Travelling into Palestine's West Bank and Gaza Strip, which I visited recently, is like a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency.

It says they were released today. I am learning new stuff here. Now I wonder if they will retaliate by chanting against the police?

اعتقلات لكل اعضاء جروبات الالتراس من منازلهم

Whoa, teach those Ultras their basic rights and some basic politics and leave them in the streets.

120 billion Zimbabwean dollars = 50 EGP!!

Chavez's expulsion of Israeli ambassador is a nice gesture. But seems to be unsupported popularly, such bad execution will leave him looking more weird than he already is. He should have educated his own people on the reality of the conflict before kicking his eggcellency out. Chavez calling this a "gesture of dignity" makes me think he is a reincarnation of Nasser.

In 1944, Allies evicted 25,000 Croatians to Sinai in tents for 18 months to save them from starvation.

Holmes's idea is that playing Tetris after a shocking event would take up the same mental resources that would normally be used to consolidate future flashbacks. In doing so, the notoriously addictive game could act as a "cognitive vaccine" against PTSD and provide an ironic example of a video game actually being good for you...

Since its premises were destroyed by Israeli bombs on 30 December the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) – a member of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) – has been unable to provide care to an ever increasing number of traumatised civilians. Another IRCT member centre in Gaza, the Jesoor Organization, is also unable to operate due to the security situation.

Psychiatrists against human rights! Shame. Egyptian patients are no different than any other patient around the world ya welad el weskha

A hotspring near Ras Sudr

In 2000, EPRDF set fire haphazardly to all Oromia forests, including Bale forest which was recognized by UNESCO for its endemic fauna and flora. The Oromo students from elementary and high schools, and universities protested this atrocity referred to by conservationist as ‘ecological genocide’. The response to the student protest, as Human Rights Watch reported, was bloodshed. Similarly in 2001, police killed more than 30 people and wounded an estimated 400 more in putting down a student demonstration at the Addis Ababa University . In 2002, police opened machine-gun fire on protesters in Awassa, killing an estimated 38 people. Many students were kept in prison for months without ever being brought to court, a clear violation of human rights and the constitution of the regime itself in a manner …

Daily News Egypt saw one protestor — who was initially struggling — beaten into unconsciousness by the four men in plain clothing who were removing him.

Israeli unmanned reconnaissance drones hovered over what appeared to be Egyptian airspace on Thursday near Rafah

CAIRO: Egyptian security forces arrested tens of demonstrators in Downtown Cairo as they protested the Israeli bombing of Gaza on Wednesday.

Egypt's malaise is in many ways as dark as that of the Palestinians. Its impotence in the face of Gaza's suffering is a symbol of its own political sickness.

اخيرا.. لا اعتقد ان الهجمة الاسرائيلية لها علاقة بالصواريخ التي يتم اطلاقها من القطاع وهل تم تطويرها مؤخرا ام لا، بل ان اسرائيل تحتاج الى “نصر ما” بعد هزيمتها في لبنان. وهي لا تهدف الي وقف الصواريخ بقدر ما تهدف الي القضاء على “فكرة المقاومة”.. واذا اردنا تضامنا عالميا من اجل قضية عادلة يجب ان نتوقف عن شعارات الخلافة الاسلامية مثل “خيبر خيبر يا يهود جيش محمد سوف يعود”.. يجب ان نميز بين اليهودية والصهيونية.. يجب ان نتبنى القضية الفلسطينية كقضية حقوقية وانسانية أولا قبل ان تكون دينية.. فحينها فقط سيقف معك من هم ليسوا على دينك.. والامر جدير بالتفكير.

:( .. will be missed but why bury the blog?

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Mubarak: The LOL Cow!

في حالة الإبلاغ عن القبض على مواطنين يمكن الاتصال بالتليفونات التالية

A new antidepressant molecule called Amibegron by Sanofi-Aventis. The first β3-adrenoceptor agonist to cross the blood-brain barrier. No sexual side effects. Paper on its effects on rodents.

No, I disagree it is very dangerous.

Yet another never ending debate about homosexuality.