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Eleven Palestinians Wounded In Several Israeli Military Attacks In Gaza
IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Friday October 08, 2010 – 04:30, Palestinian medical sources reported that eleven Palestinians were wounded Thursday after the Israeli army conducted several aerial attacks, and attempted to assassinate a resistance fighter. Damage was reported to several homes.
Netanyahu Demands Obama To Abide by Bush Guaranties To Sharon
IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Thursday October 07, 2010 – 12:36, Israeli daily, Yedioth Aharonoth, reported Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is demanding that U.S. President, Barak Obama, to reinstate the guaranties granted by former president, George Bush to the former Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon.
Four Residents Wounded, One Detained On Ramallah-Nablus Road
IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Thursday October 07, 2010 – 11:09, Four residents were wounded on Wednesday while being Pursued by an Israeli military vehicle on the Nablus-Ramallah Road in the West Bank.
Re-trial Begins In The Case Of Rachel Corrie, Killed By Israeli Forces In ’03
IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Thursday October 07, 2010 – 10:29, On Thursday morning, the District Court of Haifa began the re-trial of a case they had concluded in March: an Israeli judge ruled that the Court should hear further evidence about Rachel Corrie who was killed by an Israeli armored bulldozer in 2003.
P.A Forces Arrest Former Detainee
IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Thursday October 07, 2010 – 10:17, On Thursday The Palestinian Security Forces of the Fateh-led Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, arrested Omar Barghouthi, 55, a former political prisoner held by Israel for more than ten years, and the brother of the longest held Palestinian detainee in an Israeli prison.
Troops Kidnap 12 Palestinians In West Bank
IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Thursday October 07, 2010 – 09:48, Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Thursday at dawn twelve Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank.
Settlers Start Expanding Settlement Near Tubas
IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Thursday October 07, 2010 – 09:22, On Wednesday night a group of Jewish settlers started construction for the expansion of Michola settlement, in the Jordan Valleynear the central West Bank city of Tubas.
Army Bombards Gaza, Six Wounded
IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Thursday October 07, 2010 – 07:44, Palestinian medical sources reported that six Palestinians were wounded on Thursday at dawn as a result of Israeli airstrikes targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Settlers Uproot Olive Trees In Nablus
IMEMC – 7 Oct 2010 – Wednesday October 06, 2010 – 16:46, On Wednesday afternoon,Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees and looted the harvested fruits from villages of Yanoun and Hawwara near the city of Nablus.
Jordan Valley settlement expands
10/7/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Settlers in the northern Jordan Valley settlement of Mehola began large-scale construction projects on Wednesday night, reports from the Palestine News Agency WAFA said. Official sources told the agency that the settlers were adding new housing units in the western side of the settlement. Governor of Tubas Marwan Tubasy said three….
Settlers torch farmlands near Nablus
10/7/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Residents of Huwwara village south of Nablus said Thursday that settlers set dozens of dunums of farm lands on fire, destroying crops. PA official responsible for settlement-observation in the northern West Bank Ghassan Doughlas said the fields were in the At-Tira area of Huwwara village, and had destroyed some crops.”Lighting….
Airstrike on central Gaza injures 3
10/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli warplanes launched missiles targeting a car in central Gaza on Thursday, injuring three, medics reported. The shelling targeted a car driving between Al-Zahra city and An-Nuseirat refugee camp, medics said, adding that three residents were transferred to Al-Aqsa hospital in stable conditions. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the strikes….
Woman filmed by soldiers describes torture, humiliation
10/7/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — The Palestinian woman who was filmed, handcuffed and blindfolded, as an Israeli soldier danced around her said Thursday that the video only showed the beginning of “a journey of torture and humiliation.” A video of 24-year-old Ihsan Dababisa surfaced on YouTube on Monday, and was aired on Israel’s….
Israeli court extends teacher’s detention
10/7/2010 – TUBAS (Ma’an) – An Israeli court extended the detention of a Tubas schoolteacher on Thursday, the Tubas Prisoners Society reported. Mahmoud Abu Al-Tayyeb was detained without cause on Tuesday at Ramon prison when he visited his brother Younis, a lifetime prisoner at the facility, the society said. Abu Al-Tayyeb had traveled to southern Israel….
Gaza residents protest ‘video humiliation’
10/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza City residents organized a sit-in on Thursday, demonstrating collective anger over a home video of an Israeli soldier belly dancing beside a bound and blindfolded Palestinian woman in the West Bank. The video, which made waves on news sites and aired on Israel’s Channel 10 News, was….
Report: Abbas and Netanyahu to meet in Paris
10/7/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s Army Radio quoted sources who said that President Mahmoud Abbas and would meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in two weeks in Paris. The purpose of the meet would be determined by the decision of the Arab League later this week, the source said, though analysts expect…. Related: PLO denies reports of Paris meeting
Low yield expected for 2010 olive harvest
10/7/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Ministry of Agriculture in Ramallah said a 30 percent drop in olive oil production was expected for the 2010 season, over the 2008 yield. Experts said 2010 was a naturally occurring low season between a cycle of two seasons of high yields, which combined with a record hot summer of….
Overnight detentions include son of mayor
10/7/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Overnight raids saw Israeli forces detain the 18-year-old son of Beit Ummar’s mayor, with reports saying as many as 12 Palestinians were detained from across the West Bank overnight. Ahmad Nasser Rashid Sabarna, was taken from his home north of Hebron in the early hours of the morning….
Tubas group sues Palestinian settlement workers
10/7/2010 – TUBAS (Ma’an) — A group of public figures in Tubas filed a lawsuit Thursday to the Palestinian General Attorney against Palestinian construction workers employed in illegal settlements. The lawsuit is the first of its kind to be filed in Palestinian courts. The complainants said they hoped to obtain a ruling which would demonstrate that….
Gaza crossing partially open
10/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli crossings officials said one terminal would open for goods transfers on Thursday, with liaison officials told that 200-210 truckloads of goods would enter the coastal enclave. The goods entry was set to take place at the southern crossing point at Kerem Shalom, east of Rafah, Raed Fattouh, Palestinian….
Gaza tunnel trade takes turn
10/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The only products entering Gaza via the smuggling tunnels in the past months have been iron, cement and house paint, while a growing trade in goods for export into Egypt has seen recyclables make the reverse trip. Smugglers in the Egyptian Sinai and Gaza tunnel traders did a rapid shift….
Investigation finds Jabalia shooting death result of weapons misuse
10/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The shooting death of a woman in Gaza’s Jabaliya district was confirmed as the result of a misuse of weapons that investigating rights group said “continue to plague” Gaza. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights identified the victim as 25-year-old Zohour Khellah, killed when she was hit….
High speed chase sees 1 detained, others injured
10/7/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Four locals from Nablus men were injured and a fifth detained Thursday morning following a car chase with Israeli forces that ran the length of the Nablus-Ramallah road. Witnesses said an Israeli patrol car sped after a Palestinian car when it entered the main road south of Nablus, rear-ending and side-swiping….
2 detained for possessing explosives
10/7/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers detained two Palestinians suspected of possessing explosives at a checkpoint in the West Bank district of Nablus on Thursday. Ahmad Abed Al-Kharaz and Mohammad Shbaru were detained near the illegal Yitzhar settlement and held at Huwwara checkpoint while Israeli forces summoned a squad to the area to detonate explosives….
Ban urges end to settlements, re-start to talks
10/7/2010 – NEW YORK (Ma’an) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to restore a settlement moratorium in the occupied Palestinian territory during a briefing on global flash points Wednesday.”In recent days I have spoken with principal players on each side, including [Israeli] Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Palestinian] President [Mahmoud] Abbas, as well….
US seeks ways to support Fayyad plan
10/7/2010 – WASHINGTON (Ma’an) — As American-led efforts to push forward peace talks continue, officials made clear on Wednesday that continued support for the Palestinian Authority was on the agenda. Meetings between US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Middle East Quartet Envoy Tony Blair were used both as a platform for updates on the peace-talk….
PLO denies reports of Paris meeting
10/7/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee Yasser Abed Rabbo said no meeting was planned between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Paris during October. Abed Rabbo told Voice of Palestine Radio on Thursday afternoon that no contacts had been planned between the leaders, and would not be until…. Related: Report: Abbas and Netanyahu to meet in Paris
Israeli Ambassador: US offered incentives
10/7/2010 – WASHINGTON (Ma’an) — Israel’s US envoy Michael Oren said Wednesday the US administration offered Israel “incentives” to extend a settlement freeze, in an interview with The Washington Post. Oren did not specify what the incentives were, but said they were offered in exchange for a limited extension of the moratorium by two….
Court delays decision on PA vehicle restrictions
10/7/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Supreme Court decided Thursday to delay implementing the withdrawal of cars from civil servants until a final decision has been reached. Government spokesman Ghassan Al-Khatib announced in August that 6,200 government cars would be revoked from high-level civil servants as part of the Cabinet’s ongoing efforts to….
Gaza government amends salary deductions
10/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza’s Finance Ministry has stopped deducting electricity payments from the salaries of 1372 employees who have already paid their power bills, a ministry official said Thursday. The ministry had deducted money from employees’ salaries to pay for fuel in the wake of a power crisis in the….
Fayyad: PA will abide by court decision on cars
10/7/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Ramallah-based Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Thursday his government would abide by the Supreme Court ruling on the withdrawal of cars from civil servants. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Fayyad’s plan to revoke 6,200 vehicles from high-level civil servants should not be implemented until the court has reached….
PRC wing urges Hamas not to threaten PA
10/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Popular Resistance Committee’s military wing on Thursday urged Hamas’ armed wing to review its statement that it would target Palestinian Authority officials. Hamas’ military wing the Al-Qassam Brigades issued a statement Wednesday on behalf of 12 military groups in Gaza threatening to target PA officials….
11 children leave Gaza to Slovenia for treatment
10/7/2010 – GAZA (Ma’an) — A delegation of 17 individuals left Gaza through the Erez crossing on Thursday heading to Slovenia where they will receive treatment and training from one of Europe’s premier hospitals, organizers said. Eleven children, three care givers and three physical therapy specialists were selected from the patients and doctors at….
Bank of Israel buys $500 million
10/7/2010 – TEL AVIV (Ma’an) — The Bank of Israel purchased more than $500 million Thursday in an attempt to stop the plummet of the American currency against the Israeli shekel, the financial news network Bloomsberg said. Central bank Governor Stanley Fischer has been purchasing dollars since March 2008, and bought $699 million last month, to….
Netanyahu: Israel protects equality of Jews and non-Jews alike
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – At a memorial service for assassinated rightist leader Rehavam Ze’evi, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said , “Israel protects the full equality‚Ķ of Jews and non-Jews alike.” ” We are all the children of this…
Russia to repay Iran for annulled missile deal
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – Last month, the Kremlin refused to fulfill its contract with Iran and will return the downpayment for S-300 missiles, the BBC reported Thursday. Russia’s refusal to fulfill the contract is in response to the…
Israel to ease Palestinian athlete restrictions
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – At the insistence of International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, Israel will start to ease travel restrictions on Palestinian athletes who face numerous challenges in getting to national and international competitions. At a press…
NYT: Hezbollah stronger than ever
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – The New York Times is reporting that Hezbollah is feeling “emboldened” as it works to rebuild itself after the 2006 war with Israel. The group can also take solace as it appears that the…
UN Secretary General says Hariri tribunal will continue its work
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon insists that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will continue despite the looming threat of sectarian violence. “I want to be perfectly clear. This tribunal is independent, with…
Dogs to aid Israeli military in flotilla interceptions
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – The Israeli military will be assisted by trained attack dogs to inspect Gaza-bound flotillas, Ynet news reported Thursday. The Oketz Unit is considered to be one of the best canine units in the world. […
Report: Hamas thwarted Israeli attempt to locate Gilad Shalit
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – It has been reported that Hamas officials foiled an attempt by the Israeli military to retrieve abducted soldier Gilad Shalit in Gaza, Haaretz reported Thursday. University students in Tel Aviv protest Hamas’ holding of…
Oren: US offered Israel incentives to extend settlement freeze
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – Israel’s US envoy Michael Oren told The Washington Post on Wednesday that the United States administration had set forth a series of incentives to Israel in exchange for a 2-3 month extension of the…
Jerusalem mayor against city partition
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat denounced the idea of dividing Jerusalem into Palestinian and Israeli sections as part of a peace deal, Haaretz reported Thursday. Barkat did welcome the establishment of a Palestinian embassy in…
3 injured in Gaza airstrike
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – Palestinian medical officials and eyewitnesses have declared that 3 Palestinians have been injured in Gaza by an airstrike carried out by the Israeli military, Haaretz reported Thursday. The reported strike followed an airstrike intended…
Abbas threatens to resign if talks fail
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – Washington – At the Palestinian National Council meeting on Thursday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas stated that he may step down from his presidency if the peace talks with Israel fail, the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday….
Rabbo: No “serious” peace with Netanyahu
Palestine Note 7 Oct 2010 – A top Palestinian official dismisses prospects of a political peace process with Netanyahu’s government. Washington – “”There will be no serious political process while Netanyahu’s government pursues settlements. I can go further still and say that…
Israel plans ‘Jewish’ loyalty oath
AlJazeera 7 Oct 2010 – Controversial phrase added to citizenship law in move seen by some as attempt to get support for new settlement freeze.
Iran police die in Kurdistan attack
AlJazeera 7 Oct 2010 – Gunmen open fire on police patrol in Sanandaj, killing four officers and one bystander.
As Freeze is Cancelled, 34 Families in Two Buildings in Silwan Threatened with Expulsion
PNN – Jerusalem ‚Äì Maysa Abu Ghazala – A Jerusalem municipal judge ordered the cancellation of a freeze on house razings on two six-storey buildings in the Abbasiya neighborhood of Silwan, containing 34 families….
Israel Injures Four Palestinians in Air Strikes
PNN – Gaza ‚Äì PNN ‚Äì Israeli military planes target Gaza on Wednesday night injuring four Palestinians in a response to rockets being fired from the area. Israeli military sources said that the air…
USA: 2012 Diversity Visa Lottery Registration Begins
PNN – USCGJ ‚Äì PNN – The U.S. Consulate General Jerusalem announces that applications for the 2012 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery will be accepted online beginning the evening of October 5, 2010 and continuing…
Humiliated Palestinian Woman Featured in YouTube Video Sues
PNN – PNN ‚Äì The Palestinian women that was detained and humiliated by Israeli soldiers, in video that appeared on YouTube plans to sue. Ekhsan Debabseh filed a complaint with the Public Committee Against…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Palestinian Women Killed in Jabalya as a Result of Misuse of Weapons
Palestinian Center for Human Rights Field Update Yesterday, Zohour Khellah, from Jabalya al-Nazla village in the northern Gaza Strip, was killed as she was hit by a bullet that came out from a firearm while her husband was cleaning it inside their house. In a anotherincident, Walid Jebril, from Qalqilya town in the northern West Bank, was wounded the day before yesterday by a bullet
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (30 September – 06 October 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
PCHR Director participates in the NGO Strategy Meeting by the Harvard University with the ICC Prosecutor at the Rockefeller Foundation Centre of Bellagio, Italy
Palestinian Center for Human Rights Ref:74/2010 From the 5 to the 9 October 2010 the Director of PCHR, Mr. Raji Sourani, participates in the NGO strategy meeting organised by the Hauser Center of the Harvard University, which is hosted at the Rockefeller Foundation Conference Center of Bellagio, Italy.
Proposed loyalty pledge seen as directed at Israeli Arabs
Jeruslalem Post 8 Oct 2010 – Even academics who agree with the constitutional definition of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state have problems with the new pledge of allegiance.
Settlers pleased moratorium renewal seems distant
Jeruslalem Post 8 Oct 2010 – “With God’s help, it will continue this way,” Binyamin Regional Council chairman Avi Ro’eh said.
State releases documents governing Gaza closure policy
Jeruslalem Post 8 Oct 2010 – It took the state 16 months to partially agree to Gisha’s request for the four documents, which was based on the Freedom of Information Law.
Netanyahu spotlights Jews’ historic connection to Israel
Jeruslalem Post 8 Oct 2010 – Loyalty oath bill sparks rift between Barak, disloyal Labor ministers.
IDF will use attack dogs in future flotilla interceptions
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Decision follows intensive deliberations on how to improve boarding techniques following the bloody confrontation on Marvi Marmara.
German faked conversion to board ‘Jewish’ Gaza boat
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Television producers face flak for false report, say “is not customary to pressure people to produce conversion documents in order to conduct interviews.”
Is Hizbullah trying to take over Lebanon with Iran’s help?
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Analysis: The Lebanese guerrilla group is about to have its true face unmasked by the UN Hariri investigation – of course it’s panicking.
Rabbis’ debate threatens hike in kosher hotdog prices
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Rabbi tells students that major hotdog producers in Israel are using non-kosher ingredients, including pig skin, for their products’ casings.
Israel signs contract to buy F-35 stealth fighter
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Israel to get 20 fighters for nearly $3 bil. in 2016; Fifth-generation stealth jet capable of evading all radars and anti-aircraft missiles.
Netanyahu eulogizes “Gandhi” Ze’evi at Mt. Herzl
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – PM: Ze’evi was killed because he was a proud son of the Jewish people, he will be cherished as a warrior of the land of Israel.
Netanyahu eulogizes “Gandhi” Ze’evi at Mt. Herzl ceremony
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – PM: Ze’evi was killed because he was a proud son of the Jewish people, he will be cherished as a warrior of the land of Israel.
White House declines comment on US incentive reports
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Robert Gibbs says US officials worked hard to keep talks on track; US envoy Oren tells ‘Washington Post’ US came to Israel with number of suggestions that would enable gov’t to maybe pass a limited extension.
IDF will use dogs in future flotilla interceptions
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Decision follows intensive deliberations on how to improve boarding techniques following the bloody confrontation on Marvi Marmara.
Steinitz calls for US to give deadline on Iran sanctions
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Finance minister in Washington says that sanctions alone won’t be sufficient, US and other countries will have to set clear ultimatum.
‘Hamas thwarts attempt to locate Gilad Schalit’
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Hamas sources say man close to top leaders was planting bugs in the organization’s radios, Israel reportedly extricates agent when discovered.
‘Hamas thwarts attempt to locate Gilad Shalit’
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Hamas sources say man close to top leaders was planting bugs in the organization’s radios, Israel reportedly extricates agent when discovered.
Oren: US offered Israel incentives to encourage freeze
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Israel’s US envoy tells ‘Washington Post’ US administration has come back to Israel with number of suggestions that would enable government to maybe pass a limited extension of 2 or 3 months.
Abbas says will step down if talks fail
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – State Department working to save talks; Netanyahu considers extending freeze for 60 days; PA opposes Israeli presence in Jordan Valley.
Barak distances himself from proposed loyalty oath
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Defense minister proposes his own version of oath which he claims reflects “the open and liberal” spirit of Israel’s Declaration of Independence; MK Zoabi: The State of Israel has reached the height of fascism.
6-year-old dies after he’s hit by car on Jerusalem sidewalk
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Vehicle lost control when airbag opened; 5-year old still in serious condition with stomach wound; 4 adults slightly wounded including kids’ father.
Abbas: No building freeze, no peace talks
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – PA president says Palestinians fulfilled their commitments, but Israel did not, at PLO meeting in Jordan
Lieberman: Zoabi is the reason we need a loyalty oath
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Arab MKs call proposed bill “the height of fascism,” as well as “racist and stupid;” Israel Beiteinu denies law is in exchange for building freeze.
Assad: Chances of renewing peace talks are unclear
Jeruslalem Post 7 Oct 2010 – Syrian president says envoys from two countries trying to accommodate Syria’s demands for return of Golan Heights and Israel’s security objectives.
International Solidarity Movement
Weekly demonstrations: children cry as cops clash with clowns in Al Ma’asara
10/7/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – 1 and 2 October 2010 – Al Ma’asara – On Friday afternoon, around 50 protesters, including some 10 international and Israeli activists, gathered in the village of Al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, to demonstrate against the theft of village land by the Gush Etzion settlement block. The protest was also a commemoration of both International….
Victory in Sheikh Jarrah!
10/7/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – 05 October 2010 – Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem – Activists were delighted yesterday when they won a sweet victory against the ever-encroaching colonization of east Jerusalem. The Zionists at Shimon Hatzadik had planned a huge rally for the night of the sixth of October and to support that had illegally (as always) erected three large metal flag-posts on….
U.S.: We want to see entire Mideast support direct peace talks
Ha’aretz – Ahead of Arab League ruling on the possibility of resuming troubled peace talks, State Department official says only direct negotiations can resolve region’s issues.
Israel, U.S. finalize F-35 stealth fighter purchase
Ha’aretz – In a possible reference to the Iranian nuclear threat, top Israeli security officials says newly signed deal ensures Israel’s ability to face security challenges, both near and far.
Police arrest teenage settler for exposing top Shin Bet agent on YouTube
Ha’aretz – Hebron resident, 17, allegedly uploaded a video of A., the head of service’s Jewish Division, exposing his face and indicating his full name.
‘Hamas says thwarted IDF attempt to locate Gilad Shalit in Gaza’
Ha’aretz – Channel 2 report quotes militant group officials as saying they uncovered an Israeli agent who had been providing them with wired mobile phones for the last 3 years., Gaza eyewitnesses…
Oren: U.S. offered Israel incentives for settlement freeze extension
Ha’aretz – Comments by Israel envoy to the U.S. come as PA official confirms Palestinian willingness to rejoin peace talks if temporary freeze achieved.
Palestinian official: No chance of serious peace talks with Netanyahu government
Ha’aretz – Yasser Abed Rabbo reiterates stance that settlement construction must end before negotiations resume; Abbas will brief the Arab League’s peace process follow-up committee on the state of the talks with…
Jerusalem mayor would ‘welcome’ Palestinian embassy, but not partition
Ha’aretz – Speaking in Washington, Barkat denounced idea of splitting city between Palestinians and Israelis as recipe for dysfunction.
Israel bombs Hamas base in Gaza, no one hurt
Ha’aretz – Two air raids following a rocket launching from the enclave; IDF statement says more than 160 rockets fried from Gaza in 2010.
‘An embarrassment to Israel’: Netanyahu condemns Youtube humiliation of Palestinian prisoner
Ha’aretz – PM responds to outrage over YouTube showing IDF soldier belly-dancing beside a bound and handcuffed Palestinian woman.
Palestine: Israeli army bombs Gaza, 5 wounded
7 Oct 2010 – Gaza, October 5, (Pal Telegraph) – Palestinian medical sources reported that five Palestinians were wounded on Thursday at dawn after the Israeli air force carried out several airstrikes targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip.
Obama’s Balfour Declaration
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – Those who invested again in the so-called peace process apparently believed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was ready for historic decisions, and that US President Barack Obama’s support for the talks represented a unique and serious opportunity. Netanyahu allowed Israel’s mostly fictitious 10-month “settlement freeze” to expire on September 26, setting off a desperate…
Palestinian woman filmed by Israeli soldiers describes torture, humiliation
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – The Palestinian woman who was filmed, handcuffed and blindfolded, as an Israeli soldier danced around her said Thursday that the video only showed the beginning of “a journey of torture and humiliation.” A video of 24-year-old Ihsan Dababisa surfaced on YouTube on Monday, and was aired on Israel’s Channel 10 News. Dababisa spoke to Ma’an’s…
Did Israel ever consider using nuclear weapons?
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – …In 1991, Israel again reportedly considered using atomic weapons in response to the Scud missile attacks launched by Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War. Rightist ministers, including Yuval Ne’eman (a physicist involved in Israel’s nuclear program), Rafael Eitan and Rehavam Ze’evi, urged Yitzhak Shamir’s government to respond forcefully, but Shamir rejected Israeli military action out…
Interview: Palestine’s red lines of struggle
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – While many of the key concepts of the Palestinian struggle, the likes of intifada (uprising) and awda (return), have become familiar in other languages, an integral term in the Palestinian lexicon has yet to be understood by non-Arabic speakers. Thawabet (plural of thabet) is an Arabic word that literally means “constants.” For Palestinians it generally…
Airstrike on central Gaza injures 3
Uruknet October 7, 2010 — Israeli warplanes launched missiles targeting a car in central Gaza on Thursday, injuring three, medics reported. The shelling targeted a car driving between Al-Zahra city and An-Nuseirat refugee camp, medics said, adding that three residents were transferred to Al-Aqsa hospital in stable conditions. An Israeli military spokeswoman said she would look into the report…
Settlers Start Expanding Settlement Near Tubas
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – On Wednesday night a group of Jewish settlers started construction for the expansion of Michola settlement, in the Jordan Valleynear the central West Bank city of Tubas. The Palestine News and Information Center, WAFA, reported that the settlers started adding units and caravans to the settlement and that cement trucks were seen entering it. Tubas…
Replanting The Saffa Valley
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – In Palestine, planting trees has become a courageous act of resistance against the ever-encroaching settlements on Palestinian agricultural land. On Sunday, 3 October, farmers and international activists joined together to launch the Palestine Solidarity Project’s campaign to replant the Saffa Valley. For the first two months of the project they will prepare the land for…
Aftermath of IDF Belly-Dancing Sex Abuse Video: New Courses on How to Avoid Cyber-Emarrassment
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – In the aftermath of the revelation by Israel’s Channel 10 that an IDF soldier sexually abused a bound and blindfolded Palestinian woman (see video) by belly-dancing and rubbing his body against her in a suggestive manner, the IDF has reacted in a classical fashion. No, it hasn’t scheduled any sensitivity training for its troops, nor…
Settlers torch farmlands near Nablus
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – Residents of Huwwara village south of Nablus said Thursday that settlers set dozens of dunums of farm lands on fire, destroying crops. PA official responsible for settlement-observation in the northern West Bank Ghassan Doughlas said the fields were in the At-Tira area of Huwwara village, and had destroyed some crops. “Lighting fields on fire is…
Deathly Silence: Obama’s Letter, Netanyahu’s Rejection, and Media’s Non-response
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – Following Israel’s capture of the West Bank in 1967, along with other territories including East Jerusalem, Israel has built and expanded Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land. The settlers enjoy the benefits of a separate, and far superior, civilian infrastructure to nearby Palestinian communities, and they are protected at great expense by the Israeli military….
A light unto the nations?Various episodes this week have underlined the violence and hypocrisy of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – Israelis, often thoroughly absorbed in their collective sanctimony and self-righteousness, seem never to stop repeating the eternal mantra that the Jews are a “light unto the nations” and Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East”. This week, several events occurring in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories highlighted the stark gap between what…
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (30 September – 06 October 2010)
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (30 September ‚Äì 06 October 2010): Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed a Palestinian worker in the West Bank, and wounded another one in the Gaza Strip and a child in the West Bank. In the West Bank,…
European politicians deny US claims of terror threat
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – A number of leading European politicians have publicly denied recent US claims of an imminent threat of terrorist attack somewhere in Europe. Last Sunday, the US State Department issued a vague statement warning American citizens in Europe of the danger of attacks by terrorist organisations linked to Al Qaeda. No specific country was mentioned in…
Zahalka: Israel’s new law regarding loyalty to Israel is racist and anti-democratic
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – The leader of the Arab parliamentary bloc in the Israeli Knesset, Dr Jamal Zahalka, has described the proposed law to make the “declaration of loyalty to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state” a mandatory condition for Israeli citizenship as racist and anti-democratic. The new law is expected to be approved by the Israeli government…
Israel plans ‘Jewish’ loyality oath
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – Right-wing politicians have welcomed plans to introduce an oath of loyalty to Israel as a “Jewish” state for anyone wanting to become a citizen, a move likely to further jeopardise direct peace talks with the Palestinians. The controversial move would amend the current citizenship law to include the phrase: “I swear to respect the laws…
Israeli Army Bombards Gaza, Six Wounded
Uruknet October 7, 2010 – Palestinian medical sources reported that six Palestinians were wounded on Thursday at dawn after the Israeli air force carried out several airstrikes targeting different areas in the Gaza Strip. Medical sources in Gaza described the injuries of the six residents as mild. One of the bombarded sites is a training camp for the Al Qassam…
Shooting from Mavi Marmara: Time for Israel to Put Up or Shut Up
Uruknet October 5, 2010 – 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 Din?ß. Mr Din?ß had been on the Mavi Marmara for the newspaper Habert?ºrk and has written a book on the raid…
PCP’s Crime Scene Technicians start 2nd cycle of Training
WAFA – RAMALLAH, October 7, 2010 (WAFA)- EUPOL COPPS started the second cycle of the Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) training for thirty-six Criminal Investigation Department officers from the Palestinian
PCP, ICHR Hold New Human Rights Workshop at EUPOL COPPS
WAFA – RAMALLAH, October 7, 2010 (WAFA)- EUPOL COPPS coordinated and facilitated a third workshop this week between the PCP Committee for Investigations into Human Rights and the Independent Commission for
U.S Consulate: 2012 Diversity Visa Lottery Registration Begins
WAFA – JERUSALEM, October 7, 2010 (WAFA)- The U.S. Consulate General Jerusalem announced, today, that applications for the 2012 Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery will be accepted online beginning the
Canadian Premiere of Zindeeq Thrills Sold-Out Crowd
WAFA – TORONTO, October 7, 2010 (WAFA)- The Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) filled the AGO Cinema for the sold-out screening of the Canadian Premiere of Zindeeq. In attendance was writer,
US offers Israelis incentives to extend settlement freeze
Daily Star 7 Oct 2010 Syrian President Bashar Assad Wednesday expressed concerns over the situation in Lebanon after weeks of tension over possible indictments by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) for the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri. “The situation…
Assad voices concern over Lebanon’s security situation
Daily Star 7 Oct 2010 Syrian President Bashar Assad Wednesday expressed concerns over the situation in Lebanon after weeks of tension over possible indictments by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) for the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri. “The situation…
Israel backs loyalty oath to ‘Jewish, democratic state’
Daily Star 7 Oct 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Plans to make new Israeli citizens swear loyalty to the country as a “Jewish and democratic state” were slammed by some opponents on Thursday as inflammatory and racist. Others said that even if it…
Rasmussen in Turkey to discuss improving NATO-EU ties
Daily Star 7 Oct 2010 ANKARA: NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen held talks with Turkish leaders on Thursday on ways to improve cooperation between the military alliance and the European Union, the Anatolia news agency reported. On arrival in Ankara, Rasmussen…
Palestinians building Jewish settlements
Daily Star 7 Oct 2010 BEIT SIRA CROSSING, Occupied West Bank: They line up every morning at Israeli checkpoints: Palestinian workers who are paid to build the Jewish settlements that are eating away at their hope for a future state.
South Sudan might have to hold own referendum – Kiir
Daily Star 7 Oct 2010 JUBA, Sudan: South Sudan’s president told UN Security Council envoys his region might have to hold its own independence referendum if the North disrupted January’s vote, a visiting UN ambassador said on Thursday.
OPT: Al Mezan Concludes Training on Lawyers Role in Detecting and Combating Torture
Relief Web 7 Oct 2010 – Source: Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (30 September – 06 October 2010)
Relief Web 7 Oct 2010 – Source: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
LEBANON: Tourism Planted at a Barbed Border
IPS The contours of a modern medieval castle stretch along the Wazzani River delineating Lebanon’s border with Israel. A few metres away from the United Nations-mandated Blue Line, on Lebanon’s first line of fire with Israel, a tourism project at an estimated cost of 20 million dollars is slowly taking shape….
8th Week against the Apartheid Wall, November 9 – 16 2010
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Netanyahu: Israel protects all citizens’ rights
YNet News – Amid uproar over proposed change to Citizenship Act, Netanyahu tells Mount Herzl….
Dogs to be used in next flotilla raid
YNet News – IDF learns lessons from Turkish flotilla: Oketz unit dogs will be first to go….
Barak backs loyalty pledge, with change
YNet News – Labor chair wants ‘In spirit of Declaration of Independence’ added to new pledge….
Lebanese maps give Israel more territorial water
YNet News – Despite claims of gas reserves ‘theft’, maps drawn up by Lebanon, Cyprus show….
US man suspected of trying to spy for Israel
YNet News – Akamai Tech employee tells undercover FBI agent he is Jewish American who wants….
4 Palestinians injured in Gaza strikes
YNet News – IDF bombs targets in retaliation for rocket fire, Hamas source says strike….
Assad: Peace talks up in the air
YNet News – Syrian president says no common ground yet for peace efforts with Israel, hangs….
Israel cautiously optimistic ahead of Arab League summit
YNet News – The Special Monitoring Committee of the Arab League will convene Friday in Libya, following the crisis in talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel said late …….
Israel signs agreement to buy F-35 jets from US
YNet News – Defense Ministry Director-General Udi Shani signed an agreement during a ceremony in New York on Thursday, according to which Israel will purchase the first squadron of …….
Youth suspected of posting Shin Bet official’s photo on YouTube
YNet News – A 17-year-old resident of the northern West Bank was detained by Ariel Police on Thursday on suspicion of distributing photos of the head of the Shin Bet’s Jewish …….
3 hurt in IDF strike in Gaza
YNet News – Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip said three people were hurt Thursday after the Air Force struck a vehicle in the Wadi Gaza area in the central Strip. The IDF …….
Letter to settlers: Don’t enlist because of Naveh appointment
YNet News – A letter being distributed throughout the West Bank is calling on Jewish settlers not to enlist in the IDF due to the appointment of Maj.-Gen. (ret) Yair Naveh as next …….
Ambassador Oren: Israel offered incentives package
YNet News – First confirmation: Israeli Ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, confirmed Thursday for the first time that the US offered Israel an incentives package and hinted at …….
Hamas says thwarted Israeli attempt to locate Shalit
YNet News – Hamas thwarted an Israeli attempt to discover captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit’s whereabouts, Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram reported Thursday based on Palestinian sources. …….
Palestinian Information Center
Minister calls on Arabs to ‘save Palestinian women’
PIC 7 Oct 2010 – Prisoners Minister in Palestine directed an urgent appeal to Arab countries to save Palestinian women from Israeli terrorism.
Netanyahu reverses Supreme Court decision to close synagogue
PIC 7 Oct 2010 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders to halt Supreme Court ruling to shut down Jewish synagogue built in occupied West Bank, an Israeli media source said.
Nazzal asks Arab summit to break the siege on Gaza
PIC 7 Oct 2010 – Mohammed Nazzal has asked the Arab leaders, scheduled to meet in Libya on Saturday, to agree on breaking the siege on Gaza and to open the Rafah crossing without any hindrances.
MSD files complaint in Geneva to stop Israel from exiling Jerusalemite officials
PIC 7 Oct 2010 – Al-Maqdesi for society development said it filed a complaint with the UN human rights council in Geneva to prevent Israel from exiling four Jerusalemite elected officials from their native city.
Lawsuit for U.S. activist killed in Gaza to resume Thursday
PIC 7 Oct 2010 – The family of American activist Rachel Corrie will return to court on Thursday in Haifa, 1948 occupied Palestine, to sue Israel over the murder of their daughter in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli police kidnap mosque imam and another man in Nazareth
PIC 7 Oct 2010 – The Israeli police kidnapped on Wednesday two Palestinian citizens in Nazareth city, including the imam of Shihabuddin mosque, on allegations of supporting alleged terror groups, illegal unionizing.
MP Zaboun slams PA’s unconcern over settlers’ attacks on W. Bank mosques
PIC 7 Oct 2010 – Hamas lawmaker Anwar Al-Zaboun strongly denounced the arson attack which was waged by settlers on Al-Anbiya mosque last Sunday and criticized the PA for its passivity towards such crime.
Zionist settlers install new outposts, IOF vehicle rams into Palestinian car
PIC 7 Oct 2010 – Zionist settlers in Mekhora settlement in northeast of the northern Jordan Valley started new construction works west of their settlement, eyewitnesses in Tobas district reported on Thursday.
Erdogan: Turkey will not stand idle in front of starving children in Gaza
PIC 7 Oct 2010 – Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country will not remain quiet over Israeli injustice or turn its back on Gaza and its children.
Committee warns of plan to judaize Aqsa Mosque area
PIC 7 Oct 2010 – Jordan’s Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs warned of an Israeli plan to take full control of the area surrounding the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Head of Israeli conglomerate faces challenges over gas fields
LA Times 7 Oct 2010 – Delek Group’s leader says that Israel mustn’t retroactively change its royalty rate, and that he has rejected a claim by Lebanon that Israel is trying to steal its gas. As head of one of Israel’s biggest conglomerates, Asaf Bartfeld is no stranger to looking out for his company’s interests.
In Mideast Talks, Settlement Deadline May Pass
New York Times 7 Oct 2010 РNo Israeli decision is expected soon on extending a settlement freeze — the Palestinian condition for renewed talks — despite a package of incentives.
World Briefing | MIDDLE EAST: Iran: Detained Lawyer on Hunger Strike
New York Times 7 Oct 2010 – Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer representing activists charged for post-election unrest, told her husband in a phone call from Evin Prison that she began a hunger strike on Sept. 25.
AT-TUWANI: After a long struggle, At-Tuwani on the grid.
Christian Peacemaker Teams – Palestine –
When will apartheid greater Israel arrive?
Mondoweiss – In John Mearsheimer’s latest , he says that in the future Israel “will” be an apartheid state, and “will” be a greater Israel, “and when that happens, we’ll be on the road to a binational state.” [quotes paraphrased] My question for Mearsheimer: when will that date arrive?…
Which is it, Dershowitz?
Mondoweiss – While admitting that Jews are all over the media, Alan Dershowitz says that you can’t generalize about their views, at Huffpo. Emphasis mine: Yes, there are many individual Jews in positions of influence in Hollywood, in network television, in sports and entertainment, and in many other…
Full speed ahead on settlement construction!
Mondoweiss – and other news from Today in Palestine Land/Property/Resource Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Jerusalem eyes first new gate in Old City for 112 years (AFP) AFP – Planners in Jerusalem are considering creating the first new “gate” into the Old City in more than 100 years,…
WP: Dennis Ross is Netanyahu’s man in the White House
Mondoweiss – Here’s a shocking/obvious story (my emotional terrain alas) from yesterday’s Washington Post by hardworking Glenn Kessler about how Dennis Ross is now the “back channel” between Obama and Netanyahu. Dennis Ross, a longtime Middle East expert, has emerged as a crucial, behind-the-scenes conduit between the White…
Jailbreak: Rep Donna Edwards raises money by championing human rights in Gaza
Mondoweiss – New Policy.org is a lobby against the Israel lobby, and Donna Edwards, the great Maryland congressperson, is appearing at a fundraising event that the group is sponsoring, on Oct. 16, at the Sheraton Washington North Hotel in Beltsville, MD. 1-3. Maybe J Street will join up?…
Articles
Nothing has changed since the Yom Kippur War
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz10/7/2010
Nothing has changed in 37 years. Israel has the same arrogant hubris and the same obstinate resistance to any prospect of a peace agreement.
The act of atonement in which we are engaged over the recently declassified documents from the Yom Kippur War is nothing but a hollow pagan ritual. Suddenly we learn that Golda Meir considered ordering an “insane” operation against Syria and said the world was “contemptible;” defense minister Moshe Dayan called for abandoning wounded soldiers in the field and was thoroughly depressed; and Israel Defense Forces chief of staff David Elazar tended to lie to the public.
We love to indulge in discussing the blunders of 1973, imagining that they belong to the ancient past. All the responsible parties are dead, but the topic is still alive and kicking. The winds of 1973 blow hard today, and nothing has changed. The fact is that today, when each of Golda’s pronouncements and Dayan’s proposals are headlines once again, nobody remembers another error from this period, a much more critical mistake, by the same gang, made when it squandered the opportunity, in the early 1970s, of reaching an agreement with Egypt. Had a real lesson been learned from the Yom Kippur War, the scandal would have been attributed to this missed chance for negotiations – the same error that is being made today.
In the early 1970s, there was a genuine prospect for peace with Egypt. President Gamal Abdel Nasser agreed to the Rogers Plan, to which all subsequent peace proposals bear a striking resemblance, and even invited World Jewish Congress head Nahum Goldmann to confer with him. Golda blocked the meeting and ridiculed the idea, and Dayan declared, “Better to have Sharm el-Sheikh without peace.” The rest is history: Israel always prefers war to peace, and if there is no choice then we’ll make peace after a war, never before…. more.. e-mail
News That’s Unfit to Print: UN Report on the Flotilla Deaths
Scott Horton, Harper’s10/4/2010
The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed an expert panel to look into the deaths resulting from the August 10 Israeli interception of a flotilla of vessels bringing relief supplies to Gaza. It was headed by Judge Karl T. Hudson-Phillips, Q.C., a retired judge of the International Criminal Court and former attorney general of Trinidad and Tobago, and included Sir Desmond de Silva, Q.C., the British former chief prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and Ms. Mary Shanthi Dairiam of Malaysia, a prominent women’s rights advocate. The panel released its report on September 27. (PDF) It contains some startling findings, particularly surrounding the death of a Turkish-American dual national, Furkan Do?an, and five other passengers:
The circumstances of the killing of at least six of the passengers were in a manner consistent with an extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution. Furkan Dog(an and I.brahim Bilgen were shot at near range while the victims were lying injured on the top deck. Cevdet Kili?ßlar, Cengiz Aky?ºz, Cengiz Song?ºr and ?áetin Top?ßuog(lu were shot on the bridge deck while not participating in activities that represented a threat to any Israeli soldier. In these instances and possibly other killings on the Mavi Marmara, Israeli forces carried out extra- legal, arbitrary and summary executions prohibited by international human rights law, specifically article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The report concludes that the Israeli boarders did not face credible threats of imminent harm that would have warranted the use of such lethal force as was used to subdue the Mavi Marmara. “A well-trained force such as the Israeli Defense Force should have been able to successfully contain a relatively small group of passengers armed with sticks and knives and secure control of the ship without the loss of life or serious injury to either passengers or soldiers,” the panel concluded. Indeed, the case of the American victim was particularly compelling in this regard…. more.. e-mail
Bracing for Israel’s Next Attack on Lebanon
Franklin Lamb, CounterPunch10/7/2010
The Four Conflicts
Maron al Ras on the Lebanon border
You can see Akka, Palestine from my favorite Lebanese village, Maron al Ras. On any day, but particularly since September 21 of this year, you can also see beefed up IDF military patrols, assorted electronic listening posts and sundry spy devices, new Raytheon-produced surveillance equipment, two new supposedly camouflaged cinder block one room shacks with Zionist soldiers peering out. They frequently glare from widows heavily screened to keep out stones that tourists on the Lebanon side of the ‘blue line’ regularly throw at them when UNIFIL guys aren’t paying attention or shoo them away.
You can also see land mine fields, wide soft sand swatches along the wire fences to expose trespassing neighbors’ footprints, a couple of orchards, and the edges of three colonial settlements.
The increase in activity along the Blue line, especially near Fatima’s Gate is only partially in preparation for the rumored visit of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in mid- October. He is expected to appear and speak at Maron al Ras, presumably resisting the temptation to cast a few stones in solidarity with the Palestinian intifadas. UNIFIL personnel at the scene reveal that several Israeli military leaders have been visiting the area this past month, including Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi.
It is here in this ancient verdant, war-scarred hillside village of Maron al Ras that tradition asserts that Jesus (Issa) from Nazareth, less than a day’s walk to the south, accompanying his mother Mary (Miriam), paused to rest on their trek to a wedding feast at Qana, some 30 km west…. more.. e-mail
Interview: Palestine’s red lines of struggle
Electronic Intifada: 7 Oct 2010 – The National Committee for the Protection of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People is a newly-formed body that upholds the red lines of the Palestinian struggle. Hazem Jamjoum interviews committee co-founder Bilal al-Hassan for The Electronic Intifada.more
No justice for slain laborer
Electronic Intifada: 7 Oct 2010 – SHUAFAT, occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) – A peaceful morning is interrupted by the sounds of an Israeli helicopter circling overhead — often a sign of trouble on the ground. Later Sunday the news broke — a Palestinian man was shot dead in the village of Issawiya by Israeli paramilitary border police as he tried to enter Israel in search of work.more
The Palestinian Gentlemen: Peace Process in Style
Palestine Chronicle: 7 Oct 2010 – By Seraj Assi This is the tenth anniversary of the Second Intifada, which broke out in Palestinian cities and villages in late September 2000 unmasking the myth of the peace process in the region. So it is perhaps an opportune time to reflect on the gentlemanly approach implemented by PA “peacemakers” for nearly two decades, while they celebrate the renewal of “direct talks” in Washington now. A quick look at the map of the region today shows expanding Israeli settlement infrastructures, institutions, universities and museums. One finds the apartheid wall, bypass roads, and fixed and flying checkpoints that continue to cut off Palestinian cities and villages from each other and render the lives of the Palestinian people unbearable. These realities not only reveals the absurdity of Israel’s claim of peace, but clearly illustrate how the so-called “peace process” has accelerated the dispossession of the Palestinian people and institutionalized Israel’s control…more
Jazza for Gaza: Music against Oppression
Palestine Chronicle: 7 Oct 2010 – By Gilad Atzmon Sarah Gillespie, myself and at least 40 other leading artists from UK and Palestine are trying to achieve the impossible next week. We are promoting and playing together in a massive music festival for Palestine. We are flying musicians to London, we are mixing jazz with folk with hip hop and roots music. We all believe one thing – that artists who support Palestine must say so loudly and proudly using our notes and our voices. Jazza Festival is serious but is also a big party and we want you to join in. Jazza Music Festival 12 & 13 October 2010 @ THE SCALA 275 Pentonville Road, London www.scala-london.co.uk For lineup: click here . From 7.30 pm The funds raised in these 2 nights will help Free Palestine Movement deliver more and more humanitarian aid to Palestine. I am also proud and delighted to announce that Shadia Mansour, the…more
Bracing for Israel’s Next Attack on Lebanon
Palestine Chronicle: 7 Oct 2010 – By Franklin Lamb – Maron al Ras on the Lebanon border You can see Akka, Palestine from my favorite Lebanese village, Maron al Ras. On any day, but particularly since September 21 of this year, you can also see beefed up IDF military patrols, assorted electronic listening posts and sundry spy devices, new Raytheon-produced surveillance equipment, two new supposedly camouflaged cinder block one room shacks with Zionist soldiers peering out. They frequently glare from widows heavily screened to keep out stones that tourists on the Lebanon side of the ‘blue line’ regularly throw at them when UNIFIL guys aren’t paying attention or shoo them away. You can also see land mine fields, wide soft sand swatches along the wire fences to expose trespassing neighbors’ footprints, a couple of orchards, and the edges of three colonial settlements. The increase in activity along the Blue line, especially near Fatima’s Gate is only…more
Deathly Silence: Obama’s Letter, Netanyahu’s Rejection, and Media’s Non-response
Dissident Voice: 7 Oct 2010 – Following Israel’s capture of the West Bank in 1967, along with other territories including East Jerusalem, Israel has built and expanded Jewish settlements on occupied Palestinian land. The settlers enjoy the benefits of a separate, and far superior, civilian infrastructure to nearby Palestinian communities, and they are protected at great expense by the Israeli military. Under international law, the settlements are illegal. But despite private agreements with the US to rein in growth, Israel has continued the non-stop expansion of its illegal settlements. While the public stance of the United States is that it does not recognise “the international legitimacy” of the settlements, Washington has in practice provided decades-long support for Israeli policy. Earlier this week, independent journalist Jonathan Cook reported facts that blow a hole through the standard deceit that the United States is an “honest broker” for peace in the Middle East. 1 As Cook explains, details were…more
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