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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 18 January 2013: Bibi can relax – the ’center-left’ is really on the right
18 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Child Seriously Injured By Army Fire In BethlehemIMEMC – Friday evening, a Palestinian child was seriously injured during clashes that took place between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths in the Aida refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 January 2013: Making history in Bab Al Shams
16 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Fires Several Shells Into Central GazaIMEMC – Wednesday morning, Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli soldiers fired several artillery shells into Palestinian lands, east of the central part of the Gaza Strip, no injuries were reported. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 15 January 2013: Obama says Israel moving towards isolation: Report
15 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center At Least 17 Including 7 Reporters Injured As Army Attack Bab Al-Shams AgainIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that at least 11 nonviolent peace activists, and 7 reporters, have been injured when Israeli soldiers attacked a group of activists trying to reach the Bab Al-Shams, Continue reading
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How 20 Tents Rocked Israel: Palestinians Take the Fight to their Occupiers By Jonathan Cook
At a time when Palestinians hoped for a watershed moment in their struggle for national liberation, the Fatah and Hamas leaderships look as mutually self-absorbed as ever. Last week they were again directing their energies into a new round of reconciliation talks, this time in Cairo, rather than keeping the spotlight on Israeli intransigence. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 14 January 2013: How 20 tents rocked Israel
14 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Farmer Killed By Israeli Fire In Beit LahiaIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian farmer died, on Monday evening, of serious injuries he suffered at noon after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him as he worked on his land in Beit Lahia, in Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 January 2013: Israelis Must Rise Up To Avert National Disaster
11 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Peres: “We Should Not Have Assassinated Arafat, Abbas Is A Partner In Peace”IMEMC – In an interview that was conducted by the New York Times five months ago, and was only published Wednesday, and was republished by the Israeli Radio, Israeli President, Shimon Peres, stated Continue reading
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PCHR_e Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (03- 09 January 2013)
10 January 2013 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights LTD (non-profit) Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Continue reading
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EGYPT: THE UPRISING TWO YEARS ON
On January 25, 2011, spirited bands of protesters joined hands in the epochal popular revolt that would unseat Husni Mubarak, Egypt’s dictator of 30 years. Where is the country headed, with a new civilian government (for now) at the helm? The winter 2012 issue of Middle East Report offers reflections upon “Egypt: The Uprising Two… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 6 January 2013: The Case for Boycotting, Divesting, and Sanctions against Israel
6 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu Claims Abbas Is Refusing To Resume TalksIMEMC – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed that Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, continues to ignore what he called “all Israeli efforts to resume direct peace talks”, and accused Abbas of placing “impossible preconditions”. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 January 2013: Israel’s persecuted truth teller
4 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Undercover Forces Infiltrate Into BethlehemIMEMC – A group of undercover soldiers of the Israeli army infiltrated, Friday, into the West Bank city of Bethlehem, using a Palestinian Taxi that was confiscated by the soldiers just outside of Beit Jala city, northwest of Bethlehem. … Continue reading
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ICH 3 January 2013: The Iranians Are Coming!- The Iranians Are Coming!
3 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For An Attack On Syria Lies, Damned Lies And UN Statistics By Moon Of Alabama Is it really well advised for the United Nations to use a U.S. government funded entity to calculate some inevitably disputed numbers of casualties when the U.S. is supporting one side of the Continue reading
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PCHR_e Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (27 Dec.- 02 Jan. 2012)
2 January 2012 — PCHR – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights LTD (non-profit) Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 2 January 2013: Anti-Christian graffiti sprayed on church in destroyed Galilee village of Bir’em
2 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Likud Officials Call On Government To “Annex C Area” In West BankIMEMC – Israeli sources reported that two senior officials of the Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called on the government to “officially annex C area” of the occupied West Bank, where Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 28 December 2012: A Person Called Nobody
28 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSecurity video of killing of Hebron circus student shows claim of ‘toy gun’ fraudulentIMEMC – An Israeli security video recently leaked to the media shows that a Palestinian teenager who was killed at a checkpoint on December 12th was actually walking away from soldiers when Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 21 December 2012: Israel’s assault on Gaza killed 177, mostly civilians
21 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Europe Trying To Convince U.S To Obtain Security Council Resolution Against SettlementsIMEMC – Nimir Hammad, Political Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas, stated that several European Countries are exerting efforts meant at convincing the United States to obtain a serious resolution at the United Nations General Assembly Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 17 December 2012: Israel approves 1,500 more settler homes in East Jerusalem
17 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Five Palestinians In NablusIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, different parts of the of the northern West Bank district of Nablus, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped five Palestinians including a school headmaster, and a Palestinian security officer. … Continue reading
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PCHR_e Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (29 Nov.- 05 Dec 2012)
6 December 2012 — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Ltd (non-profit) Israeli Forces Continue Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Continue reading
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Israel’s Doomsday E-1 Settlement. Diabolical Encroachment to Prospective Palestinian State By Nicola Nasser
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has definitely crossed an international red line to vindicate a swift and firm rejection from Israel’s closest allies when he announced plans recently to build a new settlement on a corridor of occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem, which will render any prospective Palestinian contiguous state territorially impossible. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 6 December 2012: Israel’s annexation moment has arrived
6 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center 14 Injured By Army Fire In HebronIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, reported that 14 residents have been injured, while dozens were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation, during clashes with Israeli soldiers invading Bab Az-Zawiya Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 4 December 2012: UN Votes For Inspecting Israel’s Nuclear Facilities
4 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center King Abdullah Of Jordan To Visit RamallahIMEMC – Jordanian Al-Ghad Newspaper reported that that King Abdullah of Jordan intends to visit the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Thursday December 6, to hold an official meeting with Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. … Continue reading
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