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- Affiliation:
- Professor Emeritus, DePaul University
- Birthday:
- December 8, 1953
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By The Associated Press Dahiyah - meaning the suburb in Arabic - is the Hezbollah stronghold that was heavily targeted by Israel during its war with the militant Shiite group during the Second Lebanon War in 2006...
Top American intellectual sees no significant change of US foreign policy under Obama. By Mamoon Alabbasi - LONDON As civilised people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W...
R2E, URGENT APPEAL, 31 October 2009 21 year old Berlanty Azzam was detained at a military checkpoint, blindfolded and then deported to Gaza on Monday 2nd November...
Before House Members vote on H.Res. 867, regarding the U.N. Goldstone report on the Gaza conflict, there are a few questions worth asking...
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has successfully test-fired a rocket capable of reaching Tel Aviv from the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli general warned on Tuesday...
by Michael Ratner On Tuesday, November 3, Congress is poised to vote on H.Res.867, which calls on the “President and the Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the `Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ in mul...
Dear Supporter, Last week, we at B’Tselem told you about a resolution in the House of Representatives that criticized the Goldstone Report quite harshly, while omitting any reference to the Obama Administration’s repeated calls for a credible Israeli investigation into Operation Cast Lead. If...
Renowned Parliamentarians and Experts to Testify at Opening Hearing OTTAWA, Oct...
Palestinian’s involuntary return is the sixth in 10 days, says human rights group By Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem A Palestinian student has been handcuffed, blindfolded and forcibly expelled to the Gaza Strip by Israeli troops just two months before she was due to graduate from university. ...
By Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. Posted October 29, 2009. The controversial Christian Right figure baselessly trashed Obama, and Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Wiesel calls him “dear pastor.” What gives? O...
Prof. Mohan B. Menon, educationist, heads the Unesco education project for nearly half a million displaced children among the Palestine refugees. He tells Priyadershini S. about the many challenges they face A school is blown up. Several children are dead. Shock and awe rip the community apart...
The kill ratio was 100-to-1 in our favor. The destruction ratio was much, much greater than that. To this day, thousands of Gazans are living in tents because we won’t let them import cement to rebuild the homes we destroyed. ...
Amnesty International has accused Israel of denying Palestinians the right to access adequate water by maintaining total control over the shared water resources and pursuing discriminatory policies...
