Map of the Day: Countries that Support Palestine’s UN Bid

September 27, 2011 | UN Dispatch | Mark Leon Goldberg Today’s map comes via Chris Albon. (Really, though, it is just an excuse to link to this great summary from What’s in Blue about the next procedural steps on Palestinian membership to the United Nations.) The map is from Imgur.com and purports to show “countries […]

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Basim Hjazee Demolished His House with His Own Hands

Wednesday, 28 September, 2011 | 00:05 |  Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) —  Basim Hjazee was forced to demolish his own house which lies in the neighbourhood of al Abaseya in Silwan. Hjazee received a demolition order from theJerusalemMunicipalityas well as a fine 15,000 NIS ( $1=3.70 NIS)  before Jerusalem […]

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Medics: 3 Palestinians die in Rafah smuggling tunnel

Maan News Agency | Updated September 27, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Three Palestinians were pronounced dead on Tuesday morning after Egyptian authorities pumped sewage inside a smuggling tunnel under the Gaza border on Sunday. The ambulance and emergency services committee in Gaza said the three victims were found alive inside the tunnel. They were […]

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Zionist stitches go deep in US fabric

PressTV –  Tue Sep 27, 2011 9:37AM GMT | By Afshin Rattansi Israel has a good friend in Rupert Murdoch. Here in the UK, I’m still not sure which is worse – to see a mob of MPs suddenly united against the police, press and seemingly themselves or a mob cowering before Rupert Murdoch and […]

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Palestine and Rothschild

Arab News | September 27, 2011 Because of my studies in Near Eastern archaeology, I read up on the history of this region as of the 19th century — during the Ottoman Empire. If it had not been for a Paris-based Rothschild (I think his name was Edmond) approaching the then caliph, asking him to […]

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Palestinians detained in Israel start hunger strike

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Maan News Agency | September 27, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails have started a hunger strike to protest their treatment by the Israeli prison services, Palestinian Authority Minister of Detainee Affairs Issa Qaraqe said Tuesday. Detainees are threatening to disobey all prison rules if […]

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EU slams Israel settlement expansion

PressTV – Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:21PM GMT EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton The European Union has criticized Israel for its illegal expansion of settlement units in the occupied Palestinian territories. EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Tuesday that Israel’s plan to build 1,100 new illegal housing units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) […]

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Knesset to vote on full Israeli annexation of the West Bank

By Adam Horowitz on September 27, 2011 | Mondoweiss Danny Danon, who recently appeared with Rick Perry in New York, announced today that the Knesset will vote on his bill to annex the West Bank at the end of October. The bill also nullifies the Oslo Accords, ending all Israeli agreements with the Palestinian Authority. […]

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Iran intifada confab to host 70 states

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video PressTV – Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:26PM GMT Hossein Sheikholeslam Secretary of international conference on the Palestinian Intifada Hossein Sheikholeslam says 70 countries are attending the upcoming summit in Tehran. “Parliament speakers of Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Afghanistan (heads of Senate, Parliament and Loya Jirga), Comoros, […]

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Settlers gather south of Bethlehem, block cars

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Maan News Agency, Sept 27, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers gathered on Tuesday at the junction between the Tuqu village southeast of Bethlehem and prevented some cars from passing through, witnesses said. Onlookers told Ma’an that dozens of settlers went out in a march near Tuqu junction […]

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Hasbara in Helsinki ~ by @dvcronin

David Cronin | Tue, Sept 27, 2011 | The Electronic Intifada Here we go again. Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, is portraying the Israel-Palestine conflict as one between equals. In a speech today, Ashton congratulated herself for increasing Europe’s involvement in something called the Middle East peace process. “I have worked to achieve a […]

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Gaza government backs Palestinian state but not at cost of recognising Israel or relinquishing historic Palestine

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:00| MEMO Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh: “We are in favour of dialogue that will lead to a joint strategy regarding Palestine and the nation’s fundamental issues,” The Prime Minister of the Palestinian government in Gaza has said that he and his […]

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I am from Nabi Saleh – video

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Israel plans 1,100 more settlement units as legislators call for full annexation

Tuesday September 27, 2011 17:16 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News A group of right-wing Israeli legislators submitted a letter to the Israeli Prime Minister on Monday stating that in response to the Palestinian Authority’s unilateral bid for statehood at the United Nations, Israel must retaliate by fully annexing all West Bank settlements as part […]

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Israeli finance minister calls for elimination of Palestinian Authority if it becomes “anti-Israel state”

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 16:10 | MEMO Yuval Steinitz has called for the elimination of the Palestinian Authority if it turns into an anti-Israel state. Israel’s Minister of Finance has called for the elimination of the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas in response to the bid for full membership of the United Nations before […]

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