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Abbas Hints Dismantling P.A Should Peace Talks Fails
IMEMC – 10 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 09, 2010 – 09:40, During a Friday night meeting with the Arab Follow-up Committee in Sirt Libyan city, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, cast doubts on the future of the Palestinian Authority should peace talks fail to lead to a Palestinian State.
Israeli Soldiers To Testify Behind Screen In Corrie Case
IMEMC – 10 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 09, 2010 – 07:50, The Haifa District Court on Thursday granted a government request to allow soldiers to testify behind a screen in the lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza.
8 detained at anti-settlement rally
10/9/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained 8 protesters at an anti-settlement rally near Hebron on Saturday. Three foreign nationals and one Israeli activist were among those detained at the weekly demonstration in Beit Ummar, protesting the confiscation of village land to build the illegal Karmei Tsur settlement, protest organizers said. The Palestine Solidarity Project….
Abbas: PA irrelevant without state
10/9/2010 – SIRTE, Libya (Ma’an) – President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday evening in Libya called into question the need for “the Palestinian Authority’s continued existence if the efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state fail.” An official who attended the Arab League meeting in Sirte told Agence France-Presse that Abbas suggested several ways to….
Army detains Gaza teen in Israel
10/9/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Saturday detained a teenager from Gaza who had illegally entered Israel, an army spokeswoman said. Witnesses reported that Israeli forces were firing flares over northern Gaza, and that drones and war planes were hovering overhead. Locals said they heard live ammunition being fired near the Erez crossing….
OECD protests Israeli remarks on Jerusalem summit
10/9/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development has urged Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu to correct “misperceptions” by his government ahead of a meeting in Jerusalem. The world economic group will hold its biannual conference 20-22 Oct. in West Jerusalem, a move perceived by some in Netanyahu’s government as….
Report: ICC urged to prosecute Israel over flotilla
10/9/2010 – LONDON (Ma’an) — The International Criminal Court is being urged to prosecute members of Israel’s military for the raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship, The Guardian reported Saturday. Turkish victims have formally requested an investigation, according to the report. Lawyers acting for Turkish citizens injured or killed when Israel intercepted the flotilla….
Israeli army fires flares over north Gaza
10/9/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces fired flares, and war planes and drones were hovering over northern Gaza on Saturday evening, witnesses said. Locals reported hearing live ammunition being fired near the Erez crossing. An Israeli military spokeswoman said a Palestinian from the Strip had infiltrated Israel near the crossing, and that forces were….
Lawmakers mark 100th day of protest
10/9/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Three lawmakers threatened with expulsion from Jerusalem marked their 100th day of protest at sit-in at the International Committee for the Red Cross headquarters on Friday. Israeli authorities issued deportation orders in April for former Jerusalem affairs’ minister Khaled Abu Arafah and two other Palestinian Legislative Council members, Ahmad Atoun….
African migrant injured by Egyptian forces
10/9/2010 – EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma’an) — Egyptian police shot and injured an African migrant on Saturday as he and another migrant were spotted trying to cross illegally into Israel through southern Gaza’s Kerem Shalom crossing. Egyptian border guards spotted the two approaching the border and opened fire after they refused to stop. As a….
3,500 pass through Rafah crossing
10/9/2010 – GAZA (Ma’an) — Almost 3,500 Palestinians passed through the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza last week, officials reported. Border administrators said 1651 Palestinians returned to Gaza, most of whom were patients who had received treatment in Egyptian hospitals, whilst 1821 left Gaza through the terminal. Officials said 276 Palestinians were refused permission to….
Report: Ahmadinejad won’t visit Israel border
10/9/2010 – TEHRAN, Iran (Ma’an) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won’t approach Israel’s border during an upcoming visit to Lebanon, the Iranian broadcaster IRNA reported Saturday. The Iranian leader was reportedly planning to throw a symbolic stone toward Israel during a visit to southern Lebanon, where he planned to tour sites from….
Olympics chief concludes regional tour
10/9/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge concluded his visit to the region Friday after holding “very constructive” talks with the Israeli president, Shimon Peres. Concerns over the free movement of Palestinian athletes and officials were raised in the meetings. Peres offered “his constructive cooperation” to find solutions, the committee said in….
Egypt FM says Arabs wary of war to free Gaza
10/9/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit of Egypt asserted Saturday that “radical solutions such as mobilizing armies and declaring war are not being considered” to free Gaza of its blockade. Israel and Egypt have maintained a military siege on the coastal enclave since Hamas seized power in 2007. Abu Al-Gheit was quoted….
Hamas says halting negotiations insufficient
10/9/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) – The Hamas movement described the Arab League follow-up committee’s decision to halt negotiations with Israel because the latter insists on going ahead with settlement construction as “insufficient.”Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement to the Saturday that “what is needed is to completely stop negotiations….
Hamas denies receiving letters from Shalit family
10/9/2010 – GAZA (Ma’an) – Hamas denied on Saturday news reports claiming that the Islamic movementhas received letters from the family of a captive Israeli soldier. Hamas leader Isma’il Radwan told reporters that there was nothing new to report on the prospects of a prisoner exchange.”The occupation is trying to provoke reactions in….
Ghaddafi opens emergency summit in Libya
10/9/2010 – SIRTE, Libya (Ma’an) – Libyan President Muammar Ghaddafi opened on Saturday the beginning of deliberations at an emergency Arab League summit in Sirte, Libya. Arab League secretary-general Amr Mousa delivered a short speechbefore it was President Mahmoud Abbas’ turn to deliver his remarks. Suddenly, however, transmission was stopped apparently due to a technical….
Haniyeh urges Arab leaders to empower Palestinians
10/9/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said he hoped Arab leaders meeting in Libya on Saturday would decide to empower Palestinians’ resolve in the face of Israeli arrogance. An emergency Arab League summit convened in Sirte, Libya on Saturday to decide the fate of peace negotiations, stalled by Israel’….
French, Spanish FMs to visit region
10/9/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Foreign Ministers of France and Spain will visit Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories Sunday to support peace talks, Agence France-Presse said. French minister Bernard Kouchner and his Spanish counterpart Miguel Moratinos will make a two-day regional tour, concluding in Jordan, AFP reported. According to the news wire, foreign ministry spokesman….
UN chief urges support for Abbas
10/9/2010 – SIRTE, Libya (Ma’an) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged Arab leaders to support President Mahmoud Abbas’ refusal to negotiate while Israel expands settlements on Palestinian land. Ban’s message was delivered by his personal representative and UN Quartet envoy Robert Serry to leaders at an Arab League summit in Sirte….
Abbas says dangerous challenge ahead
10/9/2010 – SIRTE, Libya (Ma’an) — President Mahmoud Abbas told leaders at an Arab League summit Saturday that the “dangerous challenge” ahead required a unified Arab stance. Israeli violations against Palestinians were escalating with an intensity that had not been seen in decades, the president told leaders convened for an emergency session in Sirte, Libya. A….
Fayyad picks olives in Tulkarem
10/9/2010 – TULKAREM ( Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad marked the start of the olive harvest on Saturday with farmers in the Tulkarem district. Fayyad was joined in Deir Al Ghusun by Tulkarem governor Talal Dweikat, PA Agriculture Minister Ismail Daiq, and farmers and residents of Al Karak, a village close to the separation….
Muslim Brotherhood snubs ElBaradei, will run in parliament elections
Palestine Note 9 Oct 2010 – Washington – The hardline Islamist group of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the main opposition party in Egypt, has confirmed it will be taking part in the upcoming Egyptian parliamentary elections. Leader Mohammed Badie said that the…
Iran looks to restart nuclear talks
Palestine Note 9 Oct 2010 – Though re-entering negotiations is not without preconditions. Washington – On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that his country is ready to being a new round of nuclear talks with representatives from P5+1 nations later…
Flotilla victims’ families push international prosecution
Palestine Note 9 Oct 2010 – Washington – The families of those injured or killed during the Turkish flotilla incident that caused a media storm this past summer are reportedly pushing for the case to be brought before the International Criminal Court (…
Arab summit fails to address issues
AlJazeera 9 Oct 2010 – Foreign ministers wrap up two-day meeting in Libya without consensus on reforms to the Arab League and ties with Iran.
Iran ‘ready’ for nuclear talks
AlJazeera 9 Oct 2010 – Iranian foreign minister says “late October or early November” will be appropriate time to talk with six major powers.
Hezbollah to welcome Ahmadinejad
AlJazeera 9 Oct 2010 – Lebanese group leader Hassan Nasrallah hails Iran’s support ahead of visit by president of the Islamic republic.
Brotherhood to run in Egypt polls
AlJazeera 9 Oct 2010 – Main opposition group announces plan to contest November’s legislative vote, despite calls by some for a boycott.
Israel plays with American pledges
PNN – Washington, Tel Aviv — PNN — Knowledgeable Israeli sources claim that Washington and Tel Aviv are close to an agreement to resume direct negotiations between Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president…
Arab League Supports Palestine in Halting Peace Talks
PNN – PNN — Arab League members met on Friday and came out to support the Palestinian leadership in halting peace talks amongst the renewed construction in West Bank Settlements. The Arab League committee…
Bethel Settlers Attack Village of Dowar al-Qare’, Destroying Irrigation Pipes
PNN – Ramallah — PNN — Israelis from the settlement of Bethel attacked the Naabie-area village of Dowar al-Qare’ last night, vandalizing and destroying its irrigation pipes. Village council members said the settlers wrote…
Israelis Train to Suppress Demonstrations
PNN – Al-Nasir – PNN – Israel is speeding up its displacement policies to an extreme degree, making the Palestine of 1948 a kind of delirium. The leaders of the nation describe it as…
Israeli Raid in Hebron Leave Two Palestinians Dead
PNN – PNN — Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Hebron leaves at least two Palestinians Dead. A Friday morning raid on a house in the City of Hebron killed two…
Settler Leader Drives Over Two Palestinian Children
PNN – Jerusalem — PNN – David Be’er, Director of City of David settler group, drove over two Palestinian children with his car on Friday, while they were throwing rocks at his vehicle. Be’er…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (30 September — 06 October 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Israel Project launching projects in Latin America
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – New Spanish Media Program to battle anti-Semitic sentiment in Latino community; pro-Israel organization making push in Arab world.
Preacher set to sue own church over anti-Israel policies
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – David Hallam, a Methodist minister from Birmingham, accused his church of using donations to pursue a campaign of discrimination against Israel.
New envoy hopes to make UN more important to Israel
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Veteren diplomat Meron Reuven prepares for his maiden address to the Security Council set for October 18.
IAEA claims Iran delivery is for ‘cancer therapy project’
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – After “The Jerusalem Post” reported atomic agency broke EU sanctions, IAEA says helium-leak detector was for medical project approved in 2007.
IDF kills Hamas men who murdered 4 Israelis in August
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Hamas threatens to ‘respond through all means’ to the raid; Fayyad says ‚Äòkilling our citizens’ doesn’t lead to peace.
Israel: PA threat to declare state unilaterally a ‚Äòmirage’
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Erekat: If US rejects request, we might take up the issue with UN Security Council; Israeli official: There is no substitute for direct negotiations.
Loyalty oath vote seen as test for Barak
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Labor leader says issue very emotive; Barak expected to support bill, most of his party’s ministers expected to oppose.
Barak gives ministers voting freedom on loyalty oath bill
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Labor leader says issue is very conscientious, therefore will allow his ministers to vote with their conscience; Barak expected to support bill, most of his party’s ministers expected to oppose.
Jerusalem OECD tourism conference back on track
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – No cancellation after Steinitz promises economic and development group’s chief Israel will refrain from making political statements.
IDF identifies infiltrator into Israel from Gaza Strip
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Palestinian who entered country not believed to be armed; IDF launches search for individual in Gaza border area communities.
‘Israel’s purchase of F-35 jets poses M.East security risk’
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Syrian foreign minister Walid Moallem says that US-Israeli deal worth nearly $3 billion is “threat on region’s Arab countries.”
Livni says PM should concede to Obama on freeze
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Opposition leader breaks silence on issue; says if new building freeze is all US president requesting, Netanyahu should say “yes.”
Livni urges PM to fulfill Obama’s freeze extension request
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Opposition leader breaks her silence on issue, says if new construction moratorium is all US president is requesting then Netanyahu shroud say “yes.”
Nasrallah: Iranian cash rebuilt Lebanon after war
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Hizbullah leader emerges from hiding to plant tree near Beirut, says Ahmadinejad won’t throw rocks toward Israel
Nasrallah comes out of bunker to plant tree
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Nasrallah then urged all Lebanese to plant a tree outside their homes as part of a Hizbullah campaign to plant one million trees in Lebanon.
US State Dept. welcomes Arab League backing for more time
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Arab League in Libya agrees to give US one month to revive talks, backs Abbas’s decision to stop negotiations as long as Israeli building in West Bank settlements continues; express hope the US will continue to pressure J’lem to renew freeze.
Arab League agrees to give US one month to revive talks
Jeruslalem Post 9 Oct 2010 – Foreign ministers meeting in Libya back Abbas’s decision to stop negotiations as long as Israeli building in West Bank settlements continues; express hope the US will continue to pressure J’lem to renew freeze.
Officials: OECD Jerusalem conference will not be canceled
Ha’aretz – OECD chief warns Netanyahu conferences in Israel could be hindered after toursim minister says Jerusalem conference a show of support for Israel’s territorial claims.
Livni: Netanyahu should agree to Obama’s request for settlement freeze extension
Ha’aretz – In Channel 2 interview, Kadima leader says that she is breaking her silence on the settlement freeze issue because Netanyahu has failed to advance the peace talks with the Palestinians.
Syria: Israel-U.S. fighter jet deal destabilizes region
Ha’aretz – Speaking at Arab League summit in Libya, Syrian FM expresses disappointment at Netanyahu’s decision not to extend settlement freeze.
Nasrallah ahead of Ahmadinejad visit: Iran money helped rebuild Lebanon
Ha’aretz – Hazbollah chief calls reports that Iranian president wants to throw stones at Israel ‘ridiculous,’ says if anything, Ahmadinejad will throw something bigger than stones.
Iran FM: Nuclear talks can resume in late October
Ha’aretz – Talks between Iran and five permanent members of the UN Security Council stalled in October last year, leading to a toughening of international sanctions.
OECD chief warns: Jerusalem conference could be canceled
Ha’aretz – World economic body chief criticizes tourism minister for claiming that holding a conference in Jerusalem demonstrates its support for Israel’s sovereignty there.
Flotilla victims’ families to International Criminal Court: Prosecute Israel
Ha’aretz – Turkish lawyers petition the ICC to examine IDF ‘war crimes’ during clashes aboard Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara, which resulted in 9 dead, on May 31.
Abbas may circumvent Israel, ask U.S. to recognize Palestinian state
Ha’aretz – Unilateral declaration considered if peace talks with Israel remain in limbo, though previous pronouncements have been received coolly.
IDF kills two Hamas militants in Hebron shootout
Ha’aretz – Militants were part of terror cell responsible for Kiryat Arba shooting attack which killed four Israelis.
Israeli police released Israeli settler who ran over Palestinian boy
9 Oct 2010 – Jerusalem, October 9, (Pal Telegraph) David Bi’ri, Director General of “Elad” Assembly of the right-wing, released by Israeli police in Jerusalem on bail, who deliberately run over a young Palestinian boy in the town of “Silwan” in Jerusalem yesterday, after several hours of his arrest.
Israeli settlers attack family in Jerusalem
9 Oct 2010 – Jerusalem, October 9, (Pal Telegraph) Five Jerusalemites were injured Friday night, following an attack by Israeli settlers on them in the “Saadia” area in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Israeli settler run over Palestinian boys in Jerusalem
9 Oct 2010 – Jerusalem, October 9, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli settler decided to ran over with his car Friday afternoon a group of young Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem wounding four of them. Witnesses confirmed that the boys were in the yard of “Buraq” and then were subjected to a run-over by an Israeli settler after hitting them with his car using…
Moroccan doctor operates on Gazan children
9 Oct 2010 – Gaza, October 9, (Pal Telegraph) Professor Joseph Bouabdallah, Pediatric adviser surgeon and Head of Pediatric Surgery department in the Hospital of Hassan II University in Morocco, with the help of doctors in Al-Shifa Hospital, headed by Dr. Mohammed Qza’at, head of the pediatric surgery department, conducted two complicated surgeries for Gazan children, in the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Israeli settlers attack farmers in Nablus
9 Oct 2010 – Nablus, October 9, (Pal Telegraph) A group of Israeli settlers broke into the village lands of Iraq Burin, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank today morning. According to eyewitnesses, a number of Israeli settlers from “Givat bride” settlement located nea the village, assaulted a number of Palestinian farmers while they were in their olive fields, destroying a number…
THE WAR ON HAMAS AND MY BAG
Uruknet October 9, 2010 – It was on Saturday 27 December 2008 when the earth split in the tiny Gaza Strip and we fell in the heart of hell. The barbarity was coming from the sky. The then Israeli Foreign Minister Tzivi Livni went to Cairo two days before to illustrate to President Mubarak her plan to eradicate Hamas from…
Al-Natshe Family: Man Killed In Hebron Was Innocent
Uruknet October 9, 2010 – An unnamed cousin of Mamoun Al-Natshe, shot dead yesterday by Israeli soldiers, has denied his relative had any connection with Hamas or the killing of four settlers in August. “My cousin was a shopkeeper, he was not one of the militants”, he told us. Mamoun Al-Natshe, 28, was shot to death in the early hours…
The Palestinian Gentlemen: Peace Process in Style
Uruknet October 9, 2010 – Palestinian “gentlemen” need to go home and redefine the meaning of politics, the meaning of leadership and the meaning of peace itself. They need to urgently discuss strategies of resistance to the brutal occupation, the increasing expansion of Jewish settlements in Palestinian lands, and Israel’s total control over the lives of the Palestinian people. We…
Kashmir Bleeds, Does Anyone Heed?
Uruknet October 9, 2010 – Befittingly termed once as ‘Heaven on Earth’, with millions martyred since the past 6 decades, thousands of half-widows, orphans and missing — Kashmir today is a Palestine-in-the-making of Asia. As the Kashmir intifada continues, anyone keeping a keen eye on the serpentine course of events there is bound to be surprised as to why the…
Jerusalem: Closure Of Local NGOs Threatens Palestinian Identity
Uruknet October 9, 2010 – Amidst the maze-like streets of Jerusalem’s Old City, the Nidal Center is difficult to find. The only evidence that a once-busting community center existed in the al-Jabasheh neighborhood is a beige sign and a small, green door adorned with stickers. The Nidal Center has been closed since July 2009. Last month, it received its newest…
Four Palestinians, Four Solidarity Activists Arrested in Beit Ommar Demonstration
Uruknet October 9, 2010 – Beit Ommar, Southern West Bank, 1:30pm: four Palestinians, three internationals and one Israeli solidarity activist were arrested by Israeli Forces during a Palestinian demonstration against Karmei Tsur, an illegal Israeli settlement built on Beit Ommar land. The arrested Israeli solidarity activist was injured after Israeli Forces held her down and deployed pepper spray directly to…
Double entendre
Uruknet October 9, 2010 – Westerners, especially Americans, often look at violence in the Middle East as a result of the teachings of Islam. This week’s talk show by Christiane Amanpour’s spent the better part of two hours discussing Islam and how people are reacting to Islam as a source of fanaticism publicised in the press. The Western public has…
Israel: Grant Status Long Denied to Arab Village in Central Israel
Uruknet October 9, 2010 – The Israeli government should grant legal status to a 60-year-old village with a population of about 600 Palestinian-Israeli citizens, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities have refused to recognize the village as residential, even as they approved an immediately adjacent residential development for Jewish Israelis. The authorities have given no justification for the difference in…
Zionist settlers damage olive trees using chemicals
Uruknet October 9, 2010 — Zionist settlers destroyed tens of fruitful olive trees in Al-Mughir town, northeast of Ramallah, on Friday after spraying them with a chemical material. Local sources said that the settlers spoiled 55 olive trees using a white chemical material unknown to locals, adding that the material dries the trees and slowly kills them. They noted that…
Israeli security forces practice dealing with “riots following population exchange”, mass detentions of Israeli-Palestinians
Uruknet October 8, 2010 – IBA Radio is reporting that Israel’s security forces ended Thursday a large national drill, in which the civil defense forces, police, military police, fire department and Israel’s prisons unit trained for large scale riots in the Israeli-Arab public, following a signing of a peace agreement that would include “population exchange” (transfer of Arab population to…
Rachel Corrie Civil Suit — D-9 Driver Won’t Be Able to be Seen in Testimony
Uruknet October 8, 2010 – The concluding phase of the wrongful death lawsuit by the Corrie family, over the death Rachel Corrie in March 2003 began in Haifa Thursday, with the Government of Israel being granted their request to have some testimony in this phase shielded from view from the audience, and from the plaintiffs:
Jazza for Gaza: Music against Oppression
Uruknet October 8, 2010 – 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…
The boy who took on the Israeli military – and won
Uruknet October 8, 2010 – MAJED RABAH is a very special child. Only 11 years old, he is a victim of an Israeli war crime committed during last year’s Gaza war. An Israeli military court this week found two soldiers guilty of using Majed as a human shield. The hearing came a little over 12 months after Judge Richard Goldstone’s…
Gaza flotilla attack: calls for international criminal court to step in
Uruknet October 8, 2010 – The international criminal court is being urged to prosecute members of the Israeli defence force for the raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship. Turkish victims have formally requested an investigation, the Guardian has learned. Lawyers acting for Turkish citizens injured or killed when Israel intercepted the flotilla in May have written to Luis Moreno Ocampo,…
Canada’s War on Islam: The Case of Mahboob and Momin Khawaja
Uruknet October 8, 2010 – Canada, like other Western countries and Israel, is partnered in America’s War on Islam – a post-9/11 “war on terror” scheme to vilify Muslims as culturally inferior gun-toting terrorists for political advantage. As a result, thousands of innocent victims have been lawlessly persecuted, bogusly charged, imprisoned, tortured, and in some cases extrajudicially murdered in cold…
Eyewitness: Palestinian youth run down
The Guardian 9 Oct 2010 – Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
Rival Palestinian factions ‘to meet October 20’
Relief Web 8 Oct 2010 – Source: Agence France-Presse
Freeze or no freeze, Palestinians find work in settlements
Relief Web 8 Oct 2010 – Source: Agence France-Presse
Self-determination Important, but for Some Vulnerable Communities, Status Quo Option Deserves Respect, Fourth Committee Hears in Decolonization Debate
Relief Web 8 Oct 2010 – Source: UN General Assembly
8th Week against the Apartheid Wall, November 9 — 16 2010
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Livni: Resume settlement freeze at Obama’s request
YNet News – ‘What are a few buildings compared with the people’s desire for peace?’….
Iran: Ready for nuclear talks soon
YNet News – Islamic Republic says prepared to open talks over its uranium enrichment program….
Iran acknowledges espionage at nuclear facilities
YNet News – Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi confirms personnel at….
OECD threatens to cancel J’lem conference over minister’s remarks
YNet News – Secretary-General of prestigious group sends letter implying conference….
Victims’ families urge ICC to prosecute Israel over flotilla
YNet News – The Guardian reports families of nine Turkish victims of deadly raid on….
Loyalty oath bill: Barak gives ministers voting freedom
YNet News – Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced Saturday evening he intends to allow Labor ministers freedom of voting during Sunday’s vote on the amendment to the Citizenship …….
Jerusalem fears pressure on PM will increase in Nov
YNet News – The Arab League has given the US a month to pressure Israel into freezing construction in its West Bank settlements and jumpstart the peace negotiations, and officials in …….
Gaza teen caught after infiltrating Israel
YNet News – IDF forces combed an Israeli community located near the border with Gaza Saturday afternoon after suspicions footprints were discovered there. Residents were asked to …….
Israel promises to lower profile, OECD conference stays in Jerusalem
YNet News – A tourism conference scheduled to take place in Jerusalem in late October will not be canceled or moved to Tel Aviv, Ynet learned Saturday following an agreement between …….
Syria: Sale of stealth fighters to Israel security risk
YNet News – A couple of days after Israel signed a $2.75 billion deal for the purchase of F-35 stealth fighter jets from the US, Syria said the agreement poses a threat to security …….
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Hamas calls on Sirte summit to quit negotiations, back resistance strategy
PIC 9 Oct 2010 – Hamas has called on Arab leaders meeting in Sirte, Libya to make a decisive resolution that lives up to the size of Israel’s attacks against the Palestinian people.
New Libyan aid convoy to head for Gaza
PIC 9 Oct 2010 – A new Libyan aid convoy dubbed Quds-5 is finalizing preparations to head for the Gaza Strip carrying relief material, a media source in Gaza revealed.
Ghoul urges world community to put on trial Israeli war criminals
PIC 9 Oct 2010 – Palestinian minister of prisoners in the Gaza Strip Mohammed Al-Ghoul has asked the international courts to immediately put on trial the Israeli war criminals.
Resheq: Quitting peace talks does not live up to Israeli challenge
PIC 9 Oct 2010 – Hamas politburo member Izzat al-Resheq said the Arab monitoring committee’s decision to pull out of peace talks until there is a freeze on settlement activity is an insufficient step.
Zionist settlers attack farmers during olive harvesting
PIC 9 Oct 2010 – Zionist settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Burin village, south of Nablus, on Saturday morning while harvesting olives, local sources reported.
OCHA: Israeli troops killed one Palestinian, injured seven others in one week
PIC 9 Oct 2010 – The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories said that one Palestinian was killed and seven injured by Israeli occupied forces during one week.
Hamas MPs in W. Bank slam PA for arresting ex-detainee Barghouti
PIC 9 Oct 2010 – Hamas lawmakers in the West Bank strongly denounced the Palestinian Authority’s security apparatuses for kidnapping ex-detainee Omar Al-Barghouti and held them fully responsible for his life.
Haneyya calls on Arab summit to take responsible decisions
PIC 9 Oct 2010 – Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya urged the exceptional Arab summit being held in the Libyan city of Sirte to take effective and decisive decisions regarding the Palestinian situation.
Washington to arm Israel with 20 stealth planes
PIC 9 Oct 2010 – Israel and U.S. representatives signed in the Israeli Consulate in New York Thursday night an arms deal under which Israel will buy 20 F-35 fighter planes from the U.S. for 2.75 billion dollars.
Zionist settlers damage olive trees using chemicals
PIC 9 Oct 2010 – Zionist settlers destroyed tens of fruitful olive trees in Al-Mughir town, northeast of Ramallah, on Friday after spraying them with a chemical material.
Iran acknowledges Western spies got inside its nuclear program
LA Times 10 Oct 2010 – Ali Akbar Salehi, the nation’s atomic energy chief, says security has been increased and other steps have been taken to counter the espionage efforts. Iran’s atomic energy chief has acknowledged that Western spies had infiltrated the country’s nuclear program, but he said that Iranian officials had countered their efforts.
Arab League agrees to give U.S. more time to salvage Mideast peace process
LA Times 9 Oct 2010 – The group says it backs a Palestinian threat to quit direct talks unless Israel renews a partial ban on West Bank settlement construction. Israel is still weighing the moratorium proposal. Arab League members decided Friday to give the Obama administration one more month to get faltering Mideast peace talks back on track, but they also said they support a Palestinian threat to quit direct talks unless Israel reverses itself on resuming West Bank settlement construction.
Iran Says It Halted Western Spying
New York Times 9 Oct 2010 – Iran acknowledged that it has been fighting nuclear espionage.
News Analysis: Arab League Offers Reprieve on Mideast Talks
New York Times 9 Oct 2010 – Arab leaders put the process on notice but gave the U.S. a month to resolve an impasse over settlements.
AT-TUWANI: After a long struggle, At-Tuwani on the grid.
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Al-Natshe Family: Man Killed In Hebron Was Innocent
Palestine Monitor – An unnamed cousin of Mamoun Al-Natshe, shot dead yesterday by Israeli soldiers, has denied his relative had any connection with Hamas or the killing of four settlers in August. “My cousin was a shopkeeper, he was not one of the militants”, he told us. Mamoun Al-Natshe,…
Jerusalem: Closure Of Local NGOs Threatens Palestinian Identity
Palestine Monitor – Amidst the maze-like streets of Jerusalem’s Old City, the Nidal Center is difficult to find. The only evidence that a once-busting community center existed in the al-Jabasheh neighborhood is a beige sign and a small, green door adorned with stickers. Photo: Jillian Kestler-D’Amours The Nidal Center…
Back to Gaza
Mondoweiss – I arrived in Gaza on Thursday. This the first time I’ve been back to any corner of Palestine since I was deported by Israel in January. It took a week of paperwork and waiting in Cairo to get approval from Egypt to enter Gaza. After obtaining…
Young Jew at Princeton: Yes, American Jews are to blame for ennabling injustice
Mondoweiss – Beautiful. Brandon Davis in the Daily Princetonian . And yes he identified as a Jew to write this piece. They wouldn’t a run it if he didn’t. But: Young Jews get this. They understand why I say that Palestinian statelessness is an American Jewish achievement, of 60…
true, obvious (40 years ago, and today)
Mondoweiss – The New America Foundation is doing Israel and Palestine. From Chris Hayes, at their twitterfeed : Biggest impression after 36 hrs in E Jerusalem, is that there are all kinds of situations here that seem totally unsustainable & yet endure And from Madayo: Day/Lesson 2: “Israel rules…
A Bedouin boy changed the power balance of my marriage, maybe forever
Mondoweiss – Last month my wife and I visited Wadi Rum in southern Jordan. It’s a famous desert, with majestic scenery, including a mountain feature called T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom (below). The arrangement is that you come to a small settlement at the edge of the…
So the post-racial president makes a peace deal, and
Mondoweiss – From Noam Sheizaf at 972 : IBA Radio is reporting that Israel’s security forces ended Thursday a large national drill, in which the civil defense forces, police, military police, fire department and Israel’s prisons unit trained for large scale riots in the Israeli-Arab public, following a signing…
Palestinian Civil Society Urges COOP to Boycott Agrexco
Global BDS 9 Oct 2010 – COOP ITALIA Via del Lavoro 6/8 40033 Casalecchio di Reno BOITALIA 7 October 2010 Dear COOP board members, read more
OECD protest at Israeli minister
BBC 9 Oct 2010 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says it could cancel a conference in Jerusalem over remarks by an Israeli minister.
Israeli Documentary Probes Death of a Peace Activist
Antiwar.com 9 Oct 2010 – The 2003 death of young peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushed by an Israeli military bulldozer, inspired worldwide press coverage, demonstrations and debates — and eventually at least two plays and a number of songs. Years later, however, mystery still surrounds the exact circumstances of Corrie’s death….
Double entendre
Sabbah report 9 Oct 2010 – How can the West expect a placid reaction to their own actions when they have massacred more than 1,300,000 Iraqis, let alone the Afghans and the support given to Israel for their vicious savagery in Lebanon and Gaza? How can we expect anything but calls for…
Israeli settler hits Palestinian kids, runs
Sabbah report 9 Oct 2010 – Leader of Jewish settlers in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhood of Silwan has deliberately run over two Palestinian children and fled the scene. (see video) The Israeli car driven by David Be’eri, the leader of hardline Elad organization trying to settle Jews in Silwan, charged…
Negotiating An Evaporating Palestine
Sabbah report 9 Oct 2010 – The price of clinging to power and remaining in the good graces of the U.S. State Department has been forsaking Gaza. The Israeli government seized on this, bolstering Abbas’ stature by pretending they had found a trusted negotiating partner‚Äîall while the quiet annexation of land continued….
Articles
Why I am not an Israeli peace activist
Moshe Machover, Weekly Worker, Israeli Occupation Archive10/8/2010
As the desultory “peace process” meanders from pointless appointment to meaningless meeting between heads of the Israeli settler state and the authorityless Palestinian Authority, with the US playing the part of dishonest broker, there can no longer be any lingering doubt that this is a charade staged by charlatans.
But behind and beyond this fairly obvious confidence trick there is a much more subtle deception or self-deception: it is widely assumed — even taken for granted — that “peace” is what it would take to resolve the Israeli—Palestinian conflict. In other words: that what is needed is a genuine peace process instead of the present fake one.
This belief is held by almost all decent enlightened Israelis (the so-called Israeli left) — which is why they refer to themselves collectively as “the peace camp” and individually as “peace activists” — and it is shared by their friends and supporters in the west.
The ‘eft’ Zionists of Peace Now as well as the ‚Äòsoft’ Zionists and semi-Zionists of Gush Shalom (‚Äòthe Peace Bloc’) display this self-deception on their name tags. The non-Zionist, Stalinist-turned-reformist Israeli Communist Party insists on giving top prominence to peace slogans.
Many of the activities in which these good people engage are highly commendable: dissent from oppressive policies and actions of the Israeli authorities, and in particular opposition to the post-1967 occupation. Some of them show real moral and physical courage in various acts of solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians. Nevertheless, their self-description as “peace activists” reveals a profound misapprehension as to the nature of the Israeli—Palestinian conflict and a delusion as to how it might be resolved. — See also: Source: Weekly Worker more.. e-mail
Israel’s persecution of Ameer Makhoul
Stephen Lendman, Palestine Note10/8/2010
At any time, from 7,000 – 12,000 or more Palestinians are politically persecuted and imprisoned, including young children. The Addameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association explains that for over 43 years under military occupation, over 650,000 Palestinians have been illegally detained for wanting freedom on their own land in their own country, what Israel won’t tolerate, nor have its leaders ever wanted peace. Saying so is a lie.
What Avi Shlaim once said about Ariel Sharon, applies to virtually all other Israeli leaders, past and present; namely, that “Bargaining, accommodation, and compromise (were) alien to his whole way of thinking.”
Sharon earlier, and Netanyahu today, share like-minded views; namely, that “relations with the Palestinians (are) a zero-sum game” in which Israel intends to gain at their expense, including its own Arab citizens. Both leaders spurn concessions, Sharon once saying, “This is our land, and we’ll settle it and build on it in order to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state. We’ll never give up this area.” As a result, Palestinians have been ruthlessly persecuted, imprisoned, or slaughtered in gross violation of international laws.
Ameer Makoul is one of many victims, a previous article about him accessed through the following link [below].
An Israeli citizen, human rights activist, and head of the internationally recognized Ittijah NGO for Palestinian empowerment, he also chairs the Public Committee for the Defence of Political Prisoners within the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee in Israel. Besides championing human rights, he also supports the global BDS movement, what many believe is perhaps the most effective nonviolent tactic against Israeli lawlessness, and another reason for his targeting. — See also: Israeli Persecution of Human Rights Activists more.. e-mail
His father’s boy
Uri Avnery, Ma’an News Agency10/9/2010
Which is the real Netanyahu?
— Bibi the weakling, the invertebrate, who always gives in to pressure, who zigzags to the left and to the right, depending whether the pressure comes from the US or from his coalition partners?
— The tricky Likud chief, who is afraid that Avigdor Ivett Lieberman might succeed in pushing him towards the Center and displace him as the leader of the entire Right?
— Netanyahu, the man of principle, who is determined to prevent at any cost the setting up of the State of Palestine, and is therefore using every possible ruse to sabotage real negotiations?
The real Netanyahu — stand up!
Hey, wait a minute, what’s going on here? Do I see all three of them rising?
The first Netanyahu is the one who meets the eye. A leaf in the wind. The con man without principles and with plenty of tricks, whose sole aim is to survive in power.
This Netanyahu practically invites pressure on himself.
Barack Obama pressured him, so he agreed to the settlement freeze — or the perceived settlement freeze. In order to avoid a crisis with the settlers, he promised them that after the agreed ten months, the construction boom would be resumed with full vigor.more.. e-mail
Al-Natshe Family: Man Killed In Hebron Was Innocent
Palestine Monitor: 9 Oct 2010 – An unnamed cousin of Mamoun Al-Natshe, shot dead yesterday by Israeli soldiers, has denied his relative had any connection with Hamas or the killing of four settlers in August. “My cousin was a shopkeeper, he was not one of the militants”, he told us. Mamoun Al-Natshe, 28, was shot to death in the early hours of Friday morning, along with Nashat Al-Karmi, 33. Israeli forces had stormed a building in the Abu Suneineh neighbourhood of Hebron, arresting 10 other men, claiming all had a direct involvement with the killing of four settlers from Kiryat Arba. IDF spokesmen had described the men as Qassam militants of high rank, provoking vows of revenge from Hamas leaders in Gaza. Subsequent Israeli reports described Mamoun as a ‘low level’ operative. Military speakers claimed every effort had been made to effect the arrests without violence, a claim disputed by Mamoun’s cousin. “They really wanted to…more
Jerusalem: Closure Of Local NGOs Threatens Palestinian Identity
Palestine Monitor: 9 Oct 2010 – Amidst the maze-like streets of Jerusalem’s Old City, the Nidal Center is difficult to find. The only evidence that a once-busting community center existed in the al-Jabasheh neighborhood is a beige sign and a small, green door adorned with stickers. Photo: Jillian Kestler-D’Amours The Nidal Center has been closed since July 2009. Last month, it received its newest closure renewal from the Israeli authorities: the green door must remain sealed for one more year, at least. “We used to try to keep the children and youth away from the streets. Now they are once again in the streets, ” said Mahmoud Jiddah, the Co-Founder of the Nidal Center. Mahmoud Jiddah (Nidal Center) Photo: Jillian Kestler-D’Amours ” That’s the way [the Israeli authorities] like to see us: without any education and in the streets, making bad things. They don’t want to see Palestinians well educated ,” he said. The Nidal Center…more
Arab Regime Credibility Hanging by Its Last Invisible Thread
Dissident Voice: 9 Oct 2010 – On 25 September I wrote a piece headlined “Obama speaks at the UN… Goodbye to peace.” Since then I’ve seen no need for me to contribute to the debate about the farce that President Obama’s push for peace is and was always going to be. But the Arab League’s decision to give Obama a one-month deadline to rescue the direct talks between Abbas and his quisling administration and Netanyahu and his deluded coalition government demands a comment or two. Arab leaders know that with America’s mid-term elections fast approaching, there is no way a humiliated, increasingly desperate and isolated Obama can even think about applying real pressure on Israel. (I am still of the opinion that he did not enter the Oval Office programmed to do Zionism’s bidding. His real problem was that he was too inexperienced and naive. As a consequence of that he was bound to become the…more
Leaked Letter Reveals Obama’s Contempt for International Law
Dissident Voice: 9 Oct 2010 – It has been an unsettling week watching Obama’s unholy alliance with Israel take the world a step nearer the edge of the abyss. First I read Mark Glenn’s scary piece, “Exodus of Jewish Advisors from Obama White House Likely Not an Omen of Good Things to Come”, in which he suggests the unexpected departure of Rahm Emmanuel, David Axelrod and Larry Summers from the top echelons of the White House might indicate that some sinister and possibly cataclysmic event is imminent. Then I saw reports in Haaretz and elsewhere about a leaked letter from Obama to Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, showering him with gifts if he, Netanyahu, would only save Obama’s political bacon and see him through next month’s primaries by extending Israel’s freeze on settlement building for just a few months. Obama’s letter, we’re told, grants a list of reckless American favours. He agrees not to ask for any…more
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