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Checkpoint: A Video Documentary By Yoav Shamir
An ambulance is stopped, and the sick people inside brought out to explain their ailments. A mother is separated from her very young children. Young Palestinians laugh and throw snowballs at Israeli soldiers, who jovially respond in kind. One Israeli soldier harasses a pretty Palestinian girl. Another refers to the Arabs as “animals,” and suggests… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 August, 2010: ‘Israel ready to destroy Lebanese Army in four hours’
27 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Red Crescent Members Arrested at Weekly Protest, Ni’lin IMEMC – 27 Aug 2010 – Friday August 27, 2010 – 13:40, Israeli writer and film maker Joseph Dana has reported, via his twitter account, that the Israeli military has conducted a number of arrests in… Continue reading
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Major Israeli Theaters Embrace The Settlements + Big Update
Ariel lies 20km inside the West Bank, deeper than any other sizable settlement. The divided highway leading to it – the best road in the West Bank – is open to Israelis only, *and* lacks any signs naming the numerous Palestinian towns and villages flanking the road. According to Peace Now’s 2006 settlement land report,… Continue reading
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The NS Interview: Haneen Zoabi By Samira Shackle
“I was not elected to keep silent or to sit at the table and clap” – Haneen Zoabi, Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset. Israel did everything it could to make us forget our history: controlling education and the media, putting us in a ghetto, preventing us from having normal relations with the Arab world… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 August, 2010: Haniyya: “Direct Talks Have No Chances Of Success”
26 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli education ministry approves new ‘whites-only’ settlement school IMEMC – 26 Aug 2010 – Thursday August 26, 2010 – 03:38, Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students… Continue reading
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Hudson’s co-founder, the Israeli academic purge and the subversion of US Middle East policy
Evidence is mounting that the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) — an Israeli NGO at the forefront of an ongoing campaign to purge Israeli Universities of faculty and programs deemed “left-wing” — is a creature of The Hudson Institute, a major Washington based neoconservative think-tank, which played an active role in shaping the Bush administration’s… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 August, 2010: A case of decency deficit: Israel’s sickness goes beyond one soldier and her Facebook pictures
22 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Hebron: Israeli Military and Policemen Shut Three Palestinian Shops IMEMC – 22 Aug 2010 – Sunday August 22, 2010 – 17:19, Every Saturday for the last several months, Youth Against the Settlements has led a nonviolent action — “Open Shuhada Street” — at the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 August, 2010: 4 British activists acquitted in anti-Ahava action
21 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 4 British activists acquitted in anti-Ahava action IMEMC – 21 Aug 2010 – Sunday August 22, 2010 – 02:08, A British court has found 4 activists not guity of ‘aggravated trespass’ for an action in which they shut down a store selling Israeli dead… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 August, 2010: Peace talks in the shadow of demolitions
20 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Barak:”We Will Intercept Lebanese Ships Heading To Gaza” IMEMC – 20 Aug 2010 – Saturday August 21, 2010 – 02:37, Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, threatened that Israel will intercept and, if needed, use force against two Lebanese solidarity ships heading to the besieged… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: First Murder, then Theft and Lies from the “World’s Most Moral Army”
An investigation revealed by Israeli news sources confirms that an Israeli military officer and soldiers stole and sold laptops belonging to passengers on board the Freedom Flotilla, which was illegally boarded by Israeli forces on May 31, 2010. Continue reading
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Inquiry exposes massive Israeli media manipulation campaign in US
Files declassified in America have revealed the covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the US. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 August, 2010: Ex-soldier in Facebook scandal would ‘gladly kill Arabs’
19 August, 2010 — VTJP News Ma’an News Witnesses: Armed settler threatens farmers 8/19/2010 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — An armed settler accompanied by settlement security guards prevented Palestinian farmers and peace activists from irrigating their land near Nablus on Thursday morning, witnesses said. A resident of the illegal Itamar settlement, carrying a rifle and traveling… Continue reading
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Massacre, with a smile
A few days ago we learned about Eden Aberjil, an Israeli woman who posted pictures on her Facebook account of her abusing bound Palestinian prisoners at the time of her military service. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 18 August, 2010: Blacks and Economic Crisis / Israel and Obama / Frances' Debt to Haiti
18 August, 2010 — Black Agenda Report The Current Economic Crisis and the Way Out by Anthony Monteiro Wall Street rule has created a kind of “vampire economy,” a parasite on the “real” economy of work and production. Government acts as servant to the plunderers, deeming them “too big to fail” and bailing them out… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 August, 2010: Israel Should Not Keep Its History Behind Lock and Key
18 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Three Palestinians seized by Israeli troops in overnight raids in Abu Dis, Hebron IMEMC – 18 Aug 2010 – Wednesday August 18, 2010 – 15:42, In two separate invasions Tuesday night, Israeli forces attacked the east Jerusalem town of Abu Dis, and the southern… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 August, 2010: Breaking The Silence: Photos Of soldiers Posing With detainees Are The Norm Not Exception
17 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Jerusalem residents pray with exiled legislators in Red Cross tent IMEMC – 17 Aug 2010 – Wednesday August 18, 2010 – 01:06, A number of Palestinian residents of Jerusalem have traveled to the Gaza-Israel border each day since Ramadan began last Wednesday, to break… Continue reading
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IS ISRAEL AN APARTHEID STATE?
Renowned Nezareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook says not only is Israel’s control of the West Bank based on an apartheid system of segregation but also the system inside Israel proper. One of the top Israeli human rights lawyers, Michael Sfard, disagrees. In a Tel Aviv interview with The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky he talks about his… Continue reading
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Action Alert – Panorama ‘Death on the Med’ – Contact the BBC
On the 16 August, 2010, the BBC broadcast a Panorama programme entitled ‘Death on the Med’. It claimed to reveal ‘what really happened’ when Israeli commandoes boarded the Mavi Marmara on 31 May 2010. The programme was extremely biased, portraying the activists on board as violent terrorists who set out to kill Israeli soldiers. Continue reading
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