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by Mais Azza IMEMC & Agencies Monday November 14, 2011 12:09 Israelcontinues to breach the terms of the prisoner-swap deal by breaking into the houses of ex-detainees’ throughout theWest Bank, Palestinian news agency, Ma’an reported. Palestinian officials in charge of the detainees’ , asserted that the Israeli Prison Administration is still punishing [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Richard J. Goldstone: Israel and the Apartheid Slander By RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE Richard J. Goldstone, a former justice of the South African Constitutional Court, led the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict of 2008-9. The New York Times Published: October 31, 2011 THE Palestinian Authority’s request for full United Nations membership [...]
Finland‘s Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja describes occupation of Palestinian lands as apartheid and stresses Israel’s failure to move forward with two-state solution Ahram Online AFP , Wednesday 26 Oct 2011 Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories is tantamount to apartheid, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said Wednesday, warning time was running out for a [...]
“Imagine living in a cell with someone dying in front of your eyes,” freed man tells Al Jazeera. Mohammad Alsaafin and Nour Samaha Al Jazeera Last Modified: 25 Oct 2011 12:37 Hazem Asili, from the West Bank, was 25 years old when he was jailed byIsraelin 1986. Abdelhakim Hnaini, also from theWest Bank, [...]
A powerful group of ex-army leaders say their country is being overrun – and they blame King Abdullah Independent. Thursday, 22 July 2010 Just opposite the Al-Quds restaurant in centralAmmanis a dull, grey-stone building spattered with old bullet holes. In 1970, this was where the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine staged [...]
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