See the video from the “only democracy in the Middle East” here.

The Guardian – Excerpt: Anger towards Lebanon is brewing in Sudan and in Sudanese online forums. According to reports in the Arab media, a fundraising party held by Sudanese immigrants and asylum seekers in Beirut in aid of a child with cancer, was raided by Lebanese security apparently on the hunt for illegal residents. Eyewitnesses [...]

See the trailer here.

See the trailer here.

Gotta love this video.

His only crime was that he was an Arab man who slept with a Jewish woman… if this is the only “democracy in the Middle East” then the Middle East has extremely low standards – Haaretz:  An Arab resident of Jerusalem who had consensual sex with a woman who believed him to be Jewish, was [...]

al-Jazeera: A recently-revealed tape has shown Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, discussing ways to undermine the Oslo Accords and calling the United States “easy” to manipulate…. Netanyahu – who did not hold political office when the recording was made - was dismissive of the United States, calling it easily manipulated. “I know what America is,” Netanyahu [...]

Here’s an interesting interview at Tehran Bureau on the working class and the Green Movement: “The Green Movement cannot succeed unless it raises social justice demands, which include workers’ demands at the center. During the Khatami era, Reformists failed because they did not take the demand for social justice seriously, and did not make efforts [...]

The Independent: Jewish settlers, who claim a divine right to the whole of Israel, now control more than 42 per cent of the occupied West Bank, representing a powerful obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state, a new report has revealed. The jurisdiction of some 200 settlements, illegal under international law, cover much more [...]

Fadlallah passed away yesterday. I would have commented on it sooner but I was in the Bay area for the weekend and didn’t get around to blogging until now. Contrary to media reports, Fadlallah was not the “spiritual guide” to Hizbullah. He did not establish the group nor did he sanction all of its activities, [...]

Palestinians resisting the Gaza siege… with sand. I admire their resilience while abhoring Israel’s ruthlessness. See the video here.

al-Jazeera: First close down the borders and refuse to allow any exports out. Then ban the importing of any raw material for factories and businesses. Force the commercial class to rely on expensive underground smuggling tunnels to procure what the community needs. This in turn enriches the tunnel owners. Prevent businesspeople from travelling abroad. And [...]

This highly emotional HBO documentary on the death of Neda Agha Soltan is a must see.