Free Middle East, February 24, 2013. Palestinian refugees in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria suffer a daily humiliation at then hands of their Arab brothers. It is way past time that they were given dignity, equality before the law and Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese or Syrian citizenship. See also:
Farmers armed with machine guns,rocket-propelled grenades and mortars forced government troops to abandon an operation to destroy their illegal cannabis crop in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Monday, a witness said. No casualties were reported in the exchange of fire but two security force vehicles were hit by bullets, the witness said. During Lebanon’s civil war, [...]
Saudi Arabia’s population is the third most slothful in the world, new research has found, with 68.8 percent of adults failing to do enough physical exercise to keep themselves healthy. Only in Malta and Swaziland do adults exert themselves less than Saudi Arabia, and women in the Gulf state are the world’s least active females, [...]
Hacktivist group Anonymous has officially declared a war on terror after hacking into the accounts of a Middle Eastern bank. The group threatened to unleash “global internet destruction” unless the Dahabshiil bank admitted to financing terrorist groups. The hacking group has reportedly published thousands of bank account names and numbers and is threatening to destroy [...]
A United Arab Emirates woman who garnered massive controversy over publishing a book on sex education, announced this week she is to publish her third book on sex in the country. Gulf News reported that Wedad Lootah is going forward with the third installment despite receiving death threats after publishing the previous book on sex [...]
Just over half of Iran’s parliament has backed a draft law to block the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to close the Gulf to oil tankers in retaliation against European sanctions. Lawmaker Javad Karimi Qodoosi, who drafted the document, said 150 of parliament’s 290 members had signed the bill, describing the strait as “the world’s lock” [...]
The drought in southern Iran is part of a “soft war” launched against the Islamic republic by the West, the Fars news agency quoted an Iranian vice president as saying on Monday. “I am suspicious about the drought in the southern part of the country,” Hassan Mousavi, who also heads Iran’s cultural heritage and tourism [...]
A 1,400-year-old olive press was discovered at an archaeological dig last week in the city of Modiin. The press was used to produce olive oil and is the most complete and elaborate ancient object found to date in the area. The press was discovered by archaeologists employed by the Israel Antiquities Authority near the Kaiser [...]
Two rare 3,000-year-old models of ancient shrines were among artifacts presented by an Israeli archaeologist on Tuesday as finds he said offered new support for the historical veracity of the Bible. The archaeologist, Yosef Garfinkel of Hebrew University, is excavating a site known as Hirbet Qeiyafa, located in the Judean hills not far from the [...]
In the tradition of ancient Japanese warriors, thousands of Iranian woman are training to be ninjas. According to The Atlantic, roughly 3,500 females regularly change from their traditional garb to dress the part of high-kicking, wall-climbing, metal star-throwing fighters. This program is being hailed as part of a revolution for Muslim women in the country: [...]
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