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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 January 2013: Israeli Authorities Change Route Of Wall To Fully Annex Jerusalem For Israel
21 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Demolishes Six Residential Structures Near HebronIMEMC – Monday – January 21, Israeli soldiers invaded the Ath-Thaheriyya town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and demolished six Palestinian homes and structures. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 20 January 2013: The long road to Bab al-Karama
20 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Mother And Her Baby Near HebronIMEMC – Saturday January 19, Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian woman and her 18-month old baby, in the Um Al Arayes area, east of Yatta town, near the southern West bank city of Hebron. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 19 January 2013: Revolution in resistance
19 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Attack Kufur Qaddoum Weekly ProtestIMEMC – Friday, January 18, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Settlements, and against the continued closure of the main road leading to the Kufur Qaddoum village, that was blockaded by the army ten years Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 18 January 2013: Bibi can relax – the ’center-left’ is really on the right
18 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Child Seriously Injured By Army Fire In BethlehemIMEMC – Friday evening, a Palestinian child was seriously injured during clashes that took place between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths in the Aida refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. … Continue reading
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Fracking Industry Goes After Promised Land Film by Meher Ahmad
Before Gus Van Sant’s latest film Promised Land even premiered, the energy industry was up in arms, gearing up to counter the film’s apparent anti-fracking stance with a barrage of “community” responses (read: thinly veiled corporate PR). James Schamus, chief executive of Focus Features the distributor of the film, expressed shock about the attacks on… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 January 2013: How the media let Israel get away with murder
17 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Resident’s Body Found Under Collapsed TunnelIMEMC – Thursday January 17; Palestinian rescue teams located the body of a resident who went missing last week when a siege busting tunnel on the border with Egypt collapsed on him due to heavy rain. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 January 2013: Making history in Bab Al Shams
16 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Fires Several Shells Into Central GazaIMEMC – Wednesday morning, Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli soldiers fired several artillery shells into Palestinian lands, east of the central part of the Gaza Strip, no injuries were reported. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 15 January 2013: Obama says Israel moving towards isolation: Report
15 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center At Least 17 Including 7 Reporters Injured As Army Attack Bab Al-Shams AgainIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that at least 11 nonviolent peace activists, and 7 reporters, have been injured when Israeli soldiers attacked a group of activists trying to reach the Bab Al-Shams, Continue reading
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ICH 15 January 2013: Blowback in Mali
15 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Mali and the Scramble for Africa:A New Wave of Barbarism By Ben Schreiner The notion that the West’s renewed interest in Africa is derived from an altruistic desire to help African states combat terrorism and establish democracy is rather absurd. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33622.htm Continue reading
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How 20 Tents Rocked Israel: Palestinians Take the Fight to their Occupiers By Jonathan Cook
At a time when Palestinians hoped for a watershed moment in their struggle for national liberation, the Fatah and Hamas leaderships look as mutually self-absorbed as ever. Last week they were again directing their energies into a new round of reconciliation talks, this time in Cairo, rather than keeping the spotlight on Israeli intransigence. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 14 January 2013: How 20 tents rocked Israel
14 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Farmer Killed By Israeli Fire In Beit LahiaIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian farmer died, on Monday evening, of serious injuries he suffered at noon after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him as he worked on his land in Beit Lahia, in Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 13 January 2013: Eviction of Bab Al Shams exposes Israel as a lawless state
13 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed, Three Injured, In Tunnel AccidentIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one Palestinian was killed and three others were injured when a siege-busting tunnel on the border with Egypt collapsed on them. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 12 January 2013: The hardest thing: Palestinian parents speak of their children killed by Israeli bombings
12 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Killed By Israeli Fire In HebronIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 January 2013: Israelis Must Rise Up To Avert National Disaster
11 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Peres: “We Should Not Have Assassinated Arafat, Abbas Is A Partner In Peace”IMEMC – In an interview that was conducted by the New York Times five months ago, and was only published Wednesday, and was republished by the Israeli Radio, Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stated Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 10 January 2013: BBC’s cruel excuses for ignoring Palestinian hunger strikes
10 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas: “There Are 63 UN Organizations We Have The Right To Join”IMEMC – “Israel Must Stop Its Illegal Settlement Activities, Violations” Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that the Palestinian Authority will act on the international level to stop Israel’s illegal settlement construction and expansion activities, Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 9 January 2013: Denying Palestinian rights is the core issue in Israeli elections
9 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Extreme Rain, Snow, Causes Floods, Casualties And DestructionIMEMC – The Palestinian Civil Defense reported that the storm that is hitting Palestine, and nearby countries, have caused several casualties and excessive destruction of property as rainfall flooded more than 400 homes while four Palestinians were killed Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 January 2013: Media misconceptions: Is the conflict really about Jews vs. Arabs?
8 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas Willing To Cooperate With US To Achieve Two-State SolutionIMEMC – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, stated that he is willing to continue to cooperate with the United States and the Obama Administration to achieve a peace agreement with Israel based on the two-state solution. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 7 January 2013: Desperate to break Samer Issawi hunger strike, Israel relentlessly targets his family
7 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Farawna: “Palestinian Christians, Partners In Struggle, Pain And Captivity”IMEMC – Former political prisoner, a Palestinian researcher specialized in detainee’s affairs, Abdul-Nasser Farawna, wished all Palestinian Christians a Merry Christmas and a happy new year, and stated that Palestinian Christians are partners in the struggle against Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 6 January 2013: The Case for Boycotting, Divesting, and Sanctions against Israel
6 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu Claims Abbas Is Refusing To Resume TalksIMEMC – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, continues to ignore what he called “all Israeli efforts to resume direct peace talks”, and accused Abbas of placing “impossible preconditions”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 January 2013: Israel’s persecuted truth teller
4 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Undercover Forces Infiltrate Into BethlehemIMEMC – A group of undercover soldiers of the Israeli army infiltrated, Friday, into the West Bank city of Bethlehem, using a Palestinian Taxi that was confiscated by the soldiers just outside of Beit Jala city, northwest of Bethlehem. … Continue reading