JDL’s “Travel Agency” call for a “Zionist Militant Rampage Trip”

Above the screenprint of the official announcement as seen on the “Ligue Défense Juive” weblog, inviting Militants with experience to enforce the upcoming and apparently self-forfilling prophecy of a violent crack down in the west bank on Palestinians. Translation: “The JDL is organizing 19 to 25 September, a trip solidarity with our Israeli brothers living […]

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Egyptian call for stronger measures against Israeli border aggression

MEMO | September 5, 2011 The Secretary General of Egypt’s Freedom and Justice Party has demanded that Essam Sharaf’s cabinet take stronger measures against Israeli aggression on the border with Egypt. Saad Al Katatny said that his country should follow Turkey’s example, which has expelled the Israeli ambassador following the Zionist state’s refusal to apologise […]

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Statement | Friends of Al-Aqsa and Israeli propaganda

Monday, 05 September 2011 18:00| MEMO A response to the deeply-misleading Meir Amit Report It is the usual policy at Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA) not to respond to blatant attempts to discredit our work by Israel’s propaganda machine. Since 1997, many such attempts have been made, yet our organisation goes from strength to strength and […]

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UN report on Gaza blockade flawed ~ Interview with Medeia Benjamin – founder Code Pink

PressTV –  Mon Sep 5, 2011 5:20PM GMT Interview with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not apologize for a deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last year which killed nine Turkish nationals. Netanyahu said Israel expresses regret for the loss of life, but will not […]

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Funding settlements, funding Islamophobia — all in a day’s work

by Philip Weiss on September 5, 2011 | Mondoweiss Here is a nice example of a writer connecting the dots. Farah Khaled in Arab News picks up where the recent report on murderous Islamophobia by the Center for American Progress leaves off, and says that the exponents of Islamophobia in the U.S., and its funders […]

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Report: Settlers attack Bethlehem university lecturer

Maan News Agency | Sept 5, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — A lecturer at Bethlehem university was injured Monday evening after being attacked by settlers on the Ramallah-Nablus road. Dr Adwan Adwan, 41, told Ma’an that he was on route to Zawata village in Nablus when settlers attacked his car with stones. He suffered injuries to […]

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Rallies held outside Ofer prison as Palestinian Reporters kept behind bars

[ 05/09/2011 – 03:14 PM ] Related: In “Israel” Only ( Mute ) Buttons Matter: “For Tweeting until Termination” RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Dozens joined a sit-in Monday noon outside of the Israeli Ofer prison near Ramallah/Baituniya in the occupied West Bank as Israeli occupation authorities continue to hold four Palestinian reporters. Among the protesters were Palestinian […]

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“Return” Plan for al-Bared: Displacing the Displaced

Nahr al-Bared inhabitant looks on at the debris of his neighborhood. (Photo: Haytham al-Moussawi) By: Qasem Qasem | Monday, September 5, 2011| Al Akhbar English Rumors about the fate of the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp began to circulate following its destruction by the Lebanese army in 2007. WikiLeaks documents now reveal that one of […]

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Arab League criticises claim that siege of Gaza is legitimate

Monday, 05 September 2011 16:30 | MEMO The Arab League has criticized the United Nations for issuing a report which claims that Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip is legitimate. Such a position, said the League’s spokesman, harms the UN’s reputation, having declared previously that the siege imposed on Gaza’s million and a half Palestinians […]

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Why Palestinians can’t recognize a ‘Jewish state’

Hassan Jabareen| Monday, 05 September 2011 11:40 | MEMO For Palestinians to recognize the Jewish state is to declare their surrender; to waive their group dignity. In his speech before the U.S. Congress last May, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posed a serious challenge to the Palestinian Authority: If the PA would just say, “We recognize […]

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Army Surrounds Bethlehem Village, Uproots Olive Trees – International Middle East Media Center

Monday September 05, 2011 12:57 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Local sources reported Monday that Israeli soldiers are currently surrounding the Al Walaja Village, near Bethlehem, and are uprooting dozens of Olive trees in order to construct a section of the illegal Annexation Wall in the area. File – Soldiers Attacking Villagers In […]

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Hamas rejects UN Palmer Report and calls on Turkey to cut all relations with Israel

  Monday, 05 September 2011 14:30| MEMO The leader of Hamas in Gaza has made clear his movement’s rejection of the UN Palmer Report into Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla in May 2010. According to Mahmoud Zahar, the report which calls Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza “legitimate”, flies in the face of international law […]

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Barghouthi: Settlers could commit massacre

An Israeli soldier walks past Hebrew writing on the walls of a mosque in the West Bank village of Qusra, near Nablus. The writing on the walls are the names of outposts Migron and Eli Ayn and “Mohammad is a pig.” [Reuters/Abed Omar Qusini] Maan News Agency / Reuters | Sept 5, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) […]

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Abu Rdeina: Settler violence attempt to thwart UN bid

Maan News Agency | Sept 5, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeina said Monday that the recent escalation in settler violence is an attempt to thwart the Palestinian bid for UN recognition in September. Abu Rdeina condemned Monday’s arson attack on a Palestinian mosque in Qusra, south of Nablus and said […]

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UFree discuss in Gaza internationalizing Israel’s persecution of Palestinian MPs

[ 05/09/2011 – 12:13 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian MP Mushir al-Masri, who heads the international Free PLC members committee, has met with head of the European network to support the Palestinian prisoners (UFree) Mohammed Hamdan to discuss ways to internationalize the issue of Israel’s continued detention of Palestinian MPs. Meeting also with MP Rami […]

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