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“Like living in a big factory” in Gaza

by RAINman on 25. Aug, 2010 in Opinion

Rami Almeghari, The Electronic Intifada, 24 August 2010
“Uff, uff, uff, you can never get time to rest or sleep quietly and you can’t even work. Wherever you are, you hear sound of power generators which makes it seem we are all living in a big factory,” Ahmad al-Bar explained, expressing the frustration of many Palestinians in [...]

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Calling Gaza a prison camp is an understatement

by RAINman on 10. Aug, 2010 in Opinion

There may be some semblance of civil life and stability in Gaza, but it is our freedoms that are under siege
Laila El-Haddad
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 August 2010
It’s three years since I’ve been back to Gaza. Much has happened since my last visit. Fatah waged a failed coup and now rules only the West Bank, while Hamas is in [...]

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Robert Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing

by RAINman on 03. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Independent  - 31 July 2010
The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline.
There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that’s OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We’d still be investigating this extraordinary phenomenon. Now [...]

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Amira Hass: The Palestinian Authority is imprisoning Gazans

by RAINman on 29. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

The same government that includes a call to end the blockade on Gaza, in practice aids in imprisoning the Gazans by preventing them from holding valid Palestinian passports.
Haaretz -    July 28, 2010
Lies and power go hand in hand. But what is considered outrageous in a sovereign state is catastrophic for a society fighting for its freedom. The [...]

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Amira Hass: Disloyalty on the part of the occupied

Amira Hass: Disloyalty on the part of the occupied

by RAINman on 08. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Haaretz  -    July 07, 2010
Were it not for Mohammed Abu Tir’s red beard, this would perhaps be only a marginal news item: Israel is working to expel four Palestinian residents of Jerusalem affiliated with Hamas from the city of their birth.
There are those who see this expulsion as demonstrating a proud national stance, but [...]

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A Special Place in Hell / How to win with Hamas

by RAINman on 06. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Never has Israel had an enemy so perfectly attuned to the Jewish state’s weaknesses, so impervious to its strengths. For more than 20 years – ever since Israel inadvertently midwifed the founding of Hamas at the outset of the first intifada – the organization has leveraged Israel’s every tactic into tangible, stepwise political gain.
By Bradley [...]

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Israel transfer of Hamas men from Jerusalem may be war crime, UN envoy says Richard Falk

by RAINman on 01. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Haaretz  -  Reuters  - June 29, 2010
UN human rights rapporteur says forcible transfer of four Palestinians from East Jerusalem would break international law.
Israel’s intention to expel four Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem to the West Bank could constitute a war crime, a UN human rights expert charged on Tuesday.
Richard Falk, UN special rapporteur on human rights [...]

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Hamas spy finds home in California, seeks asylum

by RAINman on 01. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Hamas spy fights to stay in Southern Calif. as US seeks to deport him for links to terrorism
ELLIOT SPAGAT
Antiwar Newswire - AP News - Jun 29, 2010
Mosab Hassan Yousef says he will be killed if he is deported from the United States to the West Bank. The oldest son of one of Hamas’ founders, he was [...]

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Jerusalem politicians face expulsion :: Israel creating loyalty test, warn lawyers ::

Jerusalem politicians face expulsion :: Israel creating loyalty test, warn lawyers ::

by RAINman on 30. Jun, 2010 in Analysis

by Jonathan Cook
Media Monitors Network – Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Israeli human-rights groups and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, have condemned a decision by Israel to expel four Palestinian politicians from East Jerusalem by the end of this week.
The Israeli government revoked their residency rights in Jerusalem a few weeks ago, after claiming [...]

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National unity remains elusive under occupation

by RAINman on 24. Jun, 2010 in Opinion

Rami Almeghari writing from occupied Gaza Strip
Electronic Intifada – 24 June 2010
During his recent visit to the Gaza Strip, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mousa received from Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas a memorandum putting forward Hamas’ terms for signing an Egyptian-brokered reconciliation deal with its rival US-backed Fatah.
Dr. Ahmad Yousef, [...]

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Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn’t about security

by RAINman on 15. Jun, 2010 in Newsletter Links

SHEERA FRENKEL
Miami Herald      June 9, 2010
JERUSALEM — As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of the Gaza Strip Wednesday, McClatchy Newspapers obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as “economic warfare” against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory.
Israel imposed severe restrictions on [...]

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Ohio judge: Review US government’s terror probe

by RAINman on 13. May, 2010 in General

Judge: US gov’t must show probable cause for seizing Ohio charity’s assets under terror law

AP News
Antiwar – 10  May 2010

A judge says the U.S. government must show it had probable cause in 2006 to freeze the assets of an Ohio-based charity it suspects of having ties to the militant Islamic group Hamas.

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