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Time for a reality check Omar Karmi
The resignation of a government and dismissal of parliament – all to bolster the position of a president – doesn’t inspire confidence. Continue reading
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How 20 Tents Rocked Israel: Palestinians Take the Fight to their Occupiers By Jonathan Cook
At a time when Palestinians hoped for a watershed moment in their struggle for national liberation, the Fatah and Hamas leaderships look as mutually self-absorbed as ever. Last week they were again directing their energies into a new round of reconciliation talks, this time in Cairo, rather than keeping the spotlight on Israeli intransigence. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 January 2013: Israel’s persecuted truth teller
4 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Undercover Forces Infiltrate Into BethlehemIMEMC – A group of undercover soldiers of the Israeli army infiltrated, Friday, into the West Bank city of Bethlehem, using a Palestinian Taxi that was confiscated by the soldiers just outside of Beit Jala city, northwest of Bethlehem. … 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 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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Abbas: Collaborating with the Enemy By Stephen Lendman
He’s Israel’s enforcer. He ill serves and insults Palestinians. His presidency is illegitimate. Israel rigged his 2005 election. In January 2009, his term expired. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 10 November 2012: Army Kills Five Palestinians In Gaza Saturday; Dozens Injured
10 November 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Several Residents Injured By Army Fire Near HebronIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that several residents were injured Saturday as Israeli soldiers attacked a funeral in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 March 2012: UK Voices ‘Concern’ Over Israeli Settlement Building
20 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Court Upholds Appeal To End Discrimination In “Feast Meals”IMEMC – For the first time in Israel’s history, the Israeli District Court upheld an appeal filed on behalf a Palestinian political prisoner from the northern West Bank city of Jenin demanding an end to discrimination in Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 December 2011: The Jews Go To War (With Themselves)
17 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlement Guard Mildly Injured In Stabbing Attack IMEMC – Israeli sources reported Saturday that a settlement guard, working at the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement, east of occupied East Jerusalem, suffered mild injuries after being stabbed. … Continue reading
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A ‘Palestinian Spring’? Not Yet By Bashir Abu-Manneh
20 October 2011 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 559 The ‘Palestinian Spring’ is the only one of the ‘Arab Springs’ to be announced from the General Assembly platform of the UN. “At a time when,” Mahmoud Abbas declared in his speech for UN recognition of Palestinian statehood, “the Arab peoples affirm their Continue reading
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End Game For Benghazi Rebels As Libyan Tribes Prepare To Weigh In By Franklin Lamb
According to NATO spokesperson Lavoie, allowing Libya’s population to watch government TV, and by implication, to hear terrorist public service announcements concerning subjects such as gasoline availability, food distribution for Ramadan, updates on areas to be avoided due to recent NATO bombing, prayers and lectures by Sheiks on moral and religious subjects during Ramadan or… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 June, 2011: Gaza: Young Palestinians Lead a Global Movement
14 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Attacks Political Prisoners In Qidar Prison, Four Injured IMEMC – Wednesday June 15, 2011 – 01:01, Israel soldiers attacked on Tuesday the Qidar Prison, and violently attacked Palestinian political prisoners before transferring more than half of them to the Ramon detention facility; at Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 June, 2011: Israel’s Threats: Will Gaza Flotilla Be Safe?
13 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center After Running Out Of Anesthesia, All Surgeries In Gaza Put On Hold IMEMC – Tuesday June 14, 2011 – 03:06, Dr. Atef Al Kahloot, head of the Medical Services in the Gaza Strip, reported Monday that all surgeries in hospitals across the coastal region Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 June, 2011: I’m either an illegal citizen of one state, or an inferior citizen in another
12 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Troops Kidnap Three International Activists Near Hebron IMEMC – Sunday June 12, 2011 – 09:20, Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Saturday afternoon three international peace activists participating in the weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall and settlements in Beit Ummar town, near the Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 May, 2011: An independent homeland or bantustan in disguise?
4 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Attack Nabi Saleh Procession Celebrating Unity IMEMC – Thursday May 05, 2011 – 03:44, Israeli soldiers attacked on Wednesday a nonviolent procession in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Nablus, as dozens of residents marched in the streets celebrating Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 May, 2011: Will bin Laden killing pave way for similar moves by Israel?
3 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Egypt’s FM Meets Hamas Leaders, Cairo Prepares For Official Ceremony Of Signing Unity Deal IMEMC – Wednesday May 04, 2011 – 04:05, Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Nabil Al Arabi, met on Tuesday evening with the visiting Hamas delegation headed by Hamas’ Political Bureau Chief, Khalid Continue reading
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GAZAN YOUTH’S MANIFESTO FOR CHANGE
We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community! We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F16’s breaking the wall of sound; scream with all the power in our… Continue reading
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NYT Bronner Tries A Less Biased Path to Reporting on Palestine –and Trips Up
Bronner makes several big mistakes. First, he ignores the long history of Palestinian nonviolent struggle against colonization, beginning in the 1930’s, and characterizes current nonviolent protest against the Occupation in the West Bank as a “new approach.” And second, he credits the movement entirely to the efforts of Fatah political leadership and the business community Continue reading
The New Dark Age 