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Palestinian woman prevented from visiting imprisoned son for 14 years

by RAINman on 08. Sep, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Middle East Monitor    MEMO, September 6, 2010
A Palestinian human rights worker has reported that Israeli forces continue to prevent, Umm Ibrahim, an elderly woman in her 70s, from visiting her son after 14 years on the pretext that she poses as security threat to Israel. Umm Ibrahim had no choice but to find a Palestinian [...]

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Three dying Israelis saved with organs donated from a Palestinian boy

by RAINman on 08. Sep, 2010 in Newsletter Links

by George Rishmawi -
IMEMC & Agencies    Tuesday September 07, 2010
4-year-old Abdul Hayy Salhout who fell from the balcony in his house in Jabal Al-Mukabbir village in occupied East Jerusalem, became source of life for three dying Israeli patients when his parents decided to donate his organs.
According to the Ma’an news Agency, doctors at the [...]

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Students urge PLO envoy not to attend Jewish lecture

by RAINman on 12. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Maan News   -    11 August 2010
BETHLEHEM – A Palestinian student union has called on PLO ambassador to South Africa Ali Ahmed Halimeh not to attend a conference organized by a Jewish student group scheduled for Thursday.
The Palestinian Student Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel in Gaza said in an open letter that Halimeh’s participation in [...]

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Amira Hass: Eight Palestinian youths and the crime they didn’t commit

by RAINman on 10. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

After two years, a case against Palestinian teenagers accused of throwing stones was overturned when the military prosecution backed out. The suspects pleaded innocent all along, saying they’d been in school
Haaretz - August 08, 2010
Eight Palestinian teenagers were tried in the court of military judge Lt. Col. Menashe Vahnish on November 11, 2008. Referring [...]

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Why Is Facebook Blocking the Word ‘Palestinian’ in Page Titles?

by RAINman on 28. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Gawker      Jul 26, 2010
The Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet tried to create a Facebook page for itself this weekend. Only, it wasn’t able to do so—because Facebook won’t let users create pages with the word “Palestinian” in the title.
Rex Brynen of the Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet went up against the same difficult-to-comprehend automated Facebook processes that got [...]

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Abbas: I prevented intifada during Gaza war

by RAINman on 24. Dec, 2009 in General

Ma’an –      23 December 2009
Bethlehem –President Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview published on Tuesday that he stopped a third Palestinian intifada from occurring during the Israeli offensive against Gaza last winter
Speaking to New York’s Wall Street Journal, Abbas also said he would not allow another uprising to take place as long as he stays [...]

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Student expelled to Gaza Strip by force

by RAINman on 02. Nov, 2009 in General

Palestinian’s involuntary return is the sixth in 10 days, says human rights group
By Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem
Independent   30 October 2009
A Palestinian student has been handcuffed, blindfolded and forcibly expelled to the Gaza Strip by Israeli troops just two months before she was due to graduate from university.

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Palestinian faith in Obama ‘evaporates’

by RAINman on 15. Oct, 2009 in Analysis

Leaked memo from President Mahmoud Abbas accuses White House of buckling under pressure from Israel
Rory McCarthy Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk – 13 October 2009

Palestinian political leaders have expressed acute disappointment in the Obama administration, saying their hopes that it could bring peace to the Middle East have “evaporated” and accusing the White House of [...]

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Mosque-Veto

by RAINman on 16. Sep, 2009 in Hard News

Palestine Monitor    September 14, 2009
A Palestinian woman died and dozens more were injured as they attempted to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Incompetent and inhumane policing turned the Qalandia checkpoint into a scene of chaos as worshippers gathered for prayer on the third Friday of Ramadan.
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Israeli woman denied social benefits for visiting Palestinian husband

by RAINman on 23. Jun, 2009 in General

By Dana Weiler-Polak

Haaretz     Mon., June 22, 2009
S. was born in Lod, where she lived all her life and is raising her four children. Her only sin, apparently, was in marrying a resident of the territories.
That was enough for the National Insurance Institute to continually investigate her, withhold her social benefits and humiliate [...]

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South African study: Israel practicing apartheid and colonialism

by RAINman on 11. Jun, 2009 in General

 
Report, Human Sciences Research Council, 9 June 2009 
 
The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa (HSRC) has released a report confirming that Israel is practicing both colonialism and apartheid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
   The HSRC commissioned an international team of scholars and practitioners of international public law from South Africa, the United Kingdom, [...]

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Jewish town in Galilee demands ‘loyalty oath’ — New bylaw designed to bar Arab couple

by RAINman on 09. Jun, 2009 in General

by Jonathan Cook 
 Media Monitors Network (MMN).(Monday, June 8, 2009
 ”Critics are calling the bylaw, adopted by Manof, home to 170 Jewish families in Galilee, a local “loyalty oath” similar to a national scheme recently proposed by the far-Right party of the government minister Avigdor Lieberman.”

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