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Human Rights February 5, 2008

Drug, commodity Shortage Hits North Sinai After Palestinian Crisis

Under the current high costs of living already engulfing Egyptian people nowadays, people in North Sinai governorates faced more difficulties due to the sharp decrease in consumer commodities and drugs.
Human RightsPrisoners of Conscience February 5, 2008

State Court Dismisses Ayman Nour’s Health Release Appeal

Egypt’s State Court rejected the appeal submitted by Ayman Nour, previous leader of Al-Ghad Party, against the attorney general in which he demands overturning the Administrative court’s ruling of denying
Human RightsReports February 5, 2008

Report: 2007 Worst for Egyptian journalists

The International Committee to Protect Journalists held a press conference on Monday morning Feb, 4th 2008, in the Egyptian Press Syndicate where it declared its report entitled "Aggressions against the
Human Rights February 5, 2008

Torture does not work, as history shows

"Torture works," an American special forces major – now, needless to say, a colonel – boasted to a colleague of mine a couple of years ago. It seems that the
IraqWikileaks February 5, 2008

Leak on Cross-Border Chases From Iraq

American military forces in Iraq were authorized to pursue former members of Saddam Hussein’s government and terrorists across Iraq’s borders into Iran and Syria, according to a classified 2005 document
Other Issues February 5, 2008

George Bush Delivers the Horse’s Head

Two weeks ago George Bush was sent on a mission to the Middle East to deliver a horse’s head. We all remember the disturbing scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The
Palestine February 5, 2008

Non-Zionist Jews blast Israel’s chief rabbi for racist remarks

Neturei Karta, an international society representing non-Zionist Orthodox Jews, has blasted recent remarks by Yoni Metzger, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi, in which the rabbi called for the deportation of the
Palestine February 5, 2008

Egypt’s disturbing actions in the Gaza Strip

The Egyptian Wall is nothing like the Israeli Wall, but they are designed to achieve the same purpose. Except while Israel controls it’s Wall, Egypt is merely a pawn enslaved
Islamic Issues February 5, 2008

Does the Quran or Muhammad promote violence?

In the aftermath of September 11 when President Bush visited the Islamic Center of Washington DC, both to reassure the Muslims in America and to create public awareness against prejudice,
Palestine February 5, 2008

Abbas’s authority condemns Dimona bombing

The PA leadership led by Mahmoud Abbas on Monday condemned the Palestinian resistance attack on a Dimona mall in the Negev desert that inflicted a number of Zionist casualties.