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Three Injured at an-Nabi Saleh Anti-Wall Protest
IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 18:06, At least three civilians were injured and many others treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation on Friday, after Israeli troops violently suppressed the weekly anti-wall protest at the village of an-Nabi Saleh in the central West Bank.
Tear Gas to Silence the Protests in Bil’in and Ni’lin
IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 17:35, On Friday, a number of civilians were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation when Israeli troops attacked the weekly anti wall protests in the central West Bank villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin.
Israeli Army Uses Tear Gas During The Anti Wall Protest in al-Ma’sara
IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 16:35, On Friday, a number of civilians were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation during the weekly anti wall protest in the village of al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem.
Islamist Students Boycott Najah University Election
IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 16:34, Islamist students at an-Najah University, in the city of Nablus, have announced that they will boycott the Student Council election after the PA security forces arrested several supporters, according to local sources.
Al-Masri Visits Gaza to Claim Palestinian Unity
IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 13:51, On Friday, the independent figure and businessman Munib al-Masri will travel to Gaza to pave the way for Fatah-Hamas meeting in Damascus next week.
Palestinian Teenage Boy Put Under House Arrest
IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 13:44, A 13-year-old Palestinian boy has been placed under five-month house arrest on suspicion of throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank.
Haaretz: Israel Gave East Jerusalem Properties to Rightist Groups Bypassing Law
IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 11:47, Israel Lands Administration handed over properties in the Silwan neighborhood and the Old City of Jerusalem to right-wing groups Elad and Ateret Cohanim at low prices, without issuing a tender, a Haaretz investigation shows.
PCHR Weekly Report: “Palestinian Killed, Several Wounded As Israel Continues Violations”
IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 11:29, In its weekly report on the period between October 28 and November 3, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) reported that Israeli soldiers continued their violations against the residents, killed one Palestinian and injured eleven residents in separate attacks in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Army Breaks Into Homes Of Two Nonviolent Protestors In an-Nabi Saleh Village
IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 11:24, On Thursday night, Israeli soldiers broke into the homes of two brothers in Nabi Saleh village, near Ramallah, and warned them to not take part in the weekly protests against the Wall, land grab, and settlements.
Clashes Reported In East Jerusalem
IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 11:18, Palestinian sources reported that clashes took place, Thursday evening, between dozens of residents of Silwan, located south of the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, and Israeli soldiers invading the area.
Villages across West Bank hold anti-wall rallies
11/5/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shut down weekly anti-wall protests across the West Bank on Friday. At a demonstration in Bil’in, in the Ramallah district, locals and internationals called for an end to occupation and freedom for political prisoners. Protesters marched to the wall, and some protesters threw stones at Israeli soldiers….
Gaza borders closed
11/5/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Crossing terminals between Israel and the Gaza Strip were closed Friday, a day ahead of the scheduled weekend shut-down on Saturday, officials said. Set to reopen Sunday, Palestinian liaison officer Raed Fattouh said, the cessation of Friday operations comes in line with decisions announced each Friday since summer 2009. In….
An-Nabi Salih: Army enters home of protest leaders
11/5/2010 – AN-NABI SALAH, Ramallah (Ma’an) — The homes of two brothers were raided by Israeli soldiers overnight, with officers warning the men against participation in the village’s weekly protest against land confiscation. An-Nabi Salih, a village north of Ramallah bordered by an Israeli guard post in the north and the settlement of Hallamish….
UK official: Gaza situation is unbearable
11/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — British Foreign Office spokesman Martin Day on Thursday called on Israel to allow Gaza borders to open for exports to ease an unbearable situation in the Strip. In July, British Prime Minister David Cameron sparked outrage in Israel when he said Israel’s blockade of Gaza had turned the coastal….
Jerusalemite beaten, hospitalized
11/5/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The family of a Jerusalem resident said undercover Israeli officers beat Haitham Samih Darwish while he was working near the Austrian Hospice in the Old City on Thursday night. When Haitham’s brother Abed As-Salam intervened, he was detained, they added, along with at least four others on the same….
Israel issues Jerusalem resident 6 month travel ban
11/5/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s Interior Minister Eli Yeshai issued an order Thursday banning Jerusalem resident Ya’qoub Abu A’sab, 40, from travelling for six months. Ma’an’s correspondent said the minister cited security concerns as grounds for the order….
PLO: Settler violence on rise
11/5/2010 – JERICHO (Ma’an) — A PLO report on settler violence said Friday that a sharp increase in assaults on Palestinians and vandalism of property was recorded for October. According to the report, Palestinians in the West Bank reported a total of 277 cases of settler violence from August through October 2010, with a sharp increase….
Lawyer calls for end to cell raids in Negev prison
11/5/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Ramallah’s Mandela Institute called on the administration at Israel’s Nafha prison in the southern Negev to stop what prisoners have called a campaign of cell raids. Lawyer with the institute Buthaina Duqmaq said that during her Thursday visit to the facility, she witnessed a cell raid and….
Fires in West Bank destroy 300 olive trees
11/5/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Firefighters controlled blazes in several villages throughout the week which had burned around 300 olive trees, a civil defense report said. Civil defense crews also extinguished fires in two cars in Qalqiliya and Dura, the report added….
Report: West Bank checkpoints convert to Hebrew
11/5/2010 – TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israel’s Military Police and Crossings Administration will begin a new campaign to upgrade and replace checkpoint signs to their Hebrew monikers, the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv reported Friday. The report also noted that some of the checkpoints, which never had Hebrew names and instead borrowed the….
Report: Police seize explosives in Jerusalem
11/5/2010 – TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israeli police found explosives and a gun in a Haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem on Friday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported. Police safely detonated a bomb and a grenade, and suspected the weapons were intended for a criminal attack, the report said….
German FM to visit Gaza Strip
11/6/2010 – BERLIN, Germany (DPA) – German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle will visit the Gaza Strip on Monday, a government spokesman announced on Friday, in what would be the first such visit by a German government member since 2006. Westerwelle will assess “concrete possibilities for improving the situation” in Gaza, a foreign ministry spokesman said. Earlier in the….
PLO official criticizes one-state solution
11/5/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A movement to seek a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian impasse would only prolong Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian negotiator Hanan Ashrawi said Thursday.” Talking about the one state solution means for generation we won’t have any solution,” Ashrawi told reporters on….
Hamas: We increase Egypt’s security
11/5/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Thursday that efforts were underway to improve relations between the Islamist movement and Egypt. Speaking en route to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj pilgimage, he said Hamas wanted to smooth tensions with Egypt.”On the contrary, we consider Gaza a shield, a real….
Internal issues behind Allenby travel block, PA says
11/5/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Senior Palestinian officials blamed internal politics for an embarrassing incident at the Israeli-controlled West Bank-Jordanian border crossing on Wednesday, a report in the Arabic daily Al-Quds newspaper said. PLO official Ahmad Qrei’a was told by Israeli officials at the border crossing that he would not be permitted to drive….
Abbas: Iran is holding up peace talks
11/5/2010 – ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (Ma’an) — President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that Iran was holding up peace talks by pressuring Hamas not to be part of any agreement, CNN reported.” Hamas and whoever is standing behind Hamas, meaning Iran, is slowing the process,” Abbas told the US-based news network.” Iran is pressuring Hamas….
US: Middle East peace will ‘remain’ priority for Obama
11/5/2010 – WASHINGTON (DPA) — The US remains committed to forging an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal despite electoral gains this week by Republicans who are traditionally more sympathetic to Israel. US State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said President Barack Obama’s administration still views the peace process as a priority and will work with Congress to see….
Israel allows guns into Gaza to protect UN chief
11/5/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel has authorized a UN agency to take automatic weapons into Gaza for the protection of its director, Agence-France Presse reported Friday. UNRWA, whose mandate is to assist and protect Palestinian refugees, requested the weapons three years ago, an Israeli military spokesman told AFP. The agency acquired the weapons in June….
Unity hinges on security forces deal
11/6/2010 – EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma’an) — Officials commenting on the latest unity rumors say the issue of a re-hauled security service amalgamating the West Bank and Gaza units remains the final stumbling block to inter-party reconciliation. Representative of independent officials seeking unity Yaser Al-Wadieyah said he expected Hamas and Fatah officials in Damascus to discuss the….
Al-Masri heads to Gaza to prime unity
11/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Independent figure and businessman Munib Al-Masri will travel to Gaza on Friday, ahead of what he said he hoped would be renewed Fatah-Hamas meetings in Damascus the following week. Speaking to Ma’an on Thursday evening, Al-Masri, a Nablus billionaire and head of the independent movement to end Palestinian division….
Al-Masri arrives in Gaza
11/5/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian National Coalition leader Munib Al-Masri urged Hamas and Fatah to engage every effort to achieve success in their upcoming meeting in Damascus. On November 9 the rival factions will discuss security, the final issue stalling the ratification of an Egyptian-backed reconciliation agreement, said Yaser Al-Wadieyah, a representative of independent….
Bethlehem holds vigil for Baghdad church victims
11/5/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A mass and a candlelight vigil were held in Bethlehem Sunday for the victims of Sunday’s massacre in a Baghdad church. Hundreds of Christians attended a mass at the Nativity Church, and then held a candlelight vigil in Nativity Square in Bethlehem city center. Several speeches were given in….
Bush reveals he opted against attacking Syria
Palestine Note 5 Nov 2010 – Washington – Former US President George W. Bush revealed in memoir that he considered authorizing a US military strike against Syria in 2007, but ultimately opted against it, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. Bush noted that…
Mashal calls for more pressure to be put on Israel
Palestine Note 5 Nov 2010 – Washington – In an interview to a Romanian researcher, exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal reasserted his party’s position positions on the direct negotiations it has been shunned from, and that Hamas is the way for democracy…
Saudi: No talks until Israel returns to 1967 borders
Palestine Note 5 Nov 2010 – Washington – Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal has refused to engage with Israel until it returns to the 1967 borders, Ynet News reported Friday. During the current stall in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, leading member of the Saudi royal…
Explosive devices found in Haredi neighborhood of Jerusalem
Palestine Note 5 Nov 2010 – Washington – Israeli police forces found a pipe bomb, a hand grenade, and a gun in a central location in the Haredi neighborhood of Sanhedria in Jerusalem, Haaretz reported Friday. Bystanders were evacuated from the area…
Livni: Israel must extend settlement freeze
Palestine Note 5 Nov 2010 – Washington – Opposition leader Tzipi Livni has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of weakening Israel’s security and global reputation by not yielding to international pressure and freezing settlement construction in the West Bank, Haaretz reported Friday….
PA will give US more time
Palestine Note 5 Nov 2010 – Possibility of declaring statehood through UN remains on the table. Washington – Chief Palestinian negotiator said the Palestinian Authority will give the US more time to recover failing peace talks, but will not drop the possibility…
Moving past Obama
Palestine Note 5 Nov 2010 – A while back, I wrote about ” Giving up on Obama .” A natural corollary to that declaration is, as my friend, Rabbi Brant Rosen inquired, “what then”? Before I answer that, I wanted to clear…
Haneen Zoabi: Unfazed and unafraid
Palestine Note 5 Nov 2010 – The case of Haneen Zoabi exposes flaws in Israeli democracy. Israel claims to be the only democracy in the Middle East, but sometimes it doesn’t really act like it. A case in point is the growing…
UK reassures Israel on arrest fears
AlJazeera 4 Nov 2010 – Foreign minister says officials need not fear prosecution for alleged war crimes while in Britain.
Egypt holds blogger past deadline
AlJazeera 5 Nov 2010 – Kareem Suleiman, first blogger to face trial for online writings, was due to end four-year prison term on Friday.
Israeli Settlers Publish Insults Dictionary
PNN – Bethlehem — PNN – Israeli news house YNetNews.com reported Friday about the publication and spread of a new “pocket dictionary” used to curse Israeli police and other settler foes. The group responsible,…
Hundreds Gather at Bethlehem Vigil for Iraqi Church Massacre
PNN – Bethlehem — PNN – On Friday night, huge crowds packed into Bethlehem’s Nativity Church for a memorial service for the nearly 60 Christians killed on Sunday in a massacre at the Syrian…
Three Injured By Israeli Gunfire at al-Nabi Saleh Anti-wall Protest
PNN – Ramallah — PNN — Three civilians were injured and many others treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation on Friday after Israeli troops violently suppressed the weekly anti-wall protest at the…
Al-Ma’sara Protest Suppressed, Protestors Tear Down Section in al-Walajeh
PNN – Bethlehem — PNN — A number of civilians were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation during the weekly anti-wall protest on Friday in the village of Al Ma’sara, near Bethlehem…
Five Injured by Army Fire During Weekly Ni’lin Anti-wall Protest
PNN – Ramallah — PNN — Five civilians were treated for tear gas inhalation on Friday after the weekly anti-wall protest organized in the village of Ni’lin in the central West Bank. Israeli and…
Israeli Troops Fire Tear Gas At Bil’in Protestors
PNN – Ramallah — PNN — A number of civilians were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation when Israeli troops attacked the weekly anti wall protest at the central West Bank village…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (28 Oct. — 03 Nov. 2010)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Al-Qaida claims responsibility for mail bomb plot
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – US officials say terror plot originated with AQAP; Yemen-based group: “God willing, we will continue to strike our blows against American interests and the interests of America’s allies.”
Bush: Olmert asked to me strike Syria, but I refused
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – In new memoir “Decision Points” set to be released, former US president reveals that he considered attack on “suspicious, well-hidden facility.”
70-year-old J’lem woman found stabbed to death at home
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – Police suspect woman may have been mugged before being killed; family breaks into Abu Tor home after woman does not answer.
J’lem; Bomb threat averted as sappers defuse explosives
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – Bag containing grenade, pipe bomb, gun found in Geula neighborhood; surrounding streets closed; background believed to be criminal.
J’lem: Grenade, pipe bomb, gun found in bag on street
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – Police sappers neutralize explosives found in Geula neighborhood; surrounding streets closed; background believed to be criminal.
Livni: Israel needs to promote a vision
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – Opposition leader says, “to sit in the corner and say that the world is against us is not a solution”; “can’t always say no to the world.”
Ashkenazi: We take Ahmadinejad’s words very seriously
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – IDF chief tells pre-army students that military is preparing in response to threats of Iranian president; stresses importance of army service.
Saudi Prince: No relations with Israel until ’67 borders
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – Faisal says terror “able to find recruits due to Israeli-Palestinian conflict”; “foreign hands manipulating strings in Lebanon.”
More about The Israel Factor
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – What is the Israel Factor all about? How does it work? Does it play in integral role in American-Israeli politics? Read about all this and more.
Mulling leaving settlers in future-Palestinian state
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – Rabbi Froman: Idea of Jewish citizens of Palestine is just as improbable, difficult to imagine as removing 300,000 settlers from West Bank.
State: Settlers have 2 weeks to seal outpost synagogue
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – If the building in Elmatan is not sealed by then, the state will do so itself, representative says.
Social Affairs: Guardian angels
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – “The Jerusalem Post’ spends a night with ELEM’s volunteer crew, seeking out at-risk youth. A snapshot of some of today’s more troubled kids.
Terrorism: A weak state incubates terror
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – Regional forces of subversion have linked up with local Islamists and are turning Yemen into a hub of instability.
Elite cops to probe Mandelblit “traitor’ graffiti
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – There is concern that MAG could be targeted by far-right activists enraged over conviction of 2 IDF soldiers for illegal conduct during Operation Cast Lead.
Bereaved dad wants state probe of naval commando disaster
Jeruslalem Post 5 Nov 2010 – Petitioners claim that army has hidden facts of 1997 incident in which 11 soldiers were killed in Hizbullah ambush.
On Kahane anniversary, Ben-Ari remembers his rabbi
Jeruslalem Post 4 Nov 2010 – In interview with the ‘Post’, National Union MK says Lieberman no disciple of Kahane, Obama a “hostile enemy of Israel and the Jewish people.”
IDF general: PA more interested in economy than violence
Jeruslalem Post 4 Nov 2010 – After 4 years, head of Army’s civil administration hands over command; warns against radical settler elements.
Bethlehem man indicted for buying from settlement
Jeruslalem Post 4 Nov 2010 – Palestinian merchant charged with “carrying out commercial transactions with residents of a hostile state”; being held in PA prison.
International Solidarity Movement
Gazans demonstrate on anniversary of Balfour Declaration
11/5/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – 4 November – As Israeli army snipers in the control tower at the Erez crossing looked on, Saber Al Za’anin, the General Coordinator of the Local Initiative group spoke passionately about Palestinian resistance on the anniversary of the November 3rd 1917 Balfour Declaration.”We carry forward the fight of our great grandfathers to dismiss….
Explosive device found near main junction in Jerusalem
Ha’aretz – Police believe bomb, grenade and gun found in Haredi neighborhood were part of a criminally-motivated attempted attack.
Two dead, three injured in head-on collision in Acre
Ha’aretz – According to an initial police investigation, one of the drivers passed through a red light.
Haaretz expos?© / State gave East Jerusalem lands to rightist groups without tenders
Ha’aretz – Investigation reveals Israel Lands Administration transferred properties in Silwan and in Old City to Elad and Ateret Cohanim for low prices, bypassing law.
Barak lashes out at infighting within Labor party
Ha’aretz – At Rabin remembrance meeting, Labor Chairman Ehud Barak calls on party members to ‘avoid the relentless undermining that [Rabin] so much criticized.’
Report: Lebanon says Israel erecting 21 spy posts along its border
Ha’aretz – Hezbollah officials claim Lebanon obtained information about posts covering all of Lebanon.
Bush: Olmert asked me to bomb suspected Syria nuclear plant
Ha’aretz – ‘George, I’m asking you to bomb the compound,’ Olmert told Bush according to former U.S. president’s memoirs; Israel eventually reportedly destroyed the facility.
‘Netanyahu’s refusal to extend settlement freeze is hurting Israel’
Ha’aretz – Opposition leader Tzipi Livni says PM rejected a proposed Likud-Kadima government that would ‘do the right thing, in both domestic and foreign matters.’
‘Palestinians will give U.S. more time to relaunch peace talks’
Ha’aretz – Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, in Washington, says ‘the key is in Netanyahu’s hands. The choice is his: settlements or peace.’, Senior Hamas politburo member says that reconcilliation with Fatah…
Abbas accuses Iran of trying to sabotage Mideast peace
Ha’aretz – In interview with Kuwait newspaper, Palestinian leader also says he may ask U.S. to help draft framework agreement for permanent settlement if peace talks stay stalled.
Israel blocking Palestinian officials from using main Jordan crossing
Ha’aretz – Only Palestinian President Abbas and Palestinian PM Fayyad will be allowed to use the Allenby Bridge; nevertheless, former PM Qureia attempts to cross.
UN will be judged on whether it upholds Palestinian rights
Uruknet November 5, 2010 – As this is my last report to the General Assembly in my term as Special Rapporteur on the Situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 it seems appropriate to describe some of the special difficulties that have faced the mandate-holder in discharging the functions of the position. The most salient of…
Conned by Democracy: The Middle East’s Stagnant ‘Change’
Uruknet November 5, 2010 – …In actual fact, nothing is changing — except for the insistence by some that it is. Arab governments have made two important discoveries in the last decade. The first discovery is that US interests cannot peacefully co-exist with true democracies in the region. Egypt had a rude awaking in 2005, when Muslim Brotherhood candidates won…
Israeli Settlers Threaten Sheikh Jarrah
Uruknet November 5, 2010 – Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, including Fourth Geneva’s Article 49 stating: “Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of the motive.” In addition, various UN…
UK reassures Israel on arrest fears
Uruknet November 5, 2010 – Britain’s foreign minister has pledged that the UK will quickly amend a law that has allowed pro-Palestinian activists to request arrest warrants for visiting Israeli officials over alleged war crimes. William Hague, in Israel on Thursday, said that Israeli officials could be sure they would not face arrest in the UK. “We are quite clear…
Eroding Conditions for Israeli Arabs: Part II
Uruknet November 5, 2010 – …Israel’s bogus democratic credentials are shameless and transparent, for growing numbers of Israeli Jews, but mainly for denying equal rights to minority Arabs, comprising 20% of the population. ACRI explained, saying: “One of the most important principles in a democracy is to protect the minority against….tyranny. A democratic state is by nature pluralistic and respectful…
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (28 Oct. — 03 Nov. 2010)
Uruknet November 5, 2010 – Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (28 October — 03 November 2010): Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed a Palestinian activist in the Gaza Strip, and wounded 11 civilians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In the Gaza Strip, on 03 November…
Plea deal “only option” for political prisoner Ameer Makhoul
Uruknet November 5, 2010 – After spending nearly six months in jail, Palestinian political prisoner Ameer Makhoul signed a plea agreement with Israeli state prosecutors on 27 October. The deal involves a reduced list of charges, including contact with a foreign agent and spying for the Lebanese resistance movement Hizballah. The charges carry a maximum prison sentence of seven to…
Palestinian Teenage Boy Put Under House Arrest
Uruknet November 5, 2010 – A 13-year-old Palestinian boy has been placed under five-month house arrest on suspicion of throwing stones at Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. The teenager, named Karem, was detained in the city of Hebron in late September and spent six days in the Ofer Prison, an Israeli website quoted in Press TV reported. The boy…
Israel slams Arab incitement, ignores clarion Jewish racism
Uruknet November 5, 2010 – The Israeli press on Wednesday, 3 November, reported that Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu deliberated a draft known as the “incitement index”, measuring the levels of violence and anti-Israel sentiment among Palestinians. The meter completely ignores the much more virulent and nearly daily incitement by Israeli political and religious leaders against Palestinians, Muslims and non-Jews in…
Video: “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week
Uruknet November 5, 2010 – Last month, as I reported extensively at the time, I traveled to Berkeley to take part in “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week, an exciting series of events focused in and around Boalt Hall, the home of UC Berkeley School of Law, where torture lawyer John Yoo teaches, when he is not hiding out from…
Barghouthi tracking settlement expansion
Uruknet November 4, 2010 — In the wake of the end of a partial Israeli settlement construction freeze, officials say the number of buildings going up on Palestinian lands has reached new highs. Palestinian National Initiative chief Mustafa Al-Barghouti said Thursday that new areas of land had been confiscated by Israel in the northern Salfit district, adjacent to the Barkan…
Ramallah seeks an out
Uruknet November 4, 2010 – Increasingly frustrated by US inability — or unwillingness — to force Israel to end its decades-old military occupation of Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is preparing a list of alternatives that would forestall the looming breakdown of US- sponsored talks between Israel and the Palestinians. The Obama administration has been saying that the only…
Window to Palestinian defeat
Uruknet November 4, 2010 – “It’s a Palestinian Balfour Declaration,” stated Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. He whispered the statement into the ear of one Likud Knesset member, not realising that the microphone of an Israeli TV channel was nearby and captured the statement on video and audio. Netanyahu’s declaration relates to the gamble he has taken by asking the…
UK to revisit law Israel loathes
Uruknet November 4, 2010 – William Hague, the visiting British foreign secretary, yesterday renewed his government’s pledge to amend a law that threatens Israeli officials with the possibility of arrest on entering the UK. The reassurance, in a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, came a day after Israel’s foreign ministry, in anger over the law, rebuffed London…
My Hummus Tastes Like Apartheid
Uruknet November 4, 2010 – The recent attacks by Israel on the humanitarian Flotilla is yet another signal for us, as citizens of the United States, to hold the Israeli regime accountable for its reckless and illegal behavior. Israel has consistently prevented aid from entering the Gaza Strip, including medical supplies, cement and food. Consequently, the three-year old blockade has…
“Traffic Accidents” in occupied Palestine: Another Form of Zionist Terrorism
Uruknet November 4, 2010 – On 08.10.2010, Al-Jazeera showed footage of an Israeli settler run over Palestinian children in Silwan in occupied Jerusalem. In the footage, the car is seen swerving towards the children, hit them and throw one over the windscreen. The driver, recognized by the locals as Zionist colonist David Be’eri, drove off without stopping. Be’eri is a…
Palestinians will shun talks without freeze
Daily Star 5 Nov 2010 LONDON: An overwhelming majority of Palestinians will refuse to back the current peace process if Israel resumes building settlements in the occupied West Bank. A report by research group YouGov Siraj revealed that 90 percent of…
UN Security Council voices support for Hariri Tribunal
Daily Star 5 Nov 2010 UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council is concerned about the recent attack on three staff members of the tribunal set up to prosecute the assassins of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and supports the court’s…
Palestinians to allow US peace efforts more time
Daily Star 5 Nov 2010 WASHINGTON: Palestinians will give the US several more weeks to try to relaunch direct peace talks with Israel, but will not buckle on their demand for a halt to Israeli settlement activity, a top Palestinian official…
Netanyahu heads to US after Republican mid-term victory
Daily Star 5 Nov 2010 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to the United States this weekend after a Republican victory which is unlikely to ease US pressure on Israel over stalled peace talks, analysts said.
Bush’s memoirs: US considered attacking Syrian facility
Daily Star 5 Nov 2010 WASHINGTON: Former US President George W. Bush says he considered ordering a military strike against a suspected Syrian nuclear facility at Israel’s request in 2007, but ultimately opted against it. Israel eventually destroyed the facility, which…
Iran dismisses report of new US nuclear-fuel-exchange offer
Daily Star 5 Nov 2010 TEHRAN: Iran dismissed Friday a media report that the United States was mulling over a new offer to the Islamic Republic to transfer Tehran’s low-enriched uranium to Russia for higher processing. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said…
Israel’s Pursuit of Peace ‘Fa?ßade’, as Human Rights Violations, Untold Suffering, Blockade Persist Even in Life-and-Death Situations, Fourth Committee Hears
Relief Web 5 Nov 2010 – Source: UN General Assembly
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (28 Oct. – 03 Nov. 2010)
Relief Web 5 Nov 2010 – Source: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Incorporating Protection into Humanitarian Action: Approaches and Limits
Relief Web 5 Nov 2010 – Source: Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement
Third Committee Approves Three Texts on Women’s Issues Welcoming ‘UN Women’, Condemning All Violence against Women, Establishing International Widow’s Day
Relief Web 5 Nov 2010 – Source: UN General Assembly
8th Week against the Apartheid Wall, November 9 — 16 2010
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Israelis attacked on way to Jerusalem pub
YNet News – Three students and Australian tourist take wrong turn on way to Jerusalem’s city….
Saudis: No talks before Israel returns land
YNet News – Prince Turki al-Faisal rules out any engagement with Jewish state until it….
Hebron: House arrest instead of school
YNet News – Karem, 13, placed under five-month house arrest after six days in jail on….
Anti-Hezbollah bloc: Lebanon in ‘grave danger’
YNet News – Hezbollah is undermining democracy in Lebanon by trying to torpedo a UN tribunal investigating the death of a former prime minister, members of the country’s pro-Western …….
IDF Home Front engineers on strike
YNet News – Civilian engineers working for the IDF Home Front Command have been striking for several days now, holding up fortification work across Israel, Ynet has learned. The …….
Bush: Olmert asked me to bomb Syrian reactor
YNet News – Former President George W. Bush says he considered ordering a US military strike against a suspected Syrian nuclear facility at Israel’s request in 2007, but ultimately …….
Ashkenazi: We take Iran’s threats seriously
YNet News – IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen.Gabi Ashkenazi on Friday visited the northern city of Migdal Haemek and met with local high-school students. In a conversation with the …….
Palestinian Information Center
Israeli occupation hints at US involvement in the assassination of Nimnim
PIC 5 Nov 2010 – Israeli occupation military sources hinted that the US was involved in the assassination of Muhammad al-Nimnim whose car was targeted by an Israeli occupation drone on Wednesday.
Gazans mark the 54th anniversary of the Khan Younis massacre
PIC 5 Nov 2010 – Hamas held on Friday evening a memorial to mark the 54th anniversary of the Khan Younis massacre in which IOF invading troops killed 1200 Palestinians from the city and refugee camp of Khan Younis.
Occupation authorities sell Palestinian property in Silwan to Jewish societies
PIC 5 Nov 2010 – The Israeli Haaretz newspaper revealed on Friday that the Israeli land authority is selling property in the Silwan suburb in occupied Jerusalem to Jewish settler societies.
Israeli occupation stops dozens of pilgrims from leaving for Makka
PIC 5 Nov 2010 – The Palestinian captives committee said that the Israeli occupation authorities refused to allow dozens of pilgrims from leaving the West Bank to Amman on their way to Makka to perform Hajj.
Hundereds of worshipers pray Jumaa at the Bustan sit-in tent and the Red Cross
PIC 5 Nov 2010 – Hundreds of Jerusalem residents performed the Friday prayers at the Bustan sit-in tent and outside the Red Cross compound in support of the three Jerusalem officials threatened with deportation.
Sheikh Salah to goes on trial Wednesday
PIC 5 Nov 2010 – The Israeli court in the Israeli Ramle prison has scheduled the hearing of Sheikh Raed Salah this coming Wednesday to investigate whether or not he violated orders from the Israeli occupation police.
Hamas condemns British moves to change laws to suit Israeli war criminals
PIC 5 Nov 2010 – Hamas has strongly condemned on Thursday the British moves to limit authority of the British Judicial system in chasing Israelis, including high-ranking officials, involved in crimes against humanity.
Conference on EU foreign policy towards Palestinian issue concluded in Beirut
PIC 5 Nov 2010 – Al-Zaitouna Center for Studies and Consultation based in Beirut announced on Thursday the conclusion of the conference it organized to discuss the European foreign policy towards the Palestinian issue
World Briefing | Middle east: Iran: Group Urges Release of Two Connected With Condemned Woman
New York Times 5 Nov 2010 – Amnesty International has urged Iran to immediately release the son and the lawyer of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
SOUTH HEBRON HILLS: Israeli Army arrests young Palestinian man in South Hebron Hills
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AL KHALIL (HEBRON): Two Palestinians killed, four families made homeless.
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AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Palestinian family awakens to discover 100 mature grapevines destroyed
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The reunification of my parents
Mondoweiss – Linah’s parents together in March, 2009 Yesterday my mother crossed the Allenby bridge, from the West Bank to Jordan, to see my father in Amman. What makes this banal act unusual is that she had to wait almost a year to be finally granted permission to…
Brooklyn-Jenin: Wars of the Jews
Mondoweiss – America, America How odd are the leaders Jewish right-wing in the United States. On the one hand, they raise six million dollars to finance a PR war over Jews like me, members of Jewish Voice for Peace. This is an organization which acts, or so they…
Today in Bil’in
Mondoweiss – A protester protects his face from tear gas during the weekly march against the Wall in the West Bank village of Bil’in. The hot tear gas canisters set fire to Bil’in’s olive fields several places. (Photo: Hamde Abu Rahmah)
Second “Jewish Perspective on BDS’ event taking place next week
Mondoweiss – Last June, Phil posted on an event that took place here in New York that tried to get a conversation started in the Jewish community about BDS. It was such a success the organizers are doing it again. I’m excited to say that I’ll be moderating,…
Defending Jean-Luc Godard
Mondoweiss – I’m finally getting on this. On November 1, the NYT did a big piece on French film director Jean-Luc Godard, who is up for an honorary Oscar, that credited attacks by him from Jewish establishment orgs saying that he is an anti-Semite, based on a number…
Hamas: Peace Talks with Israel Dividing Palestinian People
Al-Manar 5 Nov 2010 – A senior Hamas official said on Thursday that next week’s talks on security cooperation with rival Fatah could narrow Palestinian divisions but suggested that reconciliation was some way off, citing disagreement over the Palestinian Authority’s peace negotiations with Israel. The two sides are due to…
Jordan election
BBC 4 Nov 2010 – The economy and the opposition boycott dominate debate
Articles
Conned by democracy
Ramzy Baroud, Ma’an News Agency11/5/2010
Democracy in the Middle East continues to be a hugely popular topic of discussion. Its virtues are tirelessly praised by rulers and oppositions alike, by intellectuals and ordinary people, by political prisoners and their prison guards. Yet, in actuality, it also remains an illusion, if not a front to ensure the demise of any real possibility of public participation in decision-making.
Bahrain was the latest Arab country to hold free and fair elections. It managed a reasonable voter turnout of 67 percent. The opposition also did very well, winning 45 percent of the seats. In terms of fairness and transparency, the Bahraini elections could serve as an excellent example of how “things are changing’ in the Middle East. More, they might provide Western leaders such as US President Barack Obama an opportunity to commend the contribution of American guidance to ‘progress’ in the region.
In actual fact, nothing is changing — except for the insistence by some that it is. Arab governments have made two important discoveries in the last decade.
The first discovery is that US interests cannot peacefully co-exist with true democracies in the region. Egypt had a rude awaking in 2005, when Muslim Brotherhood candidates won a fifth of the votes, if not more. This was followed by the unmatched democratic revolution in Palestine when Hamas won the majority of the vote. The aftermath of both of these events was enough to remind both Arabs and the US of the folly of their so-called democracy project.
The second realization is that Arabs are not judged by the genuineness of their democracy; rather, the success of their democratic experiences is judged on the basis of how well they can serve and protect US interests…. more.. e-mail
A tale of two ghettoes
Kalle Lasn, National Post, Canada11/2/2010
Why is Shoppers Drug Mart pulling 3,500 copies of Adbusters, my magazine, off its shelves?
A week ago, in the National Post, the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) accused Adbusters of anti-Semitism for publishing side-by-side photographs of the Gaza and Warsaw ghettos ( “Anti-Semitism on your magazine rack — courtesy of Adbusters,” Oct. 23). The CJC has since successfully lobbied senior management at Shoppers Drug Mart into pulling our magazine off the Canadian newsstands.
Here is the story from the Adbusters viewpoint.
In October 1939, the German Wehrmacht reached the city of Warsaw, and over the following months, the Jewish population was forced into a small section of the city called “the Jewish quarter.” The situation inside the ghetto was unbearable: Nazis controlled the movement of goods, basic utilities and even food. Each person was allotted a starvation diet of 250 calories per day.
Acts of rebellion were brutally suppressed. When two German soldiers were killed in a local restaurant, 106 men in the ghetto were shot in reprisal. Arrests and random executions were common. In April 1940, the ghetto was walled off on all sides.
Services such as hospitals and schools were derelict, relying on an ever-decreasing stream of supplies allotted by the Nazis. For a while, the supplies were supplemented by goods smuggled in through tunnels, but such services were eventually forced to close. — See also: Adbusters more.. e-mail
Education is path to independence
Daoud Kuttab, Ma’an News Agency11/5/2010
I can see the path to the state of Palestine. And education is an integral part of it.
Palestinians have always prided themselves on being among the highest educated among all Arabs, but if this was true in the past, it is not true anymore, and it is certainly not true for Palestinians in the occupied territories.
Sure the illiteracy rate is very low. And it is true that Palestinians continue to seek basic and higher education, but in the last few decades, the level of Palestinian education has suffered, and local universities had to lower their standards in order to be able to accept the recent high school graduates.
A refocus on education has been a few years in the making. Many senior educators say some of the problems they had to deal with were due to the repeated closures during the Intifadas, the lack of respect for authority, the occupiers, as well as some of the decisions made by the Hamas-led government in 2007.
PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who took over as acting prime minister shortly after the split between the West Bank and Gaza, has worked hard at making education one of his government’s top priorities. The Fayyad administration made sure that resources were made available to reduce overcrowding, by taking on an ambitious construction program. Tens of new schools and hundreds of new classrooms were built in a short period of time.
But the emphasis on education was not limited to construction. A concerted effort was made to revise the existing rote-based educational program, the ministry introduced totally new programs, new computer labs were added and serious efforts were exerted to digitize the entire educational system. more.. e-mail
Plea deal “only option” for political prisoner Ameer Makhoul
Electronic Intifada: 5 Nov 2010 – After spending nearly six months in jail, Palestinian political prisoner Ameer Makhoul signed a plea agreement with Israeli state prosecutors on 27 October. The deal involves a reduced list of charges, including contact with a foreign agent and spying for the Lebanese resistance movement Hizballah. The charges carry a maximum prison sentence of seven to ten years.more
UN will be judged on whether it upholds Palestinian rights
Electronic Intifada: 5 Nov 2010 – “It is time, after 43 years, to acknowledge the intolerable burdens of prolonged occupation on a civilian population.” In his last report to the United Nations General Assembly in his term as Special Rapporteur on the Situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk describes the lack of cooperation of the Israeli government and the deteriorating human rights situation on the ground.more
Conned by Democracy: The Middle East’s Stagnant “Change”
Dissident Voice: 5 Nov 2010 – Democracy in the Middle East continues to be a hugely popular topic of discussion. Its virtues are tirelessly praised by rulers and oppositions alike, by intellectuals and ordinary people, by political prisoners and their prison guards. Yet, in actuality, it also remains an illusion, if not a front to ensure the demise of any real possibility of public participation in decision-making. Bahrain was the latest Arab country to hold free and fair elections. It managed a reasonable voter turnout of 67 percent. The opposition also did very well, winning 45 percent of the seats. In terms of fairness and transparency, the Bahraini elections could serve as an excellent example of how “things are changing’ in the Middle East. More, they might provide Western leaders, such as US President Barack Obama an opportunity to commend the contribution of American guidance to ‘progress’ in the region. In actual fact, nothing is changing…more
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