Palestine
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The Real News Network – Israel, Palestine and the media
Mordecai Briemberg on battle over satire, media concentration and coverage of Israel PT2/2 http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1770526 more about “The Real News Network – Israel, Pales…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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BBC: Israel army studies ‘abuse video’
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1769886 Below I have reproduced the BBC’s copy: There is no information as to when or where the video was shot The Israeli military is investigating a video in which a Palestinian detainee appears to be humiliated by a group of Israeli soldiers. The video, broadcast by Israeli TV after being posted on YouTube, shows… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Gazans Resist by Surviving
Despite its small size, Gaza in many ways encapsulates the essence of two of the world’s major conflicts: the rise of political Islam and the use by the West of collective punishment and economic coercion as a brutal counterweight. Continue reading
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The Real News Network – Media giant tries to muzzle parody
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1767746 In early November, Canadian media giant Canwest Mediaworks dropped its lawsuit against Mordecai Briemberg, a lawsuit which alleged that he infringed on Canwest’s trademark rights. The case pertained to the creation of a parody of one of Canwest’s many papers, the Vancouver Sun. The parody satirized what its creators see as Canwest’s biased coverage… Continue reading
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Benjamin Hartman: GA Magazine / The Internet intifada
The JIDF made headlines in August by executing a takeover of a popular anti-Zionist Facebook group called ‘Israel is not a country! Please Facebook delete it.’ Continue reading
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Khalil Nakhleh – Review of Hatim Kanaaneh’s “A Doctor in Galilee: the life and struggle of a Palestinian in Israel”
This is a rich ethnographic and experiential narrative of local village culture, Hatim’s own village, culture and society. It is documented with immense passion, sensitivity, worry and a high level of personal doubt and torment. Continue reading
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Michael Bahl, Haaretz : Elderly Palestinian couple evicted from East Jerusalem home despite U.S. protest
In a pre-dawn operation in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of predominantly Arab East Jerusalem, scores of police officers and IDF troops Sunday evicted an elderly Palestinian couple from their home, despite protests by the United States, other countries, and human rights groups. Continue reading
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URGENT: HEBREW UNIVERSITY STUDENT FACES EXPULSION FOR REFUSING TO SHAKE HANDS WITH SHIMON PERES
According to Haaretz, Ali was studying in the university library, when the President walked in and began shaking hands with students. Ali refused to shake hands with Peres, saying that he was a child murderer and reminding him of the Qana massacre, which was carried out under Peres’s premeirship. Continue reading
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GazaFriends Update: All is well
The boat arrived this morning at 7:30, schussing through the water, white caps on either side. Osama, Mary and I were at the dock to greet the returnees, again thrilled to see them on deck. This time, 29 people returned, either of them Palestinians from Gaza. Dr. Mona was on board on her way to… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Dignitaries Depart with Dignity
“The siege of Gaza is an illegal and immoral act of collective punishment imposed on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip for the ‘crime’ of voting in internationally supervised elections for a party not supported by the Western powers,” said Ms. Short, the former British Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: European Parliamentarians Admonish Israel & Egypt for Border Closures to Gaza
A group of 11 European parliamentarians from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and Switzerland today visited the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, calling for an end to the ongoing blockade. Continue reading
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GazaFriends Update: Israeli Chemical Warfare on Palestinian Fishermen
9:15 am. From a small Palestinian fishing boat, David Schermerhorn watched as Israeli sailors aboard a large Navy Gunboat put on Hazmat suits and masks. Five minutes later, the fishermen and internationals were blasted by water from a cannon mounted atop the gunboat. The water was filthy, with an appalling chemical smell to it. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: URGENT ALERT – Fishermen under attack!
Vik is yelling at the Israeli gunboat, telling them that three internationals are on board and they are all unarmed and they just want to go fishing. The pleas were met by water cannon so strong that all of the people on board went into the cabin for protection. David is trying to get water… Continue reading
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Uri Blau: IDF asks police, Shin Bet for info on left-wing figures active in W. Bank
The Israel Defense Forces has asked the Shin Bet security service and the police to provide it with information on left-wing figures active in the West Bank so it will be easier to issue restraining orders against them, Haaretz has learned. Continue reading
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Update from GazaFriends: DIGNITY to Israeli gunboat “Feel Free to Make a Donation”
For Immediate Release November 8, 2008 Contact: Mary Hughes, Cyprus +357 96 75 00 59 Greta Berlin, Cyprus: +357 99 08 17 67 Osama Qashoo, +44 78 33 38 16 60 Angela Godfrey Goldstein, Jerusalem: +972 547 366 393 Larnaca: The DIGNITY pulled into Gaza at 9:15 a.m. Gaza time after an uneventful trip from… Continue reading
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Jonathan Cook: Mamilla Cemetery – A Travesty Of Tolerance On Display
The Israeli Supreme Court’s approval last week of the building of a Jewish Museum of Tolerance over an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem is the latest in a series of legal and physical assaults on Islamic holy places since Israel’s founding in 1948. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 