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Israeli Army Calls the Ex-detainees for Interrogation

by on 15. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

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 [...]

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In southern Palestine, villages struggle to get water

by on 11. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

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 [...]

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The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: Cape Town Session: Summary of findings, 7 November 2011

by on 08. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

“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 [...]

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Prof. Joseph Massad: Truths, facts and facts on the ground

by on 04. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

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 [...]

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Russell Tribunal — 3 articles: Richard J. Goldstone / Ali Abunimah / John Dugard

by on 02. Nov, 2011 in Newsletter Links

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 [...]

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Finnish FM: Israeli occupation is ‘apartheid’

by on 27. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

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 [...]

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Deported Palestinians describe prison ordeal

by on 26. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

“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, [...]

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Robert Fisk: Why Jordan is occupied by Palestinians

by on 26. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

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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Greater Israel—or Peace?

by on 20. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

The American Conservative    October 19th, 2011   Pathbreaking scholars Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer speak out about the precarious future of the Jewish state.   Shortly before Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrived inNew Yorkto seek United Nations recognition of a Palestinian state, TAC’s Scott McConnell sat down with Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer to [...]

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Israel on its way to legalizing theft

by on 19. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

The very fact that the government is discussing the illegal outposts after the High Court has ruled undermines the most basic principles of the rule of law.  By Talia Sasson   Haaretz           Tue, October 18, 2011   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman to establish a committee to recommend ways to [...]

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Israel Launches Airstrikes On Gaza Following Bus Attack

David Miliband : Remembering Gaza

by on 18. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

David Miliband was British Foreign Secretary from 2007 to 2010, and is currently a member of parliament for the Labour Party.   Looking beyond statistics, the future of the children of Gaza is at risk of being wasted due to politics. Al Jazeera    Last Modified: 17 Oct 2011 07:00   Government is all about statistics, [...]

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Phyllis Bennis: The Prisoner Swap

by on 17. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Her books include Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer, Understanding the U.S.-Iran Crisis: A Primer, Ending the Iraq War: A Primer, and most recently Ending the Us War in Afghanistan: A Primer. If you want to receive her talking points and articles on a [...]

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