Most Palestinians back Arab uprisings

PressTV –  Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:7PM Palestinians rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah in support of pro-democracy protestors in Egypt, February 5, 2011. Opinion polls indicate Palestinians’ support for the recent revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and a failure of Western efforts to portray the uprisings as secular. A survey conducted by […]

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Rabat al-Kurd: Where the “Little Kotel” Fits into the Plan to Judaize Jerusalem

15.02.11 – 15:47 Jerusalem – Maysa Abu Ghazala – PNN/Exclusive – Rabat al-Kurd has stood in relative silence near the Iron Gate and al-Aqsa Mosque for years. It is the foundation for several homes in danger of collapse. Now Jewish worshippers have begun to dug under the site to create “Little Kotel,” an extension of […]

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Top Fatah leaders pressure Abbas to change his aides

[ 15/02/2011 – 02:53 PM ]   WEST BANK, (PIC)– An informed source told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that there were pressures from senior Fatah leaders especially from the revolutionary council on de facto president Mahmoud Abbas to replace prominent figures around him with new faces in order to absorb the street’s resentment. The […]

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Israel behind virtual reality website that Judaizes Jerusalem

[ 15/02/2011 – 02:57 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israel has worked out a plan to promote tourism in Jerusalem with a false Jewish vision, the Muslim-Christian Association in Palestine said Tuesday. ”The occupational mayor has started a website about Jerusalem meant to offer services and incentives for tourists and ensure free tours of the […]

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Hamas: All governments formed by Fatah “unconstitutional”

[ 15/02/2011 – 03:49 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement said that the successive governments that were formed by Fatah faction in the West Bank headed by Salam Fayyad and any new cabinet are unconstitutional and part of the coup against the true representatives of the Palestinian people. In a press release on […]

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Dweik: Elections not legitimate, deepen division

[ 15/02/2011 – 03:51 PM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Speaker of the Palestinian legislative council Dr. Aziz Dweik has said that the legislative and presidential elections called for by de facto president Mahmoud Abbas would only deepen the rift between Hamas and Fatah. Dweik, speaking in an interview with Al-Quds satellite channel on Monday night, […]

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Egyptian officer: Rafah crossing to be opened regularly following arrangements

[ 15/02/2011 – 04:13 PM ]   CAIRO, (PIC)– Senior Egyptian officer said that the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip will be soon opened on a regular basis after making security arrangements for that. This came after friends of humanity international organization sent a letter in this regard to the higher council […]

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Islamic Jihad: PA compensation for settler lives confers legitimacy to Israel

[ 15/02/2011 – 04:26 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Senior Islamic Jihad official Khadir Habib described the Palestinian Authority’s court settlement to pay compensation for the death’s of two Jewish settlers as a ”stab in the back of the struggle and national liberation” waged by the Palestinians defending their lives and land. The PA settled […]

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Abu Zuhri denounces PA compensation to Israelis

[ 15/02/2011 – 04:28 PM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri has denounced the Fatah-controlled PA financial compensations to families of settlers killed in resistance operations. He described the act in a statement to the PIC on Tuesday as a “national crime” that displayed the PA’s absolute subordination to Israel and its disrespect […]

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The toxic residue of colonialism

The overt age of grand empires gave way to the age of covert imperial hegemony, but now the edifice is crumbling. Richard Falk Last Modified: 14 Feb 2011 15:44 GMT As traffic returns to Tahrir Square, Egyptians are left to wonder if they’ve been sold out – like so many revolutionaries before them – and if the […]

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Pillay demands Israel to end its settlement activities in O. Palestinian lands

[ 15/02/2011 – 11:01 AM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– UN high commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay demanded the Israeli government to halt its settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian lands and to refrain from issuing decisions that serve its ethnic cleansing policy against the Palestinians. Pillay, in a statement after concluding a visit to […]

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Interior Ministry: Elections illegitimate, a cover-up for leaked scandals

[ 15/02/2011 – 11:10 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Gaza Ministry of Interior said presidential and legislative elections to be held by the PLO by September lack legitimacy and called the move a cover-up for recently leaked scandals in the Palestinian Authority. As protests calling for government reforms take the Arab world by storm, […]

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Abu Zuhri: Shaath statement on Egyptian document worthless

[ 15/02/2011 – 11:39 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, has said that the statement of Nabil Shaath, a Fatah central committee member, on his faction’s approval of the Hamas reservations on the Egyptian paper was “meaningless and worthless”. Abu Zuhri said in a press release on Monday that […]

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The WHO: Gaza drug shortage a threat to survival of hospitals

[ 15/02/2011 – 11:47 AM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The World Health Organization said a shortage of medicines required in the Gaza Strip poses a threat to the survival of hospitals there. A memorandum by the WHO’s Jerusalem branch pointed out that 38 per cent of basic medicines were out of stock in the […]

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Settlers uproot olive tree saplings, IOF troops raid southern Gaza

[ 15/02/2011 – 11:52 AM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers uprooted dozens of olive tree saplings in Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, on Monday, local sources reported. They said that settlers pulled out 250 olive tree saplings which were planted only a few days ago in a solidarity campaign with farmers whose lands […]

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