Irene Gendzier is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston University. see further details here: http://www.bu.edu/polisci/people/faculty/gendzier/ Source: Le Monde Diplomatique Saturday, October 01, 2011 TheUnited StatesandIsraelhave both been intent on forestalling the appearance of the Palestinian Authority before the United Nations, in case it succeeded in winning support for its [...]
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UNRWA: Israel becoming ‘more efficient’ at displacing Palestinians
Ma’an Wednesday 12/10/2011, 15:44 JERUSALEM– Israeli demolitions affected 990 Palestinians in theWest Bankin September, showing that Israeli authorities “are becoming more efficient,” UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said. The latest report from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees shows a dramatic rise in the number of people displaced or affected by Israeli demolitions. In [...]
European Parliament adopts resolution, confirming Palestinian bid legitimacy
Alaa Ashkar IMEMC & Agencies September 29, 2011 The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday, confirming the legitimacy of the Palestinian-UN membership application, calling on the EU members to adopt a united decision which supports the Palestinian bid. The parliament praised the rehabilitation of the P.A institutions and its plans to [...]
Bill Clinton: Netanyahu isn’t interested in Mideast peace deal
Former U.S. President says a cynical perspective of Prime Minister’s calls for negotiations ‘means that he’s just not going to give up the West Bank’. Haaretz Mon, September 26, 2011 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is responsible for the inability to reach a peace deal that would end the conflict betweenIsraeland the Palestinians, former [...]
Robert Fisk: Palestine, yes, but Israelis draw the line at Jerusalem
The Independent Tuesday, 27 September 2011 They wear their wounds well, the buildings of the old “green line”. Forget the new Jerusalem hotels across the road, the state-of-the-art tramway that glistens down the highway; just take a look at the bullet holes on the walls to the left, the shell gashes in the preserved [...]
Ibrahim Zaza: The Gaza Boy Newspapers Omitted
by Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud www.ramzybaroud.net is an internationally-syndicated columnist and the editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story (Pluto Press, London), available on Amazon.com September 26, 2011 ”Both of Ibrahim’s arms were cut off. He had a hole in his lung. Parts of his [...]
Settlers Put Up Posters Calling For Killing Arabs, Palestinians
by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Sunday September 25, 2011 21:47 Dozens of armed Israeli settlers put up Israeli flags and posters on main and bypass roads close to Jewish settlements in the southern part of theWest Bank, calling for slaughtering Arabs and Palestinians. Racist posters were also placed along the Jerusalem-Hebron [...]
Israel to pay family compensation over killing of Palestinian girl
Abir Aramin, 10, was killed by a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli border police officer as she went to buy sweets in 2007 Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem guardian.co.uk, Monday 26 September 2011 09.39 BST Reuters The family of a 10-year-old Palestinian girl killed by a rubber bullet as she went to buy [...]
Robert Fisk: Prayers, taunts and weary resignation in Jerusalem
Independent Saturday, 24 September 2011 So there I was, on the Via Dolorosa of course, chatting to a middle-aged guy in a red T-shirt and just a wisp of a beard with a prayer rug under his left arm. And I asked him, of course, what he thought about Barack Obama’s speech. He [...]
Texas Governor Rick Perry: Like a Likudnik
I In his New York rally, Republican presidential front-runner adopts rhetoric of Israel’s radical right lock, stock and barrel. By Chemi Shalev Haaretz Wed, September 21, 2011 Except for the fact that the proceedings were held in English, an Israeli attending Texas Governor Rick Perry’s “press conference” at the W Hotel in midtown [...]
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