Middle East/Africa

  Herland Report: The Israeli Intelligence and Transportation Minister, Israel Katz pushed for cooperation between Israel and the Gulf states in a speech in Oman on November 7. “In my view, cooperation between Israel and the Gulf states can and should be expanded,” he said. “Israel also has a lot to offer when it comes to water desalination and irrigation, …

  “Saif al Islam intends to take part in the Libyan National Forum that the envoy of the UN Ghassam Salame intends to organize already for next January. A great assembly of reconciliation aimed at preparing the political elections, which should take place by the spring of 2019. It is a Libyan citizen, since 2011 has never abandoned our country. He …

  Hanne Nabintu Herland in L’Indro: The Herland Report recently published an interview with  human rights activist, Mme. Linda Ulstein about the horrifying militia rule in Libya. Warlords fight for power and use extortions, kidnappings, rape, massacres and murder to terrorize the civilian population, while the West watches on in silence. Read the interview here. The practice of private prisons …

  Herland Report: The Libyan situation is still a chaos, seven years after NATO intervened in 2011 and overthrew the Yamahiriyya and killed Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Since then civil war broke out, shocking media lies in 2011 were revealed and today various militia groups hold the population hostage in a terror regime few thought possible a few years ago. (Feature …

  «Drap og tortur skjer ustraffet på alle sider av konflikten i Libya, ifølge en allerede to år gammel FN rapport. Den samme rapporten mener at de konkurrerende militsenes brudd på menneskerettighetene kan bli sett på som alvorlige krigsforbrytelser. De mest utsatte er innsatte, journalister og menneskerettighetsaktivister. (Feature photo: Fanger i Ain Zara A ber. Foto anonym.) “Mange mennesker har …

  The Saudis have spent incredible and tireless efforts on disassociating Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud (MBS) from journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder on October 2, 2018. But claims by some media – directed by Turkey, Qatar, and The Washington Post (for whom Khashoggi was a contributor) – suggest otherwise, writes Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah, a special analyst for the …

The NATO Libya war in 2011 sent the country spiraling into chaos and civil war, now characterized by militia rule, sectarianism and proxy war. The United Nations, in the form of its specific Libyan body, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) expressed its ‘‘strong condemnation of the violence, intimidation and obstruction to the work of Libya’s sovereign institutions …

  Herland Report: Once in a rare while, Western journalists address the massive problem in the Middle East pertaining to corruption and repression of free speech in the Arab world. This week, Human Rights Watch released a report on Gaza leaders and the report shows widespread abuse.  The two-year investigation included interviews with nearly 150 people, many of them ex-detainees. …

  Herland Report: Trond Ali Linstad er en kjent muslim i Norge. Han har i mange år hatt TV programmer om Koranen og forklarer i denne artikkelen at forfalskningen av Koranen har pågått i langvarige prosesser. Dette er viktig å ha kunnskap om, nettopp fordi vår tid preges av en markant islamsk ekstremisme, som Linstad sier er u-islamsk og politisk …

  Herland Report TV (HTV): Hanne Nabintu Herland discusses with NGO Monitor leader, Gerald Steinberg what went wrong in the so-called Arab Spring. In a series of interviews, Herland talks to leading Conservatives experts, professors, writers, journalists and priests who live in the Middle East. “It is a huge mistake to think that whatever your Western country went through a …