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Refugee Camps as War Zones:
How Lebanon`s Palestinians Are Being Pulled Into Syria`s War

Popular committees have appealed to both sides to observe a ceasefire within any Palestinian camp in Syria.

(HOMS Palestinian Refugee Camp) - Pending their return to Palestine since being driven from their country by Israel, Palestinian refugees have insisted on avoiding local and international conflicts.

This was true in Jordan during the run up to Black September in 1970, at the beginning of the Lebanese Civil war in 1975, the 1991 Kuwait crisis, the 2003 US invasion of Iraq...

Ten Years After US Invades Iraq, Israel Eager to Take the US Into Round Two

John Kerry is doing his best to persuade Russia to help the US pull the Syria parties to peace talks before a civil war extends beyond its boundaries.

(CHICAGO) - Ten years after the US invaded Iraq in 2003, another Middle East war looms large between the West and Muslim states.

Signs point to the strong possibility that Israel, and its US Zionist supporters, remain determined, first, to draw the US into the Syrian Civil War, and second, to lead Israel in a joint attack against Iran.

Human Rights: More on Nakba

Single democratic state in historic Palestine, take two: A new Palestinian initiative seeks to revive the PLO's old-time strategy, abandoned following the Oslo Accords.

(BETHLEHEM) - "On the night of 22-23 May 1948, a week after the declaration of the State of Israel, the Palestinian coastal village of Tantura (population 1,500) was attacked and occupied by the Israeli army.

The village, about 35 kilometers from Haifa, lay within the area assigned to Israel under the UN General Assembly's partition resolution.

May 19th protest against pro-Israel AIPAC Oregon fundraiser to highlight Israel`s Apartheid Wall

That story, which is what is actually going on, is one of brutal Israeli repression of a largely defenseless population and Israeli denial of the most basic of human rights.

(PORTLAND, OR) - A newly constructed and visually stunning 44 foot long replica of the illegal Israeli Apartheid Wall will be unveiled at a protest outside the annual Oregon fund-raising dinner of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

It happens this Sunday, May 19, 2013.

65 Years Ago: Massacre of Ein El Zeytoun

"The tragedy in Palestine is not just a local one; it is a tragedy for the world, because it is an injustice that is a menace to the world's peace" - British historian, Arnold Toynbee

(LONDON) - May 1st. Standing in front of the Foreign Office in the London sunshine I shivered at the memory of the massacre of Ein El Zeytoun 65 years ago.

Ein El Zeytoun, like Deir Yassin, and many other villages and towns in Palestine at the time, was wiped off the face off the earth.

About Dreams

They come alive
Before we know it

(LONDON) - From the womb of agony

Dreams are born

Sweet and pure

We nourish and groom And watch them grow

Landmark Victory For a Change

(PORTLAND, OR) - Cafe Palestine Freiburg won a landmark victory against Freiburg University in the German administrative court last Friday.

Six months ago Café Palestine filed a complaint against the University in the Administrative Court following the University´s refusal to let the Palestinian solidarity group use a space for a lecture by Paris University professor Christophe Oberlin.

Wake Up Call for America

According to a Pentagon report, the U.S. notorious Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, dubbed the most expensive jail on earth, costs Americans some $903,614 annually per prisoner.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - I'm tired of politics, of the injustices, the corruption, the assassinations, the gross illegal behaviour of the strong, the plundering of the poor and the indignities wrought on the weak.

While decent, working people lose their homes, thanks to Wall Street's Ponzi schemes, the market manipulators pay themselves outrageous million-dollar salaries and bonuses.

US Watchdog Turns Blind Eye to Israel`s Religious Rights Violations

That's a frightening message for America and indeed Britain, where the Jewish influence continues apace.

(LONDON) - It's hilarious. I'm still rolling on the floor laughing my socks off at a report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

What's the joke? Well, it’s no joke really. The USCIRF has just released its 2013 Annual Report on the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. And... you simply won't believe this... it doesn’t even mention the worst offender of all, Israel.

Stephen Hawking Joins Academic Boycott of Israel

Physicist pulls out of conference hosted by president Shimon Peres in protest at treatment of Palestinians

(LONDON The Guardian) - Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel.

The world-renowned theoretical physicist is pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel's treatment of Palestinians.