es interessierte niemand. Die Verbrechen der Vereinigten Staaten waren systematisch, konstant, infam, unbarmherzig, aber nur sehr wenige Menschen haben wirklich darüber gesprochen. Das muss man Amerika lassen. Es hat weltweit eine ziemlich kühl operierende Machtmanipulation betrieben, und sich dabei als Streiter für das universelle Gute gebärdet. Ein glänzender, sogar geistreicher, äußerst erfolgreicher Hypnoseakt.

Ich behaupte, die Vereinigten Staaten ziehen die größte Show der Welt ab, ganz ohne Zweifel. Brutal, gleichgültig, verächtlich und skrupellos, aber auch ausgesprochen clever. (…)

Ich glaube, dass den existierenden, kolossalen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz die unerschrockene, unbeirrbare, heftige intellektuelle Entschlossenheit, als Bürger die wirkliche Wahrheit unseres Lebens und unserer Gesellschaften zu bestimmen, eine ausschlaggebende Verpflichtung darstellt, die uns allen zufällt. Sie ist in der Tat zwingend notwendig.

Wenn sich diese Entschlossenheit nicht in unserer politischen Vision verkörpert, bleiben wir bar jeder Hoffnung, das wiederherzustellen, was wir schon fast verloren haben – die Würde des Menschen.

(8. August 2004) Alliance headquarters called it the official start of the training mission.

„The guys will essentially start work right away, establishing contact, offering advice and preparing the long-term training,“ spokesman Robert Pszczel said at alliance headquarters in Brussels.

(25. Oktober 2014) Die Militäroperation der USA im Jahr 2003 im Irak war laut dem Chef des Nato-Informationsbüros in Moskau, Robert Pszczel, ein Fehler, der möglicherweise hätte vermieden werden können, wenn die USA die anderen Mitglieder der Nordatlantischen Allianz zu Rate gezogen hätten.

Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad stressed that when the war against Syria started in 2011, some inside and outside the country lost the “compass” and they believed that what is taking place is an “Arab spring” that would bring democracy and freedom to the Arab citizens as some leaders and countries in the region and outside the region were driven by this novel which proved to be just an “illusion.”

In an article published by Lebanese al-Binaa Newspaper on Saturday, Mikdad wondered why the so-called “Arab Spring” has not reached the countries which are in dire need for democracy and for the realization of human rights such as Saudi Arabia, inquiring about the essence of this “spring” which has been plotted by Israel and the US.

A mobile exhibition embracing 114 photos captured by more than ten youths opened on Friday at Dar al-Assad for Culture in the coastal province of Lattakia under the title “Aleppo from destruction to victory”.
The exhibition documents the industries, archeological markets, life details and historical heritage of Aleppo city before and after being targeted by the armed terrorist organizations.

As he commented on Turkey‘s recent decision to assist the Iraqi Kudistan Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga forces to pass through Turkey into Kobani in Syria. Muslim said that the YPG, PYD‘s armed wing, already has enough soldiers in Kobani but the Peshmerga forces, whom will be crossing into Kobani, are special forces equipped with heavy weapons.

(8. Oktober) In an interview with ANF, PYD (Democratic Union Party) co-chair Saleh Moslem made important statements on the present situation in Kobanê, the details of the meeting with Turkish authorities in İstanbul, and the Kobanê decision of France.

Moslem said he had a meeting with the Turkish authorities last week in İstanbul and added: „The Turkish authorities promised us that they would help to Kobanê. But they don‘t keep their promise despite all our insistence“.

A senior Syrian Kurdish official on Friday rejected a report from Turkey‘s president that Syrian Kurds had agreed to let Free Syrian Army fighters enter the border town of Kobani to help them push back besieging Islamic State insurgents.

(24. Oktober) Turkey‘s president said Friday that Syrian Kurdish militants have agreed to accept 1,300 Free Syrian Army troops in Kobani to help fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Anadolu Agency reported

(24. Oktober) Mehrere Einheiten aus der nördlichen Provinz Aleppo sollen in die umkämpfte Stadt an der Grenze zur Türkei geschickt werden, teilte die FSA-Führung mit.

Es handele sich um etwa 1.300 FSA-Kämpfer, sagte der türkische Präsident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Die kurdische Partei der Demokratischen Union (PYD) sei mit der Unterstützung durch die FSA einverstanden

I recently read your statement decrying the UN General Assembly‘s election of Venezuela to the UN Security Council. This statement, so obviously laden with hypocrisy, necessitated this response.

You premise your opposition to Venezuela‘s ascendancy to the Security Council on your claim that „From ISIL and Ebola to Mali and the Central African Republic, the Security Council must meet its responsibilities by uniting to meet common threats.“ If these are the prerequisites for sitting on the Security Council, Venezuela has a much greater claim for this seat than the U.S., and this is so obvious that it hardly warrants pointing out.

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Last night an event called “Zionism & The New McCarthyism: A Conversation with Bruce Robbins” took place in Champaign-Urbana. It was a canceled University of Illinois event that was rescheduled as an independent event, without university support. Bruce Robbins’s short documentary, Some of My Best Friends are Zionists, interviews influential Jews such as Judith Butler and Tony Kushner who discuss the repression of anti-Zionist viewpoints. His talk addressed the rise of a “new McCarthyism” on college campuses which threatens to shut down criticism of Israel under the guise of “civility.” Respondents included myself, Jodi Byrd (Professor in American Indian Studies) and Bruce Levine (Professor of History). My comments were as follows: