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Palestinians, Christians and the Politics of Compassion
Article by WorldNews.com correspondent Dallas Darling. Even now as Presbyterian leaders prophetically issue statements calling for the U.S. to end its military aid to Israel unless Tel Aviv stops it settlement activities in occupied land that belongs to Palestinians, they might want to recall what Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer wrote in his book "The Politics of Compassion." Nelson-Pallmeyer believed that most Christians and denominations in the U.S.-who by virtue of their affluence, power, privilege, and isolation-are not only entirely separated from the true biblical message, but isolated from the people in whom that message is most clearly embodied today. Clearly, it is the experiences of the poor...
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Gilad Atzmon: The Lowest Of The Low
Millions of ballot papers have been sent out yesterday to those eligible to vote in the Labour leadership election. Symbolically enough, this happened the day Tony Blair, the British PM who launched the criminal war in Iraq, published his controversial memoirs. I am not holding my breath for the Labour party to make the right decision. Clearly, the same party failed to curtail Blair's militant enthusiasm, even when it was plainly clear that the argument for the Iraq war was grounded in a dodgy dossier. Considering the scale of the atrocities we are all complicit in thanks to the Labour government, it is my duty to remind the Labour party members who their leading candidate is, what he stands...
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders face critics of talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned Friday from the resumption of Mideast negotiations in Washington to confront internal opposition to his peace moves, just as his Palestinian counterpart faced harsh criticism for agreeing to the talks at all. Analysts on both sides questioned the ability and desire of their leaders to negotiate a peace accord. And the militant Islamic Hamas group, from its stronghold in Gaza, rejected the talks as illegitimate. Netanyahu arrived back home at midday Friday. He did not speak to reporters on his plane or at the airport. In Washington, Netanyahu talked of creating a Palestinian state, a phrase he uttered for the first time just last year after...
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Deadly bombing at Pakistan rally
At least 22 people have been killed in a large suicide blast in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, police said. The bomber struck a rally of about 2,000 people who had gathered on Friday in support of a separate homeland for Palestinians. Four journalists were among those killed, and another 40 people were injured in the attack. A gunfight ensued, adding to the casualty figure. Source: Agencies Email Article Print Article Share Article Send Feedback Featured on Al Jazeera A history of talks and violence A timeline of the key moments in Israeli-Palestinian relations. Unveiling Fear & Prejudice Embracing the Cordoba Mosque Initiative could create a more...
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Gaza militants vow new Israel attacks after peace talks
Militants in Gaza have vowed to step up attacks against Israel, following the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian...
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Asylum seekers tortured upon return
By Karlis Salna 6:46 PM Friday Sep 3, 2010 Share Email Print Three asylum seekers forcibly removed to Sri Lanka in 2009 are believed to have been tortured and jailed following an attempt to return to Australia, says Amnesty International. The human rights group said today it held grave fears for the men who now risk further torture and abuse from guards and prisoners. The development comes amid warnings from the coalition that Australia faces a surge in asylum seeker traffic following a deal between Labor and the Australian Greens. Authorities on Friday morning intercepted asylum seeker boat carrying 59 passengers and two crew in waters north of Christmas Island - the seventh arrival since...
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Manila begins hostage crisis probe
Authorities in the Philippines have begun a three-day inquiry into a botched hostage rescue operation in which eight Hong Kong tourists were killed in the capital, Manila. Leila de Lima, the Philippine justice secretary who is heading the probe, launched the proceedings on Friday, summoning Rico Puno, the country's undersecretary of the department of interior. Puno, the highest ranking official being asked to testify so far, admitted to several mistakes that led to the tourists' deaths during the 11-hour hostage standoff on August 23. He told the inquiry panel that he had not been prepared for the situation, which began when sacked Philippine policeman Rolando...
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Hurricane Earl weakens as it nears US
HURRICANE Earl weakened today to a Category Two storm as it approached the US east coast but continued to wreck havoc on coastal communities as tourists fled potentially affected areas and events, including a Ke$ha concert, were cancelled. Rainbands moved on to the coast of North Carolina as Earl continued to move northward today at about 18 miles per hour (30kph), according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). As of 8pm EDT the center of Earl was located about 160 miles (260km) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras. It was expected to pass near the Outer Banks barrier islands later later that night and approach southeastern New England Friday night local time....
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Karzai slams Nato civilian killings
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned an air strike by Nato-led forces which he said killed 10 election campaign workers, although US officials maintained it was aimed at an Islamist leader. Nato said its airstrike on a car in northern Takhar province's normally quiet Rustaq district killed or wounded as many as 12 insurgents on Thursday, including a Taliban commander and a local head of an allied insurgent group, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, responsible for attacks in Kabul and elsewhere. However Karzai said the airstrike had killed 10 campaigners working for a candidate in Afghanistan's September 18 parliamentary elections. "The rationale for the airstrike still needs to be...
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Dozens killed in Mexico shootout
At least 25 people have been killed in clashes between soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, local media have reported. The soldiers stormed a training camp allegedly set up by the gang members in a northern border region which has seen an escalation of violence in recent months, including the massacre of 72 migrants last week. Thursday's shootout occurred in the town of General Tervino, in Nuevo Leon state, the online edition of the El Universal daily reported on Thursday. It was unclear if there were military victims among 25 killed, a Defence Ministry spokesman told the paper. Officials blame a spate of...
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Pakistan gets IMF relief, tightens security
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster and facing renewed militant violence. Flood victims left without receiving aid for three days reach for food handouts donated by a group calling themselves Muslim brothers in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province September 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Damir Sagolj) IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in Washington on Thursday that the funds would be dispersed in "coming weeks". Strauss-Kahn said discussions with a delegation led by Pakistan's Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez...
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Offshore Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico Explodes
NEW ORLEANS — An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said. The rig was located just west of where another rig leased by BP blew up and sank this spring, killing 11 people and touching off an environmental calamity. All 13 members of the work crew on board on Thursday were accounted for, the Coast Guard said. News reports said there was smoke rising from the platform, but it was unclear whether the rig was actively burning or in danger of foundering, or whether the explosion had set off any underground oil leaks. Several helicopters, airplanes and boats were speeding to the scene of the explosion, south...
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Israel, Palestinians launch direct peace talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian leaders began direct peace negotiations on Thursday, sitting down for U.S.-brokered talks even as hard-liners on both sides vowed never to accept a deal. U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliver statements to the media from the Colonnade outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington September 1, 2010. (REUTERS/Jason Reed) One day after U.S. President Barack Obama made a personal appeal for peace, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
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Gates Lands in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here on an unannounced visit Thursday for meetings with American military commanders and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. It is Mr. Gates’s first visit to the country since Gen. David H. Petraeus became the top American and NATO commander, replacing Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who was fired by President Obama in June. In a briefing on Thursday afternoon to reporters traveling with Mr. Gates, General Petraeus said that the United States was still trying to fix its intelligence-gathering operation in Afghanistan, which was sharply criticized earlier this year in a report by Maj. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, the top...
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Barack Obama urges Mid-East leaders to take opportunity
US President Barack Obama has urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders not to let the chance of a permanent peace deal "slip away"....
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US hostage crisis over: Gunman shot, 3 people freed
SILVER SPRING: Police shot a gunman and safely freed the three people he had taken hostage Wednesday in a four-hour standoff at the Discovery Channel headquarters outside Washington, police said. "Approximately 10 minutes ago the suspect was shot by police officers," Montgomery County police chief J. Thomas Manger told reporters, adding that...
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Miners' morale leaps as Chile rescue drill inches closer
COPIAPO—The morale of 33 miners trapped in Chile soared Wednesday after music and hot meals were supplied, and NASA added its experience to keeping them healthy while a rescue drill inched closer. A new video shot by the miners and broadcast on state television late Tuesday showed the men shaven, wearing clean clothes and listening to a tropical tune. The figures in the images were a far cry from the haggard, mud-caked, bare-chested miners shown in a first video last week, days after they were located by a probe drill. The miners have now spent 27 days in the San Jose mine in northern Chile, which...
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Evacuations start as US braces for Hurricane Earl
MIAMI—US authorities ordered the evacuation Wednesday of thousands of tourists and residents in North Carolina as Hurricane Earl, the strongest Atlantic storm of 2010, wreaked havoc on Labor Day holiday plans. Briefed by top disaster response aides, US President Barack Obama said officials were preparing for the "worst case" scenario and would do all they could to protect vulnerable east coast communities. On the final weekend of the US...
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Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for Lahore blasts
ISLAMABAD: The banned Tehrik-e- Taliban Pakistan today claimed responsibility for three blasts, including two carried out by suicide attackers, on a Shia procession in Lahore that killed 30 people and injured over 200. The claim of responsibility was made by top Taliban leader Qari Hussain, who said militants had carried out three suicide blasts in Lahore. Police officials,...
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US launches new Iraq mission
US Vice-President Joe Biden launched a new American military mission in Iraq overnight, opening up a fresh phase in a seven-year deployment that has cost the lives of more...
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