Clock ticking for Israel and Palestinians

    MICHAEL FELSEN | Jan 13, 2011 21:03 | Arab News 35 Clock ticking for Israel and Palestinians AS we enter 2011, there seems to be little cause for celebration about prospects for peace in the Middle East, especially following the breakdown of US-brokered negotiations upon Israel’s resumption of West Bank settlement construction in […]

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A US official document on leaks…LEAKED

Leaked on leaks. (thanks Farah)     via The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: A US official document on leaks…LEAKED.

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Free Palestine

YouTube – Free Palestine.

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ei: Canada’s double standards

Yves Engler, The Electronic Intifada, 13 January 2011 The Canadian tax system subsidizes Israel’s illegal settlements. (ActiveStills) Canada’s tax system currently subsidizes Israeli settlements that Ottawa deems illegal, however, the Conservative government says there’s nothing that can be done about it. In June of last year, Guelph activist Dan Maitland emailed Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence […]

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Coming Home

  Date posted: January 12, 2011 By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH     At passport control at Washington DC’s Dulles Airport, the border officer took one look at my children’s and my US passports and stamped us through with a smile. We were, after all, technically “home” and countries normally treat their citizens with dignity […]

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Settlers Propose to Build 50 more Housing Units in E. Jerusalem

Thursday January 13, 2011 16:44 by Ramona M. – IMEMC and Agencies Even amidst international condemnation, the takeover of the Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers continued yesterday. Settlers are now planning to build 50 more housing units, in addition to the 20 units already authorized, in the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. […]

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REPORT | Documenting the crime of torture in the Palestinian Authority’s Territories

Wednesday, 12 January 2011 18:45 Introduction The Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain has issued several reports on human rights violations in the territory of the Palestinian Authority highlighting the practice of torture in prisons. It is clear that the Palestinian security services have been using torture on a wide and systematic basis for […]

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Settlers Attack Northern West Bank Village, Injure Six Farmers

PNN – Palestine News Network – 13.01.11 – 14:12 Nablus – PNN – Fifty armed Israeli settlers attacked the village of Qassra south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and injured six civilians on Thursday afternoon. Armed Settlers in the West Bank – Archive Villagers said that the settlers tried to take over lands […]

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Clinton: US “Can’t Stop” Israel From Settling

PNN – Palestine News Network – 13.01.11 – 14:03 Doha – PNN – At a press conference in Doha, Qatar, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said the power of American foreign policy was inherently limited when it came to pressuring Israel. US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton (PNN Images). Asked by an al-Jazeera reporter […]

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Israel demolishes Palestinian village

PressTV – Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:20PM Israeli forces have demolished almost an entire village in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), leaving hundreds of Palestinians displaced. At least 300 Palestinians were left homeless after Israeli bulldozers, backed by several military vehicles, demolished nearly the entire village of al-Dqayqa, Ma’an news agency reported […]

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Israeli house demolition policy “won’t discourage Palestinians from clinging to their land”

Thursday, 13 January 2011 11:56 The Islamic Resistance Movement has criticized Israel’s demolition of a school and seventeen houses belonging to Palestinians near Yatta in the Hebron region of the occupied West Bank. Hamas said that the destruction which took place on 12th January is intended to force the expulsion of Palestinians from the homes […]

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Suriname to recognize Palestine – Stabroek News – Guyana

By Stabroek editor  |  View Comments Breaking News | Thursday, January 13, 2011 (De Ware Tijd)  – Suriname will soon recognize the Palestinian state. Palestinian Authority Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad al-Maliki told this to the Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat earlier this week. During yesterday’s weekly Cabinet press conference, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Lackin stated that Suriname is not […]

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Gaza Youth Breaks Out – a critique and a debate | Jews for Justice for Palestinians

Facebook in Gaza Karma Nabulsi, 10 January 2011 [see the Gaza youth breaks out manifesto] Last weekend the Observer carried a dramatic account of ‘The Gaza Youth Manifesto’, written in English by a handful of young people in Gaza and posted on Facebook. Given the thousands of people in the West who have said they […]

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PALESTINIANS: LIVING UNDER THE OCCUPATION AND LOVING IT

Posted by desertpeace on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 10:57 am. And what’s not to love? They are separated from their families and loved ones by a concrete wall making visits difficult, or impossible. Access to mosques is forbidden during Holy Days. Their children are accosted daily by Israeli soldiers on their way to and […]

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Israel’s new charm offensive

  by Philip Weiss on January 13, 2011 From Dimi Reider: several reporters for foreign outlets, including the Washington Post and Al Jazeera, were strip searched by Israeli security and made to stand around in their underwear before being let into a private gathering with Netanyahu, with cocktails, ahead of a speech he was giving […]

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