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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 February, 2011: Israel troops may ‘have to re-enter’ Lebanon
16 February, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Breaks Into Home Of Jerusalem Palestinian MP IMEMC – Wednesday February 16, 2011 – 19:35, Undercover forces of the Israeli army broke on Wednesday into the home of Jerusalem Legislator, Ahmad Attoun, and detained his brother, Jihad, and his cousin., Attoun, as well… Continue reading
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Palestine papers reveal MI6 drew up plan for crackdown on Hamas By Ian Black and Seumas Milne
British intelligence helped draw up a secret plan for a wide-ranging crackdown on the Islamist movement Hamas which became a security blueprint for the Palestinian Authority, leaked documents reveal. The plan asked for the internment of leaders and activists, the closure of radio stations and the replacement of imams in mosques. Continue reading
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Palestine papers reveal MI6 drew up plan for crackdown on Hamas By Ian Black and Seumas Milne
British intelligence helped draw up a secret plan for a wide-ranging crackdown on the Islamist movement Hamas which became a security blueprint for the Palestinian Authority, leaked documents reveal. The plan asked for the internment of leaders and activists, the closure of radio stations and the replacement of imams in mosques. Continue reading
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The Palestine Papers Pt3
Al Jazeera obtained more than 1,600 internal documents from a decade of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations Continue reading
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The Palestine Papers Pt2
Al Jazeera obtained more than 1,600 internal documents from a decade of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Pt.2 Continue reading
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The Palestine papers By Matthew Weaver
Mustafa Barghouti, an independent member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said the papers showed that the Israeli don’t want a two-state solution despite their support for it in public. He gave his reaction to my colleague Harriet Sherwood. Continue reading
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Building a police state in Palestine By Aisling Byrne
“If we are building a police state — what are we actually doing here?” So asked a European diploma responding to allegations of torture by the Palestinian security forces. The diplomat might well ask. A police state is not a state. It is a form of larceny: of people’s rights, aspirations and sacrifices, for the… Continue reading
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Vera Macht Reports from Gaza
The air is filled with the noise of the Israeli F-16s, which are flying so low that it’s almost like the air is trembling. You can positively feel the bombs before they fall, before they explode with a horrendous bang, that is unmistakable, with a pressure wave that breaks the windows of the houses in… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 January, 2011: Israel’s killing zone in Gaza
6 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center HRW Demand Criminal Investigation Into Death Of 20 y.o Palestinian Patient Denied Permit By Israel IMEMC – 6 Jan 2011 – Friday January 07, 2011 – 03:03, Human Rights Organizations Demand Criminal Investigation into Death of 20 Year-Old Palestinian Patient Denied Permit by Israeli… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 January, 2011: Israel further institutionalizes racism toward Palestinian citizens
3 January, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center MKs Call for Boycott of Israeli Rawabi Companies IMEMC – 3 Jan 2011 – Monday January 03, 2011 – 15:49, Forty-eight Knesset members have signed a petition calling for the boycott of Israeli companies involved in building the new Palestinian city of Rawabi, Israeli… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 31 December, 2010: Knesset Approves $564 million for Settlements in the New Year’s Budget
31 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Child, Paramedic Wounded By Army Fire During Nabi Saleh Weekly Protest IMEMC – 31 Dec 2010 – Saturday January 01, 2011 – 03:14, As dozens of residents and international peace activists held their nonviolent weekly protest against the Annexation Wall in Nabi Saleh village,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 December, 2010: ‘The great book robbery’
28 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Prominent Rabbis’ Wives Tell Fellow Jewish Women Not To Date Arabs IMEMC – 28 Dec 2010 – Wednesday December 29, 2010 – 03:50, In a letter published Tuesday in the Israeli press, around two dozen wives of prominent Israeli rabbis followed a recent edict… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 December, 2010: MK: World may recognize Palestine soon
26 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Youth Assaulted Near Nablus For Not Understanding Hebrew IMEMC – 26 Dec 2010 – Monday December 27, 2010 – 01:39, Israeli soldiers stationed at the Za’tara Roadblock, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, stopped three Palestinian youths and violently assaulted one… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 December, 2010: Jesus was Palestinian and why it matters
25 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Set To Build And Market 5000 Units In Occupied East Jerusalem, W. Bank IMEMC – 25 Dec 2010 – Saturday December 25, 2010 – 09:36, The Israeli Housing Ministry is planning to build and market nearly 5000 new units for Jewish settlers in… 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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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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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 December, 2010: Farmer: Settlers burned my sheep alive
18 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Refugees Committee Slams The “Jordan Is Palestine” Conference IMEMC – 18 Dec 2010 – Sunday December 19, 2010 – 02:00, The Higher Committee for Defending the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees, slammed a Tel Aviv conference that calls for considering Jordan as… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 December, 2010: Rabbi Drukman Suggests Discriminating Between “A Loyal Arab”, and “An Arab Who Hates Israel”
14 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Bedouin Community Wells Destroyed Near Hebron IMEMC – 14 Dec 2010 – Tuesday December 14, 2010 – 18:06, The Israeli Civil Administration officials destroyed five wells and several sheds, on Tuesday, in a small Bedouin community in the south Hebron hills, locals reported. Israeli… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 December, 2010: WikiLeaks: More Israeli Game Theory Warfare?
1 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Gazan Worker Injured After Being Shot by Israeli Troops IMEMC – 1 Dec 2010 – Wednesday December 01, 2010 – 16:44, On Wednesday, the Israeli military shot and injured a resident from Gaza, while he was working collecting stones and rubble in the northern… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 October, 2010: Israel devours East Jerusalem
30 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli settlers burn church in Jerusalem IMEMC – 30 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 30, 2010 – 09:11, A hundred year old church was burned Friday by right-wing Israeli settlers, who broke a number of windows of the church and hurled Molotov cocktails inside.… Continue reading