Weapons of mass deception: time to turn to alternative media

  Redress | By Paul J. Balles | 5 January 2011 Paul J. Balles looks at the hazards of relying on the mainstream media, which are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of conglomerates and moguls, such as Rupert Murdoch, and suggests some websites and commentators in alternative media. For me, as […]

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Israeli troops arrest European activists at Hamra checkpoint

[ 04/01/2011 – 08:16 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli troops intercepted Tuesday five volunteers from a European pro-Palestinian movement when crossing the Hamra military checkpoint en route to the West Bank provinces of Tubas and Jenin. The volunteers were heading to towns in Tubas and Jenin affected by the apartheid wall there to join […]

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IOF soldiers detain head of charity committee

[ 04/01/2011 – 07:46 PM ]   JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into and ransacked the home of Sheikh Ahmed Salatna, the director of the Zakat (Alms) committee in Jenin district, before taking him away. Eyewitnesses said that dozens of IOF armored vehicles surrounded the home of the Sheikh in Jaba village, south […]

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Bardawil: Abbas in political coma

[ 04/01/2011 – 07:51 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas MP Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil has described de facto president and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas’s denial of having political detainees in the West Bank as a kind of deception and an attempt evade reconciliation. He told Quds Press on Tuesday that Abbas was using the same […]

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Occupation 101: How to make a martyr, from al-Durrah to Abu Rahmah

Tuesday, January 4 2011|Dahlia Scheindlin | +972 Magazine Mohammed al-Durrah and Jawaher Abu Rahmah were both Palestinians who lost their lives to the conflict. Both deaths – 12-year old al- Durrah in 2000, and Jawaher Abu Rahmah this past Friday (31 December) – came to symbolize the Palestinian struggle against occupation. And in both cases, […]

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‘Palestinian home demolitions soar’

Press TV | Tue Jan 4, 2011 4:40PM The demolition of Palestinian homes in East al-Quds is an Israeli plot to drive the Palestinian residents out of the city, an Israeli rights group said. Israel has increased the demolition of Palestinian homes in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) as part of a “broad policy” to drive Palestinians […]

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Important calls in the British media for movement on Palestine in 2011

Tuesday, 04 January 2011 17:31 Dr. Hanan Chehata 2011 looks set to be a year for increased awareness and discussion on the major issues surrounding the conflict in Palestine. 2010 ended in mixed fortune for the Palestinian cause. On the positive side, it emerged that several Israeli Hasbara (propaganda) groups have dubbed London the world […]

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Spin’s “senior source” revealed: Who briefed the rightist bloggers?

Tuesday, January 4 2011|Yossi Gurvitz The IDF speaks in two voices in the Jawaher Abu Rahmah affair – because it knows its case is week Last night (Monday) the IDF went on a coordinated media offensive against the Bil’in activists and the Abu Rahmah family, claiming not only wasn’t Jawaher Abu Rahmah killed as a […]

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ei: The return of the Mavi Marmara

Faiz Ahmed writing from Istanbul, Turkey, Live from Palestine, 4 January 2011 The Mavi Marmara receives a hero’s welcome in Istanbul. (Faiz Ahmed) The Mavi Marmara returned to a hero’s welcome at Istanbul’s Sarayburnu port late last month. Docking at its port of departure for the first time since its fateful voyage began seven months […]

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I speak of Palestine…

by Angel Falasteen on Friday, October 29, 2010       I speak of Palestine I speak of your insistence on believing what you’re told to be so blind: you must have learned what not to know to be so cold that you can say “These people do belong inside this tomb.” They cannot move […]

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ei: Facts contradict Israel’s assertions in Bilin death

Press release, Popular Struggle Coordination Committee, 4 January 2011 The family of Jawaher Abu Rahmah mourns during her funeral in the West Bank village of Bilin, 1 January 2011 (Oren Ziv/Activestills). The following edited press release was issued by the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee on 4 January 2010: Since yesterday, the Israeli army has been […]

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Bill being Drafted to Bar International Peace Activists from Entering Israel

Tuesday, 04 January 2011 15:41 Alternative Information Center (AIC) Knesset Member Yariv Levin, of the right-wing Likud party, together with the pro-settlement group The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, are currently working on an “anti-subversive” bill aimed at anarchists and supporters of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). If approved the […]

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Eyewitnesses Describe Death of Palestinian Woman in Israeli Tear Gas Attack

  Eyewitnesses Describe Death of Palestinian Woman in Israeli Tear Gas Attack.

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Israeli bulldozers spread dispair

YouTube – Israeli bulldozers spread dispair.

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Report: During 2010, Israel significantly stepped up its Judaisation policies

Tuesday, 04 January 2011 14:11 An official report issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) has stated that in 2010, the Israeli authorities stepped up measures aimed at the judaisation of the Occupied Palestinian territories, particularly Jerusalem.  It also states that Israel has increased the rate at which it issues decisions and implements policies toward […]

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