West Bank
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Israel Calls on Jewish Fanatics to ‘Save’ Galilee Nefesh B’Nefesh announced a programme to offer financial incentives to new immigrants By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth
Ariel Atias said he considered it a ‘national mission’ to bring ultra-Orthodox Jews — or Haredim, distinctive for their formal black and white clothing — into Arab areas, and announced that he would also create the north’s first exclusively Haredi town. The new settlement drive, according to Mr Atias, is intended to revive previous failed… Continue reading
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Al Jazeera Video Story: “Israel sells Palestinian refugee property” – Adalah
Adalah to Attorney General and Custodian of Absentee Property: Israel’s sale of Palestinian refugee property violates Israeli and international law Continue reading
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‘Right to refuse’ By Harry Feldman
Obama’s hugely ambitious plan aims for an “independent, democratic and contiguous Palestinian state,” which would not have a military of its own and would be forbidden from entering into military pacts with other nations “for Israel’s security.” Continue reading
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Israeli settlement building threat in West Bank
Just a day after promising to be a partner for peace with the Palestinians, Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister-designate, appears to be preparing to build Israeli settlements on more West Bank land http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2295581 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Two-State Pipe Dream Impedes Justice, Again By Shourideh Molavi
The two state solution is an outdated concept. It fails to account for the political realities on both sides of the pre-1967 borders. For instance, the Arabs in Israel are left in the dark. Their unique situation as citizens of the state of Israel and members of the Palestinian nation is left unaddressed. They do… Continue reading
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Documentary films about Palestine and her people
Some of the films that we have completed, as well as others that are currently in progress, present the memories of a small group of men and women selected from an aging and rapidly dying generation of Palestinians who directly experienced the catastrophic ethnic cleansing of their homeland in 1948. Continue reading
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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 26 Feb.- 04 Mar. 2009 No. 09/2009
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and Continue to Impose a Total Siege on the Gaza Strip Continue reading
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Peace Now: Israel planning to construct 73,300 (illegal) housing units in the West Bank
An examination of the data available on the Israeli government that contains maps and information from the Ministry of Housing, reveals that in plans for the West Bank at least 15,000 housing units have already been approved, and plans for an additional 58,000 housing units are yet to be approved Continue reading
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Secret Israeli database reveals full extent of illegal settlement By Uri Blau
Just four years ago, the defense establishment decided to carry out a seemingly elementary task: establish a comprehensive database on the settlements. Israel refused to publish the data. Continue reading
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The Final Solution is a No-State Solution By William Bowles
One can only come to the conclusion that the destruction of the physical infrastructure of the Gaza Strip, let alone the thousands of dead and injured, is intended to make the place ininhabitable leaving only the West Bank as the putative Palestinian state. Continue reading
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DeepDishTV: Heroic Woman blocks Israeli Rifles Aimed at Gaza demonstrators
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1959219 A Korean camera crew in Gaza documented one of the most heroic actions we have ever seen or heard of. In the spirit of Rachel Corrie, who gave her life to defend a Palestinian home. Unlike the iconic image of the Chinese man standing in front of the tanks come to crush the Tiananmen… Continue reading
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David Parker: Palestine: the Architecture of Apartheid
According to Weizman, the natural and built features of the landscape function as weapons and ammunition for the conflict. The Occupied Territories have become a series of layers and territories, each manipulated by the Israeli authorities. Borders are porous for Israelis but solid for Palestinians. Checkpoints are a source of humiliation. Continue reading
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“Even to Live in a Cave Has Been Denied Us”: The Story of Abed al-Fattah Abed Rabbo
The ordeals of tens of families in Walajah started when the Jerusalem Municipality illegally annexed part of the village to be inside its borders in the beginning 1980s. More than 25 homes have been demolished since, and yet others are under orders of demolition. Most of these cases are still pending in the Israeli court… Continue reading
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Divide and Shock in Palestine By Ewa Jasiewicz
The Palestine Plan follows a typical DFID free-market directive. It opts for the standard blasts of evisceration of public services (already torpedoed by Israeli tanks and fighter jets since the Al Aqsa Intifada), privatisation of assets and resources (Israel has already helped itself to the Western aquifer through annexing a further 20% of the West… Continue reading
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Khalid Amayreh – EU rewards Israel for starving Gazans!
The plainly immoral decision came as a surprise, not because the EU is a paragon of virtue and morality, but rather because Israel has been behaving and acting very much as a Nazi state would. Hence, the decision can only be viewed as a cheap appeasement and expression of political promiscuity. Continue reading
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Israeli Terrorist Settler Shooting Palestinians in Hebron
Footage filmed by Jamal Abu-Sa’ifan, a Palestinian resident of Hebron, documenting a terrorist Israeli settler shooting two members of his family. The event occurs following the eviction settlers from a Palestinian house they occupied in Hebron. Settlers attacked the nearby house of the Abu-Se’ifan family, and during ensuing clashes, a settler fired his handgun at… Continue reading
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Uri Blau: IDF asks police, Shin Bet for info on left-wing figures active in W. Bank
The Israel Defense Forces has asked the Shin Bet security service and the police to provide it with information on left-wing figures active in the West Bank so it will be easier to issue restraining orders against them, Haaretz has learned. Continue reading
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Ramzy Baroud – A Third Palestinian Intifada in the Making
A ‘third Intifada’ would imply that the second has already ended. But has it? Or did it simply lose momentum, sense of focus and direction, or were its energies squandered – as a popular uprising – on factional disputes and internal division? Continue reading
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Middle East Report Online: Livni in Principle and in Practice by Peretz Kidron September 30, 2008
One theory argues that the eagerness of law enforcement agencies was tacitly supported and perhaps even instigated by far-right groups outraged over Olmert’s apparent intention to follow in the footsteps of his mentor and predecessor in office, Ariel Sharon, by ordering a unilateral withdrawal from extensive portions of the occupied West Bank, in a pattern… Continue reading
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The Palestinians: Warehousing a “Surplus People” By Jeff Halper
So rapid is the pace of systemic change in that indivisible entity known as Palestine/Israel that it almost defies our ability to keep up with it. The deliberate and systematic campaign of driving Palestinians out of the country in 1948 was quickly forgotten, the plight of more than 700,000 refugees becoming an invisible “non-issue.” Instead,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 