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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 6 January 2013: The Case for Boycotting, Divesting, and Sanctions against Israel
6 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu Claims Abbas Is Refusing To Resume TalksIMEMC – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, continues to ignore what he called “all Israeli efforts to resume direct peace talks”, and accused Abbas of placing “impossible preconditions”. … Continue reading
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ICH 2 January 2013: Why We Hate Them: Arabs in Western Eyes
2 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Could Saudi Arabia be Next? 013 By Robert Fisk The “Arab Awakening” – will go on ravaging the pseudo-stability of the Middle East, causing as much fear in Washington as it does in the palaces of the Arab Gulf. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33501.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 31 December 2012: VIDEO – Red Crescent attacked during settler raids in Qusra
1 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Demolishes Home In JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli military bulldozers demolished, Monday, a Palestinian home in Jabal Al-Mokabber, south of occupied East Jerusalem, under the pretext that it was built without a construction permit, the Palestine News Network (PNN) reported. … Continue reading
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Will Syria Become Another “Failed State”? The Role of the United Nations By Carla Stea
The Libya now described in innumerable credible reports, is a failed state, now defenseless against the exploitation or plunder of its resources and people, as a result of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 as implemented by US-NATO. Confronted with the horrific consequences of Resolution 1973, adopted by a vote on which they abstained, Russia… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 30 December 2012: Marketing Israel: Is it the campaign, or does the product suck?
30 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldier, Settler, Injured In Two Separate IncidentsIMEMC – Israeli media sources reported on Saturday evening that an Israeli soldier and a settler have been injured in two separate incidents after Palestinian youths hurled stones at them. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 29 December 2012: How The New York Times erases Israel’s crimes
29 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Three Children Sentenced To 4 Months EachIMEMC – The Palestinian Detainees Studies Center reported that the Israeli Salem military court sentenced three Palestinian children from Azzoun town near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, to four months imprisonment each. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 28 December 2012: A Person Called Nobody
28 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSecurity video of killing of Hebron circus student shows claim of ‘toy gun’ fraudulentIMEMC – An Israeli security video recently leaked to the media shows that a Palestinian teenager who was killed at a checkpoint on December 12th was actually walking away from soldiers when Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 26 December 2012: Jolly Christmas: BBC celebrates ‘return’ of a ‘lost tribe of Israel’ — and not a word about Palestinians’ right
26 December 2012 — VTJP News Ma’an News Official: Israel demands 52,500 shekels to delay home demolitions12/26/2012 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israel’s high court on Wednesday ordered 21 Palestinians to pay 52,500 shekels to delay the demolition of their homes in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 21 December 2012: Israel’s assault on Gaza killed 177, mostly civilians
21 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Europe Trying To Convince U.S To Obtain Security Council Resolution Against SettlementsIMEMC – Nimir Hammad, Political Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas, stated that several European Countries are exerting efforts meant at convincing the United States to obtain a serious resolution at the United Nations General Assembly Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 20 December 2012: Cut off from water and electricity grids, Arab Abu Farda stands alone
20 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Despite US criticism, Israel continues with plan to construct 6,000 new settlement unitsIMEMC – The US State Department issued a statement this week that included a rare criticism of Israeli policy, calling the ongoing construction of settlements on Palestinian land a “pattern of provocative action” that Continue reading
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U.S.’s Duplicitous Policy Toward Syria
The United States recognized the Syrian Opposition Council, Syria’s newly formed main opposition group, as the sole “legitimate representative” of the Syrian people on Tuesday. It is evident that the US-led Western countries are determined to push their own agenda on the Syria crisis. Continue reading
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United States and al-Qaeda: Strange Bedfellows? Hassan N. Gardezi
There is a war raging in our times between a coalition of states led by the United States of America and al-Qaeda which has entered its second decade. One of the parties in this war, the United States, needs no introduction. After the collapse of the Soviet Union it became the sole superpower and is… Continue reading
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Western media and the Brotherhood: Secrets behind the love affair By Hani Shukrallah
Why does the Western media refuse to see the epochal resurgence of Egypt’s revolutionary spirit? Because love is blind Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 14 December 2012: Israel Starts Removing Mines Close To Border With Jordan- To Build Settlements
14 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and BethlehemIMEMC – PLO Negotiations Affairs Department Issued Their Latest Fact Sheet entitled “Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and Bethlehem”. … Continue reading
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NSA: The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case: The CIA’s 1987 Damage Assessment Declassified
When Naval Investigative Service analyst Jonathan Pollard spied for Israel in 1984 and 1985, his Israeli handlers asked primarily for nuclear, military and technical information on the Arab states, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union — not on the United States — according to the newly-declassified CIA 1987 damage assessment of the Pollard case, published today… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 9 December 2012: Netanyahu reveals the true face of Israel
9 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 18 Seriously Sick Detainees Facing Medical Neglect In Israeli PrisonsIMEMC – The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights issued a press release revealing that 18 seriously ill detainee, permanently at the Al-Ramla Prison Clinic are facing life-threatening conditions due to the lack of adequate and specialized Continue reading
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ICH 9 December 2012: Prison Labor Booms in US – Chinese-style inmate labor
9 December 2012 — Information Clearing House NATO Intervention in Syria Imminent By Stephen Lendman Possible regional or global war looms. Disastrous consequences could follow. Obama may head humanity into the abyss. Perhaps there’s no way to stop him. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33267.htm Continue reading
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The New Game in the 'Syrian Opposition': Redistribution of Roles and Functions By Olga CHETVERIKOVA
So far the «alternative» to the government of Bashar al-Assad, sitting in Turkey, is the Syrian National Council (SNC, also called the «Istanbul council»); it is funded by Qatar and is under the full control of French military intelligence, the General Directorate of External Security (DGSE). Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Anonymous: “Media Instruments” Supportive of US-NATO Sponsored Regime Change? By Ryan O’Neill
Throughout early 2011, the European liberal left were in a frenzy over the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings that were sweeping across the region. The Mainstream Media supplied around the clock coverage of the mass demonstrations in Tahrir Square as we were told that the people of the Arab world were standing up to tyranny and demanding… Continue reading
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Map Reading By Harry Feldman
Palestinians have never enjoyed political control over any part of Palestine as this unfortunate graphic suggests. Not under Ottoman rule or the British Mandate (‘1946’); not under the abortive and downright bizarre UN partition plan (‘1947’); definitely not under Jordanian and Egyptian rule (‘1967’); and absolutely not under Israeli occupation (‘2010’). Furthermore, the graphic is… Continue reading