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Nuclear summit aims to protect west

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By Dr Firoz Osman

(source: Star + Daily News)

The gathering of 47 nations at the Nuclear Security Summit in the US has one unstated purpose: to limit the development of nuclear energy to countries serving the Western alliance.

Most experts agree that the "threat of nuclear terrorism" is virtually non-existent at present. The objective is to make Iran, perhaps the only nation-state obstructing total domination by the Western powers, buckle under to sanctions, or even a military nuclear attack on its territory.

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Boycott begins to bite at companies supporting Isaraels military occupation of Palestine

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Boycott Begins to Bite at Companies Supporting Israel’s Military Occupation of Palestine

By Nadia Hijab, CounterPunch.

"When companies begin to lose money, they start to listen."

On May 4, protesters will greet Motorola shareholders, already disgruntled by the company’s losses, as they arrive for their annual meeting at the Rosemont Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

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Israels secret police vet candidates for imam

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By Jonathan Cook

(source: The National)

Sheikh Ahmed Abu Ajwa has been preaching at Jabalya mosque since he was 19. Warrick Page for The National

JAFFA // Job interviews for the position of imam at mosques in Israel are conducted not by senior clerics but by the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police, a labour tribunal has revealed.

Sheikh Ahmed Abu Ajwa, 36, is fighting the Shin Bet’s refusal to approve his appointment as an imam in a case that has lifted the lid on Israel’s secret surveillance of the country’s Islamic leaders.

At a hearing last month, a senior government official admitted that 60 undercover inspectors were employed effectively as spies to collect information on Muslim clerics, reporting on political opinions they expressed in sermons and relaying gossip about their private lives.

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Report on bethlehem faults Isarael

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Report on Bethlehem faults Israel  
 
 Bethlehem
Israel maintains security control over 66% of the Bethlehem governorate’s land, OCHA says [AFP]

  
The UN has voiced concern over Israeli measures in Bethlehem that have rendered only 13 per cent out of 660sq km of the West Bank city’s land at the service of Palestinians, much of it fragmented.

 

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