Fatah official: going to UN is an irresponsible step

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood [ 01/10/2011 – 11:19 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Dr. Rebhi Hallom, member of the PLO’s national council has described Thursday Abbas’s step to seek full membership in the UN as an irresponsible step, a jump in the air and a new doze of sedative that […]

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Meshaal: Resistance will free Palestine

PressTV -Sat Oct 1, 2011 1:27PM GMT Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal (file photo) Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal has once again highlighted the role of resistance as the ‘sole path’ for the liberation of Palestine. Speaking at the fifth International Conference on the Palestinian Intifada in the Iranian capital of Tehran, Meshaal […]

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Settlers uproot Palestinian olive trees

▣ Related: Special Topic Settler Violence | All posts on Settler Violence PressTV –  Sat Oct 1, 2011 2:15PM File photo shows Israelis uprooting Palestinian olive trees Israeli settlers have once again targeted the Palestinian economy by uprooting about 200 olive trees near the West Bank villages of Hawara and Ein Nabus. The Saturday attack […]

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Assassination Rights

by Edward S. Herman |  October 1st, 2011 | Dissindent Voice Assassination is as American as apple pie. The record-breaking case of assassination targeting is Fidel Castro.  The 1976 Church Committee report on “Alleged Assassination Plots on Foreign Leaders” listed “at least” seven attempts to kill Castro, but the book by Fabian Escalante, the Cuban […]

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Shaath: US trying to avoid veto by pressuring UN Security Council members

Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid | Category Statehood Maan News Agency | Oct 1, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath said Saturday the US was trying to avoid using its veto by pressuring UN Security Council members to vote against a Palestinian bid for UN membership. At a news conference […]

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Official: Settlers start fire near Nablus

Maan News Agency | Oct 1, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers burned farmland south of Nablus on Saturday, a Palestinian official said. Ghassan Doughlas, who monitors settler violence and vandalism in the northern West Bank, said land in the Einabus and Huwwara villages burned as the result of a fire set by residents of […]

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Israeli forces ‘raid Palestinian village’

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Maan News Agency | October 1, 2011 QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided a village near Qalqiliya and placed checkpoints on roads leading to it, locals said. Witnesses said soldiers were stopping residents from traveling through Kafr Qaddum village. Murad Eshtewy, a Fatah spokesman in Qalqiliya, said Israel’s […]

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Iran ‘totally rejects’ UN statehood bid

Maan News Agency | Oct 1, 2011 | By Ramin Mostafavi   TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran’s supreme leader rejected the Palestine UN statehood bid on Saturday, saying any deal that accepted the existence of Israel would leave a “cancerous tumor” forever threatening the security of the Middle East. As leader of a country under a […]

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Hamas says party united against UN bid

Maan News Agency | Oct 1, 2011 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Hamas is united in its rejection of President Mahmoud Abbas’ bid for UN membership despite reports of internal divisions, a party spokesman said Saturday. Fawzi Barhoum told Ma’an there was “no controversy” within the movement, and that all party decisions were being decided in […]

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Haneyya welcomes aid delegations from Kuwait, Tunisia

[ 01/10/2011 – 11:43 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier in Gaza Ismail Haneyya lauded Friday concurrent aid projects in the Gaza Strip by Arab and international aid organizations and defined his position on the Palestinian UN bid in a welcome of delegations of aid workers from Kuwait and Tunisia. Giving Friday sermon in a […]

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Injuries reported in violent clashes in Beit Furik

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video Oct 1, 2011 – The Palestinian Information Center NABLUS, (PIC)– There were a number of injuries amongst Palestinians after Jewish settlers backed by Israeli occupation forces clashed with locals in the Palestinian village of Beit Furik, some 7 km east of Nablus. Ambulances arrived at the scene of […]

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Zakaria … Victim of Bad Medic Care

October 1, 2011  |  Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades Zakarya 3Isa was born in 1968 in the village of el-Khidr occupied Bethlehem districts, and arrested in 2003 to receive harsh investigation in the investigation center of el-Maskoobea; he was, for example, prevented from sleep and got 15 years in jail for confronting the occupation. He shared prisoners […]

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Hunger strike continues for fifth consecutive day

Related: Palestinian Prisoners – Special Topic | Prisoners – Category Maan News Agency | October 1, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons are on hunger strike for the fifth consecutive day in protest of being forced into isolation cells and being deprived of family visits. Popular Front officials say the Israeli prison […]

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Economic Terrorism – Report: US blocks $200 million in aid to PA

Maan News Agency | October 1, 2011 LONDON (Ma’an) — The United States Congress has blocked nearly $200 million in aid for the Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas’ request to join the UN, a newspaper report said Saturday. Britain’s The Independent daily called the move the most tangible sign yet of the seriousness […]

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Palestinians in the W. Bank: era of fear has gone forever

REFUSING TO DIE IN SILENCE – Video [ 30/09/2011 – 09:03 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Hundreds of Palestinian families have organized a sit-in at the center of Al-Khalil city, south of the West Bank, calling for the release of all Palestinian political detainees in the PA jails in the West Bank. The sit-inners also expressed […]

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