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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 October, 2010: Settlers Flood Palestinian Village With Sewage
24 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Soldiers Continue Their Facebook Displays IMEMC – 24 Oct 2010 – Monday October 25, 2010 – 00:51, The Israeli Walla News website published on Sunday several pictures published by Israeli soldiers on Facebook showing “memories” while humiliating Palestinians during the war on Gaza.… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 October, 2010: Falk: “Settlement Construction Makes Peace Seem Like A Mirage”
23 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Settlers Attack Dozens of Protestors, Spray Them With Wastewater IMEMC – 23 Oct 2010 – Sunday October 24, 2010 – 00:52, A group of fundamentalist Jewish settlers attacked on Saturday a group of nonviolent protestors who demanded Israel to reopen the Al Shuhada Street,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 October, 2010: Settlers attack family picking olives
22 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Moratinos: “I Regret Leaving Without Seeing Peace in Palestine” IMEMC – 22 Oct 2010 – Friday October 22, 2010 – 11:58, The former Foreign Minister of Spain, Miguel Angel Moratinos, who was replaced on Wednesday by Trinidad Jimenez, told the media that, despite the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 October, 2010: Rate Of Israeli Settlement Construction Quadrupled In Last Month
21 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center The Changing Character Of East Jerusalem Is An Obstacle To Peace IMEMC – 22 Oct 2010 – Friday October 22, 2010 – 05:53, The possibility of a viable two-state solution being eroded by settlement expansion, Palestinian home demolitions and deportations Turkish Government Denies Direct… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 October, 2010: Two Detainees Start Their Twenty-Fifth Year in Israeli Jails
20 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu Agrees With Rabin’s Approach IMEMC – 20 Oct 2010 – Wednesday October 20, 2010 – 17:50, At the 15 anniversary memorial of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claims: “I am a partner to Rabin’s approach that we must always… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 19 October, 2010: Britain’s Welcome to War Criminals
19 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu: “Demolition of Outposts Carries Political Implications” IMEMC – 19 Oct 2010 – Tuesday October 19, 2010 – 17:35, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netenyahu, is still wary of razing six West Bank outposts waiting for demolition since 2004, while the High Court deliberates the… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 October, 2010: Israeli Policies Are Manifestly Evil
17 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli inquiry calls on flotilla attack witnesses to testify; despite threatening to arrest them IMEMC – 18 Oct 2010 – Sunday October 24, 2010 – 20:01, After promising, on multiple occasions, to arrest any participants in the humanitarian aid flotilla to Gaza, Israeli officials… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: DEATHLY SILENCE: OBAMA’S LETTER, NETANYAHU’S REJECTION AND THE MEDIA’S NON-RESPONSE
Earlier this week, independent journalist Jonathan Cook reported facts that blow a hole through the standard deceit that the United States is an “honest broker” for peace in the Middle East. Continue reading
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Israel/Palestine and the Apartheid Analogy by Ran Greenstein Part 1
In the last decade, the notion that the Israeli system of political and military control bears strong resemblance to the apartheid system in South Africa has gained ground. It is invoked regularly by movements and activists opposed to the 1967 occupation and to various other aspects of Israeli policies vis-à-vis the Palestinian-Arab people. It is… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 31 August, 2010: Abbas is a man in exile, even among his own
31 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian fighters open fire on settlers near Hebron, killing four IMEMC – 31 Aug 2010 – Wednesday September 01, 2010 – 01:23, On Tuesday night, four Israeli settlers were killed just outside Kiryat Arba settlement near Hebron, in the southern West Bank, when Palestinian… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 August, 2010: Haniyya: “Direct Talks Have No Chances Of Success”
26 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli education ministry approves new ‘whites-only’ settlement school IMEMC – 26 Aug 2010 – Thursday August 26, 2010 – 03:38, Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 August, 2010: Israel Should Not Keep Its History Behind Lock and Key
18 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Three Palestinians seized by Israeli troops in overnight raids in Abu Dis, Hebron IMEMC – 18 Aug 2010 – Wednesday August 18, 2010 – 15:42, In two separate invasions Tuesday night, Israeli forces attacked the east Jerusalem town of Abu Dis, and the southern… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 13 August, 2010: Rights group: Teen tortured, held by Israeli forces
13 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Arab Parliamentarians Enter Gaza To Deliver Supplies IMEMC – 13 Aug 2010 – Saturday August 14, 2010 – 02:57, A convoy of Arab parliamentarians managed to cross into Gaza via the Rafah Border Terminal in order to deliver aid supplies estimated by 150 M.… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 12 August, 2010: Israeli forces desecrate 200 graves in Muslim cemetery; injure Sheikh with bulldozer
12 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli forces desecrate 200 graves in Muslim cemetery; injure Sheikh with bulldozer IMEMC – 12 Aug 2010 – Thursday August 12, 2010 – 18:25, A Jerusalem Sheikh who tried to stand in the way of Israeli bulldozers demolishing a Muslim cemetery was injured Tuesday,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 August, 2010: The “banality of evil” and Israel’s destruction of al-Araqib
10 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center WAFA: Hamas security forces harass Palestinian journalist in Gaza IMEMC – 10 Aug 2010 – Tuesday August 10, 2010 – 15:09, On the other hand, the WAFA news agency said that Hamas security forces in Gaza continue to summon Palestinian journalist to their headquarter… Continue reading
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Israeli and Palestinian Women Find New Way to Challenge The Occupation
On Friday, July 23, we went on a trip – a dozen Jewish-Israeli women with a dozen West-Bank Palestinian women and four of their children, one of them a baby. We drove through the interior hill country (`Shfela’) and toured Tel Aviv and Yaffa together. We ate at a restaurant, bathed in the sea and… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: BOGUS PARALLELS – THE INDEPENDENT’S DONALD MACINTYRE RESPONDS
Does Macintyre really believe that our readers respond robotically to journalists without judging the arguments for themselves? Is it really lamentable for members of the public to take action in response to biased journalism when emboldened by the realisation that they are not alone in their concerns? Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 August, 2010: Flotilla ship Israel ‘painted’ to cover bullet holes
8 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israelis hold protests in 15 cities against demolition of Palestinian homes IMEMC – 8 Aug 2010 – Saturday August 07, 2010 – 20:19, More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered in cities across Israel on Friday (6 August) for a day of solidarity marking the one-year… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 August, 2010: Uribe’s appointment to flotilla probe guarantees its failure
6 August, 2010 — VTJP News Ma’an News Red Cross urged to help farmers harmed by Gaza no-go zone 8/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Popular Committee Against the Buffer Zone in Gaza met with the International Committee of the Red Cross Saturday to discuss means to assist farmers affected by Israel’s imposition of… Continue reading
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