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Nilin journalist "determined to film"
Uruknet September 30, 2010 - For more than two years the people of Nilin in the occupied West Bank have embarked on a campaign of unarmed grassroots resistance against the theft of their land by Israeli settlements and the wall. Twenty-seven-year-old Hamoudeh Saeed Abd al-Haq Amireh is part of this resistance. Originally a medic and the sole breadwinner for his...
Gazans rally against buffer zone
9/29/2010 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Marking the 10th anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Gaza's Popular Committee organized a rally to voice dissent against Israel's separation wall in the West Bank and no-go zone in Gaza. Marching toward the border area, through an Israeli-declared "buffer zone" that reaches up to one kilometer....
Egypt detains 12 migrants along Israel-Sinai border
9/28/2010 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Egyptian security forces stopped two groups of African migrants attempting to cross the border into Israel from the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, a security source said. The source said forces spotted eight migrants near the Taba crossing trying to breach the fence into Israel."The officers hailed the migrants who....
Palestinian shot at anti-settlement rallies in Gaza
Uruknet September 26, 2010 - Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian at one of several peaceful anti-settlement protests held in Gaza on Sunday, rally organizers said.Gaza's National Action Committee organized rallies in Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the southern Strip and in Al-Maghazi in central Gaza. A third rally headed to the separation wall north of the coastal enclave. The...
Palestinian shot at anti-settlement rallies in Gaza
Uruknet September 26, 2010 - Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian at one of several peaceful anti-settlement protests held in Gaza on Sunday, rally organizers said.Gaza's National Action Committee organized rallies in Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the southern Strip and in Al-Maghazi in central Gaza. A third rally headed to the separation wall north of the coastal enclave. The...
Israeli Army Injures Bil’in Demonstrator with Live Ammunition
Alternative Information Center - Ashraf Al-Khatib was shot in the leg with a 0.22” caliber live bullet at the weekly demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil’in against the illegal apartheid wall. An international nonviolent activist was also hit...
Gaza: IDF fire critically wounds Palestinian
YNet News - Soldiers open fire after Palestinians refuse to back away from security fence;....
Soldiers Fire Live Rounds At Bil’in Weekly Protest, One Palestinian wounded
IMEMC - 25 Sep 2010 - Saturday September 25, 2010 - 08:06, As local residents of Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, accompanied by dozens of Israeli and international peace activists, held their weekly protest against the Wall and settlements, Israeli soldiers violently attacked them and fired rounds of live ammunition wounding one resident with a live round; several protesters were also wounded as the army fired gas bombs and rubber-coated bullets.
Peaceful Demonstration Rapidly Suppressed With Violence In Al Ma'sara
PNN - Alessandra Bajec – PNN - This Friday around thirty Palestinian, Israeli and international protesters gathered in Al-Ma'sara after midday prayers to march against the wall. The small village of Al-Ma'sara, south of...
Ramadan in Aida Camp
Rich Wiles, CounterPunch 9/24/2010
Still Waiting After 60 Years
From the barred windows of a four-storey house, strings run across the narrow main street of Aida Camp, well above head height, to the caged fence atop the walls of the Aida Camp Basic Boys School. Small plastic Palestinian flags hang down limply from the string. The outside walls of the school are adorned with political graffiti, and its two white metal doors are scarred by bullet holes.
Two towers dominate this stretch of the street. One is tall and thin, and green lights glow from its minaret. The second tower, at the end of the street, looks much sturdier and is without damage from gunfire, unlike Aida Camp's mosque. No lights glow from this tower, and it is impossible to tell if anyone is inside or not. The small windows in the bulletproof glass at the top of the tower are covered by thick caging with just a small purpose-built rectangular hole in the metal, its width sufficient to accommodate the barrel of a US-funded M-16 when the Israeli occupying forces, who use this watchtower in the Apartheid Wall, decide it is time to shoot at the camp. The facing wall of the four-storey house provides testimony to the effectiveness of this practice.
Stars glisten in the clear night skies overhead, but the air is still and stuffy. The heat is stifling, even though the sun set several hours ago, breaking the Ramadan fast. Placed with their backs against the school wall are a range of battered chairs and broken sofas, on which various residents of the house and assorted friends sit on every conceivable seat and broken arm. Half-empty coffee cups rest alongside everyone's feet. This open-air living room is completed by a small crackling portable TV, powered thanks to a makeshift series of cables that lead down from the upper floors of the house via the narrow stairway. The evenings' TV viewing is disturbed every few minutes or so, as cars drive down the unaccommodating street, passing between the TV set and its audience. more.. e-mail
Troops Use Live Rounds Against Anti Wall Protesters In Nil'in
PNN - Nil’in – PNN – the central West Bank village of Nil’in organized on Friday its weekly anti wall protest on Friday midday. Villagers along with international and Israeli supporters conducted the midday...
Bethlehem Villages Protest The Israeli Wall, Soldiers Use Tear Gas
PNN - Bethlehem – PNN – on Friday villagers from Al Ma’ssara and Al Walajeh, near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. In Al Ma’ssara, the protest started at midday, Israeli and international...
Troops Attack Bil'in Anti Wall Protest, Injuring Four, Including Two journalists
PNN - Bil’in – PNN- Israeli troops used live rounds, tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets to suppress the weekly anti wall protest at the village of Bil’in in central West Bank on Friday;...
Israel Police leave Temple Mount as calm returns to Jerusalem
Ha'aretz - At least 10 Israelis wounded in riots near Temple Mount, Western Wall following shooting death of Palestinian by Israeli security guard in East Jerusalem; Israeli man stabbed, in moderate condition.
Olmert urges ‘int’l trusteeship’ for Holy Basin
Jeruslalem Post 23 Sep 2010 - In op-ed article for ‘Post,’ former PM sets out terms Israel should present to ‘transform’ talks with PA which would involve relinquishing sovereignty over Western Wall, Temple Mt.
Israel Police leave Temple Mount as calm returns to Jerusalem
Ha'aretz 23 Sep 2010 - At least 10 Israelis wounded in riots near Temple Mount, Western Wall following shooting death of Palestinian by Israeli security guard in East Jerusalem; Israeli man stabbed, in moderate condition.
The Labour Sector in Palestine
Shaher Saad, This Week in Palestine 9/18/2010
The labour sector in Palestine faces many obstacles and challenges. According to some research studies and reports, including the report on Palestine drafted by the director-general of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories is considered the biggest challenge.
The Israeli military authorities exercise numerous arbitrary measures which impede the development of the labour sector, and other sectors, in Palestine: The positioning of permanent and temporary road barriers and checkpoints, which close off the West Bank territories and prevent Palestinian labourers from going to their places of work, has been the cause of a sharp rise in the rate of unemployment and poverty in Palestinian society and continues to restrict freedom of movement and the transport of people and goods; the construction of the apartheid Wall and the confiscation of fertile land has precipitated a sharp increase in the rate of unemployment, to more than 17 percent; settlement construction is unceasing and Palestinian farmers are prevented from working on their land close to settlements; the city of East Jerusalem is isolated from the rest of the West Bank territories and is being annexed to Israel proper; bureaucratic measures are being implemented, including restrictions on imports and exports of raw material.
These measures have incapacitated the Palestinian economy and engendered a volatile political situation that impedes all chances of creating work opportunities for Palestinians. The Palestinian economy has been devastated by war, and the unstable and unpredictable circumstances leave no room for economic investment or progress. Putting an end to these horrendous Israeli practices requires the intervention and support of the international community and the empowerment of Palestinians to enable them to improve their labour sector in line with the agreements issued by the ILO offices in Geneva and Jerusalem. more.. e-mail
Bill Clinton's 'Russian immigrants are obstacle to peace' comment draws fire in Israel
Ha'aretz - Former U.S. President tells press that Russian immigrants and settlers are those least interested in peace in Israel., At least 10 Israelis wounded in riots near Temple Mount, Western Wall following shooting death of Palestinian by Israeli security guard in East Jerusalem; Israeli man stabbed, in moderate condition.
Riots in Temple Mount, Western Wall area after Palestinian shot dead by Israeli guard
Ha'aretz - At least 10 Israelis wounded in clashes which broke out following funeral of man shot dead in Silwan earlier in the day.
Bill Clinton's 'Russian immigrants are obstacle to peace' comment draws fire in Israel
Ha'aretz 22 Sep 2010 - Former U.S. President tells press that Russian immigrants and settlers are those least interested in peace in Israel., At least 10 Israelis wounded in riots near Temple Mount, Western Wall following shooting death of Palestinian by Israeli security guard in East Jerusalem; Israeli man stabbed, in moderate condition.
Riots in Temple Mount, Western Wall area after Palestinian shot dead by Israeli guard
Ha'aretz 22 Sep 2010 - At least 10 Israelis wounded in clashes which broke out following funeral of man shot dead in Silwan earlier in the day.
Mustafa Barghouthi: Israel Insists On Killing Chances For Peace
Uruknet September 19, 2010 - Israel insists on "killing chances for peace" and "assassinating the peace process" with settlements and the wall, Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouthi said Sunday. The PNI leader said Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s comments that Palestinians were using a call to extend a moratorium on illegal West Bank settlement building to undermine peace talks...
Barghouthi: Israel insists on killing chances for peace
9/19/2010 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israel insists on "killing chances for peace" and "assassinating the peace process" with settlements and the wall, Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouthi said Sunday. The PNI leader said Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's comments that Palestinians were using a call to extend a moratorium on illegal West Bank....
Israel Insists On Killing Chances For Peace
Palestine Monitor - Israel insists on "killing chances for peace" and "assassinating the peace process" with settlements and the wall, Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouthi said Sunday. The PNI leader said Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's comments that Palestinians were using a call to extend a moratorium on...
Israel Insists On Killing Chances For Peace
Palestine Monitor: 19 Sep 2010 - Israel insists on "killing chances for peace" and "assassinating the peace process" with settlements and the wall, Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouthi said Sunday. The PNI leader said Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's comments that Palestinians were using a call to extend a moratorium on illegal West Bank settlement building to undermine peace talks were " another confirmation that Israel uses negotiations to cover its expansionist policies and not for peace." Barghouthi said settlement expansion was not deterred by the moratorium, pointing to developments in occupied East Jerusalem, which was excluded from the freeze. He said Israel was planning to build a 12 meter concrete wall sectioning off parts of the occupied city, which would isolate residents in the Shu'fat refugee camp, Ras Khamis, Ras Shehada and Anata villages from Jerusalem. Barghouthi further denounced attacks against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention, calling for an escalation in popular resistance in support...more
Israeli military uses tear gas to supress anti-wall protests
IMEMC - 17 Sep 2010 - Friday September 17, 2010 - 21:07, The Israeli military used tear gas canisters to desperse nonviolent activists from protesting against the construction of annexation wall in both villages, Ni'lin near Ramallah and al-Ma'asara near Bethlehem.
Four wounded in Bil'in's weekly anti-wall protest
IMEMC - 17 Sep 2010 - Friday September 17, 2010 - 21:01, Israeli and international supporters marched with the villagers of Bil'in after the midday prayers and headed from the village to the wall built on farmers’ lands.
Troops Attack Bethlehem Anti Wall Protest With Tear Gas
PNN - Bethlehem – PNN - Israeli soldiers used tear gas on Friday to suppress an anti wall protest in the village of Al Ma’ssara near Bethlehem in southern West Bank. Villagers along with...
Israeli Soldiers Attack Anti Wall Protesters Near Ramallah; Two Injured
PNN - Ramallah – PNN – Israeli soldiers used tear gas and sound bombs on Friday midday to suppress two anti wall protests in Bil’in and Nil’in villages near the central West Bank city...
The Saudi Arms Deal
Rannie Amiri, CounterPunch 9/17/2010
The U.S. Stirs Persian Gulf Waters
It would be the single largest foreign arms deal in United States history.
Pending congressional approval, the Obama administration plans to sell $60 billion in advanced aircraft and sophisticated weaponry to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Add $30 billion in proposed enhancements to the country’s navy and ballistic missile-defense systems, and the result is one huge jobs program, further deterioration in Saudi-Iranian relations and heightened tension in the Persian Gulf—all calculated endpoints.
That the colossal arms package was made public enough to be reported on in Monday’s Wall Street Journal indicates it comes without serious Israeli objection—giving credence to the longstanding notion that Saudi Arabia and Israel maintain increasingly close ties, joined by a mutual animus toward Iran.
The agreement would authorize Riyadh to buy 84 new F-15 fighter jets, upgrade another 70 and purchase three types of attack helicopters: 70 Apaches, 72 Black Hawks and 36 Little Birds. If Congress makes no significant modifications and Saudi Arabia opts for the entire package, a $90 billion deal to allegedly help the Kingdom counter Iranian influence is in the offing.
Boeing would be responsible for production of all aircraft other than the Black Hawk. They estimated the deal would support at least 75,000 direct or indirect jobs in 44 states. The muted criticism of the proposal by reflexively pro-Israel lawmakers was aided—not by the potential for job creation—but by knowledge that the fighters will not be equipped with long-range missiles.... more.. e-mail
Activists: Israel wants 2-year term for wall protester
9/16/2010 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The sentencing phase in the trial of Abdallah Abu Rahme, the coordinator of the Bil'in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, began Wednesday at Israel's Ofer Military Court. Abu Rahme was convicted of organizing illegal marches and of incitement in August, but he was cleared on....
Activists: Israel opens fire at no-go zone rally
9/14/2010 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces opened fire Tuesday at a march held to protest Israel's imposed no-go zone along the Gaza border near the Erez crossing in the north, international peace activists said, with no injuries reportedDemonstrators carried Palestinian flags toward the electric fence demarcating the buffer zone, and attempted to....
Israel confirms fire in central Gaza
9/14/2010 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel's military said Tuesday that a group of militants fired an anti-tank missile at soldiers operating near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip."No injuries were caused," the army said in a statement." The force retaliated by firing tank shells and light fire at the suspects and.... Related: Israel army fires on central Gaza
Unsafe Space: The Israeli Authorities’ Failure to Protect Human Rights amid Settlements in East Jerusalem (Full Report)
Uruknet September 13, 2010 - Anyone who has toured East Jerusalem's Palestinian neighborhoods over the past few years, especially those neighborhoods closest to the Old City, cannot help but notice the increasing number of guarded compounds, surrounded by fences with armed sentries protecting them. These compounds, situated in the midst of densely populated Palestinian neighborhoods, house today some 2,000 Jewish...
1 terrorist dead, 4 wounded in IDF response to Gaza attack
Jeruslalem Post 14 Sep 2010 - IDF returns fire after Palestinian cells launches anti-tank missile at Israeli troops by border fence; top Hamas military leader threatens wave of violence intended to derail peace talks.
IOF troops fire at peaceful march, as Mizan calls for protection of civilians
PIC 14 Sep 2010 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire on Tuesday at a peaceful march in northern Gaza Strip that was protesting the security fence and buffer zone, eyewitnesses reported.
Canada-Israel Public Security Agreement: Canada involving Israel in the Americas, Despite Blatant Human Rights Violations
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, Axis of Logic 9/10/2010
Despite Concerns, Canada is involving Israel in the Americas The department of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday that the Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas), Peter Kent, will be visiting Israel from August 31 to September 08 to launch Canada-Israel discussions on the Americas. Kent is set to meet with President Shimon Peres, Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Daniel Ayalon, during his trip. He will also visit the West Bank, where he will meet Riad Malki, the Palestinian Authority's Minister of Foreign Affairs. On the eve of discussions, Kent stated,
"As vibrant democratic states, Canada and Israel are natural allies. This affinity, based on our shared values, such as respect for human rights and the rule of law, extends to our respective engagement in the Americas."
The Minister's statement is puzzling given Israel's documented history of human rights violations and concomitant breach of international law. Under stated Canadian policy regarding the Middle East, Canada has officially recognized many of Israel's violations of international law in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Israel's military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, the ongoing expansion of colonies (a.k.a. settlements) in the occupied territories, and Israel's construction of a wall on Palestinian land. Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is concerned by the purpose of Minister of State Kent's trip to Israel and his statements on Canadian-Israeli relations.... more.. e-mail
US plans to offer Saudis new arms deal worth $60 billion
Jeruslalem Post 13 Sep 2010 - Deal aims to create stronger ally in region against Iran; Israel comfortable with sales because wont include certain long range weapons, 'Wall Street Journal' reports.
MIDEAST: PA has its Back to the Wall
IPS The village of Bani Naim, near Hebron in the southern West Bank, was under curfew and sealed off by Israeli soldiers stationed in troop carriers and jeeps, as peace talks continued in Washington.
28 Years After the Massacre at Sabra-Shatila
Franklin Lamb, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) 9/9/2010
Munir's Story
The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied.
Scores of horror testimonies have been shared over the past nearly three decades by survivors of the September 1982 Sabra-Shatila massacre. More come to light only through circumstantial evidence because would-be affiants perished during the slaughter. Other eyewitness are just beginning to emerge from deep trauma or self imposed silence.
Some testimonies will be shared this month by massacre survivors at Shatila camp. They will sit with the every growing numbers of international visitors who annually come to commemorate one of the most horrific crimes of the 20th century.
There are no average massacre testimonies.
Zeina, a handsome bronzed-faced middle-aged woman, an acquaintance of Munir Mohammad's family, asked a foreigner the other day: "How can it be 28 years? I think it was just last fall that my husband Hussam and our two daughters, Maya, 8 years old, and Sirham, 9 years old, left our two room home to search for food because the Israeli army had sealed Shatila camp nearly two days before and few inside Shatila Camp had any. I still pray and wait for them to return."
In Shatila Palestinian refugee camp and outside Abu Yassir's shelter, the bullet marks still cover the lower half of the 11 "walls of death" where some of the dried blood is mixed and feathered in with the thin mortar.... more.. e-mail
Crossing into Israel: ‘two highly-charged narratives’
Mondoweiss - Yesterday my wife and I left Jordan and entered Israel at the southern border crossing, Aqaba-Eilat. We were in the Israeli baggage inspection hall when my wife said, “Who’s that handsome guy?” On the wall was a very large black-and-white photograph from the 1940s of a young Israeli...
IOF soldiers wound Bilin activist on Eid day
PIC 11 Sep 2010 - Foreign solidarity activists joined the Bilin villagers in their weekly protest march on Friday against the Israeli separation wall that cut off the villagers from their land.
Dozens Wounded As Army Attacked Nonviolent Protest In Bil’in
IMEMC - 10 Sep 2010 - Friday September 10, 2010 - 23:38, Israeli soldiers attacked on Friday afternoon the weekly nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall in Bil’in village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah inflicting dozens of injuries.
Israeli Soldiers uses tear gas to suppress anti wall Protests in the West Bank
PNN - Bethlehem – PNN – on Friday villagers from Al Walajah, southern West Bank, and Bil’in, central West Bank organized their weekly anti wall protests. In other villages who organize weekly nonviolent protest,...
Hope, but not with talks
Mya Guarnieri, Ma’an News Agency 9/10/2010
Peace talks and the Israeli school year began at approximately the same time this September. Which is more worthy of your attention?
The school year.
Peace talks are doomed to fail. Hamas, a key player, is being excluded. “We will never divide Jerusalem,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaimed just four months before he sat down to negotiate the fate of the city. The settlement freeze—which saw construction began on hundreds of new homes on Wednesday as settlers protested West Bank shootings claimed by Hams—is set to expire at the end of the month. When breakneck building resumes in the West Bank on 26 September when the freeze officially ends, peace talks are likely to screech to a halt.
And the list goes on.
The Israeli educational system, however, is slightly more promising. Slightly.
The start of the school year saw the introduction of a pilot program that will make Arabic classes mandatory for students in 170 schools in the north of Israel. Speaking to the Israeli news site Walla, Dr Shlomo Alon, Head of Arabic and Islamic Education in the Ministry of Education, remarked: "We live in a country that has two official languages … Studying Arabic will promote tolerance and convey a message of acceptance."
Alon continued, "The state aspires to complete equality of citizenship. We will not deal with conflicts based on cultural identity.”
The rhetoric is great but the reality of the pilot program is a bit dimmer.... more.. e-mail
Ramadan in Aida Camp
Rich Wiles, Al-Ahram Weekly 9/2/2010
What is Ramadan like for the inhabitants of the Palestinian refugee camps?
From the barred windows of a four-storey house, strings run across the narrow main street of Aida Camp, well above head height, to the caged fence atop the walls of the Aida Camp Basic Boys School. Small plastic Palestinian flags hang down limply from the string. The outside walls of the school are adorned with political graffiti, and its two white metal doors are scarred by bullet holes.
Two towers dominate this stretch of the street. One is tall and thin, and green lights glow from its minaret. The second tower, at the end of the street, looks much sturdier and is without damage from gunfire, unlike Aida Camp's mosque. No lights glow from this tower, and it is impossible to tell if anyone is inside or not. The small windows in the bulletproof glass at the top of the tower are covered by thick caging with just a small purpose-built rectangular hole in the metal, its width sufficient to accommodate the barrel of a US-funded M-16 when the Israeli occupying forces, who use this watchtower in the Apartheid Wall, decide it is time to shoot at the camp. The facing wall of the four-storey house provides testimony to the effectiveness of this practice.
Stars glisten in the clear night skies overhead, but the air is still and stuffy. The heat is stifling, even though the sun set several hours ago, breaking the Ramadan fast. Placed with their backs against the school wall are a range of battered chairs and broken sofas, on which various residents of the house and assorted friends sit on every conceivable seat and broken arm. Half-empty coffee cups rest alongside everyone's feet. This open-air living room is completed by a small crackling portable TV, powered thanks to a makeshift series of cables that lead down from the upper floors of the house via the narrow stairway.... more.. e-mail
An Unsettled Issue
Juliane von Mittelstaedt in Jerusalem, Der Spiegel 9/3/2010
Israeli Settlement Construction Booms Despite Ban
In Washington, the Israelis and Palestinians are discussing peace, but in the Jewish settlements in the West Bank, construction is proceeding at full speed. A legal ban is being ignored and the government is looking away. The thousands of new homes could hinder reconciliation.
Officially, at least, this is the hour of diplomacy. For the first time in two years, Israelis and Palestinians are meeting for direct peace talks. United States President Barack Obama has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Washington. Settlement construction is one of the most sensitive issues at the talks.
It's also an issue where the fronts are growing increasingly tense. "As far as we are concerned, we will continue building after we have buried our dead," Naftali Bennett, the general director of the settlers' association Yesha said hours before the start of peace talks. Just a short time after his announcement, the settlers began erecting several symbolic settlements in the West Bank. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, Bennett had threatening words. "It is not good enough that the moratorium will end on Sept. 26," he said. "Ehud Barak needs to act to approve 3,000 new housing units -- 1,500 of them right now."
The message is clear: After Hamas terrorists shot four Israelis near Hebron, the settlers no longer want to adhere to the 10-month construction stop that expires at the end of September. An army commander told the newspaper Maariv that the settlers threatened to "flood" the West Bank "with thousands of homes." He said he was concerned that dozens of cement mixers would drive in at night to pour the walls and that there was nothing the military could do to stop it. more.. e-mail
God Announces Palestinian State in Uganda
Palestine Chronicle: 6 Sep 2010 - By Belen Fernandez In an interview this week with Al Jazeera's Shihab Rattansi, omnipresent Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev addressed the difficulty of defining the border between Israel and Palestine without knowing “what’s going to be on the other side” and whether whatever it is will recognize the Jewish state. Deftly skirting Rattansi’s interjection that the Palestinians had already recognized Israel in 1993 by saying he would “answer that in a second” despite the fact that it was not a question, Regev continued: “How can we agree to a border unless we know what’s the nature and the character of the society on the other side of the border?” As for the nature and character of the Jewish state, comparable spiritual exclusivity on the other side of the fence such as an Islamic Republic of Palestine would presumably not merit comparable insistence by Regev of the state’s utter democracy. As...more
IOF supresses peaceful demos in WB
4 Sep 2010 - Ramallah, September 4, (Pal Telegraph) Dozens of Palestinian and foreign peaceful demonstrators were wounded and suffered from suffocation as a result of inhaling tear gas, following the suppression of the Israeli occupation forces for the weekly march against the separation wall and settlements in the village of “Bil'in” in the West Bank. Bil'in villagers participated in the march called by...
Israeli army shuts down anti-wall rallies
9/3/2010 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces fired tear-gas canisters, rubber-coated steel bullets and sound bombs to shut down non-violent weekly protests across the West Bank on Friday. In Al Ma'sara, near Bethlehem, around 50 Palestinians, Israelis and internationals marched to the village entrance to protest the separation wall, which cuts villagers off from....
In Gaza - Patience you need - is Written on the Wall !
Uruknet September 3, 2010 - ... Life has changed drastically,in these days of unrest. She tell me, her husband was killed in the very first day of the Israelis war on Gaza. Like so many others here in Gaza, who lost family members, they have also lost their job and their income, she, the street vendor, simply does not have the...
Palestinian shot as Israeli forces enter north Gaza
Uruknet September 2, 2010 -- Israeli forces shot a Palestinian in northern Gaza Thursday, following earlier reports that Israeli patrols and bulldozers entered the area. Taha Shedeh Taha, 18, was admitted to Kamal Edwan Hospital with gun shot wounds to his leg, medics said. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed that soldiers shot a Palestinian close to the border fence She...
Behind the Israeli wall: A lesson in reality
Palestine Note 3 Sep 2010 - Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book - or any piece of writing for that matter - is meant to provide a sense of completion. Sociological explanations are offered...
Two Arrested, At least A Dozen Injured During West Bank Anti Wall Protests
PNN - This week, anti wall protests were organized in the villages of Bil’in and Nil’in, in the central West Bank, and the village of Al Ma’sara, in the southern West Bank. Israeli and...
Wounding Dozens in Bil'in Weekly Protest
WAFA - RAMALLAH, September 3, 2010 (WAFA)- Dozen demonstrators wounded of tear gas inhalation launched by Israeli soldiers during the weekly demonstration against the Apartheid Wall in the West Bank
Hear, O Israel– first the Pixies and Elvis Costello, now ‘Massive Attack’ says we won’t play Jim Crow
Mondoweiss - New Statesman , a piece by Bill Parry, author of Against the Wall : now one of Britain's most successful bands, Massive Attack, is publicly backing the boycott. “I've always felt that it's the only way forward," Robert Del Naja, the band's lead singer, tells me when we...
Palestinian shot as Israeli forces enter north Gaza
Uruknet September 2, 2010 -- Israeli forces shot a Palestinian in northern Gaza Thursday, following earlier reports that Israeli patrols and bulldozers entered the area. Taha Shedeh Taha, 18, was admitted to Kamal Edwan Hospital with gun shot wounds to his leg, medics said. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed that soldiers shot a Palestinian close to the border fence She...
To be a Fly on the White House Old Family Dining Room Wall. . .
Palestine Note 2 Sep 2010 - Originally posted on the Washington Note This is the roster of who is coming to dinner tonight: President Obama President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt King Abdullah of Jordan Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel President Mahmoud Abbas...
Analysis: Hamas has more cards to play
Jeruslalem Post 2 Sep 2010 - Group still has a lot more it could do if it really wanted to push Israel up against a wall and torpedo the talks.
How to Kill Goyim and Influence People: Israeli Rabbis Defend Book’s Shocking Religious Defense of Killing Non-Jews (with Video)
Max Blumenthal, AlterNet 8/30/2010
A rabbinical guidebook for killing non-Jews has sparked an uproar in Israel and exposed the power a bunch of genocidal theocrats wield over the government.
When I went into the Jewish religious book emporium, Pomeranz, in central Jerusalem to inquire about the availability of a book called Torat Ha'Melech, or the King's Torah, a commotion immediately ensued. "Are you sure you want it?" the owner, M. Pomeranz, asked me half-jokingly. "The Shabak [Israel's internal security service] is going to want a word with you if you do." As customers stopped browsing and began to stare in my direction, Pomeranz pointed to a security camera affixed to a wall. "See that?" he told me. "It goes straight to the Shabak!"
As soon as it was published late last year,Torat Ha'Melech sparked a national uproar. The controversy began when an Israeli tabloid panned the book's contents as "230 pages on the laws concerning the killing of non-Jews, a kind of guidebook for anyone who ponders the question of if and when it is permissible to take the life of a non-Jew." According to the book's author, Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, "Non-Jews are "uncompassionate by nature" and should be killed in order to "curb their evil inclinations." "If we kill a gentile who has has violated one of the seven commandments… there is nothing wrong with the murder," Shapira insisted. Citing Jewish law as his source (or at least a very selective interpretation of it) he declared: "There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults."
In January, Shapira was briefly detained by the Israeli police, while two leading rabbis who endorsed the book, Dov Lior and Yaakov Yosef, were summoned to interrogations by the Shabak. However, the rabbis refused to appear at the interrogations, essentially thumbing their noses at the state and its laws.... more.. e-mail
Behind the Israeli Wall: A Lesson in Reality
Palestine Chronicle: 2 Sep 2010 - By Ramzy Baroud Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book - or any piece of writing for that matter – is meant to provide a sense of completion. Sociological explanations are offered to offset the confusion caused by apparent inconsistency in human behavior. At times a reader is asked to take a stance, or choose sides. This is especially true in writings which deal with compelling human experiences. In Behind the Wall: Life, Love and Struggle in Palestine (Potomac Books, 2010), Rich Wiles undoubtedly directs his readers, although implicitly, towards taking a stance. But he is unabashed about his moral priorities and makes no attempt to disguise his objectives. As I began reading Wiles’ book, various aspects struck me as utterly refreshing in contrast to the way Palestine is generally written about. We tend to complicate what was meant to be straightforward and...more
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