Friday, January 11, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
In tense Swedish city, young Muslim crusades against anti-Semitism | The Times of Israel
As anti-Semitism continues to grow in Europe, including in Sweden, an unlikely source is fighting back against this negative stream of consciousness.
LINK: In tense Swedish city, young Muslim crusades against anti-Semitism | The Times of Israel
Monday, January 7, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Libya rediscovers its hidden talent | Libyan Tweep Forum
By Rana Jawad
For decades, Libya appeared to be starved of talent. The entertainment industry is still virtually non-existent. But since the uprising that toppled the only man allowed to be famous in the country – Col Muammar Gaddafi – Libyans are leaving nothing to chance.
LINK: Libya rediscovers its hidden talent | Libyan Tweep Forum
Palestinian Authority Leader Abbas Praises Hitler’s Mufti
As if recent video revelations that new president Morsi of Egypt is a heavy anti-Semite who also wants to drive all the Israelis into the sea weren't enough to dismay people, so-called moderate president Abbas of the Palestinian Authority has just given tribute to the memory to the one-time Grand Mufti of Palestine, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was an actual Nazi, working from Berlin in WW II to lobby for the maximum destruction of all Jews possible, and planning, if Hitler was triumphal, to bring the Final Solution to the Middle East. He would have been a big lynchpin in Hitler's ultimate goal to eradicate all Jews from the earth if the Axis powers could have taken control of North Africa and all points north.
LINK: Palestinian Authority Leader Abbas Praises Hitler’s Mufti, Haj Amin al-Husseini
Friday, January 4, 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Humanitarian Response Still Insufficient For Syrians In and Out of the Country | Doctors Without Borders
December 21, 2012
Iraq 2012 © Fayçal Touiz/MSF
The Domeez refugee camp in Iraq, where MSF has been treating Syrian refugees since this past May.
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Humanitarian Response Still Insufficient For Syrians In and Out of the Country | Doctors Without Borders
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Syria: A Modern Humanitarian Failure - Near East Observatory
Syria: A Modern Humanitarian Failure
December 29, 2012
A boy is treated by doctors and nurses after sustaining injuries from an airstrike in the Sha’ar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. (TIME/Nicole Tung)
Syria: A Modern Humanitarian Failure
By: Raha Mirabdal
The Syrian crisis marks not only one of the bloodiest modern revolutions, but also one of the most blatant humanitarian failures for the international community. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that more than 45,000 individuals have been killed in the conflict; the majority of whom were civilians. Yet behind the statistics are thousands of tragic stories of innocent civilians, refugees and children caught in the crossfire. The inability of the international community to protect the innocent in this conflict stands as a monumental failure for the modern conception of human rights and international law.
Children of War
The toll on the children of Syria has been vast, with consequences likely to last over a generation. Many have been shot, kidnapped, tortured, injured or killed. Others have witnessed the deaths of their parents, siblings, or cousins. The trauma inflicted upon these children will have lasting effects on their psychological health, and will leave deep scars- both seen and unseen.Save The Children, a children’s rights NGO, conducted a report titled Untold Atrocities, in which they gathered testimonies from Syrian children and families who are living through the crisis.
According to Save the Children, nearly every child they interviewed had seen a family member or friend killed, and as a result will live the rest of their life with some degree of post-traumatic stress disorder. To make matters worse, nurses and doctors have not been properly trained to treat psychological trauma, resulting in improper care for children with trauma.
In a testimony provided to Save The Children, Razan, a mother from Karak, recounted the day she witnessed a young boy slowly die in the street as she was walking home. Soldiers had decided to use the 8-year old boy as a target for shooting practice. The shot to his head wasn’t a clear one. The young child lay in the street, dying slowly, as the soldiers tormented his mother who was watching from inside the house “you can’t get to your child, you can’t get to your child.” Razan watched as the mother screamed from inside the house, unable to reach her dying son. “There’s no way I can cope,” Razan explained, “no way I can turn over a new page. I have seen children slaughtered. I don’t think I’ll ever be OK again.” Stories similar to Razans have become far too common in Syria over the past 19 months.
According to War Child, an NGO focused on the effects of war on children around the world, Syrian children are deliberately being targeted in the conflict in an attempt to spark fear in the opposition. Rob Williams, the chief executive of War Child explained, “Children normally suffer in conflict as collateral damage: if there is war going on then children may be caught in the crossfire, in this particular conflict they have been deliberately targeted.”
Wael, a 16-year old refugee currently living in Za’atari, Jordan gave a testimony to Save the Children explaining the atrocities he witnessed after being arrested. “I knew a boy called Ala’a. He was only six years old. He didn’t understand what was happening. I’d say that six-year-old boy was tortured more than anyone else in the room. He wasn’t given food or water for three days, and he was so weak he used to faint all the time. He was beaten regularly. I watched him die. He only survived for three days and then he simply died. He was terrified all the time. They treated his body as though he was a dog.”
LINK: Syria: A Modern Humanitarian Failure - Near East Observatory
2013 opens in Syria with dozens of tortured corpses discovered in Damascus
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube, shows the body of a Syrian child that was found in a flashpoint district of Damascus. (AFP)
LINK: 2013 opens in Syria with dozens of tortured corpses discovered in Damascus
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