11 February 2013 — VTJP
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Five Jerusalem Youths Ordered Under House Arrest
IMEMC – The Jerusalem District Court ordered five Palestinian youth from the Beit Safafa town, in occupied East Jerusalem, under house arrest for five days. …
Israel To Build 90 Units In Bet El Settlement
IMEMC – The Israeli government decided to build additional 90 units in the Bet El illegal settlement, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as part of a prior agreement reached with the settlers 18 months ago. …
Tension Mounts In Galboa’ Prison
IMEMC – The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights reported Monday that tension is mounting at the Eshil Israeli detention center after Israeli soldiers broke into the detainees’ rooms and informed them that many of their “privileges” will be taken away from them in the coming 10 days. …
Army Demolishes Home, Shed And Well Near Hebron
IMEMC – Monday February 11 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that nearly 30 Palestinians have been treated for the effects of tear-gas inhalation during clashes that took place in Beit Awwa town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after the army demolished a home, a shed and a well. …
Palestinian Detainees Weigh Hunger Strike
IMEMC – Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported that the Israeli violations against the Palestinian detainees are seriously escalating, an issue that could push the detainees to conduct an open-ended hunger strike and even civil disobedience. …
Army Demolishes A Residential Structure In Hebron
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday morning, an area west of Ithna Palestinian town, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, and demolished a mobile home inhabited by a resident and his family. …
Israel Said To Be Willing To Conduct Limited Settlement Freeze
IMEMC – Israeli sources reported that the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu is “weighing the possibility of a conditional, limited freeze” on settlement activities, as an act of goodwill towards the Palestinian Authority ahead of the planned visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to the region. …
Four Palestinians Injured In Traffic Accident With A Settler
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that four Palestinians have been injured, on Sunday evening, in a traffic accident with a settler south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. …
Witnesses: Settlers vandalize Hebron community center
2/11/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A group of Israeli settlers on Sunday evening vandalized a Palestinian community center in Hebron, witnesses said. The assailants uprooted trees and flowers from the backyard of the Challenge and Steadfastness Center, which is run by a local group known as Youth Against Settlements. On Saturday, another group led by Baruch….
Israeli forces demolish residential trailer near Hebron
2/11/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Monday demolished a residential trailer in the southern West Bank town of Idhna, west of Hebron. Muhammad Badawi Tumeizi, whose family lives in the trailer, told a Palestinian monitoring group that Israeli soldiers and Civil Administration officials escorted a bulldozer to the Wadi al-Beer neighborhood for the demolition….
Israel detains women for wearing prayer shawls at holy site
2/11/2013 – JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israeli police detained 10 women at one of Judaism’s most sacred sites on Monday for wearing prayer shawls, which Orthodox tradition sees as solely for men, a spokesman said. The incident at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City highlighted the divisions between the more liberal streams of Judaism….
Israel approves 90 new settlement units, group says
2/11/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Israeli government has granted approval for 90 new settlement units in the West Bank, an Israeli peace group said Monday. The plan for the housing units in Beit El settlement received final validation on Sunday, but had been approved in August 2012 as part of a compensation plan for settlers….
Israeli forces demolish Hebron home, water well
2/11/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces demolished several structures, including a home, in a Hebron village on Monday, locals said. Israeli bulldozers arrived in Beit Awwa village and destroyed a residential property, shed and water well in the area, witnesses told Ma’an. Dozens of residents protested the demolitions, with Israeli soldiers firing tear….
Medics: Hebron child injured by settler car
2/12/2013 – HEBRON (Ma’an) — A child was injured in Hebron on Monday after being hit by a settler’s car, a Red Crescent official said. Baha Jamil Arafat al-Fakhouri, 8, was run over near the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron’s Old City and lightly injured, Nasser Qabaja, head of the Red Crescent’….
Rekhawi ‘saw death’ during hunger strike
2/11/2013 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Freed detainee Akram Rekhawi on Monday said his 100 day hunger strike was the hardest stage of his nine-year prison sentence.”I saw death many times a day and it was very painful and Israeli doctors treated me very badly,” Rekhawi, 39, told Ma’an. Rekhawi, who was released….
Egyptian forces close 2 Gaza tunnels, arrest 10
2/12/2013 – EL-ARISH, Egypt (Ma’an) — Egypt‘s military closed two smuggling tunnels leading to Gaza on Monday, security officials said. Egyptian soldiers arrested 10 suspected smugglers in Rafah and shut two tunnels used to smuggle goods to the Gaza Strip, Egyptian officials told Ma’an. Families of the arrested smugglers staged a small….
Report: Turkish aid to enter Gaza via Israel
2/12/2013 – TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Turkey will deliver construction material to the Gaza Strip via Israel, the Israeli daily Maariv reported Monday. Turkey will send building materials for a 150-bed hospital via the Kerem Shalom crossing on Israel’s border, Maariv said. Israel tightly controls its border with the Gaza Strip, as….
Gunmen kill man in Ramallah, injure security officer
2/11/2013 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Palestinian man near Ramallah on Monday afternoon, and a Palestinian security officer was also seriously hurt in the incident. Witnesses told Ma’an they saw the man’s body lying in a pool of blood near Jamal Abdul-Nasser Mosque in al-Bireh, and a gunman….
PLO officials to meet with deputy Syrian FM
2/11/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A PLO delegation is scheduled to meet with the deputy foreign minister of Syria Faysal al-Miqdad in Damascus Monday, Palestine’s envoy to Syria said. The delegation, headed by senior official Zakaria al-Agha, arrived in the Syrian capital on Sunday in an effort to protect Palestinians in Syria from the….
16,000 register to vote in Gaza
2/12/2013 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Around 16,000 people registered to vote on Monday in the Gaza Strip, a lower turnout than expected, the Central Elections Commission said. Central Elections Commission spokesman Ola Salameh told Ma’an the low turnout was surprising given that Monday was the first day voters had been able to register…. Related: Voter registration opens in Gaza
Official: Arafat forensic inquiry to report in June
2/11/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Results of the forensic tests on samples taken from the body of late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat will be announced in June, according to the leader of a Palestinian committee investigating Arafat’s death. Tawfiq Tirawi told Ma’an Saturday evening that nothing has been revealed so far, but….
Voter registration opens in Gaza
2/11/2013 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Electoral registration centers opened in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the first step towards holding long-overdue Palestinian national elections. The Central Elections Commission announced that 257 voter registration centers were open for one week across the Gaza Strip. In addition 347 stations will register voters in the West Bank, including East…. Related: 16,000 register to vote in Gaza
Factions take a step towards unity, doubts remain
2/11/2013 – GAZA CITY (Reuters) — Residents in the Gaza Strip and West Bank started registering on Monday to vote in a long-delayed election that is aimed at healing nearly six years of bitter rifts among rival factions. However, with no date yet set for either the overdue legislative or presidential ballot and with the main political blocs….
Tunisian party decides to stay in government for now
2/12/2013 – TUNIS (Reuters) — A party led by interim President Moncef Marzouki said on Monday it had “frozen” its withdrawal from Tunisia’s coalition government while talks continue on a political crisis sharpened by the killing of an opposition politician. Mohamed Abbou, secretary-general of the secular Congress for the Republic (CPR), told a news conference that….
WHO: Disease spreads as Syria casualties and drug shortages grow
2/11/2013 – GENEVA (Reuters) — Dirty water diseases are spreading in Syria, compounding the problems of hospitals that are perilously short of medicine and doctors after nearly two years of fighting, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The Health Ministry has run out of trauma treatments made in factories in rebel areas to help the increasing numbers….
Pope Benedict stepping down, cites poor health
2/11/2013 – VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Pope Benedict shocked the world on Monday by saying he no longer had the mental and physical strength to cope with his ministry, in an announcement that left his aides “incredulous” and will make him the first pontiff to step down since the Middle Ages. The German-born Pope, 85, hailed as a….
Bus blast kills at least 12 on Turkey-Syria border
2/11/2013 – REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) — A Syrian minibus exploded at a crossing on Turkey’s border with Syria near the Turkish town of Reyhanli on Monday, killing at least 12 people including Turkish citizens and wounding dozens more, Turkish officials said. Witnesses said they saw the vehicle drive up to the Cilvegozu border post, one of….
Israel detains women over prayer shawls
AlJazeera 11 Feb 2013 – Ten women arrested at Jerusalem’s Western Wall over religious garb that Orthodox tradition sees as solely for men.
Abbas Thanks Pope for Supporting Palestinian UN Bid
Palestine News Network
Israel Permits Materials from Turkey into Gaza for Hospital
Palestine News Network
Voter Registration Starts in Gaza, West Bank
Palestine News Network
Health Sector Workers Announce One Day Strike
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Rights Group: No Charges in 240 Israeli Military Abuse Cases
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Israel Approves 90 New Settlement Units
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Settlers Storm Courtyards of al-Aqsa Mosque
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Fire Ignited in Majedu Israeli Prison; No Injuries
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UFree Network Organises Rally to Support Palestinian Prisoners, Hunger Strikers in West Bank
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PA Heads to Syria to Stop Attacks on Palestinians
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Obama to Negotiate with Netanyahu on Iran and Palestine
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Creative Resistance, Israeli Intransigence
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights
PCHR Starts Monitoring the Voter Registry Update in the Gaza Strip
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International Solidarity Movement
Families home destroyed for the second time in a year
2/12/2013 – International Solidarity Movement – 11 February 2013, International Solidarity Movement, West Hebron Hills, Occupied Palestine – Israeli occupation forces demolished a home near Idna, without warning or having issued a demolition order. The Family had their house destroyed one year ago. At 10am Monday 11-2-2013 Israeli bulldozers arrived at Dir Baluda, near Idna and demolished the portacabin home….
Lebanon: New Arrivals Report: Beka’a (September-December 2012)
Relief Web 11 Feb 2013 – Source: Danish Refugee Council, World Food Programme, European Union Country: Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territory, Syrian Arab Republic The average number of assisted families during the a/m period is 35% of the overall number of families reportedly arrived to DRC Bekaa…
occupied Palestinian territory: Voter registration starts in Gaza, W. Bank
Relief Web 11 Feb 2013 – Source: Agence France-Presse Country: occupied Palestinian territory 02/11/2013 10:08 GMT By Sakher Abu El Oun GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories, Feb 11, 2013 (AFP) – Palestinian electoral officials on Monday began the long-overdue process of updating voter rolls in the West…
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Relief Web 11 Feb 2013 – Source: Assessment Capacities Project Country: Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar,…
Lebanon: RCA gives out aid to Palestinians displaced from Syria
Relief Web 11 Feb 2013 – Source: Emirates News Agency Country: Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territory Some 1700 Palestinian families displaced from Syria to Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, received food aid and blankets from the UAE’s Red Crescent Authority (RCA). The distribution of the aid at Al Nasera…
occupied Palestinian territory: ‘We Grow, They Bulldoze, We Re-Plant’
Relief Web 11 Feb 2013 – Source: Inter Press Service Country: occupied Palestinian territory By Eva Bartlett ZEITOUN, Gaza, Feb 10 2013 (IPS) – Tawfiq Mandil, 45, stands amongst hundreds of Palestinian farmers, activists, and international supporters in the Gaza Strip’s eastern Zeitoun district, about half…
Syrian Arab Republic: UNRWA Statement on the killing of 12 Palestine refugees in Syria
Relief Web 10 Feb 2013 – Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Country: occupied Palestinian territory, Syrian Arab Republic Jerusalem The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) draws attention to the…
Pope Benedict XVI resigns, shocking the world
The National 12 Feb 2013 – Benedict XVI becomes the first pope in almost 600 years to relinquish the papacy before death, shocking both aides and parishioners worldwide.
Faithful remember Pope Benedict’s last visit to Middle East
The National 11 Feb 2013 – Witnesses want his message of regional peace to be his legacy after he steps down as head of Roman Catholic Church. Zoi Constantine reports from Beirut
17 convicted of Sharjah bootleg murder fly home to India
The National 11 Feb 2013 – Seventeen Indian nationals who murdered a Pakistani man in a bootlegging brawl in Sharjah in 2009 left for India as free men late last night.
Syrian war spills over into Turkey with bloody car bomb attack
The National 11 Feb 2013 – Explosion in area being used as a carpark for vehicles delivering aid kills 12 in the bloodiest cross-border incident since the Syrian uprising began. Thomas Seibert reports from Istanbul
Defiant Assad vows to endure
The National 11 Feb 2013 – Syria‘s president Bashar Al Assad vows that he will not bow to mounting pressure and ‘plots’.
UAE has three weigh stations, and only two are working
The National 11 Feb 2013 – The UAE has only three known weighing stations on its roads – points along the motorway at which lorries can be pulled over by police for a weight check.
Muscat airport closed after plane crash lands
The National 11 Feb 2013 – Airport closed ‘indefinitely’ after PIA plane crash-lands on runway, forcing the cancellation of all flights.
British grandmother appeals Bali drugs death sentence
The National 11 Feb 2013 – A British grandmother has appealed the death sentence she received in Indonesia for smuggling cocaine worth $2.5 million into the resort island of Bali.
Literary critic, French philosopher among Dan David Prize winners
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Israel’s High Court to decide fate of historic kibbutz dining hall
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Leadership vacuum behind spate of Israel gangland slayings
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Israel unlikely to attack Iran before summer, senior officials say
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Hebrew University to make massive cuts in wake of NIS 200 million shortfall
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett hold ‘businesslike’ meeting
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Office politics as Yisrael Beiteinu stance leaves parties fighting for Knesset rooms
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Greens slam newly approved railroad route to Eilat
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Netanyahu hints Israel will prevent Syria transferring arms to Hezbollah
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Egyptian court sentences two Israelis to prison
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
In first Knesset speech, Yair Lapid highlights Israel’s ‘crisis of governance’
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Israel to grant Turkey access to Gaza for construction of hospital
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Israel gives final approval for 90 new West Bank homes, just ahead of Obama visit
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
IDF uses dirty jokes to teach soldiers the ills of sexual harassment
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Clalit tries to increase efficiency and trim its burgeoning NIS 1.1 billion deficit
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Eight years of friendship: The pope who improved Vatican-Israel relations
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
West Bank settlement outpost’s newest attraction: an airstrip
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Barak makes surprise visit to U.S., days before top Netanyahu aides’ own trip
Ha’aretz – 11 Feb 2013
Sharansky: Women of the Wall issue ‘not so simple’
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Jewish Agency chairman praises police for conduct at Western Wall where 10 activists were arrested for wearing tallitot.
Tel Aviv expects its biggest marathon to date
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Mayor Ron Huldai touts 2013 Tel Aviv Gillette Marathon as an event of great importance, says city expects some 35,000 runners.
Syrian deputy PM: Israel taking advantage of war
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – In response to alleged IAF strike on research center, Qadri Jamil says Israel is taking advantage of bloodshed, fighting.
Was it a ‘historic’ game? No, not really
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Betar Jerusalem briefly fielded Nigerian Muslim player in 2005, although he fled due to constant harassment.
2 more Betar fans indicted for racist outbursts
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Racist slogans shouted by suspects at game include, “Muhammad was not a prophet, he was essentially just another Arab.”
On My Mind: Peace expectations
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Obama’s visit can potentially lead to a renewed peace effort, but only if Abbas, the recognized Palestinian leader, is willing to engage it.
How not to win friends and influence people
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – It is too late to prevent South Africa from coming out with a very public and official sanction against us. Let’s hope this will be a wake-up call to our incoming government and that urgent steps will be taken to prevent this malaise from becoming viral.
The mitzvah of memory
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Memorializing is a psychologically necessary step in the process of healing. Through our experience with all of Israel’s victims of terror, we have come to understand this clearly.
Borderline Views: A new water policy for Israel
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – We should be thankful for the daily rise of the water levels in the Kinneret and, at the same time, should demand a new and comprehensive water policy for the country.
Jewish Canadian rapper Drake wins first Grammy
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Indie pop band fun., featuring Jewish lead man Jack Antonoff, wins Song of the Year, Best New Artist at the 55th annual Grammy Awards.
PM: New Iranian centrifuges will speed arrival at red line
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Netanyahu says Iran shortening by one-third the time it will take to make enough uranium for nuclear weapon; reiterates Israel will not let strategic weapons from Syria fall into terrorist hands.
The Jewish Billy Graham, the Israeli Martin Luther King
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – American Jewry’s foremost priority is the creation of an institute that will bring together the most talented, charismatic and articulate Jewish men and women to be spokespeople for our nation so that Jewish light can illuminate the dark spaces of human ignorance.
Higher taxes are not the solution
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – As long as the government keeps putting its hands in their pockets to take ever-increasing amounts of their income, they will not do so, and projected economic growth and state income from taxes will always fall short.
The Hartman era
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – As much as Hartman was a catalyst for spiritual change in Israeli society, he and his thought process are a reflection of a post-modern era characterized by new, innovative and more egalitarian forms of religious expression.
Egypt protesters, police clash on Mubarak anniversary
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – On second anniversary of the overthrow of Mubarak, protesters throw rocks at presidential compound in Cairo, call for Morsi’s ouster.
Egyptian court sentences Israeli to 2 years jail
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – 24-year-old Andrei Pshenichnikov, a reported left-wing activist, sentenced to serve in prison after illegally crossing into Sinai.
Lapid: No need to fear civil war over haredi draft
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Yesh Atid chief gives 1st Knesset speech, says laws apply to all; UTJ MK: Where is there room in jail for 100,000 yeshiva students?
‘Israel to allow Turkey to build Gaza hospital’
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Turkish daily reports J’lem permits entry of construction materials as part of easing of blockade agreed, gesture to Turks.
Police: TA car bombing most likely a ‘work accident’
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Explosion that injured two brothers in south Tel Aviv likely not an attempted mob hit as police originally suspected.
Tel Aviv ranked 34th most expensive city
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Economist Intelligence Unit says city more expensive than Chicago, Berlin, Washington, DC, San Francisco.
First LGBT Jewish children’s book published
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – ‘The Purim Superhero’ is story of young boy whose dilemma over which Purim costume to pick is solved with help of his 2 dads.
Blowing 1,000 shofars in hopes of finding a mate
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Young men and aging bachelors seeking match attend special ceremony at grave of Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel.
Alternatively Speaking: Understanding reflexology
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Alternative medicine expert Natalie Marx answers your questions: What exactly is reflexology and what it can be used for?
Palestinians take step towards unity, doubts remain
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Residents of Gaza Strip and West Bank start registering to vote in long-delayed upcoming election.
Netanyahu, Bennett hold long-awaited meeting
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Bennett meets PM in “to the point” meeting, for 1st time in 5 years after apologizing to Sara Netanyahu for “course on terror” remark.
Loved ones lay Rabbi David Hartman to rest
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – At funeral, Shalom Hartman Institute founder is remembered as a man who was “not just a teacher, but a pillar.”
As pope steps down, chief rabbi lauds Vatican ties
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Pope Benedict resigns, becomes 1st pope since Middle Ages to quit; Metzger praises pope’s inter-religious outreach.
Egypt opposition calls for new protests
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – On second anniversary of the overthrow of Mubarak, opposition activists ask Morsi to choose between “departure or chaos.”
Rehovot doctors save eight-year-old’s sight
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – A mechanical lead pencil tossed playfully by a schoolgirl at an eight-year-old Rehovot girl during class nearly cost the child her sight.
10 women arrested at Kotel for wearing tallitot
Jerusalem Post 11 Feb 2013 – Police arrest 10 women praying at Western Wall, including Women of the Wall founder Anat Hoffman and Sarah Silverman’s sister.
Chuck Hagel nomination: Senate panel to vote on Tuesday
The Guardian 11 Feb 2013 – Obama nominee the target of harsh criticism over positions on Israel and Iran but backers are convinced he will succeed A US Senate panel plans to vote on Tuesday afternoon on the bitterly contested nomination of…
Sarah Silverman’s sister among 10 detained in Jerusalem
The Guardian 11 Feb 2013 – Women stopped at the Western Wall because they were wearing garb reserved for men only, according to reports Israeli police detained 10 women, including the sister of the American comic Sarah Silverman, as they tried to…
Sounds Jewish podcast: Israeli elections aftermath and the Gerald Scarfe cartoon
The Guardian 11 Feb 2013 – Join Jason Solomons and guests, award-winning novelist Naomi Alderman , Middle East analyst at Chatham House and director of International Relations at Regents Park College Yossi Mekelberg , and writer and documentary-maker Alexander Bodin Saphir . The elections in…
How Ukrainian women saved the Samaritans of Mount Gerizim
The Guardian 11 Feb 2013 – The Samaritans of Mount Gerizim were a rapidly dwindling religious community facing extinction. Then a handful of young Ukrainian brides made the journey to the West Bank, bringing with them fresh hope For decades, it seemed…
OP-ED: Obama and Bahrain: How to Save Al-Khalifa Rule
IPS Despite the start of a government-inspired dialogue with the opposition Sunday, the Bahraini government continues to jail dissidents, arrest demonstrators, and use a rigged judicial system to convict them. Although the Al-Khalifa regime officially is not a party to the dialogue, Western governments welcomed the interior ministry’s call for dialogue,…
Innocent Lives Are Pakistanis People?
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Palestinian child Injured After Being Rammed By Settler’s Vehicle In Hebron
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US to expand assassination program to northern Africa
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Why Is the Drone War Secret?
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Killer at Large, Panic Ensues
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Is Obama Already Holding US Citizens in Indefinite Detention?
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“I was determined to live with dignity,” says freed hunger striker Akram Rikhawi
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Iraq Security Checkpoints Targeted: 26 Killed, 37 Wounded
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Egyptian forces close 2 Gaza tunnels, arrest 10
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Attacks kill 12 in Iraq’s Mosul – sources
Daily Star 11 Feb 2013 A suicide car bomber and unidentified gunmen killed at least 12 people in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, police and hospital sources said, as sectarian and ethnic tensions build ahead of elections in April.
UN envoy says Iraq must hear Sunnis
Daily Star 11 Feb 2013 Iraq’s Shiite-led government should do more to address complaints by the country’s disaffected Sunni minority about human rights violations and lack of due process.
Tension rises in rebel Syria between jihadists, locals
Daily Star 11 Feb 2013 Syrian rebels once welcomed fighters of the jihadist Al-Nusra Front with open arms but disputes over the extremists’ strict interpretation of Islam are beginning to strain the ties.
Bus blast kills at least 12 on Turkey-Syria border
Daily Star 11 Feb 2013 A Syrian minibus exploded at a crossing on Turkey’s border with Syria near the Turkish town of Reyhanli on Monday, killing at least 12 people including Turkish citizens and wounding dozens more, Turkish officials said.
Saudi Tornado fighter crashes in training
Daily Star 11 Feb 2013 A Saudi Arabian Tornado fighter crashed in the kingdom’s Eastern Province during a training mission on Monday, but its crew survived, the defence ministry said.
US ships military equipment out of Afghanistan
Daily Star 11 Feb 2013 The United States began its withdrawal from Afghanistan in earnest, officials said Monday, sending the first of what will be tens of thousands of containers home through a once-blocked land route through Pakistan.
Syria’s Assad vows to resist as blast hits Turkish border
Daily Star 11 Feb 2013 President Bashar al-Assad vowed not to bow to mounting pressure and “plots”, almost two years into a deadly revolt in Syria, as at least 10 people were killed when a car exploded just inside the Turkish…
Venezuela congratulates Iran on revolution anniversary
Daily Star 11 Feb 2013 Venezuela congratulated Iran Monday on the 34th anniversary of the Islamic revolution that toppled the country’s last shah, and reaffirmed its close ties with Tehran.
Egypt orders cleric held over ElBaradei death call
Daily Star 11 Feb 2013 Egypt‘s public prosecutor ordered the arrest of a Muslim cleric who said leaders of the main opposition coalition should be condemned to death under Islamic law for seeking to topple President Mohamed Mursi.
Likud presents haredi-draft plan to Yesh Atid
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US allocates $50 million to France for Mali conflict
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Siren sounds at Sde Dov as part of drill
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US military extends many benefits to same-sex partners
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Suicide car bomb kills 8 in northern Iraq city
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Shame on Jewish Democrats
YNet News, 11 Feb 2013 – Op-ed: Republican senators were the only ones who passionately grilled Hagel on his lack of support for Israel ….
Palestinian Information Center
Liberated prisoner Adnan goes on hunger strike
PIC – Liberated prisoner Khader Adnan announced on Monday that he would go on hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails.
Kassis: occupation army incites against Christians
PIC – A Palestinian Christian group accused the occupation army of promoting cheap propaganda against Christians in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948..
IPS refuses to hospitalize Palestinian prisoner despite bad health
PIC – Jawad Bulous, a lawyer, has charged the Israeli prison service (IPS) with deliberately ignoring the bad health condition of prisoner Mohammed Al-Taj.
Relatives of Gazan prisoners head for visits
PIC – The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) allowed 56 Gazans to visit their relatives in IOA jails in the Nafha desert prison.
Haniyeh calls on the nation to liberate Jerusalem
PIC – Ismail Haniya, the Gaza Prime Minister, warned of the Israeli occupation’s intention to build a synagogue and a police station near al-Aqsa Mosque and the Buraq Wall..
Prisoners’ families from Jenin organize a sit-in in solidarity with captives
PIC – Families of prisoners in Jenin staged today a sit-in in the protest tent in the center of the city, in solidarity with prisoners.
Clashes erupt in Beit Awwa after demolition of buildings
PIC – Israeli occupation bulldozers demolished on Monday a tin hut and installations belonging to citizens in Beit Awwa west of al-Khalil, which led to the outbreak of clashes between the IOF and residents.
Updating the electoral register starts on Monday
PIC – The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced that the electoral registration centers opened in all districts of the country on Monday, at 9:00 am.
IOF arrests a Hamas leader west of Jenin
PIC – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) summoned at dawn Monday a Hamas leader and activists in the Islamic Jihad movement, to the west of Jenin, to Israeli intelligence center.
Abu Zuhri renewed Hamas’s commitment to achieve reconciliation
PIC – The spokesman for Hamas movement Sami Abu Zuhri confirmed his movement’s commitment to achieve reconciliation and to implement all the files..
Abu Rudineh: Israeli New Housing Units a Blow to Obama
WAFA – 11 Feb 2013
Voter Registration Commences in Gaza, West Bank
WAFA – 11 Feb 2013
PEX Report: AL-Quds Index Up
WAFA – 11 Feb 2013
Peace Now: Israel Approves 90 New Settlement Units
WAFA – 11 Feb 2013
Israeli Police Arrest Minor for 14th Time
WAFA – 11 Feb 2013
Weather Forecast: Chance of Scattered Rain
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Rabbi David Hartman, 81, Champion of an Adaptive Judaism
New York Times 11 Feb 2013 – A charismatic teacher and prolific author, Mr. Hartman encouraged students to question tradition and urged people of different backgrounds and ideologies to pore over Jewish texts together.
Syrian Insurgents Claim to Control Large Hydropower Dam
New York Times 11 Feb 2013 – The Tabqa Dam, Syria’s biggest, is considered a potent weapon in the battle for allegiances in the nearly two-year-old conflict.
Iranian Politician Pelted With Shoes at Shrine
New York Times 11 Feb 2013 – Ali Larijani, the speaker of Parliament and a rival of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was set to speak at the shrine to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
Women Praying at Western Wall in Jerusalem Are Detained
New York Times 11 Feb 2013 – Israeli police barred 10 women, including two American rabbis, from returning to the wall for 15 days for wearing prayer shawls that are traditionally used by men.
9/11 Case Is Delayed as Defense Voices Fears on Eavesdropping
New York Times 11 Feb 2013 – Lawyers in the case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others said they worry that their communications may be subject to government monitoring.
Syrian War Closes In on the Heart of Damascus
New York Times 10 Feb 2013 – For months, Damascus has hunched in a defensive crouch as fighting raged in suburbs, but a rebel advance has created a new level of alarm and disorder.
Shikun & Binui buying three major solar ventures
Globes Energy & Water – Shikun & Binui Renewable Energy has signed a letter of intent with SunPower Corporation for an option to acquire three solar energy ventures in the Negev.
ILDC Energy misses out on Cyprus license
Globes Energy & Water – The Cypriot government told ILDC subsidiary Emanuelle International Energy that its consortium will not be awarded a tender
Perrigo acquires UK’s Rosemont for £180m
Globes Main News – Leeds-based Rosemont produces oral liquid formulations of specialty and generic prescription drugs, and had £40 million in sales in 2012.
Magma Venture Partners raises $100m third fund
Globes Main News – The new financing brings the amount managed by the firm to $300 million.
Treasury targets teachers and doctors
Globes Main News – The Finance Ministry plans to seek a freeze in the pay hikes awarded to public sector employees outside the framework agreement.
Mon: Perrigo boosts market
Globes Main News – Perrigo rose strongly following its second acquisition this month, while Bezeq fell, after a reprimand from the regulator.
Avi Malka to buy Office Depot Israel for NIS 43m
Globes Main News – Malka’s bid was accepted by the court after Rani Zim withdrew.
New governor to face old concerns
Globes Macro Economics – An apartment is not a liquid asset, and if a rapid adjustment of prices starts it can end in losses for both investors and banks.
BoI concerned as real estate market continues to overheat
Globes Macro Economics – The protocol of the interest rate decision for February notes “a renewed rapid rise in home prices”.
Israeli consumers more optimistic
Globes Macro Economics – The Consumer Confidence Index rose by 5.3 points in January 2013 to 79.7 points.
Social TV Video: Backroom Deal Between Labor Party Chief and Israeli Channel 2 Reporter
Tikun Olam – This is my newest video segment for Israel’s Social TV. It deals with the backroom deal struck between Channel 2′s Rina Matzliach and Labor Party chief, Shelly Yachimovich that offered the reporter exclusive leaks from Yachimovich in return for Matzliach shutting down any election coverage of…
Anne Frank: Dear Diary
Tikun Olam – “Dear Diary: If I had a grave I’d be turning over in it.” I just came across this Facebook graphic created by Yuval Ben Ami and Amir Schiby , who are masters of political cartooning and collage. I always enjoy their Facebook creations. Today, they’ve created an…
Hagel vote set for tomorrow as opposition flounders
Mondoweiss – Chuck Hagel The New York Times is reporting Carl Levin has scheduled a public discussion and vote on the Hagel nomination tomorrow afternoon at 2:30: Mr. Levin’s decision to call for a public discussion and vote, starting at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday ahead of President Obama‘s State…
Brian Lehrer finds ’5 Broken Cameras’ ‘extremely shocking’ and wonders if Palestinians have abandoned two-state solution
Mondoweiss – Another important moment brought about by the Oscar nomination of the great documentary, “5 Broken Cameras”: this morning Brian Lehrer of WNYC interviewed the filmmakers Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi for 20 minutes. Lehrer is generally a reflexive supporter of Israel; he rarely gives a platform…
Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor to speak at Columbia Law School tonight
Mondoweiss – Amid all the controversy over whether the Political Science Department at Brooklyn College should have co-sponsored a forum on boycott, divestment and sanctions last week, it shouldn’t be forgotten that Columbia’s Law School has a Center for Israeli Legal Studies , dedicated to bringing Israelis to the…
More on SNL’s fellate-a-donkey for Israel skit
Mondoweiss – A “cultural breakthrough” is Sullivan’s description of the Saturday Night Live skit in which Senator John McCain challenges Chuck Hagel to agree to fellate a donkey on the orders of Benjamin Netanyahu for the security of Israel: After being banished from earnest Washington discussion for decades…
EU moves forward with plans to sanction products made in Israeli settlements
Mondoweiss – Momentum has been building in Europe for a ban on settlement products, and Der Spiegel reports EU officials are still on a “confrontation course” with Israel: Israel held parliamentary elections on Jan. 22 and is now in the process of forming a new coalition government to…
Sarah Silverman’s Sister Says Western Wall ‘Hijacked’ by Orthodox Jews
The Foward Breaking News 11 Feb 2013 – The sister of American comedian Sarah Silverman, Reform Rabbi Susan Silverman, one of ten women detained on Monday for participating in prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, has told Haaretz that the group prayer at the site was not a provocation, and that she is…
Holocaust Survivors Protest Boca Raton Golf Tourney Backed by Allianz
The Foward Breaking News 11 Feb 2013 – Holocaust survivors for a third straight year protested outside a golf tournament in Florida sponsored by Allianz because of what they deem the insurance firm’s restitution failures. Click here for the rest of the article…
Anti-Arab Fans Arrested at Jeruasalem Soccer Match
The Foward Breaking News 11 Feb 2013 – Some 75 Israeli soccer fans were removed from a game between Beitar Jerusalem and the Israeli-Arab Bnei Sakhnin team for anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim taunting. Click here for the rest of the article…
Israel Approves 90 More Jewish Settler Homes, Thumbing Nose at Barack Obama
The Foward Breaking News 11 Feb 2013 – Israel gave final approval on Monday for 90 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, driving another wedge into a rift with Washington ahead of a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama. Click here for the rest of the article…
Israel Has Fewer Guns, Fewer Deaths Than U.S.
The Forward New 11 Feb 2013 – The gun lobby claims Israel’s experience proves safety lies in a well-armed society. But gun control advocates point out that the Jewish state strictly regulates civilian gun ownership. Click here for the rest of the article…
Uganda: State Minister Lauds Relations With Iran
allAfrica.com 11 Feb 2013 – [New Vision]State Minister for International Affairs, Henry Okello Oryem, has extolled the warm relations between Uganda and Iran, describing it as key to the socio-economic transformation of both countries.
Clashes as Egypt marks Mubarak fall
BBC 11 Feb 2013 – Egyptian protesters clash with police outside the presidential palace in Cairo at a rally marking two years since Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
Iran opposition leader’s family held
BBC 11 Feb 2013 – Two daughters of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi have been arrested after security forces raided their homes in the capital, Tehran.
Do You Want to Continue This AIPAC Friendship?
US Campaign to End the Occupation 12 Feb 2013 – The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) will be holding its 2013 policy conference in Washington, DC next month under the banner of ” Celebrating 65 Years of Friendship .” Join the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and our member groups CODEPINK , Fellowship of Reconciliation , and…
Richard Curtiss and the Death of Arabists in the US Government
Al-Akhbar Blogs 11 Feb 2013 – The death of Richard Curtiss made me think about the plight of Arabists: those who specialized in Arab affairs in the US government and who were seen as the promoters of the welfare – not of the Arab peoples, but of the Arab regimes. read more…
The Assassination of Chokri Belaid: When Ghannouchi Legitimizes Violence
Al-Akhbar Opinion 11 Feb 2013 – Basma Khalfaoui Belaid (C) flashes the victory sign and carries a portrait of her slain husband Chokri Belaid during a demonstration in front of the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) in Tunis, on 11 February 2013. (Photo: Fethi Belaid – AFP) Basma Khalfaoui Belaid (C) flashes the…
Palestinian in “critical condition” on day 203 of hunger strike
Al-Akhbar News 11 Feb 2013 – Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi is in “critical condition” after 203 days spent on a hunger strike, activists said, sparking fears on Monday that he might not survive his protest against Israel’s abusive prison system. Issawi is one of thousands of Palestinian prisoners who have gone on…
Russians Glimpse Light in Syrian Darkness
Al-Akhbar News 11 Feb 2013 – Syrian rebels relocate a T-72 tank in the village of Kfarruma in the flashpoint Syrian province of Idlib near the border with Turkey, on 10 February 2013. (Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas – AFP) Syrian rebels relocate a T-72 tank in the village of Kfarruma in the flashpoint…
For Lebanese Banks, State is Genie in a Bottle
Al-Akhbar News 11 Feb 2013 – The government is now trying to impose another tax burden on its citizens, at a cost of no less than LL1,000 billion ($667 million) a year, under the pretext of financing the wage hike and halting the deterioration of the Lebanese economy due to regional instability.(Photo:…
Egyptians protest on second anniversary of Mubarak ouster
Al-Akhbar News 11 Feb 2013 – Egyptian protesters stand on the tracks of the metro in Cairo’s landmark Tahrir Square after demonstrators closed it down on 11 February 2013. (Photo: AFP) Egyptian protesters took to the streets in energetic marches on Monday demanding political change as they marked the second anniversary of…
Syrian rebels claim largest dam takeover
Al-Akhbar News 11 Feb 2013 – A video uploaded Monday showed Syrian rebels claiming to have taken over Syria’s largest dam in the northern city of Tabqa, although the Syrian government did not confirm that it had lost control of the Euphrates, or Tabqa, dam. The rebel push on the dam was…
Tunisian Islamists and seculars reject PM’s crisis plan
Al-Akhbar News 11 Feb 2013 – Basma Belaid, the widow of assassinated leftist politician Chokri Belaid, carries a poster of her husband as she’s surrounded by journalists, during a demonstration calling for Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali and his cabinet to step down, next to the National Constituent Assembly in Tunis, on 11…
Deadly blast on Syria-Turkey border
BBC 11 Feb 2013 – At least 13 people die in a minibus explosion on the Syria-Turkey border, amid reports that Syrian rebels have taken control of a strategic dam.
Clashes as Egypt marks Mubarak fall
BBC 11 Feb 2013 – Egyptian protesters clash with police outside the presidential palace in Cairo at a rally marking two years since Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
Deaths mar Yemen revolt anniversary
BBC 11 Feb 2013 – Two people are killed in clashes in Yemen during rallies marking the 2011 uprising that led to the ousting of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Tunisia party ‘in government U-turn’
BBC 11 Feb 2013 – The party of Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki reverses its decision to withdraw from the Islamist-led government, an official says.
Iran opposition leader’s family held
BBC 11 Feb 2013 – Two daughters of Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi have been arrested after security forces raided their homes in the capital, Tehran.
VIDEO: Egypt clashes on Mubarak anniversary
BBC 11 Feb 2013 – In Egypt, the second anniversary of the overthrow of the former president, Hosni Mubarak, has seen further violence on the streets of Cairo.
Articles
Defying surveillance, Gaza farmers demand boycott of Israel
Eva Bartlett, Gaza Strip, Electronic Intifada 2/11/2013
ZEITOUN, Gaza (IPS) – Tawfiq Mandil, 45, stood among hundreds of Palestinian farmers, activists and international supporters in the Gaza Strip’s eastern Zeitoun district, about half a kilometer from the boundary with Israel. They were renewing a call for the boycott of Israeli goods.
“The Israeli army destroyed my house and my five dunums of land [one dunum is equal to 1,000 square meters] on the last day of the attacks in 2009, as well as 20 other homes,” he said.
With signs reading “Boycott Israeli agricultural products” and “support Palestinian farmers,” Mandil and others protesting Israeli oppression of Palestinian farmers joined together Saturday to plant olive trees on Israeli-razed farmland and to implore international supporters to join the boycott of Israeli agricultural produce.
Mandil believes that the boycott is his only hope for justice for Palestinian farmers being targeted by the Israeli army and oppressed by Israel. “We hope that it will put pressure on Israel to stop targeting us and allow us to farm our land as we used to.”
With an Israeli surveillance blimp hovering above and within sight of a remotely-controlled machine gun tower, the significance of the rally’s location near the “buffer zone” was not lost. Israeli authorities prohibit Palestinians from accessing the 300 meters flanking the Gaza-Israel boundary. In reality, the Israeli army regularly attacks Palestinians up to two kilometers from the boundary in some areas, rendering more than 35 percent of Gaza’s farmland off-limits. more.. e-mail
“I was determined to live with dignity,” says freed hunger striker Akram Rikhawi
Electronic Intifada: 11 Feb 2013 – Rami Almeghari Rafah 11 February 2013 Prisoner’s daughter recalls pain of not having her father around on her wedding day.more
Defying surveillance, Gaza farmers demand boycott of Israel
Electronic Intifada: 11 Feb 2013 – Eva Bartlett Gaza Strip 11 February 2013 Protests against Israeli goods take place close to the Gaza-Israel boundary.more
US-Israel: Peace Needs More Than Handshakes and Photo-Ops
Palestine Chronicle: 11 Feb 2013 – By Ernest Corea – Washington, D.C. Hear those sounds? They are probably the echoes of Israel’s fervent supporters in the US erupting in hosannas when the White House recently confirmed that President Barack Obama is due to visit Israel in March 2013. On the same safari, he will stop over in Jordan and in the Palestinian territory. The visits are of regional and international significance because they raise the possibility that Obama intends to be directly engaged in the Middle East peace process and that this time around he will be more focused, and supported by more decisive aides, than he was during his administration’s previous attempt to support effective peace negotiations. That effort now lies as inert as road-kill on a highway. Obama’s visit to Israel will, as well, deprive his domestic critics of a favorite rallying cry, one that the Romney campaign touted during last year’s presidential election…more
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