“ Yemeni people are not bad people, they are good people. They want to be respected, they want their sovereignty to be respected. We did not wage a war, a war was brought upon us. Our issue was an internal one and it would have been sorted out internally” Hanan al-Harazi, her mother and her 8…
Traduit par Rochelle Cohen Le Mercredi 8 Juillet marquait une année après le début de la guerre à Gaza, qui a coûté 2.200 morts palestiniens et 73 morts israéliens. Des deux côtés de la barrière qui sépare les israéliens des palestiniens, deux femmes locales, Mousheera Jammal et (dans un article connexe) Janet Svirzenski, partagent leur…
“It is a shameful state we have created where a victim chooses to endure the pain and suffering, silenced by fear that judgment will come before justice.” Aysha Taryam Silencing women’s voices, past and present. As far back as the 1990s Egypt’s Ministry of Interiors employed “battagiya” [thugs or gangs] masquerading as “depraved elements” from…
Wednesday 8 July marks one year since the beginning of the war in Gaza, which claimed 2,200 Palestinian and 73 Israeli lives. On two sides of the fence that separates Israelis from Palestinians, two local women, Mousheera Jammal and (in a related story) Janet Svirzenski, share their take on what happened and why. “I am…
Even the medical profession in France is not immune to attack from the Judeo Zionist entity! 12th June 2015 the Disciplinary Committee of the French Medical Board, reprimanded Professor Christophe Oberlin for perceived bias in presenting a case for Crimes against Humanity in Gaza during Cast Lead 2008-9. They also found Dr Oberlin guilty of…
Originally posted on the real Syrian Free Press:
Yemeni Capital under Riyadh’s Chemical Attack Saudi fighter jets bombarded the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a with banned chemical weapons early on Monday, leaving dozens of people dead and injured. According to reports, the Saudi warplanes used prohibited bombs and missiles in their Monday’s airstrikes on Sana’a…
The war and its results have turned Yemen back a hundred years, due to the destruction of infrastructure . . . especially in the provinces of Oden, Dhalea and Taiz.’ – Izzedine al-Asbali, Yemeni Human Rights Minister ‘Yemen is devastated. There are no roads, water or electricity. Nobody’s left but thieves.’ – A resident of Sana (Yemen)…
In September 1962, the Imam of North Yemen was overthrown in a popular coup. Imam al-Badr had been in power for only a week having succeeded his father who had presided over a feudal kingdom where 80 per cent of the population lived as peasants and which was controlled through bribery, an arbitrary and coercive…
“We are not in the aftermath of the so called Arab Spring, Egypt and the rest of the Arab countries are deeply engulfed in a real war” The scale and ferocity of the recent militant attacks against the Egyptian army in North Sinai, swiftly following the (successful) assassination of Egypt’s general prosecutor, are underscoring an…
UK Prime Minister David Cameron is not only in complete denial about his role in facilitating the rise of ISIS, but his “response” to last Friday’s attacks will facilitate it even further. Last week’s attacks by Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) and Al-Qaeda killed almost 300 people across six countries: Syria (145), Somalia (over 50), Tunisia…
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