International calls to investigate Israel over alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip prompted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday to promise military personnel state protection from foreign prosecution.
“The commanders and soldiers sent to Gaza should know they are safe from various tribunals and Israel will assist them on this front and defend them, just as they protected us with their bodies during the Gaza operation,” Olmert said.
It is well known now that Israel used white phosphorus munitions indiscrimnately in the densely populated areas of Gaza strip. White phosporus can …

Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former top diplomat and intelligence chief, has said that the US needs to change its tune and exert more pressure on Israel or face a deterioration in its relations with the Middle East.
He called Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza which killed more than 1,300 Palestinians in the densely populated enclave, “barbaric” and a “catastrophe.”
He further said, “President Obama can do something and gain the confidence and support of the Arab and Muslim nations by showing that he has done things on the ground and not simply …

United States is continuing its missile attacks into Pakistan’s tribal area bordering Afghanistan even after Barack Obama has swarn in as US new president.  The latest attack on Friday 23, 2009 killed 22 people in different incidents of ’suspected’ US missile strikes by drones in northwest tribal area of Pakistan.
More than 30 of such attacks by unmanned US planes have taken place in tribal areas since August 2008.
Pakistani leaders complain publicly that the stepped-up missile strikes  violate the country’s sovereignty and undermine the government’s own efforts to tackle rising extremists violence in …

The UN Security Council passed a resolution last Thursday (January 8, 2009) calling for an immediate ceasefire in the three-week-old conflict in the Gaza Strip and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza where more than 1000 Palestinians have been killed and thousands have wounded.
Fourteen of the council’s 15 members voted in favour of the resolution. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a speech,
“In the night between Thursday and Friday, when the secretary of state wanted to lead the vote on a ceasefire at the Security Council, we did not want her to vote …

The death toll of Palestinians or Hamas millitants/terrorists has crossed 1000. This is the result of three weaks of continuous shelling and bombing of Gaza by Israel’s armed forces which claims that the operation is aimed at stopping the rocket fires into Israel by terrorists in Gaza. 
Nearly 300 of those killed are children and at least over 500 are civilians. The only crime of the civilians was that they elected Hamas as their ‘democratic’ government. The countries which claim that they are for democracy in Middle East refused to accept …

It has been two weeks since Israel started pounding 350 square kilometer area of Gaza strip. The official death toll is 765 palestinians as a result of shelling and bombing which was targeting Hamas. About 250 of the deads are children.
The advocates of Israel tell the world that Israelis phone Palestinians before attacking so that Palestinians can take shelter, wounded Palestinians are treated in top notch medical facilities of Israel and Israel takes all the precautions to avoid the common palestinians. Hamas fired over 6000 rockets into Israel since 2005.
How many …

Indian Prime minister is coming out of his shell accused involvement of Pakistani agencies in the Mumbai attacks last year. The Indian official stated yesterday that there is no evidence of involvement of ISI in the attacks. However,  Mr. Singh has said while speaking at a conference, ”There is enough evidence to show that, given the sophistication and military precision of the attack, it must have had the support of some official agencies in Pakistan”.  If there is enough evidence then why do not provide it and just keep on playing blame …

Miguel D’escoto Brockmann, the president of the UN General Assembly, termed Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza was a “monstrosity” and a marked failure for the United Nations.
He said:
“I think it’s a monstrosity; there’s no other way to name it. Once again, the world is watching in dismay the dysfunctionality of the Security Council.”
The Security Council once again failed to reach an agreement as US once agained blocked any consensus during the late-night emergency meeting. US blames Hamas for all the violance in Gaza stating Hamas must stop smuggling arms into …

The meltdown of US housing market mainly due to risky and wreckless mortgage practices is effecting real estate in Canada. The housing prices are falling and housing market is turning to favour buyers now.
According to latest figures from the Canadian Real Estate Association, the housing prices across Canada has dropped by 11 per cent since May 2008.
The Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals predicts mortgage approval activity to fall nearly 12 per cent to $193 billion in 2008, compared to $218 billion in 2007. Approvals are forecast to fall another 10 per …

After eight days of bombing blitz killing more than 400 hundreds Palestinins and wreaking widespread destruction, Israel’s ground forces has invaded Gaza for ground assault. Accroding to reports has fought ‘fierce battles’ with hammas fighters.  Israel is using its right of self defence which Palestinians donot have.
The way world leaders and United Nation has reacted so far on this Israeli massacre in Gaza, it speaks of double standards on terrorism. No matter how condemnable firing of rockets by Hamas in Israel is, Israel’s reaction cannot be justified at all. However, …