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Profiting from War: A Look Into the World of Israeli Arms Dealing By Eilat Maoz
War in Israel has become a constant source of profit, with the West Bank and Gaza Strip used as experimental sites for arms dealers backed up by intellectuals. These are the protagonists of ‘The Lab,’ a new film by Yotam Feldman. In its exceptional interviews, the film reveals that the image of the arms dealer… Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 11 July 2013: Settlers cut down 1,150 olive trees in Nablus
11 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterFive-year-old Palestinian boy detained in HebronIMEMC – Despite being below the age of criminal responsibility, 5-year-old Wadi’ Maswadeh was detained for two hours by Israeli soldiers July 9th near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron after he allegedly threw a stone at a settler’s car. Continue reading
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Treatment of Palestinians is Apartheid by Any Other Name By Franklin Lamb
Were it not for the razor wire, giant concrete blocks, steel gates, watchtower and standard-issue surly teenage soldier, it would be impossible to tell at what point the barren uplands of Israel’s eastern Negev give way to the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. Continue reading
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Video: Israeli Colonists Dump Sewage on Palestinian land
Villagers in Wadi Fukin near Bethlehem were attacked by Israeli colonists/settlers from a nearby colony/settlement, when they intentionally poured thousands of tons of sewage into the only natural water spring and onto the land. Continue reading
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Syrian war hits Beirut By Franklin Lamb
DAHIYEH, Beirut – This observer’s neighbors seemed to believe, especially over the past year, as most of us did, that the war in Syria would, in one form or another, spill into our neighborhood, Dahiyeh, the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut near the Shatila and Burj el Barajeh Palestinian refugee camps. And now it has… Continue reading
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ICH 8 July 2013: UN Accuses Israel of Torturing Palestinian Children
8 July 2013 — Information Clearing House Massacre in Cairo By Al Jazeera At least 42 people killed at the site of a sit-in by Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo, demanding the reinstatement of ousted President Mohamed Morsi. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35481.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel News & Articles 6 July 2013: Palestinians sue US groups over support for settler attacks
6 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterEgyptian officials indefinitely close Rafah border crossing with GazaIMEMC – As protests and unrest continue throughout Egypt, with over 40 people killed since Sunday, the Egyptian government closed the Rafah border crossing, which is virtually the only way in and out of the sealed Gaza Strip for Continue reading
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Racism and Institutionalised Discrimination: How Israeli Apartheid is Coming Unstuck By Jonathon Cook
Superland, a large amusement park near Tel Aviv, refused to accept a booking from an Arab school on its preferred date in late May. When a staff member called back impersonating a Jew, Superland approved the booking immediately. Continue reading
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ICH 20 June 2013: UN: Palestinian Children Tortured, Used as Human Shields by Israel
20 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Taliban Hints At Eventual Power Sharing In Afghanistan By RFE/RL “Our leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has repeatedly said that we want a government that includes all Afghans,” Naeem said. “It should be a government, in which all our people and their representatives can participate and be a part Continue reading
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ICH 17 June 2013: The Israeli Lab and the Palestinian Guinea Pigs
17 June 2013 — Information Clearing House Russia Says It Will Not Allow Syria No-fly Zones By Reuters “I think we fundamentally will not allow this scenario,” Lukashevich told a news briefing, adding that calls for a no-fly zone showed disrespect for international law. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35318.htm Continue reading
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Palestinian statehood idea at ‘dead-end’: Israel minister
Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett says that the idea of establishing an independent Palestinian state has reached a dead end. Continue reading
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BBC questioned over why it pulled documentary on Jerusalem By Amena Saleem
The BBC is coming under increasing pressure from British Members of Parliament (MPs) and leading pro-Palestinian organizations over recent decisions that throw its impartiality in reporting on the Israeli occupation into serious doubt. Continue reading
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BBC Director General faces claims that political pressure led BBC to drop film on ‘Jewish exile’
Six leading pro-Palestinian organisations have written to the BBC’s Director General asking for answers over the pulling of a documentary which claims that the mass Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 AD may never have happened. Continue reading
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BBC Director General faces claims that political pressure led BBC to drop film on ‘Jewish exile’
Six leading pro-Palestinian organisations have written to the BBC’s Director General asking for answers over the pulling of a documentary which claims that the mass Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 AD may never have happened. Continue reading
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‘Made in Gaza’: Breaking the siege By Eric Walberg
The latest plan to try to break the illegal siege of Gaza, according to organizer Michael Coleman at Sunday’s press conference in the port of Gaza, is to refurbish their very second-hand fishing boat, fill it with Gazan products (date products, embroidery, craft items and more) and sail to another Mediterranean port, like any normal… Continue reading
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Video: Netanyahu Says it’s Anti-Semitism to Accuse Israel of War Crimes or Violating Human Rights
Shir Hever: At the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, the Israeli military and political leadership’s attacks on critics reflects Israel’s isolation and the strength of the boycott campaign Continue reading
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Video: Netanyahu Says it's Anti-Semitism to Accuse Israel of War Crimes or Violating Human Rights
Shir Hever: At the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, the Israeli military and political leadership’s attacks on critics reflects Israel’s isolation and the strength of the boycott campaign Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 27 May 2013: Domestic fissures in Israel will not benefit Palestinians
27 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Settlements Occupy 538.303 Dunams In West BankIMEMC – Israeli daily, Haaretz, has reported that, in 2012, Israel confiscated 8000 Dunams of Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank for the benefit of its settlements in areas referred to by Tel Aviv as “State Lands”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 May 2013: “This time they destroyed everything”: Uprooted Bedouins face more evictions
24 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterDetainee Continues Hunger Strike, Demands ReleaseIMEMC – Palestinian detainee, Ayman Issa Hamdan, who went on hunger strike 27 days ago, rejected an Israeli “offer” for an additional six-month extension of his Administrative Detention, without trial, and demanded his unconditional release. … Continue reading
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Senior BBC official insists that all of Jerusalem is an “Israeli” city By Amena Saleem
The BBC has provided evidence this week that it prefers to use the territorial claims of the Israeli government to the whole of Jerusalem as a framework for its reporting, rather than acknowledging international law. Continue reading
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