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 24, 2011
Israeli FM Rules Out Future Negotiation With Palestinians Insists Israel Will Continue to Withhold Tax Funds by Jason Ditz, November 23, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today in a meeting with his Montenegrin counterpart, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ruled out any future negotiations with the upcoming Palestinian unity government, saying Israel won’t [...]
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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
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 13, 2011
By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank Jaba checkpoint is a great example of the deep connection between the infliction of the checkpoint regime in the West Bank on the Palestinian population, and the effort to satisfy the settlers’ needs and caprices. Jaba checkpoint lies on the road leading from Qalandiya to Ramallah, it merges [...]
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November 9, 2011
HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers torched three cars Wednesday at dawn in the village of Beit Ummar in the northern West Bank, locals said. Popular committee spokesman Muhammad Ayyad Awad said settlers from Kfar Etzion settlement torched the cars of Habes Husein Baragheeth, Suheil Muhammad Hussein Baragheeth and his brother Yousef. He added that [...]
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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
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 20, 2011
Jewish settlers shout as Israeli border police officers escort Palestinian farmers from the village of Awarta out of their olive grove, which is fenced in by the Jewish settlement of Itamar, near Nablus on Oct. 9 (Reuters/Abed Omar Qusini) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers have cost Palestinian farmers over $500,000 this year by destroying [...]
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October 14, 2011
Palestinian woman walks next to photos of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, at al-Amari refugee camp in Ramallah, Oct. 12. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Turkey will take in the 40 Palestinian prisoners set for exile abroad as part of an exchange deal between Hamas and Israel, Turkish media reported on Friday. Israel [...]
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September 19, 2011
A Village Under Siege in the West Bank As Palestinians seek statehood at the United Nations, the daily struggle goes on for the 1,200 residents of Wadi Fukin. —Jakob Schiller Most days Yousef Manasra wakes to the sound of jackhammers. The incessant pounding drones on throughout the day and into the evening as [...]
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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 19, 2011
Egyptians demanded the Israeli embassy in Cairo be closed over border killings [AFP] Egypt has lodged an official protest to Israel demanding an investigation into the killings of three security officials during an Israeli military operation near the border, Egyptian state media reported. “Egypt filed an official complaint with Israel following yesterday’s deaths at the border between Israel [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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August 15, 2011
Israel has approved the building of 277 homes in Ariel, defying criticism of continued construction on lands the Palestinians claim for a state. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP The Israeli government has authorised the construction of 277 homes in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, a move that will diminish the prospects for a resumption of peace [...]
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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 [...]
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August 13, 2011
French activists demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians, showing support for an international boycott of Israel [EPA] Author and history professor Mark LeVine speaks with sociologist Lisa Taraki, a co-founder of the Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Mark LeVine: What is the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” movement and how is it [...]
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August 13, 2011
Lebanon‘s female cluster bomb disposal team. Credit: Rachel Stevenson, Richard Sprenger and Mona Mahmood Link to this video Only up close does it become clear that some of the bulky figures in armoured vests scouring the fields of southern Lebanon for unexplodedcluster bombs are wearing hijabs under their protective helmets. Once local teachers, nurses and housewives, this [...]
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August 13, 2011
Erekat calls for accountability as EU, France condemn settlement build Published yesterday 13:54 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — PLO official Saeb Erekat said Thursday that Israel’s announcement of a flux of settlement building shows the country “regards itself as a state above international law and accountability,” calling for firmer action by foreign nations. International leaders have [...]
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August 8, 2011
Israelis Sick and Tired – but of What? by Ran HaCohen, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum As a humble columnist, I am puzzled. I have been writing on Israeli realities for a decade, and I find writing ever more difficult: nothing changes. How often can you write something different about [...]
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August 7, 2011
GILAD ATZMON: THE LANDLORD WANNABE PROTEST SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 2011 AT 10:32AM GILAD ATZMON It is almost amusing to find out that some of the most clichéd Marxists around are so taken by the current Israeli popular protest, which they foolishly interpret as a manifestation of the ‘Israeli revolutionary spirit’. They are convinced that now that the Israeli ‘working class’ [...]
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August 6, 2011
Israeli army detains Freedom Theater actor Published yesterday (updated) 06/08/2011 22:35 Acting student Rami Awni Hwayel was detained on Saturday by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near Jenin, staff at the Freedom Theater said. [MaanImages/Freedom Theater HO] JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Saturday detained an acting student of the iconic Freedom Theater at [...]
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August 5, 2011
Statehood: Two-prong Approach Needed By Stuart Littlewood What a thought-provoking piece Prof Lawrence Davidson’s latest article is, whether you agree with every word or not. Titled ‘The Palestinian Bid for UN Statehood Recognition’, it makes the point that the Palestinians‘ move, which Tweedle-dum Obama and Tweedle-dee Netanyahu (they never contradict each other, you’ll remember) are [...]
Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas, Israel, middle east, Palestinian people, United Nations, United States, Warfare and Conflict
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August 3, 2011
Fear of Peace: The Israeli Motivator By Jim Miles The Weekly Standard, a weekly very conservative web magazine, has recently posted on its blog a short video with Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon explaining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (“The Truth About the West Bank“). The general substance of the video is that because there never [...]
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Danny Ayalon, Israel, Israeli-occupied territories, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, League of Nations, Palestinian people, State of Palestine, Weekly Standard, West Bank
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July 31, 2011
6 activists arrested near Bethlehem Published today 20:12 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli border guards detained six protesters Monday in the occupied West Bank, activists said. The six demonstrators — three Israelis, one Palestinian, and two from abroad — were accused of throwing stones. The activists were protesting land confiscation to make room for Israel’s [...]
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July 31, 2011
Egypt turns back 450 people at Rafah crossing Published today (updated) 31/07/2011 20:50 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Egyptian authorities on Saturday turned back 450 people from Gaza at the Rafah border crossing. The step was believed to be related to the deteriorating security situation in Egypt’s Sinai. Five people were killed in clashes which [...]
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July 31, 2011
Report: Israel plans to build separation wall in Golan Published yesterday (updated) 31/07/2011 04:02 GOLAN, Syria (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities plan to build a wall in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported Friday. The wall will separate the town of Majdal Shams in Israeli-occupied territory from the suburb [...]
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July 31, 2011
Israeli soldiers attack Palestinian journalist Published yesterday (updated) 30/07/2011 21:58 Barghouthi was treated for head injuries in Ramallah RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian photojournalist Moheeb Al-Barghouthi was beaten by Israeli soldiers Friday covering a demonstration in the Nabi Saleh village near Ramallah. Al-Barghouthi, who works for the official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, suffered head [...]
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July 30, 2011
UNRWA condemns attack as children smash world record Published yesterday (updated) 30/07/2011 11:00 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees on Thursday strongly condemned an attack on a summer games facility in north-west Gaza. “The attackers damaged a large billboard, burnt a UN flag and torched part of the stage. None [...]
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July 30, 2011
15 injured as Israeli soldiers disperse rally near Qalqiliya Published today (updated) 30/07/2011 11:44 Click on image to view slideshow QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Fifteen Palestinian protesters were injured on Friday when Israeli forces dispersed a peaceful protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqiliya. The protesters were demanding that Israeli forces open [...]
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July 30, 2011
Israeli officials destroy a water storage facility used by Palestinian farmers outside the West Bank village of Yatta, near the Israeli settlement of Sosia, in early June [EPA] Around three weeks ago on a late Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers armed with a truck and a digger entered the Palestinian village of Amniyr and destroyed nine [...]
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