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Oregon, Germany Sign Driver License Agreement

Reciprocity deal formalizes current practice between Oregon and Germany.

(SALEM) - Oregon and the Federal Republic of Germany signed an agreement Jan. 17 that continues the practice of waiving drive tests between this state and Germany.

Applicants in Oregon must be at least 18 years old, hold a valid driver license issued by Germany, prove residency in Oregon and are otherwise eligible for a Class C, non-commercial driver license.

Visiting Auschwitz

As non-Jews, our visit to Auschwitz was sobering. we cannot imagine what a visit must be for a Jew, especially someone who has lost family members at Auschwitz or at another concentration camp.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - We just returned from a tour of Central Europe. We visited Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest, Vienna, Bratislava, and Prague.

On our drive from Warsaw to Krakow, we stopped at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oswiecim, renamed Auschwitz when the town and the surrounding area were incorporated within the Third Reich.

Is Manmohan Singh the Perfect Economic Hit Man?

India's Prime Minister is far more lethal than any economic hit man that ever strode in any country.

(NEW DELHI, India) - It seems that the Indian Prime Minister is far more lethal than any economic hit man that ever strode in any country. He has not only presided over the most corrupt regime India has ever seen but is now serious compromising its national security itself.

The sheer scale, depth, and spread of corruption are mind-boggling.

Palestine, Israel, Germany- The Boundaries of Open Discussion

This is a very important conference!!!

(FREIBURG, Germany) - Freedom of speech and expression are recognised by many as primary human rights. However, when it comes to discussion on topics concerning Palestine, Israel and Germany we often face rigid and concrete boundaries that clearly suppress free and creative discourse.

We somehow grasp what we are allowed to say but are also conscious of a variety of thoughts we better keep unsaid.

Welcome to the State of the Police

Special thanks to Adam Keller's blog, for Israeli citizen Hagai Matar's eyewitness account of events yesterday at Ben Gurion airport.

(TEL AVIV) - Hundreds of police and other security personnel, dozens of Interior Ministry employees, a careful intelligence work, a massive PR campaign. What for?

In order to prevent a few hundred peace activists from touring the country and seeing its reality that, to arrest five Israelis, and drive away from the airport three journalists - including yours truly.

Flotilla, Flytilla and the prospect of `Civil Society Action`

Israel's fate is doomed. It is just a question of time. It is not a matter of ‘if’ but a question of ‘when’.

(LONDON) - It might be argued that the passing week was not very easy on the Palestinian solidarity movement: firstly, an international peaceful flotilla aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza did not manage to leave Greek ports.

The Greek government had surrendered submissively to Israeli pressure and American Jewish organisations, and blocked the naval enterprise.

A letter from a Palestinian woman to the supporters of Palestine

I hope one day to share a coffee with you in my home or in yours, for when this day comes we will have reached our freedom.

(RAMALLAH) - I would like to talk to you as the voice of the thousands of Palestinians who appreciate what you are doing. You who have a great commitment to human rights and who actually act upon your beliefs.

You risk your life to both witness and tell the truth of what you see. You are a group of people who understand what is happening in the holy land and have decided to dedicate your time, money and energy to the issue.

Israel Accused of Mistreating Elderly Western National Prisoners

'Welcome to Palestine' partipants who simply told Israeli authorities they were there to visit Palestine were arrested in droves for simply trying...

(BETHLEHEM / JERUSALEM) - Israeli authorities set stringent conditions for release of "Welcome to Palestine" prisoners.

The large majority of international visitors are still incarcerated under brutal conditions, begin a hunger strike in Israeli jail Bethlehem, today.

Berlin Boat manifestation in solidarity with Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla

People on the riverside and bridges were cheering and waving, calling out chants of support.

(BERLIN, Germany) - Today Berlin's many waterways were used by a few dozen activists to launch a little flotilla to demonstrate solidarity with Gaza and the upcoming Freedom Flotilla 2.

Initially just one boat had been organised for the action but while decorating the vessel, however one captain spontaneously decided to side with the people of Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla and offered his much bigger boat to go along.

A Palestinian in Deutschland

Most know that Zionism is to Judaism what Crusaderism was to Christianity and BinLadenism to Islam.

(MUNICH) - At speeds that at one time reached 208 km/hour we drove the length of historic Palestine in about three hours on the Autobahn between Fulda and Munich.