By Ali Waked

(source: YNetNews)

Dahlan. One-state solution?

Dahlan, a member of Fatah's Central Committee who is considered a bitter enemy of the organization controlling Gaza, urged Hamas to become part of a pan-Palestinian national conference which would form a joint policy to defend the holy sites.

(source: Rise For The Truth)

Western security sources believe Saudi Arabia will readily let Israel use the country's airspace to strike neighboring Iran if a war breaks out between the archenemies.

Prominent German news magazine SPIEGEL claimed in a Tuesday article that there exists a strong unity between Israel and Persian Gulf's Arab states against Iran.

By Caryle Murphy

(source:  The National)

RIYADH // Rizana Nafeek’s indigent family fell on hard times when civil war forced her father, a Sri Lankan woodcutter, to stop going to his traditional cutting forest.

Salvation seemed to appear, however, when a local recruiter suggested that Nafeek, then 17, go to work as a housemaid in Saudi Arabia. The agent put a false birth date on her passport so officials would not see that she was underage.

But now Nafeek faces a death sentence after being convicted of murdering a four-month-old infant put in her care by the Saudi family who hired her in 2005.

By Bouthiana Shabaan

(source: Rise For The Truth)

Vice President Biden’s speech in Israel on March 11 sounded like an official American statement, providing absolute support to all the crimes committed by Israel. Biden’s speech was full of anachronisms aimed at polishing the image of Zionism tarnished by the blood of civilians, particularly children. Biden was not hypocritical like most Western politicians. He was candid and transparent.

In his speech, Biden said: “I had said in a speech in the United States some years ago for which I got some criticism, if I am not a Jew, I would be a Zionist. And it got a lot of national publicity, how could I say that, until I was reminded by my father you need not be a Jew to be a Zionist”. I do not know why the Vice-President should feel proud about being a Zionist and what are the achievements of Zionism that make Biden want to belong to it. Is it the displacement of millions of Palestinians from their homeland, Palestine, the incarceration of millions of others in the big prison called Israel, where they are subjected daily to ethnic cleansing and where their children, women and elderly killed and imprisoned?

By Paul Kirk

(source: Citizen Newspaper - pg4, Tues, 16-03-2010)

JOHANNESBURG - President Jacob Zuma’s alleged links to a businessman associated with Israel’s “apartheid wall” may cause further unease in the tripartite alliance.Zuma’s lawyer, Michael Hulley, declined to comment on whether Zuma and his family may have benefited from an Israeli security boss who is involved in the construction of a wall enclosing Palestinian settlements.

Hulley refused to say whether billionaire international businessman Nathan Kirsch had been one of Zuma’s financial backers.Kirsch, who emphatically denied bankrolling any politician, has business interests worldwide, including Magal Security Systems, an Israeli company involved in the construction of the controversial wall.In 2004 the International Court of Justice ruled that the wall was illegal.