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Army Invades Beit Forik
IMEMC – 26 Jul 2010 – Tuesday July 27, 2010 – 01:43, Israeli soldiers invaded on Monday at night Beit Forik village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus after closing all of its entrances.
JCSER: “Hundreds of Palestinians Losing Residency Rights In Jerusalem”
IMEMC – 26 Jul 2010 – Tuesday July 27, 2010 – 01:16, The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economical Rights (JCSER) issued a report detailing the latest numbers of Palestinians who lost their residency rights in occupied East Jerusalem due to Israeli restrictions and measures.
Netanyahu paints Palestinians as avoiding direct talks
IMEMC – 26 Jul 2010 – Monday July 26, 2010 – 18:05, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will move to direct talks only after Israel makes clear certain defining issues for a future Palestine.
Israeli military stops potential ambush
IMEMC – 26 Jul 2010 – Monday July 26, 2010 – 16:44, Five Palestinians arrested after a failed attempt to ambush an Israeli military patrol
Radical rabbi arrested for incitement to violence
IMEMC – 26 Jul 2010 – Monday July 26, 2010 – 16:08, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira was arrested Monday on suspicion of incitement to violence against non-Jews.
Six injured after Israeli military demolishes illegal settler home
IMEMC – 26 Jul 2010 – Monday July 26, 2010 – 15:22, Four settlers and two Palestinians were injured following the destruction of a home built during the settlement construction freeze.
Report: Israel prevents US from training PA forces
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – A report issued by a US government watchdog has found that Israel has blocked American efforts to train Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank, Israeli media reported Monday. Compiled by the US Government Accountability Office and presented to the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs and its subcommittee on the…. Related: Palestine Note and GAO Report (PDF)
Settlers riot near Nablus
7/27/2010 – Nablus – Ma’an – Residents of an illegal Israeli settlement rioted Monday in the northern West Bank, protesting the demolition of structures built in an adjoining outpost, onlookers said. Ma’an’s Nablus correspondent reported from the scene that dozens of armed settlers stormed the nearby Burin village, opening fire at Palestinian homes. Israeli forces also ransacked houses, locals….
Israeli warplanes strike Gaza tunnels, workshop
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli warplanes struck two smuggling tunnels under the border in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah and a workshop in the north on Monday morning, with no injuries reported. The Israeli military said the strikes were in response to rockets and mortar shells that were fired at Israel and hit the southern….
Family appeal to save prisoner’s life
7/26/2010 – Tubas – Ma’an – Palestinian Prisoners Society director Mahmoud Sawafta has joined the family of a detainee calling for international rights groups to intervene and save his life. Yahya Daraghmeh was sentenced to 22 years in an Israeli prison but suffers from many illnesses. Israeli prison authorities are refusing him treatment, Sawafta said in a statement….
Settlers launch new attack
7/27/2010 – Nablus – Ma’an – On Monday evening, settlers launched their second attack of the day on a northern West Bank village, setting fire to land and olive trees and throwing rocks. Ambulances and firefighters rushed to Burin village to control the flames apparently started by residents of the illegal Yizhar settlement, Palestinian Authority settlement affairs officer Ghassan….
UN to deliver flotilla cargo
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Six weeks after Israeli forces commandeered the Freedom Flotilla en route to deliver aid to Gaza, the cargo will be delivered to UN agencies, the Free Gaza Movement said Monday. Nine passengers were killed and others were illegally detained in the 31 May raid, and Israeli authorities impounded the ships and their cargo….
’Miles of Smiles 2’ convoy en route to Gaza
7/26/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – A European medical convoy named “Miles of smiles 2” is set to arrive in Gaza on 7 August, organizers said. Coordinating with Egyptian authorities, the ships will arrive on Alexandria’s shores on 5 August, before sailing to Al-Arish port, and then onto Gaza. Organizer Dr Issam Youssef said 70 European politicians will bring….
Returning doctor detained by Israeli intelligence
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli authorities detained a doctor returning Monday from five years of medical study in Ukraine, witnesses said. Bahaa Abdullah Jaradat was taken by Israeli intelligence officers at the Allenby crossing on the West Bank-Jordan border, onlookers said. It is not known where Jaradat, from Sa’ir in the southern West Bank Hebron district, was….
MP: Conspiracy to naturalize Lebanon refugees
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – A Lebanese MP warned Monday of Israeli and US plans to naturalize Palestinian refugees, urging locals not to emigrate or sell land, Lebanese media reported. Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun told Zahle residents during a three-day tour that “This is an issue that we reject, and we will not be subject….
Palestinian injured in 2001 seeks ’medical asylum’
7/26/2010 – Mohammad Oweiweih – Bethlehem – Ma’an -A former Palestinian police officer injured by Israeli forces in Bethlehem during the Second Intifada is seeking medical asylum to be fitted with a prosthetic limb, after several attempts to receive assistance were ignored. On 19 October 2001, an Israeli tank shell crushed the right hand of Hamza Yasser Auda, then….
Where the hell is Matt? He’s in the Gaza Strip.
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Matt Harding, famous for his trademark dance with locals at landmarks around the world in two “Where the Hell is Matt? ” films, has turned up in the Gaza Strip. The UN agency for Palestine refugees revealed “Where the Hell is Matt? Matt is in Gaza with UNRWA” on its YouTube page Sunday. Harding’s….
Israel army: 5 armed Palestinians detained
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Five Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces in Nablus along the road between the Beit Furik village and the illegal Elon Moreh settlement in the district. The Israeli military said a patrol identified five suspicious men on the road who were later found to be in possession of two improvised weapons, two firebombs….
Haniyeh lauds calls for dialogue with Hamas
7/26/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Gaza-based premier Ismail Haniyeh said Sunday he welcomed international calls for direct dialogue with Hamas and resistance factions in the coastal enclave.”Several countries are being contacted to urge them hold direct dialogue with resistance factions. We applaud all attitudes toward reconsidering Palestinian democracy, as our own rival is occupation,” Haniyeh said, speaking….
Abbas to ask for extension to proximity talks
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – President Mahmoud Abbas will request an extension to US-mediated indirect talks with Israel from the Arab Peace Initiative Committee when in Cairo on Thursday, a PLO official said Monday. Executive Committee member Hannah Amireh told Ma’an radio that Abbas would ask for talks to continue until 8 September, one month over the 4….
’Lettuce lady’ detained at Jordan protest
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – Jordanian police have arrested an animal rights activist who covered herself in lettuce to promote vegetarianism, The Associated Press reported. Amina Tarek drew attention Monday in the capital city of Amman holding a placard reading “Let vegetarianism grow on you.” Joined by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals supporters, she told….
In photos: Daughter of detainee marries in Bethlehem
7/26/2010 – MaanImages / Luay Sababa – Bride Jihad Abu Sarhan is seen at her wedding on 23 July 2010 in the West Bank village of Obaideya near Bethlehem. Amer Abu Sarhan, Jihad’s father and a Hamas affiliate, held his own celebration at the Ramona prison, where he is serving three life sentences and 20 years for stabbing four….
Israeli helicopter crashes in Romania
7/27/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – An Israeli military helicopter crashed Monday in Romania killing all seven soldiers on board, officials said. Palestinian officials in Bucharest told Ma’an that six Israelis and and a Romanian airman who were participating in a joint military exercise were killed in the crash. Romanian and Israeli officials did not confirm the deaths. Israel’s….
Police camp children regulate Tulkarem traffic
7/26/2010 – Tulkarem – Ma’an – Children attending a Palestinian Authority police summer camp helped regulate Tulkarem’s traffic on Monday, with the assistance of traffic officers. Thirty children helped police traffic to get them better acquainted with traffic laws, and how to use main streets and pedestrian crossings, officers said in a statement. Participants, one police officer said, checked….
Palestinian judges receive forensics training
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The EU police support mission EUPOL COPPS began its second round of forensics training for Palestinian judges in Ramallah on Monday. Around 40 members of Palestine’s judiciary will benefit from four days of specialized seminars, following on from the success of a similar course in December. Chief Justice Fareed Al Jallad praised the….
Palestinian wholesale index up 0.39%
7/26/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Producer Price Index rose by 0. 73 percent in the second quarter of 2010 compared with the first quarter in the occupied Palestinian territories, a report issued Monday by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said. Additionally, the Wholesale Price Index saw a 0. 39 percent increase during the second quarter of….
Bank of Jordan marks 50 years
7/26/2010 – Ramallah – Ma’an – The Bank of Jordan celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Grand Park Hotel in Ramallah on Monday. The bank’s directors joined managers and staff at the event, which featured traditional Palestinian dancing. Employees who have served more than 15 years received gifts….
Night Beat: Afghan edition
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Night Beat has returned from a brief hiatus, bringing you a roundup of what to expect in the coming day’s news from Palestine, Israel, and the broader Middle East: US soldiers patrolling a highway in Afghanistan […
Israeli police outraged as impunity ends: Officer gets 30 months for killing Arab driver
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – A decision by Israel’s Supreme Court to double a 15-month jail term for a policeman who shot dead an unarmed Palestinian driver suspected of stealing a car has provoked denunciations from police commanders and government officials….
Barak: ‘If Hezbollah bombs Israel, we will attack all the Lebanese state’
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington — If Hezbollah attacks Israel, the Israeli military will retaliate against “any target that belongs to the Lebanese state,” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said during a Washington Post interview Friday. Israeli DM Ehud Barak…
Where the hell is Matt? …In Gaza
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington — Matt Harding, the YouTube sensation infamous for his bad dancing all around the world, has turned up in Gaza with the UN Relief and Works Agency, Ma’an News Agency reported Monday. Matt Harding, the…
Turkey trumps Israel in heavily guarded volleyball match
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington — Israel lost 3-0 to host country Turkey in the bronze medal competition of the Euroleague women’s volleyball championship, Haaretz reported Monday. The real battle was happening off the court, however, as over 2,000 riot…
Israeli court questions separation wall’s legality
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington — Israel’s High Court of Justice issued Sunday a show cause order requiring the state to justify its plan to continue building its separation barrier through the Palestinian village of Wallaja, the Jerusalem Post reported…
7 feared dead in Israeli copter crash
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Censor halts publication of crash in Romania By Jared Malsin New York – Seven people are feared dead after an Israeli helicopter crashed in the mountains of Romania on Monday. Six Israelis and one Romanian were…
Roger Cohen: Flotilla raid victim Furkan Dogan unfairly forgotten
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington — Americans seem to have forgotten about Furkan Dogan, the young American-born Turk shot and killed by Israeli commandos during the May 31 Gaza flotilla raid, says New York Times reporter Roger Cohen. The NYT…
Jordan gets $70 million from S Korea for nuclear reactor
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington — Jordan and South Korea have signed a loan agreement to give the kingdom $70 million needed to construct its first nuclear reactor. AFP News Agency reported Monday: “Building the reactor is key to Jordan’s…
Report: US support for Palestinian state linked to direct talks
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been informed that US support in establishing a Palestinian state is contingent upon resuming direct talks, the Associated Press reported Monday. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [Fernando Lugo APC -…
Israeli report confirming Goldstone findings ‘supressed’
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington – Journalist Max Blumenthal reported Monday that an Israeli military brief submitted to the United Nations earlier this month “regarding Israel’s conduct during Operation Cast Lead confirms the key findings of the Goldstone Report.” The…
Report: Israel stymies US training of PA security forces
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington — According to a report issued by a US government watchdog group, the Israeli government has repeatedly stymied US efforts to train Palestinian security forces over the past years, Haaretz reported Monday. “The implementation of…
Israel razes settler structures, ‘price tag’ reprisals ensue
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington – The Israeli Civil Administration demolished illegal structures at the Givan Ronen settlement in the Nablus area Monday, razing two caravans and a goat pen. The demolitions prompted the affected settlers to riot and descend…
Netanyahu: Palestinians evading direct talks
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Palestinian leadership of attempting to “evade” the Israeli invitation to face-to-face negotiations, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Monday. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu [Downing Street – Flickr] Netanyahu’s comments came…
Suicide attack on Al-Arabiya office kills four
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Washington — A suicide bomber Monday exploded in front of the Baghdad offices of Al-Arabiya’s television news bureau, killing four people, AFP News Agency reported . “There was a huge explosion that shook the building – all…
Israeli airstrike targets Rafah tunnels
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – Surrounding structure damaged, no injuries reported Washington – Israeli warplanes struck smuggling tunnels running beneath Gaza’s border with Egypt overnight, AFP news agency reported Monday. No injuries have been reported. According to Gaza security forces, three…
GOP rep. wants PLO ‘kicked out’ of US
Palestine Note 26 Jul 2010 – By Jared Malsin New York – US Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement on Friday calling on the government to expel the Palestinian diplomatic mission in…
Iran hit with new EU sanctions
AlJazeera 26 Jul 2010 – Decision comes as Tehran tells IAEA it will negotiate “without any preconditions”.
Report: Christian Peacemaker Team In Hebron
PNN – Hebron — PNN – Finding the way to the Christian Peacemaker Team (or CPT for short) office was not easy. We eventually found our way down Chicken street, so called for the…
Israeli Jetfighters Bombards Areas In Gaza
PNN – Gaza — PNN — Israeli jetfighters conducted on Monday four air raids targeting a number of areas in the Gaza Strip. The bombardment targeted the tunnels area close to the Gaza-Egypt borders,…
Settlers Attacks Reported In Northern West Bank
PNN – Nablus — PNN – A group of Israeli settlers attacked on Monday the village of Buren near Nablus in northern West Bank. Settlers vandalized some homes and set some crops on fire…
Munib Younan Elected President Of Lutheran World Federation
PNN – STUTTGART/Germany – PNN – Rev. Munib A. Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL), has been elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) July…
UN Promises Delivery Of Freedom Flotilla Cargo To Gaza
PNN – London — PNN – Six weeks after the Freedom Flotilla ships were forcibly boarded in international waters, their passengers illegally jailed and the cargo impounded by the Israeli authorities, the office of…
US Report Criticizes Israeli Interference In West Bank
PNN – Bethlehem-PNN-US watchdog agency blames Israeli government for obstructing American aid to West Bank. US Government Accountability Office (GAO) submitted a critical report of Israel to the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (15-21 July 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
UK judge to be probed for anti-Israel speech
Jeruslalem Post 27 Jul 2010 – George Bathurst-Norman compared IDF conduct in Operation Cast Lead to Nazis.
Analysis: A conundrum for the government
Jeruslalem Post 27 Jul 2010 – A clash with Obama or a clash with settlers.
Iran and keeping military edge top Barak’s US agenda
Jeruslalem Post 27 Jul 2010 – Washington visit comes as US considers further missile defense funding for Israel.
More teens and yeshiva head questioned about J’lem fire
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – Police suspect ‘negligence’ in start of blaze which claimed more than 1,000 dunams.
Israel applauds Europe on Iran sanctions
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – EU takes aim at Iran’s energy, trade, banking and shipping sectors.
Israeli firms carve out global market for Jerusalem stone
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – Christian groups and private contractors utilize stone in wide range of structures, from cathedrals to luxury hotels.
Russia turns on ‘irresponsible Iran’
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – Iran dismisses diplomatic assault as EU, Canada impose sanctions.
Standing up, and out, for Israel
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – Israel’s first Beduin diplomat talks.
Iranian opposition warns of revolution
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – Internal strife as Canada, EU slam Iran with unilateral sanctions.
Israel slams Oliver Stone’s interview
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – Director: US holocaust focus is product of ‘Jewish media domination.’
Lieberman visits Samaria settlements
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – Yisrael Beiteinu leader: From September we must resume normal life.
‘If Hizbullah strikes, we hit Lebanon’
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – Barak issues warning against resuming rocket attacks from North.
Barak: ‘If Hizbullah attacks, we will hit Lebanon’
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – Defense Minister tells ‘Washington Post’ that if rocket attacks resume, Israel will strike the Lebanese government.
‘Israel, Hamas delaying US aid efforts’
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – US: Unclear Israeli bureaucracy delays deployment of new PA forces.
Violence breaks out in response to Samaria demolitions
Jeruslalem Post 26 Jul 2010 – Settlers attack Palestinians in northen Samaria following razing of two structures.
International Solidarity Movement
Protests continue: Al Ma’sara, Beit Ommar, Ni’lin, Iraq Burin and Nabi Saleh
7/26/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Al Ma’sara (23 July 2010): strong turn out for the second week running – Over 100 people participated in Al Ma’sara’s demonstration today in a successful protest against the Israeli Apartheid Wall which saw one person injured. With the support of many internationals, including a large French contingent, the village – known for creatively themed protests – chose….
Hebron report: military violently repress protests, following heightened wave of settler violence
7/26/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – The recent escalation of settler violence in Al-Khalil (Hebron) was matched by unwarranted military violence and the arbitrary arrest of peaceful protestors at the latest protest against the closure of Shuhada Street and illegal presence of Israeli settlers on Saturday 24 July 2010. Cynical military violence – Israeli soldiers were brutal with an overwhelmingly peaceful group….
Police arrest fourth suspect in case of espionage against Israel
Ha’aretz – Majdal Shams resident arrested for allegedly committing crimes against the security of Israel. Her husband and son were arrested for similar charges.
Top settler rabbi arrested for allegedly inciting to kill non-Jews
Ha’aretz – Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira is the alleged author of a book which deems as legal, according to ‘Jewish law,’ the killing of non-Jews.
One year after gay center attack, Tel Aviv studies Berlin model of tolerance
Ha’aretz – A march will be held Saturday night in Tel Aviv to mark the one-year anniversary of a shooting attack in a Tel Aviv gay youth center that left two dead…
Yasur helicopter: A history of splendid service – and deadly collisions
Ha’aretz – Alongside its many successes, the American-made craft also has a long list of accidents that claimed dozens of soldiers’ lives.
MESS Report / Crash raises questions over Israel’s ageing helicopter fleet
Ha’aretz – Decisions to replace helicopters, like the CH-53 that crashed in Romania on Monday, are complex, involve heavy costs and take a long time.
Six IAF crew missing as Israeli helicopter crashes in Romania
Ha’aretz – Seven servicemen – six Israelis and Romanian – lose radio contact over mountains during joint training exercise in poor weather; IDF releases names of missing personnel.
Israel lauds new EU nuclear sanctions on Iran
Ha’aretz – Move sends Tehran clear message that behavior is unacceptable, foreign ministry says, calling on more nations to impose extra measures., Internal memo to Palestinian officials urges PA president to resist…
France upgrades diplomatic ties with Palestinians
Ha’aretz – Foreign minister: France supports creation of ‘viable, independent, democratic Palestinian state’ by early 2012.
EU’s Ashton: There is much to be done to improve the situation in Gaza
Ha’aretz – EU FM says Gilad Shalit must be released, if relations between Israel and Palestinian leaders in the Gaza are to improve.
Netanyahu: Palestinians are dodging direct Mideast peace talks
Ha’aretz – Palestinian President Abbas has conditioned a move to direct negotiations with guarantees regarding security, borders of a future Palestinian state.
Six hurt in clashes between settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank
Ha’aretz – Clashes broke out following the destruction of a home built in violation of the settlement building freeze in the outpost of Givat Ronen.
Abbas resists direct talks despite pressure from ‘entire world’
Ha’aretz – Arab League set to vote on whether to endorse direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on Thursday.
Malaysian medical convoy to arrive Gaza in Ramadan
26 Jul 2010 – Gaza, July 26, (Pal Telegraph) 30 Malaysian doctors and specialists from 55 volunteers will access the Gaza Strip on a convoy during the month of Ramadan. News agency quoted Malaysian wife of the Malaysian Prime Minister Datin Mansour today, saying that the mission of volunteers, doctors, in addition to ten journalists will spend 13 days in the Gaza Strip from…
Ramadan in Gaza is predicted on 11 August
26 Jul 2010 – Gaza, July 26, (Pal Telegraph) The Project of the Islamic Crescent Observation predicted the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan in some Muslim countries -such as Palestine- on Wednesday, 11 August. Project leader, Mohammad Shawkat Odeh, said that the sighting of the moon on that day is not possible, either visually or by using a telescope from all parts…
Palestinian prisoners suffer from hunger
26 Jul 2010 – Gaza, July 26, (Pal Telegraph) A number of prisoners sitting in the prisons of the Israeli occupation said that the food served to them is not fit to eat or for human use or consumption because of its poor processing, dirtiness, very small quantity, and bad kind. Center for studies on prisoners said in a statement issued to the press…
International campaign to break the siege on Gaza
26 Jul 2010 – Gaza, July 26, (Pal Telegraph) The International Committee to break the siege on Gaza and support Palestine, is preparing to launch a media campaign to mobilize international support for lifting the blockade and alleviating the suffering of the Palestinian people. The campaign aims to raise funds to provide the necessary materials and basic needs to the people of Gaza. The…
Israeli settlers protected by IOF raids Nablus
26 Jul 2010 – Nablus, July 26, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli settlers closed today ‘Hawara’ checkpoint, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, and pelted Citizens’ vehicles with stones. Eyewitnesses reported that approximately 40 settlers blocked the main road linking the city of Ramallah with Nablus, to protest the evacuation of Israeli occupation forces for three Caravans were used as homes for settlers in…
Israeli warplanes target Rafah’s tunnels
26 Jul 2010 – Gaza, July 26, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli warplanes (“F-16” model) carried out today morning separate air raids on the area of tunnels on the border between Rafah and Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip. Local sources said that the Israeli F16 warplanes targeted at least with two missiles two tunnels in Al-Salam neighborhood, east of Rafah, and a missile on a…
Israel opens Abu Salem, keeps Karni closed
26 Jul 2010 – Gaza, July 26, (Pal Telegraph) The Israeli occupation authorities opened partially today Kerem Abu Salem commercial crossing to let into Gaza limited amounts of food aid and synthetic fuel to Gaza’s only power plant that operates on only one engine instead of three. The chairman of the Coordination Committee of Gaza’s supplies, Raed Fattouh, said that the Israeli occupation forces…
Two states for two peoples: the Jews in Palestine and the Arabs in Jordan
Uruknet July 26, 2010 – With complete disregard for international law, Israel continues to impose new facts on the ground; the latest instance being the approval by the Knesset committee of a law concerning a referendum to be held on its occupation of Syria’s Golan heights. The real tragedy in all of this does not lie in the green light…
Press freedoms fall victim to Fatah, Hamas disunity
Uruknet July 26, 2010 – The split between the the Hamas-run Gaza wing and the Fatah-run West Bank wing of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has overshadowed every aspect of public life, including, many rights groups have documented, infringements on press freedoms and the work of journalists. Eighteen months ago, Samir Hamato, 42, Gaza-based economics editor with the Palestinian newspaper of…
Israeli police outraged as impunity ends
Uruknet July 26, 2010 – A decision by Israel’s Supreme Court to double a 15-month jail term for a policeman who shot dead an unarmed Palestinian driver suspected of stealing a car has provoked denunciations from police commanders and government officials. Yitzhak Aharonovitch, the internal security minister, condemned the judges for “sending a terrible message to police officers.” On the…
Israeli warplanes strike Gaza tunnels, workshop
Uruknet July 26, 2010 – Israeli warplanes struck two smuggling tunnels under the border in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah and a workshop in the north on Monday morning, with no injuries reported. The Israeli military said the strikes were in response to rockets and mortar shells that were fired at Israel and hit the southern Negev over…
IDF Report Confirming Goldstone’s Key Findings Is Suppressed Inside Israel
Uruknet July 25, 2010 – A report quietly submitted by IDF Military Advocate General Avichai Mandelblit to the United Nations two weeks ago regarding Israel’s conduct during Operation Cast Lead confirms the key findings of the Goldstone Report. The report, which documents 150 ongoing investigations, has outraged the Israeli Army. “It looks as though they were frightened by Goldstone,” remarked…
Saber Kushour: ‘My conviction for “rape by deception” has ruined my life’
Uruknet July 25, 2010 – Saber Kushour apologises as he asks his guests to move the plastic chairs on his breeze-block balcony a little closer to the door to his house. If he were to sit where they are now, he explains, the electronic tag attached to his ankle would set off an alarm. Kushour’s edginess is understandable — he…
Gaza Continues to Suffer from a Severe Human Dignity Crisis
Uruknet July 25, 2010 – During the last decade, the socio-economic situation for ordinary Palestinians in Gaza has been in steady decline. Decades of occupation, conflict and an almost 4 year of a still ongoing blockade have left the vast majority of the population in Gaza in need of international assistance. However,the most vulnerable are the Palestinians whom still are…
Oxfam calls for compensation from Israel
Uruknet July 25, 2010 – The international aid agency Oxfam demanded Monday that Israel compensate Palestinians in a northern Jordan Valley village after soldiers destroyed at least $29,000 of aid. In a statement, the charity said villagers in Al-Farisiya were forced into poverty when soldiers demolished 79 structures in the village, including homes, stables, sheds, water tanks, two tons of…
New push to unite Hamas and Fatah
The National 26 Jul 2010 – An independent Palestinian delegation is due to start another round of efforts next week to reconcile the rival movements.
Could Egypt and Sudan’s 55-year feud be over?
The National 26 Jul 2010 – The two countries are weighing plans to create a co-operative economic zone in Egypt’s southern Halaib Triangle, a region both governments have quietly feuded over for years.
Egypt and Sudan set to co-operate on developing border region
The National 26 Jul 2010 – Despite dispute over who owns Halaib Triangle, both countries appear ready to create joint economic zone there.
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 Welcomes EU’s Statement on Middle East
WAFA – AMMAN, July 26, 2010 (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed Monday night an EU’s statement issued earlier on the Middle East peace process that reaffirms support to two-state solution. ‘ In a
Matt in Gaza with UNRWA
WAFA – JERUSALEM, July 26, 2010 (WAFA)- Celebrity YouTube film maker Matt Harding, whose film “Where the Hell is Matt?” secured over 30 million internet hits, has made a flying visit to Gaza as a guest of
Insisting on Israel’s Security Kills Mideast Peace
WAFA – TEL AVIV, July 26, 2010 (WAFA)-“As long as we don’t want peace or to believe in it, no matter what we call it, we will live with occupation and war, and not for long,” Merav Michaeli wrote today, in
Settlers Set Fire in Burin Fields
WAFA –
BERNAMA: 30 Malaysian Doctors among 55 Volunteers on Gaza Mission during Ramadan
WAFA – KUALA LUMPUR, July 26, 2010 (WAFA- Fifty-five volunteers, among them a multi-racial team of 30 medical specialists and officers, are to go on a 13-day humanitarian mission organised by the
PPI Increases by 0.73%, PCBS Says
WAFA – RAMALLAH, July 26, 2010 (WAFA)- Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) reported Monday that Producer Price Index Increased (PPI) by 0.73% and Wholesale Price Index (WPI) increased by
Indian Ship to Join Anti-Gaza Blockade Campaign
WAFA – JERUSALEM, July 26, 2010 (WAFA)- An Indian vessel is set to join a new international campaign named ‘The Audacity of Hope’ to press for an end to the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, months after
European Union and Canada adopt new sanctions against Iran
Daily Star 26 Jul 2010
NATO attack kills 52 Afghan civilians as secret military documents leaked to media
Daily Star 26 Jul 2010
If Kosovo, why not Palestine?
Daily Star 26 Jul 2010
Syria’s Assad meets Belarussian president, Europe’s ‘last dictator’
Daily Star 26 Jul 2010
EU’s Ashton says Israel must do more to let aid into Gaza
Daily Star 26 Jul 2010
Iran denounces German asylum for dissidents
Daily Star 26 Jul 2010
Future Movement stresses need for justice, good ties with Syria
Daily Star 26 Jul 2010
Barak renews Israeli threat to target all of Lebanon in next war
Daily Star 26 Jul 2010
Egyptian FM warns against harming Lebanon’s stability
Daily Star 26 Jul 2010
Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker | Seth Freedman
The Guardian 26 Jul 2010 – Netanyahu’s words highlight his hostility to the peace process, but in Israeli-Palestinian politics being two-faced is not unusual A recently released tape revealing Binyamin Netanyahu’s contempt for both the Palestinian and US administrations has caused far…
L’ECOSOC ach?®ve sa session de fond de 2010 en adoptant des r?©solutions sur les femmes, la reconstruction d’Ha?Øti et l’aide aux pays les moins avanc?©s
Relief Web 26 Jul 2010 – Source: UN Economic and Social Council
Clean Water for Gaza: Maryam’s Story
Relief Web 26 Jul 2010 – Source: MADRE
Taking water to theJordan – International humanitarians deliver water to parchedPalestinians
Relief Web 26 Jul 2010 – Source: Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
Global Jobs Pact, Advisory Group on Haiti, Gender Mainstreaming Among Issues, As Economic and Social Council Adopts 18 Texts to Conclude 2010 Session
Relief Web 26 Jul 2010 – Source: UN Economic and Social Council
Egypt Punishes Gaza More
IPS Almost two months since Egypt announced it would reopen its Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip, operation of the crossing remains sorely limited.
Regional Powers Step Into the Middle East Pot
IPS The strained diplomatic relations between Turkey and Israel since June have unveiled intensive jockeying between regional powers for influence in the Middle East peace process.
PM says Palestinians evading direct talks
YNet News – Netanyahu tells Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Israel ready,….
West Bank demolitions prompt riots, arrests, ‘price tag’ missions
YNet News – Civil Administration’s razing of two caravans, goat pen in Givat Ronen leads….
Barak: If Hezbollah attacks, we’ll strike Lebanese gov’t
YNet News – Defense minister tells Washington Post if Shiite terror group strikes Tel Aviv….
MK Zoabi: Israel could ignite 3rd intifada
YNet News – Arab Knesset member who participated in Gaza-bound flotilla tells British….
IDF strikes 3 Gaza targets
YNet News – Military says attack on arms factory, two smuggling tunnels, response to….
Ashkenazi: I’ll face commission of inquiry, not troops
YNet News – IDF chief of staff talks to soldiers ahead of August 2010 recruitment, says it….
IDF soldiers killed in Romania helicopter crash
YNet News – A military helicopter carrying six Israeli soldiers and one Romanian crashed Monday in mountainous terrain near Brasov, in central Romania. According to local …….
Settlers block roads, clash with police
YNet News – West Bank unrest: Settlers held rallies at about 15 major Judea and Samaria junctions Monday night to protest earlier demolitions. Hundreds of rightist activists …….
Report: Mitchell tells Abbas Bibi here to stay
YNet News – A senior US envoy warned the Palestinian president that he must move quickly to direct talks with Israel if he wants President Barack Obama’s help in setting up a …….
Iran disparages EU sanctions
YNet News – The Islamic Republic attempted to convey a sense of business-as-usual Monday, despite the European Union’s and Canada’s decision to extend sanctions against Tehran. …….
EU adopts new sanctions against Iran
YNet News – The European Union on Monday formally adopted a package of new sanctions against Iran, targeting the country’s foreign trade, banking and energy sectors. The move, …….
IDF: Curb ‘price tag’ violence
YNet News – Palestinian fields in the Har Bracha area were torched on Monday as part of the settlers’ “price tag” reprisals against the demolition of illegal structures in the …….
Multimedia human rights review
B’tselem 25 Jul 2010 – Today (26 July ’10), is publishing a multimedia review of human rights in the Occupied Territories during 2009-2010, highlighting personal stories and documentary footage.
Palestinian Information Center
Minister Mansi appeals for saving Sheikh Jarrah area from Judaization
PIC 26 Jul 2010 – Minister of public works Yousuf Al-Mansi appealed to the Arab and Muslim worlds, and the international community to save the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood from Judaization and settlement activities.
Salah: We stand between paralyzed Palestinian, power-mad Israeli positions
PIC 26 Jul 2010 – Sheikh Raed Salah called on Mahmoud Abbas to admit the failure of the settlement option, which did nothing for the Palestinian cause except set it back in its progression.
Barhoum: Negotiations with occupation encourages more Palestinian bloodshed
PIC 26 Jul 2010 – Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said on Monday that any negotiations with the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) would constitute a “serious cover” encouraging more Palestinian bloodshed.
Ashton calls for allowing Gaza to export goods
PIC 26 Jul 2010 – Catherine Ashton, the European foreign policy chief, called on Monday for allowing exports from Gaza to the outside world in order to boost its economy.
MP Mansour: Negotiations have accelerated Israeli attacks
PIC 26 Jul 2010 – MP Yasser Mansour warned of the rapid pace of attacks by Israeli settlers, saying that the frequency of these attacks is increasing in wake of security coordination between IOF and Abbas’s militia.
Extremist settlers storm Nablus to perform prayers in Joseph’s Tomb
PIC 26 Jul 2010 – A large group of extremist settlers escorted by troops provocatively entered the city of Nablus at the pretext of visiting Joseph’s Tomb near Balata refugee camp in the early hours of Monday morning.
Rights organizations slam W. Bank court for acquitting five killers of prisoner
PIC 26 Jul 2010 – Human rights organizations strongly criticized a military court under the authority of Fatah faction for acquitting officers charged with torturing to death Hamas-affiliated prisoner Haitham Amr.
Barak threatens to strike Lebanese institutions if Hizbullah attacks
PIC 26 Jul 2010 – Israeli war minister Ehud Barak has said that his army would strike Lebanese government institutions in the event the Hizbullah party fired its rockets at Israeli residential neighborhoods.
Haaretz: Shin Bet uses physical, psychological torture on prisoners
PIC 26 Jul 2010 – Haaretz reported that Israeli Shin Bet interrogators employ psychological pressure and physical torture to extract information and confessions for crimes attributed to Palestinian prisoners.
Palestinians wounded during settlers’ attack on their village in Nablus
PIC 26 Jul 2010 – Two Palestinians and four settlers were wounded during confrontations that broke out after a gang of armed settlers and troops stormed Burin village, south of Nablus, and started to attack citizens.
Saudi-Egyptian Summit on to be Held in Sharm A-Sheikh
The Media Line 25 Jul 2010 – As tensions rise in Lebanon as indictments are due in relation to the murder of former Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri five years ago, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah will travel next week to the Sinai resort of…
‘Abbas Says He’s Holding-Off “The Entire World”
The Media Line 25 Jul 2010 – Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud ‘Abbas continues to stand defiantly against what he describes as “the whole world” in refusing to agree to direct talks with Israel until Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu agrees to conditions including accepting…
EU adopts trade sanctions against Iran
LA Times 26 Jul 2010 – The move is aimed at pressuring Tehran to curb its nuclear program and return to talks. The sanctions may have greater effect than U.S. restrictions because of Iran’s substantial trade with the EU. The European Union formally adopted harsh and unprecedented restrictions on trade with Iran on Monday in an effort to pressure Tehran to comply with international demands to curb its nuclear development program, which Western governments and analysts believe is aimed at building nuclear weapons.
Europe Imposes New Sanctions on Iran
New York Times 26 Jul 2010 – The move by Iran’s largest trading partner adds to the pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program.
World Briefing | Europe: France: Palestinian Authority’s Status Raised to Mission From Delegation
New York Times 26 Jul 2010 – The move is aimed at giving the Palestinians more legitimacy as they push for an independent state, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said.
Should Lebanon Be Sending A Flotilla?
Palestine Monitor – Who authorised this latest flotilla? If the new attempt to breach Israel’s blockade boasted enough cohesion to suggest that it was an informed, deliberate decision, rather than a bunch of hot-heads in numbers negligible enough to constitute a dinghy, then whoever okay-ed the plan must surely…
Hearts and minds, and tumors
Mondoweiss – This powerful and appalling account of some the consequences of Operation Iraqi Freedom hasn’t gotten much attention yet, but the facts it records belong on American news screens. The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn describes the Iraqi city of Fallujah six years after the Marine assault. US forces…
L.A. Times: ‘Many’ Palestinians ‘prefer the one-state solution’
Mondoweiss – The one-state solution debate is picking up steam and media coverage in the wake of Israeli journalist Noam Sheizaf’s Ha’aretz article on prominent right-wing calls for the incorporation of the West Bank into Israel. For more on the significance of Sheizaf’s article and the growing calls…
Ehud Barak threatens Lebanon with ‘Dahiya doctrine’ in case of new war
Mondoweiss – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak threatened Lebanon with the implementation of the “Dahiya doctrine” in the case of another war between Israel and Hezbollah in an interview with the Washington Post . Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in a war of words as of late over a…
The Israeli rape-by-deception verdict
Mondoweiss – Zionism is powerful enough to change the definition of rape. I’m annoyed by the lack of discussion in the media —even by those who are friendly to Palestinians, about last week’s rape by deception verdict. The LA Times and NYT’s covered it in their blogs but…
Caterpillar is tied to ‘one of the ugliest stories in occupation’
Mondoweiss – The campaign against Caterpillar continues to gain steam. Following the recent Presbyterian General Assembly where the church denounced Caterpillar for its ongoing involvement in “obstacles to a just and lasting peace in Israel-Palestine,” Larry Cohler-Esses and Josh Nathan-Kazis report for the Forward : “Caterpillar is connected to…
Abbas Says Ready for Direct Talks with Israeli Enemy!
Al-Manar 26 Jul 2010 – Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Monday denied that the Palestinians were hindering the start of direct talks with the Israeli enemy after IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed they were dragging their feet. “We are ready to hold direct peace negotiations with Israel,” Abbas told reporters…
EU hits Iran with new sanctions
BBC 26 Jul 2010 – EU foreign ministers impose new sanctions on Iran’s energy sector, to block its controversial nuclear programme.
Jordan police give lettuce lady a dressing down
BBC 25 Jul 2010 – An animal rights protester clad in lettuce leaves to promote vegetarianism is detained by police in the Jordanian capital Amman.
UK pop band Gorillaz perform in Syria
BBC 26 Jul 2010 – Gorillaz have become the first big British band to play in Damascus in Syria, along with Bashy, Kano and De La Soul.
Palestinian civil society salutes Olympia Food Co-op’s decision to boycott Israeli goods!
BDS 26 Jul 2010 – Occupied Palestine, 26 July 2010 — Palestinian farmers unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees struggling against Israel’s colonial Wall and settlements warmly salute the historic decision taken on July 15th [1] by the Olympia Food Co-op to remove all Israeli products from its shelves. read more…
Articles
Why are equal rights dangerous? In today’s Israel, advocating equal rights for all can prove fatal
Ahmad Tibi, Al-Ahram, Axis of Logic7/18/2010
In the 11 years that I have served in Israel’s Knesset I have received numerous death threats. Pulsa Denura (the term for a rabbinical death curse) has evidently taken exception to my consistent call for equal rights for Israel’s Palestinian minority. Recently I received a letter — the second in as many days — that warned: “You have 180 days to live. Your death will be sudden and cruel, accompanied by great pain… “
Last month, I was forcibly removed by armed guards from the Knesset podium. In recent days, colleagues have faced violent and vulgar rhetoric and one was very nearly physically attacked by fellow Knesset members. Much, but not all of this fury, is a consequence of daring to speak out on behalf of Palestinians in the biggest prison in the world, Gaza, a land cruelly and illegally deprived of essential goods. Yet American elected officials seem far more concerned with specious claims against humanitarian aid workers who were violently attacked and abducted by Israel in international waters.
A young American citizen was killed execution-style aboard the lead ship, with one bullet to the chest and four, at close range, to the head. The next day, another young American, Emily Henochowicz, a college student at New York’s prestigious Cooper Union, had her eye shot out by an Israeli-fired tear gas canister as she peacefully protested against the flotilla raid. Days later, a Palestinian man married to an American woman was executed after what appears to have been a traffic accident at an Israeli checkpoint.
American officials have not demanded accountability for these acts of violence. Instead, too many are busy responding to AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), which has released a list of members of Congress parroting the group’s talking points. They speak of Israel’s right to “defend itself” from humanitarian workers brutally murdered in international waters by the equivalent of modern-day pirates. It seems that only in the US Congress is this perverted Israeli rationale accepted as reality. — See also: Source: Al-Ahram more.. e-mail
VIDEO – Israel And Economic ‘Warfare’
The Real News7/25/2010
Israeli parliament passes first of three readings illegalizing boycott activism or advocacy
On Wednesday, July 14th, the Israeli Parliament approved the first of three readings of a new law. If passed, the law will make it illegal to declare a boycott on Israel or Israeli companies, participate in a boycott, or provide aid in the form of information to anyone who is part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign. The bill also penalizes the Palestinian Authority for its decision in May to ban the use by Palestinians of settlement products. The law even affects international citizens who will be banned from entry into Israel for 10 years and will be effective retroactively. Lia Tarachansky of The Real News spoke with Dalit Baum of Who Profits and Ronnie Barkan of Boycott from Within about how their work will become illegal if this bill passes.
Bio:
Dr. Dalit Baum teaches gender and the global economy at the Haifa University and Beit Berl college in Israel. A feminist anti-occupation activist, she has been a co-founder of Black Laundry, the Community School for Women and the Coalition of Women for Peace. Presently, she is the project coordinator of “Who Profits from the Occupation”, an activists’ research initiative of the Coalition of Women for Peace.
Ronnie Barkan is a long time Israeli activist and conscientious objector, an active member in the joint Palestinian-Israeli-International non-violent struggle. He is a member of Anarchists Against the Wall and Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within…. more.. e-mail
Norman Finkelstein: ‘God Helps Those Who Help Themselves’
Jamie Stern-Weiner interviews Norman G. Finkelstein, MR Zine, Israeli Occupation Archive7/25/2010
Norman Finkelstein is one of the world’s foremost public intellectuals writing about the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is the author of many books on the topic, most recently Beyond Chutzpah, an exhaustive account of Israel’s human rights record, and This Time We Went Too Far (reviewed in New Left Project), an analysis of the Gaza massacre and its consequences. I met him in his Brooklyn apartment to discuss, inter alia, the intellectual climate in the US after the flotilla attack, the merits of various strategies for opposing the occupation, and Tony Blair. What, at root, is this conflict about?
The basic conflict can be understood in very conventional terms of people enduring and trying to resist an occupation. I don’t think it requires much more profundity in order to understand why Palestinians are opposed to their current condition, and I think Israel is behaving like most occupying powers behave ‚Äî specifically, it is very hard to evict them. It wasn’t easy to get the French out of Algeria, it wasn’t easy to get the Russians out of Afghanistan, it wasn’t easy to get the Americans out of Vietnam and it’s not easy to get the Israelis out of the occupied Palestinian territories, but I don’t think one has to search for very profound reasons. There are surely other layers, but the fundamental fact is that the Palestinians are not only deprived of their basic human rights but they’re slowly, inexorably, being dispossessed of their homeland by the Israeli juggernaut.
A recent exchange between Zeev Sternhell and Gabriel Piterberg in the New Left Review discussed, among other things, the applicability of the ’settler-colonial’ model to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Do you think that’s a useful framework to use?
I think those models are pitched at such a high level of abstraction that they can be made to fit anything…. — See also: MRZine: Part I and MRZine: Part II more.. e-mail
Press freedoms fall victim to Fatah, Hamas disunity
Electronic Intifada: 27 Jul 2010 – The split between the the Hamas-run Gaza wing and the Fatah-run West Bank wing of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has overshadowed every aspect of public life, including, many rights groups have documented, infringements on press freedoms and the work of journalists. Rami Almeghari reports from Gaza for The Electronic Intifada.more
Victories as N. American boycott movement gains momentum
Electronic Intifada: 26 Jul 2010 – A food co-operative in Olympia, Washington, voted to become the first grocer in the US to ban Israeli-made items from its shelves. Meanwhile, activists in New York delivered more than 15,000 signatures from petitions and postcards to the TIAA-CREF shareholders’ meeting on 20 July.more
No words to console Gaza child after mother is killed by Israeli shelling
Electronic Intifada: 26 Jul 2010 – Around 8:45pm on 13 July, 2010, a few of the women of the Abu Said family in the northern Gaza Strip were enjoying the cool of the evening in the courtyard in front of their house. They heard a muffled shooting sound, followed soon after by another, and then by a loud buzzing noise, as if a swarm of insects was approaching at full speed. Vittorio Arrigoni reports from the occupied Gaza Strip.more
Book review: Gideon Levy and the Western media elite
Electronic Intifada: 26 Jul 2010 – The small volume The Punishment of Gaza provides a selection of Gideon Levy’s columns on Gaza in Israeli daily Haaretz since 2006. But does its publication reflect a bias against Palestinian and other Arab voices in the publishing industry? Asa Winstanley reviews for The Electronic Intifada.more
Should Lebanon Be Sending A Flotilla?
Palestine Monitor: 26 Jul 2010 – Who authorised this latest flotilla? If the new attempt to breach Israel’s blockade boasted enough cohesion to suggest that it was an informed, deliberate decision, rather than a bunch of hot-heads in numbers negligible enough to constitute a dinghy, then whoever okay-ed the plan must surely go the way of BP chairman Tony Hayward. Members of the mainstream solidarity organizations must be feeling a few nerves as the ships from Lebanon prepare for departure. While it seems positive that Arab solidarity is making a belated appearance, and international organisations say the more pressure the better, there seems little to be gained from sworn enemies of Israel throwing their partisan agenda into an already diffuse mix. A major land and sea convoy is planned for September, with up to 700 vehicles in tow. Over 50 nations will be represented. It is surely a time for careful planning and consideration over how…more
Arab Oil, a Blessing and a Curse
Palestine Chronicle: 26 Jul 2010 – By Hasan Afif El-Hasan While important transformations are taking place within the thinly populated oil producing Arab states (APC) due to their wealth, the capital-hungry nonoil producing Arab states are barely managing to feed their populations. The APC states invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the West and too little in the Arab nonoil states. And they are not using their political and economic influence with the industrialized nations to support a just solution to the Palestinian issue. Oil producing countries failed or refused to utilize oil as a strategic commodity for political advantage to back up the Palestinian cause. The 1973 Arab oil embargo supports the view that dependency on oil as the only industry and no national economic diversification limits the Arab states individually and collectively from exerting sustained political pressures on the oil users. When the APC spokesman coined the expression “oil and politics do not…more
Gazans Denied Medical Care under Siege
Palestine Chronicle: 26 Jul 2010 – By Stephen Lendman Two recent reports discuss it, a July Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-IL) one titled, “A Situation Report on Obstacles Facing Gaza Residents in Need of Medical Treatment,” and a June one titled, “Who Gets to Go,” jointly prepared by PHR-IL, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. All cite Israeli medical ethics and international law violations by discriminating on the basis of need, denying adequate treatment to seriously ill Gazans by: — preventing the restoration and development of the Strip’s healthcare system; and — restricting travel to the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Israel, or neighboring countries for treatment. In its July report, PHR-IL said Gaza’s healthcare system is getting progressively worse “due to a lack of medical expertise, medicine(s) and medical equipment,” the ICRC recently saying it’s “at an all time low.” In June,…more
Israeli Police Outraged as Impunity Ends
Dissident Voice: 26 Jul 2010 – A decision by Israel’s Supreme Court to double a 15-month jail term for a policeman who shot dead an unarmed Palestinian driver suspected of stealing a car has provoked denunciations from police commanders and government officials. Yitzhak Aharonovitch, the internal security minister, condemned the judges for “sending a terrible message to police officers”. On the advice of police lawyers, the accused policeman, Shahar Mizrahi, had appealed his conviction last year in the expectation that the ruling would be overturned by the Supreme Court. Mr Aharonovitch and Dudi Cohen, the police commissioner, said they would immediately seek a presidential pardon for Mizrahi. “I won’t merely support a pardon bid, I’ll lead it,” Mr Aharonovitch said. But groups representing Israel’s large Palestinian Arab minority said the outrage at the doubling of the 15-month sentence for Mizrahi reflected the reality that the police force expected impunity when it used violence against Israel’s…more
Gazans Denied Medical Care under Siege
Dissident Voice: 26 Jul 2010 – Two recent reports discuss it, a July Physicians for Human Rights — Israel (PHR-IL) one titled, “A Situation Report on Obstacles Facing Gaza Residents in Need of Medical Treatment,” and a June one titled, “Who Gets to Go,” jointly prepared by PHR-IL, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. All cite Israeli medical ethics and international law violations by discriminating on the basis of need, denying adequate treatment to seriously ill Gazans by preventing the restoration and development of the Strip’s healthcare system; andrestricting travel to the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Israel, or neighboring countries for treatment. In its July report, PHR-IL said Gaza’s health care system is getting progressively worse “due to a lack of medical expertise, medicine(s) and medical equipment,” the ICRC recently saying it’s “at an all time low.” In June, the World Health Organization (WHO)…more
Go Emily! GoTristan!
Tales to Tell: 26 Jul 2010 – Emily and her specialty arty eye wear, Resistance is the secret of joy. Alice Walker said it and — while she also said “everything we love can be saved” and I still feel mad at her for that cos however way you look at it that is heartbreakingly not true — sometimes, sometimes, I believe the one about resistance. It looks like Emily does too. Still attached to, FreeGaza twitter texts , , I have just followed a link to discover 21 year old Jewish-American Emily,, whose eye the Israeli army removed with a tear gas cannister , last month, singing the cheerfulest blues I’ve heard in a long time about the whole thing, on her own blog,, Thirsty Pixels , As a fellow injured-by-the-Israeli-army international, I’m the luckiest I know of the collection, despite having been one of the more dramatic originally. I’ve no longterm affects (unless lead absorbtion starts to send me…more
Israel’s New Land Grab Master Plan
Intifada-Palestine: 26 Jul 2010 – by Stephen Lendman The banality of ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem The new plan updates older ones, going back to the first, what Israeli historian Ilan Pappe documented in his 2006 book, “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,” on David Ben-Gurion’s Plan D (Dalet in Hebrew), his final master plan following Plans A, B and C, what Palestinians call the Nakba, the catastrophe, commemorated annually to never forget. By bombarding and besieging villages and population centers, destroying communities, and expelling or killing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, it planned an exclusive Jewish state, excluding Arabs by any means, including mass-murder, dispossession, and persecution, ongoing to this day, what Palestinians heroically resist. It took six months to complete, expelling or slaughtering about 800,000 people, and destroying 531 villages and 11 urban neighborhoods in Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem and other cities. It was barbarous ethnic cleansing, Palestinians shown no mercy, including women and children, yet…more
Oliver Stone: Jewish Lobby has distorted United States foreign policy for years
MyCatBirdSeat.com: 26 Jul 2010 – Stone said that Israel had distorted “United States foreign policy for years,” adding he felt U.S. policy toward Iran was “horrible.” Oliver Stone – Film director and screenwriter America-hijacked.com O utspoken Hollywood director says new film aims to put Adolf Hitler, who he has called an ‘easy scapegoat’ in the past, in his due historical context. Jewish control of the media is preventing an open discussion of the Holocaust, prominent Hollywood director Oliver Stone told the Sunday Times, adding that the U.S. Jewish lobby was controlling Washington’s foreign policy for years. In the Sunday interview, Stone reportedly said U.S. public opinion was focused on the Holocaust as a result of the “Jewish domination of the media,” adding that an upcoming film of him aims to put Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin “in context.” “There’s a major lobby in the United States,” Stone said, adding that “they are hard…more
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