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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 27 July, 2011: Undercover Forces Captured On Film Kidnapping A Palestinian Child in Jerusalem
27 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Knesset Grants Fundamentalist Settlement Groups Admin “National Gardens” Rights IMEMC – Wednesday July 27, 2011 – 23:40, On Wednesday, The Israeli Knesset approved in Preliminary Reading a law that allows “nonprofit” and nongovernmental fundamentalist Israeli settler groups, especially the El Ad group, administrative Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 July, 2011: Troops Uproot Olive Orchards Near Jerusalem
21 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Break Into Room Of Detained Fateh Leader, Barghouthi IMEMC – Thursday July 21, 2011 – 19:19, Palestinian Ministry of Detainee at the dissolved government in Gaza reported Thursday that Israeli soldiers broke, on Wednesday at night, into the room of detained Fateh Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 July, 2011: Congress Blesses Israel’s Matrix of Control
17 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli military links settlement school to ‘Jewish terrorist’ organizing efforts IMEMC – Monday July 18, 2011 – 01:32, The Od Yosef Chai yeshiva religious school in the settlement of Yitzhar, near Nablus, faces a possible closure, after the Israeli military commander found it Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 15 July, 2011: Confused strategy: How the PA sold out Palestinian unity
15 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Sheikh Salah, Detained By Britain, To Be Released On Bail IMEMC – Saturday July 16, 2011 – 03:49, The British Authorities decided to release Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 territories, on bail after Continue reading
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Palestine’s ‘last village’ faces the bulldozers: Lifta to make way for Jewish vacation homes By Jonathan Cook
Although most Israeli drivers barely notice the buildings, this small ghost town — neglected for the past six decades — is at the centre of a legal battle fuelling nationalist sentiments on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Continue reading
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Former IDF Gen Rothschild gets red carpet treatment while Sheikh Raed Salah gets prison cell By Dr Hanan Chehata
With what is appalling timing, given the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah a week ago on the order of the Home Secretary Theresa May, a certain Maj-Gen (ret) Danny Rothschild spoke in London on Jul 4 at the Royal United Services Institute in Whitehall; he followed this on Jul 5 with a speech in parliament… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 June, 2011: Savvy flotilla prep in full swing at Athens port
22 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Ross: “Israel Must Remain Jewish State” IMEMC – Thursday June 23, 2011 – 04:54, Dennis Ross, senior aide to American President, Barack Obama, stated during a speech in Jerusalem, Wednesday, that all steps must be taken to ensure that Israel “remains a democratic and Continue reading
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Video shows police violently arresting Jewish man in Jerusalem
“Israel is occupying the Palestinian people in my name, in the name of world Jewry,” Lucas, clutching his American passport, tells the camera. “And I myself, an American Jew, is here to say that is completely unjustified and ethically reprehensible.” 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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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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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 May, 2011: Army Starts Illegal Wall Construction Around Palestinian Town North of Jerusalem
9 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Starts Wall Construction Around Palestinian Town North of Jerusalem IMEMC – Tuesday May 10, 2011 – 03:23, Local sources reported that the Israeli Authorities started the construction of a segment of the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall, around Qalandia Palestinian town, north of occupied Continue reading
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Erekat’s solution for the Haram
The PA’s chief negotiator suggested unprecedented compromises on the division of Jerusalem and its holy sites Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 November, 2010: MK proposes bill to declare Jerusalem Jewish capital
26 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Rabin’s Son Proposes Alternative Israeli Peace Initiative IMEMC – 27 Nov 2010 – Friday November 26, 2010 – 17:39, The son of Yitzhak Rabin and businessman Koby Huberman presented a plan in response to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, Haaretz said quoting a source Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 November, 2010: Settlers move into house after Israeli police evict Palestinian family
24 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Extremists Attack Jordan Embassy Employees In Tel Aviv IMEMC – 25 Nov 2010 – Thursday November 25, 2010 – 02:15, An official Jordanian source reported Wednesday that a number Israeli extremists attacked on Tuesday at night two employees working at the Jordanian embassy in Continue reading
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Seumas Milne: The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage
In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as Palestinian refugees in the 1950s. As she speaks, three young ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers swagger in to stake their claim to the front part… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 November, 2010: New plans part of Judaising Occupied East Jerusalem
10 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two Officers Feared Dead As Israeli Jet Crashes In The Negev IMEMC – 10 Nov 2010 – Thursday November 11, 2010 – 03:21, Israeli sources reported Wednesday that rescue teams are now searching for an Israeli Air Force pilot and his navigator after their Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 November, 2010: Settlers Open New Settlers Only Road in Hebron
One of the best aggregations of news and analysis on the situation in Palestine. Frequency: almost daily. More material available from Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel – www.vtjp.org Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 November, 2010: Israeli homes plan for Jerusalem sparks Palestinian fury
8 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Erekat: “Netanyahu Determined To Destroy Talks” IMEMC – 8 Nov 2010 – Monday November 08, 2010 – 22:58, Chief Palestinian Negotiator, Dr. Saeb Erekat, accused Israel Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of acting in a way that is meant to foil peace talks and hinder Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 November, 2010: “Traffic Accidents” in occupied Palestine: Another Form of Zionist Terrorism
5 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Three Injured at an-Nabi Saleh Anti-Wall Protest IMEMC – 5 Nov 2010 – Friday November 05, 2010 – 18:06, At least three civilians were injured and many others treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation on Friday, after Israeli troops violently suppressed the Continue reading
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