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6.8 million Palestinian refugees and counting – Towards a popular strategy for resisting forcible displacement
Following World Refugee Day, June 20th, 2013 the central issue to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continues to be the mass displacement of Palestinians. The creation of refugees, currently 6.8 million, and refusing their Right of Return is a main component of the ongoing Nakba. The violent uprooting of Palestinians from their homeland was waged in an… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 30 July 2013: Israeli-Palestinian negotiations: why now?
31 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Fatah dismisses papers that describe plot against HamasIMEMC – The two documents allegedly written by Fatah, that describe a plot against the Hamas party, were dismissed today as fabrications by members of Fatah s revolutionary council. On Tuesday, Hamas members attended a conference concerning Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 30 July 2013: Israel advises Sri Lanka on slow-motion genocide
30 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterKerry appoints former pro-Israel lobbyist to oversee peace talksIMEMC – On Monday [July 29], US Secretary of State John Kerry named Martin Indyk as the administration’s special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Indyk, 62, who is Jewish, has worked for AIPAC, a pro-Israel lobby group, and he helped Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 29 July 2013: Images of Bedouin displacement foreshadow a ‘Nakba in the Negev’
29 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPCHR Calls Upon Abbass To Intervene To Save Lives Of 36 Patients Suffering From “Leukemia”IMEMC – The Detainees Have Been With No Treatment For 8 Months The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over the lives of 36 patients, who suffer from Leukemia in Continue reading
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ICH 29 July 2013: In Defense of Hezbollah, a “Terrorist” Organization
29 July 2013 — Information Clearing House The Boycott of Israel Eight Years In By Lawrence Davidson In the private and public sectors of Western society, greater numbers of people no longer follow the line of historical interpretation set down by the Zionists. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35685.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 28 July 2013: Workers on Israel’s illegal railway robbed of half their pay
28 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterProtest tent evicted by Israeli troops south of BethlehemIMEMC – A group of around thirty protesters, including Palestinian, Israeli and international supporters of a Palestinian family whose home was recently demolished, were evicted Saturday from a protest tent they had set up on the family’s land in Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 27 July 2013: The irrelevance of peace talks
27 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli settler shoots live ammunition at Palestinian human rights house in HebronIMEMC – A group of human rights workers engaged in the project ‘Youth Against Settlements’ in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, reported that late Friday night, a group of activists were sitting in front of Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 26 July 2013: Israel launches ’price tag’ attack par excellence in response to EU settlement directive
26 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterBritish Human Rights Activist Wins Water-meter FightIMEMC – A British Palestine supporter won a battle this week to stop Southern Water company installing an Israeli-made water meter at her home. … Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 25 July 2013
25 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFamilies Denied Prison Visit After Objecting To Strip SearchIMEMC – The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights (ISFHR) reported that dozens of families of Palestinian detainees held by Israel at the Nafha prison have been denied family visits after a young Palestinian woman refused to Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 16 July 2013
16 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettler Stabbed In JerusalemIMEMC – Israeli TV Channel 7 has reported on Tuesday at night [July 16, 2013] that an Israeli settler, 33, was moderately injured after being stabbed in Bab Al- Amoud area, in occupied East Jerusalem. … Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 15 July 2013
15 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli tanks and bulldozers destroy Gaza farmlandIMEMC – Today in the Gaza Strip, Israeli tanks and bulldozers invaded farmland owned by Palestinian farmers. … Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 14 July 2013
14 July 23 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterNabi Saleh weekly protest on friday: Israeli soldiers fire tear gas and skunk waterIMEMC – During friday’s weekly protest in the village of An Nabi Saleh the villagers once more stipulated their discontent over their difficult situation under the occupation. The peaceful protest was met with tear Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 13 July 2013
13 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSyria: “Lathiqiyya Port Explosion, Not Israeli Air Strike”IMEMC – The Al-Alam Iranian news agency have reported that Syria denied that the explosions in Lathiqiyya (Latakia)Port were a result of an Israeli Air Strike, and that the explosions most likely took place during clashes between the Syrian Army Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 12 July 2013: ‘Palestinian Settler’: Israel’s Indigenous Invaders
12 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Supreme Court Postpones Amona EvictionIMEMC – Date Moved from July 15 to July 24 The Israeli Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the eviction of the Israeli settlement of Amona would be moved from its July 15 date. The eviction of the Central West Bank hilltop Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 10 July 2013
10 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterActivists to launch flotilla from Gaza to Europe in defiance of Israeli-imposed blockageIMEMC – Canadian, European, and Palestinian activists plan to launch a flotilla – dubbed “Gaza’s Ark” – from Gaza to Europe carrying produce and textiles, with the goal of raising awareness of the Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 9 July 2013: Echoes of South Africa’s ’District Six’ in the Negev
9 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterArmy Invades Al-QararaIMEMC – Palestinian sources have reported that a number of Israeli military vehicles advanced on Tuesday at dawn [July 9 2013] hundreds of meters into the Al-Qarara town, north east of Khan Younis city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 8 July 2013: When non-violence is criminal: Palestinian women stand trial for West Bank protest
8 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterMousa: “Hamas Will Be A Heavy Price For Interfering In Internal Egyptian Affairs”IMEMC – Legislator Yahia Mousa, a political leader of the Hamas movement, stated that the Hamas movement and the Gaza Strip will pay a heavy price for interfering in internal Egyptian affairs, and called on Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 7 July 2013
7 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPalestinian Bedouins attacked by right-wing Israeli settlers near NablusIMEMC – An armed gang of around 50 Israeli settlers stormed a Palestinian Bedouin community of shepherds in Huwwara area, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank on Saturday. … Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 4 July 2013: The ongoing humiliation of Palestinian prisoners
4 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsrael Denies Al-Eesawy Urgently Needed Medical AttentionIMEMC – The Hurryyat Legal Center has reported that the Israeli Prison Authority is denying Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, access to urgently needed medical attention and medications, and refuses to grant him medical checkups. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 1 July 2013: Whitewashing apartheid with Israel’s dirty water
1 July 2013 — VTJP News Ma’an News Official: Israeli settlers torch Palestinian fields in Burin7/1/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers started several fires in Burin village south of Nablus on Sunday evening, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlements in the northern West Bank, said residents of Bracha and Yitzhar settlements torched Continue reading
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