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Information Clearing House 13 October 2013: Arafat Poisoned With Polonium 210? The Lancet
13 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Post-Intervention Libya: A Militia State By Richard Falk The seizure of al-Libi and the subsequent kidnapping of the prime minister may be metaphors of what ‘governance’ in Libya has come to signify. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36513.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 12 October 2013: As Egypt’s army fights its own civilians, Israel is on the verge of annexing Sinai
12 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsrael To Build 1500 Units For Settlers In Occupied JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli sources have reported that bids for the construction of 793 new settlement units will be announced soon, as part of a plan to build 1500 new units in a number of Jewish settlements in the Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 11 October 2013
11 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Reserve Colonel Killed In Jordan Valley SettlementIMEMC – [Thursday at night October 10 2013] Israeli daily, Haaretz, has reported that an Israeli reserve officer settler was killed outside his home in the Brosh Habika illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 10 October 2013
10 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterLapid: “Israel Doesn’t Need P.A. To Recognize It As Jewish State”IMEMC – Head of the Yesh Atid [There Is Future] Israeli party, Yair Lapid, stated Tuesday that opposes the stance of Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who insists that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 September 2013: Egypt's coup leaders grateful for Israeli support
12 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Interrogates A Palestinian Who Drove Into Military Base IMEMC – [Thursday September 12, 2013] The Israeli Police arrested a Palestinian, in his fifties, from Nazareth city allegedly for driving his car, in a high speed, into an Israeli military base north of historic Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 September 2013: Hamas and Gaza in the eye of the storm
9 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Patient Kidnapped At Erez TerminalIMEMC – Sunday evening [September 8, 2013] Israeli soldiers kidnapped a young Palestinian man at the Erez Terminal, between Gaza and Israel, as he was on his way to receive treatment at an Israeli hospital. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 September 2013: Israel’s Lobbyists Pushing Hard for another War in the Middle East
8 September 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israeli forces issue 4 demolition orders in Jerusalem9/8/2013 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli municipality staff and police issued four demolition orders for commercial properties in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Sunday, a local group said. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that Israeli forces raided Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 September 2013: Resist Israel's unjust system, don't operate within it
7 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterMore Veteran Detainees To Be Released November 29IMEMC – Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe , stated that the second phase of releasing political prisoners, held by Israel since before the first Oslo Agreement of 1993, will be conducted on November 29, then a third Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 September 2013: Addressing the impact of settler violence
6 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterTalks Focused On Temporary Borders, SecurityIMEMC – Israeli medial sources have reported that the current direct Israeli-Palestinian political talks are focused on a Palestinian state with temporary borders, and on security arrangements in the occupied West Bank. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 September 2013: The historical truth about Bedouin expulsion from the Negev
5 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invade SilwanIMEMC – Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday evening [September 5, 2013] Wadi Hilweh in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, apparently in an attempt to kidnap some local youths. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 September 2013: PHOTOS: Life before expulsion in the South Hebron Hills
4 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterChildren, Women, Injured As Israeli Extremists Break Into The Al-Aqsa MosqueIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in occupied Jerusalem have reported that several children and women were among the injured after extremist Israelis broke into the yards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque since early dawn hours Wednesday [August 4 Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 September 2013: Apartheid relived: Israeli laws conjure-up uncomfortable memories of South Africa
3 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterYoung Palestinian Man Ordered Out Of West BankIMEMC – In an illegal move, a senior commander of the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank issued an order forcing a Palestinian man out of the West Bank for six months. The young man, from Be’er As-Sabe’ (Beersheba) Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 September 2013: Obama’s handling of Syria crisis revives Bibi’s hopes of bombing Iran
1 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFederal investigation finds no merit in claims of ‘anti-Semitism’ at California universitiesIMEMC – After pro-Palestinian groups at several schools within the University of California system were accused of ‘anti-Semitism’, the U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation. This week, they released the findings of their months-long investigation, Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 September 2013: Threats to Syria are Israeli words spoken by Western tongues
2 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAhrar Denounces Kidnapping Of Former DetaineeIMEMC – The Ahrar Center for Detainees Studies and Human Rights stated that Israeli soldiers kidnapped Sami Hussein, 44, from the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as he was heading to the Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, east of Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 31 August 2013: Peace or propaganda?
31 August 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Dozens hurt in protests across West Bank8/31/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Dozens of protesters were lightly injured including journalists on Friday in clashes across the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces dispersed a demonstration in al-Maasara village south of Bethlehem in protests against launching an attack on Syria, and marking Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 August 2013: Israel forced me to destroy my own house, says Jerusalem father
30 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSeveral Injured By Army Fire North Of JerusalemIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources have reported that several residents have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation while others were shot by rubber-coated metal bullets fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes with local residents at the Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 August 2013: Why did the IDF assassinate two Palestinian journalists?
29 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Attack, Wound, Two Palestinians Near NablusIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources have reported Thursday [August 29, 2013] that two resident have been injured in Qasra village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, after being attacked by a number of extremist Israeli settlers. … Continue reading
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Media Lens: Massacres That Matter – Part 2 – The Media Response On Egypt, Libya And Syria By David Edwards
Corporate media coverage of atrocities in Egypt, Libya and Syria has closely matched US-UK government interpretations and priorities. While the US government has refused to describe what was very obviously a military coup in Egypt on July 3 as a coup, many media have also tended to shy away from the term, referring instead to… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 August 2013
28 August 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSisi Stops His Hunger Strike In Eshil PrisonIMEMC – Wednesday [August 28, 2013] Palestinian detainee Dirar Abu Sisi stopped his hunger strike after reaching an agreement with the Administration of Israeli Bir Shiva (Be’er As-Sabe’) Prion, south of the country, to remove him from his solitary confinement. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Massacres That Matter – ‘Responsibility To Protect’ In Egypt, Libya And Syria – Part 1 By David Edwards
The ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P), formulated at the 2005 UN World Summit, is based on the idea that state sovereignty is not a right but a responsibility. Where offending states fail to live up to this responsibility by inflicting genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity on their own people, the international community has… Continue reading
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