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2011 Roundup: Israeli Provocations & Crimes against humanity

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New Yorkers protest Gaza blockade (Press TV, Jan 10/11)
Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay (The New York Time, Jan 15/11)
Israeli settlements: 14 East Jerusalem homes approved (BBC News, Mar 2/11)
Israel approves new Jewish settler homes in West Bank (BBC News, BBC News, Mar 13/11)
Israel considering annexing West Bank settlements (The Globe and Mail, Mar 29/11)
Israel approves 942 Jewish homes in Gilo settlement (BBC News, April 5/11)
Jerusalem Housing Gets Nod (Wall Street Journal, May 20/11)
Btselem raps Israel for jailing Palestinian children (BBC News, July 18/11)
Israel troops board Gaza protest boat Dignite-al Karama (BBC News, July 19/11)
Israel approves 900 East Jerusalem settlement homes (BBC News, Aug 4/11)
Israel approves 1,600 settler homes in East Jerusalem (BBC News, Aug 11/11)
Israel approves homes in West Bank's Ariel settlement (BBC News, Aug 16/11)
Fire and graffiti attack on Palestinian mosque in Kasra (BBC News, Sept 5/11)
Vandals torch second Palestinian mosque (CBS News, Dec 15/11)
Palestinian hit in face by tear gas canister dies (AP News, Dec 10/11)

Related articles

• Israel allows settler expansion (bbc.co.uk)
• West angered by Israel expansion (bbc.co.uk)
• New attack on mosque in West Bank (bbc.co.uk)
• EU report calls for action over Israeli settlement growth (guardian.co.uk)
• Vandals attack disused Jerusalem mosque - BBC News (bbc.co.uk)
• Palestinian leaders outraged over West Bank construction data - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
• EU 'should block finance for Israeli settlements' (independent.co.uk)
• British Deputy PM Nick Clegg Says Israeli Settlements Jeopardize Two-State Solution (thinkprogress.org)
• Israel approves 130 new settler homes in East Jerusalem (altahrir.wordpress.com)
• UK's Clegg says Israeli settlements 'vandalism' (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• UK's Clegg Says Israeli Settlements 'Vandalism' (abcnews.go.com)
• Israel to rush settler expansion (bbc.co.uk)
• Palestinians board settlers' bus (bbc.co.uk)
• Unsettling settlements: Israel adds houses to disputed land (rt.com)

Conservatives getting too used to misleading Canadians

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We have to work now to stop Harper's Conservative in 2015.

Parliament was misled over G8 costs: Auditor General - Source: The Toronto Star, 6/9/11

Walk from Najaf to Karbala

     

Walking from Najaf to Karbala?  Some resources:

1. Resources from duas.org here.
2. Recommendations to the Visitors of Imam Hussain (p) During Arbaeen, 1445 A.H.
3. Preparation seminar by Zakir Shams Dharsi
4. The Spiritual Walk - documentary by the World Federation
5. At Your Service - documentary series by Ahlulbayt TV
6. http://www.najaftokarbala.info
7. twitter handle for pictures and updates #arbaeenwalk

Local Arbaeen Walks

thearbaeenwalk.org

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Metaphor of Life (and its distractions)

A nice story of the man in the well as a metaphor of life and its distractions.

It is an excerpt from the majalis of the 10th Night of Muharram by Sheikh Abbas Virjee 1431 (Dec 26, 2009)