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Kadima Opposition Party Demands Massive Military Attack On Gaza
IMEMC – Monday August 22, 2011 – 10:09, Officials of the Israeli Kadima opposition party, headed by Tzipi Livni, are currently demanding the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu to launch a large-scale military offensive against the Gaza Strip, including a ground invasion.
Following A Night Protest In Jerusalem, Soldiers Invade Al Aqsa Mosque Yard
IMEMC – Monday August 22, 2011 – 09:44, Israeli Policemen and members of the so-called Border Guard Units, closed on Sunday night after midnight the Bas Al Amoud area, one of the main gates of Jerusalem, while more than 1500 Palestinian youths continue their protest in the Al Aqsa mosque in Old Jerusalem.
55 Palestinians Injured As Army Invades Hebron
IMEMC – Monday August 22, 2011 – 09:25, Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that 55 residents were injured following clashes that took place between local residents and Israeli soldiers who invaded the city.
Gaza factions agree ceasefire as overnight calm holds
8/22/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Reports of a Sunday evening ceasefire deal reached between factions in Gaza and Israel appeared to hold overnight Sunday, as residents paused for breath after four days of Israeli airstrikes. The Israeli army reported that 12 rockets launched from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel overnight, with no injuries. But…. Related: PRC agrees to ceasefire deal
Doctor: Israel using new weapons against Gaza
8/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The head of an emergency ward in a Gaza City hospital said Monday that Israeli forces were using new, more brutal weapons against residents of the Gaza Strip. On Thursday, Israeli forces began a four-day bombarded the coastal enclave killing 14 Palestinians and wounding dozens more in a series of….
Israeli army ‘systematically harassing’ iconic Jenin theater
8/22/2011 – JENIN (Ma’an) — The Israeli army surrounded the Freedom Theater in Jenin early Monday, beating members of staff and raiding the home of a security guard, a statement from the iconic theater said.” As I literally entered my home I got a call from neighbors of the theater saying the army had surrounded the….
Army: Gaza militants fire 3 rockets into southern Israel
8/22/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Militants in northern Gaza fired several rockets into southern Israel on Monday evening, the Israeli military said, hours after a temporary truce was agreed. A Qassam rocket landed south of Ashkelon shortly after two rockets landed in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council causing no injuries but sparking a fire, an army….
Girl injured by settler car
8/22/2011 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A Palestinian child was lightly injured after an Israeli settler’s car ran into her in the As-Salayma district of Hebron on Sunday. Medics said Narmin Rajeh Abu Rmeileh, 12, was taken to to Al-Ahli hospital in the southern West Bank city. On Saturday, 19-year-old Bilal Idreis was moderately….
Report: Egypt army blocks Israel ambassador recall
8/22/2011 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — A last minute decision by Egypt’s military government head Muhammad Tantawi halted the recall of Egypt’s ambassador to Israel, Israel’s Hebrew-language daily said Monday. Amb. Yasser Rida, “had already packed,” when Field Marshall Tantawi overruled the Egyptian Prime Minister’s decision, report said. Tantawi….
Farmers union seeks compensation for fake Israeli seeds
8/22/2011 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) —The Palestinian farmers union have filed a lawsuit against an Israeli crop-provider for selling Palestinians fake seedlings, union board chair Ibrahim Idieq said Monday. The suit comes after an expert investigation into the case, Idieq said, adding that the union is seeking $400,000 compensation for farmers. The case follows a lawsuit….
OPT: Palestinians feel the pinch as Arab donors stay away
8/22/2011 – RAMALLAH (IRIN) – Palestinian families in the occupied Palestinian territory are facing increasing financial woes this Ramadan, as the Palestinian Authority juggles with its dwindling budget. August salary payments for the PA’s estimated 150,000 employees, about half in the West Bank and half in the Gaza Strip, arrived late and it is unclear when….
PRC agrees to ceasefire deal
8/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees said Monday they had signed up to a temporary ceasefire deal agreed by Gaza’s rulers with Israel. The An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades said they would temporarily stop firing projectiles into Israeli towns “for the sake of the Palestinian people’…. Related: Gaza factions agree ceasefire as overnight calm holds
Announcement of UN flotilla report postponed
8/22/2011 – ANKARA (AFP) — A UN report due out this week into Israel’s deadly 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been delayed again, the Turkish foreign ministry said Monday.” The demand to postpone [the announcement] came from Israel, like the previous demands,” Selcuk Unal, the spokesperson of the ministry told Turkey’s….
Abbas postpones local elections in West Bank
8/22/2011 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on Monday postponing local West Bank elections scheduled for October 22. The presidential decree postpones elections “until appropriate circumstances” exist, the statement said, and gives time “to provide the Central Elections Commission with the opportunity to continue preparations for holding elections in all Palestinian districts….
Fatah: Reconciliation on hold until September
8/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Fatah and Hamas have agreed to delay efforts to implement the reconciliation agreement until September, Fatah official in Gaza Diab Al-Loh said. Reconciliation committees will resume work after Eid-Al-Fitr, the three-day festival after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the end of August, the Fatah official said in a….
Israel to release cancer detainee
8/22/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities said they will release a Palestinian detainee suffering from cancer, his family said Monday. Zakariyya Dawood Issa, from Al-Khader near Bethlehem in the southern west Bank, is in a critical condition after cancer spread throughout his body, medics say. The Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs said they will….
Palestinian detainee enters 26th year in Israeli prison
8/22/2011 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian detainee Saleh Al-Sabati entered his 26th year in Israeli detention on Monday, a prisoners’ rights group reported. Al-Sabati, 51, was detained in 1986 and sentenced to life for opposing Israel’s occupation, the center said. His father and two of his brothers have died since his detention….
Palestinians rally to support Gaza, Syria
8/22/2011 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinians rallied in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday night in a show of support for the people of Gaza and Syria. Dozens gathered in the city streets holding Syrian and Palestinian flags. The protesters slammed Israel’s air strikes on Gaza, which have killed 14 Palestinians since….
Shaath: Thailand will support UN statehood bid
8/22/2011 – BANGKOK (Ma’an) — Thailand will support the recognition of Palestine as an independent state at the United Nations in September, PLO member Nabil Shaath said Monday. Shaath met with officials from the Thai foreign ministry in Bangkok and discussed the Palestinian leadership’s efforts to be admitted as a full member of the….
Anti-corruption committee says agriculture minister to face court
8/22/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority anti-corruption committee on Monday said it had referred Minister of Agriculture Ismail Daiq to court, but the minister denied any knowledge of the decision. Daiq told Ma’an he had not been informed of the case but said he was confident any allegations of corruption were fabricated….
Erekat: Abbas supports Gaza ceasefire
8/22/2011 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — PLO official Saeb Erekat said Monday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fully supports a ceasefire in Gaza. Erekat made the announcement during a meeting with Norwegian envoy to the peace process Jon Hanssen-Bauer and UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry. The PA official also praised the….
Man killed in Balata family brawl
8/22/2011 – NABLUS (Ma’an) – One man was killed and several people injured when a family brawl broke out in Nablus on Monday. Family members opened fire at each other in Balata refugee camp, killing Muhammad Abu Roweies, police said. Abu Roweies’ brother and father were also injured in the shootings. The motives behind the….
Detainee released after 5 years in Israeli jail
8/22/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — The Ministry of Detainees in the Gaza Strip said Monday that Israeli authorities have released Yazid Al-Huweihi from Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, after five years in jail. Al-Huweihi was detained by Israeli forces in 2006 after a raid on his home in the Gaza Strip. He was held in Al-Majdal….
Palestinian banks donate to refugee students in Lebanon
8/22/2011 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Several Palestinian banks have donated $120,000 to a fund which supports Palestinian students in refugee camps in Lebanon, a statement said Monday. The association of banks said that financial institutions have a social responsibility towards Palestinian students in Lebanon who suffer from bad living conditions. Head of the Banks Association, Nabil….
Heavy fighting near Gadhafi’s Tripoli residence
8/22/2011 – TRIPOLI (AFP) — Heavy fighting raged Monday near the Tripoli compound of embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, an AFP reporter said, a day after jubilant rebel forces surged into the symbolic heart of the capital. Fighting was also heard from around 0400 GMT in the south of the capital, where there were exchanges of heavy weaponry….
War crimes court seeks transfer of Gadhafi son
8/22/2011 – THE HAGUE (AFP) — The International Criminal Court is seeking the transfer of Moammar Gadhafi’s son Seif Al-Islam to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity, the court’s spokesman said Monday.” The court as a whole is involved,” Fadi El-Abdallah told AFP, answering ‘yes’ when asked if that….
‘World’ revels in imminent Gadhafi demise
8/22/2011 – PARIS (AFP) — US President Barack Obama led reaction to the rebel takeover of Tripoli, urging Moamer Gadhafi to admit defeat, as Libyans around the world on Monday celebrated the imminent end of his regime. World leaders hailed the rebel push on the Libyan capital as the end-game in the six-month uprising against Gadhafi’s….
Arab League chief: ‘Full solidarity’ with Libya rebel government
8/22/2011 – CAIRO (AFP) — Arab League chief Nabil Al-Arabi expressed on Monday his “full solidarity” with the Libyan rebel government as its fighters closed in on Moamer Gadafi’s Tripoli compound. Arabi, in a statement expressed “his full solidarity with the ongoing efforts by the National Transitional Council” and “wished success for the council in leading….
Egypt recognizes Libya rebel government
8/22/2011 – CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt on Monday recognized Libya’s rebel National Transitional Council as the legitimate government as rebels closed in on Moamer Gadhafi’s Tripoli compound, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Amr said.” Egypt recognizes the new regime in Libya and the National Transitional Council that represents it,” he said at a….
In photos: Jubilant rebels take Tripoli
8/22/2011 – Libyans celebrated the arrest of Gadhafi’s son Saif Al-Islam as jubilant rebels overran the symbolic heart of the capital Tripoli on Sunday, welcomed by thousands of residents….
Gadhafi era ‘over’ as rebels seize most of Tripoli
8/22/2011 – TRIPOLI (AFP) — Libya’s rebels Monday declared the “Gadhafi era” over after taking control of most of Tripoli as US President Barack Obama called for “an inclusive transition” in the war-torn country. Obama pressed Libya’s veteran strongman Moammar Gadhafi, who has refused to surrender, to “explicitly” give up power and warned exuberant….
UN body meets as Assad rejects calls to quit
8/22/2011 – DAMASCUS (AFP) —The UN rights body held an emergency meeting on Monday to press Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to end a deadly crackdown on dissent, a day after he scoffed at Western calls to quit. More than 2,200 people have died in the Syrian regime’s crackdown, UN rights chief Navi Pillay told the….
Gone Fishing
Palestine Note 22 Aug 2011 – We’re on break, but we’ll be back soon! Photo: Fishing boats on the coast of Gaza. [ kjRoc , Flickr]
Hamas says Gaza ceasefire agreed
AlJazeera 22 Aug 2011 – Human Rights Council holds emergency talks on government crackdown on protests as activists report more deaths in Homs.
WFTU announces international campaign for Palestine recognition
PNN – Bethlehem – PNN – The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) announced today its international campaign for the recognition of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders. A statement released by the…
A Day for Thanking the Helpers
PNN – Bethlehem – PNN – Kristalina Georgieva – Last month I sat with an exhausted Somali family who had walked for weeks to find shelter and food. We met in the Dadaab refugee…
Obituary: Samira Hassasian
PNN – The Palestine Solidarity Campaign released a statement today announcing that Samira Hassassian, wife of the PSC’s Palestinian Ambassador, Manuel Hassassain, has passed away. ‘PSC members and supporters will be saddened to hear…
Hamas and IJM plan response
PNN – Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement have decided to cooperate in their response against Israel, according to a prominent Gazan politician. A senior member of the Islamic Jihad Movement (IJM), Sheikh Ahmad…
Israel to expel 384 activists from Jerusalem
PNN – Jerusalem – PNN – Israel has announced plans to expel 384 Palestinian activists from Jerusalem. Israeli intelligence services summoned prominent Palestinian activists last week to inform them of the decision, which it…
International Solidarity Movement
Night of Israeli violence: Al Aqsa Mosque barricade, house demolition, gang beating, arrests
8/22/2011 – International Solidarity Movement – International Solidarity Movement, West Bank – Just after midnight on Monday, August 22 the IDF took the opportunity to trap 1500 Palestinian youth inside al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, blow up a house in Hebron (injuring 30 people in the ensuing riots), and arrested a member of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin. In Jerusalem, thousands of Palestinians….
Many injured in Hebron house demolition
8/22/2011 – International Solidarity Movement – 22 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank – At 10pm Sunday August 21st the Hasan Ali Darwish Al-Qawasmi house in the Abo Ktelah district was raided and later destroyed by IDF soldiers. Around eight armoured vehicles surrounded the house and at least 40 soldiers were blocking every entrance. The IDF had arrived at the house….
Pedestrian caught between H1, H2, and Israeli military
8/22/2011 – International Solidarity Movement – International Solidarity Movement – In Al Khalil, commonly referred to as Hebron, international observers received a call about a man being beaten by Israeli military between the H1 and H2 areas of Hebron. H1 is an area densely populated by about 120,000 Palestinians, while H2 has been taken over through military violence by illegal Israeli settlers….
Snapshots of Al-Qawasmi home, ripped apart by Israeli military
8/22/2011 – International Solidarity Movement – International Solidarity Movement, West Bank – Hussein Al-Qawasmi was arrested 10 days ago. Yesterday Qawasmi was escorted back to his home by Israeli soldiers, who claimed there were explosives as well as a memory stick and other forms of information. The family home was ransacked and a section of it was destroyed. Two sons have been….
Alternative Information Center
Israeli Army Again Targets Jenin’s Freedom Theatre
Alternative Information Center – After the Israeli army targets the theatre twice during the last month, arresting three of its members, today at approximately 02:00 in the morning of the 22nd August the Israeli army surrounded The Freedom Theatre and…
Gaza: Stop Harassing Activists
Relief Web 22 Aug 2011 – Source: Human Rights Watch Country: occupied Palestinian territory (Jerusalem) – Hamas authorities in Gaza should halt their summonses, interrogations, arbitrary detentions, and other harassment apparently aimed at intimidating civil society activists into silence, Human Rights Watch said today. Hamas should…
Visiting Egypt, UN envoy urges calm after recent violence on Israeli border
Relief Web 22 Aug 2011 – Source: UN News Service Country: Egypt , Israel , occupied Palestinian territory 22 August 2011 – A senior United Nations envoy has voiced deep concern over the death of Egyptian security personnel during the incident that occurred near the country’s border with…
Palestinian people and local business at the heart of the Commission’s new assistance package
Relief Web 22 Aug 2011 – Source: European Union Country: occupied Palestinian territory Brussels, 22 August 2011 – The European Commission today announced additional financial support to the Occupied Palestinian Territory for state-building, water-management and sanitation, as well as education and health services for refugees. The…
BADIL Calls for effective Protection and accountability for Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Relief Web 22 Aug 2011 – Source: BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights Country: occupied Palestinian territory , Syrian Arab Republic (the) Sporadic reports coming out of Syria continue to paint a dire picture of the situation of Palestinian refugees in Latakia refugee camp…
Palestinians feel the pinch as Arab donors stay away
Relief Web 22 Aug 2011 – Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks Country: occupied Palestinian territory RAMALLAH, 22 August 2011 (IRIN) – Palestinian families in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are facing increasing financial woes this Ramadan, as the Palestinian Authority (PA) juggles with its dwindling budget….
Protection of Civilians Report 19-21 August 2011
Relief Web 21 Aug 2011 – Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: occupied Palestinian territory , Israel Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip and rocket and mortar fire by Palestinian armed factions continue to affect civilians and civilian property in the Gaza…
Muslim Worshipers banned from Al-Aqsa Mosque
22 Aug 2011 – Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) – Israeli police Sunday night closed Damascus Gate, one of the main gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, as well as Al-Aqsa Mosque with the worshippers locked inside following rumors of stabbing of an Israeli policeman during a protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza, witnesses said.
Israel army confine freedom of movement in Bethlehem
22 Aug 2011 – West Bank, (Pal Telegraph) – Israeli soldiers Monday imposed strict military restrictions on Bethlehem governorate, putting up checkpoints along the main roads and impeding Palestinians’ movement, said security sources.
Yemen braces for fallout from Libya
The National 22 Aug 2011 – Tanks and troops flood Yemen’s city streets in response to Libyan rebel advances in Tripoli.
Syria closely watching fate of Libya
The National 22 Aug 2011 – As Libyan rebels gain ground in Tripoli, pro-democracy supporters in Syria predict the end for President Al Assad.
Fighting continues in Tripoli amid rebel celebrations
The National 22 Aug 2011 – Tensions run high in Tripoli as rebel fighters move slowly to secure strategic streets and buildings.
Whereabouts of Libya’s Qaddafi remain a mystery
The National 22 Aug 2011 – Despite Libyan leader’s vow to remain with his supporters until the end, rumours circulate that Qaddafi may have left Tripoli, or even Libya.
Qaddafi’s son could face trial in Libya
The National 22 Aug 2011 – Libyan rebels say they have not yet decided whether to tun over Muammar Qaddafi’s son, Saif Al Islam, for prosecution of crimes against humanity.
Qaddafi’s rule crumbles as Tripoli falls to Libyan rebels
The National 21 Aug 2011 – Muammar Qaddafi’s 42-year rule appears to be over as jubilant Libyan rebels capture his son and take over large swathes of the capital.
Israeli ministers vote for restraint as Gaza truce holds
Ha’aretz – ‘Israel won’t be dragged into places it doesn’t want to be,’ says Benjamin Netanyahu’s aide.
Obama: Gadhafi’s rule is over, Libya’s future in hands of its people
Ha’aretz – U.S. president says opposition forces must build democratic government through ‘peaceful, inclusive and just’ measures.
Arab League and Egypt recognize Libya’s rebels as capital Tripoli falls
Ha’aretz – Whereabouts of former leader Muammar Gadhafi remains unknown; European Union already planning to assist new administration.
Zvi Bar’el / The next stop on the Arab freedom train is Damascus
Ha’aretz – A critical mass of deposed Arab leaders is starting to form, but phase two of the Libyan revolution will prove to be harder than just ousting Gadhafi.
IDF soldiers exposed to radiation risk developing cancer within 10 years
Ha’aretz – Study shows that found that there can be very short latency periods between the time of exposure to electromagnetic radiation during military service and development of cancer.
Three Gaza rockets fired into Israel, breaking ceasefire
Ha’aretz – One rocket in coastal Ashkelon area ignites brushfire, no injuries reported thus far; rockets hit after IDF tells southern residents that threat level has been reduced.
Report: Protestant church encouraged West Germany to support Eichmann
Ha’aretz – Church officials in Austria and Germany wanted the West German government to aid the high-ranking Nazi officer after he was captured by Israeli agents, Der Spiegel reports.
Donniel Hartman: A Marathon Testing Strength, Wisdom
Ha’aretz – We’ll prevail when citizens believe government listens not merely in dangerous times
Israel’s housing activists intensify protests by squatting Tel Aviv building
Ha’aretz – Dozens of activists occupy a four-story building abandoned since 1999, and call on the Tel Aviv municipality to make use of empty buildings in the city.
Israeli singer Margalit Tzan’ani to stay in jail an additional four days
Ha’aretz – Tzan’ani is being held by police on suspicion of blackmail and threatening her manager.
UN delays Gaza flotilla report, following request by Turkey
Ha’aretz – Move comes day before Palmer report into 2010 IDF raid on Gaza flotilla was due to be published; Turkey says Israel also requested delay.
Gaza militants fire 12 rockets at Israel, despite Hamas declaration of cease-fire
Ha’aretz – Netanyahu calls special security cabinet meeting to discuss IDF response to rocket fire, Hamas implementation of truce; Israel to try to refrain from escalating situation in the south.
Israeli Arabs to Peres: Help end ‘economic intifada’
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Soup on menu is biggest head-turner at traditional presidential Iftar dinner.
Incoming rockets can’t deter incoming families
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – 36 families move to Beersheba, Ashkelon, Kiryat Gat and Sderot as part of the Keren Kehilot Foundation for Community Revival in Israel.
MDA medic on bus to Eilat recounts saving lives
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Anastasia Bagadlov: A soldier next to me pushed my head down, and thanks to him, glass pieces flew over my head, but I was not wounded.
Rebels hunt for Gaddafi, said to hold 95% of Tripoli
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Obama: ‘Regime coming to an end’; Sarkozy, Ban urge loyalists to lay down arms and surrender.
Rebels asks leader of UK’s Libyan Jews to run for office
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Raphael Luzon: If I do it I do it for the historical matter. The first Arab country that proposed that a Jew run in a free election.
US: Aid to Egypt conditional on peace with Israel
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Kay Granger tells ‘Post’ that level of Muslim Brotherhood involvement in new Egyptian government will impact US assistance, if PA goes through with UN statehood bid $500m. of US aid will be suspended.
US prosecutors ask judge to drop Strauss-Kahn charges
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Lawyers for former IMF chief welcome decision: “We have maintained from the beginning that our client is innocent.”
‘J’accuse on Pollard’
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – It’s one of the most painful wounds in the Jewish world. All Israeli attempts to obtain leniency for Jonathan Pollard have failed.
New Libyan economy will have few chances to diversify
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Analysts: The first order of business will be to establish some form of workable government and to get oil exports up and running.
In new Libya, oil will stay king
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Despite vast wealth, post-Gaddafi era economy will have few prospects for diversification.
Obama promises US aid for post-Gaddafi Libya
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – US president urges rebels poised to depose Libyan leader to not seek justice through violent reprisals.
Jon Voight compares Palestinian terrorists to Nazis
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – At J’lem Holocaust event organized Glenn Beck, Oscar-winning American actor praises Israel, condemns terror attacks.
Encountering peace: Let’s talk to Hamas now
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – When it comes to dealing with the Gaza Strip, this is our only option.
What has happened to Israel?
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – A view from Ashdod.
Jews have human rights, too
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Until Palestinians recognize this, we will never have peace.
The housing crisis: The solution is in front of our eyes
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Residential shortages can be fixed by high-density urban development.
‘Gaddafi’s son Mohammed flees house arrest’
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Al Jazeera says forces loyal to Libyan leader help his son to flee as rebels seek to secure full control of Tripoli.
Training Maj.-Gen. Avi Zamir
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Zamir is unwise to criticize and castigate a large segment of those serving in the army.
Activists ‘liberate’ abandoned building in central TA
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Dozens of activists take over 3,000 square meter building, say it is now “public place for housing, culture, and community.”
Activists ‘liberate’ abandoned TA building, sleep at site
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Dozens of activists take over 3,000 square meter building, say it is now “public place for housing, culture, and community.”
Trajtenberg: I won’t recommend expanding state budget
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Head of PM’s special socioeconomic committee says during Youtube video that real change in national priorities needed.
Trajtenberg won’t call for bigger state budget
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Head of PM’s special socioeconomic committee says during Youtube video that real change in national priorities needed.
Kassam explodes near Ashkelon despite ‘ceasefire’
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Rocket is 3rd to explode in South after 2 previous projectiles fired from Gaza fall in region following unofficial ceasefire announcement.
UN’s Ban says Assad broke pledge to halt violence
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – “I sincerely hope he heeds to int’l community’s appeals,” Ban says; Syrian forces shoot dead 3 people in Homs.
‘Libya rebels capture Gaddafi’s son Saadi’
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – ‘Al Arabiyah’ says Libyan rebel council chairman denies that talks under way between rebel leadership, ICC on Saif al-Islam Gaddafi.
Google Street View approved in Israel
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Rights groups say the new service could erode privacy.
‘Libyan rebel council chairman: Gaddafi location unknown’
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – National Transitional Council also quoted as saying that negotiations not under way between rebel leadership, ICC on Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, one of Libyan leader’s sons being held by rebels.
Video: New gov’t website eternalizes survivors’ stories
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – The ‘Post’ films first meeting between a student volunteer and a 90-year-old survivor eager to make his story known.
Russia hopes Libya power shift to end bloodshed
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Russian Foreign Ministry says “shift of power” imminent; Turkey: situation is lesson for Middle East leaders who ignore their people.
Analysis: Gaddafi collapse will embolden Arab rebels
Jerusalem Post 22 Aug 2011 – Rebels’ success in Libya will shake the confidence of rulers who believe their military-backed governments are immune to popular discontent.
The EU must give Gazan hope a hand | Sami Abdel-Shafi
The Guardian 22 Aug 2011 – Without pressure on Israel, aid from the EU will only succeed in sustaining dark days for Palestinians in Gaza It is no longer fitting to wonder whether Gaza is a problem: of course it is, and…
LIBYA: No ‘Mission Accomplished’ Claimed in Washington Yet
IPS While the apparent end of Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year reign over Libya was greeted with considerable satisfaction here Monday, no one was prepared to declare “mission accomplished”, particularly given the looming questions around what happens next.
POLITICS: IBSA Opposes Measures Against Syria
IPS Members of the emerging economy grouping known as IBSA – India, Brazil and South Africa – have joined China and Russia in opposing measures against Syria.
Pockets of Resistance As Rebels Claim Tripoli
IPS The head of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) has announced the end of the Muammar Gaddafi era, while sporadic fighting continued across the capital, Tripoli.
Arab Spring Slips Into Tunisian Fall
IPS Seven months after Tunisia’s historic uprising which saw the ouster of long-time dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and gave birth to the region’s Arab Spring, many Tunisians are losing confidence in the progress of their revolution.
Uruknet
Video: Col Gaddafi Son Saif Free And In Tripoli
Uruknet August 23, 2011 – Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al Islam is free and not in the hands of rebel fighters, appeared on live television tonight in Tripoli.
Imperial Hubris in Post-Gadhafi Libya
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – ….Uncertainty over who controls Libya, or doubts about whether they enjoy broad support, could potentially undermine the stability of the embattled country. Such instability, being addressed by such an incompetent and fractured group, could not only produce a humanitarian disaster, it could lead to the emergence of new authoritarian government. But the NATO-led intervention…
New Leaks Reveal Insider Tips on S&P’s U.S. Credit Downgrade to Killer-Drone Firm
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – We live in an age where insider deals, conflicts of interest, revolving doors between “regulators” and the “regulated” (lubricated with oceans of cash) accompanies the generalized looting of social wealth by deviant capitalist elites. That such behavior by our corporate masters no longer raise an eyebrow, let alone elicit action by authorities charged with…
Libya’s Finest Hour….As NATO Presses Conquest
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – With superior firepower more than a century ago the Italian invaders mowed down Ethiopians, mostly civilians and drove emperor Menelik II into submission. The newspapers of the day including The New York Times celebrated “Italy’s Great Victory” in Africa, saying the defeat of the Abyssinians meant “civilization” had prevailed over “barbarity.” Africa would now…
Syria News – August 21, 2011 (Videos)
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – Military and security operations has continued by storming into towns in Saraqeb, east Maaret Al-Nouman, Hawleh and neighborhoods in Lattakia, which led to fall of many martyrs and many injured, as well as arrests in these areas and Damascus Suburbs, but the security forces continued to withdraw from Zabadany, which was expecting the visit…
Some Comments on BBC’s Questioning of NATO’s Credibility in their war against Gaddafi on August 20, 2011
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – There are many reports that show that the Rebels get arms from countries like France and especially Qatar, sometimes even being flown into Misrata. More on the one-sided enforcement of the weapons embargo see. Now the new approach by NATO is to make sure that all those civilians that support the green Jamahiriya, will…
Gaddafi forces in Tripoli counter-offensive
Uruknet August 22, 2011 – Gaddafi’s son Khamis is leading loyalist forces towards central Tripoli in a government counter-offensive against rebel forces that have been already celebrating an easy victory over Colonel Gaddafi. Early on Monday morning, tanks rolled out of Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli residence and began shelling the rebels who had gathered near the compound as sustained heavy…
Killing Gaza again
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – I’m looking at a split photo: one side is a smiling boy, a chubby-cheeked toddler, and the other his dismembered, burnt corpse, pelvis torn apart. Islam Kraike is one of at least 15 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the Israeli military in the last 4 days. I was going to reach out to my…
Night of Israeli violence: Al Aqsa Mosque barricade, house demolition, gang beating, arrests
Uruknet 22 August 2011 – Just after midnight on Monday, August 22 the IDF took the opportunity to trap 1500 Palestinian youth inside al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, blow up a house in Hebron (injuring 30 people in the ensuing riots), and arrested a member of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin. In Jerusalem, thousands of Palestinians gathered to protest the…
Iraq : Turkish strike against Kurdish targets kills 7 family members , including 5 children
Uruknet August 21, 2011 — A Turkish airstrike killed seven family members Sunday morning in a Kurdish village in northern Iraq, a local official said. Qalat Diza mayor Hassan Abdullah said the strike hit two parents and their five children as they rode in a truck. The village, Kortek, is located in Qalat Diza — about 180 kilometers northeast…
Video: Tripoli : Bab Al Azizia [22-08-2011]
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Video : Journalist Franklin Lamb Shot In Tripoli – Midnight august 21
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – On the telephone – No internet – He is Okay – and reports accordingly – with shooting going on….
Process of Elimination: The West’s Rapid Slide Into Slaughter
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – As it is written: “Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep.” We have finally returned from a series of grueling and at times bewildering traversals of the planet in several directions. Still a bit dazed, we will shortly be back in fighting trim. In the meantime, I would by no means insult your…
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue through Sunday; at least 3 children among killed since Thursday
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – According to local sources in Gaza, Israeli missile strikes continued on Saturday and Sunday in various parts of Gaza, averaging one to two air strikes an hour. A two-year old and a five-year old were among the victims of Israel’s three-day long bombardment of Gaza, and a 12-year old boy was also among the…
KULNA GAZA – WE ARE ALL GAZANS
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – Fifteen people were killed so far, and no end in sight. Tomorrow the foreigners will be evacuated, Israel threatens with a “massive military attack”, a “ground invasion” is not ruled out. Fifteen killed people, including two children. I can give their names, Malek, two years old, and Mahmoud, thirteen years. I can tell how…
Syria accused of covering up damage at Palestinian refugee camp
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – Syrian authorities preparing for a United Nations inspection are covering up damage in a Palestinian refugee camp that was pummeled with gunfire and rockets during a crackdown on protesters in recent days, according to a Western diplomat, Syrian activists and camp residents…Thousands of residents of the crowded camp in southern Latakia were forced to…
Open Letter to NATO Commanders and Political Leaders
Uruknet August 21, 2011 – Just what exactly do you think you are doing in Libya? Did anyone elect you? Did you heed the Libyan Government’s call for a democratic election? Since when is attacking civilians with US Apache helicopters in your Rules of Engagement? How do you explain the wanton strafing of civilian structures with military hardware? Why…
Gaddafi son Saif at Tripoli hotel after arrest report
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Saif al Islam, the son of Libya leader Muammar Gaddafi who rebels and the International Criminal Court had been arrested, arrived in the early hours of Tuesday at the Tripoli hotel where foreign reporters have been…
World reacts to takeover of Tripoli
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 World leaders Monday hailed the rebel takeover of Tripoli, urging Moammar Gadhafi to admit defeat, as Libyans around the world celebrated the veteran leader’s imminent demise.
Syrian forces shoot dead 3 in Homs during U.N. visit
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Syrian forces shot dead three people in Homs during a visit by a U.N. humanitarian team Monday, activists said, and the U.N. said the death toll from President Bashar Assad’s crackdown on protests had reached 2,200.
Gadhafi a fugitive
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Moammar Gadhafi was a hunted man Monday as loyal remnants of his forces made last-ditch stands in the capital while world leaders rushed to embrace the fractious rebel movement as new masters of Libya’s oil riches.
Parliamentary committee introduces changes to draft law to reduce prison sentences
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Lawmakers urged judicial authorities to speed up trials for all detainees in Lebanese prisons Monday, while a parliamentary committee approved, with changes, a draft law to reduce prison sentences.
Lawyer shoots and wounds municipality head
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 A Lebanese lawyer shot and wounded the head of the municipality of Ghabat Broummana in the Metn district, a security source told The Daily Star Monday.
Damour’s 3rd generation of displaced are set to reinvigorate town
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 The barber of Damour has 50 customers. As he shaves the face of a white-haired man, Elias Abi Shakra, himself getting up in years, says all my customers are my age.
Family of Sadr calls on rebels to release him
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 The family of Lebanon’s influential Shiite leader Imam Musa al-Sadr, who disappeared during a visit to Libya in August 1978, urged the National Transitional Council to release Sadr after Libyan rebels overthrew the regime of Colonel…
Jumblatt: Money needed for Egypt development
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt called on wealthy Arab states Monday to provide financial aid to Egypt to help it resume its pioneering role.
Berri calls for uncovering Sadr’s fate
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Speaker Nabih Berri called on the Libyan National Transitional Council Monday to work toward uncovering the fate of Imam Musa al-Sadr and his two companions who went missing in Libya more than three decades ago…
Kurd leader condemns Turkish shelling in Iraq
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Turkish aircraft bombed north Iraq Monday, the sixth day of a bombing campaign against bases of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the region, a rebel spokesman said, prompting condemnation from the president of Iraq’s…
Yemeni speaker dies from wounds in Saudi Arabia
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 The speaker of Yemen’s upper house of parliament died in Saudi Arabia Monday from injuries suffered in a June assassination attempt on President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a government official with Saleh in Riyadh said.
Pirates’ attempt to snatch 2nd tanker in 2 days off Oman foiled
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 A chemical oil tanker foiled a hijack attempt by pirates near the Omani port of Salalah Sunday, a day after a tanker and crew were snatched from inside the port in front of the coast guard.
Iran begins moving centrifuges to underground bunker near Qom
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Iran has started moving some of the machines that enrich uranium for nuclear fuel from its main atomic complex in the central city of Natanz to an underground bunker near the holy city of Qom, its…
Gaza militants say cease-fire with Israel temporary
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Gaza’s Popular Resistance Committees Monday agreed to halt rocket fire on Israel and abide by an Egyptian-brokered truce after four days of deadly clashes.
Syrian opposition eyes Gadhafi downfall with hope, fear
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 The downfall of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is likely to pave the way for increased Western attention to Syria and embolden protests against President Bashar Assad.
Egyptian acts on border region as Israeli tensions mount
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Egypt announced plans to develop a region bordering Israel Monday after Israeli officials blamed its loosening grip on the area for the killing of eight Israelis by armed militants, inflaming tensions between the two neighbors.
Can anyone unite Libya after Gadhafi’s 4-decade rule?
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Now that Moammar Gadhafi’s four-decade rule appears to be over, the disparate groups of rebels who drove him from power could face a graver danger: each other.
Tripoli residents jubilant after loyalists’ reign disintegrates
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Tripoli residents spent Monday jubilant yet fearful, asking for weapons to join rebels in their cat-and-mouse war with loyalists who have besieged the city with snipers and drive-by shootings.
Libya’s uprising: from a riot to a revolution
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Feb. 15, 2011 – A riot in Benghazi is triggered by the arrest of human rights activist Fethi Tarbel, who has worked to free political prisoners.
Arab nations to pressure Syria at U.N.
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 A U.N. human rights expert says Arab nations agreed Monday to demand that Syria allow an international probe within its borders to see whether crimes against humanity have been committed.
“Isolated” Syria in the dock at top UN rights body
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Syria was in the dock at an urgent session of the U.N. Human Rights Council which began Monday and which the U.S. envoy said underscored the growing international isolation of President Bashar Assad.
Libyan embassy in Syria sides with revolution
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 The Libyan embassy in Damascus on Monday declared that it was siding with the rebel body the National Transitional Council, whose fighters have swept into Tripoli and are poised to overrun the capital.
Lawyer shoots, wounds head of Lebanon municipality
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 A Lebanese lawyer shot and wounded the head of the municipality of Ghabat Broummana in the Metn district, a security source told The Daily Star Monday.
Hoss hails rebel assault on Libyan capital
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 Former Prime Minister Salim Hoss praised Monday the liberation of Libya, describing Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi as a model of flagrant rule.
World to Gadhafi: Surrender
Daily Star 22 Aug 2011 World leaders say the end is near for the regime of Moammar Gadhafi and are calling on the Libyan leader to relinquish power, after rebels took control of most of the Libyan capital.
Lull breached; rockets hit westeren Negev
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – The fragile armistice declared by the Gaza terror groups was breached once more Monday evening, as several rockets were were fired from northern Gaza at Israel’s southern … ….
‘Israeli woman flees German torture den’
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – Thomas P. turned his Hamburg apartment into a torture den, where according to suspicion he planned to hold captive and abuse an Israeli woman that he met several months … ….
Central America ‘battles’ over PA’s UN bid
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – With the UN General Assembly in September nearing, the question of the Palestinian Authority’s future bid for statehood seems to be dominating the political discourse … ….
Obama: Gaddafi regime at its end
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama addressed the dramatic developments in Libya on Monday, recognizing the rebel political body as the country’s legitimate government … ….
Political source: We cannot rush into war
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – Jerusalem is struggling to explain what has been criticized at its lax response to the escalation in southern Israel over the weekend. A senior political source told … ….
Protestors: Tents are here to stay
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – The relative calm after days of escalating violence in the south has leaders of Israel’s socio-economic protests hoping that their cause will once again become the main … ….
Jerusalem rebukes Spanish envoy over PA statement
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – The Foreign Ministry summoned Spain’s ambassador to Israel on Monday, following a statement by Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez suggesting that Madrid will … ….
Rebels promise Gaddafi ‘fair trial’; Europe urges him to step down
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – National Transitional Council chief vows Gaddafi would be treated according to….
Abbas postpones municipal elections, again
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – Palestinian president defers local elections across PA’s cities for third time,….
Iran moves centrifuges to underground site
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – Islamic Republic transfers some of its uranium enrichment machines to….
Turkey: UN delays Palmer Report
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – Day before scheduled publication of report probing raid on Gaza-bound flotilla,….
Popular Resistance Committees claim truce in effect
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – PRC’s spokesman announces ‘temporary halt of rocket fire’ at Gaza press….
Clinton aide in Cairo in attempt to defuse Israel-Egypt tensions
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman slated to meet senior Egyptian….
Escalation in south behind us?
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – As rockets continue to hit south despite Hamas ceasefire IDF reins in response….
Rebels sweep into Tripoli as Gaddafi forces crumble
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – History in Libya: Rebel fighters sweep into Tripoli as Gaddafi’s forces….
Obama to Gaddafi: You no longer control Libya
YNet News, 22 Aug 2011 – US president urges Libyan leader to relinquish power, calls on Libya’s rebel….
Palestinian Information Center
Al-Khalil: 55 Palestinians injured in clashes with IOF
PIC – Some 55 Palestinians were left injured Monday morning after violent clashes with Israeli occupation forces across Al-Khalil governorate in the West Bank.
Israeli attacks on Gaza continue despite truce talks
PIC – Israel continued to attack several areas across the Gaza Strip on Sunday despite talks of the sides nearing a truce.
Egyptian FM: Quartet overlooked our victims, meddled in internal affairs
PIC – Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammad Amr criticized the International Quartet for overlooking the Egyptian victims and discussing Egyptian internal affairs in a statement it released.
Abbas postpones municipal elections
PIC – De facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday issued a decree indefinitely postponing the controversial municipal elections.
OIC demands immediate end to Israeli aggression on Gaza
PIC – Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has urged the world community to immediately intervene to halt the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces storm Aqsa, close main OJ gate
PIC – Israeli police forces closed Bab Al-Amud gate, one of the most famous of occupied Jerusalem’s Old City, to coincide with closing the Aqsa Mosque on those inside after midnight Sunday.
PRC armed wing announces halt to firing of rockets
PIC – The Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, announced a “temporary” halt to firing of locally made rockets at Israeli targets.
IOF soldiers detain 4 Palestinians
PIC – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up four Palestinians in Jenin refugee camp at dawn Monday including a father and his teen son.
PA security agencies arrest several Hamas supporters in West Bank
PIC – Palestinian Authority security agencies arrested several Hamas supporters in the West Bank on Monday morning.
Israel seeks prosecution of Egyptian who removed embassy’s flag
PIC – Israel has filed a complaint with the Egyptian Attorney General against Ahmed al-Shahat, the Egyptian who became a hero after tearing the Israeli flag from the Israeli building in Cairo.
Hamas congratulates Libyan revolutionaries over “big victory”
PIC – 22/08/2011 – 10:19 AM
Abbas Discusses Agenda of Arab Peace Initiative Meeting in Doha
WAFA
Spanish Foreign Minister: Hour has Arrived to Take Step towards Recognizing Palestinian State
WAFA
Israeli Soldiers Assault Palestinian Officer in Nablus
WAFA
Settlers Run Over Palestinian Child in Hebron
WAFA
Corruption Charges Filed Against Minister of Agriculture
WAFA
Palestine Recognizes Libya’s Transitional National Council
WAFA
Palestinians Protest Against Israeli Assault On Gaza
WAFA
Local Elections Postponed for Third Time
WAFA
Thailand to Recognize Palestinian State in September
WAFA
Israeli Police Escalates Security Measures in Jerusalem
WAFA
The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty Dying Out on the Borderline
Intifada-Palestine: 22 Aug 2011 – “The toppling and the trial of Mubarak has altered scenarios that were already underway and hindered plans for the Middle East that were in the making under the auspices of ardent Zionists in Washington, Cairo and Tel Aviv.” Dr. Ashraf Ezzat… more
How did Americans get so utterly clueless about world events? (Hint: It was no accident.)
Intifada-Palestine: 22 Aug 2011 – If you hear the indefensible defended enough times, confidently, by people with titles and credentials, it starts to sound like a good idea by Cassandra for Veterans Today If you could just see what passes for “news” here in the USA,… more
Glenn Beck’s Israel tour raises eyebrows
LA Times 22 Aug 2011 – The former Fox News host’s event has triggered a debate over whether he is a true friend of Israel or just a fanatic who has been accused of anti-Semitism. Perhaps it was only a matter of time before conservative American commentator Glenn Beck, viewed by…
Libyan rebels enter Tripoli, meet only sporadic resistance
LA Times 21 Aug 2011 – The ICC confirms that Moammar Kadafi’s son and onetime heir apparent, Seif Islam Kadafi, has been captured. Both sides claim the upper hand as uprisings are reported across Tripoli. Rebels swept into the heart of the Libyan capital, meeting only sporadic resistance from forces loyal…
Libya’s gritty mountain rebels may have turned tide in Tripoli
LA Times 21 Aug 2011 – With attention focused on important cities and bigger battles to the east, Moammar Kadafi may have underestimated the tenacity of the uprising in the western mountains. The revolt against Moammar Kadafi was born in the eastern city of Benghazi, long a caldron of discontent with…
More Clashes After Rebels Sweep Tripoli
New York Times 22 Aug 2011 – Clashes between rebels and government troops were reported even as residents celebrated the prospective end of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s rule in Libya.
Qaddafi Leaves Little Behind to Guide Libya in His Absence
New York Times 22 Aug 2011 – By the time he was done, Libya had no parliament, no unified military command, no political parties, no unions, no civil society and no nongovernmental organizations.
Dissent in Syria Emerges as Front Line of Arab Uprisings
New York Times 22 Aug 2011 – While Libya and Syria have little in common, the arithmetic of the region seems to be betting against authoritarian rule that fails to reform.
Egypt and Israel Move to Halt Growth of Crisis
New York Times 22 Aug 2011 – The Egyptian and Israeli governments moved Sunday to ease tensions over recent fatal cross-border attacks.
Israel launches bloody reprisals in Egypt and Gaza
WSWS – Israel’s aggressive response to a series of suicide and roadside bomb attacks near the Red Sea resort of Eilat on Thursday has exacerbated tensions with both the Palestinians and its neighbour, Egypt.
Evidence undermines Israeli gov’t claim that Eilat attackers were Gazans
Mondoweiss – The Minister of Defense and the Prime Minister claim the terrorist attack last week came from Gaza. They have yet to provide any proof – and the evidence looks dubious. An unknown group carried out a combined attack from Sinai into Israel, hitting a number of…
Co-oping BDS, part II: Filling up the Israeli boycart
Mondoweiss – The Park Slope Food Coop is probably the only grocery store in America where non-members must: a) accompany a legit member and b) sign in with a photo ID, pledging not to buy any products. There’s just something about exclusivity that makes the kale chips taste…
West Bank village under siege faces live-ammo, arrests and concussion grenades at nonviolent demo
Mondoweiss – The West Bank village of Beit Ommar has had a tough August , withstanding frequent Israeli military raids that see soldiers shoot tear-gas into residential areas and arrest Palestinian minors. Last Saturday, the month got even tougher for activists resisting illegal Israeli settlements and land confiscation. The…
Pennsylvania congressman censors the criticism of his Israel trip
Mondoweiss – Yesterday, we posted the news that Pennsylvania Congressman Pat Meehan had announced that he was traveling to Israel, and his website was swamped in comments that criticized his priorities and the Israel lobby, often in very hostile terms. If memory serves, there were more than 150…
Israeli ‘retaliation’
Mondoweiss – So what has been happening over the past few days? Some Arabs – almost certainly not from Gaza – attacked Israel, killing a number of soldiers and possibly a number of civilians. Israeli censorship has been in full force, muffling any accurate count of the nature…
New Virtual Field Visit: Israel’s Enforcement of the ‘Buffer Zone’ in the Gaza Strip
Al-Haq 21 Aug 2011 – (2011-08-22)
From Damascus to Sanaa, Cairo and Tunis: changing the course of history is inevitable
Middle East Monitor 22 Aug 2011 – In response to the threat made to him by the Turkish foreign minister that he is about to face the same fate of Saddam Hussein or Qaddafi, Syria’s President promised to put a quick end to the violence perpetrated by his security and army forces against…
Turkey to move to ‘Plan B’ in relations with Tel Aviv
Middle East Monitor 22 Aug 2011 – Turkey’s Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has hinted that his country would resort to its ‘Plan B’ as a new strategic policy for dealing with Tel Aviv if Israel continued to refuse to apologize for its military attack on the Mavi Marmara; the Turkish ship that…
Arab League Council discusses Israeli accountability for ‘crimes’ in Gaza
Middle East Monitor 22 Aug 2011 – The Arab League’s General Secretariat held an emergency meeting on Sunday, 21 August, to discuss the consequences of Israel’s on-going attacks on the Gaza Strip. The meeting, headed by Oman and attended by Arab League Secretary General Nabil El Arabi, was held in response to…
15 settlers attack Palestinian child with iron bars
Middle East Monitor 22 Aug 2011 – Palestinian sources have said that around 15 Israeli settlers from the West Bank settlement of Ramat Migron, which is built on land belonging to the Makhmas village near Ramallah, attacked a 10-year-old Palestinian child with iron bars. The child suffered injuries to the head and several…
UN puts Syria death toll at 2,200
BBC 22 Aug 2011 – The UN says the number of people killed in Syria’s crackdown on protesters since mid-March now stands at more than 2,200.
Israel and Hamas in ‘Gaza truce’
BBC 22 Aug 2011 – Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group which governs the Gaza Strip, say they have agreed to a ceasefire after five days of violence.
Palestinian Right of Self-Defense
Sabbah report 22 Aug 2011 – Repeatedly, Israel preemptively bombs, shells, and inflicts other forms of lawless violence on Gazans, bogusly claiming self-defense. When they respond, Israel calls it terrorism.
Avnery Reveals: The Return of the Generals
Sabbah report 22 Aug 2011 – Why, indeed, is Israel bombing Gaza? The Israeli public must be persuaded that Palestinians are not to be trusted. Israel is in danger of losing the September 20 vote for Palestinian statehood in the UN General Assembly.
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Gaza: Five reasons Israel should cease its attacks on Gaza
Julie Webb-Pullman in Gaza, Scoop8/21/2011
Eilat incidents
Israel has provided the flimsiest of evidence that either the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), or any Gazans at all, were responsible for the attacks near Eilat that killed eight Israelis on Thursday. To claim that Kalashnikov bullets found at the scene are evidence of Gazan involvement because Kalashnikovs are also used in Gaza (1) is a trifle disingenuous and simplistic, given that Kalashnikovs are also used in Israel itself, Egypt, and another 70-odd countries around the world. Both the PRC and the Hamas government have denied any involvement in the Eilat attacks.
Or does the PRC Israel accuses really refer to the Peoples’ Republic of China, because a teeshirt at the scene was made there? Clearly the Gaulloise cigarette butt and the empty coke bottle on the roadside suggest that the putative Gazan/Chinese terrorists were working in collaboration with…a French-US cell responsible for health terrorism, perhaps?
There is certainly a lot more evidence for the last phrase, than for ANY of the former propositions.
Right to “security” and “self-defence” Human rights are something that ALL humans are supposed to enjoy – not just Zionist Israelis. Palestinians also have the “right” to “security” – despite the international community doing precious little to uphold it for the last 63 years, from the day in 1948 they so generously gave away Palestinian land without their consent to establish the state of Israel within proscribed borders, to the present day.
Borders designate the territory within which a nation can be secure – they define the parameters to be respected by itself regarding ‘excursions’, and others regarding ‘incursions’. When territory is subjected to incursions, the occupants have the right of proportional self-defence, under international law. more.. e-mail
Evidence undermines gov’t’s claim that terrorists were Gazans
Yossi Gurvitz, +972 Magazine8/22/2011
The Minister of Defense and the Prime Minister claim the terrorist attack last week came from Gaza. They have yet to provide any proof – and the evidence looks dubious
An unknown group carried out a combined attack from Sinai into Israel, hitting a number of targets. Six Israeli civilians were murdered and two soldiers were killed; so were seven of the terrorists and a number of Egyptian security personnel. While the attacks were carried out, Minister of Defense Ehud Barak quickly told the public the people responsible were the Popular Resistance Committee of the Gaza Strip; within hours the IAF attacked a house in the Strip and killed several of its leaders. Later that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that the people responsible for the attacks were killed. This attack by the IAF is what spurred the recent round of escalation – and it’s worth noting the IAF has been raising the flames in the regions for about a month, with the Israeli media quietly ignoring it.
However, Israel has never supplied any proof that the attack has indeed originated in the Gaza Strip. The PRC have denied involvement in the attack. An Israeli propaganda apparatus, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, also claimed (Hebrew) the PRC was behind the attacks, but had to tautologically write “no terror organizations has publicly claimed responsibility for the attack and the Popular Resistance Committee has denied any involvement. However, the Israeli prime minister and other Israeli officials have pointed to the Popular Resistance Committee as the organization who carried out the attack. So, according to the ITIC, the fact that Netanyahu said something is proof enough, even if the other side completely denies it. more.. e-mail
Qatamon, 1948: The Fall of a Neighborhood
Itamar Radai, Jerusalem Quarterly File8/22/2011
Summer 2011
Introduction
Most studies of the 1948 battle for Jerusalem have focused on the political and military aspects of that struggle. This article aims to fill a gap in the field of social history by taking the Qatamon neighborhood in Jerusalem as a test case to study the transformational processes through which the Palestinian-Arab middle class passed during this crucial period. With very few, if notable, exceptions, this aspect of Palestinian social history under the British Mandate has so far been unduly overlooked.1
The overall education, occupational pursuits, economic conditions, and way of life of the residents of Jerusalem’s Qatamon neighborhood encapsulate the profile of the Mandate-era Palestinian-Arab middle class: bourgeois, generally well-educated, mainly Christian, with an occupational structure similar to that of the new classes emergingin the West since the late eighteenth century.2 In addition to being a quintessential Arab middle class neighborhood, Qatamon is an appropriate object of study because of its strategic location, which rendered it a major locus of fighting in south Jerusalem, inflicting great hardship on its residents, some of whom nevertheless stayed on and tried to maintain a civil life in the shadow of the war.3 The main contention of this essay is that the distinctive middle-class characteristics of the neighborhood accelerated the process of collapse by rendering it ineffectual in responding to a severe crisis during the decline of colonial civil order mainly brought about by Jewish military pressure.
The Eruption of War…. more.. e-mail
killing Gaza again
In Gaza: 22 Aug 2011 – I’m looking at a split photo: one side is a smiling boy, a chubby-cheeked toddler, and the other his dismembered, burnt corpse, pelvis torn apart. Islam Kraike is one of at least 15 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the Israeli military in the last 4 days. I was going to reach out to my local Canadian media, good ole Torstar Corporation-owned Guelph Mercury –which last posted news about Gaza in 2010 (since NOTHING has happened since then) but then just figured, fuck it, the corporate media’s agenda is to either not report on the current massacre of Gaza period, or to report bil ax , backwards. So here I am self-publishing, in the interest of getting news, words directly from Palestinians in Gaza, my feelings as a has-been in Gaza with loved ones breathing under the bombs, and as a humanely-minded person, which I’d like to dream many still are, corporate…more
Jenin’s Third Intifada under Attack
Palestine Chronicle: 22 Aug 2011 – By Richard Lightbown ‘The location of the Freedom Theatre […is] in the middle of the most attacked and poorest refugee camp in Palestine, the refugee camp of Jenin. We are talking about almost three thousand children under the age of 15 suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. It means they pee in their pants when they are eleven. It means they cannot concentrate; they cannot deal with each other without violence. “This camp […] is [be]sieged by electric fence, all around it. People cannot go out or in unless they have a permit. We have two gates like a big prison, and we are just in the middle, trying to serve this population, trying to bring some normality, some sanity to some people here. “I would say that the Freedom Theatre offers the very basic elements of life to children, to people, to grown-ups, to women, to men: freedom. “And then of…more
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