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250 thousand Palestinians pray in Jerusalem this Friday

by RAINman on 06. Sep, 2010 in Newsletter Links

by George Rishmawi –
IMEMC & Agencies  -  Friday September 03, 2010
At least 250 thousand Palestinians prayed in the Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding yards on the last Friday of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan, Palestinian media sources reported. Israeli sources estimated the number at 135 thousand.
The worshipers came from different parts of the West Bank [...]

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Economic and political pressures at Ramadan

by RAINman on 18. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
The Electronic Intifada, 17 August 2010
HIRBET DEIR, occupied West Bank (IPS) – For Muhammad al-Baradiyeh, 38, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is always a blessing.
In fact, every day of the month-and-a-half prior to Ramadan has been good for Muhammad. Thanks to a permit granted by the Israeli authorities, he’s been [...]

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Israel razes Muslim graves for ‘Museum of Tolerance’

by RAINman on 12. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By Agence France Presse (AFP)
The Daily Star  - August 11, 2010
CCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israeli bulldozers backed by police destroyed dozens of gravestones in a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported.
The Islamic Movement accused the municipality of razing more than 200 Muslim graves that had been recently renovated in a centuries-old cemetery in [...]

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Palestinian women smuggled into Tel Aviv for day of fun

by RAINman on 11. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Israeli women bring 12 Palestinian women, 4 children out to eat in Jaffa restaurant, swimming in the Mediterranean, and home via Jerusalem.
By Jonathan Lis
Haaretz   -   August 10, 2010
A group of Israeli women smuggled 12 Palestinian woman and four children, among them a year-old baby, into Tel Aviv for a day of fun about two weeks [...]

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‘Museum Of Tolerance’ Director Opposes Mosque But Built Museum On Muslim Cemetery

by RAINman on 10. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Rachel Slajda
TPMMuckraker  -   August 6, 2010,
The group behind the recently opened “Museum of Tolerance” museum in Manhattan has come out against a planned Islamic community center, which includes a mosque, near Ground Zero.
“Religious freedom does not mean being insensitive…or an idiot,” Rabbi Meyer May, the Wiesenthal Center’s executive director, told Crain’s New York.
“Religion [...]

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Israeli data: Israel revoked residency of over 86,000 Jerusalemites since 1967

by RAINman on 29. Jul, 2010 in General

Palestinian Information Center – July 27, 2010
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) — Official Israeli data obtained by the Jerusalem center for social and economic rights said Israel has deprived more than 86,000 Jerusalemite Palestinians of their residency rights in the holy city since it occupied the eastern side in 1967.
According to the center, the Israeli interior [...]

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Jerusalem: Accused torturer set to head police- Arab relations

by RAINman on 29. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

by Brian Ennis
IMEMC & Agencies - July 28, 2010
‘Captain George’ a former military interrogator is head of Arab relations for the police in the tense and divided city of Jerusalem.
The former military interrogator known as ‘Captain George’ has been appointed the director of Arab affairs for the Jerusalem District Police.
The post includes responsibilities [...]

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Judaizing Jerusalem

by RAINman on 08. Jul, 2010 in Analysis

By Stephen Lendman

Palestine Note – 7 Jul 2010

The Middle East Monitor (MEM) covers significant regional issues and events through its weekly newspaper and reports like Samira Quraishy’s September 2009 Briefing Paper titled, “The Judaization of Jerusalem,” discussing Israel’s “escalating campaign of land seizures, house demolitions and eviction(s) of Palestinians.”
Israeli scholars agree, including Ben-Gurion University [...]

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Israeli Excavations Lead To A Collapse Near The Al Aqsa Mosque

by RAINman on 20. Jan, 2010 in General

Saed Bannoura
IMEMC – 18 January 2010
The ongoing illegal Israeli excavations near and under the Al Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding areas, in occupied East Jerusalem, caused on Monday at dawn a collapse in the center of Wad Hilwa Street, in Silwan, south of the Al Aqsa Mosque.

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Africans blocked as Jerusalem acts to guard ‘Jewish character’

by RAINman on 13. Jan, 2010 in General

Abraham Rabiinovich, Jerusalem
The Australian – 12 January 2010

ISRAEL yesterday announced plans for a new border fence, this one aimed at keeping out African migrants rather than Palestinian bombers.
Construction of the fence, to be built along the border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, is aimed at stemming the inflow in recent years of thousands of [...]

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Israeli Segregated Road Ruled Down

by RAINman on 31. Dec, 2009 in General

By ETHAN BRONNER
The New York Times  -  29 December 2009
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a major access highway to Jerusalem running through the occupied West Bank could no longer be closed to most Palestinian traffic.

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Share the Temple Mount

by RAINman on 20. Oct, 2009 in General

By Israel Harel
Haaretz    -  15 October 2009
Sheikh Ra’ad Salah’s calls for a jihad against Israel worked. At the last minute, the government was deterred from executing its plan to demolish the mosques on the Temple Mount and from exploiting the Sukkot pilgrimage to Jerusalem to lay the cornerstone of the Third Temple. For [...]

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