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Military Court Extends Administrative Detention Order Against PLC Member
IMEMC – The Israeli “Ofer” Military Court ruled, Monday, for extending the Administrative Detention order, for the second time, against elected Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member, Mohammad Abu Teir, for additional six months. …
Medics: Blast kills 2 children near Hebron
3/6/2012 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Two children were killed Tuesday as a mortar left by Israeli forces exploded near Hebron, medics and police said. Hamza Zayed Jaradat, 12, and Zayed Juma Jaradat, 12, were killed in the blast in Wadi Reem, east of Hebron in the southern West Bank, medics told Ma’an. Hebron police….
Israeli settlement waste ‘poisoning Palestinians’
3/6/2012 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Sewage from Israeli settlements near Salfit in the northern West Bank is flowing into nearby Palestinian communities and causing serious disease, a health ministry official said Tuesday. Speaking at an environmental conference in Salfit, the head of Salfit’s ministry of health office said the situation had become “intolerable” for….
Soldiers detain 20 across West Bank
3/6/2012 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained 20 people across the West Bank on Monday night, locals and security officials said. Seven people were detained in the southern city of Hebron in the evening, after they clashed with troops in the Johar mountain area. Locals named six of those detained as Munjed Yaraqan, Muhammad Al-Rajabi….
Israeli police: Woman arrested in attempted stabbing attack
3/6/2012 – SALFIT (Ma’an) — Israeli settler security guards on Tuesday detained a Palestinian woman carrying a knife near Immanuel settlement in the northern West Bank, Israeli police said. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma’an the woman was detained near the outer fence of the settlement, which lies between Qalqiliya and Nablus. She….
Prisoner sends will to his family
3/6/2012 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A 39-year-old Palestinian detainee who says Israeli prison guards poisoned his food has written his will, relatives said Tuesday. Ala Salah sent his will, his Quran and a comb to his family via released prisoner Rafat Abu Shaluf. In the document, Salah says he has been sick since October….
Oxfam: Over 300 Gaza families affected by storm flooding
3/6/2012 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — More than 300 families were affected by flood damage in the Gaza Strip last week, an international aid group said Tuesday. Severe storms and heavy rainfall destroyed the homes of seven families and 15 families were evacuated in northern Gaza town Beit Lahiya, Oxfam said. Several families refused to move into…. Related:Storms destroy crops in northern West Bank
Report: Forces seize 2 near Nablus settlement
3/6/2012 – TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israeli troops detained two Palestinians carrying knives near an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank on Monday, Israeli media reported. The pair, from Balata refugee camp in Nablus, fled from Elon Moreh settlement to Palestinian village Azmut, but were turned over to forces, Israeli news site Ynet reported….
Candle-lit march held in Shalabi’s home village
3/6/2012 – JENIN (Ma’an) — Supporters of hunger-striking prisoner Hana Shalabi held a candle-lit march in her home village of Burqin in the northern West Bank on Monday evening. Jenin governor Qadura Musa, Fatah revolutionary council member Jamal al-Shati and Archbishop Atallah Hanna joined the march to show solidarity with Shalabi, who has refused food for….
Youths arrested in Jerusalem
3/6/2012 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces have arrested several youths in Jerusalem in recent days, particularly in Silwan, locals said Tuesday. Israeli forces raided Silwan on Monday and detained five youths who were identified as Islam Al-Awar, Shadad Al-Awar, Suheib Al-Awar, Elias Al-Awar, and Ahmad Salah. Locals said the arrests focused on the Ein Loza….
Netanyahu tells Obama: No Israeli decision on Iran attack
3/6/2012 – By Jeffrey Heller and Matt SpetalnickWASHINGTON (Reuters) — Benjamin Netanyahu assured President Barack Obama on Monday that Israel has not made any decision on attacking Iran’s nuclear sites, sources close to the talks said, but the Israeli prime minister gave no sign of backing away from possible military action. With Obama appealing for more….
Netanyahu’s gift to Obama: tale of a Persian plot
3/6/2012 – WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handed President Barack Obama a gift on Monday that spoke volumes about Israel‘s tensions with Iran — an ancient Hebrew tome about a Persian plot to annihilate Jews. It’s called the Scroll of Esther, a tale of palace intrigue featuring a Jewish beauty who charms….
Officials: Obama ignored Palestine in Netanyahu meeting
3/6/2012 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — After US President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, Palestinian officials complained ending Israel‘s occupation of Palestine had dropped off the agenda. PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi said accused Obama of “undermining America’s role in the Middle East by avoiding the….
Abbas congratulates Putin, Russia affirms support
3/6/2012 – MOSCOW (Ma’an) — President Mahmoud Abbas sent a message of congratulations to Russian President Vladmir Putin, as delegates met over cooperation between the countries Tuesday. Putin secured almost 64 percent of the votes in his country’s presidential contest on Sunday, but international monitors said the vote was clearly skewed in his favor….
Israelis perceive few bluffs in Netanyahu Iran speech
3/6/2012 – JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s uncompromising speech to a pro-Israel lobby in Washington has persuaded the public back home that war with Iran is increasingly possible. Netanyahu evoked the horrors of the Holocaust, quoting a 1944 letter where the United States rejected a request by Jewish leaders to bomb the Nazi death….
US defense chief warns Iran on nuclear program
3/6/2012 – WASHINGTON (Reuters) — US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday vowed the United States would take military action to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon if diplomacy fails.” Military action is the last alternative when all else fails,” he said in prepared remarks to the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC.”But make no mistake, we will….
Obama seeks to calm ‘drumbeat of war’ over Iran
3/6/2012 – BRUSSELS (Reuters) — President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States ‘will not countenance’ Iran developing a nuclear weapon but pledged to take a sober approach to dealing with Tehran’s nuclear program. Obama said the announcement of six-power talks with Iran offered a diplomatic opportunity to defuse the crisis. Amid mounting….
Hamas official: No elections without West Bank freedoms
3/6/2012 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said Monday that his party refuses to hold elections until they can operate freely in the West Bank. Responding to a question from a Ma’an reporter on why the Gaza government has not permitted the Central Elections Commission to update the electoral register, al-Hayya….
PA austerity measures ‘will not solve budget crisis’
3/6/2012 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s recently introduced austerity measures will not make a serious impact on the public budget deficit, a finance ministry official warned Monday. Last week, the Ramallah-based cabinet agreed a series of cost-cutting measures on government expenses, including limiting travel to economy class and freezing purchase….
Court delays hearing on Abbas’ PM role
3/6/2012 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an)– A constitutional court in Ramallah on Tuesday postponed a hearing on the legality of President Mahmoud Abbas’ appointment as prime minister of a unity government to March 20. Abbas and Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal agreed that the president will lead a unity government in Doha in February. PLO central council….
Storms destroy crops in northern West Bank
3/6/2012 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Storms that rocked the West Bank last week destroyed huge swathes of agriculture in the northern West Bank, famers told Ma’an on Monday. In Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, the storm tore up crops, particularly tomatoes, destroying one million shekels worth of agriculture, village head Khader Abu Hanish told…. Related: Oxfam: Over 300 Gaza families affected by storm flooding
First Gaza export to West Bank in 5 years
3/6/2012 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — With two trucks of date bars, products made in Gaza reached the West Bank for the first time in five years on Monday. The biscuits, destined for vulnerable children in the West Bank who receive food support from the UN World Food Program, are the first of 19 truckloads agreed by….
2 Israelis enter Jenin ‘by accident’
3/6/2012 – JENIN (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority security forces on Tuesday returned two Israeli citizens to Israeli authorities after the duo entered Jenin “by accident.” PA forces handed the Israelis to the Israeli civil administration, who transferred them to Israeli police custody, an Israeli military spokesman told Ma’an. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told….
Palestinian defends Israel on South Africa campus
3/6/2012 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel has sent a delegation of 100 students to represent it in the annual Apartheid Week in South Africa, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday. The report in Maariv noted one unusual participant in this year’s delegation — a 25-year-old Muslim Bushra Khalilieh, a member of Israel‘s Arab….
Palestinian journalists to vote in separate union elections
3/6/2012 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian journalists’ union will hold elections this week, as its Gaza office, which was taken over by Hamas supporters, prepares for a rival vote later in the month. Competing for 63 seats on the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate Administrative Council, union head Abdul Nasser al-Najjar said journalists will vote….
ISNA: Iran to allow IAEA visit Parchin military site
3/6/2012 – TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran said it will give the UN nuclear watchdog access to its Parchin military complex, ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday, a site where the agency believes Tehran pursued high explosives research relevant to nuclear weapons. An International Atomic Energy Agency report last year said that Iran had built a large containment chamber….
Residents: Smell of death filled Syria’s Baba Amr
3/6/2012 – BEIRUT (Reuters) — Residents of Baba Amr who fled to Lebanon said the smell of decomposed bodies, sewage and destruction filled the air in the Syrian city of Homs as troops seeking to crush a revolt against President Bashar Assad bombarded it into submission. With aid workers still blocked from reaching the former rebel stronghold and….
Leaked Stratfor email stirs Turkey PM cancer scare
3/6/2012 – ISTANBUL (Reuters) — A leaked email from security analysis company Stratfor said Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan had terminal cancer and just two years to live, a claim denied by officials who said Turkey’s most powerful politician was in good health. Cancer rumors started after Erdogan had surgery on his lower intestine in November….
Netanyahu meets with US leaders on Iran
AlJazeera 6 Mar 2012 – After meeting US officials on both sides of the aisle, Israeli leader says Israel has ‘great friends in Washington”.
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AICVideo: New Lifta
Alternative Information Center – Approximately 1,000 people — Palestinian refugees and their descendants, originally from the Jerusalem-area village of Lifta — now live in a small community next door to the Hebrew University.
PRCS provides its services to communities affected by severe weather conditions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
Relief Web 6 Mar 2012 – Source: Palestine Red Crescent Society Country: occupied Palestinian territory (Al Bireh- 4/3/2012): PRCS provided relief services to communities affected by severe weather conditions prevailing since last Tuesday, as follows: A team from the PRCS provided relief items including covers, mattresses,…
West Bank blast kills 2 Palestinian children: police
Relief Web 6 Mar 2012 – Source: Agence France-Presse Country: occupied Palestinian territory HEBRON, March 6, 2012 (AFP) – Two Palestinian children were killed on Tuesday in a blast near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian police told AFP, saying the cause of the…
“Family health teams” kicked off in Jericho refugee camp
Relief Web 6 Mar 2012 – Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Country: occupied Palestinian territory Jericho, West Bank A pioneering new model of health care delivery was launched in Aqbat Jabr today, with UNRWA launching a “family health…
Statement by the Spokesperson of the High Representative Catherine Ashton on the closure of two Palestinian television stations
Relief Web 5 Mar 2012 – Source: European Commission , European Union Country: occupied Palestinian territory 3 March 2012 A 98/12 The spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement…
First time in 5 years: Goods sold from Gaza to West Bank
Relief Web 5 Mar 2012 – Source: Gisha Country: occupied Palestinian territory Two trucks of date bars for schoolchildren reach West Bank Monday, March 5, 2012 – For the first time in five years, Israel allowed sale of goods from Gaza to the West Bank. Two…
Finland grants EUR 67 million in humanitarian aid for world crises
Relief Web 5 Mar 2012 – Source: Government of Finland Country: Somalia , Afghanistan , Burkina Faso , Cameroon , Chad , Democratic Republic of the Congo (the) , Ethiopia , Finland , Gambia (the) , Haiti , Kenya , Mali , Mauritania , Niger (the) , Nigeria , occupied Palestinian territory , Senegal , South Sudan (Republic of) , Sudan (the) , Syrian Arab…
EMHRN and Palestinian human rights NGOs recommendations on the new EU-PA Action Plan
Relief Web 4 Mar 2012 – Source: Al Mezan Center for Human Rights , BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights , Defence for Children International/Palestine Section , Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Country: occupied Palestinian territory The European Union and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are in…
One Year of the Arab Spring: Global and Regional Implications
Relief Web 4 Mar 2012 – Source: Institute for National Security Studies Country: Tunisia , Bahrain , Egypt , Libya , occupied Palestinian territory , Syrian Arab Republic (the) , Yemen Preface Since an obscure young fruit vendor named Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in the dusty Tunisian town of Sidi…
Iran will open its doors to Parchin nuclear facility for UN inspection
The National 6 Mar 2012 – An inspection at the facility, south-east of Tehran, will only go ahead if both sides agree on guidelines.
Palestinians pushed to the back burner as Iran dominates talks
The National 6 Mar 2012 – The US and Israel remain deeply divided over their approach to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and have appeared to have tacitly agreed to shelve the Israeli-Palestinian peace track for now.
Russia’s stance on Syria uprising unchanged as fierce clashes shake Deraa
The National 6 Mar 2012 – In Damascus, a special Chinese envoy to Syria was expected to visit and press the regime for a cease-fire.
Netanyahu asked Panetta to approve sale of bunker-busting bombs, U.S. official says
Ha’aretz – 6 Mar 2012
Obama warns against effects of ‘premature’ military action on Iran
Ha’aretz – 6 Mar 2012
Peres, Mark Zuckerberg launch president’s international Facebook page
Ha’aretz – 6 Mar 2012
Between White House and Facebook, Peres finds time to move atoms at IBM
Ha’aretz – 6 Mar 2012
Panetta: When all else fails, the U.S. will act against Iran
Ha’aretz – 6 Mar 2012
Report: Palestinian children killed after abandoned IDF ordinance explodes
Ha’aretz – 6 Mar 2012
Hamas official: We will ‘stay out’ of war between Israel and Iran
Ha’aretz – 6 Mar 2012
By conjuring the Holocaust, Netanyahu brought Israel closer to war with Iran
Ha’aretz – 6 Mar 2012
Facebook hosts Peres in Silicon Valley to celebrate launch of Israeli president’s international page
Ha’aretz – 6 Mar 2012
India blacklists Israeli defense firm amid corruption charges
Ha’aretz – 6 Mar 2012
Netanyahu in AIPAC speech: Israel cannot afford to wait much longer on Iran
Ha’aretz – 5 Mar 2012
State plans to privatize Israel Railways
Ha’aretz – 5 Mar 2012
Israel labor court orders doctors to punch time clocks
Ha’aretz – 5 Mar 2012
State comptroller: Ex-IDF chief knew his staff collected material against Barak
Ha’aretz – 5 Mar 2012
Israeli court charges ex-crime kingpin Roni Harari with extortion
Ha’aretz – 5 Mar 2012
Death of Israeli woman in hospital was due to doctors’ negligence, says Health Ministry
Ha’aretz – 5 Mar 2012
U.S. Senator McCain calls for airstrike on Syria
Ha’aretz – 5 Mar 2012
Live on Haaretz: Netanyahu: Israel cannot afford to wait much longer on Iran
Ha’aretz – 5 Mar 2012
Iranian threats against Israel ‘unacceptable’
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – In exclusive interview with ‘Post,’ Lithuanian FM Azubali hails ‘special relationship’ between the two countries.
Obama: There’ll be a price to pay for premature Iran strike
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – There will be consequences for both US and Israel for such a move, the US president says, warns against “casualness” of talk by American politicians “beating the drums of war.”
Iran and Israel’s fate
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – In recent days, Obama‘s message on Iran has become more emphatic.
Our World: Obama sets out case for Israeli strike
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – The US president is actually demanding that Israel place its survival in his hands.
Cargo containers in transit: the Iranian threat
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Iran has been transferring large quantities of armaments to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
Campaigning GOP candidates slam Obama on Iran
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Taking time away from last-minute Super Tuesday campaigning, Republicans criticize US president’s speech, approach to Iran.
In My Own Write: Reversals of fortune
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Try the power of the unexpected
Yalla Peace: A grim fairy tale on Iran
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – On a map, Iran looks like a giant panther pouncing on the Arab countries (and Israel) to the southwest.
The cynic in the corner of our heart
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – So what did Amalek do that was so terrible? What about Amalek warrants such an unforgiving approach?
Analysis: PM at AIPAC – powerful but no new policy
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Difference between a strong, passionate speech, and a speech setting out new new policy, is significant.
Let’s reach out to Christians on Purim
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – We still need non-Jews, even with a sovereign Jewish state.
IMI one of six firms blacklisted by India
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Indian Defense Ministry says it has incriminating evidence the six companies used improper methods to win contracts.
What’s next for Jews after Putin’s victory?
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – In the 12 years since Putin first ascended to power, public anti-Semitism has been all but silenced in Russia.
‘Hamas will not be subservient to Iran’
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Senior Hamas official says if Israel strikes Iran, Hamas will not take part in fighting, the ‘Guardian’ reports.
Peres: Technology has changed role of gov’ts
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Speaking at Facebook HQ, president says his greatest hope is that peace becomes the business of people instead of gov’ts.
Jordanian general: Palestinian power could grow
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – General Abu Rashid visits J’lem, says that Israel must think carefully about having so many Palestinians on its border.
Left blasts Netanyahu’s Holocaust comparisons
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – “Israel is not about to be destroyed, not every enemy is Hitler and not every problem is Auschwitz,” Gal-On says.
Public Displays of Affection at the Oval Office
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Other than illuminating their impotence, what was the point of Monday’s meet-and-greet?
Syria faces outrage; ‘smell of death’ in Homs
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Assad faces growing Western anger over human rights abuses, pictures of torture victims.
woman arrested on suspicion of planning knife attack
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Suspect tells police during questioning that she was sent to carry out a stabbing attack; arrested near W. Bank settlement Emmanuel.
Peace Now director gets death threat
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Anonymous caller threatens to take steps to ensure Yariv Oppenheimer does not “finish the year.”
#USelections2012: Obama’s Timeline
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – This week: Super Tuesday, ‘The Artist’ in Mitt Romney, ill wishes for Rick Santorum and Obama having the time(line) of his life.
Obama sets out the case for an Israeli strike
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – The US president’s speech was notable for several reasons; this was the 1st speech on an Israel-related theme that he’s given since 2008 campaign.
Honor killings defy attempts at reform
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Two murders in Egypt point to persistence of practice that crosses class, religion
‘Newsweek’: Livni among world’s influential women
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – American magazine honors the opposition leader as “one of the most powerful women in the country, known for her honesty, integrity.”
‘Newsweek’ dubs Livni influential woman of the world
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – American magazine honors the opposition leader as “one of the most powerful women in the country, known for her honesty, integrity.”
Afghan artists use graffiti to depict war, oppression
Jerusalem Post 6 Mar 2012 – Encased in head-to-toe burka, image depicts distraught woman on cement stairwell, chronicles violence.
Greens appeal decision to build Timna resort
Jerusalem Post 5 Mar 2012 – Appeal argues the project would cause irreversible damage to the area at the expense of future generations.
Obama turns a corner on Iran
Jerusalem Post 5 Mar 2012 – Obama sent a clear message to the Iranians that his no-nuclear policy is not a bluff.
Gourmet Kosher Cooking: Mishloach manot
Jerusalem Post 5 Mar 2012 – This Purim, choose from a number delicious sweets to include in your mishloah manot gifts.
Knesset will vote to ban underweight models
Jerusalem Post 5 Mar 2012 – Agent removed from meeting after saying MK Adatto must “fatten up” to meet her legislation’s standards.
Barack Obama responds to criticism of Iran policy – video
The Guardian 6 Mar 2012 – President responds to criticism of his Iran strategy by challenging Republican candidates to address consequences of an attack
Letters: Israel, Clegg and Tonge’s loss of the Lib Dem whip
The Guardian 6 Mar 2012 – Jenny Tonge has been forced to resign the Liberal Democrat whip in the Lords for making the essentially non-controversial prediction that Israel cannot be guaranteed survival in its present form if it continues to alienate all…
Iran ‘seeking to build nuclear weapon’, warns David Cameron
The Guardian 6 Mar 2012 – Prime minister says Iran is planning an ‘inter-continental nuclear weapon’ but urges Israel to give sanctions more time David Cameron has warned that Iran is seeking to build an “inter-continental nuclear weapon” that threatens the west,…
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The Guardian 6 Mar 2012 – • US senator John McCain calls for air strikes against Assad • General announces defection in protest at Rastan shelling • Satellite images show extent of shelling in Baba Amr • Read the latest summary 4.27pm:…
Hamas rules out military support for Iran in any war with Israel
The Guardian 6 Mar 2012 – Senior figures say Gaza-based Islamic militants would not launch rockets into Israel at request of Tehran, a key sponsor Hamas will not do Iran’s bidding in any war with Israel, according to senior figures within the…
Obama and Netanyahu: the president of hope meets the PM of doom
The Guardian 6 Mar 2012 – Their testy meeting over Iran’s nuclear ambitions showed how far the Palestinian question has dropped down the agenda At least they looked each other in the eye this time. But there was no escaping the sense…
Netanyahu to Aipac: ‘A nuclear-armed Iran must be stopped’ – video
The Guardian 6 Mar 2012 – Binyamin Netanyahu speaks to the pro-Israel lobby group Aipac in Washington after meeting President Barack Obama
Netanyahu on Iran: ‘None of us can afford to wait much longer’
The Guardian 6 Mar 2012 – Israel has waited for the international community to resolve the issue, Netanyahu said in his address, but diplomacy and sanctions have failed Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, invoked the spectre of Auschwitz as he chided…
Two Palestinian children killed by unexploded Israeli ordinance in Hebron
Uruknet March 6, 2012 – Two Palestinian children were killed five others injured on Tuesday afternoon, when an unexploded ordinance, dropped by the Israeli forces, detonated near them. Medical sources reported that Hamza Jaradat, 13, and Ziyad Jaradat, 12, died after sustaining severe wounds to various parts of their bodies. The sources added that the five injured…
Attorney General Holder defends execution without charges
Uruknet March 6, 2012 – In a speech at Northwestern University yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder provided the most detailed explanation yet for why the Obama administration believes it has the authority to secretly target U.S. citizens for execution by the CIA without even charging them with a crime, notifying them of the accusations, or affording them…
Eastern Libya declares semiautonomous region
Uruknet March 6, 2012 – Tribal leaders and militia commanders on Tuesday declared oil-rich eastern Libya to be a semiautonomous state, a unilateral move that opponents fear will be the first step toward outright dividing the country six months after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi. The thousands of representatives of major tribal leaders, militia commanders and politicians…
Hamas rules out military support for Iran in any war with Israel
Uruknet March 6, 2012 – Hamas will not do Iran’s bidding in any war with Israel, according to senior figures within the militant Islamic group. “If there is a war between two powers, Hamas will not be part of such a war,” Salah Bardawil, a member of the organisation’s political bureau in Gaza City, told the Guardian….
Hana Shalabi: Day 19 and Counting
Uruknet March 6, 2012 – Anyone who’s fasted several days knows doing it isn’t easy. Persisting for extended periods risks health, even death. Without food for 66 days, Khader Adnan nearly died. Again ingesting food, he’s still very much at risk. Hana Shalabi reached day 19. It’s taken a toll. Daily she grows weaker. The Palestinian Prisoners…
Israeli settlement waste ‘poisoning Palestinians’
Uruknet March 5, 2012 — Sewage from Israeli settlements near Salfit in the northern West Bank is flowing into nearby Palestinian communities and causing serious disease, a health ministry official said Tuesday. Speaking at an environmental conference in Salfit, the head of Salfit’s ministry of health office said the situation had become “intolerable” for communities affected by…
Attorney general defends presidential assassinations of US citizens
Uruknet March 6, 2012 – In a speech delivered Monday at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago, US Attorney General Eric Holder asserted the “right” of the president to secretly order the assassination of US citizens. Laying out a brief for virtually unchecked executive power to carry out military aggression abroad and repression at home, the speech…
Video: Fleeing Homs with tales of slaughter
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – People fleeing the Syrian city of Homs have accused the security forces of committing atrocities, including summary executions and cutting the throats of prisoners. Troops and paramilitaries took full control of the Baba Amr quarter of Homs over the weekend after a month of bombardment. Opposition activists say some 4,000 people have…
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Uruknet March 5, 2012 – … Hama: Mrs. Dalal Al-Faran, former president of the Women’s Union and the current principal of Bir wal Ihsan School, 62 years old, was martyred by a sniper bullet in front of her home in the suburbs of Abi Fidaa…Idlib: Kafarbatick: Abdul-Jabbar Barhoum (17 years), was martyred by security forces and army near…
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Uruknet March 5, 2012. Chaos and violence continue, Eric Holder declares the president of the United States contemplating killing you qualifies as “due process,” Haditha tries to recover from today’s assault, Iraqi youths into EMO (or suspected being into) find their names on death lists, and more… early this morning in Iraq, police forces were attacked in…
Palestine absent? Not at Occupy AIPAC
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – Iran, Iran, Iran. Tensions between Israel and Iran over Iranian nuclear energy is dominating this year’s AIPAC conference. President Barack Obama‘s speech yesterday to the annual conference was mostly devoted to Iran, and “announced no new initiatives” on the Israel/Palestine front, as Inter Press Service’s Mitchell Plitnick reports. Similarly, as we reported,…
How to Fund an American Police State Real Money for an Imaginary War
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – … Those flash grenades exploding in Oakland and the sound cannons on New York’s streets simply opened small windows onto a national policing landscape long in the process of militarization — a bleak domestic no man’s land marked by tanks and drones, robot bomb detectors, grenade launchers, tasers, and most of all, interlinked…
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UN official slams WikiLeaks suspect Manning’s treatment
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – US authorities’ treatment of WikiLeaks suspect Private Bradley Manning was “cruel and degrading,” the UN special rapporteur on torture Juan Ernesto Mendez said Monday. “I believe Bradley Manning was subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the excessive and prolonged isolation he was put in during the eight months he was…
Holder: Assassinating Americans Legal and Constitutional’
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – Speaking today at Northwestern University, Attorney General Eric Holder insisted that the president has an absolute right under the context of the “war on terror” to order the assassination of American citizens overseas saying that the nature of a war against a “stateless enemy” meant that assassinations could happen anywhere. Insisting that…
Red flags over Gaza: Palestinian leftists rally for Hana Shalabi
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – Hundreds of Palestinians, mainly from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and other leftist factions, rallied for administrative detainee Hana Shalabi, now on her 19th day of an open hunger strike, outside Gaza’s International Committee…
Emo kids in Iraq targeted for death
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – … In the meantime, the attack on Emo youth or suspected Emo youth in Iraq continues. Wael Grace (Al Mada) reports that those with longish hair, suspected of being Emo are being threatened and killed. Grace notes that there are lists of Emo youth (or accused of being Emo youth) publicly displayed in…
Palestinian Oppression: Official Israeli Policy
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – … “To me the behavior of Israel and the uncritical support it gets from western governments is like” a destructive force harming bodily organs. Its sound resonates “24 hours a day and poisons the whole world with its malignance.” Palestinians bear the burden, besieged Gazans and thousands of political prisoners most of all. “…
Secret footage shows patients tortured by medical staff in Homs hospital (video)
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – …The grainy footage depicts wards full of wounded men, blindfolded and shackled to their beds. Some bear marks of extreme beating. The apparent instruments of torture – a rubber whip and electrical cable – lie openly on a table in one of the hospital wards. On the orders of the Syrian government,…
Guantanamo Prison’s True Secret: Jason Leopold in Conversation With Andy Worthington
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – British journalist Andy Worthington, the author of “The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison,” has been documenting the array of human rights abuses at Guantanamo for over six years now, after he personally became angry that the US government would not say who they were holding…
Obama, the “Denier” of Israel’s Crimes
Uruknet March 5, 2012 – I listened to President Obama‘s speech to AIPAC Sunday, March 4, 2012, while sitting outside the Washington Convention Center where AIPAC was holding its annual conference… Obama said the Iranian government denies the Holocaust. I would say that Iranian government is not the only “denier.” President Obama and his advisors are the “…
Israeli President Peres to visit Facebook HQ
Daily Star 6 Mar 2012 Peres is scheduled to meet with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to launch the 88-year-old leader’s personal page aimed at creating a dialogue with young Arabs.
Syria envoy to Lebanon urges Mikati bolster border security
Daily Star 6 Mar 2012 Syria’s envoy to Lebanon said Tuesday security forces have achieved excellent results in chasing saboteurs threatening Syria’s security.
White House says focused on diplomacy on Syria
Daily Star 6 Mar 2012 President Barack Obama remains committed to diplomatic efforts to end the violence in Syria.
Big powers accept Iran offer of nuclear talks
Daily Star 6 Mar 2012 Six world powers have accepted an Iranian offer for talks on its disputed nuclear program, the European Union’s top diplomat said on Tuesday
Netanyahu pays homage to U.S. Congress
Daily Star 6 Mar 2012 PM Benjamin Netanyahu courted Israel‘s backers in the U.S. Congress on Monday following talks on Iran with President Obama
French envoy to Syria enters Lebanon
Daily Star 6 Mar 2012 French Ambassador to Syria Eric Chevalier entered Lebanon Tuesday and is heading toward the French mission in Beirut after Paris ordered the closure of its mission in Damascus, Lebanese security sources told The Daily Star.
Lebanon, Qatar discuss boosting bilateral cooperation
Daily Star 6 Mar 2012 President Michel Sleiman discussed Tuesday with Qatar’s emir recent developments in the Arab world as well as ways of boosting bilateral cooperation in various fields.
Russia to maintain Syria policy after Putin election: Zasypkin
Daily Star 6 Mar 2012 Vladimir Putin’s re-election as Russian president over the weekend will unlikely change Moscow’s stance toward Syria, Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin said Tuesday.
FBI offers $1M in ex-agent Iran disappearance
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – ….
ISIS: Hits on Iranian nuclear scientist ineffective
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – ….
Report: Israeli-made jet crashes in US, pilot dies
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – ….
‘One-state solution’ campaign promoted in West Bank
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – Posters reading ‘one state for five million Arabs and six million Jews’ found across Palestinian cities in wake of stalled peace process ….
Sarkozy says he hopes for Obama re-election
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – ….
I don’t trust Obama
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – Op-ed: We can’t count on president to protect Israel at the expense of his personal interest ….
Report: Czechs arrest Iranian seeking M4 rifles
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – ….
Supreme Court modifies police search procedure
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – New verdict requires policemen to notify suspects of their option to refuse search on their perosn, belongings ….
Dud blast kills 2 Palestinian kids near Hebron
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – Two 12-year-old boys suffer fatal injuries, two others moderately injured when abandoned ordnance explodes ….
Addressing anti-Zionism
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – Op-ed: Zionism will only cease being demonized when West stops to demonize colonialism ….
Israeli state officials disappointed with Obama meeting
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – Senior officials claim US views Iranian issue in the context of 2012 election year; assert it’s now certain Washington will not strike Islamic Republic ….
Palestinian woman plans stabbing attack in Emmanuel
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – West Bank observation post spots woman carrying knife near Emmanuel security fence. Subsequent check reveals woman suffers from psychological issues ….
Iran to allow IAEA visit Parchin military site
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – Tehran will give UN nuclear watchdog access to its Parchin military complex, a site where agency believes Tehran pursued high explosives research relevant to nuclear weapons ….
Haredi soldiers receive funds against IDF protocol
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – Nahal Haredi soldiers who got married during service receive NIS 5,000 donation from outside source in violation of army protocol. ‘This is cause discrimination,’ IDF source says ….
Will US rescue Israeli pilots?
YNet News, 6 Mar 2012 – Op-ed: Ron Ben-Yishai presents issues likely raised by Netanyahu in his meeting with Obama ….
Palestinian Information Center
Two children die in explosion of ordnance
PIC – Two Palestinian children were killed and three others were wounded in the explosion of an ordnance left over by the Israeli military near Sa’eer village in Al-Khalil.
Hamas MPs demand international intervention in favor of Palestinian prisoners
PIC – Hamas MPs in the West Bank took part in a rally in front of the Red Cross offices in El-Bireh city demanding greater solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Hamdan: Hamas does not plan changing into political party
PIC – Osama Hamdan, a senior leader of Hamas, has ruled out that his movement was planning to dissolve itself and turn into a political party.
Israeli apartheid week kicks off in South Africa
PIC – The cultural week against the Israeli apartheid regime in occupied Palestine was launched in more than 13 South African cities in the context of global activities and events.
Option of dissolving Palestinian authority discussed in Cairo conference
PIC – An intellectual political conference discussing “the option of dissolving the Palestinian authority” was held on Monday in Cairo.
IOF soldiers round up 13 Palestinians in West Bank
PIC – Israeli occupation forces rounded up 13 Palestinians in various West Bank areas on Tuesday in line with its routine arrests of Palestinian civilians alleging they were planning resistance attacks.
IOF soldiers assault citizens in Jordan Valley for collecting wild plant
PIC – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked a group of Palestinians while harvesting a favorite wild plant in the Jordan Valley on Monday.
Thousands of workers to lose their jobs due to power outage
PIC – The general syndicate of workshop owners in Gaza Strip has warned that thousands of workers would lose their jobs in the event the electricity crisis persisted in the enclave.
Egyptian petroleum company agrees to supply Gaza power plant with diesel fuel
PIC – The Gaza authority of energy and natural resources has signed an agreement with the Egyptian petroleum company to supply the Gaza Strip with the diesel fuel needed to operate its power plant.
Senior Justice Ministry Officials Participate in Study Trip to Germany
WAFA – 5 Mar 2012
Settlers Set Up Checkpoint South of Jenin
WAFA – 5 Mar 2012
Erekat Calls on US to Push for Winds of Peace, not Drums of War
WAFA – 5 Mar 2012
Israeli Forces Arrest 8 Palestinians in West Bank Raids
WAFA – 5 Mar 2012
Misc
Obama, Israel‘s Netanyahu show unity on Iran despite differences
LA Times 5 Mar 2012 – After their meeting, President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continue to disagree on what should trigger military action against Iran. President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday sought to offer a united front against Iran’s growing nuclear program but appeared…
Israel’s Netanyahu, in a risky strategy, presses U.S. on Iran
LA Times 5 Mar 2012 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has forcefully pushed President Obama to take a tougher stance on Iran. Critics say he risks alienating an ally.
President may order killing of American terrorists, Holder says
LA Times 6 Mar 2012 – The attorney general offers a rationale for how the airstrike that killed U.S. citizen Anwar Awlaki in Yemen last year is in line with the Constitution. The president has legal authority to target and kill American citizens working with Al Qaeda and its allies overseas,…
Egypt lawmaker quits over nose job scandal
LA Times 6 Mar 2012 – Anwar Bilkimy, an ultraconservative Islamist, tried to conceal his plastic surgery by claiming he was attacked by thugs. But a doctor set the record straight. Call it the curious case of the nose job.
World Powers Agree to Resume Nuclear Talks With Iran
New York Times 6 Mar 2012 – The move could help relieve increased pressure from Israel to use military force against Tehran.
News Analysis: On Iran, 2 Central Questions Divide U.S. and Israel
New York Times 6 Mar 2012 – If Iran decided to race for a nuclear weapon, would the West detect it in time to stop it? And even if it was detected, is an air strike the best option?
F.B.I. Offers Reward for News of Ex-Agent Levinson
New York Times 6 Mar 2012 – American officials think Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran in 2007, is still alive and captive; Iranian officials say they know nothing about him.
Obama Urges Netanyahu to Use Diplomacy, Not Arms, to Check Iran
New York Times 6 Mar 2012 – At the White House, President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to little agreement on confronting Iran over its nuclear capabilities.
Syria Rushes to Scrub Signs of Assault on Homs
New York Times 6 Mar 2012 – Efforts by the United States to frame a United Nations Security Council resolution seeking humanitarian access to shattered neighborhoods in the central Syrian city of Homs are rejected.
Egyptian Lawmaker Resigns After Lying About Nose Job
New York Times 6 Mar 2012 – An Islamist lawmaker was expelled from his party for allegedly fabricating a story that he was beaten by gunmen. Doctors said in fact he had undergone plastic surgery.
Brandeis SJP protests outside ‘Israeli Peace Week’ Tel Aviv club party
Mondoweiss – Brandeis SJP protesting Tel Aviv Club Night (Photo: Zena Ozeir) This past Saturday, some 20 members of Students for Justice in Palestine held a protest on the Brandeis University campus outside a party organized by the Brandeis Zionist Alliance. The title of the party was Tel…
A Palestinian student asks, ‘Can I go on Birthright?’
Mondoweiss – Ghada Karmi and Ellen Siegel protesting in front of the Israeli Consulate in London, 1973. Walking around campus these past few weeks, I couldn’t help but notice advertisements outside of Warren Towers and the Hillel House telling students to go register for Taglit-Birthright’s free 10-day trip…
‘Commentary’ says amount of US political money coming from Jews is ‘staggering’
Mondoweiss – I used to be shy about talking about Jewish money in the election process. But Sheldon Adelson has liberated us all. Commentary’s Jonathan Tobin agrees that Jewish money is an issue , even if it makes Jews “cringe.” He says 1/3 of Democratic money, when the estimates…
Gas prices have shot up 13% since AIPAC’s victory in Senate
Mondoweiss – Last fall, the Israel lobby group AIPAC led the charge for stiffer sanctions against Iran . The Obama administration, including Treasury Sec’y Timothy Geithner, said the legislation would send gas prices higher. As Reuters said, “The Obama administration’s chief concerns appear to be that the amendment could…
Hasbarapocalypse at Ynet: ‘Zionism will only cease being demonized when the West stops demonizing colonialism’
Mondoweiss – Jews Sans Frontieres tweeted out the following article with the challenge, ” Ynet, or The Onion? You decide! ” Please register your vote in the comment section. From the article ” Addressing anti-Zionism “: The root of anti-Zionism must be sought elsewhere [from antisemitism] – in anti-colonialism. The belief that…
Bibi’s Declaration of War (on Iran)
Tikun Olam – Bibi Netanyahu at Aipac conference (Ruvi Leider) After reading Bibi Netanyahu’s profoundly delusional and mendacious Aipac speech from earlier today, I’m left with two impressions: the most important one is that Israel will attack Iran. His remarks read like a declaration of war. Believe me, no…
Rising energy tensions in the Aegean—Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria
Voltaire Network 6 Mar 2012 – After the Eastern Mediterranean, this author focuses on the gas and oil windfall in the Aegean sea, which promises to shake up the geopolitical status quo. While Greece’s new-found reserves could potentially blot out her entire debt, and possibly have even averted it, the foreign patrons…
Spinoza and the Heresy Hunter from Harvard
The Magnes Zionist 5 Mar 2012 – Theater J, which operates out of the DC Jewish Community Center, is currently producing David Ives’ play, New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza. This is a reimagining and dramatization of Spinoza’s interrogation for which there are no records. Over four hundred years later, we…
East Jerusalem Cinema Reopens after 25 years
Joseph Dana 6 Mar 2012 – A storied cinema has just reopened its doors after 25 years of being closed in the Palestinian part of Jerusalem. The al-Quds cinema is now on its way to becoming one of the major Palestinian cultural institutions in the eastern part of the city. It is…
Fresh Iran nuclear talks agreed
BBC 6 Mar 2012 – Six major world powers and Iran are to hold fresh talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, the EU says, a year after the last round failed.
Syria troops ‘shell rebel towns’?
BBC 6 Mar 2012 – Security forces have been shelling rebel-held towns in Syria, activists say, as President Bashar al-Assad vows to continue fighting “terrorism”.
Call for federalism in East Libya
BBC 6 Mar 2012 – Civic leaders in eastern Libya declare semi-autonomy for the oil-rich region, saying the area has been neglected for decades.
FBI in $1m plea for missing man
BBC 6 Mar 2012 – The FBI offers a $1m (£636,000) reward for the safe return of former agent Robert Levinson, last seen in Iran five years ago while working as a private investigator.
Israelis rejoice at the death of Palestinian children in bus accident
Sabbah report 6 Mar 2012 – Paul J. Balles considers the mentality of Israelis who openly rejoiced at the death of nine Palestinian kindergarten children and one adult in a bus accident in February.
Ignore the intelligence reports, let’s make war on Iran
Sabbah report 6 Mar 2012 – Stuart Littlewood argues that, with the USA’s intelligence agencies concurring that Iran has no nuclear weapons programme, Washington’s and London’s clamour for ever tighter sanctions and war with Iran appear to be motivated not by national interests, but by loyalty and obedience to Israel and its…
Articles
AIPAC Works for the 1 Percent
Chris Hedges, Truthdig 3/4/2012
Chris Hedges gave this talk Saturday night in Washington, D.C., at the Occupy AIPAC protest, organized by CODEPINK Women for Peace and other peace, faith and solidarity groups.
The battle for justice in the Middle East is our battle. It is part of the vast, global battle against the 1 percent. It is about living rather than dying. It is about communicating rather than killing. It is about love rather than hate. It is part of the great battle against the corporate forces of death that reign over us—the fossil fuel industry, the weapons manufacturers, the security and surveillance state, the speculators on Wall Street, the oligarchic elites who assault our poor, our working men and women, our children, one in four of whom depend on food stamps to eat, the elites who are destroying our ecosystem with its trees, its air and its water and throwing into doubt our survival as a species.
What is being done in Gaza, the world’s largest open-air prison, is a pale reflection of what is slowly happening to the rest of us. It is a window into the rise of the global security state, our new governing system that the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls “inverted totalitarianism.” It is a reflection of a world where the powerful are not bound by law, either on Wall Street or in the shattered remains of the countries we invade and occupy, including Iraq with its hundreds of thousands of dead. And one of the greatest purveyors of this demented ideology of violence for the sake of violence, this flagrant disregard for the rule of domestic and international law, is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
I spent seven years in the Middle East. I was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. I lived for two of those seven years in Jerusalem. AIPAC does not speak for Jews or for Israel. It is a mouthpiece for right-wing ideologues, some of whom hold power in Israel and some of whom hold power in Washington, who believe that because they have the capacity to war wage they have a right to wage war, whose loyalty, in the end, is not to the citizens of Israel or Palestine or the United States but the corporate elites, the defense contractors, those who make war a business….more.. e-mail
Would God want Israel to attack Iran?
Michael Knopf, Ha’aretz 3/4/2012
In our time, the only war Jewish law really permits is defensive war. So what does that say about Iran?
Israeli officials have recently ramped up their arguments for striking Iranian nuclear facilities. So far, there has been silence among Jewish religious thinkers about whether attacking Iran would be consonant with Jewish values.
So what would Judaism say about such a military action? Would God want us to attack Iran?
The Jewish tradition does not speak with one voice on the ethics of war, and distilling this complex issue in this forum risks oversimplification. Still, I understand the tradition to point in a particular direction. Here’s why:
In our time, the only war Jewish law permits is defensive war. True, Jewish law theoretically allows Jews to wage an “optional war” to conquer territory or to demonstrate military prowess. But since we no longer have a Sanhedrin (an ancient rabbinic court) or Urim V’tummim (priestly oracles), these wars are currently forbidden, even if they might eventually help protect Jewish lives.
Maimonides defines a defensive war as one waged “to assist Israel from an enemy that has come upon them” (Laws of Kings 5:1). The plain meaning of this ruling is that the only permissible war (in fact, it is called an “obligatory war”) is one to repel an attack and to defend lives that are in danger. Moreover, in order to qualify as a defensive war, the enemy must initiate the aggression. more.. e-mail
In Colonial Shoes: Notes on the Material Afterlife in Post-Oslo Palestine
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Jerusalem Quarterly File 3/6/2012
Winter 2011
Introduction:
The Toilet Bowl Graveyard
A strange and unexpected kind of waste fell across my path as I set out to research what I had neatly packaged for myself as “the politics of waste management in the West Bank.” It was late 2009 when an American friend introduced me to it on one of my first days in Jenin. “Oh, you’re interested in trash? You’ll love this place, it’s full of it!” And we were off. What struck me most when we finally made our way through an orgy of fresh fruits and vegetables, sold off stands and carts in Jenin’s hisba market, was the scene of what my friend called the toilet bowl graveyard: rows and rows of porcelain bowls, no seats, out on the open concrete. Most were white, a couple pastel blue and pink. Down an alley below a building with a bombed-out second floor we passed a mismatched set of electric hospital beds and lightweight metal room separators. They were lined up next to TVs and worn-out shoes laid out on sheets. Piles of clothes, also on sheets, punctuated every block or so of this central, if evidently separate, market.
I had thought that by investigating the everyday workings of waste (qua sanitation) I might be able to understand better the reshuffling of individual, community and government ethics, rights and responsibilities, that has characterized the political landscape in post-Oslo Palestine. Upon arrival, it hit me fairly quickly that before deciding whom to interview, what archives to delve into and in what practices to become included – as a good anthropologist-in-training – I first had to decide what I meant by waste (another anthropology must). People’s suggestions provoked me: “What about the way the occupation is designed to waste our time?” “And the waste of international aid when the army stops projects or the donor hires German experts instead of local ones?….” more.. e-mail
Redefining Our Relationship to A People’s Struggle
Palestine Chronicle: 6 Mar 2012 – By Ramzy Baroud (Based on talks delivered by Ramzy Baroud at Israeli Apartheid Week conferences in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada – March 5, 6 2012) In the Winter 2012 Edition of Palestine News – published by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in the UK – and more specifically on page 5, there is a photo of an old man. With a white beard, gray, traditional jalabiya, a black belt and an old blue jacket, he could be any Palestinian’s grandfather. In the photo, the man holds broken branches of his olive trees, maliciously destroyed by Jewish settlers in the village of Qusra, in the West Bank. The old man’s name was not provided. He could be Mohammed, George or Ali. A Muslim or a Christian. His village, Qusra is located south of Nablus, but that too matters little. It could be a village bordering Jerusalem, Ramallah, or Jenin. Throughout the…more
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