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Israeli Rabbis visit a mosque in Bethlehem, torched by settlers
IMEMC – 5 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 05, 2010 – 18:01, On Tuesday a number of Israeli Rabbis visited the mosque that Israeli settlers burned in the village of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem on Monday. Governor of Bethlehem Abdul Fattah Hamayel, Muslim clergy and representatives of the families of the village welcomed the delegation of rabbis.
Maguire’s Deportation Appeal Denied
IMEMC – 5 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 05, 2010 – 10:35, An appeal filed by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Mairead Maguire, was denied by the Israeli Supreme Court as its justices decided that the 10-year deportation order against her is valid, and that she entered the country knowing there was an outstanding deportation order against her.
Wounded Man Kidnapped By Israeli Troops
IMEMC – 5 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 05, 2010 – 08:52, A Palestinian man was shot and wounded, on Tuesday at dawn, after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him at a military roadblock near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia.
Zahhar: “Hamas Doesn’t Want War With Fateh”
IMEMC – 5 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 05, 2010 – 08:39, Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, member of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, stated that Hamas does not want a civil war with Fatah movement, and that they desire national reconciliation based on the interests of the Palestinian people.
Jordanian Aid Convoy Arrives In Syria To Join Viva Palestina 5
IMEMC – 5 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 05, 2010 – 06:59, A Jordanian aid convoy arrived in Syria on Monday to join the Viva Palestina 5 solidarity mission that is heading to the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid and medical supplies.
Soldiers Attack Detainees in Nafha Prison
IMEMC – 5 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 05, 2010 – 04:29, Israeli soldiers entered the Nafha Prison on Monday evening and searched the rooms of the detainees causing damage. The attack led to tension in the prison camp when the soldiers forced the detainees out of their rooms.
Israeli fire injures fourth Gaza worker in week
10/5/2010 – GAZA CITY(Ma’an) — A man identified by medics as a laborer was shot by Israeli fores in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon, as he was collecting stone aggregates for a construction company. Medical services coordinator in Gaza Adham Abu Silmiyyeh said a 27-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound in the….
1 injured in arrest raid on Hebron village
10/5/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — One Palestinian was injured during a detention campaign by Israeli forces in the Hebron village of Adh-Dhahiriya on Tuesday morning, witnesses said. Witnesses said 14 Palestinians were detained during the raid after Israeli forces stormed homes, and deployed riot dispersal means, including tear gas and sound grenades. The injured was identified….
Prisoners report overnight raid in Nafha cells
10/5/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli guards raided the Nafha prison overnight Monday, ransacking section 14 and confiscating detainees’ property, the Detainees’ Society said. The society said guards took up to 90 percent of prisoners’ effects during the raid, and the move has “created a state of tension” in the prison….
Qalqiliya checkpoint shooting leaves 1 injured
10/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – A young Palestinian man was shot and injured by Israeli forces near a military checkpoint in Qalqiliya on Tuesday morning. Israeli sources said the young man was from the village of Habla, a Palestinian area inside Israel, while a military spokeswoman told Ma’an that three young men driving a….
Brother of lifetime prisoner detained at Ramon prison
10/5/2010 – TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces at Ramon prison detained the brother of a lifetime prisoner on Monday as the young man visited his relative, the Tubas Prisoners Society reported. Mahmoud Abu At-Tayyeb traveled to the southern Israel prison with a permit to visit his brother Younis, the society reported, and was detained without cause….
PA: Latest Israeli soldier video ‘deeply offensive’
10/5/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A personal film showing an Israeli soldier dancing around a Palestinian woman uploaded to YouTube on Monday “is a disgusting illustration of the sick mentality of the occupier,” a Palestinian Authority statement said. The video, showing an Israeli soldier belly-dancing next to a woman who is a blindfolded and handcuffed, head….
Single Gaza crossing operates for goods transfer
10/5/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities scheduled a single Gaza crossing for operations on Tuesday, telling Palestinian liaison officers that food, aid and fuel would be transferred into the coastal enclave. Palestinian liaison officer in Gaza Raed Fattouh said approximately 220 truckloads of humanitarian aid and goods for the commercial, agricultural and transportation sectors….
Israel detains Islamic Jihad leader
10/5/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — A prominent Islamic Jihad leader was detained at a flying checkpoint south of Nablus on Monday night, relatives said. Umm Malik, wife the political leader Yousif Al-Arif, said her husband was on his way home from a visit to the Jalud village, where a prisoner had just been released and received….
Israeli court upholds deportation of Nobel Laureate
10/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) —Israel’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal on behalf of Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and ordered her deportation on Monday evening, her lawyers said. The appeal sought high court intervention into the decision of Israel’s Ministry of Interior to deny entry and deport the Irish national, in….
Unknown assailants set fire to disabled union HQ
10/5/2010 – QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Unknown assailants set fire to the General Union for the Disabled in the northern West Bank district of Qalqiliya on Tuesday morning, officials told Ma’an. The assailants set rubber tires alight and threw them into the entrance of the union building. Several locals saw flames coming out of the….
PA military court convicts 3 for killing officers
10/5/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A Palestinian Authority military court in Ramallah convicted two men and a woman over the killing of three PA security officers in Qalqiliya in June 2009. The three were charged with causing deaths of PA security officers Riyad Zein Addin, Muhammad Atiyya, and Iyad Ibtali, which was reduced from the original…. Related: Hamas slams PA after 3 sentenced for killing officers
Zahhar asks Abbas for post-peace talk report
10/5/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Speaking in Gaza City on Monday evening, Hamas’ Mahmoud Zahhar said he and the party had several questions they wanted President Mahmoud Abbas to answer in the wake of failed peace talks. Speaking as Hamas and Fatah leaders continue to talk about reconciliation, Zahhar said he had seven questions….
Abbas speech to Arab committee delayed
10/5/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech before the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, the body charged with overseeing the Arab Peace Initiative, has been postponed until Friday, an informed source told Ma’an. Abbas was scheduled to address the committee on Wednesday in Cairo, ahead of an extraordinary session of the Arab….
Abbas, Mubarak discuss efforts to save talks
10/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — President Mahmoud Abbas met on Tuesday morning with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak in Cairo and discussed efforts Egypt is exerting in an attempt to save the Middle East peace process from collapse over Israel’s settlement activity. The two leaders addressed Mubarak’s meetings with Israeli, US and….
ADL condemns attack on West Bank mosque
10/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The pro-Israel group Anti-Defamation League has condemned a settler arson attack on a mosque near Bethlehem.”We are outraged by the attack on the mosque in Beit Fajar,” the ADL’s Israel office said in a statement Monday.” We join with Israeli officials in condemning this act of hate, and….
No mention of settlement freeze at Israel cabinet meeting
10/5/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — During its weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister and his seven top ministers did not discuss extending a temporary moratorium on settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli media reported. Contrary to prior reports, the ministers only discussed Israel’s preparation for flotillas to Gaza, and….
Report: King Abdullah meets Israeli minister
10/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — King Abdullah of Jordan reportedly hosted Israeli Welfare Minister Yitzhak Herzog in his palace Tuesday.” The coming period is a moment of historic opportunity, which coming generations will judge today’s leaders by,” Abdullah said.” Therefore, we must not miss it,” he added, according to the Israeli news site Ynet….
Olympics chief in Palestine
10/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, arrived in Ramallah on Tuesday with a high-level delegation in two helicopters. The delegation was in Jordan for a visit Monday and was welcomed by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and president of the Palestinian Olympic Committee Maj. -Gen. Jibril Rajoub. Speaking ahead of….
Hamas: PA arrested 13 affiliates
10/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Hamas accused Palestinian Authority forces of arresting 13 Hamas affiliates in the West Bank on Tuesday. The movement said in a statement that the forces arrested 13 from Ramallah, Qalqiliya, Hebron, Nablus and Tulkarem. The accusation, which could not be confirmed independently by Ma’an, comes amid reconciliation talks between….
PFLP: Gaza security appropriated our name
10/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on Tuesday accused Gaza government security forces of appropriating their name. The movement said it bore no affiliation to the newly formed Islamic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a branch within Gaza’s security forces.”There is no link….
Hamas slams PA after 3 sentenced for killing officers
10/5/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas on Tuesday condemned the Palestinian Authority for convicting three Hamas members on charges related to the deaths of three West Bank security officers a year earlier. A PA court in Ramallah convicted two men and a woman over the killing of three PA security officers in Qalqiliya in June…. Related: PA military court convicts 3 for killing officers
Ma’an hosts documentary training workshop
10/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Ma’an Network and Birzeit University’s Media Development Center began on Monday a joint training course in “production of documentary films”. The training is held at Ma’an’s Bethlehem office and is led by a Swedish trainer Mikael Wistroem. Twenty trainees from Ma’an….
Government critic fired from Egyptian newspaper
Palestine Note 5 Oct 2010 – Washington – The editor of Egypt’s leading independent newspaper has been dismissed by the paper’s publisher after he was told not to run an article written by prominent opposition critic Mohamed ElBaradei. Ibrahim Eissa is well…
American Jewish groups condemn W Bank mosque burning
Palestine Note 5 Oct 2010 – Washington – The American Jewish group, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released an official statement yesterday condemning the attack on a West Bank mosque early Monday morning. The statement read, “We join with Israeli officials in condemning…
Barak: W Bank arsonists “terrorists” that “besmirch” Israeli values
Palestine Note 5 Oct 2010 – Washington – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak referred to the arsonists who set flame to a mosque in the West Bank early Monday morning as “terrorists”. “Whoever did this is a terrorist in every sense of…
Concerns over peace talks delay pick of new Jordanian ambassador to Israel
Palestine Note 5 Oct 2010 – Washington – King Abdullah II has postponed appointing an ambassador to Israel until the circumstances surrounding the fragile peace talks become clear, Jerusalem Post reports . This is the third time the appointment has been delayed since…
Syrian court issues arrest warrants for “false testimony” in Hariri tribunal
Palestine Note 5 Oct 2010 – Washington – Over the weekend, Syria issued 33 arrest warrants for high ranking Lebanese and internaitonal officials in connection with giving false testimony to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) investigating the circumstances surrounding the assasination…
WATCH: Achievement and unity through football
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Rabbi claims seducing enemy a “mitzvah”
Palestine Note 5 Oct 2010 – Washington – A new study of Jewish law published by the Israeli Zomet Institute has deemed it permissible for Jewish women to seduce an enemy for the sake of national security. Rabbi Ari Shvat, who made…
Settlers claim they are being denied their human rights
Palestine Note 5 Oct 2010 – Washington – Local Israeli officials in Judea and Samaria are urging the government not to acquiesce to requests for an extension of the settlement freeze. One of them spoke to Ynet News saying , ” It is…
Mubarak: Violence will spread if talks fail
Palestine Note 5 Oct 2010 – Washington – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has warned of a global outbreak of violence and terrorism if the current round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks fail. Egypt is currently marking the 37th anniversary of the 1973 Yom…
Netanyahu consults ministers on settlement freeze
Palestine Note 5 Oct 2010 – Israeli Prime Minister looks to his coalition for decision on compromise Washington – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will convene his Forum of Seven top ministers Tuesday. It is believed that the meeting will be to…
Humiliating Israeli video condemned
AlJazeera 5 Oct 2010 – Clip of an Israeli soldier dancing around a female prisoner called illustrative of “sick mentality of occupier”.
Row over Jerusalem tourism meeting
AlJazeera 5 Oct 2010 – Britain and Spain expected to boycott conference after Israel refuses to shift venue to Tel Aviv.
Prominent International Sports Figures to Visit Palestine
PNN – Bethlehem-PNN- The Olympic Committee of Palestine (OCP) prepared to welcome the Belgian president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Jacques Rogge, who will visit Palestine on Tuesday as part of an Olympic…
Has Employment Become a Condition for Marriage?
PNN – Nablus — PNN —Exclusive – Samir prepared as a young boy for a just life in his thirties. He worked as a teacher in a secondary school in Nablus and moved into…
Another Youtube Scandal Hunts The Israeli Military
PNN – PNN — Israeli television station Channel 10 aired a film on Monday night of an Israeli soldier dancing on a Palestinian detainee. The new video showed an Israeli soldier dancing on a…
West Bank summer camps indoctrinate settler children in Arab deportation
PNN – Mustafa Sabri — PNN Exclusive -Israeli Channel 2 broadcasted a report on summer camps for settler’s children in the West Bank, focusing on building settlements and singing religious songs. One of the…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (23-29 September 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
J’lem: Arab League meeting not deadline on settlements
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Official: “Deadlines have proven to be elastic, doesn’t mean that if some formula is not found by Friday, that’s the end of the story.”
Erdan threatens to block building of new Palestinian city
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – “Pollution respects no borders, can affect surrounding settlements — Jewish and Arab — even have an effect across the Green Line,” Erdan says of Rawabi.
US expresses concern to Beirut over Ahmadinejad visit
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Last month, Clinton met Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, telling him that Iran, through Hizbullah, was threatening Lebanon’s sovereignty.
PA: US is working on 3-month freeze extension to save talks
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Abbas wins Egyptian, Jordanian backing for his refusal to return to negotiating table; Fatah and Hamas will restart reconciliation talks Oct. 20.
‘We hope direct talks will not collapse due to settlements’
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Mubarak calls peace agreement between Israel and Palestinians the one guarantee of security for all countries in the region, especially Israel.
Iran’s opposition head: Referendum on Ahmadinejad
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Mousavi, who claims to be rightful winner of 2009 election, says president’s foreign policies are destructive economically and politically.
Septet talks delegitimization of Israel, UN flotilla probe
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Ministerial forum makes point of releasing statement after meeting saying that peace talks, possible freeze extension not discussed.
French police arrest twelve suspected al-Qaida terrorists
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – 3 of the men allegedly linked to man caught with bomb-making kit in Naples; arrests come as US, France, others step up terror vigilance.
Natan Zach: ‘I would participate in the next flotilla’
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Award-winning Israeli poet wants to bring “poets from around the world” to break blockade on Gaza; MK Regev asks to remove Zach’s poem from schoolbooks.
Witness: Talansky celebrated Sharon’s stroke
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Testimony in corruption case claims US businessman celebrated, said “The country is mine; I bet on the right guy!” when Olmert became PM.
Irish Nobel winner deported from Israel
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Supreme court ruled that Mairead Maguire must leave the country in accordance with a deportation order barring her for ten years.
Report: Jordan postpones appointing ambassador to Israel
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – King Abudllah is reportedly waiting for the results of peace talks; Jordanian peace negotiator: Israel torpedoed talks at their outset.
Mubarak: Failure of talks will lead to terror, violence
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – PM Netanyahu set to convene “septet” of cabinet meetings to discuss the impasse in peace talks; Abbas and Mubarak to meet in Cairo.
Peres hosts northern and southern peacekeeping chiefs
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – All four commanders assured Peres that they regarded their assignments as an important mission, and that they were no less interested than Israel in keeping the peace.
New US consulate to open in west Jerusalem
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – US plans to maintain a strong presence in the eastern part of the capital, despite moving bulk of services to Arnona neighborhood.
Central region is focus of missile threat, MI chief says
Jeruslalem Post 5 Oct 2010 – Yadlin says Missiles are being directed at us from three fronts: Iran, Syria and Hizbullah and, Hamas is also trying to improve missile capability.
How Nobel laureate went from Israel opponent to admirer
Jeruslalem Post 4 Oct 2010 – Exclusive: As a young British soldier in Palestine in 1947, Robert Edwards was infuriated by “Sergeants Affair”; visit 42 years later won him over.
International Solidarity Movement
PCHR Condemns Continued Detention of Islamic Jihad Leader in Violation of Law
10/5/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the continued illegal detention of Khader ‚ÄòAdnan Mousa, 32, a leader of Islamic Jihad, from ‚ÄòArraba village southwest of Jenin, by the General Intelligence Service (GIS). PCHR is concerned over Mousa’s health condition, who had been in a hunger strike since the beginning…. Related: PCHR
Four men arrested in a night raid in Ni’lin
10/5/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Tonight, around 2 am, the Israeli army entered the West Bank village of Ni`lin and arrested four Palestinians: Muhammed Ahmed Younis Amireh, Othman Risiqe Rasheed Amireh, Tarik Hassan Tawfeeq Mesleh and Asad Muhammed Abdulfattah Nafi. Israeli soldiers on foot arrived from the gate in the illegal apartheid wall and from the fields around Ni’….
Trial in killing of American activist Rachel Corrie resumes in Israeli court
10/5/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Rachel Corrie Foundation – Haifa, Israel— The Haifa District Court will resume hearings on Thursday, October 7 in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. Rachel Corrie, an American student activist and human rights defender from Olympia, Washington, was crushed….
Netanyahu meets top ministers, but no mention of settlement freeze extension
Ha’aretz – Forum of seven concludes meeting, doesn’t discuss Israel-PA talks after expectations that the PM would present proposal to extend settlement freeze in exchange for U.S. guarantees.
Court: Rabin assassin to remain in solitary confinement
Ha’aretz – Yigal Amir had petitioned to be moved from isolation to the religious wing of the Rimonim prison; court denies his request, citing national security and the need to protect Amir’s…
Talansky gave Olmert’s brother $30,000, police tell court
Ha’aretz – Talansky’s business partner David Friedland testifies in Jerusalem over suspicions American Jewish businessman made illicit payments to former PM, says he believes funds were sent to Olmert.
Lod woman shot dead two days after latest city murder
Ha’aretz – Amal Halili, a 27-year-old mother of three, was shot point blank while sitting in her car with her 7-year-old daughter and her brother. Paramedics found her in critical condition and…
Israel yet to deport foreign workers’ children, despite end of grace period
Ha’aretz – Families of illegal immigrants had been given several months to leave the country voluntarily, with government assistance.
Clinton: Mideast peace can unercut global terror threat
Ha’aretz – Former president says resolving long-running conflict would have knock on effect on Syria’s support of Hezbollah, Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Livni: Netanyahu wasted two years before talking with PA
Ha’aretz – Speaking at Harvard University, Kadima leader says ending conflict with the Palestinians is a clear Israeli interest, not a favor to the United States.
Jordan king: Don’t miss historic opportunity for peace
Ha’aretz – King Abdullah urges Israel, PA to engage in direct talks and act responsibly; Egypt’s Mubarak discusses Mideast peace with Abbas, Bill Clinton.
Egypt president warns of ‘global terror’ if Mideast peace talks fail
Ha’aretz – PM Netanyahu to convene inner cabinet Tuesday to discuss two-month extension of settlement, in bid to save peace talks., IDF orders immediate probe after Channel 10 airs clip on national…
Netanyahu urges top ministers to extend settlement freeze
Ha’aretz – PM to convene inner cabinet on Tuesday for vote on a 60-day moratorium in exchange for U.S. guarantees.
Barak: West Bank mosque arsonists are terrorists and must be stopped
Ha’aretz – The attack is thought to be the latest in series of attacks by settlers, intended to pressure Israeli government over settlement building concessions.
Israeli army kidnapped 485 Palestinians last month
5 Oct 2010 – Palestine, October 5, (Pal Telegraph) – 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 Al-Quds.
Confiscating Childhood
5 Oct 2010 – Palestine, October 5, (Pal Telegraph) -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 their first bike, enjoy their favorite video games, make it into the school’s football squad, it’s a time when…
Palestine boycott committee calls on US pension fund to divest from Israel
Uruknet October 5, 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 live up to its motto of providing “Financial Services for the Greater Good” by divesting its funds from companies that profit from…
Israeli fire injures fourth Gaza worker in week
Uruknet October 5, 2010 – A man identified by medics as a laborer was shot by Israeli fores in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon, as he was collecting stone aggregates for a construction company. Medical services coordinator in Gaza Adham Abu Silmiyyeh said a 27-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound in the left leg and was transferred by…
Palestinian Mufti: Settlers pushing the region towards a “religious war”
Uruknet October 5, 2010 – The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Mohammed Hussein, has warned of an impending “religious war” in the region. This is likely to be ignited by the provocative practices of the Jewish settlers which are on the rise; the most recent example of which was settlers setting fire to a mosque in the town of…
No mention of settlement freeze at Israel cabinet meeting
Uruknet October 5, 2010 – During its weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister and his seven top ministers did not discuss extending a temporary moratorium on settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli media reported. Contrary to prior reports, the ministers only discussed Israel’s preparation for flotillas to Gaza, and the work of the UN’s Turkel…
Video: Syria Sex Trade UncoveredSex Trade in Syria of Iraqi Women
Uruknet October 5, 2010 – ABC reporter Antoinette Chiha went undercover to speak to women affected by Syria’s thriving illegal sex trade. The story was produced by Yaara Bou Melhem and Drew Ambrose..
Confiscating Childhood in the Occupied Territories
Uruknet October 5, 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 their first bike, enjoy their favorite video games, make it into the school’s football squad, it’s a time when…
Wounded Palestinian Man Kidnapped By Israeli Troops
Uruknet October 5, 2010 – A Palestinian man was shot and wounded, on Tuesday at dawn, after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him at a military roadblock near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. Israeli army sources reported that the man, from Habla village, near Qalqilia, was in an Israeli car along with two other residents. The army claims…
BEING ANTI THIS DOESN’T MAKE YOU PRO THATA PALESTINIAN STATE WILL NOT BE CREATED BY HATING JEWS
Uruknet October 5, 2010 – Much has been written lately against Jews. More is being said either justifying or denying the suffering they experienced in Eastern Europe. All of the above is not appearing on the usual ‘White Nation’ sites where we would expect to find them, but rather on many sites connected to the Pro Palestinian Blogesphere. Does anyone…
For Palestinians in Israel, “transfer” threat nothing new
Uruknet October 5, 2010 – Controversy has arisen after Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s comments to the United Nations’ General Assembly on 28 September. During his address the leader of the ultra-right wing Yisrael Beiteinu party outlined his proposal for a “population and territory swap” in the context of establishing an ostensible Palestinian state during this current round of US-brokered…
Israel Deports Peace Laureate
Uruknet Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire was deported from Israel Tuesday after spending more than a week in detention at Tel Aviv Airport as she attempted to fight the deportation order. Last week four Israeli security men tried to force the Nobel Peace prize winner to board an airplane after she arrived in the country as part of the…
YouTube clip shows IDF soldier belly-dancing beside bound Palestinian woman
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – A video uploaded to YouTube shows an Israel Defense Forces soldier wriggling in a belly dance beside a bound and handcuffed Palestinian woman, to the cheers of his comrades who were documenting the incident. The IDF’s internal investigation department ordered an immediate probe into the matter after the Ch. 10 television program Tzinor Laila caught…
Israel rejects pro-Palestinian Nobel laureate’s deportation appeal
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – The Supreme Court rejected Monday an appeal by Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, against a Petah Tikva District Court order for her deportation. Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, and Justices Asher Grunis and Neal Hendel, ruled that there was no flaw in the District Court’s ruling which upheld a ban on Corrigan…
The trial of Ameer Makhoul enters a new phaseA Call for Support
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – 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 the prosecution’s core allegations against him on September 16th in the Haifa District Court. State Prosecutors admitted…
The mendacity of “restraint”
Uruknet October 4, 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…
Israeli authorities resume demolition streak against Bedouin homes
Uruknet October 4, 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. Local sources said that the families residing in those houses were rendered homeless. Ibrahim Al-Wakili, the chairman of the regional council of unrecognized villages, warned in a…
Israel Needs to Stop Playing the Victim
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – The Palestinians are constantly being accused of “playing the victim,” an unflattering role by any standards. Many Palestinians would agree that we do not want to be portrayed as the victim so as not to delegitimize our argument or weaken our point. Not that we don’t have ample reason to call ourselves victims in the…
School By Day, Prison By Night
Uruknet October 4, 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…
Academic Denied Tenure by Israeli University for Political Reasons?
Alternative Information Center – Bar Ilan University Professor Ariella Azoulay has been denied tenure for what many have described as politically driven reasons.
Civil Society in Gaza Discusses European Neighborhood Policy
WAFA – GAZA, October 5, 2010 (WAFA)- The Office of the European Union Representative held its second Joint Consultation with the representatives of the Palestinian civil society in the Gaza Strip on the
ISESCO Condemns Burning of Mosque in Palestine
WAFA – RABAT, October 5, 2010 (WAFA)- The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (SESCO) strongly denounced the burning of a mosque by Jewish settlers in Beit Fajjar, south of Beit Lahm,
Through Conflict, Poverty, Students in OPT Struggle to Learn
WAFA – WEST BANK, October 5, 2010 (WAFA)- Ask principal Hanan Awwad what it is like to head the Khan al-Ahmar elementary school and she will reply that she feels ‘fear and exhaustion’ — but also great
UN Chief Presses Middle East Leaders to Find a Way Forward
WAFA – NEW YORK, October 5, 2010 (WAFA)- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has held talks by telephone with key figures in the Middle East as he urged the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to continue their
UN Office Shocked at Deliberate Burning of Mosque in West Bank
WAFA – JERUSALEM, October 4, 2010 (WAFA)- The Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) today voiced its shock following the burning of a mosque in the West
Netanyahu convenes inner forum of coalition partners ahead of Arab summit
Daily Star 5 Oct 2010 WASHINGTON: The United States said on Tuesday that it has raised its concerns with the Lebanese government about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s planned visit to southern Lebanon later this month. US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley…
US warns over Ahmadinejad’s Lebanon visit
Daily Star 5 Oct 2010 WASHINGTON: The United States said on Tuesday that it has raised its concerns with the Lebanese government about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s planned visit to southern Lebanon later this month. US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley…
Ahmadinejad taunts West to put more pressure on Iran
Daily Star 5 Oct 2010 TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad challenged the West on Tuesday to put more pressure on Iran, which he said would fail to make any impact on the Islamic Republic or its atomic program. Ahmadinejad, in an address…
Syria’s Assad, Iraq’s Hakim call for Baghdad unity government
Daily Star 5 Oct 2010 DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar Assad issued a joint call on Tuesday with visiting Iraqi Shiite leader Ammar al-Hakim for a national unity government to be formed in Iraq. Assad and Hakim discussed “the ongoing dialogue between…
Arabs must broker Israel-Palestine peace
Daily Star 5 Oct 2010 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been thrown to the wolves. No matter how sincere he may be in his efforts to bring a Palestinian state into being, all the cards are being held by Israel and…
YouTube: Israel soldier dances round woman prisoner
Daily Star 5 Oct 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: A grainy video of a male Israeli soldier bellydancing around a bound and blindfolded female prisoner which went viral overnight, on Tuesday provoked a furious response from the Palestinians. The clip, which came to…
US laments delay in approving envoys to Turkey, Syria
Daily Star 5 Oct 2010 WASHINGTON: The Senate’s delay in confirming US President Barack Obama’s choices of ambassadors to Syria and Turkey “does have an impact” on US policy in the region, an Obama administration official said Monday. In February, Obama…
The international media as political player
Daily Star 5 Oct 2010 The United Nations Human Rights Council this week adopted a resolution condemning Israel for its attack on the aid flotilla on May 31. The report said that there was evidence which justifies prosecuting Israel for the “…
Featured Photojournalist: Muhammed Muheisen
The Guardian 5 Oct 2010 – Associated Press photographer Muhammed Muheisen documents the lives children in West Bank refugee camps
Israel expels Nobel peace laureate over Gaza protest
The Guardian 5 Oct 2010 – Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who tried to break Gaza blockade, loses appeal against deportation Associated Press Jersualem Israel today expelled an Irish Nobel peace laureate and pro-Palestinian activist who was barred from the country for trying to…
Lebanon: Palestinian students equipped to gain employment in the reconstruction and recovery of Nahr el-Bared
Relief Web 5 Oct 2010 – Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
EU provides its largest contribution this year to the Palestinian Authority’s payment of civil servants’ salaries and pensions
Relief Web 5 Oct 2010 – Source: European Union
Korans burnt in West Bank mosque attack
Relief Web 4 Oct 2010 – Source: Reuters – AlertNet
MIDEAST: Israel Deports Peace Laureate
IPS Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire was deported from Israel Tuesday after spending more than a week in detention at Tel Aviv Airport as she attempted to fight the deportation order.
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Rabbis visit torched mosque, condemn attack
YNet News – Under heavy IDF, Palestinian escort, a delegation of settler rabbis visits….
Poet Zach: Israel apartheid state
YNet News – Leading Israeli poet says he wishes to join Gaza flotilla; ‘if I were better….
Settlers call on ministers not to extend freeze
YNet News – Ahead of meeting of seven ministers’ forum on US demand to prolong construction….
Another YouTube embarrassment for IDF
YNet News – Clip uploaded to YouTube shows IDF soldier belly dancing around handcuffed….
Local authorities strike, block roads
YNet News – Protests against budget cuts held throughout Israel; union chairman: Government….
Arab suspected of 7 sexual assaults
YNet News – The police arrested Muhammad Soilam, 27, a resident of the West Bank city of Qalqilya, for allegedly assaulting seven Israeli women over the past few weeks. The …….
Iran’s Mousavi calls for referendum
YNet News – Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi called Tuesday for a referendum on what he described as the “destructive” economic and political policies of President …….
US condemns mosque arson
YNet News – The US on Tuesday strongly condemned the torching of the mosque in the West Bank village of Beit Fajar, near Bethlehem. State Department Spokesperson Philip Crowley also …….
Settlers threaten riots over synagogue sealing
YNet News – The Settlement movement warned Tuesday of a harsh reaction and painful “price tag” style retaliation if authorities proceed in the plan to seal a synagogue which was …….
Egypt ‘doing everything’ to save peace talks
YNet News – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Tuesday that his country “was sparing no effort to insure the Israeli-Palestinian peace process does not fall apart over the …….
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Abbas court passes another cruel sentence against Qassam member
PIC 5 Oct 2010 – A military court affiliated with the security apparatuses loyal to de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas passed a 20-year sentence against Alaa Dhiyab from Qalqilia.
Egypt sends positive indicators to allow Lifeline (5) into Gaza Strip
PIC 5 Oct 2010 – Organizers of the Lifeline (5) convoy have received positive indicators from the Egyptian government that the caravan could cross into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing point.
Abu Zuhri: Youtube clip reveals racism, immorality of Israeli army
PIC 5 Oct 2010 – Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, commenting on Israeli soldiers who taped themselves dancing next to a bound Palestinian woman, that the act confirms the racism and immorality of the Israeli army.
Sabri holds UNESCO responsible for Judaization of Aqsa Mosque
PIC 5 Oct 2010 – Sheikh Ikrema Sabri, the Mufti of the holy land, on Tuesday held UNESCO responsible for the Israeli occupation authority’s Judaization plans of the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
Bardawil: Fatah courts paid off by Israel
PIC 5 Oct 2010 – Hamas leader Salah Bardawil said trials against Hamas supporters in Fatah authority courts are unlawful and reflect the extent of Fatah’s cooperation with Israel.
Mishaal: Siege on Gaza broken politically and ethically
PIC 5 Oct 2010 – Khaled Mishaal, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, said on Monday that the unjust Israeli blockade on Gaza Strip has actually broken politically and morally..
Bahar calls on Fatah to dissolve Fayyad government
PIC 5 Oct 2010 – Dr. Ahmed Bahar has called on Fatah faction to adopt a courageous decision and dissolve the illegitimate government of Salam Fayyad in the West Bank.
New aid convoy to Gaza launched from India
PIC 5 Oct 2010 – The Turkish relief and humanitarian aid foundation IHH announced on Tuesday that a land aid convoy would leave India en route to Gaza Strip in early December.
Hamas: The PA’s violations against our cadres make reconciliation impossible
PIC 5 Oct 2010 – Hamas said it is concerned about the violations committed against its cadres in the West Bank, saying this situation does not provide the appropriate conditions necessary for the reconciliation.
Hammad: Israel tried to decoy students into working as spies
PIC 5 Oct 2010 – Minister of interior Fathi Hammad stated Tuesday that the Israeli occupation made failed attempts to lure students into working as informers against the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip.
West Bank Oktoberfest raises a glass to Palestinian culture
LA Times 4 Oct 2010 – A brewing company sponsors the party to have a good time and raise awareness about Palestinian Christians. Maybe it’s the afternoon beer-chugging contest in a land where 98% of the people are Muslim and prohibited from drinking alcohol.
Netanyahu on Tightrope With Peace Talks in Jeopardy
New York Times 5 Oct 2010 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is weighing whether an American proposal to prolong a settlement freeze would destroy his coalition.
Iran Denies Malware Connection to Nuclear Delay
New York Times 5 Oct 2010 – Iranian officials announced that a “small leak” ‚Äî rather than a malicious computer worm ‚Äî caused the setback.
Chicago group brings campaign to end US aid to Israel to transit riders
Mondoweiss – Beginning yesterday, the Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine has posted signs like the one above in Chicago Transit Authority “el cars” for the next month. The campaign website explains : The “Be on Our Side” media and education project promotes a positive,…
The latest entries for the Israel Project photo contest
Mondoweiss – We’re helping to collect photos for the Israel Project’s ‚ÄòBest Shots of Israel’ contest . Here are some more entries: David Ehren sent the above photo to the Israel Project with the note, “I took this in Hebron last year. The flag, security camera, and machine…
What does effective solidarity with Palestinians look like in the US?
Mondoweiss – October 2nd couldn’t have been a more beautiful day for a rally. I had gotten on a bus at 11pm the night before to travel to Washington D.C. for the One Nation Working Together rally. Over 400 organizations endorsed the rally’s platform of Jobs, Justice and…
Abergil redux: YouTube video shows IDF soldier dancing beside bound Palestinian woman
Mondoweiss – And more news from Today in Palestine: Land/Property/Resource Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Israeli forces demolish 4 Bedouin homes 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…
Not in the NYT: Israeli poet says Israel is apartheid state
Mondoweiss – Once again, the Israeli discourse shows itself to be far more open than the American one, why? Because of diaspora Jews’ presumed responsibility to guard Israel from all criticism in front of the goyim. Here is Israeli poet Natan Zach, quoted in Ynet : Israel is an…
Military Night Raids and Arrests Resume in Ni’ilin
Joseph Dana 5 Oct 2010 – Four people, 17 to 45 year-old, were arrested by the army in Ni’ilin tonight, in the first pre-dawn raid operation in months. The renewal of night raids and arrests may signal a return to their use as a scare tactic to quell demonstrations and the village’s…
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Palestine Think Tank 5 Oct 2010 – “Hezbollah and Hamas are tools of the Iranians!” [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Khalid Amayreh — Palestinians need a commission of truth
Palestine Think Tank 5 Oct 2010 – Again, the purpose of a grand commission of truth, whose members would have to be carefully chosen from among the cr?®me de la cr?®me of the Palestinian intellectuals, people with high rectitude and sense of justice, wouldn’t be to erect a Guillotine in the streets of…
Sami Jamil Jadallah — Ramallah, the best friend Israel can have!
Palestine Think Tank 5 Oct 2010 – In exchange for this two-month freeze, Israel is getting a couple of billion dollars of military aid package and other security guarantees. It is getting the US support for Israel to place permanently its troops on the border with Jordan and in the Jordan Valley, it…
Strangled By Aid, Palestine Monitor
Palestine Think Tank 5 Oct 2010 – The political problems caused by occupation restrict food aid to treating the symptoms rather than causes of food insecurity, denying the consequences of Israel’s containment strategies towards Palestinians. Food aid mitigates the worst effects and keeps people alive, but at the same time creates a situation…
Open letter to UK Trades Union Congress General Secretary
Global BDS 5 Oct 2010 – 4th October 2010 Brendan Barber General Secretary Trades Union Congress Congress House Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS Dear Mr Barber, The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), of which all of Palestinian trade union federations are members, war read more
Brother of lifetime prisoner detained at Ramon prison
Sabr 5 Oct 2010 – TUBAS ( Ma’an ) — Israeli forces at Ramon prison detained the brother of a lifetime prisoner on Monday as the young man visited his relative, the Tubas Prisoners Society reported. Mahmoud Abu At-Tayyeb traveled to the southern Israel prison with a permit to visit his brother Younis,…
PA: Latest Israeli soldier video ‘deeply offensive’
Sabr 5 Oct 2010 – RAMALLAH ( Ma’an ) — A personal film showing an Israeli soldier dancing around a Palestinian woman uploaded to YouTube on Monday “is a disgusting illustration of the sick mentality of the occupier,” a Palestinian Authority statement said. The video, showing an Israeli soldier belly-dancing next to a…
Two Jordanians tortured in Egyptian jails for assisting Gaza
Sabr 5 Oct 2010 – [ 05/10/2010 – 10:53 AM ] AMMAN, ( PIC )— Relatives of two Jordanian men in Egyptian detention appealed to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry to take immediate action for their release, saying they suffer from tough conditions and have undergone various forms of torture. The Jordanian weekly Assabeel…
Report: Israel steps up violations against juvenile detainees
Sabr 5 Oct 2010 – [ 04/10/2010 – 06:15 PM ] RAMALLAH, ( PIC )— 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 detention of minors. The center reported on Monday that around 340 Palestinian…
Syrian teenager ‘held for spying’
BBC 5 Oct 2010 – Syria has accused a teenaged girl, held without charge for nine months, of spying for a foreign power, officials say.
West Bank mosque attack condemned
BBC 5 Oct 2010 – Jewish rabbis present a box of Korans to a West Bank mosque as a gesture of solidarity after an arson attack on Monday blamed on settlers.
Israel probes soldier dance video
BBC 5 Oct 2010 – Israel’s army says it is investigating a video which appears to show a soldier dancing around a bound and blindfolded Palestinian woman.
Russia and Egypt in telecom deal
BBC 5 Oct 2010 – Russia’s Vimpelcom and Weather Investments, headed by Egyptian telecom tycoon Naguib Sawiris, agree to merge their assets.
US Scrambles to Save Peace Talks
Antiwar.com 5 Oct 2010 – 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. The stakes are high. If the talks fall apart, a number of observers believe a third intifada could break…
Obama Letter Suggests US Not Honest Broker
Antiwar.com 5 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 skeptical about U.S. and Israeli roles in the current peace talks. According to the leak, Obama…
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Israeli Bar Ilan University sacks top academic for her critical views
Neve Gordon, Redress10/6/2010
Neve Gordon describes how Israel’s Bar Ilan University denied tenure to a brilliant, world-class philosophy professor, Ariella Azoulay — in effect sacking her — because “a significant part of her work offers a critique of Israeli rights-abuse policy and of Zionism”.
“Everything is political,” cultural theorists often claim. Recently, Bar Ilan University in Israel decided to prove them right.
Located on the outskirts of Tel-Aviv, Bar Ilan likes to boast that it is the largest university in Israel. Its official goal is to cultivate and combine “Jewish identity and tradition with modern technologies and research”.
Fifteen years ago, however, the university became infamous after one of its students assassinated former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin in what turned out to be a successful attempt to arrest the Oslo peace process. The administration was appalled by the criminal act and consequently appears to have adopted a strategic decision to temper its conservative and right-wing proclivities. On the one hand, Bar Ilan continued to provide accreditation for two colleges located in illegal West Bank settlements, yet, on the other, it also developed an excellent gender programme and hired a number of faculty members with well known left-wing credentials. It aspired to become a liberal institution guided by ostensibly neutral professional processes and regulations, like all major universities around the world.
It was during this period that philosophy professor Avi Sagi of Bar Ilan hired Ariella Azoulay. From an academic standpoint, he made a wise decision, since over the past decade Azoulay has become one of Israel’s foremost cultural theorists, specializing in visual culture…. more.. e-mail
Bil’in Model of Wall Resistance
Iyad Burnat, Palestine Think Tank10/5/2010
In the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, a 770 km Separation Wall weaves in and out of Palestinian towns and villages separating Palestinians from their homes and land.
The construction of this wall by Israel isolates 29 Palestinian towns (area of 216,567 dunums or 54,141 Acres) from the West Bank and leaves them on the Israeli side of the wall.
Within the West Bank remain 138 villages with an area of 554,370 dunums unable to access the towns that are on the other side of the Wall. The construction of this Separation wall is set to illegally isolate and fragment 12.6% of the total area of the West Bank, or 5,661 sq. kilometers of Palestinian land.
These Palestinian lands seized by Israel are especially important as they are the most fertile, and often provide an underground source of water. In addition, much of the land seized surrounds Jerusalem.
Confiscation of Palestinian land is further aggravated by the construction of illegal Israeli settlements beyond the Green Line.
Palestinians are forbidden from living in these Jewish-only colonies and using the roads that connect them to one another. Barriers and checkpoints further divide Palestinian land into islands and cantons, thus leaving the facts on the ground incompatible with the possibility of establishing a contiguous Palestinian state. These conditions have paved the way for a strong movement of popular resistance, and this is what we have done.
Bil’in, to the west of Ramallah, central West Bank, is a small Palestinian village surrounded by valleys and mountains, and situated in between Jaffa and Jerusalem. more.. e-mail
Cultural resistance: Gilad Atzmon in conversation with British music icon Robert Wyatt
Gilad Atzmon, Redress10/5/2010
The legendary British music icon Robert Wyatt is a big supporter of Palestine. A few days ago he came down to London to promote “For the Ghosts Within” (Wyatt/ Stephen/Atzmon, Domino Records), a new album we have produced together with violinist Ros Stephen. We had a lively chat about Palestine, music, cultural resistance and the importance of the coming Jazza Festival.
Music as an agent of change
For Robert Wyatt, music is where “people are introduced to each other”.
“People were playing each other’s music long before they were mixing politically or socially,” he says. Musicians can anticipate change.
“In the [US] deep south, white kids were listening to black radio stations and black kids listened to country music long before these kids could share space or even meet.” Music has this unique capacity to cross the divide, to bring people together, to introduce harmony and yet, for some reason, not many musicians are brave enough to jump into the deep water. Not many musicians celebrate their ability to bring about change.
In 2003 Robert invited me to the studio. He was recording Cuckooland at the time. He had in mind an instrumental version of Nizar Zreik’s tune, originally sung by the Palestinian singer, Amal Murkus. That day in the studio, I spent a good few frustrating hours with my clarinet trying to emulate Amal’s articulation, her sound, her personal take on micro-tonality, colour and dynamic…. more.. e-mail
Palestine boycott committee calls on US pension fund to divest from Israel
Electronic Intifada: 5 Oct 2010 – The Palestinian BNC calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to live up to its motto of providing “Financial Services for the Greater Good” by divesting its funds from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and violation of Palestinian rights.more
Towards accountability: John Dugard interviewed
Electronic Intifada: 5 Oct 2010 – Last month, Professor John Dugard, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, chaired a meeting on universal Jurisdiction in the Hague. Adri Nieuwhof interviewed Dugard about means of bringing Israel to account for its human rights violations, particularly the legal mechanism of universal jurisdiction.more
You, Us and a Decade and Then Some
Palestine Chronicle: 5 Oct 2010 – Dear Palestine Chronicle Readers: As we embark on our 12th year of bringing you current and vital news, information and commentary from Palestine and the rest of Middle East, what critical world events have we witnesses and reported on? How has our world changed, and more, how has PC’s coverage and perspective broadened your view of the World? Let’s refresh our memories back a decade and then some; PC’s inception coincided with the events which immediately preceded the Second Palestinian Intifada, a time when Palestinian resistance changed immensely and the Palestinian cause garnered more notarity than any other time in recent history. World opinion changed dramatically in the past 12 years and with historic Israeli brutality came equally strapping responses from Palestinians and the world public. The International Solidarity Movement came to life, bringing swarms of internationals to stand alongside people in the West Bank, Gaza and within Arab towns…more
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