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Two Officers Feared Dead As Israeli Jet Crashes In The Negev
IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Thursday November 11, 2010 – 03:21, Israeli sources reported Wednesday that rescue teams are now searching for an Israeli Air Force pilot and his navigator after their fighter-jet (F-16I) crashed in a canyon in the Negev Desert during training.
Army Invades Bil’in
IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Thursday November 11, 2010 – 02:48, Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday at night the West Bank village of Bil’in, near Ramallah, and searched the home of a local organizer of nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall. The invasion is the second on Wednesday.
PIC: Abu Mujahid Says Israel’s Propaganda on Resistance is Addressed to the West
IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Wednesday November 10, 2010 – 13:39, The spokesman for the popular resistance committees, Abu Mujahid, told the Palestinian Information Centre, on Tuesday night, that recent claims by the Israeli authorities about new attempts by the Palestinian resistance to capture more soldiers were directed at western countries.
Israeli Military Enters Bi’lin in Pre-Dawn Raid
IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Wednesday November 10, 2010 – 12:43, The Israeli military, on Tuesday, entered and searched the village of Bi’lin, near Ramallah in the West Bank, in a pre-dawn raid. The military claimed to be searching for Ashraf al-Khatib, a resident of the village who was wounded by live munition fire five weeks weeks ago at a demonstration.
PNN: Israeli Rightist Request to Protest Rejected
IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Wednesday November 10, 2010 – 12:40, Sharon District Police Chief, Brigadier-General Shimon Shomroni, refused to authorize a request by Israeli right-wing students to protest outside the house of Military Advocate General Avichai Mandelbilt, PNN said.
New Objects Gathered for Arafat Museum
IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Wednesday November 10, 2010 – 12:40, Following the sixth anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, on November 11, people donated thousand of his objects — photographs, pistols, trademark sunglasses and military-style suits— for display in a new museum under construction in Ramallah. These objects are meant to be symbols to remember the emblem of the Palestinian leader and the Palestinian history.
Crowley Reaffirms Obama’s Stance Against New Settlement Construction In Jerusalem
IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Wednesday November 10, 2010 – 11:47, State Department Spokesperson, Philip J. Crowley, reaffirmed the stance of American President, Barack Obama, against the new Israeli plan to build hundreds of units for Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem, and described the move as counterproductive to peace talks.
New Incursion By Israeli Troops Into Gaza
IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Wednesday November 10, 2010 – 11:37, Israel has launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip with its forces advancing hundreds of meters into the east of the southern city of Khan Younis, Press TV reported on Wednesday.
Hamas: “Israel Seeking Failure Of Palestinian Unity Talks”
IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Wednesday November 10, 2010 – 11:33, The Hamas movement issued a press release slamming the kidnapping of the secretary-general of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr. Mahmoud al-Ramahi, and stated that, by the ongoing arrests and the abduction of elected officials, Israel is seeking the failure of internal Palestinian unity talks.
Arrests Campaign in Silwan and New Excavation in Hilweh Valley in East Jerusalem
IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Wednesday November 10, 2010 – 11:28, Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday that Israeli soldiers abducted, after midnight, Muhammad Odeh, an owner of construction materials store, and requested Hammudeh Siyam, a shopkeeper to head to the nearest police station for questioning. Both are residents from the village of Silwan in the old city of Jerusalem.
Israeli raid targets Jerusalem neighborhood
11/10/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Confrontations erupted in an East Jerusalem town under siege for three days and facing a campaign of repeated Israeli police raids. A 50-strong Israeli force raided the northern entrance of Al-Isawiya on Wednesday morning and another entered through the south, onlookers said. Luba As-Samry, a spokeswoman for the Israeli police….
Worker shot by Israeli force in northern Gaza
11/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man was injured by Israeli fire on Wednesday while he collected scrap construction materials in northern Gaza near the Erez crossing. Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said a 28-year-old identified only by his initials YG was lightly injured and transferred to the Kamal Udwan Hospital….
Sources: Israel arrests senior Hamas MP in West Bank
11/10/2010 – RAMALLAH (AFP) — Israeli forces arrested senior Hamas MP Mahmoud Al-Ramahi overnight at his home in the West Bank city of Ramallah, sources in his Islamist movement said Wednesday. Ramahi, who is secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the body’s third most senior member, was detained at around 3 a. m. , the sources….
Gaza prisoners ass’n says detainees need coats
11/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Center for Detainees in Gaza City said Wednesday that they had received word from several inmates kept in Israeli detention centers that they were in dire need of warm clothing and blankets. The complaints, the center said, came from the Ramon and Nafha prisons, in central Israel and the….
5 Palestinians seized in Hebron raid
11/10/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israel’s army arrested five residents of the West Bank district of Hebron on Wednesday, locals said. The army broke into several homes and arrested five men, according to witnesses. The detainees were identified as Mohammad Abed Al-Qade Al-Muwer, 24, Mazen Ibrahim Abu Rajab, 19, Anas Mohammad Zaytun Al-Halayqa, 24….
Gaza: 1 terminal partly open
11/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities partially opened the Kerem Shalom crossing on Wednesday between Israeli and Gaza for the limited transfer of goods and fuel, a Palestinian crossing official said. Raed Fattouh, charged with the coordination of goods into the Strip, said 240-250 trucks of humanitarian aid and commercial merchandise would be….
Israeli forces arrest 2 in Silwan
11/10/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces arrested two residents of occupied East Jerusalem late Tuesday, local officials said. Mohammad Au’dah, the owner of a construction supply store, was detained and Hamud Siyam, another store owner, was summoned for interrogation. Both are from the flashpoint neighborhood of Silwan. Jawwad Siyam, head of the Wadi….
Armed group says targeted Israeli bulldozer
11/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The armed wing of Islamic Jihad said its forces planted a landmine which exploded under an Israeli vehicle in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. The Al-Quds Brigades said the operation, at 8:15 a. m. , targeted a military bulldozer in Al-Qaraqa, east of Khan Younis, “to affirm the right….
Bombs target Israeli army on Gaza border
11/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Two armed groups in the Gaza Strip launched separate attacks targeting Israeli forces who entered the enclave Wednesday morning, while soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian worker. The armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement said its operatives planted a landmine which exploded under a military bulldozer that crossed into….
Israel rules out freeze on East Jerusalem construction
11/10/2010 – JERUSALEM (AFP) –Israel on Wednesday ruled out a freeze on the building of new settler homes in East Jerusalem, defying world powers who have warned the issue risks wrecking fragile peace talks with the Palestinians.” There has never been a freeze on construction in Jerusalem and there never will be such a freeze — that has….
PFLP armed wing says operatives targeted tank
11/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Wednesday that it fired several mortar shells toward Israeli targets in the southern Gaza Strip. The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades said in a statement that its forces targeted tanks near Sreij gate north of Khan Younis. The….
Obama: Mideast peace effort faces ‘enormous obstacles’
11/10/2010 – JAKARTA, Indonesia (DPA) — US President Barack Obama said Wednesday that enormous obstacles remained in peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. Obama acknowledged that the Middle East peace process suffered from “false starts and setbacks” but said the United States would leave no stone unturned.” Israelis and Palestinians restarted direct talks, but enormous obstacles remain,” Obama….
UN nuclear watchdog could ask for special Syria inspection
11/10/2010 – NEW YORK (AFP) — The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said Tuesday that “intrusive inspections” are an arm that could be used against Syria because of its refusal to give access to suspect sites. The International Atomic Energy Agency wants access to get to the Dair Alzour desert site that was bombed by Israel in….
Pro-Palestinian speaker riles Kristallnacht commemoration
11/10/2010 – BERLIN (DPA) — Germany’s main event to commemorate the anniversary of a night of deadly violence against Jews across Nazi Germany took place Tuesday amid a row over a guest speaker.”Kristallnacht,” or Night of Broken Glass on 9 November 1938, amounted to the first openly violent Nazi-sanctioned targeting of Jews, when mobs torched….
Lebanon govt readies for faceoff on UN Hariri tribunal
11/10/2010 – BEIRUT (AFP) — Lebanon’s cabinet was set to hold a crucial meeting Wednesday on a UN-backed tribunal on former premier Rafiq Hariri’s murder, as political deadlock over the court threatened to bring down the nation’s unity government. The Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah party has called for a vote on their….
Turkey: No thaw with Israel without apology for boat raid
11/10/2010 – PARIS (AFP) — Turkey will not begin to restore relations with Israel unless it apologizes for its “savage attack” on a Turkish protest vessel, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.” Israel will apologize. And Israel will have to pay compensation. And then we can start negotiating,” Erdogan told France 24 television, according to the Paris-based….
Israeli, Palestinian civil society groups to hold talks
11/10/2010 – ROME (AFP) — Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups on Wednesday issued a joint call on their governments to re-start the peace process and announced they would co-host European talks later this month. Yahud Talmon, president of the economic and social committee of Israel, and Hanna Siniora, president of the Palestinian economic and social council, were….
Palestinians ask for urgent UN meeting on settlement crisis
11/10/2010 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — President Mahmoud Abbas called on Wednesday for an urgent UN Security Council meeting on Israeli settlement building that has deadlocked peace talks, his spokesman told Agence France-Presse. Nabil Abu Rudeinah said Abbas had “instructed the Palestinian representative to the United Nations to request an urgent session of the Security Council to discuss the….
Clinton unveils $150 million in aid to Palestinians
11/10/2010 – WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a new $150 million in assistance to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday and called for other donor countries to step up aid. The new funding was described as budget support for the Palestinians and is separate from the $400 million in aid that President Barack Obama….
Upgrade of Palestinian representation in Norway
11/10/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Norwegian officials relayed the decision on Wednesday that the status of the Palestinian diplomatic representative would be upgraded from a “General Delegation” to that of a “Diplomatic Mission” headed by an ambassador. The decision was announced to the Palestinian Authority Cabinet the same afternoon, where officials welcomed the move, saying it….
Hamas visits families of Fatah affiliates killed in Gaza
11/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A delegation of Hamas leaders headed by Gaza’s Minister of Interior Fathi Abu Hammad visited families of slain members of Fatah’s military wing in the northern Strip on Wednesday. The leaders visited the families of Hasan and Mousa Abed Al-Hai Darwish and Mohamad Abu Ihleiliyel of….
Hamas bans Fatah event in Gaza
11/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Local authorities in the Gaza Strip banned the Fatah movement from holding a festival commemorating the death of Yasser Arafat, a senior party leader said Wednesday. Zakarya Al-Aga said Hamas police refused to approve a request for the event. Major Ayman Al-Batneejy, a police spokesman, said permission was denied on….
Sharon family mulling bringing comatose ex-premier home
11/10/2010 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — Former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon could be moved from the hospital bed where he has lain in a coma for nearly five years, to be cared for on his family farm, hospital officials said on Wednesday.” Tomorrow we are due to sit down with the Sharon family and hear their wishes and we….
PA begins Arafat commemoration; millions to new museum
11/10/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — One and a half million dollars was approved by the PA Cabinet on Wednesday, for the completion of construction on the Yasser Arafat Museum in Ramallah. The move comes as the PA prepares celebrationsmarking the 6th anniversary of the death of the former president, with provisions made in Wednesday’s….
Haniyeh: Serious obstacles in national dialogue
11/10/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza’s Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday that serious obstacles had been reached in the national dialogue process ongoing in Damascus. Speaking at a visit to the Ministry of Health in Gaza City, he said “conditions are hard and the atmosphere is complicated, it has not been easy….
Rival Palestinian factions agree to resume talks after Eid
11/10/2010 – DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agreed to resume reconciliation talks after the Eid Al-Adha holiday next week, officials from both sides said Wednesday.” We agreed to continue the dialogue after the Al-Adha holidays,” which start in the middle of next week depending on the sighting of the moon, Hamas official Mussa….
Independence day, Eid vacation announced in West Bank
11/10/2010 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian Independence Day was set for 15 November, with the Eid Al-Adha holiday expected to begin on the following day. The Eid holiday will be marked depending on the sighting of the lunar crescent in the sky by Jerusalem religious officials, beginning four days of holiday to commemorate the willingness of….
Jordan polls marred by fatality; voter turnout 53 percent
11/10/2010 – AMMAN, Jordan (DPA) — Jordanians voted Tuesday in parliamentary elections that saw the killing of one person, the injury of two and the arrest of at least 20. Polls across the kingdom closed at 7 p. m. , 12 hours after opening. Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Shehab said there was no need to extend voting time. Vote….
Egypt: New York museum to return Tutankhamun relics
11/10/2010 – CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt’s antiquities council said on Wednesday that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to send back treasures believed to have been taken from the tomb of the legendary pharaoh Tutankhamun. The museum agreed to recognise Egypt’s right to 19 relics in its possession since early….
Peace starts with our children
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – We live in a global society with interconnected economies, policies, cultures and lifestyles, in which tolerance and awareness is paramount. Fear of the unknown causes tremendous misunderstanding which can be alleviated through educating our children as…
Am Yisrael Chai?
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – Walking down a street in Hebron that was once a bustling market , one sees shut up stores, and sometimes spray painted slogans in Hebrew on them. Turn up the road near the Ma’arat Ha’Machpela ( Tomb of…
Netanyahu tests Obama, again
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – Is this is a sick joke? While visiting Israel in March, Vice President Joe Biden delivered a speech that delighted the Israeli right and its followers here. The key passage was this: “When it comes to…
NAAJA and Radio Baladi announce 2011 Journalism Conference in Dearborn
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – (Dearborn/Chicago) The National Arab American Journalists Association is partnering with Radio Baladi radio to host a journalism conference to explore the state of American Arab and Muslim news media and journalism 10 years after Sept. 11,…
Clinton warns against unilateral actions in Mideast
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – Washington – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton discussed the United States’ efforts to renew the peace process in the Middle East and emphasized the danger unilateral actions could have regarding the prospect of peace, Haaretz reported…
Climate change and its effects on the Middle East
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – The future of the Middle East is a cause for concern – and I am not referring to peace or politics, but to the many environmental challenges that lie ahead. Despite regionally being one of the…
Obama and Netanyahu clash over settlements
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – Washington – The Obama administration has been working for months to bring the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table after the renewal of Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank stalled the talks. The…
Iran to test model of Russian S-300 Missile
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – Washington – Iran has developed and will test its own version of a Russian S-300 missile two months after Russia withdrew its delivery of the weapon to comply with United Nations sanctions, Haaretz reported Wednesday. “The…
WATCH: Protestors interrupt Netanyahu’s speech to American Jews
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – Washington – Protestors interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the Jewish Federations of North America in New Orleans on Monday, the Washington TImes reported . The Israeli leader’s speech came on the same day that…
Netanyahu: US-Israel have mutual understandings
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – Washington – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Wednesday that the US and Israel’s mutual understanding surmounts the differences, in an effort to improve current relations regarding the stalled peace talks, Haaretz reported Wednesday. Netanyahu…
Netanyahu talks economy, peace negotiations, and Iran on US television
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – Washington – Israeli Prime Minister sat down with Bloomberg Television on Wednesday, discussing the “overblown” issue of settlement construction and the effect of Iran’s nuclear ambitions on the world stage. (Please visit the site to view…
PA requests urgent Security Council meeting
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – Washington – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss Israeli settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land. “Something must be done on the international level to halt…
Ahmadinejad rules out nuclear issue in upcoming P5+1 talks
Palestine Note 10 Nov 2010 – ” Iran welcomes any hand extended with honesty but would cut off any hand extended with deception,” he said. Washington – In a televised speech, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that although the Islamic Republic has…
Jordan loyalists sweep election
AlJazeera 10 Nov 2010 – Supporters of King Abdullah II win majority of seats in assembly, in poll boycotted by opposition Islamic Action Front.
US rebukes Israel on settlements
AlJazeera 10 Nov 2010 – Hillary Clinton joins international leaders in denouncing Israel’s plans to build new settler homes in East Jerusalem.
Israel arrests top Hamas legislator
AlJazeera 10 Nov 2010 – Israeli troops detain Mahmoud Ramahi, secretary-general of the Palestinian Legislative Council, in the city of Ramallah.
Imam Arrested by Israeli Police
PNN – Petah Tikva – PNN – Israeli police arrested the imam of the al-Bahr mosque in Jaffa for suspicion of terrorist activities yesterday. He is the second imam arrested this week on terrorism-related…
Abbas Calls for Security Council Meeting; Netanyahu Rebukes Criticism
PNN – Jerusalem — PNN — Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Abbas would ask the UN Security Council to convene an emergency session to look into the issue of…
Hamas Militia Blockades al-Aqsa University in Gaza, Kidnaps Students
PNN – Khan Yunes — PNN – On Wednesday afternoon a Hamas militia surrounded al-Aqsa University in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunes and kidnapped a number of students. A local source…
Israeli Rightist Denied Request to Protest
PNN – Jerusalem — PNN — Sharon District Police Chief Brigadier-General Shimon Shomroni rejected a request by a right-wing activist to hold a protest outside the home of Military Advocate General Avichai Mandelbilt. The…
Statistics Show 6700 Prisoners Including 283 Children, 35 Women
PNN – Bethlehem — PNN – Abdul Nasir Farwaneh, director of the statistics department of the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs, said 6700 Palestinians are in Israeli prison, including 283 children and 35 women….
Obama Recognizes “Enormous Obstacles” in Peace Talks
PNN – Bethlehem – PNN – US President Barack Obama said today that despite the new challenges facing the peace process, his administration remains committed to encouraging a just solution. There have been increased…
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
Kaffiyeh, radio, Koran to be displayed at Arafat museum
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Photo Gallery: Construction of $3.4 million museum started two months ago. New building connects to Arafat’s old headquarters in Ramallah.
Kaffiyeh, radio, holy book to be displayed at Arafat museum
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Construction of $3.4 million museum started two months ago and is to open in a year. New building connects to wing of Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah.
Clinton: US upset with J’lem housing announcement
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – US Secretary of State calls continued building counterproductive towards peace efforts; Netanyahu: Israel needs multi-lateral peace deal.
Clinton: We will continue to work to resume negotiations
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – US Secretary of State calls continued building in Jerusalem counterproductive towards peace efforts; Netanyahu: Israel needs multi-lateral peace deal which includes Arab countries.
Braverman: If no peace talks, Labor should leave gov’t
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Labor MK and party chairman contender criticizes Barak’s leadership and asks party’s steering c’tee to commit to leaving coalition if peace talks fail.
Braverman: ‘Without peace talks, Labor should leave gov’t’
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Labor MK and party chairman contender criticizes Barak’s leadership and asks party’s steering c’tee to commit to leaving coalition if peace talks fail.
Once-notorious rapper takes a ‘Shyne’ to Jerusalem
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Moshe Levy Ben-David’s saga involves an Ethiopian Jewish grandmother, a night club shooting, immersion in Orthodoxy and aliya plans.
US accelerates funding to PA with $150 million transfer
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – “This figure underscores strong determination of American people and this administration to stand with our Palestinian friends,” Clinton says.
Smoking chimp rescued in Lebanon, sent to Brazil
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Omega has never climbed a tree or seen other chimpanzees, but he often puffed cigarettes that zoo visitors threw in his cage.
Likud, Kadima MKs respond to Obamas J’lem comments
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Opinion split on US president’s reaction to east J’lem building plans; Danny Danon: Obama proves he is cut off from all reality in Middle East.
Likud, Kadima MKs respond to Obamas building comments
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Opinion split on US president’s reaction to east J’lem building plans; Danny Danon: Obama proves he is cut off from all reality in Middle East.
Netanyahu: Israel need multi-lateral peace deal
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Sources say PM is expected to tell Clinton of need to expand peace to larger circle of Arab countries; specific countries he was referring to not clear.
‘PA intends to initiate UNSC debate on settlement-building’
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Abbas reportedly asks Palestinian delegate to the UN to gain Arab states’ support to bring Israeli-building issue to Security Council for discussion; Clinton calls continued building ‘counterproductive’ towards peace.
‘PA seeking UNSC debate on settlement-building’
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Abbas reportedly asks Palestinian delegate to the UN to gain Arab states’ support to bring Israeli-building issue to Security Council for discussion.
‘Iran develops version of Russian S-300 missile’
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – IRNA reports system to be tested soon; 2 Belgian firms probed for selling Iran nuclear material; Ahmadinejad: Our nuclear rights are inviolable.
More tourists during Jan. to Oct. 2010 than in all 2009
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – 2.87 million visitors mark is expected to reach 3m by next week, according to data by Tourism Ministry, CBS; over 400,000 visited Israel in October.
Kerry brings US hopes for renewal of peace negotiations
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – “Everyone understands how special the relationship is,” says the Senator of Israel’s bond with the US during meeting with Peres.
Pro-government forces grab majority in Jordan vote
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – At least 74 progressive politicians and businessmen new to Jordanian politics also earned a spot in parliament.
IDF arrests top Hamas official in Ramallah
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – Palestinian sources say a large party searched Mahmoud al-Ramahi’s home overnight; same official was released from prison last year.
Netanyahu: Iran wants to control Middle East oil
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – PM speaks on US television, says issue must be dealt with “for the peace and prosperity of the entire world.”
Israel’s defense spending will increase if peace achieved
Jeruslalem Post 10 Nov 2010 – As a result, Israel will likely continue to work with US in terms of financial and military cooperation and support, even in a climate of peace.
International Solidarity Movement
Israeli Army raids Bil’in for the fourth time in three days
11/10/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Today, the 10th of November, Israeli forces again raided the village of Bi’lin. The Army entered at around 8 pm for the second time that day. This morning around 3. 00 am, they entered the village with five jeeps and searched Ashraf al-Khatibs home. Soldiers broke down the door of the neighbor’….
Steinitz drops plan to hike royalties on gas fields
Ha’aretz – Proposed royalty hike from 12.5 percent to 25 percent threatened to create tension between Israel and the U.S.
More than 2.8 million tourists have visited Israel so far in 2010
Ha’aretz – Tourism up by 27 percent compared to last year and has brought in a revenue of $2.3 billion.
Ra’anana woman suspected of killing her two daughters
Ha’aretz – Social services in Ra’anana say Michal Aloni was known to be suffering from mental illness.
New initiative to encourage religious schools to broaden core subjects
Ha’aretz – The initiative plans to equip religious students with the necessary education so that they can contribute to the country’s economy in the future; like English, Math.
Jaffa imam detained on security charges
Ha’aretz – Petah Tikva court extends remand of Mohammad Ayash, 30, by eight days.
Police arrest seven in sweep of East Jerusalem neighborhood
Ha’aretz – Law enforcement operation in Issawiya follows a series of recent incidents in which Israeli vehicles were stoned in the neighborhood.
Former Israeli Arab MK set to lose pension for skipping trial
Ha’aretz – Knesset Committee approves in first reading bill to deny stipends from lawmakers who fail to appear at a criminal trial against them, as former MK Azmi Bishara did by fleeing…
Clinton warns Palestinians and Israelis against ‘unilateral’ Mideast steps
Ha’aretz – Secretary of State criticizes Israel’s settlement plans as ‘counterproductive’; Egypt: Israel not doing what it is supposed to do.
U.S. pledges $150m as Palestinians aim to become ‘state-ready’
Ha’aretz – Newest round of aid brings total assistance to $600 million; Clinton praises PA government, but urges Arab allies to help.
Netanyahu: U.S.-Israel understandings surmount our differences
Ha’aretz – Prime Minister says he intends to discuss with Clinton ways of resuming the peace process, based on broad understandings with the Palestinians and other Arab states.
Clinton: Mideast peace deal still possible and necessary
Ha’aretz – Secretary of State joins senior Obama administration members in chiding Israel over settlement construction; U.S. pledges $150 million to Palestinian Authority., Medvedev banned delivery air defense system to Iran in…
IDF arrests Hamas lawmaker from the West Bank in pre-dawn raid
Ha’aretz – Mahmoud Ramahi had been previously arrested by Israel in 2006 after the capture of Gilad Shalit and released in 2009.
Gaza militants launch bomb attack against IDF patrol
Ha’aretz – Two bombs explode as army convoy passes along Gaza border – no casualties reported.
Netanyahu: Row over settlement construction ‘overblown’
Ha’aretz – U.S. anger over latest East Jerusalem building plan is misplaced and Palestinian foot-dragging is still the main obstacle to peace, insists PM in interview with Fox.
Obama sees ‘enormous obstacles’ to Middle East peace
Ha’aretz – On Tuesday, U.S. responded to reports of new construction in East Jerusalem by rejecting Netanyahu’s statement that building doesn’t affect the peace process.
Palestinians demand immediate statehood to counter Israeli ‘unilateralism’
Ha’aretz – Raising the stakes in the deadlock over stalled peace talks, Saeb Erekat said it was clear from the latest announcement of building plans in East Jerusalem and Ariel that Israel…
Israeli Nazism, not anti-Semitism, is the real issue
10 Nov 2010 – Jerusalem, November 10, (Pal Telegraph – Occupied Palestine – By Khaled Amayreh) Israel’s fanatical supporters insist on behaving and acting like mad dogs by disregarding any consideration for honesty, rectitude and moral consistency. They nearly completely overlook Israel’s Nazi-like behavior as if such behavior were taking place in a distant galaxy, not in this world. Instead, they constantly focus on…
Video: Palestine: Roadmap to Peace?
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – For decades we have heard almost everyone talk about peace in the Holy Land. What is certain is that no one needs peace more than the Palestinian people. Since before 1948, the Palestinian people have been living under the threat of wars and massacres, under occupation and oppression, deprived of their basic rights. But it…
In Jerusalem, East Is Nobody’s
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – The Palestinian Prime Minister ventured into Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem bypassing Israeli security authorities who tried to stop him. The city’s Israeli mayor, who also wanted to venture into the eastern of part of ‘his’ city, was unable to because of objections from those same Israeli authorities. For four decades and more, the Palestinians of occupied…
BDS challenges Israel: Colonialism and apartheid are not legitimate
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – Responding to the growing international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) to isolate Israel’s apartheid regime, 38 Nobel Laureates have issued a statement opposing the call from Palestinian civil society for an academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions. Predominantly doctors, economists and natural scientists, their statement argues,
Letter to the British Liberal DemocratsSubject: Protecting war criminals – “just about the lowest thing anyone could do”
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – LibDem leaders know perfectly well that under ‘universal jurisdiction’ all states that are party to the Geneva Conventions are obliged to seek out and prosecute or extradite those suspected of grave breaches of the Conventions and bring them justice, regardless of nationality. “Grave breaches” means willful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, causing great suffering or…
Nights of Terror Continue in Silwan
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – A week of terror in Silwan continued early this morning with the violent arrest of four youths during Israeli raids on several homes. The East Jerusalem suburb has been plagued by incursions throughout the week, with seven more arrests on Monday. All those arrested are under 21. Witnesses characterised this morning’s raids as violent, with…
Israel arrests top Hamas legislator
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – Israeli forces last arrested Ramahi in 2006 in a roundup of dozens of Hamas officials. Israeli troops have arrested Mahmoud Ramahi, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Hamas sources have said. The troops stormed the Hamas legislator’s home in the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in the early hours of Wednesday…
Palestinian prisoners in Ramon jail on hunger strike after repressive acts
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights said the Palestinian prisoners in Ramon jail went on hunger strike after the Israeli prison administration sent military units to storm some sections and took punitive measures against detainees. Director of the center Fouad Al-Khafsh stated that a large number of heavily armed soldiers from Matsada and…
New Arms Deal to Israel Stokes Militarism
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – The recently announced deal for the United States to provide Israel with 20 new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets marks yet another blow for arms control advocates and those who had hoped the Obama administration would resist continuing with the Bush administration’s policy of further militarizing the Middle East. Once again rejecting calls from the…
The great book robbery of 1948
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – A new documentary reveals a hidden chapter in the history of the Nakba — the Palestinian expulsion and flight at the hands of Zionist militias as Israel was established in 1948 — which saw the systematic looting of more than 60,000 Palestinian books by Israeli forces and the attempted destruction of Palestinian culture. As the…
Palestinian reconciliation: an inescapable duty
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – …What is beyond dispute is that it is today more urgent than ever before that Hamas and Fatah begin a process of reconciliation. The Palestinian Authority’s talks with Israel have reached a dead end, due to Israel’s resumption of settlement activity in the West Bank. If the Palestinians remain disunited, they will not be able…
On Bush’s Waterboarding Claims, UK Media Loses Its Moral Compass
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – The mainstream media likes to claim that it has high journalistic standards, but when the opportunity for a sensational headline turns up, those principles are often abandoned. A recent example of this was the hysterical response to the supposed swine flu epidemic last year, and a new example ‚Äî central to my work and that…
Shin Bet Mistreatment of Palestinian Detainees
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – An October B’Tselem/HaMoked, Center of the Defence of the Individual report, titled “Kept in the Dark: Treatment of Palestinian Detainees in the Petach-Tikva Interrogation Facility of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet)” is discussed below. Though, in some respects, treatment over the years has changed, it remains harsh, abusive, and in violation of international law,…
Worker shot by Israeli force in northern Gaza
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – A Palestinian man was injured by Israeli fire on Wednesday while he collected scrap construction materials in northern Gaza near the Erez crossing. Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said a 28-year-old identified only by his initials YG was lightly injured and transferred to the Kamal Udwan Hospital for treatment. Abu Salmiya said 66…
Oligarchy and inequality in Israel
Uruknet November 10, 2010 – A number of high-profile economic “successes” and technological achievements associated with Israel’s economy conceal one of the most polarised societies in the world. Last May, Israel was admitted to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, underscoring its transformation into an advanced economy. Israel’s per capita GDP, at $28,365, is the fourth largest in the…
Biden: US Support for Israel Must Continue ‘Forever’
Uruknet November 9, 2010 – Speaking today at the Jewish Federations of North America meeting, US Vice President Joe Biden vowed eternal support for the Israeli government, insisting US support for the nation would continue no matter what Israel does “forever.” “The ties between our two countries are literally unbreakable” insisted Biden, adding that policy disagreements with the far-right government…
The Oslo Virus and the Struggle for Bantustans
Uruknet Gaza, November 9, 2010 – In ‘The Music of the Violin,’ a short story by South African writer Njabulo Ndebele, one of the characters comments on the ‘concessions’ made by the apartheid regime to the indigenous people: “That’s how it is planned. That we be given a little of everything, and so prize the little we have that we…
The Parcel Bomb Plot — Al-Qaedas Gift to Israel
Uruknet November 9, 2010 – While Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) may have claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb plot, it’s worth considering how this latest Yemen-linked terror scare has been a gift to their avowed enemies. A mere two weeks before the discovery of mail bombs addressed to “two places of Jewish worship in Chicago,” Rupert Murdoch sounded…
SPF Deivers Tonfa Training to 37 Recruits
WAFA – RAMALLAH, October 20, 2010 (WAFA)- The Palestinian Special Police Force (SPF) has successfully delivered a Tonfa training course to 37 new SPF recruits, according to a press release by EUPOL-COPPS,
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
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
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,
Observer: Israeli Government on Division Verge, Netanyahu Negotiates Kadima
WAFA – LONDON, October 17, 2010(WAFA) – The British Newspaper ‘Observer’ wrote that the Israeli government is facing the division risk because of the deadlock in the negotiations with the Palestinians
Loyalists sweep Jordan Parliament elections after opposition boycott
Daily Star 10 Nov 2010 AMMAN: Jordanians voted in large numbers to elect a parliament dominated by pro-government loyalists, with 13 women winning seats, after a boycott by opposition Islamists, official results showed Wednesday.The Islamic Action Front (IAF) disputed the official…
Palestinians appeal to UN over Israeli settlements
Daily Star 10 Nov 2010 Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas called Wednesday for the UN Security Council to urgently debate Israeli settlement building, which has deadlocked peace talks, his spokesman said.Nabil Abu Rudeinah said Abbas had “instructed the Palestinian representative to the…
No thaw in relations with Israel without apology for boat raid: Turkey
Daily Star 10 Nov 2010 PARIS: Turkey will not begin to restore relations with Israel unless it apologizes for its “savage attack” on a Turkish protest vessel, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.”Israel will apologize. And Israel will have to…
Israeli forces abduct senior Hamas lawmaker, detain 11 others in overnight West Bank raids
Daily Star 10 Nov 2010 Israeli forces abducted senior Hamas MP Mahmud al-Ramahi from his home in Ramallah overnight, his movement and Israeli forces said Wednesday.Ramahi, who is secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the body’s third most senior member,…
Iran will not talk about limiting nuclear program in any talks
Daily Star 10 Nov 2010 TEHRAN: Iran’s president said Wednesday that his country wants to discuss cooperation to resolve global issues and to promote peace and security at nuclear talks with world powers, but won’t talk about what it insists is…
The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage | Seumas Milne
The Guardian 10 Nov 2010 – With the peace process going nowhere, common experience on both sides of the Green Line is creating a new reality In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd…
Chilean miners accept Israeli invitation — if their relatives can go too
The Guardian 10 Nov 2010 – The 33 rescued men accept free trip to Holy Land on condition that they can travel with 70 of their relatives Amid the euphoria surrounding the rescue of the 33 trapped Chilean miners last month , Israel…
Palestinian Rights Committee Approves Four Draft Resolutions on Peaceful Settlement of Palestine Question, Related Matters
Relief Web 10 Nov 2010 – Source: UN General Assembly
Clinton says Israeli building plans not productive
Relief Web 10 Nov 2010 – Source: Reuters – AlertNet
How Israel’s easing of Gaza blockade has hurt Gaza business
Relief Web 9 Nov 2010 – Source: Christian Science Monitor
MIDEAST: In Jerusalem, East Is Nobody’s
IPS The Palestinian Prime Minister ventured into Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem bypassing Israeli security authorities who tried to stop him. The city’s Israeli mayor, who also wanted to venture into the eastern of part of ‘his’ city, was unable to because of objections from those same Israeli authorities.
Abbas seeks Security Council meeting on settlements
YNet News – After Israel says will move forward with plan for 1,300 housing units in east….
Iran says to test own model of Russia S-300 missile
YNet News – After Russia refuses to deliver defensive system due to ‘American and Zionist….
IDF to sell confiscated enemy weapons
YNet News – Thousands of ‘bounty weapons’ confiscated from Hezbollah and Hamas in recent….
Ahmadinejad: Iran won’t discuss nuclear program
YNet News – Iran’s president insists ‘nuclear rights non-negotiable’ as Belgian firms come….
Erdogan: Israel must apologize
YNet News – In interview with France 24 Turkish prime minister calls on Israel to apologize,….
Jaffa imam arrested on terror claims
YNet News – As second imam arrested this week, councilman wonders whether police are….
IDF arrests senior Hamas official
YNet News – Dr. Mahmoud al-Ramahi, last detained after Shalit capture, arrested at home in….
Disaster: F-16I crashes in south
YNet News – An Israeli Air Force two-seater F-16I airplane crashed late Wednesday evening during training in the south of Israel, near Mitzpe Ramon. The pilot and navigator have been …….
Iran fails to get seat on UN Women board
YNet News – Iran failed to secure a seat on a key board running the new UN super agency to improve women’s rights as fierce lobbying by western nations and rights groups swayed an …….
PM: Disagreements with US ‘temporary’
YNet News – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned down the heat Wednesday and said differences of opinion between the US and Israel were “temporary.” On Tuesday, the prime …….
Nasrallah provokes Iran: No such thing as Persian civilization
YNet News – VIDEO – “Today there is no such thing as Persian civilization in Iran. There is an Islamic civilization in Iran. There is (prophet) Muhammad’s religion in Iran,” …….
Palestinian Information Center
Erdogan: No relations with Israel until it apologizes
PIC 10 Nov 2010 – Turkish premier Recep Erdogan has affirmed that his government would not restore normal relations with Israel until it apologizes over the “savage attack” on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara.
Ahrar center slams IOF for kidnapping PLC secretary-general
PIC 10 Nov 2010 – Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies denounced the Israeli occupation forces for kidnapping secretary-general of the Palestinian legislative council Mahmoud Al-Ramhi from his home in Ramallah city.
J’lem attorney discloses Israeli plan for full destruction of city
PIC 10 Nov 2010 – The Israeli government is “planning to completely destroy the city of Jerusalem and a erect a new Jerusalem with a Zionist vision,” a Jerusalem attorney said Wednesday.
Hamas denounces political arrest of senior PLC member
PIC 10 Nov 2010 – The Hamas movement strongly denounced Israeli authorities for the arrest of senior Palestinian Legislative Council official Mahmoud Al Ramahi Wednesday, calling for his immediate release.
Tadamun: Nassif suspends hunger strike
PIC 10 Nov 2010 – Hamas detained leader Ra’fat Nassif has stopped his hunger strike, which he started nine days earlier, the international Tadamun institution for human rights reported on Wednesday.
US to pledge to veto Palestinian state if Israel freezes settlement for 3 month
PIC 10 Nov 2010 – An Israeli political official said the US administration may use its right of veto against any unilateral decision recognizing the Palestinian state in exchange for Israeli settlement freeze.
Haneyya: Damascus meeting complicated
PIC 10 Nov 2010 – Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya has affirmed that the current national dialog session in the Syrian capital Damascus would not solve all pending problems between Hamas and Fatah.
Israeli police interfere in repairs at Aqsa Mosque, detain three of its guards
PIC 10 Nov 2010 – The Israeli police detained three guards of the Aqsa Mosque after they prevented a group of settlers from making what they called repairs in the Islamic Khatuniya School at the Aqsa Mosque.
Palestinian prisoners in Ramon jail on hunger strike after repressive acts
PIC 10 Nov 2010 – Ahrar center said the Palestinian prisoners in Ramon jail went on hunger strike after the prison administration sent military units to storm some sections and took punitive measures against detainees.
IOF soldiers detain eldest son of MP Halaika
PIC 10 Nov 2010 – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into the house of MP Samira Al-Halaika and took away her eldest son Anas in a pre dawn raid on Wednesday, the MP said in a press release.
U.S. Blocks Iran’s Bid for a U.N. Board Seat
New York Times 10 Nov 2010 – The successful effort to block Iran’s bid for a seat on the board of UN Women was part of a larger United States strategy to isolate Iran.
U.S. Struggles to Restore Middle East Talks
New York Times 10 Nov 2010 – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Egyptian officials, trying to overcome an impasse on Jewish settlements.
In Curt Exchange, U.S. Faults Israel on Housing
New York Times 10 Nov 2010 – The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected criticism of Israel’s plans from President Obama and others.
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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Nights of Terror Continue in Silwan
Palestine Monitor – A week of terror in Silwan continued early this morning with the violent arrest of four youths during Israeli raids on several homes. The East Jerusalem suburb has been plagued by incursions throughout the week, with seven more arrests on Monday. All those arrested are under…
U.S. Justice Department prepares for the ominous expansion of law prohibiting ‘material support’ for terrorism
Mondoweiss – In late September the FBI carried out a series of raids of homes and anti-war offices of public activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Following the raids the Obama Justice Department subpoenaed 14 activists to a grand jury in Chicago and also subpoenaed the files of several…
Bil’in invaded for the fourth time in three days
Mondoweiss – (Photo: Hamde Abu Rahme) The following is an update to a story we posted yesterday : Today, November 10th, the village of Bi’lin was raided again. The Israeli Army entered at around 8 pm for the second time today. In the morning, at around 3.00 am, they…
Why I disrupted Bibi’s speech — A response to Ben Sales at New Voices
Mondoweiss – Taylor protesting Netanyahu in New Orleans. Ben Sales, editor of New Voices , posted a lengthy critique of the protesters who disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the General Assembly. Here’s my response, which I submitted as a comment to his blog: As one of the protesters who…
Thinking of Rachel Corrie during the olive harvest in the Galilee
Mondoweiss – It is olive gathering season and people in Arrabeh are at it again. This year the crop is good. A friend from Jerusalem had asked us for two jerry cans of fresh olive oil direct from the press. Raja Shehadeh was scheduled to have a book…
Israel carried out 35 attacks against Palestinians in East Jerusalem during October
Mondoweiss – And other news from Today in Palestine: Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Abbas seeks urgent Security Council meeting over East Jerusalem construction Israel vows to continue East Jerusalem construction, despite row with U.S.; Netanyahu says Israel has ‘never accepted restrictions’ on building in…
Israeli Occupation Forces Launches Ground Incursion into Gaza Strip
Al-Manar 10 Nov 2010 – Israel has launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip with its occupation troops entering the south of the long-blockaded coastal sliver. Israeli forces advanced hundreds of meters into the east of the southern city of Khan Younis, a Press TV correspondent in Gaza reported on…
VIDEO: From the Front Lines of the Palestinian Popular Struggle
Joseph Dana 10 Nov 2010 – Palestinian popular resistance to the Israeli occupation, settlements and the wall are a regular occurrence in the West Bank. Despite this, the overwhelmingly non-violent protests, often put down harshly by occupation forces, rarely make the mainstream news. Here is video of my lecture yesterday in Washington….
Gaza prisoners ass’n says detainees need coats
Sabr 10 Nov 2010 – GAZA CITY ( Ma’an ) — The Center for Detainees in Gaza City said Wednesday that they had received word from several inmates kept in Israeli detention centers that they were in dire need of warm clothing and blankets. The complaints, the center said, came from the Ramon…
Hamas denounces political arrest of senior PLC member
Sabr 10 Nov 2010 – [ 10/11/2010 – 04:26 PM ] DAMASCUS, ( PIC )– The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas strongly denounced Israeli authorities for the arrest of senior Palestinian Legislative Council official Mahmoud Al Ramahi Wednesday, calling for his immediate release. The resistance group condemned in a statement it issued Wednesday the…
Tadamun: Nassif suspends hunger strike
Sabr 10 Nov 2010 – [ 10/11/2010 – 03:56 PM ] RAMALLAH, ( PIC )– Hamas detained leader Ra’fat Nassif has stopped his hunger strike, which he started nine days earlier, the international Tadamun institution for human rights reported on Wednesday. Ahmed Al-Beitawi, a researcher at the institution, said that Nassif temporarily halted…
Ahrar center slams IOF for kidnapping PLC secretary-general
Sabr 10 Nov 2010 – [ 10/11/2010 – 03:53 PM ] GAZA, ( PIC )– Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies and human rights strongly denounced the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) for kidnapping at dawn Wednesday secretary-general of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) Mahmoud Al-Ramhi from his home in Ramallah city. Director of the…
Easing blockade ‘no help’ to Gaza
BBC 10 Nov 2010 – The UN says there has been no material change for people in Gaza since Israel eased its blockade of the Palestinian territory.
US grants Palestinians $150m aid
BBC 10 Nov 2010 – The United States is to transfer an additional $150m in aid to the Palestinian Authority and calls on other donor nations to increase their aid.
Jordan loyalists sweep election
BBC 10 Nov 2010 – Pro-government candidates win the majority of seats in Jordan’s parliament, in a poll marked by violence and an opposition boycott.
Iran fails to get UN women’s seat
BBC 10 Nov 2010 – Iran fails to obtain a seat on the board of a new UN super-agency to promote women’s rights, after outrage from human rights and women’s groups.
Muslim Americans Foil Terror Threats
Antiwar.com 10 Nov 2010 – A new report on violent extremists in the United States finds that terrorism plots by non-Muslims greatly outnumber those attempted by Muslims, and that Muslim-American communities helped foil close to a third of al-Qaeda-related terror plots threatening the country since Sept. 11, 2001. The report comes…
Netanyahu: Intellectual Father of the ‘War on Terror’
Antiwar.com 10 Nov 2010 – Writing last week on Antiwar.com the redoubtable Phil Giraldi said: “The Israel connection is significant because Israel has long been at the heart of America’s foreign policy woes. America’s misguided war on terror is in fact a complete adoption of Israeli security paradigms without any regard…
Is Palestine America’s Next Vietnam?
Antiwar.com 10 Nov 2010 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t been alone in playing for time when it comes to American policy, that’s for sure. (Think, for instance, of our Afghan War commander Gen. David Petraeus.) But Netanyahu played out the pre-election months with some skill and much shuffling of…
Multi-Billion-Dollar Arms Deals Could Haunt US
Antiwar.com 10 Nov 2010 – UNITED NATIONS — When the shah of Iran, a strongly pro-U.S. ally, was ousted from power after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the stridently anti-U.S. regime of Ayatollah Khomeini that captured power also inherited a military bonanza: billions of dollars worth of state-of-the-art weapons provided by…
(en) Palestine-Israel, In defiance of the settler colonialists escalation the joint struggle expand.
A-infos 10 Nov 2010 – In defiance of the expanding and intensifying international pressure, and what seems to be a desperate efforts the settler colonialists steps are mounting. The joint struggle to which the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity coalition “Just Jerusalem” solidify and expand to more and more location of struggle within…
Articles
The Oslo virus and the struggle for Bantustans
Haidar Eid, Ma’an News Agency11/10/2010
In ‘The Music of the Violin,’ a short story by South African writer Njabulo Ndebele, one of the characters comments on the ‘concessions’ made by the apartheid regime to the indigenous people: “That’s how it is planned. That we be given a little of everything, and so prize the little we have that we forget about freedom.”
This is what the endless “peace process” looks like seen from Gaza, where we live under a four-year-old Israeli siege. We pass the time struggling to survive, wondering if this is the day an air strike will take away our life, our loved ones or our home.
I spent six years in Johannesburg, where I got my PhD. That time makes me very aware of the similarities between Israel and the apartheid regime in South Africa. I was inspired by how the world responded to apartheid in South Africa, particularly the United States considering that it was still dealing with its own history of racial discrimination and treatment of the indigenous population.
And I am disheartened by the lack of similar outrage toward Israeli policies. Rather than acknowledging the reality of Israeli apartheid, as Jimmy Carter bravely did in 2006, the United States appears to have implicitly accepted the creation of a type of Bantustan-based system in Palestine.
Laws enacted during the South African apartheid system have corresponding laws in Israel. Currently, in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Jews and Palestinians are treated very differently when it comes to housing, education, and legal and administrative systems. Palestinians face widespread discrimination, much of it “legal.” more.. e-mail
New plans part of Judaising Occupied East Jerusalem
Jumana Al Tamimi, Gulf News11/8/2010
Thousands of Jewish colonists will gather each day outside the ancient Damascus Gate, the vital gateway of the old city in Occupied East Jerusalem – not to demonstrate against their government’s policies or to vent their feelings towards the Arabs – but to use the city’s new public “light rail” transport system.
The Occupied East Jerusalem station, one of the central stations in the plan, is scheduled to start operating next April. It is just 20 metres away from Damascus Gate, one of seven gates to the old city and, Palestinian activists say, the most vital to the economy of the old city.
“This light rail project is part of [a plan to] Judaise [Occupied] Jerusalem,” said Jamal Juma, a Jerusalemite who heads the Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign and is active against Israeli colonial activities.
“It will connect the colonies built in Occupied East Jerusalem with both the old town in the occupied eastern part of the city, and the western part of Jerusalem,” Juma told Gulf News in an interview. “This rail project is first and foremost a colonial project.”
Transportation, Juma explained, is one of the most important bases for development and expansion. “This train will reinforce the colonies in Occupied East Jerusalem and its surroundings,” Juma said.
While the central station is anticipated to attract nearly 10,000 colonists every morning and evening from the colonies built in and around Occupied East Jerusalem, Israel is stealthily changing the reality on the ground, Palestinian activists cry.
But that’s a cry that is apparently going unanswered.
An intensive Jewish presence outside the old city will leave a different impression among visitors to the area as well as the original inhabitants of the city, making it “as if they are in a Jewish neighbourhood,” Palestinians say. more.. e-mail
Waiting for Godot in Palestine
Nicola Nasser, CounterPunch11/10/2010
Peace Held Hostage
The statement by former U.S. President George W. Bush in his 497 — page memoir of “Decision Points” that a secret peace deal was worked out between the then-prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, and Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, which “we devised a process to turn .. into a public agreement” had not Olmert been ousted by a scandal to be replaced in the following elections by Binyamin Netanyahu, who reneged on his predecessor’s commitments, is a piece of history which highlights the fact that peace making in the Arab — Israeli conflict and the peace process have been hostages to the rotating U.S. and Israeli elections since the Madrid peace conference of 1991.
Of course Bush had a different point of view. In his Rose Garden speech on Israel — Palestine two-state solution on June 24, 2002, he said that “for too long .. the citizens of the Middle East” and “the hopes of many” have been held “hostage” to “the hatred of a few (and) the forces of extremism and terror,” a misjudgement that led his administration to strike a deal with the former Israeli premier, now comatose, Ariel Sharon to engineer a “regime change” in the self-ruled Palestinian Authority that resulted — according to Sharon’s terminology — in the “removal” of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader who made peace possible in the first place for the first time in the past one hundred years and for that deserved to be a Nobel Peace Laureate, to be replaced by the incumbent Palestinian leadership of Abbas who, despite being almost identical of both men’s image of a peace maker, is again victimized by the same rotating U.S. and Israeli elections, much more than by what Bush termed as “forces of extremism and terror.”
Ironically, Bush’s own Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, some three years ago, had to admit that there is no consensus among U.S. officials on a clear-cut definition of “extremism and terror” when she said, referring to acts of Palestinian anti-Israeli military occupation…. more.. e-mail
Solidarity must not come at the expense of Iranian freedoms
Electronic Intifada: 10 Nov 2010 – As proud as I am of the independent political path Iran has taken and the role it plays as an enabler of resistance to Israel, I am deeply aware of the great costs we have been forced to bear as a people by our government. Khashayar Safavi comments for The Electronic Intifada.more
Nights of Terror Continue in Silwan
Palestine Monitor: 10 Nov 2010 – A week of terror in Silwan continued early this morning with the violent arrest of four youths during Israeli raids on several homes. The East Jerusalem suburb has been plagued by incursions throughout the week, with seven more arrests on Monday. All those arrested are under 21. Witnesses characterised this morning’s raids as violent, with suspects beaten and forcefully dragged from their homes before being blindfolded and transported to the Maskobeh detention centre. There are no reports of suspects being pepper-sprayed, as was the case on Monday. Tensions in Silwan have run higher since the publication of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat’s controversial plans to Judaise the area, including the proposed demolition of up to 88 Palestinian homes to make way for a Jewish heritage site. Silwan is already home to a growing settler population, and has become the scene of regular clashes. Fakhri Abu Diab, of the Wadi Hilweh information…more
Peace Held Hostage to US, Israeli Elections
Palestine Chronicle: 10 Nov 2010 – By Nicola Nasser The statement by former U.S. President George W. Bush in his 497 – page memoir of ‘Decision Points’ that a secret peace deal was worked out between the then-prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, and Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, which “we devised a process to turn .. into a public agreement” had not Olmert been ousted by a scandal to be replaced in the following elections by Binyamin Netanyahu, who reneged on his predecessor’s commitments, is a piece of history which highlights the fact that peacemaking in the Arab – Israeli conflict and the peace process have been hostages to the rotating U.S. and Israeli elections since the Madrid peace conference of 1991. Of course Bush had a different point of view. In his Rose Garden speech on Israel – Palestine two-state solution on June 24, 2002, he said that “for too long .. the citizens of the Middle…more
Mockery of Justice: The Corries vs. Israel
Palestine Chronicle: 10 Nov 2010 – By Hatim Kanaaneh ‘Human kind cannot bear too much reality.’ — T. S. Eliot I. Rachel’s Revenge: Israeli Young Adults Struck by Alzheimer’s: I arrived at the Haifa District Court with a deep sense of foreboding. On my way there, as I drove through Arrabeh’s sleepy streets (It is Ramadan and most fellow Moslem villagers go back to sleep after their dawn meal and prayer.) I saw clear signs of trouble: Two police cars with their lights flashing entered the village just I was on my way out. Stopped in my tracks by the daily traffic jam on the outskirts of Haifa, I turned the radio dial from my usual BBC morning news to the local Arabic FM station and heard the name of my village on the news: A seven-month pregnant young woman whose name I recognized had been slain by her mentally-ill husband in full view of her…more
Obama Can Still Do It
Palestine Chronicle: 10 Nov 2010 – By George S. Hishmeh — Washington, D.C. Though obnoxious, Benjamin Netanyahu is no dummy. After all, the Israeli prime minister knows that if he got away with something the first time, he might as well take another shot at it the second time. And lo and behold, his victim on both occasions was Joe Biden, the ever-smiling American vice president. When Biden visited Jerusalem last March in an attempt to help kick-start the Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations, stalled by Israeli expansionism into the occupied West Bank, the Israeli government unbeknownst to the visiting vice president, simultaneously announced its intention to build 1600 housing units in occupied Arab East Jerusalem which the Palestinians hope will be their capital once their state is established. That announcement touched off a seemingly serious crisis between the two countries and many thought the Netanyahu government would be paying a high price for its audacity. But contrary…more
Shin Bet Mistreatment of Palestinian Detainees
Palestine Chronicle: 10 Nov 2010 – By Stephen Lendman An October B’Tselem/HaMoked, Center of the Defence of the Individual report, titled “Kept in the Dark: Treatment of Palestinian Detainees in the Petach-Tikva Interrogation Facility of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet)” is discussed below. Though, in some respects, treatment over the years has changed, it remains harsh, abusive, and in violation of international law, prohibiting all forms of torture and mistreatment at all times, under all conditions, with no allowed exceptions. The report is based on testimonies from 121 Palestinian detainees during Q 1 and Q 4, 2009. Clear patterns of mistreatment were revealed – torture and abuse by any standard, what Israel practices as official policy. Israeli law prohibits torture under Section 277 of its Penal Law, stating: “A public servant who does one of the following is liable to imprisonment for three years: (1) uses or directs the use of force or violence against…more
Israeli Banks Profiteering from Occupation
Dissident Voice: 10 Nov 2010 – Wall Street does it. Other Western banks do it. They all exploit markets, often ripping off customers illegally. Why not Israeli banks also in their own back yard, easily in expanding settlements. The Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) includes 10 feminist organizations and non-affiliated activist women in Israel. Founded in 2000, it advocates “radical social and political change,” and is “a leading voice against the occupation, committed to feminist principles of organizing and Jewish-Palestinian partnership in a relentless struggle for a just peace.” In October, it released a report titled, “Financing the Israeli Occupation, The Direct Involvement of Israeli Banks in Illegal Settlement Activity and Control over the Palestinian Banking Market.” Besides stealing Palestinian land, economic interests play a large role in Israel’s occupation, including resource control, labor exploitation, and commercial enterprises of all kinds, operating freely and illegally in settlements, banks among them. Israeli banks profiteer several ways…more
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