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Palestinian
collaborators fess up during Hamas’ 60 days of amnesty
IMEMC
– 10 Jul 2010 – As the 60 day period offered by Hamas for collaborators
with Israel to give themselves up without consequences, Hamas officials
announced that a number of collaborators had given themselves up, and
are being “dealt with in closed circles so as not to harm their
reputations”.
Charges Dropped
Against Soldier Who Shot Man, Child In East Jerusalem
IMEMC
– 10 Jul 2010 – The Israeli prosecution decided to drop all charges
against a settler-soldier who shot and wounded a Palestinian man and a
child in Wadi Hilwa area, in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, and
claimed that there are insufficient evidences against the soldier who
used who automatic gun against unarmed civilians.
Three Peace
Activists Detained In Sheikh Jarrah
IMEMC
– 10 Jul 2010 – Israeli soldiers kidnapped three peace activists in
Sheikh Jarrah Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem
during the weekly protest against occupation and extremist settlers who
took over Arab homes in the neighborhood.
Lawmakers
say Libyan ship won’t change course
7/10/2010
– Gaza – Ma’an – A Libyan aid ship will head to Gaza’s port in the
coming hours and will not be diverted, Palestinian Legislative Council
member Jamal Al-Khudari and Palestinian Knesset member Ahmad Tibi said
Saturday.Al-Khudari, head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege,
says he has been in constant contact with the ship’s organizers….
Related: Israel:
Libyan ship to sail to Egypt and Israel
to UN: Block ‘provocative’ Libya ship
3
protesters hurt, 1 detained at anti-wall rally
7/10/2010
– Hebron – Ma’an – Israeli forces injured two children and a journalist
at a demonstration Saturday in the West Bank, activists said. Muhammed
Jawad Awad, 9, was hit with shrapnel in his head, and a stun grenade
struck Abu Mariyya, 14, in his back at the rally in Beit Ummar, near
Hebron, Palestine Solidarity Project spokesman Muhammad….
Israel
closes case of Silwan shooting
7/10/2010
– Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israel’s attorney general has closed the case of
a shooting by an Israeli soldier who was visiting the City of David
illegal settlement in the Wadi Helwa neighborhood in Silwan, East
Jerusalem. The soldier was carrying an M16 rifle and opened fire at
member of the Wadi Helwa committee Ahmad Qara’een, 40, who….
Group:
Soldier assaults Germany fans
7/10/2010
– Jerusalem – Ma’an – A legal aid group issued a report Friday
detailing an Israeli soldier’s assault of a Palestinian family. The
Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights reported that Khaled
Barakat, his sons Feras and Ra’aft, and nephew Na’eem, were beaten and
detained on 3 June because they supported Germany in the World Cup
match….
Israel
army scours village for ’missing hyena’
7/10/2010
– Ramallah – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers threatened to storm a Palestinian
village in the northern West Bank on Friday night to look for a missing
hyena, confused residents told Ma’an. According to locals, the soldiers
say they believe a resident of Kafr Thulth, near Qalqiliya, is hiding
the alleged hyena. The residents have emphatically denied the
allegations….
Journalists
denounce ban on Gaza reporter’s travel
7/10/2010
– Ramallah – Ma’an – A syndicate of Palestinian journalists denounced
on Saturday the Gaza government’s decision to ban journalist Tamim
Mu’mar from traveling via the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian border.
Mu’mar, of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, was trying to cross the border
to continue his Masters degree, a statement by the syndicate said.
Internal security….
Israel:
Libyan ship to sail to Egypt
7/10/2010
– Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – A Libyan ship carrying aid to Gaza has
altered course and is now scheduled to dock in Egypt, reports said
Saturday.Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman agreed with his
Greek and Moldovan counterparts that the ship, which departed from a
Greek port and carries a Moldovan flag, will dock at Al-Arish port….
Related: Lawmakers
say Libyan ship won’t change course
Israel
to UN: Block ’provocative’ Libya ship
7/10/2010
– Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – Israel has approached the UN in a bid to
enlist the international community to help prevent a Libyan aid ship
from sailing to Gaza, citing the move as “provocative,” Israeli media
reported Friday.Outgoing Israeli ambassador to the UN Gabriela Shalev
wrote in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that “Israel
calls…. Related: Lawmakers
say Libyan ship won’t change course
PLO:
Israel wants ’loose’ talks
7/10/2010
– Ramallah – Ma’an – Israel wants talks that are “loose, without a
framework or timeline, and with no guarantees,” PLO Secretary-General
Yasser Abed Rabbo said Friday. Speaking on Palestine TV, Abed Rabbo
said the Palestinian Authority told the US that it would not enter
direct talks until Israel commits to a settlement halt and abides by
other….
Palestinian
leaders head to Cairo after Damascus talks
7/10/2010
– Damascus/Ramallah – Ma’an – A Palestinian delegation of independent
faction leaders completed talks in Damascus on Friday, leaving for
Cairo in a bid to reach a unity deal between the rival Fatah and Hamas
parties. The delegation included Palestinian tycoon and chief of the
Palestinian National Coalition of independent leaders Munib Al-Masri,
Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general….
Lebanese
coalition to present bill on Palestinian rights
7/10/2010
– Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – A coalition of Lebanese political
parties will soon resent a two-part draft law on Palestinian refugees’
rights to work and buy health insurance, the Arabic-language daily
Al-Hayat reports. The March 14 coalition’s draft bill will not tackle
the issue of Palestinian ownership of property rights, as the issue is
being discussed by….
Thousands
travel via Rafah, Erez partially open
7/10/2010
– Gaza – Ma’an – More than 1600 residents of Gaza traveled through the
Rafah crossing on Egypt’s border over the last two days, crossings
officials said Saturday. A statement said 588 residents traveled to
Egypt and 1054 returned to Gaza through the southern crossing. Egyptian
authorities denied crossing to 130 residents. Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak officially declared….
Hamas:
Shalit won’t be released until demands met
7/10/2010
– Gaza – Ma’an – Captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will not be
released until Israel complies with the captors’ demands, senior Hamas
leader Khalil Al-Hayya said Saturday. Speaking at a ceremony in Gaza
City to commemorate the Prophet Muhammad’s night journey, Al-Hayya said
collaborators told Hamas security interrogators that Israeli
intelligence has continued attempts to get information….
9
Hamas supporters detained in West Bank, party says
7/10/2010
– Bethlehem – Ma’an – Hamas said Saturday that Palestinian Authority
forces have detained nine party supporters across the West Bank. The
Islamist movement said PA Preventative Security Service officers
arrested Hamas affiliates in East Jerusalem, Tulkarem, Qalqiliya,
Salfit and Hebron. Dozens of Hamas supporters have further been
summoned by PA security, particularly in the northern West Bank….
Nablus
village under curfew after man killed
7/10/2010
– Nablus – Ma’an – Palestinian Authority forces imposed a curfew in the
northern West Bank village of Salem in the Nablus district after a man
was killed overnight, police said. Locals said Issa Ahid, 30, sustained
critical wounds after being stabbed several times with a sharp object.
The victim was taken to the Rafedia Hospital, where he….
PA
police say 20 fugitives detained at Allenby
7/10/2010
– Jericho – Ma’an – Palestinian Authority police deployed at the
Allenby Bridge crossing between Jordan and the West Bank said Saturday
they detained 20 fugitives over the past week. According to a police
report, the detainees attempted to flee to Jordan and were wanted for a
number of criminal charges including fraud. Additionally, police
detailed that officers….
Delegation
wraps up Cairo visit
7/10/2010
– Cairo – Ma’an – A Palestinian delegation of independent and national
faction leaders were expected to arrive in Gaza on Saturday in a bid to
reach a unity deal between the rival Fatah and Hamas parties. The
delegation included Palestinian tycoon and chief of the Palestinian
National Coalition of independent leaders Munib Al-Masri, Mustafa
Barghouti, the secretary-general….
Palestinians
in Israel join Al-Aqsa festival
7/10/2010
– Jerusalem – Ma’an – Over 250 buses of Palestinians living in Israel
will arrive at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem on
Saturday for a festival. Marking the eighth Al-Aqsa Children’s Fund
Festival, organized by the Al-Bayareq Foundation, hundreds of
Palestinian families are expected to join. Foundation director Waqif
Darwish said families began arriving in Jerusalem….
PSE:
Al-Quds Index rises during trading week
7/10/2010
– Nablus – Ma’an – The Al-Quds index closed at 509. 3, falling by 0. 12
percent, despite climbing up from 504 at the start of the week’s
trading on the Palestine Security Exchange in Nablus. By the close of
weekly trading on Thursday, trading value was at $5,272,690, executed
through 1,491 trades. Despite dropping by 0. 63….
Will
Obama take risks for Mideast peace?
Palestine
Note 10 Jul 2010 – Inside the Beltway and in capitals around the world,
pundits closely watched this week’s meeting between President Obama and
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The general consensus is
that Netanyahu “rolled” Obama. Israeli, Arab and European…
Ashrawi
to Obama: Don’t make PA commit political suicide
Palestine
Note 10 Jul 2010 – New York – President Barack Obama risks destroying
the credibility of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) if he forces Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas into direct talks with Israel too soon, senior PLO…
Israel
to encircle Palestinian village with wall
Palestine
Note 10 Jul 2010 – New York – Israel has begun construction on a
section of its West Bank wall that will completely encircle the village
of Al-Walajeh, outside of Bethlehem. Israel’s West Bank wall [Photo:
Chris Yunker, via Wikimedia Commons]…
UK
envoy in trouble for cleric comments
Palestine
Note 10 Jul 2010 – Washington – The United Kingdom’s ambassador to
Lebanon expressed her apologies for lamenting the death of prominent
Shia cleric Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the Associate Press reported
Saturday. Guy meets with Fadlallah in 2008. [Foreign and Commonwealth…
Obama
makes promises on Palestinian state
Palestine
Note 10 Jul 2010 – Washington – US President Barack Obama telephoned
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Friday night to assure the
Palestinian leader he is exerting all efforts to establish an
independent state, Palestinian state news agency WAFA reported .
Presidents Obama […
Collision
course
Palestine
Note 10 Jul 2010 – Lawmakers say Libyan ship headed for Gaza in spite
of warning Washington – A Libyan ship carrying aid to the Gaza Strip
will stay on course, Palestinian Legislative Council member Jamal
Al-Khudary and Israeli-Palestinian Knesset member…
Lebanese
MPs to draft law for Palestinian employment
Palestine
Note 10 Jul 2010 – Washington – Lebanon’s March 14 political coalition,
led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri, is drafting a bill granting
Palestinian refugees the right to work and the right to buy health
insurance, Arabic daily Al-Hayat reported via…
Libyan
aid ship sails for Gaza
AlJazeera
10 Jul 2010 – Israel threatens to prevent vessel breaking the naval
blockade of the territory.
West
Bank barrier a ‘health hazard’
AlJazeera
9 Jul 2010 – New report says barrier being built by Israel limits
Palestinian access to medical care.
Israel
Calling On UN To Stop Libyan Aid Ship To Gaza
PNN
– Jerusalem- PNN – Israeli politicians are trying to prevent a Libyan
aid ship from sailing to Gaza because of “questionable and provocative”
intentions. The aid ship was an initiative by the son…
CPJ
urges Gaza-Government To Allow Entry Of Newspapers
PNN
– New York – PNN – The Committee to Protect Journalists called on
authorities in the Gaza Strip to allow three pro-Fatah Palestinian
papers published in the West Bank to be allowed entry…
Presbyterian
Church Upholds Middle East Study Report
PNN
– Washington – PNN – It has been a long, yet rewarding week for the
committee members of the Presbyterian Church’s 219th General Assembly
Middle East Study Committee. Although there was a good…
Healthcare:
US can learn from Israel
Jeruslalem
Post 10 Jul 2010 – US pays 18 percent of GDP; Israel: 8 percent.
Analysis:
Blockade-busting backfires
Jeruslalem
Post 10 Jul 2010 – Hamas has no more legitimacy today than it did
before the Gaza flotilla.
Visitors
flock to Schalit tent
Jeruslalem
Post 10 Jul 2010 – Solidarity with the Schalits continues after 11-day
march to Jerusalem
‘Israel
must meet Hamas demands’
Jeruslalem
Post 10 Jul 2010 – Hamas official says Schalit won’t be released until
prisoners freed.
Al-Hayeh:
Israel must meet Hamas demands
Jeruslalem
Post 10 Jul 2010 – Hamas official says Schalit won’t be released until
prisoners freed.
Israel:
We won’t let ship reach Gaza
Jeruslalem
Post 9 Jul 2010 – Unclear if Libyan vessel is headed for Gaza or Egypt.
International
Solidarity Movement
West Bank
protests mark 6th anniversary of ICJ’s ruling on Israel’s illegal
Apartheid Wall
7/10/2010
– International Solidarity Movement – Al-Ma’sara: tearing down the
wall: The Popular Committee of Al Mas’ara supported by a number of
Internationals and Israelis constructed and then demolished a symbolic
wall to mark the sixth anniversary of the decision by the International
Court of Justice that Israel’s Apartheid Wall is illegal. After
afternoon prayers the villagers and internationals gathered to….
Israelis and
internationals demonstrate outside Barakat’s house in west Jerusalem
7/10/2010
– International Solidarity Movement – Wadi Hilweh Information Center –
6 July 2010 – Dozens of international and Israeli solidarity activists
protested in solidarity with Silwan in front of the west Jerusalem
house of Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat. Demonstrators stated that they
were opposing his racist policy in Silwan, which follows an agenda of
promoting illegal settlements. The demonstrators condemned the
intention….
Shalit
family steps up protest, to camp outside cabinet meetings
Ha’aretz
– Dozens of visitors flock to protest tent set up by parents of
abducted soldier Gilad Shalit across from prime minister’s residence in
Jerusalem.
‘Unprecedented
police brutality’ at East Jerusalem protest
Ha’aretz
– Left-wing activists protest weekly alongside Arab residents of Sheikh
Jarrah over settlers’ takeover of locals’ homes.
Abbas:
No direct peace talks before progress made in proximity talks
Ha’aretz
– Palestinian president seeks progress on security arrangements and
borders of future Palestinian state; Both Netanyahu and Obama urge
direct talks.
Report:
Hezbollah on high alert over concern Israel ‘preparing something for us’
Ha’aretz
– Israel offered evidence of what it says is a growing threat from
Hezbollah in southern Lebanon; Hezbollah says wants to avoid
confrontation, Asharq al-Awsat reports.
Barak:
Gaza-bound Libyan aid mission – unnecessary provocation
Ha’aretz
– Israeli Arab MK Ahmed Tibi helps Libyan organizers of aid ship aiming
to bring cargo to Gaza in violation of Israeli naval blockade., U.S.
President calls Abbas days after meeting…
Iran
to U.S.: No talks until you clarify stance on Israel nukes
Ha’aretz
– Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator suggested in a letter to the European
Union’s foreign affairs chief this week that talks could be held as
soon as September on issues including Tehran’s…
IOF
injures 2 children in Bait Omar demo
10
Jul 2010 – Hebron, July 10, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – IOF soldiers
attacked today Bait Omar demonstration and fired gas and sound bombs
which injured two children. Besides they detained an activist and beat
a journalist. The spokesman for the Palestinian solidarity project,
Mohammed Ayad Awad, said that Israeli soldiers injured the children
Mohamed Abu Maria, 14, in his back and Mohammed Awad,…
Decades
of Palestinian Displacement in East Jerusalem
10
Jul 2010 – Jerusalem , July 10, (Pal Telegraph – By Stephen Lendman)
The UN General Assembly’s 1947 Resolution 181 internationalized
Jerusalem as a separate body (a corpus separatum), administered by a UN
Trustee Council, a policy still binding but not followed. Nor have
other resolutions or international law provisions Israel rejects, ones
interfering with its military occupation, affecting E. Jerusalem
Palestinians repressively since…
Obama
promises Abbas an independent Palestinian state
10
Jul 2010 – Ramallah, July 10, (Pal Telegraph) President Mahmud Abbas
received on Friday evening, a telephone call from U.S. President Barack
Obama, they discussed developments in the light of Obama’s meeting with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel
raids Hebron, arrests citizens
10
Jul 2010 – Hebron, July10, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces
arrested at dawn today a number of people after raiding their homes in
the camp of “Arroub” and the village of “Rabood” in the governorate of
Hebron, south of the West Bank.
Israel
asks UN to stop aid ships to Gaza
10
Jul 2010 – Gaza , July 10, ( Pal Telegraph) Israel called the
international community to exert its influence on Libya to prevent it
from sailing a humanitarian ship carrying aid to the Gaza Strip in an
attempt to break the siege imposed on it. This came in a letter sent by
Israel’s delegate to the United Nations, Ghafri’eela Shalev, to the
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,…
Israel’s ‘street
apartheid’
Uruknet
July 10, 2010 – Mahmoud Alami, a Jerusalem taxi driver, knows the city
like the back of his hand. He knows the neighbourhoods, the streets.
And he knows the stop lights. There is one in particular that troubles
him not professionally but personally. It stands between Beit Hanina, a
Palestinian neighbourhood, and Pisgaat Zeev, a Jewish settlement. “It
stays…
OCHA And WHO
Announce Israel’s Barriers Are Blocking Access To Hospital
Uruknet
July 10, 2010 – On the sixth anniversary of the International Court of
Justice (ICJ) demand that the Separation Barrier be re-routed and
dismantled where it breaches Palestinian territory, The United Nation’s
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the
World Health Organisation (WHO) have issued a new report condemning its
impact on health and agriculture. New…
Iran says woman’s
stoning sentence ‘under revision’
Uruknet
July 10, 2010 – Iran’s top human rights official said that a sentence
of stoning to death against a woman for adultery was “under revision”,
the official Irna news agency reported. “She was sentenced to 90 lashes
by one court and stoning by another, the verdict is under revision,”
Mohammad Javad Larijani was quoted as saying. He added that…
Libyan aid ship
set for Gaza voyage
Uruknet
July 10, 2010 – A Libyan-sponsored aid ship is preparing to sail to the
blockaded Gaza Strip with tonnes of humanitarian goods, despite
warnings from Israel that it reserved “the right under international
law to prevent this ship” from reaching its destination. The
Moldovan-owned ship was being checked by Greek officials on Saturday
before being allowed to leave the…
Plea Deal Forced
on Bin Laden Cook at Guantánamo Trial
Uruknet
July 9, 2010 – In an alleged victory for the Military Commission trial
system for terror suspects at Guantánamo, revived by President Obama
last year despite the fact that he suspended the Commissions on his
first day in office, a Sudanese prisoner, Ibrahim al-Qosi, accepted a
plea bargain yesterday, and made a guilty plea on one count of
conspiracy…
Another
Palestinian Gandhi Crushed by Israel
Uruknet
July 9, 2010 – Few people other than Palestinians visit the Ofer
Israeli military prison in the West Bank. Part military prison and part
military courthouse, the Ofer prison complex feels like a desert
version of Guantanamo Bay. Palestinians families wait for hours inside
the prison walls while their loved ones stand trial in makeshift
courthouses before military tribunals….
Israeli terror
then and nowRifat Audeh* experienced first-hand what the sailors on the
US warship experienced 43 years ago
Uruknet
July 10, 2010 – …Just as Israel stated it was not using white
phosphorous on the civilians of Gaza last year, claimed that murdered
activist Thomas Hurndall was armed, and just as it refused a UN
investigation into the Jenin massacre in 2003, the pattern of Israeli
lies and intransigence continues. This is exactly like the Israeli
assault on…
Obama: ‘I Have
Met Israel and It Is “Us”‘
Uruknet
July 9, 2010 – Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu set up
another illegal Jewish settlement, this time on the White House lawn.
And, it appears, President Obama has agreed to serve as its armed
guard. So complete was Obama’s identification with Israel that he
actually referred to Israel as “us” before correcting himself: “We
strongly believe that, given its…
On
a foreign football field, love blossoms between Arab boy and Israeli
girl
The
National 10 Jul 2010 – The Peace Team brings together Israeli and
Palestinian youths to foster understanding – through football.
Gaza
aid ship diverted to Egypt
The
National 10 Jul 2010 – Greek agents for a freighter chartered by a
charity headed by the son of the Libyan leader confirmed Israeli
reports that it would sail to an Egyptian port instead of Gaza.
Israel
says Libyan aid ship will not reach Gaza
The
National 10 Jul 2010 – Intense diplomatic efforts have likely prevented
a Libyan aid ship from trying to breach Israel’s blockade of the Gaza
Strip, the foreign ministry said today.
AIC
Upgrades Website Infrastructure
Alternative
Information Center – The Alternative Information Center (AIC) is
currently upgrading its website infrastructure. We will be back online
by Tuesday 22 June 2010.
President Abbas:
No Direct Peace Negotiations before Progress in Proximity Talks
WAFA
– RAMALLAH, July 10, 2010 (WAFA)- Palestinian said on Saturday he
wanted progress in indirect peace talks with Israel before any move to
face-to-face talks, which the United States wants the two sides
PBA, EUPOL COPPS
Finish First Training on Forensics for Lawyers
WAFA
– RAMALLAH, July 10, 2010 (WAFA)- The Palestinian Bar Association (PBA)
together with EUPOL COPPS have finished the implementation of the first
specialization course for Palestinian criminal defense
No Easing for
Travel of People Into and Out of Gaza
WAFA
–
Six Years on,
Wall Casts Shadow over West Bank Life
WAFA
– JERUSALEM, July 10, 2010 (WAFA)- Six years ago the International
Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the construction of the West Bank
Wall breaches international law, UNRWA reported. Despite the
Great Gaza Global
Bounce
WAFA
–
Israeli
academics hit back over bid to pass law that would criminalise them
The
Guardian 10 Jul 2010 – Backlash over threat to outlaw supporters of
boycott movement aimed at ending the continued occupation of the West
Bank An academic backlash has erupted in Israel over proposed new laws,
backed by the government of Binyamin…
OPT:
Gaza aid ship sails from Greece, may head to Egypt
Relief
Web 10 Jul 2010 – Source: Reuters – AlertNet
OPT:
PBA and EUPOL COPPS finish first training on Forensics for Lawyers
Relief
Web 10 Jul 2010 – Source: European Union
6 years after the
ICJ ruling: Ni’lin still steadfast against the Wall
Stop
The Wall – As usual, the protest began after Friday prayers and moved
towards the lands confiscated by the Wall. The demonstration included a
sit-in in solidarity against the arrest of one of the ambulance crews
of the Palestinian Red Crescent. [
Beitin marks the
6th anniversary of the ICJ ruling against the Wall
Stop
The Wall – As usual, the protest began in front of the Beitin military
checkpoint that cuts off 17 villages from the city of Ramallah.
However, this week’s protest, instead of centering on the issue of the
injustice of the checkpoint, focused on Israel�s perpetual disregard
for the ICJ ruling and demanded that Israel be held accountable for its
human rights abuses. [
Palestinian
source: No serious meeting on Shalit in months
YNet
News – Gazan tells Ynet, ‘Price we are demanding for kidnapped soldier
well-known.’ Top….
Hezbollah
‘on high alert’ against IDF
YNet
News – Lebanese group says info published on its Al-Khiam stronghold
suggests Israel….
Israel:
Libyan ship to sail to Egypt
YNet
News – Foreign minister concludes with Greek, Moldovan counterparts
that ship will not….
Jewish
senator may mediate Israel-Syria talks
YNet
News – President Assad asks Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter to
mediate new peace….
IDF
tracking aid ship: Any attempt to reach Gaza will be thwarted
YNet
News – The Israeli Navy is planning to keep track of the Libyan aid
ship to make certain it does not try to dock in Gaza, this despite
documents indicating that the vessel’s …….
Gaza
aid ship sails from Greece, may head to Egypt
YNet
News – A ship carrying aid for Palestinians blockaded in Gaza by Israel
left Greece on Saturday, just over a month after 9 people died in an
Israeli raid on an aid flotilla on a …….
Abbas
says wants progress for direct Mideast talks
YNet
News – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday he wanted
progress in indirect peace talks with Israel before any move to
face-to-face talks, which the United States …….
Iranian
turned US spy: Tehran will attack Israel
YNet
News – A former fighter in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
(IRGC) turned US spy offered a rare glance into one of the most complex
countries in the Middle East. …….
Gaza
aid ship ‘headed for Egyptian port’
YNet
News – The Gaza aid ship of a charity headed by a son of Libyan leader
Moamar Kadhafi, which set sail from Greece on Saturday, is heading for
an Egyptian port, the shipping …….
Gaza:
Amnesty ends; collaborator owns up
YNet
News – A Gaza Strip resident has been reporting to Israel on the
movements of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, according to Hamas
media reports from the weekend. The reports …….
Palestinian
Information Center
Resheq:
Fatah does not want reconciliation
PIC
10 Jul 2010 – Izzat al-Resheq said that Hamas encourages efforts made
by independent figures, who visited the Syrian capital of Damascus on
Friday, to forge a Palestinian reconciliation.
“Hope”
sails for Gaza within hours
PIC
10 Jul 2010 – Independent MP Jamal Al-Khudari and the Arab MK Ahmed
Al-Tibi have affirmed that the Libyan aid ship “Hope” would set sail
from Athens to Gaza within the few coming hours despite threats.
Barhoum
asks UK to prosecute war criminals, not encourage them
PIC
10 Jul 2010 – Fawzi Barhoum said that amendments to laws by any country
for the sake of pardoning Israeli war criminals would serve as immunity
for those criminals and a cover for continuing their crimes.
Israel
plans to open nightclub for porno-mag in Jerusalem
PIC
10 Jul 2010 – The Voice of Russia radio station revealed a new Zionist
project to build a large nightclub in Jerusalem sponsored by the owners
of the pornographic Penthouse magazine.
IOF
soldiers injure 2 children and reporter, arrest foreign activists
PIC
10 Jul 2010 – Three Palestinians were injured and a number of activists
arrested during an attack by IOF troops on an anti-settlement march in
the town of Beit Ummar north of Al-Khalil at noon Saturday.
Nabil
Amr: Fatah in disarray, PA virtual beggar, and peace process a big joke
PIC
10 Jul 2010 – Veteran Fatah leader Nabil Amr has lashed out at the
current Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, describing it as a virtual
beggar, which “has no choice except taking handouts from Washington.”
Hayya:
All Israel’s attempts to get to Shalit will fail
PIC
10 Jul 2010 – Hamas official Khalil A-Hayya said that Israel’s attempts
to know the whereabouts of Shalit would never succeed and the only way
to release him is to respond to the demands set by the resistance.
Abbas’s
militias arrest anti-wall protesters supporting Hamas
PIC
10 Jul 2010 – The Haaretz newspaper said that Mahmoud Abbas’s security
militias started to carry out an arrest campaign in West Bank villages
against anti-wall protesters who support the Hamas Movement.
British
officials moving to amend internal law to protect Israel’s war criminals
PIC
10 Jul 2010 – Pro-Israeli senior officials in the British government
are embarking on getting the arrest warrant law changed in order to
prevent the arrest of Israeli officials during their visits to Britian.
Israel
threats to attack Libyan aid ship sailing for Gaza
PIC
10 Jul 2010 – The Israeli government threatened to attack the Libyan
aid ship that will be sailing from Greece on Saturday to the besieged
Gaza Strip.
Libyan
Aid Ship Plans Run to Gaza
New
York Times 10 Jul 2010 – A ship commissioned by a Libyan charity has
left Greece, but it remains unclear whether it will challenge the
Israeli blockade of routes to the territory.
National
Briefing | Religion: Presbyterians Press U.S. on Aid to Israel
New
York Times 9 Jul 2010 – Presbyterian leaders want the United States to
end aid to Israel unless the country stops settlement expansions in
disputed Palestinian territories.
Tearing
Down The Wall In Al-Ma’sara
Palestine
Monitor – Israeli soldiers dragged the remnants of a symbolic wall from
highway 3157 near Al Ma’sara today, halting a popular demonstration.
Yesterday’s protest took place on the sixth anniversary of the
International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that construction of the
Wall in Palestinian territory is illegal….
Beinart
says he was silent for years out of deference to friends
Mondoweiss
– Haaretz has a too-long interview of Peter Beinart on a visit to
Israel that reminds us how important his NYRB piece was that attacked
the American Jewish leadership for supporting Israel blindly. Beinart
is having a huge effect inside the Jewish community, but the
meaning/nonmeaning of…
Obama
got it once. Krauthammer never will
Mondoweiss
– From Florida Today . Maybe more revealing about Obama than
Krauthammer, but wow is Krauthammer’s statement repulsive. Also the
Obama statement obviously reflects Obama ’09, when he thought he might
heal the wound. Now he embraces Netanyahu. Oh and yes, this is about
Israel. If Israel were…
Barney
Frank wants to cut military aid everywhere but, unh, hummina hummina
hummina
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– Barney Frank on Keith Olbermann the other night rails against
excessive U.S. military aid around the world except Israel. He mentions
hundreds of bases in 38 countries “that do not in most of those cases
advance” American security. And Frank says it’s easy politically to
cut…
Daniel
Schorr waltzes with Bibi
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– The other night (Transcript or Audio ) NPR’s senior news analyst Dan
Schorr described the impasse in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations as:
“Netanyahu will not accept the Palestinian state with its own defense
capability. The Palestinians will not accept a Jewish state that
nibbles away with settlements in Occupied…
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faculty, 200+ students sign Penn State petition condemning flotilla raid
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– Today on NPR Martin Indyk told Scott Simon that during his last visit
to Israel he saw Israelis feeling isolated by world opinion over the
flotilla raid and wanting their government to respond to the criticism
not with force. And Indyk concludes, lobbyistically, that the answer…
Ban
Israel from the London 2012 Olympics
Palestine
Think Tank – Sign a petition of Gaza and Palestine. View Signatures.
We, the undersigned citizens of the world, call on the international
Olympics Committee to rescind Israel’s participation in the London 2012
Olympics. Israel’s attack on a humanitarian aid fleet on Monday 31 May
2010, its murder of…
Gaza
aid ship ‘leaves for Egypt’
BBC
– A ship with supplies for the Gaza Strip will dock in Egypt, officials
say, following pressure by Israel not to allow it to break the blockade.
‘Mediterranean
Intifada’ Helping Hamas
Antiwar.com
– CAIRO – Israel’s deadly assault on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last
month has led to mounting international pressure to end the ongoing
Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip. The incident, say
local analysts, has also served to bolster the position of Palestinian
resistance group…
Obama,
Netanyahu Out of Step With the Peace Beat
Antiwar.com
– JERUSALEM – What led the Middle East hit parade this week was less
the chords struck harmoniously at the White House Tuesday by two deft
diplomatic dancers than the slick dance routine performed by a squad of
Israeli soldiers patrolling the streets of the occupied Palestinian…
To
end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks – by Terry Crawford-Browne
Sabbah
report – By Terry Crawford-Browne* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The
international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid
South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective
strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country’s apartheid
system. The campaign culminated in President…
Articles
Two sit-ins
Uri
Avnery, Ma’an News Agency 7/10/2010
At this moment, two sit-ins are taking place in Jerusalem, two
kilometers apart.
In West Jerusalem, the Shalit family is sitting in a protest tent
in front of the prime minister’s residence, swearing to remain there
until the return of their son. In East Jerusalem, three members of the
Palestinian parliament are holed up in the building of the
International Red Cross.
The word that connects the two is: Hamas.
The Shalit family is demanding the release of their son, Staff
Sergeant Gilad Shalit, after four years in captivity. For that purpose
they have marched, under the beating sun, 200 kilometers from their
home in Galilee to Jerusalem, at the head of tens of thousands. This is
a popular movement almost without precedent in Israel: people of the
left and the right marched together with ordinary people who were
touched and united by their concern for the young man. The common
demand was for the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to the
proposed prisoner exchange with Hamas.
The three Palestinian members of parliament are protesting the
order to leave the city, in which their forefathers have lived for
centuries – perhaps for millennia. Their sin is that they were elected
as Hamas candidates to the Palestinian parliament, in democratic
elections whose fairness was certified by former President Jimmy Carter
and his team.
East Jerusalem was indeed formally “annexed” by Israel but
according to the Oslo agreements, its inhabitants have the right to
take part in elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council. Hamas
won the last elections. more.. e-mail
The People Behind
‘Keep Israel Safe’ and ‘Stop Iran Now’
Eli
Clifton, Lobelog.com 7/7/2010
The Weekly Standard’s blog has been the go-to source for those of
us who follow the various astroturf groups springing up to hype the
looming Iranian nuclear threat.
First, there was the end-of-April launch of Keep Israel Safe. Keep
Israel Safe is a joint project of Tom Rose, the former publisher of The
Jerusalem Post and current contributing editor at The Weekly Standard,
and Gary Bauer, a major player in the Christian right, long-time
Kristol buddy, and charter member of The Project For a New American
Century.
During his tenure at the The Jerusalem Post, Rose gained notoriety
for pushing the paper’s editorial stance hard to the right and
alienating his staff.
After Rose was fired from the paper in 2004, Bret Stephens, a
former editor in chief at the Post and current Wall Street Journal
columnist and editorial board member, wrote:
So many of us have been waiting for this day, and fighting for it,
that we may be forgiven for thinking that Tom’s departure brings our
problems to an end. It does not. It will be some time before we can
undo the damage he wrought: To our finances, to our reputation, to our
business relationships, to our morale, to the quality of our editorial
product …. What we can say is that, with Tom gone, we can begin to
address our problems in a rational and purposeful way.
Rose responded with a $2 million defamation lawsuit against
Stephens. The case was dismissed by the trial judge, whose disposition
was upheld by the appeals court. more.. e-mail
Gentrification as
ethnic cleansing in Jaffa
Mya
Guarnieri, Ma’an News Agency 7/10/2010
Israeli settlers storming the garden of an elderly Palestinian
woman — it seems like a page from Hebron’s book, not that of
cosmopolitan Tel Aviv. But that’s exactly what happened to Zeinab
Rachayel, an Arab resident of Tel Aviv’s mixed suburb, Jaffa.
Rachayel was in her courtyard on a Sunday afternoon when several
buses full of settlers from the West Bank arrived, parking nearby.
Armed with Israeli flags, young men lined the sidewalk outside her home
chanting “This is our land.” One by one, they entered her garden.
Rachayel, a grandmother, was soon facing dozens of settlers in their
late teens and early 20s.
“Another one entered and he said, ’Listen, you’re not staying
here. Yafo is just for Jews. Get out of Yafo,’” Rachayel says. The men
continued to threaten and intimidate her, repeating over and over that
the Palestinian presence in Jaffa is only temporary.
Yafo was once Jaffa—the cultural and economic hub of Palestine.
Battered during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the conflict that surrounded
the creation of the Jewish state, Jaffa’s population plummeted as
residents fled or were expelled from their homes. Jewish immigrants
quickly took their places and in 1950, the Tel Aviv municipality
swallowed Jaffa, renaming it Yafo.
Today, some 60 years later, the twin forces of settlers and
gentrification mean the area’s Palestinian community are again facing
an existential threat.
On that Sunday afternoon, one of Rachayel’s sons arrived. He used
his belt, waving the buckle, to chase the settlers out of the garden.
Eventually, the police arrived. No arrests were made.
Rachayel remarks, “If this had happened the other way around, to a
Jewish family, what would they have done?” more.. e-mail
Tearing
Down The Wall In Al-Ma’sara
Palestine
Monitor: 10 Jul 2010 – Israeli soldiers dragged the remnants of a
symbolic wall from highway 3157 near Al Ma’sara today, halting a
popular demonstration. Yesterday’s protest took place on the sixth
anniversary of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that
construction of the Wall in Palestinian territory is illegal. Written
and photographed by Kara Newhouse. Gathering after noon prayers, around
forty Palestinian, Israeli and international activists marched through
the village chanting- “The wall must fall!”, carrying a home-made wall
constructed from iron and Styrofoam. The fake wall, decorated with
stickers reading “The right to return is inalienable” measured four
metres wide. The Separation Wall that Israel continues to build will be
760 km long when completed and could annex over 40% percent of West
Bank land. When the demonstrators reached the intersection of Al
Ma’sara’s main road and 3157, they set up the Styrofoam wall in the
road, where three army jeeps and…
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