UN expert Prof. Em. Richard Falk calls for Palestine membership

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood Maan News Agency | September 22, 2011 GENEVA (AFP) — The UN expert for the Palestinian territories Richard Falk on Thursday called on UN member states to recognize Palestine as a state, saying its right of self-determination should be respected. In a statement, Falk “called […]

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Settler violence and ‘the threat of Jewish terrorism’ – video

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video by Kate on September 22, 2011 | Mondoweiss     On Tuesday 21st September, a group of about 100 settlers entered the Palestinian village of Asira al-Qibiliya near Nablus and began attacking residents, witnesses said. A correspondent said stones were being thrown by both sides and that some […]

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BDS update: Buttressing an independent Palestine

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video by Eric Walberg | September 22nd, 2011 | Dissident Voice A new Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) campaign was launched this summer by the United Church of Canada, which will try to persuade six companies operating in Canada — Caterpillar, Motorola, Ahava, Veolia, Elbit Systems and Chapters/Indigo — […]

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Israeli law lecturer calls #Jordan a “puppet state”

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood Thursday, 22 September 2011 17:30| MEMO An Israeli law lecturer has called the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan a “puppet state” which had never existed in reality or on a map and whose people are “a combination of tribes recently settled” there. In his Op-Ed piece […]

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Israeli Military Storm Villages, Break Into West Bank Homes – International Middle East Media Center

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Thursday September 22, 2011 20:10 by Lina Iseed – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli military stormed the villages of Burqin and al-‘Arqah near the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday. Military vehicles patrolled the streets of the villages, no arrests were reported. Palestinian sources said that an […]

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Women demonstrate in Gaza in support of UN bid

Related: Crackdown in Qalandiya – in pictures | Gallery – More Photography Maan News Agency | September 22, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Dozens of women marched in support of the Palestinian bid for UN membership on Thursday, in a rally jointly organized by the General Federation of Palestinian Women and political party FIDA. The […]

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Long Live Palestine : Shabab vs The Israeli soldiers at Qalandia Checkpoint 21-9-2011 – video

Related: Crackdown in Qalandiya – in pictures | Gallery – More Photography September 21, 2011 During a violent five-hour clash between Palestinian youths and Israeli special forces at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem, 20 Palestinians were injured and Israeli troops experimented with two unusual weapons. Israeli soldiers used an acoustic, vehicle-mounted device called […]

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PASF nabs seven Hamas supporters in arrest campaign

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood [ 22/09/2011 – 10:22 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Palestinian Authority security services arrested Thursday morning seven supporters of Palestinian resistance group Hamas in an arrest campaign in the West Bank. Dozens more Hamas supporters were also handed summonses for questioning. Most of those wanted by […]

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20 Palestinians Injured In Qalandia Clashes

Related: Crackdown in Qalandiya – in pictures |  Gallery – More Photography Thursday September 22, 2011 19:09 by Palestine News Network Palestinian medical sources reported that twenty Palestinians were wounded during clashes with Israeli soldiers stationed at the Qalandia terminal, north of Jerusalem. A Palestinian youth holds up the national flag at Wednesday’s Qalandia demonstration […]

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The blessed & the cursed in US policies

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood PressTV  | Thu Sep 22, 201 1 3:55PM GMT | By Ismail Salami Palestinians burn signs against President Obama during a protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah on September 22, 2011. Palestinians slammed US President Barak Obama’s United Nations address a day earlier, […]

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Israel’s violent crack-down of Qalandiya’s non-violent protest – in pictures

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS Art. 20(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association September 21, 2011 Dozens injured at Qalandia and a 13 year old boy lost an eye due to being shot by Israel in the face.

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Humanitarian aid for Palestinians should be unnecessary

The Challenges of Delivering Assistance & Monthly Costs of $375.000 to get aid into Palestine – Report The huge amount of money spent on aid wouldn’t be needed if the international community pressed Israel to lift the blockade and respect international law, and pushed for a political solution A Palestinian boy stands beside bags of […]

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Zahar: Going to the UN a “Useless Political Leap”

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood PNN – Palestine News Network – 22.09.11 – 15:35 A delegation from Hamas headed on Thursday to Damascus to participate in the meeting of the movement’s political bureau. Hamas Commander Mahmoud Zahar told the London-based al-Hayat newspaper before leaving Cairo that the meeting was routine and not concerned with the Palestinian […]

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In Tel Aviv, a Right of Return in Theory Only

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood PNN – Palestine News Network –  22.09.11 | Brendan Work and Sara DeGregoria With statehood questions swirling at the UN, few analyses bother to dwell on perhaps the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s most intractable issue: the UN-sanctioned right claimed by more than 5 million Palestinian refugees to return […]

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PA gives UN ‘some time’ to mull over appeal

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood [ 22/09/2011 – 08:49 AM ] NEW YORK, (PIC)– Fatah central committee member Nabil Shaath said Wednesday night that the Palestinian Authority will give the United Nations “some time” to mull over the request for full membership after U.S. President Barack Obama reiterated his opposition […]

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