WORLD NEWS TOMORROW – South Africa_ A unknown hacker has attacked the South African police official website, downloading the details of the whistle-blowers who reported crime, an official has reported. An “oversight” led to the data being kept on an insecure site, he added. This statement seems to be ambiguous since the police officer later [...]
The Inheritance of Abraham? A report on the ‘promised land’ is a ground-breaking report by the Church and Society Council that was overwhelmingly agreed this weekend at the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh. In adopting the report with only a handful of votes for remitting it, the Church of Scotland rejects the use of the Hebrew Bible to “sanction…occupation of land which involved the displacement of some 750,000 people living there”.
Earlier this month an MP got up in the House of Commons and proposed that the UK government outlaw, or “proscribe”, the whole Hezbollah organisation, not just its military wing.
In the last few years we have been witnessing the emergence of a self-gratifying populist culture in the midst of the Palestinian scholarly discourse.
Historically, Palestinian refugees, wherever they have sought temporary sanctuary following the ethnic cleansing of their country by the 19th century Zionist colonial enterprise, and pending their return to Palestine, have insisted on avoiding local and international conflicts while seeking a modicum of interim civil rights from the host countries.
The Holy Land needs advocates for the truth. “It is the truth, and only the truth, that will lead to peace and justice”
“Diskotel” was coined by Yeshayahu Leibowitz by merging “kotel” with “discotheque.” In Hebrew, “kotel” means “wall,” and is the short referral form to the Western Wall in Jerusalem. “HaKotel HaMaaravi”—the Western Wall—is the full name. Using this phrase, Professor Leibowitz, an Orthodox Jew, made fun of the Jewish veneration of old stones in that site.
NIGERIA -What do these seemingly disparate events have in common? Relatively small groups, operating under the radar of national and international intelligence gathering and monitoring organizations, are having or preparing to have a significant impact on their country’s policies.
The Church felt obliged to change some of it after Jewish leaders sought to interfere, one complaining that it was “an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands for… and closes the door on meaningful dialogue”.
United Kingdom- According to the European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS), corporate firms will face more cyber threats in the type 1 communications systems of our modern day till we have managed to get to the next stage of a type 2 cyber communications network.
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- Herzl wrote, “The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”
“The political and humanitarian situation in the Holy Land continues to be a source of pain and concern for us all,” says the introduction to the Church of Scotland’s report The inheritance of Abraham?
Every year at this time, the Palestinians remember the “Nakba” or catastrophe and mourn their failings, while Israel celebrates its independence and success as regional and world power.
Since early 2011, Obama’s been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme’s familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism’s dark side.
Israel will celebrate its 65th year of “independence” (from whom?), a celebration steeped in historical lies, myths, blood, and the forced expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians from their homeland with the political, economic, and military support of the U.S. and Britain, two colonial racist powers who themselves understand the meaning of killing and ethnically cleansing indigenous populations around the world. .
Next May 17th will mark the 100th day more than 100 of Guantanamo’s 166 remaining prisoners will have refused food.
Those working in a date-orchard own a well kept secret. The best dates hide at the very top of the tree, where they are mercilessly scorched by the sun. They can’t be sold because they are extremely wrinkled; yet, they are the sweetest. While arduously cutting the commercial fruit branches, the better ones are enjoyed by the sweating workers.
It is so graphically obvious that this single-sentence introduction is enough to clarify the point. Look at Tel Aviv’s centennial logo and the emblem. Despite Tel Aviv-Yafo being formally a mixed Jewish-Palestinian city, the script is Hebrew and English.
The Bolshevik Revolution eventually blessed the West with at least one hundred million deaths. Neoconservativism recently blessed the West with millions of dead bodies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
The movement sent a six-trillion dollar bill to the average American. And this is not the end of the story, as neoconservative hawks are making their way to attacking Iran
Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said during Jerusalem Day: “next year in a more built up Jerusalem,” improving on an old Jewish prayer.
Writing on certain topics demands visiting unpleasantly racist websites. Yet, even such an event has a positive side: it revindicates our understanding of goodness.
I’m still rolling on the floor laughing my socks off at a report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
The Church indeed has had and will continue to have issues with revolutionary and subversive activities, but the church has never espoused hatred or even condoned physical persecutions against the Jews
U.S. drone strikes are creating cadres of anti-American fighters, furious over the killing and wounding of thousands of civilians.
Three of my favorite musicians – Elvis Costello, Roger Waters, and Brian Eno – are boycotting Israel. And now one of my favorite scientists, Stephen Hawking, is joining them.
Good thing I have access to CCTV-English (Chinese state television) for international news or I would have totally missed the scoop that Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu has frozen new settlement activity in the Palestinian West Bank.
As if the war on Islam and Muslims declared by certain evil forces within the US and international Zionism is not enough, the so-called “ Takfiri/Jihadist” terrorists have also declared war on Islam and Muslims.
William Cook in his masterly way tells us not to give up The-truth-tellers-lament-in-a-time-of-darkness even if “overwhelmed by darkness of the times”.
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