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Azmi Bishara, erstwhile Arab MK writing from self-imposed exile in Jordan, declares his innocence of charges leveled against him by Israeli police: “I have never used violence or participated in wars.” He is accused of passing information to Hezbollah.
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Interview with Azmi Bishara: “The longer the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians continues, he says, Arab Israelis Palestinians in the occupied territories will draw closer and the argument for a single, binational state will grow stronger..”
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- [from elizrael] Chief Rabbis combat abortion, warn it delays redemption | Jerusalem Post, Dec 29, 2009Declaring that abortions "delay the redemption," Israel's chief rabbis have pledged to "strengthen" the work of an anti-abortion council in the rabbinate and urged state-employed rabbis to take other steps to reduce abortions.... Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Metzger told The Jerusalem Post that it was important to encourage fertility and di […]
- [from elizrael] 45 maltreated OFWs arrive from Lebanon | ABS-CBN, Dec 29, 2009
- [from elizrael] Wars and disputed elections: The most dangerous stories for journalists | Reporters Sans Frontières, Dec 30, 2009
- [from elizrael] Death Sentences for Two Detainees of Recent Events « Persian2English's Blog, Dec 30, 2009According to a report issued by the Freedom of Speech and Thought unit of Human Rights Activists in Iran, on December 28, 2009 at the 28th Branch of the Revolutionary Court, Judge Mogheisy sentenced Ahmad Karimi, one of the detainees arrested before Iran’s June election to death. In one of the “show trials,” Ahmad Karimi confessed to “fighting against God” a […]
- [from elizrael] Ethnic Cleansing? | Mahmood's Den, Dec 30, 2009It looks like some neighbourly sorts took umbrage with the display of some murals and traditional black flags in some of Bahrain’s villages, took matters in their own hands by removing said flags in Sanad. In Busaiteen, a sleepy village in the Kingdom of Muharraq, they went a step further and torched a couple of houses which had the temerity of displaying th […]
- [from elizrael] Filipina dead at Lebanon envoy's Vienna home--police| INQUIRER.net, Dec 30, 2009
- [from elizrael] Students, militia clash on Tehran university campus -- latimes.com, Dec 29, 2009a representative of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei labeled the leaders of the protest movement mohareb, or "enemies of God," who deserve the death penalty. "In our system of justice the penalty for mohareb is clear," Ayatollah Abbas Vaez-Tabasi, an aging cleric who controls a vast religious charity in eastern Iran, said in comments […]
