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Army Eyes At Demolishing Palestinian Village To Expand Settlement
IMEMC – Thursday January 20, 2011 – 01:50, Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday “Khirbit At Taweel”, a small village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and handed the residents military orders to demolish their clay homes by Thursday.
Dozens Of Palestinians Injured in East Jerusalem Clashes
IMEMC – Thursday January 20, 2011 – 00:37, Medical sources reported on Wednesday at night that dozens of Palestinian residents were injured in clashes that took place in Silwan neighborhood, Ras Al Amoud, and the Shu’fat Refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem.
Data Shows Israeli Arabs Work Longer Hours,Yet Earn Less Than Jews
IMEMC – Wednesday January 19, 2011 – 13:40, According to 2008 data, the average gross salary per household was much lower for Arabs – NIS 8,818, compared to NIS 14,242 for Jews.
WZO Settlements Division Back With Netanyahu
IMEMC – Wednesday January 19, 2011 – 12:35, The World Zionist Organisation’s (WZO) Settlements Division is again under the control of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office after a period of nearly four years with the Agriculture Ministry.
Soldiers Kidnap 14 Members Of Fateh, PFLP
IMEMC – Wednesday January 19, 2011 – 11:48, Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Wednesday at dawn more than 14 Palestinian youths, all under the age of 21, apparently for their affiliation with the Fateh movement of President Mahmoud Abbas, and the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Racism In Jewish Schools; “A Dead Arab Is A Good Arab”
IMEMC – Wednesday January 19, 2011 – 11:21, A number of teachers working in Jewish Schools in Israel stated that more instances of racism are reaching alarming levels as more students are expressing their views that exceeded their hatred to Arabs to the level of advocating for killing them.
Barak Announced His New-Born Party, Independence
IMEMC – Wednesday January 19, 2011 – 10:16, After publicly announcing his resignation from the Labor Party, Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, announced on Monday the birth of a new party, running under his command, called “Independence Party”.
Palestinian Killed, Two Children Wounded In Israeli Bombardment of Northern Gaza
IMEMC – Wednesday January 19, 2011 – 04:19, Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday evening that one resident was killed and two children were wounded , after the Israeli army bombarded an area in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
For The First Time, PLO Mission In DC Raises Flag Outside Office Building
IMEMC – Wednesday January 19, 2011 – 02:00, In a symbolic move towards the recognition of an independent Palestinian State, the Palestinian mission in Washington raised the Palestinian flag outside its office building.
14 detained in large arrest raid near Nablus
1/19/2011 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israel’s military carried out an extensive arrest raid in the northern West Bank early Wednesday, locals said. Fourteen young members of Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were seized in Burqa village, onlookers said. The military used ground vehicles and an aerial drone as soldiers….
Clashes in Shu’fat spread to neighboring area
1/19/2011 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The Shu’fat checkpoint into Jerusalem was closed Tuesday evening after two rounds of clashes broke out in the vicinity, injuring several Palestinians and one soldier, medics said. As clashes continued Israeli police entered the refugee camp adjacent to the checkpoint, closing all entrances and firing rubber-coated bullets and tear-gas….
Brigades claim fire on Israeli civilians
1/19/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A statement from the Gaza militant group the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades said Wednesday that fighters targeted a civilian Israeli vehicle traveling on the main road near the border and fired. The brigades, affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said the attack was against “three settler….
Report: US to oppose condemnation of settlements
1/19/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The US opposes the submission of a Palestinian and Arab draft resolution condemning the expansion of settlements in the West Bank at the United Nations, the US State Dept. says. Dept. spokesman Philip Crowley was quoted by Israel’s Channel 10 as saying that the only way to establish a…. Related: Palestine hopeful US won’t use veto
H1N1 continues to spread in Gaza
1/19/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Ministry of Health in Gaza City said Wednesday that a total of eight Strip residents had been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus over the previous week, including one health worker. Minister of Health Basem Na’eem said the eight were being treated in isolation units and said all….
Goldstone in context
1/19/2011 – A culture of impunity in the region has existed for too long. The lack of accountability. . . has reached a crisis point;. . . Time and again, experience has taught us that overlooking justice only leads to increased conflict. . .” On the first annual commemoration of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, Ma’an presents a three-week series….
A week of ‘abandonment, desperation, suffocation, isolation’
1/19/2011 – Bethlehem – Ma’an – On 12 January 2009, one year ago today, nine Palestinian detainees were blindfolded, handcuffed, and transported to Israel’s Erez border crossing. Several hours later, they were told to run into Gaza, to look straight ahead – and not to look back. During their time at Erez, the nine were subjected….
1 Gaza crossing open
1/19/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities decided to partially open the Karem Shalom crossing while shutting down Karni over unspecified “security concerns.” Palestinian liaison official Raed Fatouh told Ma’an that Karem Shalom will be opened to allow at least 160 truckloads of aid to the commerce and agriculture sectors and to pump….
Palestinians hoist flag in Washington for first time
1/19/2011 – WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington on Tuesday hoisted its national flag for the first time, a highly symbolic gesture that drew an angry response from a senior US lawmaker. The US State Department, enmeshed in an uphill struggle to revive stalled Middle East peace talks, said that the ceremony was approved several….
Hamas: Israeli Qaeda claim ‘borders on incitement’
1/19/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas leader Salah Al-Bardawil reiterated Wednesday the movement’s insistence that there was no Al-Qaeda presence in the Gaza Strip, after an Israeli security official said there were some 500 active “militant activists” operating in the territory. On Tuesday, head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security organization….
Palestine hopeful US won’t use veto
1/19/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Member of the Palestinian negotiating committee Nabil Shaath told a French delegation Tuesday that he believed the US would have a hard time using their veto on a draft resolution submitted to the UN over Israeli settlement building. US officials, however, the same day warned at the United Nations that putting…. Related: Report: US to oppose condemnation of settlements
Palestinians protest in solidarity with Tunisia
1/19/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinians on Wednesday prepared to protest in solidarity with Tunisia, as the authorities there faced hundreds of demonstrators voicing dissent against Tunis’ newly declared unity government. Palestinians planned demonstrations in Ramallah, Jerusalem and Jaffa, activists said.”Tunis’s revolution has proven, once again, that freedom is never voluntarily given….
Fayyad: Salaries increasing faster than prices
1/19/2011 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Ramallah premier Salam Fayyad says the Palestinian Authority has been paying special attention to the living conditions of Palestinian citizens as one of the PA’s top priorities.”Any responsible government must always take care of citizens’ living conditions. To deal with this major issue objectively, there are two….
Hamas woman released from PA custody
1/19/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — President Mahmoud Abbas ordered the release of Tamam Abu As-Saud, a Hamas-affiliated woman who has been detained on charges of involvement with a Hamas cell planning to assassinate Palestinian officials. A security source told Ma’an that the release was a response tot he woman’s appeal for amnesty….
Israel cabinet reshuffles after new party formed
1/19/2011 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday, incorporating members of a new party formed by Defense Minister Ehud Barak after he left the Labor party. The line-up, announced by Netanyahu’s office, sees Barak retain his portfolio, as expected, after he announced on Monday he was quitting Labor to….
Researcher: Rape laws blurry for Israelis
1/19/2011 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — More than 60 percent of Israeli men and 40 percent of women do not believe that forcing sex on an acquaintance constitutes rape, an Israeli researcher said Tuesday. The findings, set to be published in a book in the US later in the year, indicate a stark difference between public perceptions of what….
First sleep lab in Palestine inaugurated
1/19/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – The first sleep laboratory in Palestine was inaugurated Tuesday at the Al-Yamama Hospital in Al-Khadr, south of Bethlehem,in cooperation with Medipharm Company. Dr Issa Ja’nina, head of Al-Yamama’s medical staff, says sleep therapy “is not a luxurious practice anymore, as some think, after science proved that….
Netanyahu under fire from Israeli left and right
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – NPR – A heated debate is under way in Israel over issues of racism, freedom of expression and dissent. And Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing criticism from all sides because of it. It’s been…
Russia, Jordan vow to achieve independent state
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Haaretz – The leaders of Jordan and Russia on Wednesday vowed to work together to achieve an independent Palestinian state and boosted cooperation in the energy sector. “I have told my Palestinian friends that the eventual…
Arab nations submit draft UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Haaretz – Arab nations have submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank, but a vote on it is not expected any time soon because of a likely…
Arabs reject foreign “interference” on Christians
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Arabiya – Arab leaders on Wednesday voiced their “total rejection” of foreign interference in Arab affairs, especially over the region’s Christian minorities. “Arab kings and presidents … express their total rejection of attempts by certain states and…
South Sudan capital votes overwhelmingly in favor to break away
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Al Arabiya – The once sleepy south Sudan town that hopes to become the world’s newest national capital opted 97.5 percent for independence, preliminary results from a landmark vote showed on Wednesday. Full preliminary results from…
Ian McEwan says he will accept Jerusalem prize
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – The Guardian – In a long literary career the novelist Ian McEwan has won prizes from many parts of the western world, but none perhaps as potentially controversial as the Jerusalem prize, which will be awarded…
Amr Moussa: The Arab soul is broken
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Secretary General of Arab League laments economic woes Al Masry Al Youm – The secretary general of the Arab League on Wednesday linked the upheaval in Tunisia to deteriorating economic conditions throughout the Arab world, warning…
Tunisia’s revolution shows hollowness of Arab system in face of people power
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Amr Hamzawy, Los Angeles Times – The citizens “revolution” in Tunisia that forced dictator Zine el Abidine ben Ali to flee the country provides many lessons for the Arab world. Regimes should keep the lessons in…
Syrian opposition hails Tunisia as democratic model
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Alert Net – Opponents of Syria’s autocratic leader said on Tuesday that the overthrow of dictatorship in Tunisia undermines claims by Arab governments that repression is the only alternative to either chaos or extreme Islamist rule….
Tunisia revolt makes Islamist threat ring hollow
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Tom Pfeiffer, Alert Net – The absence of Islamist slogans from Tunisia’s pro-democracy revolt punches a hole in the argument of many Arab autocrats that they are the bulwark stopping religious radicals sweeping to power. Ousted…
Palestinian faults Arabs over Jerusalem support
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Alert Net – Arab states are failing to help the Palestinians in Jerusalem, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday, criticising them for paying only a fraction of funds pledged to sustain Palestinian life there. Foreign Minister…
Arab summit to ‘boost economies’
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Al Jazeera – In the wake of the economy-related unrest in Tunisia, Arab leaders are expected to commit to a proposed $2bn programme to boost faltering Arab economies. The pledge was made in a document obtained…
Lebanon Shows Shift of Influence in Mideast
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Anthony Shadid, New York Times -In Lebanon’s worst crisis in years, whose resolution may determine whether Hezbollah controls a government allied with the United States, American diplomacy has become the butt of jokes here. Once a…
Egypt’s Israeli Conspiracy Psyche
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Mohamed Elmeshad, Al Masry Al Youm – Before former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali’s unceremonious ousting from power, he resorted to the desperate tactic many dictators attempt when faced with questions they can’t answer. He…
WikiLeaks: US pushed for Israeli, Palestinian intelligence
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – Alert Net – The United States instructed its Middle East diplomats in 2008 to gather data on encrypted Israeli communications and build financial and “biometric” profiles of Palestinian leaders, a leaked embassy cable shows. The secret…
Hariri tribunal: Saudi Arabia quits Lebanon mediation
Palestine Note 19 Jan 2011 – BBC News – The Saudi foreign minister says Riyadh has abandoned mediation efforts to end the political crisis in Lebanon caused by the UN-backed Hariri tribunal. King Abdullah ended the Saudi-Syrian initiative because of a lack…
S Africa rejects Livni arrest call
AlJazeera 19 Jan 2011 – Bid to arrest ex-Israeli foreign minister for alleged war crimes over her role in 2008-2009 war on Gaza is turned down.
Saudi opts out of Lebanon talks
AlJazeera 19 Jan 2011 – Kingdom withdraws from efforts aimed at easing tensions triggered by Hezbollah’s pull-out from Lebanese government.
Abbas: East Jerusalem is Our Capital and We Will Not Negotiate for It
PNN – Jericho – PNN – After what he called a “historic” meeting with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Jericho army cadets, “Jerusalem is our capital…
Israeli Forces Arrest 18 in West Bank, Including 15 in One Village
PNN – Nablus – PNN – In a series of overnight raids around the occupied West Bank ending on Wednesday morning, Israeli troops arrested 18 civilians, including 15 in the village of Barqeh, near…
Russian President Medvedev Reaffirms Recognition of Palestinian State; Abbas Awards Palestine Star
PNN – Jericho – PNN – On his Tuesdsay visit to the West Bank city of Jericho, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev said Russia still recognized an independent Palestinian state just as it had in…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (06-12 January 2011)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Tweens use ‘virtual home’ to learn environmental protection
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Sviva Israel launches Web-based ‘Eco Campus’ allowing children to log on and continue expanding their knowledge in fun, interactive environment.
PA accuses Hamas of stealing donated medicines
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – West Bank health spokesman says Hamas had been stealing or hiding medicine, creating shortage of supplies for hospitals, clinics in Gaza Strip.
UN met only 52% of target for Palestinian aid in 2010
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – First time such large gap exists between initial aid request, amount of money donated since UN began humanitarian appeal to member states, international organizations in 2003.
Soldier involved in shooting of Palestinian dismissed
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – 66-year-old Omar Qawasmeh was shot and killed by IDF soldiers during raid on home of his nephew in West Bank.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood: Dissolve parliament
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Egypt’s largest opposition movement demands from Mubarak new elections, constitutional amendments after Tunisian popular uprising.
Muslim Brotherhood demands Mubarak dissolve parliament
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Egypt’s largest opposition movement called for new elections, constitutional amendments after Tunisian popular uprising
French FM in Israel to touch on situation in Tunisia
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Dermer takes TIME to task for ‘particularly egregious’ article on Netanyahu gov’t; Alliot-Marie to discuss peace, visit Gaza.
IDF: Bil’in protester died of medical malpractice
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Army probe into death of Jawaher Abu Rahma finds she overdosed on drug mistakenly administered at Ramallah hospital; tear gas not to blame.
UN resolution draft demanding settlement halt submitted
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Matter brought to Security Council by Lebanon despite explicit US opposition; Israel says move diverts sides from reaching peace.
Abbas orders release of Hamas woman from PA jail
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Tamam Abu Saud was part of a cell that allegedly planned to assassinate the PA governor of Nablus after she asked for forgiveness.
10 Tunisian Jews make aliyah after violent riots
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Jewish Agency helps family of 10 move to Israel, while an additional 10 Jews from Tunisia visit until things stabilize at home.
Palestinian journalist goes missing in Syria
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Norway-based writer Muheeb al-Nawathy’s family suspects that he is being held by Syrian intelligence or a radical Palestinian group.
Israel Museum celebrates: 500,000 Visitors in six months
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Museum directors’ announce record-high attendance since inauguration of renewed campus in July 2010; report projects up to one million visitors in 2011, highest number in museum’s history.
‘Stop sedition in Lebanon or your hands will be cut off’
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – During live speech, Iranian president warns US, Israel, Europe: “Your decline is on a fast track”; Saudi foreign minister: Situation in Lebanon is “dangerous,” could be end of country as “model of peaceful coexistence.”
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Saudi Arabia ends effort to mediate in Lebanon
Jeruslalem Post 19 Jan 2011 – Decision means key US ally won’t be involved in efforts to ease tensions in Lebanon after gov’t topples; Saudi foreign minister: situation is “dangerous,” could be “end of Lebanon as model of peaceful coexistence.”
Labor MK Cabel to Netanyahu: Barak is our gift to you
Ha’aretz – Labor MKs slam Ehud Barak during Knesset plenum called to approve new coalition with ministers from Barak’s newly formed Atzmaut faction.
Turkel Committee defends choice of Galant for IDF chief
Ha’aretz – High Court rejects petition to bar him from assuming post until allegations regarding suspected land grab have cleared.
Israel extends remand of suspect in Bosnia mass murder
Ha’aretz – Aleksander Cvetkovic, 42, is suspected of participating in the murder of at least 1,000 Bosnian Muslims at the Branjevo farm near the city of Zvornik.
Nurses strike across Israel after treasury fails to meet demands
Ha’aretz – Following through with threats made earlier this month, nurses have decided not to admit new patients to general hospitals that are over 100% capacity.
Incoming IDF chief to face hearing over alleged land grab
Ha’aretz – Green Party request that Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant’s appointment be delayed until the affair can be investigated.
Attorney general: No ‘civil suit’ compensation for police chief killed in Carmel wildfire
Ha’aretz – Haifa’s district court should dismiss a the NIS 2 million lawsuit brought by the partner of Haifa’s fallen police chief, attorney general says.
Users flood Facebook page of Barak’s new Atzmaut party with criticism
Ha’aretz – The breakaway faction of the Labor party, Atzmaut, was quick to create a presence on the web, but it was just as quickly attacked by angry users.
Labor’s ‘final four’ to stay in party after Barak’s resignation
Ha’aretz – Ehud Barak’s resignation caught Peretz, Cabel, Majadele and Ben-Simon by surprise after they had tried to split off from Labor for months.
Barak’s Atzmaut faction receives four portfolios in coalition government
Ha’aretz – Former Labor Chairman Ehud Barak remains defense minister in Likud-led coalition; Amir Peretz under heavy pressure to remain in Labor.
Braverman to Haaretz: Lieberman harmed Israel’s relations with its Arab citizens
Ha’aretz – Labor’s Minority Affairs minister, who resigned from the government on Monday, says present goal is to ‘topple the regime of Netanyahu, Lieberman, Barak.’
Journalist Yehuda Lahav posthumously awarded Slovakian lifetime achievement prize
Ha’aretz – Lahav given award in honor of his work as a journalist and his dedication to cementing Israel-Slovakia ties.
IDF: Death of Bil’in woman caused by poor medical care in Ramallah
Ha’aretz – Military investigation finds that Jawaher Abu Rahmah was misdiagnosed and given the wrong treatment at the hospital after inhaling tear gas at a demonstration in Bil’in last month.
Israeli rights group B’Tselem urges government to probe Gaza War
Ha’aretz – B’Tselem provided its own casualty count of the war, saying that 1,390 Palestinians had been killed, at least 759 non-combatants.
Arab nations submit draft UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements
Ha’aretz – Israel’s UN envoy absent from meeting at which resolution was submitted due to Foreign Ministry strike.
Russia, Jordan vow to achieve an independent Palestinian state
Ha’aretz – Medvedev in Amman: The target is the establishment of a modern, unified and sovereign Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Hamas denies presence of al-Qaida activists in Gaza
Ha’aretz – Hamas official says Shin Bet chief was trying to cause antagonism towards Hamas by claiming that al-Qaida activists were behind recent violence in Gaza., Ahmadinejad tells U.S. and Israel that…
WikiLeaks: U.S. told diplomats to gather intelligence on Israel, PA
Ha’aretz – Leaked cable shows that the U.S. instructed its diplomats in 2008 to gather data on encrypted Israel communications and to build profiles of Palestinian leaders.
U.S. told to ‘sabotage’ Iran’s nuclear program, says WikiLeaks
Ha’aretz – Leading expert advised U.S. officials that actions such as ‘unexplained accidents’ and ‘computer hacking’ would be ‘more effective’ than a ‘devastating’ military strike, The Guardian reports, citing a January 2010…
Israel promises Christian site encircled by mines will be safe for pilgrims
Ha’aretz – Just months before the official opening of one of Christianity’s holiest sites to visitors, the area where John the Baptist is said to have baptized Jesus remains surrounded by thousands…
On eve of nuclear talks, Iran says Obama’s policy has failed
Ha’aretz – Six world powers to meet Tehran envoys in Istanbul this week to resume long-suspended negotiations; Iran tells reporters in New York: Obama repeating Bush’s mistakes.
Shin Bet chief: Al-Qaida affiliated groups behind Gaza violence
Ha’aretz – The security services head spoke to Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee after IDF opened fire on militants on Gaza border earlier in the day.
Palestinian Flag in Washington
19 Jan 2011 – Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) – The Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington on Tuesday hoisted its national flag for the first time, a highly symbolic gesture that drew an angry response from a senior US lawmaker.
Another tunnel worker dies of serious injuries
19 Jan 2011 – Gaza, ( Pal Telegraph) -Another Gazan worker, who was injured on the tenth of this month due to a tunnel collapse, died Wednesday, Safa News Agency reported.
Israel detains 14 Palestinians, erects checkpoints in WB
19 Jan 2011 – West Bank, ( Pal Telegraph) -Israeli occupation forces detained Wednesday 14 citizens from Barqa village southern Nablus, in the West Bank.
Palestinian killed, two injured as Israel raids Gaza
19 Jan 2011 – Gaza, ( Pal Telegraph) -One Palestinian was killed and two were injured yesterday as Israeli artilleries shelled Abu Safia hill in the east of Jabalya, northern Gaza strip.
Death and Birth in Gaza: A Story of a Shepherd
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – When you do not distinguish between combatants and unarmed civilians during war, then you deserve to be named a ‘terrorist.’ It makes no difference what your religion is! That is exactly what happened thousands of miles away and two days before last Christmas, when Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian shepherd in the back and…
Video : Lebanon tense as Saudi quits talks
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – Saudi Arabia has abandoned its position as mediator in Lebanon, making it less likely that a speedy resolution to the crisis will emerge. Last week, Hezbollah and other opposition parties withdrew their support from Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s coalition government, forcing it to collapse. Political and sectarian divisions have also resurfaced following the UN draft…
Voices Beyond WallsPalestinian refugee teens from Gaza and the West bank express themselves through art
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – The University of East London is now hosting a screening of nine short films and photography produced by Palestinian youth. “The Re-imagining project: Al Aroub refugee camp and Gaza” exhibition features the creations from teenagers from Al Aroub refugee camp in the West Bank, and Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza. The students produced the photos…
Symbolism isn’t Everything… But it is Something
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – Critics may say that the string of recognitions by South American countries of the State of Palestine mean nothing in practice. They might be right. Just because Brazil or Argentina say they recognize a state within the 1967 borders doesn’t automatically make it true. Neither does the fact that the Palestinian flag was raised for…
No place to sleep for Lydd family
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – Hamza Abu Eid, 17, was at school when he first heard the news that his extended family’s seven homes in Lydd — a mixed but segregated Palestinian and Jewish area of Israel — were being demolished. When he arrived to his house the morning of 13 December 2010, the rain was pouring and he was…
The economics of occupation in the West Bank
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – The Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967 have suffered from an odd economic situation ever since, in stages summarised as follows: 1. The Israeli occupation authorities adopted two main principles until the establishment of the Palestinian Authority: a) The people were not exactly starved, as that would threaten the security of the occupation, but nor were…
Racism In Israeli Jewish Schools; “A Dead Arab Is A Good Arab”
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – A number of teachers working in Jewish Schools in Israel stated that more instances of racism are reaching alarming levels as more students are expressing their views that exceeded their hatred to Arabs to the level of advocating for killing them. The teachers told Israel’s Yedioth Aharonoth, that they found graffiti witten on school walls…
Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish Two Years After Israeli Attack that Killed 3 Daughters & Niece: “As Long as I am Breathing, They are with Me. I Will Never Forget”
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was a well-known Palestinian gynecologist who spent years working in one of Israeli’s main hospitals. On January 16, 2009, two days before the end of Israel’s brutal 22-day assault on Gaza, his home was shelled twice by Israeli tanks. His three daughters and his niece were killed. He has just written a…
Space control and the Israeli occupation
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – It is often mentioned that Israel’s war against the Palestinian people does not fall under the rubric of truly violent crime because of the absence of large scale killing of Palestinian civilians. Indeed, this point does have weight and the absence of rape as a tool of war in Israel’s arensel strengthens the argument. However,…
Rights Groups Urge Concerned Americans to Call Congress to Demand the Closure of Guant?°namo
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – Between January 18 and 21, a number of campaigning groups in the U.S. — No More Guant?°namos, Witness Against Torture, the Defending Dissent Foundation, High Road for Human Rights Education Project, and WarIsACrime.org — are asking supporters to call Congress to ask their Senators and Representatives to help close Guant?°namo by lifting a ban on…
Israel’s Labor party not to be mourned
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, appears to have driven the final nail in the coffin of the Zionist left with his decision to split from the Labor party and create a new “centrist, Zionist” faction in the Israeli parliament. So far four Members of Parliament, out of a total of 12, have announced they are…
Israeli Racism
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – …Tel Aviv University’s Professor Daniel Bar-Tal studied dozens of elementary, middle, and high school texts on grammar, Hebrew literature, history, geography and citizenship. They justify Israel’s right to wage humanitarian wars against Arabs who won’t accept or acknowledge exclusive Jewish rights, saying: “The early textbooks tended to describe acts of Arabs as hostile, deviant, cruel,…
Report: US to oppose condemnation of settlements
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – The US opposes the submission of a Palestinian and Arab draft resolution condemning the expansion of settlements in the West Bank at the United Nations, the US State Dept. says. Dept. spokesman Philip Crowley was quoted by Israel’s Channel 10 as saying that the only way to establish a Palestinian state is through direct negotiations…
Tunisia’s “unity” government fractures as protests continue
Uruknet January 19, 2011 – At least five ministers and probably more have been forced to quit Tunisia’s National Unity government, less than a day after it was formed, in the face of mass hostility to its domination by the party of deposed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Several opposition party members assumed junior ministerial positions, but no one…
Squeezing Silwan
Uruknet January 18, 2011 – The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan has been the target of Israeli political intimidation. Since the end of December 2010, several prominent community leaders have been arrested and investigated in what members of the Wadi Hilwah Information Center are calling an attempt to quell activism in the cohesive East Jerusalem neighborhood. “In 2010 we saw…
WikiLeaks: US advised to sabotage Iran nuclear sites by German thinktank
Uruknet January 18, 2011 – The United States was advised to adopt a policy of “covert sabotage” of Iran’s clandestine nuclear facilities, including computer hacking and “unexplained explosions”, by an influential German thinktank, a leaked US embassy cable reveals. Volker Perthes, director of Germany’s government-funded Institute for Security and International Affairs, told US officials in Berlin that undercover operations would…
Israel trains British Army to operate drones; Amnesty International objects
Uruknet January 18, 2011 — Israel is said to have trained the British Army in unmanned aerial vehicles. Amnesty International asserted that British Army personnel have been training in Israel on UAVs deployed in the Gaza Strip. The London-based human rights group said the British Army was learning how to use Israeli UAVs in counter-insurgency operations. “It would seem wholly…
Another Palestinian, another terrorist
Uruknet January 18, 2011 – Israel National News reports that “Israeli tanks and bulldozers crossed several hundred feet into Gaza Tuesday afternoon and killed one terrorist after a bomb exploded near an Israel patrol vehicle at the Gaza separation/security barrier.” I know that this isn’t true, because I know who they killed: Amjad Sami Za’aneen. I know because I got…
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A Grave Mistake in Need of Correction: A Response to the Meeting Between Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Pope Benedict XVI
Alternative Information Center – The only thing worse than injustice is an attempt to disguise it.
What Do you Mean We are Undermining the Government?
Alternative Information Center – Last Thursday, ICCO discussed its funding of the news site The Electronic Intifada with Uri Rosenthal, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands. It was a tough and straightforward talk, but ICCO sees no reason…
Arab summit rejects foreign meddling in region
Daily Star 19 Jan 2011 BAQOUBA, Iraq: A suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed up to 15 people and wounded more than 50 in an attack Wednesday on an Iraqi police training center in volatile Diyala Province, officials said. Suspected Sunni…
Suicide attack on Iraqi police training center kills 15
Daily Star 19 Jan 2011 BAQOUBA, Iraq: A suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed up to 15 people and wounded more than 50 in an attack Wednesday on an Iraqi police training center in volatile Diyala Province, officials said. Suspected Sunni…
Israel Cabinet reshuffles after new party formed
Daily Star 19 Jan 2011 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reshuffled his Cabinet Wednesday, incorporating members of a new party formed by Defense Minister Ehud Barak after he left the Labor party.
Palestinians fault Arabs over Jerusalem support
Daily Star 19 Jan 2011 OCCUPIED RAMALLAH: Arab states are failing to help the Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, a Palestinian official said Wednesday, criticizing them for paying only a fraction of funds pledged to sustain Palestinian life there.
Arabs submit U.N. draft on settlements
Daily Star 19 Jan 2011 AMMAN/NEW YORK: Arab nations presented a Security Council draft resolution declaring that Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory are illegal Wednesday while Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said his country is committed to “a sustainable peace” in the…
Egypt’s Brotherhood: Dissolve Parliament
Daily Star 19 Jan 2011 CAIRO/ALGIERS: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood demanded Wednesday that President Hosni Mubarak dissolve the newly elected Parliament and hold new elections. The statement came as an Egyptian tried to set himself on fire in Cairo, the latest in…
Israel needs a coherent opposition | Naomi Shepherd
The Guardian 19 Jan 2011 – The time is ripe for an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict, but opposition parties must unite for progress to take place This week Ehud Barak, defence minister of the most rightwing government in Israel’s history, abandoned…
Lebanon: UNRWA and Monaco sign agreement for better cardiovascular services
Relief Web 19 Jan 2011 – Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
Visit to Palestine and News conference following Russian-Palestinian talks
Relief Web 19 Jan 2011 – Source: Government of the Russian Federation
OCHA ROMENACA Regional Humanitarian Update – December 2010
Relief Web 19 Jan 2011 – Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Belgium: A record contribution to the World Food Programme
Relief Web 19 Jan 2011 – Source: Government of Belgium
Greybeards Urge U.S. not to Veto U.N. Anti-Settlement Resolution
IPS Some four dozen former top U.S. diplomats and prominent policy analysts are urging President Barack Obama not to veto a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution that is expected to reaffirm the illegality of Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories.
Global Call: Protest for Jawaher Feb. 10!
Stop The Wall – Don’t forget Jawaher! Stand with Palestinian women against Israeli violence! This is a call for women all over the world to unite behind the popular resistance and the determination of Palestinian women in defense of their land, rights and dignity. Join and mobilize in protests in your countries on February 10! [
Biweekly Repression Update
Stop The Wall – This report includes testimony from the mother of Jawaher Abu Rahmah, talking about death of her daughter. The analysis this week looks at Occupation forces’ use of tear gas in resisting villages. Aside from the killing of Jawaher, the majority of serious injuries occurred in al Nabi Saleh during this period, where repression remains severe against the weekly protest.
High Court: Galant appointment not delayed, for now
YNet News – Green Movement’s petition to stall new IDF chief of staff’s appointment over….
Cabinet approves ministerial appointments of ex-Labor members
YNet News – Defense Minister Barak’s withdrawal from Labor triggers position changes within….
Saudis end Lebanon mediation, say country at risk
YNet News – Kingdom abandons efforts to resolve dispute between PM Hariri, Hezbollah. ‘If….
Naalin shooting: Prosecution wants commander demoted
YNet News – Despite array of senior IDF officers who testified on behalf of….
Report: Hezbollah simulates Beirut takeover
YNet News – Arab media outlets report Shiite group held drill simulating takeover of….
Officials: Senator Joe Lieberman will retire in 2012
YNet News – Democratic officials say Jewish, independent senator won’t seek fifth term. In….
Erekat: Medvedev’s declaration – historic step
YNet News – Chief Palestinian negotiator says Russian president’s recognition of Palestinian….
IDF findings: Palestinian woman died of Atropine overdose
YNet News – At the end of an investigation into the death of Palestinian woman Jawaher Abu-Rahma over two weeks ago in Bilin, the IDF determined Wednesday that she died from an …….
Soldier who accidentally shot Palestinian in his bed to be discharged
YNet News – IDF Southern Command Chief Maj. Gen. Avi Mizrahi has decided not to extend the service of a career soldier who shot 65-year-old Palestinian Amr Qawasme to death in his …….
Leading Chinese officials in Israel to boost ties
YNet News – As part of the ongoing efforts to enhance Sino-Israel relations, a delegation of 10 prominent Chinese academic leaders and officials is visiting Israel this week for …….
Teens protest against racism in Israel
YNet News – Hundreds of members of the left-wing HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed (Working and Studying Youth) movement protested in downtown Jerusalem Wednesday evening against the growing …….
Two years after Operation Cast Lead: Not too late to investigate
B’tselem 17 Jan 2011 – Two years since the completion of Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, B’Tselem renews its call to Israel to open an independent, effective investigation into the grave suspicions of violations of human rights and international law during the operationsgram FilesQuickTimeQTSystem
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Naim calls for an int’l body to ensure constant medical supply to Gaza
PIC 19 Jan 2011 – Gaza Minister of Health Bassem Naim said his ministry was working round the clock to provide service suitable to Palestinian citizens in light of challenging circumstances.
Barhoum: International support for PA security means more violation of freedoms
PIC 19 Jan 2011 – International support for the PA security apparatuses would mean more violations of freedoms and more persecution of the Palestinian people in the West Bank, Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said.
Farhat denounces IOA for detaining released prisoner
PIC 19 Jan 2011 – Hamas spokesman in central Gaza Yousef Farhat has denounced the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) for detaining Gazan prisoner Mohammed Bawadi soon after his release.
Medvedev recognizes E. Jerusalem as capital of future Palestinian state
PIC 19 Jan 2011 – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has made his first visit to Palestine without stepping foot on Israeli-occupied soil.
IOA serves demolition notifications to owners of five tents
PIC 19 Jan 2011 – The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Wednesday delivered demolition notices to five Palestinian families living in tents east of Yatta town, south of Al-Khalil city, local sources reported.
Palestinian worker hit in IOF shooting
PIC 19 Jan 2011 – A Palestinian worker collecting gravel in east of Jabalia town, to the north of the Gaza Strip, was hit with Israeli army bullets on Wednesday, medical sources reported.
UN rights board calls for complete halt on Israeli settlement activity
PIC 19 Jan 2011 – A UN human rights board called Tuesday on world powers to force Israel to put a dead-end on peace-impeding settlement plans, and expressed sorrow over the world’s lack of political will.
Abu Sha’ar slams Israel’s plan to build 32 housing units in O. Jerusalem
PIC 19 Jan 2011 – Palestinian minister of religious affairs Taleb Abu Sha’ar strongly denounced the declared Israeli plan to build 32 new housing units in Pisgat Ze’ev settlement, north of occupied Jerusalem.
Bardawil: Israel is trying again to incite against Gaza with its Qaeda claims
PIC 19 Jan 2011 – Senior Hamas official and lawmaker Salah Al-Bardawil strongly denounced the Israeli occupation state for renewing its claims about the presence of Qaeda members in the besieged Gaza Strip.
IOF kidnap 18 Palestinians in W. Bank
PIC 19 Jan 2011 – The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped at dawn Wednesday 18 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, most of them from Nablus city, during violent raids on their homes.
Arab leaders meet, Tunisia on their minds
LA Times 19 Jan 2011 – Arab leaders gathered for the Arab Economic Summit in Egypt are focused on the Tunisian uprising, many fearing that it could trigger unrest across the region. The uprising in Tunisia and the toppling of President Zine al Abidine ben Ali dominated the annual Arab Economic Summit, which opened Wednesday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheik amid fears that unrest could ripple across the Middle East.
World Briefing | United Nations: Official Is Optimistic About Iran Talks
New York Times 19 Jan 2011 – The talks scheduled between Iran and the five permanent Security Council members plus Germany should lead to “comprehensive cooperation” to address regional problems, said the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations.
IDF Spokesperson’s statement regarding Jawaher Abu Rahmah’s death confirms previous lies and misinformation
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee – The army’s statement on 19 January 2011 confirms that Jawaher Abu Rahmah attended theBil’in demonstration, was tear gassed in the demonstration and was admitted to a Ramallah hospital because of the effects of tear gas. Given the misinformation that the army has circulated to the media…
Lizzy Ratner and Laila El-Haddad discuss The Goldstone Report on GRITtv
Mondoweiss – More GRITtv To learn more about The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict visit goldstonereportbook.com .
Macy Gray criticizes Israeli policy; asks if she should play in Tel Aviv
Mondoweiss – Macy Gray is reconsidering the concerts she has planned for Tel Aviv. On Facebook, Gray had the following for her fans : I’m booked for 2 shows in TelAviv. I’m getting alot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid…
Citing ‘national security,’ coalition of realists and liberals (Freeman-Zogby-Beinart) call on Obama to condemn settlements
Mondoweiss – This is big. This is the new coalition to push the neocon Project for the New American Century into the dustbin of history. Fifty public figures, including commentators and former officials, have called on Obama to stand with the majority in the U.N. Security Council against…
‘Tears of Gaza’ showing tomorrow in L.A.
Mondoweiss – I really want to see this movie, hopefully it’s headed to New York sometime soon. Here’s the info : A film screening of the documentary followed by a Q&A session with director Vibeke L??kkeberg [Norway]. Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:00 PM A51 Humanities Building UCLA From the…
State Declaration: The Palestinians’ agonizing choices
Mondoweiss – The US and its Quartet partners want Palestinian-Israeli negotiations concluded by August 2011, coinciding with the date of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s plan to declare a state. To convey the complexity of the issue, and the Palestinians’ fundamental dilemma in their quest for freedom from…
Palestinians Hail Medvedev’s Declaration as a Historic Step
Al-Manar 19 Jan 2011 – Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s recognition of an independent Palestinian state was highly hailed by Palestinians who saw the move as a precedent. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat described the declaration as “an historic move to make the Palestinians proud for a very long time to…
Medvedev Committed to Independent Palestinian State
Al-Manar 19 Jan 2011 – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reaffirmed on Tuesday Moscow’s commitment to an independent Palestinian state with ‘east Jerusalem’ as its capital, on a visit to the West Bank. “The Russian position on the Palestinian issue hasn’t changed and remains the same,” Medvedev said at a press…
Israeli Tanks, Bulldozer Enter Northern Gaza Strip Killing Teenager
Al-Manar 19 Jan 2011 – Seven Israeli tanks, accompanied by a bulldozer, have entered the northern part of the Gaza Strip, near the town of Beit Hanun killing a Palestinian teenager, Palestinian officials said. Hamas emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya named the victim as 17-year-old Amjad al-Zaanein, saying he…
Saudi Arabia ends Hariri effort
BBC 19 Jan 2011 – Saudi Arabia says it has abandoned efforts to mediate in Lebanon’s political crisis, caused by a row over the UN-backed Hariri tribunal.
US considers more Iran sanctions
BBC 19 Jan 2011 – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US is considering imposing additional unilateral sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme.
Zionist Left Writes Its Own Obituary
Antiwar.com 19 Jan 2011 – Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, appears to have driven the final nail in the coffin of the Zionist Left with his decision to split from the Labor Party and create a new “centrist, Zionist” faction in the Israeli parliament. So far four MPs, out of a…
High Stakes for Upcoming Nuclear Negotiations With Iran
Antiwar.com 19 Jan 2011 – Negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 – the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) plus Germany – will resume in Istanbul, Turkey, on Jan. 21. Although Turkey, which together with Brazil signed an agreement with Iran last May to store a significant…
(en) Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle persist in spite intensifying repression
A-infos 19 Jan 2011 – As a backlash resulting from the mounting international opposition to Israeli atrocities and the continuation of occupation, the Israeli racism surge in the open. In spite of jail verdicts to Palestinian and Israeli activists the joint struggle even expand. The ongoing struggles in: Araqib, Beit Ommar,…
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Wikileaks Cables on Israel’s Gaza Onslaught
Kathleen Christison, CounterPunch1/19/2011
US was Cheerleader for Massacre
CounterPunch has accessed Wikileaks’ file of cables on Israel’s Gaza assault two years ago (Operation Cast Lead, December 27, 2008 through January 18, 2009). Though the cables often simply rehash Israeli press reporting, providing little new insight into Israel’s attack or the planning behind it, they show with pitiless clarity the U.S. government to be little more than a handmaiden and amanuensis of the Israeli military machine.
The cables make clear, were any further disclosure needed, exactly where the United States stands with respect to Israel’s unprovoked attacks on Palestinians and its other Arab neighbors. Although Operation Cast Lead took place in the last days of the Bush administration, ending two days before Barack Obama was inaugurated, every Obama policy in the succeeding two years – including the administration’s repudiation of the Goldstone Report detailing Israeli atrocities and war crimes during Cast Lead – has demonstrated a striking continuity of support for Israeli actions.
The cables give a notably one-sided account of the assault. Because they take their daily reporting primarily from the Israeli media, the cables keep a tally of rockets fired into Israel from Gaza and dramatically describe “burned dolls and destroyed children’s toys” at an unoccupied kindergarten in Beer Sheba hit by a rocket, but make virtually no mention of Israel’s intensive air and artillery bombardment of Gaza, including its civilian population. There are no reports of burned Palestinian babies or very few of destroyed property in Gaza. Even the western media provided more accurate coverage of Palestinian casualties than this.
The U.S. embassy cables did provide some information on Palestinian casualties, but the reporting was minimal…. more.. e-mail
Building a police state in Palestine
Aisling Byrne, Foreign Policy1/19/2011
“If we are building a police state — what are we actually doing here?” So asked a European diplomat responding to allegations of torture by the Palestinian security forces. The diplomat might well ask. A police state is not a state. It is a form of larceny: of people’s rights, aspirations and sacrifices, for the personal benefit of an ?©lite. This is not what the world meant when it called for statehood. But a police state is what is being assiduously constructed in Palestine, disguised as state-building and good governance. Under this guise, its intent is to facilitate the authoritarianism which creates sufficient popular dependency — and fear — to strangle any opposition.
The transition from the lofty aspiration of statehood to a scheme intended to usher West Bank Palestinians into a new alleviated containment — a new form of remotely-managed occupation — is not some unfortunate error. The roots of this manipulation of the Palestinian aspiration into its opposite — cynically dressed up and sold as statehood — were present from the outset. Professor Yezid Sayyigh has shown how U.S. and EU rhetoric “promoting democratic development and the rule of law is pious at best, at worst disingenuous”. Both America and Europe bear responsibilities for this betrayal.
The seed of this deception which was to grow into a new police state in the region was the US and European acquiescence to Israel’s self-definition of its own security needs — and by extension, Israel’s definition of the requirements for Palestinian security collaboration. This Faustian pact, which prioritized Israel’s security-led criteria as the boundaries for negotiations — above any principles of justice — set the scene for the inevitable inflation of Israeli demands of security collusion by the Palestinian leadership — demands on which America’s ‘war on terrorism’ poured fuel.
The hidden, and false, western assumption was that if a two-state solution was in the interest of the dominant party, all that the Palestinians needed to do was to establish that a stable two-state solution was available to Israel. And in the end, it would emerge simply because it was in Israel’s demographic interest to give it… more.. e-mail
No place to sleep for Lydd family
Electronic Intifada: 19 Jan 2011 – Sixty-seven members of the Abu Eid family were displaced when Israeli forces destroyed their seven homes on 14 December 2010. Alex Kane reports from Lydd.more
Israel’s Labor party not to be mourned
Electronic Intifada: 19 Jan 2011 – Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister, appears to have driven the final nail in the coffin of the Zionist left with his decision to split from the Labor party and create a new “centrist, Zionist” faction in the Israeli parliament. So far four Members of Parliament, out of a total of 12, have announced they are following him. Jonathan Cook analyzes.more
Death and Birth in Gaza: A Story of a Shepherd
Palestine Chronicle: 19 Jan 2011 – By Mahmoud El-Yousseph When you do not distinguish between combatants and unarmed civilians during war, then you deserve to be named a ‘terrorist.’ It makes no difference what your religion is! That is exactly what happened thousands of miles away and two days before last Christmas, when Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian shepherd in the back and injured two others. A 14 year old suffered a serious head injury and another 19 year old was injured in his hand. The shooting took place in the Northern part of Gaza near the town of Beit Lahia. Israel considered the area a war zone, Palestinians called it home. An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the shooting, adding “The soldiers fired warning shot and aimed at the lower body.” Not only was that unprovoked and cold blooded murder, but rather a naked lie by the Israeli spin machine. It took a quick search…more
The Night in Tunisia is Fading, Slowly
Palestine Chronicle: 19 Jan 2011 – By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. The Jasmine Revolution, as the popular and unarmed Tunisian uprising that ousted the corrupt and autocratic president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, is known, will go down in history as the first successful attempt by Arab masses to topple a onetime senior military officer and director of national security and who may now serve as a pacesetter for confronting others, similarly inclined. The first Arab regime to be toppled in a military coup on April 11, 1949 was led by Gen. Husni al-Zaim, Syria’s former chief of staff that was encouraged by the U.S., as reported on a blog by Syrian Ambassador to the U.S., Imad Moustapha. The uprising followed the failure of several Arab armies, who also could not regain Palestine from the Israelis after they usurped the Arab country, prompting the disbursement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. But al-Zaim was overthrown…more
Israeli Racism: Death Camps and Text Books
Palestine Chronicle: 19 Jan 2011 – By Stephen Lendman Merriam-Webster defines racism as ‘a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.’ It was the basis of South African apartheid and Nazi ‘master race’ superiority above others, especially Jews. Israel has no constitution. Basic Laws substitute, including statutes affirming exclusive rights for Jews. One is the right of return, granting them automatic citizenship. Goyim are denigrated and not wanted, especially Arabs. David Ben-Gurion once said, “this is not only a Jewish state, where the majority of the inhabitants are Jews, but a state for all Jews, wherever they are, and for every Jew who wants to be here….This right is inherent in being a Jew.” It applies to no one else. Israel’s Law of Citizenship or Nationality Law establishes rules so stringent against non-Jews that many Palestinians in 1948 were…more
Crafty Camino Nuevo Charter Charlatans
Dissident Voice: 19 Jan 2011 – Over the weekend USPS delivered an expensive looking, glossy, four color marketing brochure from Camino Nuevo Charter Academy (CNCA) chock full of misstatements, spurious data, and outright lies. CNCA is trying to pilfer a new school from my neighborhood 1 under the cover of notorious Gates Foundation employee, and outgoing LAUSD board member, Yolie Flores’ corporate charter industry handout resolution — PSC. Before looking at the details of the school in question, and why Camino Nuevo shouldn’t get its corporate claws on more public property, let’s take a quick look at what type of operation Camino Nuevo runs. One of Camino Nuevo’s slick marketing phrases is “We are College Ready, College Bound!” The latter may be correct, due to nefarious arrangements corporate charters have with many colleges and their deceitful method of getting students placed in such institutions. The former on the other hand, is beyond disingenuous, it’s just plain…more
Zionist Left Writes Its Own Obituary
Dissident Voice: 19 Jan 2011 – Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, appears to have driven the final nail in the coffin of the Zionist left with his decision to split from the Labor party and create a new “centrist, Zionist” faction in the Israeli parliament. So far four MPs, out of a total of 12, have announced they are following him. Moments after Barak’s press conference on Monday, the Israeli media suggested that the true architect of the Labor party’s split was the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who, according to one of his aides, had planned it like “an elite general staff [military] operation”. Netanyahu has pressing reasons for wanting Barak to stay in the most right wing government in Israel’s history. He has provided useful diplomatic cover as Netanyahu has stymied progress in a US-sponsored peace process. Barak had been happy to oblige as the government’s fig-leaf, so long as he was allowed to hold…more
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