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MAY 2013
Buckling to Bigotry: The Newseum Dishonors Murdered Palestinian Journalists by Nima Shirazi / May 14th, 2013 Just two days before Palestinians commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, the names of two Palestinian cameramen targeted and killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza last November were dropped from a dedication ceremony held to honor ”reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died reporting the news” over the past year. The move followed an Israel lobby pressure campaign led by anti-Palestinian organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and the American Jewish Committee, efforts that were openly supported by the Israeli government.
Are Israelis Appropriating the Nakba? Palestinians Should Not Stand For It by SUSAN ABULHAWA 14 May 2013 Counter Punch Al Jazeera Stream contacted me a few days ago asking if I would participate on a show commemorating the Nakbe. I would be the only Palestinian, the producer said, “to balance things out” amidst various Israeli voices. Here’s the exact excerpt of the email: “We are looking for a unique angle with which to cover this and one we were thinking of was looking at the Nakba through Israeli eyes and competing Israeli perspectives. We would also like to have a Palestinian guest join us on set however, to balance things out. As you noted, it would be 3-4 Israelis and just the one Palestinian – but as I said, the Israeli’s will include those very critical of Israeli society on this issue. We certainly wont have anyone in the discussion who flat out denies the Nakba.”..
14 May 2013 Joseph Massad Aljazeera It is Israel's claims that it represents and speaks for all Jews that are the most anti-Semitic claims of all.
Barbara Boxer, AIPAC seek to codify Israel's right to discriminate against Americans A bill introduced by the California Democrat would uniquely exempt Israel from long-standing requirements imposed on all other nations Share 6451 Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Saturday 13 April 2013 In order for the US to permit citizens of a foreign country to enter the US without a visa, that country must agree to certain conditions. Chief among them is reciprocity: that country must allow Americans to enter without a visa as well. There are 37 countries which have been permitted entrance into America's "visa waiver" program, and all of them - all 37 - reciprocate by allowing American citizens to enter their country without a visa...
SodaStream "treats us like slaves," says Palestinian factory worker Stephanie Westbrook The Electronic Intifada Rome 9 May 2013 A professionally-produced video recently appeared on YouTube, taking the viewer on a carefully-constructed tour of the production facilities for the Israeli company SodaStream, manufacturer of carbonated drink machines. The 8.5-minute video focuses on the firm’s factory located in Mishor Adumim, the industrial zone of the illegal Israeli settlement Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank, and its Palestinian workers. The underlying message throughout the video is that the company’s settlement factory is a “fantastic sanctuary of co-existence” and, despite being built on stolen Palestinian land, is beneficial to the Palestinian economy and workers.
The Reply
Media Advisory
Chemical claims should be investigated, not used as pretext for war 5/6/13 FAIR U.S. suggestions that the Syrian government could have used chemical weapons have been treated as fact by some media outlets, and are helping to fuel the case for greater U.S. military involvement. But subsequent reporting has called into question these early, credulous reports--and highlighted the continuing media failure to treat WMD claims with the skepticism they deserve..
U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator Sun, May 05 18:13 PM EDT GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday. The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte...
A former insider explains how Human Rights Watch panders to the Israel lobby Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 05/03/2013 Scott Long has written an excellent exposé of the scurrilous smear campaign against Egyptian human rights defender Mona Seif by the Zionist organization UN Watch and its director Hillel Neuer, “a former corporate lawyer and lobbyist for Israel” (I wrote about the UN Watch smear campaign against Seif here yesterday)
I Was One of the Radicals at the Mosque by KATHY MANLEY Weekend Edition May 3-5, 2013 Counter Punch After the Boston Marathon bombing some media outlets have suggested that the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) was an incubator of radicalism because the Tsarnaev brothers occasionally worshipped there, and because they had permitted “radicals” who “defended terrorism suspects” to speak there...
Iowa Town Named for Muslim Hero Extols Tolerance By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN New York Times, May 3, 2013 ELKADER, Iowa — Amid an expanse of undulating farmland, deep in the steep valley carved by the Turkey River, the town of Elkader sits most of the year in remote obscurity. Population 1,200 and gradually shrinking, it is the seat of a county without a single traffic light...
12- and 11-year old Palestinian children
arrested after attack by settler
children – Swedish Updated May 2, 2013 28th April 2013 International Solidarity Movement, Hebron, Occupied Palestine By Team Khalil
Alleged Beating by PA Interrogators Costs Palestinian Man His Speech By: Linah Alsaafin for Al-Monitor Palestine Pulse Posted on May 2.
Father of eight Mohammed Ghannam lost his ability to speak after less than 48 hours in the custody of the Palestinian Authority Preventative Security Forces...
APRIL 2013
Proposed legislation from the California senator would ease entry to the U.S. for Israelis but would not ensure the same rights for Muslim and Arab American travelers. By George Bisharat April 28, 2013, Los Angeles Times Sen. Barbara Boxer introduced legislation last month that would allow Israel to continue racially profiling Americans of Arab and Muslim heritage who travel to Israel, even as it confers new privileges on Israelis traveling to the United States...
Washington fabricates chemical weapons pretext for war against Syria By Bill Van Auken 27 April 2013 In an attempt to pave the way for a direct military intervention aimed at toppling the government of President Bashar al-Assad, Washington, its NATO allies, Israel and Qatar have all in recent days broadcast trumped-up charges that Syria has used chemical weapons...
The Terror of Capitalism Made in Bangladesh by VIJAY PRASHAD Weekend Edition April 26-28, 2013 Counter Punch Delhi. These Bangladesh factories are a part of the landscape of globalization that is mimicked in the factories along the US-Mexico border, in Haiti, in Sri Lanka, and in other places that opened their doors to the garment industry’s savvy use of the new manufacturing and trade order of the 1990s. Subdued countries that had neither the patriotic will to fight for their citizens nor any concern for the long-term debilitation of their social order rushed to welcome garment production. The big garment producers no longer wanted to invest in factories – they turned to sub-contractors, offering them very narrow margins for profit and thereby forcing them to run their factories like prison-houses of labour.
British officials predicted war – and Arab defeat – in Palestine in 1948 Declassified UK reports document build-up of conflict, Jewish public's endorsement of their leaders' pro-terrorist stance and declare armies of Arab states were Palestinians' 'only hope' Share 918 Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian, Friday 26 April 2013
VIDEO: Israel uses Palestinian teenager as human shield during protest Israeli forces use 17-year-old Palestinian teenager as human shield while trying to disperse a protest in Abu Dis, the West Bank on Friday Nadeen Shaker , Monday 22 Apr 2013, Al-Ahram Online
Like everything else with Zionism and Israel, their conception of rights is never universal but always particular. Joseph Massad
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2013 Since its inception, the Zionist project was clear in its goals and the strategy required to achieve them. In order for Jews to colonise the lands of the Palestinians and establish an exclusivist Jewish state, Zionist strategists insisted, the natives must be driven out of the country. For Zionism, colonisation and expulsion were to be simultaneous processes that could not be decoupled from one another: indeed, they would become the very same process...
Video: Israeli soldiers use handcuffed Palestinian teen as human shield as they fire at protestors Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Fri, 04/19/2013 Israeli soldiers used a handcuffed Palestinian teenager as a human shield as they fired at protestors in the occupied West Bank village of Abu Dis on Friday.
When Israeli denial of Palestinian existence becomes genocidal Ilan Pappe The Electronic Intifada 20 April 2013 Sixty-five years on, Israeli President Shimon Peres still denies the existence of the indigenous population of Palestine. (World Economic Forum / Flickr) In a regal interview he gave the Israeli press on the eve of the state’s ” Independence Day,” Shimon Peres, the current president of Israel, said the following: “I remember how it all began. The whole state of Israel is a millimeter of the whole Middle East. A statistical error, barren and disappointing land, swamps in the north, desert in the south, two lakes, one dead and an overrated river. No natural resource apart from malaria. There was nothing here. And we now have the best agriculture in the world? This is a miracle: a land built by people” (Maariv, 14 April 2013)...
‘The Kill Team’ examines moral dilemmas facing young soldiers at war By Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News | The Lookout Three years ago, the U.S. was stunned by a horrific story that emerged from the front lines of the war in Afghanistan: Several members of an Army platoon had killed at least three unarmed Afghan civilians, apparently for sport. The soldiers referred to themselves as ‘the Kill Team”—a nickname that seemed tailor-made for television news, which devoted hours of coverage to the case. “The Kill Team,” which is playing at Tribeca Film Festival in New York this week and premieres at the San Francisco Film Festival on Friday.
Barbara Boxer, AIPAC seek to codify Israel's right to discriminate against Americans A bill introduced by the California Democrat would uniquely exempt Israel from long-standing requirements imposed on all other nations Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Saturday 13 April 2013 Barbara Boxer, the chair of the Senate environment and public works committee Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer introduces an Aipac-favored bill that would allow Israel, uniquely among all countries, to discriminate against Americans of Arab descent Photograph: Joe Marquette/EPA
MARCH 2013
In Death as in Life, Chávez Target of
Media Scorn
His independence, help for Venezuela's poor will not be forgiven FAIR March 6, 2013 Venezuela's left-wing populist president Hugo Chávez died on Tuesday, March 5, after a two-year battle with cancer. If world leaders were judged by the sheer volume of corporate media vitriol and misinformation about their policies, Chávez would be in a class of his own...
Greg Grandin March 5, 2013 The Nation I first met Hugo Chávez in New York City in September 2006, just after his infamous appearance on the floor of the UN General Assembly, where he called George W. Bush the devil. “Yesterday, the devil came here,” he said, “Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of.” He then made the sign of the cross, kissed his hand, winked at his audience and looked to the sky...
FEBRUARY 2013
The Biblical Pseudo-Archeologists Pillaging the West Bank By Dylan Bergeson Feb 28, 2013 The Atlantic Monthly Finding the elusive, unregulated Israeli bureaucrat who lets American evangelicals run amok in the Palestinian territories.
For Samer Issawi: a poem by Susan
Abulhawa
The Palestine Monitor 19 February 2013
Looting by IDF soldiers: 'But on the spoil, laid they not their hand' The occupation has made us accustomed to things we never thought we’d get used to. This, basically, is the meaning of the weary expression “the occupation corrupts.” News that an IDF soldier is suspected of looting was met by the Israeli media with silence. We’re getting used to looting too, it seems. Published February 16, 2013 By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz +972 Magazine
Confrontation erupts in Jaffa during attempts to demolish Arab houses Friday, 15 February Middle East Monitor On Thursday morning, large numbers of Israeli police and members of other units specialized in supporting the bulldozers of the so-called Land of Israel Department, began to carry out the task of demolishing houses in the city of Jaffa...
Israeli soldier posts disturbing
Instagram photo of child in crosshairs
of his rifle
Submitted by Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, Fri, 02/15/2013 This disturbing image shows the back of the head of a child or young man as seen in the crosshairs of a rifle. The photo was posted on the personal Instagram account of Mor Ostrovski, a 20-year old Israeli soldier in a sniper unit.
The SIPRI Top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in the world The SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute 2013) Top 100 lists the world’s 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies (excluding China), ranked by their arms sales in 2011. The list is based on the comprehensive SIPRI Arms Industry Database, which contains financial and employment data on the world’s major arms-producing and military services companies.
Obama, the US and the Muslim world: the animosity deepens Another new poll, this one of Pakistan, shows: a central promise of Obama for improving US security is an utter failure
Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk Friday 15 February 2013
After the Arab Spring: Al-Jazeera Losing Battle for Independence By Alexander Kühn, Christoph Reuter and Gregor Peter Schmitz February 15, 2013 Dein SPIEGEL For over a decade, the Arab television broadcaster Al-Jazeera was widely respected for providing an independent voice from the Middle East. Recently, however, several top journalists have left, saying the station has developed a clear political agenda...
By RAJA SHEHADEH February 13, 2013 IHT SEBASTIA, West Bank — I spent last Sunday, a gorgeous early spring day, visiting a colonnaded street leading to a Roman theater, the 30 B.C. temple of Augustus and a church built to commemorate the martyrdom of John the Baptist, which supposedly occurred on this hill. These and many more ruins can be seen in Sebastia, an ancient city first settled in the Early Bronze Age less than ten miles northwest of Nablus...
Egypt floods Gaza tunnels to cut Palestinian lifeline By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA - Wed Feb 13, 2013 (Reuters) - Egyptian forces have flooded smuggling tunnels under the border with the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip in a campaign to shut them down, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said. The network of tunnels is a vital lifeline for Gaza, bringing in an estimated 30 percent of all goods that reach the enclave and circumventing a blockade imposed by Israel for more than seven years...
Biased new study skirts around racism in Israeli school books Nurit Peled-Elhanan The Electronic Intifada 12 February 2013 Two main categories are missing from the analysis: occupation and racist discourse. Perhaps that is why describing the dire facts of the occupation seemed to involve “negative characterization of Israelis” to the researchers...
Pillaging of Gaza Antiquities An Archaeological Tragedy By Asmaa al-Ghoul for Al-Monitor February 12, 2013 AL-MONITOR Moshe Dayan is the former Israeli defense minister who, using the strength of the Israeli army, pillaged countless artifacts — dating from the Ottoman era to the time before Christ — from Gaza, in an effort to erase Palestinian history...
How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons) Vol. 35 No. 4 · 21 February 2013 Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports from Syria LRB In the cramped living room of a run-down flat near the Aleppo frontline, two Syrian rebels sat opposite each other. The one on the left was stout, broad-shouldered, with a neat beard that looked as though it had been outlined in sharp pencil around his throat and cheeks. His shirt and trousers were immaculately pressed and he wore brand-new military webbing – the expensive Turkish kind, not the Syrian knock-off. The rebel sitting opposite him was younger, gaunt and tired-looking. His hands were filthy and his trousers caked in mud and diesel...
New Actors in Middle East Peace Charade By Ramzy Baroud Feb 7 2013 Palestine Chronicle Despite much saber-rattling by Israel and the US administration and hyped-up expectations by the Palestinian leadership, the recognition of Palestine as a non-member observer state last November is fast becoming yet another footnote in the protracted conflict...
By RAJA SHEHADEH February 6, 2013 IHT RAMALLAH, West Bank — Last week some inhabitants of the Palestinian village of Burin, near Nablus, set up a small and peaceful protest camp on private land in an attempt to protect the village from encroaching Jewish settlers. On Saturday, the Israeli Army evicted the Palestinians. According to one report, the settlers uprooted nearly 100 olive trees, a 16-year-old Palestinian was wounded, 20 people suffered tear gas inhalation, and a mosque was set on fire...
When It Comes to Drones, Trust the Churchgoing CIA Director By Peter Hart FAIR, Feb 06, 2013 Last night, MSNBC's Chris Matthews (2/5/13) hosted a discussion on the Obama administration's recently disclosed "white paper" justifying its policy of using drones to strike at U.S. citizens. Matthews appeared rather uncomfortable with the topic, ultimately deciding that the policy was defensible–on the grounds that the CIA director Leon Panetta goes to church...
Where Are They Now? The Reporters Who Got Iraq So Wrong By Peter Hart FAIR, Feb 05, 2013 Ten years ago today, Colin Powell made the Bush administration's case for going to war against Iraq. Much of what he said about Iraq's threats to the United States was false. But the media coverage gave the opposite impression, and most of the pundits and journalists who promoted the justifications for the war paid no price for their failures...
When 'Confirmed' Means 'An Official Told Me So' By Peter Hart FAIR, Feb 04, 2013 On January 30, reports emerged that Israel had carried out an airstrike on Syrian targets near Damascus. Much of the initial reporting took Israel's claims at face value, though it appeared impossible to confirm that the story was true...
Brooklyn College's academic freedom increasingly threatened over Israel event New York politicians join the Alan Dershowitz-led campaign to dictate to colleges what academic events they can hold Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Saturday 2 February 2013 On Tuesday, I wrote about a brewing controversy that was threatening the academic freedom of Brooklyn College (see Item 7). The controversy was triggered by the sponsorship of the school's Political Science department of an event, scheduled for 7 February, featuring two advocates of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) aimed at stopping Israeli oppression of the Palestinians [one speaker is a Palestinian (Omar Barghouti) and the other a Jewish American (philosopher Judith Butler)]. The event is being co-sponsored by numerous student and community groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine, the college's LGBT group, pro-Palestinian Jewish organizations, and an Occupy Wall Street group...
JANUARY 2013
What I learned about empire in the West Bank by Nathan Schneider January 30, 2013 Waging Nonviolence It took three vehicles to get to Jenin. The first and last were shared taxis that played pop music the whole way; the one in the middle was a bus driven by a handsome and solemn man with a big, religious beard, whose television played music videos memorializing martyrs. If the West Bank is shaped like an hourglass, Jenin is at the top of the upper bulb, where the sand is when it’s full. Thousands of years ago, the dusty city was named after its gardens, but more recently Ariel Sharon called it a “hornet’s nest of terrorism.” ...
Why Palestine Should Take Israel to Court in the Hague By GEORGE BISHARAT January 29, 2013 New York Times LAST week, the Palestinian foreign minister, Riad Malki, declared that if Israel persisted in its plans to build settlements in the currently vacant area known as E-1, which lies between Palestinian East Jerusalem and the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, “we will be going to the I.C.C.,” referring to the International Criminal Court. “We have no choice,” he added...
Announcing the First U.S.-Wide Interfaith Boycott Campaign! by Anna Baltzer & Ramah Kudaimi January 29th, 2013 US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Take Action this Super Bowl Week to Boycott SodaStream! The US Campaign is thrilled to announce the launch of the first interfaith nationwide boycott campaign! This week, a coalition of Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and other faith organizations that are part of the US Campaign coalition are starting a joint campaign to Boycott SodaStream! The launch comes just in time for the Super Bowl, during which the settlement product SodaStream will be airing a 30-second ad. Click here to endorse their petition to boycott SodaStream!
PBS Drone Coverage Brought to You by Drone Makers Lockheed's Nova sponsorship violates underwriting rules FAIR Jan 28 2013 The PBS Nova broadcast "Rise of the Drones" was sponsored by drone manufacturer Lockheed Martin--a clear violation of PBS's underwriting guidelines. As Kevin Gosztola reported (FireDogLake, 1/24/13), the January 23 broadcast was a mostly upbeat look at surveillance and weaponized drones. "Discover the cutting edge technologies that are propelling us toward a new chapter in aviation history," PBS urged, promising to reveal "the amazing technologies that make drones so powerful."
The road to renewal After centuries of stagnation science is making a comeback in the Islamic world Jan 26th 2013 The Economist THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims have produced only two Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics. Both moved to the West: the only living one, the chemist Ahmed Hassan Zewail, is at the California Institute of Technology. By contrast Jews, outnumbered 100 to one by Muslims, have won 79. The 57 countries in the Organisation of the Islamic Conference spend a puny 0.81% of GDP on research and development, about a third of the world average. America, which has the world’s biggest science budget, spends 2.9%; Israel lavishes 4.4%...
Why I Do Not Want to Leave Palestine/Israel by LYNDA BURSTEIN BRAYER Counter Punch Weekend Edition January 25-27, 2013 It is not by accident that I have been asked on several occasions, and not least by members of my own family, why I remain in the Jewish state of Israel. I am an implacable anti-Zionist and have left the Jewish religion formally, becoming a possible “meshumedet” or “one who is obliterated” according to Judaism! The question also arises because I was not born in Palestine or in the Jewish state of Israel but came to Israel on aliyah according to the Israeli Law of Return, legislated in 1950. I thereby fulfilled the Zionist dream of returning to the moledet or “land of my birth” [sic], a place I had never been prior to my “homecoming” at age 19! On the contrary, I had come into this world in 1945 in Johannesburg, South Africa...
Capturing Pride, not Pity. Josh Jones on taking photographs in the Occupied West Bank Amelia Smith Friday, 25 January 2013 The Middle East Monitor Even so, he admits that even the simplest snapshot of people having fun is in many ways political, "because existence is resistance there too. To even have fun is such a political statement in the West Bank. The occupation is telling you to be miserable all the time."
Unfreezing the Right of Return: First Stop, Gaza Al-Shabaka Policy Brief 22 January 2013 Munir Nuseibah Overview The Palestinian authorities should immediately start implementing the right of return, beginning with Gaza and without waiting for Israel, argues Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Munir Nuseibah. While mindful of the political and physical pitfalls and problems, he carefully constructs the arguments in favor of the move in this policy brief. He cites the legal obligations, the ways in which the continuing occupation of Gaza need not be an obstacle, and the practical steps for beginning the implementation of the right of return, in however limited a manner...
by Gail Simmons Jan/Feb 2013 Volume 64, Number 1 ARAMCO Magazine It’s a fine morning in June and the Mediterranean sun is blazing down on the West Bank city of Hebron. Its domes and minarets throw deep, welcome shadows onto dusty streets. Inside the Hebron Glass & Ceramics Factory, the temperature is even warmer, and it’s hotter still as I approach the furnace where 43-year-old Imad Natsheh is creating the glass that, for centuries, has brought Hebron renown throughout the world...
Stolen Books, Stolen Identity: What Did Israel Do with Palestinians’ Literary Heritage? Film review by Nora Lester Murad Nora Lester Murad recently went to see Benny Brunner’s film, "The Great Book Robbery" Posted on January 20, 2013 The camera follows two Palestinians with Israeli citizenship from the counter at Israel’s National Library to a table. They carry a small stack books from a collection labeled “AP” for “Absentee Property.” They sit in front of them awestruck. They touch covers showing respect for the books, their rightful owners, and the Nakba that caused Palestinians to lose their country and heritage...
How the media let Israel get away with murder Charlotte Silver T he Electronic Intifada San Francisco 17 January 2013 Israel spends a lot of time talking about secure borders and how the need for them drives its policies regarding the Palestinians. With few exceptions, the media act as willing promoters of this perversion of reality...
Why All Americans Should Care About the Holy Land Foundation Case By Stephen Downs, Esq. and Kathy Manley, Esq. January/February 2013, Pages 17, 26 Special Report WRMEA.org In 2008, five directors of the Holy Land Foundation, formerly the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., were convicted on charges of material support for terrorism—essentially for feeding the poor and for building schools and hospitals in Palestine. Although none of the defendants were accused of violence or even encouraging violence, some of them received sentences of up to 65 years, and are incarcerated in mostly Muslim isolation prisons...
Girl from Gaza Takes First Prize in International Math Competition Jan 17, 2013 Palestine Chronicle 14-year-old Palestine refugee Areej El Madhoun, a student at UNRWA’s school in Jabalia camp received the first prize in this year’s Intelligent Mental-Arithmetic Competition, held in Malaysia every two years...
Did Israeli troops deliberately provoke boy, only to shoot him in the back? On Monday Samir was shot by the IDF near his home in the West Bank. Israel says he was trying to invade its territory. But the boy's family claim the truth is much more sinister Alistair Dawber Wednesday 16 January 2013 The Independent, UK Samir’s family and other villagers said the IDF regularly uses loudhailers to taunt children at the Budrus Secondary School, which overlooks the area where Samir was killed...
Eviction of Bab Al Shams exposes Israel as a lawless state Max Blumenthal The Electronic Intifada 14 January 2013 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was clearly troubled by the establishment of Bab Al Shams, a Palestinian protest village erected on privately-owned Palestinian land, the planned route of what Israel calls the “E-1” corridor in the occupied West Bank...
12 January 2013 International Solidarity Movement Tom was 21 years old when he was shot. A photography student, he had left the UK to volunteer as a ‘human shield’ in Iraq. Here he heard about the ISM, one of whose volunteers, Rachel Corrie, had just been killed by a bulldozer whilst protesting house demolitions in Rafah. He headed there himself, arriving on the 6th April...
Gaza restaurant staffed by deaf people beats prejudices Roopa Suchak 11 January 2013 BBC According to statistics, 1.5% of all Gazans over the age of five has some form of hearing disability. Now a restaurant in the Gaza Strip is giving some of these deaf people a chance to break down prejudices about their potential. A charity called Atfaluna - Arabic for "our children" - has helped set up a restaurant of the same name where 12 out of its 14 staff are deaf. Roopa Suchak reports...
When did India Become Part of Israel’s Stable?by DR. PAUL LARUDEE January 08, 2013 Counter Punch Amazing stuff, India ink. A few drops spread vigorously with a roller for several minutes on an iron plate are enough for eight sets of fingerprints and two sets of handprints on four ancient double-sided and folded Indian police fingerprint forms. By contrast, the mug shot was taken with a digital camera. After that, I was issued an official deportation order, for which I signed to acknowledge receipt. My passport remained in police custody until I got to the security check at the airport, when it was returned to me...
Noam Chomsky: The Gravest Threat to World Peace Friday, 04 January 2013 By Noam Chomsky Truthout, Op-Ed Reporting on the final U.S. presidential campaign debate, on foreign policy, The Wall Street Journal observed that "the only country mentioned more (than Israel) was Iran, which is seen by most nations in the Middle East as the gravest security threat to the region."
Likud members call for Israeli annexation of West Bank territories Prominent members of ruling party urge annexation of 'Area C' as battle for rightwing votes intensifies before general election Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem guardian.co.uk Wednesday 2 January 2013 A third Likud member, extreme rightwing settler Moshe Feiglin, proposed that the state of Israel should pay Palestinian families to leave the West Bank, using funds earmarked for security measures. "We can give every family in Judea and Samaria [the biblical term for the West Bank] $500,000 [£300,000] to encourage [them] to emigrate… This is the perfect solution for us," he said...
DECEMBER 2012
This Time, Trust Anonymous WMD Claims–They've Got 'Specific Intelligence' By Peter Hart Dec 7, 2012 FAIR The message could hardly be clearer: According to U.S. intelligence, Syrian government could very well be preparing to use chemical weapons to put down the long and bloody rebellion against ruler Bashar al-Assad. That was the signal from the TV networks and other major media. Should anyone believe they're right?
A Palestinian Refugee Camp Wakes Up to a “State” By: Qassem Qassem, Robert Abdallah Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Al-Akhbar When Gaza emerged victorious from the November Israeli assault, Palestinian refugees living in north Lebanon’s Baddawi Camp did not hesitate to take to the streets in celebration. But when Palestine became a non-member state at the UN, the response among them was not as enthusiastic...
The Reaper Presidency: Obama’s 300th drone strike in Pakistan December 3rd, 2012 By Alice K Ross, Chris Woods and Sarah Leo Published in Carousel A US drone strike in Shin Warsak, South Waziristan on December 1 2012 marked the 300th drone strike in Pakistan of Barack Obama’s presidency, according to Bureau research. The attack was the second since President Obama’s re-election on November 6. It reportedly killed Abdul Rehman al-Zaman Yemeni, described as an al Qaeda commander, along with up to three others...
Resource: What is the E1 area, and why is it so important? By Ir Amim December 2, 2012 972Mag In response to the Palestinian statehood bid, the Israeli government has decided to promote zoning plans for the area known as E1, northeast of Jerusalem. The project is intended to link annexed East Jerusalem with the mega-settlement of Ma’aleh Adumin, thus finally making the creation of a contiguous Palestinian State impossible...
Effective annexation: Israel now stamping passports of West Bank visitors “Judea and Samaria only” Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 12/02/2012 Electronic Intifada Because the Palestinian Authority has no real control or sovereignty, anyone who wishes to go to the occupied West Bank can only do so with Israeli permission. This includes foreign visitors and thousands of Palestinians with third country passports who live or visit there...
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Palestinian Civil Society: What Went Wrong? Al-Shabaka Policy Brief , 15 April 2013, by Tariq Dana
Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association Promoting human rights and respect for international humanitarian law in Abu Dis, Palestine
The winners of the 56th World Press Photo Contest were announced on 15 February. The international jury selected a picture by Paul Hansen from Sweden as the World Press Photo of the Year 2012. In this section, we offer an overview of everything related to the 2013 World Press Photo Contest. Browse the gallery to view all the winning photographs, hear the jury's perspective on the contest and its winners, check out the cities in the exhibition tour, and much more.
The Palestinian Cause in 2 Minutes
Black Pages in the Absence of Justice Report on the Bloody Fighting in the Gaza Strip Palestine Center for Human Rights
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Bob Traer from the United States 11 April 2005 On Thursday of last week I accompanied Helle Preisler, a young Danish woman in the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, as she went to Abu Dis (a 40-minute walk from the Mount of Olives on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem) and taught English...
UNRWA: Abu-Dis Profile and Wall Impact "Khalil Mahmoud Ahmad Mohsen, from the town of Abu-Dis, was arrested on 12 January 2005 and is awaiting trial. He was shot by a Dumdum bullet in the left leg and a regular bullet penetrated his right leg at time of arrest. He was left to bleed for about one hour before he was transferred to a military camp near the village of Yatta in Hebron District. Military authorities then transferred him to Sirouka Hospital in southern Israel where he stayed for four hours. He was taken back to the same military camp near Yatta and was left in the open cold air until 8:00 Am the following morning. He was then transferred to the 'Atzion detention station. There, authorities refused to admit him and was taken to 'Ofar, a military detention compound near Ramallah. He stayed there one day before he was transferred again to Ramla Prison Hospital."
ISM atop the wall at 27 Aug.2004 protest
Youth scale the Wall in Abu Dis at a Rally on 27 Aug. 2004
Music concert at Wall protest in Abu Dis (15 July 04)
New wall going up in Abu Dis
New wall going up in Abu Dis
The old wall being replaced (looking north)
School girls going to school/ By PENGON 12 Sept 02
ABUDIS Photo by PENGON/Stop the Wall Campaign 12 Sept 03
Sick Babies at checkpoints Have to Wait (Al-Quds Newspaper)
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أيار 2013
كنيسة اسكتلندية تشكّك برواية إسرائيل: لا حق إلهياً لليهود في أرض فلسطين
حلمي موسى السفير، 11 أيار 2013 استنكرت إسرائيل تفسيراً قدمته إحدى الكنائس الاسكتلندية للوعد الإلهي الوارد في العهد القديم بشأن أرض فلسطين. وخرج السفير الإسرائيلي في بريطانيا دانييل تواب علناً ضد هذا التفسير، الذي يشكك دينياً بالتفسير اليهودي للوعد الإلهي، واعتبره مهيناً وينكر «حقنا العميق في الأرض». ويقوم التفسير الديني للكنيسة الاسكتلندية، الذي نشر الأسبوع الماضي في عشر صفحات، على فكرة أن «الوعد الإلهي بشأن أرض فلسطين لا ينبغي أبداً أخذه بشكل حرفي».
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بدر آل شريف (ميتشيجان)
عكاظ - 09 مايو 2013 م
في حادثة غريبة؛ حاصرت قوات من مكتب التحقيقات الفيدرالية «إف بي آي» شقة مبتعث سعودي يقطن في ولاية ميتشيجان، وفتشت منزله واستجوبته بسبب قدر ضغط. وفي التفاصيل، أن مواطنة أمريكية أبلغت إف بي آي عن سعودي يدعى طلال الروقي يسكن بجوارها، قد خرج من منزله وفي يده قدر ضغط كبير الحجم ولونه رصاصي، ويشبه ذاك الذي استخدم في تفجيري ماراثون بوسطن، ما دفع إف بي آي لمحاصرة المنزل وتفتيشه والتحقيق مع الروقي...
ميناس.. لغزُ قتْلِها الذي ينتظر الحل؟ نشر أمـــس (آخر تحديث) 09/05/2013 الساعة 08:07 القدس- تقرير معا - "ميناس كانت هادئة لا اعداء لها.. ونحن كذلك.. لا يوجد لنا اعداء ومشاكل مع الآخرين.. علاقتنا طيبة مع كل الناس.." هذا ما قاله والد المغدوره ميناس قاسم، التي قتلت بيد الغدر وعثر على جثتها أول أمس.
بعد مقتل سيدة - سعير تتحول لساحة مواجهات بين غاضبين والأمن نشر الـيـوم 09/05/2013 الخليل- معا - على إثر مقتل السيدة خالدة تيسير كوازبه (30 عاما) بالرصاص الليلة الماضية، شهد وسط بلدة سعير مواجهات بين غاضبين وقوى الامن الفلسطيني، قام خلالها الجانبان بتراشق الحجارة، واصيب خلال ذلك عدد منهم باصابات ما بين طفيفة ومتوسطة.
زهير أندراوس الأخبار - 8 أيار 2013 في آذار (مارس) من عام 2002، عُقدت القمة العربية في العاصمة اللبنانية بيروت. على جدول الأعمال طُرحت مبادرة السلام العربية، وهي بالأصل مبادرة سعودية أطلقها، أطلقها ولم يؤلفها بل صاغها فريدمان، أيْ هي صهيونيّة أساساً ولي العهد آنذاك والملك اليوم، الذي يُسّمونه خادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك عبد الله بن عبد العزيز، ولقب خادم الحرمين هو اللقب الذي اختاره الأميركيون بعناية فائقة، لإرضاء الأسرة الحاكمة في السعودية.
رياح نجد تعبث بإسلام الشام... وأضرحتها الأخبار - 7 أيار 2013
لا يُقال «وهابية» إلا تحضر فكرة هدم الأضرحة (أ ف ب) فتّش عن نبش القبور وتدمير الأضرحة وإزالة القباب، تجد الوهابية. المسلمون السوريون حفظوا تلك الأماكن لمئات السنين، إلى أن بعثت صحراء نجد بريحها إلى بلاد الشام. سوريا اليوم على عتبة فتنة بعنوان جديد: هدم أضرحة الصحابة والأولياء..
مستوطنون يقتحمون ساحات المسجد الأقصى الميادين - 7 أيار 2013
شرطة الاحتلال في مسجد الأقصى (محمد غرابلي - أ ف ب)
المعارضة السورية إستخدمت غاز "السارين" 2013-05-06 المدعية العامة السابقة في المحكمة الجنائية الدولية والعضو في لجنة التحقيق الدولية في انتهاكات حقوق الانسان في سورية تكشف أن المعارضة السورية إستخدمت غاز السارين، بينما لم تعثر اللجنة بعد على دليل يثبت إستخدام الحكومة لهذه الأسلحة المحظورة دولياً..
معارض سوري لقناة إسرائيلية: الضربة أفرحت قلوبنا وهجماتكم مشجعة التاريخ : 2013/05/06 الوحدة الاخبارية.. ..دمشق/ ذكرت القناة الثانية في تلفزيون العدو، أمس الأحد، أن ممثل عن "المعارضة المسلحة" في سوريا، وتحديداً في مدينة حمص، قام بالاتصال بالقناة، وعبّر عن فرحته وسروره من الهجمات التي شنها الجيش الاسرائيلي على دمشق، لافتاً إلى أن "المعارضة السورية" راضية جداً. وقال المعارض والذي عرّف عن نفسه بحسن رستناوي، "انه في الفترة الاخيرة صعّد النظام السوري من هجماته، والعالم كله يشاهد ما يحصل من دون ان يتحرك ساكنا، الا ان ما قامت به "اسرائيل" من هجمات، هو امر مشجع للغاية"، وأضاف "إن الضربة الإسرائيلية أفرحت قلوب المقاتلين المعارضين على الأرض وأعطت الجيش الحر معنويات بعد ما وصل لدرجة اليأس". وحرص المتحدث باسم المعارضة السورية في حمص، وللتأكيد على أنه يدرك جيدا بأنه يتحدث الى التلفزيون "الاسرائيلي"، ان يختم محادثته الهاتفية بالقول: "شالوم الى الجميع عندكم". لمشاهدة المزيد من كلام هذا "المعارض" في الرابط التالي.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EQw-Xt-cHSQ
آخر طبعة (فيديو)
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وزير المصالحة الوطنية السوري لـ «الأخبار»: الهدنة مع العدو سقطت وبيان حكومتنا «بشع» الأخبار - 5 أيار 2013 خاص بالموقع - وصف وزير المصالحة الوطنية في الحكومة السورية علي حيدر ، بيان الحكومة السورية ـ بشأن الغارات الإسرائيلية على مواقع للجيش السوري في ريف دمشق ـ بـ «البشع»، معتبراً أنه «بيان ضعيف لا يرقى إلى حجم الحدث مقارنة بالخسائر الجسيمة التي أحدثها العدوان»...
الأخبار - 5 أيار 2013
القاهرة تؤكّد أن لا تعديل على مبادرة السلام العربية لعام 2002 فلسطين ليست عقاراً للبيع أو المتاجرة... ومَن لا يملكْ لا يُعطِ»، بمثل هذه الكلمات توجّه قادة الفصائل الفلسطينية الى من أطلق مبادرة «تبادل الأراضي» بين الفلسطينيين والاسرائيليين في واشنطن قبل أيام، الذي يبدو انه لم يعجب أيضاً الجانب المصري...
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