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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 June, 2011: Uncivilized Relations: Israel Confronts its Neighbours
9 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Raids West Bank Towns Overnight IMEMC – Thursday June 09, 2011 – 17:14, Maan news agency is reporting that five Palestinian men, including minors, were abducted over night during raids on West Bank towns and villages by the Israeli military. Continue reading
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The Israeli Occupation Archive 10 June 2011: Palestine-UN | East Jerusalem | Jordan Valley
10 June 2011 — The Israeli Occupation Archive Secret cables show Israel’s battle plan over Palestinian UN bid East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers Francis A. Boyle: Could Obama veto Palestine’s application to the United Nations? B’Tselem Jordan Valley report: Dispossession and Exploitation Palestinians in America: an intelligent socialist’s guide to Tony Kushner, with… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 June, 2011: Israeli forces ransack Nablus offices of the Change and Reform Bloc
8 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Wine Bottles Smashed In Al-Aqsa Compound IMEMC – Wednesday June 08, 2011 – 17:56, Local sources report that a number of Jewish settlers broke into the al-Aqsa compound and began drinking wine and smashing bottles on the floor. Continue reading
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The rights of Israel By Joseph Massad
Israel’s entire basis for beginning negotiations lies in the false premise that it has a ‘right’ to exist Continue reading
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Promised Crossing Denied By Mohammed Omer
RAFAH, Jun 8, 2011 (IPS) – Many hoping to find free movement between Egypt and Gaza have found the border gates at the Rafah crossing closed. Egyptian officials closed the gates on Saturday, according to Palestinian officials. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 June, 2011: Jewish settlers vandalize mosque in Ramallah
7 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center US Seeks To Maintain Central Role In Peace Process IMEMC – Tuesday June 07, 2011 – 15:37, The US has signalled that it intends to maintain its leading position in facilitating Middle East peace talks with its announcement of discussions aimed at renewing the… Continue reading
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Israeli bullets killed protesters, yet Syria is reponsible say Israel, US
The Government of Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has stated its intention to complain to the United Nations over the march from Syria on the occupied Golan Heights yesterday. At least twenty persons are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire during a protest marking Naksa Day or the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 June, 2011: Israel’s plan to forcibly remove 30,000 Bedouin slammed as cruel
6 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Prepares To Approve 4100 New Units For Israeli Settlers In East Jerusalem IMEMC – Tuesday June 07, 2011 – 03:03, The Israeli Interior Ministry, and the so-called Construction and Planning Committee, are preparing to officially approve 4100 units for Jewish settlers in occupied… Continue reading
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Franklin Lamb: Israelis Rush for Second Passports
Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to exercise their right to depart, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepared to exercise their… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 June, 2011: Thousands rally in Tel Aviv against occupation
5 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center French Activist summoned to court over Israel Boycott Video IMEMC – Sunday June 05, 2011 – 19:38, Olivia Zemor a French national has been summoned to appear before the Paris tribunal for publishing a video on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against israel… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 June, 2011: Couple Foreclose On Bank of America: Sweet Justice
5 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” – Rosa Luxemburg The State Of The Empire: Some Reflections on the Geopolitical Situation By Ninan Koshy The Bush administration had redefined war objectives in terms of “changing the regime of an adversary state” and “occupying foreign territory… Continue reading
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In India and Israel, the burden of protest falls on the victims of injustice By Pankaj Mishra
At a dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose centenary falls this year, wrote: “We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton”. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 June, 2011: Israeli forces ransack home of acting supreme judge
4 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Qabha: “Real Reconciliation Does Not Exist In The West Bank” IMEMC – Saturday June 04, 2011 – 14:25, Former Minister of Detainees, Hamas political official, Wasfi Qabha, stated that there are no real indications of reconciliation in the West Bank as the Palestinian security… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 June, 2011: FRANKLIN LAMB: Israelis Rush for Second Passports
3 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center June 5th March Postponed In Lebanon IMEMC – Friday June 03, 2011 – 16:12, A high ranking Palestinian leader has told Lebanon Daily Star newspaper that the June 5th march by Palestinian refugees will be postponed due to pressure from the Lebanese government. Continue reading
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Israel’s PR victory shames news broadcasters By Greg Philo
The propaganda battle over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached a new level of intensity. In 2004 the Glasgow University Media Group published a major study on TV coverage of the Second Intifada and its impact on public understanding. We analysed about 200 programmes and questioned more than 800 people. Our conclusion: reporting was dominated by… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 May, 2011: Israeli prisons charge Palestinian detainees for medical treatment
29 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Gaza Journalism Forum Slams Israeli Police For Attacking Journalists in Jerusalem IMEMC – Sunday May 29, 2011 – 10:21, The Palestinian Journalists Forum in Gaza issued a statement denouncing the Israeli police for attacking Palestinian journalists reporting on clashes that took place in Ras… Continue reading
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The Secret Wars of the Saudi-Israeli Alliance By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Tel Aviv, Washington and NATO are taking advantage of the upheavals in the Arab World. Not only are they fighting against the legitimate aspirations of the Arab people, they are manipulating the Arab geo-political landscape as part of their strategy to control Eurasia. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 