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Lieberman To European Counterparts: “Go And Solve Your Problems First”
IMEMC – 10 Oct 2010 – Monday October 11, 2010 – 04:07, Israeli Foreign Minister of the fundamentalist right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, told his French and Spanish counterparts that Europe should first solve its own problems before trying to complain about Israeli policies.
Israeli army arrests 8 peace activists during non-violent protest in Beit Ummar
IMEMC – 10 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 09, 2010 – 16:43, Israeli military forces, along with undercover units, arrested 8 participants in a weekly non-violent protest, including four international activists, in Beit Ummar village near Hebron on Saturday.
Israeli settlers attack peace activists attempting to harvest olives in Hebron
IMEMC – 10 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 09, 2010 – 14:17, Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian and Israeli solidarity activists in the Northern settlement of Susya,in the Southern West Bank city of Hebron, while the activists accompanied Palestinian farmers to their olive groves to harvest.
Palestinian Prime Minister helps Palestinian farmers harvest olives
IMEMC – 10 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 09, 2010 – 13:06, On Saturday, Palestinian Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad participated in picking olive trees in the West Bank villages of Iraq and Burin, near Nablus.
Israeli settlers assault Palestinian farmers in Nablus
IMEMC – 10 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 09, 2010 – 11:15, On Saturday morning, in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, a group of right-wing Israeli settlers assualted Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest.
Abbas Hints at Dismantling P.A Should Peace Talks Fail
IMEMC – 10 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 09, 2010 – 09:40, During a Friday night meeting with the Arab Follow-up Committee in the Libyan city of Sirt, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, cast doubts on the future of the Palestinian Authority, if peace talks with Israeli fail to bring about a Palestinian State.
Army demolishes Tulkarem playground
10/10/2010 – TULKAREM (Ma’an) — Israeli bulldozers demolished a local playground in the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem on Saturday, locals said. Bulldozers entered Far’un village supported by soldiers and began the demolition, while Palestinian children threw stones at them, villagers said. Residents said soldiers had ordered residents to demolish the area themselves….
Israeli cabinet approves loyalty oath to Jewish state
10/10/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s government on Sunday approved a proposal to require every non-Jew wishing to become a citizen to swear loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state. Twenty-two ministers voted in favor of the proposal, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. Eight ministers were opposed. Speaking ahead of the weekly Cabinet meeting….
Settlers move furniture out of Jerusalem home
10/10/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) – Israeli settlers ransacked the home of a Palestinian family in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday tossing furniture into the street. Homeowner Mazin Qirrish said Israeli police provided protection to the settlers as his family and neighbors tried to the prevent the evacuation of their home. The family….
Israel releases teen who put army on alert
10/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) – Israeli forces released on Sunday a Gaza Strip teenager they detained the evening before. The boy is believed to have unintentionally caused the Israeli army to fire flares and send warplanes over Gaza on Saturday evening. Fourteen-year-old Isma’il Abu Jazar was detained after he was found hiding near….
Settlers prevent land reclamation in Al-Khadr
10/10/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Dozens of settlers obstructed Palestinian farmers and workers as they attempted to reclaim agricultural land near the Israeli settlement of Newe Daniyyel, illegally built on lands belonging to farmers from Al-Khadr south of Bethlehem. Ma’an’s correspondent explained that armed settlers hurried to stop farmers who brought a….
1 injured as Israeli ordnance explodes in Gaza
10/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A resident of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza was injured Sunday when an ordnance left by the Israeli army exploded, medics said. The 25-year-old was transferred to Kamal Adwan hospital in critical condition. United Nations Mine Action Service works in Gaza to destroy unexploded ordnance left behind by….
Protests in Ramallah demanding local elections
10/10/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Palestinians erected a sit-in tent in the center of Ramallah on Saturday to protest the postponement of local elections and appointment of “municipal council members,” which has begun in the West Bank. The organizers, supporters of a campaign demanding better roles for women and youth in elections, demanded the Palestinian Authority….
Nablus checkpoint closed temporarily
10/10/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) – Israeli forces shut down the Huwwara military checkpoint south of Nablus in the northern West Bank temporarily in both directions on Sunday morning and opened it again yet very slowly. Witnesses told Ma’an that soldiers manning the checkpoint scrutinized ID cards very carefully after the checkpoint was closed for….
Shell from Gaza lands in western Negev
10/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) – The military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility Saturday for firing a mortar shell at an Israeli force which crossed into the northern Gaza Strip. The An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades said its operatives fired at soldiers who entered the town of Beit Lahiya. Israeli sources, for their part….
Report: Obama wants delay for midterm elections
10/10/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israeli TV reported Saturday evening that US President Barack Obama asked Arab leaders for a month’s delay before he devotes his efforts to negotiations between Israel and the PLO. The delay Obama requested, according to Israeli TV, was meant to give him enough time to work on midterm elections….
Hamas says loyalty oath ‘racist’
10/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas said Sunday that Israel’s government approval of a bill requiring non-Jews to swear loyalty to a Jewish state was a racist attempt to eliminate Palestinian identity. Israel’s Cabinet voted Sunday in favor of an amendment to the citizenship law to require any non-Jew seeking citizenship….
Fatah: Loyalty oath attempt at ethnic cleansing
10/10/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — The Israeli government’s approval of a bill requiring non-Jews seeking citizenship to swear loyalty to a ‘Jewish state’ clearly indicates a policy of ethnic cleansing, a Fatah spokesman said Sunday. Usama Al-Qauasmi said the amendment to the citizenship law targeted Palestinians, and undermined Israel’s claim….
Report: Palestinian reporter hurt in Saudi hit-and-run
10/10/2010 – JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Ma’an) — A Palestinian journalist is in critical condition after being hit by a quad bike Thursday in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the local publication Arab News reported Saturday. Jowhara Shaweesh, a 26-year-old reporter for the Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper, is currently at King Fahd Hospital suffering from brain damage and….
Gaza father torches son
10/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A father from Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza killed his son by setting fire to him because the boy refused to help the family pick olives, police said. Security forces identified the father as AN, and said the 40-year-old threatened to torch his son Mohammed, 14, when he….
More new cars headed to Gaza
10/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israel will allow on Sunday the entry of new cars into the blockaded Gaza Strip for the fourth time as 30 more cars are scheduled to enter via the Kerem Shalom crossing, a Palestinian liaison official said. Raed Fattouh told Ma’an that the Kerem Shalom terminal in the….
Report: Obama waives aid restrictions for PA
10/10/2010 – WASHINGTON (Ma’an) — US President Obama issued a waiver Thursday allowing the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported. Obama’s waiver sets aside recent requirements for strict reporting of any funds transfer to the PA. It is a routine bureaucratic measure necessitated by terrorism laws….
In photos: Palestinian PMs harvest olives
10/10/2010 – MaanImages / Rami Swidan, Mohamad Al-Ostaz, Pool – Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Gaza visits an olive press on 9 October 2010, the start of the annual harvest. Near Nablus, meanwhile, Ramallah-based premier Salam Fayyad harvests olives in the Iraq Burin village. For Palestinians, olives are an important agricultural product, and olive trees symbolize attachment to their….
PA official: Hamas ignoring internal security crisis
10/10/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority security department spokesman Adnan Ad-Dmeiri said Hamas was failing to deal with intelligence collaborators among its members. Ad-Dmeiri said security weaknesses within Hamas had enabled a series of assassinations of Hamas leaders. Israeli forces killed two leaders of Hamas’ armed wing in Hebron on Friday, Nashat Al-Karmi and….
Israel approves loyalty oath
AlJazeera 10 Oct 2010 – Cabinet adopts controversial bill that requires non-Jewish immigrants to swear loyalty to “Jewish, democratic state”.
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
PCHR’s Deputy Director Meets with British Delegation and Discusses the Developments of Human Rights Situation
Palestinian Center for Human Rights Ref: 75/2010 On Saturday, 09 October 2010, Mr. Jaber Wishah, Deputy Director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), met with a British delegation, which included a number of parliamentarians: Lord Norman Warner; Julian Huppert; David Ward; and Richard Graham. It also included two members of the Council for Arab-British Understanding: Graham Bambrough; Ed Parsons.
Activists rally in Tel Aviv against loyalty oath
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – Artists, intellectuals, MKs express fears that Israel becoming fascist country at protest in front of old Tel Aviv Museum.
Senior FM official named as envoy to Spain
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – Suspended from senior ministry position few months ago for allegedly leaking information about discussion on Iran, then exonerated, Alon Bar named Israel’s next envoy to Spain.
Protesters to throw shoes at Obama effigy during TA rally
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – At rally titled “United Against Obama’s Brutality Towards Israel” organizers say protesting against US president’s policies towards West Bank settlements.
Noam Schalit: EU has not done enough to pressure Hamas
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – “When there is a need to pressure Israel, the European Union knows how to do that very well,” Schalit says.
Cabinet passes oath of allegiance proposal
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – Right to advance more loyalty bills; Yishai to present legislation revoking citizenship of those who join terror groups.
C’tee to mull Barak addendum to revised Citizenship Law
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – Cabinet approves law requiring loyalty oath without Labor votes; PM stresses the need to recognize Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.”
Lieberman: ‘We will not be victims of appeasement’
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – FM tells French, Spanish FMs to solve Europe’s problems before coming to Israel; Kouchner: We can’t rule out support for UN-proclaimed Palestinian state.
Stanley Fischer chosen top central banker
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – “Euromoney” magazine praises Fischer for “taking bold risks” and helping Israel’s economy stay afloat during economic crisis.
Rally in Tel Aviv against loyalty oath
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – Artists, intellectuals, MKs express fears that Israel becoming fascist country in front of old Tel Aviv Museum.
Ethiopian Community kicks off Sigd Festival
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – Holiday is celebrated by mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem; coincides with the 25th anniversary of Operation Moses.
Tibi: Israel is democratic for Jews but Jewish for Arabs
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – MKs respond to decision on loyalty oath; Livni: “This is politics at its worst;” MK Ben-Ari: “Likud has admitted that Kahane was right.”
Tibi: Israel is democratic for Jews but not for Arabs
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – MKs from both sides of the political spectrum respond to cabinet decision on loyalty oath; MK Ben-Ami: “Likud has admitted that Kahane was right.”
Cabinet passes new loyalty oath requirement 22-8.
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – On Citizenship Law, PM stresses the need to recognize Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state;” Netanyahu tells cabinet: Democracy is the soul of Israel.
Female soldier accused of stealing top secret Iran files
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – Young woman in IDF said to have taken “hundreds” of classified military files on USB key home, accused of undermining state security.
Palestinian olive harvest begins in West Bank, Gaza
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – Photo gallery: Both Ismail Haniyeh and Salam Fayyad turn up to be photographed picking symbolic fruit in Palestinian villages.
Steinitz: OECD conference in Jerusalem will not be canceled
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – Finance minister meets with OECD head in Washington; says OECD will not be involved with political issues.
Barak: Ready to vote for loyalty oath if changes accepted
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – Labor leader cancels expected stormy meeting with fellow Labor ministers before heading to Cabinet meeting to vote on amending Citizenship Law.
Erekat: PA will only accept complete freeze during talks
Jeruslalem Post 10 Oct 2010 – PA negotiator says Palestinians may decide to seek international recognition of territories if Israel does not agree to Palestinian state within 1967 boundaries.
International Solidarity Movement
Palestinians attacked by armed settlers in Burin
10/10/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – 9 October 2010 – Burin, near Nablus – People from the village of Burin were attacked by 20 settlers, 5 of which had guns. They wanted to make a road leading up to the house of one of the villagers, Bilal Eid. that is on the top of a hill inside the small village of 3500 inhabitants….
Nonviolence in Beit Ummar met with brutal force; eight arrested
10/10/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – 9 October 2010 – Beit Ummar, West Bank – Israeli repression of peaceful dissent continued this week, as a nonviolent demonstration in Beit Ummar was crushed in an explosion of violence and arrests. Beit Ummar, a city near Hebron, hosts weekly nonviolent demonstrations against the Israeli occupation. The nearby settlement, Karmei Tzur, has confiscated much of the….
Corrie family appeals decision allowing soldiers to testify behind screen
10/10/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Rachel Corrie Foundation – Lawyers for the family of Rachel Corrie filed an appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday, challenging a decision to allow soldiers to testify behind a screen in the lawsuit filedagainst the State of Israel for the unlawful killing of the American peace activist in Rafah, Gaza. State attorneys made the….
Livni: Loyalty oath amendment is ‘politics at its worst’
Ha’aretz – Controversial loyalty oath amendment sparks condemnation from a range of Israeli politicians; MK Tibi: Israel is a democracy for Jews, but not for Arabs.
Cabinet approves loyalty oath, but only for non-Jewish new citizens
Ha’aretz – Amendment to Law of Citizenship would require any non-Jew seeking citizenship to pledge allegiance to Israel as a ‘Jewish and democratic state.’
Justice Minister: Jews should be required to sign loyalty oath too
Ha’aretz – Divisions in Israel’s cabinet as vote on loyalty oath looms; Netanyahu: Israel is defined by its dual status as Jewish state and democracy.
Barak: Labor ministers free to vote their conscience on loyalty oath bill
Ha’aretz – Cabinet to vote on Sunday on amendment to Citizenship Law that would require any non-Jew taking Israeli citizenship to swear allegiance to Israel as a ‘Jewish and democratic state.’
Palestinians: Settlers attacked our olive trees
Ha’aretz – Fall olive harvest presided over by soldiers and solidarity activists, but extremists managed to damage a dozen trees, villagers say.
Settler leader drives into two Palestinian kids as they hurl rocks
Ha’aretz – David Be’eri, known right-wing activist and director of City of David, says he accidentally hit the children with his car after they hurled rocks at his vehicle.
Settlers move furniture out of Jerusalem home
Uruknet October 10, 2010 — Israeli settlers ransacked the home of a Palestinian family in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday tossing furniture into the street. Homeowner Mazin Qirrish said Israeli police provided protection to the settlers as his family and neighbors tried to the prevent the evacuation of their home. The family’s troubles began 14 September as settlers…
Palestinians attacked by armed settlers in Burin
Uruknet October 10, 2010 – People from the village of Burin were attacked by 20 settlers, 5 of which had guns. They wanted to make a road leading up to the house of one of the villagers, Bilal Eid. that is on the top of a hill inside the small village of 3500 inhabitants. Just as the bulldozer started working,…
Gazans suffer high unemployment due to Israeli blockade
Uruknet October 10, 2010 – Ten years ago, 42-year-old Mustafa Abu Jarad could earn 100 U.S. dollars every day as a carpenter, however, now he lives on international aid with income dropping to 150 dollars every month. Abu Jarad, a father of eight living in al-Tufah neighborhood of Gaza city, used to be a talented carpenter and worked in Israel…
The Jewish Republic of Israel
Uruknet October 10, 2010 – Remember this day. It’s the day Israel changes its character. As a result, it can also change its name to the Jewish Republic of Israel, like the Islamic Republic of Iran. Granted, the loyalty oath bill that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to have passed purportedly only deals with new citizens who are not…
Israel approves loyalty oath
Uruknet October 10, 2010 – The Israeli cabinet has approved a bill requiring new immigrants to pledge loyalty to the “Jewish and democratic” state. The language has triggered charges of racism from Arab politicians who see it as undermining the rights of the country’s Arab minority. It has raised tensions with Palestinians at a time when peace talks are deadlocked…
Avigdor Lieberman: A Profile in Ultranationalist Extremism
Uruknet October 10, 2010 – Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Lieberman represents the worst of Israel’s lunatic fringe, sort of a combination Dick Cheney/John McCain/Joe Lieberman, too extremist to be entrusted with power, but he’s got it. On March 18, 2008 in the London Independent, Robert Fisk headlined, “Why Avigdor Lieberman is the worst thing that could happen to…
Israel set to vote on loyalty oath
Uruknet October 10, 2010 – A left-leaning Israeli minister has warned of a “whiff of fascism” as the country’s right-wing government appeared set to approve a bill requiring a loyalty oath from new citizens. “There is a whiff of fascism on the margins of Israeli society,” Isaac Herzog, the social affairs minister of the left-leaning Labour party, told army radio…
Israeli settlers start to establish new settlement south of Bethlehem
Uruknet October 10, 2010— Dozens of Israeli settlers on Sunday morning started to build a new settlement outpost on Palestinian lands in Al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem in the West Bank. Palestinian eyewitnesses said that Israeli settlers came to the area with bulldozers and embarked on digging the lands. Settlers started immediately after the alleged freeze on settlement activities that…
Indian troops unleash reign of terror in Kashmir: Gilani
Uruknet October 10, 2010 – In occupied Kashmir, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, has said that Indian troops have unleashed a reign of terror across the territory to suppress the ongoing liberation movement. Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar demanded an immediate withdrawal of the troops from the occupied territory. “The occupation authorities have turned…
Israel Forces Complete Exercise for Population Exchange between Israel, PA
Uruknet October 10, 2010 – The Voice of Israel Radio reported that on Thursday (7 October), Israeli security forces completed a comprehensive security exercise simulating the response to mass demonstrations of Palestinian citizens of Israel following conclusion of an agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA). Amongst other things, the security forces ran through scenarios of violent demonstrations following any possible…
Zionist settlers attack farmers during olive harvesting
Uruknet October 9, 2010 – Zionist settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Burin village, south of Nablus, on Saturday morning while harvesting olives, local sources reported. They said that 15 settlers from Yizhar settlement attacked one of the village’s fields and threw stones at the farmers and threatened to expel them and steal their crops. Ghassan Daghlas, the head of a…
Turkish Victims from Freedom Flotilla Seek ICC Investigation
Alternative Information Center – Turkish victims from the Mavi Marama, the ship raided during Israel’s military attack on the Gaza bound Freedom Flotilla on 31 May, have asked the International Criminal Court to prosecute the Israelis officers who came on…
Israel Forces Complete Exercise for Population Exchange between Israel, PA
Alternative Information Center – The Voice of Israel Radio reported that on Thursday (7 October), Israeli security forces completed a comprehensive security exercise simulating the response to mass demonstrations of Palestinian citizens of Israel following conclusion of an agreement with…
Israeli Government Votes Today on Citizenship Pledge to Israel as “Jewish, Democratic State”
Alternative Information Center – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved a draft of a new oath requiring any non-Jewish person taking Israeli citizenship to swear allegiance to the country as a “Jewish and democratic state,” reported the Israeli…
Turkel Commission Summons Palestinian Participants in Freedom Flotilla
Alternative Information Center – The Turkel Commission has summoned Mohammad Zeidan and Hamad Abu Dabus to testify in an open-door hearing on 13 October as part of the commission’s examination of the “actions of the flotilla’s organizers and those who…
Kairos Palestine to be Submitted to Vatican on 19 October
Alternative Information Center – Monsignor Michel Sabbah, the Archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1987 to 2008, will be presenting the Kairos Palestine Document to the Special Assembly for the Middle East synod of Catholic bishops on 19 October….
Olives Stolen from Hundreds of Trees West Bank
WAFA – TEL AVIV, October 10, 2010 (WAFA)_ Human rights group Yesh Din, which is part of a coalition of NGOs which are helping Palestinians during the olive harvest season, issued Sunday a letter to several
Door to Israeli-Palestinian Peace must Stay Open, Ban Tells Arab Leaders
WAFA – SERTE (LIBYA), October 9. 2010 (WAFA)- Recently revived efforts to resolve the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict must not falter, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed today, calling
Pope calls for peace at Mideast synod
Daily Star 10 Oct 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel’s Cabinet approved Sunday a bill that would require new citizens to pledge a loyalty oath to a “Jewish and democratic” state, language that triggered charges of racism from Arab lawmakers who see it…
Arabs infuriated after Israel approves loyalty oath
Daily Star 10 Oct 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel’s Cabinet approved Sunday a bill that would require new citizens to pledge a loyalty oath to a “Jewish and democratic” state, language that triggered charges of racism from Arab lawmakers who see it…
France hints UN may create Palestinian state
Daily Star 10 Oct 2010 French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the option of the UN Security Council creating a Palestinian state cannot be ruled out, in an interview published Sunday. Kouchner told the Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam that France preferred a…
Islamic Republic’s other Neda finds political voice following exile
Daily Star 10 Oct 2010 DREUX, France: An Iranian woman mistaken for Neda Agha-Soltan, whose death in post-election protests last year became a symbol of Iran’s opposition movement, has found her own political voice after being forced into exile. “I have…
Rebels say they have taken Iranian nuclear worker hostage
Daily Star 10 Oct 2010 TEHRAN: A Sunni militant group in Iran has claimed it abducted a man working at a nuclear facility and has threatened to spill his secrets if members of the group held by Tehran are not released….
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood vies for 30 percent of Parliament seats
Daily Star 10 Oct 2010 CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition group, said Saturday it will contest up to 30 percent of the seats up for grabs in next month’s parliamentary elections, shrugging off calls for a boycott and warnings…
Giant mosaic unveiled for Jericho’s 10,000th birthday
The Guardian 10 Oct 2010 – The small red, blue and ochre stones formed the floor of an Islamic palace destroyed by an earthquake in the eighth century Visitors to ancient Jericho got a rare glimpse yesterday of a 1,200-year-old carpet mosaic…
Israel’s loyalty oath: Discriminatory by design | Editorial
The Guardian 10 Oct 2010 – New pledge requires future citizens declare their loyalty to an ideology, one intended to exclude Palestinians There are two narratives at work in Israel that have a bearing on the capacity of its leaders to negotiate…
Letters: IDF did use violence on Gaza relief boat
The Guardian 10 Oct 2010 – The Israeli Defence Force says that there was no resistance and no violence in the boarding of The Jewish Boat To Gaza ( Report , 29 September). In fact, when boarded, we cut the engines and I held…
8th Week against the Apartheid Wall, November 9 — 16 2010
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Hamas warned against visitng targeted operative’s Facebook page
YNet News – Online Hamas forum warned members to stay away from page — two days later….
France ‘can’t rule out’ UN creation of Palestinian state
YNet News – Foreign minister tells Palestinian paper France prefers two-state solution, but….
Barak withdraws support for loyalty oath bill
YNet News – Labor chairman says will support bill only if ‘in spirit of Declaration of….
Soldier accused of stealing top secret papers
YNet News – IDF soldier indicted on charges of endangering state security by removing disk….
Settlers demand El Al CEO quit ‘leftist group’
YNet News – Habayit Hayehudi calls on Elyezer Shkedy to give up ‘political activism’,….
Lebanon prepares for Ahmadinejad
YNet News – Iranian security patrols southern region, film festival censors Opposition film….
Report: Mabhouh killer used fallen IDF soldier’s identity
YNet News – Wall Street Journal reports Dubai police struggled in investigation of Hamas….
Hamas text message threatens revenge
YNet News – Residents of Hebron receive message vowing to avenge deaths of two operatives….
Lieberman: We don’t want to end up like Czechoslovakia
YNet News – “Before you teach us how to resolve conflicts here, I expect at the very least that you solve all the problems in Europe,” Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told his …….
Settlers, Palestinians clash over olive harvest
YNet News – Mohai Nasser’s olive harvest season ended before it began. Nasser, a carpenter from the village of Jit, took a day off on Sunday to pick olives from his 30 olive trees …….
Assad to Abbas: Arab League shouldn’t have to sanction talks
YNet News – Syrian President Bashar Assad told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas the Arab League’s Follow-Up Committee should not have to sanction the peace talks with Israel, the …….
Rally against loyalty oath: Israel becoming fascist
YNet News – Artists and intellectuals rallied in Tel Aviv on Sunday, shortly after the government passed the loyalty oath bill, under which non-Jewish prospective citizens will be …….
Palestinian Information Center
Benny Morris: The pseudo-liberal, the bona-fide fascist
PIC 10 Oct 2010 – Benny Morris, a Zionist historian turned fascist, has been trying so desperately to convince the English-speaking world that Jewish fascism is totally compatible with western liberal traditions.
Nazzal: U.S. veto on Palestinian reconciliation temporarily lifted
PIC 10 Oct 2010 – Hamas political bureau member Mohammed Nazzal said the U.S. veto against Palestinian reconciliation was temporarily lifted until the political situation in Palestine becomes clear.
Khudari: Reconstruction of Gaza moral, legal responsibility of the world
PIC 10 Oct 2010 – MP Jamal Al-Khudari has said that rebuilding Gaza Strip’s civil and educational buildings is the moral, legal, and humanitarian responsibility of the Arabs, Muslims, and the world at large.
Israel adopts law forcing citizens to pledge allegiance to a ‚ÄòJewish state’
PIC 10 Oct 2010 – The Israeli gov’t voted Sunday on draft to amend a law requiring candidates for Israeli citizenship to give a pledge of allegiance to the “Jewish and democratic state of Israel”.
Zionist settlers attack Palestinian farmers, hurt old man
PIC 10 Oct 2010 – A Palestinian old man was injured when Zionist settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while harvesting olives south of Nablus city on Sunday, eyewitnesses reported.
Local source: PA security men took part in Al-Khalil assassination operation
PIC 10 Oct 2010 – Palestinian local sources revealed that identified security men in civilian clothes from the PA participated in the Israeli military operation that happened on Friday in Al-Khalil city.
Abu Zuhri: Abbas should halt negotiations once and for all
PIC 10 Oct 2010 – Hamas said that the Zionist settlers’ construction of a new settlement outpost south of Bethlehem on Sunday was an example of the intensification of settlement drive on Palestinian land.
Lifeline 5 convoy geared to set sail to Gaza, awaits okay from Egypt
PIC 10 Oct 2010 – The Lifeline 5 convoy lead by former MP George Galloway is geared to move out from the Latakia port in Syria to the Egyptian Al Arish port.
Islamic Jihad accuses PA militias of escalating arrest of its cadres in W. Bank
PIC 10 Oct 2010 – The Islamic Jihad Movement accused the PA security militias of intensifying their arrest campaigns against its cadres and leaders in different West Bank areas.
Israeli settlers start to establish new settlement south of Bethlehem
PIC 10 Oct 2010 – Dozens of Israeli settlers on Sunday morning started to build a new settlement outpost on Palestinian lands in Al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
Israel’s Cabinet to vote on controversial loyalty oath
LA Times 10 Oct 2010 – The proposed law would require Palestinians and other prospective non-Jewish citizens to swear allegiance to Israel. A critic says it ‘pokes an unnecessary finger in the eye of the Arab minority.’ The Israeli government moved Sunday to adopt a controversial loyalty oath that would require Palestinians and other prospective non-Jewish citizens to swear allegiance to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.”
Transcripts on ’73 War, Now Public, Grip Israel
New York Times 10 Oct 2010 – Israelis are drawing a range of lessons from a peek into the minds of worried leaders stunned by a devastating attack.
Filling the Security Gap: Vigilante Justice in Area C
Palestine Monitor – Under the Oslo agreement, Israel’s military rules 60% of the West Bank, but offers little protection for the area’s majority Arab citizens. The result is lawlessness where tribal justice has supplanted official security. ST McNeil reports. The need for clan justice is evident in the West…
Israeli soldiers don keffiyehs to try to break the back of Palestinian resistance, then stop photographers from filming them
Mondoweiss – Notes from the moral battleground: an amazing post by Joseph Dana on a demonstration against the illegal colonization of the village of Beit Ummar in which Israeli security disguised themselves as Palestinian demonstrators in order to arrest three Palestinian protesters. Vicious. Look at Dana’s photograph: There…
Does anyone in Israel have the vision thing?
Mondoweiss – Steve Walt had breakfast at Harvard with Tzipi Livni . It was off the record, but he can quote himself: I didn’t get a chance to ask her a question. I had scribbled one down in my notebook, however, and here’s what I would have asked: “I…
Israeli diplomacy: German development minister barred from entering Gaza
Mondoweiss – Germany never criticizes Israel. It has no standing, evidently. That may be changing. Spiegel online , commentator Christoph Schult: [German Development Minister Dirk] Niebel, currently on a trip to the Middle East, was prevented by Israeli authorities from entering the Gaza Strip to check up on the…
Palestinian Israelis are to have ‚ÄòJewish’ nationality (as Jews once had to be public Christians in Europe)
Mondoweiss – Today the Israeli government approved a proposal by Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman to change the declaration of loyalty required of all non-Jews applying for Israeli citizenship (excluding those entitled to citizenship according to the Law of Return). Neeman’s proposal seeks to amend the current declaration -…
Israeli Settler Runs over Palestinian Kids, Escapes
Al-Manar 10 Oct 2010 – In a series of Israeli violence and abuse against Palestinians, Leader of Jewish settlers in the East al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhood of Silwan has deliberately run over two Palestinian children and fled the scene. The incident happened during protests that followed the Friday Prayers. The…
Bil’in’s Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s to be sentenced TOMORROW
Joseph Dana 10 Oct 2010 – The protest leader, whose been pronounced a human rights defender by the EU, is already imprisoned for 10 months and is facing a potentially harsh sentence. Abdallah Abu Rahmah at the Ofer Military Court during his trial. Picture Credit: Oren Ziv Tomorrow, Monday, October 11 th ,…
Nabi Saleh Demonstration met with Live Ammunition; Six Demonstrators Injured
Joseph Dana 10 Oct 2010 – Army invades Nabi Saleh with live fire and tear gas. Six demonstrators injured during clashes which last into the night. Village Youth Flee Tear Gas in Nabi Saleh. Picture Credit: Joseph Dana The Israeli army continued its campaign of harsh repression of the unarmed popular struggle…
Undercover Soldiers Violently Arrest Eight Unarmed Demonstrators in Beit Ummar
Joseph Dana 10 Oct 2010 – Undercover Soldiers Arresting Demonstrators in Beit Ummar 8 October 2010 Weekly unarmed demonstration in Beit Ummar attacked by undercover Israeli soldiers disguised as Palestinian demonstrators. Soldiers arrested a total of eight non-violent demonstrators under a blanket of tear gas and percussion grenades. Undercover Soldiers Arresting Demonstrators…
Israeli cabinet backs Jewish oath
BBC 10 Oct 2010 – The Israeli cabinet backs a controversial bill that would require any non-Jews seeking citizenship to pledge loyalty to the country as a Jewish state.
Banned Egypt party to run in poll
BBC 10 Oct 2010 – Egypt’s biggest opposition movement, the banned Muslim Brotherhood, confirms it will stand in next month’s parliamentary elections.
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The Jewish Republic of Israel
Gideon Levy, Ha’aretz, Information Clearing House10/10/2010
Swearing an oath to a Jewish state will decide its fate. It is liable to turn the country into a theocracy like Saudi Arabia.
Remember this day. It’s the day Israel changes its character. As a result, it can also change its name to the Jewish Republic of Israel, like the Islamic Republic of Iran. Granted, the loyalty oath bill that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to have passed purportedly only deals with new citizens who are not Jewish, but it affects the fate of all of us.
From now on, we will be living in a new, officially approved, ethnocratic, theocratic, nationalistic and racist country. Anyone who thinks it doesn’t affect him is mistaken. There is a silent majority that is accepting this with worrying apathy, as if to say: “I don’t care what country I live in.” Also anyone who thinks the world will continue to relate to Israel as a democracy after this law doesn’t understand what it is about. It’s another step that seriously harms Israel’s image.
Prime Minister Netanyahu will prove today that he is actually Yisrael Beinteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, and Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman will prove he is really a loyal member of Yisrael Beiteinu. The Labor party will prove it is nothing more than a doormat. And Israel today will prove that it doesn’t care about anything. Today the loyalty oath bill, soon the loyalty oath law. The dam will overflow today, threatening to drown the remnants of democracy until we are left perhaps with a Jewish state of a character that no one really understands, but it certainly won’t be a democracy. Those demanding this loyalty oath are the ones misappropriating loyalty to the state.
At its next session, the Knesset is to debate close to 20 other anti-democratic bills. Over the weekend, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel issued a blacklist of legislation: a loyalty law for Knesset members; a loyalty law for film production; a loyalty law for non-profits; putting the Palestinian catastrophe, the Nakba, beyond the scope of the law; a ban on calls for a boycott; and a bill for the revocation of citizenship…. — See also: Source: Ha’aretz more.. e-mail
Behind the Crisis in Obama’s Mideast Peace Process
Tony Karon, Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development10/4/2010
U.S. diplomats scurried around Middle Eastern capitals over the weekend as President Barack Obama’s efforts to broker a Middle East peace agreement risked collapse in the face of yet another breakdown over Israeli settlement construction. This episode has made clear a fundamental problem challenging the new peace effort: the face-to-face talks Obama has orchestrated between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have thus far been meaningful only in a symbolic sense ‚Äî Israel’s substantial negotiations are conducted not with the Palestinians, but with the U.S. The same is true for the Palestinians, who believe Netanyahu has no intention of making concessions except to the extent that he’s pressured to do so by Washington.
Netanyahu’s partial moratorium on building in settlements, ordered last year to enable negotiations, expired a week ago and he refuses to extend it despite Abbas having pulled out of talks until the freeze is restored. U.S. diplomats are trying to broker a compromise ahead of an Arab League Foreign Ministers summit to be held later this week at which Abbas has threatened to make a “historic” announcement that his aides hint won’t sit well with the Israelis. (The fact that the summit has been now postponed from Wednesday to Friday is a sign that intense horse-trading may be under way.) But the negotiations that will determine the outcome of the latest minicrisis will be those that both parties conduct with the U.S.
The Obama Administration appears to have assumed that having the two sides at the table in direct talks would somehow create self-sustaining momentum toward a peace agreement. The President has reportedly offered Netanyahu a raft of unprecedented measures of U.S. political backing for Israel’s negotiating positions and direct military support, in exchange for simply continuing the settlement moratorium for another 60 days (with the promise that Obama will request no further extensions)…. — See also: Source: Time more.. e-mail
Turkey’s awakening: Its gradual exit from the Western camp
Excerpt GEAB N¬?39, Axis of Logic10/8/2010
November 16, 2009
Taking advantage of the ongoing systemic crisis, and of the weakening of the US and of the Western superstructure over which the latter’s might is based, Turkey has entered a process of fundamental redefinition of its key geopolitical interests. The new priorities ready to break out by 2012 will account for Ankara’s most profound reappraisal since the country joined NATO in 1952. This process illustrates a return to the Kemalist vision of Turkey’s vital interests (1) i.e., different from the agenda set for the country by big powers. It is quite ironical that this evolution is initiated by leaders of religious-oriented party, the AKP. There will be substantial geopolitical, economic and commercial consequences to this strategic shift which challenges the traditional vision of a pro-Western Turkey waiting to join the EU.
In the Eastern Mediterranean region, the relation with Israel is often a reliable indicator of a country’s relation with the Western camp altogether. Indeed, for more than a decade, the West has been defining itself along the Washington/Tel Aviv guiding line. But, in this regard, in the past few months, Turkey seems to have undertaken to move away from this line which, for many years, it used to follow as closely as possible. The attack on Gaza by the Israeli army in December 2008 is the marking event of this change of tone first, of orientation then. Since then, Ankara has gradually undertaken to move all the way backward along the road to its diplomatic and military cooperation with Tel Aviv. Two recent examples: Ankara’s decision to ban Israeli air force drills from Turkey; and its barring Israel from participating in a NATO exercise in October 2009 (2), soon followed by the announcement that Turkey would hold military exercises with Syria (3). We are far from the military and strategic behavior expected from a faithful ally of the United States and a prominent member of NATO.
However, changes in strategic priorities in the region have been brewing ever since the USSR collapsed, turning Turkey’s decade long and cold war-related dead-end position into a wide open space with huge cultural, economic and commercial potentialities…. — See also: Source: GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin more.. e-mail
Filling the Security Gap: Vigilante Justice in Area C
Palestine Monitor: 10 Oct 2010 – Under the Oslo agreement, Israel’s military rules 60% of the West Bank, but offers little protection for the area’s majority Arab citizens. The result is lawlessness where tribal justice has supplanted official security. ST McNeil reports. The need for clan justice is evident in the West Bank’s largest city, Hebron (Al Khaleel in Arabic). Known as the occupation’s laboratory, the city is split like the larger West Bank between zones of Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israeli influence called H1 and H2, respectively. The Israeli-controlled eastern H2 is where 35,000 Palestinians live underneath 800 Jewish settlers. Sunlight filters to the alleys of the city centre through suspended sacks of waste caught in trash nets: faeces, stones and refuse thrown from settler apartments. “What was once the vibrant heart of Hebron has become a ghost town” announced Israeli human rights group B’Tselem in their 2007 report. Nearly 40% of H2’s Palestinian population…more
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