March 18, 2012
How Mossad Justified Its Murder of an Innocent Iranian Electrical Engineer By Gareth Porter March 18, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — - On July 23, 2011, a 35-year-old Iranian electrical engineering student named Darioush Rezaeinejad was gunned down as he and his wife, who was also wounded in the attack, waited for their [...]
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January 28, 2012
Remember the catch dry from the Israeli Zionists was always, “take what you can you will never have to give it back.” With that as a fundamental position and strategy there can never be meaningful negotiations from the Israeli fascist, apartheid regime. No matter what propositions they are [...]
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December 31, 2011
AFP Secular Israelis arguing with an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man in Beit Shemesh earlier this week. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups in Israel would like to see gender separation in public, and some have stooped to harassing women — and even children – to get their way. With thousands of Israelis protesting against the growing influence [...]
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December 24, 2011
QALQILIYA (Ma’an) – Israeli forces on Saturday morning closed all the entrances to the northern West Bank village of Azzun east of Qalqiliya preventing all residents from going in or out. Locals told Ma’an a large number of troops stormed the village in the morning. The soldiers completely shut down the northern and the western [...]
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December 20, 2011
An Israeli soldier fires tear gas at Palestinian protesters during a demonstration near Ramallah (MaanImages/Moti Milrod, File) TULKAREM (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles raided Tulkarem and its refugee camp Tuesday afternoon, witnesses said, and clashes erupted between the troops and locals.Witnesses said five Israeli army vehicles moved into the eastern area of the city where [...]
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December 20, 2011
Palestinian students wear traditional clothing during a cultural event at the Bethlehem University, in the West Banktown of Bethlehem, Thursday, March 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? You don’t believe it? [...]
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December 10, 2011
After Friday prayers, residents of Nabi Saleh, along with international activists, marched towards land they say was stolen by an Israeli settlement [credit: Lazar Simeonov] Nabi Saleh, a small village of about 550 people 20km northwest of Ramallah in the West Bank, has been organising nonviolent protests against land theft since 2009.On December 9, 2011, the [...]
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November 27, 2011
Israeli soldiers pictured making an arrest near Qalandiya. (MaanImages/file) HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained 7 people overnight Saturday, an army spokeswoman and local Palestinian official said. Three men were detained in Beit Ummar, two in Battir village near Bethlehem and two in the Ramallah area, the Israeli army said. Spokesman for the Beit Ummar [...]
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November 23, 2011
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians with Impunity By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 23 November 2011 Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians with Impunity – by Stephen Lendman Palestinians are doubly cursed. Israel‘s military attacks them regularly. During the past week alone, Israeli air strikes killed four Gazans, wounding another 14. Al-Nabi Saleh village residents participating in a peaceful demonstration were [...]
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November 21, 2011
Israeli forces guard a home demolition in Silwan. (MaanImages/Stringer, File) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settler organizations have been given the green light by the Israeli government to take over a number of central Jerusalem homes belonging to Palestinians, a presidential legal adviser said on Sunday. Ahmad Ruweidi said the Israeli government had waited until [...]
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November 20, 2011
Israeli soldiers clashed with settlers while trying to keep them away from Jaber’s house in Hebron Dozens of Israeli settlers have attacked a house in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron in protest against the release of a man in the recent Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap. Israeli soldiers on Saturday clashed with the settlers [...]
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November 20, 2011
Is Israel Preparing to Attack Iran? By Neve Gordon* Skimming the newspapers as I rushed to get my children ready for school, I suddenly understood that Israel might actually be preparing for a military attack against Iran. “[United States Secretary of Defence Leon] Panetta Demanded Commitment to Coordinate Action in Iran” read one headline, and [...]
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November 18, 2011
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine hearing in Cape Town in November 2011 (MaanImages/Hanan Chehata, HO) By Frank Barat and Victor Kattan The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an international citizen-based tribunal of conscience, has found that “Israel subjects the Palestinian people to an institutionalized regime of domination amounting to apartheid as defined under international law.” [...]
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November 16, 2011
Freedom Riders on the West Bank? by Bill Fletcher ZNet 14 November 2011 When I first heard about the planned Freedom Rides scheduled for Tuesday, November 15th to take place in the Occupied Palestinian Territories I realized that this was a brilliant tactic. Much as with the Freedom Rides that were used in [...]
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November 16, 2011
Israel’s Defense Chief OK’s Hundreds of Israeli Deaths by Ira Chernus “If we take out the Iranian nuke facilities, sure, they’ll strike back at us,” Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said yesterday. “But if every American stays in their home when the Iranian rockets start falling, well, it will be uncomfortable. It won’t [...]
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November 16, 2011
It’s not that Israel is finding new ways to expel Palestinians, it’s that no one cares Israel routinely produces new ploys to counter Palestinian pleas for justice. But is anybody interested? By Amira Hass* The affair of the rapist president Moshe Katsav is always associated in my mind with my limitations as a journalist. [...]
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November 10, 2011
Israel Postpones Dismantling Illegal Settlements Israel had initially promised to force an evacuation of the illegal settlement but has kicked it at least six months down the road by John Glaser, November 09, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Israeli government says it is postponing the dismantlement of illegal Jewish settlements in the West [...]
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November 8, 2011
Harvesters were told to stop picking olives in Burin. (Photo: ISM) By Ben Lorber, ISM, West Bank As this year’s olive harvest sends Palestinian families across all of historic Palestine out to their olive trees, a new nonviolent resistance group called Refusing to Die In Silence is patrolling the West Bank, protecting harvesters from increased [...]
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November 7, 2011
Robben Island in South Africa housed political prisoners during apartheid, but Israeli jails hold even more [GALLO/GETTY] This week, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will consider the question of whether Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) constitute the crime of apartheid within the meaning of the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression [...]
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November 1, 2011
New Jewish homes will be built in East Jerusalem and the West Bank settlements of Gush Etzion, pictured, and Ma’ale Adumim. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Israel is to expedite the construction of about 2,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in response to the Palestinians‘ successful bid to join Unesco. Israel [...]
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November 1, 2011
These short accounts of events in Palestine are included on this site to show how the actions against the Palestinians happen on a daily basis, seven days a week, There is no let up or no cessation as the Israeli drive to have it all continues. George Ikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com A settler walks through [...]
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October 31, 2011
Palestinians mourn at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after an Israeli air strike October 31, 2011. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Two militants were killed overnight Sunday as Israeli forces targeted the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the coastal enclave to 12 since Saturday. Palestinian [...]
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October 19, 2011
Former Palestinian prisoners, who have arrived from Cairo, Egypt to live in exile in Syria, walk among a crowd at Damascus airport early Oct. 19. (Reuters/SANA) DAMASCUS (Reuters) — Sixteen Palestinian prisoners arrived in Damascus on Wednesday after being released by Israel on Tuesday as part of a swap deal for Israeli soldier Gilad [...]
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October 10, 2011
The British government illegitimately agreed to give special temporary immunity to Tzipi Livni, argue writers [EPA] Changes to UK law didn’t protect Tzipi Livni A London judge ordered a former Israeli foreign minister’s arrest, but the UK is preventing this. Daniel Machover and Raji Sourani Last Modified: 10 Oct 2011 09:15 In December 2009, [...]
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October 7, 2011
Vanunu appears in court in 2007 (MaanImages) JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel’s supreme court on Thursday barred nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu from emigrating on the grounds he still poses a threat to state security, Israeli media reported. Vanunu, under orders to stay in Tel Aviv and not to speak to journalists, “has proved several times [...]
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October 7, 2011
Women take part in a protest at the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City on Oct. 3, 2011, to show their solidarity with prisoners held in Israeli jails. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli prison authorities are cracking down on Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails, a prisoner rights group said Thursday. Strikers [...]
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September 28, 2011
(MaanImages, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A petition signed by 100,000 American Jews calls for the US to veto the PLO proposal for UN membership of a Palestinian state, Israeli media said Tuesday. The document, which says Palestinian leaders’ refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state threatens their national home, was presented to Israeli [...]
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September 13, 2011
Palestinian fisherman work on their boats in the port off Gaza City, Nov. 8, 2008 [MaanImages/Hatem Omar] Israeli forces detain 8 fishermen off Gaza coast Published Sunday 11/09/2011 (updated) 12/09/2011 11:17 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Sunday detained eight fishermen off the coast of Gaza City, locals told Ma’an. Locals said Israeli naval [...]
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September 8, 2011
Witnesses: Overnight raid on Gaza Published today (updated) 08/09/2011 10:50 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli warplanes struck a site east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip overnight Wednesday without any injuries reported, witnesses told Ma’an. Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli surveillance plane fired a missile towards a group of militants east of Jabalia [...]
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September 8, 2011
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. (Wikimedia Commons) By Ramzy Baroud From an Israeli point of view, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the ideal American politician. Although many in the US government aspire to her level of commitment to Israel, few can measure up to a dedication that extends beyond the very interests of her own country. “Lawless extremists [...]
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September 7, 2011
Gates: Israel an ‘Ungrateful Ally’ Tensions Rise as Whistleblower Reveals Israeli Effort to Start a US War With Iran by Jason Ditz, September 06, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Though tensions in the relationship between the US and Israeli governments rarely get aired in public, there is a general sense in media reporting [...]
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September 6, 2011
Israel’s Anti-democratic Enterprise By George Polley Israel as a Jewish state is unworkable for one simple reason: non-Jews are treated differently than Jews, leaving non-Jews in a lesser-than position in which they have fewer rights than Jews, and are required to carry a special identification card that identifies them as non-Jews, and must be surrendered [...]
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September 6, 2011
Israeli General Predicts All-Out-War With WMDs Cites Pro-Democracy Protests, Bad Relations With Turkey in Statement by Jason Ditz, September 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In a speech which repeatedly cited the pro-democracy protests across the Middle East as a catalyst, Israeli Major General Eyal Eisenberg has predicted an “all out” [...]
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September 5, 2011
US Envoy: Israel Considers Any Protest an Excuse to Use Military by Jason Ditz, September 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Whenever Israeli troops rough up civilian protesters, it is shrugged off as an isolated incident. One of the WikiLeaks cables, however, shows that it was explicit military policy to abuse civilians [...]
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September 4, 2011
JUAN GONZALEZ: Turkey has downgraded diplomatic ties with Israel and frozen military cooperation ahead of a long-awaited United Nations report on Israel’s deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship in 2010. According to leaked excerpts, the report accuses Israel of, quote, “excessive and unreasonable force” in its attacks on the Mavi Marmara which killed nine people. The [...]
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August 26, 2011
Israeli troops fire tear gas at protest in Qalandiya Published today (updated) 26/08/2011 21:12 Israeli soldiers block Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah December 10, 2005. [MaanImages/Charlotte de Bellabre] RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Israeli troops fired tear gas on dozens of protesters gathered at Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah to call for access [...]
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August 25, 2011
Israel‘s ‘Nice Little War’: Gaza, Egypt in the Range of Fire Hidden hands seem to be orchestrating chaos in Sinai. (Via PressTV) By Ramzy Baroud Israeli writer Uri Avnery recently wrote an article entitled ‘How Godly Are Thy Tents?’, which began with the words, “First of all, a warning.” The reference was made to the [...]
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August 25, 2011
An unofficial truce was declared after four days of clashes which left 15 Palestinians dead [Reuters] Israel has launched several attacks on Gaza, killing three Palestinians and wounding several others, prompting Hamas to allege that the attacks violated an unofficial two-day-long truce. Medics in Gaza said an Israeli air strike on Wednesday evening killed 20-year-old Mohammad Moqat. He was a member of the [...]
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August 20, 2011
Palestinians face a lengthy wait to cross the Rafah-Egypt border, with only 400 allowed to cross each day [GALLO/GETTY] Any astute observer who has spent any substantial time in the Gaza Strip knows that Gazans desperately want and need freedom of movement and the right to export their products. This does not diminish the fact that [...]
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August 20, 2011
By Uri Avnery Since the beginning of the conflict, the extremists of both sides have always played into each other’s hands. The cooperation between them was always much more effective than the ties between the corresponding peace activists. “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” asked the prophet Amos (3:3). Well, seems [...]
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August 18, 2011
Daily Rogue State Israeli Lawlessness by STEPHEN LENDMAN on AUGUST 17, 2011 Spread it! 2Share| 5Share 0 inShare 0digg email print By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It begs the question why Israelis put up with lawless governance harming them as well as Palestinians. When will weeks of social injustice outrage arouse them to embrace universal equity? Why [...]
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August 17, 2011
Israeli marines shot dead nine Turkish passengers on the Mavi Marmara aid ship in May 2010 [AFP] Israel says it will stick to its refusal to apologise to Turkey for killing nine of its citizens on a Gaza-bound aid ship, an Israeli official has said. Wednesday’s announcement, which the official said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu conveyed to [...]
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August 17, 2011
The May 15 Nakba protests put the issue of Palestinian refugees back on the table [GALLO/GETTY] After years of marginalisation in the peace process, the Palestinian refugees are back on centre stage. On May 15, Nakba day, the refugees forced their way on to the news agenda; in the past two weeks, Israeli and Palestinian leaders [...]
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August 17, 2011
Spotlight on Occupied Palestine By Lawrence Davidson * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Education as indoctrination Over the last 10 years there have been periodicoutbursts of rage over the alleged anti-Semitic nature of Palestinian textbooks. Most of these episodes have been instigated by an Israeli based organization called the Centre for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (also [...]
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August 17, 2011
Does AIPAC Have Only Two Major Donors? John Boehner and Eric Cantor By Grant Smith * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A large congressional delegation is heading for Israel. During three weeks of recess, 55 Republicans and 26 Democrats will enjoy “educational” trips funded by the American Israel Education Foundation, a tax-exempt nonprofit located in the same [...]
Tags: American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Benjamin Netanyahu, Democratic Party (United States), Eric Cantor, Foreign Agents Registration Act, Israel, John Boehner, middle east, Republican Party (United States), United State, United States Congress
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August 16, 2011
Quartet ‘concerned’ by Israeli settlement move Published today (updated) 16/08/2011 20:19 Israeli tractors working at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Ariel in 2010. The United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations on Tuesday attacked Israel’s move to build new West Bank housing as a threat to peace [...]
Tags: Ehud Barak, Israel, Israeli settlement, Ministry of Defense (Israel), Palestinian people, United Nations, United States, West Bank
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August 16, 2011
Medics: Israeli forces shot Gaza man in leg Published today 01:07 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and injured a 20-year-old Palestinian man on Monday evening in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said. Medical officials said Hamouda Sami Al-Najjar was shot in his leg after Israeli troops opened fire from a military tower [...]
Tags: Gaza, Gaza Strip, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Khan Younis, Khan Yunis, Ma'an, Palestinian people
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August 16, 2011
An injured woman is wheeled into a Gaza City hospital following Israeli air strikes early on Tuesday [AFP] One person has been killed and five others have been wounded in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medical sources. The first raid, early on Tuesday, targeted Zeitun, east of Gaza City and injured [...]
Tags: Gaza, Gaza Strip, Gaza–Israel conflict, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Air Force, Khan Yunis, Palestinian people
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August 15, 2011
Patel supplies to enter Gaza Published today 10:22 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian officials said limited goods, including construction materials and aid, would enter Gaza’s sole crossing with Israel on Monday. Crossings liaison official Raed Fattouh said the southernmost Kerem Shalom crossing would open for 290 trucks, including four trucks of equipment for the [...]
Tags: Gaza, Israel, Kerem Shalom, Ma'an, Palestinian people, Paltel, Rafah Border Crossing, Truck
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August 15, 2011
I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts where my parents headed our local synagogue, Hadassah and the United Jewish Appeal. My first trip abroad after university, in 1962, included a week-long visit to Israel where I was awed by its accomplishments, as well as by its vulnerability. After the Six Day War in [...]
Tags: Abba Eban, American Jewish Committee, East Jerusalem, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli settlement, Jews, Palestinian people, Six-Day War, South Africa under apartheid, United Jewish Appeal, West Bank
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