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Sleepless Jerusalem
Jerusalem became the capital of the first Jewish kingdom in 1004 BC, over 3000 years ago. With the brief exception of the Crusader period, no other non-Jewish ruling power of Jerusalem made the city a capital but it was consistently a capital for the Jews. Driven into partial exile by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC, the Jews returned fifty years later and rebuilt Jerusalem as their capital. It was their capital, too, under the Maccabees. The unity of the city achieved in 1967, then, was more than a quirk of military geography. It was the fulfillment of unbroken historical longings.
CAIRO, (PIC)-- Ali Salem Al-Dakbasi, the chairman of the Arab parliamentary union, has said that the parliaments session in the period September 18-21 would deliberate means of busting the Gaza blockade.
Arab parliament discusses breaking Gaza siege
yes it is! You are flat out wrong liar!!!!cairo, (pic)-- ali salem al-dakbasi, the chairman of the arab parliamentary union, has said that the parliaments session in the period september 18-21 would deliberate means of busting the gaza blockade.
arab parliament discusses breaking gaza siege
breaking the blockade would be, in effect, an act of war against israel.
not really. Gaza is not israeli territory.
The U.N. is nothing more than a socialist group of idiots. Now you know.And you need to stop lying
U.N. experts say Israel's blockade of Gaza illegal | World | ReutersIsrael's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip violates international law, a panel of human rights experts reporting to a U.N. body said on Tuesday, disputing a conclusion reached by a separate U.N. probe into Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship.
The so-called Palmer Report on the Israeli raid of May 2010 that killed nine Turkish activists said earlier this month that Israel had used unreasonable force in last year's raid, but its naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled strip was legal.
A panel of five independent U.N. rights experts reporting to the U.N. Human Rights Council rejected that conclusion, saying the blockade had subjected Gazans to collective punishment in "flagrant contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law".
Now, you know.
So satan worshipers keep saying so.yes it is! You are flat out wrong liar!!!!not really. Gaza is not israeli territory.
Don't you know, the entire Earth belongs to allah
yes it is! You are flat out wrong liar!!!!breaking the blockade would be, in effect, an act of war against israel.
not really. Gaza is not israeli territory.
What vote? Gaza as well as the rest of Israel is for the Jews, not the lying murdering palestinian satan worshipers.yes it is! You are flat out wrong liar!!!!not really. Gaza is not israeli territory.
When do they get the vote?
yes it is! You are flat out wrong liar!!!!not really. Gaza is not israeli territory.
When do they get the vote?
Gaza's militant Hamas rulers have banned eight teenage students with scholarships to study in the U.S. from leaving the territory, a Palestinian rights group said Wednesday.
The move appeared to be part of an intensified Hamas campaign against independent groups that they view as a challenge to their rule and against activities that believe promote a Western lifestyle.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said the eight students were granted AMIDEAST scholarships, a program that educates talented teenagers from the Middle East and North Africa for a year in the U.S. At the end of the year, students return to their home countries to finish their education. The students were granted scholarships based on their academic achievements.
In a statement, the rights group said Hamas' education minister rejected a travel request by the teenager's parents for "social and cultural reasons." It also accused Hamas of breaching the parents' right to educate their children as they choose.
Hamas would not confirm the order, much as it has in the past with similar orders travel bans on Gaza residents.
But the parents of 15-year-old Aboud Alshatari said their son was traveling to the border Wednesday when Hamas police turned him away, saying the Education Ministry refused to let him leave Gaza. Alshatari was slated to attend school in North Carolina.
The ban comes a day after a network of aid groups in Gaza criticized Hamas for forcing aid workers and employees of civil society groups to register with them before traveling for work outside the Gaza Strip. And last week, Hamas shut down the U.S.-financed International Medical Corps after it refused to submit to a Hamas audit.
The Iranian-backed Hamas overran Gaza from the secular Palestinian Fatah party in bloody street battles in 2007. Since then, Hamas has slowly imposed its radical interpretation of Islam on residents of the Gaza Strip a world view that is even more stern than what traditionally religious conservative Gazan's follow.
Other Hamas crackdowns include trying to ban male barbers from cutting women's hair and forbidding women from smoking in public and outlawing scantly clad female mannequins.
Hamas Bans Gaza Students Studying Abroad - ABC News