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Settlements Control 42% of West Bank Lands

by RAINman on 07. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

imemc  -  July 06, 2010
by B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center For Human Rights In The Occupied Territories
Some half a million Israelis are now living over the Green Line: more than 300,000 in 121 settlements and about one hundred outposts, which control 42% of the land area of the West Bank, and the [...]

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Challenging Canada’s myths about its role in Palestine

by RAINman on 19. May, 2010 in Analysis

Sean F. McMahon
The Electronic Intifada - 18 May 2010

At the end of March, the Liberal Party of Canada staged a conference exploring the challenges Canada will face in 2017, the state’s 150th birthday. Robert Fowler, Canada’s longest-serving ambassador to the United Nations and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s former special envoy to Niger, caused a [...]

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Will South Africa revise its foreign policy in solidarity with Palestine and opposition to apartheid Israel?

Will South Africa revise its foreign policy in solidarity with Palestine and opposition to apartheid Israel?

by RAINman on 05. May, 2010 in Opinion

by Iqbal Jassat*
Media Review Network – 2 May 2010
South African Deputy Minister of International Relations and Co-operation Ebrahim Ebrahim’s visit to Gaza will undoubtedly be characterized with the usual denunciations of Israeli policies. That this is to be expected is in line with foreign policy imperatives in a post-apartheid era, though many would argue that [...]

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Should Palestine Declare Itself a State?

by RAINman on 17. Nov, 2009 in Analysis

By Max Fisher
The Atlantic Wire    -  16 November 2009
The long and troubled history of start-and-stall diplomacy between Israel and Palestine hasn’t shown much sign of improving. Some Americans even believe that, after decades of mediating, we should disengage from the peace process entirely. Negotiations between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [...]

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Paid Lying – What Passes For Major Media Journalism

by RAINman on 12. Nov, 2009 in Analysis

Stephen Lendman

Uruknet – 9 November 2009
Today’s major media journalism is biased, irresponsible, sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the truth. It’s misinformation or agitprop disinformation masquerading as fact to boost circulation, readership, viewers, or listeners, and on vital issues lie about or suppress uncomfortable truths to provide unqualified support for state and/or corporate [...]

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‘Bush-Isms’ are causing Trouble in Palestine

by RAINman on 05. Nov, 2009 in Analysis

by Joharah Baker
Media Monitors – 2 November 2009
“One only has to listen to spokespeople from both sides to see how true this is. While the battle with Israel is far from over, leaders and spokespersons from Hamas or the West Bank government would rather deliver blows to one another than focus on the larger [...]

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Breaking apart: Hamas and Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood

by RAINman on 30. Sep, 2009 in Analysis

By Oraib Al-Rantawi*
The Daily Star    29 September 2009
The relationship between Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan is a high-priority issue for the Islamic movement in Jordan and Palestine as well as for the Jordanian authorities. This is due to the large public space and high position the two movements occupy in both countries. [...]

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Video: Palestine Pre-1947 must see

by RAINman on 22. Sep, 2009 in Videos NEW!!!

The old lie that palestine was dry desert waiting for a people is just that–a lie. This clip for all people to see the Beauty of the Palestinian People before they were ethnically cleansed and murdered and made into refugees by the State of Israel.

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Boycott apartheid: student delegation to Palestine

by RAINman on 21. Jul, 2009 in General

Doug Smith
Doug Smith is a Montreal based student organizer, writer and activist currently working in solidarity with the Palestinian call for BDS on campus as well as in the community.
Electronic Intifada    17 July 2009
For the first time since the 2005 Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against institutions supporting [...]

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Rights group demands access to Palestinian prisoners in Gaza

by RAINman on 16. Jul, 2009 in General

Palestinian Center for Human Rights, The Electronic Intifada, 15 July 2009
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) has been denied access to clients detained by the Internal Security Service (ISS) of the Government in Gaza. PCHR affirm that such measures violate Palestinian law and relevant international standards, including the detainees’ right to have access [...]

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Palestinians ban Al-Jazeera for airing Arafat conspiracy allegations

Palestinians ban Al-Jazeera for airing Arafat conspiracy allegations

by RAINman on 16. Jul, 2009 in General

By Reuters

Haaretz    Wed., July 15, 2009
The Palestinian Authority banned Al-Jazeera television from operating in its territory on Wednesday and said it would take legal action over its broadcast of allegations against President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Information Ministry said in a statement the Qatar-based channel’s Arabic service spread falsehoods and incited viewers against [...]

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Netanyahu’s Illusory Concession on Palestine

by RAINman on 17. Jun, 2009 in Analysis

The Israeli prime minister endorsed the idea of a Palestinian state, while rejecting it in the particular.

Michelle Goldberg*

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a remarkably intransigent speech at Bar-Ilan University, intended to both mirror and answer the speech President Barack Obama gave in Cairo last month. Netanyahu flatly refused to call [...]

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