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 [...]
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Palestinians defy ban on Jewish settlement work
‘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 [...]
Obama Tries to Mend Fences With American Jews
By HELENE COOPER The New York Times – 4 May 2010 WASHINGTON — President Obama had lunch on Tuesday with Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, as part of an effort to mend fences with American Jews upset by the administration’s stance against the Israeli government’s construction of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem.
Strenger than Fiction / Jewish liberals from all nations, unite
Diaspora Jews around the world are realizing the time has come to reject the right’s dictate that being pro-Israel means that you need to support the policies of Israeli governments, no matter what they do. By Carlo Strenger Haaretz – 3 May 2010 The failure of the Camp David summit in 2000 and the onset of [...]
Sama News: “Angered By Netanyahu, Obama Leaves Meeting”
by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies – 25 March 2010 The Sama News Agency reported that the President of the United States, Barack Obama, insulted the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, when he told him “the meeting is over” as Netanyahu continued to try to connect the settlements issue with the Iranian “Nuclear File”, and [...]
Necons side with Israel against Obama
Middle East Online – 17 March 2010 In a phrase that the neocons used in the 1980s to demonize Americans who criticized Ronald Reagan’s bloody policies in Central America, it could be said that the Washington Post’s editorial writers are ‘blaming America first’ – and largely taking the side of Israel, notes Robert Parry. The US [...]
Video: ‘This is our village!’ – a report from Nabi Saleh
by Adam Horowitz – 23 January 2010 The following is a shocking video from Nabi Saleh, a Palestinian village of 500 residents located north of Ramallah. The village has been engaged in growing demonstrations during the past few weeks to protest the illegal seizure of valuable agricultural land by the Hallamish (Neve Tzuf) settlement. Settlers [...]
Israelis protest occupation of Palestinian East Jerusalem
Hundreds of left-wing Israeli activists tell Tel Aviv: ‘there is nothing holy about an occupied city’. Middle East Online – 22 January 2010 JERUSALEM – Hundreds of people, mostly left-wing Israeli activists, demonstrated against illegal Jewish settlements in Palestinian East Jerusalem on Friday in defiance of police efforts to crack down on the weekly protests.
Settlement by stealth belies promises of restraint
Hillary Clinton has praised Israel for its policy on settlers but, the displacements go on By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem Independent – 4 November 2009 Maysaa Al-Kurd has lived all her life in the home her family moved into in 1956. The pomegranate tree standing in the garden was planted by her father when she [...]
35% of East Jerusalem expropriated – study
By Hani Hazaimeh Jordan Times 28 October 2009 AMMAN – Israel has expropriated some 35 per cent of East Jerusalem’s territory, over 24,000 dunums of land, from its Palestinian owners despite the fact that in 20 years the majority of Jerusalem’s population will be Palestinians, a study said.
Jonathan Cook: Israeli Peace Group Targets Settlements’ Charitable Status in US
Antiwar Forum September 16, 2009 Israeli peace activists are planning to ratchet up their campaign against groups in the United States that raise money for settlers by highlighting how tax exemptions are helping to fund the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank. Gush Shalom, a small peace group that advocates Israel’s withdrawal from [...]
Moskowitz Dividing Jerusalem With His Millions
Joharah Baker Joharah Baker is a Writer for the Media and Information Program at the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH). She can be contacted at mip@miftah.org . MIFTAH – July 21, 2009 Irving Moskowitz may just be one of the biggest threats to the Palestinians in history. He is [...]
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