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Israel has secret plan to thwart division of Jerusalem

May 11th, 2009 · No Comments

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By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent
The government and settler organizations are working to surround the Old City of Jerusalem with nine national parks, pathways and sites, drastically altering the status quo in the city. The secret plan was assigned to the Jerusalem Development Authority [...]

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Tags: History · Human Rights · Mediterranean · Meditérranée · Politics · Religion · War & Conflict

A great popular american song 4 Gaza: We will not go down. Listen to it!

January 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments

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Michael Heart, an american singer and songwriter has resently didacated a very distinguished song for Gaza: We will not go down.

He wrote in his website that his “original intention to donate proceeds from the sale of the MP3 to charity has been complicated by technical [...]

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Tags: Human Rights · Mediterranean · Politics · War & Conflict · music

Video of the rockets that hit Israel from Lebanon

January 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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Reuters video, click here

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Tags: Video · War & Conflict

the link to vote 4 GazavsIsrael is functionning…but censure exists on comments!

January 8th, 2009 · 9 Comments

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Thank you for being so many to respond to the call to vote for GAZA. The CNN website is functionning, you just have to press on the flag you choose to vote for, then enter ur email, then a code, and finally submit. You can [...]

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Tags: War & Conflict

Is Gilad Shalit alive?

December 29th, 2008 · 8 Comments

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According to a Hamas website cited by the Naharnet lebanese website, “Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who is held captive by Hamas, was injured during Israeli raids on Gaza”
This could mean that the kidnapped israeli soldier is still alive, and that Hamas will probably use him [...]

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Tags: Politics · War & Conflict

Israel the state of Hate

March 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

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Gaza is burning ,the world is watching , some western media is calling the Israeli crime “Middle East violence”
Killing children and women and civilians is not just violence, it’s crime against humanity .
putting Gaza under siege for long days and prevent the principale means for [...]

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Tags: Human Rights