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Striking Palestinian Detainee Suffers Health Deterioration
IMEMC – Monday October 03, 2011 – 22:46, The health condition of Palestinian detainee, Akram Mansour, 52, witnessed a sharp deterioration Monday as he continue his hunger strike along with hundreds of detainees imprisoned by Israel.
US Defense Secretary Discusses Latest Developments With His Israeli Counterpart
IMEMC – Monday October 03, 2011 – 12:44, US Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, arrived in Israel on Monday to discuss the latest developments in the region with Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak. Issues on the agenda include the Iranian “nuclear program” and the Arab Spring, the Maan News Agency reported Monday.
Child Wounded in Gaza
IMEMC – Monday October 03, 2011 – 12:33, A Palestinian child was shot and wounded by Israeli military fire in Gaza Strip, the Ma’an News Agency reported on Monday.
Israeli Bulldozers Level Lands in Al-Walaja Village
IMEMC – Monday October 03, 2011 – 12:04, Israeli bulldozers started to level Palestinian agricultural lands in Al Walaja village, northwest of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestine News & Info Agency (WAFA) reported on Monday.
Ashton: We Won’t Stop Financial Aid To Palestinians”
IMEMC – Monday October 03, 2011 – 10:37, European Foreign Policy chief, Catherine Ashton, informed Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, that the European Union (EU) will not freeze its funding to the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people, following the Palestinian application for full UN membership on September 23, European sources reported earlier on Monday.
Mosque Torched In The Galilee
IMEMC – Monday October 03, 2011 – 10:29, Similar to attacks by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, a group of extremists burned a mosque at the entrance of Toba Zanghriyya village in the Galilee on Sunday night, and wrote “Price Tag” and “Revenge” on its walls, the Arabs48 news website reported.
Israeli Channel 10: “US Defense Secretary To Receive Israeli Spy “Gerabil”
IMEMC – Monday October 03, 2011 – 07:47, Egyptian authorities are going to release, the American-born Israeli spy “Ilan Gerabil” after having confirmed that he does not work for the Israeli Intelligence “Mossad”, claiming that the photo taken with Egyptians in Cairo during a picnic does not prove spying, Israeli TV Channel 10 reported.
Mosque set alight in Galilee village
10/3/2011 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — A mosque in northern Israel was set on fire overnight Sunday in a suspected ‘price tag’ attack as village residents clashed with police on Monday, a spokesman said. A number of suspects entered the mosque in the Bedouin village of Tuba Zangaria and set fire to it, causing heavy damage to….
Prisoners group: Hunger strikes affecting detainees’ health
10/3/2011 – QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — A Palestinian prisoner in Israel’s Ashkelon jail is suffering from repeated fainting spells after taking part in a hunger strike against worsening prison conditions, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Monday. Palestinian detainees in prisons across Israel are on hunger strike for the seventh consecutive day in protest against…. Related: Thousands rally for prisoners in Israeli jails
Medics: Teenager shot by soldiers near Gaza City
10/3/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian teenager southeast of Gaza City on Monday, medics and an Israeli army spokeswoman said. Spokesman for Gaza’s ambulance and emergency committee Adham Abu Salmiya told Ma’an that a 16-year-old boy was shot in his left leg while collecting….
PA: Settler violence ‘not random’
10/3/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian agricultural land are “condoned and supported by the Israeli government,” Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib said Sunday. Over 500 olive trees were burned and uprooted on Saturday night, in settler attacks on villages near Nablus and Hebron, a government statement said. Khatib said the incidents followed….
Agricultural committees: Protect olive harvest from settlers
10/3/2011 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees announced on Monday an upcoming campaign to protect West Bank farmers from attacks by Israeli settlers during the olive harvest season. Noting a recent escalation in attacks on Palestinian lands and farmers, the agricultural support organization said it will organize groups of volunteers to accompany workers….
Thousands rally for prisoners in Israeli jails
10/3/2011 – NABLUS (AFP) — Thousands of people in the West Bank and Gaza staged demonstrations on Monday in solidarity with Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in Israeli jails. The rallies were held as inmates saw through the seventh consecutive day of a hunger strike to protest against worsening conditions for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. Around 2,000…. Related: Prisoners group: Hunger strikes affecting detainees’ health
Report: Ashton tells Abbas no cut in EU aid
10/3/2011 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told President Mahmoud Abbas that the EU would not cut aid to the Palestinian Authority after Palestine’s bid for UN membership, media reports said on Monday. The Ramallah-based government is facing a financial shortfall after the US Congress declined to transfer $200 million….
US: Israel ‘increasingly isolated’ in Middle East
10/3/2011 – ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AFP) — US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the Arab Spring has left Israel “increasingly isolated” in the Middle East and that its military might could not make up for a weakened diplomatic position. Speaking to reporters aboard his plane bound for Israel as part of a Middle East tour, Panetta…. Related: US defense secretary urges return to negotiations
Poet Taha Muhammad Ali dies in Nazareth
10/3/2011 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Celebrated poet Taha Muhammad Ali died in Nazareth on Sunday aged 80 years old. Muhammad Ali was born in Saffuriya village, north of Nazareth, in 1931. He fled to Lebanon with his family in 1948 when the village was captured by the Israeli army. The family was never able to return….
Rafah crossing closed Thursday as Egypt commemorates 1973 war
10/3/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Egyptian authorities announced Monday that the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip would be closed Thursday as the country commemorates the 1973 war with Israel. The interior ministry of the Gaza government advised passengers that there would be limited opening times at the crossing between October 6-10, a statement….
US defense secretary urges return to negotiations
10/3/2011 – TEL AVIV, Israel (Reuters) — US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday called for “bold action” from Israeli and Palestinian leaders to achieve peace, but said freezing of US funds to Palestinians was a mistake. Panetta, making his first trip to Israel since becoming Pentagon chief, met Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the start of his…. Related: US: Israel ‘increasingly isolated’ in Middle East
Israel’s Peres condemns mosque burning
10/3/2011 – TUBA-ZANGARIYA, Israel (Reuters) — Israeli President Shimon Peres visited a mosque in a Bedouin village in northern Israel that was set on fire and graffiti sprayed on its walls overnight on Monday, in an attack blamed on Jewish extremists. Peres visited the mosque along with a delegation of Jewish rabbis and other religious figures. Peres inspected….
Israeli cabinet discusses economic reforms
10/3/2011 – JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel’s cabinet on Monday began discussing a raft of economic reforms intended to address nationwide frustrations over the cost of living and income disparity. The reform proposals are the work of a committee appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year, as Israelis took to the streets in record-breaking….
In photos: Oktoberfest in the West Bank
10/3/2011 – MaanImages / Jenny Baboun – Thousands of people converged on Taybeh village near Ramallah for the annual Oktoberfest on Saturday and Sunday, celebrating the locally-brewed Taybeh beer….
Police seize ecstasy pills in Jenin
10/3/2011 – JENIN (Ma’an) — Police on Monday arrested a suspected drug dealer in possession of 370 ecstasy pills in Jenin in the northern West Bank. The man was caught trying to sell drugs, police said in a statement….
Egypt parties retract boycott threat after army concessions
10/3/2011 – CAIRO (Reuters) — Egyptian political parties accepted on Sunday concessions on election rules offered by the military, pulling back from threats to boycott Egypt’s first multi-candidate vote since former president Hosni Mubarak was ousted. The parties, seeking to keep past allies of Mubarak out of parliament, had threatened to boycott the polls unless the….
US: Fall of Syrian regime a ‘matter of time’
10/3/2011 – TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) — It is “a matter of time” before the Syrian regime headed by President Bashar Assad is ousted from power by a popular uprising, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday. Speaking in Tel Aviv after meeting his Israeli counterpart, Panetta said Washington and other foreign capitals had “made clear Assad….
Returning Libyan Jew says threatened over temple
10/3/2011 – TRIPOLI (AFP) — A Libyan Jew who returned from exile as Moammar Gadhafi’s regime fell said on Monday he is facing death threats over his attempts to restore Tripoli’s abandoned and crumbling main synagogue. David Gerbi, a 56-year-old psychoanalyst who fled with his family to Italy at the age of 12….
Activists: Syrian street hails new anti-regime front
10/3/2011 – DAMASCUS (AFP) — The Syrian National Council, a newly launched anti-regime front, has gained mass support in Syria with many people demanding it be recognized as the country’s sole authority, activists said on Monday. The popular support on Syria’s streets for the SNC, forged Sunday in Turkey, comes as US Defense Secretary….
US Secretary of Defense: Arab Spring Has Isolated Israel
Palestine Note 3 Oct 2011 – Israel still attempting to restart direct negotiations, but no agreement to Palestinian terms Arabiya – The United States defense secretary, Leon Panetta, said the Arab Spring has left Israel “increasingly isolated” in the Middle East and that its military might…
Palestinians sceptical of peace talks
AlJazeera 3 Oct 2011 – Tantawi says Mubarak never asked army to shoot activists during uprising as parties accept concessions on poll rules.
Egypt’s military ruler denies order to shoot, Egypt’s military ruler denies order to shoot
AlJazeera 3 Oct 2011 – Palestinian-Israelis protest in village of Tuba Zangaria after apparent vengeance attack by settlers.
Mosque in Israel torched in arson attack
AlJazeera 3 Oct 2011 – Security forces retake control of police headquarters after gunmen keep up to 15 people hostage in Anbar province.
‘Police chief killed’ in Iraq hostage drama
AlJazeera 3 Oct 2011 – US defence secretary vows to protect Israel’s “military edge” while calling for bold action for peace with Palestinians.
UAE activists boycott ‘unfair’ trial
AlJazeera 3 Oct 2011 – Anti-government campaigners petition the UN to try their president at the International Criminal Court.
International Solidarity Movement
Gaza protest supports Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike
10/3/2011 – International Solidarity Movement – International Solidarity Movement, Gaza – Today over a thousand Palestinians converged on the International Committee of the Red Cross building in Gaza, Palestine, continuing a tent protest that began outside the walled compound yesterday and bolstering a weekly sit-in by the families of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. These events began a week of action in….
Hebron in solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike for rights
10/3/2011 – International Solidarity Movement – International Solidarity Movement, West Bank – On the sixth day of the hunger strike of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, major political factions joined in Hebron and united in support for human rights for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, victims of Israeli collective punishment tactics. On Tuesday the 27th of September, an open-ended hunger strike was….
Muslim Brotherhood threatens to boycott Jordan elections
The National 3 Oct 2011 – The Muslim Brotherhood wants the Jordanian government to fulfil its pledge that cabinet members will be elected by parliament and no longer be appointed by the king, and greater powers given to parliament.
14 Bahrainis jailed for life for murder of Pakistani man during protests
The National 3 Oct 2011 – The group, all Shiites, will appeal against the verdicts and sentences, says their lawyer: ‘It was a harsh ruling because it wasn’t clear who dealt the fatal blow and everyone was given the same sentence without any clarity.’
Syrian refugees scared to return, scared to stay
The National 3 Oct 2011 – Thousands cross border to flee violence, but on as local communities, government, UN and NGOs offer aid to those seeking shelter, families fear Syrian authorities have infiltrated Leban.
Extremist Jewish settlers torch mosque
The National 3 Oct 2011 – Qurans desecrated in overnight attack on village in Galilee, part of right-wing campaign of intimidation in retaliation for Israel’s dismantling of some West Bank settlements.
U.S. Congress officially confirms blocking Palestinian aid, explains reasoning
Ha’aretz – In a ‘tool of Congressional oversight’, U.S. puts some $200 million in 2011 aid on hold whilst seeking further details about Palestinian Authority’s usage of funds; Obama administration lobbies to unblock aid.
Obama administration lobbies to unblock Palestinian Authority aid
Ha’aretz – U.S. lawmakers block some $200 million in 2011 aid; Obama administration worried about impact on fragile PA; Palestinian statehood drive could also hit 2012 aid.
Palestinians economy affected by U.S. Congress aid cut, PA officials say
Ha’aretz – Palestinian Economics Minister calls U.S. move to cut funds to Palestinian Authority a ‘political measure that reflects a blind bias against the Palestinian interests.’
Palestinian prisoners go on hunger strike, protest worsening Israel prison conditions
Ha’aretz – Hundreds of prisoners join ongoing protest against restrictions of Palestinian prisoners as part of an effort to force the Islamist group Hamas to free a kidnapped Israeli soldier.
Palestinian PM: Israel’s West Bank separation fence will fall like Berlin Wall
Ha’aretz – Palestinian Prime Minister says security barrier erected by Israel will give under the ‘will of the Palestinian people.’
Hezbollah accuses ‘Zionist settlers’ of attack on Israel mosque
Ha’aretz – Lebanese militant group claim ‘Zionists expanding their attacks on Christian and Islamic shrines in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
Barak: Israel, PA must find way to resume Mideast peace talks
Ha’aretz – Following meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister says will look into any ‘reasonable and proper’ way to ease tensions with Turkey.
U.S. Congress cut in Palestinian aid won’t affect statehood bid, PA official says
Ha’aretz – Referring to reported $200 million fund cut, Palestinian Minister Ali Jarbawi says PA was working toward ending its dependence on foreign aid by 2013.
Samir Kuntar: Iran Ayatollah’s anti-Israel tirade has ‘Zionist regime’ running scared
Ha’aretz – Speaking at Tehran conference on Palestinian Intifada, convicted Lebanese terrorist says presence of a powerful Iran could help settle Palestinian issue.
U.S. Defense Secretary: Israel must coordinate Iran policy with international community
Ha’aretz – Leon Panetta comments on status of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard who was sentenced to life in prison in 1987, saying that many U.S. officials are starkly opposed to his release.
Israelis like their leaders fat, but will Americans go for chubby president Chris Christie?
Ha’aretz – The controversy in America over the corpulence of the Republican candidate-in-waiting may seem peculiar to Israelis, who have always been fond of plump politicians. Ariel Sharon is a case in point, for both sides of the argument.
U.S. Defense Secretary: Israel increasingly isolated in Middle East
Ha’aretz – Leon Panetta to meet with Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian and Egyptian leaders on visit to region; says he will stress need for negotiations.
Israeli medical residents postpone mass walkouts in compromise with Health Ministry
Ha’aretz – According to last-minute deal, residents, ministry officials will use 48-hour postponement to hold intensive talks to end public health system crisis.
Netanyahu fails to amass cabinet backing for Trajtenberg report
Ha’aretz – Planned vote on findings of committee for socioeconomic reform canceled following day-long negotiations with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who opposes the report.
Israel Police beefs up security near Muslim sites following mosque attack
Ha’aretz – Commissioner Yohanan Danino says police will up patrols, raise alertness levels, and map specific areas that are under higher risk of attack, with an emphasis on mixed cities.
Peres: Galilee mosque arson shameful for the State of Israel
Ha’aretz – The President stresses the importance of the time in which mosque attack took place – the Ten Days of Atonement.
Netanyahu: Cabinet to vote on recommendations of Israel’s social reform panel
Ha’aretz – Vote to take place despite previous statement from PMO saying recommendations would only be debated due to objections from right-wing Yisrael Beitenu party and ultra-Orthodox Shas party.
Netanyahu: Galilee mosque arson ‘horrifying’ and has no place in Israel
Ha’aretz – Israeli Arab MK Tibo condemns ‘Jewish terrorists’ suspected to have carried out attack; Kadima MK Schneller calls activists behind so-called price tag attacks ‘anarchic groups that are anti-Zionistic’.
Israeli Arabs clash with police after apparent ‘price tag’ attack on mosque
Ha’aretz – Some 300 residents of Upper Galilee village, where mosque was set alight, hurl rocks at security forces, burn tires.
After three months, Tel Aviv municipality removes tent cities that started it all
Ha’aretz – The tents, which spearheaded a nationwide social protest, were home to many who had nowhere else to go.
Mosque set alight in suspected ‘price tag’ attack in Upper Galilee
Ha’aretz – Graffiti with the words ‘price tag’ found on wall of the mosque in northern Israel; Northern District Police Commander describe incident as ‘very serious.’
Israel must fight ‘price tag’ violence, ADL says after mosque attack
Ha’aretz – U.S. Jewish leaders join to condemn torching of Tuba-Zangariyye mosque; Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America: Jewish history is proof that such actions are ‘beyond the pale.’
Israeli medical residents postpone walkouts in compromise with Health Ministry
Ha’aretz – According to last-minute deal, residents, ministry officials will use 48-hour postponement to hold intensive talks to end public health system crisis.
Ahmadinejad under pressure following massive Iran embezzlement scandal
Ha’aretz – The scandal, where well-connected businessmen appear to have siphoned off a fortune, has shocked Iranians who are facing constantly rising prices, a sluggish economy and stubborn unemployment.
Architects of Jerusalem’s Museum of Tolerance quit as construction slated to begin
Ha’aretz – Municipal official cites differences of opinion with project’s sponsors and financers, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, as cause for resignation.
Tnuva surrendered, Strauss and Tara are paying the price
Ha’aretz – The stock market took notice of the furor over resignation of Zehavit Cohen as chairwoman of Tnuva, and punished Strauss, and a large number of publicly traded food companies as well.
Not much new under the roof
Ha’aretz – The Trajtenberg panel proposals concerning housing, which reiterate the need to upgrade existing government plans and to create affordable housing, are less than innovative.
Dankner mulls consolidation, flattening IDB group pyramid
Ha’aretz – Group considering sweeping structural changes to pyramid-shaped organizational control, including merging four holding companies at top of pyramid.
Progressive groups petition to institute civil marriage
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Over 300,000 Israelis who are defined as being ‚Äòwithout religious classification’ cannot legally marry in the state.
Analysis: Jewish terrorism gaining steam
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – If proven to have been carried out by right-wing extremists, Galilee attack will be just latest sign Jewish terrorism is increasing.
Recent ‚Äòprice tag’ incidents
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – A timeline of attacks in June and September.
Judge resigns after suspected eight-year tax evasion
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Dan Mor agrees to resign from office as a result of investigation’s findings, and requests to be allowed to pay a penalty.
Sidestepping Gilo
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Delaying the Gilo housing project would have shifted international pressure and attention from Jerusalem to Ramallah.
Our World: Turkey’s house of cards
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – The only thing Israel really needs to be concerned about is the US’s continued insistence that Turkey is a model ally in the Islamic world.
Erdogan’s blood libel against the Jewish state
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – No Holds Barred: The Turkish PM’s latest attack on the Jewish state, to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, beggared belief.
Which foods are good for fasting?
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – When preparing for Yom Kippur, it’s important to think about what to eat before and after a long day of prayer.
Palestinians say Israeli prison hunger strike grows
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Thousands of Palestinians stage rallies in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank showing solidarity with prisoners.
Promoting science in Israel, Europe and the UK
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Israeli academics who avoid cooperative projects with European universities are unwittingly playing into the hands of those who want to sever ties with Israel.
How to get yordim to come home
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – New TV campaign aims to get those Israelis who live abroad to return home.
What a great light rail!
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – May the light rail go from strength to strength and may the extensions be built soon.
Medical residents agree to postpone resignation by 48 hours
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Sides in hospital residents’ dispute hope compromise — or at least delay of walkouts — will lead to solution of crisis.
Alternatively Speaking: Coping with depression
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Alternative medicine enthusiast Natalie Marx answers your questions: Are there any natural remedies for depression? What physical activities can be helpful?
Medical residents set to resign – court urges delay
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Sides in hospital residents’ dispute hope compromise — or at least delay of walkouts — will lead to solution of crisis.
The fight is on for religious freedom
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Brit Milah ceremonies could become a thing of the past if Jewish communities don’t wake up.
PM forced to postpone vote on Trajtenberg report
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Cabinet ends marathon session without resolution as three Likud rebels join coalition members in opposing recommendations.
The pity of black-and-white politics
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Israel’s domestic and international issues are complex. Over-simplifying them is a serious mistake.
Encountering Peace: Yes, but!
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – What is needed more than ever before is a secret track of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
PM thanks Panetta for strengthening alliance with Israel
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Netanyahu reiterates belief that peace can only be achieved “through direct negotiations between the parties”; implores visiting US secretary of defense to convince Abbas to enter talks with no preconditions.
Lieberman, Ukraine president mark Babi Yar massacre
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – “It’s difficult to find words to express our condolences,” Viktor Yanukovich says at ceremony to mark 70 years since 33,771 Jews murdered.
‘Iran court likely to revoke pastor’s death sentence’
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Lawyer of Christian pastor who was sentenced after refusing to reconvert to Islam says he’s optimistic Iranian Supreme Court will drop case.
PM postpones vote on Trajtenberg recommendations
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Netanyahu decides to continue discussion of socioeconomic report next week, after failing to garner enough support to pass measures.
‘German mediator in Egypt for Schalit deal talks’
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Gerhard Konrad secretly visits Cairo to meet Egyptian defense officials to advance negotiations for release of captive soldier, DPA reports.
Abbas: We’ll return to talks if settlement building stops
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – PA president tells US defense chief that PA prepared for talks if pre-67 lines accepted; Erekat: Panetta carries ‘clear message’ to Palestinians.
‘Armed men force Libyan Jew from Tripoli synagogue’
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – David Gerbi returns to Libya from exile after 44 years to restore synagogue and is warned to flee “men coming with guns.”
Tent cities at Rothschild, across Tel Aviv cleared out
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Municipality clerks arrive at camps with police, border patrolmen; 2 arrested at Levinski park during evacuation.
Peres visits Tuba Zangria, calls mosque arson ‘shameful’
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – President speaks out against apparent “price tag” attack while visiting scene of crime with chief rabbis in Galilee village.
‘PA ministers say US hasn’t confirmed it’s cutting aid’
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – Ashton reportedly tells Abbas that EU funds are not at risk over statehood bid; PA planning minister says PA sees end to aid dependence.
Nobel medicine prize honors work on body’s defenses
Jerusalem Post 3 Oct 2011 – The 3 laureates have been pivotal to developing improved vaccines against infectious diseases and novel approaches to fighting cancer.
Former Israeli minister Tzipi Livni to visit UK after change in arrest law
The Guardian 3 Oct 2011 – Critics claim change in law governing arrest warrants for war crimes is motivated by political pressure from Israel The former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, will meet the foreign secretary, William Hague, in Britain on Thursday…
US says Israel must restart talks with neighbours – video
The Guardian 3 Oct 2011 – US defence secretary Leon Panetta says Israel needs to focus on diplomacy as well as security as he travels to Middle East
Vandals attack mosque in northern Israeli village
The Guardian 3 Oct 2011 – Arson attack on mosque in Arab village of Tuba-Zangaria believed to have been ‘price tag’ strike by Israeli settlers Vandals have set fire to a mosque in an Arab village in northern Israel, provoking protests and…
Israel must restart talks with its neighbours or face isolation, says US
The Guardian 3 Oct 2011 – Defence secretary Leon Panetta says Israel needs to focus on diplomacy as well as security as he travels to Middle East The US has warned that Israel is becoming increasingly isolated in the Middle East, and…
MIDEAST: Israel Builds Settlements, and Wants Talks
IPS Days after his half-hearted conciliatory U.N. appearance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already approved the construction of 1,100 flats in occupied East Jerusalem. Yet on Sunday, he threw his support behind the new Mideast Quartet’s peace plan with the Palestinians.
Campaign to support Hunger Strike of Palestinian Prisoners
Uruknet October 3, 2011 – As Israeli military measures are escalating against Palestinian prisoners, moves are taking place in prisoners to resist the illegal Israel practices. A hunger strike has been staged across Israeli prisons which illegally keep thousands of Palestinian prisoners. Late in September, Palestinian Prisoners and detainees started an open hunger strike to demand an end to…
Activists: Syrian regime detains 3,000 in 3 days
Uruknet October 3, 2011 – Syrian troops going house to house have detained more than 3,000 people in the past three days in the rebellious town of Rastan, which saw some of the worst fighting of the 6-month-old uprising recently, activists said Monday. Over the past week, the military fought hundreds of army defectors who sided with anti-regime protesters…
So much evidence, there’s no need to show it
Uruknet October 3, 2011 – …Now that hordes of Obama defenders are running around justifying the President’s due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizen Anwar Awlaki based on exactly the same claim and mindset – our President targeted a Very Bad Terrorist, so no due process or disclosure of evidence was needed – the same question obviously arises: if there’s so…
Police State Justice Under Obama
Uruknet October 3, 2011 – Lawlessness, injustice, and contempt for democratic values define his administration. He delivered change all right – for the worst, and nothing ahead looks promising. Obama-style “rules of engagement” include bullets, bombs, slit throats, knives in the back, or drone attacks justice. Targeted victims are declared guilty by accusation. Due process and judicial fairness are…
Witnessing the Censored Exhibit: “A Child’s View from Gaza”
Uruknet October 3, 2011 – A Child’s View from Gaza, a traveling exhibit of the artwork of Palestinian children living in the Gaza Strip, opened in downtown Oakland, California this week as scheduled, despite the fact that the Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland (MOCHA) canceled their agreement to house the project this Fall. After the news on September…
Medics: Teenager shot by soldiers near Gaza City
Uruknet October 3, 2011 — Israeli soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian teenager southeast of Gaza City on Monday, medics and an Israeli army spokeswoman said. Spokesman for Gaza’s ambulance and emergency committee Adham Abu Salmiya told Ma’an that a 16-year-old boy was shot in his left leg while collecting scrap metal in the Juhor ad-Dik area southeast of…
Thousands rally for prisoners in Israeli jails
Uruknet October 3, 2011 — Thousands of people in the West Bank and Gaza staged demonstrations on Monday in solidarity with Palestinian detainees on hunger strike in Israeli jails. The rallies were held as inmates saw through the seventh consecutive day of a hunger strike to protest against worsening conditions for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. Around 2,000 people…
Video: Civilians under NATO bombing – Bani Walid eyewitness to RT
Uruknet October 3, 2011 – Civilians fleeing Bani Walid and Sirte say the two Libyan cities fighting off the revolutionary forces are turning into a trap. The eyewitnesses told of no food, no medical aid – and no care for civilians. Sirte is under random bombardment by the NTC forces, a woman who asked that she be identified as…
Israeli policeman identified among settlers who attacked activists
Uruknet October 3, 2011 – An unusually violent incident took place during the last weekend in the settlement of Anatot, when large groups of settlers attacked Palestinian and Israeli peace activists on two occasions. The violence was well-documented by the activists. The first attack happened during the day, the latter at night, when the activists returned to the settlement…
Murdered for being Palestinian; Wael Zuaiter remembered 40 years on
Uruknet October 3, 2011 – On 16 October 1972, Wael Zuaiter, the Fatah spokesman in Rome, was shot dead on his doorstep by a team of Mossad assassins. He was one of a string of Palestinians murdered by the Israeli secret service Mossad, reportedly in revenge for the killing of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Janet Venn-Brown,…
The slaughter in Sirte
Uruknet October 3, 2011 – NATO countries led by the US, Britain, and France are committing terrible war crimes in the Libyan city of Sirte. In their frenzied drive to crush all remaining resistance in the North African state, NATO and its proxy militia forces aligned with the National Transitional Council are unleashing indiscriminate military force, killing civilians and…
Mosque Torched In The Galilee
Uruknet October 3, 2011 – Similar to attacks by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, a group of extremists burned a mosque at the entrance of Toba Zanghriyya village in the Galilee on Sunday night, and wrote “Price Tag” and “Revenge” on its walls, the Arabs48 news website reported. The fire spread through the mosque, consuming most of its…
Syria News – October 2, 2011 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – Number of martyrs today in Syria reached to 9, 3 in Khan Shaikhoun, 3 in Homs one of them is from Rastan,2 in Daraa and 1 in Idlib… Idlib: about 250 soldiers have been split with four officers in Kafernaboudeh village who clashed with the army and overfilght by warplanes over the region, also…
OCHA Report: : Israel doubles rate of Palestinian home demolitions
Uruknet October 02, 2011 – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied territories (OCHA) reported that Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes have doubled in 20111 comparing to the figures of 2010. OCHA reported that Israel demolished 409 Palestinian homes and structures during this year comparing to 290 in 2010, while 804 Palestinian were…
On Charges of “antisemitism” at Occupy Wall Street
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – …What I am disappointed to see is that some people claiming to be leftist supporters of Palestinian rights – but who are neither leftists nor supporters of Palestinian rights – are complaining about “antisemitism” at Occupy Wall Street. To be clear, there are internet wackos and real wackos everywhere…But then I see one Daniel…
Al-Awlaki: Obama’s Murder
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – If Barack Obama is going to bring the act of targeted killing to its acme during his presidency and take all the political credit, as questionable as it may be, then I believe we should saddle him with the full responsibility for it. That means calling this what it is: murder. And because Obama…
Military Resistance 9J2: a Piece of Meat
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – “This is our Vietnam,” say the marines of 3rd Battalion, 4th Regiment, who by mid-September had taken 90 casualties since they deployed in April, including five killed in action. “Every time we leave the wire we get shot at or find an IED, either with our engineers or by treading on it. The Taliban…
Eleven Iraqis Killed As Violence Centers on Diyala Province Saturday: 11 Iraqis Killed, 14 Wounded
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – “This is our Vietnam,” say the marines of 3rd Battalion, 4th Regiment, who by mid-September had taken 90 casualties since they deployed in April, including five killed in action. “Every time we leave the wire we get shot at or find an IED, either with our engineers or by treading on it. The Taliban…
Rocks Falling from the Sky’: Settlers attack Palestinians and internationals in Dura al-Kara
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – Saturday October 1st in the valley behind the village of Dura al Kara, a group of twenty locals, internationals, men, women and children, experienced rocks falling from the sky. Except, it was not. It was a group of five teenage settlers from Beit Eil. They were directly above us and threw stones in the…
On the 11th Anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada: Al Mezan Calls for Protection and Respect for Civilian’s Rights and Accountability for Violators
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – The anniversary of the Intifada comes at a time when the IOF has escalated its violations of human rights in East Jerusalem, carrying outhouse demolitions and forced evictions of Palestinian residents, including elected representatives and political leaders of Palestine. Israel’s construction of the separation wall and settlements is continuing inside the West Bank and…
Congressional Anti-Internet Freedom Bills
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – Net Neutrality is the last frontier of press freedom. With it, consumers have open access to an array of equipment, content, applications and service, free from corporate control. Public interest groups want it preserved. Giant telecom and cable companies want control to: * establish toll roads, or premium lanes; * charge extra for speed and free…
Africa: When Western Powers Support ‘Revolution’ in Libya!
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – ‘The rush by France, Britain and Italy in particular, to get their hands on Libyan oil will soon be too obvious to cover up. The so-called “revolutionaries” are no doubt busy signing deals handing over that previously nationalised resource to the neocolonialists who put them in power – robbing the people of Libya their…
Yemeni youth ask UN to take Saleh to criminal court
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – The Yemeni youth movement said in a letter to the United Nations that at least 861 people have been killed and some 25,000 others wounded since January when mass anti-government demonstrations demanding Saleh’s resignation began. “We call on the UN to refer Saleh, his sons and his gang to the International Criminal Court for…
DR. MOUSSA IBRAHIM, OCTOBER 1, 2011 [FULL TRANSLATION OF INTERVIEW]
Uruknet October 2, 2011 – ….The Arab viewers from everywhere, Saudi, Emirates, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Algeria, Morocco, Sudan and all Arab countries, need to know that the inhabitants in Sirte are being truly massacred and wiped out in the last month while in their homes , the amount that have been killed while… and I’ll say it again IN THEIR…
Detainees from Ashkelon prison join hunger strike
Uruknet October 2, 2011 — Head of the Palestinian Detainees Center Qaddoura Fares said Sunday that 20 detainees in Ashkelon prison will join a hunger strike being carried out by prisoners in Israeli jails. Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons are on hunger strike for the sixth consecutive day in protest against being forced into isolation cells and being deprived…
Christians not a minority, Rai tells U.S.
Daily Star 3 Oct 2011 Maronite patriarch says Christians in the Middle East are not a minority, and warns that current crises in the region hurt unity between Muslims and Christians.
Geagea: Syria’s allies in Lebanon are nervous
Daily Star 3 Oct 2011 Syria’s allies in Lebanon nervously watching developments in their neighboring country that might lead to the fall of President Bashar Assad’s government, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea says.
Telecoms spy suspect begins hunger strike
Daily Star 3 Oct 2011 Telecoms employee arrested last year during a probe into a suspected network of Israeli spies, said he began a hunger strike Monday to protest against his continued detention
Interior Minister to recommend reduction in police protection for officials
Daily Star 3 Oct 2011 Interior Minister Marwan Charbel to recommend the relocation of around 2,000 policemen currently in charge of protecting former politicians and businessmen.
Row over STL funding threatens to split Cabinet
Daily Star 2 Oct 2011 The row over the financing of a U.N.-backed court is threatening to cause a split within the Hezbollah-dominated Cabinet after both President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister Najib Mikati have clearly signaled that Lebanon will honor…
Kanaan backs proportional representation in elections
Daily Star 2 Oct 2011 Metn MP Ibrahim Kanaan voiced support for a new electoral law based on proportional representation, because it would ensure effective representation for sects.
LF condemns disturbance outside MP’s home
Daily Star 2 Oct 2011 The Lebanese Forces denounced those who fired a gun outside the estate of one of its MPs over the weekend.
Netanyahu buckles, defers vote on Trajtenberg report
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Faced with growing opposition within cabinet to vote on social team’s….
Syrians detain 3,000 in 3 days
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Assad’s troops retake rebellious city of Rastan in worst clash since Syria’s….
Health crisis: Residents seek PM’s intervention
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Less than day before mass resignation of over 700 residents comes into effect….
Panetta: Congress decision to freeze PA aid a mistake
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – US Defense Secretary meets Minister Ehud Barak, says this isn’t right time to….
Tel Aviv’s protest tents evacuated
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Police, municipal inspectors clear tents, equipment in various locations across….
Gov’t to vote on Tranjtenberg Report after all
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Netanyahu retracts decision to delay vote on socioeconomic committee’s….
Netanyahu ‘outraged’ over mosque attack
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Prime minister, MKs and local community leaders condemn ‘price tag’ attack in….
Panetta: Israel becoming increasingly isolated in ME
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Ahead of his visit to Middle East, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta calls on….
Price tag: Mosque torched in Upper Galilee
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Vandalism in north: ‘Revenge’ and ‘price tag’ spray-painted on mosque in Tuba….
‘Trajtenberg vote fiasco prelude to elections’
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s zigzagging on the government vote over the Trajtenberg Committee recommendations for social change in Israel may already be taking a … ….
Erdogan backs Panetta isolation remarks on Israel
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Commented Monday on remarks made by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, which suggested that Israel was rapidly becoming … ….
Police to bolster security around mosques nationwide
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – The Israel Police will bolster its presence around mosques nationwide after one such premises was set on fire in an Upper Galilee village overnight Monday. Police … ….
State to sanction Shvut Rachel outpost
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – Shvut Rachel, an outpost located 30 miles north of Jerusalem in the Matte Binyamin Regional Council, is on its way to becoming a full-fledged settlement, Ynet learned on … ….
Report: German mediator visits Cairo to renew Shalit deal
YNet News, 3 Oct 2011 – German mediator Gerhard Conrad arrived Monday from Munich on a secret visit to Cairo with the purpose of meeting with Egyptian security officials, reported Al-Ahram Daily … ….
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Haneyya: Reconciliation only choice after peace talks exhausted
PIC – Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya said the sole option for the Palestinians is to follow through with the reconciliation deal signed in May as the peace process with Israel has been exhausted.
Israeli police arrest a mentally disabled woman from Jerusalem
PIC – Israeli occupation police arrested a mentally disabled Palestinian woman east of occupied Jerusalem on Sunday claiming she had explosive material in her possession.
Hamas warns Abbas against accepting Quartet call for resuming negotiations
PIC – Hamas has warned PA chief Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO leadership against responding to the international quartet’s call for resuming negotiations with Israel.
IOA arrests Palestinian woman in bid to pressure brother
PIC – The Israeli occupation authorities arrested Sunday evening a 20-year-old woman from Beit Fajjar, eight kilometers south of Bethlehem in the West Bank, in an apparent bid to pressure her brother.
Resheq: Hamas making frequent contact in follow up of reconciliation
PIC – Hamas senior politburo member Izzat al-Resheq confirmed that his party is still making frequent contact with Fatah in the framework of implementing the reconciliation deal.
Jewish extremists set fire to mosque in ‘48-occupied territories
PIC – Jewish extremists set alight a mosque overnight Sunday in the Upper Galilee village of Tuba-Zanghariyye in 1948-occupied Palestine as graffiti with racist remarks were found on the walls.
16-year-old boy shot by IOF soldiers in Gaza
PIC – Israeli occupation forces shot and injured a 16-year-old boy in the Jahar al-Deik area south of Gaza city.
Abu Zuhri slams Abbas’s claim of right to form transition government
PIC – Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri has objected to statements by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on his claim to the right of responsibility in forming the transition government.
Hamas vows not to abandon captives during hunger strike
PIC – Hamas has announced the launch of a series of events to publicize the cause of thousands of distressed Palestinian captives in the Israeli jails..
Palestinians warn of “kristallnacht” following settler torching of mosque
PIC – Palestinian leaders on both sides of the Green Line have warned against rising mass terror by Jewish religious fanatics against Muslim holy places.
Abbas, US Defense Secretary Discuss Mideast Politics
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Fayyad Declares Support for Prisoners’ Demands
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Border Crossing with Jordan Closed for Jewish Holiday
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Official Downplays Impact of US Aid Cut on Statehood
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Palestinian Home in Danger of Collapse due to Israeli Digging in Silwan
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Clashes Between Arabs, Police in Galilee after Mosque Arson
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Modern Barbarism – An Analysis by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
Intifada-Palestine: 3 Oct 2011 – by Dr. Lawrence Davidson Has anyone noticed that the political air is wafting rancid lately? That is the smell of modern barbarism. Modern barbarism is a malodorous umbrella concept. Underneath the umbrella are lots of fetid phobias, isms and behaviors: Islamophobia,… more
Heckling Becomes a Crime
Intifada-Palestine: 3 Oct 2011 – Paul Balles / Intifada Palestine ( Manama, Bahrain ) On September 9, 2009, Republican Congressman Joe Wilson shouted “you lie!” at President Barack Obama during the President’s State of the Union address to Congress. The outburst came from Wilson after President Obama said his… more
Syrian Troops Retake Town; Dozens Arrested
New York Times 3 Oct 2011 – The Syrian government said Monday that it had arrested dozens of people in a central Syrian region that has become a flashpoint in fighting between defectors and security forces.
2 More Attacks in Iraq’s Restive Anbar Province
New York Times 3 Oct 2011 – Suicide bombers and gunmen disguised as security officers attacked two police headquarters and took hostages in Anbar Province.
Mosque Set on Fire in Israeli Arab Village, Tuba-Zangariya
New York Times 3 Oct 2011 – A mosque in an Arab village in the Galilee was set on fire early Monday in what police said was an arson attack, and its walls were defaced with Hebrew graffiti.
Military Gives Ground on Politics in Egypt
New York Times 3 Oct 2011 – The concessions come as the military rulers seek to shore up public support, amid mounting criticism that their management of the transition has been opaque and inconsistent.
Anti-Assad Dissidents Form Syrian National Council
New York Times 3 Oct 2011 – A newly established council designed to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s government includes representatives of several opposition factions.
Panetta Says Israel Is Risking Isolation
New York Times 3 Oct 2011 – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said on Sunday that Israeli leaders must restart negotiations with the Palestinians and work to restore relations with Egypt and Turkey.
New Seattle-Area Mosque Dedicated
Tikun Olam – The Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS) dedicated its gleaming new mosque this past weekend at a celebration I was privileged to attend. It was a joyful, festive ocassion and as a Jew I was especially grateful to participate with my Muslim neighbors. There were a…
JWeekly: JVP rabbi says fight is for equality, not Israel’s demise
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Mondoweiss: Could censorship of children’s art prove a turning point?
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Jewish terrorists strike again, this time in the Galilee
Mondoweiss – Another day, another act of extreme “price tag” violence. It’s all getting to be terrifyingly, horrifyingly routine. Early this morning, suspected Jewish extremists — or heck, let’s just call them what they are, suspected Jewish terrorists — set a mosque on fire on fire in Tuba…
The new ‚Äòinternalized conflict’: Israeli settlers targeting Israeli activists w/ impunity
Mondoweiss – Earlier today Adam posted the stark video from the settler attacks last Friday on demonstrators protesting theft of Palestinian lands at the Anatot settlement in occupied Palestine ( a version with English subtitles is above ). Over the weekend I spoke with one of the Israel activists who…
As Israeli violence spreads across Israel/Palestine, Shin Bet worries it will soon target law enforcement
Mondoweiss – Settlers uproot dozens of olive trees near Nablus IMEMC 1 Oct — A group of extremist armed Israeli settlers uprooted on Saturday dozens of Palestinian olive trees that belong to residents of Madama village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Clashes were reported;…
Tunisian gov’t blocks Palestinian bloggers from Arab conference– why?
Mondoweiss – Dalia Othman reports that the 3d annual Arab bloggers’ conference in Tunis is proceeding with many participants, but only one Palestinian blogger. The rest of the delegation has been denied visas by the Tunisian gov’t. Othman has gotten a screwy response from the Tunisian ministry of…
Behind aid-cut to Palestinian Authority, more than meets the eye
Mondoweiss – On the surface, reports over the weekend that Congress has blocked $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) indicate that long-standing threats from U.S. politicians over the PA’s United Nations bid have come to fruition. But there’s much more than meets the eye on…
Haaretz: Panetta Arrives in Israel for ‚ÄòUrgent Consultations’ on Iran
Tikun Olam – Headline: Panetta ‘arrives for urgent consultation on Iran’ I have been writing for more than two years about the possibility of an Israeli war against Iran (make no mistake, an Israeli attack on Iran will not be just a single discrete operation, but involve an ongoing,…
Senior Israeli Police Officer Brutally Assaulted Activists in Anatot Pogrom
Tikun Olam – Hebrew caption: ‘Police investigator Yossi Ben Arush grabs Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity leader, Assaf Sharon, by the shirt’ (click to enlarge) Ben Arush (restrained) assaults Reform movement activist and Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity member, Gil Gutenglick (Ahmad Gharabli AFP/Getty) In Hebrew, it’s called a “lynch.” No, not necessarily…
Hamas Leader, Meshaal, Praises Abbas’ UN Bid for Statehood
Tikun Olam – Khaled Meshaal, Hamas senior leader, endorses Palestinian UN statehood bid in face of opposition from Iran’s Ayatollah Khameini Hamas’s chief leader, Khaled Meshaal delivered a major address (Farsi) at a Palestine conference in Iran yesterday which shocked many by directly contradicting the view advanced by Ayatollah…
(en) US, Social Struggle – Afternoon With Occupy LA
A-infos 3 Oct 2011 – On the first of October I drove to downtown LA to join the Occupy LA protest at city hall. I got there around 1:30 and found close to one thousand people. There seemed to be a lot of the sort of people that I would see…
Abbas’ Dangerous Path to Palestinian Statehood
Sabbah report 3 Oct 2011 – If this Palestinian Statelet is approved, it would mean legitimizing the Zionist occupation of Palestinian land and legitimizing Israel as a Jewish State changing the struggle from resistance of illegal occupation into conflict over borders between two states.
In America: Heckling Israeli ambassador is a crime, heckling President Obama is freedom of speech
Sabbah report 3 Oct 2011 – In America, you can shout “you lie!” at President Barack Obama, no one will touch you. But disrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, you are criminal and will be prosecuted in U.S. courts.
Palestinian Freedom Later, Not Now
Sabbah report 3 Oct 2011 – Israel doesn’t negotiate. It demands. Israel accepts Quartet peace plan, making Palestinian UN membership conditional on negotiating peace with an unwilling partner.
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year): Will God forgive?
Sabbah report 3 Oct 2011 – Do the people who have been hurt by Jews in Zionism’s name include the Palestinians? If the answer is “No”, why not? If the answer is “Yes”, why is that most Jews can’t say sorry to the Palestinians for the terrible wrongs done to them in…
Arson attack on mosque in Israel
BBC 3 Oct 2011 – A mosque in northern Israel is torched and sprayed with graffiti in a suspected attack by Jewish extremists, triggering protests.
Syrian grand mufti’s son mourned
BBC 3 Oct 2011 – The funeral is held for the son of the grand mufti of Syria, who was shot dead along with a professor near the city of Aleppo.
Israel ‘risks Mid-East isolation’
BBC 2 Oct 2011 – Israel risks isolating itself in the Middle East and should pursue peace talks with the Palestinians, says US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta.
Cracking Down on Palestinian Political Life in East Jerusalem: Israel Arrests PLC Member Mr. Ahmed Attoun to Enforce His Forcible Transfer from the City
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A temporary colonial frenzy that will collapse in Syria
Voltaire Network 3 Oct 2011 – Arab Affairs Editorial: A temporary colonial frenzy that will collapse in Syria The colonial West is acting as though it is witnessing a state of revival following the occupation of Libya and in light of the counterattack being waged by the United States and Europe via…
Does Germany’s fight against Zionism go hand in hand with its fight against the Nazi model?
Voltaire Network 2 Oct 2011 – The European Jewish Congress is at loggerheads with German federal agency Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (Remembrance, Responsibility and Future). Founded in 2000, following negotiations entrusted by Chancellor Gerhard Schr??der to Count Otto Lambsdorff, the Foundation was endowed with a fund of 10 billion Deutsche Mark provided…
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Israeli press complicit in dehumanization of Palestinian victims
Sarit Topaz, translation by Dena Shunra, +972 Magazine10/3/2011
Muatasam and Ali were shot to death by the IDF at the start of Ramadan. The Israeli press glossed over the story. In writing about them here, the author attempts to restore a bit of humanity to the faceless Palestinians killed by the army.
This post was written at the request of a close friend, who asked me to publicize the deaths of Muatasam Adwan and Ali Khalifa, killed during a nighttime raid by the IDF in the Qalandia Refugee Camp, on the first day of the Ramadan fast.
Everyone has been occupied with the wave of protest sweeping Israel, with people arguing over the definition of social justice; the question of whether the struggle is or is not political; the delicacy of phrasing; demands and the solutions; whether the nation is truly coming together or whether the unity is just a patchwork; what is that “nation” and who does it include. In the meanwhile, quietly and inexorably, the occupation keeps up its routine.
Unofficial curfews and nightly raids on West Bank villages are commonplace. Army forces enter without informing the residents over a loudspeaker, and residents outside their homes endanger their lives. Damage precedes warning. During the first week of Ramadan, the occupier was behaving as usual, raiding refugee camps and villages at night, using pyrotechnics. Deafening sounds of stun grenades, flares brightening the night sky, the smell of tear gas that gets on the nerves, burns in the mouth, blinds the eyes and makes breathing heavier. Dizzied sensations and fears that mark the entry of those who shouldn’t be there in the first place. It is not for nothing that these raids are carried out at night, while people should be in their beds, forgetting reality for a few hours. That’s when the military circus arrives, instilling fear, in order to “detained wanted persons.” more.. e-mail
Abbas’ Dangerous Path To Palestinian Statehood
Dr. Elias Akleh, Intifada-Palestine10/3/2011
Palestinian President, Mahmud Abbas, whose presidency had expired since early 2009, is treading a dangerous path when submitted a formal bid on Friday September 23rd to the UN to recognize a Palestinian Statelet – on the remaining fragmented and besieged by the separation wall 20% of historical Palestine- that would gain a full membership to the international organization.
Palestinian statehood had for so long been the dream of every Palestinian especially Palestinian refugees, who had been uprooted from their homeland and forcefully evicted by Israeli army into refugee camps in the neighboring Arab states. Palestinians had lived through several unrealized dreams of statehood that had been used to tickle their emotions and to appease their anger.
The first mention of a Palestinian state came within the partitioning 1947 UN Resolution 181 that unjustly divided historic Palestine into two recognized states; Palestine and Israel. In December 1988 the UN General Assembly, again, recognized a Palestinian state and the rights of Palestinians for self-determination based on Resolution 181.
The 1994 Oslo Agreement recognized a Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip under Arafat and designated May 4th of 1999 as a target date for the establishment of Palestinian State. This did not materialize due to the failure of the second Camp David negotiations between Arafat and Ehud Barak with Clinton’s administration as an Israeli-biased mediator.
Other unrealized promises of statehood had been lived through later on such as the Arab Peace Initiative in 2002, the American Road Map of 2003, President Bush’s promise to establish a state before the end of 2005, which was postponed till 2008…. more..e-mail
Is the United States going to cut off PA aid money?
Joseph Dana, +972 Magazine10/1/2011
The United States Congress is set to withhold upwards of 200 million USD from the Palestinian Authority according to The Independent. On the surface this sounds like a blow to the Palestinian Authority but it will be the Palestinian people which suffer the most. It is unlikely that the Palestinian Authority will not be fully cut off from US and Israeli aid in the foreseeable future.
The Independent is reporting that the United States Congress is going to withhold 200 million dollars in aid money earmarked for the Palestinian Authority (PA). The move is a response to the unilateral PA move to seek statehood recognition in the United Nations. The aid money was said to be earmarked for food aid, health care and to support efforts to build a nascent state.
In the build up to the Palestinian statehood bid in the United Nations, some conservative American politicians floated the idea that the United States should punish the Palestinian leadership by withholding aid money; a primary source of income for a Palestinian Authority struggling to pays its bills.
The Palestinian Authority is in a dire situation. According to an International Crisis Group report dated 12 September 2011,
The Palestinian leadership in Ramallah is in an unenviable position. It lacks legitimacy. Negotiations, after decades of failure, have been discredited in the eyes of the people, who are convinced talks have prolonged occupation…The PA is under financial strain. The regional mood is inhospitable to slow and deliberative progress. The leadership thus is unable and unwilling to maintain its course of the past two decades‚Äîbut so too is it unwilling to jettison it. more.. e-mail
Targeting Tuba: The Ongoing Nakba
Palestine Chronicle: 3 Oct 2011 – By Georgina Reeves On Sunday night, the mosque in the small village of Tuba suffered an arson attack. Unknown agitators entered the building and set the fire, causing damage to carpets and the structure itself. Before leaving, they sprayed messages on the walls outside: “price tag” and “revenge”, in Hebrew. Until this weekend, these attacks seemed to be confined to the West Bank. And it isn’t just mosques that are targets. Olive groves, villagers, solidarity actions: all are “fair game” to the wild West Bank settlers. Tuba is in the Upper Galilee, nearby is the Jewish town of Safed. Tuba village residents believe that the attack was the result of incitement from the rabbis in Safed. Safed is known for its hostility towards Arabs in general and Palestinian Israelis in particular. Despite the hostility, at Safed’s academic college over 50% of the student body is Palestinian Israeli. For the last…more
Netanyahu: Master of Deception
Palestine Chronicle: 3 Oct 2011 – By Samuel Dowell I tend to believe things that a son says to his father in private. To this end, we should go back to 2009, to the words revealed by the father, Benzion Netanyahu, regarding the conduct of his son, Benjamin. With the consent of his son, the prime minister, the father gave an interview to Amit Segal on Channel 2 News, and this is what he said about the Bar-Ilan speech advocating the establishment of a Palestinian state: “He [the prime minister] doesn’t support it. He supports it under conditions that they [the Arabs] will never accept. That’s what I heard from him, not from myself. He proposed the conditions. They will never accept those conditions, not one of them,” said Netanyahu Sr.” [One of those conditions was acceptance of a “Jewish” State.] [1] The Palestine Liberation Organization recognized the State of Israel as part of the Oslo…more
Yemen’s Field of Scarecrows
Palestine Chronicle: 3 Oct 2011 – By James Gundun – Washington Anwar al-Awlaki’s death will only bring more misery to Yemenis. He was everything that Osama bin Laden envisioned. A U.S.-born Muslim with roots in Yemen, home to an American puppet and Saudi hegemony, Anwar al-Awlaki would increasingly challenge America’s might on his path to joining al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The charismatic cleric became a jihadist bridge to West, from Internet sermons to video and AQAP’s colorful Inspire magazine, branding al-Awlaki as a primary threat to the U.S. homeland. He would ultimately pursue bin Laden’s strategic goal of luring the U.S. military into a hostile environment, in order to deprave it economically and morally. The first objective was partially successful; given how little U.S. policy has accomplished in Yemen, al-Awlaki’s death is worth hundreds of millions in military and economic assistance. A ground force was unnecessary and Washington had already run low on resources…more
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