Israeli court extends detention of Abu Sisi; orders media blackout on the case

[ 25/03/2011 – 08:38 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– An Israeli court handling the case of kidnapped Palestinian engineer Dhurar Abu Sisi has extended the detention of the engineer for eight more days after Israeli interrogators failed to prove the alleged charges against him. Hebrew sources revealed that the Israeli Mossad obtained the permission […]

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He reveals the Truth about Zionists

    Real Judaism vs Zionism The difference between Real Judaism and Zionist Real Torah Jews against Zionism Zionism vs Judaism Zionism Chief Rabbi issues ruling legalizes killing Arabs How to kill Goyim IOA Rabbis: ‘Palestinians to the Ovens!’ Jew Watch Map of “Greater Israel” Published by Radical Settler Movement Protocols of Zion Explained Settler […]

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ei: Legal expert warns of “ethnic cleansing” in Jerusalem

Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 24 March 2011 A Palestinian man walks past an Israeli riot police officer in Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem. (Anne Paq/ActiveStills) RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) – “If the regime that encourages incitement, racism and anti-democracy is not toppled soon, we will find that the future is already here,” says Israeli […]

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Silence over Nakba Law encourages racism

25 March 2011 [The Nakba Law is] the latest in a growing list of disgraceful legislation whose entire purpose is to discriminate against Israel’s Arab citizens, intimidate them and deny them their rights… The people directly responsible for this process are the [ones] … who sponsored the bills [and] voted for them. But the 60 […]

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Occupation hands home demolition notices in Salfit villages

25/03/2011 – 07:03 PM SALFIT, (PIC)– IOF troops raided the village of Broqin in the northern West Bank district of Salfit and handed demolition notices to the owners of two homes in the village on the pretext that their homes are built in area C, where Palestinians are prohibited to build. The head of the […]

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SAVING ISRAEL VIA DISSENT

Posted by desertpeace at PS.HADNEWS.COM on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 11:17 am. Israel’s dissidents are saving the country The dissidents do not need to apologize for anything. Their country owes them a great deal. By Gideon Levy Imagine a different Israel in the eyes of the world. There is no B’Tselem, no Breaking the […]

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Medics: Man treated for wounds from settler beating

March 24, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — A 30-year-old Nablus man was accosted by a group of settlers Wednesday night, and hospitalized by a subsequent attack, medics reported. Traveling south of Nablus, Iyad Azzam told Red Crescent medics that he believed residents of the illegal settlement of Yitzhar were behind the attack. He remains in moderate […]

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Thousands of Palestinians bury eight Gazans killed in Israeli air raids

March 24, 2011 – People’s Daily Online Thousands of mourners on Wednesday buried eight Palestinians, including three children and an old man, who were killed in two Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday in eastern Gaza city, calling for taking revenge on Israel. The mourners carried the bodies on their shoulders from Shiffa Hospital in the city […]

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Witnesses: 2 Palestinians detained at checkpoint

March 25, 2011 Jenin (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Friday detained two men at the Al-Hamra checkpoint in the northern West Bank, witnesses said. Onlookers said Israeli forces stopped a public taxi on the road between Tubas and Jericho and detained two passengers. The men were taken to an unknown location. They are yet to […]

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Israel passes laws forbidding remembrance of 1948 takeover of Palestine

Thursday March 24, 2011 09:31 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News In a law condemned by rights advocates as racist, revisionist and divisive, the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) voted Wednesday to prevent any commemorations of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) in which historic Palestine was divided in half, with half of the land taken to create the […]

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Family who lost 29 members in Gaza war: We envy the dead

Amira Hass | Ha’aretz | 18 October 2009 Richard Goldstone visited the Gaza City neighborhood of Zaytoun in late June to tour the compound of the extended Samouni family, the subject of coverage here in recent weeks (“‘I fed him like a baby bird,’” September 17; “Death in the Samouni compound,” September 25). Twenty-nine members […]

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ei: March 15 and the roots of our struggle

Safa Joudeh, The Electronic Intifada, 24 March 2011 Hundreds gather in Ramallah’s city center to call for national unity, 15 March 2011. (Oren Ziz/ActiveStills) Twitter was ablaze, Facebook groups sprouted like mushrooms and bloggers typed on overdrive, both from within the occupied Palestinian territories and abroad. These were the weeks and days leading up to […]

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WORDS THAT DISTORT PALESTINE

Posted by desertpeace  on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 10:51 pm. Image ‘Copyleft’ by Carlos Latuff The Top 7 Terms that Distort Israel/Palestine By Yousef Words matter Especially since words create representations of what we hold to be “real.” For writing on Palestine this is particularly important. Unless we are present in and around events […]

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Egyptian Foreign Minister sends Israel strongly-worded message about Gaza

Friday, 25 March 2011 16:00 Dr Nabil El-Araby pressed Barak on the necessity of maintaining the ceasefire with the Palestinians. Diplomatic sources inside Egypt’s Foreign Ministry have reported that the country’s Foreign Minister has sent a strongly-worded letter to Rafi Barak, the Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, warning him about the consequences of the […]

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Hamas condemns new Israeli racist laws

25/03/2011 – 04:09 PM GAZA, (PIC)– Hamas has condemned the passing by the Knesset of the Nakba law, which bans Palestinians in 1948-occupied Palestine from commemorating the Nakba, and another law allowing municipalities with large Jewish population to have admissions committees with the purpose of screening potential new residents, a law which is expected to […]

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