About eight of the 40 families from Dhaher al-Maleh have left their tiny village and have gone to live on the eastern side of the separation fence. They could no longer bear the Israeli ban on building houses.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1148787
People in Beit Sahur believe the Jewish settlers who claim that the Israel Defense Forces was responding to the settlers' pressure when it started erecting a new guard tower last week in the eastern part of this largely Christian West Bank town. Locals do not, however, accept the army's claim that the tower was added for professional, military reasons. The settlers vow to keep up the pressure - and Beit Sahur residents know all too well what they mean. In the last 18 months, settlers from the Gush Etzion area have been holding increasingly frequent protests against the "Arab construction" in Beit Sahur.
"It is quite evident that the Israelis do not wish to have United Nations observers circulating in the Strip and reporting upon the actions they are taking against the civilian populace. From the reports we receive from UNRWA personnel and from the very few incidents that have been witnessed by observers, I have come to the conclusion that the treatment of civilians is unwarrantedly rough and that a good number of persons have been shot down in cold blood for no apparent reason."
THIS WEEK the Netanyahu government let off a stink bomb under the chair of Mahmoud Abbas.
For months now, Abbas has angered the Prime Minister. He has refused to start "peace negotiations" while the settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are continually expanding.
Everyone knows that the proposed negotiations are meaningless and will lead nowhere. Binyamin Netanyahu needs them to deflect American pressure. Barack Obama needs them to show some achievement, tiny as it may be. But Abbas knows that his acquiescence would help Hamas to present him as a collaborator
Something about 12-year-old Bassam caused two Israelis to smile. Two
Palestinians noticed, but did not remember their smiles as being disparaging or arrogant. On the contrary. The Palestinians regarded the smiles as a rare moment in which two Israelis - and not just any Israelis, but military judges - realized how ridiculous the situation was.
A Palestinian arrest so ridiculous even the Israeli judges smiled
Setting an Israeli army jeep on fire can be a helpful entry on the resumes of Palestinians fighting the occupation. By this criterion, M.A. (his full name is being withheld for reasons that will become clear) is a hero: He threw a Molotov cocktail at a Border Police jeep, igniting a fire inside the vehicle, during the course of a weekly demonstration against the separation fence. Thus he informed interrogators from the Shin Bet security service and the Israel Police, in January. M.A., 21, also revealed the names of 17 Na'alin residents "whom I know and saw throwing rocks" on the same day the jeep was set on fire.
The 'grocery list' of the Shin Bet and the IDF
Sex Abuse Claims Against Famed Rabbi Grip Israel
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61I3KX20100219
"Israeli police said on Friday that they are looking into allegations of sexual abuse against one of the country's most famous and politically influential rabbis...
'This is not a storm in a teacup. This is a typhoon. No wonder many in the national religious public felt this week that their world had collapsed...'
Elon's father sat on Israel's Supreme Court and one brother was a cabinet minister. The leftish Haaretz newspaper called the Elons 'the Kennedys of the religious Zionist camp..."
FROM TIME to time I ask myself: what would happen if the world's governments decided to abolish all their spy agencies simultaneously?
True, it would be a great blow to the authors and movie producers who make their living from secret service stories. Their products would lose their appeal.
Blocked roads and asphalt that has been ripped open like a zipper can be seen everywhere in Ramallah these days. And whether or not the municipality bothers posting explanatory signs, people know what is being done - a new road, sewage pipes, a sidewalk.
Behind Brand Israel - Israel's Recent Propaganda Efforts
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11093.shtml
"The Israeli government and global Zionist groups are mobilizing to fight the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.."
Knesset Criminalises the Commemoration of the 'Nakba'
http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/716-knesset-crimina...
"A new law in Israel makes it a crime to commemorate what Palestinians call the 'Nakba'..Penalties will be imposed on anyone showing sadness and mourning within the (undefined) borders of Israel on 15 May..."
German Jews to Aid Gaza
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=58058
"Among the groups and organizations aiding Gaza - a group of German Jews, some Holocaust survivors - plan to send a humanitarian aid ship to show support for the Gaza people.."
Vanunu: Take Me Off List of Nobel Peace Prize Nominees
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152034.html
"Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has again asked to be removed from a list of Nobel Peace Prize nominees.."
THIS COMING Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Israel will consider an application by a group of Israeli citizens to compel the Interior Ministry to register them as belonging to the "Israeli nation".
Odd? Indeed.
The Israeli Interior Ministry recognizes 126 nations, but not the Israeli nation. An Israeli citizen can be registered as belonging to the Assyrian, the Tatar or the Circassian nation. But the Israeli nation? Sorry, no such thing.
Israeli Troops Attack A Sunday Mass: (vid)
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=58014
Veritas in Harvard? No
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/02/27/veritas-in-harvard-no-just-doub...
"In that speech Dr. Kramer implores the West to stop its Pro Natal services to the already besieged and starving Gaza Palestinian pregnant mothers and infants as a method of controlling the birth rate in Gaza.."
Israeli Forces Storm Al Aqsa
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=264725
"The Old City has been sealed off by Israeli authorities. Additionally, all border crossings into Gaza have been closed.."
Palestine Monitor: Weekly Protest Video Round Up
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/spip/spip.php?article1285
BDS: End Israeli Apartheid Now!
"The year 2009 was the quietest for Israelis from the security point of view and the most violent for the Palestinians from the point of view of attacks by settlers in the West Bank." Just as he was saying this - as an example of one of the absurdities that characterize the political situation - Palestinian Agriculture Minister Ismail Daiq received a phone call from the Jenin district to inform him that five artesian wells in the village of Daan had been destroyed that morning. One person was shot and wounded in the abdomen when he tried to lift the pump to save it from damage. This was not an attack by settlers but a raid by the army.
39 army raids, 28 arrests: Just another day in the West Bank
How many Mossad agents does it take to kill a Palestinian Freedom Fighter with a pillow?
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/why-it-takes-so-many-mossad-agents-to-ki...
"Yet one may wonder why does it take 26 Mossad agents to carry out a single murder of an unarmed Palestinian freedom fighter with a pillow. I will try to throw some light on this puzzling question.."
The Israel Defense Forces says it is using information on Israelis who demonstrate against the separation fence in a bid to deny them entry at nearby checkpoints. Israelis and others demonstrate every Friday at the villages of Bil'in and Na'alin.
IDF recording license plates of Israeli anti-fence protesters
Judging from articles written by both Israelis and Palestinians, the next intifada is already in the air. They are predicting it is on the way and the most punctilious know it will be "popular." Bil'in and Na'alin are perceived as its models.
SOME WEEKS ago, Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in Rome, was released after serving 28 years in prison.
The motives for his act have never been clarified. But a Palestinian leader once told me his version: God appeared to Agca in a dream and told him: Go to the Holy City and kill that damn Pole. But the Turk misunderstood, so instead of going to Jerusalem and killing Menachem Begin, he went to Rome...
Yes an excellent presentation and good that he highlights the Canada Israel Public Security MOU which brings Israel deeply into the internal domestic affairs of the Canadian state on a whole host of issues and files. This should go to every pol, especially the NDP ones in Ontario that signed off on the IAW resolution.
The military court at Ofer Prison will rule Sunday on extending the remand of a 13-year-old Hebron boy held for nine days on suspicion of throwing stones at soldiers. At the first remand hearing, on March 2, the boy's father was unable to pay the NIS 2,000 the court required for him to be released on bail.
Hebron boy, 13, jailed for days because father can't afford bail
Arab Israeli Director Refuses to Represent Israel at Oscars
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/03/07/israeli-film-oscars.html
"One of the directors of the Israeli Oscar-nominated film 'Agami' has announced he will not be representing his country at Sunday's awards ceremony. Scondar Copti is an Israeli-Arab who co-directed the film with a Jewish Iraeli partner..
Capti told Israel's Channel 2 TV that he cannot represent a country that doesn't represent him. 'I am not on Israel's national team and do not represent her.."
IDF's Ashkenazi's US Visit Draws Protests
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120306§ionid=3510203
"As the Israeli Military Chief, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi is heading to the US, dozens of organizations in America are planning protests agains the head of the Israeli Defence Forces.."
French Protest Import of Israeli Settlement Goods
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120344§ionid=3510
"Thousands of French protesters have rallied against the import of Israeli goods produced in Palestinian territories.."
Israel Set to Join Club of Richest Nations
http://www.counterpunch.org/cook03082010.html
"Is Europe planning seal of approval for Israeli settlers? Israel has been told its accession to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is all but assured.."
The military tribunal at Ofer Prison yesterday ordered that a 13-year-old Hebron boy held for allegedly throwing stones at soldiers be released without bail.
The boy had been in jail for nine days because his father could not pay the NIS 2,000 bail.
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Judge Eti Adar yesterday reversed the decision of Judge Naftali Shlomovitz, who last Tuesday conditioned the boy's release on the bail, so that he would appear in court should he be charged.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1154842
Totalitarian Democracy: The Crackdown on Israeli Dissidents
http://www.counterpunch.com/hallinan03092010.html
"A heavy handed crack down on Israeli dissidents is drawing sharp criticism by human rights organizations. 'There is an attempt to crack down on dissent, [said] B'Tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli.."
During a break at a conference in Tel Aviv, someone came up to me to ask questions about Gaza and Operation Cast Lead. We think the subject is being buried, but here it is, coming to haunt us again. That was about a month ago. To protect the privacy of someone who got involved in our conversation, the date, time and exact location of the event will remain confidential.
Bowing to international pressure, the Interior Ministry has announced it will resume granting work permits to foreigners working in most international non governmental organizations in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem.
As Haaretz reported about six weeks ago, the Interior Ministry stopped issuing work permits to non governmental organization workers as of September 2009 and told them they would have to make do with tourist visas, which do not permit employment.
Israel to resume issue of visas for foreign NGO workers in West Bank
Zionism Unmasked:
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2010/03/10/zionism-unmasked-the-dark-face-...
"Zionism is a real witches brew of xenophobic, racism, ultra nationalism, and militarism that places it way outside of a 'mere' nationalist context."
Poll: Half of Israeli High Schoolers Oppose Equal Rights for Arabs
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1155627.html
"Nearly half of Israel's high school studens do not believe that Israeli Arabs are entitled to the same rights as Jews in Israel according to the results of a new survey released yesterday. The same poll revealed that more than half the students would deny Arabs the right to be elected to the Knesset."
The Hebronization of Jerusalem
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/10/jerusalem-hebron-isr...
"Growing Israeli and settler control has set Jerusalem on the same path as the West Bank's most divided city.."
PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR LOCAL PRO-ZIONIST MP/MPP/MLA, ANTI-IAW Representative, etc.
Leaked Zionist Strategy to Counter BDS
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/03/11/leaked-zionist-strategy-paper-t...
"Here is a leaked copy of a Zionist plan to attack the Boycott and Divestment campaign against Israel's illegal occupation.."
Brutalizing Palestinian Children
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/03/brutalizing-palestinian-children.html
"Children 12-15 have been targeted, arrested, detained and savagely beaten following complaints by Jewish settlers who usually take the law into their own hands using weapons they're allowed to carry..Short of fundamental change, Palestinian mean, women and children will continue to be victimized by state-sponsored terrorism, a condition no longer to be tolerated by nations claiming they're civilized.."
Is the PA capitulating to Israel?
http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2010/03/is-pa-capitulating-to-i...
"In fact it is more than clear that the Israeli strategy of thwarting Palestinian statehood is succeeding despite all feeble American objections and helpless Palestinian and Arab protestations. In the final analysis, the US gives words, empty words and shallow promises about peace efforts, while Israel is tearing the West Bank into pieces and making the realization of statehood a distant dream.."
"Unless immediate action is taken to destroy the public buildings at the site, the illegal settlement there will be a fait accompli and could effectively dictate the status of the whole huge area between Ma'aleh Adumim and the Dead Sea ... It is easy to anticipate the complications the authorities would face when coming to implement demolition orders against a religious place of worship and a school, once their construction is completed and they begin to fulfill their functions."
Acting like they own the place
VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks, 11 March, 2010
http://williambowles.info/wordpress/2010/03/12/vtjp-palestineisrael-news...
SOME WEEKS the news is dominated by a single word. This week's word was "timing".
PCHR Condemns Recent Israeli Settlement Plans and Calls Upon the International Community to Fulfill its Obligations
http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=arti...
"PCHR confirms that settlement actvities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) constitute a war crime and calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, to fulfill their legal and moral obligations.
PCHR believes that if the international community does not take a serious position toward Israel in acting as a State above the law, Israel will be encouraged to commit more violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law.."
Fighting Israeli Apartheid: Forget the Peace Process
http://sites.google.com/site/weeklyahramorgeg/opinion/fighting-israeli-a...
"So despite the sensational murder of a top Palestinian official in a peaceful, neutral country like the UAE, and forgery and abuse of their national documents and identities, European nations still cannot muster the courage to confront almighty Israel.."
Biden in Israel
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/03/11/biden-in-israel/
"The virulent anti-Americanism of the Israeli government, underscored by its recent very loud slap in the face of the US Vice President is nothing new.."
Israel to Enter US Healthcare Plan
http://irish4palestine.blogspot.com/2010/03/israel-govt-to-enter-us-heal...
"now Israel wants to start entering into US healthcare. Pretty soon your wee granny will be under the care of Israel.."
Settlers' call sends Palestinian shepherd to IDF beating
The response from the Israel Defense Forces spokesman came surprisingly quickly; a mere two or three hours after the query had been sent by Haaretz, the spokesman replied orally, and then in writing, that "following the reporter's question and after receiving most of the facts, the chief [military] prosecutor, Col. Jana Modzagbrishvili has instructed the military police to look into the matter."
Israeli Government Allows Sale of Stolen Palestinian Lands to Israelis
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=58214
"the Israeli Justice Ministry has clarified its recent revision of Israeli land law, confirming that the revision allows the sale of Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to Jewish citizens of Israel or to private companies.
90& of the land in Israel is owned by the Jewish National Fund and rented to JEWISH-ONLY Tenants.
Much of the land under JNF control was illegally seized from the indigenous Palestinian owners in 1948.."
(BUT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS 'ISRAELI APARTHEID!')
Anti Semitism: Myth or Reality?
http://www.redress.cc/zionism/ahart20100315
"For a complete understanding of what anti-Semitism is and is not, it's necessary to know what Zionism is and is not.."
The army has declared the West Bank villages of Bil'in and Na'alin a 'closed military area' until August 17, it emerged Monday.
In arresting a demonstrator on Friday, police cited a military edict closing off the two villages, where weekly protests against the barrier Israel is erecting around the West Bank have often turned violent.
IDF declares West Bank protest villages a 'closed military area'
The parents of American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer in Gaza, were in Haifa yesterday to watch a biographical play about their daughter on the seventh anniversary of her death.
Corrie's parents attend play to mark 7 years since daughter's death
A Prosthetic Leg at the Palestinian Auschwitz:
http://www.countercurrents.org/salam190310.htm
"Will the practices of the Zionist, these false wannabe Semites, become the beginning of the end for Israel? The answer to this question is very difficult, but all who live the daily humiliations and indignities at the hands of the jews in Palestine, hopes for the demise of both Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, which has become a nightmare which darken the lives of all Palestinians.."
IT IS already a commonplace to say that people who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat their mistakes.
Some 1942 years ago, the Jews in the province called Palaestina launched a revolt against the Roman Empire. In retrospect, this looks like an act of madness. Palestine was a small and insignificant part of the world-wide empire which had just won a crushing victory against the rival power - the Parthian Empire (Persia) - and put down a major rebellion in Britain. What chances could the Jewish revolt have?
The Doomsday Weapon
Report: Current Knesset Most Racist of all Time:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3865696,00.html
"The current Knesset is the most racist Knesset since the establishment of the State, according to the Mossawa Center's annual report on racism published Sunday. The report, published in honor of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discimination, being marked Sunday, reveals a 75% increase in discriminatory and racist bills submitted to the Knesset in the past year..
A Knesset so active in discriminatory and racist bills against Arab citizens of the State has never been witnessed,' said the report's authors, Lizi Sagi and Attorney Nidal Ottman.."
[BUT DON'T CALL IT 'APARTHEID' IN CANADA]
Who Is Killing Whom in Israel/Palestine?
http://waronyou.com/topics/who-is-killing-whom-in-israelpalestine/
"If they don't stop after we kill 100, then we must kill 100,000, even a 1,000,000. Whatever it takes to make them stop.'
Such remarks and actions by a state drunk on its ill gotten power are plainly genocidal and no peace talks are going to stop Israel in its tracks. There is however, one sure remedy - the enforcement of international law by whatever legal means necessary, even if that requires UN-backed sanctions or the cutting of billions of US aid to Israel to force Israel to comply. Anything less will soon answer the question of who is killing whom for those too blind to see the truth already being played out in full view of the whole world.."
The telephone operator at 166 was exceptionally polite. She promised that the complaint would be duly registered, called the caller "dearie" several times, and ended the conversation with the words, "Is there anything else I can do for you?"
Otherwise Occupied / Why the phone could not ring
A recent Jerusalem Magistrate's Court verdict indicates that settlers may fire in the air to repel unarmed Palestinians, a ruling that a Palestinian rights advocate called a dangerous precedent.
Magistrate's Court Judge Hagit Kalmanovitch ruled last month that Abraham Hofi, of the settlement of Halamish, was not guilty of issuing threats or mishandling a weapon when he fired in the air from his father's balcony on May 6, 2005, after observing three Palestinians shepherding a herd some 100 meters from the settlement fence.
Court ruling lets settlers shoot in air to repel Palestinians
Israelis Are Behaving Like Spoiled Brats
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157854.html
"The terrifying specter of non-violent resistance to the occupation and the APARTHEID regime is hovering over the State of Israel, and all the state's dignitaries have been recruited to battle it.."
Amos Oz is a lie. And this lie is a part of a bigger lie about the “Israeli peace camp”. The lie was invented by Arafat's team (led by Mahmoud Abbas at the time) in the seventies to justify the scrambling behind the freak of a Palestinian mini-nation, surrender to the enemy and to toss the arms very far away. Israeli commentator Gideon Levy exposed them recently in “Haaretz” when he said: “The Israeli peace camp didn't die. It was never born in the first place”. There is no Israeli peace camp. All of this was a fabricated propaganda by normalization Arabs to convince the Arab people that they need to stop the resistance. And Amos Oz is dear to the heart of Western liberals.
