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What Comes Next: A secular democratic state in historic Palestine – a promising land Omar Barghouti
The ongoing, tumultuous popular upheavals in the Arab world are ushering in a new phase that may break the rusty but still formidable imperial and neoliberal fetters that have consciously, systemically, and structurally inhibited human development in the entire Arab region. In addition to its anticipated emancipatory impact on peoples across this region, this process… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 20 October 2013: Israel heightens campaign to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque and build alleged Temple
20 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsrael Refuses Entry Of 120 Trucks Into GazaIMEMC – Sunday October 20, 2013, the Israeli Authorities refused to allow 120 trucks, loaded with construction material, into the Gaza Strip as they tried to cross through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) terminal between Gaza and Israel. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 20 October 2013: Food Stamp Corporate Welfare
20 October 2013 — Information Clearing House It Took Decades for Truth to be Revealed in Algeria. How Long Will it Take Syria? By Robert Fisk The real story of the much more recent Algerian war – between the Islamists and the government in the 1990s (total deaths 250,000, a hundred thousand more than in Syria today)… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 19 October 2013: The Israeli government’s official ’lawfare’ contractor
19 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Uproot 100 Olive Trees Near NablusIMEMC – Saturday morning [October 19, 2013] A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded Palestinian olive orchards in Qaryout village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and uprooted more than 100 olive trees. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 18 October 2013: Report: EU to bypass its own anti-settlements guidelines
18 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterBody Of Slain Palestinian Still Held By IsraelIMEMC – The Israeli Authorities are still holding the body of Younis Radayda, who was shot and killed on Thursday allegedly after he drove into a military base, and said that his body will be handed to the Palestinians Sunday,… Continue reading
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“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East By Israel Shahak
The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, the Likud party, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. Continue reading
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“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East By Israel Shahak
The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, the Likud party, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 17 October 2013: It’s Time to Put an End to Israel’s “Don’t ask-don’t tell” Nuclear Policy
17 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPeace Now: “Settlement Construction Rises By 70%”IMEMC – Israeli Peace Now movement issued a report on Israeli settlement construction and expansion activities, and revealed that settlement construction increased by %70 in the period between January and June 2013. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 16 October 2013
16 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSources: “Egyptian Army Opens Fire At Palestinians in Rafah”IMEMC – [Wednesday October 16, 2013] The Palestine Now News Agency has reported that Egyptian soldiers opened fires at the Palestinian side near the border area in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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Even the World Bank Understands Palestine is being disappeared By Jonathan Cook
Two recent images encapsulate the message behind the dry statistics of last week’s report by the World Bank on the state of the Palestinian economy. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 16 October 2013: Starve the (Military) Beast
16 October 2013 — Information Clearing House US War On Iraq Claimed Half a Million Lives, Study Finds By Joseph Brownstein US Public perception of the civilian death toll from the war is in the neighborhood of 10,000. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36540.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 15 October 2013: Teenagers face 25 years imprisonment for allegedly throwing stones
15 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterUNICEF Publishes Report On Detained Palestinian ChildrenIMEMC – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reported that Israeli violations against detained Palestinian children are still ongoing, despite an alleged Israeli decision to improve their conditions, and the methods of interrogation. … Continue reading
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Turning Blood into Money – Profiting from Killing By Vacy Vlazna
Yotam Feldman’s documentary, released in August, is one of the most important exposés of the obscene rationale and execution of Israel’s hugely lucrative arms and security industries through the voices of some of its ex-military key operators: Amos Golan, Shimon Naveh, Leo Gleser, and Yoav Galant. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 14 October 2013: How Israel increases its odds of international prosecution
14 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterRefugees Drown As Ship Came Under Libyan FireIMEMC – The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria has reported that a ship carrying hundreds of Palestinian and Syrian refugees who fled from Syria drowned in the Mediterranean close to Libyan shores after coming under fire from Libyan side… Continue reading
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Israeli Factor in Syrian Conflict Unveiled By Nicola Nasser
More than two and a half years on, Israel’s purported neutrality in the Syrian conflict and the United State’s fanfare rhetoric urging a “regime change” in Damascus were abruptly cut short to unveil that the Israeli factor has been all throughout the conflict the main concern of both countries. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 13 October 2013: Court denial of Israeli nationality reinforces discrimination
13 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian village continuously inhabited for 3,000 about to be destroyed by IsraelIMEMC – The Israeli High Court is set to rule on the forced expulsion of all of the residents of the village of Khirbat Zanuta, southwest of Hebron in the southern West Bank on Monday. … Continue reading
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‘The bra is a security threat’: Harassment and interrogation at Ben Gurion airport By Anonymous
Anonymous is 21 years old and lives in Berkeley, California. Her father is a Jordanian Palestinian and her mother is a British Jew. The following trip took place in September, 2013. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 12 October 2013: As Egypt’s army fights its own civilians, Israel is on the verge of annexing Sinai
12 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsrael To Build 1500 Units For Settlers In Occupied JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli sources have reported that bids for the construction of 793 new settlement units will be announced soon, as part of a plan to build 1500 new units in a number of Jewish settlements in the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 11 October 2013
11 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Reserve Colonel Killed In Jordan Valley SettlementIMEMC – [Thursday at night October 10 2013] Israeli daily, Haaretz, has reported that an Israeli reserve officer settler was killed outside his home in the Brosh Habika illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Jordan Valley. … Continue reading
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Strategic Culture Foundation 6-12 October 2013
12 October 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation US: Debts and Back Up 12.10.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV The published piece called America’s Debt: Upper and Lower Tips of Iceberg offers a wide range of assessments to determine the size of US debt. Today the country has to raise the debt ceiling again, otherwise the United States will… Continue reading
