Rio cartoonist @CarlosLatuff inspires Arab rebellions from afar

By Stuart Grudgings | Maan News Agency | Aug 29, 2011 RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – His cartoons are edgy, bold, and a thorn in the side of the Arab world’s tottering authoritarians — a gift to protesters from the unlikely setting of an apartment in beach-side Rio de Janeiro. Carlos Latuff, a 42-year-old leftist […]

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Israel mulls arming ‘trained’ settlers

30 August 2011 | Al Jazeera | International Solidarity Movement Army plans to provide tear gas and stun grenades in West Bank to repel any Palestinian protests next month, report says. The Israeli army is planning to provide tear gas and stun grenades to settlers in the occupied West Bank who have been trained to […]

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Murky Anti-Semitism (Zionist Style)

  By Lawrence Davidson * | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz | Aug 29, 2011 Part I – Stretching the Definition of Anti-Semitism Can criticism of Israel, particularly a) criticism of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people and b) criticism of the state ideology of Zionism that justifies that treatment, be labeled anti-Semitic? This is not […]

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Israel Makes Mahmoud Abu Samra A ‘Shaheed’

Gaza Under Attack- in pictures | Part 1 | Part 2 | By James M. Wall * | Sabbah Report | http://www.sabbah.biz | Aug 29, 2011 Mahmoud Abu Samra (left) and two of his friends (Source: The Palestine Chronicle) Mahmoud Abu Samra was killed August 19 in an Israeli air raid near Gaza City. He […]

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Trial of West Bank organizer, Bassem Tamimi, to resume Sunday

30 August 2011 | Popular Struggle Coordination Committee | International Solidaruty Movement After telling the judge that he does not recognize the legitimacy of the court and of military law during his arraignment on June 5th, Bassem Tamimi’s trial is expected to open this coming Sunday, when prosecution witnesses will take the stand for the first time. […]

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Haneyya calls on Turkey to provide needs of Gaza’s hospitals

Urgent| New Videos from Gaza’s As Shifa Hospital Dr Ayman Al-Sahbani re medical supplies – video New weapons being used – what are they? Medics explains the injuries – video Critical Care Unit Al Shifa Hospital dealing with horrific new injuries – video Fadi Hamada and Dr Ayman Al-Sahbani call for international help – video […]

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Miles of Smiles and Africa 1 convoys reach Gaza

[ 30/08/2011 – 05:32 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Miles of Smiles and Africa 1 aid convoys reached the Gaza Strip on Monday evening through the Rafah border crossing. The higher committee for receiving delegations in Gaza said that Miles of Smiles5 from Europe which was dubbed the “border martyrs” to honour the Egyptian soldiers killed […]

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Derfner’s next assignment

by Eleanor Kilroy on August 30, 2011 | Mondoweiss I wonder if I am being uncharitable in thinking that Larry Derfner got himself into this predicament by failing to apply moral standards consistently. Any such ethical position would, of course, have got him fired from JPost, but at least he’d have fallen more firmly on […]

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The IOF trains Jewish settlers to confront any expected Palestinian intifada

[ 30/08/2011 – 03:54 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A report published in Haaretz newspaper on Tuesday says that the IOF is training Jewish settlers on how to deal with the Palestinians including the use of fire arms against them if they got near Jewish settlements. The IOF is expecting a new intifada to break […]

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Jewish settlers attack Qasra village and damage hundreds of olive trees

[ 30/08/2011 – 02:15 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers attacked on Monday evening the village of Qasra to the south east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and inflicted damage on a number of fields planted with olive trees. Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of settlements file in the northern West Bank, said […]

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Does the Palestinian UN Bid Threaten Refugee Rights?

PA president Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the UNGA last year. (UN/file) By Ma’an News – Bethlehem As the leadership in Ramallah prepares to approach the UN for membership in September, it is also fighting back charges that its initiative is shortsighted and even a threat to Palestinian refugees. Last week Ma’an published for the first […]

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Israeli army trains West Bank settlers

Maan News Agency | Aug 30, 2011 JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli army is training settlers in the West Bank to repel any violent protests in the territories when the Palestinians try to secure UN membership next month, the military said. Asked to confirm a story first reported in Haaretz newspaper, the army issued a […]

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More incitement: Israel on ‘high alert’ for more attacks

PNN – Palestine News Network -30.08.11 – 14:36 Bethlehem – PNN – The Israeli government is preparing for a possible second wave of attacks on the south of the country, according to the Israeli paper Maariv. The newspaper has claimed that the government believes Islamic Jihad (IJ), a militant organisation based in the Gaza Strip, […]

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Israel gives settlers weapons for September

30.08.11 – 15:20 | PNN News Network Bethlehem – PNN – The Israeli military has given West Bank settlers ‘non-lethal’ weapons to use against Palestinian demonstrators this September, according to Haaretz. A military document, obtained by the newspaper, claims ‘disorder’ will increase due to the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN. It discusses the […]

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Palestinians call for investigation into high incidence of illness in Israeli jails

Related: Special Topic Palestinian Prisoners Tuesday, 30 August 2011 01:50| MEMO PCDD: Israeli prisons lack specialist doctors and Palestinian detainees are given nothing but pain killers. A Palestinian rights centre has called for an investigation into the high incidence of illness and disease among Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. A significant number die very soon […]

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