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Hebron Child Released on Bail
IMEMC – 4 Oct 2010 – Monday October 04, 2010 – 14:19, The Ofer Israeli Military Court released on Monday a 15-year-old child from the southern West Bank city of Hebron after forcing his family to pay a 5.000 NIS bail.
Palestinian Worker Shot Dead By Israeli Policeman Near Jerusalem
IMEMC – 4 Oct 2010 – Monday October 04, 2010 – 11:34, A Palestinian laborer was shot and killed, on Monday at dawn, by an Israeli policeman, who reportedly shot him at point blank range in occupied East Jerusalem. The policeman was placed under house arrest for five days.
Netanyahu Places News Conditions For Extending Freeze
IMEMC – 4 Oct 2010 – Monday October 04, 2010 – 10:32, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that he agrees to extending settlement construction freeze for a number of months, but in return he wants guarantees that it will not be asked for a further extension.
Settlers Torch Mosque, Copies of the Holy Quran, Near Bethlehem
IMEMC – 4 Oct 2010 – Monday October 04, 2010 – 08:16, A group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers broke into a mosque, on Sunday at night, in Beit Fajjar, near Bethlehem, and set it ablaze.
Locals say settlers burned Bethlehem mosque
10/4/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Residents of the Beit Fajjar town in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem accused Israeli settlers of setting fire to a mosque on Sunday night, causing considerable damage to the place of worship. Locals told Ma’an that several settlers ransacked the mosque and set fire to carpets and…. Related: PA investigating mosque arson and In photos: Mosque arson in Bethlehem
Settlers demonstrate against Nablus village mosque
10/4/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Hundreds of settlers demonstrated on Monday evening demanding the demolition of a Nablus village mosque, locals said. Villagers said Israeli soldiers stood between the settlers and residents to prevent clashes near the mosque in Burin village, south of Nablus. An Israeli military spokeswoman said Israeli soldiers had been deployed to the….
Israeli forces demolish 4 Bedouin homes
10/4/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces demolished four houses belonging to Bedouin families in southern Israel on Monday, locals said. Forces demolished the homes of Atef Al-Athamen, who plans to marry soon, and Nayed Abu Ghuneima, a father of six, as well as two others in Khashim Zena village in the Negev region, local residents….
Worker dies of heart attack during army chase
10/4/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A Palestinian worker died of a heart attack on Monday after being chased by Israeli forces as he tried to enter Jerusalem from Hebron, medics told Ma’an. A source with the Palestine Red Crescent Society said Shahda Muhammad Hussein Karja, 55, from Halhul, likely sustained a stress-induced heart attack….
Israel begins compensating settlers for freeze
10/4/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli government will pay over 2. 5 million shekels to settlers who incurred losses on construction plans during a 10-month settlement building freeze in the West Bank, Israeli media reported Monday. Shortly after Israel announced the partial moratorium, it set up a complaints committee to deal with requests for….
Israeli military court releases minor on bail
10/4/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — An Israeli military court in the Ofer detention center in the central West Bank district of Ramallah released a minor on Monday on bail of 5,000 shekels. Layers for the Prisoner Society in Hebron the military prosecution originally delayed the release of Sayil Ribhi Abu Qweidary 72 hours to file an….
In photos: Mosque arson in Bethlehem
10/4/2010 – MaanImages / Luay Sababa – Palestinians inspect the aftermath of an arson attack carried out by Israeli settlers on a mosque in the occupied West Bank village of Beit Fajjar, near Bethlehem, on 4 October 2010. The Israeli military condemned the attack, the fourth in under a year, and proposed opening a joint investigation with the Palestinian….
PA says Jerusalem shooting ‘too familiar’
10/4/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority condemned Monday the “cold blooded killing” of a Palestinian worker in East Jerusalem. Israeli border guards fatally shot Izzedine Kawazbeh, from Hebron, as he attempted to enter the occupied city for work on Sunday morning. In a statement issued by the government media center, the PA said that…. Related: Palestinian shot dead entering East Jerusalem
Gaza police report limited Israeli incursion
10/4/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Several Israeli military vehicles crossed the Gaza border on Monday into the central district near the Al-Bureij refugee camp, Gaza government police told Ma’an. Police said two Israeli tanks and four Israeli bulldozers entered 150 meters into the central district, searching the area and bulldozing land. The Israeli….
PLO mission demands action over mosque arson
10/4/2010 – WASHINGTON (Ma’an) — The PLO mission in Washington condemned Monday’s arson attack on a mosque in the Bethlehem district. Locals said settlers were responsible for setting fire to Al-Anbiya Mosque in Beit Fajjar, which destroyed prayer rugs and copies of the Quran. In a statement, the PLO mission condemned the assault, adding….
Israel to allow 30 more cars into Gaza
10/4/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities will be partially open one Gaza crossing on Monday for the entry of 30 new cars, a Palestinian crossings official said. Raed Fattouh said six trucks transporting the new cars would be permitted entry through the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza, marking the third time in under….
PA investigating mosque arson
10/4/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority police have launched an investigation into a fire in a mosque believed to have been caused by Israeli settlers overnight in Bethlehem, the district’s chief prosecutor said Monday. Alaa Tamimi arrived at the scene of the suspected arson at the Al-Anbiya Mosque in Beit Fajjar and said…. Related: Locals say settlers burned Bethlehem mosque and In photos: Mosque arson in Bethlehem
Schoolboy critically injured by fellow student
10/4/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A 15-year-old schoolboy was hospitalized Monday following an attack by a fellow student near Hebron. Yousef Basem Al-Allami is in a critical condition at Hebron’s Al-Ahli Hospital after being attacked at his school in Beit Ummar, his father says. Bassem Al-Allami said he was terrified to send his….
PLO: No talks before settlement freeze
10/4/2010 – SALFIT (Ma’an) — The PLO on Monday expressed support for the body’s Executive Committee decision to hold Israel responsible for obstructing talks over ongoing settlement construction.” The Palestinian decision came as a result of Israeli intransigence, procrastination and its continuation of its settlement policies,” a PLO statement read, adding that Israel had….
UN envoy ‘shocked’ by latest mosque arson
10/4/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The UN Special Coordinator’s Office for the Middle East Peace Process expressed shock Monday following an apparent act of arson carried out by Israeli settlers against a Bethlehem-area mosque.” This attack is shocking and completely unacceptable. Robert Serry, the UN secretary-general’s envoy here, is extremely concerned with….
EU consults civil society in Gaza
10/4/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — EU officials met with civil society organizations in Gaza on Monday to discuss the body’s European Neighbourhood Policy. An EU statement said civil society groups were “integral contributors” to EU projects, and were invited to present their thoughts on planned joint initiatives by the EU and Palestinian Authority….
PA Cabinet urges peaceful resistance
10/4/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Senior Palestinian Authority ministers on Monday urged Palestinians to focus on peaceful resistance against Israel’s occupation. During its weekly meeting in Ramallah, the PA Cabinet reiterated that it held Israel’s government responsible for obstructing peace talks by refusing to extend restrictions on settlement building on Palestinian land….
Police impose curfew after Jenin family clash
10/4/2010 – JENIN (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority police imposed a curfew on the village of Jabe in the northern West Bank district after five residents were stabbed and four homes were set on fire during a family clash on Monday. Jenin police said they received information on the arson and rushed to the scene to impose….
Nablus resident arrested for ‘blasphemy’
10/4/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority police arrested a Nablus resident Monday for “blasphemy,” a police report said. Police said they stopped a car for reckless driving, and the driver was arrested when he shouted at officers and “cursed God.”The detainee was not identified….
Beit Jala hospital hosts Palestine’s first stapedectomy
10/4/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Specialists at the Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation in Beit Jala performed several unique surgeries to treat causes leading to hearing impairment, including the first stapedectomy performed in Palestine, officials said Monday. Dr Jamil Qumsiyeh, head of the Ear, Nose and Throat department at the hospital, said the surgeries included a….
Ma’an meets with Jordan Tourism Board
10/4/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A group of Palestinian journalists from the West Bank and inside Israel met in Jordan last week with officials from the country’s tourism board. During a six-day visit, journalists met Jordan Tourism Board director Nayef Al-Fayez and discussed ways to increase Palestinian tourism to Jordan’s historic and….
Confiscating childhood
Palestine Note 4 Oct 2010 – Thirteen is the age for a lot of things; it carries a certain significance for every boy that reaches that age with all the promises that life has to offer; it’s a time when boys get…
New YouTube video highlights IDF misconduct
Palestine Note 4 Oct 2010 – Washington – The IDF has ordered an immediate probe into the latest scandal involving soldiers documenting themselves engaging in unbecoming conduct with Palestinian detainees while on patrol: a YouTube video in which one soldier belly dances…
Israeli police kill laborer sneaking into Israel for work
Palestine Note 4 Oct 2010 – Washington – On Sunday, Israeli policed shot and killed a West Bank construction worker as he was attempting to sneak past the separation barrier and enter Jerusalem. The man was 37 year-old Izzedine Kawazbeh and a…
Israel urges Lebanese to reconsider Ahmadinejad visit
Palestine Note 4 Oct 2010 – Washington – Israel has been urging the Lebanese government not to allow Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to tour the Lebanese-Israeli border, warning that it could be a “provocation”. Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has yet to…
Carter: Israel must “give up” control of Palestine
Palestine Note 4 Oct 2010 – Washington – Speaking to CBS News anchor Harry Smith by satellite while at a Habitat for Humanity site, former US President Jimmy Carter has said Israel must give up its ambition to occupy and control Palestine.”…
Witnesses say settlers set fire to W Bank mosque
Palestine Note 4 Oct 2010 – Washington – Palestinians in the West Bank are reporting that a mosque near the town of Bethlehem is the latest victim of arsonist settlers. The town’s mayor said witnesses saw five Jewish settlers break into the…
Asharq al-Awsat: Netanyahu will agree to freeze extension
Palestine Note 4 Oct 2010 – A Middle East newspaper based in London is reporting that a compromise on the settlement freeze is forthcoming. Washington – Asharq al-Awsat is reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will agree to a sixty-day settlement…
Israel ‘probes’ W Bank mosque blaze
AlJazeera 4 Oct 2010 – Emotions run high after mosque in occupied territory is set ablaze by settlers in early morning attack in Beit Fajjar.
Al Jazeera calls for jamming probe
AlJazeera 4 Oct 2010 – Network calls on Jordan for a full investigation into disruptions of its signal during the football World Cup games.
Syria orders arrests in Hariri case
AlJazeera 4 Oct 2010 – Warrants issued for 33 people over “false testimony” to investigators in 2005 case of former Lebanese PM’s slaying.
Israeli court convicts two soldiers
AlJazeera 4 Oct 2010 – An Israeli court has convicted two soldiers for using a child as a human shield during the deadly 2009 Gaza war.
Settlers Burn Mosque in Village West of Bethlehem
PNN – Bethlehem – PNN – Extremist settlers who burned the Mosque of the Prophets in the village of Beit Fajar, west of Bethlehem, were met with wide popular and official condemnation. The occupation…
Masque Set Ablaze In West Bank
PNN – PNN — Lat Sunday night a Palestinian masque was set on fire and vandalized by nearby settlers. The mosque was set on fire in what police suspect was a “price tag” operation….
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Two Persons Wounded in Jabalya Refugee Camp Due to Using Weapons in Familial Disputes
Palestinian Center for Human Rights Field Update Yesterday, two members of the al-Zinati family from Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip were wounded, when an armed man fired at them due to an old familial dispute. This incident is part of the state of security chaos and misuse of weapons prevailing in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (23-29 September 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
‘Just ignore Ahmadinejad’s visit to border’
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Expert: “I think that ahead of Ahmadinejad’s visit, the situation will remain relatively calm because Hizbullah does not want to sabotage the visit,”
J’lem: He is just ‘another terrorist’ along border
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – Israeli official says Ahmadinejad’s trip to Lebanon more harmful to Beirut than Jerusalem.
Coalition solidarity fractures ahead of diplomatic decision
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – Candidates to succeed Barak as Labor leader continued to pressure Netanyahu to do whatever was necessary to maintain diplomatic negotiations.
Officials fear mosque arson will spark more violence
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – ‘Price tag’ graffiti sprayed on wall; “Whoever did this is a terrorist in every sense of the word,” Barak declares.
More online images of IDF soldier with detainee
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – In wake of Eden Abergil photos, video features soldier dancing next to blindfolded female detainee; IDF orders investigation.
Another online depictions of IDF soldier with detainee
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – In wake of Eden Abergil photos, video features soldier dancing next to blindfolded female detainee; IDF orders investigation.
An ‘evolutive strategy’ for fighting terror
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – France’s former counterterror czar, Jean-Louis Brugui?®re, tells the ‘Post’ that states should keep within the confines of the law without resorting to extrajudicial means.
Yair Naveh to serve as next IDF deputy chief under Galant
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – After meeting with Defense Minister Barak, former OC Central Command agreed to take position replacing Maj. Gen Benny Gantz in February 2011.
Yair Naveh to serve as IDF deputy chief under Galant
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – After meeting with Barak, former OC Central Command will take up deputy chief of general staff position under incoming chief of general staff Yoav Galant.
Secret minutes of Yom Kippur War gov’t meeting emerge
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – Minutes of secret cabinet meeting at the beginning of Yom Kippur War reveal conversations that reflect desperate situation Israel faced.
Secret minutes of Yom Kippur War Dayan, Meir meeting
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – Minutes of secret cabinet meeting at the beginning of Yom Kippur War reveal conversations that reflect desperate situation Israel faced.
Asian activists to send aid convoy to Gaza, says IHH
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – Turkish group says 500 activists from a dozen countries will take part in the convoy hoping to reach Gaza by December 27.
Barak: ‘Those who vandalised mosque are terrorists’
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – PM Netanyahu also condemns arson, graffiti at mosque in Kfar Beit Fajar saying he wants perprators brought to justice.
Barak: ‘Those who torched mosque are terrorists’
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – DM condemns vandalism at mosque in Kfar Beit Fajar; says perpetrators “besmirched the State of Israel and its values;” Palestinians say copies of Koran set on fire.
‘Rahm Emanuel can’t count on Jewish vote in mayoral run’
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – As Emanuel embarks on “Tell it like it is” tour of Chicago in mayoral campaign, ‘Tribune’ reports Jews more interested in Israel record.
‘Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace among terror targets’
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – Report lists several European landmarks as potentially risky sites; “No indication US or its citizens target of Europe terror plot,” says FBI.
Gush Etzion: Graffiti sprayed on mosque, grounds set ablaze
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – Security forces arrive at mosque in Kfar Beit Fajar to investigate damage allegedly caused by settlers in the area.
International Solidarity Movement
Action Alert: We stand with Abdallah Abu Rahmah
10/4/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Jewish Voice for Peace – Seized in the night. Tortured. Held without trial, then tried in a military court where you have no rights; convicted on the coerced confessions of minors, you are facing a sentence of years in prison. All for organizing peaceful protests against the theft of your land and asserting your democratic rights….
Israel rejects pro-Palestinian Nobel laureate’s deportation appeal
Ha’aretz – Maguire, who was banned from Israel for 10 years after trying to breach its naval blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in June, was detained and ordered deported last Tuesday…
Appointment of school principal sparks violent demonstration in village of Ein Mahil
Ha’aretz – Village’s education system declares general strike; head of Ein Mahil accuses police of using excessive force against students
Reform Jews: Add our synagogues to religions ministry website
Ha’aretz – Court rules Religious Services Ministry’s refusal to list non-Orthodox synagogues ‘discriminatory’.
Health Ministry: Fluoride levels in Israeli drinking water are insufficient
Ha’aretz – Tests show the level of fluoride is not enough to prevent tooth decay; meanwhile, excessively high levels of fluoride were found in drinking water in Ashdod and Kadima.
Barak: Deportation of migrant children could severely damage Israel’s image
Ha’aretz – Defense Minster says planned deportation of 400 workers’ children must be reevaluated using common sense and sensitivity.
Palestinians invest $2 billion in Jericho to celebrate its 10,000th birthday
Ha’aretz – The idea of celebrating the 10,000-year anniversary of the city arose after the millennium celebrations in 2000, which focused primarily on tourist sites connected to Jesus.
A week in photos: Sukkot 5771
Ha’aretz – Last week of September 2010 captured in images by Haaretz photographers.
YouTube clip shows IDF soldier belly-dancing beside bound Palestinian woman
Ha’aretz – A number of IDF soldiers have over the last year faced investigation and penalty for documenting themselves performing questionable acts in front of Palestinian prisoners or while on patrol.
Major General (res.) Yair Naveh named next IDF deputy chief
Ha’aretz – Naveh, who last served as GOC Central Command in 2007, will replace Major General Benny Gantz.
Poll: Most Palestinians back dropping talks if Israel builds settlements
Ha’aretz – Survey taken just after end of 10-month freeze shows that more than half of the respondents also support an attack on settlers in the West Bank.
Netanyahu trying to convince top ministers to extend settlement freeze
Ha’aretz – Premier to convene his Forum of Seven for a session on Tuesday over 60-day moratorium in exchange for U.S. guarantees; if majority is in favor, he plans to bring the…
Hundreds of activists from Muslim countries planning new Gaza-bound flotilla
Ha’aretz – The Turkish charity IHH, which sponsored a Gaza-bound flotilla that Israeli commandos boarded in a deadly raid last spring, say some 500 activists from Pakistan, Iran, Syria and Turkey aim…
Israel-made jet fighter crashes in Columbia army accident
Ha’aretz – The incident is the second such crash since Israel and Colombia signed a $150 million deal for the sale of the Kfir fighter jet.
Justice to Irish Nobel laureate: Keep Gaza propaganda out of courtroom
Ha’aretz – Supreme Court rebukes Mairead Corrigan Maguire during deportation hearing after Nobel Peace Prize laureate urges Israel to cease ‘apartheid policy’ against Palestinians.
Netanyahu: Israel, U.S. working quietly to resolve peace talks deadlock
Ha’aretz – Netanyahu’s comment came as an Asharq al-Awsat report claimed the Prime Minister had agreed in principle to extend Israel’s freeze on settlement construction by 60 days.
Palestinian mosque torched in suspected ‘price tag’ operation by settlers
Ha’aretz – Alleged attack, likely a protest against a possible Israeli compromise in the West Bank, comes amid a recent impasse in peace talks over the demand to extend the settlement freeze.
Turkish film in the works imagines revenge for Gaza flotilla
Ha’aretz – Valley of the Wolves – Palestine is a spinoff from the controversial but highly popular TV drama series Valley of the Wolves, which sparked a diplomatic row between Turkey and…
Report: Syria refuses to attend Euromed summit if Lieberman goes
Ha’aretz – The announcement comes just two days after the leaders of Iran and Syria expressed hope of expanding the anti-Israeli bloc in the region, according to an Iranian presidential statement.
Syria FM: Only Turkey can mediate talks with Israel
Ha’aretz – Any other efforts would be subordinate to the Turkish role, Moallem says; U.S. has intensified efforts to see Israel-Syria track resume.
Abbas: Peace talks at impasse, but we are searching for solution
Ha’aretz – U.S. envoy Mitchell says both Israel and Palestinian wants to continue talks, despite PLO announcement that settlement construction must first stop.
Hamas official denies Shalit swap talks have resumed
Ha’aretz – Egyptian sources told Haaretz earlier Sunday that the talks, conducted by a new German mediator, are being held with Egyptian intelligence officers. No breakthrough was reported, but the efforts are…
Obama letter confirms Palestinian fears
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by US President Barack Obama last week to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more skeptical about US and Israeli roles in the current peace talks. According to the leak, Obama made a series of extraordinarily generous offers to…
After Israeli Return to Settlement Construction: Two Thirds of the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip Want the Palestinian Side to Pull Out of the Direct Talks
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – Findings of the third quarter of 2010 show a clear majority of two thirds demanding a Palestinian pull out of the direct negotiations now that settlement construction has been resumed. Findings also show that a little over half of the public supports Hamas’s armed attack on Israeli settlers near Hebron, that attack took place on…
Palestinian MP Ahmad Sa’adat passes 500 days in solitary confinement
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – The International Campaign for the Release of Kidnapped Palestinian Legislators today issued a press statement concerning the continued detention of the Palestinian leader and legislator Ahmad Sa’adat by Israel. Mr. Sa’adat, who is the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), has now spent more than 500 days in solitary confinement…
Palestinian Worker Shot Dead By Israeli Policeman Near Jerusalem
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – A Palestinian laborer was shot and killed, on Monday at dawn, by an Israeli policeman, who reportedly shot him at point blank range in occupied East Jerusalem. The policeman was placed under house arrest for five days. Iz Ed-Deen Saleh al-Kawazba, 36, was trying to cross through a barbed wired fence in al-Z’ayyim area north…
Israeli settlement activity before and after the expiry of the ‘Moratorium’
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – During the first half of 2010, Israel continued to violate its obligations under international law and Phase 1 of the Road Map: Housing starts: While there were only 5 settlement housing starts during the first half of 2010 in the rest of the West Bank according to official Israeli data, construction began on 108 units…
Settlers clash with Jerusalemite family, settler runs over youth
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – Israeli settlers attacked Al-Qarsh family in Al-Sa’diya neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday night and tried to remove their furniture from their house. The settlers claim they own the house which they or their ancestors have never lived in before. The Israeli police intervened to protect the settlers and prevented human rights activists and journalists…
Video: Settlers blamed for mosque blaze
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – Israeli settlers are reported to have set fire to a mosque in the occupied Palestinian territory of West Bank, damaging prayer rugs and a large number of copies of the Quran, as well as spraying anti-Arab graffiti on the walls. According to witnesses, five Jewish settlers broke into a mosque in Beit Fajjar in the…
Strangled By Aid
Uruknet October 3, 2010 – Dr. Sara Roy, the keynote speaker, claimed aid has depoliticised the root causes of Palestinian suffering. By focusing exclusively on the humanitarian aspects of the occupation, donors effectively deprive Palestinians of their voices and right to self-determination. Recognising the detrimental effects of aid, including dependency issues, the participants sought alternatives to a system failing despite…
We Are Never Wrong
Uruknet October 3, 2010 – …The terror war is a global campaign to force worldwide acceptance of a distorted redefinition of words certain words like “terrorism,” and “aggression,” in order to paint our own acts of state terrorism as self-defense. This purposeful distortion of everyday reality has produced the expected state of cognitive dissonance in the population at large, making…
Report: Israel arrested 485 Palestinians last month
Uruknet October 3, 2010 — A statistics report issued by Palestine’s supreme national committee to support prisoners said Israeli occupation forces have ramped up in this last month of September arrest campaigns against Palestinians, confirming 485 arrests, mostly in occupied Jerusalem. The report issued on Sunday said the Israeli army last month arrested 485 Palestinians, including three women and around…
Adalah Appeals to Israeli Supreme Court to Cancel Deportation Order Against Nobel Prize Winner Mairead Maguire and Allow Her Entry into Israel
Uruknet October 3, 2010 – This morning, Sunday 3 October 2010, Adalah filed an appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court on behalf of Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire against the decision of the Central District Court in Petah Tikvah on 1 October 2010 rejecting her petition and ordering her deportation from Israel. The Supreme Court will hear the appeal tomorrow…
Israeli Soldiers Attack Nonviolent Protestors In Hebron
Uruknet October 3, 2010 – Israeli soldiers attacked on Saturday evening dozens of Palestinian, Israeli and International protestors who held a march in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, demanding freedom of movement to the residents of Hebron. The protest was held near the Al Shuhada Street, one of many streets that are off-limits to the Palestinians…
Israeli soldiers convicted of using Palestinian boy as human shield ‚Äé
Uruknet October 3, 2010 – Two Israeli soldiers were today convicted of using a nine-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield during the three-week Gaza war in 2008-9 and could face a prison sentence of up to three years. The soldiers, who ordered the boy to open bags suspected of containing explosives, were charged with inappropriate behaviour and overstepping authority…
Sumud in the Jordan Valley: Ongoing Nakba, Ongoing Resistance.
Alternative Information Center – Ethnic cleansing, perpetrated through forced displacement, persists as one of the main strategies of the Zionist colonisation and settlement of Palestine. Historically, displacement began with the Nakba , the expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from their…
Israel: Time to Heed Victims’ Call for Justice
WAFA – NEW YORK, October 4, 2010 (WAFA) Ten years after Israeli security forces killed 13 Palestinian demonstrators, 12 of them citizens of Israel, the families’ calls for accountability have gone
Vandalizing Mosque of Beit Fajjar
WAFA – BETHLEHEM, October 4, 2010 (WAFA) – Palestinian Mosque was set to fire and vandalized late Sunday night western entrance to Beit Fajjar village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Hebron
TPFF’s Opening Weekend Wows Crowds with Film, Food and Panel
WAFA – TORONTO, October 4, 2010 (WAFA)- For the straight third year, the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) packed the Bloor Cinema with a sold-out opening night. More than 800 film enthusiasts
UNRWA Dedicates Jenin School to Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed
WAFA – JENIN, October 4, 2010 (WAFA)- The Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Mr Filippo Grandi, presided on 4 October over a ceremony to dedicate Jenin School for Boys to the late Sheikh Ahmed Bin Zayed Al
Arsonists torch, desecrate West Bank mosque
Daily Star 4 Oct 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Attempts by Washington to entice Israel into extending a settlement moratorium look set to meet fierce opposition from coalition hardliners, a newspaper poll of Cabinet ministers showed on Monday.
Israeli ministers oppose fresh settlement moratorium
Daily Star 4 Oct 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Attempts by Washington to entice Israel into extending a settlement moratorium look set to meet fierce opposition from coalition hardliners, a newspaper poll of Cabinet ministers showed on Monday.
Iran clears former British Embassy staffer of espionage
Daily Star 4 Oct 2010 TEHRAN: Iran has cleared a former British Embassy staffer who was jailed last year on espionage charges, and commuted his sentence to a suspended one-year jail term, his lawyer said on Monday. “The appeals court dropped…
Iran: Delay at nuclear power plant is due to leak, not computer worm
Daily Star 4 Oct 2010 TEHRAN: A months-long delay in starting up Iran’s first nuclear power plant is the result of a small leak, not a computer worm that was found on the laptops of several plant employees, the country’s nuclear…
Irish Nobel laureate faces top Israeli court to appeal 10-year ban
Daily Star 4 Oct 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Irish Nobel laureate and peace activist Mairead Maguire on Monday appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court to cancel a deportation order barring her from Israel for 10 years, her lawyers said.
Israel rabbi: Spies can sleep with the enemy
Daily Star 4 Oct 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Jewish law allows women to sleep with the enemy in order to get intelligence vital to Israel’s security, a rabbi was quoted as saying in a local newspaper Monday. Yediot Aharonot quoted an academic…
Ehud Barak says arsonists who attacked West Bank mosque are terrorists
The Guardian 4 Oct 2010 – Israeli settlers widely blamed and accused of campaign of revenge attacks on Palestinians The perpetrators of an arson attack on a West Bank mosque in which copies of the Qur’an and prayer mats were burned were…
Obama faces humiliation over Middle East talks | Simon Tisdall
The Guardian 4 Oct 2010 – Collapse of the peace talks would leave Obama exposed — and leave the two-state solution in tatters Barack Obama has barely a week to save the Middle East peace process from collapse, only months after he…
Architects against Israeli occupation | Abe Hayeem
The Guardian 4 Oct 2010 – With the settlement freeze over, international architects must take action to end illegal construction in the West Bank In deciding to back the boycott of Ariel theatre in the West Bank, Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American architect…
Study shows Israelis, Palestinians both retaliate
Relief Web 4 Oct 2010 – Source: Reuters – AlertNet
Press Conference by Security Council President on Work Programme for October
Relief Web 4 Oct 2010 – Source: UN Department of Public Information
UN office shocked at alleged deliberate burning of mosque in West Bank
Relief Web 4 Oct 2010 – Source: UN News Service
Update on UNHCR’s operations in the Middle East and North Africa – 2010
Relief Web 4 Oct 2010 – Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
MIDEAST: U.S. Scrambles to Save Peace Talks
IPS With a key Arab League meeting delayed until Friday, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is scrambling to keep one-month-old direct Israeli- Palestinian peace talks alive.
8th Week against the Apartheid Wall, November 9 — 16 2010
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MI chief: Terror groups eye Tel Aviv
YNet News – Major-General Amos Yadlin says military remains vigilant on all fronts in view….
Cyprus, Israel, UN join search for Israeli overboard
YNet News – Cypriot defense ministry receives SOS call in middle of night reporting….
Iran: ‘Small leak’ behind plant delay
YNet News – Head of Islamic Republic’s Atomic Energy Agency denies computer worm cause of….
Likud minister: Are we working for Lieberman?
YNet News – Michael Eitan slams foreign minister’s UN speech, says ‘the prime minister’s….
Turkish Embassy attacker ‘planned something big’
YNet News – Ramallah resident Nadim Injaz, 33, indicted for breaking and entering into Tel….
Mosque torched near Hebron
YNet News – Palestinian sources report of prayer house desecration in West Bank village of….
PA: Settlers targeting mosques to hinder peace talks
YNet News – Amid US efforts to save the recently launched Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the Palestinian Authority fears Jewish settlers are trying to ignite the region by …….
Yair Naveh to be appointed deputy IDF chief
YNet News – Maj. Gen. (ret) Yair Naveh will be the next IDF deputy chief of staff, serving under newly appointed army chief Yoav Galant when he takes over the position in February …….
MKs, rabbis rally against planned closure of West Bank synagogue
YNet News – Some 200 right-wing activists and settlers took part in a rally on Monday against the planned closure of a synagogue that was built illegally in the El Matan neighborhood …….
Asian activists to try to break Gaza siege
YNet News – An Islamic charity that sponsored the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that Israeli commandos boarded about four months ago says activists from Asia plan to send an aid convoy to …….
Report: UNIFIL helped prisoners flee IDF
YNet News – BERLIN — Norwegian troops helped two Lebanese arrested by the Israel Defense Forces to escape from Israeli jail, a Norwegian journalist claims in a new book. The …….
Palestinian Information Center
This is Keith Dayton’s Fatah’s fiefdom
PIC 4 Oct 2010 – The US and EU never stop praising the Ramallah PA regime. Indeed, upon hearing the never-ending commendations, one would think that “the police-state without a state” is a paragon of good governance.
PLC member: U.S. guarantees a blatant bribe for Israel
PIC 4 Oct 2010 – PLC member Mohammed Abu Juheisha said that guarantees made by George Mitchell hoping to freeze settlements for two additional months are “no more than a blatant bribe for Israel”.
Israeli authorities resume demolition streak against Bedouin homes
PIC 4 Oct 2010 – Israeli authorities on Monday stormed the town of Shaqib Al-Salam in the Negev, occupied since 1948, and demolished four houses at the pretext of lack of building permits.
Hamas MP denounces security militias for storming his home
PIC 4 Oct 2010 – Hamas MP Mohammed Al-Tal denounced the security militias, loyal to de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, for storming his home earlier on Monday and kidnapping his brother Rami.
Report: Israel steps up violations against juvenile detainees
PIC 4 Oct 2010 – The prisoners studies center in Palestine calls for the release of all minors in Israeli custody, adding that Israeli occupation authorities must be forced to stop minor detentions.
Ihsanoglu: Mosque burning near Bethlehem a violation of int’l law
PIC 4 Oct 2010 – Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu condemned attacks by extremist Jews on a mosque in the south Bethlehem village of Beit Fajjar as an outrageous violation of the Geneva Convention and international law.
Israeli committees discuss structural plan to judaize the Buraq wall
PIC 4 Oct 2010 – The Israeli Local Committee for Planning and Building in Jerusalem will discuss on Monday a comprehensive structural plan to further judaize the Buraq (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem in the coming years.
Hamas urges W. Bankers to protect mosques against settlers’ attacks
PIC 4 Oct 2010 – The Hamas Movement called on the Palestinian people in the West Bank to protect their mosques against settlers’ attacks and asked Muslim scholars to develop a strategy to protect mosques.
PA security militias kidnap Quds Press reporter in Tulkarem
PIC 4 Oct 2010 – The Palestinian Authority’s preventive security forces in Tulkarem city kidnapped on Sunday evening Quds Press reporter Salim Tayeh from his home without giving reasons.
Israeli military incursion amid gunfire east of Bureij camp
PIC 4 Oct 2010 – A number of Israeli military armored vehicles advanced Monday morning amid sporadic gunfire into the east of Al-Bureij camp, central Gaza Strip, and bulldozed agricultural lands.
‘Abbas: Will Only Talk with Americans Until Freeze Reinstated
The Media Line 3 Oct 2010 – Speaking in Amman following talks with Jordanian King Abdallah II, Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud ‘Abbas reiterated that he will not return to talks with Israel until a freeze on building in areas acquired in the 1967…
Syria’s Pre-empts Hariri Tribunal Results with Arrest Warrants
The Media Line 3 Oct 2010 – Syria has launched a pre-emptive strike against indictments expected to be handed down by the United Nations’ Special Tribunal for Lebanon (SLT) probing the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri by issuing a series…
West Bank mosque attacked
LA Times 5 Oct 2010 – Palestinian officials say Jewish settlers sprayed Hebrew graffiti and set fire to the building. A grand mufti accuses the attackers of trying to start ‘a religious war with unpredictable consequences.’ Palestinian officials accused Jewish settlers of setting a West Bank mosque on fire early Monday, an attack that could reignite violence as frustration grows over stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Iran says computer virus not to blame for delay in launching nuclear power plant
LA Times 4 Oct 2010 – The problem at the Bushehr reactor ‚Äî the nation’s first nuclear power plant ‚Äî was caused by a leak in the pool holding the fuel rods, Iran’s atomic energy chief says. Iran’s atomic energy chief said that a delay in the launch of the nation’s first nuclear power plant was not caused by a powerful computer virus that has crippled data management systems across the world ‚Äî but his explanation may not have reassured Persian Gulf residents.
Arsonists Damage a Mosque in the West Bank
New York Times 4 Oct 2010 – Residents of a village near Hebron said they saw an Israeli car speeding away before dawn. The word “revenge” was scrawled in Hebrew on one of the mosque’s walls.
Iran Blocks Web Sites of Some Clerics
New York Times 4 Oct 2010 – The sites of two senior clerics were blocked by government censors in a possible sign of a hardening political divide.
Israeli Soldiers Convicted of Using Boy as Shield
New York Times 4 Oct 2010 – An Israeli military court convicted two soldiers of forcing a 9-year-old Palestinian to check bags for explosives.
School By Day, Prison By Night
Palestine Monitor – Most students catch the bus to campus, other come in cars, Mohammed is escorted from his cell to the university gates by soldiers. At the end of a day’s studying, while his peers go off to smoke argeela (water pipe) and shoot pool in the cafes…
Bibi buries Barack’s Pax Americana
Mondoweiss – Tony Karon, one of the few journalists in the mainstream media who writes sensibly and intelligently about Palestine/Israel, has an interesting article on the “peace process” over at Time . According to Karon, Abbas believes that one of Netanyahu’s demands will be that the “‚Ķ ‘framework agreement’…
Where is the Gandhi of Israel?
Mondoweiss – In the National Interest, Paul Pillar, former CIA analyst, looks at the recent Indian judicial ruling on the Ayodhya site, sharing it between Muslims and Hindus, for both of whom it is holy, as a departure point for a meditation on Why Israel, unlike India, is…
Settlers attack West Bank mosque, burn prayer rugs and Korans and write “revenge” on a wall in Hebrew
Mondoweiss – And more news from Today in Palestine: Land/Property/Resource Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Settlers blamed for mosque blaze Prayer rugs and Quran copies burnt in a West Bank mosque, in fire said to have been started by Israeli settlers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocrCzco0Z5g&feature=youtube_gdata Settlers Torch Mosque, Copies of the Holy…
Early front runners for the Israel Project’s ‘Best Shots of Israel’ contest
Mondoweiss – We’ve received a bunch of entries for the Israel Project’s “Best Shots of Israel” contest . Here are some of our favorites – please keep sending then in! Eleanor Kilroy sent this one saying, “This was taken of me with an adolescent soldier and local kid by…
Halper: American Jews (and the Congress) don’t want an Israel at peace
Mondoweiss – Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} For anyone who tries to imagine a life of meaning amid inhumane circumstances, Jeff Halper is…
Hundreds of Activists Planning New Gaza-Bound Flotilla
Al-Manar 4 Oct 2010 – Pro-Palestinian activists from dozens of Asian countries are planning to send a convoy of ships carrying aid to the Gaza Strip in a new effort to break Israel’s inhumane blockade of the coastal territory. The Turkish charity IHH, which sponsored a Gaza-bound flotilla that Israeli…
The trial of Ameer Makhoul enters a new phase
Joseph Dana 4 Oct 2010 – A Call for Support Ameer Makhoul Recent Developments The campaign to free Ameer Makhoul, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and political and human rights activist falsely accused of espionage, has achieved significant advances. Makhoul’s attorneys challenged the legality of the circumstances of his arrest and undermined…
Execution at Dawn in Holy Jerusalem
Palestine Think Tank 4 Oct 2010 – The darkness was still a lowered curtain in the early hours of dawn in the holy occupied city of Jerusalem. The crows were flying in the sky, witnesses of the Israeli terrorist execution of a poor Palestinian laborer. Chasing, beating, torturing and detaining laborers by israel…
TIAA-CREF: Divest from Injustice
Global BDS 4 Oct 2010 – Occupied Palestine, October 4th 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to li read more
Two soldiers convicted for using 9-year-old boy as human shield
Sabr 4 Oct 2010 – DCI-Palestine October 04, 2010 Two soldiers convicted for using 9-year-old boy as human shield [4 October 2010] — On 3 October 2010, the Israeli southern command military court convicted two soldiers for using nine-year-old Majed R. as a human shield on 15 January 2009, during the…
Report: Israel arrested 485 Palestinians last month
Sabr 4 Oct 2010 – 03/10/2010 – 06:14 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, ( PIC )— A statistics report issued by Palestine’s supreme national committee to support prisoners said Israeli occupation forces have ramped up in this last month of September arrest campaigns against Palestinians, confirming 485 arrests, mostly in occupied Jerusalem. The report…
Settlers ‘burn West Bank mosque’
BBC 4 Oct 2010 – The Israeli army is investigating Palestinian reports that a mosque in the occupied West Bank has been set on fire by Jewish settlers.
Damascus issues Hariri warrants
BBC 4 Oct 2010 – Syria issues arrest warrants for 33 Lebanese and international officials for allegedly misleading the UN-backed probe into Rafik Hariri’s assassination.
Jordan jails Islamist militants
BBC 4 Oct 2010 – A Jordanian military court sentences the leader of a militant Islamist group to life imprisonment and nine others to 15 years each for plotting attacks.
Israel to deport Nobel laureate
BBC 4 Oct 2010 – Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire loses her appeal against being deported from Israel.
Israel’s Arab Citizens Are Not a Negotiating Chip
Antiwar.com 4 Oct 2010 – Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, has insisted from the launch of the current peace talks that the Palestinians set no preconditions, while making his own precondition the centerpiece of negotiations. Netanyahu has said talks are futile unless the Palestinians and their leader, Mahmoud Abbas, first recognize…
Olmert’s Fingertips
Antiwar.com 4 Oct 2010 – Ehud Olmert raised his hands before his face, two fingertips almost touching: “We were that close!” He was talking about the negotiation he had conducted personally with Mahmoud Abbas, just before he himself was forced to vacate the prime minister’s office. That was the climax of…
“Rule Of Lie,” America’s “Wingnut” Press [must read]
Sabbah report 4 Oct 2010 – THE PHONY PRESS, SEX, SIN AND WAR By Gordon Duff* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz President Ahmadinejad of Iran has asked for a UN investigation of 9/11. For this, he has been branded a “wingnut” and “evildoer” by the American press. However, the 9/11 Commission itself…
(en) Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle during Jewish new year etc. holly-days expanded
A-infos 4 Oct 2010 – AAtW activists participated with others of the emerging Sheikh Jarah coalition and ripples… The demo of Human Rights groups in Thursday of Jerusalem was part of it. The vigils and other forms of presence with the Silwan Sheikh Jarah harassed Palestinians was another. The confrontation with…
(en) North America, Against the September 24th FBI Raids
A-infos 4 Oct 2010 – Solidarity Statement from the North Eastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists The North Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists (NEFAC) condemns the Federal Bureau of Investigations’ raids on anti-war and anti-colonial organizers, which began the morning of Friday, September 24th in the Twin Cities and Chicago, and the intimidation…
Articles
Obama’s cave-in to Israel: letter suggests US not honest broker
Jonathan Cook in Nazareth, Redress10/5/2010
The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by President Barack Obama last week to Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more sceptical about US and Israeli roles in the current peace talks.
According to the leak, Obama made a series of extraordinarily generous offers to Israel, many of them at the expense of the Palestinians, in return for a single minor concession from Netanyahu: a two-month extension of the partial freeze on settlement growth.
A previous 10-month freeze, which ended a week ago, has not so far been renewed by Netanyahu, threatening to bring the negotiations to an abrupt halt. The Palestinians are expected to decide whether to quit the talks over the coming days.
Netanyahu was reported last week to have declined the US offer.
The White House has denied that a letter was sent, but, according to the Israeli media, officials in Washington are privately incensed by Netanyahu’s rejection.
The disclosures were made by an informed source: David Makovsky, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a close associate of Dennis Ross, Obama’s chief adviser on the Middle East, who is said to have initiated the offer.
The letter’s contents have also been partly confirmed by Jewish US senators who attended a briefing last week from Ross.
According to Makovsky, in return for the 60-day settlement moratorium, the US promised to veto any UN Security Council proposal on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the next year, and committed to not seek any further extensions of the freeze. The future of the settlements would be addressed only in a final agreement. — See also: Netanyahu: I deceived US to destroy Oslo accords more.. e-mail
The Jerusalem Trap: The Looming Threat Posed by Israel’s Annexationist Policies in Occupied East Jerusalem
Al-Haq10/2/2010
Al-Haq’s new report seeks to highlight current issues and potential repercussions associated with Israeli annexationist policies in occupied East Jerusalem, particularly Israel’s centre of life policy, the denial of family unification and the construction of the Annexation Wall. The report describes the serious effects of these policies on both Palestinians who hold West Bank and East Jerusalem identity cards, outlines the impending risks that Palestinians face with respect to unilateral changes Israel may make to the current municipal boundaries of occupied East Jerusalem, and provides a legal analysis of the corresponding issues under international law.
Executive Summary: Redrawing Occupied East Jerusalem
When Israel’s construction of the Annexation Wall began in 2002, it quickly became apparent that the planned route did not follow the 1967 ‘Green Line’, and that its purpose was to illegally annex areas of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The International Court of Justice confirmed the illegality of this policy in 2004.
Of particular concern herein are practises surrounding the construction of the Annexation Wall (the Wall) which appear intended not only to consolidate Israeli control of East Jerusalem, but also to contribute to a process of forcible displacement by denying residency status to those Palestinian Jerusalemites living on the eastern side of the Wall, thus preventing them and their families from entering the city and consolidating a Jewish demographic majority.
Many Palestinian communities have been divided or, in some cases, whole neighbourhoods have been completely cut off from the rest of Jerusalem by the route of the Wall. The neighbourhoods of Kfur Aqab and ‘Anata — in the northern and eastern outskirts of East Jerusalem — are two of the most glaring examples of where this has occurred…. — See also: Full Report (PDF) more.. e-mail
Palestinians need a commission of truth
Khalid Amayreh, Desert Peace10/4/2010
There are portents of reconciliation in the air, and Palestinians and their friends and allies are quite optimistic that Fatah and Hamas may finally be on their way to close one of the saddest chapters in our recent history.
Needless to say, the national rift which emanated from manifestly treacherous efforts by American-backed elements within the Fatah movement to effectively undo the outcome of the 2006 elections, which Hamas won decisively, wreaked havoc on the Palestinian cause and thoroughly poisoned inter-Palestinian relations to an extent never seen before.
We all know how the former Bush administration utilized the bribable and buyable elements within Fatah to carry out a bloody coup aimed at decapitating Hamas once and for all in the Gaza Strip. Which eventually forced Hamas to do what it did in July, 2007?
Likewise, and looking retrospectively, one might safely claim that had the Fatah leadership refused American and Israeli solicitations and incitement, the Palestinian arena would have been spared the hateful ramifications of the rift.
I know for sure that Hamas didn’t enjoy the so-called “victory” over Fatah three years ago. In the final analysis, a victory against one’s brother and countryman is not a real victory; it was rather a real defeat for both Hamas and Fatah and the entire Palestinian people and its just cause.
None the less, what could Hamas have done, watching treacherous elements, enjoying Israeli and American backing, sharpen their swords and daggers, and preparing their guns to gang up on Hamas in order to consign the movement into oblivion.
Hamas had to defend itself and thwart criminal American designs to eliminate every anti-Zionist and revolutionary Islamic movement in the context of its ill-conceived “global war on terror. more.. e-mail
The mendacity of “restraint”
Electronic Intifada: 4 Oct 2010 – As Israel’s self-imposed and largely irrelevant settlement freeze ends, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked settlers to show “restraint.” It is an interesting choice of adjective, for people who show restraint are the injured and outraged; they are victims who although entitled to a full measure of justice settle for less to maintain good will and harmony. Richard Irvine comments.more
For Palestinians in Israel, “transfer” threat nothing new
Electronic Intifada: 4 Oct 2010 – Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on the response of Palestinian citizens of Israel to the Israeli Foreign Minister’s plan proposed to the United Nations to strip Palestinians of their Israeli citizenship.more
Obama letter confirms Palestinian fears
Electronic Intifada: 4 Oct 2010 – The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by US President Barack Obama last week to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more skeptical about US and Israeli roles in the current peace talks. Jonathan Cook reports.more
School By Day, Prison By Night
Palestine Monitor: 4 Oct 2010 – Most students catch the bus to campus, other come in cars, Mohammed is escorted from his cell to the university gates by soldiers. At the end of a day’s studying, while his peers go off to smoke argeela (water pipe) and shoot pool in the cafes around town, he is escorted back to his cramped cell. His story represents the wider tale of denial and disruption of education enacted by the Israeli occupation. I meet Mohammed (name changed to protect his identity) near one of the West Bank’s eight higher education institutions. He is a calm, reserved 25-year old Palestinian studying to become a primary school teacher. Five years ago, Mohammed threw rocks at an Israeli convoy on one of its routine raids into the refugee camp where he lives. For this he was shot in the leg and saw his best friend die in his arms. “I can’t forget…more
Shooting from Mavi Marmara: Time for Israel to Put Up or Shut Up
Palestine Chronicle: 4 Oct 2010 – By Richard Lightbown The inappropriately named Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) is reputed to have links with Israeli intelligence. On 15 September the organization published a report that was based in part on information from efik Dinc. Mr Dinc had been on the Mavi Marmara for the newspaper Haberturk and has written a book on the raid entitled ‘The Bloodstained Mavi Marmara’. At present the book is only available in Turkish. Although there is no reason to doubt the ITIC translations into English, one can certainly criticise the way ITIC has blended its own material with that of Mr Dinc’s. As they describe it in Section 5: “In some cases we verify those descriptions against the information we have on the confrontation.” In the words then of the late Iraqi arms expert, Dr David Kelly, the account has been ‘sexed up’. Mr Dinc apparently is very critical of the…more
Obama’s Cave-in to Israel: Letter Suggests US not Honest Broker
Palestine Chronicle: 4 Oct 2010 – By Jonathan Cook — Nazareth The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by President Barack Obama last week to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more sceptical about US and Israeli roles in the current peace talks. According to the leak, Obama made a series of extraordinarily generous offers to Israel, many of them at the expense of the Palestinians, in return for a single minor concession from Netanyahu: a two-month extension of the partial freeze on settlement growth. A previous 10-month freeze, which ended a week ago, has not so far been renewed by Netanyahu, threatening to bring the negotiations to an abrupt halt. The Palestinians are expected to decide whether to quit the talks over the coming days. Netanyahu was reported last week to have declined the US offer. The White House has denied that a letter was sent,…more
Indigenous Resistance, from Colombia to Palestine
Palestine Chronicle: 4 Oct 2010 – By Anna Baltzer – Lopez, Colombia “They only see our water, our land, our trees. They don’t care about us. They want the land — without the people on it.” These words are not of a Palestinian farmer but of Justo Conda, governor of Lopez Adentro Indigenous Reserve in southwestern Colombia, whose community was repeatedly threatened with displacement under former president Alvaro Uribe Velez. Uribe, recently appointed by the United Nations to investigate Israel’s fatal attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, has a notoriously horrific track record on human rights. Less explored are the clear parallels between his government’s mistreatment of indigenous peoples of Colombia and Israel’s abuses of the indigenous people of Palestine. According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Colombia has one of the largest populations of internally displaced people in the world, numbering as many as 4.9 million. According to the Consultancy for Human Rights…more
Canada and Israel — Book Review
Palestine Chronicle: 4 Oct 2010 – By Jim Miles (Canada and Israel – Building Apartheid. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Canada. 2010.) While much is made of U.S. support of Israel, its unstinting rhetoric and its similarly unstinting financial generosity, Canada has likewise been a strong supporter of Zionism and Israel. Not only has Canada been strong, they have in certain respects been stronger and more faithful to Israel than the U.S. In an enlightening little book, Canada and Israel – Building Apartheid, Yves Engler documents the strength of the Canadian tendency to give full support to Israel regardless of international law. There are four key points that underlie the work. The first is the recognition that Canada supported Zionism from the origins of the concept, from its fundamentalist Christian roots. Secondly, as part of the British Empire, a Dominion without an independent foreign policy, Canada gave full support to the ideas and actions of British Zionism…more
All We Ask — A Poem
Palestine Chronicle: 4 Oct 2010 – By Sam Hamod (For Our Brothers and Sisters In Palestine, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia) We want very little a sip of fresh water, a small piece of bread, perhaps an olive again, if the trees have not been smashed, a door my key will fit, so I can go home, quiet, so there are no more drones, and when you come by, in your heavily laden uniforms, every now and then a smile, and from Allah, a bit of sunshine, even some rain, just small things, not much a bit of fresh air, without the smell of gunfire, rockets or phosphorous, just a sky clear of jets and rockets, so that we may see a sun that wanders off late in the afternoon and a moon that whispers, we shall sleep now, praying, tomorrow will be a better day – (c: sam hamod, 2010) Sam Hamod is a poet…more
Obama’s Cave-in to Israel
Dissident Voice: 4 Oct 2010 – The disclosure of the details of a letter reportedly sent by President Barack Obama last week to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will cause Palestinians to be even more sceptical about US and Israeli roles in the current peace talks. According to the leak, Obama made a series of extraordinarily generous offers to Israel, many of them at the expense of the Palestinians, in return for a single minor concession from Netanyahu: a two-month extension of the partial feeze on settlement growth. A previous 10-month freeze, which ended a week ago, has not so far been renewed by Netanyahu, threatening to bring the negotiations to an abrupt halt. The Palestinians are expected to decide whether to quit the talks over the coming days. Netanyahu was reported last week to have declined the US offer. The White House has denied that a letter was sent, but,…more
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