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ICH 23 March 2013: Capitol Hill, Calls for Attack On Syria
23 March 2013 — Information Clearing House CIA Passing Info to Syrian Rebels: Report By AFP The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them more effective against government troops, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34378.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 March 2013: Israeli Settlers Continue to Attack Palestinians with Impunity
22 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas’ Speech in the news conference in Ramallah with President ObamaIMEMC – Below is the full text of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech in Ramallah in the press conference with US President Barack Obama on Thursday as interpreted. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 March 2013: Obama the tourist seeks Israel Lobby approval
21 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Obama reiterates calls for two-state solution in RamallahIMEMC – On his second day of the first presidential visit to Palestine U.S. President Barack Obama met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Although Obama condemned the rocket attacks that hit Sderot, yet, he insisted that… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 20 March 2013: Obama Comes to Bless Israel’s Government of Settlers
20 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinians install protest village to greet US President Barack ObamaIMEMC – As US President Barack Obama arrived for a two day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, hundreds of Palestinian non-violent activists set up a tent village at Bab al Shams (Door to the Sun)… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 19 March 2013: ‘It’s Not Your Homeland’: An Interview with Shlomo Sand
19 March 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Sheikh Jarrah family fears eviction3/19/2013 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — An 82-year-old grandfather and his family are awaiting an Israeli Supreme Court decision that could evict them from an East Jerusalem home they have lived in since 1964. Ayyoub Shamasnah, 82, lives with his wife, children and grandchildren in a… Continue reading
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Feminist monkey wrenches in Egypt’s revolution By Eric Walberg
The process of shaping post-revolutionary Egypt to conform to the postmodern imperial world is proceeding apace. Egypt’s long history of invasion and occupation by first France (under Napoleon) and then Britain, and less formally from 1970 on under first Sadat and Mubarak, means there is a strong secular tradition, and the current attempt by Islamists… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 18 March 2013: Israel’s new war cabinet
18 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center ISR Police Kidnaps Two Children In JerusalemIMEMC – Monday March 18, 2013, Two children identified as Deena Morad Jweiles, 14, and her brother Mohammad, 12, have been kidnapped by the Israeli Police after being attacked and harassed by an Israeli settler in Wadi Hilweh, in Silwan,… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 March 2013:
17 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center EU Grants P.A €20.8 To Pay Salaries, PensionsIMEMC – The European Union (EU) has granted the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank approximately €2.8 so that it can pay pensions and salaries to nearly 82.000 retired persons, and government employees, in the West Bank and the… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 14 March 2013
14 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settler Woman, Her Children, Injured In The West BankIMEMC – Israeli Ynet News reported Thursday that a settler woman and her 3-year-old toddler have been injured after a number of Palestinians hurled stones at settlers vehicles driving on Route 5 that connects Tel Aviv with the… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 12 March 2013: Sheriffs of the land: Meet the settlers with military authority
12 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli security officer brutally beats unarmed Palestinian shepherdIMEMC – Israeli activists caught on film an attack by an Israeli settlement security guard on a Palestinian shepherd Monday, near the Palestinian village of Susya in the southern West Bank on Monday. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 March 2013: Israeli doctors accused of collusion in torture
11 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Three Detainees Moved Into Solitary ConfinementIMEMC – Monday evening March 11, 2013, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) reported that the administration at the Ofer Israeli prison moved three hunger striking Palestinian detainees into solitary confinement. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 March 2013: Sale Of Home To “An Arab” In Akka, Protested By Jewish Residents
8 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian seriously Injured By Army Fire In GazaIMEMC – Friday March 8 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian youth was seriously injured by a round of live ammunition after Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border, opened fire at a group of Palestinians, working in… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 7 March 2013: EU-funded Israeli Theft
7 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSweden Upgrades Palestine Mission To Embassy StatusIMEMC – Thursday March 7, 2013; with an overwhelming vote of 299 to 20, the Swedish Parliament upgraded the status of the Palestinian representative office in the country to a full status granting the mission the title of embassy. The parliament… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 March 2013
6 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UNICEF: “Israel Mistreats Detained Palestinian Children”IMEMC – The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) issued a report stating that Israel is mistreating Palestinian children it is holding in its detention and interrogation centers, and added that the abuse against the children is systematic. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 March 2013: Israel opens Palestinian-only bus lines in West Bank
4 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Detainees In Galboa’ Prison Hold One Day Strike, Warn EscalationIMEMC – Monday March 4, 2013, Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that the Palestinian detainees in the Galboa’ Israeli prison, are holding a one-day hunger strike, as an initial step, part of activities in support… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 3 March 2013: Report: Israel to operate 'Palestinian-only' bus routes
3 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli officer shakes hand with settler who attacked PalestiniansIMEMC – On Saturday, masked Israeli settlers were caught on camera shaking hands with Israeli border guards stationed in the village of Umm al-Amad, south of Hebron, then proceeded to harass a group of Palestinian cattle herders while… Continue reading
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ICH 3 March 2013: Weekend Edition
3 March 2013 — Information Clearing House Al-Assad: British Leaders ‘Shallow, Immature’ Hala Jaber Interviews President Bashar al-Assad – Video and Transcript ‘We don’t expect an arsonist to be a firefighter,’ Syrian president says. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34160.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 February 2013
24 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ma’an News Over 4,000 prisoners launch hunger strike in Israeli jails2/24/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Some 4,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails launched hunger-strike action on Sunday to protest the death of Arafat Jaradat, who died in Israel’s Megido jail a day earlier. A spokeswoman for… Continue reading
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ICH 24 February 2013: Democrats’ Complicity in Political Murder
24 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Washington Backs Syrian Anti-Government Terrorism: By Stephen Lendman Make no mistake. Syria is Washington’s war. It was planned years ago. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34073.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 23 February 2013
23 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Four Injured, Two Seriously, In Aboud VillageIMEMC – Saturday February 23, 2013; Four Palestinians have been injured, two serious, by Israeli soldiers’ fire invaded the village of Aboud, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, the Palestine News Network (PNN) has reported. … Continue reading
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