Members of the Iranian Jewish community protesting outside the UN offices in Tehran on Tuesday. (AP)
We've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care any more – providing we don't offend the Israelis. It's not clear how many of the Gaza dead are civilians, but the response of the Bush administration, not to mention the pusillanimous reaction of Gordon Brown, reaffirm for Arabs what they have known for decades: however they struggle against their antagonists, the West will take Israel's side. As usual, the bloodbath was the fault of the Arabs – who, as we all know, only understand force.
'You will be martyrs': These were the words spoken by the surviving sister as her five siblings, Jawaher, four, Dina, eight, Samar, 12, Ikram, 15 and Tahrir, 17, lay dying beneath the rubble of their home
The Israeli missile attacks left hundreds of Palestinians killed or wounded in the Bureij refugee camp and elsewhere in the Gaza Strip. The strikes, which involved 60 planes, came days after a six-month ceasefire with Hamas expired. The militant group vowed to carry out revenge attacks
Khaled Al-Aboodi, CEO and general manager of Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector. 
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Photograph: Channel 4
The Northern League has been accused of xenophobia
President Ahmadinejad of Iran could upstage the Queen when he delivers an "alternative" Christmas message tomorrow on British television.
The designated US secretary of state is expected to appoint Middle East envoys from a group of shady and pro-Israeli diplomats.
"The prosecutors' purpose is clearly to single out Jews because they allegedly have foreign ties as de facto dual citizens, and the effect of what it proposes will be to single out Jews - because of their belief in Jewish flight risk, these prosecutors will always ask, 'Is the defendant a Jew?'" his lawyers wrote.
Michael Muhammad Knight, the author of "The Taqwacores," which a college professor has called "The Catcher in the Rye" for young Muslims. (David Ahntholz for The New York Times )
Flight attendants at a graduation ceremony last year in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. (Tamara Abdul Hadi for The New York Times)
AUSTRIAN incest suspect Josef Fritzl has tried to make money from his crimes by selling his police interrogation transcripts to British tabloid newspapers, a German magazine reports.
Samuel Sheinbein, center, sits between two police officers in a Tel Aviv court Sunday as he awaits his sentence. (AP) I didn't really expect you to remember Mr. Samuel Sheinbein. Stories about Jewish murderers have a way of "getting lost" in Western main-stream media. But, I was able to find a few here.
New evidence could free Lockerbie bomber Abdelbasset Al Megrahi
A Palestinian boy watches the construction of the controversial Israeli barrier at the Shuafat refugee camp in the West Bank near Jerusalem November 3, 2008. No one in 1967 thought the Arab-Israeli conflict would still be in progress 41 years later
Readers who know the problem here will be joined by those who will immediately pick it up. The Israelis say that they are not required to withdraw from all the territories – because the word "all" is missing and since the definite article "the" is missing before the word "territories", its up to Israel to decide which bits of the occupied territories it gives up and which bits it keeps.
In this Dec. 1, 2008 file photo, White House Chief of Staff designate Rahm Emanuel listens to President-elect Obama
Dimona Nuclear Reactor, Negev Desert, Israel
U.S. soldiers walking under the "crossed swords" monument in the Green Zone in Baghdad on Sunday. (Karim Kadim/The Associated Press)
"They were not supposed to meet," Livni's spokesman told The Jerusalem Post. But as soon as Bush was done addressing the conference, the head of UN protocol approached Livni's staff and told them that the president wanted to speak with them. The president walked from the podium directly to them.
The Israeli blockade of Gaza has led to a steady rise in chronic malnutrition among the 1.5 million people living in the strip, according to a leaked report from the Red Cross. It chronicles the "devastating" effect of the siege that Israel imposed after Hamas seized control in June 2007 and notes that the dramatic fall in living standards has triggered a shift in diet that will damage the long-term health of those living in Gaza and has led to alarming deficiencies in iron, vitamin A and vitamin D.
This national speaking tour will bring internationally recognized human rights advocates Rev. Eddie Makue and Diana Buttu to 11 U.S. cities between November 10th and 23rd, 2008. Faith communities, the African-American community, and students will be the heart of this tour, as we work to educate Americans about the similarities between life under South Africa's apartheid regime and life for Israelis and Palestinians living under the Israeli government's ethnic separation policies.
Rimonim, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. The vast majority of settlers vow never to leave the West Bank, but some see the occupation as wrong.
Her selection as top U.S. diplomat could also mean a more hawkish foreign policy than that advocated by Obama during his presidential campaign. On the campaign trail, Clinton was more reluctant than Obama to commit to a firm timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.
If Israel would have been slapped down and punished, fiercely, for the murders of American sons on the high seas on June 8, 1967 aboard the USS LIBERTY, this country would not be in the shape it is in today. The saddest part of all is this country is under the Zionists’ thumb now more than ever before in history. Wake up, American patriots!! You are the only ones that can save us. Put country before self for the sake of our children and their children, for God’s sake!!
Several senior Democrats oppose keeping National Intelligence director Mike McConnell (far left) and Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden (left) in their jobs. -- PHOTO: AP, REUTERS
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has done us all a service by publishing this important downloadable report, Smearcasters: How Islamophobes spread fear, bigotry and misinformation. It is filled with a familiar right-wing cast of characters like self-styled “terrorism expert” Steve Emerson, inveterate Muslim-basher Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz “the Islamophobia movement’s premier promoter”, and Fox talking heads Sean Hannity and BIll O’Reilly.The corporate media’s frightening obsession with maintaining Obama’s messianic complex now apparently extends to the so-called “right-wing” Fox News, who have eagerly picked up the baton and are right behind the mindless fervor of Obamamania - acting in lock step with the establishment left.
In the interview with Nader aired last night, Fox host Shepard Smith feigned phony righteousness in his reaction to Nader’s assertion that Obama could prove to be an “Uncle Tom” for the corporations rather than an “Uncle Sam” for the people.
An woman invited to a rural Louisiana campsite for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she asked to be taken back to town, the sheriff of a New Orleans suburb said Tuesday.
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Meir Porush, the ultra-Orthodox Candidate
Palestinian women wait at the Qalandiya checkpoint, September 2008. (Rami Swidan/MaanImages
Masked Jewish settlers gather near an illegal settlement outpost near the West Bank city of Hebron, 31 October. (Mamoun Wazwaz/MaanImages)
Senator Barack Obama addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) forum on Foreign Policy in Chicago, March 2007. (Jeff Haynes/AFP/Getty Images)
The Bush administration has stonewalled, misled and denied documents to Congress, and subpoenaed the phone records of investigative reporters. Credit: Monsivais/APAt last, some real dirt on Barak Obama!
He has terrorist connections!
No, I don’t mean the endlessly recycled, tenuous connection with Bill Ayers, an elderly academic with a colorful past. Nor do I have in mind Barak’s links with the Rev Wright, one of the more honest preachers in America today.
Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks scuffle next to the site traditionally believed to be the tomb of Jesus Christ at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. A brawl erupted between rival monks at one of Christianity's holiest sites, and Israeli police detained two clergymen for questioning. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
