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The boycott law subverts Israeli democracy — Haaretz
Knesset members who vote for the anti-Boycott Law must understand they are supporting the gagging of protest in an effort to liquidate democracy. 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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video: Eight arrested in Nabi Saleh demonstration: Six Palestinians and two Israeli supporters?
This Friday (8/4/11) Nabi Saleh demonstration against the settlements and occupation was joined by a group of West Bank March 15 activists and was larger than usual. Some 80 people marched through the village’s main street and then crossed into the fields to reach the spring and land being stolen and threatened by settlers. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 March, 2011:
3 March, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Break Into Eshil-Be’er Sheva Prison, Attack Detainees, Search Their Rooms Soldiers Kidnap Four Children In East Jerusalem Continue reading
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Settler-style thugs operating inside Israel By Jesse Bacon
One after another, the parallels to fascism pile up in Israel, like the sticks (which is what the root of Fascism means) on a fire. Now a town in Israel has adopted perhaps the most visible feature of many a dictatorship: paramilitary police. The settlers have long functioned in this role in the Occupied Territories,… Continue reading
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Video: Settler Attacks on Wheels By Yousef
A well-known leader of an Israeli settlement in Jerusalem, who generally works to get rid of Palestinians by expanding his settlement onto Palestinian land, took his actions a step – or a step on the accelerator – further this morning. Gruesome photos emerged of the Israeli settler leader driving over Palestinian boys demonstrating in Silwan. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 10 October, 2010: Israeli Settler Runs over Palestinian Kids, Escapes
10 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Lieberman To European Counterparts: “Go And Solve Your Problems First” IMEMC – 10 Oct 2010 – Monday October 11, 2010 – 04:07, Israeli Foreign Minister of the fundamentalist right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, told his French and Spanish counterparts that Europe should first solve its Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 October, 2010: Settlers expand settlement, burn, bulldoze fields
1 October, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu Accuses the Palestinians Of Stalling Peace Talks IMEMC – 1 Oct 2010 – Saturday October 02, 2010 – 01:30, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accused on Friday that Palestinian side for staling peace talks, and claimed that renewing the construction of settlements in Continue reading
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The Settlement Freeze and the Peace Process Freeze
Video: On or about Sept. 26 the Israeli government’s declared settlement moratorium came to an end. This has been identified as a major obstacle in the nascent peace talks. The moratorium has been incomplete and settlement construction has continued in many areas despite the so-called “freeze.” As settlers awaited the coming of this date to… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 September, 2010: Settlers start building in West Bank
26 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Egypt Locates Explosives in Sinai IMEMC – 26 Sep 2010 – Sunday September 26, 2010 – 23:05, The Egyptian Security Forces located Sunday a warehouse filled with explosives in the Sinai peninsula, south of Al Arish Egyptian city. Settler, His Wife, Wounded Near Hebron Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 September, 2010: Farmers vs. settlers: Some killings more ‘moral’ than others
21 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli settlers raid olive orchards, attempt to steal olive IMEMC – 21 Sep 2010 – Tuesday September 21, 2010 – 18:18, A number of Palestinian civilians were wounded in clashes with Israeli settlers who invaded the olive orchards that belong to the Palestinian farmers Continue reading
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Protest in Silwan: It’s about the Settlement not the Archeology, 1/9/10
On September 1st, the settlers in Silwan had a conference on the archeology of what they call “The City of David”. A group from Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity (www.justjlm.org) came to protest and inform the participants of the political meanings of the event. The police did the work of the settlers and kicked them out. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 September, 2010: Mitchell’s Quick-fix Fake Peace
1 September, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Authority claims arrests of 300 Hamas members in response to killing of settlers IMEMC – 1 Sep 2010 – Wednesday September 01, 2010 – 17:30, In the largest arrest campaign since it took power in 1994, the Palestinian Authority, run by the Fateh Continue reading
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Major Israeli Theaters Embrace The Settlements + Big Update
Ariel lies 20km inside the West Bank, deeper than any other sizable settlement. The divided highway leading to it – the best road in the West Bank – is open to Israelis only, *and* lacks any signs naming the numerous Palestinian towns and villages flanking the road. According to Peace Now’s 2006 settlement land report,… Continue reading
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Video: Settlers pouring cement into spring
A group of Israeli settlers destroy a spring by the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the Salfit district of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian villagers were forced to watch helplessly as settlers poured sand and cement into the spring, guarded by five armed members of the Israeli military. Continue reading
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Settler Attack in Sheikh Jarrah with M-16
After verbal taunting, a settler in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah left the Gawi house which he and other settlers have occupied since August 2009. He descended the stairs with an M-16 and pushed a teenage boy. When neighborhood adults stepped in to protect the teenager, he pushed Nasser Gawi and then punched… Continue reading
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Armageddon, Straight Ahead By Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman
It is 1:30 am, and I just came back from Sheikh Jarakh –I see Jerusalem in flames, and know than my words will not succeed in conveying the horror of what I saw or the dread in my heart. Today the court ruled in favor of the settlers who had taken over part of yet… Continue reading
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Israel’s Religious Right and the Peace Process’ By Nicolas Pelham
What is disturbing about the settlers in Amona is not how distant they are from other Israelis, whether geographically or politically, but how connected. They are national-religious; that is to say, they are devout in their Judaism, but unlike many other religious Jews they believe equally fervently in the secular Zionist project. The national-religious fly… Continue reading
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Haitham Sabbah – Photo of the Day
A settler tosses wine at a Palestinian woman on Shuhada Street in Hebron. Continue reading
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Palestine: Silwan, The very eye of the storm By Akiva Eldar
According to the so-called Clinton initiative, presented during the 2000 Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Silwan was supposed to become part of the future Palestinian capital. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 