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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 17, 2009

  PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: Eliminating the Palestine homeland

By Angie Todd: IN his carefully prepared speech to a Muslim audience at the University of Cairo, Egypt on June 4, Barack Obama, the current U.S. president, correctly recognized that central to peace in the Middle East is the solution to what he described as the situation between Israelis,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 4, 2009

  Cuba, a terrorist country?

Reflections of Fidel THURSDAY, April 30, was an unfortunate day for the United States. That day it occurred to it to once again include Cuba on its list of terrorist countries. Involved as they are in their own crimes and lies, perhaps even Obama himself was unable to disentangle...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Mar 11, 2009

  Syrian nuclear mystery remains unsolved

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Murtazin) - Last week, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna to discuss the Iranian nuclear file and the Syrian nuclear mystery. The IAEA has some misgivings about Syria's al-Kibar nuclear...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 10, 2009

  An unnecessary war in Gaza

By Jimmy Carter: 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 area, my wife, Rosalynn, and I...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 2, 2009

  If Hamas Did Not Exist

By JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN: Israel Has No Intention of Granting a Palestinian State Let us get one thing perfectly straight. If the wholesale mutilation and degradation of the Gaza Strip is going to continue; if Israel’s will is at one with that of the United States; if the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 26, 2008

  Sodomy Laws Are Rooted in British Colonialism

By Nergui Manalsuren, IPS News: Although 66 countries signed a statement at the United Nations on Dec. 19 affirming that human rights protections extend to sexual orientation and gender identity, activists note that dozens of nations still criminalize homosexuality and seven impose the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 21, 2008

  From Bush’s idealism to Obama’s realism?

By ÖMER TAŞPINAR: When President George W. Bush entered office, he promised to follow a "realist's" foreign policy. His secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, was a student of Brent Scowcroft, who, together with Henry Kissinger, is an icon of American realpolitik. Cheney, his vice...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 18, 2008

  Barack Obama's historic victory (2)

By RICHARD FALK* Barack Obama's presidential victory, above all, signaled to the world an American willingness to repudiate Bush militarist and unilateralist approaches to global policy. Time will tell, but what now prevails is an unprecedented mood of high and happy expectations.The...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 9, 2008

  Where should Obama start the change in US policy in the Mideast?

By HALUK ÖZDALGA* The Bush administration is approaching its final days in dire disappointment in all areas. In international relations, it is a huge failure felt most severely in the greater Middle East, an area of direct concern for Turkey. The single most important reason for this...... [view]

Posted By:  RaquelEvita
Posted On:  Aug 8, 2008

  News roundup - with the help of MMW

"You won't be able to stop them, but you can protect yourself" - Egyptian hijab campaign in which men are flies and women are lollies. As always, Muslimah Media Watch delivers a comphrehensive list of media about women and Islam in their Friday Links post. This week,...... [view]

Posted By:  Badiaa
Posted On:  Jul 23, 2008

  شهداؤنا بانتظار "التعليمات"...إلى متى؟

أسبوع مر على عملية التبادل بين حزب الله و الكيان الصهيوني أسبوع مر على عودة رفات شهدائنا الفلسطينيين و اللبنانيين و العرب (سوريون و تونسيون و أردنيون و...... [view]

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  Follow the Women for Peace

Starter:   Jormouse
Date Created:  Jul 14, 2008
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Description:   Follow the Women for Peace is an international women initiative that uses women-only cycling through Middle Eastern countries to raise awareness on the urgent need for peace and to empower women....
Goals:   The aims of Follow the Women are to: • Raise awareness of how the current situation in the Middle East affects the lives of women and children. • Show solidarity with women in the region and build a network of mutual support \ • Change misconceptions about Palestine and the Middle East and portray people’s realities in the media • Provide a platform for women's dialogue and shared experience • Stress the urgency of real peace in the Middle East, and pursue efforts to bring an end to violence and suffering • Highlight women’s creative power and their right to active participation • Develop and support peace initiatives on local, national and international levels.
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