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Growing Voices Among Palestinians Calling for a Single Democratic Secular State
17 April 2013 — The Real News Network
With negotiations for a two state solution going nowhere, more Palestinians are calling for a single state solution
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 March 2013: Obama the tourist seeks Israel Lobby approval
21 March 2013 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Obama reiterates calls for two-state solution in Ramallah
IMEMC – On his second day of the first presidential visit to Palestine U.S. President Barack Obama met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Although Obama condemned the rocket attacks that hit Sderot, yet, he insisted that the Israelis should not use this as an excuse to avoid negotiations, no more than the Palestinians should insist that Israel halt construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank as a condition. … -
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Stop Ben & Jerry’s Complicity with the Israeli Occupation
15 March 2013 – VTJP
These pints of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream were made in Israel and marketed in illegal Jewish-only settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.Help us stop this unethical business practice.
Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel (http://www.vtjp.org) will launch on March 14, 2013, an international campaign calling on Ben & Jerry’s, a socially responsible Vermont company that makes premium ice cream, to take the following measures until Israel terminates its occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands in compliance with international law:
Until Israel ends its occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands in compliance with international law:
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Omar Barghouti: We won’t be silenced about Israel’s crimes
7 February, 2013 – Socialist Worker
Controversy continues to swirl around a planned forum scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 7, at Brooklyn College to discuss the growing global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. In a letter to Brooklyn College President Karen Gould, nine members of the New York City Council threatened to cut funding for the school if its political science department continued co-sponsorship of the event. Continue reading this...
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 31 January 2013: The Gatekeepers: ’If this film does not lead to change, there is no hope for Israel’
31 January 2012 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
France, Britain Said To Be Preparing Peace Initiative
IMEMC – The Al-Hayat Arabic Language Paper in London reported that France and Britain are preparing an initiative reportedly meant to ensure the resumption of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. … -
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How 20 Tents Rocked Israel: Palestinians Take the Fight to their Occupiers By Jonathan Cook
14 January, 2013 — Global Research
When the Palestinian leadership won their upgrade to non-member observer status at the United Nations in November, plenty of sceptics on both sides of the divide questioned what practical benefits would accrue to the Palestinians. The doubters have not been silenced yet.
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Video: US Blocks UN Condemnation of Israeli Settlements
21 December, 2012 — The Real News Network
Vijay Prashad: Most European countries including UK support statement denouncing new settlements (inc. transcript) Continue reading this...
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ICH 19 December 2012: Unbelievable – Outrageous! – Do you agree?
19 December 2012 – Information Clearing House
Egypt’s New Pharaoh
By Chris Hedges
Morsi and the Brotherhood have been exposed as the heirs of the old dictatorship in new garb.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33380.htm
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 15 December 2012: Unsettling realities of Israeli settlements
15 December 2012 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Settlers Attack Residents, Vehicles, Near Nablus
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that several injuries took place in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, after extremist Israeli settlers, and soldiers attacked Palestinian homes and vehicles; the army also fired dozens of gas bombs at civilian homes leading to dozens of injuries. … -
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ICH 10 December 2012: U.S. Militarism Threatening World War III
10 December 2012 – Information Clearing House
US Seen as ‘First Among Equals’ in 2030: Intel Report
By Shaun Tandon
The study predicted that Asia’s economy, military spending and technological investment would surpass those of North America and Europe combined by 2030, but warned of major uncertainty over an emerging China.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33279.htm
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 3 December 2012: Israel Asked Jordan’s Approval To Strike Syrian Facilities
3 December 2012 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Israeli Ambassadors Summoned In Britain, Sweden, and France
IMEMC – EU Countries Reject Israel’s New Settlement Construction Plan Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Monday that the governments in Britain, Sweden and France summoned the Israeli ambassadors in protest to the newly declared Israeli plan to construct settlement units in the area that links Ma’aleh Adumin illegal settlement bloc with occupied East Jerusalem, in the area that Israel calls E1. … -
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“Anonymous” Winning Cyber-War Over Israel
18 November 2012 — Veterans Today
650 Israeli Sites Hacked, Email Addresses, Passwords Leaked, Databases Wiped Clean Continue reading this...
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Israeli Military Assault on Gaza – “Operation Pillar of Defence” – Not “defence” but murder of unarmed civilians By Mairead Maguire
17 November 2012 – Global Research
PRESS RELEASE. – PEACE NOBELLIST MAGUIRE SAYS;
It is with the greatest sadness, mixed with frustration, and a sense of helplessness, that many people around the world, myself included, watched on television the horrific scenes of death and destruction perpetrated, yet again, by the latest Israeli military assault on Gaza and its besieged, mostly young population.
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 March 2012: Israel’s Willing Executioners: AIPAC Invades Washington
22 March 2012 – VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
PCHR Weekly: “Army Conducts 56 Invasions Into W. Bank, 1 In Gaza”
IMEMC – The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, published its weekly report on Israeli violations against the Palestinians in the occupied territory for the period between March 15-21, 2012, revealing that Israeli soldiers carried out 56 invasions into West Bank communities and a limited invasion into Gaza; injuries and damages were reported. (Link to Comprehensive Report in English included at the end of this report) … -
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Palestine: Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children held in military detention
22 March class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>2012 — DCI Palestine
On Tuesday, 20 March class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>2012, DCI-class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Palestine releases a new report – Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children held in military detention.
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Israeli Occupation Builds Villas for Carmel Settlers, Destroys the Hut of their Widow Neighbor. YOU Can Do Something about it
8 February 2012 — Villages Group
Miyaser Al-Hatheleen is a 45-year-old woman living in Umm al-Kheir, South Hebron Hills. Her house was first demolished by the Israeli Occupation authorities in October 2008, together with other dwellings belonging to her relatives (see our original 2008 report about these demolitions). In July 2009, Miyaser’s husband Salem passed away, leaving behind him his widowed wife and their seven children: Manal (now age 18), Tareq (17), Husam (15), Ahmad (13), Khulood (11), Maysoon (8) and Gamila (6). Continue reading this...
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 January 2012: Israeli companies can profit from West Bank resources, court rules
3 January 2012 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Haniyya Meets Erdogan In Ankara
IMEMC – Head of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya, visited the Turkish Parliament on Tuesday, and held a meeting with Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who affirmed the Turkish support to the Palestinian cause. … -
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Israel has 101 different types of permits governing Palestinian movement By Chaim Levinson
23 December 2011 — Haaretz
Over the decades permit regimen grows into vast, triple-digit bureaucracy.
Israel’s Civil Administration issues 101 different types of permits to govern the movement of Palestinians, whether within the West Bank, between the West Bank and Israel or beyond the borders of the state, according to an agency document of which Haaretz obtained a copy. -
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‘If Jesus were to come this year, Bethlehem would be closed’ By Phoebe Greenwood
22 December 2011 — The Guardian
Bethlehem – If Joseph and Mary were making their way to Bethlehem today, the Christmas story would be a little different, says Father Ibrahim Shomali, a parish priest in the town. The couple would struggle to get into the city, let alone find a hotel room.‘If Jesus were to come this year, Bethlehem would be closed,’ says the priest of Bethlehem’s Beit Jala parish. ‘He would either have to be born at a checkpoint or at the separation wall. Mary and Joseph would have needed Israeli permission – or to have been tourists.
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Palestinian Freedom Riders On Their Way to Jerusalem Violently Arrested on Israeli Settler Bus
15 November 2011 — PALESTINIAN FREEDOM RIDERS
For Immediate Release
Palestinians who boarded a segregated Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem were arrested for taking action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Rides
Jerry Spring 16:48 on April 18, 2013 Permalink |
In 1947 my brother Fred, who was just 18 months older than me, was serving a term in Palestine. He died recently, still believing that the terrorists were those who were coming in ships and aiming to occupy Palestine.
I wrote this song in 2005, so to know that a movement is developing for one state of Palestine is really uplifting and something that would have made my brother very happy.
No Peace of Mind
[audio http://jerryspring.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/no-peace-of-mind-10.mp3
PS Hope that this works