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  • TIME Magazine: The Bible & The Apocalypse
    The biggest book of the summer is about the end of the world. It's also a sign of our troubled tim...
  • UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets
    UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets Last Updated: Monday, December 29, 2008 | 9:53 PM ET Comments1198...
  • B.C. detention was bid to silence anti-war activists, American says
    B.C. detention was bid to silence anti-war activists, American says Last Updated: Sunday, September 16, 2007 | 4:10 PM ET CBC News Story Tools: E-MAIL | PRINT | Text Size: ...
  • After public hearing council is exploring exemptions to smoking by-law
    After public hearing council is exploring exemptions to smoking by-law Sep, 20 2007 - 2:40 PM VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - Vancouver city council is looking at changes to its new health by-law that would effectively ban smoking in the city. As of April 1st, smokers would be under a proviso ...
  • Israel fires missiles into Palestinian presidential compound
    Israel fires missiles into Palestinian presidential compound Last Updated Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:52:28 EDT CBC News Israeli aircraft fired three missiles Tuesday into the Gaza Strip compound of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, injuring two people. Abbas was not in the compound during the attack, which left deep craters in the ground. ...
  • Israel's anti-Arab parties
    Israel's anti-Arab parties By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank ...
  • Church urges PM to demand withdrawal of troops from Iraq
    Church urges PM to demand withdrawal of troops from Iraq Last Updated Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:08:54 EST CBC News The United Church of Canada wants Prime Minister Paul Martin to help free four western hostages in Iraq by demanding that all coalition troops be withdrawn from the country. * INDEPTH: Iraq The church issued an open letter to Martin on Wednesday saying the foreign military occupation of Iraq must end. "We implor...
  • Row builds over Jerusalem voting
    Row builds over Jerusalem voting by Wednesday 21 December 2005 8:53 AM GMT Shaath said without voting in Jerusalem there would be no election The Palestinian Authority says will cancel 25 January parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with plans to bar Jerusalem Palestinians from voting. "If the Israelis insist on not allowing us to conduct the elections in Jerusalem, then there will be no elections at all," Nabil Shaath, the Pales...
  • Elections may be cancelled if Israel bars Palestinian in Jerusalem from vote
    Elections may be cancelled if Israel bars Palestinian in Jerusalem from vote 06:52:14 EST Dec 21, 2005 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - The Palestinian Authority will cancel Jan. 25 parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with its plan to bar Palestinians from voting in disputed Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said Wednesday. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has been under growing pressure from his Fatah Party to postpone the vote, amid concer...
  • Life returns to Palestinian village
    Life returns to Palestinian village by Motasem A Dalloul in al-Syafa, Gaza Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:32 AM GMT Al-Syafa was under a virtual Israeli lockdown for five years Nearly four months after Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian village once cordoned off between two Jewish settlements is slowly coming back to life. Located in the northern Gaza Strip, the village of al-Syafa had been caught between the Israeli set...
  • Calls grow to free Iraq hostages
    Calls grow to free Iraq hostages by Tuesday 13 December 2005 11:03 AM GMT Palestinians are demanding that the hostages be freed Supporters and well-wishers from around the globe have appealed for the release of four Christian activists held hostage in Iraq, with Muslim groups and relatives reiterating that the four supported the Iraqi people. The previously unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigade, which kidnapped the four men from the Ch...
  • Muslim clerics demand release of captive Westerners
    Muslim clerics demand release of captive Westerners Last Updated Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:21:58 EST CBC News A group of influential Sunni Muslim clerics in Iraq and Palestinian activists issued separate pleas Wednesday for the release of two Canadians and three other Westerners being held hostage in Iraq. Palestinian activists called for the release of Harmeet Singh Sooden, above, and other captives, saying they helped Palestinians in the West Bank. (CP Photo/Chris...
  • Christian agency blames U.S. for kidnappings
    Christian agency blames U.S. for kidnappings Last Updated Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:28:17 EST CBC News Christian Peacemaker Teams is blaming the U.S. occupation of Iraq for the abduction of four of its members, including two Canadians. * INDEPTH: Iraq James Loney (CP Photo/Christian Peacemaker Teams) In a statement on its website, the agency spoke about how it is saddened by the kidnappings, and how it has long opposed U.S. ...
  • Iraqi group urges prison abuse inquiry
    Iraqi group urges prison abuse inquiry by Wednesday 16 November 2005 11:19 AM GMT Some detainees are said to have been abused Iraq's government faces calls for an international inquiry into abuse at a secret prison in Baghdad where inmates were reportedly tortured, beaten and starved. The call by the Sunni-based Iraqi Islamic Party on Wednesday comes after revelations that about 170 detainees, mostly Sunni, were illegally held at a centr...
  • Israeli defence minister: no peace with Palestinians in this generation
    Israeli defence minister: no peace with Palestinians in this generation 10:28 AM EDT Oct 28 STEVE WEIZMAN JERUSALEM (AP) - Expressing growing frustration with Mahmoud Abbas, Israel's defence minister dismissed the Palestinian leader as "a one-man show" bereft of support from his own people and said he sees little chance that a peace deal can be reached with the Palestinians in the present generation. Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz's remarks were publishe...
  • Israel fires missiles into Gaza
    Israel fires missiles into Gaza by Monday 24 October 2005 5:42 PM GMT Two resistance fighters were killed by Israeli troops on Sunday Israeli army helicopters have fired two rockets into the Gaza Strip in response to a series of attacks by Palestinian resistance fighters, witnesses and security sources say. One raid on Tuesday was against a building belonging to the Fatah movement of Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas in Bait Hanun in the north o...
  • Israel accused of skewing elections
    Israel accused of skewing elections by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Monday 03 October 2005 1:39 PM GMT The Israeli army is targeting Palestinian civil servants The Israeli army is cracking down on civil servants and community leaders, including elected local government officials, throughout the West Bank, in what some believe to be a bid to force Hamas out of upcoming Palestinian elections. Palestinian sources told Aljazeera.net that ...
  • Israel repeats threat to hamper polls
    Israel repeats threat to hamper polls by Wednesday 21 September 2005 9:46 AM GMT Minister Silvan Shalom addressed the UN General Assembly Israel has reiterated threats to hamper January's Palestinian election if the Islamic movement Hamas stands, despite being urged by the US to cooperate in organising the polls. "We will not allow Hamas to take part in the elections," Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told public radio in an interview on W...
  • US church rebukes Israel for barrier
    US church rebukes Israel for barrier by Sunday 14 August 2005 7:09 AM GMT The wall is splitting the church's Jerusalem assembly into three A five-million-strong US church has rebuked Israel for building a separation barrier along the West Bank, becoming the second major US Protestant denomination to reject policies implemented by the Jewish state. The resolution titled "Peace Not Wall" was adopted on Saturday on a 668-269 vote by members...
  • Settler-funding a billion dollar question
    Settler-funding a billion dollar question by Friday 12 August 2005 7:05 AM GMT Some believe $60 billion has been pumped into settlements Israel's illegal effort since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war to fill the West Bank and Gaza Strip with Jews has grown from the scattered actions of zealous squatters into a network of 142 settlements that house nearly 240,000 people. Now that Israel plans to spend $2 billion to dismantle just 25 of these enc...
  • West Bank barrier a violation of Israel's rights obligations: UN experts
    West Bank barrier a violation of Israel's rights obligations: UN experts 10:21 AM EDT Aug 04 GENEVA (AP) - The barrier Israel is building to seal off the West Bank is a violation of Israel's human rights obligations, a group of UN experts said Thursday. The eight rights experts called on Israel "to stop construction of the wall" and to pay compensation to Palestinians for damage caused by work on the barrier - a series of fences, walls, watchtowers and trench...
  • Israel to expand West Bank settlement even as it quits Gaza Strip
    Israel to expand West Bank settlement even as it quits Gaza Strip 10:13 AM EDT Aug 04 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel announced plans Thursday to expand a settlement near Jerusalem, its latest effort to consolidate control over parts of the West Bank even as it prepares to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. The plan to build 72 housing units in the Beitar Illit settlement are liable to put Israel on a collision course with the U.S. government, which oppo...
  • Palestinians protest Gaza smokescreen
    Palestinians protest Gaza smokescreen by Laila El-Haddad in Gaza Thursday 28 July 2005 12:40 PM GMT Six Palestinian protesters were wounded by Israeli forces Palestinians have burned rubber tyres along the trail of the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank in a symbolic protest against its ongoing construction under the smokescreen of the Gaza pullout. Black smoke seen rising along the wall's path from the areas of Marda to Qalandi...
  • Israeli forces kill teenager in Jenin
    Israeli forces kill teenager in Jenin by Wednesday 27 July 2005 2:49 PM GMT Yusuf Haseef was shot in the head by Israeli occupation forces Israeli occupation troops have shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian bystander in the West Bank town of Jenin while a four-year-old was seriously wounded in shooting at the Rafah refugee camp near Gaza. The forces, backed by Israeli tanks and bulldozers, entered the Palestinian town of Jenin around midd...
  • Angered by Iraq war, bombers driven to suicide attacks, say friends
    Angered by Iraq war, bombers driven to suicide attacks, say friends 12:20 PM EDT Jul 15 SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI LEEDS, England (AP) - Shahzad Tanweer, the 22-year-old son of an affluent Pakistani-born businessman, turned to Islam, the religion of his birth, a few years ago. The transformation was gradual, but then his relentless reading of the Qur'an and daily prayers became almost an obsession, his friends told The Associated Press. He became withdrawn...
  • Ex-U.S. Marine: I Killed Civilians in Iraq
    http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/24/148212 Ex-U.S. Marine: I Killed Civilians in Iraq Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3 Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend Purchase Video/CD Ex-Marine Staff Sergeant Jimmy Massey talks about his time in Iraq where he admitted the U.S. treatment of Iraqi civilians is fueling the Iraqi resistance. ...
  • Israel razes Palestinian homes
    Israel razes Palestinian homes by Tuesday 05 July 2005 3:29 PM GMT Several families have lost their homes in the demolition The Israeli occupation army, using bulldozers, has demolished up to 17 homes in the village of Bait Fureik east of Nablus city on the West Bank, leaving tens of families homeless. According to a report quoting local sources, troops also demolished a mosque and school in the area, housing some 450 inhabitants as well...
  • Palestinians under attack from settlers
    Palestinians under attack from settlers by Friday 25 March 2005 11:21 PM GMT Extremism is said to be growing among Israeli settlers Israeli settlers in the West Bank are turning more aggressive, resulting in a recent spate of violent attacks on Palestinians. The online edition of the Haaretz daily on Friday quoted sources within the Israeli occupation forces as cautioning that attacks on Palestinians could spiral further unless "extremis...
  • Israel accused of covering up murders
    Israel accused of covering up murders by Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank Monday 27 June 2005 6:18 PM GMT Rights groups say Israeli soldiers are trigger-happy The Israeli human rights organisation, B'tselem, has accused the Israeli occupation army of whitewashing the murders of hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians. The organisation, which monitors Israeli human rights violations in the occupied territories, described Monday's convic...
  • The US war with Iran has already begun
    The US war with Iran has already begun by Scott Ritter Sunday 19 June 2005 12:06 PM GMT Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March 2003 invasion and occupation of that country by US forces), but also about the very process that led to war. On 16 October 2002, President Bu...
  • Israeli, Palestinian killed in shootings
    Israeli, Palestinian killed in shootings by Monday 20 June 2005 6:13 AM GMT The attack was near Baka al-Sharqiya, 10km north of Tulkarim An Israeli civilian and a Palestinian teenager have been shot dead in the Palestinian territories, the Israeli army and medical sources on both sides say. In the northern West Bank, an Israeli man was killed and a teenager injured when Palestinian fighters ambushed their car, the army and medics said....
  • Israel to build sea barrier off Gaza
    Israel to build sea barrier off Gaza by Friday 17 June 2005 1:17 PM GMT Israel has ignored an ICJ ruling and a UN resolution The Israeli navy plans to build a sea barrier off the coast of northern Gaza, saying it will keep out potential attackers once Israel pulls back from occupied land this summer, military officials say. The navy said the barrier, stretching 950m into the sea, is necessary because of the expected loss of surveillance ...
  • Jewish group wants Kazemi exhibit restored
    Jewish group wants Kazemi exhibit restored Last Updated Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:56:45 EDT CBC Arts A Jewish group in Montreal is accusing city authorities of censorship over its decision to remove a library exhibit of the work of murdered photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. On Friday, members of the Canada Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation held a mock book-banishing ceremony in front of the Côte-St-Luc library where Kazemi's photos had been on display....
  • Russian envoy meets al-Sadr in Iraq
    Russian envoy meets al-Sadr in Iraq by Monday 13 June 2005 9:31 AM GMT Muqtada al-Sadr has taken on a higher public profile The Russian ambassador to Iraq has flown to Najaf and started talks with Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Ambassador Vlidimer Chamov was making the first visit by a Russian envoy to al-Sadr's office since the US-led war started in Iraq more than two years ago, Russian embassy protocol chief Ivan Zhurba said on Monday....
  • Israeli army kills Islamic Jihad leader
    Israeli army kills Islamic Jihad leader by Tuesday 07 June 2005 7:54 AM GMT The Israeli army targeted the head of Islamic Jihad in Jenin Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers, including a top Islamic Jihad fighter, during an incursion into the northern West Bank town of Qabaty. The military said it entered the Palestinian town on Tuesday morning in an operation to arrest a senior member of the Islamic Jihad group....
  • Religion, suicide terrorism link disputed in book
    http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-06-03T184426Z_01_N03269274_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-SECURITY-TERRORISM-DC.XML Religion, suicide terrorism link disputed in book Fri Jun 3, 2005 2:44 PM ET By Patricia Wilson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A surge in suicide attacks in Iraq and elsewhere around the world is a response to territorial occupation and has no direct link with Islamic fundamentalism, according to the author of a n...
  • South American, Arab leaders endorse declaration on Israel and trade
    This is a rare but great thing to see so many world leaders condemn the occupation of Palestine. It is unfortunate that with over 65 UN resolutions condemning Israeli actions since 1955 that it seems they still have not complied as is evident by the UN's dismay with their refusal to co-operate. http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050511/w051190.html...
  • Rebuttal to anti-Islamists over the state of Israel
    This is just in response to the anti-Islamists who have been copying and pasting from anti-Islamic hate sites to miscontrue Islam.The Qur'an does not allow for any violence except in the case of self-defense, in fact the Qur'an repeats over and over that if the enemy (in times of war) wants peace, you can't continue fighting.This issue has nothing to do with Islam, it has to do with occupation and the Zionist leaders in Israel wanting a "Jewish" majority, and Ra...
  • The Prophet Muhammad Had Nothing To Gain By Challenging The Existing Leaders
    Many anti-Islamists charge the Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings be Upon Him), with being an egocentric tyrant among other things, insisting that his only goal was to deceive people and that he invented Islam himself and that he did not receive divine revelation as Jesus had.The biggest flaw with that argument is the obvious point that they would never mention. Muhammad already had protection and influence because of a wealthy Uncle.He risked the life of his fri...
  • My response to a viewpoint article from Tom Velk on CBC
    My response to a viewpoint article from Tom Velk on CBC http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_velk/20050805.html I agree that countries should not allow hate-mongering and other illegal activities from any people but to point the finger at every immigrant and belittle Islam while ignoring other forms of terrorism and the true causes is irresponsible and anti-Islamic in nature. Throughout the world, whether it be the news or on-line forums, people are quick to ...
  • Allah is GOD in "Aramaic", the language Jesus spoke
    Allah is GOD in "Aramaic", the language Jesus spoke With Ramadan around the corner (generally accepted as tomorrow if the new moon is sighted) I felt like doing some research and it turns out what my friend said is true (god is "Allah" in Armaic") and hopefully the Christians that knock on my door every few months will come back soon (although they promised to visit soon last time we spoke). It is a historical fact that Jesus spoke the "Aramaic" language so n...

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