Israel and Mexico swap notes on abusing rights

Electronic Intifada - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

, 8 May [Spanish]). Chiapas is home to the Zapatistas (Ejrcito Zapatista de Liberacin Nacional), a mostly indigenous Maya liberation movement that has enjoyed global grassroots support since it rose up against the Mexican government in 1994. The Zapatistas took back large tracts of land on which they have since built subsistence cooperatives, autonomous schools, collectivized clinics and other ...

Britain asks EU to put Hezbollah military on terrorist list

Middle East Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Hezbollah 's military sector a terrorist organization. The request, which is scheduled to be informally discussed at an EU meeting in Brussels Wednesday, and officially taken up on June 4, could open the way for sanctions to curtail Hezbollah activity in Europe if successful, the British newspaper The Financial Times reported Tuesday. Motivated by an investigation that blamed Hezbollah ...

ExcerptsIsrael says no vehicle destroyed in Golan. Lebanon re

IMRA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Excerpts:Israel says no vehicle destroyed in Golan. Lebanon re Hezbollah in Syria May 21, 2013 +++SOURCE: The Syria Report 20 ...

Israel warns Syria of consequences

The Courier Mail - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

THE head of Israel's armed forces has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of "consequences" if fire continues from Syrian territory against Israeli troops in the occupied Golan Heights. "If he disturbs the Golan Heights, he will have to bear the consequences," Lieutenant General Benny Gantz said in an address at Haifa University broadcast on Israeli television. "We ...

Video Gunman storms Israeli bank killing four

The Globe and Mail - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A gunman storms into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Monday, killing four people and taking a hostage before killing himself, police ...

Syrian and Israeli forces exchange fire over the Golan Heights as conflict spreads

Telegraph - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Syrian and Israeli forces exchanged fire over the Golan Heights on Tuesday and the Lebanese militant group Hizbollah sent more reinforcements to help the Assad regime attack a key border town as the conflict spilled further to the country's ...

How the Obama administration is trying to criminalize investigative journalism

War in Context - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

], prosecutors were trying to build criminal cases under the 1917 Espionage Act against federal employees suspected of leaking classified information. Before President Obama took office, the Espionage Act had been used to prosecute leakers a grand total of three times, including the 1971 case of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon ...

ACLU lawsuit takes on FBI surveillance of news organizations including Antiwar.com

War in Context - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Today the ACLU sued the FBI in a freedom of the press lawsuit on behalf of two editors at a libertarian online magazine. After learning that their Bay Area-based site, Antiwar.com, was the subject of FBI surveillance, Eric Garris and Justin Raimondo sought the documents the government had compiled on both them and the site. After a year, the FBI has failed to produce any documents, so Garris and ...

Foreign fantasies and Syria

War in Context - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

';So many foreign fighters have joined the Syrian insurgency that one wonders if their [sic] is role left for any indigenous Syrian ...

Why China’s riches won’t bring it freedom

War in Context - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Modern history is the story of how liberal democracy, originating in the U.K. and America, spread around the world. This may sound like an absurd fantasy. In actuality, this Whiggish narrative of progress underpins most newspaper editorials, political commentary and speeches in the West, and frames larger views of political developments in the non-West. It accounts for the gloomy undertone to ...

Israel Intel Divided Over Syria

Middle East Newsline - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Israel's intelligence community has been divided over thecivil war in Syria, a report said. The Institute for National Security Studies asserted that Israel'smilitary and intelligence community was divided over the Sunni revoltagainst Syrian President Bashar Assad. In a report, the institute said manyin the community prefer that Assad remain in power rather than be ...

Livni says stalemate harmful for Israel as Palestinian narrative gains traction

The National - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

JERUSALEM // Israel's chief peace negotiator with the Palestinians said yesterday the current stalemate was harmful for Israel. Tzipi Livni told a parliamentary committee that resuming negotiations was "first and foremost an Israeli interest". She spoke days before the US secretary of state John Kerry was expected to arrive in Israel for his latest push to restart long-dormant ...

Palestinian group Ruler rights abuses increasing

San Diego Union-Tribune - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights said in its annual report Tuesday that incidents of abuse are up 10 percent since last ...

Hamas to close tunnels if Egypt will open border

Jerusalem Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Hamas said it would be willing to close all smuggling tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border upon opening of a commercial crossing, Palestinian news agency Ma'an cited Ghazi Hamad, Hamas undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying Tuesday. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues Thursday by Islamist ...

Terra Sancta Museum to Open in Jerusalem

Zenit - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

In 2015, in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Terra Sancta Museum – the only museum in the world dedicated to the roots of Christianity and the preservation of the Holy Places – will open: a permanent exhibit established by the Custody of the Holy Land to shed light on the history of this extraordinary land in which for millennia the destinies of many peoples living ...

Greek Cypriot leader meets Israeli minister

Turkish Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Anastasiadis and Netanyahu discussed cooperation in field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday met with leader of the Greek Cypriot administration Nicos Anastasiadis in Jerusalem.Cooperation in the field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean were discussed during ...

Qualcomm CEO We seek Israels technology leaders

Globes - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) CEO Paul Jacobs, currently in Israel, spoke about the chipmaker's strategy at a press conference today at Qualcomm Israel's R&D center in Haifa. The message around the visit was the upgrading of importance of Qualcomm Israel's R&D center to one of Qualcomm's major strategic centers. Jacobs said that the company had no clear plans to expand ...

Israel warns Syria after attack near border

CBC News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Israeli soldiers march during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria. Syria claimed it destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan ...

Muhammad al-Dura and Israels obsession with the propaganda war | Rachel Shabi

The Guardian - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

If Israel's government is to be believed, Palestinians have sunk so low as to be capable of faking their own deaths. Or wait, maybe the Israeli accusation of fakery is itself the indication of a horrifying new nadir. An Israeli report has concluded that Muhammad al-Dura, the 12-year-old Palestinian whose death in 2000 in Gaza was captured by a French public TV channel, was not killed by ...

Peace debate exposes deep rifts in Israeli government

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, head of the centrist Hatenuah party, during their joint statement at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 19, ...

Syrian Military Fires at Israeli Vehicle

ABC News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

May 21, 2013 12:19pm TEL AVIV– The Syrian military said on Tuesday that it fired on an Israeli army jeep in the contested Golan Heights in the early hours of the morning, destroying it. Israel said the jeep was slightly damaged and there were no casualties, but the incident raised fears that the long-time enemies could soon once again find themselves embroiled in renewed conflict. Just ...

Assad regime confirmed carrying out artillery firing into Israel

Turkish Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Assad regime confirmed carrying out artillery firing into Israel JERUSALEM - Syria fired artillery into Israel damaging a military vehicle Monday night, said Israeli administration.Israeli army said in a written statement that Syria fired shells into Golan Heights adding "Israel fired missiles at a target inside Syria in response to Syrian fire."The United Nations Disengagement ...