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Netanyahu: “Demolition of Outposts Carries Political Implications”
IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 17:35, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netenyahu, is still wary of razing six West Bank outposts waiting for demolition since 2004, while the High Court deliberates the case against the state.
Israeli Settlers Torch Olive Trees near Bethlehem
IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 15:03, On Tuesday afternoon, Beitar Illit settlers torched a number of olive trees that belong to residents of the village of Husan.The settlement of Beitar Illit is located between the villages of Wadi Fukin, Nahalin and Husan, west of Bethlehem.
Israeli Settler Runs Over A Palestinian Man Near Bethlehem
IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 13:31, On Tuesday afternoon, an Israeli settler is alleged to have deliberately ran over a young Palestinian man from the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem, and fled the scene.
Israeli Soldiers Kidnap a Citizen From Beit Umar
IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 12:47, The Israeli military abducted, on Tuesday morning, Ayyad Bregheth, 20 years old, from the town of Beit Umar, located between Bethlehem and Hebron.
Israeli Settlers Invade al-Makkam Near Nablus
IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 11:53, On Monday after midnight, Israeli settlers invaded al-Makkam village near Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
Erdogan Says He Will Not Participate In Athens Conference If Netanyahu Attends
IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 11:27, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that he will not participate in the Climate Conference in Athens if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attends it.
Incidents of Violence Continue During the Olive Harvest
IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 11:10, According to the Israeli internal defense establishment, the current olive harvest has been the most violent of the last several years, due to fact that trees on both sides have been cut down, poisoned or torched.
P.A. To Submit Resolution To U.N. Calling For Settlement Evacuation
IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 09:52, As Israeli settlers throughout the West Bank launch a construction blitz following a partial freeze, the Palestinian Authority has drafted a resolution to put to the United Nations Security Council calling for all Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be evacuated.
Saudi Paper: “Netanyahu Agrees To Release Barghouthi In A Swap Deal”
IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 09:24, The Saudi newspaper, al-Madina, reported that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, agreed to release detained Fateh leader Marwan Barghouthi as part of a prisoner-swap deal for the release of captured prisoner of war Corporal Gilad Shalit.
Five Peaceful Protesters Wounded By Israeli Military In Silwan
IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 02:29, Israeli soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition, rubber-coated bullets and gas bombs at dozens of Palestinian protestors in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem. At least five residents were wounded and twelve detained.
Ma’an NewsSettlers torch crops in Bethlehem village10/19/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian crops on farmland in the Husan village in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem, burning vast areas of olive groves before firefighters were able to control the blaze, locals said. Locals said Israeli residents of the nearby illegal Betar Illit settlement obstructed Palestinian firefighters….
Group: 90% of claims on settler offenses fail
10/19/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli rights group said Tuesday that over 90 percent of investigations into offenses against Palestinians carried out by Israeli settlers in the West Bank fail, a statement read. Yesh Din’s statistic was part of a report that suggested Israeli authorities have failed to prosecute Israeli settlers suspected of…. Related: Yesh Din
Settler suspected in hit-and-run
10/19/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian was injured Tuesday after he was struck down in the Bethlehem village of Tuqu’ on the main road. Locals said a settler is suspected of driving into Rafat Ibrahim Suleiman, 25, as he walked on the main road, then fleeing the scene. A Palestinian car then pursued the….
Limited Israeli incursion into Gaza reported
10/19/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles crossed into the central Gaza Strip late Tuesday, onlookers said. Locals said four tanks and two bulldozers entered Al-Qarara village near Khan Younis. There were reports of heavy fire during the reported incursion, but no injuries or damage were reported. The military conducts regular searches in the….
Report: Israeli company to begin new gas drill near Gaza
10/19/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli company has received license to drill for gas in two areas in the Gaza-Israel border on Tuesday, a day after drilling began at a controversial offshore site in the north, Israel Radio reported. Energtek Inc. , a leader in hi-tech natural gas solutions and Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) technology and….
Netanyahu orders change to loyalty oath
10/19/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his justice minister to redraft his controversial amendment to the Citizenship Act on Monday so that the loyalty oath will also apply to Jews immigrating to Israel. The original amendment, which stated that those seeking Israeli citizenship would be required to pledge their allegiance to….
MKs seek ban on Palestinian tour guides in J’lem
10/19/2010 – TEL AVIV (Ma’an) — A draft bill put forward by eight Israeli Knesset members seeks to ban Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem from working as tour guides in the city, Israeli media reported Tuesday. The bill is sponsored by MK Gideon Ezra, who said he believed Palestinian residents of Jerusalem should not be….
Israeli court extends detention of Palestinian teen
10/19/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — The Ofar military court extended the detention of Sayel Abu Quweider, 15, from Hebron, for another 10 days. His lawyer, prisoners society advocate Elia Theodory, said the military prosecution is inflexible and has refused to release Abu Quweider on bail because Israeli soldiers say they saw him throwing stones. Israeli soldiers….
Palestinian workers in 1-day strike at Israeli factory
10/19/2010 – TULKAREM (Ma’an) — Palestinian workers went on strike Tuesday at an Israeli factory that has refused to pay them minimum wage. Seventy-two workers at the Soul Or factory in the Tulkarem district stopped work and demanded that the factory administration implement an Israeli labor law, passed in early 2008, requiring that Palestinians be paid….
Hamas MP released after 4 years in prison
10/19/2010 – JERICHO (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities on Tuesday released a Hamas-affiliated lawmaker who served 54 months in prison. Ali Rumanin of Jericho was seized in 2006 as a bargaining chip following the capture of an Israeli soldier in Gaza. Without accusing them of involvement, Israel arrested 45 Hamas lawmakers in the aftermath of the abduction….
Israel opens 1 Gaza crossing
10/19/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities informed Palestinian crossing officials that one Gaza crossing would be open on Tuesday for the transfer of goods. Liaison official Raed Fattouh said Israel would open the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza for the transfer of between 210 and 220 truckloads of goods for the agriculture and….
PA police detain 3 in Salfit
10/19/2010 – SALFIT (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority police operating in Salfit detained three residents they described as “wanted” by the Palestinian court, a statement read. Police said the three had fled from police and were accused of failing to pay “huge amounts” of debts….
Another arrest in Silwan
10/19/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained a Palestinian man from occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, officials said. Mahmoud Ar-Ruwaidi, 40, was driving in Silwan when Israeli police ordered him and his 10-year-old son to step out of the car, the director of the Wadi Hilwa Information Center said. Jawad Sayam told Ma’….
Palestinian detained in Beit Ummar
10/19/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained a young Palestinian man from Beit Ummar village near Hebron early Tuesday, the Palestine Solidarity Project announced. Ayed Muhammad Jamal Baragheet, 20, was taken to an undisclosed location after soldiers threw stones and stun grenades at his house before raiding it, the group said….
Report: Ergodan won’t attend summit if Israeli PM present
10/19/2010 – ATHENS (Ma’an) — Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said he would not attend a climate change conference in Athens on Friday if his Israeli counterpart is present, he told Greece’s Skai TV on Monday. According to British news wire Reuters, Erdogan also said he does not want to speak with Benjamin Netanyahu….
Report: Barghouthi to be freed in Shalit deal
10/19/2010 – MEDINA, Saudi Arabia (Ma’an) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to release Fatah strongman Marwan Barghouthi in a prisoner swap deal for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit when finalized, a Saudi Arabian newspaper reported Tuesday. According to Al-Madina, quoting sources, the German mediator told Hamas that Barghouthi would be freed but other prisoners….
Qrei’a: All options open to Palestinians
10/19/2010 – CAIRO (Ma’an) — Head of the PLO’s Jerusalem Affairs unit Ahmad Qrei’a said Monday that all options were open to the Palestinians if talks with Israel fail, during a political seminar in Cairo. The PLO official expressed pessimism over reaching practical results in the course of directnegotiations, which are on….
Rabbi: Insult to say Jerusalem ‘illegally occupied’
10/19/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The World Jewish Congress vice-president said it was an “insult to all of us to accuse us of illegally occupying [Jerusalem],” a statement issued Tuesday read. Rabbi Marc Schneider’s comments were made at the 8th Doha Conference of Inter-Faith Dialogue in Qatar, which opened on Tuesday and will be….
Israel, US ‘committed to regional stability’
10/19/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The US and Israel are committed to working together to “enhance regional security and stability,” a joint-statement issued Monday by the State Department following the semi-annual US-Israel Strategic meeting with Israel’s deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon read.”The Strategic Dialogue is an opportunity for both the United States and….
Hamas wing responds to Netanyahu ‘incitement’
10/19/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas’ military wing on Tuesday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of incitement a day after he declared that the Al-Qassam Brigades possessed anti-aircraft missiles. Speaking to Likud party members in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said Monday that “I don’t know if you know this, but today we are….
Netanyahu looks to extend loyalty oath requirement to Jews
Palestine Note 19 Oct 2010 – Washington – Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has given instructions to Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman to prepare a draft revision of the recently passed Citizenship Act extending the loyalty oath to Israel as a “Jewish state”…
Group raises support for anti-prostitution bill by “selling” women
Palestine Note 19 Oct 2010 – Washington – The Israeli group Task Force on Human Trafficking (TFHT) has begun an ambitious campaign to raise awareness of human trafficking and sex slavery by setting up a special boutique called “Woman To Go” at…
Elders meet with Hamas officials, Syrian president
Palestine Note 19 Oct 2010 – Washington – A delegation from The Elders arrived in Damascus on Tuesday to meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad and Khaled Meshal, the exiled Hamas politburo chief. The Elders are on a tour of the region…
Israel struggles to remember Rabin
Palestine Note 19 Oct 2010 – The legacy of the assassinated premier is in jeopardy of being forgotten. Washington – Israel is preparing the mark the fifteenth anniversary of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination. Defense Minister Ehud Barak, speaking at a conference…
Israeli police look to settlers to fill ranks
Palestine Note 18 Oct 2010 – First army, now police set for takeover As US-sponsored peace talks have stalled over the issue of settlements, Israel’s national police force has revealed that it is turning to the very same illegal communities in its…
An Israeli blogger claims “Jewish state” demand initiated by left in 2001
Palestine Note 18 Oct 2010 – Israeli Blogger Yaacov Lozowick sent a challenge over Twitter on Sunday to my arguments about Israel’s demand for recognition, not merely of its sovereignty, but as a Jewish state . He states: “the problem with your article,…
Egypt shuts down more TV stations
AlJazeera 19 Oct 2010 – Main satellite operator pulls the plug on 12 private television channels in latest crackdown on media.
UN worried by new Lebanon tensions
AlJazeera 19 Oct 2010 – Ban Ki-moon, the UN chief, says climate of “uncertainty” in the country could cause new instability across the region.
Knesset Conference Slams Racist Flood
PNN – Bethlehem — PNN — Israeli media house YNetNews.com reported today that a group of politicians, artists and intellectuals came to the Knesset to protest the controversial loyalty oath that Prime Minister Binyamin…
Suspect in Hamas Assassination Arrested in Canada
PNN – Dubai — PNN — A suspect in the Dubai assassination of a Hamas official was arrested in Canada, a UAE newspaper reported on Tuesday. Canadian police arrested a suspect in the assassination…
Freed Prisoner Kifah Afaneh: Full-body Searches Routine for Female Prisoners
PNN – Mustafa Sabri — PNN/Exclusive – Recently released prisoner Kifah Afaneh said in an interview that female detainees like her often risk being strip-searched in prison. They fear the interrogation room, she said,…
President Abbas: Settlement Construction Must End
PNN – Jerusalem — PNN — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli Channel 1 on Sunday that he would not resume peace talks until Israel extends the settlement construction freeze. During the interview…
Clashes Between Hebron University Students and Settlers
PNN – Muhannad al-Adam — Hebron — PNN – Dozens of Hebron University students clashed with settlers from the Hebron area outpost of Susya this morning after helping local farmers harvest their olive trees….
Erdogan’s Boycott Shows Worsening Turkish – Israeli Relations
PNN – Athens – PNN – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened yesterday to boycott a Mediterranean conference on climate change if Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was among those attending. The Conference,…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (07— 13 October 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Qurei warns of possible ‘armed resistance’ if talks fail
Jeruslalem Post 19 Oct 2010 – All options are open to us, says former PA prime minister; Israeli official calls threat “regrettable”; Abbas rules out West Bank land swaps.
Carter: ‘Palestinians living in a cage in Gaza’
Jeruslalem Post 19 Oct 2010 – Former US President attends Elders meeting in Damascus, meets with Syrian president; Assad says Israel unwilling or unable to make peace.
‘Stop Lieberman’s facism,’ says MK Molla
Jeruslalem Post 19 Oct 2010 – Knesset debate held to discuss proposed “loyalty oath,” MK Zoabi says foreign minister is “setting the tone.”
Report: PM agrees to free Barghouti for Schalit
Jeruslalem Post 19 Oct 2010 – Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar says the organization is “ready to return to talks with Israel on prisoner exchange deal.”
‘PM waiting for ‘right time’ to address the Palestinians’
Jeruslalem Post 19 Oct 2010 – Gov’t sources say discussions on matter haven’t yet come to fruition, though PMO has received requests from numerous Palestinian and Pan-Arabic outlets for an interview with Netanyahu.
Barak: Today’s youth must learn about Rabin and his legacy
Jeruslalem Post 19 Oct 2010 – Defense Minister makes comments on 15th anniversary of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination.
Israel Prize laureate urges Knesset to hear ‘silent poor’
Jeruslalem Post 19 Oct 2010 – Rosenfeld will also unveil new data showing that majority of Israelis (98%) would like to see the government increase spending on programs to help the poor break out of the poverty cycle.
New J’lem city buses unveiled along with new transit plan
Jeruslalem Post 18 Oct 2010 – Egged: “The residents of Jerusalem will be able to enjoy the most advanced public transportation network in the country.”
J’lem Municipality tests light rail over ‘String Bridge’
Jeruslalem Post 18 Oct 2010 – Workers call it “the beginning of the end” for capital’s oft-delayed train project, due to start running in April.
Likud hawk Danon insists Washington biased against Israel
Jeruslalem Post 18 Oct 2010 – “It’s clear, even to the leftists, that these areas will stay Jewish. Everyone is in agreement, and we’re still not building in them.”
Barak mocks challengers for Labor Party leadership
Jeruslalem Post 18 Oct 2010 – Herzog and MK Shelly Yacimovich write to Barak, urging him to ensure that misconduct does not take place in Labor’s current membership drive.
Digital World: Israel, the telecom ‘continent’
Jeruslalem Post 18 Oct 2010 – With mobile devices sales really set to shoot up in the coming months companies in Israel’s telecom industry are in the right place, at the right time!
International Solidarity Movement
Israeli Police Assault and Arrest Mahmoud Rwidy of Silwan
10/19/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Today Israeli police beat and arrested Mahmoud Rwidy, a 40-year-old resident of the Silwan Spring area in Wadi Hilweh, while he was away with his son to visit the doctor. Eyewitnesses confirm that police fired pepper spray heavily and directly at Mahmoud Rwidy, and that they then beat and arrested him. The incident took….
Olive Harvesting under Apartheid
10/19/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – 16 October 2010 – Qusin, near Nablus, West Bank – On Saturday, for the first time in several years, families in the village of Qusin with properties close to the illegal settlements Shave Shomeron and Shave Shomron, were able to spend a few hours harvesting their olives before soldiers forced them to leave. One of these families….
Women go on sale at Tel Aviv shopping center
Ha’aretz – Window display at Dizengoff Center shows real women with price tags in provocative installation aiming to battle sex trafficking.
Peres: Rabin assassination must not be forgotten
Ha’aretz – On 15th Hebrew calendar anniversary of murder of former prime minister, President Peres says ‘peace is Rabin’s last will and testament.’
Revealed: Passenger plane nearly crashed into IAF fighter jet
Ha’aretz – Collision between a British passenger plane and an Israel Air Force F-16 in Israeli airspace averted at the last second.
Supreme Court criticizes Tel Aviv municipality on demo fees
Ha’aretz – Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch says charging a fee for a demonstration in Rabin Square ‘seems odd’ and that it is an unfair restriction on freedom of expression.
Israeli citizen suspected of killing two mistresses in U.S. nabbed at Ben Gurion Airport
Ha’aretz – Yvgeny Perchikov, suspected of killing girlfriends to collect their life insurance policies, was arrested trying to leave Tel Aviv after a short visit in Israel.
Male nurse suspected of drugging patients to keep them quiet
Ha’aretz – Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv filed police complaint after learning nurse injected patients with medicine without receiving permission.
Want to see the original Dead Sea scrolls? Just search Google
Ha’aretz – In new joint initiative with Israel Antiquities Authority, over 900 scrolls will be filmed with advanced technology and uploaded on to one of a kind online archive.
Interior Ministry Director-General probed over alleged fraud scheme
Ha’aretz – Lod police question Gabi Maimon in relation to scheme in which state apartments designated for evacuated Gush Katif residents were given away in return for favors.
Netanyahu wants loyalty oath bill to include Jews as well
Ha’aretz – PM instructs Justice Minister to draft a bill extending the loyalty oath, in which non-Jews are required to pledge allegiance to ‘the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic…
16-year-old killed by grenade explosion in northern Israel
Ha’aretz – Grenade hurled toward carwash in Arab village of Kafr Rama near Carmiel, the owner of which is a known figure to the police.
Barak’s wife admits she employed illegal foreign worker
Ha’aretz – AG Weinstein recently closed investigation into the allegations for lack of evidence, Barak’s wife says she will pay fine as required by the state.
Israel invites Chilean miners for a ‘spiritual’ Christmas in the Holy Land
Ha’aretz – Tourism minister invites the 33 rescued miners and their spouses for a week-long all-expense paid sightseeing tour of Christian holy sites.
Psychiatrist suspected of handing out fraudulent diagnoses to Haredis
Ha’aretz – The psychiatrist allegedly diagnosed yeshiva students with mental illness, allowing them to receive an insurance stipend.
Donor who gave organs to four people later found to have had cancer
Ha’aretz – Recipients of 40-year-old woman’s lungs, kidneys and liver under close medical supervision after early stage pancreatic cancer discovered.
Teen suspected of stabbing grandparents during argument in Bat Yam
Ha’aretz – The 19-year-old was recently divorced and living with his grandparents in their assisted-living apartment.
State rejects appeal to exonerate woman who failed to prevent Rabin murder
Ha’aretz – Margalit Har-Shefi was released early from her nine-month sentence, but State Prosecutor refuses to overturn conviction.
Israel’s U.S. ambassador: No one will dictate Israel’s borders
Ha’aretz – Michael Oren speaks at event marking 25 years since establishment of Free Trade agreement between Israel and the U.S.
Carter in Syria: Israel must fully lift Gaza blockade
Ha’aretz – Former U.S. President meets with Syrian President Assad and Hamas politburo chief Meshal in Damascus.
U.S. and Israel agree to develop plan to boost trade
Ha’aretz – Sides hope for plan by 2011 to explore improving existing pact and pushing down barriers to agriculture and services trade not covered by the agreement.
Call to stem Rabin memorials causes storm in Labor Party
Ha’aretz – MK Einat Wilf suggests focusing on pre-murder euphoria, says party should cancel yearly rally and remove former premier’s photo from Kneset hall., High Court to deliberate state refusal to raze…
Envoy to UN: Israel mulling ways to resolve peace talks deadlock
Ha’aretz – Meron Reuben says it is up to Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet to decide whether or not to extend Israel’s moratorium on settlement construction.
Peres asks Georgia president to help friend nabbed in bribe case
Ha’aretz – Ron Fuchs was arrested on suspicion of attempting to bribe Georgian Deputy Finance Minister Avtandil Kharaidze.
Erdogan to boycott Mediterranean conference if Netanyahu shows
Ha’aretz – Turkish PM slams Israel over IDF raid on a Gaza-bound ship in which nine Turkish activists were killed, says he doesn’t want to talk to a PM who supports such…
IDF: Rifle Nasrallah gave to Ahmadinejad not captured during 2006 war
Ha’aretz – Hezbollah leader Nasrallah gave visiting Iranian leader a riffle claiming it was captured from Israeli soldier during the Second Lebanon War.
PM: New building permits will not affect peace process
Ha’aretz – Abbas says Netanyahu should take advantage of offer to continue talks with silent settlement construction freeze.
OPT: Oxfam urges lifting of barriers to olive production
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – The first day of the Palestinian olive harvest officially began on 15 October, and Rani Ali and his family — like hundreds of others — were out among their olive trees, starting to bring in what looks like being a good harvest. But Rani and his family have a problem. Although they are not among…
US: The dishonest broker
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been both a major concern of American diplomacy since 1967 and the arena of persistent failure. There are many reasons for America’s failure to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians but the most fundamental one is that it is a dishonest broker. As a result of its palpable…
Pro-settler group launches “Hebron aid flotilla”
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – It’s fairly well-known that U.S. groups raise millions of tax-deductible dollars each year to support Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. But here’s the most brazen fundraising effort we’ve encountered in a while: the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund is holding a dinner cruise that will leave from Chelsea Piers in Manhattan next month, and the…
To Cynthia McKinney
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – …Dear Cynthia McKinney, I wish in your speech for A’nejad, before bringing up the name of Malcolm X, causing his dear corpse to shake in the grave as a Persian proverb says, and before starting your speech in the name of excellency of the president of a system that rules over the innocent people whom…
International Conference in London: “The Ongoing Nakba”
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) is holding an International conference entitled “The Ongoing Nakba”. The conference will highlight the different mechanisms which Israel deploys in maintaining the ongoing expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians. It will take place on 15th of January 2011, at Brunei Gallery, SOAS University from 10am to 5pm. The conference will make…
Group: 90% of claims on settler offenses fail
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – An Israeli rights group said Tuesday that over 90 percent of investigations into offenses against Palestinians carried out by Israeli settlers in the West Bank fail, a statement read. Yesh Din’s statistic was part of a report that suggested Israeli authorities have failed to prosecute Israeli settlers suspected of vandalizing Palestinian crops. The rights group…
Earning a Living in No Man’s Land
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – Crossing through the metal-caged tunnel that leads from the Israeli side of the border into northern Gaza towards the Palestinian checkpoint, several groups of young Palestinian men and boys can be seen scavenging through piles of rubble. The twisted metal and shattered concrete are all that remain of Palestinian homes bombed and shelled by the…
Sephardi leader Yosef: Non-Jews exist to serve Jews
Uruknet October 19, 2010 — Israeli Sephardic leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in his weekly Saturday night sermon said that non-Jews exist to serve Jews. “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world; only to serve the People of Israel,” he said during a public discussion of what kind of work non-Jews are…
Israeli Settler Runs Over A Palestinian Man Near Bethlehem
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – On Tuesday afternoon, an Israeli settler is alleged to have deliberately ran over a young Palestinian man from the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem, and fled the scene. Tayseer Abu Mefreh, the director of the Municipality of Tuqa’ reported to Palestine News Agency, WAFA, that Ra’fat Suliman was walking down the main road in…
Report: Barghouthi to be freed in Shalit deal
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to release Fatah strongman Marwan Barghouthi in a prisoner swap deal for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit when finalized, a Saudi Arabian newspaper reported Tuesday. According to Al-Madina, quoting sources, the German mediator told Hamas that Barghouthi would be freed but other prisoners on the Islamist movement’s list would…
Israel holds critically ill Palestinian woman in administrative detention
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – Human rights groups are calling for the immediate release of Kifah Awni Qatsh who is being held by Israel in so-called “administrative detention”. The 45 year old mother of two is suffering from a rare immunodeficiency disorder which has developed into a severe case of gangrene and started to eat away at her hand, resulting…
Report: Israeli company to begin new gas drill near Gaza
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – An Israeli company has received license to drill for gas in two areas in the Gaza-Israel border on Tuesday, a day after drilling began at a controversial offshore site in the north, Israel Radio reported. Energtek Inc., a leader in hi-tech natural gas solutions and Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) technology and run by former Israeli…
Dear Chilean miners, please do not accept Israel’s invitation
Uruknet October 19, 2010 – Dear Survivors of the Chilean Mine Trap, You do not know me. I am just an American blogger/peace actvist who has followed your heroic efforts to survive your 69 day ordeal and the heroic efforts to save you. With wonder I watched as you were brought up one by one to freedom from your underground…
ADL’s demonization of student activism denounced
Uruknet October 18, 2010 – On 14 October, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) named Students for Justice in Palestine on its list of the “Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups in America,” claiming that “SJP chapters regularly organize activities presenting a biased view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including mock ‘apartheid walls’ and ‘checkpoint’ displays.” As members of several student groups working for justice…
Palestinian boy hit by settler car detained
Uruknet October 18, 2010 – Israeli forces have detained a boy who was struck by a car driven by a settler in a flashpoint East Jerusalem neighbourhood earlier this month, officials said Sunday. Security spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Imran Mansur, 12, had been brought in on Saturday for questioning about the stone-throwing, adding that he was accompanied by his father…
JNF plants trees to uproot Bedouin
Uruknet Israel has exploited the country’s natural environment for its own political ends for decades. Since 1948 olive trees have been uprooted, quarries mined, the most fertile lands taken for settlements and water illegally extracted. However, in the Naqab (Hebraized as Negev) desert and the Galilee this ecological occupation takes on a very different form. Instead of uprooting trees, they…
Remembering Furkan Dogan
Uruknet October 18, 2010 – Furkan Dogan. I’m going to say Furkan Dogan so often that it will sound, as it rightly should, just as “American” as John Smith or Bill Jones. Furkan Dogan was an American, a young American of only 19 years when on 31 May a hail of Israeli bullets ended his life on the Mavi Marmara…
Britain hangs out “welcome” sign to war criminals
Uruknet October 18, 2010 – The UK is to become a safe haven for Israeli psychopaths while they continue their brutal military occupation, colonization and ethnic cleansing of the Holy Land, and carry on bombarding blockaded Gaza and executing or abducting anyone bringing humanitarian help. That’s the British government’s latest contribution of Middle East peace. The Zionist entity’s Trojan Horse…
60 Minutes Reports On Silwan, East Jerusalem
Uruknet October 18, 2010 – …Silwan is located in East Jerusalem’s holy basin, which encompasses the north, east and south of the Old City. Over the past five years, the Israeli government has been encouraging Jewish settlers to settle in the holy basin in order to disconnect East Jerusalem from the rest of Palestine, effectively making an equitable two state…
Street Vendors’ Struggle in Jerusalem: Interview with Reuven Abergel
Alternative Information Center – Jerusalem Municipal inspectors and police demolished a street vending stall on Sultan Suleiman Street , across from the Old City ‘s Damascus Gate, on Friday 15 October at 12.45 a.m. The stall belongs to Faiz Abu Ramuz…
Proposed Bill to Ban Jerusalemites From Guiding Tours in Jerusalem
Alternative Information Center – A bill that will ban Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem from serving as tour guides in the city is being proposed by seven Israeli Knesset members.
France Provides €4 million for Gaza Wastewater Treatment Plant
WAFA – JERUSALEM, October 19, 2010 (WAFA)- On Sunday 17 of October 2010, at Ministry of Planning, Mr Dov Zerah, CEO of the French Development Agency (AFD), Dr Ali Jarbawi, Minister of Planning and
Abu Rdeineh: All Settlement Forms are Illegal, Rejected
WAFA – RAMALLAH, October 19 (WAFA)- The Presidency spokesperson , Nabil Abu Rdeineh confirmed today that all the forms of settlement (outposts and non-random) in Palestinian lands are illegal. Commenting
Netanyahu Declines Demolishing Settlements’ Random Units
WAFA – TEL AVIV, October 19 (WAFA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided that he wouldn’t demolish the unregulated construction in a various settlements although the government has issued
The Elders Urge Comprehensive Approach to Arab-Israeli Peace
WAFA – DAMASCUS, October 19, 2010 (WAFA)- The Elders have called for a more comprehensive approach to the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks following discussions with officials, civil society, business and
IOF deploys Ariel Settlement
WAFA – SALFIT, October 19 (WAFA)- The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) deployed, today, the Ariel Settlement that is established by force on the lands of the Salfit, Iskaka, Yasuf and Burkin
Dr. Erakat: Israel Seeks De Facto Recognition of Illegal Practices
WAFA – RAMALLAH, October 19, 2010 (WAFA)- Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Negotiations Affairs Department Dr. Saeb Erakat said, yesterday, “By hosting the OECD conference in Jerusalem,
Canada arrests suspect in Hamas militant’s killing
Daily Star 19 Oct 2010 DUBAI: Canada has arrested a man suspected of involvement in the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Dubai, said the Gulf emirate’s police chief Tuesday, criticizing Ottawa’s lack of transparency on the matter.
Chavez vows to back Iran ‘under any circumstances,’ hopes to bolster trade ties
Daily Star 19 Oct 2010 TEHRAN: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vowed Tuesday to back ally Tehran “under any circumstances” as his Iranian counterpart and host praised Caracas for fighting sanctions against the Islamic Republic. “Venezuela will remain alongside Iran under any…
Who are the real prisoners?
Daily Star 19 Oct 2010 When I asked in my previous article, “Until when this conspiracy of silence?” concerning more than 11,000 Palestinian prisoners kidnapped from their homes by Israeli intelligence officers, and suffering the cruelest torture at the hands of…
Seven killed as militants stage deadly raid on Chechen Parliament
Daily Star 19 Oct 2010 GROZNY, Russia: Militants stormed Parliament in Russia’s conflict-torn region of Chechnya Tuesday, holding deputies and gunning down three people, before being killed in a bloody standoff with security forces. The group of up to four militants…
Israeli-Arabs fear for their future
The Guardian 19 Oct 2010 – Arab citizens say they feel increasingly unwelcome in Israel and fear forced transfer to a new Palestinian state Like other Arab citizens of Israel, Leyla Ahmoud is anxious about her future. A young mother of two…
Netanyahu amends citizenship oath plan
The Guardian 19 Oct 2010 – Proposed oath to Israel as a ‘Jewish and democratic state’ must apply to all new citizens, Israeli leader orders A proposed loyalty oath to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state” should apply to all new…
OPT: The Humanitarian Monitor – September 2010
Relief Web 19 Oct 2010 – Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
New Government policy brings more goods to Gaza
Relief Web 19 Oct 2010 – Source: Government of Israel
OPT: Despite Current Impasse in Middle East Talks, Aim Must Remain to Reach Agreement on Core Issues Within a Year’, Security Council Is Told
Relief Web 18 Oct 2010 – Source: UN Security Council
MIDEAST: Earning a Living in No Man’s Land
IPS Crossing through the metal-caged tunnel that leads from the Israeli side of the border into northern Gaza towards the Palestinian checkpoint, several groups of young Palestinian men and boys can be seen scavenging through piles of rubble.
8th Week against the Apartheid Wall, November 9 — 16 2010
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Report: German mediator back in Gaza
YNet News – Despite repeated denials by Hamas, Kuwaiti media insists Gerhard Conrad visited….
Knesset debate: Stop Lieberman’s fascism
YNet News – Group of lawmakers, intellectuals hold special conference to discuss ‘racist’….
Hamas ‘ready to resume Shalit talks’
YNet News – Organization strongman Mahmoud al-Zahar says ready to finalize prisoner swap….
Many soldiers unfamiliar with details of Rabin assassination
YNet News – After slain prime minister’s daughter says IDF soldiers ‘don’t remember where….
Iran confirms planes being refused fuel in Europe
YNet News – Islamic Republic’s foreign ministry spokesman accuses some Western companies of….
Palestinians urge boycott of Israel’s OECD debut
YNet News – Protest clouds nearing Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development….
US, Israel mull Iranian threat
YNet News – High ranking Israeli, American delegations hold biannual strategic dialogue….
IDF blocks soldiers’ social media access
YNet News – The Israel Defense Forces plans to bar soldiers from using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter as well as email sites like Gmail, while on base, in an attempt …….
Court chides State over West Bank outposts
YNet News – Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish and the honorable Uzi Vogelman and Neal Hendel on Tuesday criticized the State’s policy on illegal construction in six illegal West …….
Jimmy Carter: Palestinians live in a ‘cage’
YNet News – Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that Palestinians are “living in a cage” in Gaza and that Hamas must be included in all major efforts for peace. Carter …….
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Assad: Israel not capable, not willing to achieve peace
PIC 19 Oct 2010 – Bashar Al-Assad has charged that Israel was not willing and was not capable of achieving peace, adding that only just and comprehensive peace is capable of achieving stability in the region.
Hamas: Abbas offering free concessions to IOA
PIC 19 Oct 2010 – Hamas movement strongly condemned de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas over his recent statement expressing readiness to offer historic concessions to the IOA.
Zionist settlers burn olive fields, run over a youth
PIC 19 Oct 2010 – Zionist settlers ran over a Palestinian youth and burnt Palestinian olive fields in Bethlehem villages on Tuesday, local sources reported.
Hamas leadership holds in-depth discussions with a delegation of the Elders
PIC 19 Oct 2010 – A delegation of the Global Elders led by Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, had an in-depth discussion with a delegation of the Hamas leadership led by Khaled Mishaal.
Hamas MPs: Abbas’s readiness to waive the Palestinian rights disgraceful
PIC 19 Oct 2010 – The Hamas lawmakers condemned the remarks made by de facto president Mahmoud Abbas about his readiness to waive the Palestinian people’s historical rights as shameful and irresponsible.
Yedioth: Israel expands settlements gradually to avoid int’l condemnation
PIC 19 Oct 2010 – Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that the Israeli ministry of housing is following a plan to expand its settlement construction gradually in order to avoid international condemnation.
Lifeline 5 to leave this evening for Al-Arish seaport
PIC 19 Oct 2010 – The fifth aid convoy Lifeline for Gaza will leave Tuesday evening for the Egyptian seaport of Al-Arish after a delay in its departure due to financial problems with the cargo ship’s owner.
Five Jerusalemites detained in Silwan
PIC 19 Oct 2010 – Israeli occupation police used force to quell separate marches by Palestinian young men in Silwan suburb, in occupied Jerusalem, on Monday evening.
Hundreds of settlers storm Nablus, Bethlehem to perform Talmudic rituals
PIC 19 Oct 2010 – Hundreds of Zionist fanatic settlers stormed the cities of Nablus and Bethlehem at dawn Tuesday to perform Talmudic rituals under protection of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF).
Islamic Jihad slams Abbas’s remarks about waiving all historic rights
PIC 19 Oct 2010 – Islamic Jihad denounced Mahmoud Abbas for declaring his readiness to waive the Palestinian constants and rights and announce the end of the conflict if he reached a peaceful settlement with Israel.
Proposed Israeli Legislation to Ban Palestinian Tour Guides
The Media Line 18 Oct 2010 – The new bill aims to better Israel’s image among tourists by favoring the Israeli narrative. Aiming on controlling the Israeli narrative in the Holy Land, legislators have presented a new bill that would require all tour…
Report: Palestinians Plan to Seek UN Resolution US Won’t Veto
The Media Line 18 Oct 2010 – An Israeli daily is reporting that Palestinian leadership has decided to seek a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli post-1967 communities as illegal and calling for evacuation of Jewish Israelis from those areas. According to the…
Netanyahu: Hamas Has Anti-Aircraft Missiles
The Media Line 18 Oct 2010 – Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu told members of his party on Monday that Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip have obtained anti-aircraft missiles. Israeli officials have let it be known that Hamas is believed to have re-stocked…
World Briefing | Middle East: Israel: ‘Loyalty Oath’ Bill to Change to Include Jews, Netanyahu Says
New York Times 19 Oct 2010 – Opposition lawmakers had denounced the bill, saying it undermined the rights of Israel’s minority Arab community.
World Briefing | Middle East: Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu Warns of Risks to Aircraft Flying Near Gaza
New York Times 19 Oct 2010 – Israeli officials have pointed to what they say is a buildup of antiaircraft missiles, in Gaza, which is governed by the militant group Hamas.
AT-TUWANI/ABORIGINAL JUSTICE REFLECTION: Seeking the peace of Palestine by engaging our own settler reality
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AL-KHALIL (HEBRON) REFLECTION: God’s justice, even for the shops
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HEBRON: Open Shuhada St. movement changes tactics
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Dutch Company Face Criminal Charges For Building Separation Wall
Palestine Monitor – Human rights group Al-Haq have initiated criminal proceedings against a Dutch construction company for supplying equipment used to build the Separation wall and settlements. A complaint has been lodged with the state prosecutor, who pending the results of a police raid on Riwal’s headquarters in Holland,…
The Return of Kahane
Palestine Monitor – Perhaps no one in the world wields as much power as Avigdor Lieberman. In Israeli coalition politics, he is a kingmaker. In the current peace talks, he is a deal-breaker. In the Middle East, he exemplifies Zionist bigotry. In world diplomacy, his belligerence destabilizes a fragile…
This is a pogrom (first they demolished the shepherd’s house, then they came to his tent and kicked his sheep, causing ewe to abort)
Mondoweiss – and other news from Today in Palestine: Settlers/Land, property & resource theft and destruction/Ethnic cleansing Settler suspected in hit-and-run BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian was injured Tuesday after he was struck down in the Bethlehem village of Tuqu’ on the main road. Locals said a settler…
‘US Boat to Gaza’ to join efforts from Switzerland, Turkey, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Italy, Sweden, Malaysia & the Netherlands to form the Freedom Flotilla II in March 2011
Mondoweiss – The following update was just sent out by US to Gaza : We are writing with an exciting update report on the plan to send a U.S.-flagged ship as part of the next Freedom Flotilla sailing to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Representatives from the…
Harvard student government condemns Peretz fund and calls for an investigation on the decision to honor him
Mondoweiss – From a student press release: Harvard’s Undergraduate Council voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favor of a bill calling on President Drew Faust “to establish a commission of concerned faculty, students and administrators to investigate” the decision to honor Martin Peretz. The Undergraduate Council is the representative body…
New tourism law shows the more the Israeli narrative gets challenged, the greater need there is to enforce it
Mondoweiss – A proposal for a new law has been submitted to the Israeli parliament which states that only Israeli citizens would be permitted to serve as tour guides in Israel (does “Israel” includes the occupied territories? That’s not clear from the law), when the tour involves non-Israeli…
Guilty of being Muslim: A review of ‘Entrapped’
Mondoweiss – The new documentary ” Entrapped ,” which was aired as a special report by Democracy Now! on October 6 and is due to be released on DVD by Big Noise Films, is that rare documentary that not only informs us about an issue, but in doing…
New Gaza Peace Flotilla to Have Up to 20 Boats
Al-Manar 19 Oct 2010 – Aid groups planning a second peace flotilla to Gaza hope to send at least twice the number of boats as took part in the first ill-fated attempt in May, they announced Tuesday. The second flotilla will have “between 12 and 20 boats” carrying humanitarian aid…
Canada Arrests Suspect in Senior Hamas Leader’s Assassination
Al-Manar 19 Oct 2010 – Canada has arrested a suspect involved in the assassination of senior Hamas leader Mahmud al-Mabhud who was martyred in a Dubai luxury hotel early this year, Gulf emirate’s police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan said in a report on Tuesday. “He was among the preparatory…
Meshaal interview on Hamas Policy — A MUST READ!!
Palestine Think Tank 19 Oct 2010 – This all-ecompassing interview deals with every question on the table: Resistance and the Hamas policy of opposing exclusively the enemy occupying their land and not extending it to other nations, no matter how much they might hinder Palestinian liberation, negotiations, relations with Arab nations, use of…
Iran says jets being refused fuel
BBC 19 Oct 2010 – Iran says that some Western companies are refusing to refuel its planes, an act it says is illegal under international law.
Sharon coma sculpture on display
BBC 19 Oct 2010 – A life-size sculpture of former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, which appears to breathe, is to go on display at a Tel Aviv art gallery.
Israeli PM wants to change oath
BBC 18 Oct 2010 – Israel’s PM says he wants to include Jews in a bill that so far requires only non-Jews to swear loyalty to the country as a Jewish state.
Israeli Police Look to Settlers to Fill Ranks
Antiwar.com 19 Oct 2010 – Israeli police look to settlers to fill ranks First army, now police set for takeover By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth As U.S.-sponsored peace talks have stalled over the issue of settlements, Israel’s national police force has revealed that it is turning to the very same illegal…
Netanyahu Tries to Scuttle Peace Talks Again
Antiwar.com 19 Oct 2010 – Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once against scuttled a chance for progress in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. You didn’t know? Don’t feel bad. It all happened so quickly that hardly anyone noticed it — except in Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority has its offices….
Britain hangs out ‘welcome’ sign to war criminals
Sabbah report 19 Oct 2010 – The UK is to become a safe haven for Israeli psychopaths while they continue their brutal military occupation, colonization and ethnic cleansing of the Holy Land, and carry on bombarding blockaded Gaza and executing or abducting anyone bringing humanitarian help. That’s the British government’s latest contribution…
Yes indeed, show us all the map!
Sabbah report 19 Oct 2010 – Better late than never, a very senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Yasser Abed Rabbo, found the right way to challenge Israel and the U.S. As reported by AFP on 13 October, he said, “We officially demand that the US administration and the Israeli government provide a…
(en) Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle continue in spite of the end of Summer blues.
A-infos 18 Oct 2010 – Anarchists Against the Wall (awalls.org) have a facebook presence though most of the texts are in Hebrew: “As every Friday, this weekend too we will demonstrate together with hundreds of Palestinians and internationals in villages of the west bank – want to join? – Send us…
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Meshaal interview on Hamas Policy
Al-Sabeel, Palestine Think Tank10/19/2010
Since 1996, Khaled Mesh’al has been the Chairman of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Political Bureau. After the assassination of Hamas leader Abdul ‘Aziz Rantisi in 2004 by Israeli forces, Mesh’al became the movement’s overall leader. He lives in exile in Damascus, from where he oversees the movement’s activities both within Palestine and outside.
The most recent interview with Mesh’al was conducted by the Jordanian Arabic-language Al-Sabeel newspaper in July 2010. In it, Mesh’al laid out the policy direction of Hamas on a number of critical issues: negotiations with Israel, recognition of Israel, resistance, Jews, Christians, women, among other issues. In the Arab world, the lengthy interview is being viewed as highly significant, and is regarded as a clear indication of positions that Hamas wants to pursue, especially with regard to its future attitude towards Israel. The Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC) translated the interview into English and publishes it here to make it accessible to a wider audience, and to allow for greater understanding of the political and other perspectives of a movement which has become one of the most important role-players in the Middle East today. It is an important piece articulating, in its own words, the perspectives of Hamas’ leadership, and is critical reading for observers of the Middle East, and policy-makers for whom the Middle East is important.
On negotiations
Do you reject, in principle, negotiations with the enemy? If negotiations cannot be conducted with the enemy, is it possible to do so with a friend? Does Hamas reject the principle of negotiations outright, or do you reject its form, conduct and results?
This is definitely a thorny and sensitive issue. Many people prefer to avoid any discussion of it, and tend not to take any clear position on it for fear of negative reactions or misinterpretations. The sensitive and critical nature of this issue is compounded by the dark shadows that are cast as a result of the bitter experiences of Palestinian-Israeli and Arab-Israeli negotiations…. more.. e-mail
Israeli police look to settlers to fill ranks
Jonathan Cook, Israeli Occupation Archive10/19/2010
First army, now police set for takeover
As US-sponsored peace talks have stalled over the issue of settlements, Israel’s national police force has revealed that it is turning to the very same illegal communities in its first-ever drive to recruit officers from among the settlers.
The special officer training course, which is chiefly aimed at discharged combat soldiers, includes seven months of religious studies in an extremist West Bank settlement.
The programme has provoked widespread concern among Israel’s 1.3 million Palestinian citizens, a fifth of the population.
“The police have already repeatedly demonstrated their hostility to Palestinian citizens, but this move proves that the authorities want to extend and deepen our oppression,” said Jafar Farah, the director of Mossawa, an advocacy centre for the Palestinian minority.
“Is it really credible that these religious extremists who have been educated to hate Palestinians in the West Bank are going to behave differently when they police our communities inside Israel?”
The first 35 cadets in the officer-training programme – known as “Believe in the police” – are to start their studies next month. More than 300 settlers are reported to have expressed an interest in the course so far.
The police command is said to have taken up the idea, originally proposed by right-wing groups, in the hope of reversing years of declining recruitment levels that have led to a national shortage of officers. more.. e-mail
Declaration of The Movement for One Democratic State in Palestine
Ma’an News Agency10/19/2010
We the people of Palestine, building upon the Madrid, London, Boston, and Haifa conferences and the declarations they produced, call on all who value justice and peace to join us in a movement to establish one democratic state in Palestine that can serve all its people equally.
In making this call, we draw insight and guidance from the past, especially the following:
After World War I, even though Great Britain and France colonized and divided the Arab world into spheres of control whereby Palestine was denied independence, the League of Nations, reflecting the will of the occupying European powers, established a mandate that was intended to culminate in the independent sovereign State of Palestine.
The Zionist movement that originated in Europe brought to Palestine Jewish settlement, Jewish labor and the doctrine of a Jewish national home that included intentions to exclude and expel the indigenous population from its ancestral home in Palestine in order to create a Jewish-majority state.
In 1939, Britain responded to Palestinian popular resistance to Zionist settlement by issuing a White Paper clarifying that neither the Mandate nor British policy to support a Jewish national home in Palestine was ever intended to support Palestine’s partition into two separate states.
In 1947, the Palestinian people and their representatives, together with all the Arab and Muslim States members of the United Nations, unanimously rejected the partition of Palestine and called for all of Mandate Palestine between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River to be established as a unitary democratic state that would prohibit any discrimination on the grounds of religion and serve all of its citizens equally, and warned that the partition of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state would lead to bitter, endemic and unending conflict…. — See also: Movement for One Democratic State in Palestine more.. e-mail
Occupation affects every aspect of olive oil production
Electronic Intifada: 19 Oct 2010 – London, UK (IRIN) – The first day of the Palestinian olive harvest officially began on 15 October, and Rani Ali and his family — like hundreds of others — were out among their olive trees, starting to bring in what looks to be a good harvest.more
“The priority is to return and remain”
Electronic Intifada: 19 Oct 2010 – The Electronic Intifada contributor Jillian Kestler-D’Amours spoke with Hassan Jabareen, the founder and director general of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, about Israel’s new loyalty oath and what it means for Palestinian citizens of Israel.more
Dutch Company Face Criminal Charges For Building Separation Wall
Palestine Monitor: 19 Oct 2010 – Human rights group Al-Haq have initiated criminal proceedings against a Dutch construction company for supplying equipment used to build the Separation wall and settlements. A complaint has been lodged with the state prosecutor, who pending the results of a police raid on Riwal’s headquarters in Holland, may pursue criminal convictions. Al-Haq hold video and photographic evidence of Riwal machinery being used to construct sections of Israel’s Separation Wall and a building inside the settlement of Ariel. They claim to have sworn witness statements for these sightings. Such construction would violate the International Criminal Court of Justice statute of 2004, ruling that the Wall is illegal. All settlements in the West Bank, of which is Ariel is the largest, are also illegal under international law. The Dutch Ministry of Justice have forbidden companies from involvement, making Riwal liable to punitive measures. Riwal have been under investigation since 2006. A senior Al-Haq…more
The Return of Kahane
Palestine Monitor: 19 Oct 2010 – Perhaps no one in the world wields as much power as Avigdor Lieberman. In Israeli coalition politics, he is a kingmaker. In the current peace talks, he is a deal-breaker. In the Middle East, he exemplifies Zionist bigotry. In world diplomacy, his belligerence destabilizes a fragile region. Israel’s new loyalty oath should not come as a surprise: Lieberman has been advocating such a citizenship requirement for over a decade. Back then, though, very few paid attention to the swarthy, blunt Likudnik. His rise to power is a story beyond him. It reflects a sea change in Israeli society to increased hatred in the 62-year old nation. But it all started innocently enough, beginning with a young immigrant from what was the Soviet Union, now Moldova. In 1978, a 20-year old arrived in Israel speaking a Romanian dialect, Russian, and little Hebrew. He came from a city brutalized by Tsar-era pogroms…more
Britain’s Welcome to War Criminals
Dissident Voice: 19 Oct 2010 – The UK is to become a safe haven for Israeli psychopaths while they continue their brutal military occupation, colonization and ethnic cleansing of the Holy Land, and carry on bombarding blockaded Gaza and executing or abducting anyone bringing humanitarian help That’s the British government’s latest contribution of Middle East peace. The Zionist entity’s Trojan Horse at the heart of our government — otherwise known as the Conservative Friends of Israel — held a reception recently attended by our foreign secretary William Hague. Hague told the 400 guests: We have had good discussions with Israeli ministers on universal jurisdiction where the last government left us with an appalling situation where a politician like Mrs Livni could be threatened with arrest on coming to the UK… We have agreed in the coalition about putting it right, we will put it right through legislation that will be introduced… The Justice Secretary will bring…more
The final post…for awhile
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