“Now Palestinians are looking at the success of their boycott as evidence that a campaign focused on peaceful protest, rather than violent struggle, could finally yield results”:
- Palestinians Turn to Boycott of Israel in West Bank (Washington Post)
With about 100 gag orders per year, how many Palestinians are denied due processes and disappear from public record:
- Israel’s Disappeared (Counterpunch)
Will Iraqi political parties finally form a coalition government now that the Baghdad results have been confirmed?
- Iraq Recount Finds no Fraud (LA Times)
Political momentum for sanctions is growing as Brazil and Turkey struggle to reach a last minute compromise:
- Turkey, Brazil Scramble to Seal Iran Nuclear Fuel Swap Deal (Christian Science Monitor)
Threatened with death Hesham Shashaa calmly replies, “If you can show me in the [Qur’an] or Sunnah that I am wrong … I will be the first one who would take a gun and join [the resistance], but you won’t be able to find something like thatâ€:
“A decade of fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq has forced battlefield commanders to accept that victory in today’s wars is less a matter of destroying enemies than of knowing how and when to make them allies”:
- War of Persuasion: The Modern U.S. Officer Emerges in Afghanistan (Washington Post)
Although Gaza remains in economic shambles, the blockade has done little to weaken the control of Hamas over the region:
- Why Some in Israel Say the Gaza Blockade has Failed (Christian Science Monitor)
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