Archive | January 17, 2011

Jan 17, 2011 | GAZA PALESTINE | TODAY NEWS LINKS| Gaza has been under siege for 1314 days | Spread-Share-Link or Tweet the News!

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Israel to finish works on wall isolating Jerusalem this year

[ 17/01/2011 – 05:46 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli army announced construction should be finished on a wall surrounding the city of Jerusalem in a about a year. The wall, dubbed “the Jerusalem envelope”, is set to isolate the holy city from neighboring Palestinian communities. According to the plan, approved by the […]

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Israel blocks entry of medical team into Ramle prison hospital

[ 17/01/2011 – 05:36 PM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli prison services (IPS) refused to allow an independent medical team to enter the Ramle prison hospital to check on Palestinian sick detainees. The prisoner’s committee in 1948 occupied Palestine said in a statement on Monday that it presented a list of prisoners to be […]

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Israeli police shoot Palestinian man during chase

[ 17/01/2011 – 05:21 PM ]   ACRE, (PIC)– A Ramallah man was moderately injured in Acre Sunday after Israeli police shot him during a chase. Two other officers were let off the hook yesterday after killing a Palestinian man in East Jerusalem. Police claimed the man from Ramallah was residing in the Israeli-occupied city […]

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IOF deports Palestinian from WB to Gaza

[ 17/01/2011 – 05:07 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) deported on Monday Mahmoud Duwaik, 30, from his hometown of Jericho in the West Bank to the Gaza Strip. Duwaik said on arrival in Gaza that the IOF soldiers captured him while working in 1948 occupied Palestine and deported him to […]

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Silwan clashes erupt after police raid home; two minors arrested

[ 17/01/2011 – 05:05 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Violent clashes erupted Sunday night in the East Jerusalem Silwan district after Israeli police raided a home there. The Batn al-Hawa residence is part of an area frequently targeted by Jewish settler property claims. Meanwhile, the Israelis were responsible for many provocative steps this week […]

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Thinking of spring in Palestine | Poem by Mike Odetalla

Thinking of spring in Palestine By Mike Odetalla   What benefit or joy if,   I were to gain the world, But lose the almond blossoms in my land?   Drink a cup of coffee, everyplace But my mother’s home   Journey to the moon, But not to the grave s of my ancestors   […]

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Falk: Tribalism is genocidal; while a diverse religious identity thickens the fibers of global civilization

by Richard Falk on January 16, 2011 Editor’s note: This is exciting. Richard Falk, the international law prof at Princeton, emeritus, has done what all 80-year-olds should do, and started a blog. This entry, which he has allowed me to repost in full, is called “On Jewish Identity.” This is really everything I’ve asked for […]

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Israel Targets Free Gaza Movement with Repulsive Propaganda

January 17, 2011 posted by Michael Leon | VeteransToday   Israeli Propaganda aimed at human rights activists It is not enough that humanitarian activists on the Mavi Marmara were illegally boarded and attacked in international waters on a peace mission to Gaza. Nor is it sufficient that nine peace activists on the Mavi Marmara were assassinated […]

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Israeli rabbis call for creation of ‘death camps’ for Palestinians

MEMO | Monday, 17 January 2011 13:15 The ‘fatwa’ strongly criticised rabbis in opposition, arguing that Palestinians are the ‘giants’. A magazine issued by religious Zionists in Israel called for the creation of ‘death camps’ for Palestinians. In a report Saturday, Israeli news site Ynet brought to attention a weekly magazine, distributed in synagogues across […]

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British Retailer John Lewis Stops Stocking Ahava Products

PNN – Palestine News Network – 17.01.11 – 14:35  London – PNN  – This week, leading British retail business John Lewis is refusing to stock goods from Israeli cosmetics company Ahava. Canadian retailer The Bay also confirmed that it has discontinued sales of Ahava products.   Ahava’s goods – Archive John Lewis’ decision signifies yet another victory […]

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Erekat Confirms: Draft of Security Council Resolution Condemning Settlements Ready for Wednesday

PNN – Palestine News Network – | 17.01.11 – 16:19 Jericho – PNN – Chief Palestinian negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat said on Monday that he had been instructed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to bring the issue of illegal Israeli settlements to the UN Security Council on Wednesday. The vote is expected to be held […]

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PA to Request Declaration from UN Security Council

Monday, 17 January 2011 15:45 Tania Kepler for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) Following an influx of Israeli building plans approved for East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority plans to ask the United Nations Security Council to declare Israeli settlements illegal and demand that all construction be stopped. Saeb Erekat, the chief […]

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Israeli Banks Finance Newspaper calling for Genocide

Monday, 17 January 2011 15:28 Yossi Bartal for the Alternative Information Center (AIC) Major Israeli banks, credit institutions, and communication companies are among the advertisers in an extreme right wing weekly magazine that called for building concentration camps. An Israeli Jewish orthodox magazine “Ma’ayanei Hayeshua” (Fountains of Salvation) that is distributed freely in hundreds of […]

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Nof Zion to Remain in Jewish Hands

Monday January 17, 2011 16:47 by IMEMC News – 1 of International Middle East Media Center Editorial Group Israeli supermarket magnate Rami Levy has made made a successful bid to take over development of the Nof Zion settlement project being built near the Palestinan neighbourhood of Jabal Al Mukabber in occupied East Jerusalem. Following the […]

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