Gaza & Palestine Archive

Hamas, an ally of Al Nusra – by Abdul Nishapuri: Between an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Takfiri Jihadist, I will prefer Israeli Jew any day. He won’t slaughter me for my faith. Hamas must stop firing rockets while hiding behind civilians and then using civilian casualties to blame
Palestinian takfiri militants help ISIS in massacring Sunni Sufis, Shias and Christians in Iraq:    A year ago, I read an article by Fatima Rajput, a cultural critic based in Islamabad, who wrote: No matter how many Al Quds rallies Shia Muslims of Pakistan organize, they will continue to be demonized and murdered
Pope gives Palestinians boost of support – by Josef Federman and Mohammed Daraghmeh:   JERUSALEM (AP) — Pope Francis delivered a powerful boost of support to the Palestinians during a Holy Land pilgrimage Sunday, repeatedly backing their statehood aspirations, praying solemnly at Israel’s controversial separation barrier and calling the stalemate in peace
بلیک ستمبر- جب جنرل ضیا الحق نے اردن میں پچیس ہزار فلسطینیوں کا قتل عام کیا: آج 17 اگست ہے. آج کے دن پاکستان کو ایک آمر سے نجات ملی تھی. یہ آمر نہ صرف پاکستان میں مذہبی انتہا پسندی کا بانی ہے بلکہ اس نے پاکستان کو امریکا کی گود میں ڈال دیا تھا.وہ
Why Al-Quds rallies by Pakistani Shias are anything but productive – by Fatima Rajput: Related post: It’s all about power: Al-Quds Day a celebration of hatred and racism – by Michael Coren In campaigning for human rights, it is important to avoid being selective or unbalanced. It is equally important to ensure that
Zia ul Haq the mass murderer of Black September – by Mian Waheed: A rare photo of “Mard e Momin”, Ameer ul Momineen Hazrat Muhammad Zia ul Haq Rehmatullah Eleh, killing Palestinians in Jordan during what is known to the world as “Black September” During Black September, the head of Pakistani training
Shia genocide in Pakistan represents our own Gaza, our own Karbala – by Saroop Ijaz: A people who are defenceless, innocent, out-powered and outgunned are being attacked and killed while the world watches. However, the world does not watch in silence. Worse, excuses are being made for the killers. The victim is being blamed.
Why are Islamists and fake liberals silent on Parachinar, the Pakistani Gaza?: Related posts: اسرائیل، غزہ اور مسلمانوں کی منافقت Manufacturing consent – by Leila Ebadi Why are 6000 Shia children killed in Pakistan less worthy than a few dozen Palestinians? Islamist and pseudo-liberal supporters of Hamas militants, Al Qaeda, Taliban
Why are 6000 Shia children killed by Deobandi terrorists in Pakistan less worthy than Palestinian children?: Related posts: Israel, Gaza and hypocrisy of Muslims (Urdu) Why are Islamists and pseudo-liberals silent on Parachinar, the Pakistani Gaza? Why are 6000 Shia children killed in Pakistan by Deobandi terrorists (Taliban TTP, Sipah-e-Sahaba ASWJ) less important than a
اسرائیل، غزہ اور مسلمانوں کی منافقت: Related posts: Why are 6000 Shia children killed in Pakistan less worthy than a few dozen Palestinians? Why are Islamists and pseudo-liberals silent on Parachinar, the Pakistani Gaza? گزشتہ کچھ روز سے پاکستان اور دیگر مسلمان ممالک کے غیرت
It’s all about power: Al-Quds Day a celebration of hatred and racism – by Michael Coren: Related post: Why Al-Quds rallies by Pakistani Shias are anything but productive – by Fatima Rajput Beyond the hatred, the racism and the anger, there’s a certain irony surrounding Al-Quds Day (Youm-Al-Quds), commemorated this weekend internationally (Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon
On Gaza, Darfur and our hypocritical activism – by Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi: Cross-posted from Plastic Tears Reactionary activism (and sudden burst of resentment fading away with time) defines our ideological advancement into the 21st century. There is a glaring difference between uproar in Muslim countries, when we compare Gaza to Darfur.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Facts not to be ignored – by Nayyer Khan: Courtesy: Naya Zamana
Kashmir Bleeds, Does Anyone Heed?- by Hafsa Khawaja: Befittingly termed once as ‘Heaven on Earth’, with millions martyred since the past 6 decades, thousands of half-widows, orphans and missing – Kashmir today is a Palestine-in-the-making of Asia. As the Kashmir intifada continues, anyone keeping a keen eye on
Analysis of relief and donations related to Pakistan floods 2010 – by Anas Abbas: Donations and contributions so far: World Bank: popularly known as the Israeli sponsored conspiracy in Pakistan said it had set up an aid fund at Pakistan’s request with initial pledges of $80 million. United States of America: Remember (According
Let’s say: “Terror has no boundaries” – by Ali Arqam Durrani: It is such a tragedy that everybody is stuck up with ‘who’ questions regarding attacks on Data Darbar (due to denial and conspiracy theories) preventing all of us from discussing the more important ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions. Everyone is
New video of Israel’s terrorist assault on Gaza aid flotilla: Democracy Now has released a preview of previously unseen raw footage from the Mavi Marmara. The footage shows the mood and the activities onboard the Mavi Marmara in the time leading up to the Israeli attack, and the immediate
Farrukh Sohail Goindi’s letter about Syed Talat Hussain: یہ سطور میں نے جناب فرخ سہیل گوئندی کا خط پڑھ کرلکھیں‘ جو انہوں نے میرے چند گزشتہ کالموں کے حوالے سے تحریر کیا ہے۔ اس طویل خط کا کچھ حصہ پیش خدمت کر رہا ہوں۔ محترم نذیر ناجی
An open letter to Talat Hussain: Will you lead a Freedom Flotilla to stranded Shias in Pakistan’s Gaza, Parachinar?: While most of Pakistani bloggers and national and international journalists have turned a blind eye to the blockade, sectarian genocide and persecution facing Shia Muslims of Parachinar, we at the LUBP have been consistently highlighting this issue. However, despite
Shia Taliban of ISO: “You mourn Gaza but lack moral courage to protest against Ahmadi massacre in Lahore.”: Police use water cannons to disperse protesters of the ISO as they try to reach the US consulate in Karachi during a demonstration against Israel. Source People in Karachi and Lahore yesterday witnessed noisy rallies by the Imamia Students
Syed Talat Hussain exposes Israeli terrorist attack on Gaza Foltilla: Syed, Talat Hussain, a leading Pakistani journalist who was captured during an Israeli naval attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla alleged Wednesday that Israeli soldiers were shooting people in cold blood. Talat Hussain, one of the 124 people arriving
State terrorism by Israel: At least 20 aid workers killed: Trying to bring in food, medicine and all kinds of much needed aid to war torn Gaza and its stranded people – the Flotilla was ambushed by the barbarians of Israel’s military; they carried out another despicable massacre, killing
Parachinar: Pakistan’s Gaza Strip remains under siege by Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba: The following news item in Dawn today (27 March 2010) forced me to post this rather lengthy compilation of events. First the news item: Six kidnapped truckers found dead in Thal Dawn, 27 Mar, 2010 PESHAWAR: Police on Saturday
Hamas takes bold action against the Wahhabi "Lal Masjid" in Gaza: One of very few bold steps taken by General Musharraf was his decision to eliminate the Wahhabi/Deobandi terrorist gang holed up in Islamabad’s Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), although it was too little too late given the fact the Musharraf
Hamas takes bold action against the Wahhabi “Lal Masjid” in Gaza: One of very few bold steps taken by General Musharraf was his decision to eliminate the Wahhabi/Deobandi terrorist gang holed up in Islamabad’s Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), although it was too little too late given the fact the Musharraf
Forget Gaza, care about Swat: Thursday, February 12, 2009 By by Fasi Zaka I think it would be absolutely inhuman not to care about the massacre in Gaza, the flagrant violation and cruelty demonstrated by the Israelis. But after talking to an old friend
From Children of Gaza to Children of FATA and Swat: Taliban shelling kills 11 school children in Darra Adam Khel: Taliban shelling kills 14 civilians in Darra * Eyewitness says mortar landed on school minutes after classes ended Staff Report PESHAWAR: Fourteen civilians, including 11 schoolchildren, and a soldier were killed in a mortar attack by the Taliban in
Aid to Gaza: Hamas and Israel – What is the difference?: Israelis halt ship carrying aid toward Gaza From Nada HusseiniCNN BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — Israeli warships halted a ship laden with 50 tons of aid for Gaza about 20 miles off the territory’s coast Wednesday, an activist said. The
Robert Fisk: Posturing and laughter as victims rot: Mahmoud Abbas stepped further into humiliation by saying the only option for Arabs isto make peace with Israel Tuesday, 20 January 2009Independent.co.uk The front page of the Beirut daily As-Safir said it all yesterday. Across the top was a
The boss has gone mad —Uri Avnery: People are no longer shocked by the sight of a mutilated baby, nor by children left for days with the corpse of their mother, because the army did not let them leave their ruined home. It seems that almost
Robert Fisk: So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn’t it time for a war crimes tribunal?: Mr Ban said it would not be up to him to launch a war crimes tribunal. It was pathetic It’s a wrap, a doddle, an Israeli ceasefire just in time for Barack Obama to have a squeaky-clean inauguration with
British academics condemn Israel….: Growing outrage at the killings in Gaza The Guardian, Friday 16 January 2009 The massacres in Gaza are the latest phase of a war that Israel has been waging against the people of Palestine for more than 60 years.
Rauf Klasra: Will Hamas accept its responsibility in the destruction of Gaza?:
Robert Fisk: When it comes to Gaza, leave the Second World War out of it: How do Holocaust survivors in Israel feel about being called Nazis? Exaggeration always gets my goat. I started to hate it back in the 1970s when the Provisional IRA claimed that Long Kesh internment camp was “worse than Belsen”.
Mark LeVine: Who will save Israel from itself?: By Mark LeVine One by one the justifications given by Israel for its latest war in Gaza are unravelling. The argument that this is a purely defensive war, launched only after Hamas broke a six-month ceasefire has been challenged,
Robert Fisk’s Theory on the War on Ghaza…the real story of the war in a less than 4 minutes video clip…:
Robert Fisk: Tin-pot rockets won’t open a second front: Thursday, 15 January 2009 The “Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command” – the quotation marks are necessary since this outfit controls at most 500 cadres – is responsible for all the tin-pot rockets fired into Israel from
The Israeli massacre of Gaza and Nawaz Sharif’s plans for deer hunting and yoga in Cholistan – Aftab Iqbal: Cholistan desert is a favorite hunting ground for deer hunting. Does Mian Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the Islamic forces in Pakistan, care for the plight of the people in Gaza? What would have been the munafiqeen’s (Imran Khan,
UN rights council condemns Israeli offensive in Gaza: GENEVA (AFP) — A divided UN Human Rights Council voted on Monday to condemn Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip and set up a probe into “grave” human rights violations by Israeli forces against the Palestinians. The resolution setting
Gaza war tourism – Keren Levy: I’m a little bit fascist: