Visit the Gaza War “Never Cast Lead Again” Memorial Website

Gaza massacres (27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009) More than 1,300 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were killed during 22 days of Israeli shelling from sea, air and land. Palestinians in Gaza had nowhere to flee from Israel’s onslaught as the border has been closed for two years, with disastrous consequences for the 1.5 […]

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ei: China imports Israel’s methods of propaganda and repression

Jimmy Johnson, The Electronic Intifada, 28 December 2010 (EI Illustration) Israeli army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu recently returned from a trip to China where he met with his Chinese counterparts and other officials. The goal was to deepen Sino-Israeli ties on political, security and military levels. This is only the latest in a burgeoning […]

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Turkey’s leftists demonstrate in Istanbul in solidarity with the Palestinians

[ 28/12/2010 – 06:36 PM ]   ISTANBUL, (PIC)– Hundreds of leftists in Turkey hit the streets on Monday evening at the Taqsim Square in Istanbul to commemorate the second anniversary of the Israeli war on Gaza Strip. The participants hoisted Palestinian flags and placards calling for boycotting Israeli products and for breaking the siege […]

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Israeli secret report on inhumane conditions of detainees disclosed

[ 28/12/2010 – 05:13 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Haaretz newspaper published a confidential report prepared by the Israeli association of jurists revealing the tragic and inhumane incarceration conditions which the Palestinian prisoners imprisoned in solitary cells are living in. The report pointed out that hundreds of Palestinian detainees were locked up over the past […]

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Caught out: Stealing Palestinian images for Israeli causes (updated) « P U L S E

This extraordinary appropriation of Palestinian images by the Israeli Meir Panim organization, picked up by Khalid Amayreh, shows a sinking to new lows.  Amid the Haiti hasbara, we now see that even Palestinian child victims of Israeli policies are to be cynically exploited. Are poor Israeli kids’ faces not sufficiently heart-rending or do they display […]

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Vilnai: The situation on Gaza borders could explode any moment

[ 28/12/2010 – 04:44 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli deputy war minister Matan Vilnai said that the security situation on Gaza borders are fragile and explosive and called for getting ready to face any possible scenario. During his tour to the Negev region, where some Palestinian homemade rockets landed recently in retaliation to Israeli […]

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ei: Book review: correcting mistaken notions on Arabs in America

Shira Tevah, The Electronic Intifada, 28 December 2010 Many Americans think anti-Arab sentiment in the United States began after 11 September 2001. Others think Arabs are recent immigrants to America. Some think the Arab community has kept to itself, not participating in struggles like the civil rights and labor movements. Alia Malek’s A Country Called […]

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Images: Tiny village marks first anniversary of unarmed protest

Tuesday, December 28 2010|+972blog By: Alison Avigayil Ramer The small village of Nabi Saleh marked this weekend a full year of unarmed demonstrations against the occupation. Protest erupted in the village after the nearby settlement of Halamish took control over a pond which was used by the villages’ farmers. The demonstrations were met with fierce IDF […]

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Lieberman calls PA “illegitimate”

Tuesday, 28 December 2010 13:00 Israel’s Foreign Minister has launched a strong attack on the Palestinian Authority in a speech to the annual conference of Israeli ambassadors. Avigdor Lieberman said that the PA has an “illegitimate government” which isn’t holding elections. “We must not,” he added, “reach a [final status] agreement with it.” Lieberman believes […]

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Settlers Seize Lands Southeast of Nablus

PNN – Palestine News Network -28.12.10 – 13:46 Nablus – PNN – Settlers from the Kida settlement, southeast of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, seized 60 dunums of village lands in the Jaloud district and brought the total of seized land to 100 dunums in the past week. A row of newly built […]

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ei: Christian extremists assist Israel in displacing Negev Bedouin

Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 28 December 2010 Bedouin children from al-Araqib watch as Israeli forces destroy their village, September 2010. (Oren Ziv/ActiveStills) Half a million trees planted over the past 18 months on the ancestral lands of Bedouin tribes in Israel’s Negev region were bought by a controversial Christian evangelical television channel that calls […]

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ei: Israeli Jews and the one-state solution

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 10 November 2009 At the height of the global anti-apartheid movement, in 1989, a bus in London displays a message calling for boycott of South Africa. (Rahul D’Lucca) Anyone who rejects the two-state solution, won’t bring a one-state solution. They will instead bring one war, not one state. A bloody […]

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Until The Last Olive Tree

YouTube – Until The Last Olive Tree.

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بانوراما فلسطينية | هل بدأ التحضير للحرب على غزة؟

برنامج بانوراما فلسطينية من قناة الحوار في لندن تقديم: زاهر البيراوي تاريخ البث: 24.12.10 الضيف: فراس أبو هلال – كاتب ومحلل سياسي عبر الهاتف: أبو عبيدة – الناطق باسم كتائب عز الدين القسام من غزة ناصر الريس- ناشط حقوقي في مؤسسة حق في الضفة الغربية صفوت الزيات- عميد متقاعد وباحث بالشؤون العسكرية الموضوع:هل بدأ التحضير […]

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Israel’s 2011 Defence Budget Increases by 25% to NIS 61 Billion

Tuesday, 28 December 2010 13:42 Alternative Information Center (AIC) Israel’s defence budget is set to grow from its 2010 level of NIS 49 billion to NIS 61 billion in 2011, an increase of almost 25%. The growth results primarily from the transfer of a budget surplus from the Ministry of Housing to the Ministry of […]

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