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Samouni Family Responds to Justice Goldstone Backtrack on Israeli War Crimes

It seems that the world in which we live in, a world of impunity for the favoured Israeli state.

(GAZA CITY) - During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see.

Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with no military justification...

U.S. Boat to Gaza Leaders Challenge Netanyahu Threat to Impending Flotilla

The U.S. boat organizers said that The Audacity of Hope and the entire flotilla "will sail in peace and with a single nonviolent message..."

(NEW YORK) - Human rights activists preparing a U.S. ship for a 22-nation flotilla to Gaza at the end of May sharply criticized Israel's request to the UN to stop the boats from sailing.

Israeli media reported Netanyahu's argument that the flotilla is a conglomerate of "extreme Islamists that are interested only in provocation" whose aim is to destroy Israel.

Nowruz, Iranians` Message of Peace and Friendship for the World

Nowruz celebrates the beauties of life and reminds us that we should enjoy these beauties before we lose the chance.

(TEHRAN) - During the final days of the year, the lifestyle of the Iranian people becomes quite different than the other days and months of the year.

The most remarkable feature of this difference is the immense dynamism and bustle of the people.

The Public Health Community is WRONG!

Given the inability of American public health agencies to understand distribution and related toxic risks, it is wise for American families to store Potassium Iodide.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Advice against distributing Potassium Iodide (KI) for use in the event of a nuclear emergency and rise in atmospheric radio-active iodine (I131) is misguided, because public health officials misunderstand distribution.

Goldstone`s U-Turn

Goldstone allows Israel to reduce its institutional responsibility for a colossal war crime, into a chain of local errors...

(LONDON) - If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone Report would have been a different document,’ writes Richard Goldstone in an attempt to retract his own UN report.

And yet I wonder: how different would it be? How different could it be? Goldstone is impressed with Israel dedicating some “significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza’, but it somehow leaves me bewildered.

Senate Approves Bill to Protect Privacy of Domestic Violence Survivors

SB 347 exempts domestic violence centers from public records law.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Today the Senate voted to protect the privacy of Oregon’s domestic violence survivors by passing Senate Bill 347, which shields publicly-administered domestic violence centers from public records law.

In doing this, the bill will protect survivors by removing an abuser’s ability to use the public records system to track victims.

Marketing and Promotion of Tobacco Products

Smoking kills by Eniko Tanyi

(SALEM, Ore.) - Smoking is linked with lung cancer, emphysema, and other diseases. According to the CDC each year about 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking.

Despite these risks, approximately 46.6 million U.S. adults smoke cigarettes.

What Martin Luther King, Jr. Could Have Said to Netanyahu and US

MLK: Prime Minister, Bibi, baby, I have got to tell you that Israel’s publicity campaign aimed at stopping the International Freedom Flotilla set to sail this spring is dead before arrival.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Last Friday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to put an end to an audaciously hopeful flotilla setting sail to the Gaza Strip this May.

Among the 15 boats that will sail to Gaza with people from over 22 countries is the American craft aptly named, The Audacity of Hope.

Filmmaker Juliano Mer-Khamis was Murdered Today in Jenin

This brutality could be the work of an IDF special unit.

(LONDON) - Palestinian genius film maker, actor and political activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, 53, was shot dead on Monday in Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.

Muslims Dare Not Put the Bible on Trial

“Muslims dare not put the Bible on some despicable trial; this is beyond any Muslim’s weirdest imagination”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - We’re not big debaters. We’re not very well-educated; we’re just simple people trying to do the right thing.” Said Luke Jones, the son of the Florida pastor who finally carried out his most ignorant plan and burned a copy of the holy scripture of Muslims (Qur’an)

Adding to what Luke had said, I tend to believe that he and his father, Pastor Terry Jones, along with the 30-person Christian congregation at Dove World Outreach Center are amongst the most clueless and deluded people on earth.