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An Infrastructure of Israeli Terror--Haaretz--The
seizure of Palestinian lands is a crucial issue, one that
reflects poorly on Israel's claims to be a state that operates
according to the rule of law...Since the very beginning of the
settlement enterprise, more than four decades ago, Israel has
seized West Bank lands via an orchestrated, systematic and
violent system.
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Desmond Tutu Speaks Out
Haaretz--Can anyone doubt that the more than
1.5 million Palestinians cut off in the Gaza Strip are
suffering? Hamas is wrong to fire rockets at civilians living in
Sderot, and Israel has a right to ensure its security - but not
by the collective punishment of a million persons in the ghetto
that is Gaza...I care enormously for my Jewish and Palestinian
sisters and brothers. My heart aches for what you are doing to
yourselves.
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here to read. |
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Israel Flies in the Face of US Call to Halt
Settlements
Israel's defence ministry will approve the
construction of 500 new settlement homes in the occupied West
Bank this week, in a last-minute move before agreeing a
compromise settlement freeze with the United States.The
authorisation comes despite criticism from Washington and
weakens the effect any suspension of Israeli settlement
construction will have.
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Israel Dominates Obama--Haaretz
One source familiar with Obama's inner circle likened him this
week to a man who inflates a number of balloons every day in the
hope that one of them will rise…but time is running out. And
Israel is not sitting idly by...The minute Jerusalem detected a
lack of American determination, it returned to its evil ways and
excuses.
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Israeli Hardliners are Hard on Poor Rahm--Politico--Israelis
have become increasingly disenchanted with Emanuel, and the
disappointment is especially intense on the Israeli right, which
supports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his
opposition to Obama’s call for ceasing settlement activity.
Haaretz reported that Netanyahu has slurred both Emanuel and
fellow senior adviser David Axelrod as “self-hating Jews.”
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Mubarak to US: Israel Must Make
Overture--New
York Times
His hold on power and use of corruption are legendary, but he
now comes to Washington with a good message from the Arab
League. The Israelis are finding ways to distract from the real
issue by pointing at Iran. Let’s see how Mr. Obama responds.
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New Report: Israel Killed Unarmed Palestinians
The Huffington Post--A new report by Human Rights
Watch charged Thursday that Israeli soldiers killed eleven
unarmed Palestinian civilians who were carrying white flags in
shooting incidents during Israel's offensive in Gaza earlier
this year…the civilians were "in plain view and posed no
apparent security threat."
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Jerusalem East Side Story
This documentary squeezes
nearly one hundred years of history into an hour or so of
cinema. It mainly exposes the past forty years of Israeli
military occupation policies in Jerusalem and their devastating
impact on the city and its peoples.
Click here to view clips of the film on Google Video. |
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The Coming Breakup of
American Zionism
Scholar Norman Finkelstein continues his important
analysis, research, and speaking engagements. This talk was
delivered earlier this year at Evergreen College in Washington
state, the school attended by Rachel Corrie. This is a must
watch and listen.
Click here to access. Finkelstein's "The Holocaust Industry"
can be read free in PDF format--click
here to access. |
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Two States or Apartheid?
Professor John Dugard
Israel is long overdue to undergo the same racial reckoning and
transformation that the United States underwent in the 1960s and
South Africa passed through in the 1990s. The dual system of law
that prevails in the occupied West Bank and favors Jewish
settlers to the detriment of Palestinians is unacceptable in the
21st century.
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UK cuts Israel weapons contracts
--The UK has revoked five export licences for equipment to the
Israeli navy because of actions during Israel's Operation Cast
Lead in Gaza this year.The British Foreign office said the
exports would now contravene its criteria for arms sales, but
denied that it had imposed a partial embargo...Israel says
its troops complied fully with international law during
missions.
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Belongings of a Palestinian family strewn in the
street after their eviction.
Sebastian
Scheiner /AP
Photo |
Illegal Evictions Continue
YouTube video of a Palestinian family evicted
by Israeli authorities from their home in East Jerusalem
neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The Hanoun family is protesting
their eviction by sleeping on the street. "These actions
heighten tensions and undermine international efforts to create
conditions for fruitful negotiations to achieve peace," said the
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert
H. Serry.
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Jerusalem Mayor Freezes Demolition Orders
Haaretz.com--July 29, 2009
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is set to announce
a plan to freeze demolition orders on around 70 percent of
unauthorized construction in the east of the city, Haaretz has
learned. The municipality would also negotiate compensation
terms with families evicted from the remaining 30 percent.
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here to read. |
Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies
at the University of Colorado at Boulder |
Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why
Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise
by Ira
Chernus
Israeli Jews are deeply worried about their nation’s image
around the world, and with good reason. Military occupation is
never a pretty sight, especially when the occupiers have been
there for 42 years, steadily taking over the occupied people’s
lands as the whole world watches on television and the internet.
It’s not surprising that Israel gets so little sympathy when it
complains about its image problem...But if Israeli Jews want to
escape that vicious cycle and improve their image, no amount of
money spent on clever PR campaigns will help until they do
something about a basic root of the problem: their own cultural
self-image.
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to read article.
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Gazan family in the tent they have lived in since their home was
destroyed in January. (Rami Almeghari) |
Six months later, no
reconstruc- tion in Gaza
Rami Almeghari writing from the occupied
Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 8 July 2009
Mahmoud Abu al-Anzain and his wife, Umm
Naim, and their three children used to live in a two-room,
cement-roofed house. It wasn't a palace, but it was a home. The
house was completely destroyed by Israeli army fire during last
January's assault on the Gaza Strip.
Click here to read article. |
The wall in Qalqilia |
UN: Israel must tear down West Bank
barrier
Jen
Thomas, Associated Press, 7/8/09
Israel must tear down its West Bank
separation barrier, a senior U.N. official said
Wednesday, marking five years since the International
Court of Justice declared the barrier illegal and a
violation of Palestinian rights.
Click here to read article.
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A face of despair in Gaza |
International Committee of the Red Cross
Report on Gaza: 1.5 Million People Trapped in Despair
Press Release--June 30, 2009
Gaza neighbourhoods particularly hard hit by the Israeli strikes
continue to look like the epicentre of a massive earthquake.
Click here to read article. |
Ismail Haniyeh, with Jimmy Carter in Gaza, have adopted the
two-state solution against the resistance party constituents'
interests. |
Hamas' political
immaturity
Haidar Eid, The Electronic Intifada,
25 June 2009
Many of those who voted Hamas into power
were not, in fact, supporters of the organization, but rather
disgruntled Palestinians looking for change and reform after 13
years of futile, meaningless negotiations that did huge damage
to the Palestinian cause and transformed it from a liberation
struggle supported by millions all over the world into a dispute
between "two equal parties," two countries fighting for border
arrangements.
Click here to read article. |
by Majed Badra on www.imemc.org |
Israel defies US: 240 new homes on
Palestinian land
guardian.co.uk--Rory McCarthy--June 23, 2009
Israel's
defence ministry has proposed legalising 60 existing homes at a
Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, and building
another 240 homes at the site, despite US calls for a halt to
settlement growth. Construction at the outpost, known as Water
Reservoir Hill, near the Talmon settlement, north of Ramallah,
would "greatly damage" the freedom of movement of Palestinian
farmers in the area, according to Bimkom, an Israeli planning
rights group.It said the construction plan was put forward for
public inspection shortly after the Israeli government was
formed this spring and was first approved by Ehud Barak, the
defence minister. It was now awaiting final approval.
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Glenn Greenwald--Salon.com |
Neocon enemies, using diplomacy, reach deal for Shalit's
release
Salon.com--by
Glenn Greenwald--June 26, 2009
Last night, I noted
the sudden and obviously hypocritical concern about detainee
abuse emerging from The Weekly Standard's Michael
Goldfarb now that the transfer of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit
by the Palestinians to Egypt appears imminent and it's time to
exploit his detention...Goldfarb
also tries to attribute this
deal for Shalit's release to the heroism of Benjamin
Netanyahu...it was not Netanyahu, but numerous other parties --
Jimmy Carter, Egypt, Syria and the Obama administration -- who
engineered the agreement to transfer Shalit from Gaza to Egypt
(followed eventually by his release to Israel, pending the
release by Israel of Palestinian prisoners).
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Jimmy Carter visits an American school in Gaza
destroyed by Israeli bombings
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Carter decries Gaza destruction
CNN--June
16, 2009
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on a visit to
Gaza that he had to "hold back tears" when he saw the
destruction caused by the deadly campaign Israel waged against
Gaza militants in January..."I come to the American school which
was educating your children, supported by my own country. I see
it's been deliberately destroyed by bombs from F16s made in my
country and delivered to the Israelis."
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West Bank's biggest Israeli settlement Ma'aleh
Adumim |
Israel's settlement setback
Guardian.co.uk--by Seth Freeman- June 8, 2009
"Obama's anti-settlement stance is giving the Israeli right
a taste of its own medicine – and its howls of protest ring
hollow."
Whether Obama is able to live up to his strong statements in
the coming months and years remains to be seen...there is a
long way to go to turn his words into actions.
Click here to read article.
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Photo from AFP |
Chomsky: What Obama
Didn't Say Speaks Volumes About His Mideast
Policy
Noam Chomsky,
AlterNet.org--
June 4, 2009.
"A CNN headline, reporting Obama's plans for his June 4 address
in Cairo, Egypt, reads "Obama looks to reach the soul of the
Muslim world." Perhaps that captures his intent, but more
significant is the content hidden in the rhetorical stance, or
more accurately, omitted...."
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These people need a home now--any for rent? Photo
from Wikipedia |
House Hunting in the West Bank
Gershom Gorenberg--The American Prospect
June 4, 2009
"Our Jerusalem correspondent finds that
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's argument for
allowing continued construction in settlements contains layers
of deception.
It's Benjamin Netanyahu's fault. Because of
his insistence on allowing for "natural growth" of West Bank
settlements, I decided to go real-estate shopping."
Click here to read article. |
A farmer holds wheat destroyed by Israeli troops |
Israel destroying Gaza's
farmlands
Eva Bartlett, The Electronic Intifada,
22 May 2009
"On the morning of 4 May 2009, Israeli
troops set fire to Palestinian crops along Gaza's eastern border
with Israel. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
reported that 200,000 square meters of crops were destroyed,
including wheat and barley ready for harvest".Click
here to read article.
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Obama's "interference" in Israeli politics
by Glenn
Greenwald--salon.com--June 3, 2009
Both Likud Party members in Israel as well as their Americans
supporters – including members of both parties in the U.S.
Congress – are beginning to complain that the Obama
administration is unduly "interfering" in Israeli politics by
insisting on a full cessation of settlement growth.
The
Jerusalem Post today reports:
"US President Barack Obama's administration's criticism of Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's policies has crossed the
line into interfering in Israeli politics, top Likud ministers
and MKs said Tuesday".Click here to
read article.
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Israel's great hope for peace |
Netanyahu defies Obama on Israeli settlement
freeze
Yahoo News--May 24, 2009--by Adam Entous
JERUSALEM (Reuters) –
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday
rebuffed U.S. calls for a full settlement freeze in the
occupied West Bank and vowed not to accept limits on
building of Jewish enclaves within
Jerusalem.
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Mr. "N" and Mr. "O" deep in political discourse
about the way forward in their new relationship. Will the facts
on the ground change? Stay tuned. |
Pattern Recognition: Why
Israel's favorite rhetorical device is no longer effective
TPMCafe--May
21, 2009--by Liel Liebovitz
As a former pawn in Israel's foreign ministry, stationed in New
York, the one thing I miss most is not the diplomatic visa, the
corner office overlooking the United Nations, or the ability to
park anywhere in Manhattan with impunity. What I find myself
yearning for is...
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Gaza mother and child amidst destruction
(Photo courtesy
UNICEF)
Is the United States complicit in this ongoing oppression? |
Netanyahu at the
White House: Not Yet Change We Can Believe In
Institute for Policy Studies--May
20, 2009--by Phyllis Bennis
The reality of power
– that the U.S. is still the financial, military, diplomatic and
political superpower patron on which Israel depends – was not
reflected in the press conference that followed the meeting.
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read. |
Ken Wolf/Associated Press
Steven J. Rosen with his Attorney in
August 2005
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U.S. to Drop Spy Case
Against Pro-Israel Lobbyists-- The New York Times--Neil Lewis and David Johnston; The Huffington Post--David Bromwich
"The New York Times supposes the idea of information
passed from the U.S. to Israel without both sides wanting it
passed is likewise simply absurd. The true doctrine is, they
know we know they know. With the exception of the agents at the
FBI, and maybe a few U.S. attorneys, everybody understands. But
do we?" (David Bromwich, Yale Professor, in The Huffington
Post article commenting about the event.)
Click here to read The New York Time's article.
Click here to read the article by David Bromwich.
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Birds of a feather flock together: Harman with
Israeli Knesset Speaker Dalia Iztik during recent visit to
Israel |
Business as Usual for AIPAC: Rep. Jane Harman Tries to Trade Spies
for Position
CQPolitics--April 19, 2009
Rep. Jane Harman agreed to go to bat for two AIPAC officials
accused of espionage, in exchange for which an Israeli spy would
try to get her appointed to chair the House Intelligence
Committee, according to Congressional Quarterly.
Click here to read the article. |
Laila and her daughter Noor |
Palestinian Journalist Laila El-Haddad Refused
Entry into Gaza
Electronic Intifada--April 14, 2009
Laila El-Haddad, a free-lance journalist who is well known among
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill activists for a just and
sustainable peace in Israel-Palestine, had a harrowing
experience when she attempted to return to Gaza, the land of her
birth and home of her parents, with her two young children.
Click here to read.
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That was a bloody good joke Bibi |
Moment of truth for Obama
Newsvine.com
Nicola Nasser is a veteran Arab journalist based in Birzeit,
West Bank of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.While
the time for decision confronts the Palestinian national cause,
he writes, sooner or later it is Barack Obama that will have to
put his cards on the table.
Click here to read the article. |
IDF Soldiers |
IDF
admits indiscriminate killing
Time Magazine--3/21/09
Whenever concerns are expressed over
civilian casualties
inflicted in Israeli military operations, the country's generals
and political leaders are quick to insist that theirs is the
"world's most moral army." That claim was challenged by
human rights
observers over
Israel's
recent
offensive in Gaza...read
more
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Rachel Corrie |
Remembering Rachel Corrie
March 16,
2009 marks the sixth anniversary of the killing of American
peace activist Rachel Corrie by an Israeli military bulldozer in
Rafah. She had been trying to prevent the demolition of a
Palestinian home near the border with Egypt when she was killed.
Democracy Now! producer Anjali Kamat and Jacquie Soohen
of Big Noise Films traveled to Gaza last week with a women’s
peace delegation and Rachel’s parents, Cindy and Craig Corrie.
They remember their daughter and talk about the plight of the
Palestinian people.
Click here to view video
View this video also |
Richard Falk |
Richard Falk: "Israel's War Crimes"
Le Monde
Diplomatique
Richard A. Falk is
an American Jewish Professor Emeritus of International Law
at Princeton University, author or co-author of 20 books,
speaker, activist on world affairs, and an appointee to two
United Nations positions on the Palestinian territories. In a
June 2007 article called "Slouching toward a Palestinian
Holocaust," Falk compared some Israeli policies with regard to
the Palestinians to the Nazi Germany record of collective
punishment. In this current article he states that Israel.
In this
article he indicates that Israel has committed war crimes in
its recent Gaza attack.
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New teargas canister used by Israeli occupation
forces against Palestinian civilians |
American shot in head by tear gas cannister
Live from Occupied Palestine Blogspot
Tristan Anderson, 38, an American citizen, was critically
injured on Friday, March 13, 2009 by Israeli troops during
protests against Israel's Wall in the West Bank village of
Ni’lin. He was hit in his forehead by a new type of high
velocity, extended range teargas projectile, and was transferred
to Tel Hashomer hospital, near Tel Aviv.
See blogspot |
Palestinian demonstrators at Tulkarem in the West
Bank during the Gaza siege |
Live rounds fired at West Bank protestors
The
Observer--Peter Beaumont
Israeli armed forces and border police used the cover of the war
against Hamas in Gaza to reintroduce the firing of .22 rifle
bullets - as well as the extensive use of a new model of
tear-gas canister - against unarmed demonstrators in the
Occupied West Bank protesting at the building of Israel's
"separation wall".
read full article |
George
Galloway's Aid Convoy Arrives In Gaza
See
YouTube Video of Mr. Galloway's first speech inside Gaza. |
Aid convoy led by George Galloway in Gaza after
more than 5,000 miles
SKY - March 10, 2009 The Viva Palestina
convoy left Hyde Park in London on Valentine's Day, with more
than 100 vehicles driven by volunteers including British MP
George Galloway. They brought aid worth more than £1.5m
including medical supplies, clothes, food and toys as well as 20
ambulances, two buses, a fire engine and a fishing boat.
"Our message is we are all Palestinians now," Mr. Galloway said
upon entering Gaza. "Now we want the siege of Gaza lifted and
the Rafah crossing completely open."
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Charles Freeman |
Freeman
Slams Israel 'Lobby' Withdraws from post--Haaretz
Charles Freeman, who was slated to be
picked as the new chairman of the National Intelligence Council,
slammed the Israel 'Lobby' Wednesday after withdrawing his
candidacy for the post the previous day....(more);
also see the Wall Street Journal: (more).
Click here to view a CNN interview with Charles Freeman.
Read the
London Book Review's summary of Walt and Mearsheimer's
book "The Israeli Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy". |
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss |
American rabbi derides Gaza invasion--YouTube--Rabbi Yisroel Weiss of New York distinguishes between
Zionism and Judaism during a demonstration in New York City
during the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza in
December 2008 and January 2009. His opinion is that Zionism is a
heretical movement that holds the Jewish people in its grasp by
fear tactics.
See his comments on this YouTube video.
Also,
view this
other video of Rabbi Weiss. |
Jews worshipping in Shiraz synagogue |
What Iran’s Jews Say
By
Roger Cohen--NY Times
At Palestine Square, opposite a mosque called Al-Aqsa, is a
synagogue where Jews of this ancient city gather at dawn.
Over the entrance is a banner saying: “Congratulations on
the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution from the
Jewish community of Esfahan.”
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Gazans light fires to stay warm- Photo BBC
Home demolished in Gaza- BBC Photo
Evidence of Phosphorous use in Gaza- BBC
Photo |
Israel and Hamas
Agree to a Cease-Fire
Israel's attack on Gaza has ended and Hamas has
agreed to hold fire until Sunday, January 25th to allow Israeli
troops to leave. The result of the Israeli offensive:
50
UN facilities and 21 medical facilities were damaged.
UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has described the damage in Gaza
as "appalling".
Israel has agreed to investigate claims that
white phosphorous was used in Gaza attacks. The use of white
phosphorous on civilians is a breach of international law.
More
on the humanitarian situation in Gaza
Information on U.S. Military Aid for Israeli forces attacking
Gaza.
Gaza: A Way to Help Now
The Coalition for Peace with Justice is sending
donations to
Al Ahli Hospital, a medical facility operated by the
Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem which provides care to Gazans
hurt in the conflict. |
