Mondoweiss - 27 Jan 2012 - Ethan Bronner Front page above the fold today at the 'NYT,' stenographer to the Israelis Ethan Bronner reports , "Israel Senses Bluffing in Iran’s Threats of Retaliation": Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian...
Mondoweiss - 27 Jan 2012 - Abdeen Jabara Last night in icy rainy Brooklyn there was a discussion and party for Jack Ross's new book Rabbi Outcast , sponsored by the wonderful group Brooklyn for Peace . First Ross read a brilliant essay about the role of Jewish nationalism in American Jewish life, and...
Mondoweiss - 27 Jan 2012 - From the website for the film We are Nabi Saleh : We are Nabi Saleh’ is the portrait of a Palestinian village in resistance. Various aspects of the Israeli occupation are reflected in this village with only 500 inhabitants. This little village in the West Bank will...
IRIN ME - 26 Jan 2012 - RAMALLAH 27 January 2012 (IRIN) - The humanitarian community’s 2012-2013 Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has a narrower scope than in previous years, focusing on two strategic objectives: improving the protective environment, including access to essential services like health care and...
Palestinian politics - the sin of getting elected Daoud Kuttab, Ma’an News Agency 1/26/2012
Twenty-seven Palestinian parliamentarians elected in democratically organized elections are held behind Israeli bars without charge or trial. Their sin is that they dared to believe in an electoral process that was hailed by democratic countries as the proper channel of political expression. Palestinian cartoonists are describing Israeli jails as the headquarters of the Palestinian Legislative Council. On Jan. 25, 2006, elections were held in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for the Palestinian Legislative Council. The elections were supervised by the Independent Commission for Elections, a rarity in the Arab world. International observers, including former US President Jimmy Carter, were present and declared the elections free and fair. Israel also gave its blessings, albeit indirectly, by allowing the elections to take place, the candidates to move around and the ballot boxes to cross various checkpoints. While the results of the elections were not pleasing to Israel and the West, no... more..e-mailThe writing has always been on the wall Sam Bahour, Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN) 1/25/2012
The human body is an amazing creation. It's not only the most complex system known to mankind, but it embodies within it signals that tell its owner that something has gone wrong. A similar signaling system exists in political bodies. Those tasked with reading the signals--be they individuals, physicians or politicians--can choose to consciously ignore the warning signs. The Middle East peace process between Palestinians and Israelis has been emitting SOS signals for decades, but only recently are those signals being received and analyzed for what they are transmitting--a clear and irreversible message that the entire paradigm of "two states for two peoples" has collapsed. Like doctors who peddle medications instead of practicing medicine, many politicians are under the influence of their narrow political interests and prefer not to call situations by their name. After so many years of failure--political, legal, diplomatic and economic... more..e-mailWe’ve been here before and it suits Israel that we never forget ’Nuclear Iran’ Robert Fisk, The Independent 1/25/2012 The Ayatollah ordered the entire nuclear project to be closed down because it was the work of the devil Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary Islamist menace. Shia Iran, protector and manipulator of World Terror, of Syria and Lebanon and Hamas and Hezbollah. Ahmadinejad, the Mad Caliph. And, of course, Nuclear Iran, preparing to destroy Israel in a mushroom cloud of anti-Semitic hatred, ready to close the Strait of Hormuz the moment the West's (or Israel's) forces attack. Given the nature of the theocratic regime, the repulsive suppression of its post-election opponents in 2009, not to mention its massive pools of oil, every attempt to inject common sense into the story also has to carry a medical health warning: no, of course Iran... more..e-mail
Electronic Intifada: 27 Jan 2012 - Charlotte Silver 27 January 2012 An Israeli law forbidding Palestinians gaining citizenship upon marrying an Israeli leaves thousands of families in limbo.
Electronic Intifada: 27 Jan 2012 - Bekah Wolf 27 January 2012 One year after a 17-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli settlers as he farmed with his father in his West Bank village, his killers remain unpunished.
Electronic Intifada: 25 Jan 2012 - Nora Barrows-Friedman Berkeley 25 January 2012 The well-funded Israel lobby continues to wage attacks against university faculty, staff and students who engage in Palestine solidarity activism. One professor talks about why he refuses to be silent despite the threats against him, and why he thinks the tide is turning.
Electronic Intifada: 24 Jan 2012 - Yara Sa'di 24 January 2012 Three Palestinian students at the College of Engineering in Jerusalem have been put under house arrest for a week after calling for a boycott of a speech by Israeli President Shimon Peres.
Palestine Chronicle: 26 Jan 2012 - By Sam Bahour The human body is an amazing creation. It's not only the most complex system known to mankind, but it embodies within it signals that tell its owner that something has gone wrong. A similar signaling system exists in political bodies. Those tasked with reading the signals--be they...more
Palestine Chronicle: 26 Jan 2012 - By Ramzy Baroud The country that has long been known to abuse its powers and privileges in the United Nations is now leading a campaign to reform the same organization. While UN reforms are welcomed, if not demanded, by many of its member states, there is little reason to believe...more
Palestine Chronicle: 26 Jan 2012 - By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. The rise of asymmetric warfare has suspended the possibility of entrenched conflicts fought between conventional armies, bringing dreaded 'meat grinders' to a halt. Now entire populations are subjected to the political gears of fourth-generation warfare (4GW), and the fear of uncertainty is drawn equally...more
Palestine Chronicle: 26 Jan 2012 - By Jennifer Loewenstein At night I could not get to sleep. My body was trembling all over and no matter what I did to try to calm myself, I could not stop this trembling. I know now that baba was terribly worried about me, but then I was so lost...more
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Flotille de la libertι : 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 - In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 19- 25 January 2012, A Palestinian civilian died out of his wounds in Khan Yunis, north of the Gaza Strip. He was wounded in the beginning of al-Aqsa...
IMEMC - Israeli President, Shimon Peres, and Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, participated in meetings regarding the possibilities of resuming Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and the prospects of peace in the region. The meetings were held in Davos - Switzerland, as part of the World Economic Forum. ...
IMEMC - Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported Wednesday that Israeli Envoy, Yitzhak Molcho, presented on Wednesday a verbal Israeli stance on the issue of borders, during talks with Chief Palestinian Negotiator, Dr. Saeb Erekat, in Amman, Jordan. ...
1/26/2012 - TUBAS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Thursday handed out 17 demolition orders to residents of al-Aqaba village in the Jordan Valley, residents told Ma'an. Only...
1/26/2012 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti was sent to solitary confinement on Wednesday after making critical comments about Israel to journalists. After testifying in a...
1/26/2012 - TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Nine Palestinian detainees were injured on Thursday after a fire broke out in the Israeli jail Maasiyahu, Israeli media reported. One prisoner...
1/26/2012 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained six people on Thursday across the West Bank, Israel's army and Palestinian security sources said. Security sources told Ma...
Inter Press Service - Odette Klysinska, a Catholic French native, sits in her living room in an affluent neighbourhood in Beirut, clutching her will in one hand, shocked to learn that it is no longer legally valid in the country she now calls home....
Palestine Telegraph - 26 Jan 2012 - Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) - Unbelievable, but true: over 70 journalists from international mainstream media took part in a tour through Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank last Thursday 19th.
The Guardian - 27 Jan 2012 - Munther Fahmi's campaign to be allowed to stay in his birth city was backed by eminent literary figures The Palestinian owner of an celebrated Jerusalem bookshop patronised by politicians, diplomats,...
The Guardian - 27 Jan 2012 - Speaking in Davos, Ehud Barak, Israel's deputy prime minister and defence minister, warns of the dangers of Tehran's nuclear programme
Daily Star - 27 Jan 2012 The UN on Friday called on Israel to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank after reporting a dramatic rise in demolitions in the past year.
Relief Web - 27 Jan 2012 - Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks Country: occupied Palestinian territory RAMALLAH, 27 January 2012 (IRIN) - The humanitarian community's 2012-2013 Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) [ http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ochaopt_cap_2012_full_document_english.pdf ] for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)...
Relief Web - 27 Jan 2012 - Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: occupied Palestinian territory The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Mr Maxwell Gaylard, today called for an...
The National - 27 Jan 2012 - The United Nations has imposed four rounds of sanctions against Iran, but veto-wielding Russia and China say they see no need for additional punitive measures.
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