Browse All News Articles on Salem-News Page 1303

Boats Ply Waters Toward Gaza

Vittorio Arrigoni ended his messages to us with the note “stay human”. May we all stay most alive and stay most human.

(BETHLEHEM) - This letter was written and rewritten four times as the ups and downs of the last few days. When you get it two boats would have left Turkish waters and I am not on one of them. I finalize this letter from a boat returning to port in Turkey.

Boats Now Sailing to Gaza

If you are an American, call the State Department and the White House- demand that they take immediate action to ensure the safe passage of these boats and to put an end to the siege of Gaza.

(GAZA) - Israel and the US outsourced the siege of Gaza to Athens last summer by preventing 8 boats in the Freedom Flotilla 2-Stay Human from sailing from Greek ports to Gaza.

Despite this we were able to bring world-wide attention to the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Our efforts in Greece only fueled our determination to challenge the imprisonment of the people of Gaza.

Palestinian Youth Join Boats set to Challenge Israel`s Siege of Gaza

Throughout the week Palestinian activists in the West Bank and inside Israel are organizing solidarity actions with the Freedom Waves mission.

(RAMALLAH ISM) - Two civilian boats, the Canadian Tahrir (Liberation), and the Irish Saoirse (Freedom), carrying 27 people from nine countries, are currently in international waters making their way to the beleaguered Gaza Strip to challenge Israel’s ongoing criminal blockade of the territory.

A Palestinian youth activist from Haifa has joined this renewed international mission to challenge Israel’s unrelenting stranglehold on Gaza via the sea.

94 Years Ago Today: Israel`s Bellicose Society Launched by `The Balfour Declaration`

There are no equal rights for non-Jews in Israel, and this is something that can easily be verified.

(SALEM) - T.E. Lawrence, 'Lawrence of Arabia', was an honorable man whose acts helped secure the allied victory of WWI on behalf of Great Britain.

It is a time that also marks the beginning of what we know today as 'Israel'- a religious government situated on land that was all once guaranteed to the Palestinians as theirs in autonomy.

Pay It Forward for Veterans in Your Community

Veterans Day Nov 11 oped from Paralyzed Veterans: "Pay It Forward for Veterans in Your Community"

(WOODWARD, Okla.) - US Ar“How can we give back to the veterans?” It’s a commonly asked question and it’s an uncommonly tough question. On the one hand it means that America really cares about her veterans. On the other hand it’s very difficult to know what to give someone who is prepared to defend your freedom with his or her life.

From this grateful veteran, may I suggest an answer that we can all take to heart this Veterans Day: “Pay It Forward”

20,000 to Spain: Stop Deportation of Sexual Slavery Victim

Explosive campaign on Change.org demands government official in Madrid halt deportation of sexual slavery victim.

(MADRID, Spain) - More than 20,000 people have joined a popular online campaign calling on Spanish immigration officials to halt the deportation of a woman fleeing sexual slavery.

The woman, a survivor of sexual slavery whose name cannot be published due to safety concerns, came to Spain to escape enslavement in another European country. She was arrested by Spanish authorities after her arrival and moved to a detention center, where she has been held for the past month.

Review of Day After Day - `heartfelt, sad and powerfully moving`

Will our children and great grandchildren sing the same song, before Justice is done?

(BOSTON) - Music and news make incredible partners and we call this fusion Newsic.

On that note, we are very pleased to release this new song by Agron Belica, Day After Day, who belts out the lyrics with Pat Dreier, addressing this painful subject that affects helpless babies all over America every day, claiming more than a hundred lives every year from mistakes and infections.

Marine Veteran Responds to Plight of Scott Olsen in Oakland

"Being hit by a 'nade at point blank range. That, my fellow citizens, deserves a response" - Marine Corps Veteran Pierre Fontecha

(OAKLAND, Calif.) - We never go long without hearing of a tragedy affecting a U.S. Marine. Sometimes they're casualties in terrible battles overseas, sometimes they are killed in a hail of gunfire by police in a case of mistaken identity, and sometimes they're victims of police for taking a stand and using their rights as Americans to take a political stand.

That does not lawfully or morally mean they should be shot in the head.

Sri Lanka: `Terrorism Investigation Department ` Harassing War Crimes Victims

It is believed that most of the hardcore LTTE leadership surrendered to the government forces have been tortured and murdered by the security forces.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - According to news reaching Sri Lanka Guardian, relatives of the LTTE senior activists who were presumed killed in captivity by the security forces are said to be harassed by the Terrorism Investigation Department (TID) of the Ministry of Defence.

The TID is visiting the relatives of the LTTE men and women surrendered to the army at the end of the war in May 2009.

Deja vu Redux: Anat Kamm and Mordechai Vanunu

24-years after the Mossad kidnapped Vanunu, they returned to track down another who followed his conscience but was labeled a traitor by a state and public who view truth tellers as a threat to their sense of security.

(TEL AVIV) - On Sunday, the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced former Israel Defense Forces soldier Anat Kamm to four-and-a-half years in prison for “collecting, holding and passing on classified information without authorization”.