Tensions between Jewish settlers and Muslim Palestinians continue to increase. Jewish settlers decided to ignore a Supreme Court decision ordering them to vacate a building next to a Mosque in Hebron. on...
Just as the Israeli Foreign Minister Livni prepares to announce an early election, this most surprising vandalising event at Hebron shows the rising tension between ultanationalist settlers and Palestinians. " Jewish settlers have gone on a...
"Mediation Bush-style
Bush's visit to Israel was preceded by the seizure of swathes of Palestinian land and the announcement that there will be no halt in settlement building. What hope for negotiations then, asks Saleh Al-Naami
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It ought to have been published since. It's great that it is now ben brought to light. Better late than never.The rising was sparked off by Catholic fears of an impending invasion of Ireland by anti-Catholic...
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When I lived in South Africa Playboy was illegal. It seems the country has now found its mojo:"JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans queued to learn about sex toys and pole-dancing this weekend, at the first sex fair ever held in a country founded by conservative...
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Proof that one culture (British) builds over another Culture (French) to erase all trace of history in the 1700's America.It will certainly be interesting to see what develops in the future digs in Vermont....
This post is based on an article from Time Magazine, Thursday, Apr. 26, 2007, written by Orlando Patterson. The article gives interesting detail of the earliest European settlers in America, at Jamestown. I...
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"Today is the 400th anniversary of the establishment of Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in what would become the United States of America. At first, it was a disaster. Their plan was to...
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In Cambodia's capitol city of Phnom Penh, a protest on behalf of the Khmer diaspora turned violent. The basis of the protest was the religious freedoms of the Khmer living in a Vietnamese region that once belonged to Cambodia."At least two Buddhist monks were injured Friday...
"Settlers are continuing to place mobile homes and trailers in West Bank outposts and settlements, without legal permits. Civil Administration reports show that since the start of the second Lebanon war in July, some 200 mobile homes have been placed. This is a substantial...
"CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's giant prehistoric animals, including 10-foot-tall kangaroos and wombat-like creatures as big as a rhinoceros, were likely wiped out by aboriginal settlers, not climate change, a researcher said Tuesday.
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The question of what...
I just posted the audio podcast of this report:"While
media coverage of Israel’s evacuation of 9,000 Jewish residents from
the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005 focused on the political and
physical struggle...
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"Today is Monday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2006. There are 90 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; he was the first black appointed to the nation's highest...
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