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Kites fly high over Gaza as children at UN summer camp soar to new world record
from UN News Centre
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=35473&Cr=&Cr1=
29 July 2010 –More than 6,200 children attending a summer camp in the Gaza Strip run by the United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees have broken their own world record for the number of kites flown at the same time.
The feat comes exactly one week after more than 7,200 children bounced basketballs simultaneously for five minutes, doubling a 2007 record set in the United States.
“We still have to await final confirmation from the Guinness Book of World Records, but according to our figures the kids have done it. What an amazing achievement – two world records in a week,” said John Ging, Director of Operations in Gaza for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
Both record-breaking events were part of the Summer Games programme organized by UNRWA in nearly 150 locations across Gaza over a period of six weeks, beginning on 12 June. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Islam, Middle East, News Articles, Recent Posts on July 29, 2010 - י"ח אב תש"ע at 4:41 pm
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Playing politics: summer camp for Gaza’s children
UN vies with Islamic Jihad and Hamas to keep hundreds of thousands entertained in summer
By Harriet Sherwood, Guardian UK, July 29, 2010
Palestinian girls at an UN Relief and Works Agency day camp on the beach in Gaza City. Boys have more options and many attend summer camps run by militant groups. Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP The boys sitting in the shade of an awning erected on a
Gaza beach are only half listening to the man addressing them through a megaphone.
After all, school’s out for the summer and there is football to be played and the sea to be swum in. Some of the 100 or so boys whisper among themselves, others are busy burying their own or a friend’s legs in the hot sand.
But when the man asks, “What is our slogan?” they snap to attention, responding in unison: “Resistance!”
This is summer in Gaza, Islamic Jihad-style. These boys are among 10,000 or so children that the militant organisation estimates attends its 50 camps. Hamas, the Islamic party which runs Gaza, claims another 100,000 children are attending 500 camps it organises; both are dwarfed by the 250,000 taking part in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s Summer Games across the Gaza Strip. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Islam, Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on July 29, 2010 - י"ח אב תש"ע at 10:10 am
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The Flotilla Farce
Whether they are from Turkey, Ireland or Cyprus, those that participate reek of hypocrisy.
A couple of years ago, a Palestinian refugee camp was encircled and laid siege to by an army of tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers. Attacks initiated by Palestinian militants triggered an overwhelming response from the army that took the life of almost 500 people, including many civilians. International organizations struggled to send aid to the refugee camps, where the inhabitants were left without basic amenities like electricity and running water. During the conflict, six U.N. personnel were killed when their car was bombed.
Government ministers and spokesmen tried to explain to the international community that the Palestinian militants were backed by Syria and global jihadist elements. Al Qaeda condemned the government and the army, declaring that the attack was part of a “crusade” against their Palestinian brothers.
AFP/Getty ImagesA Palestinian refugee collects metal and plastic objects at a garbage dump in the Palestinian refugee camp of Beddawi near Tripoli.
While most will assume that the events described above took place in the West Bank or Gaza, they actually took place in Lebanon in the summer of 2007, when Palestinian terrorists attacked the Lebanese Army, which struck back with deadly force. The scene of most of the fighting was the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in Northern Lebanon, which was home to the Islamist Fatah al-Islam, a group that has links with al Qaeda.
At the time, there was little international outcry. No world leader decried the “prison camps” in Lebanon. No demonstrations took place around the world; no U.N. investigation panels were created and little media attention was attracted. In fact, the plight of the Palestinians in Lebanon garners very little attention internationally. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Islam, Middle East Report, Opinion, Recent Posts on July 29, 2010 - י"ח אב תש"ע at 8:50 am
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The Palestinian Right to Israel
by Dr. Alex Grobman / Reviewed by: INN Staff
Systematically and methodically exposes the myths and lies about the Arab right to the land of Israel.
The Palestinian Right to Israelby Dr. Alex Grobman
- Publisher: Balfour Press
- Pages: 328
- Format: Hardcover
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The Arab/Israeli conflict is among the most intractable disputes in the world today. In this meticulously researched and well-written work, Dr. Alex Grobman, a renowned historian trained at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, systematically and methodically exposes the myths and lies about the Arab right to the land of Israel.
Grobman traces the historical, religious and spiritual connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel after the end of Jewish sovereignty in 70 CE; dispels the Arab claim that Palestine is a “twice promised land,” because the British pledged it to both the Arabs and the Jews; examines the Arab reaction to the Balfour Declaration and Jewish immigration to Palestine that established a precedent for dealing with Arabs that continues to this day; and examines Arab activities during WWII to thwart an Allied victory.
Grobman shows that the Arabs have never accepted the right of Jews to re-establish their sovereignty in the land of Israel, and how they continually try to refute the Jewish connection to Israel, especially the city of Jerusalem: by destroying Temple Mount artifacts to eliminate any evidence of a Jewish past, by accusing Israeli archeologists of manipulating authentic archeological evidence to justify the Jewish people’s right to Israel and by charging that the Jews are not a people at all, and are consequently not entitled to a country of their own. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Education, Islam, Judaism, Middle East Report, Monotheistic Religions, News Articles, Opinion, Recent Posts on July 25, 2010 - י"ד אב תש"ע at 8:10 am
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Hong Kong? Singapore? Don’t hold your breath
Gazans still awaiting world’s promises.
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, Jerusalem Post, July 23, 2010
Five years after Israel’s unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Palestinians living there are still waiting for the housing projects and factories the international community promised them.
The areas where most of the settlements once stood have yet to be transformed into apartments and working places for thousands of unemployed Palestinians who used to work in the Jewish communities.
Promises that the Gaza Strip would be turned into the Middle East’s Hong Kong or Singapore sound today like a joke to many Palestinians.
These promises were made on the eve of the disengagement by many governments and leaders all around the world, including Israel.
It’s hard today to find one Palestinian who would point to anything positive that has come out of the pullout. In fact, Palestinians across the political spectrum agree that the situation inside the Gaza Strip is not much better than it was before the disengagement.
The Palestinian Authority continues to argue that the unilateral disengagement was one of the reasons why Hamas is in power today. Not that the PA didn’t want Israel to leave the Gaza Strip. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Islam, Middle East Report, Opinion, Recent Posts on July 23, 2010 - י"ב אב תש"ע at 6:09 pm
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From this week’s Jewish Journal
Shepherd on a Mission
By David Suissa
If ever there were an Israeli who could lead Israel to peace with its Arab neighbors, it might be the Israeli diplomat I met the other day in the lobby of the Century Plaza Hotel. This is your classic Zionist. He stands tall and proud of his country, doesn’t ignore its faults, has a deep understanding of the issues from all sides and craves peace.
Of course, it helps that he’s a Muslim. Not just a Muslim, but a Bedouin Muslim.
Ishmael Khaldi’s official position is policy advisor to the Israeli foreign minister, but he’s a lot more than that. He has become a one-man hasbara machine for the Jewish state, traveling around the world to make the case for the country he loves. When he encounters anti-Israel hecklers who spout slanderous words like “apartheid state,” he has an easy answer:
“If Israel was a racist state, a Muslim like me would never have made it this far.”
This notion of going far came early for Khaldi. Until he was 8, he walked four miles to school from his tiny Bedouin village of Khawalid in the western Galilee, then the same distance to get home again. He has fond memories of the family tent, where he lived with his parents and 10 siblings. He calls the tent an “extraordinary thing,” because it was made of goat hair, which he says keeps you “warm and dry in the winters, and cool in the hot summers.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Islam, Judaism, Middle East Report, Monotheistic Religions, News Articles, Recent Posts on July 23, 2010 - י"ב אב תש"ע at 10:06 am
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Indian States Worse Than Africa, A New Poverty Index Finds
The Link, July 17, 2010
http://www.thelinkpaper.ca/?p=1612
LONDON – More people are mired in poverty in eight Indian states than in the 26 poorest African countries, according to a new UN-backed measure of poverty. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) looks beyond income at a wider range of household-level deprivation, including services, which could then be used to help target development resources. Its findings throw up stark statistics compared to regular poverty measures.
The study found that half of the world’s MPI poor people live in South Asia, and just over a quarter in Africa.
There are 421 million MPI poor people in eight Indian states alone — Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal — and 410 million in the 26 poorest African countries combined. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Islam, Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on July 20, 2010 - ט' אב תש"ע at 5:48 pm
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Fifty-one percent of Pakistan’s population is MPI poor, 58 percent in Bangladesh, 55 percent in India, and 65 percent in Nepal.
Hindustan Times, July 15, 2010
Amidst acute poverty across South Asia, the five states of Delhi, Kerala, Goa, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh have the least number of poor people in India, according to a new measure of global poverty developed at the University of Oxford for the UNDP.
The new measure, called the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), has been developed and applied by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
It will be featured in the 20th anniversary edition of the UNDP Human Development Report.
An analysis using MPI reveals South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa have comparable intensities of poverty, according to an OPHI paper, Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries.
In terms of human lives, South Asia has the world’s highest levels of poverty.
Fifty-one percent of Pakistan’s population is MPI poor, 58 percent in Bangladesh, 55 percent in India, and 65 percent in Nepal.
The analysis states: “Delhi has an MPI equivalent to Iraq (which ranks 45), whereas Bihar’s MPI is similar to Guinea’s (the 8th poorest country in the ranking). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Islam, News Articles, Recent Posts on July 20, 2010 - ט' אב תש"ע at 5:28 pm
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Turkish foundation suggests new solutions to Kurdish issue
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News
Monday, July 19, 2010
A new report from the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, or TESEV, suggests more radical reforms than those in the reform package are necessary to solve the ongoing Kurdish problem.
A new report from the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, or TESEV, suggests more radical reforms than those in the reform package are necessary to solve the ongoing Kurdish problem.
“Towards the solution of the Kurdish Problem: Constitutional and Legal Suggestions,” written by Dilek Kurban and Yılmaz Ensaroğlu with aid of 17 experts, suggested alternatives for every law they argued should be changed.
In the foreword section, Etyen Mahçupyan, Director of TESEV Democratization Program, argued: “Building citizenship on Turkishness has degraded the concept of the Republic of Turkey to a Turkish state. The understanding of the indivisibility of the state resulted in no cultural identity apart from Turkishness being perceived by the state with the basis of equality.” The report itself argued the references to Turkish identity in many laws and constitutional articles does not comply with the multi-ethnical structure of Turkey.
The most radical suggestion brought by the report is that the first three articles of the constitution be changed. The articles of the constitution however, “cannot be changed; changing them cannot even be suggested,” according to the fourth article. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Islam, Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on July 20, 2010 - ט' אב תש"ע at 12:25 pm
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UN: Uzbeks Subject to Torture, Detention in Kyrgyzstan
VOA News, 20 July 2010
Photo: AP: Kyrgyz Interior Ministry forces soldiers rest after conducting house-to-house searches in a district inhabited by ethnic Uzbek Kyrgyz citizens in Osh, 22 June 2010.
A top United Nations official says security forces in Kyrgyzstan have detained, and in some cases tortured, hundreds of ethnic Uzbeks since the eruption of June’s deadly ethnic clashes.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said Tuesday that her staff had received information suggesting that local authorities are routinely ignoring abuses, such as illegal arrests, and torture and ill-treatment of detainees, leading to forced confessions.
The reports indicated that detainees were burned by cigarettes, had fingernails removed, or beaten with rifle butts and batons, among other abuses. At least one detainee died reportedly as a result of the mistreatment. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Islam, Middle East Report, News Articles, Recent Posts on July 20, 2010 - ט' אב תש"ע at 11:47 am
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