Author: Steven Sahiounie

Israeli Court sentenced Palestinian womam Yasmin Jaber for 30 months, after being accused to communicate with Hezbollah. Being accused to have connections with the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, the Israeli court sentenced Palestinian Yasmin Jaber to 30 months in prison. The indictment alleges that Jaber communicated with Hezbollah officials, during a visit she made to Lebanon and Turkey in 2015 and 2018. The indictment also claimed that Jaber continued to communicate with the Hezbollah officials using social media networks. According to the Israeli court “Jaber’s mission was to recruit additional activists in “Israel”, who will work under her command”. Yasmin…

Seven Palestinians injured during confrontations with the Israeli occupation in Halhul. Settlers stormed the Nabi Yunus Mosque, in conjunction with the “night confusion” activities targeting the settlement outposts in the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood. Al Mayadeen reporter stated that 7 Palestinians were wounded yesterday night, Sunday, as they confronted the occupation forces in Halhul, north of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank. Settlers had stormed the Prophet Yunus Mosque in the town to perform Talmudic rituals. In the vicinity of Silwan town, next to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in al-Quds (Occupied Jerusalem), Palestinian youths set off a barrage of fireworks towards one…

The Taliban has seized a key district in Kandahar province after pushing Afghan troops out of the area, adding to a growing list of victories against government forces amid the US military’s exit from the country. The militant group took the Panjwai district following a fierce overnight battle with soldiers loyal to Kabul, AFP reported, citing regional officials. Panjwai District Governor Hasti Mohammad said government troops retreated from the area following the clashes, and that the Taliban had seized the district police headquarters as well as the governor’s office building. Kandahar Provincial Council head Sayed Jan Khakriwal confirmed the fall…

The Palestinian resistance movement, Islamic Jihad, has condemned the UAE for granting citizenship to 5,000 Israelis, saying the measure has brought yet another disgrace on the “traitorous and compromising regime” in Abu Dhabi. Speaking to Yemen’s al-Masirah TV, Islamic Jihad spokesman Tariq Salmi urged the UAE and other Arab regimes to reconsider their calculations, especially after the Operation al-Quds Sword, which “proved the fragility of the Zionist regime and the strength of the resistance groups to reclaim the rights of the Palestinian people”. In a Thursday report, the website of Emirates Leaks reported that some 5,000 Israelis have obtained UAE citizenship within the…

Iran’s President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi says the security of the neighboring Afghanistan should be provided by people of the country, adding that foreign forces only bring insecurity to the region. Raeisi made the remarks in a Sunday phone conversation with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, during which the two sides discussed various issues of mutual interest. Iran’s president-elect expressed concern about the ongoing situation in the neighboring Afghanistan, saying, “The security of Afghanistan is important to us and this security should be established by Afghans themselves.” Raeisi noted that “collective security” in the region could be only established through cooperation of all…

Speaking on Saturday, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said the Palestinians “scored a new and important achievement” by “forcing” the settlers to leave the Evyatar outpost. “The evacuation of the outpost at Jabal Sabih confirms once again the ability of the resistance to impose the will of our people and push the occupation to retreat,” he added, urging the Palestinians to continue their fight “until the end of any Zionist presence” in the area and to prevent the settlers from returning. The pure blood of the Palestinian people shed in the region is a guarantee for their complete victory against Israel,…

During a memorial ceremony on Saturday, officials from Iran’s southern Hormozgan province and the families of the tragedy’s victims, who were aboard a vessel, tossed flowers into the waters near the Strait of Hormuz and Hengam Island. Chanting slogans such as “Down with the US” and “Down with Israel,” the participants condemned the inhumane US war crime. In Tehran, President Hassan Rouhani denounced the cowardly US targeting of the passenger plane as “a great, horrible and unacceptable crime.” “In the incident, 290 people on board the plane were martyred. Unfortunately, the US administration has not formally apologized for the crime…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Donald Henry Rumsfeld held many varied US governmental positions over many years of service to his country, but will always be remembered for being an architect of the war in Iraq, which killed at least 1 million Iraqis within the first five years of war. Rumsfeld had never been to Iraq and refused to pay attention to Hans Blix, who was entering his hotel in Baghdad when he was informed by journalists that President George W. Bush had given the order to start bombing in hours.  Blix, a Swedish diplomat was the United Nations’…

The “Apostolic Nuncio in Syria,” the representative of the Vatican State, Mario Zenari, spoke about the living crises that the Syrians suffer from as a result of the illegal sanctions imposed on their country by the United States of America and European countries, saying: “The economic war is suffocating the Syrian people.” Zenari added: “The bombs are no longer falling in many parts of Syria, but we always repeat that there was a terrible bomb that exploded, which, according to the United Nations data. It pushed 90% of the Syrian people below the poverty line.” The “Apostolic Nuncio” pointed out…

The National Education Association (NEA), the largest union representing school teachers, has committed itself to spreading critical race theory (CRT), including in K-12 schools, drawing conservative outcry. A series of measures aimed at promoting the concept was adopted at the NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly, taking place virtually this year from June 30 to July 3. First reported by Christopher Rufo, who has been at the center of Republican-driven push to banish CRT from public schools, the plan will see the NEA “share and publicize, through existing channels, information already available on critical race theory (CRT),” as well as resisting attempts to “ban critical…