North couple set up care home in Palestine – Today’s News – News – JournalLive

by Richard Fletcher, The Journal Add a comment Recommend A CARING couple have made Christmas wishes come true for women in war-torn Palestine after setting up a specially-designed care home. Inspired by a dream, Shirley Anderson and her husband Alan have tirelessly worked to raise cash for the centre. Now the Holy Land will see […]

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ei: US Palestinians condemn FBI repression of solidarity movement

Press release, nited States Palestinian Community Network, 20 December 2010 The following press release was issued by the United States Palestinian Community Network on 16 December 2010: The United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) strongly condemns and denounces the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s political repression of 19 anti-war, Palestine solidarity and Palestinian activists. The USPCN […]

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PNN – Palestine News Network – Court to Rule on Charges against Israeli Activist Jonathan Pollak

21.12.10 – 10:57 Tal Aviv – PNN – The verdict in the case of Israeli activist Jonathan Pollak, charged with illegal assembly for his participation in a January 2008 Critical Mass ride against the siege on Gaza, will be handed down on December 27, 2010 at 10:00 at the Tel Aviv Magistrates Court. If convicted, […]

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PNN – Palestine News Network – Will Recent Changes to the Closure Policy be Enough To Build in Gaza?

21.12.10 – 10:43 Gisha – To PNN – Six months after the Israeli  Security Cabinet’s decision to “ease” the closure on the Gaza Strip, Gisha- The Legal Center for Freedom of Movement –  released on Tuesday a new position paper entitled “Reconstructing the Closure” expressing concern over restrictions on the entry of construction materials into […]

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PNN – Palestine News Network – Nablus Gets a Facebook

21.12.10 – 10:54 Sidqi Musa – Nablus – PNN – In an effort to connect citizens with local news, the nearly 2000-year-old northern West Bank city of Nablus now has a Facebook. The Nablus City webpage on Facebook (PNN Images). The city’s profile on the social network of more than 500 million users , http://www.facebook.com/NablusCity, […]

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Bakirat: Israel taking steps to Judaize Jerusalem city wall

[ 20/12/2010 – 08:20 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– President of Jerusalem’s Aqsa Academy Najih Bakirat accused Israel of making deliberate changes to the historic city walls of Jerusalem when placing a stone from the alleged temple scene near the Sahira Gate. Since the occupation in 1967, Israeli authorities have been trying to change […]

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Fear and loathing in Israel 2010

Monday, December 20 2010 | Ami Kaufman I can’t get away from it. Every place I go, everything I read, everything I watch – it’s always there. The racism is always there. Towards Arabs, towards foreign workers, towards Morroccans, Russians, Ashkenazim, Mizrahim.This isn’t the place I grew up in. Where is that place? Where did […]

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The Challenge of Feeding a Family in Gaza

NOTE: This is a guest blog post from Rania Elhilou, Communications Officer at ANERA – Gaza City. December, 2010: Randa Al-Jarousha has seven children. Her husband is jobless. He used to work in construction but he got sick and lost his job. Even if he gets better, his chances of finding another construction job are […]

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I Dreamed This was Only a Nightmare

19:38 12/20/2010 I Dreamed This was Only a Nightmare Why is the world silent? By Lillian Rosengarten I woke up this morning from a nightmare. I dreamed of Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish. Perhaps the world has forgotten or does not know about this Gazan physician who has dedicated his life to reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. […]

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Wasted Journeys: Anti-Racism in Israel

20:25 12/20/2010 Racism is deeply grounded in the intellectual premises of the Zionist ideology. By Seraj Assi In his ‘Telephone Conversation’ Nigerian poet Wole Soyinka reflects on the absurdity of racism allowing his poetic muse to render it ironic, sarcastic, cynical, satiric, ridiculous, beautiful and nasty. The speaker of the poem is a dark West […]

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‘No Such Thing as Justice in the Holy Land’

20:36 12/20/2010 ‘No Such Thing as Justice in the Holy Land’ Outside the Irish Parliament. Left to Right: Alan Lonergan (SADAKA), Constantine Dabbagh, Fr Manuel Musallam, John Ging, Archbishop Theodosius Hanna. By Stuart Littlewood – London We are not here as politicians, they said. We come as representatives of the various churches in Jerusalem. But […]

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As Bethlehem Readies For Christmas, All Markets Declared Free Of Settlement Products – International Middle East Media Center

Tuesday December 21, 2010 06:03 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies During a special meeting with heads and officials of government institutions, and mayors in the Bethlehem district, Bethlehem Governor, Abdul-Fattah Hamayel, stated that as Bethlehem readies to celebrate Christmas, its markets are now %100 free of Israeli settlement products. Scouts In Bethlehem – […]

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Violence escalates along Gaza – Israel border

Violence escalates along Gaza-Israel border A Palestinian doctor examine X-ray of a wounded at the Nasser Hospital following an Israeli airstrike on Hamas military training camp, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, early Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. The Israeli war planes targeted several places, Hamas training camp, milk factory, a building and empty areas early […]

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PNN – Palestine News Network – Three Wounded in Gaza, Three Captured in Nablus

21.12.10 – 10:00 Gaza City – PNN – Israeli air raids on Monday night in Gaza Strip left three wounded, while a predawn incursion into the northern West Bank city of Nablus ended with three Palestinians arrested in the village of Beit Hasan.   The aftermath of an earlier Israeli airstrike on Gaza (PNN Archive). […]

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Israel Demolishing Talks by Mel Frykberg — Antiwar.com

by Mel Frykberg, December 21, 2010 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum ISSAWEYA, Occupied East Jerusalem – More and more Palestinians are paying the price for deadlocked talks over Israel’s continued settlement-building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Muhammad Robin Alyyan, 27, from the volatile Issaweya suburb of East […]

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