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Update: 10-Year Old Murdered By Israeli Military in Ni’lin
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10-Year old shot dead at Nil’in
A 10 year old boy called Ahmed Ussam Yusef Mousa was shot dead at approximately 6pm near the Palestinian village of Nil’in. He was shot once in the head at close range with live ammunition.
In 2004, god, guns and gays were invoked to inflame interest in voting. In 2008, the GOP will race-bait to boost the chances of its floundering candidate by placing affirmative action abolition on the ballot.
Democrats will dismiss how deeply and abidingly racism inflects the innards of voting Americans and will dumpster dive for cliches that support affirmative action rather than suggest alternatives that do not perpetuate class warfare and discrimination.
The Obama-loving media is still going on about his alleged arrogance. MSNBC’s political director, Chuck Todd, said today that despite poll numbers, unless he stumbles several times, this is Obama’s race to win by hitching a ride on the coat tails of Democrats. Jay Carney, Washington Bureau Chief for Time Magazine, reminded that voters resent it when the candidate or the media call the race.
I nearly grow accustomed to the inevitability of McCain’s coronation until he opens his mouth and the prospects of his gaffes and guffaws being stamped with a presidential seal shiver my soul.
Obama could rejuvenate interest in his mundane candidacy and prepare for the knockout punch by putting Tim Kaine to work clearing rhetorical land mines and breaking new ground on abortion.
Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Pambazuka News, 23 July 2008
Fatima Hassan, is a prominent South African human rights lawyer who was part of a South African Human Rights Delegation that in early July visited the Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The delegation undertook the mission in order to: “support those, Palestinian and Israeli, working daily, by non-violent means, to bring an end to the post-1967 Israeli occupation, to end all human rights abuses and breaches of international law, and to move towards peaceful relations and a just settlement…to express solidarity with those who are living in oppressive, restrictive and dangerous circumstances; and to to draw attention to the injustice of the occupation and its devastating consequences.” Mukoma Wa Ngugi interviewed Fatima Hassan on the solidarity visit and the implications of the Palestinian struggle for Africans.
PAMBAZUKA NEWS: Well, let’s get straight to it: A Independent Newspaper article quotes you as saying “The issue of separate roads, [different registration] of cars driven by different nationalities, the indignity of producing a permit any time a soldier asks for it, and of waiting in long queues in the boiling sun at checkpoints just to enter your own city, I think is worse than what we experienced during apartheid.” But the same article goes on to say that “Ms Hassan herself said she thought the apartheid comparison was a potential “red herring.” Can you speak more about this?
Cable talking heads accuse broadcast networks of liberal bias — but a think tank finds that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Barack Obama than on John McCain in recent weeks.
By JAMES RAINEY, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2008
Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last week.
Barack Obama, they said, was getting a free ride from those insufferable liberals.
Such pronouncements, sorry to say, tend to be wrong since they describe a monolithic media that no longer exists. Information today cascades from countless outlets and channels, from the Huffington Post to Politico.com to CBS News and beyond.
But now there’s additional evidence that casts doubt on the bias claims aimed — with particular venom — at three broadcast networks.
The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign.
You read it right: tougher on the Democrat.
Peter Beaumont, The Observer, 27 July 2008
Fawzia al-Kurd’s home is nothing special. She has lived within its walls for the past quarter of a century, in the heart of East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah district. The house is tidy. But at first glance, it would not appear to be worth $10m.
That is the sum that the al-Kurd family claim they were offered by Israeli buyers as an incentive to move on, a figure confirmed by their lawyer. Fawzia refused to make a deal, whatever the price. It would have hurt her ‘integrity’ to take it and leave, she said. So last week she received an eviction notice, based on an arcane legal claim to the site that her husband first called home in 1956.
If she and her family are forced to leave as a result, ultra-Orthodox Israeli settlers from a company called Nahlat Shemoun – linked to a nearby Jewish shrine – will take over half of the house. Settlers have already occupied her illegally built extension. The Kurd house may soon be draped with Israeli flags – as is another a handful of metres distant – and Arab East Jerusalem will have shrunk perceptibly once more.
‘Their objective [in trying to evict me] is political’, said Fawzia. ‘They are claiming as theirs something that is not.’
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