Showing posts with label Da'esh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Da'esh. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

My letter to the NYTimes RE The Reign of ‘Terror’ By Tomis Kapitan

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Nearly a third of Gazans had been displaced by the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants. Secretary of State John...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Kerry: 'Imperative' to resume Israel-Palestinian talks: "There wasn't a leader I met with in the region who didn't raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation,"

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"...  We need "to find a way to create two states that can live together side by side, two peoples, with both of their aspiration...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

U.N. Security Council urges stronger campaign against [Da'esh] Islamic State

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The U.N. Security Council chamber, a gift from Norway, was designed by Norwegian artist Arnstein Arneberg. A large mural by Per Krohg (N...

“It’s always easy to get money for F-16s, but not so much for food and cash,” says Andrew Harper, head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Jordan, which says it may have to cut cash assistance programs for 20,000 families in November and December due to lack of funding.

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Syrian refugees walk at Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, September 15, 2014. [AS ...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Islamic State Seeks to Justify Enslaving Yazidi Women and Girls in Iraq... The article on slavery confirms practices documented by Human Rights Watch, which says Yazidi women and girls were forced to marry Islamic State fighters and shipped out in busloads from Iraq to Syria to be sold off as prizes

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A refugee woman from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sits with...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

"Let’s not feed Islamophobic bigotry... The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful believers likewise found in each tradition." Nicholas Kristof

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Cultural diversity is a driving force of development... an asset that is indispensable for poverty reduction and the achievement of sustai...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Last Thursday, the United Nations released a report that could provide us with one of the keys to defeating ISIS. Unfortunately, it received almost zero media attention.

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"... this fight is not Islam versus the West. Rather, it’s everyone who doesn’t want to live under ISIS’ brutal dictatorship versus I...