UN bid lacks some Palestinian demands

PressTV -Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:28PM GMT Iran’s Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani Iran’s Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani says that the Palestinian Authority’s statehood bid does not fully meet the Palestinian demands. “The Palestinian statehood bid as propagated by the media and policymakers do not incorporate all of the rights and demands of the […]

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Israel terrorizes WB ahead of UN bid

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid PressTV – Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:12PM GMT Israeli forces invade the West Bank towns and villages and arrest Palestinians on an almost daily basis. (File photo) Israeli forces have abducted at least nine Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank as Tel Aviv steps up a […]

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Jewish Settlers Run Over Disabled Palestinian, Abduct Another, Plan New Massacres

by Haitham Sabbah on September 18, 2011 | Sabbah Report When Egyptian police ran over revolutionist with their police cars, it was breaking news all over the mainstream media. When Israelis however run over ‘disabled‘ Palestinians deliberately, it is NO ‘news‘. Of course this is not the first time that Israelis commit such war crimes. […]

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Haneyya calls UN bid ‘political adventurism’

[ 18/09/2011 – 09:56 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Gaza-based Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya has slammed the Palestinian Authority’s bid for membership in the United Nations, calling the move “political adventurism”. He said that the PA’s UN bid “moved in the opposite direction” of the Arab Spring, adding that anyone who “acts frivolously with the […]

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Ultra-orthodox Jews enter Al-Aqsa Mosque

[ 18/09/2011 – 10:15 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Tension ran high in Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday morning after Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) opened the holy site up to ultra-orthodox Jews. The Israeli police stood guard to protect batches of Jews who continuously entered the mosque, the third holiest in Islam, throughout the day, in […]

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Netherlands forbid women to wear a Niqab

If you live in the Netherlands, and support the right of the woman of self determination and respect her choice to choose wearing hijab, niqab, khimar or whatever she likes to, you can give your voice against this discriminatory law at http://petities.nl/petitie/nee-tegen-boerkaverbod/ Spreading of this appeal is appreciated. Recently in France, a muslim sister was […]

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Erdogan: Israel is the West’s Spoiled Child

By James M. Wall * | Sabbah Report: http://www.sabbah.biz | Sept 19, 2011 Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. AP On Tuesday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told an Arab League meeting in Cairo, Egypt, that a vote to accept a Palestinian state in the United Nations “is not a choice but an obligation.” Later, on […]

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Netherlands will not support Palestine state bid in UN

Kuna Politics  9/19/2011 6:32:00 PM BRUSSELS, Sept 19 (KUNA) — The Dutch representative to the United Nations will not support a bid by Palestine to become a fully-fledged UN member this week, Radio Netherlands reported Monday. Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal tried unsuccessfully this weekend to reach Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to try once more […]

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Statehood must mean liquidation of the occupation

[ 18/09/2011 – 11:22 PM ] By Khalid Amayreh Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has assured the Palestinian masses that a possible recognition of statehood by the UN won’t be at the expense of other fundamental Palestinian rights, including the paramount right of return for Palestinian refugees, uprooted from their homeland at gunpoint by […]

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Gaza: Khan Younis revisited

Monday, 19 September 2011 |  Scoop News | Article: Julie Webb-Pullman When Kia Ora Gaza was in Gaza almost a year ago, some of the team visited poor families and orphans in Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Yunis. At that time I reported on the dire situation faced by families there, some of whom had been […]

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Ambassador: Spain Will Convince EU to Support Palestine at UN

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid PNN – Palestine News Network19.09.11 – 12:06 Kifah Odeh, the Palestinian ambassador to Spain, declared after a meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez that he was assured of Spanish diplomatic efforts in support of the .Palestinian statehood bid at the UN Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez (Wikipedia). […]

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PA urges Israel to recognize Palestine

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid PressTV – Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:41AM GMT Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas arrives at his hotel in New York, Monday, Sep. 19, 2011. Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas has urged Israel to recognize Palestine as an independent state ahead of a formal request for […]

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Haneyya: Israeli occupation is ‘in decline’

[ 19/09/2011 – 08:46 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya has said that the Israeli occupation is “in decline”, and that the Palestinians benefited most from the Arab Spring. “The Zionist occupation is in decline, in light of the disappearance of its allies who protected it over the past decades,” Haneyya said […]

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IOF soldiers arrest Palestinian woman, six other Jerusalemites

[ 19/09/2011 – 08:51 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian woman from occupied Jerusalem alleging that she was planning to smuggle mobile phones to Palestinian prisoners. An IOF statement on Sunday said that the woman, who was not named, was detained in Afula, in northern occupied Palestine 1948, with […]

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Al-Quds Brigades threatens to wage war against PASF

[ 19/09/2011 – 09:05 AM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad party, issued strong threats against the Palestinian Authority security forces, warning it would wage a “war of attrition” unless the PASF released one of its commanders Mahmoud al-Saadi. “We address you as Mujahedeen before we launch a […]

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