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Posts Tagged ‘Gaza’

Should America Be Allowed in Swat?

By Mohsin Sehgal • Jan 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Pakistanis, do you have any idea that we have actually lost the valley of Swat to the Taliban? The once paradise of Swat has now become a living horror where terrorists are massacring people, hanging them, exhuming them out of the graves, running their own government and exploiting the name of Islam and forcing people [...]



A Fateh e Mubeen for Hamas in Gaza

By A Khokar • Jan 15th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

Looking at the tepid global reaction to the massacre of the civilians in Gaza, one wonders whether the conscience of the international community is half asleep or is suffering from something called sympathy fatigue.  Hundreds of civilian casualties, incessantly escalating human misery, and with no end in the Israeli military action in sight, even God [...]



The Artist Saves the World

By Guest Blogger • Jan 13th, 2009 • Category: Politics

As I sat, watched and listened to the coverage of Israel’s bombing of Gaza, I was sadly reminded of a similar type of the one-sided coverage, that proceeded America’s invasion of Iraq. It was quite easy to question or even tell that the information being put forth, was very inaccurate or just outright lies. ANy [...]



Like Gaza, Muslim World Won’t Help Pakistan When India Attacks

By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • Jan 12th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Gaza is burning and Gazans are dying, 99% of them Muslims. Egypt keeps its’ blockage of Gaza and supports Israel silently while the Arab world utter some weak squeals from their harems amidst the beauties of world. Who cares for Gaza, when the oil prices are dropping like hell and the sustenance of the luxuries [...]



Hezbollah’s Passion: A New lesson of war

By A Khokar • Jan 8th, 2009 • Category: Politics

In the recent history of Middle East; Hezbollah’s passion demonstrated in the Lebanon War 0f 2006 has shown a new way to the Arabs in particular and also to all the resilient resistance movements struggling for their freedom around the world that nothing dares standing in the way of their ‘will power’.
A rag-tag Hezbollah; when [...]



Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims

By fzuberi • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:16:21 GMT

Medics tell Press TV they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Gaza residents wounded in Israel’s ground offensive on the strip.
Norwegian medics told Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari that some of the victims who have been wounded since Israel began its attacks on the Gaza Strip on [...]



Gaza Crisis & Barack Obama’s Silence

By Swaraaj Chauhan • Jan 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Gaza crisis has been described as a recurring Middle Eastern nightmare. I can understand why US president-elect has decided to keep quiet. He has inherited a tragedy/madness whose history dates back to almost 100 years of political skulduggery of the powerful Western nations in that part of the world dividing the Jews and Arabs who [...]



This Kind of War

By Justin Podur • Jan 6th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The current crisis in Gaza began with Israel’s breaking the ceasefire with Hamas on November 4, 2008. The five-month ceasefire was unsustainable for two reasons. First and most importantly, because it condemned the Palestinians of Gaza to a slow and wasting death: part of the ceasefire was the continuation of Israel’s blockade of Gaza. As [...]



Giving Israel more Time to Weaken Hamas in Gaza

By A Khokar • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Daily Haaretz, Jerusalem (not so conservative) Israeli news paper says in their analysis:
 The international community, headed by the U.S. and Egypt, is giving Israel time to carry out the ground offensive in Gaza, so it will severely damage Hamas’ regime. The rationale behind such a move is that a weakened Hamas would improve the chances [...]



The Silent War in Gaza

By Guest Blogger • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Politics

The Israeli blitzkrieg in Gaza rages on….. silently.
Reports of WMD’S in the form of cluster bombs and white phospherus bombs leaked out late yesterday…. today there is silence. Silence not due to the end of hostilities, but due to few or no reports getting out of Gaza. The few journalists that remain have no means [...]