Dark day in Silwan as 19 arrested of which 9 Children

  Friday, 3 June, 2011 | 00:39 |  Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Nineteen people, including 9 children, were arrested by Israeli forces in East Jerusalem nine of them are children from  Silwan on Thursday, 1 June. The majority of these were taken by undercover units. Israeli forces launched a campaign of […]

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Jewish celebrations organized near banished Jerusalem officials

[ 02/06/2011 – 11:03 AM ] Palestinian lawmakers’ protest tent at the Red Cross compound OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Jewish settlers celebrated Wednesday morning the occupation of Jerusalem near where the Palestinian officials have been seeking sanctuary at the Jerusalem Red Cross. The officials, two members of the Palestinian Legislative Council and a former Palestinian Authority […]

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Jews march provocatively to mark Jerusalem occupation

[ 02/06/2011 – 11:22 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Hundreds of Jewish settlers have flooded the streets of Jerusalem waving Israeli flags and marching provocatively and chanting, “death to Arabs”, as the Israeli army stood guard. They gathered Wednesday evening to celebrate the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967. The […]

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Israeli navy forces Gazan fishermen to cast nets inland

Rebecca Collard (Foreign Correspondent)|Jun 3, 2011  | The National Bassam El-Najjar once made his living from the seas off Gaza’s coast. For two decades he set out each morning to catch tuna, sardines and mackerel from the waters of the eastern Mediterranean. Not any longer. Now El-Najjar drops his nets into a large fish pool […]

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ICC warns Israel rapidly perpetuating ‘Jewish capital’

[ 02/06/2011 – 11:16 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Islamic Christian Commission have warned that the Israeli government is rapidly trying to make Jerusalem the permanent capital of Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized while addressing US Congress last week that Israel would not reduce itself to 1967 borders and wished to make […]

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Time for Israel to Wake up – by George S. Hishmeh

By George S. Hishmeh | Palestine  Chronicle These must be heady days for Palestinians, certainly most, if not all, of those who live inside their usurped homeland and among the Palestinian diaspora in the Middle East or western countries. There were lots of good news lately, now topped by the endorsement by the Arab League […]

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Crushed Ice in Nuseirat: My Gaza Refugee Camp Revisited – by Ramzy Baroud

Kids in Nuseirat. (Photo: John Harvey) By Ramzy Baroud – Gaza ‘Do you remember Mahmoud?’ asked Abu Nidal, my neighbor from nearly 20 years ago, when I lived in Gaza. “Yes, of course, I do,” I answered. I remembered him as yet another troublemaking child among the Nuseirat Refugee Camp’s numerous rabble-rousers. He was defined […]

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Fear is driving Israelis to obtain foreign passports

Posted June 2, 2011 | Patrick Mac Manus’s Blog More and more Israelis apply for a foreign passport, not for easier travel but because something has gone terribly wrong here… The numbers are climbing rapidly and the phenomenon is intriguing: Many Israelis are longing for a second passport. If Shimon Peres (now president ) once […]

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What sort of Christians become Zionists?

June 18, 2010 | Wake Up From Your Slumber “We categorically reject Christian Zionist doctrines as a false teaching that corrupts the biblical message of love, justice and reconciliation” – The Jerusalem Declaration Stuart Littlewood, Sabbah Report, 17 June 2010 Not all Jews are Zionists. Many reject the Zionist project and fight against it. So […]

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Youths to protest Ki-moon flotilla statement in Ramallah

[ 02/06/2011 – 11:39 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Youth groups in Palestine have launched Facebook pages calling for a sit-in Friday to protest statements by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon urging to thwart the Freedom Flotilla II set to deliver aid to Gaza 20 June. The groups said the sit-in would take place in front of […]

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Mavi Marmara: The Inside Story – video

Source In Pictures Visit the Weblog Flotilla Massacres | Passengers Testimonies 9 Monuments for 9 Martyrs | Biographies of the Martyrs

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Lexington: The kosherest nosh ever – America’s mighty pro-Israel lobby may be less durable than it looks

May 26th 2011 | The Economist BARACK OBAMA was visiting London at the time. Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian prime minister, was in a Texas hospital with heart trouble. These gentlemen should count themselves lucky they were not there to hear Binyamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu speak to the American Congress on the morning of May 24th. Watching […]

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Aussie surgeons to give Gazan girl ears

  By Mary Gearin | Updated June 2, 2011 | ABC.Net Dr Andrew Greensmith, who separated conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna, will help to make Malak’s ears. (AAP: Royal Children’s Hospital) A Gazan girl born without ears will be treated in Australia by the same surgeon who helped separate conjoined Bangladeshi twins Krishna and Trishna. […]

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Occupation campaign against Palestinian leadership continues

  Thursday, 02 June 2011 14:30| MEMO Deputy and Former Minister for Transport and Communications, Abdel Rahman Zeidan of Tulkaram. Israel’s occupation forces launched this week an aggressive campaign of arrests targeting a number of Palestinian leaders in the West Bank, particularly members of the Change and Reform Bloc within the Palestinian Legislative Council. Most […]

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Beit Sahour Raises the French Flag

  PNN – Palestine News Network -02.06.11 – 15:10 Beit Sahour – PNN – The Beit Sahour municipality raised the French flag on its municipal building during a ceremony on Wednesday evening.   PNN Archives Beit Sahour, a mostly Christian town in the southern West Bank, has a twinning agreement with the French city Vaulx-en-Velin. […]

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