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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 July, 2010: Israel razes Bedouin village, 300 residents evicted
27 July, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel destroys Bedouin village IMEMC – 27 Jul 2010 – Tuesday July 27, 2010 – 16:55, 1300 police officers and security personnel guarded the area as bulldozers demolished a Bedouin village near Rahat. U.S. To Abbas: Go to direct talks to stop home demolitions… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 July, 2010: Israel wages war against media and activists
News International Middle East Media Center Israel destroys Bedouin village IMEMC – 27 Jul 2010 – Tuesday July 27, 2010 – 16:55, 1300 police officers and security personnel guarded the area as bulldozers demolished a Bedouin village near Rahat. U.S. To Abbas: Go to direct talks to stop home demolitions and freeze settlements IMEMC –… Continue reading
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“American Radical” Norman Finkelstein: Israel losing PR campaign
US author, academic and outspoken Palestinian supporter, Norman Finkelstein accuses the US of coddling Israel and is lobbying to speak at the United Nations to promote progress for a Middle-East Peace Process. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 July, 2010: Israeli police outraged as impunity ends: Officer gets 30 months for killing Arab driver
26 July, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Invades Beit Forik IMEMC – 26 Jul 2010 – Tuesday July 27, 2010 – 01:43, Israeli soldiers invaded on Monday at night Beit Forik village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus after closing all of its entrances. JCSER: “Hundreds of Palestinians… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 July, 2010: Israel’s Friends at Westminster: Protecting Vilest Criminals
News Ma’an News Police: Israel detains man at border 7/25/2010 – Hebron – Ma’an – Palestinian Authority police said Sunday that a Palestinian resident of Tulkarem refugee camp was detained at the Allenby Bridge as he returned from Jordan over the weekend. Police said Muhammad Ahmad Issa, 50, was detained as he attempted to cross… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 July, 2010: Who’s aiding Judaisation?
News International Middle East Media Center A UN Fact-finding Mission To Probe Flotilla Attack IMEMC – 24 Jul 2010 – Saturday July 24, 2010 – 16:56, The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed a team to probe the Israeli deadly attack against the Freedom Flotilla on May 31, which claimed the lives of 9 passengers… Continue reading
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ISRAEL AND ECONOMIC “WARFARE”
On Wednesday, July 14th, the Israeli Parliament approved the first of three readings of a new law. If passed, the law will make it illegal to declare a boycott on Israel or Israeli companies, participate in a boycott, or provide aid in the form of information to anyone who is part of the Boycott, Divestment… Continue reading
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Sex with Jewish girl costs Arab man 18 months in Israeli jail
In Israel, an Arab man has been sentenced to 18 months for ‘rape by deception’. Sabbar Kashur tricked a woman into having sex with him, by claiming to be Jewish. He plans to appeal the decision. And as RT’s Paula Slier reports, even couples who choose to have interfaith relationships face hostility Continue reading
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“Israel is regional bully with nuclear weapons” – Jonathan Cook
‘The reason why Israel can’t allow Iran to have nuclear weapons is because if Iran developed its own nuclear arsenal, it would totally change the balance of power in the Middle East,’ he says. ‘At the moment Israel is the regional bully, it has its own nuclear weapons, it can pull them out as it… Continue reading
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A Freedom Charter or A Second Nakba? By Kenneth O’Keefe
Imagine this, imagine that Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress negotiated a deal with the South African Apartheid regime and settled for a ‘two-state solution.’ Imagine Mandela negotiating with the Apartheid regime a land deal in which less than 15% of current day South Africa went to the black South Africans, the remaining 85%… Continue reading
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Spades, Human Rights and Undemocratizing Israel
Boaz Okon, former Israeli judge and current legal affairs editor for the right-leaning and largest Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Aharonoth, has called a spade a spade using both the forbidden words; apartheid and fascism. In his article, “Draw Me a Monster,” translated into English by the Coteret website, he described a long and still-growing list of… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: “PEACE ENVOY” BLAIR GETS AN EASY RIDE IN THE INDEPENDENT
The whole tone of the Independent interview was uncritical and respectful; a bland and meek summation of the sincere and well-intentioned thoughts of a man with the blood of untold numbers of victims on his hands: men, women and children in Iraq, Afghanistan, the former Yugoslavia and, indeed, in Palestine itself. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 19 July, 2010: Top Secret America – A Hidden World
UK Official – Troops out of Afghanistan by 2014 By Jonathan Owen and Brian Brady A communiqué containing a blueprint for British troops to pull out from Afghanistan in four years’ time has been leaked ahead of a major international conference this week www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25959.htm Hopes and Prospects, By Noam Chomsky By Johann Hari Chomsky is… Continue reading
