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In southern Palestine, villages struggle to get water

by on 11. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

By ST McNeil   Palestine Monitor. November 7, 2011   Within five minutes bulldozers had destroyed two of the village’s cisterns. Soldiers then cracked open two water tanks, spilling their precious fluid, and leveled the outhouse.   “These were full of water,” Majid Jabur said, pointing to a hole in one of the white containers [...]

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Balfour’s apartheid legacy

by on 08. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Stuart Littlewood   November 5, 2011   Arthur Balfour’s infamous “Declaration” was written 94 years ago this week. Palestinians, of course, don’t need reminding.   And to mark the anniversaryIsraelordered its warships to carry out yet another act of piracy on peaceful, innocent shipping carrying humanitarian relief to the imprisoned people ofGaza.   British duplicity [...]

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The Guardian of Israel

by on 08. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

By Gilad Atzmon Gilad Atzmon is a musician-composer. He is particularly well-known his political analysis which is widely published. His website Gilad.co.uk   Information Clearing House November 05, 2011   Israeli hasbara insists that an attack onIranis compatible with both Western interests and NATO strategy. For example, this weekIsraelreleased information about an IAF exercise in [...]

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Protest builds over Manchester University interference in Finkelstein tour

by on 08. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Posted on 5 November 2011 by jews4big|   ManchesterUniversityis facing growing protests after caving in to Zionist pressure and forcing students organising a speaking tour by Professor Norman Finkelstein to move his planned lecture off campus.   In a letter to university Head of Governance, Martin Conway, J-BIG said it was astonished “that a respected [...]

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The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: Cape Town Session: Summary of findings, 7 November 2011

by on 08. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

“May this tribunal prevent the crime of silence” Bertrand Russell, London, 13 November 1966 The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) is an international citizen-based Tribunal of conscience created in response to the demands of civil society (NGOs, charities, unions, faith-based organisations) to inform and mobilise public opinion and put pressure on decision makers. In view [...]

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Gideon Levy: Israeli leaders’ price tag against the Palestinians

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

This price tag meted out by the forum of eight is not much different than the settlers’ price tag; it’s violent, uncontrolled and seeks vengeance. Haaretz    Thu, November 03, 2011   What, for heaven’s sake, is so terrible aboutPalestinebeing accepted to UNESCO? Why is this considered an “anti-Israeli” step? And in general, what’s so bad [...]

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Prof. Ran Greenstein: Israel, apartheid, and the Hasbara machine

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Ran Greenstein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa. He has written extensively on the genealogies of the conflicts in Palestine/Israel and South Africa.   Ran Greenstein responds to the recently published pieces by Richard Goldstone and Benjamin Pogrund which reject the analogy of [...]

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Prof. Joseph Massad: Truths, facts and facts on the ground

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Joseph Massad is Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. His most recent books are The Persistence of the Palestinian Question and Desiring Arabs.   Much of the international support that Israel receives is based on several lies it tells and re-tells as “facts”.    Al Jazeera   Last Modified: 27 [...]

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Amira Hass: Palestinians must say no to negotiations with Israel

by on 03. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Diplomatic moves in the United Nations, no matter how refreshingly daring, are not enough.    HAARETZ    Wed, November 02, 2011   Now thatPalestinehas been recognized by the United Nations’ cultural organization, UNESCO, it will be no more of a non-state and no less occupied than it was before. Its citizens will be no less unfree [...]

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UNESCO — 2 articles

by on 02. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Craig Murray: Palestine Can Now Join the International Criminal Court   Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist   by craig on Nov 1st in Uncategorized   Palestineis now a state. Membership of the United Nations is not in international law a pre-condition of statehood, and indeed is not compulsory for states. The existence of states not [...]

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Russell Tribunal : 3 articles

by on 01. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

    Vavi: Tribunal to educate SA on Palestine / SAMWU welcomes Russell Tribunal / Benjamin Pogrund: Lies told about Israel are beyond belief     Vavi: Tribunal to educate SA on Palestine    Independent Online      October 30 2011 at 04:32pm   The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTOP) will educate South Africans about human rights abuses [...]

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Somalia: the forgotten victim of the West’s worldwide war on Islamic movements

by on 25. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

by Iqbal Siddiqui Mr. Iqbal Siddiqui gets featured on Media Monitors Network (MMN) with the courtesy of Crescent International.   Media Monitors Network      Sunday, October 23, 2011   Early month, as much of the western world was either wallowing in sentimental commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and [...]

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