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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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Jews for Justice for Palestinians Weekly newsletter 20 June 2011
20 June 2011 — Jews for Justice for Palestinians The state of Jews June 18th, 2011 From its origin as ‘Jew-state’ through various twists of meaning, the current ‘Jewish state’ which Palestinians must recognise has more in common with Pakistan than the USA or any European state of all its citizens. Uri Avnery traces the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 June, 2011: Analysis: Did Egypt really open Rafah crossing?
17 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu: “No Peace With The Palestinians Without Recognizing Jewish State” IMEMC – Saturday June 18, 2011 – 04:56, Israeli paper, Haaretz, reported Friday that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, believes that there can be no peace agreement with the Palestinians unless they recognize Israel… Continue reading
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Video shows police violently arresting Jewish man in Jerusalem
“Israel is occupying the Palestinian people in my name, in the name of world Jewry,” Lucas, clutching his American passport, tells the camera. “And I myself, an American Jew, is here to say that is completely unjustified and ethically reprehensible.” Continue reading
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Video: Palestinian Political Prisoner: ‘I reject Israel’s laws’
Bassem Tamimi of Nabi Saleh delivered a court statement at the start of his trial last Sunday saying ‘I reject [these laws] and cannot recognize their validity.’ Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 10 June, 2011: China Ratings House Says US Defaulting: Report
10 June, 2011 — Information Clearing House Pilger Film Banned By Lannan Foundation By John Pilger A rich and powerful individual and organisation, espousing freedom of speech, has moved ruthlessly and unaccountably to crush it. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28296.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 June, 2011: Israel closes sole Gaza crossing for goods and aid
10 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Breaks Into Al Aqsa Mosque Yards, Fires Gas Bombs At Worshipers IMEMC – Friday June 10, 2011 – 21:32, The Al Aqsa Foundation for Wadf and Heritage stated Friday that Israeli soldiers broke into the yards of the Al Aqsa Mosque, in occupied… Continue reading
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A concerted effort from Europe against Israeli produce exporter Agrexco By Stephanie Westbrook
This past weekend in the Montpellier, France, over 100 activists from 9 countries gathered for the first ever European Forum Against Agrexco. Delegates from Italy, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Germany and Palestine joined the French organizers for two full days of workshops aimed at strengthening the boycott campaign against the Israeli agricultural export giant. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 June, 2011: Uncivilized Relations: Israel Confronts its Neighbours
9 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Raids West Bank Towns Overnight IMEMC – Thursday June 09, 2011 – 17:14, Maan news agency is reporting that five Palestinian men, including minors, were abducted over night during raids on West Bank towns and villages by the Israeli military. Continue reading
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The Israeli Occupation Archive 10 June 2011: Palestine-UN | East Jerusalem | Jordan Valley
10 June 2011 — The Israeli Occupation Archive Secret cables show Israel’s battle plan over Palestinian UN bid East Jerusalem: Sharing our house with settlers Francis A. Boyle: Could Obama veto Palestine’s application to the United Nations? B’Tselem Jordan Valley report: Dispossession and Exploitation Palestinians in America: an intelligent socialist’s guide to Tony Kushner, with… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 June, 2011: Israeli forces ransack Nablus offices of the Change and Reform Bloc
8 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Wine Bottles Smashed In Al-Aqsa Compound IMEMC – Wednesday June 08, 2011 – 17:56, Local sources report that a number of Jewish settlers broke into the al-Aqsa compound and began drinking wine and smashing bottles on the floor. Continue reading
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Events in Syria -taking sides against imperialist intervention by International Action Center
The progressive political movement must avoid being just an echo and a justification of Pentagon war policy, especially whenever any developing country is in the cross hairs of a U.S. attack. Continue reading
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Promised Crossing Denied By Mohammed Omer
RAFAH, Jun 8, 2011 (IPS) – Many hoping to find free movement between Egypt and Gaza have found the border gates at the Rafah crossing closed. Egyptian officials closed the gates on Saturday, according to Palestinian officials. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 7 June, 2011: Jewish settlers vandalize mosque in Ramallah
7 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center US Seeks To Maintain Central Role In Peace Process IMEMC – Tuesday June 07, 2011 – 15:37, The US has signalled that it intends to maintain its leading position in facilitating Middle East peace talks with its announcement of discussions aimed at renewing the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 June, 2011: Israel’s plan to forcibly remove 30,000 Bedouin slammed as cruel
6 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Prepares To Approve 4100 New Units For Israeli Settlers In East Jerusalem IMEMC – Tuesday June 07, 2011 – 03:03, The Israeli Interior Ministry, and the so-called Construction and Planning Committee, are preparing to officially approve 4100 units for Jewish settlers in occupied… Continue reading
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Franklin Lamb: Israelis Rush for Second Passports
Perhaps historians or cultural anthropologists surveying the course of human events can identify for us a land, in addition to Palestine, where such a large percentage of a recently arrived colonial population prepared to exercise their right to depart, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepared to exercise their… Continue reading
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In India and Israel, the burden of protest falls on the victims of injustice By Pankaj Mishra
At a dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose centenary falls this year, wrote: “We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton”. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 June, 2011: Israeli forces ransack home of acting supreme judge
4 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Qabha: “Real Reconciliation Does Not Exist In The West Bank” IMEMC – Saturday June 04, 2011 – 14:25, Former Minister of Detainees, Hamas political official, Wasfi Qabha, stated that there are no real indications of reconciliation in the West Bank as the Palestinian security… Continue reading
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Israel’s PR victory shames news broadcasters By Greg Philo
The propaganda battle over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached a new level of intensity. In 2004 the Glasgow University Media Group published a major study on TV coverage of the Second Intifada and its impact on public understanding. We analysed about 200 programmes and questioned more than 800 people. Our conclusion: reporting was dominated by… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Bad News From The BBC – Part 2: The ‘John Motson Approach To Analysing News’
By now we had given Danahar several opportunities to respond seriously to highly credible analysis of BBC News reporting, including its heavily biased and misleading coverage of the Israeli killing of nine peace activists after he had taken over as BBC Middle East Bureau Chief. Danahar did not seem able or willing to answer sensibly. Continue reading
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