Palestine
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Video: Lifta – film-in-progress (must watch)
Lifta is the only remaining Arab village depopulated in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence that has not been completely destroyed or re-populated by Jews. Lifta’s Arab heritage, architecture and history are about to be erased by Jerusalem’s municipality that plans to build over 250 luxury villas, shops and a hotel on this site. An international… Continue reading
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Video: Israel, the US Elections and the “Jewish Swing Vote”
Hawkish stands on Israel taken by US political leaders have less to do with the so-called “Jewish Vote” than they have to do with a few “Zionist Hawks” billionaires. Continue reading
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Video: Israel, the US Elections and the "Jewish Swing Vote"
Hawkish stands on Israel taken by US political leaders have less to do with the so-called “Jewish Vote” than they have to do with a few “Zionist Hawks” billionaires. Continue reading
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Israel, the US Elections and the "Jewish Swing Vote"
March 23, 2012 — The Real News Network Israel, the US Elections and the “Jewish Swing Vote” Hawkish stands on Israel taken by US political leaders have less to do with the so-called “Jewish Vote” than they have to do with a few “Zionist Hawks” billionaires March 23, 2012 Continue reading
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Israel, the US Elections and the “Jewish Swing Vote”
March 23, 2012 — The Real News Network Israel, the US Elections and the “Jewish Swing Vote” Hawkish stands on Israel taken by US political leaders have less to do with the so-called “Jewish Vote” than they have to do with a few “Zionist Hawks” billionaires March 23, 2012 Continue reading
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Palestine: Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children held in military detention
The report is the culmination of four year’s work by DCI-Palestine, with the support of the European Union, focusing on verifying reports of ill-treatment and torture of children held in military detention. The findings of the report are based on 311 sworn affidavits taken from children between January 2008 and January 2012. Continue reading
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Occupied Palestine: The Freedom Bus – Ride for Justice!
From Sept 23rd – Oct 1st 2012, people from around the world will take part in a solidarity ride through the West Bank. Interactive performances will give voice to personal stories about popular struggle, political imprisonment, home demolitions, the Separation Wall and daily life under Israeli occupation. Continue reading
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A Call for the Disavowal of Splittism By Kim Petersen
I have not read every word or heard every speech by Atzmon, but I never came to a conclusion that he was defining anything for Palestinians. Atzmon has been focused on the occupiers, a group he stems from, and what makes them occupier-oppressors, and as a member of the group (he has since renounced allegiance… Continue reading
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Starving for Freedom: Six Years on the Abduction of Ahmad Sa’adat – One Month on the Hunger Strike of Hana Shalabi
March 14-15, 2012 marks the sixth anniversary of the attack on Jericho prison and the Israeli abduction of Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades, who had been held under U.S. and British guard in a Palestinian Authority prison. Continue reading
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PCHR_e Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (08 – 14 March 2012)
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), and Launch a New Offensive on the Gaza Strip Continue reading
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PCHR_e 12 March 2012: IOF Continued Offensive on Gaza for 4th Consecutive Day
5 Palestinians, Including a Child and an Old Man and His Daughter, Killed and 38 Others Wounded Since Yesterday Afternoon, Raising Deaths to 23 and Injuries to 73 Continue reading
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Not Quite “Ordinary Human Beings” — Anti-Imperialism and the Anti-Humanist Rhetoric of Gilad Atzmon
Atzmon’s statements, besides distorting the history of Jews and constituting a brazen justification for centuries of anti-Jewish behavior and beliefs, also downgrade anti-Zionism to a mere front in the broader (anti-Jewish) struggle. Atzmon has specifically described Zionism not as a form of colonialism or settlerism, but as a uniquely evil ideology unlike anything else in… Continue reading
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The Battle for the Moral High Ground By Reuven Kaminer
The US and Israel are threatening Iran with aggression. With no basis in international law, and in complete violation of the principles of national sovereignty and basing themselves on a flagrant disregard for the truth of the matter, the US and Israel are pushing the region into dangerous, mounting tension. Continue reading
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Why / Who Died? By David Grossman
All said and done it is merely a minor story about an illegal alien who stole a car, was injured in an accident, then released from hospital to have cops dump him, still injured to die the by the roadside. What are the building blocks that lead to such an atrocity? Continue reading
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Israel raids West Bank TV stations
Israeli troops have raided two Palestinian television stations in the West Bank, seizing transmitters and other equipment. The Palestinian PM denounced the operation, calling it “an oppressive and monstrous” move which violates “all international laws.” Continue reading
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Video: Israel’s “New West Bank”
In recent years, the government has adopted the so-called Prawer Plan, reversing several earlier decisions to recognize unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev Desert. The new plan, explained by Association for Civil Rights in Israel lawyer Rawia Abu Rabia, will relocate 40,000 Bedouins in southern Israel for the establishment of 10 Jewish villages in their… Continue reading
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Video: Israel's "New West Bank"
In recent years, the government has adopted the so-called Prawer Plan, reversing several earlier decisions to recognize unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev Desert. The new plan, explained by Association for Civil Rights in Israel lawyer Rawia Abu Rabia, will relocate 40,000 Bedouins in southern Israel for the establishment of 10 Jewish villages in their… Continue reading
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Ethnic Cleansing of “Invented” People By MIKO PELED
Mostafa Tamimi from Nabi Saleh, Bahjat Zaalan and his son Ramdan from Gaza died on my 50th birthday and just a few days after Newt Gingrich declared them an “invented” people. They were murdered by the Israeli terrorist organization, the IDF, an organization that is supported and funded by the United States. Continue reading
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Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
This press conference concludes a 10 day visit to the region, carried out within the framework of my mandate as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. I have had meetings with representatives of Governments, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society actors, as well as with… Continue reading
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JERUSALEM POST: Israeli Gov. dispatches PR envoy to “fight” IAW
Yesterday it was announced that the Israeli Ministry of Public Diplomacy would dispatch “envoys” around the world in an attempt to undermine the upcoming plans for Israeli Apartheid Week (starting today, 20 February, in some places). Continue reading
The New Dark Age 