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Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: Egypt's Constitutional Referendum – Did President Morsi Hijack Democracy?
President Morsi created a new constitution for Egypt on December 26, 2012. Prior to this, Morsi was forced by massive street protests in Egypt to rescind an executive decree that granted him sweeping presidential powers. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 23 January 2013: A surrounded city; Nablus and its settlers
23 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Including Two Children; Six Palestinians Kidnapped In West BankIMEMC – Wednesday January 23; Israeli soldiers invaded different parts of the occupied West Bank, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped six Palestinians, including two children, before taking them to a number of military interrogation 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 11 January 2013: Israelis Must Rise Up To Avert National Disaster
11 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Peres: “We Should Not Have Assassinated Arafat, Abbas Is A Partner In Peace”IMEMC – In an interview that was conducted by the New York Times five months ago, and was only published Wednesday, and was republished by the Israeli Radio, Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stated Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 10 January 2013: BBC’s cruel excuses for ignoring Palestinian hunger strikes
10 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas: “There Are 63 UN Organizations We Have The Right To Join”IMEMC – “Israel Must Stop Its Illegal Settlement Activities, Violations” Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that the Palestinian Authority will act on the international level to stop Israel’s illegal settlement construction and expansion activities, Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 9 January 2013: Denying Palestinian rights is the core issue in Israeli elections
9 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Extreme Rain, Snow, Causes Floods, Casualties And DestructionIMEMC – The Palestinian Civil Defense reported that the storm that is hitting Palestine, and nearby countries, have caused several casualties and excessive destruction of property as rainfall flooded more than 400 homes while four Palestinians were killed Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 23 December 2012: Firing Zone 918 – Khirbet Al-Fakhit
23 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Cab Driver Shot In JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli sources reported, Sunday morning, that a Palestinian Taxi driver was shot by Israeli soldiers near a military base in Jabal Al-Mokabbir area in occupied East Jerusalem. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 17 December 2012: Gaza fisherman jailed for serving Hamas coffee
18 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Attack Funeral Of Palestinian Child In HebronIMEMC – Israeli soldiers attacked, Tuesday, hundreds of Palestinians participating in a funeral of a child in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron; at least three residents have been injured. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 17 December 2012: Israel approves 1,500 more settler homes in East Jerusalem
17 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In NablusIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, different parts of the of the northern West Bank district of Nablus, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped five Palestinians including a school headmaster, and a Palestinian security officer. … Continue reading
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Western media and the Brotherhood: Secrets behind the love affair By Hani Shukrallah
Why does the Western media refuse to see the epochal resurgence of Egypt’s revolutionary spirit? Because love is blind Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 15 December 2012: Unsettling realities of Israeli settlements
15 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Attack Residents, Vehicles, Near NablusIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that several injuries took place in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, after extremist Israeli settlers, and soldiers attacked Palestinian homes and vehicles; the army also fired dozens of gas bombs Continue reading
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New at SCF 9-15 December 2012: Palestine / Egypt / USA / NATO / Gold / Iran
15 December 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Winner`s Parade in the Gaza Strip, or When «a Pillar of Cloud» Cleared 15.12.2012 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ No matter how hard Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with the Israeli propaganda machine claim that the outcome of operation «a Pillar of Cloud» against the Gaza Strip Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 14 December 2012: Israel Starts Removing Mines Close To Border With Jordan- To Build Settlements
14 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and BethlehemIMEMC – PLO Negotiations Affairs Department Issued Their Latest Fact Sheet entitled “Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and Bethlehem”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 10 December 2012: Shattered Lives in Gaza
10 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Break Into School Near Bethlehem, Attack Students, TeachersIMEMC – Palestinian sources in Taqoua’ village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, reported that Israeli soldiers broke, Monday, into the village’s High School for Boys, attacked several teachers and students, and left the school later 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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Israel’s “Operation Mow the Lawn” by Steve Niva
One can only imagine the nods of self-satisfaction when an Israel Defense Forces planner came up with “Pillar of Cloud” to name Israel’s subsequent eight-day aerial assault on Gaza. By lifting this metaphor from several well-known passages in the Torah, the IDF sought to portray the operation as a divinely sanctioned mission to clear the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 6 December 2012: Israel’s annexation moment has arrived
6 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 14 Injured By Army Fire In HebronIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that 14 residents have been injured, while dozens were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Bab Az-Zawiya Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 2 December 2012: Israel seizes $120m PA revenues in response to UN vote
2 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Security Services Oppose Government Decision To Build More SettlementsIMEMC – The Israeli Security Services expressed rejection of the new Israeli government decision to build additional 3000 units for Jewish settlers in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, and said that “the move is un-calculated”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 1 December 2012: The next stop for Palestinians could be global courts
1 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Kidnaps 21 Palestinians In West Bank, GazaIMEMC – Israeli soldiers and Navy kidnapped, Saturday, 19 Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; 12 fishermen were kidnapped in Gaza territorial waters in Gaza, and nine in the occupied West Bank. … Continue reading