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Officer Who Shot American Activist In Her Eye Exonerated
IMEMC – 28 Nov 2010 – Sunday November 28, 2010 – 10:33, The Israeli District Police in the Occupied West Bank exonerated an Israeli Army officer who shot an American peace activist in her eye during a protest at the Qalandia terminal, north of Jerusalem, six months ago.
Two Detainees In Israeli Prisons Start Hunger Strike
IMEMC – 28 Nov 2010 – Sunday November 28, 2010 – 10:12, The Ahrar Center for Detainees’ Studies and Human Rights reported that Sheikh Jamal Abu Al Haija, 52, from the Jenin refugee camp, and detainee Ahed Abu Ghalama, 42, from Beit Forik near Hebron, started an open-ended hunger strike three days ago demanding to be removed from solitary and to be allowed visitations.
Hamas Prisoners In Jericho Start Hunger Strike
IMEMC – 28 Nov 2010 – Sunday November 28, 2010 – 09:31, Political prisoners of the Hamas movement, imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas at the Jericho Prison, started an open-ended hunger strike in protest to what they called “cruel treatment and humiliation”.
17 Palestinians Wounded After Their Vehicle Was Chased By Army Near Bethlehem
IMEMC – 28 Nov 2010 – Sunday November 28, 2010 – 06:24, Palestinian medical sources in Bethlehem reported Saturday evening that 17 Palestinian workers were wounded near Beitar Illit Jewish settlement after their vehicle flipped over as the army was chasing it.
Workers shot on Gaza border
11/28/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and injured four Palestinian workers who were collecting stone aggregates Sunday near the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities closed the terminal to all traffic except medical cases. Medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said four people were treated at Kamal Udwan hospital for injuries….
Leaked cable: Israel asked PA to retake Gaza after war
11/28/2010 – Jared Malsin – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israel approached the PA and Egypt about potentially assuming control of the Gaza Strip following a theoretical “defeat” of Hamas before Israel’s winter war on Gaza, a leaked US diplomatic cable revealed Sunday. Made public by The New York Times, the document is a report on….
Leaked documents: Saudi king urged US to attack Iran
11/28/2010 – PARIS (AFP) — King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urged the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear program, according to US documents leaked by WikiLeaks and published Sunday by daily newspapers. According to a leaked US cable, published by the New York Times, King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz made the call during an April….
Soldiers ‘confiscate shirt’ from Palestinian
11/28/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — A 26-year-old Palestinian from Nablus said Israeli soldiers ordered him to remove his shirt and then confiscated it on Sunday. Nader Rezeq Dweikat said he was walking near his home in Beta village to get fuel for his tractor when three soldiers in a military jeep stopped him.” Initially I….
Israel approves detention camp for job-seekers from Africa
11/28/2010 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli government on Sunday approved the creation of a detention center near its southern border with Egypt to house thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa seeking work. A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the cabinet had approved the plan for the camp, but did not immediately provide….
US briefed Palestinians on WikiLeaks cache
11/29/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United States has informed the Palestinian government in Ramallah that some of the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables set for release by the whistle-blowing group WikiLeaks will deal with US-Palestinian relations. Washington’s message, delivered by phone to the Office of the President a few days in advance….
Israel army admits to false alarm on Gaza rocket
11/28/2010 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli army said its report of a rocket being fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday appeared to have been a false alarm. The army said earlier that a rocket was fired from Gaza but exploded in mid-air as it headed toward the Shaar HaNegev region. However, a military spokesman….
Netanyahu: Israel won’t be center of WikiLeaks release
11/28/2010 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel will not be at the center of the expected release of classified US documents by WikiLeaks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. The whistle-blower website was reportedly hours away from releasing hundreds of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables, with several governments fearing damaging revelations. But Netanyahu said that Israel, a….
WikiLeaks: Israel warned US engagement with Iran pointless
11/28/2010 – PARIS (AFP) — Israel has warned its US ally that President Barack Obama’s attempt to engage diplomatically with Iran over its nuclear weapons program will fail, according to leaked memos published Sunday. Several US cables released among a trove of secret documents secured by the WikiLeaks whistleblower site and released to newspapers, show Israel….
Israel army presence in West Bank ‘lowest in 20 years’
11/28/2010 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — The number of Israeli troops operating in the occupied West Bank is at its lowest level in more than 20 years, an Israeli newspaper reported Sunday. Since the start of the first intifada, or Palestinian uprising, in 1987, dozens of regular and reserve battalions have been deployed throughout the West Bank, the paper….
Hebron declared free of settlement produce
11/28/2010 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Hebron’s governor Kamil Hmeid announced Sunday that the southern West Bank city is now free of settlement produce. Hmeid made the announcement at a ceremony in his office attended by representatives of Palestinian Authority ministries, security services and civil society organizations. The governor said the achievement followed huge efforts….
Fayyad named among 100 ‘top global thinkers’
11/28/2010 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The premier of the Ramallah-based Palestinian government has been named among the top 100 “global thinkers” by an American news magazine. Foreign Policy’s December issue ranked Salam Fayyad at 23 “for bringing faith in technocracy to the Holy Land.” “In his three years in office, Fayyad has evolved from….
PA health minister hosts Quartet delegation
11/28/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority minister of health met Saturday in Ramallah with a delegation representing the international Quartet headed by prince Firas Bin Ra’d, one of Quartet consultants. Fathi Abu Mughli explained to his visitors in detail about the health care situations in Palestine and the difficulties his ministry faces….
World braces for Wikileaks flood of US cables
11/28/2010 – WASHINGTON (AFP) — The whistle-blower website Wikileaks was reportedly hours away from releasing millions of confidential US diplomatic cables Sunday, with several governments fearing damaging revelations. Top US officials have raced to contain the damage in recent days by warning foreign ministries in more than a dozen countries, including key allies Australia, Britain, Canada, Israel and….
Israelis flock to vigil tent for captive soldier Shalit
11/28/2010 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — Like pilgrims to a holy site, thousands of visitors are coming to Jerusalem to visit the parents of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who has been held captive in Gaza for more than four years. Noam and Aviva Shalit have spent the past four months living in two tents pitched right outside the….
Wulff: Germany ‘responsible’ for Israeli security
11/28/2010 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — Germany’s President Christian Wulff said Sunday that his country has a “responsibility” toward Israel’s security, during talks with Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres.” Germany considers that it has a responsibility concerning Israel’s right to exist and to security,” said Wulff, Germany’s first head of state to….
Iran offers Hariri to help Lebanese military
11/28/2010 – TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi on Sunday told Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri that Tehran was prepared to help the Lebanese army, state television’s website reported.” We have stated on several occasions, and we say it again today, that we stand alongside the Lebanese army and are prepared to cooperate” with….
Fatah official issued deportation order
11/28/2010 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Fatah official Adnan Gheith said Israel issued him a military order Sunday to leave Jerusalem for four months. Gheith described the order as “provocative and illegal” and said an Israeli commander told him he had two weeks to appeal the decision….
PA detains 16 Palestinians at Jordan crossing
11/28/2010 – JERICHO (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority police arrested 16 Palestinians, who they said were wanted for criminal acts, at the Allenby crossing over the past week. A police report detailed that 17,229 entered the West Bank from Jordan via the crossing, 131 of whom were foreign nationals and 116 holders of Israeli ID cards. Meanwhile….
Gaza security forces deny entry to Fatah officials
11/28/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Two senior Fatah officials said they were denied entry to Gaza on Sunday by security officers from the Hamas-led government. Abdullah Al-Ifranji and Rouhi Fattouh were dispatched to Gaza by President Mahmoud Abbas to meet with Hamas leaders and work on conciliation between the rival factions, Al-Ifranji said. The officials….
Son of Egypt election candidate stabbed to death
11/28/2010 – CAIRO (AFP) — The son of an independent candidate in Egypt’s parliamentary election was stabbed to death on the eve of the vote as he was putting up posters of his father in Cairo, relatives and a medic said Sunday. Two men attacked Omar Sayyed Sayyed, 24, on Saturday night in the Matariya district….
Jordan king defends parliament at inauguration
11/28/2010 – AMMAN, Jordan (AFP) — King Abdullah II defended Jordan’s new parliament on Sunday but called for amendments to the electoral law challenged by Islamists, as he inaugurated the assembly after an election this month. Dressed in formal military attire, the monarch told members of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate that “the Legislative Authority….
WikiLeaks unleashes flood of confidential US cables
11/28/2010 – WASHINGTON (AFP) — WikiLeaks on Sunday unleashed a torrent of US cables detailing a wide array of potentially explosive diplomatic episodes, from a tense nuclear standoff with Pakistan to Saudi Arabia’s king repeatedly suggesting bombing Iran, the New York Times reported. The cables describe the bazaar-like bargaining over the repatriation of Guantanamo Bay detainees….
US fumes over WikiLeaks release
11/28/2010 – WASHINGTON (AFP) – The WikiLeaks release of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables on Sunday has infuriated Washington, where officials said it could put lives in danger and threaten national security. At least one US lawmaker called for the prosecution of the founder of the whistle-blower website, which had previously released nearly a half million classified military….
Lebanese Prime Minister makes his first visit to Iran
Palestine Note 28 Nov 2010 – Saad Hariri appeals to Tehran for help in calming political turmoil in Lebanon Miami – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri began an official two-day visit to Iran on Saturday in a bid for Iran’s help in…
‘Vote rigging’ mars Egypt election
AlJazeera 28 Nov 2010 – Low turnout, isolated protests, clashes and claims of vote rigging mark country’s parliamentary election as polls close.
Israel to build migrant centre
AlJazeera 28 Nov 2010 – Cabinet votes to build detention facility for thousands of Africans who cross illegally into the country every year.
Crossing the Line: Inside the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall
PNN – Not ironically, the biggest problem for the Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall is organizing. With no functional leadership and no place to meet, they come together in Tel Aviv at vaguely agreed-upon…
Israeli Police Exonerate Officer Who Shot American Activist
PNN – Jerusalem — PNN — The Israeli Police exonerated Israeli Border Police soldier who shot an American art student and activist in the eye on May 31 at a protest in Qalandiyah. In…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (11. — 24 November 2010)
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Analysis: How will Nasrallah react to UN’s Hariri findings
Jeruslalem Post 28 Nov 2010 – If Hizbullah is found guilty of assassinating former Lebanese PM, this would contradict the image it has tried so hard to create over the years.
Analysis: Wikileaks vindicate, don’t damage, Israel
Jeruslalem Post 28 Nov 2010 – The US is clearly listening to what Middle Eastern leaders have to say about Iran – now what are they going to do about it?
Wikileaks: ‘Saudis on Iran: Cut off the head of the snake’
Jeruslalem Post 28 Nov 2010 – US State Dept. documents show Mossad head says US needs to encourage regime change inside Iran; Barak tried to coordinate Operation Cast Lead with PA, Egypt.
Leak: Iran used Red Crescent to smuggle weapons
Jeruslalem Post 28 Nov 2010 – Wikileaks document shows Iranian Revolutionary Guards helped Hizbullah in 2006 Lebanon War, disguised as Red Crescent officials.
Muslim Brotherhood protests alleged fraud in Egypt vote
Jeruslalem Post 28 Nov 2010 – Hundreds demonstrate outside of vote-counting stations after independent monitors barred from and gov’t candidates hand out cash and food to voters.
Hamas bans senior Fatah officials from entering Gaza
Jeruslalem Post 28 Nov 2010 – Officials had been sent by Abbas to end conflict between rival Palestinian factions; Hamas accuses Fatah of ‘lies and fabrications.’
Nasrallah: Evidence held by UN Hariri probe worthless
Jeruslalem Post 28 Nov 2010 – Hizbullah chief calls investigation a biased “Israeli project;” Netherlands-based tribunal may issue indictments this month.
‘French firm drops J’lem project due to political pressure’
Jeruslalem Post 28 Nov 2010 – Dan Bus Lines says Veolia leaving light rail project because of anti-Israel boycotts; French transportation company denies allegations.
International Solidarity Movement
Israeli forces shoots Gazan fisherman at shore
11/28/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – 27 November – At 12:30 pm, Ahmed Mahmoud Jarboh, aged 26, was shot in the back of the left knee by the Israeli Offensive Forces while fishing at the shore of Beit Lahya, in the north of the Gaza Strip. He is currently hospitalized in Kamal Udwan, in the neighboring town Jabalya, where his condition….
Gazan rubble collectors shot by Israeli forces
11/28/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – 27 November – Khalid Ashraf Abosita, 22 years, is in a critical condition after being shot by the Israeli Offensive Forces in Beit Hanoun, a city on the north-east edge of the Gaza Strip. He is currently hospitalized in Shifa hospital in Gaza City. At 6 pm, more than three hours after the assault, Khalid was….
Police exonerate Israeli officer who shot canister that hit U.S. activist’s eye
11/28/2010 – International Solidarity Movement – Haaretz, Chaim Levinson – Art student Emily Henochowicz was seriously injured during a protest against the IDF’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in late May. The Judea and Samaria district police found no criminal wrongdoing in the actions of the Border Police soldiers who left an American art student without an eye after….
Bar-Lev pulls out of police chief race amid sexual assault investigation
Ha’aretz – Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch expected to announce the next police commissioner within 10 days or so; deputy IDF chief denies running for Israel Police commissioner
Netanyahu evades decision on income tax breaks to Arab and Druze towns
Ha’aretz – Residents of 167 communities in the country’s outskirts receive income tax benefits worth a total of NIS 700 million to NIS 750 million.
Dolphins spotted near Rishon Letzion coast
Ha’aretz – Researchers observe five dolphins swimming 5 kilometers from the shore.
Victim of alleged sexual assault by prospective police chief exposes her identity
Ha’aretz – Dr. Orly Innes, a prominent anti-violence advocate and activist, says she relinquishes right to conceal her identity in order to empower other victims of sexual misconduct.
U.S. warns WikiLeaks not to release ‘dangerous’ report
Ha’aretz – Israel braces for publication of cables thought to include private, candid assessments of foreign leaders and governments; State Department: We won’t negotiate with dissemination of illegal documents.
Hamas: Palestinians must resist against Israel in West Bank
Ha’aretz – Khaled Meshal says only armed resistance would keep the Palestinian cause alive, despite Western aid to Abbas and his forces.
Host Arab countries of Palestinian refugees meet in Amman
28 Nov 2010 – Amman, November 28, (Pal Telegraph) — The representative of the Arabian countries which host Palestinian refugees conduct Sunday a preparation meeting in Amman with the participant of The Arab League. The participants will discuss the financial status of the UN Relief and Works Agency ( UNRWA) and the means of facing the difficulties it faces in providing its services for the…
IOF raids villages in west of Nablus
28 Nov 2010 – Nablus, November 28, (Pal Telegraph) — Israeli occupation forces raided Sunday number of villages in the city of Nablus in the north of the West Bank, no detentions were reported. Witnesses said that the Israeli occupation forces raided Frata and Ematin villages in the west of Nablus, adding that they raided number of shops but no detentions were reported. Thay…
IOF raids Hebron, no detentions were reported
28 Nov 2010 – Hebron , November 28 (Pal Telegraph) — Israeli occupation forces raided Sunday Ezna town in the city of Hebron in the West Bank, no detentions were reported. Security sources said to SAFA news agency that the Israeli occupation forces raided number of houses and notified number of Palestinian citizens to visit the Israeli intelligence for questioning. Besides, they raided Noba town,…
IOF shoots 4 workers in north of Gaza
28 Nov 2010 – Gaza, November 28, (Pal Telegraph) — Israeli occupation forces opened fire Sunday at Palestinian workers in north of Gaza Strip, near Erez (Bait Hanoon) crossing. Local sources reported that four workers, one of them was a 15-year-old boy, were shot while they were collecting gravel from destroyed houses in north Gaza. Medical sources added that the injured workers were evacuated…
Leaked cable: Israel asked PA to retake Gaza after war
Uruknet November 28, 2010 – Israel approached the PA and Egypt about potentially assuming control of the Gaza Strip following a theoretical “defeat” of Hamas before Israel’s winter war on Gaza, a leaked US diplomatic cable revealed Sunday…In the report, US officials say that Barak explained, “GOI [Government Of Israel] had consulted with Egypt and Fatah prior to Operation Cast…
US diplomats spied on UN leadership
Uruknet November 28, 2010 – Washington is running a secret intelligence campaign targeted at the leadership of the United Nations, including the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon and the permanent security council representatives from China, Russia, France and the UK. A classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton’s…
Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran to stop nuclear programme
Uruknet November 28, 2010 – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly urged the United States to attack Iran to destroy its nuclear programme, according to leaked US diplomatic cables that describe how other Arab allies have secretly agitated for military action against Tehran. The revelations, in secret memos from US embassies across the Middle East, expose behind-the-scenes pressures in…
US embassy cables leak sparks global diplomatic crisis
Uruknet November 28, – The United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year. At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables — many designated “secret”…
Workers shot on Gaza border
Uruknet November 28, 2010 – Israeli forces shot and injured four Palestinian workers who were collecting stone aggregates Sunday near the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli authorities closed the terminal to all traffic except medical cases. Medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said four people were treated at Kamal Udwan hospital for injuries to their lower bodies. An…
Officer Who Shot American Activist In Her Eye Exonerated
Uruknet November 28, 2010 – The Israeli District Police in the Occupied West Bank exonerated an Israeli Army officer who shot an American peace activist in her eye during a protest at the Qalandia terminal, north of Jerusalem, six months ago. On May 31, the 21-year old American Art student, Emily Henochowicz, was hit in her eye with a tear…
Irish Groups Continue Supporting BDS
Alternative Information Center – Members of Ireland’sDublin Food Co-Opvoted overwhelmingly to boycott Israeli goods at a Special General Meeting on 25 November.This was the third attempt over the last 2 years to bring in a boycott of Israeli goods, reported…
Presbyterian Mission Network Joins BDS, Calls for Boycotts, Supports Kairos
Alternative Information Center – In response to a call to action from the Christians of the Holy Land, The Israel/Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) of the Presbyterian Church (USA) [PC(USA)] voted at its annual meeting to join the international boycott of…
Another BDS Victory: Queensland Council of Unions Carries BDS Campaign Motion
Alternative Information Center – Palestine / Israel Conflict and Boycott Divestment and Sanctions BDS Campaign Motion, 17 November 2010
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
Opposition cries foul in Egyptian election
Daily Star 28 Nov 2010 KUWAIT CITY: A prominent Kuwaiti lawyer who previously defended people suspected of Al-Qaeda links said he filed a lawsuit Sunday against Lebanon’s Prime Minister and Interior Minister over his alleged illegal detention and mistreatment. “Today I…
Kuwait lawyer sues Hariri over detention
Daily Star 28 Nov 2010 KUWAIT CITY: A prominent Kuwaiti lawyer who previously defended people suspected of Al-Qaeda links said he filed a lawsuit Sunday against Lebanon’s Prime Minister and Interior Minister over his alleged illegal detention and mistreatment. “Today I…
America considering military options against Iran, says top US military officer
Daily Star 28 Nov 2010 WASHINGTON: Suspicious of Iran’s nuclear capacity, the US is weighing military options in the face of Tehran’s announcement it had a nuclear power plant up and running, the top US military officer said Sunday. “We’ve actually…
Tuk-tuks and cheap fuel edge out donkey carts in Gaza
Daily Star 28 Nov 2010 GAZA CITY: Gaza’s donkey carts – slow, but cheap and essential for survival in this scruffy land – have finally met their match. They are being edged out by an Asian import, a blend of motorcycle…
US troops in convoy kill Iraqi civilian
Daily Star 28 Nov 2010 US troops who thought they were under attack killed an Iraqi airport employee Sunday as he drove near a military convoy on his way to work, officials said.The driver, identified by colleagues as Baghdad International Airport…
Jordan’s king urges new Parliament to speed reforms
Daily Star 28 Nov 2010 AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah Sunday called for changes to Jordan’s electoral law that would widen representation, after an election boycotted by the influential Islamists and hit by voter apathy in major cities. He told the first…
US embassy cables: US treasury pledges Obama will pressure Iran
The Guardian 28 Nov 2010 – Wednesday, 10 December 2008, 08:10 S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 04 TEL AVIV 002760 SIPDIS TREASURY FOR LEVEY, S. ATHENS FOR PURCELL, A. EO 12958 DECL: 12/10/2018 TAGS KTFN, EFIN, ECON, KWBG,…
Israel recruits citizen advocates in Europe
The Guardian 28 Nov 2010 – ‘Allies and friends’ will promote government policy to press and public meetings as part of fresh PR drive Israel has instructed its embassies in 10 European countries, including the UK, each to recruit 1,000 members of…
Humanitarian Affairs of the Islamic Conference Heads to Gaza Strip Next Saturday
Relief Web 28 Nov 2010 – Source: Organization of the Islamic Conference
The 8th Week Against the Apartheid Wall — From Argentina to Australia, a Worldwide Call for the Wall to Fall!
Stop The Wall – This year’s Week Against the Apartheid Wall came against the backdrop of another round of peace talks doomed to failure, where once again the negotiators give the Israeli Occupation a free hand in dictating terms which would allow it to sustain its racist and illegal practices. [
WikiLeaks: Israel wanted PA to take Gaza
YNet News – WikiLeaks documents, released Sunday in various newspapers, reveal that Defense Minister Ehud Barak tried to coordinate Operation Cast Lead with the Palestinian Authority …….
WikiLeaks: Red Crescent smuggled weapons for Iran
YNet News – Secret documents leaked by the controversial Web entity WikiLeaks say Iran used ambulances to smuggle weapons into Lebanon during Hezbollah’s 2006 war with Israel. …….
WikiLeaks: Clinton ordered probe on UN chief
YNet News – WikiLeaks revealed Sunday that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered a probe on UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as well as an investigation on possible ties …….
Russia to Israel: Technology for canceling S-300 deal
YNet News – Russia offered Israel $1 billion for advanced drone (automatic aircraft) technologies, and in addition offered to cancel the deal to supply Iran with S-300 missiles, …….
B’tselem hands Naalin shooting tape to police
YNet News – The B’tselem organization handed over a tape in which an IDF soldier is seen shooting at the foot of a bound Palestinian protestor in Naalin, two and a half years after …….
Nasrallah: Hariri probe ‘will not weaken resistance’
YNet News – Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday the UN team investigating the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri would not “discourage the …….
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Hamas: Fatah’s fabrications to cover Abbas’s security practices
PIC 28 Nov 2010 – Hamas has denounced the Fatah factions’ attempt to fabricate “police stories”, adding that such lies were meant to cover the practices of Fatah-controlled security militias.
Bahar meets Sudanese vice president
PIC 28 Nov 2010 – A Palestinian parliamentary delegation led by first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council Dr. Ahmed Bahar met in Khartoum on Sunday Sudanese vice president Ali Othman Taha.
Hamas calls for the immediate release of Jericho detainees
PIC 28 Nov 2010 – Hamas movement has called on the security militias loyal to Fatah leader and de facto president Mahmoud Abbas to release all political detainees.
Israel to build 625 settlement units east of O. Jerusalem
PIC 28 Nov 2010 – Director of maps and survey center at the Orient House Khalil Tufakji revealed that Israel intends to build 625 new housing units in Pisgat Ze’ev settlement in east Jerusalem.
Prisoners Abu Hija and Abu Ghalma on hunger strike in solitary
PIC 28 Nov 2010 – Ahrar center for prisoners’ studies said that prisoners Jamal Abul Hija and Ahed Abu Ghalma have been on hunger strike for two days in protest at banning them from seeing their families.
Palestinian young woman severely tortured by Israeli soldiers from Nahshon unit
PIC 28 Nov 2010 – Sumoud Karrajeh, 22, said She was violently attacked and seriously wounded by Israeli troops from Nahshon prison unit during her transfer from jail to a military court earlier this month.
Mishaal calls for resistance in the West Bank
PIC 28 Nov 2010 – Chairman of Hamas’s political bureau Khaled Mishaal said that his movement was facing big challenges in the occupied West Bank.
Detainees in Jericho jail on hunger strike to death in protest at violations
PIC 28 Nov 2010 – Palestinian detainees from Hamas in the Jericho prison administrated the Palestinian authority went on open hunger strike until death in protest at the serious violations committed against them.
Four new casualties in northern Gaza in IOF shooting
PIC 28 Nov 2010 – Four Palestinian workers were wounded when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at them in northern Gaza during their work in collecting gravel, medical sources reported.
Haneyya receives Road to Hope activists in Gaza
PIC 28 Nov 2010 – Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya received Saturday the participants in the European Road to Hope convoy that arrived in the besieged Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Iran ‘must be stopped’: Arab leaders pushed U.S. to attack, WikiLeaks disclosures show
LA Times 28 Nov 2010 – Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show Saudi Arabia and Bahrain as among nations strongly urging the U.S. to attack Iran and destroy its nuclear facilities. The cables reveal the fear of Iran in the Arab world. Leaders of the oil-rich Arabian Peninsula monarchies repeatedly have beseeched the United States to attack Iran and take out its nuclear facilities, according to a series of classified diplomatic cables released to news organizations by the website Wikileaks.
Diplomats tread in spy territory in WikiLeaks’ disclosures
LA Times 28 Nov 2010 – Media begin to report on information from diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. Among sensitive revelations: Diplomats doing surprising work and some Arab nations urging the U.S. to attack Iran. Five U.S. and European news organizations began Sunday to report information from a huge trove of diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, disclosures that could strain U.S. relations with a variety of other nations.
Around the World, Distress Over Iran
New York Times 28 Nov 2010 – Cables show how two presidents have dealt with Iran and how President Obama built support for harsher sanctions.
The Lede: Israel’s Unorthodox Facebook Campaign
New York Times 28 Nov 2010 – Israel’s military said this week that it has used Facebook to catch about 1,000 women who falsely claimed that they were Orthodox Jews in order to gain exemptions from military service.
Need For Speed Jericho
Palestine Monitor – Motor racing in Palestine has been growing in popularity for both genders. Friday’s event in Jericho exemplified the trend for well-attended, fiercely competitive races. Photography by Brynn Ruba. Read about Palestinian women’s races here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10184696
Wexler told Israelis, American people will support attack on Iran if talks are tried and fail
Mondoweiss – From the Wikileaks US Embassy cables . Robert Wexler is the former Florida congressman who has gone on to head a Jewish organization, and who people are always hinting is about to join the Obama administration as a Middle East envoy. How does he operate? Here are…
Wikileaks ‘Embassy cables’ are now breaking…
Mondoweiss – The Wikileaks dump of “US Embassy cables” that include Israel Palestine has apparently started dropping. At the Guardian site . Here’s a juicy one. Stuart Levey , under secretary of the Treasury in the Bush Administration, goes to Israel two weeks after the presidential election in ’08, and…
Egypt’s military dictatorship holds parliamentary elections
Mondoweiss – Ali Glenesk is a Berkeley alum currently working as a media monitor at a communications agency in Cairo.student living in Cairo. She blogged about today’s elections at her site . She took the shot at left of posters supporting candidates from Mubarak’s “National Democratic Party.” 508 parliamentary…
The regrets of a war-party liberal
Mondoweiss – From the last two paragraphs of George Packer’s review in The New Yorker of George W. Bush’s book, Decision Points: [Bush’s] decisions, he still believes, made America safer, gave Iraqis hope, and changed the future of the Middle East for the better. Of these three claims,…
Yehoshua sanitizes
Mondoweiss – Israeli novelist AB Yehoshua is upset by the battle developing over Zionism world-wide, and he is trying to turn down the heat with a piece in Haaretz . I don’t think he succeeds. First an excerpt, in which he portrays ethnic discrimination as all in a day’s…
Maariv: Turkish FM says he envisions one Israeli-Palestinian state under Ankara’s protection
Coteret 28 Nov 2010 – The sourcing, as is usual in the Israeli media, is poor. It appears that Maariv’s Eli Bardenstein was on some sort of government junket in Turkey. Over the past few days, other Israeli journalists posted status updates from Istanbul. The full translation of his report is…
Egypt votes in parliamentary poll
BBC 28 Nov 2010 – Egyptians vote in parliamentary elections, following a campaign that has seen clashes between the opposition and security forces.
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Israel can’t put occupation up for immoral referendum
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Israeli Occupation Archive11/28/2010
Israeli democracy at its best: The entire people will decide on the next peace arrangement, but not on the question of settlements and annexation, and not on the question of wars
Israeli democracy at its best: The entire people will decide on the next peace arrangement, but not on the question of settlements and annexation, and not on the question of wars. Israeli trickery at its best: Legislators pass laws relating to the day an arrangement is forged whose point is to defer that day’s arrival for as long as possible. And Israeli morality at its best: A manifestly immoral question is formulated for a referendum, and insult is added to injury because only we Israelis, members of the chosen people, will decide on the fate of another people which has for generations lived under occupation, and we dare to call all this tomfoolery democracy. In fact, this is Israeli chutzpah at its worst.
The question to be addressed in a referendum is immoral. The continuation of the occupation is now subject to a ballot measure — as though such a question can conceivably be asked. Voters will be asked who is in favor of continued occupation, and who is against it.
Exactly as an agreement over stolen property forged in the criminal underworld would never be acceptable in a courtroom, so too is such a question about continuing an occupation entirely untenable.
Similarly, the thought that only we will decide whether Syrian residents of the Golan Heights and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip will receive the right of self determination and basic liberties is utterly preposterous, and it bears witness to the extent to which values of morality and justice have become warped and distorted in this country. The basic fact has long been forgotten, as though it never existed: At issue here is an illegitimate conquest that is not recognized by any state in the world. more.. e-mail
Israeli Settlers’ Violence Report — September and October 2010
Ahmad Jaradat, Alicia Isani, AIC, Alternative Information Center11/18/2010
Introduction
The following report highlights a drastic change in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians, not only because of the increasing number of aggressions but also because of the evolution of the violence itself.
In September and October 2009, only a few aggressions against Palestinian farmers — related to harvest, land and farming equipment — were reported. Yet approximately 22 incidents of this kind were reported this year for the same period. Even if this time of year is particularly violent in the West Bank due to the olive harvesting season, other notable changes can be observed this year.
One explanation for the violent evolution that took place over the past two months is the end of Israel’s ten month partial settlement freeze on 26 September 2010. On 26 September, settlers and their supporters publicly celebrated the beginning of a new wave of illegal construction in the West Bank, a celebration they had been preparing since the beginning of September. The month of October was thus particularly characterized by a new wave of violence, land grabbing and destruction due to the construction of new outposts and the expansion of existing settlements. This decision — along with the inability of international leaders to force Israel to apply a new settlement freeze so that negotiations could continue — was largely perceived by the settlers and their leaders as recognition of their presence in the West Bank and as encouragement to go ahead with their colonization. According to a report written by the Israeli organization Peace Now, 1,126 construction sites have been opened in the West Bank since the end of the settlement freeze. more.. e-mail
A distorted revolution: Tea Party stooges of Israel
Paul J. Balles, Redress11/28/2010
If the Tea Party rally in America represented a sane, honest, non-violent revolution, it could make a lot of sense as a populist movement.
Unfortunately, it’s been spearheaded by a psycho and supported by what some have labelled “wing nuts” — a current brand name for crazies and the brainless.
The name “Tea Party” alludes to the Boston Tea Party, a 1773 incident when American colonists destroyed British tea rather than pay what they considered a tax that violated their right to “No Taxation without Representation”.
About the current Tea-Partiers, pollster Scott Rasmussen says: “They think federal spending, deficits and taxes are too high, and they think no one in Washington is listening to them, and that latter point is really important.”
Expressed concerns by Tea Party supporters have included cutting the size of government, lowering taxes, reducing wasteful spending, the national debt and federal budget deficit, and adherence to an “originalist” interpretation of the United States Constitution.
Headlining an article by Matt Taibbi, Alternet writes “By rallying behind dingbats and morons like [Sarah] Palin and Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party has made anti-intellectualism its rallying cry.
Taibbi writes: “…movements like the Tea Party more than anything else reflect a widespread longing for simpler times and simple solutions.” Unfortunately, as he also points out, we’re living in an extremely complex world where there are no simple solutions.more.. e-mail
Need For Speed Jericho
Palestine Monitor: 28 Nov 2010 – Motor racing in Palestine has been growing in popularity for both genders. Friday’s event in Jericho exemplified the trend for well-attended, fiercely competitive races. Photography by Brynn Ruba. Read about Palestinian women’s races here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10184696more
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