Does Your Congressperson Represent You – or Israel?

by Medea Benjamin | August 15th, 2011 | Dissident Voice In this time of economic austerity, when jobs are being slashed and Americans are fearful about their future, the Congressional recess is the time for our elected representatives to be home in their districts, reaching out to their constituents and servicing the people they are […]

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Israel OK’s 277 new West Bank settler units

PressTV –  Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:22PM GMT Israel’s illegal settlement units being constructed in the West Bank. (File photo) Israel has approved the construction of 277 new settler units in the Ariel settlement in the occupied West Bank despite international condemnation of the move. The plan was authorized by Israel’s Minister of Military Affairs, […]

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Six taken, including 3 minors, in West Bank arrest sweep

[ 15/08/2011 – 03:16 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces have arrested Monday at least six Palestinians, among them three minors, in a number of heated arrest sweeps in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. On Monday morning, two men claimed to be wanted by the Israeli security were nabbed in random various […]

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Resheq: Repeated harassment of worshipers racist

[ 15/08/2011 – 10:55 AM ] DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Political bureau member of Hamas Ezzet Al-Resheq has described the repeated Israeli harassment of worshipers at the Ibrahimi mosque in Al-Khalil as “racist”. He said in a press statement on Sunday that such practices reflected the racist policy of the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) that does not […]

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Palestinian fisherman wounded in Israeli navy gunfire

[ 15/08/2011 – 10:58 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian fisherman was hit and wounded off the northern Gaza shores on Monday when Israeli navy gunboats opened fire at him, medical sources reported. They said that the 42-year-old fisherman was fishing in regional waters off Beit Lahia, north of Gaza Strip, when he was hit […]

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Gaza: New Israeli settlement plan violates international law

[ 15/08/2011 – 10:50 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The government in Gaza has strongly condemned Israel’s new settlement venture as a “blatant violation of all international norms and conventions”. The statement comes after Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai recently approved a plan to build 4,300 settlement units in Jerusalem. In the statement, the Gaza Ministry […]

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PRESS RELEASE: ‘We Are All Palestine’ campaign calls for International Volunteers (Contact Details Included)

PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.08.11 – 13:18 West Bank-PNN- The High Follow-up Committee of the Palestine Popular Resistance Committees calls for international support and activists for the ‘We Are All Palestine’ campaign, a 17-day program of resistance from 16th September to 3rd of October 2011.   The call is being issued by a […]

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‫اعتقال 3 أطفال من حي البستان على أيدي مستعربين‬‎ – 3 Children & 1 Teen arrested by Israeli Forces | #Silwan – video

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Al-Walaja villagers rally to save oldest living olive tree from destruction by Israeli forces

  Monday August 15, 2011 11:33 by Saed Bannoura/Mazin Qumsiyeh – IMEMC News On Saturday August 13, 2011, a show of nonviolent popular resistance occurred in Al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem. Protester abducted in Al-Walaja on Wednesday (image by palestine monitor) The Israeli army had mobilized in large numbers, anticipating the villagers’ weekly protest. They […]

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UK foreign minister: Israel settlement build ‘deeply disappointing’

Maan News Agency – Aug 15, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — UK Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned Israel’s approval of a new batch of settlement homes in East Jerusalem, in a statement released late Friday. The decision was “deeply disappointing,” Hague said. “I am concerned that Israel has ignored the international community’s calls for an end […]

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Israel approves 227 new illegal homes in W.Bank

15-08-2011,13:49 – Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades Al Qasssam website– Occupied Territories- Israeli War Minister Ehud Barak has approved the building of 277 apartments in the illegal West Bank settlement of Ariel, Israeli sources said Monday August15th, 2011. Israeli occupation government approves 227 new illegal homes in West Bank settlement of Ariel. The Israeli newspaper “Ha’aretz” reported […]

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Dichter’s Law! ~ by Uri Averny

PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.08.11 – 11:01 By Uri Avnery/Gush Shalom – “THE PEOPLE Demand Social Justice!” 250 thousand protesters chanted in unison in Tel Aviv last Saturday. But what they need – to quote an American artist – is “more unemployed politicians”. Uri Avnery – Gush Shalom Fortunately, the Knesset has gone […]

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Living Hell in Tel Rumeida

PNN – Palestine News Network –  15.08.11 – 11:09 PNN Exclusive/ By Alessandra Bajec – The first time I visited Hebron and thereafter, I thought the Old City, with its 700 Israeli settlers living under heavy protection by the army amongst about 30,000 Palestinians, is the most insane place I have seen on earth. Until […]

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Mansour and Erakat: Continued Settlement Expansion is Illegal

PNN – Palestine News Network -15.08.11 – 11:27 Dr Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations and Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erakat have both issued declarations echoing many other international diplomats that continued Israeli settlement expansion is illegal. In letters to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Chairman of the United […]

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Palestinian Christian Leaders call on Honduras to Recognise Palestinian State

PNN – Palestine News Network – 15.08.11 – 11:45 Bethlehem – PNN – Palestinian Christian leaders from Bethlehem have called upon Honduras to recognise Palestine as an independent state at the United Nations in September.  The message was delivered in a letter to the Honduran Foreign Minister Mario Canahuati, signed by the mayors of Bethlehem […]

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