ei: Israel’s blood diamonds

Seán Clinton, The Electronic Intifada, 29 March 2010 Every year, consumers the world over unwittingly spend billions of dollars on diamonds crafted in Israel, thereby helping to fund one of the world’s most protracted and contentious conflicts. Most people are unaware that Israel is one of the world’s leading producers of cut and polished diamonds. […]

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Army Assassinates Fighter In Gaza, Israeli FM Vows Further Assassinations – International Middle East Media Center

Wednesday January 12, 2011 00:01 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported Tuesday evening that a Palestinian fighter was assassinated and another resident was injured in an Israeli Air Strike targeting the fighter in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Jamil Al Najjar – Palestine-Info The fighter, who […]

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Municipality demolishes Palestinian shopfront outside Old City

Tuesday, 11 January, 2011 | 23:15 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) —  The Jerusalem Municipality demolished a Palestinian kiosk in Sultan Street, outside Herod’s Gate of the Old City, this morning. Kiosk manager Wa’el Razem was not issued prior warning of the demolition, carried out by a large joint force of Israeli military special forces and Municipality […]

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US Hires Blackwater-affiliated Security Firm To Operate In The West Bank – International Middle East Media Center

Tuesday January 11, 2011 15:28 by Alessandra Bajec – IMEMC & Agencies The US State Department signed a deal with a company closely associated with the Blackwater security firm to provide “security services in the West Bank”, The Washington Post said on Monday. (photo from The Daily Mail) The new deal worth more than $84 […]

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joeskillet: MLK Day Protest Against Deadly Tear Gas at CSI Headquarters

*Please send me a note if you will need a ride from Pittsburgh (joeskillet@riseup.net) For Immediate Release Regional Palestine solidarity groups to protest PA manufacturer of tear gas on MLK Day … On January 1, 2011, 36-year-old Palestinian Jawaher Abu Rahmah from the West Bank village of Bil’in died from tear gas inhalation suffered at […]

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Foundation: Muslim graves destroyed in Jerusalem

Published today (updated) 11/01/2011 22:18 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) – The Al-Aqsa Foundation said Tuesday that extremist Jews vandalized 20 graves in the historic Mamilla cemetery in West Jerusalem overnight Monday. The foundation said one of its officials, Fawwaz Hasan, visited the cemetery and found some graves completely destroyed while the tombstones had been removed from others. […]

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Breaking: Abdallah Abu Rahmah to stay in jail as judge upholds state appeal

Tuesday, January 11 2011|Joseph Dana The Ofer military court has accepted the military prosecution’s appeal to harshen Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s sentence to a total of 16 months. Abu Rahmah was supposed to be released on November 18th 2010, but was kept in detention by the military prosecution’s request, despite having finished serving his term. He […]

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Israel to erase Palestinians from al-Quds

PressTV –  Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:43PM In an act violating international laws, Tel Aviv has played a direct role in the demolition of a Palestinian heritage hotel in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), a political expert says. “Israelis have had many racist and apartheid laws implemented against the Palestinians within the occupied territories since 1948, including […]

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MADA: 19 Violations Committed Against Journalists in December

11.01.11 – 12:38 Ramallah – PNN – The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) issued on Tuesday its monthly report documenting violations against journalists in the Palestinian territories. Archive According to MADA there were 17 violations against journalists and two against journalist’s property. MADA reported that the offenses were committed by both the Israeli army and […]

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ei: UN Security Council continues to stymie pressure on Israel

Haider Rizvi, The Electronic Intifada, 11 January 2011 UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Calls are growing for a swift international response to the situation in the Middle East, as Israel continues to build new settlements in the occupied West Bank with increased military actions against civilians. However, there is no sign that the 15-member Security Council […]

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Palestinian Prisoners

YouTube – Palestinian Prisoners.

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Int’l campaign: Israeli arrest of MP Abdelrazeq an act of piracy

[ 11/01/2011 – 10:31 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Gaza-based international campaign to free detained MPs in Israeli occupation jails warned Tuesday of a rise in “piracy” against Palestinian legal figures as the Israelis arrested for the second time Palestinian MP Omar Abdelrazeq earlier the same morning. Israel arrested Change and Reform bloc representative […]

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Former editor of Maariv says ‘I’m Ashamed of Being Israeli’ | Jews for Justice for Palestinians

Amnon Dankner: ‘I’m Ashamed of Being Israeli’ Richard Silverstein, 11 January 2011 Amnon Danker, former editor of one of Israel’s most popular dailies, Maariv, has written a scathing essay excoriating Israel and the current political situation there.  The terms he uses are savage and unsparing.  It’s rare for such mainstream cultural and media figures to […]

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Max Blumenthal on Israeli Loyalty Oath

YouTube – Max Blumenthal on AJE on Israeli Loyalty Oath.

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Abbas’s militias detain physics professor

[ 11/01/2011 – 04:42 PM ]   NABLUS, (PIC)– Security militias loyal to de facto Palestinian president and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas kidnapped Palestinian physics professor Esam Al-Ashqar on Tuesday evening. Former minister of prisoners Wasfi Qabaha told the PIC that the so-called preventive security militia detained Ashqar, 52, at a roadblock. Ashqar was detained […]

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