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: Information Clearing House - ICH : "Listen and listen well O! One who could have been our brother It is not whether we live or die that is important It is how we live and how we die Ask yourself: How would you like to be remembered? Without respect, despised and accursed through the centuries, Or blessed, honored, your passing mourned. Allah is our witness: We lived with honor; begging for no favors And He is our witness: That today we die with honor, on our feet Fighting until the last breath leaves our body, even if all we have in our hands are stones He is the witness over us both As you kill us and as we die And to Him is our return"

The PLO: Why an Alternative and Why the Panic? : Information Clearing House - ICH Expectedly, the Old Guard who largely remained mute during the Gaza onslaught, reacted with fury to what they understood as Hamas’ attempt to discount the PLO, which, for them, represents a place of personal leverage and status. However, there were some outsiders to the PA’s Old Guard apparatus who rejected any alternative to the PLO because of what the organization for long represented, a platform that guided and guarded Palestinian national aspirations for many years. But why an alternative to the PLO, and why the fury over a call for a new leadership structure?

Official: 40 civilians die daily in Sri Lanka war | Antiwar Newswire : "Artillery shelling and gunbattles between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels are killing about 40 civilians every day and wounding more than 100 others inside Sri Lanka's war zone, the top health official in the region said Friday."

allAfrica.com: Somalia: Ethiopian Troops Withdraw From Border Town (Page 1 of 1) : "Beledweyn — More Ethiopian troops have withdrawn from Kalaber Village about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Beledweyn, the regional capital of Hiiran region in central Somalia, eyewitnesses told Shabelle radio on Friday. The Ethiopian troops have been in the region for the last three weeks and the residents have expressed concern about the presence of the Ethiopian troops in the region. Locals say the Ethiopian troops with more military trucks left from the region heading to the border between the two countries. The Ethiopian soldiers hijacked more Somali, civilian trucks and killed civilians during their presence in the region. Ethiopia pulled out its troops from Somalia last month as a part of an agreement between the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia and the transitional government. But residents and clan elders said that the Ethiopian troops have re-entered Somalia, which Ethiopia den...

Palestinians say Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills 1 | Antiwar Newswire : "Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli airstrike on Gaza has killed one man and critically wounded another."

14-year-old Palestinian killed by Israel Border Police in Hebron - Haaretz - Israel News : "The Israel Border Police on Friday killed a 14-year-old Palestinian in Hebron during a clash between the Israeli forces and stone-throwing Palestinian youths"

Does Zionism legitimize every act of violence? - Haaretz - Israel News The Israeli left died in 2000. Since then its corpse has been lying around unburied until finally its death certificate was issued, signed, sealed and delivered on Tuesday. The hangman of 2000 was also the gravedigger of 2009: Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The man who succeeded in spreading the lie about there being no partner has reaped the fruit of his deeds in this election. The funeral was held two days ago. The Israeli left is dead. For the past nine years it took the name of the peace camp in vain. The Labor Party, Meretz and Kadima had pretensions of speaking in its name, but that was trickery and deceit. Labor and Kadima made two wars and continued to build Jewish settlements in the West Bank; Meretz supported both wars. Peace has been left an orphan. The Israeli voters, who have been misled into thinking that there is no one to talk to and that the only answer to this is force - wars, targeted killings and s...