Lebanon’s Palestinian and Passing on Property: Inheriting Injustice

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures In Shatila camp, Beirut. (Photo: Haytham al-Moussawi) By: Qassem Qassem | Published Tuesday, December 20, 2011 Lebanese law allows all foreigners to own property and assets in Lebanon. But if you are a Palestinian refugee, you need to look for clever ways to keep […]

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Your help needed! Donating olive trees this holiday season

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map 19 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement West Bank As we creep up to Christmas and are seeing more and more trees appear in houses and high street windows, while we debate when to put up our own, if at all this year, I […]

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Destruction of Waqf – The Grave Offences of the Israeli State

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map By: Mya Guarnieri | Monday, December 19, 2011 | Al Akhbar Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced the recent rash of desecration and vandalism of mosques and Muslim cemeteries. But the destruction of Muslim religious properties in Israel is in fact institutionalized and […]

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Book Review of ‘Understanding Palestine’ by Dr. Tariq Shadid (Dutch)

New Song released by Doc Jazz – ‘Right of Return‘ Monday, 19 December 2011 | DocJazz.com A book review by Songül Arslan, Wijblijvenhier.nl – Als het om een oplossing voor het Israëlisch-Palestijns vraagstuk gaat, dan is een democratische, seculiere Israëlisch-Palestijnse staatwaarin iedereen vredig en met respect voor elkaar en elkaars fundamentele rechten samenleeft een grote […]

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Happened in 1948 ~ by Nazek Dhamra

Related: Al Nakba (The Catastrophe) By Nazek Dhamra | Palestine Chronicle | dec 19, 2011 In the first few days of June 1948 my mother woke me up early after her dawn prayers and may be around the sunrise time. She asked me to go check the fig trees if they made some early fruits […]

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‘Price tag’ Attack: Slogans painted on Hebron mosque

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures Maan News Agency | Dec 19, 2011 HEBRON (Ma’an) — A Hebron village mosque was spray-painted with racist slogans on Monday, locals said, in the fourth such attack in two weeks. Suspected extremist settlers daubed “price tag” and “Yitzhar” on the walls of the […]

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Israeli army digs trench to isolate farms in the Jordan Valley

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures Monday, 19 December 2011 12:00 | MEMO  Israeli occupation forces have started to dig a trench in the Jordan Valley, east of Tammun in the northern West Bank, as part of a strategy to exercise more control over Palestinian agricultural land and prevent farmers […]

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30 Year Old Palestinian worker dies of heart-attack during Israeli police chase

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map [ 19/12/2011 – 12:00 PM ] TOBAS, (PIC)– A Palestinian worker died on Sunday during a police chase of a number of workers in Tamra city in Palestinian land occupied in 1948, local sources said. They said that Nazir Bani Odeh, 30, was working […]

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Shu’fat: Forced to pay taxes from behind a checkpoint and wall – in pictures

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures by Jenna Bereld and Samar | 19 Dec 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On December 18, 2011 residents of Shu’fat and activists protested against the separation wall in front of the new checkpoint. A certain loss of demonstrators was noted, since thirty-five […]

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Ad-Dameer Denounces Daily Arrests of children & youth In Shu’fat Refugee Camp

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Monday December 19, 2011 14:21 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC The Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association denounced the Israeli Army for the daily kidnappings of children and youth at the Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem, adding that […]

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Ugly Israeli Realities Emerge ~ by Stephen Lendman

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. On December 16, Haaretz writer Barak Ravid headlined, “Secret EU paper aims to tackle Israel’s treatment of Arab minority,” saying: Haaretz obtained parts of “a classified working paper produced by European embassies in Israel….” The “unprecedented document” addresses internal Israeli issues. It was written without […]

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Press Crew of RT caught in rubber bullet & tear gas attack – Dec 18, 2011 – video

More Israeli Attacks on Press to prevent they show you Truth Dec 19, 2011 | RT A crew from RT’s Arabic-language channel Rusiya al-Yaum has come under fire from tear gas and rubber bullets on the Israeli-Palestinian border. Read more http://on.rt.com/sxcfnz RT on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com RT on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Truth does not matter for “Israel”. […]

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Prisoner release: The number game of Israel

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category 19 December 2011 | The Raging Palestinian | ISM Yesterday marked the so called completion of the prisoner swap agreement, which commenced on October 18, 2011, when Gilad Shalit was released for a total of 1,027 Palestinians to be released from […]

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PALESTINE NEWS | Dec 19, 2011

Related: The Eagle of Palestine | Masked in Gaza – The Untold Story CONTINUOUS UPDATES Photography by Ahmad Mesleh آخر الأخبار والتحديثات Dec 19, 2011 | 23227 Days Since Al-Nakba & Gaza has been under siege for 1650 days | Spread the News! Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | In pictures Aug-Sept 2011 | Oct-Nov […]

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Two youth arrested in Wadi Hilweh after settlers swim in Silwan spring

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map Monday, 19 December, 2011 | 10:18 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) —  Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian children on Friday afternoon, 16 December, from Wadi Hilweh district of Silwan. Muhammad Adan al-Karaki, 18, and Zaid Ayoub Fetiha, 15 , were arrested at 3pm on charges of […]

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