January 8, 2012
Israeli soldiers scuffle with peace activists during a demonstration against the wall in the West Bank village of Walaja (MaanImages/Luay Sababa, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained nine Israeli activists blocking the path of bulldozers constructing Israel‘s separation wall surrounding a Bethlehem village on Sunday. The group sat infront of vehicles levelling ground to [...]
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January 2, 2012
A view of flooded fields near a section of the Israeli separation wall that surrounds the West Bank city of Qalqilia after a heavy rainfall on Dec. 13, 2010. (MaanImages/Khaleel Reash) TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israeli military officials plan to build a new wall on the country’s northern ceasefire line with Lebanon, Israeli media [...]
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December 23, 2011
A checkpoint is also there to mold consciousness and ideology. (Tamar Fleishman) By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank Shuafat checkpoint that was inaugurated a few days ago disconnects the residents of the refugee camp from the center of their lives. It separates family members, employees from their place of work, patients from [...]
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December 23, 2011
Click the image to enlarge or see more. MaanImages/ Bilin popular committeeSanta Clauses with Palestinian flags rallied against Israel‘s wall in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Dec. 23, ahead of Christmas. Soldiers dispersed the protest with tear gas.At the rally, Palestinians called for national unity, resistance and freedom for prisoners. The Bilin popular committee [...]
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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
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
Protesters in Walaja village on Aug. 27, 2011 (MaanImages/Luay Sababa) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained two men in Walaja village near Bethlehem on Sunday morning, after residents gathered to stave off a planned explosion by the army to blast a route for the separation wall. Around 30 villagers gathered on the route where [...]
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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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October 25, 2011
A woman stands near her house as an Israeli bulldozer, in the background, uproots olive trees in the West Bank city of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, on March 3, 2010. (MaanImages/Luay Sababa) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces issued a military order on Sunday to confiscate 37,000 square meters of private land from near the [...]
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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 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 23, 2011
Court rejects Palestinian bid on Jerusalem barrier Published today (updated) 23/08/2011 17:22 Israeli soldiers stand next to a Palestinian woman protesting against Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Al-Walaja, near the biblical town of Bethlehem. [AFP/File Musa al-Shaer] JERUSALEM (AFP) — An Israeli rights group criticized Tuesday a court decision [...]
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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
Allawi was arrested when he was crossing the border between Jordan and the occupied West Bank Samer Allawi, Al Jazeera Arabic’s Kabul bureau chief, has been brought before an Israeli military court, almost a week after he was arrested by Israeli officials when he tried to cross the border between Jordan and the occupied West Bank. Israeli authorities extended [...]
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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 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
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 12, 2011
Gaza government: No crisis with NGOs Published yesterday (updated) 12/08/2011 21:44 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The minister of foreign affairs and planning in Gaza, Mohammad Awad, denied Friday the existence of a crisis with NGOs and assistance agencies like USAID. Awad told Ma’an the government in Gaza remained committed to working with NGOs in order [...]
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August 12, 2011
Envoy: World must act against ‘colonization campaign’ Published yesterday (updated) 12/08/2011 23:00 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour on Friday urged the international community to compel Israel to end its colonization campaign if it really believes in the two-state solution, reports said. In letters to the UN secretary-general and the [...]
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August 11, 2011
Those arrested included Palestinian, Israeli and international activists protesting against the construction of a barrier Israeli army troops have arrested 11 people after clashes erupted during a demonstration in Walaja, a village in the West Bank. Those arrested included Palestinian, Israeli and international activists who were protesting against the construction of Israel’s separation barrier. “Some 80 Palestinian and Israeli activists [...]
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August 9, 2011
Muhammad behind the wall: ‘Now, I am Nobody.’ (Mats Svensson) By Mats Svensson I have visited Muhammad around sixty times. But it is only now that we begin to really talk to each other. Seven years ago, I met Muhammad for the first time. I was then out on one of my long weekend walks. [...]
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August 6, 2011
Netanyahu’s ‘concessions’ are merely a return to the base of negotiations, established for some 44 years [GALLO/GETTY] It is hard to believe that anyone would give credence to reports of the supposed moderating of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu‘s terms for negotiating an agreement with the Palestinians. But, incredibly, some people actually take him seriously. Quite [...]
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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 [...]
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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
Medics: Israeli forces shoot at Palestinian farmer Published yesterday (updated) 30/07/2011 17:54 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A young Palestinian farmer was injured Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire on him in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, medics said. He was shot while working on his land and taken to Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, [...]
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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 29, 2011
ISRAELIS DEBATE ON THE WEB: DID NORWAY GET WHAT IT DESERVED? WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011 AT 11:23PM GILAD ATZMON Gilad Atzmon: Read it for yourself. Israelis show their real face. If psychopathy is defined as a sever lack in empathy, we are clearly dealing here with a psychotic collective. http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/140297/ Israelis Debate on the Web: Did [...]
Tags: Antisemitism, Israel, Israelis, Jews, Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway, Norwegians, Ynet
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July 29, 2011
GILAD ATZMON: DE-ZIONIFICATION NOW FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 AT 4:12PM GILAD ATZMON “It (immigration) was a politically motivated attempt by ministers to transform the fundamental make-up and identity of this country (Britain). It was done to destroy the right of the British people to live in a society defined by a common history, religion, law, language [...]
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July 29, 2011
In Jaffa, Palestinians and left-wing Jewish supporters protest government plans to demolish illegally-built Arab houses [GALLO/GETTY] During the last week angry young residents of Tel Aviv have been staging a sit-in, or, more accurately, a tent-in, along fashionable Rothschild Boulevard to protest their being priced out of the housing market in Israel’s cultural and economic capital. The [...]
Tags: Ajami, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Jews, Palestinian people, Rothschild Boulevard, Supreme Court of Israel, Tel Aviv
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July 29, 2011
A tent camp in Tel Aviv: the protests over high rents and house prices have the support of 87% of the population, according to a poll. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Israel‘s tent city protests over housing are growing by the day, and the mood of civil activism is spreading to other issues. The voices [...]
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July 29, 2011
Palestinian detainees mark 27 years in Israeli jail Published yesterday (updated) 28/07/2011 19:10 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian detainees Huza Al-Saadi and Othman Bani Hasan, both from Jenin, marked 27 years in Israeli prisons on Thursday. The Palestinian detainees center applauded the stamina of both men to withstand so many years of Israeli mistreatment. They [...]
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July 29, 2011
Israel protesters occupy roof of Tel Aviv exchange Published yesterday 20:51 Israelis protest against rising housing prices and social inequalities [AFP Jack Guez] JERUSALEM (AFP) — Dozens of demonstrators occupied the roof of the Tel Aviv stock exchange on Thursday morning, Israeli military radio reported, as protests over the high cost of living spread [...]
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July 26, 2011
Fatah says party members blocked from leaving Gaza Published today 20:28 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Fatah on Tuesday said Hamas officials refused to allow Fatah revolutionary council member Amal Hamad to leave the coastal enclave for a PLO central council meeting in the West Bank. However Hamas did allow 18 PLO central committee members [...]
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July 26, 2011
PALESTINE, ISRAEL, GERMANY- THE BOUNDARIES OF OPEN DISCUSSION MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011 AT 1:46PM GILAD ATZMON This is a very important conference!!! http://paltagefreiburg2011.blogspot.com/ September 10-11, 2011 Freiburg, Germany Freedom of speech and expression are recognised by many as primary human rights. However, when it comes to discussion on topics concerning Palestine, Israel and Germany we often face rigid [...]
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