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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 16 December 2012: Under siege: One Bedouin family’s struggle to live in Israel
16 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Four Youths In HebronIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, broke into and searched dozens of homes and kidnapped four youths before taking them to an unknown destination. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 15 December 2012: Unsettling realities of Israeli settlements
15 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Attack Residents, Vehicles, Near NablusIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that several injuries took place in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, after extremist Israeli settlers, and soldiers attacked Palestinian homes and vehicles; the army also fired dozens of gas bombs… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 14 December 2012: Israel Starts Removing Mines Close To Border With Jordan- To Build Settlements
14 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and BethlehemIMEMC – PLO Negotiations Affairs Department Issued Their Latest Fact Sheet entitled “Colonizing Christmas: Facts on Israeli Occupation and Bethlehem”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 12 December 2012: Lieberman: “Heading To ICC, A Palestinian Declaration Of War On Israel”
12 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Extremist Israeli Settlers Write Racist Graffiti On Christian MonasteryIMEMC – A number of extremist Israeli settlers wrote, on Wednesday at dawn, racist graffiti attacking Christianity and Jesus Christ on the walls of a monastery in occupied Jerusalem, the WAFA News Agency reported. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 11 December 2012: The Civilian Toll of Israel’s Bombs
11 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Abbas Threatens To Head To ICC Should Israel Implement E1 ProjectIMEMC – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, threatened to head to the International Criminal Court (ICC) should Israel insist on implementing its decision to build more than 3000 homes for Jewish settlers as part of its E1… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 10 December 2012: Shattered Lives in Gaza
10 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Break Into School Near Bethlehem, Attack Students, TeachersIMEMC – Palestinian sources in Taqoua’ village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, reported that Israeli soldiers broke, Monday, into the village’s High School for Boys, attacked several teachers and students, and left the school later… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 9 December 2012: Netanyahu reveals the true face of Israel
9 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 18 Seriously Sick Detainees Facing Medical Neglect In Israeli PrisonsIMEMC – The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights issued a press release revealing that 18 seriously ill detainee, permanently at the Al-Ramla Prison Clinic are facing life-threatening conditions due to the lack of adequate and specialized… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 6 December 2012: Israel’s annexation moment has arrived
6 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 14 Injured By Army Fire In HebronIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that 14 residents have been injured, while dozens were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Bab Az-Zawiya… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 5 December 2012: Justice, Peace and the Israeli State
5 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Indonesian Parliament Head Arrives In GazaIMEMC – Indonesian Parliament head, Ali Marzouki, arrived in the Gaza Strip via the Rafah Border Terminal on Wednesday heading a senior Indonesian delegation to observe the massive destruction caused by Israel during its recent war on Gaza, and to express… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 4 December 2012: UN Votes For Inspecting Israel’s Nuclear Facilities
4 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center King Abdullah Of Jordan To Visit RamallahIMEMC – Jordanian Al-Ghad Newspaper reported that that King Abdullah of Jordan intends to visit the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Thursday December 6, to hold an official meeting with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 3 December 2012: Israel Asked Jordan’s Approval To Strike Syrian Facilities
3 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Ambassadors Summoned In Britain, Sweden, and FranceIMEMC – EU Countries Reject Israel’s New Settlement Construction Plan Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Monday that the governments in Britain, Sweden and France summoned the Israeli ambassadors in protest to the newly declared Israeli plan to construct settlement units… Continue reading
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ICH 3 December 2012: Chris Hedges: Katrina, All Over Again
3 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria WMD Claim Is False By Moon Of Alabama If the Wired writers, had even some basic knowledge about ammunition engineering they would not fall for such a stupid claim some anonymous official makes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33215.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 2 December 2012: Israel seizes $120m PA revenues in response to UN vote
2 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Security Services Oppose Government Decision To Build More SettlementsIMEMC – The Israeli Security Services expressed rejection of the new Israeli government decision to build additional 3000 units for Jewish settlers in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, and said that “the move is un-calculated”. … Continue reading
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Map Reading By Harry Feldman
Palestinians have never enjoyed political control over any part of Palestine as this unfortunate graphic suggests. Not under Ottoman rule or the British Mandate (‘1946’); not under the abortive and downright bizarre UN partition plan (‘1947’); definitely not under Jordanian and Egyptian rule (‘1967’); and absolutely not under Israeli occupation (‘2010’). Furthermore, the graphic is… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 1 December 2012: The next stop for Palestinians could be global courts
1 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Kidnaps 21 Palestinians In West Bank, GazaIMEMC – Israeli soldiers and Navy kidnapped, Saturday, 19 Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip; 12 fishermen were kidnapped in Gaza territorial waters in Gaza, and nine in the occupied West Bank. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 30 November 2012: Israel To Build 3000 Settlement Units In West Bank, Jerusalem
30 November 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Threatens To “Reoccupy’ West BankIMEMC – Israeli member of Knesset, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development and the development of the Negev and Galilee, Silvan Shalom, threatened that Israel would reoccupy the West Bank in response to the Palestinian bid at the United… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 29 November 2012: Israel bombed the stadium where disabled athletes train
29 November 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center US Senate Threatens Sanctions Against P.A.IMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the United States Senate threatened to block all funding to the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in the West Bank should the Palestinians decide to sue Israel for war crimes at the International Court. … Continue reading
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Did Britain Try Blackmail to Cripple Palestinians’ UN Bid? By Stuart Littlewood
Ugly rumours are flying that the British government twisted the arm of President Abbas and told him the UK would only support Palestine’s modest upgrade to ‘observer state’ at the UN (to be decided tomorrow, Thursday) if he pledged not to pursue Israeli war criminals through the International Criminal Court. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 28 November 2012: Israel’s repression of Palestinian students reached new level during Gaza attack
28 November 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Seven Palestinians Injured By Army Fire In Central GazaIMEMC – The Israeli army continued its violations of the ceasefire that was reached on the evening of Wednesday November 21, shot and injured on Wednesday evening (Nov. 28), seven Palestinians east of the Al-Maghazi and the Al-Bureij… Continue reading
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