Ahlul Bayt News Agency , A mosque north of Ramallah went up in flames Monday night, apparently due to a short circuit — but Muslim clerics said Jews from nearby communities in Samaria.
Palestinian Authority Arabs charged that “settlers” torched the mosque, forcing Israeli security forces to try to calm down villagers.
They have asked Palestinian Authority police to investigate.
The PA previously has said Jews for a long list of damage to Arab property, particularly orchards.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterates Iran’s readiness to play a “constructive and positive” role in breaking the stalemate in nuclear fuel swap deal.
President Ahmadinejad’s offer came in talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Monday on the sidelines of the 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
According to the fuel swap proposal, Iran is required to ship most of its low-enriched uranium abroad for further processing and conversion into fuel rods for Tehran’s research reactor, which produces medical isotopes.
While Iran accepted the swap proposal in general terms, it demanded for tangible guarantees that the other parties involved — Russia and France — would in fact deliver the fuel in a timely manner. The talks reached a stalemate after the Iranian stipulation was ignored by the West.
Iran called for simultaneous exchange of nuclear fuels or similar guarantees after voicing concerns about past practices of Western nations in arbitrary violating and even abrogating their nuclear contracts with the Islamic Republic.
Regarding Iran’s interaction with Europe, Ahmadinejad said Iran is ready to cooperate with the European Union on a wide range of issues.
The UN chief praised Ahmadinejad’s speech at the NPT Review Conference, saying his remarks were “constructive.”
He added that the attendance of the Iranian president in the conference showed that the Islamic Republic attaches special significance to settling global issues.
Ban expressed optimism that negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – Russia, China, France, Britain and the US – plus Germany (P5+1) would reconcile unresolved issues
Tearing of Islam’s holy book of Quran by Israeli prison guards has sparked new outrage across Palestine against Tel Aviv regime’s religious bigotry.
A detainees’ society reported the sacrilegious measure, asserting that an Israeli prison guard in Ashkelon jail seized a prisoner’s Quran during a cell search and tore it into pieces.
Palestinian Authority Chief Justice Sheikh Tayseer al-Tamimi issued a statement on the incident on Monday and strongly condemned recurring insults on Islamic sanctities by Israeli forces. The move reveals the extent of “extremism, religious hatred and racism in Israel,” he said.
The sheikh said it was not the first occasion during which “Israeli forces have disrespected the Noble Quran, having done so in the al-Arroub refugee camp and in Megiddo prison.”
Tamimi stressed that religious books, including the Quran, should be respected by followers of all religions. “But Israeli guards do not do so,” he regretted, saying he held the Israeli regime and Israeli Prison Service responsible for the insult.
Last month, assailants who looked like Israeli settlers broke into the Bilal Ben-Rabah Mosque in the village of Hawara, near Nablus. They sprayed graffiti, including a Jewish Star of David, on the walls of the mosque alongside the name of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in Hebrew and set fire to two cars outside the building.
Extremist settlers also vandalized a mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf in December. The vandals attacked the holy site overnight and burned prayer mats and a book stand with sacrosanct, Islamic texts. They also sprayed threatening messages on the mosque walls reading, “Get ready to pay the price” and “We will burn all of you.”
Indonesia has urged Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) voicing grave concern on the threat of nuclear proliferation across the globe.
“We must prevail on Israel to come into the NPT fold,” Indonesian Foreign Minister Raden Mohammad Marty Muliana Natalegawa said Monday in New York at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.
Israel possesses a nuclear arsenal of at least 250 warheads and has never allowed IAEA inspections of all its nuclear facilities.
The Indonesian foreign minister also demanded the establishment of new nuclear weapon-free zones, particularly in the Middle East.
“Nuclear proliferation threats, wherever their source, must be effectively addressed without discrimination and double standard on the basis of multilateralism and international law.
“We certainly find it difficult to rationalize nuclear energy cooperation involving those who have openly chosen to add to the proliferation momentum,” Natalegawa noted.
187 member countries of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) have gathered in New York for the 8th NPT Review Conference which runs between May 3 and 28.
The Review Conference is held every five years to evaluate and ensure that NPT provisions are being realized. The 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was held from May 2 to May 27 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The conference proved a failure since it could not adopt a final document.
KARACHI- Palestine Foundation Pakistan on Friday announced an anti-Israel campaign to express solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine from 1st to 16th May across the country.
According to the Shiite News Correspondent, Addressing the joint press conference at Karachi press club Palestine Foundation (PLF) Leaders Qazi Ahmed Noorani Siddiqui, Allama Aftab Jaffari and Sabir Karbalai denounced the genocide of oppressed Palestinian people by the Zionist regime Israel saying that Israel is imminent existential threat to humanity.
They said that Palestine foundation has decided to hold the online referendum against Israel, protest demonstrations, media campaign, and publications to highlight the atrocities of Zionist regime against the innocent Palestinian.
Describing the details of well-polling, PLF leaders said that the online referendum on “Israel posses serious and imminent existential threat to humanity” will start from May 1st to 12th, 2010 on Palestine Foundation website www.plfpakistan.com on the occasion of Youm-e-Nakba (Catastrophe).
They said that people from across the country would cast their online vote on the referendum and expressed their sentiments in-front of the entire world.
PLF leaders said that Pakistani people would not accept any conspiracy against the Palestinian people saying that Palestine is the part of our faith and ideology.
They further said that the results of online referendum will be announced by the PLF Guardian committee members and representatives of various Political organizations on May 13th through a press conference.
“Pakistani students’ organizations have unanimously decided to observe Black Day on Youm-e-Nakba as a token of solidarity with oppressed Palestinians and condemnation for Israel” they informed.
They said that every year, the Palestinian Arabs observe the day of Nakba (Catastrophe) on May 14th to condemn establishment of Zionist regime Israel, an illegitimate, immoral and inhuman Zionist occupation of Palestine in the name of Jewish homeland, in 1948.
They added that the prominent Student organizations of the country including Islami Jamiat Talba (IJT), Peoples Students Federation (PSF),
Anjuman Talba-e-Islam (ATI), Muslim Students Federation (MSF-N), Pukhtoon Students Federation (PSF-Pukhtoon), and Imamia Students Organization (ISO) in their joint meeting with PLF office bearers finalized the program’s in connection of Youm-e-Nakab to support the Palestinian cause.
“The students want unity to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque and liberate Palestine from illegitimate Zionist occupation” PLF leaders said. On May 14, students’ organizations will observe black day and stage demonstrations. On May 15, a huge rally will be staged under the aegis of Palestine Foundation at Karachi Press Club. Countrywide protest and rallies will continue to be staged on May 16.
The real problem, from the Egyptian standpoint, is not Iran which does not have a nuclear weapon, but Israel which according to many sources has more than 200 nuclear warheads, CNN’s senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman said.The real problem, from the Egyptian standpoint, is not Iran which does not have a nuclear weapon, but Israel which according to many sources has more than 200 nuclear warheads, CNN’s senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman said.
“Egypt since 1995 has been pushing for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons and their focus is not so much on Iran which is engaged in a nuclear program but on Israel which it is widely believed is the only real nuclear power in the Middle East,” Wedeman added.
“The Egyptians have been involved in negotiations prior to this summit today with the Americans to come up with some sort of formula whereby the mechanisms would be put in place for a process, it would push toward creating a nuclear-free Middle East,” CNN’s correspondent continued.
“But of course, the problem in this formula is Israel because unlike Iran, unlike Egypt, Israel was never a signatory to the NPT and therefore that is the real stumbling block,” Wedeman said.
“But Egyptian diplomats have for years now been pushing for this idea of a nuclear-free Middle East and of course, the real problem from the Egyptian standpoint is not Iran which does not have a nuclear weapon but Israel which according to many sources has more than 200 nuclear warheads. So for the Egyptians that is the preoccupation not so much Iran,” he added.
“Israel frequently says that if they lose one war, it is the end of their country. So realistically, what chances are there that they would ever conceive giving up their weapons?” CNN’s presenter asked.
“Certainly, under current circumstances, the chances are pretty much close to nil. The Israelis have always been ambiguous on their possession of nuclear weapons, although we heard the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert in 2006 essentially admitting in an indirect way that they do have those weapons and by all accounts, the chances that the Israelis would give up their nuclear capacity as a result of meeting in New York are slim to none” Wedeman replied.
Scientists with India’s Defense Research Development Organization said they are closely studying a man who says he has gone 70 years without food or water.Scientists with India’s Defense Research Development Organization said they are closely studying a man who says he has gone 70 years without food or water.
Prahlad Jani, 82, had shown no signs of ill effects after six days under observation without food or water, The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday.
Jani said he is a “breatharian” living on a “spiritual life-force”, the British newspaper said.
Scientists said they may be able to learn from Jani’s physiology.
“If his claims are verified, it will be a breakthrough in medical science,” said Dr. G. Ilavazhagan, director of the Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences.
“We will be able to help save human lives during natural disasters, high altitude, sea journeys, and other natural and human extremities. We can educate people about the survival techniques in adverse conditions with little food and water or nothing at all”.
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