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Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Equal Rights

Diana Butto Febr 29 2012 The Harvard Crimson Many people who have a good sense of what the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is about may not understand why we are asking the one-state question—and why we’re asking it now. The international community has been unanimous on the need for a Palestinian state for more than twenty years, […]

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UN Palestinian rights committee concerned over Israeli settlement

25-02-2012,09:15 Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Al Qassam website – Agencies – A United Nations committee on Palestinian rights on Friday voiced alarm at the recent decision of Israeli authorities to build more than 500 new homes in a settlement inside the occupied Palestinian territory. The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of […]

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Palestinian Al-Haq human rights activist barred from attending UN meeting

Director-General of al-Haq organization Shawan Jabarin Press TV Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:12PM GMT Israel’s security apparatus, Shin Bet, has prevented head of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, al-Haq, from leaving Israel to attend a UN meeting. Director-General of al-Haq organization Shawan Jabarin was set to attend a UN Human Rights Council conference in […]

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Women Studies Center of Nablus: Women’s rights are Palestinian rights

by Jonas Weber 18 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “We rented this house since a year back,” says Randa Bashir as she looked around in the brightly lit meeting room at the Women Studies Centre in Nablus. Like most Palestinian houses it is designed to keep cool during the warmer time of […]

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Twitter Occupies Freedom of Speech – No News. Not Again. Still… #TwitterCensored ~ by @occpal

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. Updated Febr 3, 2012 – Article of Reporters without borders Jan 28, 2012 Yesterday Twitter announced to implement a geolocated censorship on tweets. Shocked. Well I’m not. It is happening already for a long time let’s say they made it “formal” now by kicking in […]

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Haneyya: Israel is against democracy, justice

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. [ 21/01/2012 – 04:34 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya has said that Israel was against democracy and justice in the world. Haneyya, speaking at a sit-in held in the Palestinian legislative council’s yard in Gaza in solidarity with the detained PLC speaker […]

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France accuses Israel of water ‘apartheid’ in West Bank

Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity| Water | Communication By Barak Ravid, Haaretz – 17 Jan 2012 http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/france-accuses-israel-of-water-apartheid-in-west-bank-1.407685 “Some 450,000 Israeli settlers on the West Bank use more water than the 2.3 million Palestinians that live there,” the report said. “In times of drought, in contravention of international law, the settlers […]

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Tadamun: Israeli Occupation Authority blackmailing prisoner

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category [ 16/01/2012 – 09:50 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has tried to blackmail a Palestinian prisoner into accepting deportation in return for his freedom, the international Tadamun foundation for human rights said on Monday. Ahmed Al-Beitawi, a […]

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A reminder to Israel from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. January 15 2012| Roee Ruttenberg | 972 Magazine As Americans remember civil rights leader Martin Luther King, his messages ring true for many Israelis looking for this sort of inspiration that their own leaders are simply not providing. There are few times in which journalists […]

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Equal Rights ~ by @mikopeled

By Miko Peled | Miko Peled Weblog | Jan 14, 2012 As I write these words I am in Jerusalem and it is a cold, windy and rainy day. Yesterday at the protest in Nabi Saleh, facing the IDF terror squads and in full view of the villas of the settler terrorists, we were drenched […]

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Palestinians must seek different strategy to restore their rights ~ by Khalid Amayreh

Related: The Eagle of Palestine | Masked in Gaza – The Untold Story Palestinian Information Center | By Khalid Amayreh | Jan 12, 2012 The PLO and its daughter, the Palestinian Authority (PA), had been saying rather ad nauseam that they wouldn’t resume moribund “peace talks” with Israel until the Zionist regime froze settlement expansion […]

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Palestinian Detainees Might Launch Irish-Style Hunger-Strike

Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category – Torture | History | Category Saturday December 31, 2011 13:51 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies  Leaders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement in Israeli prisons and detention facilities stated that the situation all political detainees are facing is at its worst, adding that, right now, […]

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NGO: Israel army fails Palestinian complainants

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. Maan News Agency | Dec 7, 2011 JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli army’s inquiries into Palestinian complaints against its soldiers are frequently flawed and less than four percent result in an indictment, an Israeli rights group said on Wednesday. In a report entitled “Alleged Investigation,” […]

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The Palestinian Struggle for Water in the Jordan Valley ~ by Ben Lorber

Related: Deprivation of Basic Needs Cost Lives! Healthcare | Electricity| Water | Communication  by Ben Lorber |  November 26th, 2011 | Dissident Voice Speaking to the American Congress in May, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarked that Israel would maintain a long-term presence in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley. In the months that followed, the […]

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Defense for Children International Movement Honors PNN among Media Associates

Israel’s Shalit & a Palestinian kid gets imprisonment & mashed testicles ~ by Stuart Littlewood PNN – Palestine News Network – 23.11.11 – 21:04 PNN -In its 20 anniversary celebration, the Ramallah-based NGO Defense for Children International (DCI) honored a number of Palestinian media outlets, including the Palestine News Network (PNN).  Palestinian under the age […]

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