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Norway Oil divests from Africa-Israel

by RAINman on 25. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

The Jerusalem Post    Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Norway’s Ministry of Finance announced that the Norway Oil Fund divested from Africa-Israel Investments and Danya Cebus Ltd. on Monday.
The reason given is the companies’ construction in the West Bank.
The Norwegian Finance Ministry said, “The ethics council stresses that construction of settlements in the occupied territories violates the [...]

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Jeff Halper: Ramadan Kareem from the Netanyahu and Obama Administrations

by RAINman on 16. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Jeff Halper is the Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). He contributed this article to Media Monitors Network (MMN).
Media Monitors Network – August 14, 2010
“Nothing prevents Israel from terrorizing the Palestinian population, whether by its own army or the surrogate militia founded by the US and run by the Palestinian Authority to [...]

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PA lowers volume on mosques near settlements

by RAINman on 12. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Maan News  - 11 August 2010
BETHLEHEM — The Palestinian Authority has reportedly agreed to an Israeli request to lower the volume on mosque loudspeakers in Palestinian villages surrounded by settlements.
The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday that the PA has also agreed that Friday prayers will be held in one mosque per village, after several Israeli [...]

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Who’s aiding Judaisation?

by RAINman on 22. Jul, 2010 in Analysis

By Nicola Nasser*
Since 1860, when the American Jewish tycoon Judah Touro donated $60,000 — a fortune for that time — towards the construction of the first Jewish settlement outside the old walls of Jerusalem, public and private American funds have aided the creation and territorial expansion of Israel. Israel today is the foremost recipient of [...]

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Israel: Warped Mirrors and White House Sofas

by RAINman on 20. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By Conn Hallinan,
Foreign Policy In Focus    July 16, 2010
If anyone had doubts about the outcome of recent talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Barak Obama, they were put to rest July 13 when Israeli authorities demolished three Palestinian houses and announced the construction of 32 new homes in East Jerusalem. [...]

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Protesters greet Netanyahu in Washington as Israel expands settlements

by RAINman on 08. Jul, 2010 in General

Report, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2010
Hundreds of activists in Washington, DC demonstrated outside the White House to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit on Tuesday, 6 July. As protesters held signs calling on the US government to end military aid to Israel, Netanhayu met with US President Barack Obama in a meeting [...]

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Prof. Gary Leupp: “As You Know, I Didn’t Say That … ” — Petraeus, Palin, Boot and the Power of Israel

by RAINman on 07. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Religion. He is the author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan; Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900. He is [...]

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Tax-Exempt Funds Aid Settlements in West Bank

by RAINman on 07. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By JIM RUTENBERG, MIKE McINTIRE and ETHAN BRONNER
The New York Times – July 5, 2010
HAR BRACHA, West Bank — Twice a year, American evangelicals show up at a winery in this Jewish settlement in the hills of ancient Samaria to play a direct role in biblical prophecy, picking grapes and pruning vines.
Believing that [...]

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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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For Netanyahu, to Freeze or Not to Freeze is the Question

by RAINman on 06. Jul, 2010 in Opinion

by Joharah Baker
Media Monitors Network – Tuesday, July 6, 2010
A follow-up to this article will certainly be written after September 25, the cutoff date for the end of the Israeli government’s so-called moratorium on settlement construction in the West Bank. For now, however, the question is whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will heed to [...]

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Demolitions, new settlements in East Jerusalem could amount to war crimes – UN expert Richard Falk

by RAINman on 01. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Middle East Monitor - MEMO, June 30 2010
“International law does not allow Israel to bulldoze Palestinian homes to make space for the mayor’s project to build a garden, or anything else,” he said.
An independent United Nations expert today urged Israel to prevent further rights violations in East Jerusalem, warning that population transfers in or from occupied territory [...]

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Palestinians defy ban on Jewish settlement work

by RAINman on 26. May, 2010 in Newsletter Links

‘It’s either this or stealing’ – 25,000 Palestinians in the West Bank risk jail and fines if found violating the law

Rachel Shabi in Kiryat Sefer
guardian.co.uk – 25 May 2010
The back gate at the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Sefer is only open for an hour, so the Palestinian workers gather early. After a [...]

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