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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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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 August, 2010: Netanyahu Running with Nowhere to Hide
16 August, 2010 — VTJP International Middle East Media Center Harvard University divests from Israel IMEMC – 16 Aug 2010 – Monday August 16, 2010 – 23:27, In the latest declared victory for the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement worldwide, Harvard University, one of the most prestigious and oldest universities in the United States, has sold off all… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 17 August, 2010: Formalizing Israel's Land Grab
17 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House Living with the Taliban on the Afghan Frontline Video Report and Text Channel 4 News has obtained rare film of Taliban fighters on the Afghanistan frontline, including footage of their attacks on US forces. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at what the film tells us… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 August, 2010:Israel to establish new West Bank settlement
15 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Hale Leaves Ramallah Following A Meeting With Abbas, P.A Officials IMEMC – 16 Aug 2010 – Monday August 16, 2010 – 02:56, U.S envoy, David Hale, left Ramallah by midnight Sunday following a meeting with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and a number of Palestinian… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 August, 2010: Irish artists announce cultural boycott of Israel
14 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Pa To Decide On Resumption Of Direct Talks In The Coming Two Days IMEMC – 14 Aug 2010 – Saturday August 14, 2010 – 15:26, The decision on whether to start direct talks with Israel will come out in two days, said Azzam Al-Ahmad,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 August, 2010: Rights group: Teen tortured, held by Israeli forces
13 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Arab Parliamentarians Enter Gaza To Deliver Supplies IMEMC – 13 Aug 2010 – Saturday August 14, 2010 – 02:57, A convoy of Arab parliamentarians managed to cross into Gaza via the Rafah Border Terminal in order to deliver aid supplies estimated by 150 M.… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 August, 2010: Israeli forces desecrate 200 graves in Muslim cemetery; injure Sheikh with bulldozer
12 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli forces desecrate 200 graves in Muslim cemetery; injure Sheikh with bulldozer IMEMC – 12 Aug 2010 – Thursday August 12, 2010 – 18:25, A Jerusalem Sheikh who tried to stand in the way of Israeli bulldozers demolishing a Muslim cemetery was injured Tuesday,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 August, 2010: The “banality of evil” and Israel’s destruction of al-Araqib
10 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center WAFA: Hamas security forces harass Palestinian journalist in Gaza IMEMC – 10 Aug 2010 – Tuesday August 10, 2010 – 15:09, On the other hand, the WAFA news agency said that Hamas security forces in Gaza continue to summon Palestinian journalist to their headquarter… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 August, 2010: New guide puts Palestine history, debates in activists’ hands
9 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli police destroys 3 more homes in the Negev IMEMC – 9 Aug 2010 – Monday August 09, 2010 – 20:14, Israeli authorities demolished three houses in the western Negev, southern Israel area on Monday, Palestinian media sources reported. Palestinian reclaims land from settlement… Continue reading
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Israeli and Palestinian Women Find New Way to Challenge The Occupation
On Friday, July 23, we went on a trip – a dozen Jewish-Israeli women with a dozen West-Bank Palestinian women and four of their children, one of them a baby. We drove through the interior hill country (`Shfela’) and toured Tel Aviv and Yaffa together. We ate at a restaurant, bathed in the sea and… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: BOGUS PARALLELS – THE INDEPENDENT’S DONALD MACINTYRE RESPONDS
Does Macintyre really believe that our readers respond robotically to journalists without judging the arguments for themselves? Is it really lamentable for members of the public to take action in response to biased journalism when emboldened by the realisation that they are not alone in their concerns? Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 August, 2010: Flotilla ship Israel ‘painted’ to cover bullet holes
8 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israelis hold protests in 15 cities against demolition of Palestinian homes IMEMC – 8 Aug 2010 – Saturday August 07, 2010 – 20:19, More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered in cities across Israel on Friday (6 August) for a day of solidarity marking the one-year… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 August, 2010: Israel Plans Mass Forced Removals of Bedouin
7 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protest in Artas against the Israel wall IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 20:27, The people of the village of Artas west of Bethlehem organized on Friday their weekly march against the construction of the wall on their land.… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 August, 2010: Will the Israel-Lebanon border blow up?
6 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protest in Artas against the Israel wall IMEMC – 7 Aug 2010 – Friday August 06, 2010 – 20:27, The people of the village of Artas west of Bethlehem organized on Friday their weekly march against the construction of the wall on their land.… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 August, 2010: Uribe’s appointment to flotilla probe guarantees its failure
6 August, 2010 — VTJP News Ma’an News Red Cross urged to help farmers harmed by Gaza no-go zone 8/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Popular Committee Against the Buffer Zone in Gaza met with the International Committee of the Red Cross Saturday to discuss means to assist farmers affected by Israel’s imposition of… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 August, 2010 The Lunatic's Manual
5 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House The US Isn’t Leaving Iraq, It’s Rebranding the Occupation By Seumas Milne Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won’t give Iraqis back their country. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26092.htm US-led Raid Killed 39 Civilians By Press TV President Hamid Karzai’s office said late on Wednesday the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 August, 2010: A Country in Fragments: The Subjective Atlas of Palestine
5 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Sheikh Salah Denied Access To Jerusalem For Additional Three Months IMEMC – 5 Aug 2010 – Thursday August 05, 2010 – 22:25, The Islamic Movement reported Thursday that the commander of the so-called “Israeli Front Command” of the army, issued a new decision preventing… Continue reading
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Israel needs green light from US to assault Iran – Chossudovsky
A group of former CIA and military officials have written to President Obama to say they believe Israel is preparing to attack Iran this month. Continue reading
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Child confronts Israeli forces over father’s detention By Zuheir Al-Shaer
Video footage of a four-year-old child begging Israeli forces to release his father from detention on Monday has circulated the globe. Badran Jaber, the child’s grandfather, told Ma’an his son-in-law was detained after objecting to Israeli bulldozers overturning fields planted with vegetables near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement. Continue reading
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UN Human Rights Committee concludes that Israel violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
As such, with respect to the findings of the UN Fact-finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, the Committee regretted that Israel “has not yet conducted independent and credible investigations into the serious violations of international human rights law, such as direct targeting of civilians and civilian objects, including infrastructure such as waste water plants and… Continue reading
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