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Israel has agreed to free 800 Palestinian captives from its jails in return for releasing its captured soldier Gilad Shalit, who has been in Palestinian resistance hands since 25th June 2006, according to Hebrew press reports.

Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth on Sunday quoted unidentified political sources as saying that the swap would take place over three stages the first: releasing 300 ..

Khaled Mishaal, the political bureau chairman of the Hamas Movement, on Friday night conferred with George Galloway, member of the British House of Commons, on regional issues, a Hamas press release said on Saturday.

Mishaal hailed Galloway’s courageous stands in support of just questions and national liberation movements along with his opposition to American and Zionist imperialism and..

The Egyptian police throw a citizen from the balcony

Myrdal, born in 1927, is one of the most renowned intellectuals and writers in Sweden in the last 40 years and is also an important voice in Leftist circles in Western Europe. Jan Myrdal has earned himself a name as a writer engaged in questions concerning the Third World, National Liberation struggles, anti-imperialism, as a vehement critic of the US so called ”War against Terrorism”, and also..

In numerous interviews with western news networks recently, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to incite western societies against Islam and Muslims.

Netanyahu, a master of sound bites but an utterly poor politician, claimed that Israel was at the forefront of a conflict of civilizations between “fanatical Islam” and the “democratic and civilized West.”

The ..

The Israeli housing ministry announced on Monday plans to build new housing units in the Ma’aleh Adomim and Beitar Illit in the West Bank in violation of its government’s own pledges before the international community to freeze construction of such units in the West Bank settlements.

The ministry said it planned the construction of 690 units, 342 in Beitar Illit and 348 in Ma’aleh Adomi..

 A small group of hooligans last night stoned the car of PA foreign minister Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar that he was riding after offering condolences to one of the ministry’s employees over the death of his sister, a ministry release said on Monday.

The statement said that apparently the attack followed provocation on the part of one of those present in the house of the employee during ..

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon Prophet Muhammad and his Companions.

The Secretariat- general of the International Union for Muslim Scholars received so many questions from all over the world about the statements of Dr. al- Qaradawi, head of the Union, concerning the Shiite brothers.
The Secretariat indicates that what were said by Dr. al- Qaradawi were mere answe..

Deputy Mohsen Radhi of MB Parliamentary Bloc called on the Parliament to convene for an urgent meeting to discuss the recurrent train crash accidents the recent of which was Monday September 4, 2006, which led to the death of six people and the injury of another 35 ones. The deputy demanded that, in compliance with the Parliament statute, the meeting must be a plenary one where all members with..

Sawaseya Center for Human Rights released a statement on September 5, 2006 to mark the 25th anniversary of September 1981 detentions, saying that the Egyptian people have gone through freedom restricting measures ever since this detention. The statement read as follows:
Today Tuesday September 5, 2006 marks the twenty fifth anniversaries of the detention decisions issued by late President Sa..

In the five years since the September 11 attacks, U.S. intervention abroad has fed the extremism it seeks to destroy and cemented the rise of political Islam as the ideology of choice for millions in the Middle East, experts say.

Today, political Islam -- a diverse movement with moderate as well as hard-line elements -- has been widely embraced in the Arab world, where many feel alienat..

British Sunday Times on September 4, 2006, reported that British far rightists have come to follow the steps of extremist  groups. The paper established that British, anti- Muslim extremists posted stills of video footage on the internet on August 11 through 19, 2006, in which they threatened to decapitate Muslims in Britain. They also threatened all Muslims in Britain to leave the country..

In Egypt, the government has again cracked down on members of political opposition party the Muslim Brotherhood.

On 26 August, state security raided four Brotherhood members’ homes in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Beni Suef, 200 km south of Cairo, and detained them without any charges, according to a report on the Brotherhood’s website

Dr.`Abdul- Mon’em Abul- Fotouh with Naguib Mahfouz  
 
There is a historical story telling us about one of the old philosophers, who possessed and enjoyed a lot of worldly things, but- eventually- he found himself a sad one. This is true because everything- except for Allah- will one day fade; everything has a certain day to exist in and another one to go in; howev..

The Judges’ Club is examining the idea of forming a legal and constitutional committee to study the recent government’s bill on constitutional amendments, with some of these amendments being seen by the judges as a threat to the judiciary independence. Sources said that this committee will voice its opinion on all the constitutional amendments, especially with polls conducted amo..

Gerry Adams, the Leader of the Irish Sinn Fein party, Wednesday opined that the world community should open dialogue with the Hamas Movement after winning the Palestinian parliamentary elections.

Adams, who arrived in Ramallah on a visit to PA-run lands at the invitation of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas, said that he planned to meet with PLC members of all factions including those of Hamas.