Palestinians need high calibre leaders – urgently ~ by Stuart Littlewood

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. By Stuart Littlewood | 2 February 2012 | Redress Stuart Littlewood singles out Palestinian “President” Mahmoud Abbas’s recent visit to Britain as another example of his administration’s public relations incompetence and argues: “If Palestinians are to retain worldwide sympathy and support, build additional strength and […]

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European MPs call on Israel to release Palestinian lawmakers

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. Maan News Agency | Feb 1, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A group of European Parliamentarians on Wednesday called on Israel to release 26 imprisoned Palestinian lawmakers, official news agency Wafa reported. The group, composed of 26 members of the European Parliament, urged “the EU and […]

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Left behind at the scene of the crime: Israel wages war on Bil’in – in pictures

Related: All Attacks on Palestinians – Timeline – Category by Wedad Yassin | 30 Jan 2012 | Sixteen Minutes to Palestine | ISM Weeks ago, Wedad Yassin traveled back to Ein Yabrud, a village near Ramallah in the West Bank, to visit her family and to experience Palestine’s rich cultural heritage. Her intention had been […]

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Hundreds of Jewish settlers storm Nablus village

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map [ 01/02/2012 – 04:17 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Hundreds of Jewish settlers stormed the southern Nablus village of Awarta before midnight Tuesday and remained there until dawn Wednesday to tour a number of historical sites. Local sources told the PIC reporter that the settlers […]

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U.S. Government Criticises Israel Over New Subsidy Plan

Related: Israel. Not looking for Peace. Nor Talks. But this… Wednesday February 01, 2012 16:43 by Circarre Parrhesia – IMEMC & Agencies The U.S. Government has criticised, on Tuesday, the recent announcement by the State of Israel’s inclusion of 70 West Bank settlements in its list of areas to received subsidies towards development costs. Israeli […]

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The BBC Censors its own Report on Tunisia’s Jews Saying “No” to Israel ~ by Alan Hart

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. by Alan Hart | February 1st, 2012 | Dissident Voice  There was a moment in a report from Tunisia by the BBC’s Wyre Davies when I could not stop myself laughing. I was listening to it on the Corporation’s generally excellent World Service radio. (In […]

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Woman hurt in settler attack near Nablus

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map Maan News Agency | Febr 1, 2012 NABLUS (Ma’an) — A 60-year-old woman was seriously injured Wednesday after Israeli settlers threw rocks at her car near the illegal Yitzhar settlement, a PA official said. Maysar Majeed, from Sarra village west of Nablus, suffered a […]

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Israel ‘detains 85 people’ in Hebron in January

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Maan News Agency | Feb 1, 2012 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained 85 people from towns, villages and refugee camps in the Hebron district in January, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Institute said Wednesday. Soldiers raided homes in the southern West Bank […]

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Refugees intend to take up UNRWA schools to pressure it to rebuild their homes

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | Pictures Aug 2011 | Oct 2011 | Dec 2011| Jan 2012 [ 01/02/2012 – 04:02 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Angry Palestinian citizens threatened to occupy the UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip if this UN organization failed to reconstruct their homes it had demolished eight years ago in refugee […]

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1100 Palestinians, mostly children, displaced by Israel in 2011 – Report OCHA

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures [ 01/02/2012 – 12:18 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said about 1,100 Palestinians, over half of them children, were forcibly displaced after Israel demolished their homes in 2011. According to a report issued by […]

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Israeli commander bans Jerusalemite activist from entering West Bank

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. [ 01/02/2012 – 02:04 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Avi Mizrahi, the Israeli military commander of the central region, has issued an order banning the Jerusalemite human rights activist Rasim Obaidat from entering the West Bank for six months. Obaidat described the decision, which was […]

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IOF soldiers arrest 2 citizens, settlers throw stones at old lady

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map [ 01/02/2012 – 04:57 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian citizen from his home in Al-Khalil city at dawn Wednesday in an intensified campaign against the province. Local sources said that the IOF soldiers stormed the home of Sami […]

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Haneyya, Qassam insist on retaining Mishaal as Hamas leader

co.uk/En/DataFiles/Cache/TempImgs/2012/1/images_News_2012_02_01_haneyya-mishaal_300_0_300_0.jpg [ 01/02/2012 – 04:12 PM ] DOHA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya has renewed Hamas’s insistence on retaining Khaled Mishaal as supreme leader of the movement. Haneyya told London-based Al-Hayat newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday that Hamas maintains a balanced relations with each of Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. He […]

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French campaigns to intensify efforts in support of Palestine

Related: All Attacks on Palestinians – Timeline – Category [ 01/02/2012 – 01:57 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– French pro-Palestinian organizations and figures promised to intensify their events and activities in solidarity with the occupied people of Palestine in general and the besieged people of Gaza in particular. This came during the 10-day visit made by […]

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Netanyahu Rejects Demands Of Settlement Freeze

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures Wednesday February 01, 2012 19:26 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies  Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told the visiting United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, that Israel will continue the construction of settlements, and that any chances for a construction freeze would only be […]

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