Bethlehem
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 22 December 2012: Israel’s colonial strangling of Bethlehem
22 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 012IMEMC – The Palestinian Ministry Of Detainees reported that this year witnessed a sharp increase in Israeli violations against Palestinian children, and said that Israeli soldiers kidnapped this year 900 Palestinian children comparing to 700 kidnapped last year. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 16 December 2012: Under siege: One Bedouin family’s struggle to live in Israel
16 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Four Youths In HebronIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, broke into and searched dozens of homes and kidnapped four youths before taking them to an unknown destination. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 June 2012: Israel, US blast UN vote on Palestinian heritage sites
29 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 22 Elected Legislators Still Imprisoned By IsraelIMEMC – Head of the Census Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, reported that the current number of elected Palestinian legislators imprisoned by Israel dropped to 22 after Israel released, on Thursday afternoon, two legislators, the Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 June 2012: G4S in Israel: The Soldiers of Global Occupation
26 June 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Begins The Evacuation Of Ulpana SettlementIMEMC – On Tuesday Israeli officials started removing the illegal Ulpana settlement outpost, built on privately-owned Palestinian lands, close to the Beit El settlement near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Israel vowed to build hundreds of new Continue reading
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Book Review By Eric Walberg: Guided missives
15 February 2012 — Eric Walberg Ard ard (Surface-to-surface): The story of a graffiti revolution Sheif Abdel-Megid Egyptian Association for Books 2011 ISBN 978-977-207-102-9 Graffiti — the art of the masses, by the masses, for the masses — has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and arguably Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 January 2012: Bunker state cemented by new Israeli law against refugees
19 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Arrests Islamic Jihad Fighters In Jenin IMEMC – Released for Publication – The Israeli Internal Security Service (Shabak) revealed that its operatives kidnapped ten members of the Islamic Jihad in recent months, in the Jenin district, in the northern part of the West Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 31 December 2011: Settlers Break Into Archeological Areas In Bethlehem
31 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers ‘Help’ Soldiers Man Roadblocks IMEMC – Armed Israeli settlers, in civilian clothes, were seen helping Israeli soldiers in searching Palestinian vehicles and checking ID numbers of Palestinians at a number of military roadblocks leading to the Ramallah district, in the central West Bank. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 December 2011: Israel's army chief hails Gaza war as 'excellent'
28 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Residents of Beit Shemesh Fight Back Against Religious Extremism and Gender Segregation IMEMC – Thousands of local residents gathered in the Israeli village of Beit Shemesh, protesting the radically changing demographic of their city by the ultra-Orthodox community. The group seem hell-bent on enforcing Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 December 2011: Israel’s army chief hails Gaza war as ‘excellent’
28 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Residents of Beit Shemesh Fight Back Against Religious Extremism and Gender Segregation IMEMC – Thousands of local residents gathered in the Israeli village of Beit Shemesh, protesting the radically changing demographic of their city by the ultra-Orthodox community. The group seem hell-bent on enforcing Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 December 2011: Israel city braces for thousands of protesters against exclusion of women
26 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Hamas Expresses Support For Syrian Regime IMEMC – Head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement, Khaled Mashal, stated that the Hamas movement supports the Syrian President, Bashar Assad, “as he supported the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian people in every possible way”, Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 December 2011: Will Jerusalem cause a third Intifada?
24 December 2011 — VTJP News Ma’an News Mediator: Political detainees free by end of month 12/24/2011 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Nablus billionaire and political independent Munib al-Masri said Saturday in the Gaza Strip that political prisoners both in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip would be released by the end of Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 December 2011: The undeniable Palestinian right to resist occupation
23 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Eshtayya: “Palestinian Lands Are For the Palestinians, Not For Settlements” IMEMC – Mohammad Eshtayya, member of the Central Committee of Fateh movement, headed by Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government, must understand that the Palestinian lands Continue reading
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‘If Jesus were to come this year, Bethlehem would be closed’ By Phoebe Greenwood
Bethlehem is the heart of Christian Palestine and it swells with pride every Christmas. Manger Square is transformed into a grotto of lights and stalls crowned by a towering Christmas tree. Strings of illuminated angels, stars and bells festoon the streets. But just a few minutes’ drive to the north, the festive atmosphere stops abruptly. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 October, 2011: Israel’s new settler build cuts off Bethlehem and Jerusalem
14 October 2011 , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Bilin Weekly Protest Expresses Support To Striking Detainees IMEMC – Saturday October 15, 2011 – 02:50, Dozens of Palestinians, international and Israeli piece activists, held their weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall and Settlements, in Bilin village, near the central West Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 December, 2010: Gaza: Two Years after the Horror
24 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Carries Out Three Air Strikes In Gaza IMEMC – 24 Dec 2010 – Saturday December 25, 2010 – 04:51, The Israeli Air Force carried out, on Friday night after midnight, three air strikes targeting several areas in in central and southern Gaza; three Continue reading
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Middle East Report Online: Bypassing Bethlehem’s Eastern Reaches by Nate Wright
In late August, Israel completed refurbishment of the road dipping down from the Jerusalem-area settlement of Har Homa to the bloc of smaller settlements southeast of Bethlehem. The new bypass, meant to speed up the commutes of settlers to their jobs and schools in Israel, has opened another front in the battle over the extent… Continue reading
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