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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 January 2011: Report: Netanyahu delays law restricting outpost evictions
1 January 2012 — VTJP News Ma’an News PLO official: Israeli, Palestinian envoys to meet Tuesday 1/1/2012 – RAMALLAH (Reuters) — Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will meet this week after more than a year of deadlocked peacemaking and present their positions on core disputes to foreign mediators, a Palestinian official said on Sunday. PLO official… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 1 January 2012: Qatar invaded Libya, now invades Syria
1 January 2012 — Information Clearing House Arab League Mission to Syria Becomes Focus of Demands for Military Intervention By Chris Marsden The Arab League monitors are clearly under orders from Washington to come up with a hostile report on the regime of President Bashir al-Assad. On Tuesday, the US State Department warned that “if… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 31 December 2011: Settlers Break Into Archeological Areas In Bethlehem
31 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers ‘Help’ Soldiers Man Roadblocks IMEMC – Armed Israeli settlers, in civilian clothes, were seen helping Israeli soldiers in searching Palestinian vehicles and checking ID numbers of Palestinians at a number of military roadblocks leading to the Ramallah district, in the central West Bank.… Continue reading
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PCHR E-Narrative 31 December 2008: The Abu Areeda family
Around 23:30 on 31 December 2008, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at Najma Parc, a small green strip in the main street of the residential al-Shaboura neighbourhood in Rafah, killing two civilians and injuring dozens of others. Iman Abu Areeda (34) was one of the two casualties, killed by a piece of shrapnel that… Continue reading
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EI 31 December 2011: Lobby’s clumsy smear of UK professor exposed | Memories of Gaza massacre | And more …
31 December 2011 — UPDATE FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA JUST HOURS LEFT IN 2011 TO MAKE A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TO SUPPORT THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA AND HELP US MEET OUR GOAL. DONATE NOW. THANK YOU! LATEST FEATURES FROM THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA Exposed: UK university student claiming bias works for project of Israel pressure group Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 December 2011: Shocking Nakba Testimony by Former Israeli Palmach Fighter
30 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Closes Karm Abu Salem Crossing IMEMC – Israeli authorities temporarily close the Karm Abu Salem Crossing with the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Security sources reported on Friday. The border crossing will re-open on Sunday. … Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 29-30 December 2011
30 December 2011 — williambowles.info 30 December 2011Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, “Serial Fabricators” and the Tale of Iran and 9/11 by Gareth PorterDandelion Salad Today at 20:40by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at http://www.truth-out.org Dec. 29, 2011 Behind a mysterious December 22 Associated Press story about ‘finding of fact’ by a District judge in… Continue reading
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PCHR E-Narrative, 30 December 2008: The Hamdan Family
Talal Hamdan, 47, and Iman Hamdan, 46, are quietly contemplative about life since the loss of their three children Haya, Lama, and Ismail. The children were aged 12, 10, and 5 respectively, when on the morning of 30 December 2008 an Israeli F-16 dropped a bomb in the area they were walking in Beit Hanoun,… Continue reading
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Softening Up Iran for the Final Attack By Wayne Madsen
In many ways, America’s and Israel’s much-anticipated war against Iran has already begun. It is not the type of war that was expected — an Israeli textbook style surprise and swift attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, followed by a sustained U.S. and NATO air campaign — but a covert war with quite an unexpected feature. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 December 2011: A nightmare that lasted three weeks; memories of Gaza massacre
29 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel to open Karm Abu Salem Gaza crossing IMEMC – Israeli authorities said it will open the Karm Abu Salem, also known as Kerem Shalom, crossing to allow some basic material to enter into the beseiged Gaza Strip, Palestinian Media Sources reported Thursday. … Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 29 December 2011: U.S., Israel Discuss Bombing Iran
29 December 2011 — Information Clearing House U.S., Israel Discuss Triggers for Bombing Iran By Eli Lake The Obama administration is trying to assure Israel privately that it would strike Iran militarily if Tehran’s nuclear program crosses certain “red lines” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30098.htm Continue reading
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Red Lines and Ticking Clocks: U.S. War Plans Against Iran The possibility of Russia's Military Involvement… By Tom Burghardt
Before the first bomb falls disinformation specialists prepare the ground. Leading media outlets, foreign policy journals and a plethora of think tanks funded by elite foundations, energy and weapons’ conglomerates, “right,” “left” or “center” take your pick, churn out war propaganda disguised as “analysis.” Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 December 2011: Israel’s army chief hails Gaza war as ‘excellent’
28 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Residents of Beit Shemesh Fight Back Against Religious Extremism and Gender Segregation IMEMC – Thousands of local residents gathered in the Israeli village of Beit Shemesh, protesting the radically changing demographic of their city by the ultra-Orthodox community. The group seem hell-bent on enforcing… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 December 2011: Israel's army chief hails Gaza war as 'excellent'
28 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Residents of Beit Shemesh Fight Back Against Religious Extremism and Gender Segregation IMEMC – Thousands of local residents gathered in the Israeli village of Beit Shemesh, protesting the radically changing demographic of their city by the ultra-Orthodox community. The group seem hell-bent on enforcing… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 28 December 2011: War is God
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Preparing to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons: "No Option can be taken off the Table" By Michel Chossudovsky
The “no options off the table” statement intimates that the US not only envisages an attack on Iran but that this attack could include the use of tactical bunker buster nuclear weapons with an explosive capacity between one third and six times a Hiroshima bomb. In a cruel irony, these “humanitarian” “peace-making” nuclear bombs “Made… Continue reading
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Preparing to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons: “No Option can be taken off the Table” By Michel Chossudovsky
The “no options off the table” statement intimates that the US not only envisages an attack on Iran but that this attack could include the use of tactical bunker buster nuclear weapons with an explosive capacity between one third and six times a Hiroshima bomb. In a cruel irony, these “humanitarian” “peace-making” nuclear bombs “Made… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 December 2011: Open letter from Gaza: Three years after the massacre, justice or nothing!
27 December 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center One Killed, 3 Injured in Israeli Air Strike North of Gaza IMEMC – One Palestinian was killed and three others were injured as an Israeli air strike targeted on Tuesday evening a Palestinian vehicle near Abu-Sharkh Square in the city of Jabaliya, north of… Continue reading
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Palestinians in a ‘Jewish state’ By Ben White
Israel’s crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories – like the settlements, the killing of civilians and the demolition of homes – are openly condemned in the West by human rights groups and others like never before. But as the peace process remains stuck, and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu forces the issue of Israel as a… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 27 December 2011: The Man Who Prevented World War III
27 December 2011 — williambowles.info Justifying War with Iran By Russ Baker A growing body of evidence points to a concerted campaign to prepare Americans and the world for war against Iran. This is not idle speculation. It fits a pattern that repeatedly preceded previous hostilities. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30084.htm Continue reading