Archive | September 28, 2011

Discrimination Against Palestinian Citizens of Israel

IMEU |  Sep 28, 2011 In recent months, Israeli and American officials have been increasingly vocal in demanding that the Palestinians must recognize Israel as a “Jewish state” as part of any peace agreement. On Monday, September 26th, it was reported that Israel and America’s insistence that a clause defining Israel as a Jewish state […]

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Money for nothing and occupation for free: The 1994 Paris protocols on economic relations between Israel and the PLO

Simone Daud on September 28, 2011 | Mondoweiss I’m familiar with Stanley Fischer’s research before he became a central banker. I also know his books with Dornbusch and Blanchard very well. Fischer is a Rhodesian born economist who has been the governor of Israel’s central bank since 2005. Last year Fischer was declared Central Banker of […]

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Expert says New Settlement to Divide West Bank

Palestine News & Info Agency – WAFA – Sept 28, 2011 RAMALLAH (WAFA) –Israel’s approval of a plan to build new 1100 housing units in the East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo is a prelude to an Israeli project to build a new settlement that will separate south of the West Bank from the Palestinian villages […]

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Call for Actions | Palestine Justice Network

Sept 28, 2011 | Palestine Justice Network Palestine Justice Network (PJN) cosponsored by many popular resistance and civil society invites internationals to come visit occupied Palestine. Previously we hosted internationals to do exploratory and support missions to Palestine for example during Christmas 2010 and the attempt to arrive by the hundreds in July 2011. For […]

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Extremist settler attacks shepherd and brutally abuses flock | International Solidarity Movement

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video 28 September 2011  | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 17th of September Israeli colonists attacked a shepherd near Sha’ab el-Butom, resulting in several sheep injured and the arrest of the young shepherd. Sha’ab el-Butom is a small Bedouin village in South Hebron Hills not even mentioned in […]

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The spirit of Palestine

PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s dramatic bid for Palestinian statehood at the UN signaled the final death of the so-called ‘peace process’ Mona Anis , Wednesday 28 Sep 2011 |  Opinion – Ahram Online “The discrepancy between important political, moral, and cultural gains on the one hand, and, on the other, a droning ground bass of […]

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Committee for Defending Arab Prisoners in Israeli Jails is launched in Cairo

Related Special Topic : Palestinian Prisoners Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:02| MEMO The group will be defending the rights of all Palestinian and Arab prisoners being held by the Israeli occupation authorities. A joint Egyptian-Palestinian Committee for Supporting Arab Prisoners in Israeli Jails has been launched at a ceremony in Cairo. The new group will […]

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Palestine inmates in Israel plan strike

Related Special Topic : Palestinian Prisoners PressTV – Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:46AM GMT Palestinian women during a protest calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, the International Red Cross building in Gaza City, September 19, 2011. Palestinian inmates in notorious Israeli prisons are set to go on a hunger strike to […]

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Palestinian children woken in night to be photographed by soldiers

  Youngsters in West Bank village were forced out of bed for Israeli military ‘mapping’ exercise Balil Tamimi, whose children were woken past midnight to be photographed by Israeli soldiers Photograph: Harriet Sherwood/guardian.co.uk Harriet Sherwood | guardian.co.uk | Sept 28, 2011 I went to Nabi Saleh earlier this week, a West Bank village which has […]

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Locals: Israeli forces hand Bethlehem village confiscation orders

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Maan News Agency | Sept 28, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces notified villagers near Bethlehem their land will soon be confiscated, local residents said Wednesday. Land owned by 40 families in Battir village — 148 dunams of vegetable, fruit and olive groves — is earmarked for confiscation, […]

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Miles of Smiles aid convoy to return to Gaza in early October

[ 28/09/2011 – 10:20 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– A humanitarian convoy dubbed Miles of Smiles 6 will head to Gaza in early October to deliver badly needed medical supplies as the vast majority of Gazans continue to rely on aid amid a crippling Israeli siege. Organizers have been consulting with the Palestinian health ministry in […]

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“Security coordination” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is ongoing

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Wednesday, 28 September 2011 12:00 | MEMO General Almoz added that he will exert every possible effort to curb the violence of settlers’. An Israeli official has revealed that security coordination between the Israel Defence Forces and the Palestinian Authority is ongoing at all levels. This, said Brigadier […]

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Israeli Army Invades Jenin and Arrests Citizens

PNN – Palestine News Network –  28.09.11 – 13:11 The Israeli army invaded Jenin, Hebron this morning, declared curfew and started invaded houses where they arrested several citizens. Security resources reported that the Israeli Army arrested 40-year-old Mahmoud Abdel-Razeq Jarar, after invading and searching his parents’ house in Al-Jdida village. Villages of Al-Zawiyeh, Mithlon, Seryis, […]

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Israeli Official Silvan “Shalom” Threatens Ground Attack on Gaza

Gaza Under Attack – in pictures Qatar News Agency | 10:34 2011/09/28 | Article 0032 Occupied Jerusalem,September 28 (QNA) -Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom has threatened a ground attack on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for what he claimed continued firing of projectiles into Israel. He said in a television interview that launching of […]

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