PNN - 2 Sep 2010 - Washington - PNN - Just a few months shy of the Road Map to Peace’s 2011 target date, Israeli and Palestinians leaders resumed talks today at the United States Department in Washington DC. In the company of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Palestinian Authorities President...
Mondoweiss - 2 Sep 2010 - Many people reacted strongly with disapprobation to my " Hamas attack was wrong " post yesterday. Nearly everyone agrees that murdering civilians is wrong, but some question whether the settlers are civilians in the first place. The settlers are racial supremacists whose race pride, irrational hatred...
Mondoweiss - 2 Sep 2010 - Yesterday on this site, responding to the murders of the four settlers in the West Bank Tuesday, Seham, a Palestinian-American, offered a list of settler attacks on Palestinians . David Samel, who has taken a strong stance against violent resistance , responded in a comment: Seham, I have...
Mondoweiss - 2 Sep 2010 - the lobby never sleeps. Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program and Foreign Affairs magazine cordially invite you to the opening of this year's James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series: "The Demonization of Israel: Its History and Politics" Martin Peretz Editor-in-Chief, The...
PNN - 2 Sep 2010 - By : Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh - Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel told his governing coalition that he did not promise an extension to the partial suspension in settlement construction when it expires in September (BTW, the suspension did not cover most of the settlement areas which are...
The Stalled Voyage of St. Mariam Rannie Amiri, CounterPunch 8/27/2010 Why is Israel Terrified of a Ship Full of Women? “We will not even bring cooking knives.” – Samar al-Hajj, coordinator of the all-women Lebanese aid vessel Mariam The bloody wake left by the Mavi Marmara after the May 31 Israeli commando raid has not deterred 50 female activists from trying to break the four-year-old siege of Gaza. To hear Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak speak of their planned relief effort, one would think the very existence of Israel was at stake. The women plan to set sail aboard the Saint Mariam, a Bolivian-flagged cargo ship named in honor of the Virgin Mary, a figure sacred to both Christians and Muslims. Although they intend to depart from Tripoli, Lebanon, the crew is not only composed of multi-faith Lebanese but foreign nationals as well, including a group of nuns from the United States. So as not to give Israel pretext... more..e-mailThe State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in America James Petras Ph.D, Information Clearing House 9/1/2010
Any serious effort to understand the extraordinary influence of the Zionist power configuration over US foreign policy must examine the presence of key operatives in strategic positions in the government and the activities of local Zionist organizations affiliated with mainstream Jewish organizations and religious orders. There are at least 52 major American Jewish organizations actively engaged in promoting Israel’s foreign policy, economic and technological agenda in the US (see the appendix). The grassroots membership ranges from several hundred thousand militants in the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) to one hundred thousand wealthy contributors, activists and power brokers in the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In addition scores of propaganda mills, dubbed think tanks, have been established by million dollar grants from billionaire Zionists including the Brookings Institute (Haim Saban) and the Hudson Institute among others. Scores of Zionist funded political action committees (PAC) have intervened in all national... more..e-mailIsrael Threatens War with Lebanon Stephen Lendman, Dissident Voice 8/31/2010
Palestine is belligerently occupied. Threats continue against Iran and Syria as well as Lebanon, specifically Hezbollah, elected partner in the nation’s unity government, bogusly designated a US State Department Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), what Israel also calls it, repeating veiled and overt warnings, suggesting violence or an impending attack. Why not, after so many earlier in 1978, 1982, 1993, 1996, and 2006. Also numerous incidents besides: – refusing to comply with UN Security Council Resolution 425 by occupying South Lebanon belligerently and illegally for 18 years until mostly, but not entirely, withdrawing in May 2000 – still holding Sheba Farms, the 14-square mile water-rich land near Syria’s Golan, also illegally occupied since 1967; in addition, Ghajar, the Lebanese village bordering Golan; – during its occupation, using a proxy Christian South Lebanon Army as enforcer, UNIFIL Blue Helmets giving them and the IDF free reign instead of maintaining peace, how UN forces always... more..e-mail
Electronic Intifada: 2 Sep 2010 - And just as Israel has gradually increased restrictions of where we can go, the boundaries of what is permissible to do as a Palestinian have narrowed markedly. We have reached a point where peaceful protest is unacceptable to the Israeli state and military legislation has been constructed to criminalize and throw in jail anyone who dares to publicly voice dissent. Mohammed Khatib comments.
Electronic Intifada: 2 Sep 2010 - The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights recently published Rights in Principle -- Rights in Practice , which examines a rights-based approach to crafting durable solutions for Palestinian refugees. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviews BADIL director Ingrid Jaradat Gassner on the organization's work and the new book.
Electronic Intifada: 1 Sep 2010 - Firas al-Maraghi from the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem has been on hunger strike outside the Israeli embassy in Berlin since 26 July. Al-Maraghi is striking in protest of the Israeli Ministry of Interior's refusal to include his German-born daughter and wife on his Jerusalem residency permit. Bridget Chappell interviews al-Maraghi for The Electronic Intifada.
Palestine Chronicle: 1 Sep 2010 - By Stuart Littlewood –London On the eve of the silliest peace talks in history, the big question is this. What makes Obama's envoy George Mitchell, a negotiator of high repute, say there is 'no role' for Hamas? The talks are silly because they seek to overturn what the United Nations has already decided for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict and drive a bulldozer through the building blocks of justice. It might be music to Zionist ears, but to people of good will it’s a cruel, futile and immensely damaging ploy. The talks are also silly because they bring together two people who by no stretch of the imagination could qualify as......more
Palestine Chronicle: 1 Sep 2010 - By Jonathan Cook - Hura, the Negev Nuri al Uqbi's small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighbourhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel’s Negev desert, hardly looks like the epicentre of a legal struggle that some observers say threatens Israel's Jewish character. Inside, the 68-year-old Bedouin activist has stacks of bulging folders of tattered and browning documents, many older than the state of Israel itself, that he hopes will overturn decades of harsh government policy towards the Negev’s 180,000 Bedouin. For the past few months, Mr al Uqbi has been in court pursuing a case that has pitted his own expert witnesses against those of the state. Mr al......more
Palestine Monitor: 2 Sep 2010 - What happened in Hebron proved our point; we need a unified Palestinian position," Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouthi said following a mass rally in Ramallah on Wednesday. The protest, planned immediately after PA forces quashed a news conference on 25 August, was coordinated by leftist Palestinian factions, independent parties and several prominent philanthropists and business people involved with recent attempts to restore unity. The parties demonstrated against the return to peace talks under the conditions set out by Israel. "There were no conditions set out for the success of these talks," Barghouthi said. "There were no terms of reference and Israel has been given a veto." Barghouthi explained that...
Klezmer Musicians
Against the Wall Fourteen klezmer bands from the US, Israel,
Germany and the UK have collaborated to produce a compilation CD called
“Klezmer Against the Wall” which is now available on iTunes. All profits
from the digital downloads will go to music and arts programmes in Palestine.
See also: Aug 4 & 6: Inner Fire
District klezmer band concerts and Jewish
musicians unite for Palestine
How
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Play "Safe Passage"
Gisha
- Legal Center for Freedom of Movement has launched the first
computer game of its kind in Israel: "Safe Passage" allows the user
to experience interactively the restrictions on movement between
the Gaza Strip and the West Bank through innovative use of animation,
flash documents, video clips and a blog.
DAM, "Born Here", Hebrew/Arabic with English subtitles - Palestinian rap group DAM (Da Arab MC's, or "forever" in Arabic) created this music video about the life of Palestinians in Israel. They're from Lod, a town between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, so they're Palestinians with Israeli citizenship (often called "Israeli Arabs"). They usually rap in Arabic, but they made a Hebrew version of this song with a music video to get their message out to the majority of Israelis who don't speak Arabic. NYT: Rapping in Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic
Tearing
Down The Wall In Al-Ma’sara Palestine
Monitor, 7/10/2010: Israeli soldiers dragged the remnants of a symbolic
wall from highway 3157 near Al Ma’sara today, halting a popular
demonstration on the sixth anniversary of the International Court
of Justice ruling that construction of the Wall in Palestinian territory
is illegal.
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The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation - The Real News - Hever: 18 families control 60% of the equity value of all companies in Israel - Shir Hever is an economic researcher in the Alternative Information Center, a Palestinian-Israeli organization active in Jerusalem and Beit-Sahour. He speaks to Paul Jay of The Real News Network about his research into the economics of Israel and its occupation of the Palestinian territories. The Real News Network
Protesters Picket Israeli Cargo Ship - June 20, 2010 - In Oakland, California an Israeli ship was blocked by protesters for the first time in history. 700-1000 protesters blocked three different gates at 5:30 A.M. keeping dockworkers from unloading the Israeli cargo. See also: Historic Victory at Oakland Port – Israeli Ship Blocked from Unloading Global BDS
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Israel faces child-abuse claims - An international children's rights charity has said it has evidence that Palestinian children held in Israeli custody have been subjected to sexual abuse in an effort to extract confessions from them. The Geneva-based Defence for Children International (DCI) has collected 100 sworn affadavits from Palestinian children who said they were mistreated by their Israeli captors. AlJazeera
Mapping Israeli Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: Israeli settlements, apartheid wall and fence, closures, and territorial fragmentation. CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL STORY.
Flotille de la liberté : Pourquoi? 1/5 Children of Gaza - [English narration - Warning: Disturbing scenes of children play-acting Israeli aggression] ombrelle05 - May 31 2010 - Israel has placed the Gaza Strip under total siege since June 2007, making the 1.5 million Palestinians living there in need of food, fuel and medical supplies. The Israeli offensive Lead Coup in 2009, which lasted 23 days, has only worsened the living conditions in the coastal territory. ombrelle05
IMEMC - 2 Sep 2010 - Thursday September 02, 2010 - 18:10, A report by the al-Mezan Center for Human Rights shows that Palestinian students are routinely denied the right to education due to the Israeli occupation.
IMEMC - 2 Sep 2010 - Thursday September 02, 2010 - 17:59, Two Israeli settlers were wounded, Wednesday night, in a drive-by shooting near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
IMEMC - 2 Sep 2010 - Wednesday September 01, 2010 - 17:30, In the largest arrest campaign since it's inception in 1994, the Palestinian Authority, run by the Fateh party, sent security officers all over the West Bank Wednesday morning to arrest known members of the rival Hamas party, after Hamas' armed...
9/2/2010 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Approximately 50 Israeli settlers attacked the home of a Palestinian family near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement on Wednesday, reportedly in response to the...
9/2/2010 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an/Agencies) -- Israeli settler leaders told the country's media that they intend to violate a construction ban on private homes in West Bank...
9/1/2010 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers broke car windows Tuesday evening and cut down olive trees hours after four Israelis were killed in a shooting near a West...
9/2/2010 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Hamas' armed wing has claimed responsibility for the second shooting attack in two days which injured two Israeli citizens near Ramallah in the...
Ha'aretz - Hamas claims responsibility for both Wednesday and Tuesday's shooting attacks, saying they are in response 'to crimes of Israeli occupation.'
Inter Press Service - An Egyptian military court handed down sentences Monday in the trial of eight civilian factory workers who led a protest against deteriorating safety conditions in an army-owned factory. Rights groups say the trial should never have taken place.
Palestine Telegraph - 2 Sep 2010 - Hebron, September 2, (Pal Telegraph) Hundreds of Israeli settlers started last night building a new settlement on the territory of the farming village of “Baq’a”, east of Hebron in the West Bank....
Palestine News Network - Washington - PNN - Just a few months shy of the Road Map to Peace’s 2011 target date, Israeli and Palestinians leaders resumed talks today at the United States Department...
Palestine News Network - By : Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh - Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel told his governing coalition that he did not promise an extension to the partial suspension in settlement construction when it...
The Guardian - 2 Sep 2010 - Follow all the diplomatic activity as Israel and Palestine hold Middle East peace talks in Washington DC - live 1.25pm ET: More details now emerging on the agreements for a...
The Guardian - 2 Sep 2010 - Israeli PM names non-negotiable issues as Hillary Clinton warns of cost of continued conflict Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, opened peace talks with the Palestinians today by saying that two...
The National - 2 Sep 2010 - The two sides scour the occupied West Bank for the gunmen who wounded two Israelis in the second attack claimed by Hamas in 24 hours.
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