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Video: Checkpoint By Jasiri X
Up-and-coming Pittsburgh Emcee Jasiri X releases “Checkpoint,” a chilling music video documenting his experience visiting Palestine in 2014. The video features footage Jasiri himself captured of Israeli soldiers, as well as newsreel clips of IDF brutality against Palestinians and internationals. Watch closely, Ferrari Sheppard of Stop Being Famous has cameo in this powerful video. Continue reading
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Not just the Prawer Plan: Villages across the West Bank face ‘unrelenting assault’ from Israeli military
Land, property theft & destruction / Ethnic cleansing / Restriction of movement. A long list of crimes being committed by the state of Israel… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 September 2013: IDF closes investigation into Bil’in killing without indictment
10 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterCIA documents reveal Israeli stockpile of chemical weaponsIMEMC – A newly-discovered document of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency revealed Monday by Foreign Policy magazine shows that the U.S. agency had decisive evidence dating back to at least the 1980s that Israel had a stockpile of chemical and Continue reading
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Israel’s role in the announcement of the attack against Syria
According to the website magazine Foreign Policy dated August 28th 2013, the NSA would have intercepted communications between the chief of the Syrian chemical weapons unit and a high ranked official from the Syrian Department of defence. The latter was in panic after the chemical attack that cost the lives of 1 429 people. However,… 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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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 11 July 2013: Settlers cut down 1,150 olive trees in Nablus
11 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFive-year-old Palestinian boy detained in HebronIMEMC – Despite being below the age of criminal responsibility, 5-year-old Wadi’ Maswadeh was detained for two hours by Israeli soldiers July 9th near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron after he allegedly threw a stone at a settler’s car. Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 10 July 2013
10 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterActivists to launch flotilla from Gaza to Europe in defiance of Israeli-imposed blockageIMEMC – Canadian, European, and Palestinian activists plan to launch a flotilla – dubbed “Gaza’s Ark” – from Gaza to Europe carrying produce and textiles, with the goal of raising awareness of the Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 22 June 2013:Military police must decide: Is the IDF a gang or an army?
22 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFour Injured, Palestine TV Reporters Kidnapped In Kufur QaddoumIMEMC – The Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Kufur Qaddoum village, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, reported Frida [June 21, 2013] that dozens of Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest, wounding four Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 29 April 2013: Bedouins await Israel’s forcible relocation plan
29 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAl-Eesawy Slowly Recovering Following His 9-Month Hunger StrikeIMEMC – Monday April 29 2013, Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy was moved from the Kapalan Israeli hospital to the Al-Ramla prison clinic, adding that the detainee is slowly recovery from his Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 12 April 2013: Israel destroys West Bank community center, arrests 20
12 April 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Israel offers to exile Issawi abroad4/13/2013 – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel on Friday offered long-term hunger striker Samer Issawi a deal to exile him to a UN member country, Israeli spokesman said. Ofir Gendelman, a spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office,said that an offer was presented to exile Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 2 April 2013: Stand With Us poster sends truly universal message – accidentally
2 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Attacks Palestinians Protesters In JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli soldiers, attacked on Tuesday, a nonviolent protest that was held in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, and claimed that the protest was held without a permit from the Police in the occupied city. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 29 March 2013: Netanyahu Idiocracy: ‘Kill a Turk’ and Apologize…
29 March 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Six Injured, Reporter Kidnapped, By The Army In JerusalemIMEMC – Jerusalem March 29, 2013; Palestinian medical sources reported that six Palestinians, including an elderly man, have been injured, and one reporter has been kidnapped, after Israeli soldiers attacked Muslim worshipers who tried to enter the Al-Aqsa 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 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 21 February 2013: Collaboration between IDF, settlers reaching point of no return
21 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center El-Eesawy Sentenced To Eight Months, His Hunger Strike ContinuesIMEMC – Hunger striking Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, was sentenced Thursday by the Israeli District Court in Jerusalem to eight months imprisonment starting from the date of his arrest on July 7, 2012. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 6 February 2013
6 February 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Shepherd Injured After Being Attacked By Settlers Near NablusIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian shepherd was attacked, on Wednesday afternoon, by a group of extremist Israeli settlers west of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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Video: Israeli warplanes bombed research center near Damascus – Syrian state news agency
Israeli fighter jets targeted a military research center near Damascus early on Wednesday morning, Syrian state news agency SANA said citing army officials. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 12 January 2013: The hardest thing: Palestinian parents speak of their children killed by Israeli bombings
12 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed By Israeli Fire In HebronIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 January 2013: Media misconceptions: Is the conflict really about Jews vs. Arabs?
8 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas Willing To Cooperate With US To Achieve Two-State SolutionIMEMC – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that he is willing to continue to cooperate with the United States and the Obama Administration to achieve a peace agreement with Israel based on the two-state solution. … Continue reading
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Mleeta, Khiam, Sabra, Shatila and Resistance In General By Gilad Atzmon
It was my second visit to the country. 30 years ago I crossed the Lebanese border along with an IDF convoy escorted by tanks and armed vehicles. Then I was an occupier, this time I came with only my saxophone and a desire to share my thoughts and deliver some beauty. Continue reading