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Settlers Clash With Israeli Police At A Northern West Bank Settlement
IMEMC – 6 May 2010 – Around 100 Israeli settlers clashed with Israeli police forces on Thursday when officers tried to remove homes at the settlement of Hashmonaim, northern West Bank.
Israeli Troops Detain 33 Palestinian Civilians During Morning Invasions Targeting The West Bank
IMEMC – 6 May 2010 – Israeli soldiers detained on Thursday 33 Palestinian civilians during morning invasions targeting West Bank communities.
Three Injure, Three Arrest, As Troops Attack Anti Wall Protest Near Bethlehem
IMEMC – 6 May 2010 – Israeli troops injured three Palestinian civilians and detained three others on Thursday during an anti wall protest at Al Walaja village near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Jailed leftist leader comes out in favor of one-state solution
IMEMC – 6 May 2010 – Ahmed Saadat, the jailed Palestinian leader of the leftist People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said in an interview with Reuters news agency Wednesday that the only way to end the Israel-Palestine conflict is through a one-state solution with equal rights for Jews and Palestinians.
Biggest Solidarity Convoy To Sail To Gaza In Three Phases
IMEMC – 6 May 2010 – Independent Palestinian Legislator, head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, Jamal El Khodary, stated that the biggest convoy of solidarity ships aimed at breaking the Israeli siege on Gaza will be sailing on three phases.
Arabs In 1948 Areas Prepare For Boycott
IMEMC – 6 May 2010 – Several popular movements, civil society institutions and women organizations in the 1948 areas are preparing to officially declare the launch of a boycott campaign targeting all settlement products as a means of economic pressure on Israel.
Abbas: “Indirect Talks Will Discuss Final Status Issues”
IMEMC – 6 May 2010 – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that proximity talks with Israel will discuss final status issues, including borders and security, and several related issues.
Former Minister: “Israel Wants to Remove Palestinians From Jerusalem”
IMEMC – 6 May 2010 – Former Jerusalem Affairs Minister at the Palestinian Authority Engineer, Khalid Abu Arafa, stated that Israel aims at removing all Palestinians out of Jerusalem in order to ensure at least a vast Jewish majority.
Turkish Relief Foundation Demands Israel To Release Its West Bank Representative
IMEMC – 6 May 2010 – The Turkish Relief Foundation demanded Israel to unconditionally release its representative in the West Bank, Mohammad Shahin, who was kidnapped on Wednesday April 27.
Massive sweep: Israeli forces detain 33 from across West Bank
5/6/2010 – Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israeli media sources quoted military officials as confirming the detention of 33 Palestinians from across the West Bank between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Nine of those taken were young men from Beit Ejza village northwest of Jerusalem on Thursday morning, and took them to an unknown location….
Israel plans new train network in West Bank
5/6/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz announced Tuesday that his ministry was promoting a plan to establish a train network in the occupied West Bank which will converge with the new train tracks planned throughout Israel. Katz was quoted in the Israeli press as saying that the plan….
Rallies expected in Silwan Friday after turbulent day
5/6/2010 – Jerusalem – Ma’an – A settler assaulted a 12 and nine-year-old Palestinian in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Thursday afternoon, the children’s mother reported. The mother of Abdullah Al-Ghawi said he and his friendMuhammad Al-Kurd – both member of families whose homes are targeted with expulsion orders -were slapped in….
Activists say 3 detained overnight in Ni’lin
5/6/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Two residents of Nil’in were arrested by the Israeli army during an overnight raid on the village, activists said. Their arrest follows two similar arrests last week, and may signal a renewed increase of anti-wall arrests. A large military force, including a plain-clothed snatch squad, raided the village….
Gaza flotilla welcomes UN encouragement
5/6/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Freedom Flotilla Coalition welcomed the statements of UNRWA Secretary-General John Ging on Wednesday, calling it a move that “recognizes the responsibility of the international community to oppose the illegal blockade that Israel has imposed on Gaza.”Ging, speaking with a Norwegian newspaper earlier in the week, urged….
Hebron-Dhahiriya road closed by army, locals say
5/6/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – Israeli forces piled earth at the northern entrance of Adh-Dhahiriya, closing off the main road to Hebron on Thursday morning, in what town residents said was an attempt to restrict access to roads near settlements. The Hebron-Dhahiriya road bypasses the Otni’el settlement, established on 150 dunums of privte….
Settler arson concerns UN Mideast rep
5/6/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Hours after Israeli firefighters confirmed what Palestinian witnesses alleged was arson perpetrated by Israeli settlers on a West Bank mosque, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry expressed deep concern. The fire, targeting the central mosque in the Lubban Ash-Sharqiya village near Nablus on….
Gaza raises US flag at mock World Cup
5/6/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Bystanders chuckled on Wednesday as the American flag was raised to great fanfare over the Gaza City football stadium, when the country’s team challenged the Serbians to a mock World Cup match. The American team, made mostly of aid workers from Al-Maghazi-area American workers, was set to face….
Former Yale professor among 4 detained in Walaja
5/6/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – A former Yale professor was among the four detained by Israeli forces during protests against the construction of the separation wall in Al-Walaja on Thursday morning. Witnesses said three others were lightly injured by border police, who used clubs and mace against protesters, in what witnesses said was….
Rafah crossing opens in one direction
5/6/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Palestinian border authorities in Gaza said 167 Palestinians returned to Gaza via Rafah on Wednesday, slightly up from previous crossings numbers. The crossing remained sealed for travelers hoping to leave the Strip, with officials saying the closure of the crossing is entering its ninth week. At the northernmost….
6 Palestinians released from Egyptian jails
5/6/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Egyptian authorities released 6 Palestinians on Thursday, all of whom had been held for approximately two months, all of whom are residents of Gaza, officials said. Officials on the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing confirmed that the men all returned to Gaza, passing through Rafah early in….
Mubarak backs talks as Mitchell meetings continue
5/6/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israel is serious about talks, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told his counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in a private phone call on Wednesday, the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat reported. The call came days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Mubarak in the resort town of Sharm Ash-Sheikh, a meeting….
Voice of Israel: Settlers plan action against talks
5/6/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Voice of Israel radio hosted a program Thursday morning about a settler plan to “distract” indirect Israeli-Palestinian negotiations “as soon as they start.”The program’s military guests and settler researchers said West Bank settler-leaders had formed a committee and distributed thousands of leaflets with details on planned protest….
Settlement wheat seized in Hebron
5/6/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – Palestinian Authority Ministry of Economy officials took control of 7. 5 tons of wheat on Thursday, which officials said was smuggled from the Ma’on settlement south Hebron. A PA team of tax, customs and police officials made the discovery, in conjunction with arrests around the illegal import of….
Gaza: Lineups to remove cash from Arab Bank
5/6/2010 – Gaza/Bethlehem – Ma’an – Hundreds of Gaza residents started lining up outside the Ar-Rimal branch of the Arab Bank in Thursday morning, the day after an announcement by the administration that two of the three Gaza Strip branches would close. In a statement, the bank announced that “in light of worsening….
Environmentalists issue stark warning on River Jordan
5/6/2010 – Amman – IRIN – Two recent reports by a coalition of Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmentalists paint a grim picture of the state of the Jordan River, and urge swift action. “If immediate action is not taken the River Jordan will run dry by 2011,” Baha Afaneh, Jordanian coordinator for the Jordan River Project of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FOEME)…. Related:FOEME report
Moment of truth
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – If ever there was a statement that reflected the true position of Palestinian negotiators and Arab leaders, it was the one made by the Qatari prime minister, Hamad Ben Jasem Al Thani. The statement, made after…
What the birthers are trying to do
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – The crazy right’s obsession with the President’s place of birth won’t go away. Ever. And I’ll tell you why. It is also why the obsession with invalidating Obama’s Presidency is very different from the equally intense…
Judge Goldstone: The man who has unhinged the Israeli & Jewish right
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Someone needs to do a psychological study of the Israeli and Jewish right. They are terrified by one man, the great human rights advocate, Justice Richard Goldstone, because he wrote a report revealing what everyone knew…
Yediot’ defense analyst: Settlement construction spree in September dooms negotiations
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Explosive charge at the end of the pipeline Op-ed, Alex Fishman [defense correspondent], Yediot, May 6 2010 The opening was supposed to be a bit more festive. After all, the negotiations with the Palestinians are being…
New threat in Gaza: Generators kill 100+
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Washington – Chinese-made generators from Egypt have been imported to contend with lengthy and frequent power cuts across the Gaza Strip, but the generators have claimed more than 100 lives since emerging widespread in Gaza, AFP…
New suspects in Dubai killing
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Israeli citizen investigated in assassination of Hamas leader Washington – Officials investigating the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January have added five new suspects to their list, The Wall Street Journal reported…
Settler assaults children in East Jerusalem
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Washington – An Israeli settler slapped two children (twelve and nine-years-old respective) in the face, Ma’an News Agency reported from Jerusalem Thursday. A settler woman and child harass a Palestinian woman in an undated photo [Photo:…
DC celebrates Youm al-Ard with song and dance
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – By Sarah Harlan Washington – DC-area Palestinians and Arab culture enthusiasts gathered at a middle school outside Washington to celebrate Land Day April 18. The Palestinian flag whipping in the breeze [Photo: Perealbiac – Flickr] The…
Aid convoy to Gaza sets sail next week
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – The largest-ever sea convoy aimed at breaking the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip will take off for the coastal enclave in three phases, IMEMC reported Thursday. At least eight ships will take part in the…
Environmentalists issue stark warning on River Jordan
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Amman – IRIN – Two recent reports by a coalition of Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmentalists paint a grim picture of the state of the River Jordan, and urge swift action. The river Jordan appears in…
UCSD Israel divestment measure tabled
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Washington – Student Senators at the University of California, San Diego indefinitely tabled a measure to divest funds from two US companies profiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, activists said. Israel’s treatment of Palestinians has…
Abbas accuses Hamas of smuggling weapons into West Bank
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Washington – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Hamas of smuggling weapons into the West Bank in remarks published on Thursday. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the European Parliament [Photo: European Parliamnent – Flickr] In an interview…
Monetary Authority fines Arab Bank for unannounced closures
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Washington – Arab Bank announced the closure of 2 of its 3 Gaza branches Thursday, causing hundreds of Palestinians to line up at the banks to withdraw their savings, Ma’an News Agency reported . Fear of bank…
West Bank mosque fire ‘deliberately set’
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Washington – Israeli firefighters told The Associated Press on Thursday that a fire in a West Bank mosque this week appears to have been deliberately set . The graffiti on this Palestinian home, which says Kill All…
Israel deports clown
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Washington – Israeli authorities have deported Ivan Prado, Spain’s most famous clown, upon arrival in Israel, Haaretz reported Thursday. A clown squares off with police in riot gear at the 2007 G-8 demonstrations [Photo: Philippe LeRoyer…
Bin Laden & The Debate Inside Islam
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Noman Benotman, a former top tier member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and a mujahadeen who fought along with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, has helped broker “reconciliation” between members of his former group…
Former Yale professor among 4 arrested at demonstration
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Washington – Israeli forces detained at least four demonstrators, including a former Yale professor, who tried to stop Israel’s construction of its West Bank wall in the village of Al-Walaja on Wednesday. An IDF soldier detains…
Gaza World Cup underway
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – ‘Day 4: France defeats Spain, while Egypt blanks Algeria’ Washington – The first round of the Gaza World Cup was set to finish on Wednesday with a match between Germany and Turkey today at Palestine Stadium…
Somalia: Conflict forces journalists to flee
Palestine Note 6 May 2010 – Nairobi – IRIN – Two decades of conflict in Somalia have forced many journalists to flee the country, often after receiving death threats. Since 2009, at least 10 have been killed, bringing the number to 23…
The talented Mr. Cantor
Palestine Note 5 May 2010 – Eric Cantor, the House minority whip, drives some Republicans and virtually all Democrats crazy. He is no Scott Brown, whose self-deprecating charm causes many of us to kick ourselves for not getting him before the GOP…
Is anyone excited about proximity talks?
Palestine Note 5 May 2010 – That’s sort of a rhetorical question: They’re not! George Mitchell, the Obama administration’s Middle East envoy, is back in the region meeting with Israeli and Palestinian officials. The proximity talks were supposed to start today, but…
President Obama is insisting on building trust as a precondition for working with Israel towards peace
Palestine Note 5 May 2010 – The US is the only world power that can help Israelis and Palestinians achieve peace. Few dispute the unique American standing. For the US to be able to help shepherd a serious peace process, America’s trust…
One-staters are just another version of the age-old Arab rejectionists
Palestine Note 5 May 2010 – In the old days of pathetic Arab leadership, the popular chant used to be “No, No, No.” No to peace. No to negotiations. No to Israel. These days, the rejectionists have new faces and a new…
Iran to continue nuclear programme
AlJazeera 5 May 2010 – Ahmadinejad says that Israeli threats will not stop Iran’s nuclear power programme.
UN: No Scuds in Lebanon
AlJazeera 5 May 2010 – Peacekeeping force in Lebanon says no evidence of Hezbollah missile smuggling.
New plan suggests building Ashkelon hospital ER underground
Ha’aretz – MK Eitan Gafni proposes plan to avoid uprooting Jewish graves thought to be under current ER, which PM decided won’t be relocated.
Tel Aviv man suspected of forcing teens into prostitution
Ha’aretz – 25-year-old Shay Arbiv allegedly jailed the young girls and forced them to prostitute in order to pay for drugs.
Nazareth man gets 19 years in prison over murdering wife’s lover
Ha’aretz – Abdul Kader Safadi, who stabbed lawyer Manhal Fahoum 10 times, told the court his actions were uncontrollable.
Haredim clash with police in protest over boy’s autopsy
Ha’aretz – Haredim injure a police officer in Beit Shemesh in attempt to prevent police from evacuating the boy’s body.
Olmert: Allegations against me are an unprecedented witch-hunt
Ha’aretz – Former prime minister lashes out at accusers as corruption trial resumes after month-long pause.
Tel Aviv’s first anthroposophic school to open in September
Ha’aretz – Huldai slams ‘wealthy’ parents for taking advantage of laws to ‘separate themselves from the underprivileged’
Israel center blooming, while South and North still undeveloped
Ha’aretz – Government has failed consistently to entice people to the north and south of the country, new data show.
Israel official defends nuclear ambiguity as ‘strategic advantage’
Ha’aretz – UN nuclear chief has asked international community to help with resolution demanding Israel accede to NPT.
Biden: Iran could provoke ‘nuclear arms race in Middle East’
Ha’aretz – U.S. Vice President: Iran has scorned our collective good faith efforts and continues to take actions threatening regional stability.
Richard Goldstone: I have no regrets about the Gaza war report
Ha’aretz – Former South African jurist answers critics following claims he was involved in apartheid-era death sentences.
Settlers clash with Israeli forces razing West Bank homes
Ha’aretz – Owners of Hashmonaim house barricade themselves inside after two neighboring homes demolished.
Abbas: Hamas is smuggling weapons into the West Bank
Ha’aretz – Palestinian leader says his people not interested in armed conflict, accuses Hamas of cracking down on Gaza militants while encouraging them in his territory.
Israeli firefighters: West Bank mosque fire likely arson
Ha’aretz – The Palestinian Authority already implicated Jewish settlers in Tuesday’s fire, which destroyed holy books, prayer rugs.
UN nuclear watchdog: World must unite to pressure Iran
Ha’aretz – IAEA chief Amano calls for concerted effort due to Tehran’s refusal to cooperate with international body’s inspections of its nuclear facilities.
UN Security Council permanent members back nuclear-free Mideast
Ha’aretz – U.S., Russia, Britain, France and China voice support for ‘full implementation’ of nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Syria: Israel would never declare war without U.S. permission
Ha’aretz – FM Moallem denies rumblings of imminent Mideast conflict, says Arab steps taking responsible steps to preserve security.
Britain goes to the polls for closest elections since 1992
Ha’aretz – Six latest newspaper polls put the Conservatives between six and nine percentage points ahead of Labour, making them the largest party, but denying them outright control.
Israel arrests IHH’ West Bank Representative
6 May 2010 – West Bank, May 6, (Pal Telegraph — Agencies) Israeli authorities have taken Izzet Sahin, the representative and founder of IHH (The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief)’ Office in West Bank, into custody on the 27th of April. Izzet Sahin have been taken into custody by the Israeli military while he was passing through the checkpoint in…
IOF confiscate gifts from Gaza’s patients on their way back
6 May 2010 – Gaza, May 5, (Pal telegraph) Doctors Without Borders Association, the human rights advocate, disclosed for the first time that the Israeli army confiscated gifts, games and personal property purchased by Palestinians patients and their companions during treatment in Israel, through the return of “Erez” crossing in northern Gaza. According to the complaints of the Palestinians, the soldiers at “Erez” crossing…
Clashes took place in south of Jerusalem
6 May 2010 – Jerusalem, May 6, (Pal Telegraph) Violent confrontations erupted between young Jerusalemites in the “Bustan” neighborhood in the heart of the town of “Silwan” to the south of the Al Aqsa Mosque. The Chairman of defending “Al Bustan” Committee, Fakhri Abu Diab’s, confirmed that a large force of Israeli police and undercover border guard units stormed the neighborhood to capture young…
IOF raid detain 2 Palestinians in Hebron
6 May 2010 – Hebron, May 6, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided detained today two Palestinians in Tafouh and Ezna towns in Hebron. According to security sources, the IOF detained Awad Slimiah, 28, after raiding his house in Ezna west of Hebron. They also raided the houses of Shaher Tmazi and Zaid Al-Masri. Besides, they detained Jamal Al-Masri, 20, a…
IOF arrest and attack Palestinians during peaceful march in Bethlehem
6 May 2010 – Bethlehem, May 6, (Pal Telegraph) Three civilians were wounded and bruised today morning and 3 others were arrested after the suppression of the Israeli occupation forces of the peaceful march against the wall and settlements in the village of “Walajeh” in Bethlehem. According to Ammar al-Atrash, a member of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and settlement in the village…
IOF raid Jenin and Tubas, detain 2 Palestinians
6 May 2010 – West Bank, May 6, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided last night several towns in the west of Jenin where they made search operations and detained a citizen in Qabatiya and another one in the West Bank city of Tubas. According to local sources, the operations were concentrated in the towns of Qabatiya, Barqeen, Al-Hashemya, Kafr Dan…
After lengthy diplomacy, Mideast peace talks begin
6 May 2010 – JERUSALEM, May 6, 2010 (Pal Telegraph,Agencies)— A U.S. mediator launched Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations Wednesday after a break of more than a year, starting a shuttle mission between a hard-line Israeli government and a Palestinian administration in control of only part of its territory. President Barack Obama’s Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, met for three hours with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Israel conducts limited incursion in Khan Younis
5 May 2010 – Gaza, May 5, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – Israeli occupation forces raided today a limited area in Al-Frahen to the east of Khan Younis, in central Gaza Strip. According WAFA news agency, four bulldozers and five tanks invaded 400 meter in Al-Frahen area near the borders with the Palestinian occupied land of 48. The bulldozers razed agricultural lands, the sources added….
West Bankers Made Refugees in Their Own Country
Uruknet May 6, 2010 – Several Palestinians have set up a protest tent in no-man’ land in the northern Gaza Strip, near the Erez border crossing into Israel, as they protest their deportation from the Israeli occupied West Bank into Gaza where Hamas authorities have refused them entry. Tens of thousands of other Palestinians face a possibly similar predicament in the…
Rights orgs condemn arrest of Palestinian civil society leader
Uruknet May 6, 2010 – This morning at 3:10am, Israeli Security Agency (ISA) agents accompanied by Israeli police raided Ameer Makhoul’s family home in Haifa and arrested him. Makhoul is a human rights defender and serves as the general director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations and as the Chairman of the Public Committee for the Defense of…
The pretext of “security” along Gaza’s buffer zone
Uruknet May 6, 2010 – “There was a single shot without any warning, and a young man was carried away,” Adie Mormech explained. Mormech, currently in Gaza, is a British activist with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). He was an eyewitness at the 28 April demonstration at Nahal Oz, east of Gaza City, when Ahmed Deeb was fatally shot by an…
Israeli soldiers charged with using boy, 10, as human shield
Uruknet May 6, 2010 – Two Israeli soldiers were charged in a military court yesterday with forcing a 10-year-old Palestinian boy in the Gaza Strip to handle objects they suspected of being rigged to explode. The soldiers were indicted for “ordering the boy to open cases that they thought were explosives”, Major Dorit Toval, the prosecutor, said. The alleged crime took…
Massive sweep: Israeli forces detain 33 from across West Bank
Uruknet May 6, 2010 – Israeli media sources quoted military officials as confirming the detention of 33 Palestinians from across the West Bank between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Nine of those taken were young men from Beit Ejza village northwest of Jerusalem on Thursday morning, and took them to an unknown location, Palestinian sources reported. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed…
Comrade Sa’adat: End occupation in all of historic Palestine
Uruknet May 6, 2010 – Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, denounced any negotiations with the occupation, saying that “the solution solution to the critical historical conflict in the Middle East will only be the establishment of one state on the entire Palestinian national soil, from river to sea, with full…
Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
Uruknet May 6, 2010 – Established in 1998, the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BRC) “defend(s) and promote(s) the rights of Palestinian refugees and IDPs (to) advance (their) collective rights.” In January 2010, BRC published a report titled, “Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, 2008 – 2009.” Its web site explains the problem: — Palestinian…
ISHR: “11 Palestinians Killed, 285 Kidnapped In April”
Uruknet May 5, 2010 – The International Solidarity for Human Rights Foundation (ISHR) issued a report on Monday revealing that Israeli soldiers killed in April eleven Palestinians, including two children, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Six were killed in the West Bank and five in the Gaza Strip. In Tubas, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin,…
Jewish settlers bent on burning more mosques in West Bank
Uruknet May 5, 2010 – Encouraged by government flaccidity and leniency, Jewish settler terrorists in the West Bank are planning to carry out more arson attacks against Islamic houses of worship for the purpose of forcing millions of Palestinians to flee their homes and land in order to enable Jews to create an ethnically and religiously pure Jewish state in accordance…
Not Much Time Remains for Israel- A Film Review by Gilad Atzmon
Uruknet May 5, 2010 – The London Palestinian Film Festival opened this year with Elia Suleiman’ latest feature “The Time that Remains” (105min), a monumental reflective and poetic take on Palestine since 1948. To a certain extent Suleiman’ latest film reminded me of Ramzy Baroud’ book My Father Was a Freedom Fighter. Both works chart a personal and devastating expedition into…
Israeli jailers starve Palestinian prisoner to press him to work as informer
Uruknet May 5, 2010 – The Palestinian prisoner society said that Israeli interrogators in the Ashkelon prison starved a 19-year-old prisoner and told him he would remain without food until he cooperates with them and work as an informer. The society said that the interrogators took advantage of the prisoner’ illiteracy and forced him to place thumbprints on papers he did…
Zionist proposes 187,000 housing units mostly in annexed parts of Jerusalem
Uruknet May 5, 2010 – Aryeh King, head of the Israel Land Fund released his plan for 187,000 units mostly in annexed parts of Jerusalem, and some outside it. He showed on maps where there was the space owned by individual Jews and the Jewish national fund. He explains that the growing city needs to expand, and unless it does, it…
A Journey Through A Ghost Town
Uruknet May 5, 2010 – “The following photos were taken in Hebron, occupied West Bank both inside and on the immediate outskirts of the Old City. At the time, I was on a medical mission with Surgical Volunteers International, funded in part by Smile Train and sponsored by the Palestinian Children’ Relief Fund. When I wasn’t working at the hospital, my…
Injured: time doesn’t heal all wounds
Uruknet May 5, 2010 – The terms “injured” and “wounded” deserve more attention. Over 4,500 injured in 2008-2009 the Israeli war on Gaza. 350 injured in the 27 February — 3 March 2008 Israeli military invasion operation dubbed “Hot Winter”. Abdul Rachman Abu Oida was one of these injured. *Abed, 16, in a Cairo hospital in 2008. His life will never…
Director of Ittijah Ameer Makhoul Arrested by the Israeli Authorities
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Israeli Security Arrest A Palestinian Community Leader
PNN – Haifa – PNN- On Thursday morning the Israeli General Security Service (GSS or the Shabak ) accompanied by Israeli police raided the home of Ameer Makhoul in Haifa with a warrant for his…
Palestinian Group Protest Israel’s Policy in Jerusalem
PNN – Mayssa Abu Ghazalih — PNN- The Jerusalem Center of Economic and Social Rights issued a statement of Thursday criticized Israel’ policy of canceling residency rights of Palestinians from Jerusalem. The statement was…
Israeli Police Clash With Settlers In Northern West Bank
PNN – PNN – Israeli police forces clashed on Thursday with some 100 settlers when police tried to remove homes at the settlement of Hashmonaim, northern West Bank. Police forces managed to demolish two…
Israel Continues To Target Journalists In The West Bank
PNN – Bethlehem – PNN- Reporters Without Borders issued on Thursday a report documenting Israeli troops attacks tragting Palestinian journalists. The international NGO says three photographers have been arrested and two others have been…
Opinion: The Savior In Each Of Us
PNN – Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD – PNN- We live in an era of psychological warfare and mass hysteria generated by mass communication that already led us to the catastrophic first and second world wars….
Troops Arrest 33 Civilians From The West Bank
PNN – Ghassan Bannoura – PNN- At least 33 Palestinian civilians were arrested by Israeli troops on Thursday during dawn invasions targeting West Bank communities. Palestinian sources reported military invasions in the cities of…
MIDEAST: West Bankers Made Refugees in Their Own Country
IPS RAMALLAH, May 6 (IPS) – Several Palestinians have set up a protest tent in no-man’ land in the northern Gaza Strip, near the Erez border crossing into Israel, as they protest their deportation from the Israeli occupied West Bank into Gaza where Hamas authorities have refused them entry.
MIDEAST: Hope Amidst Grim Prospects for Peace
IPS RAMALLAH, May 5 (IPS) – Proximity peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians, due to begin shortly after months of delay due to Israel’ continued settlement building on occupied Palestinian land, appear to have little chance of making a breakthrough.
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Child Killed and Another Wounded Due to Misuse of Weapons in Northern Gaza Strip
PCHR 5 May 2010 – Field Update On Wednesday, 5 May 2010, Batoul Kalloub, 6, from Jabalya refugee camp, was killed and Waleed Dawwas, 15, from Beit Lahia, was wounded in two separate incidents due to the misuse of weapons. These incidents are part of the state of security chaos and misuse of weapons prevailing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)…..
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (29 April — 05 May 2010)
PCHR 5 May 2010 – A mosque that was burnt by Israeli settlers in al-Lubban al-Sharqi village near Nablus, 04 May 2010 Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)….
‘US to ensure no provocations’
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2010 – Abbas, ahead of talks with Mitchell: Israel gave us no assurances on J’lem.
PA warns Palestinian shoppers
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2010 – Rami Levy shoppers, we know who you are, says economy minister.
Shalev: Iran sanctions will be ‘diluted’
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2010 – Israeli envoy fumes at “dirty hand” in supply of arms to Hizbullah.
High Court starts to grapple with Seam Zone regime
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2010 – The court heard petitions protesting the refusal of authorities to grant permits for Palestinian farmers to cultivate land on the “Israeli side” of the West Bank security barrier.
Police expand Holyland probe to US to grill Olmert’s brother
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2010 – Former PM suspected of transferring alleged bribe money to Middle East analyst Yossi Olmert.
Police chief, FBI head talk cooperation
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2010 – Robert Mueller says struggle against organized crime, terror borderless.
Mubarak warns of “chaos” amid reform push
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2010 – Egyptian president discusses upcoming elections in Egypt and the widespread protests due to poverty, shortages.
Barak, PM meet Mitchell on proximity Talks
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2010 – Discuss ways of the process leading into future direct talks with Palestinians.
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Abbas: Hamas smuggling weapons into W. Bank
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2010 – PA president calls Hamas ‘hypocrites’ for their double standards.
Olmert: “Open season on me”
Jeruslalem Post 6 May 2010 – Former PM on attack before Rishon Tours trial.
UN deeply Concerned at Fire in Mosque in West Bank
WAFA – NEW YORK, May 6, 2010 (WAFA)- “I am deeply concerned at a fire service report that a blaze in a mosque on May 4, in the village of Lubban al Sharqiya in the West Bank was probably arson”, said Robert
Reducing Stigma: Symposium on Mental Health, Disabilities in Einaboos
WAFA – NABLUS, May 6, 2010 (WAFA) -About 200 persons from villages South of Nablus (Burin, Madama, Einabus,
Israeli Soldiers Continue Targeting Palestinian Photographers in West Bank
WAFA – PARIS, May 6, 2010 (WAFA)- Palestinian press photographers have always been targeted by the Israeli forces and at least three have been arrested and two others have been physically attacked by
OPT: Protection of Civilians Weekly Report, 28 Apr – 4 May 2010
Relief Web 6 May 2010 – Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
New telephone hotline strengthens legal protection for Palestine refugee women
Relief Web 6 May 2010 – Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Statement of Robert Serry, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, on the attack on a mosque in the West Bank on 4 May 2010
Relief Web 6 May 2010 – Source: UN Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories
MIDDLE EAST: Environmentalists issue stark warning on River Jordan
Relief Web 6 May 2010 – Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks
Firefighters suspect arson at mosque
YNet News – Investigators say ruled out electrical fire at West Bank mosque, bolstering….
‘Witnesses’: IDF killed Egyptian POWs
YNet News – More accusations brought by Egyptian opposition paper say Israeli army killed….
Syria: No war expected; Arabs acting responsibly
YNet News – FM Moallem tells Radio Monte Carlo escalation in region not in US’ interest;….
Palestinian official: Israel avoiding negotiations
YNet News – Senior PA source says Israel trying to stall peace talks by focusing on security….
Israel official: Give non-proliferation pact teeth
YNet News – Following report on IAEA attempts to get Israel to sign NPT treaty, local….
Olmert slams ‘witch hunt’ against him
YNet News – Former prime minister heads to court for hearing on double-billing case against….
Livni to slam PM’s ‘surrender to haredim’
YNet News – The rift between the religious and the secular population again seems wide, and the opposition has jumped at the opportunity. Ynet has learned that Opposition Chairwoman …….
Israel denies Mabhouh relative medical treatment
YNet News – Mohammad al-Mabhouh, a Palestinian heart disease patient living in the Gaza Strip, underwent surgery in an east Jerusalem hospital in December in order to stabilize his …….
Judge Goldstone’s dark past
YNet News – He asserted that Israel committed war crimes and came out against the Israel Defense Forces, whom he claimed violated basic human rights. Judge Richard Goldstone forgot …….
Envoys: Iran FM to meet UN Security Council
YNet News – Facing the possibility of a new round of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program, Iran’s foreign minister will meet with the United States and other members of …….
A license to loot: the Derekh Ha’avot outpost
B’tselem 4 May 2010 – On 25 April ’10, the State Attorney’s Office informed the High Court of Justice that the state is considering approval of the Derekh Ha’avot outpost, established in 2001 near the Elazar settlement in the Etzion Bloc. Residents of al-Khader claim that the gram FilesQuickTimeQTSystem
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Ma’ariv: Israel to escalate punitive steps against Hamas detainees
PIC 6 May 2010 – Ma’ariv newspaper said Thursday that the Israeli ministerial committee headed by the minister of justice which is assigned to study the new punitive measures to be taken against Hamas prisoners..
IOF soldiers quell Walaja march, wound 3 civilians
PIC 6 May 2010 – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled a peaceful march in Walaja village, Bethlehem district, wounding three citizens in the process and stormed Taqu village in the same district at dawn Thursday.
Bardawil: Abbas forging history of Palestinian people
PIC 6 May 2010 – Salah Al-Bardawil, the spokesman of Hamas’s parliamentary bloc, has charged Mahmoud Abbas, former PA chief, with forging the Palestinian people’s will.
IHH to IOA: Release our representative in WB
PIC 6 May 2010 – Turkish humanitarian relief organization IHH demanded the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) to release its newly-appointed representative in the West Bank Izzat Shahin.
10 hurt in Silwan clashes, IOF soldiers round up 33 Palestinians
PIC 6 May 2010 – Palestinian young men in Silwan town, occupied Jerusalem, clashed with Jewish settlers who tried to storm the Bustan suburb with the protection of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday.
PA militias torture human right activist, nab 7 Hamas supporters
PIC 6 May 2010 – Rased reported that its representative in Jordan is exposed to excruciating torture at the hand of Abbas’ security militias in the West Bank in order to extract recorded confessions from him.
Abu Arafa: Israel wants to exile all Palestinians from J’lem
PIC 6 May 2010 – Former minister of Jerusalem affairs and lawmaker Khaled Arafa warned that Israel aims to expel all Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem without even retaining a minority of them.
Khudari: Flotilla to arrive in Gaza on three stages
PIC 6 May 2010 – MP Jamal Al-Khudarihas quoted sources in the international alliance organizing the sea voyage to Gaza as saying that the biggest break siege Flotilla of ships is to arrive in Gaza on three stages.
Bardawil urges Abbas to further the reconciliation
PIC 6 May 2010 – Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil urged Mahmoud Abbas to further the national reconciliation instead of running after “negotiations” with Israel he described as a mirage and political suicide.
American-Israeli agreement on ignoring Jerusalem issue
PIC 6 May 2010 – David Axelrod said that Washington and Tel Aviv have decided to delay the discussion on Jerusalem at the current stage of indirect talks between Israel and the PA in Ramallah.
Their mates were real Neanderthals
LA Times 7 May 2010 – A genetic comparison of ancient bones and living people shows interbreeding about 80,000 years ago, researchers say. Traces of the extinct hominid remain today. The first modern humans to leave Africa about 80,000 years ago encountered Neanderthal settlements in the Middle East and, on at least some occasions, chose to make love instead of war, according to an international team of scientists who have pieced together the genetic code of humanity’s closest relatives.
Checkpoints
Palestine Monitor – “The right to freedom of movement provides that people are entitled to move freely within the borders of the state, to leave any country and to return to their country.” Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and article 12 of the International Covenant…
Al-Walaja: Non-violence Versus Bulldozers
Palestine Monitor – On Thursday morning, non-violent protest against the construction of the separation Wall in Al-Walaja ended with 4 detained by Israeli Army. Watch the video. Courtesy: Oren Ziv – ActiveStill Courtesy: Oren Ziv – ActiveStill Courtesy: Oren Ziv – ActiveStill Courtesy: Oren Ziv – ActiveStill Read the…
Breaking The Silence
Palestine Monitor – Breaking the Silence is “an organization of veterans who served in the Israeli army during the Second Intifada (since September 2000), and have taken upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to everyday life in the Occupied Territories, a routine situation that is never reflected in…
Director of Ittijah Ameer Makhoul Arrested by the Israeli Authorities
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Iowa is listening
Mondoweiss – Susan Johnson is on the road doing a Gaza report, details below. Her note: Presbyterians solemn, emotionless faces but positive feedback. Downers Grove Episcopalians in Downers Grove, Illinois. Fantastic Mediterranean dinner. Donations for my return to Gaza—amazing. Responsive, asked questions, interested. “Why does Israel do that???”…
Israel grabs more Palestinian land to build Greater Jerusalem
Mondoweiss – Does this look like Jerusalem to you? This is footage from earlier today in al-Walaja, a hillside village miles south of the Holy Basin in Jerusalem, and across from a Jewish settlement called Gilo. The settlement wants to expand, and Israel is seizing more land, all…
‘NYT’ ignores gigantic elephant named Gaza in the room
Mondoweiss – Post-Gaza massacre, it’ easy to see the changing discourse about Israel/Palestine across the country among Americans and American Jews. The diverse coalition that supported the divestment resolution at U.C. Berkeley, including prominent Jewish voices like Judith Butler, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky, is but one indication…
Palestinian statelessness is an American Jewish achievement
Mondoweiss – David Obey, the great Wisconsin congressman, announced his retirement yesterday. He wanted to do it a long time ago, but when he saw George W. Bush coming along, he said, he realized he had to keep his finger in the dyke and try to stop Bush’s…
Send out the clowns
Mondoweiss – Oh my: Israel deports Spain’s most famous clown, and seems to have only (further?) radicalized him. Haaretz : [Simon] Prado, director of the International Clown Festival in Galicia, arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport on April 26 with a Spanish national of Arab origin. They planned to go to…
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Palestinian Refugees And Internally Displaced Persons
Stephen Lendman, CounterCurrents5/6/2010
Established in 1998, the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BRC) “defend(s) and promote(s) the rights of Palestinian refugees and IDPs (to) advance (their) collective rights.” In January 2010, BRC published a report titled, “Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, 2008 – 2009.”
Its web site explains the problem:
— Palestinian refugees and IDPs are “the largest and longest-standing case of forced displacement in the world today;”
— in 2007, of a global 9.8 million Palestinians, about seven million are refugees and another 450,000 internally displaced;
— they include 1948 Nakba victims, more from the 1967 Six Day War, new ones from continuous dispossessions for settlement expansions, and land seizures inside Israel;
— many thousands were displaced from the Jordan Valley, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and within Israel to cleanse Arab neighborhoods for Jewish only development;
— Palestinians in host countries like Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Syria are also vulnerable to displacement; further, the 2003 Iraq war forced 34,000 Palestinian refugees to leave the country; and
— over six decades after their 1948 displacement, Palestinian refugees and IDPs are still denied solutions and reparations for their rights under international law and UN resolutions.
Relevant International Law
Article 13 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states….more..e-mail
Not much time remains for Israel — film review
Gilad Atzmon, Redress5/6/2010
Gilad Atzmon reviews Elia Suleiman’ film, “The time that remains”, which depicts the struggle in Palestine between the Jewish colonial settler population and the indigenous Palestinians, contrasting the alienness of the colonists with the harmony between the indigenous population and the land.
The Palestine Film Festival opened in London this year with Elia Suleiman’ latest feature “The Time that Remains”, a monumental reflective and poetic take on Palestine since 1948.
To a certain the film reminded me of Ramzy Baroud’ book, My father was a freedom fighter. Both works chart a personal and devastating expedition into hopelessness. Both accounts are saturated with repeated failures and betrayals — both Baroud and Suleiman are courageous enough to criticize their collective narrative, and yet both pepper their story with some staggering wit, hope and humour. They make you smile just when you are about to sob.
Trailor: “The time that remains”
As with Baroud, Suleiman juxtaposes the Palestinian journey from heaven to hell with the Zionist phantasmic countermove from “hell!” to “heaven”. The devastating images of Palestinian torture and dispossession are mixed with scenes of cheerful Israeli arrogance, looting and sadism. This counterflow of the two peoples is rather crucial to understanding the conflict. As much as Palestinian expulsion is concrete and deeply imbued in the consciousness of every Palestinian, the imaginary Jewish “home-coming” journey from “hostile Diaspora hell” to the “Zionist Eden” has proved to be dubious and unforgiving for the Jews.
It is obvious that the Israelis have never managed to make the Holy Land into their “homeland”. They are alienated from its nature, they have poisoned the soil and polluted the rivers, they have ruined the landscape…. — See also:Palestine Film Festivaland“The Time that Remains”more..e-mail
Will Obama adopt a dangerously simplistic peace plan?
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, Electronic Intifada5/3/2010
A new conventional wisdom is rapidly taking shape that the United States can resolve the 130-year-old conflict in Palestine by advancing its own peace plan. Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and former US Congressman Stephen Solarz outlined such a plan in The Washington Post recently, and argued that President Obama could boost its prospects with a “bold gesture” — a trip, to Jerusalem and Ramallah in the company of Arab and other leaders to unveil it (“To achieve Mideast peace, Obama must make a bold Mideast trip,” 11 April 2010).
Strong supporters of Israel have pushed back that “imposing peace” would not work, but few Palestinian voices have been heard. Indeed, from a Palestinian perspective, this idea is dangerously simplistic, and more likely to deepen festering injustices and fuel, rather than resolve conflict.
The “comprehensive solution” Brzezinski and Solarz propose is nothing of the kind because the conflict cannot be reduced to a mere border dispute between Israel and a putative Palestinian state. They propose for example “a territorial settlement based on the 1967 borders, with mutual and equal adjustments to allow the incorporation of the largest West Bank settlements into Israel.”
This is deceptive; the West Bank and Gaza Strip constitute just 22 percent of historic Palestine between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, in which Palestinians formed the overwhelming majority prior to their expulsion and flight as Israel was created in 1948. Official Palestinian acceptance of the two-state solution was a concession unprecedented in the history of any nation because it involved surrendering the 78 percent of the country on which Israel was established. To demand that Palestinians further divide the remainder represents no compromise by Israel. It merely ratifies Israel’ systematic colonization of West Bank land since 1967 in flagrant defiance of international law.more..e-mail
Rights orgs condemn arrest of Palestinian civil society leader
Electronic Intifada: 6 May 2010 – This morning at 3:10am, Israeli Security Agency agents accompanied by Israeli police raided Ameer Makhoul’s family home in Haifa and arrested him. Makhoul is a human rights defender and serves as the general director of Ittijah – The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations and as the Chairman of the Public Committee for the Defense of Political Freedom in the framework of the High Follow-up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel.
The pretext of “security” along Gaza’s buffer zone
Electronic Intifada: 6 May 2010 – “There was a single shot without any warning, and a young man was carried away,” Adie Mormech explained. Mormech, currently in Gaza, is a British activist with the International Solidarity Movement. He was an eyewitness at the 28 April demonstration at Nahal Oz, east of Gaza City, when Ahmed Deeb was fatally shot by an Israeli soldier. Eva Bartlett reports for The Electronic Intifada.
Israel’s repression of its Palestinian citizens unites us in struggle
Electronic Intifada: 6 May 2010 – Ameer Makhoul, director of Ittijah and chairman of the Popular Committee for the Defense of the Political Freedoms, was arrested by Israeli forces today during a raid of his home, two weeks after a travel ban was imposed on him by the Israeli Ministry of the Interior. Makhoul, a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, submitted the following op-ed to The Electronic Intifada prior to his arrest.
Quartet ex-envoy’s investment helps Israel greenwash settlements
Electronic Intifada: 6 May 2010 – Former World Bank president and Middle East Quartet envoy James D. Wolfensohn is an investor in an Israeli company that is developing transport infrastructure for Jewish-only settlements built in the occupied West Bank in violation of international law, an investigation by The Electronic Intifada reveals.
Breaking The Silence
Palestine Monitor: 6 May 2010 – Breaking the Silence is “an organization of veterans who served in the Israeli army during the Second Intifada (since September 2000), and have taken upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to everyday life in the Occupied Territories, a routine situation that is never reflected in the media”. Palestine Monitor has already covered the tours and the activities organized by the organisation in the following articles: -Inside Hebrons H2 Area http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spi… -Umm Al-Kheir, Where Freedom Stands For Demolition http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spi… -Sink The Boats http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spi… In this article we present some of the soldiers’ testimonies from the six booklets released by Breaking the Silence so far, giving you the possibility to read firsthand the stories of soldiers who decided to speak out about what they did or saw during their periods of military duty. One testimony from each booklet is presented and available for download. – I. Hebron Testimonies http://www.shovrimshtika.org/UserFi… ” Every…
Al-Walaja: Non-violence Versus Bulldozers
Palestine Monitor: 6 May 2010 – On Thursday morning, non-violent protest against the construction of the separation Wall in Al-Walaja ended with 4 detained by Israeli Army. Watch the video. Courtesy: Oren Ziv – ActiveStill Courtesy: Oren Ziv – ActiveStill Courtesy: Oren Ziv – ActiveStill Courtesy: Oren Ziv – ActiveStill Read the article on Ma’an News: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDet…
Not Much Time Remains for Israel – A Film Review
Palestine Chronicle: 6 May 2010 – By Gilad Atzmon — London The London Palestinian Film Festival opened this year with Elia Suleiman’s latest feature ‘The Time that Remains’ (105min), a monumental reflective and poetic take on Palestine since 1948. To a certain extent Suleiman’ latest film reminded me of Ramzy Baroud’ book My Father Was a Freedom Fighter. Both works chart a personal and devastating expedition into hopelessness. Both accounts are saturated with repeated failures and betrayals, both Baroud and Suleiman are courageous enough to criticise their collective narrative and yet, both pepper their story with some staggering wit, hope and humour. They make you smile just when you are about to sob. (Click here to watch a trailer of the film.) Like Baroud, Suleiman juxtaposes the Palestinian journey from heaven to hell with the Zionist phantasmic counter move from ‘hell’ to ‘heaven’. The devastating images of Palestinian torture and dispossession are scattered with scenes of…more
On Goldstone’s Bar Mitzvah and Finkelstein’s Book
Palestine Chronicle: 6 May 2010 – By Ramzy Baroud In his report on Gaza issued late last year, prominent South African jurist Richard Goldstone accused Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes. His language also showed awareness of the fact that the former is an occupying power with most sophisticated weapon arsenal (as reflecting in the number of Palestinian victims), and the latter is a besieged, occupied faction in a state of self-defense. Although Goldstone must have been aware of the kind of hysteria such a report would generate, he still did not allow ideological or ethnic affiliation to stand between him and his moral convictions. Despite some initial apprehension — owing to the fact that Goldstone is a self-declared Zionist with links to Israel – many justice and peace advocates were comforted by the man’ past record. He was a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and former Prosecutor of the International…more
Wiesenthal’s PR Exercise to Counter ‘Anti-Israel Lies’
Palestine Chronicle: 6 May 2010 – By Iqbal Jassat As Israel reels from successive blows to its image as a ‘civilized democracy’ its supporters have in another desperate attempt to salvage this bruised profile come up with a rescue plan. This time the Simon Wiesenthal Center has produced a brochure titled “2010 Top Ten Anti-Israel Lies” that they plan to distribute to millions of people worldwide. It’ a multi-million dollar propaganda exercise that they hope will counter what they perceive to be “a worldwide frenzy of intimidation” and “threats” directed against Israel “that has backed its supporters into a corner”. It’ an exercise that they believe will help to restore normalcy in the relations between the United States and Israel which many commentators acknowledge are severely strained and tense. They allude to this by admitting that it’ no secret that these ties reflect a new reality and not what they once were! Apart from being a…more
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