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Mon, 2018-09-17 23:38

CMOT Dibbler

Palestinian Ambassador to the United States Husam Zomlot said that he had been expelled from the country and that the bank accounts of his family had been frozen, days after the State Department ordered the closure of the PLO embassy in Washington.

“Ambassador Zomlot’s son Said, 7, who is in second grade, and daughter Alma, 5, who is in kindergarten were pulled out of Horace Mann Elementary School in Washington DC last week and have since left the country,” the PLO said in a statement.

Wed, 2018-09-19 15:03

#553

CMOT Dibbler

Trump’s decision to revoke the presence of the PLO Embassy in Washington says a lot more about the future of the US order than about the future of Palestine. US willingness to parley with the PLO was based on the PLO’s participation in a bi-partisan charade: the peace process. Both Republican and Democratic parties have traditionally spoken in favor of a two-state settlement even while constantly undermining it. The peace process was the name given to the game of geopolitical management the US used to maintain its relationships with client states in Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Such relationships, in fact, were transactions. The US secured arms markets, purchases of its treasuries, sowing of anti-Shia sectarianism, and socio-political containment – in fact, social de-development – of the largest Arab working class, the Egyptians, in exchange for supporting local elites.

https://mondoweiss.net/2018/09/decision-embassy-palestine/

Fri, 2018-09-21 00:45

#554

CMOT Dibbler

Saudi Arabia bars Palestinians in Jordan from Umrah and Hajj | Al Jazeera English

https://youtu.be/TYVWviTV4ZI

Fri, 2018-09-21 09:58

#555

NDPP

Your steadfast devotion to this cause is greatly appreciated CM...

Fri, 2018-09-21 14:36

#556

CMOT Dibbler

Even if it had until the end of time, Israel and the Jewish nation will never be able to compensate the Palestinian nation for all the harm they have done to it. Not for the material harm nor the intellectual harm, the physical harm nor the spiritual harm. Not for the plunder of their land and property, nor for their trodden freedom and dignity. Not for the killing and bereavement, nor for the people who were injured and disabled, their lives irrevocably ruined. Not for the hundreds of thousands of innocents who were tortured and imprisoned, nor for the generations who were denied a fair opportunity for a normal life.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-now-israel-has-a-race-law-1.649...

Fri, 2018-09-21 16:20

#557

CMOT Dibbler

Ireland’s senate has voted in favour of a bill banning the importation of products from occupied Palestinian territories, paving the way for the country to become the first EU nation to enforce a boycott. The bill, which has faced angry Israeli opposition, prohibits “trade with and economic support for illegal settlements in territories deemed occupied under international law.” Having been approved in the upper house of the Irish parliament, the Seanad, the legislation will now need to get through more Seanad votes and then the lower house before becoming law.

http://daysofpalestine.com/post/11297/ireland-officially-approves-ban-on...

Tue, 2018-09-25 13:46

#558

CMOT Dibbler

In the fall of 2016, roughly a dozen Jewish college students gathered at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, for a weekend-long workshop. Led by young organizers from a tiny progressive Jewish student group called Open Hillel, the students strategized and networked. They had no idea they were being watched by a major pro-Israel organization with a budget of millions of dollars a year and links to the Israeli government. In Washington, D.C., the Israel on Campus Coalition had tasked its research team with keeping an eye on the Open Hillel gathering, according to ICC promotional materials distributed to donors and obtained by the Forward. In the donor materials, ICC said its research team would continue to “monitor activity surrounding the Open Hillel Conference.” Read more: https://forward.com/news/410757/campus-pro-israel-group-monitored-progre...

Tue, 2018-09-25 13:49

#559

CMOT Dibbler

The word is out that American liberal Jews, especially the young ones, are distancing themselves from Israel.

As an Israeli liberal Jew, I’d love to know how you do that. There are days I want to distance myself from Israel too. But every morning I wake up and there it is, like Woody Allen’s mother in New York Stories, gazing back at me from the sky, talking nonsense and doing shameful stuff, for everyone to see.

Good old passive-aggressiveness won’t work here. It’s too late for you to give us the silent treatment, to back down and walk away like you had nothing to do with it. American Jewry’s unreserved support of Israel over the years made it an accomplice to whatever is wrong with Israel now.

Sun, 2018-09-30 11:51

#560

CMOT Dibbler

Palestine says US can't mediate Israeli-Palestinian peace process l Al Jazeera English

https://youtu.be/dWfqF6qPIYY

Sun, 2018-09-30 14:27

#561

CMOT Dibbler

Gaza protest: Funerals held for 7 Palestinians killed by Israel army | Al Jazeera English

https://youtu.be/WkVTYpOVVKg

Mon, 2018-10-01 12:46

#562