للوهلة الاولى تبدو الكتيبة الخامسة اسم أحدث لعبة كمبيوتر ولكن في لبنان هي مجموعة من الموسيقيين الذين يعبرون عن مأساة الحياة في المخيمات الفلسطينية بأغاني الراب.
أول فرقة «راب» فلسطينية تبصر النور في أحد المخيمات اللبنانيّة. اليوم تلتقي جمهورها في نادٍ موسيقيّ معروف قرب بيروت، وقريباً تطلق باكورتها بعنوان «أهلاً فيك بالمخيمات». تتناول أغنياتها يوميات المخيم، وقصص الفقر والحرمان والتهميش... وصولاً إلى «نهر البارد»
The bloodied children are clearly civilians; men killed as they launch rockets are undisputedly not. But what about the 40 or so young Hamas police recruits on parade who died in the first wave of Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza?
A group of soldiers who took part in Israel's assault in Gaza say widespread abuses were committed against civilians under "permissive" rules of engagement.
Fresh from the success of the Viva Palestina: Lifeline from Britain to Gaza aid convoy - which took over 100 vehicles to Gaza from the UK, Member of Parliament, George Galloway has linked up on his US tour with the Vietnam veteran and peace campaigner, Ron Kovic, to launch a similar, but even larger venture from the States.
What kind of journalism is this? Based on nothing more than political lies. My whole ancestry is Palestinian and according to The Genographic Project, which is a DNA test that follows ancestry, I can be traced to there.
This is an excerpt:
"Ancestors of this haplogroup left a physical footprint that matches their genetic journey. Artifacts from ancient towns such as Jericho, also known as Tell el-Sultan, a site close to the present day Jerusalem, provide evidence of permanent human settlements to around 8500 B.C."
As the Palestinian nation marks the Nakba day, hundreds of protesters, including Jews, Palestinians and Americans, led by a young Jewish Rabbi, marked the Nakba day on Thursday at night at the Union Square in New York.
Palestinian children wear traditional clothes as they reenact the 'nakba,' Arabic for catastrophe, in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Thursday, May 14, 2009. The children marked the 61st anniversary of the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who either fled or were driven out of their homes during the 1948 war over Israel's creation.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Who wrote Pope Benedict's speeches for this trip? Why do his speeches to Muslims hit the spot and those to Jews seem to fall short? Does he have two teams of speechwriters, one more attuned to the audience than the other?