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Soldiers Invade Tallousa Village Near Nablus
IMEMC – Wednesday February 23, 2011 – 03:32, Israeli soldiers invaded on Tuesday afternoon Tallousa village, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and blocked a number of roads.
Hebron Settlers Attack At Tiwana, Uproot Trees
IMEMC – Wednesday February 23, 2011 – 02:28, A group of armed extremist Jewish settlers attacked on Tuesday At Tiwana village, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron and uprooted several olive trees.
Soldiers Kidnap A Hamas Leader In Nablus
IMEMC – Wednesday February 23, 2011 – 02:07, Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Tuesday a political leader of the Hamas movement in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, after breaking into his home and ransacking it.
Hamas Slams Israel’s Kidnapping of Sheikh Raed Salah
IMEMC – Wednesday February 23, 2011 – 01:45, Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, slammed the abduction of Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and considered the act as a “new Zionist crime against the Palestinian people”.
Israeli Jerusalem Municipality Rejects Plans to Extend Settlement of Har Homa
IMEMC – Tuesday February 22, 2011 – 17:44, The Israeli run Jerusalem Municipality has not approved, on Monday, plans to extend the illegal settlement of Har Homa.
Israeli Army Uproots Over 230 Olive Trees Near Bethlehem
IMEMC – Tuesday February 22, 2011 – 17:26, The Palestine News Network reports that the Israeli army uprooted over 230 olive trees near Bethlehem.
Gaza Worker Injured By Army Fire
IMEMC – Tuesday February 22, 2011 – 17:08, The Palestine News Network reports that a worker in Gaza has been wounded by fire from the Israeli army.
Canada’s Role in Whitewashing Ethnic Cleansing Met with Protests
IMEMC – Tuesday February 22, 2011 – 16:19, On Monday, Palestinian, Israeli and international activists protested and held vigils in front of Canadian Embassies organized by the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of the Latrun Villages. The Committee represents residents from Palestinian villages that were forcibly expelled from their villages by Israeli occupying forces in 1967.
Israeli Newspaper Slanders Wadi Hilweh Center Director Jawad Siyam
IMEMC – Tuesday February 22, 2011 – 15:48, The Wadi Hilweh Information Center, based in the Silwan neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, is reporting that the article published by Israeli daily newspaper, Maariv, on Monday, targeting Wadi Hilweh Information Center director Jawad Siyam is slanderous.
Israel Demolishes Amniyr Bedouin Homes
IMEMC – Tuesday February 22, 2011 – 15:35, The homes of a Bedouin community in the south Hebron hills have been bulldozed by Israeli authorities, according to the Ma’an News Network.
Israeli bulldozers bury Bedouin village
2/22/2011 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — The five tents giving shelter to some 50 Bedouin residents of Amniyr, a tiny community north of Susiya in the south Hebron hills, were torn down on Monday, their olive trees uprooted and water sources covered over. An observer with the Christian Peacemaker Teams said Israeli demolition crews arrived before sunrise….
Witnesses: Israeli bulldozers uproot 250 olive trees
2/22/2011 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Monday uprooted 250 olive trees in Al-Jab’a northwest of Hebron, locals said. Witnesses said two bulldozers uprooted the trees, which were loaded onto trucks and transported to Israel. Members of Beit Ummar and Al-Ma’sara local popular committees said they tried to stop the uprooting….
Witnesses: Undercover Israeli force abducts Hamas leader
2/22/2011 – NABLUS (Ma’an) – An Israeli undercover force on Tuesday entered the northern West Bank village of Salem and abducted a Hamas leader, locals said. Eyewitnesses told Ma’an that the force arrived in two trucks with Palestinian license plates and surrounded the home of Hamas leader Awadallah Shtayya, 44, before breaking in and….
Sheikh Raed Salah detained in Jerusalem
2/22/2011 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli police on Tuesday detained Islamic Movement leader Sheikh Raed Salah in Jerusalem while he was visiting an East Jerusalem neighborhood, saying he was suspected of committing arson. Israel’s police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Salah was suspected of setting fire to a forest area in southern Israel two weeks….
Director of Gaza power plant missing in Ukraine
2/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The director of Gaza’s sole power plant was reported missing by relatives Tuesday, who said they had not heard from him since he left the Ukraine five days ago after visiting his brother. Family members say they fear Dirar Abu Sisi was abducted, and began a sit-in outside….
Fayyad proposes unity govt with Hamas
2/22/2011 – RAMALLAH (AFP) — Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has proposed forming a unity government with Hamas, under which the Islamist group would have responsibility for security in Gaza. Speaking to Palestinian journalists late Monday, Fayyad said the “security concept” applied by Hamas in Gaza, where the group has sought to enforce a ceasefire with Israel….
Settlers injure 2 Palestinians near Nablus
2/22/2011 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Thirty settlers on Tuesday attacked and injured two Palestinians in Burin village in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Doughlas, who monitors settlement activity for the PA, said residents of the illegal Bracha settlement surrounded homes in the eastern side of the south Nablus village. They attacked….
UN condemns Israeli demolitions
2/22/2011 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Following his visit to the village of Khirbet Tana, where Israeli forces demolished tent homes and animal shelters on Monday for the fourth time this year, a UN official condemned the move as illegal.”Under international law, Israel, as the occupying power in the oPt, is prohibited from destroying property belonging….
Scores head to re-opened Rafah border
2/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hundreds of Gaza residents lined up at the Rafah crossing on Tuesday morning, when the border terminal opened for the first time since protesters took to Egypt’s streets demanding the ouster of the country’s leader. Since the former president of Egypt left his office on Feb….
Palestinians stranded in Sudan appeal for help
2/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinians stranded in Sudan on Tuesday appealed to leaders to help them return to the Gaza Strip. Muhammad Abu Awwad told Ma’an he was one of 50 Palestinians stranded in Sudan. Abu Awwad said the group had traveled to Cairo on Monday, but were turned back at Cairo….
Son of Hamas lawmaker among 6 detained overnight
2/22/2011 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli military officials said six were detained from the West Bank overnight, with Palestinian security sources identifying one of the men taken as the son of a Hamas lawmaker. Sources said Israeli forces entered Idhna village in the southern West Bank before sunrise, where Mujahid Abu Juheisha, son of Palestinian lawmaker….
Fatah lawmaker: New cabinet should focus on Gaza
2/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Fatah-bloc legislator Faysal Abu Shahla denied reports on Tuesday that only Fatah lawmakers were being nominated for ministerial posts in the new Palestinian Authority cabinet.” The reports are groundless,” Abu Shahla said, stressing that Fatah officials decided during internal party meetings that the focus of the new cabinet should be….
118,000 unemployed in Gaza, statistics say
2/22/2011 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Over the final quarter of last year, 13,000 jobs were created in Gaza, bringing down the unemployment rate in the coastal enclave to 37. 4 percent from nearly 40 percent earlier in the year. A survey released Monday from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics showed a grim but improving situation….
Single goods crossing operates in Gaza
2/22/2011 – GAZACITY (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities informed Palestinian liaison officers that the southernmost crossing, Kerem Shalom, would open Tuesday for the limited delivery of goods. Liaison officer Raed Fatttouh said he was informed that 210-220 truckloads of commercial goods and humanitarian aid had been approved for transport by Israeli officials. Tuesday’s delivery….
In Gaza, 2,000 hail from Libya and wait to return
2/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Libyans in Gaza say they have been trapped in the coastal enclave for decades since the Libyan regime prevented them from returning home. Ali Muhammad Ali Al-Farahani, 32, said that today, some 2,000 descendants of Libyan fighters were in Gaza, and prevented from returning to the North African country by….
Israel on high alert as Iran ships enter Med
2/22/2011 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel put its navy on high alert and said it would respond immediately to any “provocation” as two Iranian ships sailed through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean on Tuesday. The Iranian vessels entered the southeastern Mediterranean after going up the canal for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, reportedly en….
Lieberman: Israel conflict ‘not linked’ to Arab turmoil
2/22/2011 – BRUSSELS (AFP) — Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, said Tuesday there was “no linkage” between turmoil in the Arab world and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the EU pressed for quick progress on peace talks to ensure stability.” The Israel-Palestinian conflict is not the main issue, not the main problem,” Lieberman said after talks in Brussels on….
Israel: Arab protests ‘opportunity for peace’
2/22/2011 – MADRID (AFP) — Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Tuesday the anti-government protests sweeping the Arab world that have toppled the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt are an “opportunity for peace” in the Middle East.” We believe that the biggest guarantee of peace is having democracy in our neighbors. We are happy to witness this democratic….
Gaza govt cracks down on male salon workers
2/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Five male hairdressers were summoned to Gaza police stations this week and compelled to sign a pledge that they would stop working in their salons, which serve primarily women. The government passed a law in March 2010, prohibiting men from cutting women’s hair in Gaza salons, but the….
Wedding traditions burden Palestinian youths – Abdul-Hakim Salah
2/22/2011 – It is widely believed that the sole and overriding oppressive factor in Palestinian communities is the Israeli occupation. However, if we believe in self-criticism, we have to accept the idea that in addition, Palestinians are unnecessarily imposing burdens on themselves, with customs inexorably embedded within the culture. The tightening stranglehold of Israel on the Palestinian….
Qatar: Top Sunni cleric says army should kill Gadhafi
2/22/2011 – DOHA, Qatar (AFP) — Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf Al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa on Monday that any Libyan soldier who can shoot dead embattled leader Moamar Gadhafi should do so “to rid Libya of him.” “Whoever in the Libyan army is able to shoot a bullet at Mr Gadhafi should do so,” Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born cleric who….
Ashton on her way to Egypt
2/22/2011 – BRUSSELS, Belgium (Ma’an) — EU foreign affairs chiefCatherine Ashton tonight left for Egypt on Tuesday, where she is expected to meet representatives of transitional leadership and the government, members of the opposition and civil society….
Social media, cellphone video fuel protests
2/22/2011 – WASHINGTON (AFP) — Social media, cellphone cameras, satellite television, restive youth and years of pent-up anger are proving to be a toxic mix for authoritarian regimes in the Middle East. In clip after clip of footage from the street protests that have been sweeping the region, demonstrators can be seen among the crowds holding mobile phone….
Defiant Gadhafi vows to remain in Libya
2/22/2011 – TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) — A defiant Moammer Gadhafi vowed on Tuesday to remain in Libya as head of its revolution, saying he would die as a martyr in the land of his ancestors and fight to the “last drop” of his blood. Proclaiming the people to be behind him, Gadhafi ordered the army and police to….
David Cameron: History is sweeping through Middle East
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – BBC News – In a speech to the Kuwaiti Parliament, he praised the “brave and peaceful” protests by people “hungry for political and economic freedom”. Too often politics in the Middle East was seen as a…
Jordan’s politicians demand limit to king’s powers
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Reuters – Jordan’s King Abdullah faces unprecedented calls by a mix of Islamists, liberals and traditional supporters for moves towards a constitutional monarchy, Jordanian politicians said on Tuesday. Emboldened by uprisings across the region, these usually…
Syria makes cash payments to thousands of vulnerable families
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – IRIN – Syria’s decision to make cash payments to thousands of vulnerable families and reduce some taxes could help stem food insecurity and rising poverty, but many still do not have enough to eat, say experts….
What does it really mean that Iran sent ships through the Suez Canal?
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy – A missile-armed Iranian frigate and a supply ship passed through the Suez Canal today in what Israeli leaders have described as a “provocation” and an effort by Tehran to exploit recent…
Iranian navy ships exit Suez Canal
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Al Jazeera – Two Iranian naval ships have passed through Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea heading for Syria, a source at the canal authority told the Reuters news agency. The ships entered the canal…
Obama Needs a Mixed Bag Foreign Policy Doctrine
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Most know George Soros as either the world’s most consistently successful investor or as a philanthropist — but more should know him as a philosopher and strategist about complex systems. Soros thinks that mankind is constantly…
81 NGOs urge rival factions to reconcile
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Ma’an – Eighty-one Palestinian non-profit organizations from the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip issued a statement Monday calling on rival Palestinian factions to “take practical steps toward ending the disagreement.” Speaking to reporters at…
No objections from Hamas on unity government
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Ma’an – Hamas has suggested the formation of a unity government several times already, but always faced opposition from the PA, a senior party member in the West Bank told Ma’an Sunday. Hamas leader Ayman Daraghma…
Morocco Joins In, Defying Predictions
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – The Wall Street Journal – Five people died as a result of looting that accompanied demonstrations demanding changes to the constitution in Morocco, the country’s interior minister said Monday, as the thousand year old North African…
What next for the ‘Mad Dog’ of Libya?
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Jamal Elshayyal, Al Jazeera – 2011 has already proven lie to the idea that the Arab world ever needed foreign help in order to achieve democracy; and now it could prove false the notion that the…
Palestinian Alice in Wonderland staged in W Bank
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Al Arabiya – A Palestinian version of Alice in Wonderland is currently performed in the West Bank under the slogan “Break the Wall.” On the stage of al-Horreya theatre in Jenin refugee camp in the northern…
Israelis & Palestinians rescue needy donkeys
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Al Arabiya – At the side of a road in the occupied West Bank, dedicated volunteers seek to ease the suffering of animals used, and often abused, as beasts of burden in a harsh corner of…
Gaddafi vows to ‘die as a martyr,’ refuses to relinquish power
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – The Washington Post – In a defiant speech on state television Tuesday, Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi rejected demands that he relinquish power, even as leaders of a popular revolt seized control in some areas and top…
Nation’s U.N. ambassadors call for Moammar Kadafi to resign
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Los Angeles Times – Deputy Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi told the Associated Press that if Kadafi does not relinquish power, “the Libyan people will get rid of him.” Dabbashi urged the international community to impose a no-fly…
A Tunisian Solution for Egypt’s Military
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Clement M. Henry and Robert Springborg, Foreign Affairs – The popular uprisings that swept Egypt and Tunisia this winter were remarkably similar, but their immediate outcomes have been quite different. In Tunisia, civilian politicians and technocrats…
Why the U.S. Should Engage the Muslim Brotherhood
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Philip Mudd, The Atlantic – The current unrest throughout the Middle East and North Africa raises a basic question about U.S. foreign policy in the region that has confounded this country for years now. At the…
Egyptians Ponder Israel Peace Terms
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Daniella Peled, IWPR – The clich?© is that Israel is a handy excuse for protest in the Arab world. But during the heady days of the Egyptian revolution, they didn’t need one. It was about Mubarak,…
Arab League chief: Mubarak should not be prosecuted
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Al Masry Al Youm – Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa has said he would nominate himself for Egypt’s presidency “depending on circumstances.” In an interview published Monday by Spanish daily El Pais, Moussa was asked if…
Kristof’s Wrong: Anti-Americanism Will Gain in Revolts
Palestine Note 22 Feb 2011 – Robert Dreyfus, The Nation – In the New York Times , Nicholas Kristof reassures us: “Don’t buy into the pernicious whisper campaign from dictators that a more democratic Middle East will be fundamentalist, anti-American or anti-women.” Well,…
Obama’s Veto At the UN, Its Causes and Its Effects, Part I
Palestine Note 21 Feb 2011 – Note: This piece originally published at The Third Way The much anticipated United States veto of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements came about on Friday. It surprised no one, but, as I wrote…
What is wrong with the Palestinians? Plenty.
Palestine Note 21 Feb 2011 – Back in July 2009, I published one essays tilted “What is wrong with the Jews? Plenty ” and I followed it with “What is wrong with the Palestinians? Plenty” . In the light of what happened in…
Egypt swears in new ministers
AlJazeera 22 Feb 2011 – Key portfolios in cabinet reshuffle remain unchanged, prompting Muslim Brotherhood to dismiss reform as “an illusion”.
Iranian navy ships exit Suez Canal
AlJazeera 22 Feb 2011 – First such passage through Egyptian channel since 1979 Islamic revolution is condemned by Israel as a “provocation”.
Egypt evacuates citizens from Libya
AlJazeera 21 Feb 2011 – Army sets up field hospitals on Libyan border to receive returning Egyptians.
Egypt asks to freeze Mubarak assets
AlJazeera 21 Feb 2011 – Public prosecutor calls on country’s foreign ministry to use diplomatic channels to freeze former president’s accounts.
Suffering There and Back: The Story of the Palestinians Who Build Illegal Settlements
PNN – Mustafa Sabri — Qalqiliya – PNN/Exclusive – Raed, an electrician, makes at least a 15 kilometer journey every day from his home city of Qalqiliya in the northern West Bank, to one…
Israeli Bulldozers Clear Land Near Bethlehem, Destroy 230 Olive Trees
PNN – Bethlehem — PNN – On Tuesday, Israeli army bulldozers cleared land near Jub’a village south of Bethlehem, uprooting and confiscating hundreds of olive trees and taking them to an unknown location. Awad…
Israeli Troops Arrest Ten in Overnight Raids, Bulldozers Destroy Tents
PNN – Ramallah — PNN – Israeli troops arrested ten Palestinians during a series of overnight raids in various West Bank cities ending on Tuesday morning, including Beit Furik near Nablus, Beit Omar near…
Iranian Ships Enter Suez Canal for First Time Since 1979
PNN – Cairo — PNN – Egyptian officials confirmed on Tuesday that two Iranian ships, a naval frigate and a supply ship, had entered the Suez Canal‚Äîthe first time Iranian ships would cross into…
Palestinians in Libya “Unharmed” but Ready to Come Home as Qaddafi Looks Poised to Fall
PNN – Tripoli — PNN – As Colonel Muammar Qaddafi of Libya defiantly delivered a televised speech saying he was “in Tripoli, not in Venezuela” and the Libyan regime looked poised to collapse, Palestinian…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (10 — 16 February 2011)
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
PM: Promote democracy in Arab world and in Iran
Jeruslalem Post 22 Feb 2011 – Iran trying to destroy advancement of reform, bring about a dark age like in Tehran, Netanyahu says at event honoring Natan Sharansky.
East Jerusalem construction projects taken off schedule
Jeruslalem Post 22 Feb 2011 – Postponed discussion of 50 units in Har Homa and 150 in Armon Hanatziv, possibly as a “thank you” for US veto.
Jordan’s Muslim opposition to resume protests
Jeruslalem Post 22 Feb 2011 – Muslim Brotherhood vows to begin protests, says King Abdullah should surrender power to appoint Cabinets and dissolve parliament.
Egypt replaces several Mubarak-era ministers
Jeruslalem Post 22 Feb 2011 – New cabinet sworn in Tuesday includes 11 new ministers, but still holds onto three key Mubarak loyalists.
Democracy’s prospects: Looking beyond Islam
Jeruslalem Post 22 Feb 2011 – A close examination of countries that have successfully replaced autocracy with democracy will reveal what Egypt needs to go down the same path. It will also steer the focus away from the concept that religion is a determining factor in the equation.
Iranian warships enter Suez Canal en route to Syria
Jeruslalem Post 22 Feb 2011 – Canal officials say Islamic Republic’s naval vessels enter canal for first time in 3 decades; ships expected to reach Mediterranean within hours.
Cairo’s business-savvy protesters
Jeruslalem Post 22 Feb 2011 – The principles that were manifest in the Egyptian revolution are not dissimilar to those needed for the success of any entrepreneurial effort; Israel would be wise to take note of some of them.
‘Israel has shown genuine desire to renew negotiations’
Jeruslalem Post 22 Feb 2011 – Lieberman at EU says “during this period Palestinians went in opposite direction, have done everything to undermine ties.
2 Iranian warships enter Suez Canal en route to Syria
Jeruslalem Post 22 Feb 2011 – Canal officials say the frigate, supply ship have entered canal marking the first time in 30 years Iran’s military ships have traveled the waterway.
PM’s latest stance on Palestinian state likely a thank-you
Jeruslalem Post 22 Feb 2011 – Analysis: Netanyahu pledges commitment to Palestinian statehood perhaps in response to US veto of UN anti-settlement resolution.
Court to debate sealing mosque in West Bank village Burin
Jeruslalem Post 21 Feb 2011 – The village has refuted the claim of illegality on the ground that it believes the mosque is located in Area B.
International Solidarity Movement
Home demolitions in Amniyr, a community north of Susiya in the south Hebron Hills
2/22/2011 – International Solidarity Movement – This morning the Israeli army demolished homes, wells and trees in the village of Susiya, South Hebron Hills. Two families were made homeless. A total of five tents, two wells and a number of olive trees were demolished. Tens of troops and two bulldozers were used. Neighbours were prevented from reaching the families, and teachers….
Reporter tries to place Lieberman under citizens arrest
Ha’aretz – The reporter accused the foreign minister of ‘apartheid’ before he was dragged away from the meeting with EU ministers in Brussels.
EU tells Israel: Mideast turmoil makes peace talks imperative
Ha’aretz – Hungary FM tells Lieberman that time is pressing, Israeli-Palestinian talks remain core issue.
Israel and U.S. successfully test anti-missile system
Ha’aretz – The Arrow anti-missile system, jointly developed by Israel and the U.S., is primarily aimed at defending Israel from threat of Iran missile strike.
Iran naval ships enter Suez Canal, says Egyptian official
Ha’aretz – Israel says it takes a ‘grave view’ of the ships’ passage – the first Iranian naval vessels to go through the canal since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.
Katsav arrives at court for arguments in sentencing portion of rape conviction
Ha’aretz – State is expected to ask for significant jail time for the former president, who was convicted on two counts of rape, indecent assault and sexual harassment involving women who worked for him.
Jerusalem panel takes three sensitive construction plans off agenda
Ha’aretz – Plans included building access road that passes through Hebron leading to Har Homa and expanding Armon HaNatziv with 150 housing units.
Settlers injure two citizens in Nablus
22 Feb 2011 – West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Two Palestinians were injured Tuesday evening as more than 30 settlers blockaded several houses in Burin village amidst massive gunfire in the south of Nablus, northern West Bank.
Israel targets water wells and 8 tents near Hebron
22 Feb 2011 – West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished Tuesday eight tents and two water wells leaving great devastation in the area of Swasia, eastern Yatta town in the south of Hebron city.
At least 10 Palestinians detained in Israeli raids
22 Feb 2011 – West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-At least ten Palestinians were detained by Israeli army during several raid operations carried out in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Hebron, and Jenin.
Egypt to reopen Rafah border crossing today
22 Feb 2011 – Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)-Egyptian authorities decided Tuesday to open Rafah border crossing, the only entrance to the besieged Gaza Strip, after being shut for a month due to Egypt revolution that led to the resignation of president Hosni Mubarak.
Israeli gunfire hits Palestinian youth in Jerusalem
22 Feb 2011 – West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-A Palestinian youth was shot yesterday by Israeli gunfire in Issawiya village during clashes erupted between residents and Israeli border guards.
Israel to raze more wells in W. Bank as part of water war on Palestinians
Uruknet February 22, 2011 – Civil servants from Israel’s water authority under heavy military protection stormed at noon Monday Kafr Dan village, west of Jenin, to carry out a survey of the artesian wells as a prelude to demolishing them later. Local sources said Israeli soldiers aboard military vehicles escorted a car belonging to the water authority to protect surveyors…
#Hama #Syria
Uruknet February 22, 2011 – …One can argue that Syrians were the first to rise up and rebel against a tyrant back in 1982. Back then there was no Al-jazeera, smart phones, youtube or anything else to help the truth come out. So when the Syrian army and “special forces” besieged the city of Hama on February 3rd 1982 and…
Israeli bulldozers bury Bedouin village
Uruknet February 22, 2011 – – The five tents giving shelter to some 50 Bedouin residents of Amniyr, a tiny community north of Susiya in the south Hebron hills, were torn down on Monday, their olive trees uprooted and water sources covered over. An observer with the Christian Peacemaker Teams said Israeli demolition crews arrived before sunrise, at about 5:30…
Egypt’s Giant Step
Uruknet February 21, 2011 – … There are three inter-related goals which are fundamental aspirations of the Egyptian people as well as the rest of the Arab nation. These include freedom from foreign domination, the achievement of a socialist society which overturns the pyramid of power and gives top priority to the basic needs of the popular masses while curtailing the…
Palestinian Gandhi, mark II
Uruknet February 21, 2011 – I am not going to recapitulate the debate about Palestine, non-violence, and Gandhi. …I’ll be clear about the issues. This is not about supporting Palestinian non-violence. That should be done. And this is not about not engaging in non-violent struggle with Palestinians. That should be done and welcomed. And this is not necessarily about promoting…
Iranian warships pass through Suez canal on way to Syria
The National 23 Feb 2011 – Israeli prime minister denounces ships¬ø arrival in the region as an Iranian power play, while his foreign minister called their presence ‘a provocation’.
Alternative Information Center
2011 World Social Forum In Dakar: Strong Solidarity with Arab Popular Revolutions and Palestinian Struggle
Alternative Information Center – The World Social Forum held in Dakar between 6- 12 of February, where thousands of activists, social movements and human rights defenders gathered as a global demonstration against the capitalist and imperialist globalization, wars and the…
End the Division: ‘Gaza Youth Breaks Out’ Calls for a Unified Palestinian Leadership to Lead Us to Freedom
Alternative Information Center – On behalf of the Palestinian Arab people, on the blood of the martyrs, widows and bereaved, orphans and thousands of prisoners in Israeli jails and all our people in the Palestinian diaspora, we call on all…
Over 100 Participants Mark Two Year Anniversary to Solidarity Tent in East Jerusalem’s Silwan
Alternative Information Center – More than 100 people gathered at the solidarity tent in the al-Bustan area of East Jerusalem’s Silwan, Tuesday morning (22 February), to mark two years of the tent’s presence in the neighborhood as Jerusalemites struggle for…
Gadhafi spills blood
Daily Star 22 Feb 2011 DOHA: Iran continues to foment instability in the Middle East but is not behind popular protests in Bahrain and other countries in the region, top U.S. military officer Adm. Mike Mullen said Monday in the Qatari…
Iran not behind Mideast protests: U.S. Army
Daily Star 22 Feb 2011 DOHA: Iran continues to foment instability in the Middle East but is not behind popular protests in Bahrain and other countries in the region, top U.S. military officer Adm. Mike Mullen said Monday in the Qatari…
Tunisian government moves to dissolve Ben Ali’s party
Daily Star 22 Feb 2011 The Tunisian government took steps Monday to dissolve the ruling party whileWashington offered Tunisia help in shoring up security following its “model” revolution, U.S. Senator John McCain said. Authorities also “made an official request to Saudi…
Egypt moves to freeze Mubaraks’ foreign assets
Daily Star 22 Feb 2011 Egypt’s public prosecutor moved to freeze the foreign assets of Hosni Mubarak Monday, the first sign that the deposed president would be held to account by the new rulers, while the government said that details published…
China: domestic unrest must be quashed
Daily Star 22 Feb 2011 BEIJING: China must find new ways to defuse unrest, the domestic security chief said, underscoring Beijing’s anxiety about control after police quashed calls for gatherings inspired by uprisings in the Middle East. A Foreign Ministry official…
Egypt reopens border for travellers from Gaza Strip
Relief Web 22 Feb 2011 – Source: Reuters – AlertNet
Jordan’s Balancing Act
Relief Web 22 Feb 2011 – Source: Middle East Research and Information Project
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Lebanon (A/HRC/16/18)
Relief Web 22 Feb 2011 – Source: UN General Assembly, UN Human Rights Council
Occupied Palestinian Territory: Jordan Valley – Access and Closure (November 2011)
Relief Web 22 Feb 2011 – Source: OCHA
But Who Now Speaks for Egypt
IPS In the aftermath of Egypt’s recent uprising, which led to the ouster earlier this month of longstanding president Hosni Mubarak, a number of groups have emerged under the banner of what has come to be known as the 25 January Revolution. The sudden proliferation of these movements has raised the…
Weekly Anti-Wall Protest Update – February 18
Stop The Wall – Several were wounded in al Nabi Saleh, where Occupation forces also arrested seven people. In al Ma’sara, soldiers attacked the demonstration with tear gas, while in in Ni’lin people united under the banner of “End the division! Overthrow the Occupation!” Occupation forces shot and injured a protestor in Bil’in, where demonstrators marked six years of resistance. [
4 Alpine Unit soldiers suffer injuries on Hermon
YNet News – Troops, who serve in elite IDF unit, evidently slipped on ice, suffering minor….
Israel tests Arrow 2 anti-missile system
YNet News – During experiment, interceptor missile successfully destroyed target missile…..
Libya: Benghazi airport runways destroyed
YNet News – Egypt’s foreign minister says flights cannot land in Benghazi airport . Egyptian….
Iran naval ships enter Suez Canal, says official
YNet News – Egyptian official says frigate, supply ship entered canal en route to Syria at….
Arab League suspends Libya; minister defects
YNet News – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday Libya must end violence against protesters seeking to end Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s 41-year rule and the United …….
Iranian naval vessels sail through Suez Canal
YNet News – Two Iranian naval ships passed through Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Mediterranean on Tuesday heading for Syria, a source at the canal authority said, a move that Israel …….
Report: Dan Shapiro next US ambassador to Israel
YNet News – WASHINGTON – The ‘POLITICO’ website reported Tuesday that Dan Shapiro will be appointed as the next US ambassador to Israel. Shapiro is expected to replace James …….
Israel to fly more Sudanese migrants back to Africa
YNet News – A flight carrying more than 100 Sudanese infiltrators is expected to depart from Ben-Gurion Airport Tuesday night en route to an unnamed country, from which the refugees …….
‘No chance for coup in Iran’
YNet News – Renewed protests in Iran have the world asking whether the ayatollah regime will meet with the same fate as those of Tunisia and Egypt, but an Iranian journalist who …….
Palestinian Information Center
Egyptian authorities open Rafah crossing in both directions
PIC 22 Feb 2011 – The Egyptian authorities on Tuesday opened the Rafah border crossing with Gaza Strip in both directions after three weeks of closure but to a limited number of people.
Gaza demonstrations: Gaddafi not fit to rule Libyans
PIC 22 Feb 2011 – Senior Islamic Jihad Movement official Mohammed al-Hindi said what the Gaddafi regime is doing to his people is “no less of a crime than what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.”
Sheikh Raed Salah stalked, ambushed ahead of arrest
PIC 22 Feb 2011 – Sheikh Raed Salah was arrested in Jerusalem on Tuesday just an hour after leaving a festival held in the city’s Silwan district, the Aqsa foundation reported.
IOF soldiers kidnap Hamas leader in Nablus
PIC 22 Feb 2011 – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday kidnapped Hamas leader Sheikh Awadallah Eshtiye from his home in Salem village east of Nablus city, locals reported.
Lebanese labor law to provide ‘decent life’ to Palestinian retirees
PIC 22 Feb 2011 – Lebanese Minister of Labor Boutros Harb pledged to sign Monday a bill passed by the parliament in August that would organize the country’s labor laws concerning Palestinian refugees.
Hamas: Detaining Sheikh Salah won’t affect his determination to defend Al-Quds
PIC 22 Feb 2011 – Hamas condemned the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) for detaining Sheikh Ra’ed Salah, the leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine, in occupied Jerusalem.
Hamas condemns Libyan regime for committing massacres against protesters
PIC 22 Feb 2011 – The Hamas Movement on Monday strongly denounced the Libyan regime for committing massacres against protesters using warplanes and heavy artillery.
Sheikh Qaradawi urges putting a stop to Gaddafi’s war crimes
PIC 22 Feb 2011 – Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradawi, the head of the international union of Muslim scholars, has issued a fatwa permitting the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Al-Qaddafi to stop him committing more war crimes.
Israel to raze more wells in W. Bank as part of water war on Palestinians
PIC 22 Feb 2011 – Civil servants from Israel’s water authority under heavy military protection stormed Monday Kafr Dan village, west of Jenin, and surveyed the artesian wells as a prelude to demolishing them.
Telegraph: Hosni’s removal raised Israel’s fears about its cold peace with Egypt
PIC 22 Feb 2011 – Daily Telegraph stated that Egypt and Israel maintained a stable cold peace in the past 33 years, but the removal of Hosni Mubarak raised Israel’s fears about its relations with Egypt.
Egypt’s women face growing sexual harassment
LA Times 22 Feb 2011 – Some women in Egypt say they suffer catcalls, groping and other sexual harassment daily. For a time it seemed the Tahrir Square protests might point to progress, but the attack on TV reporter Lara Logan and others showed otherwise. On the night Hosni Mubarak fell from power, the crowds that rejoiced in Cairo’s central square were so dense, so roiling and rowdy, that Mohamed Assyouti couldn’t push his way through when his girlfriend, Mariam Nekiwi, was assaulted several yards away.
In Egypt, loved ones search for those who didn’t return from protest
LA Times 22 Feb 2011 – One family visits hospitals, morgues and prisons and is in contact with various agencies in search of a 36-year-old who has vanished. It is difficult to know how many families are going through the same search. About an hour after President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation this month, when other Egyptians were dancing in the streets, Ahmed Amin logged on to a Facebook group he had created two weeks earlier to write a message.
Israel Silent as Iranian Ships Transit Suez Canal
New York Times 22 Feb 2011 – Israeli officials have described the move as a provocation but have said it should not be blown out of proportion.
Germany Says Iran Meeting Necessary to Free Journalists
New York Times 22 Feb 2011 – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office defended a meeting of its foreign minister with Iran’s president, saying it was the price to pay for the freedom of two German journalists.
Neocon fantasy: Palestine has nothing to do with Arab uprisings
Mondoweiss – As mass uprisings in Arab states continue, the Israeli government and its neoconservative supporters in the U.S. have tried to convince the world that Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians has nothing to do with the revolts. While it would be disingenuous to claim that Palestine drives…
The unstoppable revolutionary power of al Jazeera
Mondoweiss – A message from the family of Mohamed Bouazizi, the young Tunisian whose death catalyzed the Tunisian Uprising, for families in Libya who have lost loved ones during the recent protests. Watching Qadhafi give his speech I’m relieved to see that somebody has more public relations problems…
BART riders can’t escape the Palestine issue
Mondoweiss – The ad above greeted commuters passing through several major Bay Area Rapid Transit stations in San Francisco and the East Bay this week. At other stations travelers could feast their eyes on this one: The ads – professionally printed, but posted without BART authorization -…
Clueless in Washington and Tel Aviv
Mondoweiss – Virginia Tilley’s post, ” Why the U.S. will not ‘do something’ about Palestine ,” analyzing the complex relationship between US hegemony and the Israel lobby, was sobering and spot on. A couple of points are worth further clarification and elaboration. I’m not so sure that the…
Liberals
Mondoweiss – Joe Cirincione is president of the liberal Ploughshares Fund. A good liberal. He tweets: Qaddafi must go. We must show what the world’s reaction is to anyone who shoots unarmed civilians. Yes and what about the Goldstone report. For liberals, the rubber never meets the road…
Israel’s sabre-rattling against Iran
WSWS – Israel has responded belligerently to Iran’s sending of two warships through Egypt’s Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea, calling it a provocation and threatening retaliatory action.
Great grandson of S.Y Agnon tells Ian McEwan ‘not to shake hands with apartheid’
Joseph Dana 22 Feb 2011 – Israeli activists from the Boycott From Within and Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity movements disrupted an event with British author Ian McEwan this evening in Jerusalem. McEwan, the recipient of this year’s Jerusalem Prize for Literature, was asked by Israeli and Palestinian activists to boycott the prize and…
Brussels: Journalist attempts citizen’s arrest of Avigdor Lieberman
Joseph Dana 22 Feb 2011 – The Irish journalist and author David Cronin attempted a citizen’s arrest of Israeli Foreign minister Avidgor Lieberman in Brussels this afternoon. Cronin is a prolific journalist who has recently published a book exploring Europe’s role in the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank called Europe’s Alliance…
Iran’s warships sail through Suez
BBC 22 Feb 2011 – Two Iranian warships have sailed through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea, triggering angry Israeli reaction.
Iran
BBC 22 Feb 2011 – Key facts, figures and dates
VIDEO: Cameron: ‘Ballot box not bullet for Egypt’
BBC 21 Feb 2011 – David Cameron has become the first foreign leader to visit Egypt since the fall of President Mubarak.
Mubarak’s Name Easier to Erase Than His Legacy
Antiwar.com 22 Feb 2011 – RAFAH — It was easy enough to rename Mubarak Children’s Hospital the Al Tahrir Hospital in Gaza. Not so easy is the task of managing patients who need to cross over to the Egyptian side for treatment, or come back in. Crossing the border, even for…
Israeli Media ‘Fears’ the New Egypt
Antiwar.com 22 Feb 2011 – Over the past three weeks the Israeli media has been extremely interested in Egypt. During the climatic days of the unprecedented demonstrations, television news programs spent most of their airtime covering the protests, while the daily papers dedicated half the news and opinion pages to the…
Israeli media “fears” the new Egypt
Sabbah report 22 Feb 2011 – Neve Gordon describes how Israel’s media has been presenting Egyptian democracy as a threat, with one commentator lamenting the end of colonialism.
Refuge and return
Sabbah report 22 Feb 2011 – “Palestine is not an identity, land, home or some ‘right’ in international law! It’s this memory we chase of a time that has long gone by, and knowing so we live in the shadows, chasing what used to be.”
Articles
Obama’s Veto At the UN, Its Causes and Its Effects, Part I
Mitchell Plitnick, The Third Way, Palestine Note2/21/2011
The much anticipated United States veto of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements came about on Friday. It surprised no one, but,as I wrote last week, the repercussions of this veto are going to be much deeper than the numerous previous vetoes.
The US has vetoed a great many UNSC resolutions that dealt with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though there have also been many, even in recent years, which the US did not veto. But this time the resolution was not only perfectly in line with official US policy, but it dealt with an issue the current administration had confronted head-on but had failed to affect in any measurable way.
Susan Rice’s statement of explanation about the US veto is an absolute mess of double-talk and distortions. This really isn’t surprising; there is little doubt that the White House and State Department made the veto decision based not on a sober analysis of what is best for Israel or the Palestinians or for US interests in the Middle East.
No, this decision was made because of the massive congressional pressure that was brought to bear on this question. And, in turn, that congressional pressure came at the behest of AIPAC. That’s why the explanation sounds so thin, why it is based on tired clichés that we’ve heard for years and have long since been exposed as threadbare. And I say this as one who is not a subscriber to the Israel Lobby theory, who has, in fact, written extensively to the contrary. But in those writings, I never tried to deny that the Lobby has enormous power in Congress, and this is a case where that is very effective.
Let’s consider Rice’s explanation before we look at the ramifications of this decision, which I will do in part II of this piece…. — See also: Source: The Third Way more.. e-mail
How school trips to Hebron resemble visits to Auschwitz
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Israeli Occupation Archive2/17/2011
Just as upon return from the state-sponsored trips to Auschwitz, Jewish students will come back from Hebron feeling more nationalist than ever before.
More than half of Jewish school children in Israel have visited Auschwitz; each year more than 10,000 go on a trip to Poland or on the March of the Living, a pilgrimage to the death camps. They come back shocked and nationalist. These tours mislead the weeping students for a moment as they wrap themselves in the national flag, before and after downing a Vodka Red Bull in their rooms.
These programs bring back thousands of teens who have learned nothing about the danger of fascism, who have heard nothing about morality, humanity and the slippery slope on which a dangerous regime might pull down a complacent society. Just more and more blind faith in strength, xenophobia, fear of the other and inflamed passions. So in their current format, these tours are missed opportunities whose damage is greater than their use.
Now Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar wants to add a tour to the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Thousands of teens will be taken in armored buses to the danger zone, accompanied by soldiers and armed bodyguards. A safari in Hebron. During the visit, a curfew will be imposed on the last Palestinians left in the neighborhood. The students will be hurried into the ancient site that is believed to be the Cave of Machpelah — the tombs of the patriarchs and matriarchs who are probably not buried there. No one will show them what is around them. No one will tell them what happened to the thousands of people who lived near the tomb.
Their guides, the most violent and atrocious of the settlers in the territories, will not tell them what they have done…. — See also: Source more.. e-mail
These are secular popular revolts — yet everyone is blaming religion
Robert Fisk, The Independent2/20/2011
Our writer, who was in Cairo as the revolution took hold in Egypt, reports from Bahrain on why Islam has little to do with what is going on
Mubarak claimed that Islamists were behind the Egyptian revolution. Ben Ali said the same in Tunisia. King Abdullah of Jordan sees a dark and sinister hand — al-Qa’ida’s hand, the Muslim Brotherhood’s hand, an Islamist hand — behind the civil insurrection across the Arab world. Yesterday the Bahraini authorities discovered Hizbollah’s bloody hand behind the Shia uprising there. For Hizbollah, read Iran. How on earth do well-educated if singularly undemocratic men get this thing so wrong? Confronted by a series of secular explosions — Bahrain does not quite fit into this bracket — they blame radical Islam. The Shah made an identical mistake in reverse. Confronted by an obviously Islamic uprising, he blamed it on Communists.
Bobbysocks Obama and Clinton have managed an even weirder somersault. Having originally supported the “stable” dictatorships of the Middle East — when they should have stood by the forces of democracy — they decided to support civilian calls for democracy in the Arab world at a time when the Arabs were so utterly disenchanted with the West’s hypocrisy that they didn’t want America on their side. “The Americans interfered in our country for 30 years under Mubarak, supporting his regime, arming his soldiers,” an Egyptian student told me in Tahrir Square last week. “Now we would be grateful if they stopped interfering on our side.” At the end of the week, I heard identical voices in Bahrain. “We are getting shot by American weapons fired by American-trained Bahraini soldiers with American-made tanks,” a medical orderly told me on Friday. “And now Obama wants to be on our side?”
The events of the past two months and the spirit of anti-regime Arab insurrection — for dignity and justice, rather than any Islamic emirate — will remain in our history books for hundreds of years…. more.. e-mail
Why I tried to arrest Avigdor Lieberman
Electronic Intifada: 22 Feb 2011 – If apartheid is a crime, there is only one way to treat its practitioners: arrest them. That is precisely what I tried to do when I confronted Avigdor Lieberman, the architect of a series of laws designed to make Israeli apartheid even more draconian than it already is.more
Libya’s tragedy, Gaddafi’s farce
Electronic Intifada: 22 Feb 2011 – If you think Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is stupid, much less crazy, think twice. He was the first to sense and assess correctly the ripple effects of what happened in Tunisia on 14 January 2011. He was fully cognizant and apprehensive of its implications for Libya and, above all, for his 42-year record of autocratic rule. Nouri Gana comments for The Electronic Intifada.more
Report exposes proliferation of rights abuses in Iraq
Electronic Intifada: 22 Feb 2011 – WASHINGTON (IPS) – A leading human rights group released a report Monday documenting the proliferation of human rights abuses in Iraq since the United States’ invasion in 2003.more
Gaza reconstruction held hostage to politics
Electronic Intifada: 22 Feb 2011 – Controversy has arisen between the Hamas-led government and the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) during the past few weeks over stalled reconstruction in the war-torn Gaza Strip.more
Israeli Army Will Cash in on Egypt’s Upheavals
Palestine Chronicle: 22 Feb 2011 – By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel has been indulging in a sustained bout of fear-mongering since the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled earlier this month. The ostensible aim has been to warn the international community that the lengthy ‘cold peace’ between the two countries is on the verge of collapse. In reality, the peace treaty signed three decades ago is in no danger for the forseeable future. The Egyptian and Israeli armies have too much of a vested interest in its continuation, whatever political reforms occur in Egypt. And if the Egyptian political system really does open up, which is still far from sure, the Israeli military may actually be a beneficiary — if for all the wrong reasons. The main value of the 1979 Camp David treaty to the Israeli leadership has been three decades of calm on Israel’s south-western flank. That, in turn, has freed the army…more
Veto Costs US Last Shred of Credibility
Palestine Chronicle: 22 Feb 2011 – By Stuart Littlewood — London Hang you head in shame, O Peace Prize laureate. The Nobel award, said Barack Obama at the time, was ‘an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations’ and must be shared with everyone who strives for “justice and dignity”. Where was the justice and dignity in the sad story of America’s UN veto? Having blocked the United Nations Security Council draft resolution on Friday, which would have condemned Israeli squatter colonies as illegal, Obama has now written America completely out of the script on Middle East peace. Many will see it as a blessing that the US has so spectacularly disqualified itself from serious discussion, and that Obama has finally lifted the scales from the eyes of all those who unwisely invested high hopes in him. Netanyahu’s office was cock-a-hoop and said Israel was “deeply grateful” to be…more
Unconventional Wisdom
Palestine Chronicle: 22 Feb 2011 – By Jim Miles In its Fortieth Anniversary special issue, Foreign Policy magazine (now owned by the Washington Post) presents a series of articles titled ‘Unconventional Wisdom.’ According to the editor’s letter, Foreign Policy endeavours “to keep alive” the “relentless determination to resist the uncritical thinking of the foreign-policy herd.” The editor states that this issue is a tribute to “the smart, reasoned, and pull-no-punches debate these articles represent.” Most of the “unconventional wisdom,” when juxtaposed with much of the information available away from the mainstream media of corporate U.S.A., is quite ordinary and not all that unconventional. ‘Conventional’ is given the meaning of not natural, not spontaneous, following tradition. In that light, is it unconventional to say growth cannot last forever? Not really, that has been postulated for many decades if not centuries. Remember Malthus? He is coming back with a vengeance. Is it unconventional to say the “rich really…more
A Tale of Two Letters: One Palestinian, One Israeli
Palestine Chronicle: 22 Feb 2011 – By Dallas Darling When President Barack Obama warned Palestinians they would face ‘repercussions’ if they voted against more Israeli settlement expansion at a United Nations Security Council meeting, even ‘demanding’ such democratic activity be stopped, it reminded me of a letter that Hanan Ashrawi wrote to President Bill Clinton during his final days in office: “Mr. President, that most American public officials, once out of office, begin to suffer pangs of conscience and inexplicable urges to express contrition in the form of public confessions pertaining to the injustice suffered by the Palestinian people. With an honest desire to spare you the fate of other high officials who develop after-the-fact immaculate hindsight and a drive for justice, I would like to point out that there is still world enough and time to speak out and ACT now.”(1) Meanwhile, a group of sixty Israeli professionals, including experts in education, social work, psychology,…more
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