Title: Death Made In America: Impacts of Depleted Uranium Contamination on Afghanistan’s Children: Disturbing Photographs.

Author: Dr. Mohammed Daud Miraki

URL: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=DAU20060509&articleId=2412

Abstract:
This is a photo essay illustrating the intensity of environmental damage caused by the contamination of depleted Uranium used by the American soldiers and its impact on Afghan children, via these photos of babies born deformed.

Title: The Struggle for a Jewish State

Author: Walter Laqueur

URL: http://pij.org/details.php?id=927

Abstract:
This is an extract from Part III of the book ‘A History of Zionism,’ by Walter Laqueur, a distinguished historian and director of the Institute for Contemporary History in London. It discusses the efforts by the international community to establish an independent state of Israel following the World War II. The United Nations General Assembly had established on May 15, 1947, an eleven member committee, known as the ‘United Nations Special Committee on Palestine,’ to investigate into the Palestinian question, make proposals for a settlement and to report back by September 1947. This article presents an account of the period which started with the proposals at the United Nations on May 15, 1947 and ended with the and the final creation and legitimization of Israel with the declaration of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948.

A German-born Israeli journalist, Uri Avneri has been contributing various essays on the Arab-Israeli conflict, over the years. He is a left-wing peace activist and former Knesset member, who was originally one of the members of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement.  The following website presents information about him and the related sites.

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Avnery

Title: Black flags in Ramallah: of war and transfer

Author: Uri Avnery

URL: http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery03102003.html

Abstract:
The author discusses his experience of visiting Ramallah in an attempt to know from the Palestinian civic leaders about the dangers threatening the Palestinian population in case of an American attack on Iraq. He observes that there will be a prolonged closure and curfew in all the occupied territories, preventing Palestinians’ access to food, medicines and hospitals. Israel may increase the acts of ‘transfer,’ which means the mass expulsion of the Palestinian people from Palestine, as happened in 1948 and 1967. As all the acts constitute war crimes under the Geneva Convention and other international laws, the author calls on the Israelis to take up every step to prevent such acts from taking place, which, he believes, a patriotic duty of the highest order.

Title: Beware of Iraq’s whipping boys

Author: Nir Rosen

URL: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FB19Ak02.html

Abstract: This article presents information about the Shi’ite Islam’s paradigmatic ritual commemorating its central, epic, narrative, the seventh-century martyrdom of Husain, the third imam, or leader of the Shi’ite community. It discusses the activities of a 26-year-old Najim Abdul Amir, a construction worker and a mudarib, or trainer, instructing up to 60 boys in the correct performance of Shi’ite Islam’s paradigmatic ritual. This article offers deep insight into the religious and political history of the Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq.

Title: Background resource: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Author: By Yifat Susskind, the Associate Director of MADRE, a registered tax-exempt charitable organization based in New York, NY.

URL: http://www.madre.org/country_pal_bg.html

Abstract:
This article offers information about the background of the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 1948 following the World War II. It covers issues related to the conflict, including the 1967 Israeli Occupation, signing of the Oslo Accords in September 1993, the Palestinian Uprisings of 1987 and 2000, America hindering the peace process by giving military aid to Israel and by vetoing the Security Council of the United Nations to block resolutions condemning Israel for human rights abuses against Palestinians and violations of international law. This article exposes the ethnic and religious rivalry, role of Palestinian youth in confronting Israeli troops, mass media’s bias and the probabilities for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Title: A Wall In Their Heart

URL: http://www.gush-shalom.org/archives/wall_yediot_eng.html

It presents a report by Meron Rappaport published in p. M16 of an Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth on May 23, 2003.

It highlights various issues related to the Israeli-West Bank barrier wall.

Worth reading and helps understand the core issues behind the ’security’ fence.

Title: Raise Your Voices Against War: No Blood for Oil

URL: http://www.web.net/sworker/En/SW2002/387-03-oil.html

Abstract: Very informative article, presenting the Real BACKGROUND OF IRAQ WAR and imperialist interests of the United States President George W. Bush behind waging a war on Iraq. It is mentioned that the emergence of oil as a major commodity in the mid 19th century, seven major oil corporations, including one British, one Dutch-British and five American, came to control the world oil supplies. When oil is discovered in the Middle East after World War One, the seven sisters, backed by Anglo-American imperialism, moved in and bribed their way into positions where they controlled this oil. This scenario is changed in 1959, when Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, together formed the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to wrest this wealth from the Seven Sisters. Fearing a unified Middle East dictating the terms of oil supplies, the American policy on Middle east changed rapidly, which finally manifested in the 2003 Iraq War. ..

[It presents real historical facts.. every one should know]

This page presents the information on various aspects related to Middle East Studies

Title: The reformist illusion

Author: Graham Usher

Journal: Al-Ahram Weekly Online

Issue: No. 63 Dated March 20-26, 2003.

Online Accessibility: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/630/re2.htm

Abstract:

This is a response to an editorial in the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam, by the editor and former PLO negotiator, Akram Haniyya, explaining the reasons for embarking by Palestinian leadership on the road of reform, including the decision to appoint a Palestinian prime minister (PM). Citing Haniyya’s opinion that the appointment of a PM with jurisdictions and responsibilities is a part of the Road-Map to end the occupation and pave the way to negotiations based on a two-state solution, the author states that Haniyya is reflecting the political philosophy of his mentor and the Palestinian PM-in-waiting, Mahmoud Abbass or Abu-Mazen. The author also discusses the ideas of Abbass who leads a stream within Fatah that believes in reducing factional powers and exposing Sharon’s stupidity.