Archive | October 7, 2010

Netanyahu reverses Supreme Court decision to close synagogue

[ 07/10/2010 – 04:40 PM ]   NAZARETH, (PIC)– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered to halt a Supreme Court ruling to shut down a Jewish synagogue built in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli media source said. The Israeli Supreme Court previously issued a decision to close the Al Matan synagogue, which was built […]

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ei: Interview: Palestine’s red lines of struggle

Hazem Jamjoum, The Electronic Intifada, 7 October 2010 There are certain inalienable rights that many Palestinians consider to not be up for negotiation, including the Palestinian refugees’ right of return. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages) While many of the key concepts of the Palestinian struggle, the likes of intifada (uprising) and awda (return), have become familiar in other […]

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NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL « Desertpeace

October 7, 2010 at 13:22 The siege of Gaza is taking its toll even on the tunnel smugglers as can seen in the following report…. Though tunnel owners say deals for scrap metals have reached hundreds of thousands of shekels in some cases, overall, the tunnel trade has become less lucrative compared to its boom […]

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Children Cry as Cops Clash with Clowns | International Solidarity Movement

Posted on: October 7, 2010 | ShareThis International Solidarity Movement 1 October 2010 Al Ma’asara On Friday afternoon, around 50 protesters, including some 10 international and Israeli activists, gathered in the village of Al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, to demonstrate against the theft of village land by the Gush Etzion settlement block. The protest was also a […]

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Israeli intelligence: Abu Ghoneim is not eligible to succeed Abbas and Fayyad lacks political support

Thursday, 07 October 2010 13:15 In a recent article for the Israeli newspaper Maariv, Ofer Shelah, an analyst with insider knowledge of Israel’s security apparatus, has addressed the issue of future Israeli-Palestinian relations analysing the status quo and outlining his expectations and predictions of future actions to be taken by Israel’s General Security Service (GSS), […]

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Israeli police kidnap mosque imam and another man in Nazareth

[ 07/10/2010 – 11:09 AM ]   NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Israeli police kidnapped on Wednesday two Palestinian citizens in Nazareth city inside the 1948 occupied lands, including the imam of Shihabuddin mosque, on allegations of supporting alleged terror groups, illegal gathering and planning to commit crimes. Spokesman for the Israeli police Doron Malka said that […]

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Zionist settlers install new outposts, IOF vehicle rams into Palestinian car

[ 07/10/2010 – 11:10 AM ]   TOBAS, (PIC)– Zionist settlers in Mekhora settlement in northeast of the northern Jordan Valley started new construction works west of their settlement, eyewitnesses in Tobas district reported on Thursday. They said that the settlers leveled the land in preparation for constructing three new housing units, noting that the […]

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Erdogan: Turkey will not stand idle in front of starving children in Gaza

[ 07/10/2010 – 10:52 AM ]   ISTANBUL, (PIC)– Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country will not remain quiet over Israeli injustice or turn its back on Gaza and its children. This came during the opening of the 14th International Business Forum staged by MUSIAD, the Independent Industrialists & Businessmen’s Association on […]

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Nazzal asks Arab summit to break the siege on Gaza

[ 07/10/2010 – 10:35 AM ]   DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Political bureau member of Hamas Mohammed Nazzal has asked the Arab leaders, scheduled to meet in Libya on Saturday, to agree on breaking the siege on Gaza and to open the Rafah crossing without any hindrances. Nazzal, speaking at a ceremony in honor of the participants […]

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MP Zaboun slams PA’s unconcern over settlers’ attacks on W. Bank mosques

[ 07/10/2010 – 10:28 AM ]   BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Hamas lawmaker Anwar Al-Zaboun strongly denounced the arson attack, which was waged by Israeli settlers on Al-Anbiya mosque in Beit Fajar town, south of Bethlehem city, last Sunday and criticized the Palestinian Authority (PA) for its passivity towards such a crime. “Attacking houses of God is […]

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Committee warns of plan to judaize Aqsa Mosque area

[ 07/10/2010 – 10:10 AM ]   AMMAN, (PIC)– Jordan’s Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs (RCJA) warned of an Israeli plan to take full control of the area surrounding the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The Israeli Haaretz newspaper revealed on Wednesday a wide ranging plan prepared by Israeli planning committees to renovate parts of Jerusalem’s […]

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Gov’t warns of repercussions of bringing resistance fighters to courts

[ 07/10/2010 – 10:02 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya warned of the dire consequences that would result from the imprisonment sentences issued against a number of resistance fighters by the Palestinian Authority’s courts in the West Bank. In its weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the government said […]

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IPU demands reversal of IOA decision to deport Jerusalemite MPs

[ 07/10/2010 – 10:04 AM ]   GENEVA, (PIC)– The Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union has passed a unanimous decision asking Israel to release all detained Palestinian MPs and to reverse its decision to deport three Jerusalemite deputies. It said in a statement on Wednesday that the exile of those deputies from Jerusalem was […]

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Zionist settlers wreak havoc in two villages near Nablus

[ 07/10/2010 – 09:36 AM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– Zionist settlers attacked olive groves in Yanun village east of Nablus city and wreaked havoc in the process intentionally breaking trees and stealing olive crops, local sources said. They said that dozens of settlers from the Itamar settlement near Yanun village attacked the fields on Wednesday […]

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