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Has Israel Finally Met Its Match? The Meaning of Hizbullah’s Big Win M. SHAHID ALAM Israeli Winograd Commission notes that a militia “of a few thousand men resisted, for a few weeks, the strongest army in the Middle East, which enjoyed full air superiority and size and technology advantages.” The Israeli military offensive of July…

Four Major Universities in Gaza closed due to ongoing fuel shortages Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Monday that four major universities had to shut down due to shortages of fuel as the students became unable to travel from the northern parts and the southern parts of the Gaza Strip to Gaza City. …

Young Palestinian woman dies due to the Israeli siege on Gaza Palestinian medical sources in Gaza City reported that one Palestinian patient died on Monday midday, succumbing to cancer after having been denied a permit by the occupying Israeli army to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment.  Full report

Gideon Levy in Haaretz     The president of the Israeli Friends of the Tibetan People, the psychologist Nahi Alon was involved in the murder of two Palestinians in Gaza in 1967 – as was revealed in Haaretz Magazine last weekend Citizens of a country that is entirely tainted by the occupation – a national,…

Hizbullah militants regroup amid war jitters Nicholas Blanford | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor  April 14, 2008 edition  Hizbullah appears to have devised new battle plans that include cross-border raids into Israel and has mounted a sweeping recruitment and training drive, even marshaling non-Shiites and former Israeli-allied militiamen into new reservist units.  One local…

Unpopularity contest: Iran first, Israel second Written by Jewish TelegraphIC Agency, Wednesday, 02 April 2008 Israel was second only to Iran in a survey of the world’s most unpopular nations. A BBC World Service annual survey of views on various countries found that the highest number of respondents, 54 percent, voiced negative views about Iran’s…