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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 November, 2010: VIDEO – Footage contradicts arson allegations / Residents say settlers behind torched grove
16 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinians and Arab League likely to reject US proposal IMEMC – 16 Nov 2010 – Tuesday November 16, 2010 – 16:58, According to Maan News, a proposal from the United States for a 90-day temporary freeze on construction in Israeli West Bank settlements might… Continue reading
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Media Lens: “Put the Palestinians on a Diet”
Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”. Continue reading
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200 Israeli war Criminals
Underlining the following people is an act of retribution and affront. They are the direct perpetrators, agents for the state of Israel that in Dec.- Jan. 2008- 2009 attacked scores of people in the besieged Gaza. The people listed here held positions of command at the time of the attack therefore not only did they… Continue reading
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PLEASE JOIN – Award to MORDECHAI VANUNU
The International League for Human Rights has awarded MORDECHAI VANUNU with the CARL VON OSSIETZKY MEDAL 2010 for his courageous dedication to nuclear disarmament as well as to civil and human rights. Please join this international campaign to help get Mordechai Vanunu out of Israel in order to accept the Carl von Ossietzky Medal in… Continue reading
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Identity and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict By Tom Segev
Video: Israel: A refuge or a colonial project? Pt.5 Israeli historian Tom Segev Continue reading
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Global Research 7-17 November, 2010 – Selected Articles: Big Brother Security Measures, Austerity Program, and Endless War in Afghanistan and Iraq
17 November, 2010 — Global Research THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS. The Great Depression of the XXI Century – by Michel Chossudovsky, Andrew Gavin Marshall – 2010-11-20 George Galloway in Montreal : Palestine. Afghanistan 17 November 2010 – 2010-11-16 American Hypocrisy: Destruction of the Constitution, Collapse of the Rule of Law – by Paul Craig Roberts… Continue reading
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Seumas Milne: The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage
In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as Palestinian refugees in the 1950s. As she speaks, three young ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers swagger in to stake their claim to the front part… Continue reading
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Pro-Israeli lobbyists desperate to silence anti-Apartheid icon in South Africa By Iqbal Jassat
‘It’s a pattern that seems to have become more pronounced following Israel’s destructive war on Gaza. Lobbyists behaving as aggressively as war criminals to shield Israel from public censure and while raising false innuendos to deflect from the horrors that live visuals brought home, seemed to lose all sense of humanity…. Continue reading
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IF THIS IS NOT APARTHEID, THEN WHAT IS? By Allan Boesak and Farid Esack*
In the opening lines of an open letter to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Rabbi Warren Goldstein, leader of the South Africa’s Orthodox Jews, makes a plea that: ”Without truth there can be no justice, and without justice there can be no peace.” If ever there was a case of a single swallow not heralding summer, alas, this… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 November, 2010: New plans part of Judaising Occupied East Jerusalem
10 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two Officers Feared Dead As Israeli Jet Crashes In The Negev IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Thursday November 11, 2010 – 03:21, Israeli sources reported Wednesday that rescue teams are now searching for an Israeli Air Force pilot and his navigator after their… Continue reading
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Israel halts missile shield deployment (it don’t work)
Israel’s military says it will put its much-touted Iron Dome air-defense system in storage and deploy it only if Hezbollah or Hamas unleash major rocket bombardments. On the face of it, that suggests that the weapon built by state-run Rafael Advanced Defense Systems may not be all that it’s been made out to be, as… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 November, 2010: Settlers Open New Settlers Only Road in Hebron
One of the best aggregations of news and analysis on the situation in Palestine. Frequency: almost daily. More material available from Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel – www.vtjp.org Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 November, 2010: Israeli homes plan for Jerusalem sparks Palestinian fury
8 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Erekat: “Netanyahu Determined To Destroy Talks” IMEMC – 8 Nov 2010 – Monday November 08, 2010 – 22:58, Chief Palestinian Negotiator, Dr. Saeb Erekat, accused Israel Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of acting in a way that is meant to foil peace talks and hinder… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 November, 2010: Israeli police demolish mosque in impoverished Arab town
7 November, 2010 — VTJP News Ma’an News Soldiers shoot worker on north Gaza border 11/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man was injured Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire at a group of workers collecting stone aggregates near an evacuated Israeli settlement in northern Gaza. Eyewitnesses said 19-year-old Karam Al-Adham was shot… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 November, 2010: Cornerstone of Zionism is to Conquer, Not Negotiate
6 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli government documents show deliberate policy to keep Gazans at near-starvation levels IMEMC – 7 Nov 2010 – Saturday November 06, 2010 – 21:32, Documents whose existence were denied by the Israeli government for over a year have been released after a legal battle… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 November, 2010: “Traffic Accidents” in occupied Palestine: Another Form of Zionist Terrorism
5 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Three Injured at an-Nabi Saleh Anti-Wall Protest IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 18:06, At least three civilians were injured and many others treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation on Friday, after Israeli troops violently suppressed the… Continue reading