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‘Boycott Israel’ protest held Friday in Bil’in village; two injured
IMEMC – 1 Aug 2010 – Sunday August 01, 2010 – 12:46, Around 200 Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals — including a group of hip-hop musicians from the US and Britain — joined a protest on Friday afternoon in the Palestinian village of Bil’in calling on the international community to boycott Israel in order to end Israeli apartheid practices.
Erekat: “P.A Presented A Detailed Plan For Ending The Conflict”
IMEMC – 1 Aug 2010 – Saturday July 31, 2010 – 20:25, Dr. Saeb Erekat, head of the negotiations department at the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), stated that the Palestinian Authority (P.A) presented a detailed plan to the United States regarding a proposal to end the conflict in the region.
2 journalists injured in Beit Ummar rally
8/1/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – Two journalists and a teenager were injured Saturday in clashes between Israeli forces and protesters at the weekly anti-settlement rally in the Hebron village of Beit Ummar, the Palestine Solidarity Project said. PSP spokesman Mohammad Ayyad Awad said Israeli forces used riot dispersal means against farmers and participants who marched toward the illegal….
PSP: Israel forces injure 4 during Beit Ummar rally
8/1/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – The Palestine Solidarity Project said two residents and two journalists were injured on Saturday by Israeli forces during the weekly anti-wall and settlement rally in the Hebron village of Beit Ummar. PSP spokesman Mohammad Ayyad Awad said the injured said the injuries ranged from bruises sustained from assault or tea-gas canisters to tear-gas….
Israeli shelling damages Islamic center
8/1/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – An office of the Organization of Islamic Conference sustained damage from Israeli shelling of Gaza City on Saturday. Contents of the office, for coordination of humanitarian affairs, were destroyed and windows shattered. Many humanitarian bodies and local organizations working in Gaza have denounced the shelling, which will inhibit the office’s work….
Israeli airstrikes injure 1 in southern Gaza
8/1/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli warplanes fired missiles in the southern Gaza Strip Sunday morning, leaving one Palestinian civilian injured, Ma’an’s correspondent said. The airstrikes hit the Abasan area east of Khan Younis, with the injuries sustained by the civilian described as moderate. The injured was transferred to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Israeli warplanes further….
Israel issues stop-work order in Hebron village
8/1/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – Israel’s Civil Administration issued a stop-work order Wednesday for the construction of stone walls demarcating farmland in the Hebron municipality of As-Sumu, in the Al-Amayer valley, a statement read. The As-Sumu municipality said the stone wall’s construction was undertaken to preserve agricultural land, and is funded by the European Commission and implemented by….
Israeli forces clash with Hebron rally
8/1/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – Israeli forces clashed with demonstrators at a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday evening. More than 150 internationals and Palestinians rallied in the alleys of the old city to demand the reopening of Ash-Shudada Street, closed since the beginning of the second Intifada in 2000. Israeli soldiers….
Ashrawi denies saying US threatened PA ties
8/1/2010 – Ramallah – Ma’an – PLO leader Hanan Ashrawi on Sunday denied saying the US had threatened to sever ties with the Palestinian Authority unless it resumed talks with Israel. Ashrawi described a report by the Israeli daily Haaretz quoting an interview she gave an Arabic newspaper as “totally baseless” and said she never made the remark to….
Israel says it will link Hebron village with Israeli water
8/1/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Israeli government says it will be holding a ceremony to mark the linking of the West Bank village of At-Tawani’s water line to Mekorot, Israel’s national water company. A statement issued by Israel’s Civil Administration last Sunday said a water supply facility will be inaugurated a few dozen meters from the village….
Israel partially opens 1 Gaza terminal
8/1/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an -Israeli authorities are expected to partially open one crossing between Israel and Gaza on Sunday for the delivery of humanitarian aid and limited fuel, Palestinian officials said. Crossings official Raed Fattouh said between 235 to 245 truckloads of aid is scheduled for entry through the Kerem Shalom terminal in southern Gaza. Three trucks….
Global cluster bomb ban comes into effect
8/1/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – A global treaty banning the use of cluster munitions went into force on Sunday, becoming binding international law. The convention bans the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions and calls for the destruction of stockpiles within eight years, clearance of cluster munition-contaminated land within 10 years, and assistance to cluster munition….
Nativity deportee appeals to Jordan king
8/1/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – An exiled Palestinian activist has appealed to Jordan’s king to allow him to visit his relatives, after nine years of denials. Yassin Hermini, one of 34 operatives deported from the West Bank after Israel lay siege to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002, says he is suffering from….
Israel army arrests PalTel employee
8/1/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers arrested a PalTel employee at his office in Dura, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, on Sunday. Soldiers raided the town and surrounded the telecommunications office, and arrested the head of the branch, Yousef Qazaz. Clashes occurred when locals threw stones at the soldiers, who responded by….
Gaza: Salafi group claims responsibility for projectile
8/1/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – A military group affiliated to the Salafi movement in Gaza claimed responsibility for launching a homemade project toward southern Israel on Saturday, a statement issued Sunday read. The At-Tawhid and Jihad wing said the projectile was fired at 9:42 p. m.”in retaliation to the ongoing Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian people….
Report: Netanyahu ’amenable’ to UN flotilla probe
8/1/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “leaning toward” accepting the UN’s probe into Israel’s raid of a Gaza-bound aid boat, Israeli media reported Sunday. According to Israeli daily Haaretz, Netanyahu is expected to make the decision this week after being discussed with the forum of seven senior ministers and possibly withthe cabinet, following….
Egypt to deliver UAE aid to Gaza
8/1/2010 – Al-Arish – Ma’an – Egyptian authorities have completed all procedures to allow the entry of a food aid convoy from the UAE into Gaza, officials announced Sunday. Palestinian Authority crossing official at the Al-Auja crossing Amr Hadhoud said the aid, which includes 550 tons of flour, 150 tons of sugar, and 10 tons of medical aid and….
Israeli media: Iran threatens to ’burn down’ Tel Aviv
8/1/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Iran’s ambassador to the UN said Tehran would respond to an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities by burning down Tel Aviv, Israeli media reported Sunday. Mohammad Khazaee’s comments were reportedly made to the press in Iran, where he is currently visiting, the Israeli news site Ynet reported, adding that preoccupation with an….
Hamas: Gaza paying for Arab ’political sin’
8/1/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Hamas said Sunday it was holding the Arab League responsible for the recent escalation in Israeli military action against the Gaza Strip. Fawzi Barhoum said the Arab League’s follow-up committee decision to endorse the resumption of direct talks was a “sin” providing cover for Israeli violations.”Our people in Gaza are paying a….
PA announces fuel prices for August
8/1/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Finance and Petroleum Authority announced the fuel and gas consumer prices in the West Bank for August on Sunday. — 1 liter of diesel will be sold for 5. 42 shekels — 1 liter of benzene (95 and 96 octane) will be sold for 6. 11 shekels— 1 liter of….
Ministry: Hebron degree unaccredited
8/1/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Education warned first-year university students at the Hebron University on Sunday not to register for a degree in pharmacology as it has not obtained the necessary accreditation. The ministry’s accreditation and quality department issued a statement saying places were offered to students following the announcement of Tawjihi results….
PA minister visits Bethlehem
8/1/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Palestinian Authority minister of local governance visited several institutions in Bethlehem and met with directors and members. Khaled Fahed Qawasmeh met with officials at the Bethlehem Municipality, Beit Fajjar, Khirbet Zakaria and Al-Jab’a and told members of the importance in activating the licensing process for building permits and of paying municipal fees….
Art Gish, Abu Mazen and more
Palestine Note 1 Aug 2010 – 1024×768 Clean false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Palestinian sources revealed a letter sent by Obama that outlines carrots and sticks approach to get Mahmoud Abbas to go to direct and endless negotiations so as…
Gaza blast wounds 24 Palestinians
Palestine Note 1 Aug 2010 – Hamas blames Israel. Military denies involvement. New York – An explosion has rocked the Gaza Strip for the third night in a row, injuring 24 Palestinians. Hamas authorities have blamed Israel for the blast, which they…
The hidden occupation: Kashmir
Palestine Note 1 Aug 2010 – By Sarah Harlan Washington – Young men with hidden faces throwing stones at soldiers. Violent repression from an occupying government and strict curfews. City-wide closures of businesses to protest yet another son gunned down . Limited government…
IRIN: Gaza humanitarian timeline
Palestine Note 1 Aug 2010 – Gaza – IRIN – A four-year Israeli blockade, a 23-day military assault in 2009 and political infighting between Hamas and Fatah have created what a number of UN agencies and governments have described as a “humanitarian…
Adm. Mike Mullen: US has Iran attack plan, ‘just in case’
Palestine Note 1 Aug 2010 – New York – Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admitted on Sunday that the US does have a plan to attack Iran if it becomes needed to prevent it from acquiring nuclear…
Report: Israeli warships fire toward Lebanon
Palestine Note 1 Aug 2010 – New York – Israeli warships opened fire in the direction of the Lebanese coast on Sunday, Lebanon’s military said. An Israeli warship in the Red Sea [Wikimedia Commons] According to the news website Now Lebanon , the…
Netanyahu: Direct talks in August
Palestine Note 1 Aug 2010 – New York – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu predicted on Sunday that direct negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) would begin in August. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deliver a press…
Israel to deport 400 children of migrant workers
Palestine Note 1 Aug 2010 – New York – Less than two weeks after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared African immigrants a ” threat” to Israel’s Jewish character , the Israeli cabinet voted Sunday to deport some 400 children of migrant workers….
‘Summer camp of destruction’: Israeli teens aid demolition of Bedouin town
Palestine Note 1 Aug 2010 – New York – Last week Israeli police in riot gear evacuated the 300 Bedouin residents of the town of Al-Arakib, in the Negev Desert, before razing the entire community to the ground. An Israeli police officer…
Gaza blast wounds Palestinians
AlJazeera 1 Aug 2010 – At least 30 wounded as explosion levels of senior Hamas commander’s house.
Mubarak and Peres hold talks
AlJazeera 1 Aug 2010 – Israeli and Egyptian presidents meet to discuss Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
US has ‘plan to attack Iran’
AlJazeera 1 Aug 2010 – Highest-ranking military officer says force could be used to stop nuclear arms development.
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (22-28 July 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
J’lem mayor condemns freeze request
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – Nir Barkat calls UN building halt ask ‘racist; illegal.’
J’lem mayor condemns UN request for building freeze
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – Nir Barkat calls the request ‘racist; illegal.’
Explosion in gaza strip wounds 24
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – The blast took place in the home of Hamas commander Ala Adnaf
Erekat claims Israel has not responded to proposals
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – PM’s spokesman: Why are the Palestinians afraid to try us in direct talks?
Hamas rockets seen as bid to foil talks
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – Netanyahu warns organization will be held responsible attacks.
Weekend attacks by Hamas seen as bid to foil direct talks
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – Netanyahu warns organization will be held responsible for any attack from Gaza.
‘We will resume suicide attacks’
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – Islamic Jihad plans attacks from West Bank after IAF Gaza raids.
Israel to deport 400 children of foreign workers
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – Decision slammed by some govt ministers and UNICEF, despite granting residency to 800 others.
Gov’t decides fate of 1,200 children
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – 400 foreign workers children to be deported, 800 to remain in Israel.
Turkey, Syria engage in bird diplomacy
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – Asma Assad and Emine Erdogan campaign for the bald ibis.
The bride, groom and the ex-president
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – See photo gallery of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding.
Assad: Chances of ME war increasing
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – Syrian president says real peace in the area is getting further away.
Israel complains to UN about Kassams
Jeruslalem Post 1 Aug 2010 – Complaint states that attacks are an obstacle to peace process.
International Solidarity Movement
Aqraba plants olive trees to ward off settlers
8/1/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Residents of the village of Aqraba, near Nablus, planted forty young olive trees on their land on Thursday (29 July 2010) to send a message to settlers who have been plowing the area in an attempted land-grab. The Palestinian villagers were accompanied by many international volunteers — around thirty people from an American group called….
Remembering Art Gish
8/1/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – American peace activist Art Gish died on Wednesday in a tractor accident on his organic farm in Athens, Ohio, at the age of 70. Gish and his wife Peggy — currently in Iraq — dedicated much of their lives to promoting peace in the Middle East through nonviolent action. As a member of the Christian….
One million chickens die as heat wave blankets Israel
Ha’aretz – Insurance Fund for Natural Disasters reports over 100 calls of damage to chicken coops throughout country estimated at NIS 5 million.
Police arrest third suspect in alleged Jewish terrorist affair
Ha’aretz – West Bank resident released hours after arrested in Jerusalem for assisting Chaim Pearlman on suspicion of helping with multiple attacks on Arabs, including two murders.
Cabinet approves deportation of 400 migrant children from Israel
Ha’aretz – According to inter-ministerial committee’s recommendation, children of migrant workers must fit 5 criteria in order to remain in Israel; 400 do not.
Police: Woman brutally abused by her mother, grandmother
Ha’aretz – Police arrest two older women after the 20-year-old was found locked up in a Netanya apartment, terror-stricken and suffering from malnutrition.
Israel police arrest suspect in human organ trafficking scam
Ha’aretz – Jerusalem man suspected of working as an intermediary to buy kidneys from donors abroad and sell them to Israeli transplant patients.
Government ‘tried to bury’ report on Temple Mount excavations
Ha’aretz – Knesset to discuss ‘suppressed’ report on potentially explosive Temple Mount excavations.
Tel Aviv marks one-year anniversary of gay youth center killings
Ha’aretz – March leads to Gan Meir where a rally is being held with the families of the victims, Nir Katz 26, and Liz Trobishi, 16.
Explosion at Gaza home of Hamas commander wounds 24 Palestinians
Ha’aretz – Hamas blames Israel for the blast, which it said targeted field commander Alaa al-Danaf, but IDF denies involvement.
Reporter: Glider launched from Lebanon crashes near Israel border
Ha’aretz – IDF believes Hezbollah broadcasting network sent the plane as provocative measure to mark four years since Lebanon war.
Iran vows ‘crushing response’ if attacked by Israel or U.S.
Ha’aretz – U.S. has plan in case attack on Iran needed, says army chief; Iran envoy to UN: We’ll set Tel Aviv ablaze if Israel strikes us.
Peres and Mubarak: Israel and Palestinians mustn’t miss chance for direct talks
Ha’aretz – Netanyahu to cabinet: Direct peace talks could begin this month, but Palestinians are stalling the process., Former minister brands as a ‘liar’ witness who claimed to overhear conversation in Jerusalem…
Assad warns of growing threat of Middle East war
Ha’aretz – Syria’s president says unwilling to negotiate over Golan Heights, calling its ‘liberation’ an ‘ingrained right’.
Noam Shalit appeals to Palestinian public to back prisoner swap
Ha’aretz – Father of abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit to hold East Jerusalem press conference urging parents of Palestinian prisoners to pressure Hamas into exchange deal.
Hamas vows revenge after Israel kills commander in Gaza strike
Ha’aretz – Palestinian witnesses report one dead and 13 injured in heaviest strike on Hamas-linked targets since Operation Cast Lead, as Israel retaliates for rocket attack on Ashkelon.
Israeli family ‘breaks into’ Jerusalem home centered in ownership controversy
Ha’aretz – The group of Jews have documents proving they purchased the building and were the rightful owners, but Palestinians claim it is their own.
Israel bombs Rafah by air
1 Aug 2010 – Gaza, August 1, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli warplanes bombed at dawn today two different sites located at southern Gaza Strip without reported injuries. Local sources said that the Israeli warplanes bombed a missile on a free zone at ‘Abassan’ east of Khan Younis, and a tunnel west ‘Yebna’ refugee camp in Rafah southern Gaza Strip. Gaza has witnessed recently an escalation…
IOF roams towns in Hebron
1 Aug 2010 – Hebron, August 1, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli militant patrols roamed today several neighborhoods, villages and towns in the governorate of Hebron southern West Bank. Security sources said that the Israeli militant patrols roamed in the morning several neighborhoods in Hebron, and the towns of ‘Halhoul’, ‘Nuba’ and ‘Thahereyeh’. The same sources said that Israeli militant patrols stayed in their roaming operations…
Israel’s new ways to repress Palestinian prisoners
Uruknet August 1, 2010 – The Israeli prisons authority (IPA) has been coming up with creative new ways to torment and break the spirits of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, the supreme national committee for supporting prisoners said Sunday in a press statement. The committee’s general coordinator Baha’a al-Madhoun said there has recently been a marked increase in confiscation of…
Wadi Qana farmland being polluted by settlement sewage
Uruknet August 1, 2010 – Wadi Qana is a valley south west of Nablus where numerous springs supply water to the surrounding Palestinian villages. Approximately 60 people live in the valley itself, and many more own land in the area in which they farm animals and cultivate both citrus and olive trees. The valley and its springs have been suffering…
Video: International activists help rebuild Palestinian homes repeatedly demolished
Uruknet July 31, 2010 – Israel has demolished more than 20,000 Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem since 1967. And some residents have had their houses torn down multiple times. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from East Jerusalem on how a small group of Israeli and international activists are helping rebuild Palestinian homes that have been repeatedly demolished…
Palestinian Detainees Abuse during Operation Cast Lead
Uruknet August 1, 2010 On July 6, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PACTI) and Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel released a report titled, “Exposed: The Treatment of Palestinian Detainees During Operation Cast Lead,” detailing their horrific treatment. Transferred to Israel for interrogation, detainees related grim details of their ordeal – grave human rights…
Fury as Israel president claims English are ‘anti-semitic’
Uruknet July 31, 2010 – Shimon Peres said England was “deeply pro-Arab … and anti-Israeli”, adding: “They always worked against us.” He added: “There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.” His remarks, made in an interview on a Jewish website, provoked anger from senior MPs and Jewish leaders who…
Palestine Takes Center Stage in the Antiwar Movement
Uruknet July 31, 2010 – The United National Antiwar Conference, attended by 850 people from July 23 to 25, 2010 in Albany, New York, marked a sea change in the attitude of the antiwar movement toward Palestine. For the first time a broadly representative, democratic national conference of peace activists adopted the demand “End All US Aid to Israel.” UNAC…
Israel razes Christian ancient site in O. Jerusalem
Uruknet July 31, 2010 – Father Atallah Hanna, the Greek orthodox patriarchate of occupied Jerusalem, said the Israeli municipal council in the holy city demolished and obliterated Christian ancient monuments dating from the Byzantine era in Ein Kerem area. “We strongly condemn this heinous crime committed against the Christian antiquities in Ein Kerem, which is the birthplace of Saint Youhanna…
United Arab front may not prevent violence
The National 1 Aug 2010 – Analysis Saudi Arabia has swiftly moved with Syria to steady regional nerves spooked by the spectre of Hizbollah in the killing of Rafi Hariri.
Netanyahu: direct talks this month are possible’
The National 1 Aug 2010 – Israel and the Palestinians show signs of making progress towards direct talks by the middle of August.
Israeli warplanes strike in southern Gaza
The National 1 Aug 2010 – Two pre-dawn raids on smuggling tunnels are in retaliation for rockets fired into Israel by Palestinian militants.
Prayer Service, Protest at Demolished Village
Alternative Information Center – The villagers of El Araqib, the Negev village destroyed on 27 July by Israeli police, invited all people to attend the Friday prayer service, followed by a demonstration against the violent destruction of their village on…
Wall Rapidly Closing Bethlehem Village
Alternative Information Center – The Israeli Defense Ministry has quickened the pace of construction of the Separation Wall dividing the Palestinian village of Al-Wajala , despite the Israeli High Court’s demand earlier this week that the State provide an explanation for…
Israeli Settlers Destroy Property in Hebron Area Village
Alternative Information Center – Israeli settlers damaged a Palestinian field of vegetables in Um Al Kher, a Bedouin village located next to Karmel settlement, in the South Hebron Hills.
Settlers Seize Home in Jerusalem’s Old City
Alternative Information Center – On 29 July, two dozen settlers seized the homes of nine Palestinian families in a two story building in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City .
UAE Red Crescent Sends Aid Convoy to Gaza
WAFA – RAFAH, August 1, 2010 (WAFA)- The UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA) on Sunday sent an aid convoy carrying food and medical supplies to the Gaza Strip as part of a humanitarian programme
Third Suspect in ‘Jewish Terrorist’ Case
WAFA – TEL AVIV, August 1, 2010 (WAFA)- Israeli Police on Sunday questioned a third suspect in the case of ‘Jewish terrorist’ Haim Pearlman. The suspect, a resident of the West Bank settlement of
Ashrawi Denies Report published in Haaretz
WAFA – RAMALLAH, August 1, 2010 (WAFA)- PLO Executive Committee Member, Hanan Ashrawi denied a report publishedin Israeli daily Haaretz saying that says Obama administration threatened to cut PA ties
Israel Police Arrest Suspect in Human Organ Trafficking Scam
WAFA – TEL AVIV, August 1, 2010 (WAFA)- Israeli police in Jerusalem on Sunday arrested a man suspected of working as part of an international operation to trade human organs, the Israeli daily Haaretz
OCHA: Israeli Demolished 17 Structures Last Week
WAFA –
Iran says it will set Tel Aviv ablaze, wreak havoc in Gulf if attacked
Daily Star 1 Aug 2010
Israeli warplanes pound Gaza after new rocket attack
Daily Star 1 Aug 2010
Assad warns war prospects rising in Middle East
Daily Star 1 Aug 2010
Israel’s Barak claims new Turkish spy chief is ‘supporter of Iran’
Daily Star 1 Aug 2010
Hundreds injured after two strong earthquakes hit Iran
Daily Star 1 Aug 2010
Tehran says three Americans must stand trial for alleged crimes
Daily Star 1 Aug 2010
‘Overwhelming emotion’ as Chelsea Clinton marries
Daily Star 1 Aug 2010
‘Al-Manar’ glider lands at army camp in Israel
Daily Star 1 Aug 2010
Israel president Shimon Peres accuses Britain of pro-Arab bias
The Guardian 1 Aug 2010 – Veteran politician claims MPs pander to Muslim voters with anti-Jewish rhetoric and glorify Palestinians as underdogs Israel’s president, Shimon Peres, has accused some British MPs of pandering to anti-Israel sentiment among their Muslim voters, claiming there…
OPT: Gaza humanitarian timeline since 2005
Relief Web 1 Aug 2010 – Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks
Israel: Halt Demolitions of Bedouin Homes in Negev
Relief Web 1 Aug 2010 – Source: Human Rights Watch
Ni’lin honors its martyrs and calls for continued popular resistance
Stop The Wall – The weekly protest commemorated the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Ahmad Musa and Yousef Amira. Ahmad Musa was killed during a demonstration on July 29th, 2008 from a bullet in his head and Yusuf Amira was injured fatally the next day, and died a week later. [
Mullen says US has Iran strike plan, just in case
YNet News – Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff says military attack on Islamic Republic….
Hamas summer camp: Weapons training for leaders’ kids
YNet News – Islamist group’s senior figures celebrate children’s graduation from summer….
Landmark cluster bomb treaty takes effect
YNet News – Israel, US, China and Russia among countries that have rejected the deal, which….
Iran official: We’ll burn down Tel Aviv in case of attack
YNet News – Islamic Republic’s UN envoy says preoccupation with Israeli strike symbolizes….
Assad: Chances of war increasing
YNet News – On Syrian military’s 65th anniversary, president warns regional peace ‘slipping….
PM: Direct talks to commence in mid August
YNet News – Prime minister tells cabinet Hamas fully responsible for rockets fired from….
Border Guard force kills smuggler, seizes 800 kg of marijuana
YNet News – Officers detect group of people crossing Egyptian border into Israel with….
Israel to UN: Rocket firing hurting peace efforts
YNet News – Official complaint filed with Human Rights Council dubs recent launching of….
82-year old officer brought crash victims home
YNet News – Dr. Levy Birtulon, the 82-year old IDF officer who commanded the operation that brought home the bodies of victims of a helicopter crash from Romania, recounted his …….
Third suspect in ‘Jewish terrorist’ case
YNet News – Police on Sunday questioned a third suspect in the case of “Jewish terrorist” Haim Pearlman. The suspect, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Mitzpe Yericho, was …….
PA, Israel cooperate against pirate radio
YNet News – For the first time since the IDF and Palestinian security forces began working in partnership, Palestinian police took responsibility for the security of an official …….
Heat wave unites Arabs, haredim in Jerusalem
YNet News – The severe heat wave, smack in the middle of the summer, has not skipped over the usually dry Jerusalem, awash in recent days with relatively high levels of humidity. …….
Israel to deport 400 foreign kids
YNet News – After a long series of delays, the cabinet decided Sunday to adopt the recommendations of an inter-ministerial committee that discussed the status of foreign workers’ …….
Palestinian Information Center
Hamas: Gaza people paying for the wrong done by the Arab committee
PIC 1 Aug 2010 – The Hamas Movement stated that the Gaza people are paying the price for the “sin” committed by the Arab League’s peace initiative committee when it approved to resume direct talks with Israel.
Kadima: Netanyahu not serious about peace talks with Fatah
PIC 1 Aug 2010 – Israeli Kadima party chairman Haim Ramon questioned whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was “seriously” planning to go into negotiations with the Fatah authority in Ramallah.
IOA confiscates new Palestinian land, distributes more demolition notices
PIC 1 Aug 2010 – The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) started bulldozing Palestinian land south of Al-Khalil city on Sunday morning to pave the ground for establishing a new settlement, eyewitnesses reported.
Tadamon: Israel killed 7 Palestinians, detained 200 others last July
PIC 1 Aug 2010 – The international Tadamon (solidarity) foundation for human rights reported that Israel killed during last month seven Palestinian citizens and kidnapped more than 200 others.
Israel’s new ways to repress Palestinian prisoners
PIC 1 Aug 2010 – The IPA has been coming up with creative new ways to torment and break the spirits of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, the supreme national committee for supporting prisoners said.
Netanyahu threatens to escalate military attacks on Gaza
PIC 1 Aug 2010 – Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu said that Hamas is responsible for any attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, adding that his government will take all necessary precautions to “defend” Israel.
Committee warns of extensive demolition operations in Duhmush village
PIC 1 Aug 2010 – New demolition operations in the village of Duhmush in Palestinian lands occupied in 1948 are under way, the Duhmush community committee warned.
Bardawil: No signs of Israeli war against Gaza, but we remain cautious
PIC 1 Aug 2010 – Salah al-Bardawil ruled out that the recent Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip signal an extensive Israeli war against the Gaza Strip, but he confirmed that the raids are an attempt to cause confusion.
UN report shows rise in home demolitions, violence against Palestinians
PIC 1 Aug 2010 – A weekly report issued by OCHA revealed that the demolition of Palestinian houses has escalated in Area C in various parts of the West Bank.
Abbas’s militias storm home of MP Betawi, kidnap three of his sons
PIC 1 Aug 2010 – Mahmoud Abbas’s security militias stormed Saturday evening the house of Palestinian lawmaker Sheikh Hamed Al-Betawi in Nablus city and kidnapped three of his sons.
Palestinians: We Offered Israel Best Offer Yet
The Media Line 31 Jul 2010 – Chief Palestinian negotiator claims Israel has not responded to “far-reaching” proposals. Israel has been offered a framework for the most expansive peace agreement ever offered, the chief Palestinian negotiator has claimed. Saeb Ariqat, the chief negotiator…
‘Ariqat Tells The Media Line: Israel Never Replied to “Most Generous” Offer
The Media Line 31 Jul 2010 – U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled a blunt carrot-and-stick approach to Palestinian leadership in the form of a letter delivered to Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud ‘Abbas last week. Foremost among the 16 points spelled-out in the missive…
Hamas Leader-in-Exile Bashes Arab League Green Light for Direct Talks
The Media Line 31 Jul 2010 – Khalid Mash’al, the Hamas leader-in-exile who is based in Damascus, has lashed out at the Arab League’s decision to green-light direct talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel. He charged that the decision results from the…
Israel to deport hundreds of migrant workers’ children
LA Times 2 Aug 2010 – Most are youngsters born in Israel who speak Hebrew. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cites the strain of illegal immigration and Israel’s Jewish identity. Israel moved Sunday to deport the offspring of hundreds of migrant workers, mostly small children who were born in Israel, speak Hebrew and have never seen their parents’ native countries.
State Department once warned against a tactic the NYT now blesses in Afghanistan
Mondoweiss – Earlier today we did a post about a New York Times piece generally approving “targeted killing” as a means of advancing the project in Afghanistan. Targeted killing “has turned out to work well.” And never was heard a discouraging word. We mentioned a State Department report…
Israeli high school students assisted in state’s destruction of Bedouin village
Mondoweiss – The other day we picked up the news from CNN that when Israeli security forces descended on a Bedouin village in the Negev and destroyed it, uprooting over 200 people, busloads of civilians were there cheering. Max Blumenthal has now visited Al-Arakib and has a thorough…
‘New Republic’ writer lauds ADL’s stand against mosque
Mondoweiss – Ben Birnbaum’s twitter feed ; mosque is being “demagogued” on right and left, but ADL’s ” nuanced statement should be commended, not condemned.” Here’s Ben Birnbaum at New Republic , a long piece of Israel lobbyana, attacking Human Rights Watch as an enemy of Israel. Reliable narrator?
the battlefield of public opinion is a psychological minefield
Mondoweiss – oh god, i’m going thru this psychological minefield. just an amazing amount of bullshit pushback in my blogging reality. i seem to fluxuate between periods of self doubt with respect to the ‘tone’ of my blogging (basically just being me which apparently really drives some people…
Foxman says some are ‘entitled’ to be bigots
Mondoweiss – The Times’ Mark Barbaro and Paul Vitello did excellent reporting on the mosque controversy, and the role of Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League. “It’s the wrong place,” Mr. Foxman said. “Find another place.” Asked why the opposition of the families was so pivotal in the…
Israeli Occupation Warplanes Strike Southern Gaza
Al-Manar 1 Aug 2010 – Israeli occupation warplanes launched two pre-dawn raids on tunnels in the southern Gaza strip on Sunday, and the Islamist Resistance Movement “Hamas” linked the attack to Arab ministers’ backing for indirect talks with Israel. Palestinian medics said one person had been slightly injured in the overnight…
Iran stoning woman offered asylum
BBC 1 Aug 2010 – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asks Iran to allow his country to provide refuge to a woman facing execution.
Unwanted children?
BBC 1 Aug 2010 – Israel’s controversial plan to deport migrants
Articles
Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing
Robert Fisk, The Independent8/1/2010
The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline.
There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that’s OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We’d still be investigating this extraordinary phenomenon. Now mark you, I’m not comparing Israel and Hamas. Israel is the country that justifiably slaughtered more than 1,300 Palestinians in Gaza 19 months ago — more than 300 of them children — while the vicious, blood-sucking and terrorist Hamas killed 13 Israelis (three of them soldiers who actually shot each other by mistake).
But there is one parallel. Judge Richard Goldstone, the eminent Jewish South African judge, decided in his 575-page UN inquiry into the Gaza bloodbath that both sides had committed war crimes — he was, of course, quite rightly called “evil” by all kinds of justifiably outraged supporters of Israel in the US, his excellent report rejected by seven EU governments — and so a question presents itself. What is Nato doing when it plays war games with an army accused of war crimes?
Or, more to the point, what on earth is the EU doing when it cosies up to the Israelis? In a remarkable, detailed — if slightly over-infuriated — book to be published in November, the indefatigable David Cronin is going to present a microscopic analysis of “our” relations with Israel. I have just finished reading the manuscript. It leaves me breathless. As he says in his preface, “Israel has developed such strong political and economic ties to the EU over the past decade that it has become a member state of the union in all but name.” Indeed, it was Javier Solana, the grubby top dog of the EU’s foreign policy (formerly Nato secretary general), who actually said last year that “Israel, allow me to say, is a member of the European Union without being a member of the institution”.
Pardon me? Did we know this? Did we vote for this? Who allowed this to happen?…. more.. e-mail
Israel Classifies its Past as Top Secret: An Analysis
Lawrence Davidson, Dissident Voice7/31/2010
Israel is a land built on myths. It is, of course, not unique in this. Indeed in this way Israel is very much like its patron, the United States. In order to build and maintain a mythical status a nation must create a picture of itself from its very inception and pass that picture down generation upon generation. For the U.S. it is the idea that the nation is a beacon of both democracy and capitalism unto the world and what it does in terms of foreign policy, and even when at war, is always done altruistically. For Israel, the myth is that the nation is democratic and the last bastion of safety for the world’s Jews. Everything it does, even when that amounts to imperial expansion, is done defensively.
In order to maintain these myths one must control history. The story line must be taught in the schools and supported by the nation’s multiple media sources. One must raise up a population that is so well inculcated with its mythic worldview that if something occurs which contradicts it, it can be readily dismissed as an exception to the rule. In the case of the United States, two hundred years of indoctrination and a long term status as a great power has allowed its myths to survive, in the minds of its own people, the horrors of Viet Nam, Iraq and now Afghanistan. Israel is a much younger nation with only three or so generations of indoctrination under its psychological belt, so to speak. And, while it may be a regional superpower, its reputation in the Middle East is built on fear. With the rest of the world that reputation is associated with equally unstable and temporary attitudes, like Holocaust guilt. In essence, apart from the convinced Zionists, Israel’s sustaining national myths are still fragile.
A number of years ago Israel applied its law that required the government archives to be opened for public review and research following a thirty year waiting period for political affairs and fifty years for military affairs. This brought many of the government documents referring to seminal years of 1947 and 1948 into the open. The result was a serious, evidence based, revision of the founding legends of Israel. In other words, the state lost momentary control of its own history…. more.. e-mail
Putting Iron Dome into perspective
Editorial, Jerusalem Post7/21/2010
“Nor can it replace traditional battlefield offensives to take out terror bases across the lines.”
Technology cannot hermetically seal our skies. The technological achievement that took the original Iron Dome concept from the drawing board to a deployable multi-tested anti-missile system is remarkable — the latest in the impressive collection of feathers in the caps of Israel’s innovative scientists and defense industries.
Within a few months, batteries of anti-missile missiles are to be positioned in vulnerable Gaza-vicinity communities to protect them against indiscriminate rocketry fired from the Hamas bastion. The various towns are already competing hard to make sure they will be adequately covered.
That said, nobody promises that the Iron Dome will offer absolute protection. Even what is touted may well be beyond the system’s practical capabilities.
Earlier in the week, it passed its final operational tests with flying colors, but real life is a whole other opera (as Israelis may remember from the disappointing performance, to put it mildly, of the Patriots in the First Gulf War).
Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna’i candidly admits that the Iron Dome cannot intercept all Gazan rockets and that Israeli communities will remain menaced. Nevertheless he is confident that 80 percent of incoming projectiles can be foiled. But can they? Even the optimistic Vilna’i notes that Iron Dome cannot be deployed everywhere and would have to be installed according to “operational requirements.” more.. e-mail
Arab Ties with Israel Damage the Palestinian Cause: Prof Gilbert Achcar
Dissident Voice: 1 Aug 2010 – Prof. Gilbert Achcar is a renowned Lebanese academician, writer, socialist and anti-war activist. He left Lebanon in 1983 and taught international relations and politics at the University of Paris VII for several years. Since 2007, Achcar has been Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. He is a frequent contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique and ZNet . Prof. Achcar joined me in an interview to discuss the latest developments related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla and the prospect of Israel’s occupation of West Bank and Gaza. Kourosh Ziabari : Dear Prof. Achcar, what’s your estimation of the prospect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Gilbert Achcar : This is extremely difficult to answer because the situation of the Middle East is changing so quickly and frequently that any kind of prediction about the future is always very…more
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