Archive | March 4, 2012

Detaining Africans latest step in making Israel an ethnocracy

Sophie Crowe | The Electronic Intifada | Tel Aviv 2 March 2012 Israel is moving to criminalize and detain asylum-seekers. (Oren Ziv / ActiveStills) Levinsky Park sits just across from Tel Aviv’s central bus station, a rundown, bustling neighborhood in the city’s south known for its large migrant worker community and municipal neglect. For years […]

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Hamas: Ending political arrests in W. Bank vital for the national reconciliation

[ PIC 04/03/2012 – 07:33 AM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– The Hamas Movement said one of the most important steps for the success of the inter-Palestinian reconciliation agreements of Cairo and Doha is to end the political arrest of citizens carried out by the security forces of its Fatah rival in the West Bank. “The […]

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Abandoned in Jerusalem

Yehudit Oppenheimer/ previously published at Haaretz | PNN MARCH 4 2012 The horrifying accident that took place near the Adam roadblock north of Jerusalem last month, in which six Palestinian children and their teacher were killed, and dozens of other children were injured, raises a great many questions. The racist remarks and the schadenfreude that […]

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