Big step forward for boycott Israel movement in Australia as town council votes

Posted by gazasolidarity at PS.HADNEWS.COM on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 4:32 pm. An Australian town council voted for boycott divestment and sanctions against Israel in December last year. The councillors that moved that motion have since come under sustained attack from the pro-Israel crowd culminating in a council meeting on April 21 at which […]

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Postcard from Palestine

Hussam Gosheh tells the dramatic story of of how onions saved the day at a book festival in Jerusalem Hussam Ghosheh, translated from Arabic by Lubna Taha |guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 May 2011 14.42 BST A Palestinian girl walks in an alley in the Silwan neighborhood of east Jerusalem, where the closing event took place. Photograph: […]

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Prisoner strike secures eye surgery for inmate

Published today (updated) 03/05/2011 16:41 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A successful prisoners strike saw a Palestinian detainee in Israel receive eye surgery, which friends and relatives said was long overdue, Hussam Detainees’ Center said. Sufian Al-Zibda, from Gaza City, had an operation on his left retina at the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, the center said. […]

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Witnesses: Hebron settlers attack construction workers

Published today (updated) 03/05/2011 18:06 Palestinians protest against the ongoing closure of Al-Shuhada Street on  June 7, 2007. [MaanImages/Mamoun Wazwaz] HEBRON (Ma’an) — Dozens of Israeli settlers assaulted a group of Palestinian construction workers in Hebron’s city center on Tuesday, residents said. Nayef Da’na told Ma’an that settlers attacked him and other workers as they […]

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Fatah, Hamas cross Israel’s redline

Tue May 3, 2011 4:39PM Kourosh Ziabari Palestinian Fatah delegation chief Azzam al-Ahmed (R) shakes hands with Hamas deputy leader Mussa Abu Marzuq after a joint press conference in Cairo on April 27, 2011 After several years of bitter hostility and acrimony, the two rival Palestinian parties Fatah and Hamas eventually reached a landmark agreement […]

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Haniyah meets journalists to mark World Press Freedom Day

Tuesday, 03 May 2011 15:00| MEMO Mr Haniyah told journalists that this agreement would be unlike the Mecca agreement because it discussed issues related to security. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah yesterday met with journalists in the Gaza Strip to mark World Press Freedom Day during which he discussed efforts to achieve Palestinian national reconciliation. Mr […]

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Israel killed 1,300 kids in Gaza: UN

Tue May 3, 2011 2:23PM A child in Gaza (file photo) The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories says Israel has killed 1,300 Palestinian children since 2000. Richard Falk announced the figure during a press conference in the Jordanian capital city of Amman late on Monday, the Palestinian News […]

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Fatah blasts Israeli PM for meddling

Tue May 3, 2011 2:53PM Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmed (L) The Palestinian faction of Fatah has strongly criticized the Israeli prime minister for interfering with a unity deal signed between Palestinian movements. Head of the Fatah delegation in Cairo Azzam al-Ahmed said on Tuesday that Benjamin Netanyahu “must respect the will of the Palestinian people […]

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The Costs of Finding Osama

by Billy Wharton / May 3rd, 2011 | Dissedent Voice In the play Doctor Faustus, author Christopher Marlowe described Helen of Troy as the “face that launched a thousand ships.” Marlowe used the phrase to describe the manner in which Helen’s beauty supposedly motivated the Greek armies to attack Troy. Taking a page from this […]

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Jewish settlers burn mosque

[ 03/05/2011 – 11:45 AM ] Burnt copies of the Holy Quran in a previous arson attack by settlers in the W.B village of Yasuf NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers set a small mosque on fire in Hawara school near Nablus at dawn Tuesday, local sources said. The sources told the PIC reporter that a group […]

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PALESTINIAN VIEWS ON BIN LADEN’S DEMISE

Posted by desertpeace on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 11:30 am. America’s pyrrhic victory over Bin-Laden By Khalid Amayreh * There is no doubt that al-Quaeda represented a serious deviation from Islam which forbids targeting innocent people. The killing of al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin-Laden by US special forces in Pakistan is likely to have more of […]

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PLO says no future for the Occupation

Tuesday, 03 May 2011 13:15 | MEMO Palestinian Liberation Organization The Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee has condemned Israeli attempts to ‘blackmail’ the Palestinian Authority into aborting the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation. It also called for international condemnation of Israeli practices. In a press release issued on Monday, May 2nd, the PLO’s Executive Committee stated that the […]

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Israel kidnaps and redetain politician Romanin from his home

[ 03/05/2011 – 12:27 PM ] JERICHO, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped at dawn Tuesday Hamas lawmaker Ali Romanin from Jericho city. His wife told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that dozens of Israeli troops stormed Awja village, north of Jericho, at about one o’clock in the morning and violently raided their home. […]

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Mofaz Calls for Assassinating Palestinian Leaders

PNN – Palestine News Network – 03.05.11 – 15:25 Tel Aviv – PNN – Chirman of the Israeli Parliamentary Committee for Forging Affairs and Security Shaul Mofaz of the right wing Kadima asked the Israeli government to assassinate Palestinian leaders like the US did with Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. MP Shaul Mofaz Mofaz added […]

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Netanyahu’s Rearguard War

PNN – Palestine News Network – 03.05.11 – 15:58 Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)- Twenty five years ago, Benjamin Netanyahu and a relatively small group of neo-conservative thinkers invented the term “international terrorism” – which quickly morphed into “Islamic terrorism” – as the global enemy replacing the communist threat of the Cold War. Islrael’s […]

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