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Israel agrees to UN probe of Flotilla attack
IMEMC – 2 Aug 2010 – Monday August 02, 2010 – 17:36, Israel’s cabinet agreed on being a part of the UN committee investigation into the May 31 attack on the Mavi Marmara.
Rockets hit Israel and Jordan
IMEMC – 2 Aug 2010 – Monday August 02, 2010 – 16:42, Five rockets hit the southern Israeli port of Eilat and its neighboring Jordanian city of Aqaba in the early morning
Deir al-Balah Camp Hit By Rocket Fire; 42 Injured
IMEMC – 2 Aug 2010 – Monday August 02, 2010 – 16:29, Rocket fire has hit the home of a member of the Hamas movement in Deir al-Balah refugee camp, central Gaza, injuring 42 civilians; there were no deaths.
American Journalist Speaks About How American News Media “Works In Favor Of Israel”
IMEMC – 2 Aug 2010 – Monday August 02, 2010 – 14:39, Alison Weir, an American journalist, explains in a series of three videos about how the news media in the United States works in favor of Israel.
Medics: Israeli airstrike injures 42 in Gaza
8/2/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli warplanes targeted the home of a senior Hamas military leader in the central Gaza Strip early Monday leaving 42 civilians injured, medics said. Al-Qassam Brigades leader Alla Ad-Danaf’s home in Deir Al-Balah was destroyed along with five others by a missile from an Israeli F16 fighter jet, military medical services coordinator Adham….
1 dead after rockets strike Jordan and Israel
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – A Jordanian citizen was killed and three others were injured when at least one rocket struck the seaside resort of Aqaba early Monday, officials said. The fatality was identified as Sobhi Al-Alawaneh, one of four hurt when several rockets struck the Aqaba as well as Israel’s southern port of Eilat, Jordan TV reported…. Related: Jordanian media: Man injured by rocket dies
Israel approves construction in East J’lem settlement
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Jerusalem Municipality’s planning committee approved the construction of 40 housing units on Monday in an illegal settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli media reported. The approvals are part of a wider plan to construct 220 new houses in the Pisgat Ze’ev settlement, Israeli news site Ynet said, adding….
Soldiers detain 3 teenagers in Bil’in
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli soldiers detained three boys Monday near the separation wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in, a local group said. Friends of Freedom and Justice – Bil’in said the teenagers were detained behind the barrier as their families tried to negotiate their release. After three hours, the boys were taken away….
PFLP leader: Israeli forces destroy pipes, detain 2
8/2/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – Israeli forces destroyed over 30 dunums of farmland in the Hebron village of Al-Baq’a and detained two relatives Monday, the landowner and a Palestinian faction leader said. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Badran Jabir said Israeli troops ransacked his home and farm, damaging irrigation networks and seedlings. He said he…. Related: PFLP leader says forces destroy land, detain 2
PA cabinet: Direct talks require timeframe
8/2/2010 – Ramallah – Ma’an – The Palestinian Authority cabinet said Monday that direct talks with Israel required a strict timeframe and would not be entered without a total settlement freeze. The weekly meeting, chaired by premier Salam Fayyad, saw ministers call on the international community to intervene in Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem, which the cabinet described….
Center says Israeli forces raided prison ward
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Al-Asra Center for Prisoners Studies said Monday that an Israeli special force unit raided a ward holding several high-ranking Palestinian leaders. Prisoners told the center that the Dror unit stormed the ward Sunday, damaging personal property and confiscating photo albums, books, and letters. The center added that the Israeli Prison….
Rights group condemns wave of political arrests
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Palestinian Authority is waging a campaign of politically-motivated arrests in the West Bank, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights alleged Monday. According to PCHR investigations, human rights activist Islam Hamed Khadayer, 35, was interrogated for seven hours at the General Intelligence Service headquarters in Nablus on Saturday. On his return home, PA….
Official: Israel increasing amount of goods into Gaza
8/2/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Israel has begun increasing the number of trucks delivering goods into Gaza since 1 August, a crossings official said Monday. Liaison officer Raed Fattouh said Israel began implementing its cabinet decision to increase the amount of goods entering the Strip, adding that two Gaza crossings would be opened for deliveries on Monday. Israel….
Lebanon arrests another alleged Israel spy
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Lebanese security forces last week arrested another senior official from the state’s telecommunications network suspected of spying on behalf of Israel, Lebanese media reported. Milad Eid, 66, is the fourth telecommunications official arrested this year in an alleged ring linked to Israel’s intelligence service, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported quoting a Lebanese newspaper….
Bahar: Fatah obstructed PUIC visit to Gaza
8/2/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Deputized PLC speaker Ahmad Bahar accused the Palestinian Authority of obstructing the visit of the Parliamentary Union of Islamic States to Gaza on Monday. In a statement, Bahar said Fatah PLC member Azzam Al-Ahmad intervened to stop the visit, by coordinating with Egyptian authorities, and described the move as a “political…. Related: Fatah warns PUIC delegation to help, not hurt Gaza
Israeli army detains 11 in West Bank overnight
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Israeli army said Monday that its forces detained 11 Palestinians across the West Bank overnight. A military spokeswoman told Ma’an that the detentions were carried out in Awarta in Nablus, Ni’lin in Ramallah, Bethlehem and its Husan village, Hebron and its Surif village, and Tammun in Tubas….
PFLP leader says forces destroy land, detain 2
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Badran Jabir said Israeli forces damaged farmland in the Al-Baq’a area on the outskirts of Hebron, and that two relatives were detained shortly after. Jabir further alleged that forces assaulted his relatives before they were detained, after trying to protect the family’s property…. Related: PFLP leader: Israeli forces destroy pipes, detain 2
Group says 2 injured in Bil’in rally
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bil’in said two participating in a weekly anti-wall rally on Friday were injured by Israeli forces. A statement issued by the group said one Israeli protester was hit by a tear-gas canister in the leg, while one British national sustained busing to his back after being….
Rights group: Silence over airstrikes spurs impunity
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – Palestinian rights group Al-Mezan warned Monday that the international community’s silence over Israel’s escalation of attacks on Gaza encourages Israel to violate international law with impunity, a statement read. The human rights center conducted field investigations of the damage caused by the weekend’s airstrikes, which killed one…. Related: Al Mezan: Series of IOF Arial Attacks Hit Gaza
Nativity deportee says family denied entry to Jordan
8/2/2010 – Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli authorities on Friday stopped the wife and children of a Palestinian exiled by Israel following the siege of the Church of Nativity, the deportee said. Naji Ubayyat said his family was en route to visit him in Gaza, hoping to travel from Jordan to Egypt and then over the Rafah crossing. He….
Jordanian media: Man injured by rocket dies
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – A Jordanian man who was injured Monday by a rocket has died, Jordan TV reported. The man was identified as Sobhi Al-Alawaneh, one of four hurt by the projectile in the coastal city of Aqaba…. Related: 1 dead after rockets strike Jordan and Israel
Israel agrees to UN flotilla probe
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – A forum of senior Israeli ministers agreed Monday to a UN inquiry into the commando raid of an aid flotilla which left nine civilians dead, Israeli media reported. UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon described the approval as “unprecedented,” and it will be the first time Israel has ever participated in a UN investigation of….
Erekat demands action over Jerusalem settlements
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – As international pressure mounts on Palestinians to resume direct talks, chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat appealed for the same pressure to be applied on Israel to end its “brutal policies.””At a time when world leaders passionately call for direct talks, I call on them to exert the same level of passion to….
In photos: Qalqiliya mosque gets new dome
8/2/2010 – MaanImages / Khaleel Reash – A crane installs a dome on the Sultan Muhammed Al-Fateh Mosque in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya on 1 August 2010. It was designed in the style of the Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem….
Worker dies after falling from minaret
8/2/2010 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – A Palestinian worker died Monday after falling from a mosque minaret in a village in northern Israel, medics said. The unidentified worker, aged 26, from the West Bank, was undertaking repairs to the minaret of the Al-Rawda Mosque in the Al-Ba’inah village in the Galilee when he fell and sustained serious injuries, medics….
Revered rabbi preaches slaughter of gentile babies
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Settlers step up ‘price-tag’ policy A rabbi from one of the most violent settlements in the West Bank was questioned on suspicion of incitement last week as Israeli police stepped up their investigation into a book…
“Insanity rage” behind battle to block so-called ground zero mosque
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Although I am Christian, most Americans think I am Muslim. So I get a lot of “Why don’t you people do this or that” type of questions. Why didn’t you people denounce Osama Bin Laden and…
Fighting apartheid
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Semantics are extremely important to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Security Barrier versus Separation Wall; Dead Terrorist versus Martyr; throw in a video of soldiers dancing in the streets of Hebron and you have the second front of…
Taking our message to Congress
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – July 20 I had the chance with my other Israeli and Palestinian colleges from the New Story Leadership for the Middle East Program (NSL) to speak at a special Congressional forum, and I might have been…
Israel prepares to deport hundreds of children
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – After a year-long battle over the fate of 1200 children of undocumented migrant workers, the Israeli cabinet has finalized plans that will lead to the deportation of at least 400 minors, along with their parents. The…
Palestinians to Abbas: Give us back democracy
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Washington — In an open letter sent Thursday to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, a collection of Palestinian intellectuals and activists have made a request of the PA leader: give Palestinians back their freedom. The Electronic…
Barkat: J’lem settlement freeze ‘racist, illegal’
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Washington — Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat condemned recent UN requests to halt settlement construction in East Jerusalem as “racist” and “illegal,” the Jerusalem Post reported Monday. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Israeli President Shimon Peres in…
J Street backs NYC community center
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Washington – After the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a statement last week calling for the Cordoba Initiative’s Muslim community center to relocate to a site farther from Ground Zero, “pro-Israel, pro-peace” group J Street has come…
Turkish mayor calls for Israeli tourists to return
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Washington — The mayor of one of Turkey’s largest resort towns, Antalya, criticized Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Monday, calling for greater tourism by Israelis and an end to diplomatic hostility between Israel and Turkey, Ynet…
Facing outcry, Israeli army appoints ‘humanitarian officers’
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Washington – The Israeli military announced on Monday that it will assign officers tasked with protecting civilians during wartime. A Palestinian woman and Israeli soldier square off. [Perealbiac – Flickr] The Associated Press attributed the move…
UAE, Saudi Arabia ban the BlackBerry
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Washington — The United Arab Emirates has decided to ban BlackBerry email, text, and web browsing services starting in October, citing security concerns over the PDAs’ encryption capabilities, The Guardian reported Monday. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority…
Gazans oppose Hamas ‘decency campaign’
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – By Mariam Hamed Gaza – The Hamas government in Gaza has begun a series of measures aimed at curtailing what it views as indecency in the Gaza Strip. This month, de facto government has ruled against…
In reversal, Israel says it will cooperate with UN flotilla probe
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – New York – Israel announced on Monday that it will cooperate with a UN-mandated investigation into its deadly May 31 attack on a Gaza-bound aid convoy in international waters. Israeli warships trail the Mavi Marmara, the…
Muslim Brotherhood to boycott Jordan elections
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Washington — The Islamic Action Front, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Jordanian branch, has voted to boycott general elections set for November, citing suspected election fraud, the Jerusalem Post reported Monday. “The decision was adopted by a large…
PLO leader denies claim that US threatened PA
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Washington – Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official Hanan Ashrawi has denied saying that the US threatened to sever ties with the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless it began direct talks with Israel. Palestinian Legislative Council member Hanan…
Medics say 42 injured in reported Gaza airstrike
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Washington – A senior Hamas military leader’s home was reportedly the target of an Israeli airstrike early Monday morning, which injured 42, according to medics. The home of Hamas military leader Alla Ad-Danaf was subject to…
Rockets kill 1 in Jordan resort
Palestine Note 2 Aug 2010 – Israel blames Egypt for attack following Gaza blast New York – Rockets apparently fired at Israel landed in the Jordanian resort town of Aqaba on Monday, killing a taxi driver and injuring four others . Israel also…
Israel ‘to assist’ flotilla inquiry
AlJazeera 2 Aug 2010 – Israel it says it has no problems with four-member UN panel investigating deadly raid.
Israel agrees new settlement homes
AlJazeera 2 Aug 2010 – New homes to be built in east Jerusalem settlement as push for direct talks continues.
Rockets strike Jordan and Israel
AlJazeera 2 Aug 2010 – One killed and four injured as rocket believed to have been fired in Egypt hits Aqaba.
Assad: Chances of war ‘increasing’
AlJazeera 2 Aug 2010 – Syrian president warns of renewed conflict, demands return of occupied Golan Heights.
Glass Factories In Hebron: Cultural Identity Faces Threat Of Extinction
PNN – Muhannad Al-Adam/PNN/Exclusive – In a small old factory located in Hebron’s old city, Al-Natshah family had practiced handmade glass making for the past 120 years. But now their historical trade is now…
Short-Range Rockets Hit Eilat and Aqaba
PNN – Jordan/Israel — PNN – A little before 8 AM Monday morning, the popular tourist Israeli city of Eilat received a wakeup call from five different short range rockets. Israel believes that the…
Possible Trilateral Talk Before Abbas, Netanyahu Sit Down
PNN – PNN-Bethlehem-Palestinian President asks for discussion between aides and America before reestablishing direct talks with Israeli PM. The Obama administration supports Abbas’ idea of trilateral talk and is attempting to persuade Israel to…
Explosion at Hamas Official’s house injures 24 people
PNN – It is unclear if Hamas leader Alaa al-Danaf was killed in the explosion, which Israel denies any involvement in. Hamas is blaming Israel for the attempt on al-Danaf’s life, in a week…
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
Church of Holy Sepulchre stuck with bill
Jeruslalem Post 3 Aug 2010 – J’lem utility to stop providing free water to church, other sites.
Iran saves Israel Radio foreign broadcasts
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Ahmadinejad’s belligerence justifies continued funding.
PA arresting Hamas figures’ relatives
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – W. Bank. authorities turning up pressure on group to thwart expansion.
Analysis: Israel, Jordan fighting terror
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Both countries are working together after Eilat, Aqaba attack.
‘Hizbullah unlikely to go to war’
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Ayalon: Group won’t attack Israel to deflect focus from Hariri probe.
‘295 homes begun since freeze’
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Peace Now claims settlers violated freeze in West Bank.
Israel allows 250 trucks into Gaza
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – First large convoy of trucks to enter Gaza after easing of blockade.
Votes on migrants’ kids divide party
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Barak attacks fellow Labor MKs Herzog and Braverman over vote.
New Pisgat Ze’ev housing project okayed
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Likud Jerusalem city councilor: We must continue to build
Peres visits families of airmen killed in Romania
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – “These were the finest sons of Israel”
Jordanian dies of wounds from southern rocket attack
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Projectile struck near Intercontinental Hotel in Aqaba, killing a taxi driver and injuring 4 more; 4 additional rockets struck near Eilat, in Jordan, and in Red Sea; Egypt denies they were launched from Sinai.
‘Israel, Jordan fighting terror together’
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Peres expresses sadness over Jordanians injured in rocket attacks.
Egypt: ‘Impossible’ that rockets were fired from Sinai
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Five rockets fell near Eilat, striking near city, in Red Sea, and in Jordan, injuring 4 in Aqaba; suspected to have been launched from Sinai; IDF in contact with Jordanian, Egyptian armies; scouring area to determine source of attacks.
Skintight headscarves and full tracksuits
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Iran plays women’s rugby in Europe for 1st time.
Israel agrees in principal to UN inquiry
Jeruslalem Post 2 Aug 2010 – Barak tells Ki-Moon in favor of establishing UN flotilla probe.
International Solidarity Movement
First anniversary of double Sheikh Jarrah eviction
8/2/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Today, August 2nd, marks one year since the Hanoun and al-Ghawi families were evicted from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem at 5:30 in the morning by Israeli security forces. The families, together with their Palestinian, Israeli and international supporters will mark the date with a gathering and prayer at….
The weekend in protests
8/2/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Reports of all the weekend demonstrations in the West Bank attended by ISM activists. – Bil’in: tributes paid to Olympia and music from rappers in solidarity with Palestine (July 30th) Dozens suffered from tear gas inhalation and stun grenades in Bil’in’s weekly demonstration, and two people were injured. On Friday 30 July….
Fourth suspect arrested in alleged Jewish terrorist affair
Ha’aretz – Resident of Binyamin settlement arrested on suspicion of aiding alleged Jewish terrorist Chaim Pearlman, Army Radio reports.
Report: Kibbutz Movement offers to absorb children of foreign workers set for deportation
Ha’aretz – Movement’s leader has begun asking member kibbutzim whether they would be willing to take in children not eligible for legal status.
Haifa man stabbed by youths while picnicking on the beach
Ha’aretz – Pavel Gorbonov, who recently immigrated to Israel from Russia, was hospitalized in Rambam Hospital in moderate condition.
Head of UN panel: Gaza flotilla probe will be ‘challenging’
Ha’aretz – Former New Zealand premier Geoffrey Palmer says issue is very sensitive one; stresses need to maintain a sense of detachment.
U.S. group launches campaign against West Bank settlement construction
Ha’aretz – Americans for Peace Now urges U.S. citizens to record short videos in which they will explain how settlement construction could negatively Israel’s U.S. image.
U.S.: Failure to advance peace talks will have consequences
Ha’aretz – State Dept. official reiterates Washington denial of reported threat to cut ties with the PA if Abbas failed to upgrade existing indirect peace negotiations.
Netanyahu: Terror groups are trying to thwart Mideast peace
Ha’aretz – PM’s comments to Egypt’s Mubarak, Jordan’s Abdullah come after rockets land in Eilat, Aqaba, killing one Jordanian citizen.
ANALYSIS / With UN flotilla probe, Ban ki-Moon is trying to stay relevant
Ha’aretz – UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon was desperate to earn a diplomatic achievement, in the wake of charges recently leveled against him by the former UN comptroller.
‘Israel’s part in UN flotilla probe eliminates need for other inquires’
Ha’aretz – Statement by U.S. UN envoy comes as PM Netanyahu declares Israel had nothing to hide from the planned Review Panel.
Lebanon arrests fourth telecommunications official in alleged Israel spy ring
Ha’aretz – More than 50 Lebanese citizens have been arrested since April last year in a broad espionage investigation.
Jordan man killed after 5 rockets strike Eilat, Aqaba
Ha’aretz – Jordan, Israeli police say rockets were launched from Egypt’s Sinai by Islamist militants; unexploded rocket found in Eilat.
Ramon hits back over claims he tried to scuttle peace talks
Ha’aretz – Former minister brands as a ‘liar’ witness who claimed to overhear conversation in Jerusalem hotel.
IOF erects new checkpoint in Nablus
2 Aug 2010 – Nablus, August 2, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces erected today morning a new militant checkpoint at the main entrance to the village of ‘Salem’ near Nablus, in the northern West Bank. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli militant Jeep stopped the passing cars on the main road of the village and seized a number of the youngsters and strip-searched them. Witnesses said…
Israel releases Gazan university professor today
2 Aug 2010 – Gaza, August 2, (Pal Telegraph) The Israeli occupation authorities decided to release the professor at the Islamic University in Gaza, Hamdan Al Soofi later today. Spokesperson for “Wa’ed” Asssociation for prisoners and freed prisoners, Abdullah Kandil, confirmed that a delegation of his association along with the family of the prisoner will go to Beit Hanoun —northern Gaza- to meet and…
Israel agrees on forming a UN inquiry committee
2 Aug 2010 – Gaza, August 2, (Pal Telegraph) Israel agreed on the UN’s intention to form a crew of a UN fact-finding inquiry committee on the events of the attack on the fleet of freedom on the end of last May which resulted in the death of nine Turks and wounding dozens onboard. According to Israeli radio that “Israel” had notified the Secretary-General…
IOF raids Hebron, arrests 2
2 Aug 2010 – Hebron, August 2, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces arrested today morning a number of Palestinians after raiding their home in the village of ‘Boqaa’ located to the east of Hebron, Israeli occupation forces also launched a campaign of destruction of agricultural lands and confiscation of water pipes. Mari Jaber, a citizen of the village, said that the Israeli occupation forces…
IOF raids 2 villages in Nablus
2 Aug 2010 – Nablus, August 2, (Pal Telegraph) The Israeli army invaded today morning the villages of ‘Awarta’ and ‘Beit Furik’ located at the southeast of Nablus in the northern West Bank without any reported arrests. Witnesses said that the militant Israeli patrols stormed the village of ‘Awarta’, and raided a number of houses without any reported arrests. Witnesses added the Israeli army…
Medics: Israeli airstrike injures 42 in Gaza
Uruknet August 2, 2010 – Israeli warplanes targeted the home of a senior Hamas military leader in the central Gaza Strip early Monday leaving 42 civilians injured, medics said. Al-Qassam Brigades leader Alla Ad-Danaf’s home in Deir Al-Balah was destroyed along with five others by a missile from an Israeli F16 fighter jet, military medical services coordinator Adham Abu Salmiyya…
Israeli settlers escalate attacks on civilians’ propertyEXCLUSIVE PICTURES
Uruknet August 2, 2010 – On Friday, 30 July, a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian fields in the town of Burin in the West Bank. They set the fields on fire and assaulted a number of citizens who attempted to defend their land. Hundreds of dunums (one dunum equals 1,000 square meters) of land near the Hawara military checkpoint…
Ahmadinejad ready for Obama talks
Uruknet August 2, 2010 ‚Äî Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday he was ready for face-to-face talks with his US counterpart Barack Obama, whom he said was being influenced by Israel in his global policies. Criticising Obama for missing “historic opportunities” to repair the broken relations with Iran, Ahmadinejad said he was ready to discuss issues concerning the international…
Rockets strike Jordan and Israel
Uruknet August 2, 2010 – Rockets have hit Red Sea port cities in Jordan and Israel, leaving one man dead and four others wounded. One rocket exploded in the street in front of the InterContinental Hotel in the Jordanian city of Aqaba on Monday morning, wounding five Jordanian men, one of whom later died of his wounds, the Amman government…
OPT: Gaza humanitarian timeline since 2005
Uruknet August 1, 2010 – 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 crisis” in the Gaza Strip. The economy, food security and health of the estimated 1.5 million Palestinians – about 80 percent of whom…
PFLP: Obama’s threats and PA submission are a dead end for the Palestinian people
Uruknet August 1, 2010 – Comrade Dr. Maher al-Taher, member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation and leader of its branch in exile, said in an interview with Al-Jazeera on July 30, 2010 that the Palestinian leadership must protect the interests of the Palestinian people, not the interests of the U.S. and the Obama administration….
Making Gaza a ‘European ghetto’
Uruknet August 1, 2010 – While most Israeli leaders are resistant to fully lifting the blockade of Gaza, Avigdor Lieberman, the right-wing foreign minister, is advocating that Israel abandon the Strip to international monitoring and economic rehabilitation. The proposal, recently leaked to the Israeli press, does not amount to freeing Gaza but rather to placing it under European sea and…
Stolen Land, Stolen Trees, Stolen Livelihoods
Uruknet August 1, 2010 – Imagine your livelihood is farming. You grow a variety of products that have sustained you and your family for generations. Then, imagine that the Army decides to erect a long fence that blocks you from accessing your farm. They say you will be able to get a permit to enter your own land, but when…
Fury over Israel’s plan to deport foreign workers’ children
The National 2 Aug 2010 – The Israeli cabinet approves a plan to expel 400 children of foreign workers in Israel, who now must leave by the end of the month.
Israel ‘to co-operate with UN flotilla inquiry’
The National 2 Aug 2010 – Reports in the Israeli press suggest the government will co-operate with a UN panel set up to examine the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in May.
Gaza blast wounds 24 Palestinians
The National 2 Aug 2010 – An explosion in the house of a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip has wounded 24 people, a Hamas official and medical workers say.
Israel to Expel 400 Migrant Children
Alternative Information Center – An inter-ministerial committee commissioned by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu voted to deport 400 children of migrant workers. The remaining 800 out of the 1,200 children in question will be allowed to remain in Israel .
Solidarity Visit to Demolished Bedouin Village
Alternative Information Center – A solidarity visit to El Araqib, the village razed last week by the Israeli authorities , was conducted on Saturday (31 July) by a coalition of Israeli anti-occupation and social justice groups, with the hope to demonstrate…
Jerusalem Pride March
Alternative Information Center – Thousands gathered in Jerusalem ’s Independence Park on Thursday 29 July for the start of the city’s annual Pride March. This year’s parade was particularly important, as it marked the one-year anniversary of the tragic shooting…
Grandi Calls for Return of Sheikh Jarrah Families to their Homes
WAFA – JERUSALEM, August 2, 2010 (WAFA)- On this sad occasion of the first anniversary of the eviction of 11 Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, UNRWA Commissioner General Filippo
Israel Okays Additional Construction in Occupied Lands
WAFA – TEL AVIV, August 2, 2010 (WAFA)- Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem approved on Monday the construction of 40 additional housing units in eastern Pisgat Ze’ev, which is located on land captured by
Forth Suspect Arrested in ‘Jewish Terrorist’ Affair
WAFA – TEL AVIV, August 2, 2010 (WAFA)- A 30-year-old man from a West Bank settlement in the Ramallah area was questioned by the police on Monday morning. The man is said to be a friend of ‘Jewish
Al Mezan Warns from Escalation of Ariel Attacks on Gaza
WAFA – August 2, 2010 (WAFA)- Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights strongly condemned, today, the Israeli attacks which killed one Palestinian, injured more than 21 and damaged 30 houses and institutions.
Operation Dove Celebrates 3rd Year of Tuwani Steadfastness
WAFA – , August 2, 2010 (WAFA)- “Please come and show
HRW: Halt Demolitions of Bedouin Homes in Negev
WAFA – JERUSALEM, August 2, 2010 (WAFA)- The Israeli government should immediately impose a moratorium on demolishing the homes of Bedouin citizens, Human Rights Watch said. The government should
UN sets up Gaza flotilla probe with Israel’s cooperation
Daily Star 2 Aug 2010
Rockets hit Israel, Jordan resorts as peace talks falter
Daily Star 2 Aug 2010
Israel fears Turks could pass its military secrets to Iran
Daily Star 2 Aug 2010
Another telecom worker suspected of spying for Israel
Daily Star 2 Aug 2010
Jumblatt makes amends with Emile Lahoud
Daily Star 2 Aug 2010
Ex-US envoy to Israel averse to war with Hizbullah, promotes pre-emptive action
Daily Star 2 Aug 2010
Last kaffiyeh factory
The Guardian 2 Aug 2010 – Family’s battle to continue producing the popular chequered headscarf — internationally recognised symbol of the Palestinian national struggle — amid competition from cheap imports
Gaza flotilla raid: Israel to co-operate with UN inquiry
The Guardian 2 Aug 2010 – UN secretary-general hails ‘unprecedented development’, as Binyamin Netanyahu says Israel has nothing to hide Israel today agreed to co-operate with a UN investigation into the lethal attack on a flotilla of ships attempting to break the…
Last kaffiyeh factory struggles to stay afloat in Palestinian territories
The Guardian 2 Aug 2010 – The chequered Palestinian headscarf has never been more popular, but cheap imports are killing the homegrown product In pictures: the last keffiyeh factory In a rundown office to the side of a gloomy and deserted breeze-block…
One killed and four injured as rocket hits Jordanian city of Aqaba
The Guardian 2 Aug 2010 – Incident happened as rockets were fired from Sinai peninsula towards Israeli resort of Eilat One person was killed and four injured when a rocket hit the Jordanian coastal city of Aqaba today . It happened when a…
Human Rights Committee concludes ninety-ninth session
Relief Web 2 Aug 2010 – Source: UN Human Rights Committee
OPT: Statement by Filippo Grandi, UNRWA Commissioner-General – 2 August 2010
Relief Web 2 Aug 2010 – Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Jordan: Soup kitchen provides lifeline for elderly refugees
Relief Web 2 Aug 2010 – Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
OCHA ROMENACA QUARTERLY REGIONAL HUMANITARIAN FUNDING UPDATE – 2nd Quarter April-June 2010
Relief Web 2 Aug 2010 – Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
U.N. Names Panel to Probe Israeli Killings on Gaza-Bound Ship
IPS Despite initial misgivings, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon received the tacit approval of the Israeli government to establish an international panel to probe the widely-condemned killings of nine Turkish civilians onboard a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last May.
ISRAEL: Women Take On the Orthodox
IPS Jerusalem is a city blessed but also cursed by its own holiness. No more so than here at ‘Ground Zero’, the religious epicentre within the walled Old City, beneath the most disputed holy site — the Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary as known to Muslims, Har Habayit or the Temple…
Jerusalem okays additional construction
YNet News – Committee allows 40 more units in Pisgat Ze’ev, beyond 1967 borders, despite….
Haniyeh names his grandson Erdogan
YNet News – Hamas leader in Gaza pays tribute to Turkish prime minister in gratitude for his….
4th suspect arrested in ‘Jewish terrorist’ affair
YNet News – Resident of West Bank settlement who studied in same yeshiva as Haim Pearlman….
Rockets explode in Eilat, Aqaba; casualties in Jordan
YNet News – (Video) Rocket apparently fired by terrorists in Sinai explodes in open area in….
Senior Lebanese employee suspected of spying for Israel
YNet News – Authorities arrest manager responsible for outgoing international phone calls in….
US envoy: Iran, N. Korea nukes threaten security
YNet News – State Department’s nonproliferation adviser calls to increase pressure on….
Gaza: Blast in Hamas man’s house wounds 24 Palestinians
YNet News – Islamist group blames Israel for explosion in home of field commander Alaa….
Official: State won’t allow UN to question Israelis
YNet News – State officials stressed Monday that though Israel had agreed to cooperate with a UN probe on the IDF raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in May, the government would not allow …….
IDF refuses to recruit intersexed haredi man
YNet News – A 30-year-old ultra-Orthodox man who was born with both female and male sex organs and was denied a request to join the Israel Defense Forces said Monday that the army …….
Police: Palestinians beat cabbie, steal cab
YNet News – Palestinians are suspected to have beaten and robbed an Israeli taxi driver who drove them to Hawara, in the West Bank, on Monday. The driver was moderately injured …….
Security guard injured at checkpoint
YNet News – A civilian security guard was injured Monday afternoon at Qalandiya checkpoint, north of Jerusalem. He sustained a hand injury while standing at the observation post. …….
Israel to cooperate with UN probe into flotilla raid
YNet News – WASHINGTON – The government is expected to cooperate with the Unites Nations’ investigation into May’s deadly Navy raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, Prime Minister Benjamin …….
Rocket misses Israeli town, kills 1 in Jordan, authorities say
LA Times 3 Aug 2010 – Five are injured in the blast near a luxury hotel. Israeli officials say as many as five rockets were fired at the town of Eilat and missed. They blame the attack on militants in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. Egypt denies the reports. A rocket apparently aimed at an Israeli resort on the Red Sea landed Monday near a luxury hotel in neighboring Jordan, killing one person and wounding five in an attack probably launched by Islamic militants in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, according to Israeli authorities.
Rocket Hits Resort on Border of Jordan and Israel
New York Times 2 Aug 2010 – A rocket that was likely meant for Israel also left five injured on Monday in Aqaba, Jordan, officials said.
Israel Takes Another Step Away from Democracy
Palestine Monitor – According to the BNC(Boycott National Committee) Statement published on the 9th of July “after five years of BDS, the movement has proven, indisputably, to be the most effective and morally consistent form of solidarity with the people of Palestine in our struggle to end Israel’s occupation,…
Update from the ‘Tent of Nations’
Mondoweiss – In late May, I wrote a piece about the Nassar family’s ‘Tent of Nations’ project outside Bethlehem, and the demolition orders that had been issued by the Israeli occupation forces. I have just got back from a visit to Palestine and was able to visit the…
NY cruise for Gaza now sold out!
Mondoweiss – Wow. 400 places on the New York cruise Thursday, to raise money for the US boat to Gaza, all gone! You can get on a waiting list.
Finkelstein hits the silver screen
Mondoweiss – American Radical, the movie about Norman Finkelstein, showed at the Michael Moore film festival t his weekend, in Michigan.
Lo, another Israel apologist on the NYT op-ed page!
Mondoweiss – The staying power of neocons is amazing. Here is Efraim Karsh, the man who denied the Nakba , who wrote that Palestinians were “driven” out in 1948 by their own leaders, is on the Op Ed page of the NYT today , writing that there are no reasonable…
Israel to deport 100s of children (what say open-border neocons?)
Mondoweiss – Israel announced plans to deport 400 children of migrant workers , born in Israel, speaking Hebrew, the children of people came legally to do work that Israelis don’t want to do and Palestinians aren’t allowed to do. It’s an ugly business, but, as Benjamin Netanyahu succinctly put…
Israeli Strike Injures 42 in Gaza; Hamas Holds Arabs Responsible for Escalation
Al-Manar 2 Aug 2010 – Israeli occupation warplanes escalated its aggression on Monday morning against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. According to medics, the Israeli warplanes bombed home of a senior Hamas military wing leader in the central Gaza Strip, leaving 42 civilians injured. Al-Qassam Brigades leader Alaa Ad-Danaf’s…
Israel Arrests Children Walking Near West Bank Separation Wall
Joseph Dana 2 Aug 2010 – At 12pm on Monday August 2nd, three children who had been walking near the wall in Bil’in village where arrested by Israeli soldiers. The three 14-year-old friends Moatasem Ali Mansor, Majde Burnat, and Mohamad Abu Rahmah often take walks near the wall. Today they were detained…
Death of War Criminals Over the Carpathian Mountains
Palestine Think Tank 2 Aug 2010 – The justice of heaven intervened to relieve the children of Gaza and Lebanon from the war crimes of six Israeli zionists of the IAF. It is divine justice which wanted the zionists murderers to die on the Romanian Carpathian Mountains, to shred their bodies into small…
Israel endorses UN flotilla probe
BBC 2 Aug 2010 – Israel announces it will co-operate with a UN panel of investigation into its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May which killed nine Turkish activists.
‘One dead’ as missile hits Jordan
BBC 2 Aug 2010 – One man is killed when a rocket lands in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba, one of several apparently fired at the nearby Israeli resort of Eilat, reports say.
Gaza blast destroys Hamas house
BBC 1 Aug 2010 – A large explosion at the Gaza home of a senior Hamas commander injures more than 20 people, but Israel denies involvement.
All Quiet on the Eastern Front
Antiwar.com 2 Aug 2010 – People endowed with sensitive political ears were startled this week by two words, which, so it seemed, escaped from the mouth of Benjamin Netanyahu by accident: “Eastern front.” Once upon a time these words were part of the everyday vocabulary of the occupation. In recent years…
America’s “Dog in the Fight” — by Franklin Lamb
Sabbah report 2 Aug 2010 – Will Hezbollah leash ‘NABI’ ? By Franklin Lamb* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz For months as Lebanon’s historic debate over basic civil rights for Palestinian refugees has unfolded, the Obama administration has watched idly along the sidelines. As hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees cough and slow-bake…
Israel Classifies its Past as Top Secret — by Lawrence Davidson
Sabbah report 2 Aug 2010 – By Lawrence Davidson | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz 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…
Articles
The Closing of the Zionist Mind
Juan Cole, JuanCole.com7/30/2010
“I got exactly the same treatment in the 1970s from Maronite Christians in Lebanon and in the 1990s from pro-Milosevic Serbs, and recognize the condition. It is Failing Nationalism Syndrome (FNS).”
It finally happened. The Jerusalem Post has declared archeology itself anti-Semitic.
To tell you the truth, I am frankly worried about some of my colleagues who are committed Zionists having difficulty in dealing with reality in the wake of the severe difficulties facing the Zionist project in historical Palestine.
Caroline Glick’s inaccurate and angry attack on me in the Jerusalem Post reminded me again of why I am anxious about the Closing of the Zionist Mind.
Glick is actually alleging that anyone who practices critical history of the ancient world or the Middle East in general is thereby an anti-Jewish bigot. Glick, from Chicago, was a captain in the Israeli army and a judge advocate-general during the first Intifada or Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, which the Israeli army brutally crushed. She seems to be going off the deep end, having made herself notorious with the sick satirical video ‘We Con the World,’ which made fun of the civilian aid workers killed by Israeli commandos on May 31 of this year (and which appears to have had some backing from the Israeli government itself).
I don’t know if Captain Glick ever was not a zealot, but the bitterness and extremeness of her comments are now to the point of irrationality. more.. e-mail
Jewish groups angered by churches’ boycott call
Barney Zwartz, The Age8/2/2010
AUSTRALIA’S leading church group has called on Australian churches and the public to boycott Israeli goods made in occupied Palestinian territories.
The National Council of Churches in Australia – which includes the Catholic, Anglican, Uniting and Orthodox churches among its members – passed the resolution last month.
Proposed by the Uniting Church and seconded by the Anglicans, the motion asks the council’s welfare agency, Act for Peace, to help member churches with the boycott and urges Christians involved in interfaith dialogue to include justice for Palestinians in their conversations.
Jewish groups were horrified at the resolution. Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Robert Goot told the council in a letter the move was a ’’most unpleasant surprise’’.
’’We feel that we have been badly let down by people we have long thought of as our friends,’’ the letter said.
Mr Goot would not comment further yesterday as the two councils are meeting next week on the issue.
Sydney Jewish interfaith spokeswoman Josie Lacey said she was incredibly disappointed and it would ’’cause a ripple’’ in relationships with the churches.
’’I think this will give coverage to those who hate us,’’ she said. The resolution talks of the churches’ repentance for past silence and indifference to Palestinian suffering through the occupation, and promises to ’’advocate and act for an end to the occupation’’more.. e-mail
Making Gaza A ‘European Ghetto’
Lamis Andoni, Political Theatrics8/2/2010
While most Israeli leaders are resistant to fully lifting the blockade of Gaza, Avigdor Lieberman, the right-wing foreign minister, is advocating that Israel abandon the Strip to international monitoring and economic rehabilitation.
The proposal, recently leaked to the Israeli press, does not amount to freeing Gaza but rather to placing it under European sea and land inspections and a reconstruction plan.
If implemented, it will permanently sever the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, transforming the Strip into an internationally supervised ghetto — with the dual purpose of ensuring Israeli security and reigning in the Palestinian population.
The isolation of Gaza would further undermine the vision of a contiguous Palestinian state or any form of equitable coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis. It would also divide those families with members in the West Bank, creating a permanent schism in Palestinian society and deepening the sense of fragmentation.
Hamas would effectively be ruling a development project with no meaningful ties to the rest of the Palestinian people.
The Gaza burden
Lieberman’s proposal is interlinked with the calls by his right-wing Yisrael Beituna party for the eviction of Israel’s Arab minority and Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as it serves the same vision of an exclusively Jewish state and the elimination of the national rights and aspirations of the Palestinian people. — See also: Source: AlJazeera more.. e-mail
Book review: Israel and apartheid S. Africa’s “Unspoken Alliance”
Electronic Intifada: 2 Aug 2010 – In The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa , historian and Foreign Affairs editor Sasha Polakow-Suransky explores the rise and fall of the Cold War-era alliance between Israel and apartheid South Africa. Jimmy Johnson reviews for The Electronic Intifada.more
South Africa’s lessons for Gaza
Electronic Intifada: 2 Aug 2010 – The Palestinian national movement has overlooked this question: does the Gaza Strip resemble the racist Bantustans of apartheid South Africa? During the apartheid era, South Africa’s black population was kept in isolation and without political and civil rights. Is Gaza similar? The answer is yes and no. Haidar Eid analyzes.more
Israel Takes Another Step Away from Democracy
Palestine Monitor: 2 Aug 2010 – According to the BNC(Boycott National Committee) Statement published on the 9th of July “after five years of BDS, the movement has proven, indisputably, to be the most effective and morally consistent form of solidarity with the people of Palestine in our struggle to end Israel’s occupation, apartheid, and persistent denial of the UN-sanctioned right of return for the Palestinian refugees.” With academic and trade Unions (including UNISON), cultural figures including Dustin Hoffman and Elvis Costello and large supermarket chains including Marks and Spencers on board, the BDS campaign is gaining momentum. Furthermore it is beginning to have an economic impact: settlements have been reporting cuts in production as a result of the boycotts. Israel is showing signs of distress. The non-violent boycott campaign has now joined the ranks of all other forms of Palestinian resistance, being awarded the label of ‘economic terrorism’ by Israeli officials. As is the standard…more
Revered Rabbi Preaches Slaughter of Gentile Babies
Dissident Voice: 2 Aug 2010 – A rabbi from one of the most violent settlements in the West Bank was questioned on suspicion of incitement last week as Israeli police stepped up their investigation into a book in which he sanctions the killing of non-Jews, including children and babies. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira is one of the leading ideologues of the extreme wing of the religious settler movement. He is known to be a champion of the “price-tag” policy of reprisal attacks on Palestinians, including punishing them for attempts by officials to enforce Israeli law against the settlements. So far the policy has chiefly involved violent harassment of Palestinians, with settlers inflicting beatings, attacking homes, throwing stones, burning fields, killing livestock and poisoning wells. It is feared, however, that Shapira’s book The King’s Torah , published last year, is intended to offer ideological justifications for widening the scope of such attacks to include killing Palestinians,…more
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