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Anthony Maslin And Marite Norris, Parents Of 3 Kids Killed On Flight MH17, Speak Out
Anthony Maslin and Marite Norris, who lost their three children and Norris’ father when Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, have released a statement describing their anguish. The couple had remained in Amsterdam while Nick Norris, 68, brought the kids — Otis, 8, Evie, 10 and Mo, 12 — home...
Gaza Fighting Continues Even As FAA Lifts Flight Ban To Tel Aviv
GAZA/JERUSALEM, July 23 (Reuters) – Gaza fighting raged on Wednesday, displacing thousands more Palestinians in the battered territory as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said efforts to secure a truce between Israel and Hamas had made some progress. U.S. aviation authorities lifted a ban on flights to Tel Aviv which had been in force for...
U.S.: Downed Ukraine Jets Part Of Russia Influenced Pattern
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House cast the downing of two fighter jets in Ukraine on Wednesday as part of a pattern of Russian-backed separatists using Russian weapons to pose risks to aircrafts and further destabilize the conflict in the former Soviet republic. The Ukrainian jets were downed just 20 miles south of the wreckage from the...
Tonight We Are All Dutch
The achievements of the Dutch people and the tragedies they have suffered have, at times, been disproportionate to the small population and the tiny size of this remarkable nation. Back in the 16th and 17th centuries, “tiny Holland” — the “Northern Low Countries” with less than 2 million people — experienced an...
Gaza Death Toll Climbs As Kerry Pushes For Truce
* Israeli tank fire kills 16 Palestinians before dawn * Kerry reports progress in ceasefire talks; Israel is mum * U.S. extends ban on U.S. flights to Israel for second day By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Allyn Fisher-Ilan GAZA/JERUSALEM, July 24 …read more Source: The Huffington...
On “We Told You So,” Ben Gurion Airport, Gaza and the West Bank
As of 2005, when Ariel Sharon executed the ”Disengagement Plan” from Gaza, in which not even one Israeli, whether civilian or military personnel, was allowed to stay there, the Israeli right wing, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, warned of what would happen in Gaza. When their dire predictions were fully materialized, and instead of peace...
A Terrorist by Any Other Name?
Free Palestine Demonstration, Berlin. Montecruz Foto (2014) Creative Commons In the current coverage of Israel’s ground war in Gaza, I see a lot of old familiar phrases. “War crimes,” “massacre,” and every permutation of the word “terror” fill every news and social media outlet. With stories pouring in of...
How Many Plane Crashes Will It Take for the Terror To End?
On July 17th , the world was shaken to the core when a Malaysian airliner was shot down by a ground-to-air missile, which is widely believed to have been fired by the Russian-backed terrorists of a self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR). On July 18th, nearly every pundit who has been following the crisis in Eastern Ukraine had...
Stacking up the BRICS
Why five strange bedfellows should make the United States pay attention, at least for a little while Shakespeare wrote “misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.” However, for the BRICS, it wasn’t misery, at first, but in fact prosperity, that brought together this diverse band of nations. Today, as the BRICS countries...
Why The World Is Spinning Into Crisis Everywhere
WASHINGTON — Israel vs. Hamas. Ukraine vs. Russia. Unaccompanied minors at the Texas border. Syria in flames, with a militant “caliphate” at the door. Iran stalling for time on nukes. A rising China sowing fear throughout the rest of Asia. The world seems dangerously unmanageable these days. President Barack Obama is paying a...
