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Israeli Soldiers Continue Their Facebook Displays
IMEMC – 24 Oct 2010 – Monday October 25, 2010 – 00:51, The Israeli Walla News website published on Sunday several pictures published by Israeli soldiers on Facebook showing “memories” while humiliating Palestinians during the war on Gaza.
Army Installs Two Roadblocks Near Salfit
IMEMC – 24 Oct 2010 – Sunday October 24, 2010 – 15:57, On Sunday afternoon,Israeli soldiers installed two military roadblocks at the crossroads of the town of Hares and at the entrance of the town of Deir Estia, near the West Bank city of Salfit.
Israeli Break Into Houses, Kidnaps 3, Inluding 2 Children, In Hebron
IMEMC – 24 Oct 2010 – Sunday October 24, 2010 – 15:22, On Saturday morning, Israeli troops kidnapped a Palestinian man and twp children from Hebron,in the southern part of the West Bank, and handed citizens orders to head to the nearest military base for questioning.
Israeli military prevents UN from building new schools in Gaza; 40,000 students without schools
IMEMC – 24 Oct 2010 – Sunday October 24, 2010 – 12:01, Nearly two years after the devastating Israeli invasion of Gaza that left 1400 dead and over 30,000 families without homes, many of the schools that were destroyed in the invasion have yet to be rebuilt. Now a United Nations effort to rebuild schools in Gaza has been cut short by the Israeli military, which refuses to give the UN permission to build several schools.
Israel army chief says forces fired 308 bullets on flotilla
10/24/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli commandos fired 308 live bullets aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship in May, Israel’s army chief said on Sunday as he testified again before the Tirkel panel investigating the incident. Gabi Ashkenazi said the navy’s killing of nine Turkish nationals on the Mavi Marmara had been unavoidable….
Official: Child hit by rubber bullet in Silwan clashes
10/24/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Clashes broke out Sunday in the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan as Israeli authorities stormed the Al-Bustan area to hand down demolition notices, locals said. Head of the committee defending Silwan homes Fakhri Abu Diab said a large force of Israeli border guards ransacked the area, using homes as vantage….
Worker attacked by settlers in East Jerusalem
10/24/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A young Palestinian man from the Old City of Jerusalem sustained wounds and bruises Sunday morning after a group of extremist settlers attacked him near the Ramot settlement in the occupied city, his employer told Ma’an. Anan Hijazi said his employee Muhammad Al-Beituni was assaulted by 10 extremist Israelis….
Mosque vandalized near Nazareth
10/24/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Unknown vandals removed stones from an ancient mosque in the Ma’alul village in Nazareth on Sunday, the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage said. The stones were removed from the mosque’s southern wall, the foundation said in a statement. Members visited the mosque and told the Ma….
Gaza ministry releases 20 prisoners
10/24/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Gaza government’s ministry of interior released 20 prisoners at the request of visiting aid convoy Viva Palestinian on Saturday, the minister announced. Speaking to reporters, Fathi Hammad said Gaza premier Ismail Haniyeh had ordered the prisoners’ release “in honor of members of Viva Palestina.”The news….
Gaza generator resumes for 24 hours
10/24/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The second generator of Gaza’s sole power station resumed operation Sunday following a fuel delivery to the Strip which will last 24 hours, Electricity Company spokesman Jamal Ad-Dardasawi said. The generator shut down Friday as fuel ran out, forcing rolling power cuts to resume. Due to the closure….
Israeli ministers back new Jerusalem bill
10/24/2010 – TEL AVIV (Ma’an) — Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Legislation on Sunday backed a bill to define Jerusalem as a national priority area, Israeli press reported. Among other financial benefits, the proposal would give priority to construction in Jerusalem, including in occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli news site Ynet said. Further, the bill….
Military court extends solitary confinement of PFLP leader
10/24/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — An Israeli military court on Sunday extended the solitary confinement of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine secretary-general Ahmad Sa’adat until 21 April 2011, PFLP said. Sa’adat has already been held in solitary confinement in Ramon prison in Israel for 18 months, PFLP officials said….
3 injured in explosion in Nablus city center
10/24/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Three Palestinians were injured Sunday by an explosion in a building in Nablus city center, police said. The injured were evacuated to Rafidia Hospital and Al-Ittihad Hospital, as Palestinian Authority police and forensic experts closed the area and began investigations, Ma’an’s correspondent said. Police said workers were….
Israel opens 1 Gaza crossing
10/24/2010 – GAZA City (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities said they would partially open one crossing into Gaza for the limited delivery of food and fuel on Sunday, a Palestinian liaison official said. The official, Raed Fattouh, said the Palestinian side was told to expect the entry of between 140 and 150 truckloads of humanitarian aid and….
Gaza liaison office broken into for third time
10/24/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Unidentified assailants vandalized the Gaza crossings and coordination office near the northern Erez crossing in Gaza on Sunday morning, sources told Ma’an. The sources said vandals broke the locks on the doors and broke into the storehouses but that no thefts have been reported. Employees suspended work for….
Blair’s sister-in-law converts to Islam
10/24/2010 – LONDON (Ma’an) — The sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has converted to Islam after having a “holy experience” in Iran, British media reported on Sunday. Broadcaster and journalist Lauren Booth, 43, and Cherie Blair’s half sister, said she decided to become a Muslim six weeks ago after visiting a….
Abbas welcomes Vatican call to end occupation
10/24/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) —President Mahmoud Abbas and chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat welcomed Sunday the Vatican Synod’s call for an end to Israel’s occupation a day earlier, and urged further support for Palestinian Christians.”President Abbas reaffirmed that Christians from the Holy Land are an integral part of the Palestinian….
Saudi Arabia pledges $100 million to PA
10/24/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Saudi Arabia pledged $100 million to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday, PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said. Fayyad said President Mahmoud Abbas was notified that the donation would arrive within three days. The money was intended to ease the PA’s financial difficulties, Fayyad said in a statement. The prime….
PA ministry holds rally in Jerusalem
10/24/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A rally was held in occupied East Jerusalem Sunday in solidarity with local farmers who are denied access to their land by the Israeli army. The Palestinian Authority Settlement and Wall Affairs Ministry organized the protest in Beit Surik and Biddu, where locals are prevented from harvesting their olives by Israel….
Israel airs footage of nuclear reactor
10/24/2010 – TEL AVIV (Ma’an) — Rare footage of an Israeli nuclear reactor in the Galilee was aired by Israeli TV on Saturday evening, marking the first time Israel’s nuclear facilities have been openly broadcast to the public. Channel 2’s Roni Daniel said there were many details about the reactor’s….
Annual pilgrimage to begin this week
10/24/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — From Thursday, Palestinian pilgrims traveling to Mecca will depart the West Bank via the Allenby Bridge crossing. Palestinian Authority crossings director Nathmi Muhana said 1,400 Palestinians would travel in the first group, followed by two further groups on Friday and Saturday. A total of 5,800 Palestinians from the West Bank were….
Tibi: American unwillingness to challenge inequality in Israel has gravely damaged its moral authority
Palestine Note 24 Oct 2010 – Ahmed Tibi has a great op-ed in the International Herald Tribune today entitled The Other Citizens of Israel . Too bad it didn’t run the Times . It’s really worth reading the whole thing, but here are some…
Partner for peace?
Palestine Note 24 Oct 2010 – For years we’ve heard the refrain that Israel has no partners for peace. Let’s reconsider this for a moment. Peaceful Christian and Muslim families were violently expelled from their homes and villages in Palestine by Jewish…
Going home
Palestine Note 24 Oct 2010 – My brother is going home. No, not from Las Vegas back to Houston, although Houston is on the way. No, Barry is going all the way to Israel. Hello, Ministry of Absorption. Good bye MGM Grand….
Israeli raid on flotilla defended
AlJazeera 24 Oct 2010 – Military chief tells committee probing attack on Gaza-bound aid convoy that troops fired 308 bullets but acted justly.
Iran journalist jailed for one year
AlJazeera 24 Oct 2010 – Mahsa Amrabadi, who worked for opposition newspaper, gets prison term for “propaganda against the system”.
A Day In The Olive Groves Of Sinjil
PNN – By Alessandra Bajec – With the recent start of the olive harvest, like every year there is a constant need for people to help, across several locations in the Holy Land, in…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (14– 20 October 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Wild animals can relax as hunting may soon be prohibited
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – As part of new bill nearly all animals in Israel would be accorded protected species status instead of just some animals.
Head of J’lem kollel: Our students contributing to nation
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – As Knesset Committee debates whether 2011 state budget will include stipends for full-time kollel students, one rabbi wants MKs to remember important message.
Bill legislating all IDF conversions could undermine rabbis
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Chief Rabbinate panel‚’s validity challenged by bill submitted by MK Rotem that would make all military conversions valid and irrevocable.
Foreign Ministry drawing up options for Iran bomb threat
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Policy options considered for ‘day after‚’ Iran passes nuclear threshold; official: Teheran with the bomb would be a disaster, but one we must be ready to respond to.
‘Haaretz‚’ reporter lands in Israel, returns stolen files
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Uri Blau to be questioned under caution, faces charges of possessing secret material; lawyers sign agreement, return 1,500 army documents.
Reporter in Kamm espionage case returns to Israel
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Uri Blau, the ‘Haaretz’ journalist who received classified documents from then-soldier Anat Kamm, to be interrogated by Shin Bet.
Hamas and Fatah declare start of negotiations
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – The rival parties are scheduled to meet next week to discuss ending their current dispute; news comes after arrests in West Bank, Gaza Strip.
Barak asks Comptroller to probe Galant Document
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Lindenstrauss says already began investigating the affair “discretely in order to study its character, scope and depth.”
Barak formally asks Lindenstrauss to probe Galant Document
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – State Comptroller says already began investigating the affair “discretely in order to study its character, scope and depth.”
Uri Ariel: ‘This is the beginning of a new era in J’lem’
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – New bill gives national priority to capital in housing, employment, and education; MK says “we expect end to illegal building freeze.”
New batch of ‘questionable’ IDF Facebook photos released
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Cast Lead pictures posted by “Breaking the Silence” show soldiers spraying grafitti in Palestinian homes, pointing guns at prisoners.
Five east J’lem Arab homes get illegal building notices
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Municipality says the notifications “are completely standard administrative duties,” not demolition orders.
Five east Jerusalem Arab homes get illegal building notices
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Municipality says the notifications “are completely standard administrative duties,” not demolition orders.
New legislation to give national priority to Jerusalem
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Bill gives capital same priority that periphery towns have in housing, employment and education; building beyond Green Line may raise friction.
50 couples enter into matrimony in Nablus mass wedding
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Large ceremony is sponsored by the Palestinian Authority in a Roman amphitheater in Nablus park; thousands attend including dozens of PA officials.
Palestinian Authority inaugurates anti-corruption court
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Ramallah government’s move intends to reduce bureaucracy in corruption trials by requiring discussion of cases within 10 days of receipt.
Qurei: Resistance an option as long as occupation exists
Jeruslalem Post 24 Oct 2010 – Former Palestinian Authority PM tells ‘al-Hayat’ that Security Council resolution on legality of settlements is “theoretically possible,” but practically would be difficult; calls the Hamas-Fatah schism an Israeli conspiracy.
International Solidarity Movement
Bulldozer driver testimony underscores lack of transparency in Corrie trial
10/24/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – 23 October 2010, Rachel Corrie Foundation – Voice behind screen says soldiers don’t stop work – Haifa, Israel ‚Äì The bulldozer driver who struck and killed Rachel Corrie in March 2003, in Rafah, Gaza, testified for the first time Thursday in the civil lawsuit filed by the Corrie family against the state of Israel, but….
Egypt arrests 55 Sudanese migrants en route to Israel
Ha’aretz – Migrants were found in the back of a truck, which was stopped in a tunnel connecting Egypt’s mainland with the Sinai Peninsula.
IDF chief tells Gaza flotilla investigators: Commandos had no choice but to shoot
Ha’aretz – Ashkenazi testifies before Turkel Commission, says commandos fired total of 308 live bullets aboard the ship to repel passengers who attacked them with lethal weapons.
Netanyahu to Palestinians: Unilateral actions will not advance peace process
Ha’aretz – At cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is working closely with the U.S. on ways to restart stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.
What led to IDF bombing house full of civilians during Gaza war?
Ha’aretz – The order to bomb the house has been explained as the brigade commander’s legitimate interpretation of drone photos shown in the war room., Senior Hamas leader tells reporters that ‘this…
How Paul Wolfowitz Authorized Human Experimentation at Guant?°namo
Uruknet October 24, 2010 – Last week, Truthout published an important article by Jason Leopold, Truthout‚’s Deputy Managing Editor, and psychologist and blogger Jeffrey Kaye, revealing, for the first time, a secret memorandum dated March 25, 2002, approved by deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, which authorized human experimentation on detainees in the “War on Terror.” The release of the memo…
Israel airs footage of nuclear reactor
Uruknet October 24, 2010 – Rare footage of an Israeli nuclear reactor in the Galilee was aired by Israeli TV on Saturday evening, marking the first time Israel’s nuclear facilities have been openly broadcast to the public. Channel 2’s Roni Daniel said there were many details about the reactor’s performance which he was not allowed to report on, and said…
Israeli military prevents UN from building new schools in Gaza; 40,000 students without schools
Uruknet October 24, 2010 – Nearly two years after the devastating Israeli invasion of Gaza that left 1400 dead and over 30,000 families without homes, many of the schools that were destroyed in the invasion have yet to be rebuilt. Now a United Nations effort to rebuild schools in Gaza has been cut short by the Israeli military, which refuses…
Settlers Flood Palestinian Village With Sewage
Uruknet October 24, 2010 – Beit Ummar is just one of hundreds of villages in Palestine under constant harassment from Israeli settlers. They have suffered the loss of their land, limited access to their own water supply, rocks smashing their windows, midnight arrests, tear gas, rubber bullets, and daily Israeli military aggression. The most recent insult: settlers‚’ feaces covering the…
Israel army chief says forces fired 308 bullets on flotilla
Uruknet October 24, 2010 – Israeli commandos fired 308 live bullets aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship in May, Israel’s army chief said on Sunday as he testified again before the Tirkel panel investigating the incident. Gabi Ashkenazi said the navy’s killing of nine Turkish nationals on the MaviMarmara had been unavoidable, British news wire Reuters reported. Although commandos were equipped…
PETE SEEGER: IN LIEU OF A TRIBUTE
Uruknet October 24, 2010 – …Pete Seeger will be taking part in a Virtual Rally For A better Middle East. The event is sponsored by an organisation known as the Arava Institute. One of the major players is the Jewish National Fund. The Arava Institute has not been hiding the fact that there is opposition to Seeger‚’s participation in the…
What led to IDF bombing house full of civilians during Gaza war?
Uruknet October 24, 2010 – …These details were also unknown to the soldiers that Haaretz found with the help of Breaking the Silence. They agreed to the organization’s request to testify because they were horrified by two other incidents they witnessed, when their comrades killed civilians at close range. The soldiers were upset by the destructive actions of the IDF,…
Life in Palestinian Refugee Camps
Uruknet October 24, 2010 – … Al Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, says Palestinian refugees today are the world’s “longest suffering and largest refugee population.” In its January 2010 report titled, “Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, 2008 – 2009,” the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BRC) calls them “the largest and longest-standing…
Mosque vandalized near Nazareth
Uruknet October 24, 2010 – Spokesman for the Islamic Movement in Israel Zahi Njeidat condemned the vandalism and said it was “carried out by cowardly owls of darkness … official Israeli attacks against holy places laid the grounds for such crimes.” Palestinians from the village, living in Nazareth since 1948 when its residents were expelled by Israeli militia, also visited the…
Israel tells Palestinians talks are their only option
Daily Star 24 Oct 2010 LONDON: Washington came under increasing pressure Sunday to probe allegations in the leaked Iraq war documents published by WikiLeaks, which Britain’s deputy premier descibed as “shocking.” Governments and human rights groups alike put the focus on…
Israelis fired 308 rounds aboard Gaza ship
Daily Star 24 Oct 2010 Israeli commandos fired 308 live bullets aboard a Gaza-bound aid ship in May to repel passengers who attacked them with lethal weapons including a snatched Uzi machine pistol, Israel’s top general said Sunday. In a sometimes…
Olive harvest in the West Bank
The Guardian 24 Oct 2010 – The annual olive harvest has been hit by an upsurge in violence this year, attributed to a rise in settler militancy
West Bank olive groves become battleground
The Guardian 24 Oct 2010 – Most troubled harvest yet has seen attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinian farmers and trees, say human rights groups Eighty-year-old Rasmia Awase had left the best olive trees until last. She and her family had already…
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Iran restricts social sciences seen as ‘Western’
YNet News – Official in Tehran says law, philosophy, management, psychology, political….
State: Amona eviction a low priority
YNet News – Illegal West Bank outpost’s eviction postponed as State says other national,….
Ramallah presents: Rachel Corrie restaurant
YNet News – Restaurant’s owner says wanted to honor American woman killed by IDF bulldozer….
‘PA minister hindering boycott of settlements’ goods’
YNet News – Palestinian Society for Consumer Protection blames National Economy Minister….
Ashkenazi goes before Turkel Cmte. again
YNet News – IDF chief of staff testifies before committee probing events of May’s Gaza….
Baruch Marzel to march in Umm al-Fahm
YNet News – Our Land of Israel group to hold protest rally in northern city against police….
Palestinian flag posted on Safed mosque
YNet News – Tensions mounting in city following Saturday clashes between haredim, Arab….
US: Lincoln prof. calls for Israel’s destruction
YNet News – History Professor Kaukab Siddique insists statement calling on Muslims to ‘stand….
Carter to Russian immigrants: Clinton was wrong
YNet News – In meeting with Russian speaking leading figures former US President Jimmy….
Haredi students ‘don’t want donations’
YNet News – Some 5,000 haredim study at higher education institutions in Israel. Some are doing so instead of yeshiva studies, while others enrolled in university after many years of …….
IDF collecting rifles from Jordan Valley emergency squads
YNet News – The army’s top commander in the Jordan Valley, Col. Yochai Ben-Yishai, instructed his forces on Sunday to collect all rifles belonging to the local communities’ emergency …….
Anat Kam affair: Journalist Uri Blau back in Israel
YNet News – Six months after news of the Anat Kam affair broke, Uri Blau, the Haaretz reporter who Kam passed stolen highly classified information to, returned to Israel on Sunday. …….
Saudi prince: Israel is America’s sewer in Mideast
YNet News – WASHINGTON – Prince Turki al- Faisal, the former Saudi ambassador to the US, criticism the Obama Administration’s “favoritism” towards Israel, which he dubbed America’s …….
Jerusalem gets first grade national priority status
YNet News – The Ministerial Committee on Legislative Affairs has approved a bill on Sunday, defining Jerusalem as a national priority area of the first order in the housing, …….
Palestinian Information Center
IOF soldiers detain Omar Barghouthi days after his release from PA jail
PIC 24 Oct 2010 – IOF on Sunday arrested liberated prisoner Omar Al-Barghouthi, the brother of the longest serving Palestinian prisoner in occupation jails, only few days after his release from PA detention.
Palestinians wounded in explosion as report indicates escalation in IOF attacks
PIC 24 Oct 2010 – Three Palestinian citizens were wounded afternoon Sunday as a result of the explosion of Israeli army ordnance in Nablus city, eyewitnesses reported.
Nafha prisoners go on warning hunger strike
PIC 24 Oct 2010 – Inmates in the Israeli Nafha prison went on a warning hunger strike on Saturday for one day in cooperation with all of the political persuasions in the prison, rights groups in Palestine said.
Ovenden: Lifeline 6 to be organized soon
PIC 24 Oct 2010 – The delegates of the Lifeline 5 aid convoy left Gaza Strip afternoon Sunday after a three-day visit during which they delivered mainly medical assistance to the tune of five million dollars.
Algerian delegation: Gaza is the hope and dignity of the Arab and Muslim nations
PIC 24 Oct 2010 – Head of the visiting Algerian delegation Abdelrazzaq Maqri hailed the steadfastness Gaza people against the occupation and described Gaza as the hope and dignity of the Arab and Muslim nations.
Ihsanoglu: We must resort to int’l law to break illegal siege on Gaza
PIC 24 Oct 2010 – Senior OIC member Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said we must take recourse in international law to put an end to the “humanitarian tragedy” caused by the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Israeli security forces wound 8 Palestinians in Tel Sheva
PIC 24 Oct 2010 – Eight Palestinians in Tel Sheva village in the Negev, occupied since 1948, were wounded at the hands of Israeli security forces that stormed the village on Sunday.
Violent clashes in Bustan zone following Israeli threats to raze homes
PIC 24 Oct 2010 – Violent clashes broke out in Al-Bustan neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem after a large number of Israeli troops and policemen handed some citizens demolition orders issued against their homes.
Hamas MPs in Jenin call on Abbas to release ex-detainees in Israeli jails
PIC 24 Oct 2010 – Hamas lawmakers in Jenin appealed to Mahmoud Abbas to immediately release ex-detainees Alaa Abu Khadeer and Firas Jarrar from his jails.
Netanyahu proposing security facilities in return for resumption of talks
PIC 24 Oct 2010 – Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu was currently preparing a proposal to offer “security facilities” to the PA in Ramallah in return for resumption of direct talks.
Palestinian Court Allows Gazans to Register as West Bank Residents
The Media Line 23 Oct 2010 – But ruling is not expected to have any bearing concerning Israel, which continues to deport Gazans nabbed in West Bank. Gazans living in the West Bank live in perpetual fear of being arrested and deported back…
PLO Official Threatens to Break Past Agreements with Israel
The Media Line 23 Oct 2010 – The secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, the Palestinians’ umbrella group, told an Arabic-language newspaper on Saturday that the PLO is considering breaking agreements previously reached with Israel if the stalemate continues. The…
Vatican Says Jews Can’t Rely on Biblical Sources Regarding Israel
The Media Line 23 Oct 2010 – Jews cannot rely on Biblical scripture, citing the “chosen people” or “the promised land” in forming their opinions relative to modern Israel according to a statement issued at the conclusion of the Bishops’ synod on the…
Palestinian Security Forces Find Large Arms Cache in Ramallah
The Media Line 23 Oct 2010 – A large cache of weapons including rockets and automatic rifles was discovered by Palestinian security forces in Ramallah on Friday. Officials told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi that it is believed that the arms were intended to…
News Analysis: Some Question Insistence On Israel as Jewish State
New York Times 24 Oct 2010 – The more Israel insists on Palestinian recognition of it as the nation-state of the Jewish people, the more adamantly the Palestinian leadership seems to refuse.
Philosophy Day Raises Questions Before It Begins
New York Times 24 Oct 2010 – The celebration of World Philosophy Day has been overshadowed by a boycott by academics who say that by holding the event in Tehran, Unesco risks turning it into a propaganda exercise.
AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Palestinian family awakens to discover 100 mature grapevines destroyed
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Inside Lod’s Ghettos
Palestine Monitor – Lod is the first town most visitors to Israel see, when they walk out of Ben Gurion International airport. What they don’t see is the discreet ethnic cleansing which takes place here, the state-sanctioned policies of discrimination which are destroying living conditions for the town’s Arab…
Settlers Flood Palestinian Village With Sewage
Palestine Monitor – Beit Ummar is just one of hundreds of villages in Palestine under constant harassment from Israeli settlers. They have suffered the loss of their land, limited access to their own water supply, rocks smashing their windows, midnight arrests, tear gas, rubber bullets, and daily Israeli military…
Vatican synod comes out strong for Palestinian rights
Mondoweiss – I grew up Catholic and although I haven’t been to church in a long time; I would be lying if I said this doesn’t speak very powerfully to me. The Quotes Speak for Themselves: “The Holy Scriptures cannot be used to justify the return of Jews…
When will US publications follow ‘Haaretz‚’ in describing the ‘terrorism‚’ of the occupation?
Mondoweiss – Zvi Bar’el in Haaretz , on the euphemisms of occupation— “price tag” violence— and the habit of committing crimes with impunity: “The terrorism of the settlers and the crimes of the army—even if soldiers are occasionally prosecuted—have become so banal that few are upset by them.”
My pacifist lament
Mondoweiss – One morning not long ago our tiny apartment began to shudder as if an earthquake were descending from above. My 14-month-old daughter scurried about, frightened and confused. Mom and dad looked on helplessly as the noise rattled our innards. It turns out we were being buzzed…
Michael Moore and Catholic church are new front in effort to mainline opposition to Israeli occupation
Mondoweiss – Michael Moore has a post in the Huffington Post that now has over 4000 replies. It is about occupation of Muslim countries, mainly Iraq and Afghanistan by the US. But one of the quotes in his piece (from Faisal Shahzad of Times Square case) mentions Palestine…
The Israel lobby is just icing on the imperial cake
Mondoweiss – Readers of this site know that co-editor Weiss is religious about the Israel lobby as the driver of American policy in the Middle East. David Green is an Illinois activist who disagrees. His response to Weiss’s latest claim re the lobby : As a leftist critic of…
Palestinians Welcome Catholic Support for End of Occupation
Al-Manar 24 Oct 2010 – The chief Palestinian negotiator on Sunday welcomed a call from Catholic bishops for the international community to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Saeb Erakat said Christians were an “integral part of the Palestinian people” and blamed Israel for their emigration from the Holy…
PA Warns of Reneging Oslo Accords If Talks Fail
Al-Manar 24 Oct 2010 – The Palestinian Authority hinted Saturday it would unilaterally abrogate the Oslo Accords if the peace process broke down. “We can‚’t remain committed to the agreements that were signed with Israel forever,” Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior PLO official and an adviser to PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas,…
Legal opinion by Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill on Israel’s Accession to the OECD
Global BDS 24 Oct 2010 – Legal Brief entitled: Certain Legal Issues Arising from theApplication of Israel to become a Member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Prepared by: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill read more
Legal Memorandum by Professor Karma Nabulsi on Israel’s Accession to the OECD
Global BDS 24 Oct 2010 – Memorandum presented by Dr Karma Nabulsi , University of Oxford, to OECD member-states about their legal obligations during Israel’s accession process (May 2010) Dr Karma Nabulsi is Fellow of St Edmund Hall and lecturer at Oxford University read more
Bil‚’in organizer sentenced to 18 months
Sabr 24 Oct 2010 – 21 October 2010 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a protest leader from Bil‚’in, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by the Military Court of Appeals, for his involvement in organizing demonstrations. The decision dramatically aggravates the one-year sentence originally imposed in the first instance….
PCHR weekly report 14/10 – 20/10/2010: 8 Palestinians arrested during incursions including 1 child and 1 MP, 3 Palestinians and 2 Israelis arrested during demonstrations, 1 Palestinian arrested at checkpoint
Sabr 24 Oct 2010 – extracts from PCHR weekly report 14/10 – 20/10/2010 : In recognition of ICRC as the guardian of the Fourth Geneva Convention, PCHR calls upon the ICRC to increase its staff and activities in the OPT, including the facilitation of family visitations to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails….
Palestinian prisoners in Negev complain of their incarceration conditions
Sabr 24 Oct 2010 – [ 24/10/2010 – 11:14 AM ] NEGEV, ( PIC )— Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli desert prison Negev have complained of their incarceration conditions after the Israeli prison administration tightened its repressive measures against them. In a message leaked out of jail on Saturday, the prisoners said that…
PA security arrests preacher two weeks after release from Israel
Sabr 24 Oct 2010 – [ 24/10/2010 – 09:58 AM ] RAMALLAH, ( PIC )— PA intelligence arrested Islamic preacher Majid Hassan “Abu Obeida” after interviewing him for the third time since his release two weeks back after serving three years in administrative detention in Israeli prisons. Abu Obeida was reportedly arrested by…
Pope in new Mid-East peace call
BBC 24 Oct 2010 – The Pope calls for an end to conflict in the Middle East, as Israel’s PM warns the Palestinians not to seek independence without peace talks.
Phoenician ship ends Africa trip
BBC 24 Oct 2010 – The replica of a Phoenician ship from 600BC has arrived home in western Syria after a two-year voyage circumnavigating the coast of Africa.
Life in Palestinian Refugee Camps
Sabbah report 24 Oct 2010 – Daily camp life: “slum areas” or under-developed urban sprawls, some “open spaces,” others “closed.” Job discrimination, poverty, lack proper sanitary installations for safe drinking water. Population density is a major issue. Palestinians have lived in forced exile for decades throughout the world, most within 100 km…
Articles
Oh Israelis…Sorry for the inconvenience
Issa Qaraqe, Ma‚’an News Agency10/24/2010
Oh Israelis …. After everything that happened between us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by our refusal to give up our soul. It has more patience than is bearable. You paid a high price militarily, economically and psychologically to control and destroy it but you failed.
We are sorry that our land has many olives on it that obstruct your eyes which are used to seeing imported or artificial plants and trees, and that you have to pay for your settlers’ wars as they chase villagers and set fire to trees and olives.
We are sorry that we disturb you by having a higher birth rate than yours, that we became a demographic threat to your existence and future, and your Jewish state and its total destruction of us.
Oh Israelis .. We are sorry that we are in the way of the natural growth of your beautiful settlements and luxurious houses, stopping your children from playing and running in the gardens of Kiryat Arba, Ma‚’ale Adumim, Beit Eil, Efrta, Aztion and others
We are sorry to disturb you with our miserable poor workers who crowd your checkpoints at dawn with permits, and sometimes without permits, dressed in worn-out clothes, their sleepiness charged with hunger.
Oh Israelis …. We are sorry that our old vehicles pass through your vast bypass roads, that the faces of our passengers provoke you, that their features and constant depression, their dirty cloths and loud voices cause you anxiety, fear and environmental pollution.
We are sorry for the patience of our detainees and female prisoners who even after 33-year sentences still remain steadfast and dare to defend their hope for freedom without despair. more.. e-mail
Unity now
SC Yuter, Ma‚’an News Agency10/24/2010
With West Bank peace negotiations going nowhere, the stage is set to make peace in Gaza first, as proposed decades ago by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. This requires engagement with Hamas in unity with Fatah.
The Elders, led by former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, recently visited the Gaza Strip. Robinson said Hamas should be involved in regional talks “because the movement actually controls the Gaza Strip and they were elected.”
There are factions within Hamas, which at various times have included both Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Hamas leader Khaled Mash’al, that have accepted a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders. Mash’al recently stated that Hamas would accept a 1967 borders agreement “if a majority of Palestinians approved it.” Israel has withdrawn beyond the 1967 Gaza borders.
Israel, the United States and the European Union have opposed engagement with Hamas although Israel negotiates with the Islamist movement via a German mediator for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. And, reportedly, former US Ambassador Thomas R Pickering is in direct contact with Hamas and reports to John Brennan, the deputy national security advisor in charge of counter-terrorism in The White House.
The Palestinians are considering declaring statehood, seeking recognition by the international community of a state comprising the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. They declared a state more than 20 years ago, and have embassies in many countries, but still are not recognized by key Western countries like the US. Veto-bearing Security Council members Russia and China fear that a successful independent Palestinian state declaration would risk similar declarations by Chechnya and Tibet…. more..e-mail
From Rabbi Yosef to Marx
Gilad Atzmon, Dissident Voice10/20/2010
In case the Goyim cannot find a purpose in their life, Israeli senior Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is there to help them out. In his Saturday sermon Rabbi Yosef revealed that the sole purpose of Gentiles is to serve Jews.
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world.” The Rabbi was also kind enough to provide the Goyim with some precise tasks. “Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why gentiles were created.”
I guess that it is about time the friends of Israel in Western politics started to fully comprehend their role in our Judified universe — AIPAC and the Conservatives‚’ Friends of Israel do indeed, have a crucial function: They are there to ‘help‚’ our politicians grasp why they ‘were created.‚’
And their role is, apparently, to ‘serve the Jews,‚’ as the Chief Rabbi describes it so eloquently.
But there is a further and even much more sinister meaning to Rabbi Yosef‚’s sermon: according to the Rabbi, the Goyim will ‘work‚’ hard, they will ‘plow‚’ and ‘reap‚’ while the Jew ‘sits like an effendi (master)‚’ and ‘eats‚’. In just a few words Rabbi Yossef expresses the depth of Judaic contempt towards labour.
The senior Rabbi provides us with a devastating glimpse into the Judaic alienation from these aspects of the human condition and human experience. In an unequivocal manner, Rabbi Yosef depicts a clear dichotomy: Jews are the master race and the Goyim are nothing but a work force. The Goyim are there to sweat and struggle while the Jew is ‘sitting‚’ and ‘eating.‚’ I guess that Rabbi Yossef has managed, in just a few words, to portray the intrinsic relationships between Judaism and Capitalism. more.. e-mail
Inside Lod’s Ghettos
Palestine Monitor: 24 Oct 2010 – Lod is the first town most visitors to Israel see, when they walk out of Ben Gurion International airport. What they don’t see is the discreet ethnic cleansing which takes place here, the state-sanctioned policies of discrimination which are destroying living conditions for the town’s Arab population. With the new loyalty oath poised to deepen the divide, Sophie Crowe visited communities that are already given daily reminders of their second-class status. “Arabs have no security here” says Omar Azbarka, president of an Arab youth organisation in Lod’s Sapir college, in an area totally segregated from the Jewish population. Gabi, a resident of Lod who works for the Arab citizens’ board and for the Arab Tajamoa party in the Knesset, feels his family are not safe living in Lod. Crime has been allowed to develop in Arab areas without police investigations. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited Lod last week claiming he…more
Settlers Flood Palestinian Village With Sewage
Palestine Monitor: 24 Oct 2010 – Beit Ummar is just one of hundreds of villages in Palestine under constant harassment from Israeli settlers. They have suffered the loss of their land, limited access to their own water supply, rocks smashing their windows, midnight arrests, tear gas, rubber bullets, and daily Israeli military aggression. The most recent insult: settlers’ feaces covering the vineyards of Beit Ummar. Twelve vital acres of farmland lie underneath thousands of litres of raw sewage leaked from the nearby illegal settlement of Gush Etzion. The settlement stores its sewage in a reservoir, where it is filtered to extract non-potable “grey” water for agricultural purposes. The leftover, concentrated toxic sludge was released on October 18, downhill directly onto Palestinian farmland. The stench is overpowering, the grape harvests ruined, and the residents of Beit Ummar are tired. “Even if the Israelis never dump sewage again,” said Beit Ummar Public Committee volunteer Raied Aboyyash, “the land…more
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