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US Government considers listing Turkish charity as ‘terrorists’
IMEMC – 14 Jul 2010 – The US State Department is considering whether to designate a Turkish charity as a ‘terrorist group’ after the organization sent a ship of medical and school supplies to the Gaza Strip in May.
PCHR: “Unknown Gunmen Hurl Grenade At YMCA Building In Gaza”
IMEMC – 14 Jul 2010 – Tuesday morning, unknown persons riding a motorcycle threw a hand grenade into the building of YMCA in the center of Gaza City. No casualties or damages were reported. This attack is a part of the state of security chaos plaguing the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Israel demolishes more homes in East Jerusalem
IMEMC – 14 Jul 2010 – Six structures were destroyed by Israeli authorities Tuesday, the first since the settlement construction ‘freeze’ put in place last year.
Palestinian Legislator Faces Jail Time For Not Abandoning His Home
IMEMC – 14 Jul 2010 – Hamas official, Abu Tir was ordered to leave Jerusalem and move to the West Bank. He refused and was arrested last week, bringing policies towards Hamas and ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem once again to the center of the debate.
Knesset Revokes Privileges of Arab MK Over Participation In Gaza Flotilla
IMEMC – 13 Jul 2010 – The Israeli Knesset held a vote that led to revoking the parliamentary privileges of Arab Member of Knesset, Hanin Zoabi, as a punishment for her participation in the Freedom Flotilla that was heading to Gaza to deliver humanitarian supplies.
Medics: 1 killed, 5 injured by shelling near Gaza City
7/14/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – A Palestinian woman was killed and five other were injured Tuesday night by Israeli artillery fire in the residential area of Juhor Addik east of Gaza City, medics said. Chief of ambulance and emergency services Muawiya Hassanien told Ma’an that the injuries were serious and all were evacuated to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital….
Spain: BDS claim victory over Israeli water
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – After lobbying efforts by Spanish activists, the City Council of Villanueva de Duero has decided to remove Eden-brand water products from government buildings. The company, founded in the 1980s after Israel illegally annexed Syria’s Golan Heights, originally took water from the Salukiya spring and expanded operations to Europe, eventually moving to bottle water….
Child injured by Israeli fire in northern Gaza
7/14/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – A Palestinian child was lightly injured Wednesday by Israeli fire in the Beit Hanoun border area in the northern Gaza Strip. Gaza Health Ministry official Muawiya Hassanein identified the child as 13-year-old Hmeid Ahmad Ubeid, who was evacuated to the Kamal Udwan Hospital for treatment. An Israeli military spokesman said a force….
Knesset revokes MK’s privileges over flotilla support
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – Israel’s parliament revoked the privileges of Palestinian Knesset member Haneen Zoabi on Tuesday for her participation in May’s Gaza-bound aid flotilla attempting to break Israel’s blockade. Following the announcement, Zoabi told Ma’an radio that she was expecting the majority of her peers to vote in favor of invalidating her diplomatic passport and….
Rights groups investigate Israeli fire death
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Investigations by two rights groups in Gaza found the death of a woman on Tuesday was caused by Israeli fire, in an incident that the Israeli military has yet to comment on. A document with sworn affidavits and a second report based on an independent investigation were released by two Gaza rights organizations….
Rights group condemns army over Gaza shooting
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israel’s deadly shooting of a Gaza woman Tuesday and injury of several other civilians, including an elderly man and two women of the same family, was a crime, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said Wednesday. The group said the attack constituted “the highest degree of disregard for Palestinian civilians’ lives,” and stressed….
Greece protest delays Israel-bound flight
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – An Israel-bound flight was delayed for about two hours at Athens International Airport on Wednesday after protesters blocked check-in counters, airport officials told The Associated Press. Members of a Communist-backed labor union said they blocked five El Al airline counters for two hours to protest the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the….
Gaza merchants cope with latest currency crisis
7/14/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Palestinian Authority civil servants in the Gaza Strip received only partial salaries in June, owing to a renewed currency crisis in the coastal enclave’s increasingly perilous banking sector. The latest crisis hit shekels, the Israeli currency used for simple purchases. Despite a flush of US and Jordanian currency that entered in early May….
Ministerial visit to Silwan sparks discrimination calls
7/14/2010 – Jerusalem – Ma’an – Israel’s Jerusalem municipality delivered notices to homes in the Silwan neighborhood Wednesday morning prohibiting parking on residential streets ahead of a visit to the area by the country’s Minister of Agriculture. Wadi Hilwa Information Center director Jawwad Siyam says Palestinian residents would face fines if they parked on streets outside their homes, and….
Abu Teir to be held in Israeli custody until trial ends
7/14/2010 – Jerusalem – Ma’an – An Israeli court ruled Wednesday that a Jerusalem lawmaker’s detention would continue until his final hearing, a member of the legal team representing the legislator told Ma’an. Mohammad Abu Teir was told that his release would be conditioned on paying a large fine and vowing never to return to Jerusalem, his lawyer Usama….
Report: Libyan aid ship heading for Egypt
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – A Libyan-sponsored ship carrying aid for Palestinians in Gaza began sailing toward Egypt’s Al-Arish port, after reports from Gaza officials that it was still heading for the Strip on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Earlier Wednesday, The Hope was said to be stalled in international waters. Independent Gaza MP Jamal Al-Khudari said at the….
Israel partially opens 2 Gaza crossings
7/14/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli authorities will temporarily open two border crossings between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Wednesday for the limited delivery of aid, goods, and fuel, a Palestinian official said. Liaison official Raed Fattouh said Palestinian crossings staff should expect the entry of 160 truckloads of humanitarian aid and commercial merchandise through the Kerem….
Detainee on hunger strike over ’inadequate’ PA salary
7/14/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – A former Palestinian detainee entered his 28th day on hunger strike Wednesday, in protest over what his family described as an inadequate salary disbursed by the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Detainees. Jamal Abu Rayyan, from the Halhul village north of Hebron, has not consumed any food for a month and is on the….
Lebanon PM may stall talks on Palestinian rights
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – Prime Minister Saad Hariri may ask Lebanon’s parliament speaker to remove a proposal from the plenum agenda on conferring Palestinian refugees civil rights, Lebanese media reported Wednesday. The An-Nahar daily reported Wednesday that Hariri would make the request so MPs can discuss the proposals further with their blocs. The newspaper also reported….
Rights group condemns Gaza arrest of Islamist group
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Following the detention members of the non-political party Hizb Ut-Tahrir on Tuesday, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights condemned the Gaza police action, saying it went against the Palestinian right to freedom of assembly. The group, which seeks to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East, said its members were detained by….
Group: YMCA building attacked in Gaza
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle threw a hand grenade into a YMCA building in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a local human rights group reported. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights said in a statement Wednesday that shrapnel from the grenade spread over a playground connected to the central Gaza City facility but….
Report: Jordan queen rejects Hebrew translation of book
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – Queen Rania of Jordan has turned down several offers to publish a Hebrew version of her New York Times bestselling children’s book, Israeli media reported Wednesday. The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that Rania rejected offers to translate the The Sandwich Swap, aimed at children between four and eight. The book was co-written….
Jordan envoy to PA visits Jerusalem lawmakers
7/14/2010 – Jerusalem – Ma’an – Jordan’s envoy to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday visited a sit-in tent erected in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah by three Palestinian legislators threatened with expulsion. Yahya Al-Qarraleh met the lawmakers at the International Committee of the Red Cross, where Khaled Abu Arafah, Ahmad Atoun, and Mohammad Totah have been staying….
Hebrew press sees thaw in Syria-Israel relations
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – For the first time since Israel occupied and annexed the Golan Heights, a group of Dabka performers from the area’s five Druze villages will be permitted to travel to Aleppo to compete, Israel’s Hebrew-language daily newspaper Ma’ariv reported. Viewing the traditional Levantine dance troupe as an example of a thaw in relations between….
`Reject Israeli rhetoric, break the siege`
7/14/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an -Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh urged a Libyan aid ship to proceed toward Gaza and called on other land and sea convoys to continue their work, calling the Israeli rhetoric on easing the siege “unacceptable.”Speaking Wednesday at the naming of a Gaza street “Martyrs of the Freedom Flotilla Street,” Haniyeh again praised….
Fatah to meet over cabinet reshuffle
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Fatah’s Revolutionary Council is scheduled to meet Monday to discuss indirect talks, elections, and a government reshuffle with party leader and President Mahmoud Abbas. Speaking with Ma’an radio, council secretary Amin Maqbul said outstanding issues within the party would also be discussed, particularly those that were transferred to the body during Fatah’s sixth….
Compensation for former settlement workers
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Palestinian Authority is working with donor countries to launch a fund to provide jobs for Palestinians who lost their source of income following the PA’s ban on working in settlements. Umran Abu Sbeih, an official at the PA Ministry of National Economy, told Ma’an radio that the fund includes temporary salaries for….
Drugs seized in Ramallah
7/14/2010 – Ramallah – Ma’an – Palestinian Authority police officers and security forces said three Ramallah-area residents were arrested on Wednesday, on suspicion of drug possession and distribution, a report said. Police said the home of the three men was entered early in the morning, where officers found marijuana seeds and other drug-related materials….
Palestinian price index on the rise
7/14/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Consumer Price Index for June rose by 0. 24 percent compared with May, a report issued Wednesday by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said. The CIP across the occupied Palestinian territories stood in June at 127. 9, which was at 100 at its base year in 2004. Compared with May 2009….
Hospital workers on strike in Hebron
7/14/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – The Union of Private Hospital Workers began a two-hour strike Wednesday in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, protesting what staff said was a failure to disburse salaries. The union, a sub-branch of the Patients’ Friends Society, said that hospital workers’ salaries was a “red line.” Society President Dr Youssef Abdel Hamid….
US: Israeli house demolitions undermine trust
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – New York – The US State Department on Wednesday condemned Israel’s renewed demolitions of Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem as “the kind of unilateral action that undermines trust.” The Caterpillar D9 military bulldozer used by Israel…
Flotilla journalists to sue Israel
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – New York – A group of journalists is launching a set of lawsuits against Israel in European courts over its deadly raid on a flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza on May 31st. AlJazeera journalist…
Knesset considers anti-boycott bill
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – Washington – A bill aimed at holding financially liable Israelis who support boycotts against the country has received approval for a preliminary hearing in the Knesset, Ynet news reported Wednesday. Campaigns to boycott Israeli goods and…
Palestine’s possible Gandhi: Budrus activist Ayed Morrar talks to Palestine Note
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – By Sarah Harlan Washington – ” Budrus ,” Julia Bacha’s successful documentary about one West Bank town’s success in beating back the Israeli separation barrier with nonviolent resistance, is centered largely on the efforts of Ayed…
PA announces compensation for settlement employees
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – Washington – As part of the Palestinian Authority’s push to divest from illegal Israeli settlements, settlement-made goods have been outlawed and Palestinian employment on settlements has been heavily discouraged. To complement the compensation fund, the Ministry…
Hariri may stall bill for Palestinian civil rights
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – Washington – The Palestinian news agency Ma’an quoted the Lebanese daily An-Nahar saying on Wednesday that Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri may call on parliament speaker Nabih Berri to remove a proposal granting Palestinian refugees civil…
Israel lawmakers push bill to keep Golan, East Jerusalem
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – Washington – An Israeli Knesset committee voted Wednesday in favor of a bill that requires a referendum prior to any potential withdrawal from the occupied Golan Heights or East Jerusalem, AFP news agency reported Wednesday. Knesset…
Netanyahu-Mubarak meeting postponed, conflicting reasons cited
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – Washington – Conflicting reports have arisen after a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been delayed once again. The health of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak [left] has been under…
Gaza aid ship docks in Egypt
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – Libyan vessel changes course after hitting ‘wall of Israeli warships’ New York – A Libyan aid ship originally bound for the besieged Gaza Strip has docked at the port of El-Arish, Egypt, after Israeli warships blocked…
Pisgat Zeev in the headlines – what’s really going on
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – Peace Now Settlement Watch director Hagit Ofran got out in front of the breaking news today with her report explaining the story behind the news about new construction at the East Jerusalem settlement of Pisgat Zeev….
Israel’s new ‘video game’ executions
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – Soldiers kill by remote control It is called Spot and Shoot. Operators sit in front of a TV monitor from which they can control the action with a PlayStation-style joystick. The aim: to kill terrorists. Played…
Eiland report: lessons learned
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – While the IDF prepares to intercept the Libyan sponsored ship bound for Gaza, the Israeli military released the findings of its internal probe regarding the interception of the Turkish Ship, the Mavi Marmara, which left 9…
Understanding the Israeli flotilla raid… through cartoons
Palestine Note 14 Jul 2010 – The most succinct explanation of the Israeli flotilla debacle – and of where the Israelis went wrong in attempting to board the blockade-running Mavi Marmara – is a cartoon. This drawing is the creation of Abu…
Smart Power: Hollywood goes to the West Bank
Palestine Note 13 Jul 2010 – Why would an American youth who grew up in Hollywood, worked there as an assistant director on TV shows, a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International studies want to live and work in the…
Night Beat: Strange rumblings in Iran
Palestine Note 13 Jul 2010 – Today in Palestine, Israel, the broader Middle East, and beyond: [Photo: Wikimedia Commons] We begin tonight with the strange tale of Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri. Amiri turned up at the Iranian Interests Section at the Pakistani…
Obama’s Map: Which States are hot and which are not?
Palestine Note 13 Jul 2010 – (photo illustration by Kevin Van Aelst; reprinted with permission from the New York Times ; used with Parag Khanna’s article, ” Waving Goodbye to Hegemony “) The Washington Post recently posted an interesting search tool to scan…
Gaza aid ship docks in Egypt
AlJazeera 14 Jul 2010 – Israeli warships force Libyan sponsored ‘Amalthea’ to change course to El Arish port.
Flotilla journalists to sue Israel
AlJazeera 14 Jul 2010 – Group of more than 30 reporters to demand compensation from Israeli government.
US criticises Jerusalem demolitions
AlJazeera 13 Jul 2010 – Israeli bulldozing of Palestinian property comes week after US pushes peace talks.
Palestine News Network
Arte Film Week In Ramallah
PNN – Ramallah — PNN — Yesterday the Arte film week started with the screening of ‚ÄûMascarades“ by Algerian director Ly?®s Salem in Ramallah’s Al-Kasaba movie theater. From the 13th till the 27th of…
Hamas Official faces jail time for not leaving East-Jerusalem house
PNN – PNN — Jerusalem — Hamas official Abu Tir was ordered to leave Jerusalem and move to the West Bank. As he refused, he was arrested last week, bringing policies towards Hamas and…
Arab MK Hanin Zuabi has Key Privileges Revoked by Knesset Council Over Flotilla Row
PNN – The Knesset voted on tuesday to strip Arab MK Hanin Zuabi of three of her Parliamentary privileges due to her involvement in the Freedom Flotilla in late May. 16 lawmakers voted against…
U.S and Saeb Erekat Show Concern Over Tuesday’s Home Demolitions in Jerusalem
PNN – The Israeli government has demolished yet six more homes in Arab East Jerusalem. Tuesday’s demolitions were the first that had occurred in East Jerusalem since the U.S. pressured the Netanyahu led government…
Social Policies in the West Bank: Inclusion, human rights and empowerment
PNN – PNN — Bethlehem — Yesterday a three days long cross sector planning conference on inclusive education for persons with impaired vision started off in Bethlehem. The goal of the program is to…
Israeli Army Kills 3 in Palestinians Gaza Refugee Camp
PNN – PNN – The Palestinians were killed while sitting in their home inside the Al-Bureji refugee camp in Gaza on Tuesday. Sources say the woman and her two relatives were killed immediately when…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Hand Grenade Thrown Into YMCA in Gaza
Palestinian Center for Human Rights Field Update Yesterday morning, unknown persons riding a motorcycle threw a hand grenade into the building of YMCA in the center of Gaza City. No casualties or damages were reported. This attack is a part of the state of security chaos plaguing the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Jerusalem Post
Golan bill advances – but put on hold
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – PM opposes law requiring referendum before handing over Golan, east J’lem.
Hizbullah has ‘precise’ target list
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – Kassem: “That does not mean that war is near.”
Hizbullah: ‘Large and precise’ target list
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – Kassem: “That does not mean that war is near.”
Shin Bet arrests Kahane follower
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – Former settler suspected of murdering a Palestinian man.
German IHH rejects links to Hamas
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – Banned group claims to be purely humanitarian.
Libyan ship docks at Egyptian port
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – ‘Amalthea’ diverts from Gaza despite Hamas calls to continue.
Abu Tir to be released; exiled next week
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – J’lem court rules that Hamas member must post bail prior to release
Greece: El Al flight delayed by protest
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – Protest against Gaza policies blocks check-in counters in Athens.
Syrian-born bride chooses Israel for honeymoon
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – “We both love the Israeli people.”
Syrian-born bride chooses ‘romantic’ Israel for honeymoon
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – For Zalga Lusia and her Dutch husband Matthew the Jewish state was the first destination they considered.
Cotler releases 18-point ‘road map’ against Iran
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – Aim is to ‘sound the alarm and wake up the international community’ to foreign and domestic threats posed by Teheran.
IDF mulls entry to West Bank cities by Jewish Israelis
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – Central Command chief visits Jenin in the first high-profile visit in years.
Colleagues offer support to Hanegbi following verdict
Jeruslalem Post 14 Jul 2010 – Olmert congratulates Kadima MK; Livni, Netanyhu show support.
Ha’aretz
43-year-old seriously hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack
Ha’aretz – Motive for stabbing apparently criminal; identities of victim, two assailants, known to police; manhunt launched.
Israelis inciting anti-Israel boycotts could soon be forced to pay dearly
Ha’aretz – Knesset approves in initial reading bill that would allow targets of boycotts to sue boycotters for large sums.
Police arrest father of suspected Druze spy
Ha’aretz – Defense attorney: No allegations made against the father. He was arrested only as a means of applying pressure on his son.
Gag order lifted: Right-wing activist arrested on suspicion of murdering two Palestinians
Ha’aretz – Suspect Chaim Pearlman denies police allegations; associates say Shin Bet tried to enlist him to commit crimes.
Golan Heights referendum amendments reach Knesset floor
Ha’aretz – Knesset committee backs bill specifying the ways in which a referendum would be conducted in the case of any territorial concessions, including those involving East Jerusalem, Golan Heights.
Hamas official ordered to leave East Jerusalem home
Ha’aretz – Hamas legislator Mohammed Abu Tir, an East Jerusalem native, must leave Israel by next week or be turned over to state authorities.
Knesset revokes Arab MK Zuabi’s privileges over Gaza flotilla
Ha’aretz – In 34-16 vote, Knesset approves stripping Zuabi of three parliamentary privileges over participation in Gaza flotilla; Zuabi: Knesset is punishing me out of vengeance.
Israel’s nuclear program implicated in U.S. investigation
Ha’aretz – According to Institute for Science and International Security researchers U.S. based Israeli company Pelogy violated export regulations.
Think tank: Israel attack against Iran would spark long war
Ha’aretz – Oxford Research Group says furthermore that attack on nuclear facilities wouldn’t prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear bomb.
U.S.: Israel’s East Jerusalem demolitions pose obstacle to peace
Ha’aretz – U.S. State Department criticizes Israel’s recent demolition of three Palestinian homes, saying ‘it undermines trust.’
Report: Mubarak defers Netanyahu meeting over East Jerusalem demolitions
Ha’aretz – Al-Shorouq report comes as Israeli officials cite the Egyptian president’s deteriorating health as a possible reason for recent repeated postponements., Members of Communist-backed labor union say they blocked five El…
Libya-sponsored aid ship originally headed for Gaza enters Egypt port
Ha’aretz – Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh urged activists not to let their cargo ship be diverted to Egypt’s El Arish port and called for more pro-Palestinian “freedom flotillas.”
U.S. urges Libya to avoid confrontation with Israel over Gaza-bound aid ship
Ha’aretz – Israel navy makes contact with Libya-sponsored Gaza aid ship; Al-Amal is carrying 15 pro-Palestinian activists, 12 crew members and 2,000 tons of food and medicine.
For first time in nine months, Israel razes Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem
Ha’aretz – Municipality says structures were not homes but witnesses report Palestinian family removing belongings.
Israel pulls Zoubi’s diplomatic privileges
14 Jul 2010 – Jerusalem, July 14, (Pal Telegraph) The members of the Israeli Knesset voted on Tuesday night by a majority of 16 votes to pull some parliamentary privilege granted to the member of the Knesset Haneen Zoubi, after participating in the fleet of freedom, which was intercepted by the Israeli Navy last May. The “Jerusalem Post” Hebrew newspaper, stated on Wednesday the…
Libyan aid ship is close to Gaza, despite Israel’s interception
14 Jul 2010 – Gaza, July 14, (Pal Telegraph) Libyan ship of “Hope” is currently moving slowly towards the coast of the Gaza Strip because of the technical failure that had hit one of its engines. Sources confirmed that armed boats of the Israeli naval forces are still surrounding the ship and disrupting its communication systems, but they are still sailing their way to…
Israel to continue building settlements
14 Jul 2010 – Jerusalem, July 14, (Pal Telegraph) The Israeli planning and building Committee in Jerusalem approved on Tuesday a plan to build 32 housing units in the neighborhood settlement of “Pisgat Ze’ev” north of the occupied territories of 1948. According to the Israeli occupation army radio, the construction process came despite the reservations of the U.S. administration and opposition to the construction…
IOF shells Gaza, 1 killed, 7 injured
14 Jul 2010 – Gaza, July 14, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) – A Palestinian woman was killed and seven others were injured on Tuesday night as Israeli artillery shelled the area of Juhor Al-Deik east of Gaza City. Israeli military vehicles were stationed in the area shelled the area with number of shells one of them hit the house of Neama Al-Nabahin, 46, and killed…
IOF arrests Palestinian claiming his possession of a small knife
14 Jul 2010 – Hebron, July 14, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces arrested today morning, a citizen after finding a knife in his vehicle at a police checkpoint at the crossroads village of Kharsa near the town of Dura, south of Hebron in the West Bank. Witnesses said that the Israeli occupation forces arrested Hisham Ali Rajoub (35 years) under the pretext of finding…
IOF shoots a child in Gaza
14 Jul 2010 – Gaza, July 14, (Pal Telegraph) A child was shot by Israeli occupation forces today near the Beit Hanoun crossing in northern Gaza Strip. The director of emergency sector in Gaza’s hospitals, Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, said that the child Ahmaid Ahmed Obaid (13 years) was shot in the hand, following the open fire that was conducted by Israeli soldiers when they…
IOF raids Hebron, erects checkpoints
14 Jul 2010 – Hebron, July 14, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) — Israeli occupation forces raided Wednesday number of areas in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank and erected number of checkpoints at major streets in the city, no detentions were reported. Security sources said that the occupation forces raided a number of suburbs of the city of Hebron and stationed in…
Uruknet
The Hypocrisy of Preaching Nonviolence to Palestinians
Uruknet July 14, 2010 – Nicholas Kristof is in Palestine, though like all mass media journalists he calls it “the West Bank.” He has just discovered that many Palestinians are resisting the Israeli occupation nonviolently, though scholars of nonviolence started writing about the Palestinian resistance over 20 years ago. So Kristof is “waiting for Gandhi,” as the title of his…
Report: Libyan aid ship heading for Egypt
Uruknet July 14, 2010 – A Libyan-sponsored ship carrying aid for Palestinians in Gaza began sailing toward Egypt’s Al-Arish port, after reports from Gaza officials that it was still heading for the Strip on Wednesday, Reuters reported. Earlier Wednesday, The Hope was said to be stalled in international waters. Independent Gaza MP Jamal Al-Khudari said at the time that the…
Access Denied
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – This week the UN told us what we already know; Israel’s movement restrictions are hugely damaging to Palestinians’ quality of life. Michael Carpenter and Rebecca Fudala scoured the Occupied Territories to show the human cost of Israel’s security. The following pictures are taken from a variety of affected locations, from roadblocks on route 443 to…
Video: Turkish group dismisses Israeli report on Gaza flotilla raid
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – A group known as the “Free Gaza Flotilla” has dismissed the Israeli military’s probe into the May 31 deadly raid on the aid convoy which killed nine people. The 100-page document criticises the Israeli navy for “serious errors” in intelligence and planning but found no wrongdoing on the part of those carrying out the raid…
Israeli Occupation serves more demolition notices in the West BankEXCLUSIVE PICTURES
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – Israeli Occupation Forces have served the people of Burka village, in the north of the West Bank with three demolition notifications for the destruction of two houses and a joinery workshop. The notices were served two days ago when the town was raided during the night in what has become a regular occurrence with the…
Video: Israeli probe faults flotilla raid planning but praises execution
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – The Israeli military has released its report into the deadly raid on the Gaza aid flotilla on May 31, which killed nine people. The 100-page document criticises the Israeli navy for “serious errors” in preparing and carrying out the assault at sea. But when it came to the conduct of Israeli soldiers during the raid,…
Latest Repercussions of Fragmentation: Prevention of Publication and Distribution of Palestinian Newspapers in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) demands that the two governments in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank lift restrictions imposed on the publication and distribution of al-Quds, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida newspapers in the Gaza Strip and al-Resala and Palestine newspapers in the West Bank. PCHR calls upon the two governments to…
U.S. To Jordan: Change Your Nuclear Program or We’ll Cut Aid
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – Reports from Arab media sources, on Monday, indicated that U.S. authorities are demanding that Jordan share its uranium enrichment with Israel.The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordon could lose its pecuniary aid from the United States should it continue to enhance its nuclear program without cooperation with Israel, Israeli news source Ynet reported. Amman ignored Israeli requests…
Iran: Unrest Grows over Economic Woes
Uruknet July 14, 2010 – Last year’s Iranian political demonstrations have given way to economic protests that could prove more worrisome for the Tehran government. The unrest includes the first prolonged strike in the Tehran bazaar and protests by industrial workers who have gone unpaid for months. While these incidents are not directly related to the latest round of U.N.,…
JERUSALEM: Home demolition leaves mother, four children homeless
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – Dalal Rajabi, a mother of four children, came home Tuesday to find that her modest two-room house that has sheltered her family for two years had been razed. A team of Jerusalem municipal workers protected by a large police force came to the Rajabis’ 200-square-foot home in Beit Hanina, an East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood, broke…
HOW IS GAZA?
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – At present in Gaza the flame trees bear enormous balls of orange-red flowers. The frangipani trees perfume the streets with their white flowers which seem porcelain. Other big trees bear clusters of yellow or mauve flowers. The Gazans love ice cream, are fond of pizza, adore their children, inundate their beaches and meditate about their…
Blockade!Dockworkers, Worldwide, Respond to Israel’s Flotilla Massacre and Gaza Siege
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – Three weeks after the massacre on the Freedom Flotilla, ILWU dockworkers in the San Francisco Bay area delayed an Israeli Zim Lines ship for 24 hours, the Swedish Dockworkers Union began a week-long blockade of Israeli ships and containers, dockers in the Port of Cochin, India, refused to handle Israeli cargo, and the Turkish dockworkers…
Knesset revokes Arab MK Zuabi’s privileges over Gaza flotilla
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – The Knesset on Tuesday voted to revoke three parliamentary privileges from Arab MK Hanin Zuabi (Balad) due to her participation in the aid flotilla that sailed to Gaza in late May. Thirty-four lawmakers voted in favor of stripping Zuabi’s privileges and 16 voted against, after a heated debate, in which Zuabi accused her fellow lawmakers…
Palestinian Woman Killed, Five Residents Wounded, As Israeli Army Bombards Gaza
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – Palestinian medical sources reported on Tuesday at night that a Palestinian woman was killed and five other residents were injured when the Israeli army fired artillery shells at a number of homes in Juhr Ad Deek, east of Gaza City. The sources stated that Ni’ma Abu Sa’id, 38, suffered serious wounds, and was moved to…
Judge Orders Release from Guant?°namo of Yemeni Seized in Iran, Held in Secret CIA Prisons
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – On Thursday, in the District Court in Washington D.C., Judge Paul Friedman took the tally of victories by the Guant?°namo prisoners to 37, out of 51 cases decided, when he granted the habeas corpus petition of Hussein Almerfedi, a 33-year old Yemeni, and instructed the Obama administration to “take all necessary and appropriate steps to…
Unwelcome guests: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Uruknet July 13, 2010 – The creation of the Palestinian refugee population was a direct consequence of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. From 1947-1950, in what Palestinians call the Nakba, or the catastrophe, Zionist militias (and later the Israeli army) expelled or instigated the flight of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. Roughly 100,000 Palestinian refugees…
The National
Libyan aid ship captain asks to dock in Egypt
The National 14 Jul 2010 – Ismail Haniyeh, the prime minister of Hamas in Gaza, urges for more freedom flotillas to breach the blockade.
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.
WAFA – Palestine News Agency
Al Fakhoora Launches ‘Right to Education’ Campaign in Palestine
WAFA – DOHA, July 14, 2010 (WAFA) — Al Fakhoora international campaign, which aims at supporting the rights of the Palestinian students, has launched a two-year partnership project with the
UN Convenes Open Day for the Women of Gaza
WAFA – GAZA, July 14, 2010 (WAFA) – The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, received a group of 20 women leaders and peace activists in Gaza, for a consultation on
Drafting Palestinian Juvenile Justice Plan
WAFA – RAMALLAH, July 14, 2010 (WAFA)- Ministry of Social Affairs (MOSA) organized a workshop on Juvenile Justice together with the European Union Delegation in Jerusalem and EUPOL COPPS. This workshop took
EU Aid to Palestine: MEPs Question Fayyad on Results
WAFA – RAMALLAH, July 14, 2010 (WAFA)- The EU, as the biggest donor to the Palestinian Authority, has a more important role to play now than ever before, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told Budgets Committee
PCI Increases by 0.24‚Äé% in June 2010, PCBS Reports
WAFA – RAMALLAH, July 14, 2010 (WAFA)- Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported Wednesday that the Overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the Palestinian Territory with its 2004 base
Daily Star
Libyan Gaza-bound aid ship docks in Egypt port
Daily Star 14 Jul 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/ EL-ARISH: A Libyan-chartered ship carrying aid for Palestinians entered Egypt’s El-Arish port on Wednesday after Israel’s navy warned it away from the blockaded Gaza Strip, an Egyptian official said The boat would finish docking…
Palestinians want mediator for peace talks with Israel
Daily Star 14 Jul 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/ SOFIA: Direct talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis would make no sense without the participation of the international community, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki said on Wednesday. “We have always said we need…
EU says Iran talks must focus on nuclear program
Daily Star 14 Jul 2010 The European Union has told Iran in a letter that it welcomes a proposal to resume dialogue as early as September but says talks must focus on Tehran’s nuclear program.The letter, seen by Reuters, was sent…
The Guardian
Gaza aid ship changes course for Egypt
The Guardian 14 Jul 2010 – Libyan charity’s ship Amalthea warned by Israeli military it will not be allowed to reach Gaza Strip A Libyan charity’s ship carrying aid for the Gaza Strip has changed course for Egypt after Israel warned those…
Relief Web
OPT: What do the Summer Games mean to you?
Relief Web 14 Jul 2010 – Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Libyan Gaza-bound aid ship enters Egyptian port
Relief Web 14 Jul 2010 – Source: Reuters – AlertNet
OPT: Drafting the Palestinian Juvenile Justice Plan
Relief Web 14 Jul 2010 – Source: European Union
Through EU Funding Al Dameer In cooperation With PNGO Network Announce the Launch of the Website on the Right to Freedom of Association in the Gaza Strip
Relief Web 14 Jul 2010 – Source: Al-Dameer
Inter Press Service
EGYPT: Oil, Water and Tourism Don’t Mix
IPS Egypt’s Red Sea resort cities have grown up in the shadow of oil development, but with tourism booming and the country’s oil reserves drying up, many stakeholders think it is time to exorcise the oil spectre.
YNet News
US got ‘useful information’ from Iran scientist
YNet News – Shahram Amiri, who disappeared last year during a pilgrimage to Mecca, leaves US….
Haniyeh to Libyan ship: Dock in Gaza
YNet News – Dozens of Palestinians flock to beach in anticipation of aid vessel’s arrival…..
Egypt says Mubarak in good health
YNet News – Cairo source dismisses Lebanese report that Egyptian president is to travel to….
Report: Austrian businessman mediator in Libyan ship affair
YNet News – Arab media report Martin Schlaff mediating between Israel, Libyan charity behind….
Court offers Abu-Tir ultimatum: Jail or expulsion
YNet News – Senior Hamas official required to deposit NIS 150,000 prior to deportation and….
Report: Israeli attack on Iran would start long war
YNet News – An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would start a long war and probably not prevent Iran from eventually acquiring nuclear weapons, a think-tank said on …….
US: East J’lem demolitions hurt chances for direct talks
YNet News – WASHINGTON — The State Department criticized the razing of homes in east Jerusalem on Wednesday and called on the sides to maintain restraint. “It is exactly the kind of …….
Man suffers moderate stab wounds in Jerusalem attack
YNet News – Unknown assailants stabbed a 43-year-old man in the lower back Wednesday evening in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood. The man, who was attacked on Aryeh Ben-Eliezer …….
‘Jewish terrorist’ Pearlman: Shin Bet framed me
YNet News – Kach activist Haim Pearlman, who was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion that he was the “serial stabber” who murdered a number of Arabs in Jerusalem in the 1990s, …….
Lisbon to summon Israel envoy for criticizing Mottaki visit
YNet News – A day after Portugal welcomed Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Lisbon said Wednesday it will summon Israel’s ambassador over a strongly-worded statement …….
Libyan Gaza-bound aid ship enters Egyptian port
YNet News – A Libyan-chartered ship carrying aid for Palestinians reached an Egyptian port on Wednesday after altering its course following a warning from Israel’s navy away not to …….
Aryeh Deri: Dismantle all haredi political parties
YNet News – Former Knesset Member Aryeh Deri said Wednesday that the governing system in Israel must be changed and that haredi parties should be dismantled. He reiterated his …….
Los Angeles Times
Iran nuclear scientist drops clue about his disappearance last year
LA Times 14 Jul 2010 – Shahram Amiri says he was ‘not completely free, not completely in jail.’ Intelligence experts say his remarks suggest he defected; he may have asked to leave the U.S. because he missed his family. Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri headed back to Tehran on Wednesday after dropping a cryptic and perhaps inadvertent clue about his mysterious odyssey since disappearing more than a year ago.
New York Times
News Analysis: Cheer, Then Gloom, on Mideast Talks
New York Times 14 Jul 2010 – Just weeks after an upbeat meeting between the American and Israeli leaders, Palestinian officials and analysts suggest that indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks have merely accentuated deep differences.
Despite Settlement Freeze, Buildings Rise
New York Times 14 Jul 2010 – An examination of the settlement freeze after more than seven months shows that in many West Bank settlements, building is proceeding apace.
Scientist Heads Home, Iran Says
New York Times 14 Jul 2010 – On Wednesday, Shahram Amiri left the United States for Tehran, Iranian state media reported.
Misc
Toy Israeli Houses for Italian kids, Destroyed Homes for Palestinian Children
Palestine Monitor – That was the heading on the leaflet distributed at the Iper Coop in Rome, Italy on July 9, 2010, marking the fifth anniversary of the launch campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. While the systematic demolition of Palestinian homes by Israel continues, the…
Steps Toward National Unity
Palestine Monitor – A delegation of independent Palestinian political figures visited the Gaza Strip to meet with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and representatives of the de facto Government. They discussed the prospects for unity in the occupied Palestinian territories. The delegation included Dr. Hanna Nasser, a Palestinian academic and…
Jews are fleeing a Swedish city— why?
Mondoweiss – The Forward has an important story this week on Jews leaving Malmo , Sweden, because they are being targeted by Muslims there. The incidents that the piece describes are largely harassment, threats, expressions of rage. And of course most of them turn on Israel: Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest…
Anti-BDS bill makes its way through the Knesset
Mondoweiss – Haaretz reports on a bill which would make it illegal for an Israeli to “launch or incite” a boycott against Israel: Under the new law, any group could sue damages of up to NIS 30,000 from anyone who launched a boycott against them, or incited a…
‘NYT’ ‘authorizes’ an atrocity
Mondoweiss – The NYT , last week, reporting on indictments springing from the Gaza conflict of ’08-’09: Beyond that, the [Israeli] military said a battalion commander was indicted on suspicion of deviating from “authorized and appropriate” army behavior and from an Israeli Supreme Court ruling when he authorized a…
The myth of West Bank prosperity: ‘A Lexus is no substitute for individual freedom and dignity’
Mondoweiss – And other news from Today in Palestine: Land theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing Israel destroys Palestinian homes Israeli authorities have demolished at least seven homes in different Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. The homes are the first to be torn down since October 2009 and have provoked…
They asked for it
Mondoweiss – The Israeli Intelligence and Information Center has done a report on the flotilla raid raid saying that 7 out of 9 victims wanted to be martyrs . Big news in Israel. About the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Center: In March 2010 the Israeli Intelligence and Terrorism Information…
Misc 2
The Treatment Of Palestinian Detainees During Operation “Cast Lead” (Full Text)
Sabr – The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel & Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel 13 July, 2010 Countercurrents.org T he Public Committee Against Torture in Israel and Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, released, today [July 6, 2010],…
Female prisoner Shirin Issawi beaten by Israeli offenders
Sabr – [ 13/07/2010 – 05:00 PM ] NABLUS, ( PIC )— The International Tadamun (Solidarity) Foundation for Human Rights, quoting prisoners in Hasharon prison, said that prisoner Shirin Issawi was attacked by a gang of female criminal offenders. Ahmed Beitawi, a researcher at the Tadamon foundation, noted the continued…
Hamas condemns sentence against Sheikh Salah as political
Sabr – [ 13/07/2010 – 04:55 PM ] DAMASCUS, ( PIC )— Hamas strongly condemned the Israeli court’s sentence against Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine, describing it as political par excellence. Hamas said in a statement on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation…
Ahrar center calls for Palestinian moves to confront Shalit family’s campaign
Sabr – [ 13/07/2010 – 12:10 PM ] NABLUS, ( PIC )— Al-Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights called on families of Palestinian prisoners and human rights organizations to necessarily respond to the active moves made by the Shalit family to pressure their government to get their son…
Iranian scientist ‘heading home’
BBC – An Iranian nuclear scientist who claims he was kidnapped and taken to the US by the CIA is on his way back to Tehran, Iran says.
Libyan ‘Gaza ship’ docks in Egypt
BBC – A Libyan aid ship which aimed to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza ends its journey in Egypt
East Jerusalem homes demolished
BBC – The Israeli authorities have used bulldozers to demolish three buildings in occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel admits flotilla ‘mistakes’
BBC – An Israeli military probe into the naval raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla says mistakes were made at a senior level.
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…
(en) Ireland, Anarchist WSM Radio Solidarity – Prog. 5: Freedom Flotilla and Gaza Blockade
A-infos – Listen in to http://nearpodcast.org/podcast/index.php?id=395 Radio Solidarity Program no. 5 — available on the Near FM podcast site where we concentrate on the recent events around Palestine and the ongoing blockade of Gaza by Israel. —— We have three interviews with activists in this show who’ve worked…
Articles
Arab-American journalists ’under siege’
George Hale, Bethlehem, Ma’an News Agency7/9/2010
CNN’s decision to fire a veteran Mideast editor over a Twitter message mourning the death of a Lebanese cleric is just the latest effort to silence critics of Israeli policy, Arab-American journalists say.
CNN’s Lebanon-born senior editor for Mideast affairs Octavia Nasr was fired Wednesday after writing on Twitter that she was “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah … One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot,” a remark that drew criticism from pro-Israel activists.
Fadlallah, one of Shiite Islam’s highest religious authorities, died Sunday. A key figure in the founding of Hezbollah, he was known for his moderate and progressive social views, particularly on the role of women.
Nasr, a 20-year CNN veteran, later clarified that she was referring solely to Fadlallah’s stance on women’s rights, writing on her blog that “It was an error of judgment for me to write such a simplistic comment … Not the kind of life to be commenting about in a brief tweet. It’s something I deeply regret.”
Nevertheless, the US network dismissed Nasr on Wednesday because “we believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward,” Parisa Khosravi, senior vice president of CNN International Newsgathering, wrote in an internal memo obtained by the US blog Mediaite. Khosravi noted in the memo that Nasr’s “tweet over the weekend created a wide reaction.”
To many Arab-American writers and journalists, CNN was just the latest news organization to fold under pressure from pro-Israel pressure groups, many of which had also lobbied the Hearst newspaper chain to fire Helen Thomas… more.. e-mail
Cluster bombs and civilian lives
Ramzy Baroud, Ma’an News Agency7/8/2010
Cluster bombs are in the news again, thanks to a recent report from Amnesty International.
The human rights agency has confirmed that 35 women and children were killed following the latest US attacks on an alleged Al-Qaeda hideout in Yemen. Initially, there were attempts to bury the story, and Yemen officially denied that civilians were killed as a result of the December 17 attack on Al-Majala in southern Yemen. However, it has been simply impossible to conceal what is now considered the largest loss of life in one single US attack in the country.
If the civilian casualties were indeed a miscalculation on the part of the US military, there should no longer be any doubt about the fact that cluster munitions are far too dangerous a weapon to be utilized in war. And they certainly have no place whatsoever in civilian areas. The human casualties are too large to justify.
Yemen is not alone. Gaza, Lebanon and Afghanistan are also stark examples of the untold loss and suffering caused by cluster bombs. Meanwhile, the unrepentant Israeli army will not consider dropping the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas altogether. Instead it is pondering ways to make them “safer.” The Jerusalem Post reported on 2 July that the army “has recently carried out a series of tests with a bomblet that has a specially designed self-destruct mechanism which dramatically reduces the amount of unexploded ordnance.” During the Israeli onslaught in Lebanon in the summer of 2006, Israel fired millions of bomblets, mostly into south Lebanon. Aside from the immediate devastation and causalities, unexploded ordnance continues to victimize Lebanon’s civilians, most of whom are children. Dozens of lives have been lost since the end of this war.
In Gaza, the same terrible scenario was repeated between 2008 and 2009. Unlike Lebanon, however, trapped Palestinians in Gaza had nowhere to go. more.. e-mail
It’s official: Israel has Gotten Away with it — Again
Alex Kane, Intifada-Palestine7/11/2010
When the Israeli Navy raided the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship that was part of an aid flotilla attempting to break the blockade of Gaza, and killed nine activists in international waters, the world took notice. Condemnations of the raid and calls for the end of the economically crippling 3-year-old Israeli blockade of Gaza rung out from across the world. Even the United States, Israel’s strongest ally, pressured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ease the siege on Gaza, calling the situation there “unsustainable.”
But that was then, and this is now. Over a month after the deadly raid, and after an overwhelming bipartisan majority in Congress signed onto an American-Israel Public Affairs Committee letter that expressed “strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself,” the Obama administration is letting Israel get away scot-free. Israel will continue with the status quo of occupation and blockade while the prospects for a Palestinian state continue to whither away.
Israel and the United States’ loving embrace was on full display this week when Netanyahu came to the White House. Essentially a “kiss and make up” session meant for domestic political consumption in both countries, Obama repeatedly affirmed that “the bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable.” The president praised Netanyahu for making “real progress on the ground” in Gaza by allowing in more consumer goods and for being “willing to take risks for peace.” Netanyahu, with Obama’s backing, called for “direct talks” with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and said that Israel wants peace as long as the West Bank “isn’t overtaken by Iran’s proxies and used as a launching ground for terrorist attacks.”
Netanyahu will head home with a smile on his face, satisfied that he has been given full blessing to continue his destructive policies….. more.. e-mail
Fadlallah and the Western media’s dangerous complicity
Electronic Intifada: 14 Jul 2010 – There is a lot to say about Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the Lebanese Shia Muslim cleric who passed away on 4 July 2010 at the age of 75. Unfortunately, much of what there is to say is being left unsaid for more of the same sensationalist reporting on this region and its people. Matthew Cassel comments for The Electronic Intifada.
Pride through solidarity
Electronic Intifada: 14 Jul 2010 – Though I’ve never felt compelled to take the streets for Pride, I did this past month, on several occasions, walk alongside folks that I resonated with in important ways, in vocalizing my outrage against the illegal and inhumane acts of the Israeli state. Amita Kumari writes from Toronto.
Israeli education minister wages witch-hunt against boycott supporters
Electronic Intifada: 14 Jul 2010 – Hundreds of Israeli college professors have signed a petition accusing the education minister of endangering academic freedoms after he threatened to “punish” any lecturer or institution that supports a boycott of Israel. Jonathan Cook reports.
Toy Israeli Houses for Italian kids, Destroyed Homes for Palestinian Children
Palestine Monitor: 14 Jul 2010 – That was the heading on the leaflet distributed at the Iper Coop in Rome, Italy on July 9, 2010, marking the fifth anniversary of the launch campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. While the systematic demolition of Palestinian homes by Israel continues, the Italian hypermarket instead sells colourful and cheerful plastic toy houses, in addition to children’s chairs, tables and slides, produced by the Israeli company Keter and marketed in Italy by Giochi Preziosi and Grand Soleil. / The Keter Group, a leading worldwide producer of plastics, has some of its factories located in Israeli settlements built illegally in the occupied Palestinian territories, in particular, the infamous industrial zone of Barkan outside the Ariel settlement. Barkan, the second largest settlement industrial area, is home to some of the most environmentally unfriendly industries producing plastics, aluminum, fiberglass, electroplating and weapons production. It is estimated that Barkan discharges 810,000 cubic…
Steps Toward National Unity
Palestine Monitor: 14 Jul 2010 – A delegation of independent Palestinian political figures visited the Gaza Strip to meet with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and representatives of the de facto Government. They discussed the prospects for unity in the occupied Palestinian territories. The delegation included Dr. Hanna Nasser, a Palestinian academic and political activist and Hani al-Masri, a political analyst and independent columnist for several Palestinian newspapers. Dr Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, arrived in Gaza on Saturday. ” Ending the political and geographic division between West bank and Gaza is not only a priority and a need but also a duty for every Palestinian, in order to not to surrender to the present status quo”, Dr Barghouthi said. ” Regardless of the obstacles, we are determined to mobilise all political factions and popular bodies in order to end the divisions and achieve a national reconciliation, no matter how long it will take.” During…
A Prisoner’s Wife
Palestine Chronicle: 14 Jul 2010 – By Janan Abdu I used to tell my husband, Ameer Makhoul, ‘One day, they’ll come for you.’ As chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Political Freedoms he’d begun to organize an awareness-raising campaign to push back against the security services’ harassment of our community, the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Come for Ameer they did, late one night this May, pounding at our door, ransacking our house and terrifying our two teenage daughters. And now I’ve joined the ranks of Palestinian prisoners’ wives, many thousands of us from the occupied territories as well as within Israel. His July 13 hearing — persecution really — could begin the legal nightmare that ruptures our family for many years. This is the likely course of events unless Ameer gets a fair trial and his coerced statements are rejected or suppressed by the court. “Democracies don’t fear their own people,” Secretary of…more
Waiting for November
Palestine Chronicle: 14 Jul 2010 – By George S. Hishmeh — Washington, D.C. The Lovefest celebrated here for all to see when Barack Obama escorted Benjamin Netanyahu on the front lawn of the White House and at a joint press conference was a marked difference from their contentious, behind-closed-doors meeting here last April. But judging from the early assessments it is not certain that their relationship will bear fruit in the near future. For one, the American and Israeli leaders are hoping that their get-together will serve their political ambitions at home. Obama, whose rating has lately dropped markedly, will be facing in the next four months a crucial mid-term elections when Americans elect a new House of Representatives and a third of the Senate, now controlled by his Democratic Party. He apparently fears that his stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may affect the voting; it certainly is giving the Republican Party and its Jewish supporters…more
Out of a Military Strike a Humanitarian Gesture
Palestine Chronicle: 14 Jul 2010 – By Dallas Darling As reporters walked through pools of blood and decapitated body parts on marble floors, they found the remains of an elderly merchant still in his nightclothes. Children, buried in rubble and crushed by “guided” missiles and bombs, were frantically being pulled from what used to be a two-story villa. Back in the U.S., the Pentagon’s Messengers – CNN and the New York Times – were reporting that thirty U.S. Navy and Air Force bombers had just shelled Tripoli and Benghazi, killing Muammar Gaddafi’s adopted daughter and several other civilians. President Reagan announced the brutal raid against Libya was in “self defense against future attacks.”(1) This fatal military strike came to mind when it was announced that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi (son of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi) and his Tripoli-based Gaddafi International Charity and Development Association were sending a humanitarian ship to Gaza. The Moldova flagged cargo ship, renamed Hope,…more
A Prisoner’s Wife
Dissident Voice: 14 Jul 2010 – I used to tell my husband, Ameer Makhoul, “One day, they’ll come for you.” As chairman of the Public Committee for the Protection of Political Freedoms he’d begun to organize an awareness-raising campaign to push back against the security services’ harassment of our community, the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Come for Ameer they did, late one night this May, pounding at our door, ransacking our house and terrifying our two teenage daughters. And now I’ve joined the ranks of Palestinian prisoners’ wives, many thousands of us from the occupied territories as well as within Israel. His July 13 hearing— persecution, really — could begin the legal nightmare that ruptures our family for many years. This is the likely course of events unless Ameer gets a fair trial and his coerced statements are rejected or suppressed by the court. “Democracies don’t fear their own people,” Secretary of State Hillary…
Police Brutality in America
Dissident Voice: 14 Jul 2010 – Across America, daily incidents occur, one of many the cold-blooded January 1, 2009 murder of Oscar Grant — unarmed, offering no resistance, thrust face-down on the ground, shot in the back, and killed, videotaped on at least four cameras for irrefutable proof. USA Today said five bystanders taped it. His killer: Oakland, CA transit officer, Johannes Mehserle, tried for the killing, the jury told to consider four possible verdicts — innocent, second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter, or involuntary manslaughter, jurors deciding the latter. The Legal Dictionary defines it as “The act of unlawfully killing another human being unintentionally,” the absence of intent distinguishing it from voluntary manslaughter. Many states don’t define it or do it vaguely. Wallin & Klarich Violent Crime Attorneys say in California it carries a two — four year sentence. However, since a gun was used, Judge Robert Perry can add three to 10 additional years. Because minority…
The Unchallenged Power of the Israel Lobby
Intifada-Palestine: 14 Jul 2010 – By JAMES ABOUREZK I picked up a copy of a memoir written by the long-gone CIA Director, George Tenet. On the first page of the book’s preface, Mr. Tenet described what it was like on the day after the World Trade Towers had exploded as a result of the terrorists’ actions on 9-11-01. I quote Mr. Tenet here: “All this weighed heavy on my mind as I walked beneath the awning that leads to the West Wing and saw Richard Perle exiting the building just as I was about to enter. Perle is one of the godfathers of the neoconservative movement and, at the time, was head of the Defense Policy Board, an independent advisory group attached to the Secretary of Defense. Ours was little more than a passing acquaintance. As the doors closed behind him, we made eye contact and nodded. I had just reached the door myself when…more
The National Interest Has Gone Missing — An Analysis
Intifada-Palestine: 14 Jul 2010 – By Prof. Lawrence Davidson Bashar Assad, President of Syria An interesting commentary by Gideon Levy, entitled “A Peace Crime,” appeared in Haaretz on July 11, 2010. It focused on comments made by Bashar Assad, President of Syria, in an interview he gave to the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir about a week earlier. In the interview Assad said, “Our position is clear: When Israel returns the entire Golan Heights, of course we will sign a peace agreement with it.” However, Syria wants the prospective peace to be comprehensive and durable. “What’s the point of peace if the embassy is surrounded by security, if there is no tourism….that’s not peace. That’s a permanent cease-fire agreement.” To Assad’s offer can be added to that of the Arab League’s Saudi Plan. In other words, there can be little doubt that if Israel wants peace with just about the entire Arab world it can have it…more
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