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Jonathan Cook: The price of torching mosques — Israel lays ground for anti-apartheid struggle

by on 14. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Jonathan Cook is a freelance writer based in Nazareth. His website is at www.jkcook.net . He contributed this article to Media Monitors Network (MMN).   Media Monitors Network     Wednesday, October 12, 2011   Jewish far-right groups responsible for a series of arson attacks on West Bank mosques over the past year broke dangerous ground last [...]

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UNRWA: Israel becoming ‘more efficient’ at displacing Palestinians

by on 13. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Ma’an    Wednesday  12/10/2011,  15:44    JERUSALEM– Israeli demolitions affected 990 Palestinians in theWest Bankin September, showing that Israeli authorities “are becoming more efficient,” UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said.   The latest report from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees shows a dramatic rise in the number of people displaced or affected by Israeli demolitions. In [...]

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Prof. Lawrence Davidson: Israel and Those “Real Democratic Rights”

by on 12. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Lawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University in West Chester PA. His academic work is focused on the history of American foreign relations with the Middle East. He also teaches courses in the history of science and modern European intellectual history.  http://www.tothepointanalyses.com Information Clearing House –      October 08, 2011      In his speech [...]

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Mosque in northern Israel in ‘price tag’ arson attack

by on 07. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

BBC     3 October 2011 Last updated at 10:52 GMT A mosque in northernIsraelhas been torched and sprayed with graffiti, in a suspected attack by Jewish extremists.   Hundreds of residents from thevillageofTuba-Zangariyamarched in protest against the attack, and there were reports of clashes with the police.   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he [...]

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Talking With Alice Walker on Palestine

by on 06. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

by DENNIS BERNSTEIN   Alice Walker is Pulitzer Prize winning poet, author and activist. She participated recently in the U.S. Boat to Gaza, which was a part of the Freedom Flotilla, to break the Israeli embargo on the Gaza Strip.   Counterpunch September 31-32, 2011   Last year, a flotilla was attacked by Israeli commandos [...]

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Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD: Waters for Life in Palestine

by on 06. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links

September 29, 2011   From its foundingIsraelas an apartheid colonial power has appropriated natural resources from native people to use for immigrants imported from around the world. Before 1967,Israeldiverted waters that normally flowed into the Jordan river basin and also restricted water usage by the Palestinians who remained in what became the state ofIsraelin 1948. [...]

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Jewish Opinion being alienated by Israeli Policies, Not by any “Delegitimization” Campaign

by on 30. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links

by Allan C. Brownfeld Allan C. Brownfeld is a syndicated columnist and associate editor of the Lincoln Review , a journal published by the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education , and editor of Issues , the quarterly journal of the American Council for Judaism . He gets featured on Media Monitors Network (MMN) with [...]

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Blair’s envoy role at risk as Palestinians reject ‘Israeli bias’

by on 30. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links

By Catrina Stewart in Jerusalem   Independent.    Thursday, 29 September 2011    Just days after being declared persona non grata at the Labour Party conference, Tony Blair looks set to receive similar treatment in theMiddle East.  The Palestinians have lost trust in the former prime minister as envoy for the Quartet on the Middle East [...]

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Knesset to vote on annexing West Bank

by on 29. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links

(JTA)   September 27, 2011   JERUSALEM     – The Knesset will vote on a bill calling for full Israeli annexation of theWest Bank.   Deputy Speaker Danny Danon announced Tuesday that the Knesset will take up the bill, which he authored, at the end of October.   The bill also nullifies any financial obligations betweenIsraeland [...]

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Israel’s ambassador to S.A., Dov Segev Steinberg: Palestinian UDI won’t bring peace to Mideast

by on 28. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links

THE truth is often a rare commodity in the Middle East. It can be hidden behind layers of mendacity and myths, distractions and deceptions. Business Day    Published: 2011/09/27 07:33:55 AM   THE truth is often a rare commodity in theMiddle East. It can be hidden behind layers of mendacity and myths, distractions and deceptions. But [...]

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Settlers Put Up Posters Calling For Killing Arabs, Palestinians

by on 27. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links

by Saed Bannoura –    IMEMC & Agencies    Sunday September 25, 2011 21:47   Dozens of armed Israeli settlers put up Israeli flags and posters on main and bypass roads close to Jewish settlements in the southern part of theWest Bank, calling for slaughtering Arabs and Palestinians.   Racist posters were also placed along the Jerusalem-Hebron [...]

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Israel to pay family compensation over killing of Palestinian girl

by on 27. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Abir Aramin, 10, was killed by a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli border police officer as she went to buy sweets in 2007  Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem guardian.co.uk, Monday 26 September 2011 09.39 BST   Reuters   The family of a 10-year-old Palestinian girl killed by a rubber bullet as she went to buy [...]

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