Why is Pollard being treated so much more leniently than the Holy Land Five, Palestinian Americans sentenced to 65-year terms for raising humanitarian funds to help people in their homeland?
Bashar al-Assad said Sunday that the West still deals with terrorism in a hypocritical way.
Talking before heads and members of public organizations; vocational syndicates; and chambers of industry, trade, agriculture and tourism, President Assad added.. they call it terrorism when it hits them, and revolution, freedom, democracy and human rights when it hits us.
Adelson has bought Netanyahu for one single purpose: to place a stooge of his in the White House. It is an aim that any other multi-billionaire cannot even dream of.
by Uri Avnery
IN JAPAN in the good old days, Binyamin Netanyahu would by now have committed hara-kiri.
In England at that time, the monarch would have would have appointed him governor of the most remote little island in the Pacific Ocean.
In Israel, his popularity rating is bound to go up.
Image: Minister of the Crown 'Fluffy' Mundell makes his escape from the back door into a waiting car.
‘Sleeping dolls': More Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza by Israeli bombing, including Ahmed, right, Mohamed, centre, and and Issa Samouni, left, pictured during their funeral. (Courtesy Mail Online)
An Israeli soldier throws a stun grenade at Palestinians. Mamoun Wazwaz APA images (Courtesy The Electronic Intifada)
by Rania Khalek The Electronic Intifada
