Palestine
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 July, 2011: US Congress loves being lied to about the Israel-Palestine conflict…
16 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Youth Moderately Wounded In A New Israeli Attack In Beit Hanoun IMEMC – Saturday July 16, 2011 – 09:33, Israeli soldiers bombarded, after midnight Friday night, an area in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; damage was reported,… 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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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 14 July, 2011: Israel’s Crackdown Grows with Boycott Bill
14 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Army Airstrikes Gaza; Four Residents, Including Two Children, Wounded IMEMC – Friday July 15, 2011 – 04:42, The Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip leading to damages and four injuries among the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 July, 2011: Israeli Press Mum on Murdoch
13 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center “Tolerance Museum” Given Go Ahead By Israeli Interior Ministry IMEMC – Wednesday July 13, 2011 – 17:58, Associated Foreign Press has reported that Israel has given the go ahead to build a planned “tolerance museum” on top of a Muslim burial site. The… 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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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 July, 2011: Jerusalem Ad: Beautiful apartment, breathtaking view, Jews only
9 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Woman Wounded After Army Fired At Homes In Northern Gaza IMEMC – Sunday July 10, 2011 – 04:14, Palestinian medical sources reported on Saturday at night that Israeli soldiers, based near the northern Gaza border, opened automatic fire at a number of… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 July, 2011: Israel gives award to tank shell used against civilians in Gaza
8 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Six Palestinians, Including Daughter Of Legislator IMEMC – Saturday July 09, 2011 – 03:30, Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank including the daughter of a female legislator from the central West Bank city of Ramallah.… Continue reading
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Ibrahim Hewitt: Israel’s fifth columnists silence Sheikh Raed Salah
Thousands of words have been written about the scandalous arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah by the British government in what is being seen as an attempt to silence him at the insistence of the pro-Israel Lobby. Supporters of the Sheikh from all sides of the political and religious divide in Palestine and beyond have stepped… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 July, 2011: Israel Prepares To Stop “Welcome To Palestine” Activists
7 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center UN Rapporteur Slams UN Report Backing Israeli Raid On Flotilla IMEMC – Friday July 08, 2011 – 03:52, Olivier De Schutter, Special United Nations Rapporteur on the Right to Food, voiced strong criticism of a highly anticipated UN report that is said to… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 July, 2011: Israel lawmaker ‘narrowly escapes UK arrest warrant’
6 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Spanish flotilla activists occupy embassy in Greece IMEMC – Thursday July 07, 2011 – 02:16, A group of Spanish activists have occupied their country’s embassy in Greece, calling for the release of an aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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Sheikh’s arrest is an attempt to sabotage the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause Ahmad Chaker Jomaa
What is truly appalling, though, is that Sheikh Salah was arrested after he had already attended a round-table discussion in Parliament on Monday and before he was due again as a guest on Wednesday. Continue reading
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British Peace groups to deliver letter to Greek Ambassador demanding the release of the Freedom Flotilla boats to Gaza
British Peace groups to deliver letter to Greek Ambassador demanding the release of the Freedom Flotilla boats to Gaza Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 July, 2011: US captain of Gaza ship held in ‘shocking conditions’
3 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 200 additional activists may join Freedom Flotilla IMEMC – Sunday July 03, 2011 – 14:15, A Jordanian union leader told Agence France Presse that a boat has been purchased for $800,000 in Greece to carry construction materials, medical supplies, and 200 additional passengers… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 2 July, 2011: The Day of Victory: Bil’in Celebrates the Removal of the Wall
2 July , 2011 — VTJP News Greek authorities arrest US Flotilla boat captain for attempting to sail without permission IMEMC – Saturday July 02, 2011 – 21:58, One of the ten boats scheduled to travel to Gaza to bring much-needed humanitarian aid and support has had its captain arrested by Greek authorities after attempting… Continue reading
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla 2: Call the Greek Embassy now July 1st 11:30…
We urge you to immediately contact the Greek Embassy in Washington, DC at 202-939-1300 and the Greek consulate in your city. Tell them to let The Audacity of Hope leave Athens safely and sail to Gaza. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 June, 2011: Israel passes draft law requiring Palestinians to pay for their own home demolitions
29 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Remove Structures In Illegal Settlement IMEMC – Wednesday June 29, 2011 – 14:38, Five structures and two tents were raised in the illegal settlement outpost of Ramat Migro in the Northern West Bank on Wednesday morning. Two teenage girls were arrested for allegedly… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 June, 2011: Wikimania 2011 Sponsored by Israeli-Government Company that “Develops East Jerusalem”
28 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center One of ‘Freedom Flotilla’ ships found sabotaged in Greek port IMEMC – Tuesday June 28, 2011 – 23:01, A ship known as the ‘Juliano’ (after assassinated activist Juliano Mer-Khamis) was found sabotaged on Monday evening, as it was being prepared for departure on the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 June, 2011: What’s Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research? Exposing Israel’s Most Dangerous Secret
26 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protesters dismantle section of wall in Bil’in village; 7 injured by Israeli troops IMEMC – Saturday June 25, 2011 – 02:42, Protesters in Bil’in village continued dismantling a section of the Israeli Wall that the Israeli army began removing earlier this week, in accordance… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 June, 2011: American flotilla passengers set to challenge U.S. support for Gaza blockade
21 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu: “We Need To Disengage From The Palestinians, Need To Keep Jewish Majority” IMEMC – Wednesday June 22, 2011 – 03:26, As the Israeli cabinet was holding its Sunday meeting, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that he supports the notion of a total… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 June, 2011: Gaza in crisis as smugglers divert trade to Libya
20 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Migdal Oz Plan Outlines Response To Palestinian Reactions To Declarations of Statehood IMEMC – Monday June 20, 2011 – 17:02, Israel is drawing up plans for a series of eventualities come September and a Palestinian declaration of statehood. The Migdal Oz plan, seen… Continue reading
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