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32 Palestinians left homeless by Israel in December

United Nations Displaced Working Group for the Alternative Information Center

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A Palestinian home after demolition in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank (photo: flickr/PSP Photos)


Post it here December 27 2011


December 26, 2011


The first three weeks of December saw Israel demolish over 20 structures, leaving 32 Palestinians homeless and affecting another 150 people. In addition, several places have received new stop-work or demolition orders and verbal warnings from Israeli forces.


Demolitions:


22 December

-          Az-Za’ayyem, Jerusalem Area C: A demolition team arrived in az-Za’ayyem, a community that had suffered a demolition of all its residential and animal shelters on 29 November, presumably to demolish assistance so far and the three structures unharmed in the previous demolition (pigeon cage, reception tent and a food storage structure). The community was able to how the team an injunction and no structures were demolished. The demolition team verbally informed the community that steps would be undertaken to decide on the continued validity of the injunction. During these events, several community members sustained minor injuries and three people were temporarily detained on-site.

-          Al-'Isawiya: The Israel Nature and Park Authority uprooted trees and leveled land in al-'Isawiya, also in the area that is part of the proposed plan for a national park.

-          Idhna, Hebron: Several water structures and agricultural structures were demolished, details are still being verified

-          Al-Majnouna (ad-Dura), Hebron: Several greenhouses and at least one cistern were demolished.

-          Nablus governorate: Two roads connecting Huwwara, Beita and Za’tara were demolished, affecting access for some 6,000 people.


21 December

-          Kufr ad-Deek, Salfit: Three wells for agricultural use were demolished as well as three agricultural structures. This demolition affected 15 families, approximately 75 people.


20 December

-          Fasayil al-Wusta, Jericho: Seven residential shelters (three uninhabited), three kitchens and six animal shelters were demolished in Fasayil al-Wusta. This displaced at least 32 people and affected 30 more. The same community had suffered a demolition on 14 June, when 100 people were displaced. Emergency residential shelter has been provided and other needs have been assessed. It is worth mentioning that the area is included in a planning exercise, the results of which have been submitted to the Israeli Civil Administration recently.

-          Fasayil al-Fauqa, Jericho: Two animal barracks were demolished, affecting nine people. It’s the third demolition of the family’s animal shed in this location. Two women were injured by the demolition team when they tried to retrieve belongings from the shelter.

-          As-Suwwana, East Jerusalem: The playground of the Ibrahimi School was leveled by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority. The area leveled would be part of the proposed plan for a national park in the MountScopus area which would hinder the development of the Palestinian neighborhoods of al-'Isawiya and at-Tur.

-          At-Tur, East Jerusalem: One large animal shelter was demolished by the Israeli Israel Nature and Parks Authority affecting three people.

-          Beit Safafa, East Jerusalem: Two animal shelters were demolished by the Jerusalem Municipality, affecting 26 people.


13 December

-          Al-Makhrour, Beit Jala Bethlehem:  Three seasonal lodgings used for agricultural purposes were demolished, affecting at least 18 people. The community mentioned that the houses were built at least 100 years ago by the land owners. The structures had undergone recent rehabilitation. Two of the families noted that they did not receive stop-work or demolition orders. However, the Israeli Civil Administration noted that orders had been delivered.  The one family that confirmed receiving a written order was not aware of the needed legal procedures and did not take legal action. The family is also expected to pay for the cost of the demolition. The area is in close proximity of the Har Gilo settlement.


Demolition orders:

-          Susiya, Hebron: The petition deadline for the demolition order against certain parts of the school in Susiya was today, 22 December.

-          Al-Aqaba, Tubas: On 19 December Israeli forces handed over seven stop-work orders for seven structures - three residential structures under construction and four agricultural structures. The deadline for objections is 5 January 2012. Two of the affected families have previously suffered demolitions. The orders affect five families, some 30 people. Legal follow-up is being provided. It is important to note that the community of al-Aqaba has submitted several proposals for a master plan to the Israeli Civil Administration and is now awaiting a response to the third version. Several ICA representatives, including reportedly the Head of the Israeli Civil Administration, have recently visited the community, also to discuss the situation of the village and the greater Jordan Valley with the Village Council.

-          Wadi Maleh: A Civil Admin officer delivered 6 (separate) demolition orders for all structures in the community on 19 December. The officer had noted that the community should remove the structures and leave the area before 5 January 2012 or they will face demolition. There have been two demolitions in the community in the last two months (06 October and 30 November).

-          Arab Ramadin Ash Shamali: On 15 December two stop-work orders were delivered (for one residential shelter and one animal barracks). One of these structures was demolished on 11 October and rebuilt afterwards. Legal follow-up is being provided; the deadline for objections also is 5 January. The recipient of the assistance following the October demolition reports receiving regular visits from the Israeli Civil Administration

-          Arab Ramadin Al-Janubi: On 14 December the Israeli Civil Administration issued verbal warnings on structures belonging to a family of seven and noted that a team would return soon to demolish structures in the community. An order was issued about one year ago.



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27 12 2011



Canada Presbyterian Church chief slams 'Zionist lobby'
 

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TORONTO (JTA) -- The head of the Presbyterian Church in Canada has blamed "Jewish and Zionist lobbies" for Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians. Addressing a noon-hour reflection at a Toronto church this month, the Rev. Rick Horst, national moderator ...
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New York Times Implies Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic – OpEd
 

Eurasia Review
In their New York Times hatchet job on Ron Paul we are told that “white supremacists, survivalists and anti-Zionists who have rallied behind his candidacy have not exactly been warmly welcomed.” White supremacists, survivalists and anti-Zionists? ...
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Encountering Peace: What now?
 

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By GERSHON BASKIN Allowing the two-state solution to die would spell the end of the Zionist dream and the collapse of all we have worked to build in the Land of Israel. I really don't get it. Can someone please explain to me what happens when there ...
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New Israel Fund's Agenda Exposed: Can't Beat Them? Join Them!
 

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Raananim Religious Zionist Movement exposes a video interview which shows that the NIF plans to target religious Zionist groups. By Elad Benari & Yoni Kempinski Raananim, Movement of the Religious Zionist's New Generation, has exposed a video clip ...
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Language as a Tool Against Jews and Israel
 

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When parts of the Arab world were influenced by the Soviet Union, their propaganda apparatus appropriated itself of the anti-Zionist discourse. "Third Worldism has also appropriated itself of the anti-Zionist discourse. This movement is characterized ...
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Profile: Avital Chizhik
 

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Iran Defense Minister: Israeli strike would be a suicide mission
 

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Brigadier General Vahidi says 'Zionist regime is completely isolated,' threatens deadly strikes from Iran, should Israel attack. By Haaretz Tags: Iran Iran nuclear Iran's defense minister said Sunday that any Israeli strike on Iran would constitute ...
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'US, Israel inciting terrorism in Syria'
 

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Syrian ambassador to Iran Hamed Hassan says the US and the Zionist regime are inciting terrorism in Syria due to the active role Damascus plays in the Resistance Movement. “The developments that have occurred in Syria are different from those that have ...
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We got the Jewish state we wanted, perhaps not the way we wanted it
 

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[ 19-nov-2011 05:02 ECT ]


Israel Grabs Palestinian Lands To Expand Religious Kibbutz
Saed Bannoura

November 18, 2011 - Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the Israeli government confiscated privately owned Palestinian lands in the Jordan Valley, and gave the lands to Kibbutz Merav, inhabited by Jewish settlers. Israeli government re-routed the Annexation Wall in the area in order to secure the illegal takeover of nearly 1500 Dunams (375 Acres) of privately owned Palestinian lands, effectively declaring the lands as part of Israel. The move in question is not new, as Israel’s settlements and settlements blocks in the occupied territories are mostly built on Palestinian lands....
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Settlers Attack Palestinian Family in their Farm Land
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November 18, 2011 - On Friday, a group of Israeli settlers attacked a family in al-Khader Village, near Bethlehem, while they were working in their orchard. The land is located near the illegal settlement "Eliezer", the Palestine news & info agency reported (WAFA) reported.Hassan Salah, one of the assaulted family members, said that they were surprised when they saw the settlers cultivating olive trees that belong to the family. The settlers used their dogs and sticks to assault the Palestinian farmers when they tried to stop them. Salah's mother, 70, was injured by the settlers...

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Israel shuts down Palestinian groups in Jerusalem
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November 18, 2011 - The recent forced closures of Palestinian nonprofit organizations in Jerusalem is an example of the Israeli authorities’ continued attacks on the city’s Palestinian identity and their attempts to maintain control over occupied East Jerusalem, according to local human rights groups. "The purpose is to control and undermine the role of Palestinian civil society and [its] efforts in Jerusalem," Rashad Shtayyeh, the activities coordinator at the Civic Coalition to Defend Palestinians’ Rights in Jerusalem (CCDPRJ), told The Electronic Intifada by email...
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19 11 2011



Larijani Warns Israel to Drop War Rhetoric against Iran
 

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Britain's Jewish fascists in putsch against freedom of expression
 

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The Ashkenazi rabbi who devoted his career to Israel's Ethiopian Jews
 

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Envoy Warns of US, Israeli Plots against Region
 

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Left-wing Jewish Exponent implies observant Jews prone to child molestation
 

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Israel plotting Assad's downfall, Iranian MP says
 

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“The Zionist regime aims to change the structure in Syria. By this change, support for the [Palestinian] uprising would be cut. Israel wants to take revenge on Syria for support during the 33-day-war” in Lebanon, Aladdin Boroujardi told reporters ...
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When women and girls are the enemy
 

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Israel Eyes Strong Ties with East African States
 

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10 11 2011




Iran Threatens Street Fight With "Zionist Soldiers," US, UK, All of Europe
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Gilbert Achcar's Anti-Zionism of Fools
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Zionist Chief of Staff: Israel Would Fight on All Fronts Soon
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Dershowitz' Lies and Glitches
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Rabbi: Men commanding women in IDF contravenes Torah
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Judge Goldstone's offensive apology for apartheid
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Israeli Jews brainwashed for final ethnic cleansing
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Israeli Jews have been brainwashed by Zionist propaganda and are as a consequence beyond reason and only capable of seeing themselves as the victims instead of what they actually are, the oppressors, were on display in all their naked glory in BBC ...
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15 10 2011



Who's a Zionist?
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He has nice things to say about Zeev Jabotinsky, the leader of the right-wing Zionist Revisionist faction and the Irgun Tzvai Leumi, the pre-state underground his father joined in the 1930s and that carried out terrorist attacks against the British ...
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Anti-Semitic Protester at Occupy Wall Street - LA
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"I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government... they need to be run out of this country," she said. For the full coverage of this protest, ...
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Exposed! Alhurra – the Zionist 'Arab' news network.
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(3) Fawning Zionist Hillary Clinton, who praised Al Jazeera's propaganda (4) relating to the 'Arab Spring', sits on the board (1) of the BBG. Alhurra is simply one of many branches of this global propaganda empire. As with VoA, Alhurra broadcasts only ...
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Sanctity and sacrifice: Binding Isaac on the Zionist altar
Jerusalem Post
IF THE deaths of those whose memory we came together to honor are to be imbued with meaning, if their sacrifice is to be sanctified on the Zionist altar, it can only be through the example of how we carry on in their absence. ...
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'Awakenings foil anti-Iran US plots'
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Moderate Jewish voice backs Palestine
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The Invention of the Jewish People vs. The Invention of Gilad Atzmon
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But it was interesting to find out this week that Naomi Wimborne Idrissi and her three Jewish Anti Zionist comrades AKA AZZ (anti Zionist Zionists) were desperate to invent Gilad Atzmon. For me, the Jewish anti Zionists, exhibit the most amusing ...
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Where Did Herzl Go Wrong?
Palestine Chronicle
The Zionist Revolution – and that's what it was – started more than a hundred years after the French one. It is certainly much too early to tell. Once, in a more cheerful mood, I told my friends: “Perhaps we are all wrong. Perhaps Israel is not really ...
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Palestine Chronicle
Why US wants regime change in Syria
Workers World
Syria is in a strategic anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist alliance with Iran, with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and with Hamas in Gaza. This alliance is crucial in holding back the predatory Zionist state [of Israel] from taking over the whole area. ...
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Sleep easy, war criminals

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:: Article nr. 82136 sent on 09-oct-2011 17:11 ECT


Britain's insulting new rules on arrest warrants will only encourage Israel's view of itself as above international law

October 8, 2011

Israel has violated innumerable UN resolutions and international laws over the past 50 years without any sanction being incurred – whether legal, economic, political or military. Most blatant is its disregard for the overwhelming opinion of the international court of justice in The Hague, which in 2004 declared the erection of a wall through the occupied territories to be unlawful. If you add the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, continued extension of illegal settlements, forced evictions and house demolitions, requisition of water resources, Gaza blockade and illicit use of cloned passports to facilitate an assassination outside Israel, anyone might be think that this is a state that regards itself as above the law.

The creation of international crimes with universal jurisdiction was accomplished after years of negotiation and careful deliberation for one purpose: to ensure there could be no hiding place or safe haven for the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes against humanity. In practical terms it means that no matter where the offence took place, nor who the victims were, nor who carried out the acts, a judicial process could be invoked to prosecute those responsible. Examples of such cases are genocide, war crimes and torture.

The ICJ itself made clear in the wall case that the obligation to prosecute is the concern of all states. The problem is that no state has been willing to take on this task vis-a-vis Israel other than on a very muted diplomatic level. Lawyers acting for individuals in Palestine have been forced to do so themselves.

In 2009 Westminster magistrates court issued an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister at the time of Operation Cast Lead, which caused an estimated death toll of 1,400 in Gaza. Britain's Labour government hierarchy fell over itself rushing to the Israeli authorities, not about the deaths but to apologise for the warrant.

A dramatic incident occurred as Livni was about to appear on Israeli television during the invasion. The interviewer Shlomi Eldar recognised a name that appeared on his mobile – Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian doctor who had courageously and steadfastly given services without fear or favour equally to Israelis and Palestinians. "They shelled my house. They killed my daughters. What have we done? Shlomi, I wanted to save them but there are dead. They were hit in the head. They died on the spot. Allah, what have we done to them?" Three of his daughters and his niece had just been killed by Israeli forces. The call was broadcast and transmitted round the world. The whole story of the operation as the doctor witnessed it is told in his acclaimed book I Shall Not Hate.

There could be no question that this admired physician was associated with Hamas or terrorism, or even a hostile thought. Only two possibilities make sense: a deliberate attack, or an indiscriminate one that did not afford proper protection for civilians. In these circumstances it is hardly surprising that the UN fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict found that the Israelis – and Hamas – had committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. While the leader of the mission had second thoughts about part of the conclusions in April this year, the other three distinguished members of the panel did not, and the Foreign Office maintained its support for the report and did not wish to see it withdrawn. In any event none of this relates to a failure to accord civilians proper protection.

In September the British government changed the ground rules by providing the director of public prosecutions with the power of veto over private applications for arrest warrants (in the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act). It is an insult to the courts to insinuate that they cannot be trusted to assess the requisite threshold for issuing a warrant. In 10 years only two out of 10 such applications had been granted. We are dealing here with arrest, not charge.

The DPP made clear in January that he would consult the attorney general if approached for approval. The attorney would then decide whether it was in the public interest to prosecute. Such a decision would normally not arise until all relevant evidence had been assembled so that an overview could be made on the twofold test of evidential adequacy and public interest. To essentially assess that there is no reasonable prospect of a conviction at the start is to pre-empt the whole process and makes a mockery of the concept of universal jurisdiction.

It is therefore highly unlikely that any prosecutions of consequence will ensue either at the instigation of the government itself or of an individual – as Livni's meeting with William Hague in London this week demonstrated. Given the British government's lacklustre performance in this field when it comes to nations or individuals who are seen to be unacceptable (eg Pinochet, where it took a Spanish magistrate to act), those in positions of command and responsibility at times when war crimes are committed can now rest easily in their beds.



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09 10 2011


 
From anti-Zionism to 'price tag'
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Top Commander: Hosting NATO Missile Shield Means Defending Zionists
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Israel's Jewish Character Is Her Truth; the Rest Is Just Commentary
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Iran Equips Defense Units with Drone-Detecting Radars
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Palestinian state must not mean Israeli recognition: diplomat
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05 10 2011


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... Lebanese parliament, Asem Qonso, says the speech presented by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution at the conference on the Palestinian Intifada in Tehran on Saturday set the road map for the resistant movement against the Zionist regime. ...
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Iran: Foreign Interference in Syria Aimed at Protection of Israel
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Gush Emunim leader and former MK Hanan Porat dies at 67
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The Sounds Of Hope
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Rabbis' love for Israel: Is it a generational thing?
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“It is a major shift in a Zionist worldview -- a movement towards a more progressive Zionist position,” said Cohen, a professor of Jewish social policy research at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a senior adviser to the seminary's ...
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Israel's militarism escaped social turmoil unscathed
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Deployment of NATO Missile System in Turkey Not to Solve Zionists' Problems
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Ahmadinejad Blasts Zionists for Displacement of Both Palestinians, Jews
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Israeli Oppression Continues While Talking Peace

by Stephen Lendman


Posted here on 08 09 2011



September 7, 2011

No wonder Palestinians want and deserve statehood, as well as full UN membership to be able to seek World Court redress, and be able to sue under Genocide Convention provisions, and why not.

Israel's lawless hypocrisy is shameless given what goes on daily - bombings, killings, mass arrests, settlement expansions, dispossessions, and other civil and human rights abuses on an ongoing basis. More on that below.

On September 5, ahead of the September General Assembly meeting, Netanuyahu predictably said he wants peace talks restarted with no chance whatever of succeeding like all previous attempts for decades because Israeli violence is official policy.

Nonetheless, after meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Yyves Leterme, he said:

Abbas "can come to Jerusalem. I could go to Ramallah, or we could both go to Brussels." In fact, the proper response to a man spurning peace is go to hell, in diplomatic language, of course.

Netanyahu's gambit is another attempt to pressure Abbas to back off from seeking statehood and full UN membership.

Plans to petition the General Assembly still stand, though perhaps with less resolve than earlier based on recent comments and a new "strategy."

Instead of seeking recognition within 1967 borders, 22% of sovereign Palestine, a new proposal seeks statehood with permanent borders to be determined in later negotiations with Israel. It still wants them as originally drafted, but with more flexibility.

In other words, with enough wiggle room for Israel to maneuver Palestine into an unacceptable position it can't refuse, the way Oslo turned out. It left Palestinian rights entirely out of the final agreement at the same time Israeli terror attacks continued then and now.

Overnight Monday, Israeli planes raided an area west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. No injuries were reported. In recent weeks, numerous others killed or wounded scores of Gazans.

The same day, Israeli forces detained 20 West Bank "wanted Palestinians," for the crime perhaps of wanting freedom.

Palestinian lawmaker Mohammed Abu Teir was also arrested and his home ransacked. Former PA Jerusalem affairs minister Khalid Abu Arafa expressed concern after Israel earlier revoked his city ID card.

Then in December an Israeli court expelled him to Ramallah for the second time after imprisoning him for four months for ignoring a previous ban. At issue is his Hamas affiliation, Palestine's legitimate government, wrongfully designated a terrorist organization.

An August 30 B'Tselem report discussed earlier in the month incidents. On August 19, an Israeli missile killed Gaza City's Mu'ataz Kreqa', his two-year old son and brother Munzar. Others nearby were wounded.

On August 19, a Gaza wastewater treatment facility, its main one, was bombed north of the Nuseirat refugee camp. It was one of many Israeli acts of vengeance against people for the crime of not being Jews.

On August 25, the Beit Lahiya a-Salam Sports Club was bombed, belonging to Islamic Jihad. Two civilians were killed, another 20 wounded, and the attack destroyed much of the building used as a kindergarten and school. Nearby houses were also damaged.

These and many other attacks are serious breaches of international law, yet Israel gets off every time with impunity.

Israeli Mistreatment of Jews

Growing numbers of Israeli Jews are also treated with disdain. An August 29 Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) report explained headlined, "Putting Israel's Periphery in the Center," saying:

"The gaps between" Israel's center and its so-called periphery "have reached an all-time high, as a result of government policy."

For example, the number of people with diabetes is four times higher among periphery located poor than wealthier center of Israel residents. The rate of families living in poverty is three times higher, and job seeker rate in the southern city of Kiryat Gat is triple the Tel Aviv figure.

As a result, besides weeks of social justice protests in cities across Israel, an August 28 march left from the Yeruham local council in Israel's south heading towards Netanyahu's Jerusalem residence.

Yeruham Local Council head Michael Bitton and Amram Mitzna led it. Its purpose was to raise public awareness of extreme social injustice in Israel's periphery.

ACRI attorney Tali Nir, Director of its Social and Economic Rights Department, said:

"(T)he economic logic, upon witch the Israeli economy is founded, is based on the assumption that market forces will generate a trickle-down effect from the rich to the rest of Israel's citizens. But this trickling is limited and meager."

"Thanks to the economic growth, wealth has been" concentrated in a few hands in Israeli's center, "and does not reach the south, the north, or" even most Israelis in the center.

"This is an inequality-promoting policy. The current socioeconomic policy helps those who are powerful to become even more powerful, and those who are weak to become even weaker."

Moreover, those in the middle keep getting weaker and are gradually "vanishing. Unfortunately, in recent years the term 'periphery' has begun to serve as a euphemism for the term 'the majority of the citizens of Israel.' "

How wide is the gap, ACRI asked?

In 2008, Tel Aviv had 5.5 doctors per 1,000 persons compared to 1.6 in the North and 2.1 in the South per 1,000 population.

In Israel's center, the rate of "expert physicians" among doctors was 72%, 82% in Tel Aviv. In the North and South respectively, it was 58% and 57%.

In Israel's center, individuals with no private or supplementary health insurance was 11%. In Jerusalem it's 31% and 23% in Israel's North (except for less adequate public coverage).

In Israel center, 6% of its residents skipped a doctor appointment because of cost. In Israel's North, it was 16%, 12% in Jerusalem, and 10% in the South.

Diabetes among wealthy Israeli is 4%. Among Ethiopian immigrants, it's 17%. In Ethiopia, it was zero. Among Israel's poor, it's 16%.

Average life expectancy in the wealthy city of Raanana is 83.7 years. In Nazareth, a northern Arab city, it's 75.7 years.

In 2009, those eligible for a high school diploma was 66%. In Raanana, it's 76% In poorer areas, it's 47.3% and among Arab Israelis it's 34.4%. In Lod, it's 37%.

For the 2008-09 academic year, the college graduate rate among 20 - 29 year olds in Tel Aviv was about 20%. In Or Yehuda, it was about 9%.

In 2009, poverty in Israel's center was 13%. In Jerusalem it was 33.7%, 32.3% in the North and 23.6% in the South.

In 2009, the percent of workers paid less than minimum wage was 35.5% in Israel's center and 38% in Tel Aviv. In Jerusalem it was 45.7%, 44.9% in the North and 44.1% in the South.

In 2010, 3.1% of Tel Aviv residents were job seekers. In Kiryat Gar, it was 10.4%.

In 2007, 57% of workers in high tech jobs lived in Tel Aviv and other Israeli center cities. Only 5% live in Jerusalem and its surroundings.

In 2008, 0.83% of Tel Aviv area residents got income support. In Kiryat Malachi, it was 3.83%.

In 2008, 140.7 applications per 1,000 population sought social services help in Israel's center. In its periphery, it was 184.2.

In the past decade, Israel's high tech industry thrived mainly in its center. Not only don't periphery residents benefit, they aren't getting the required education or training to do it.

As a result, a self-perpetuating socio-economic gap defines the two areas. According to University of Haifa Dean of the education faculty Ofra Mayseless:

"You have a shortage of good teachers, a lack of laboratories and facilities, less choice of subjects, and it translates to lower levels of opportunities" in periphery areas.

Despite various efforts to improve opportunities through special programs outside of conventional classrooms, most education leading to high tech and other good employment takes place in them.

As a result, for periphery areas to keep up, resources must be allocated for them. Efforts are being made to do it, but much more needs to be done.

So far, Israel's wealth gap and privileges with it remain extreme, leaving most Jews socially and economically deprived.

It's shown up for weeks with hundreds of thousands of Israelis protesting for long denied social justice they'll have a long struggle ahead to get because Netanyahu and other officials will go to extremes to deny them.

Only continued pressure may turn the tide. It remains to be seen if most Israelis are in the struggle for the long haul. It's their only chance.


Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.






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Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) - The Israeli army is planning to provide tear gas and stun grenades to settlers in the occupied West Bank who have been trained to repel any violent protests when the Palestinians seek statehood at the United Nations next month, an Israeli newspaper says.

According to Haaretz, the Israeli army has also conducted a strategy to determine a "red line" for each settlement in the West Bank, which will determine when soldiers will be ordered to shoot at the feet of Palestinians if they cross the line.

Asked to confirm the report, the military issued a written statement on Tuesday, saying it was in the process of training settlement response teams "to deal with any possible scenario".

The statement said the military recently "completed training the majority of the first response teams" and the exercises were ongoing.


The Palestinian Authority plans to seek the UN's endorsement of statehood when the General Assembly reconvenes next month, a bid seen likely to upgrade the Palestinians' diplomatic status.


Israel rejects the move as sidestepping peace talks that have been frozen for a year in a dispute over settlement building.


Israeli officials have voiced fears the statehood bid could inspire Palestinian activists to hold demonstrations to coincide with the vote.


'Worst case scenario'


Chaim Levinson, the Haaretz reporter who broke the story, told Al Jazeera: "Part of preparation is to train the settlers so that they will be prepared for the worst scenario that hundreds, maybe thousands of Palestinians will come from Palestinian cities to protest towards settlements.

 
"The Israeli Defence Forces [IDF] will train them, arm them with tear gas and stun grenades," added Levinson.

The army is ensuring that any demonstrations will be controlled and will rely on the assistance of security officers from the settlements to assist them where necessary.


The army is creating two virtual lines for each of the settlements that are near a Palestinian village. The first line, if crossed by Palestinian demonstrators, will be met with tear gas and other means for dispersing crowds.


The second line is a "red line," and if this one is crossed, the soldiers will be allowed to open fire at the legs of the demonstrators..."


'Defensive purpose'


However, Jewish settler officials denied the Haaretz report about the plan to arm settlers, saying any use of firearms would be very limited and for defensive purposes only.


"Certainly during a period of tension, with intelligence reports of possible threats, of course, readiness crews are being trained," said Danny Dayan, chairman of the settlers' YESHA Council.


Dayan saw these preparations as "nothing extraordinary", noting how most settlers involved have already done compulsory duty in the Israeli military which drafts most Israeli men at the age of 18.


Armed settlers "operate under orders to avoid killing civilians [and] in the event of a break-in at a settlement, the response would be purely defensive, nothing offensive," he added.


Palestinians and human rights groups say settlers have used weapons to attack Palestinians in the past and that Israel has been lax in investigating such incidents.

Source:
Al Jazeera and agencies

 

 

 


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11 killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza

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Israeli air strikes on Gaza have left 11 dead and 30 wounded as a truce between the sides appeared to fall apart.

August 25, 2011

Israeli air strikes on Gaza have left 11 dead and 30 wounded as a truce between the sides appeared to fall apart.

An attack on Rafah early yesterday killed militant Ismail al-Ismar and sparked a flurry of retaliatory rocket attacks, followed by further Israeli raids.

Today, Islamic Jihad said it would call off its rocket attacks if Israel first halted its air raids, which killed at least two militants with Jihad's armed branch, the Al-Quds Brigades.

'If Israel stops its attacks, the Palestinian resistance will stop firing rockets,' spokesman Daoud Shihab told AFP, saying the group did not want 'an escalation'.

The truce announced on Sunday night had been respected by militant groups including Islamic Jihad until Israel chose to break it, he said.

'The last targeting in Rafah started the new crisis. Israel broke the truce when they killed one of the local leaders of the Al-Quds Brigades. After that, the Brigades answered this aggression,' he said.

'The truce is related to Israeli action. If Israel stops their operations, Palestinian resistance will stop firing rockets.'

Earlier, Israeli Intelligence Minister Dan Meridor said the Jewish state was ready to respect the tacit ceasefire agreement as long as there was calm along the border.

'We will not jeopardise the calm if the other side does the same,' he said.

Since the strike that killed Ismail al-Ismar, militants have fired around 20 rockets into Israel and another 10 Palestinians have been killed in subsequent air raids.

Robert Serry, the UN's Middle East envoy who had worked with Egypt to set up Sunday's truce, expressed 'deep concern' over the threat to the ceasefire and called on both sides to act immediately 'to prevent any further escalation.'

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7 injured as Israeli forces raid northern Gaza

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August 21, 2011

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces launched another round of fierce airstrikes on the northern Gaza Strip Sunday afternoon causing explosions which rattled Gaza City.

Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said Israeli warplanes fired two missiles at a Hamas military site in Beit Lahiya injuring seven Palestinians including three children.

The attack came hours after an Israeli missile strike hit a group of children in the same area seriously injuring a 12-year-old boy, Abu Salmiya said.

Israeli forces have killed 14 Palestinians in the coastal enclave since Thursday, and wounded dozens more.

Tensions in and around the Gaza Strip have soared and residents fear Israel is planning a major offensive in the coastal enclave. Israeli Knesset members on Sunday urged the cabinet to respond to dozens of rockets fired from Gaza with an extensive military campaign.

Despite an unusually quiet night in Gaza on Saturday, after three days of bombardment people are afraid to move in the streets and security buildings have been evacuated, a Ma'an correspondent reported.

Political analyst Talal Ukal says he expects Israel to escalate hostilities in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank. He highlighted that 120 Palestinians were detained in a major campaign conducted in the southern West Bank overnight Saturday.

Israel began bombarding the Gaza Strip after militants staged a series of bloody shooting attacks in the Negev desert on Thursday, killing eight Israelis and prompting a wave of bloody tit-for-tat exchanges.

Israel blamed the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committee for the Eilat attacks, although the group denied involvement.

But Ukal said Israel began its escalation on the coastal enclave before the attacks in Eilat.

The Israeli government was facing a domestic crisis as thousands of Israelis protested against housing costs, as well as an external crisis on the diplomatic front as Israeli leaders tried to avoid a Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations.

Ukal said the only way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could avert these crises was by going to war and "creating chaos in the region."

On Sunday, Jordan condemned Israel for its "military escalation and operations in Gaza that have killed civilians as well as Egyptian officers," urging an immediate halt to the strikes in order to avoid regional instability.

Meanwhile, the Arab League urged Israel to stop hostilities immediately following emergency talks Sunday to discuss the escalation.






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21 08 2011



Muslim Jihadists Make Online Threats Against 'Zionist' Letterman
NewsBusters (blog)
By Tim Graham | August 20, 2011 | 07:11 Bill Gertz of The Washington Times reports that "al-Qaeda obviously can't take a joke, since an Islamic online forum contained assassination talk about that "Zionist" David Letterman, the CBS late-night host, ...
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Einstein: Palestinian injustice equals enmity squared
Bangkok Post
This quote from a March 25, 1955 letter to Kurt Blumenfeld, referred to as a top Zionist recruiter: ''The politics of the Western powers towards the Arabs and Israel really worries me. In addition the methodical deception of our domestic audience by ...
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Today marks the the 42nd anniversary of Al-Aqsa Mosque's burning
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GAZA, (Alresalah.ps)-- Today, Sunday, is the 42 nd anniversary of the burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque by Zionist thugs. On that day in 1969 Zionist aggressors set fire to Al-Aqsa, the first Qibla and the third holiest mosque in Islam, in an attempt to ...
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Black Gold in Indepted State - II
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Michel Chossudovsky, in which he interrelated between the Zionist aggression on Lebanon 2006 and a Zionist oil strategy through which the enemy is willing to control the Mediterranean coast from Occupied Palestine (south) till the Turkish borders, ...
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شاب مصري ينزل علم إسرائيل Egypt protester removing Israel´s flag in cairo
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شاب مصري يتسلق على مبنى السفارة الإسرائيلية في القاهرة وينزل علم إسرائيل thousands of people gathered outside the zionist embassy for a second night following the murders of 15 Palestinians in Gaza (including a 2 year old and a 5 year old child) and 3 ...
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Hamas says it fired Grad missiles at Israel
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"We fired four Grad rockets at the Zionist town of Ofakim," some 15 kilometres from the Gaza Strip, said a statement from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades. "This is our response to the crimes of the Zionist occupation after the deaths of 15 of our ...
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Staging Another Major 9/11 Terror Attack
Pacific Free Press
Residents of Washington, DC well recall the sniper attacks that left ten dead during the October 2002 lead-up to a Senate vote on a war resolution sponsored by Jewish Zionist Senator Joe Lieberman. Those well-timed murders ensured a heightened sense of ...
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Gaza Under Attack | Aug 19, 2011 – in pictures

Occupied Palestine

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August 19, 2011

Collective Punishment, a warcrime. What did this baby child do? Imagine... this would be YOUR child....

A Palestinian man carries the body of Islam Greagea, a five-year-old boy killed in an Israeli air strike, at a hospital in Gaza City on August 19, 2011

Gaza medic Adham AbuSamliah:"Israel is using weapons for the first time... difficult to identify bodies and burned flesh of human beings..." So how long is the world going to stay in silence?

Palestinian doctors stand near the body of a man killed in an Israeli air strike, at a hospital in Gaza City on August 19, 2011.

Palestinians helped carry the wounded into Al-Shifa hospital after an Israeli air strike. Fighter jets bombed Gaza overnight, killing a teenager and injuring five others, Palestinian medical sources said. Palestinian Territory. 19th August 2011

Palestinian doctors tend to the injured at Al-Shifa hospital after an overnight Israeli air strike in Gaza City killed a teenager and injured five others. Palestinian Territory. 19th August 2011

Palestinian doctors tend to the injured at Al-Shifa hospital after an overnight Israeli air strike in Gaza City killed a teenager and injured five others. Palestinian Territory. 19th August 2011

Palestinian doctors tend to the injured at Al-Shifa hospital after an overnight Israeli air strike in Gaza City killed a teenager and injured five others. Palestinian Territory. 19th August 2011

Palestinian doctors tend to the injured at Al-Shifa hospital after an overnight Israeli air strike in Gaza City killed a teenager and injured five others. Palestinian Territory. 19th August 2011

Palestinian doctors tend to the injured at Al-Shifa hospital after an overnight Israeli air strike in Gaza City killed a teenager and injured five others. Palestinian Territory. 19th August 2011

Palestinian doctors tend to the injured at Al-Shifa hospital after an overnight Israeli air strike in Gaza City killed a teenager and injured five others. Palestinian Territory. 19th August 2011

Palestinian doctors tend to the injured at Al-Shifa hospital after an overnight Israeli air strike in Gaza City killed a teenager and injured five others. Palestinian Territory. 19th August 2011

Palestinians carry a wounded boy into Al-Shifa hospital following an Israeli air raid on Gaza City. -- Palestinians helped carry the wounded into Al-Shifa hospital after an Israeli air strike. Fighter jets bombed Gaza overnight, killing a teenager and injuring five others, Palestinian medical sources said. Palestinian Territory. 19th August 2011

Palestinians carry a wounded woman into Al-Shifa hospital following an Israeli air raid on Gaza City. -- Palestinians helped carry the wounded into Al-Shifa hospital after an Israeli air strike. Fighter jets bombed Gaza overnight, killing a teenager and injuring five others, Palestinian medical sources said. Palestinian Territory. 19th August 2011

Wounded Palestinian men wait for treatment at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, early Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. Three blasts shook Gaza early Friday, including one that killed a 13-year-old boy, according to a Gaza hospital official. But the Israeli military did not immediately confirm reports of three more airstrikes targeting a security compound, a home and the area of the smuggling tunnels crisscrossing the Gaza-Egypt border. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

A wounded Palestinian man waits for treatment at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, early Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. Three blasts shook Gaza early Friday, including one that killed a 13-year-old boy, according to a Gaza hospital official. But the Israeli military did not immediately confirm reports of three more airstrikes targeting a security compound, a home and the area of the smuggling tunnels crisscrossing the Gaza-Egypt border. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)


A Hamas policeman walks past a damaged government building after an Israeli air strike in Gaza August 19, 2011. Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security installations in Gaza on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Palestinian men inspect the damage at the scene of an overnight Israeli air raid on Gaza City on August 19, 2011. Israeli fighter jets bombed Gaza, killing a teenager and injuring five people, in retaliation to a series of coordinated attacks on August 18 near the southern Israeli sea resort of Eilat left eight dead. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian woman collects her belongings from a damaged bedroom after an Israeli air strike in Gaza August 19, 2011. Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security installations in Gaza on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)

A Palestinian man surveys the damage of his house after an Israeli air strike in Gaza August 19, 2011. Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security installations in Gaza on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

A Palestinian boy sits inside a car destoyed in an overnight Israeli air raid on Gaza City on August 19, 2011. Israeli fighter jets bombed Gaza, killing a teenager and injuring five people, in retaliation to a series of coordinated attacks on August 18 near the southern Israeli sea resort of Eilat left eight dead. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian man surveys the damage in Bin Zayed mosque after an Israeli air strike in Gaza August 19, 2011. Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security installations in Gaza on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

A Palestinian man surveys the damage in Bin Zayed mosque after an Israeli air strike in Gaza August 19, 2011. Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security installations in Gaza on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

A Palestinian man prays inside the damaged Bin Zayed mosque after an Israeli air strike in Gaza August 19, 2011. Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security installations in Gaza on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

A Palestinian man inspects the shattered window frames of a mosque damaged in overnight Israeli air raids on Gaza City on August 19, 2011. Israeli fighter jets bombed Gaza, killing a teenager and injuring five people, in retaliation to a series of coordinated attacks on August 18 near the southern Israeli sea resort of Eilat left eight dead. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestinians stand over a destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Gaza August 19, 2011. Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security installations in Gaza on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

A Palestinian man sits on rubbles of a destroyed house after an Israeli air strike in Gaza August 19, 2011. Israeli aircraft struck Hamas security installations in Gaza on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian, in further retaliation for attacks along the Egyptian border in which eight Israelis died. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)

A Palestinian retrieves remains of a munition, said to have been fired by an Israeli helicopter, after it landed in the Mediterranean Sea off the shore of Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli helicopter, after it landed in the Mediterranean Sea off the shore of Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinians mourn over the body of 13-year-old boy Mahmoud Abu Samrah during his funeral in Gaza City August 19, 2011. Reuters journalists on Friday saw eight bodies in a Gaza morgue. Medical officials said Abu Samrah was among the dead and that at least 18 people were wounded in Israeli strikes. ( REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa )

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Mahmoud Abu Samra, 13, killed in an Israeli airstrike early Friday, during his funeral in Gaza City, Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Mahmoud Abu Samra, 13, killed in an Israeli airstrike early Friday, during his funeral in Gaza City, Aug. 19, 2011.. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinian relatives mourn over the body of two-year-old Malek Shaat during his funeral in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on August 19, 2011. . Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

RAFAH, GAZA - AUGUST 19: Palestinians attend the funerals of six people including PRC secretary-general Kamal al-Neyrab who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 19, 2011 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

RAFAH, GAZA - AUGUST 19: A Palestinian man attends the funerals of six people including PRC secretary-general Kamal al-Neyrab who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 19, 2011 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Palestinian relatives carry the body of two-year-old Malek Shaat during his funeral in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, on August 19, 2011. (Photo credit MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)

A Palestinian man carries the body of two-year-old boy Malek Sha'at during his funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

A Palestinian mourner carries the body of two-year-old Malek Shaat, who they say was killed in an Israeli airstrike Thursday, during his funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. .(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian relatives of Khaled Sha'at, a member of an armed Palestinian faction, and his two-year-old son Malek mourn during their funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip August 19, 2011. . REUTERS/Suhaib Salem

A Palestinian woman mourns over the body of 13-year-old boy Mahmoud Abu Samrah during his funeral in Gaza City August 19, 2011. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Palestinians gather around the body of Mahmoud Abu Samra, 13, killed in an Israeli airstrike early Friday, at his family house during his funeral in Gaza City, Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

RAFAH, GAZA - AUGUST 19: Palestinians carry a body as they attend the funerals of six people including PRC secretary-general Kamal al-Neyrab who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 19, 2011 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

RAFAH, GAZA - AUGUST 19: Palestinians attend the funerals of six people including PRC secretary-general Kamal al-Neyrab who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on August 19, 2011 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of four of the five Popular Resistance Committee militants killed in Israeli air strikes during their funeral in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

How many more dead corpses of Palestine’s Children does the international community need to see in order to act?

How many more cruelties and violations of Human Rights, Regulations and International Law will be needed to intervene so this ongoing warcrime is being stopped once and for all.

How many corpses and traumatized people, does the world need, to stop this ongoing genocide on Palestine, which is happening under the noses of the ignorant kept world for 63 years now.

Ignorance is over. The media silent, but we will not forget the Shuhada. Source





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20 08 2011



Criminal Zionism will bring about lasting disaster unto Jews
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Israeli leaders have nearly lost their composure, reacting to a rare resistance attack originating from the Sinai Peninsula near the southernmost town of Um al Rushrash, renamed by the Zionists as Elat. Appearing existentially anxious and morbidly ...
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Zionists and the Palestine Narrative
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Unfortunately, Zionists and their supporters in the West have long consolidated their control on the historical narrative of ancient and modern Palestine; effectively manipulating and channeling information through institutions of scholarship and the ...
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Hezbollah Praises Eilat Operations, Denounces Zionist Response
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Hezbollah “greets the heroic operation carried out by fighters in the Palestinian region of Om Rashrash (Eilat), which resulted in scores of casualties among the Zionist enemy soldiers and settlers.” In a statement issued Friday, Hezbollah “expressed ...
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Iran to hold nationwide Quds Rally
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Officially in Iran known as International Quds Day, is an annual event on the last Friday of Ramadan, expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people and opposing Zionism as well as Zionist control of the occupied Quds city. ...
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Ayatollah Jannati: Int'l Qods Day, Muslims' resistance against Zionist regime
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Ayatollah Jannati pointed out that World Qods Day intends to expand anti-US and anti-Zionist spirit among the nations, and, therefore, the Zionist regime of Israel is going through its worst days. In further remarks, Tehran's interim Friday Prayer ...
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Why is Glenn Beck going to Israel?
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This week, he plans to set up his tent in the Holy Land for three televised Zionist rallies, dubbed “Restoring Courage,” in Jerusalem and the ancient Mediterranean port city of Caesarea. They are a sequel to the mass Restoring Honor rally at the ...
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Memo from USA
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We grew up hating the Zionist Jews; they usurped the rights of the Palestinian people and perpetrated grave injustice on them. Islamabad and Tel Aviv don't recognise each other. There are no diplomatic ties between the two. ...
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YJ, Hadassah split; impact on local chapters still uncertain
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by Toby Tabachnick Young Judaea, the Zionist youth movement that has been part of Hadassah for more than 40 years, launched this summer as an independent entity in an effort to revitalize itself while allowing Hadassah to focus more of its resources on ...
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How One Man Shaped American Jewish Education
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Maxim Shevchenko: "I will advocate for the Palestinian cause until I die."

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August 18, 2011

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Maxim Shevchenko is an immensely well-respected editor, journalist and presenter on television and radio in Russia. He is a staunch advocate of the Palestinian cause, a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and he is also one of the latest targets of the pro-Israel Lobby.

Hanan Chehata - You are an outspoken supporter of Palestine and have publicly criticised Israel for its human rights abuses against the Palestinian people. When did your support for Palestine begin and why?

Maxim Shevchenko - I began to support the Palestinian people as a Soviet teenager in 1982. There were a lot of wounded Palestinian fighters from Beirut in Moscow at the time. I casually happened to meet some of them. Talks with these people amazed me. They were the same age as me but they had been real fighters for freedom and justice.

At the same time I was studying at school. A lot of my schoolmates planned to go to live in Israel. They said a lot of bad things about Palestinians but they had never been to Palestine or had even met a Palestinian.

I could not understand why people that had such a bad attitude towards Palestine planned to live there while simultaneously Palestinians were forced to be exiles without a Motherland. I failed to understand why my schoolmates, who were born in Moscow, planned to live in Palestine. It seemed to me that that was a huge injustice.


HC - Over 1 million Russians live in Israel. Does this mean that there is a lot of support for Israel among the general population of Russia; more so than for Palestine?

MS - They are not Russians - they are Zionists. They are connected with Russia only by language. All other feelings that they have towards Russia are hostile. At the same time the Russian language that they speak gives them the right to call themselves Russians - this is a lie.

Today Russian speaking Zionists view Russia as a place where they can make money, like a colony for goods of their market. Thanks to corruption they have more possibilities to trade their fruits and vegetables that are grown on occupied territories here.

Russian speaking Zionists support ultra-right groups of racists and fascists. They create an anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim mood in Russia.

Today the struggle for public opinion in Russia is the most important goal of the struggle for Palestine. It is a big mistake not to understand this but sometimes it seems that even some Palestinians do not understand it.


HC - How powerful is the Israel lobby in Russia and how does it manifest itself?

MS - The Israel lobby is very powerful in Russia. It consists of hundreds of politicians, journalists and secret service officers, businessmen and financial circles that transfer money outside Russia through offshore banks. They have corrupted a lot of people in positions of authority. The Russian Jewish Congress is only the top of the iceberg.

The influence of the Zionist lobby in Russia is huge. However, not everyone subscribes to their views. It is important to also remember that there is a huge difference between Jews and Zionists. Look at Jewish people like Hedy Epstein, for example. She is a holocaust survivor and a participant of the Nuremberg process. She is 87 years old and yet she is one of the key activists leading others in the fight for peace and justice for Palestinians.


HC - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has invited members of Hamas to Russia before. What is the status of Hamas in Russia? Is it seen as a terrorist organisation or as a legitimate political party?

MS - Hamas is not considered to be a terrorist organization in Russia despite the pressure of the Zionist lobby. Now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Russia has organized ties with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Palestinians have a great deal of support from Muslims in Russia - which is heading towards 20% of the Russian population. Parties on the Left also support Palestinians including the Communist party - it is about 25% of Russians. These are activists. I think that on the whole more than 90% of Russian people support Palestinians.


HC - Russia is set to support the recognition of Palestine as an independent state at the UN General Assembly in September. What is Russia's official position on the Palestine-Israel conflict? Does the government align itself more with one side than the other and if so, why?

MS - Russia wants to be above the conflict. Russia supports Palestine but it does not speak against Israel.  Russia is for peace in the region and wants peaceful decision for both sides. Russia is against any kind of segregation and supports democracy in the Holy land. 


HC - Russia is a member of the Quartet (other members being the EU, UN and USA). How effective do you feel the Quartet is being in bringing balance and peace to the Palestine- Israel conflict and how do you view Russia's role in the Quartet?

MS - We are the only country in the Quartet that has connections to all sides - with Hamas, with Fatah and with the Zionists. It makes the role of Russia very strong. But Russia, at the same time, possesses less political power in comparison to the USA. 


HC - You have stated that you have had death threats publicly issued against you by the former President of the Jewish Congress of Russia. Can you tell us why this came about and what exactly happened?

MS - This is a common practice of Zionists - I mean death threats, kidnapping and killings. Zionist secret services are terrorist organizations, they kill people all over the world and they kidnap people as has happened in Ukraine with the Palestinian engineer. That is why I take very seriously death threats I have received from people like Yevgeny Satanovsky, former President of the Russian Jewish Congress. The first time he threatened me he told my wife on the Voice of America that he wanted to kill me - it was said publicly. In May Satanovsky repeat his threat in the conference "20 years after the USSR". He openly said: "If the Civil war in Russia will start the first man I will kill will be Maxim Shevchenko". There was no reaction from the Russian Jewish Congress to this scandal.

HC - Will you continue to advocate for the Palestinian cause or have the threats against you made you wary of publicly supporting their cause.

MS - I will advocate for the Palestinian cause until justice comes to Palestine or until I die.



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19 08 2011

 


Maurice Cohen, Zionist knight from Australia, 96
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Tel Aviv born Australian Zionist leader, who headed the Jewish National Fund and the Friends of Hebrew University in Australia, leaves behind him a large tribe: two daughters, seven grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. By Uri Dromi Maurice Cohen, ...
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Glenn Beck to punt conservative Zionist message in SA
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It is Beck's comments on Israel that have earned him the favour of some South African Zionists. He openly opposes the creation of a Palestinian state, claiming that the US administration is "protecting killers and the terrorists", and recently told the ...
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Progressive Jews to start kibbutz in Israel
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(JTA) -- A dozen members of Habonim Dror, a North American Labor-Zionist youth movement, said they intend to immigrate to Israel and found a kibbutz. Seven Americans and five Canadians in Habonim Dror (the Builders of Freedom), a movement founded in ...
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Six Palestinians killed in Zionist air strike
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A nine-year-old Palestinian boy was among the victims of the Zionist air strikes on southern Gaza strip. The PRC said its commander, Kamal al-Nairab, his deputy, Immad Hammad, and three other members were killed in the Israeli air strike on a home in ...
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6 Israelis Killed in Triple Attack near Eilat
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Zionist media reported six people killed and at least 25 injured in a multifocal operation along Egypt's border with the Occupied Territories. The first stage of the operation took place Thursday morning when gunmen fighters opened fire at an Egged bus ...
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The newest avatar of an ancient hatred
Jerusalem Post
Today, anti-Zionism is simply the newest avatar of that ancient hatred – and anti-Zionism flourishes in Europe. As Prof. Mark Lilla notes in his book, The End of Politics, “The Zionist tradition... remembers what it was to be stateless. ...
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Maxim Shevchenko: "I will advocate for the Palestinian cause until I die."
Middle East Monitor
The influence of the Zionist lobby in Russia is huge. However, not everyone subscribes to their views. It is important to also remember that there is a huge difference between Jews and Zionists. Look at Jewish people like Hedy Epstein, for example. ...
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Morocco: HM the King Chairs New Ramadan Religious Lecture
AllAfrica.com
Turning to modern times, the speaker referred to the beginning of the implementation of the Zionist plan to despoil Palestine, more particularly the sites with high spiritual symbolism in Al Quds, including the Wakf property of Moroccans. ...
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How Do We Talk to Our Children About Israel?
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Though I went to Camp Ramah (which is secondarily, though vigorously, Zionist), I didn't go to Hebrew day school. My parents were casual Zionists — the summer of '68 in Israel, a handful of other visits, nothing out of the ordinary. ...
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Israelis kill Palestinian teenager in Gaza: medics

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16 August 2011

A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip as he came near to the border with Israel, Palestinian medics and witnesses said.

The 17-year-old had approached the border east of the refugee camp of Maghazi in the central Gaza Strip, the sources said.

An Israel army spokeswoman confirmed to AFP that "soldiers opened fire at a suspect who was approaching the border fence in this sector, and hit the suspect."

The Israeli army opens fire systematically on Palestinians who go near the border fence separating the Gaza Strip from the Jewish State to prevent attacks on patrols, infiltration attempts or bids by suspects to plant bombs.

Earlier on Tuesday Palestinian medics reported that a Palestinian was killed and seven wounded in at least four overnight Israeli air strikes across Gaza.

The Israeli military said its aircraft had targeted four areas in the Gaza Strip in response to the firing of a Grad rocket from the Palestinian territory into southern Israel.

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17 08 2011



UK Zionists fight cosmetics firm for anti-Israel project
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By JONNY PAUL , JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT StandWithUs, UK Zionist Federation encouraging people to stop buying LUSH products until it drops support for campaign led by anti-Israel charity. LONDON – Two community organizations have launched an ...
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Center field: social protests – a Zionist success, failure
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How I Became A 'Green Zionist'
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Exploding Middle East Myths: 15 Years of Fighting Zionist Propaganda
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George Uri Livney, 82: Escaped persecution, lived in Israel and became a US ...
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A Zionist organization helped him once he arrived in Israel and, in return, he led other Hungarian Jews to safety. He eventually served in the Israeli Air Force, spent time in Belgium and, in 1959, migrated to the United States with his wife and first ...
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Why Did Saddam Want The Bomb? - Analysis
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“We have to have this protection for the Iraqi citizen so that he will not be disappointed and held hostage by the scientific advancement taking place in Iran or in the Zionist entity,” Saddam said in 1981. “Without such deterrence, the Arab nation ...
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'Check it out' cancer program receives major grant
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The Greater Atlanta Hadassah chapter of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, received a $10000 grant from the Nortwestern Mutual Foundation in recognition of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network financial representative Rita ...
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10th Anniversary of 9/11 and Muslim Americans: the Need for a New Narrative
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While post-9/11 resulted in necessary Western government responses to counter international and domestic terrorism, this tragic event has been widely exploited by far-right neocons, hardline Christian Zionist Right and xenophobic forces. ...
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Spotlight on Occupied Palestine
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Non-Zionist sources such as The Nation magazine, which published a report on Palestinian textbooks in 2001, the George Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, reporting in 2002, the Israel/Palestine Centre for Research and Information, ...
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"The UN must again choose between capitulation and credibility"
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16 08 2011



S African students slam Israeli propaganda
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Envoy Stresses Iran's Resolve to Play Active Role in SESAME
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"Iran insists on its participation in SESAME and we have reached a good level scientifically and technologically," Aqa-Miri stated, adding that Iran's non-participation in the project would give the Zionist regime of Israel the chance to gain control ...
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Wave of Attacks in Iraq Leaves at Least 68 Dead



By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and YASIR GHAZI


August 15, 2011

BAGHDAD — Insurgents across Iraq launched their most significant and wide-ranging attacks in months on Monday, killing 68 people and wounding over 300, in the most violent day in Iraq this year.

The violence touched nearly every region of the country, except for Kurdistan, and appeared to be aimed at security forces in both Sunni and Shiite areas.

In all, there were 37 attacks, more than double the daily average this year, nearing the level of violence at the height of the sectarian conflict here in 2006 and 2007. The attacks included 11 car bombs, 19 improvised explosive devices and 2 suicide bombers.

Coming a little less than two weeks after the Iraqi government said it would negotiate with the United States about keeping some of its 48,000 troops here after the end of the year, the violence raised significant questions about the capabilities of the Iraqi security forces.

No group claimed responsibility for the attacks on Monday. But in a voice recording posted on a Web site for Al Qaeda in Iraq last week, the spokesman for the terrorist group said that they were preparing a wide-scale attack.

"I promise you that we are on the right path," said the spokesman, Abi Muhhamed al-Adnani. "Thank God that we are doing very well here."

"Do not worry, the days of Zarqawi are going to return soon," he said, referring to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq who was killed by American forces in 2006. "We have men who have divorced themselves from life and love death more than you love life, and killing is one of their wishes," he said.

The most lethal attack occurred in the city of Kut, south of Baghdad, where a series of explosions including a car bomb inside the city’s main market around 8 a.m. killed 35 people and wounded 71, according to a local security official. It was the country’s deadliest attack since July 5, when nearly three dozen people were killed in the city of Taji, north of the Iraqi capital. Taji was also attacked on Monday.

"I heard the sound of the explosion when I was walking towards the market," said Fathel Kadhem, 27, the owner of a candy store in Kut. "I went running to see what’s going on and another explosion happened."

He added: "I saw all the people that got hurt, and they were all young men.

Ahmed Abdul-Razzaq, 35, who sells produce, was wounded in the second explosion and blamed the local security forces for the attack.

"The market is blocked off and no cars are supposed to get in," he said, adding that the car had been parked inside the market since Sunday night.

"I was there helping the injured people, but five minutes later the second explosion went off. This is all because of the government’s neglect. I wonder how this car got in? It was only the police who could have allowed it in."

Violence had appeared to be trending down. In July, 178 people were killed in Iraq, excluding the semiautonomous region of Kurdistan, according to statistics complied by the Interior Ministry. That was a significant decrease from June, when 342 people were killed, and May, when 321 were killed.

A spokeswoman for the United States military in Iraq said they had not received any reports of attacks on American forces.

"We’re trying to keep up with the news pouring out from Iraqi media about attacks in most of the major cities today, mostly Vbieds," the spokeswoman said, using the military acronym for vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.

In Diyala Province, north of Baghdad, there were at least a dozen explosions that left 6 dead and 29 wounded, according to a local security official. One blast struck near the convoy of the mayor of Baquba, the capital of Diyala, injuring him and three of his guards. Gunmen attacked two checkpoints in Baquba, killing five members of Iraq’s security forces.

Two suicide bombers in Salahuddin Province, which borders Diyala, attacked an Iraqi counterterrorism unit in the city of Tikrit, killing a high-ranking officer and two other members of the unit and wounding at least 10, according to a security official.

Two car bombs were detonated in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, killing 8 and wounding 20, according to a health official.

There was violence in the capital, Baghdad, too. A car bomb was detonated near a government convoy in the neighborhood of Mansur, wounding five people, including two security guards, according to security officials.

The violence was so severe that the interior minister sent a message to all of the country’s security forces and traffic police to be vigilant about parked cars.

Saad Ahmed, a 38-year-old policeman who was wounded in Taji, said that he had opened fire on a suicide bomber who was driving toward him.

The car struck Mr. Ahmed and knocked him to the ground, then he stood up and fired again. Seconds later, the attacker detonated the car bomb.

"I looked at my body, and I was drowning in blood," he said at Khadumiya Hospital in Baghdad, where he was being treated for wounds to his legs, arm and neck. "I just thought about my friends and if they were O.K., because it was 9:15 in the morning and there was a change in shifts."

He added: "It is Ramadan this month and we should pray that we won’t kill each other. What crime did we commit? We were just trying to protect our country."

Another policeman being treated at the hospital, Amir Khazal, 33, said that he was leaving work at the time of the attack.

"I was just about the leave the checkpoint for vacation," he said. "All I wanted was to get home to my kids. I heard gunfire at the beginning and then I heard shouting saying 'Car bomb, car comb.’ "

"After that there was a boom," he added. "I heard my friend calling me 'Help, help, I lost my leg.’ "

Reporting was contributed by Duraid Adnan from Baghdad and Iraqi employees of The New York Times from the provinces of Diyala, Salahuddin, Babel and Anbar, and the cities of Kirkuk, Najaf, Kut and Mosul.






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The Invisible Dead and "The Last Word":
Lawrence O'Donnell 'Rewrites' the Occupation of Afghanistan

Nima Shirazi



August 13, 2011

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

- Albert Einstein


On Saturday August 6, 2011, a U.S. military Chinook transport helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, killing 30 American soldiers, including 17 elite Navy SEALs, and eight Afghans. The mainstream news media was awash with somber reports about this being the "deadliest day" for U.S. forces in the ten years since the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan began.

Notably, many news outlets such as ABC, NBC, CBS, and The Washington Post claimed the helicopter crash and its 30 American casualties marked the "deadliest day of the war", without adding the vital qualification, "for United States military personnel." Even the progressive website Truthout provided its daily email blast that day with the headline: "Deadliest Day in Decade-Long Afghanistan War: 31 Troops Killed in Shootdown."

The obvious implication of these reports was that on no single day since October 7, 2001, when the U.S.-led invasion and bombing campaign began, had as many people been killed in Afghanistan as on August 6, 2011.

Perhaps most brazen and sanctimonious regarding this claim was MSNBC's primetime anchor Lawrence O'Donnell. Introducing the "Rewrite" segment of his Monday August 8 broadcast of "The Last Word", O'Donnell looked directly into the camera and, in his measured and most heartfelt serious voice, told his viewers:
"This weekend saw the worst single loss of life in the ten years of the Afghan War."
He was lying. Unless, of course, like so many Americans, O'Donnell doesn't count Afghan civilians as human beings worthy of being allowed to stay alive. In fact, the invisibility of the native population of Afghanistan is so ubiquitous in the American media, O'Donnell and his writers probably didn't even think they needed to acknowledge civilian death tolls at the hands of foreign armies. As General Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq, told reporters at Bagram Air Base in March 2002 when asked about how many people the U.S. military has killed, "You know we don't do body counts."

After showing a video clip of CIA Directer-cum-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's statement that the helicopter crash served as "a reminder to the American people that we remain a nation still at war," O'Donnell took seven minutes of airtime to lecture his viewers about a country that has forgotten the hardships of warfare, due to the absence of a draft or rationing or war taxation. Clearly passionate and frustrated, he rhetorically wondered, "What kind of nation would need to be reminded that it is still at war?" He continued,
"There will be other nights for us to discuss the way forward or the way out of Afghanistan. Tonight is not that night. Tonight is for reminding this nation that it is indeed at war. And tonight is for reminding the nation of the price of war. The ultimate sacrifice."
At this point, O'Donnell displayed photographs of some of the soldiers killed in the crash while delivering brief biographies, a sort of "Last Word" eulogy for the dead.

In his effort to tug at his viewers heartstrings, O'Donnell told us of one young soldier who had only "been in Afghanistan for less than two weeks." Another was described by his mother as "a gentle giant." A SEAL Team 6 member also killed in the crash, we were told, had a wife, a two-year-old son and a two-month old baby girl while another solider was survived by his pregnant wife and three children. O'Donnell eulogized one of the deceased servicemen by telling us of his personal history as a high school wrestler and his lifelong dream of becoming a Navy SEAL.

O'Donnell concluded the segment with the assurance that none of the family members of those soldiers who had died - as opposed to the million of Americans whose lives are totally unaffected by the ongoing occupation - needed any "reminding" that "we are a nation at war."

Never once during this paean to the military did O'Donnell make even a passing reference to the thousands upon thousands of Afghan men, women, and children killed by U.S. and NATO forces in their own homeland, their own country, their own towns, their own communities, their own homes, hospitals, mosques, and schools, and at their own weddings.

The Afghan village of Karam was completely destroyed on October 12, 2001 when American forces dropped a one-ton bomb on it and killed over 100 people. On October 21, 2001, "At least twenty-three civilians, the majority of them young children, were killed when U.S. bombs hit a remote Afghan village," according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

Not a solitary syllable was uttered to honor the seven children blown apart "as they ate breakfast with their father" when "a US bomb flattened a flimsy mud-brick home in Kabul" on Sunday October 29, 2001. The Times of India, citing a Reuters report, revealed that "the blast shattered a neighbour's house killing another two children."

A few weeks later, on November 17, 2001, U.S. bombs fired at the village of Chorikori murdered "two entire families, one of 16 members and the other of 14, who lived, and perished, together in the same house," reported The Los Angeles Times. Shortly thereafter, heavy American bombing in Khanabad near Kunduz was said to have killed 100 people. The same day, a religious school in Khost was bombed, killing 62 people.

Around the same time, James S. Robbins, a professor of International Relations at the National Defense University, published an article in The National Review entitled, "Humanity of the Air War: Look how far we've come." The piece began this way: "Think airpower can't bring victory in Afghanistan? Think again."

Robbins continued his claim that "the air campaign over Afghanistan has been effective by most reports" and that "critics of the air campaign at home and abroad make as much of civilian casualties as suits their purposes, but arguments over whether a few, a dozen, or hundreds of people have died only show how civilized warfare has become." He averred that "[a]ny civilian deaths caused by allied bombs are unintended deaths" (emphasis in original), declared that the U.S. was using the "tools and means of the humane" to bomb Afghan civilians to death on a regular basis, and concluded, "The allied air campaign is demonstrating how moral a war can be."

On December 31, 2001, U.S. ground forces confirmed an enemy target in the village of Qalaye Niazi and "three bombers, a B-52 and two B-1Bs, did the rest, zapping Taliban and al-Qaida leaders in their sleep as well as an ammunition dump." A military spokesman, Matthew Klee, proudly told reporters that the strike was an unmitigated success, saying, "Follow-on reporting indicates that there was no collateral damage." However, The Guardian reported:
Some of the things his follow-on reporters missed: bloodied children's shoes and skirts, bloodied school books, the scalp of a woman with braided grey hair, butter toffees in red wrappers, wedding decorations.

The charred meat sticking to rubble in black lumps could have been Osama bin Laden's henchmen but survivors said it was the remains of farmers, their wives and children, and wedding guests.

They said more than 100 civilians died at this village in eastern Afghanistan.
In the first three months of the Afghanistan assault, Carl Conetta of the Project on Defense Alternatives found that upwards of 4,200-4,500 Afghan civilians had been killed as a result of the U.S.-led bombing campaign and the "starvation, exposure, associated illnesses, or injury sustained while in flight from war zones" that followed the invasion and airstrikes. In May 2002, Jonathan Steele of The Guardian reported that, up to that point, "As many as 20,000 Afghans may have lost their lives as an indirect consequence of the US intervention."

For O'Donnell, it appears the "price of war" doesn't include the 48 civilians killed and 117 wounded, many of them women and children, when U.S. jets bombed a wedding party in Oruzgan in July 2002, the 17 civilians, mostly women and children, killed by coalition bombs in Helmand in February 2003, the eight civilians killed by a U.S. gunship and bomber in Bagram Valley the same month, the eleven civilians killed, including seven women, by a U.S. laser-guided bomb that hit a house outside the village of Shkin in April 2003, the six family members killed by U.S. bombs that hit the village of Aranj in October 2003, or the nine children (seven boys and two girls aged 9 to 12) murdered by two U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt II planes which attacked the village of Hutala while the children were playing ball.

The human cost of the Afghan occupation, so far as O'Donnell is concerned, doesn't include the eleven people, four of them children, killed by an American helicopter which fired on the village of Saghatho in January 2004, the scores of civilians bombed to death by NATO airstrikes in October 2006, eight civilians shot by American soldiers in Kandahar in 2007, the more than 100 civilians killed in numerous U.S. and NATO bombings in May 2007, the seven children killed by a U.S.-led airstrike in June 2007, the group of bus passengers gunned down by US troops on December 12, 2008, the seven civilians killed by American troops in a rural village near Nad-E'ali in 2009, the 26 civilians, including 16 children, killed by British forces, the scores of dead civilians in Kunduz and Helmand who were killed by 500-pound bombs dropped by U.S. jets in September 2009, the 27 civilians killed by a NATO strike in the Afghan province of Uruzgan in February 2010, the five civilians, including two pregnant women and a teenage girl killed in Khataba, the 45 civilians (most of whom were women and children) murdered by a NATO rocket in Afghanistan in July 2010, the 30 or more civilians killed in two NATO air strikes on two villages in the Nangarhar province in August 2010, or the numerous civilian men, women, children, dogs, donkeys, and chickens slaughtered by Task Force 373, a clandestine black ops unit which NATO uses as an assassination squad.

On March 23, 2011, U.S. Army Specialist Jeremy Morlock was sentenced to 24 years in prison for the willful murder and mutilation of three Afghan civilians - a fifteen-year-old boy, a mentally-retarded man, and a religious leader. Other members of Morlock's platoon, the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, have been "charged with dismembering and photographing corpses, as well as hoarding a skull and other human bones," The Washington Post previously reported. At the beginning of the court-martial proceedings, Morlock admitted to the military judge presiding over the case that the murders he and four fellow soldiers were charged with committing had been deliberate and intentional. "The plan was to kill people, sir," he said.

Broadcasting live across the country that evening, Lawrence O'Donnell didn't cover the story. Instead, he spent a considerable amount of airtime justifying Barack Obama's decision to begin bombing Libya, interviewing Anthony Weiner about healthcare, and poking fun at potential GOP presidential candidates. He ended the program that night, however, with a touching and earnest memorial for someone who had recently died: Elizabeth Taylor.

For O'Donnell, the "ultimate sacrifice" he spoke of this week naturally didn't include the Afghan man, four women, and baby murdered at a wedding party by a Polish mortar strike on the village of Wazi Khwa on August 16, 2007, which also injured three other women, one of whom was nine months pregnant. Nor does it include the "nineteen unarmed civilians killed and 50 wounded" when, during "a frenzied escape" on March 4, 2007, U.S. Marines "open[ed] fire with automatic weapons as they tore down a six-mile stretch of highway, hitting almost anyone in their way â€" teenage girls in fields, motorists in their cars, old men as they walked along the road." The April 2009 U.S. raid on Khost, which killed four civilians, including a woman and two children, didn't receive a sad obituary on primetime cable television either. The American soldiers on that raid "also shot a pregnant woman and killed her unborn baby, which had almost come to term."

To O'Donnell, the "worst single loss of life" in Afghanistan during the last decade wasn't the more than 140 civilians reportedly killed when "U.S. aircraft bombed villages in the Bala Boluk district of Afghanistan's western Farah province" on May 3, 2009 in what is now known as the the Granai airstrike. Reuters revealed that "93 of those killed were children -- the youngest eight days old," and that "[a]ccording to villagers, families were cowering in houses when the U.S. aircraft bombed them." The death toll of this one airstrike is nearly five times larger than the U.S. helicopter crash, which took the life of not a single civilian, let alone child.

255 civilians were killed in military operations in June 2008. In early July 2008, near the village of Kacu, "a U.S. air strike killed 47 civilians, including 39 women and children, as they were travelling to a wedding in Afghanistan...The bride was among the dead."

The following month, 90 civilians, including 60 children and 15 women, were killed during military operations in Herat province alone.

Sixty-five civilians, including 40 children, were killed in a NATO assault on Kunar in February 2011. A few weeks later, NATO helicopter gunners shot nine boys - aged 9 to 15 - to death as they gathered firewood. On May 28, 2011, NATO bombs killed two women and 12 children in Helmand. In the month leading up to the Chinook crash last week, dozens of Afghan civilians were killed in NATO airstrikes and raids.

O'Donnell didn't feel the need to show pictures of any of these victims or quote what their loved ones had to say about them.

The "deadliest day", in O'Donnell's estimation, could not possibly have been when, in July 2007, "U.S. special forces dropped six 2,000lb bombs on a compound where they believed a 'high-value individual' was hiding, after 'ensuring there were no innocent Afghans in the surrounding area'. A senior US commander reported that 150 Taliban had been killed. Locals, however, reported that up to 300 civilians had died."

Lawrence O'Donnell didn't tell his viewers of the hopes and dreams of the hundreds of Afghan children liberated forever from this world by noble American troops and their stalwart allies. He didn't mention how some of the young boys murdered by U.S. missiles loved to play soccer and couldn't wait to learn how to drive. He didn't solemnly note that many of the young girls shot to death by soldiers who love what they do wanted to become doctors and lawyers and human rights activists and teachers and wives and mothers. He didn't devote a segment of his show to the murder of Mohammed Yonus, "a 36-year-old imam and a respected religious authority", killed in Kabul in early 2010 while commuting to a madrasa where he taught 150 students." The New York Times reported, "A passing military convoy raked his car with bullets, ripping open his chest as his two sons sat in the car."

O'Donnell didn't tearfully point out that the bullets and bombs that have killed so many men and women have left countless orphans and widows and taken countless children away from countless parents all sacrificed on the altar of the so-called "War on Terror" and American security and exceptionalism.

None of these innocents - people obliterated in their own houses, in their own fields, and in their own cars on their own roads - was accorded a second of screen time or a moment of acknowledgment during O'Donnell's "Rewrite."

It is unsurprising that, in March 2010, General Stanley A. McChrystal told U.S. troops during a video-conference about civilian deaths at checkpoints in Afghanistan, "We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat." Nevertheless, upon McChrystal's dishonorable retirement only a few months later, Defense Secretary Robert Gates delivered the following tribute: "Over the past decade, arguably no single American has inflicted more fear, more loss of freedom and more loss of life on our country's most vicious and violent enemies than Stan McChrystal."

Lawrence O'Donnell, while chastising the American public for not paying enough attention to our myriad military invasions, occupations and war crimes, said that only "a nation whose news media is more troubled by the loss of credit-ratings than the loss of life" could act in such a way. He didn't mean, of course, the loss of Afghan lives, only of American soldiers. The U.S. government operates the same way; it still doesn't compile death tolls for its murderous operations. Earlier this year, the ACLU revealed [PDF]:
The Department of Defense has confirmed that it does not compile statistics about the total number of civilians that have been killed by its unmanned drone aircraft.

[...]

According to the DOD, the military’s estimates of civilian casualties do not distinguish between deaths caused by remote-controlled drones and those caused by other aircraft. While each drone strike appears to be subject to an individual assessment after the fact, there is no total number of casualties compiled. Moreover, information contained in the individual assessments is classified â€" making it impossible for the public to learn how many civilians have been killed overall.
On July 5, 2005, journalist Peter Symonds wrote:
In what can only be regarded as a bloody act of revenge, the US military last Sunday killed as many as 17 civilians in an air raid on the remote village of Chechal in the northeast Afghan province of Kunar.

The attack took place just five kilometres from where a US Chinook helicopter was shot down, four days before, resulting in the deaths of 16 US special forces personnel â€" the largest single loss of American troops since the US-led invasion of the country in 2001.
While it remains to be seen what kind of lethal punishment Afghan civilians will bear in retaliation for the most recent Chinook crash with its record-breaking American death toll, one thing is certain: Lawrence O'Donnell will offer no words of sorrow or condolence, no melancholy homage to the dead, no decorous harangue of the American public for not caring enough, for not knowing the names, faces, and stories of those killed by our own soldiers whose salaries we pay and bombs we build.

To mourn only fallen soldiers of one's own country and not even notice the civilians they are trained to kill in their own country is to rewrite the history of war and violence and further entrenches the vile ideology of "us vs. them", inverts aggressor and victim, and praises invasion and empire. Lawrence O'Donnell, by deliberately ignoring the thousands of Afghan dead during his encomium for the dead American soldiers, has proven that, as far as the mainstream media is concerned, justice will never have the last word.

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Lisa Taraki and Mark LeVine

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French activists demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians, showing support for an international boycott of Israel [EPA]


A founding member of the campaign for the academic and cultural boycott outlines the motivation behind the movement.

August 13, 2011

Author and history professor Mark LeVine speaks with sociologist Lisa Taraki, a co-founder of the Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

Mark LeVine: What is the "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" movement and how is it related to the academic and cultural boycott movement? How have both evolved in the past few years in terms of their goals and methods?

Lisa Taraki: The BDS movement can be summed up as the struggle against Israeli colonisation, occupation and apartheid. BDS is a rights-based strategy to be pursued until Israel meets its obligation to recognise the Palestinian people's inalienable right to self-determination and complies with the requirements of international law.

Within this framework, the academic and cultural boycott of Israel has gained considerable ground in the seven years since the launching of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) in 2004. The goals of the academic and cultural boycott call, as the aims of the Palestinian Civil Society Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions issued in 2005, have remained consistent: to end the colonisation of Palestinian lands occupied in 1967; to ensure full equality of Palestinian citizens of Israel and end the system of racial discrimination; and to realise the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.

The logic of the BDS movement has also remained consistent. The basic logic of BDS is the logic of pressure, not diplomacy, persuasion, or dialogue. Diplomacy as a strategy for achieving Palestinian rights has proven to be futile, due to the protection and immunity Israel enjoys from hegemonic world powers and those in their orbit.

Second, the logic of persuasion has also shown its bankruptcy, since no amount of "education" of Israelis about the horrors of occupation and other forms of oppression seems to have turned the tide. Dialogue between Palestinians and Israelis, which remains very popular among Israeli liberals and Western foundations and governments that fund the activities, has also failed miserably. Dialogue is often framed in terms of "two sides to the story", in the sense that each side must understand the pain, anguish, and suffering of the other, and to accept the narrative of the other.

This presents the "two sides" as if they were equally culpable, and deliberately avoids acknowledgment of the basic coloniser-colonised relationship. Dialogue does not promote change, but rather reinforces the status quo, and in fact is mainly in the interest of the Israeli side of the dialogue, since it makes Israelis feel that they are doing something while in fact they are not. The logic of BDS is the logic of pressure. And that pressure has been amplifying.

Institutional pressure

The Palestinian-led academic and cultural boycott is an institutional boycott; that is, it does not target individual scholars or artists. This point has also remained the same since the inception of the BDS movement. Yet it's important to state here that all Israeli universities and virtually the entire spectrum of Israeli cultural institutions are complicit in the state's policies, and as such are legitimate targets of the boycott. Guidelines and criteria for boycott, however, have been elaborated since the founding of the movement, as more experience is gained on the ground, and in response to requests for guidance from conscientious academics and cultural workers wishing to respect the Palestinian boycott call. PACBI in particular spends a great deal of effort guiding and advising international solidarity activists. Consistency is achieved through adhering to the guidelines developed by PACBI, in cooperation with other elements in the Palestinian BDS movement.

World renowned public intellectuals, academics, writers, artists, musicians and other cultural workers have now endorsed the academic and cultural boycott call; their names are too many to note here, but the interested reader can consult the PACBI website. In addition, several campaigns for academic and cultural boycott have been established around the world: in the UK, the USA, France, Pakistan, Lebanon, Germany, Norway, India, Spain, South Africa, and Australia, and many other countries. The newly established European Platform for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (EPACBI) is an important coordinating body in Europe.

The lethal Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in the winter of 2008-2009 and the murder of Turkish solidarity activists aboard the Mavi Marmara in May 2010 served as further catalysts in the tremendous spread of BDS actions around the world, which include cancellations of artistic performances in Israel, protests against complicit Israeli institutions' performances abroad (such as the past and current protests around performances by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra), and many more creative forms of protest and boycott of Israeli and brand-Israel projects and institutions.

Israel's crackdown on dissent

"The boycott being defended by leftist and liberal Israelis ... is silent on the complicity of all mainstream Israeli institutions"

Lisa Taraki, PACBI co-founder

ML: The Israelis have recently passed a so-called "anti-Boycott law", which opens Israelis who support any form of boycott, even if it's limited to settlement products, to significant civil penalties and lawsuits to force them to stop their actions. Can you comment on this whole discourse, especially the commentary in the Israeli press critical of it, claiming it represents a move against democracy, towards fascism, and similar responses which seem to suggest these are unprecedented measures?

LT: The Palestinian BDS movement is encouraged by the adoption of the logic of BDS, and boycott in particular, by sections of the Israeli left, and feels it has been vindicated in its argument that pressure - and not persuasion - is the best way to make Israelis realise that the system of occupation, apartheid and colonialism must end. Having said this, I must note that there are at least two disturbing aspects to the new surge of activity surrounding the new anti-boycott law passed by the Israeli Knesset recently.

First, the boycott being defended by leftist and liberal Israelis targets institutions (such as the University Center of Samaria and the cultural center in Ariel) and products of the Israeli colonies in the West Bank only. This boycott, then, is silent on the complicity of all mainstream Israeli institutions - and indeed many industries, such as the weapons industry - in maintaining and legitimising the structures of oppression.

Second, this boycott is often cast in terms of "saving Israeli democracy". As such, it is an Israel-centred discourse and project, and the point of reference is neither Palestinian rights as stipulated by international law nor an acknowledgment that they are heeding the call of the Palestinians. One outstanding exception is the Israeli group "Boycott from Within", which explicitly endorses the Palestinian BDS call and considers it the basic point of reference for its agenda of activism - such as urging artists and musicians not to perform in Israel, supporting a military embargo of Israel, advocating for different divestment campaigns, and many other activities that target all complicit Israeli institutions. Other Israeli groups, such as the Coalition of Women for Peace, ICAHD, and others have also endorsed the Palestinian BDS call publicly.

ML: What is your impression of what happened with the latest Gaza flotilla? Some commentators have argued that the "successful" use of supposedly "non-violent" strategies by the government of Israel to put pressure on other governments to stop the flotilla before it got anywhere near Gaza represents a defeat for the rising tide of non-violent resistance, showing that the Israelis have learnt the lessons and are now able to beat the activists at their own game.

LT: I don't agree with that assessment at all. I think the main aim of the flotillas, which has been to highlight, resist, and protest Israel's illegal siege of the Gaza Strip, has been realised, despite Israeli efforts to bear extreme pressure against governments to prevent the vessels from sailing. The ridiculous Israeli response to the recent "Welcome to Palestine" campaign did more to publicise the campaign than would otherwise have happened.

You are right to frame the flotilla movement as a part of the international movement to isolate, expose, and bear pressure upon Israel to respect international law and end its system of colonisation, occupation, and apartheid. That this movement - still in its early stages - has achieved world recognition is attested to by the state of disarray in official Israeli and Zionist circles. Already, several conferences and strategy papers have been launched in Israel and abroad to counter what is being marketed as the "delegitimisation threat". If BDS, the annual and growing Israel Apartheid Week events, and other resistance actions such as the waves of flotillas are mere nuisances, I doubt that so much effort would be invested merely out of an "academic" interest in them. Strong-arm tactics with some governments may have prevented the flotillas from reaching Gaza, but the strength of the BDS movement - and other solidarity actions - is that they are built on people's initiatives, [these] cannot be easily suppressed, despite intimidation, legal threats and lawsuits, and other silencing tactics.

A wider perspective

"The hegemonic powers not only shield Israel from censure; they have also often turned a blind eye to grievous offences committed by their allies - but only when it serves their own interests"

Lisa Taraki, PACBI co-founder

ML: In the BDS literature, there is a critique of those, like myself, who argue that anyone who wants to join BDS for Palestine should also adopt similar actions vis-a-vis other countries involved in massive systematic oppression and/or occupation (China, India, the US, to cite the most obvious examples), and that the need to think systemically is not merely an ethical imperative but a strategic one as well. Your response, when we last met in Ramallah, was that this strategy is utopian, that Palestinians have enough trouble getting people to engage in BDS merely against Israel, and that enlarging it would be untenable.

Can you explain how BDS can become more effective without thinking of joining with other movements against oppression and occupation that might call for a similar campaign?

LT: The BDS movement does operate with a conceptual framework, of course. This includes an analysis of global and regional power relations. BDS is predicated on the fact that the collusion of the hegemonic, or major world powers of the so-called "international community" with Israeli impunity is the single most important factor that enables Israel to continue flouting international law. The hegemonic powers not only shield Israel from censure; they have also often turned a blind eye to grievous offences committed by their allies - but only when it serves their own interests. The inconsistency of US and European foreign policy is not something I need to stress, I believe. Plenty of rogue regimes continue to oppress and suppress their citizenry without international censure, as we all know.

What is important to note, however, is that when an oppressed people decide to appeal to the world to help them achieve self-determination and freedom through boycotts and other pressure mechanisms, as the vast majority of Palestinian civil society has done, then the response of all conscientious people would usually be to respect that appeal directly and immediately. It certainly was the case in South Africa. I don't think anyone had the temerity to suggest, during the anti-apartheid struggle in that country, that the existence of a full-throttle anti-imperialist movement would be the precondition for supporting the boycotts called for by the oppressed in South Africa, or that a boycott of the US, the UK (and indeed Israel) was the only principled course of action to take. That would have been a recipe for paralysis.

Israel, unlike many other oppressive states, enjoys the full support of the hegemonic powers, as I have noted. Precisely because of this, since there is no other impetus for change, it is incumbent upon forces that support justice to heed the Palestinian call. If there were a robust BDS movement in China or in Morocco today urging a boycott of the existing regimes, then certainly it would be an obligation to respect the call of the oppressed.

The growth of the movement

ML: It seems increasing numbers of diaspora and Israeli Jews are supporting BDS, at least in principle - although as you alluded to - what they imagine BDS is and what it actually means can differ significantly. How is the growing support impacting the success of BDS? Do you think it is penetrating more into Israeli society? And have you seen any changes in the way the Israeli government deals with non-violent protest in the last year or so, given the increasing success of the movement?

LT: My comments concerning the Israeli boycott of the colonies in the West Bank are relevant in this context as well. I think most Israelis are very far from becoming convinced that BDS is an effective strategy for radical change of the status quo, and that is because Israeli society has no incentive to change the status quo. Only pressure, in the form of various BDS measures, can move the Israeli body politic. That is the logic of BDS, after all. As for the treatment of protests by the Israeli government and military, it's obvious that they are continuing to reassess their on-the-ground tactics in the face of the continuing escalation of protests, both by Palestinians and international and Israeli supporters. The use of force has been a constant for several decades now and is nothing new. During the first intifada, which was a form of civil resistance and disobedience, the response of the Israeli military was deadly and violent, just as it is today. The language of force will not be abandoned. That is the logic of a colonial power, after all.

ML: Can you elaborate a bit more on what the initiators of the BDS movement mean when they describe institutions or artists/academics who "serve Brand Israel". What is "Brand Israel" and whose interests does it serve?

LT: "Brand Israel" is a worldwide campaign launched in 2005 by some agencies of the Israeli government and major pro-Israel groups internationally, primarily in the United States. It's a diffuse and diverse effort, but the main idea behind it is to portray and promote Israel as a normal country for tourism, youth culture, enjoyment of the fine arts, sports, and all other "normal" and "civilised" pursuits. Public relations firms have played an important role in crafting the Israeli brand. In addition, Israeli consulates and embassies as well as Jewish and Zionist organizations (such as Hillel in the US) are actively involved in promoting Israeli art, scientific accomplishments, and other "achievements" abroad. The modernity, diversity, and vitality of Israel are stressed in Brand Israel promotional activities.

I may add that the Israeli writer Yitzhak Laor has uncovered evidence of official Israeli sponsorship of Brand Israel-type activities, and with a price tag attached; in an article published in 2008, he revealed that any Israeli artist or cultural worker accepting financial support from the Israeli Foreign Ministry for exhibiting or showcasing his or her work abroad was obligated to sign a contract stipulating that he or she "undertakes to act faithfully, responsibly and tirelessly to provide the Ministry with the highest professional services. The service provider is aware that the purpose of ordering services from him is to promote the policy interests of the State of Israel via culture and art, including contributing to creating a positive image for Israel".

What this reveals, then, is that, in light of the bad press Israel has been receiving in past years, it has been deemed necessary to make sure that artists and other cultural workers - perhaps because of their reputation as idiosyncratic or even eccentric - know what is expected of them when they accept state funding of their tours abroad. They are supposed to act as "cultural ambassadors" for Israel, which - in large part - is to become apologists for Israeli policies and practices that oppress the Palestinians.

"...it becomes a responsibility of conscientious academics and students considering visiting the area to become familiar with the context ... in light of the boycott call"

Lisa Taraki, PACBO co-founder

ML: In terms of the academic boycott, if I have a student who needs to come to Israel to develop her or his Hebrew in order better understand the dynamics of the occupation and can only afford to do this through various programs such as Erasmus or Education Abroad Programs that involved affiliation with Israeli universities, or wants to do research at Israeli archives on the country's history that require students to be affiliated to Israeli universities to obtain research clearance, what is the official position of PACBI towards this?

LT: The PACBI guidelines for the implementation of the academic boycott, which apply to international academics and students, are clear: any interaction with Israeli universities, regardless of the content or form (studying there, accessing archives, giving a course, attending a conference, conducting research) violates the academic boycott if such an interaction entails official contact with the institution.

This can include accepting an invitation to attend a conference, registering for a course, accepting employment or agreeing to conduct seminars, or conducting research in affiliation with such institutions. While using a university facility such as a library does not strictly violate the boycott, doing so in the framework of affiliation with the university would.

Institutional study abroad schemes, research activity conducted in the framework of institutional cooperation agreements - such as the various EU-funded programs, including Erasmus Mundus - violate the boycott. Regarding the study of Hebrew, I think that the international options for pursuing that are very wide indeed; most universities in the West offer Hebrew instruction.

In general, conscientious scholars and students are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the logic and aims of boycott and to abide by its spirit if situations other than the ones noted above are encountered. Since Palestinians - including academics and their representative body, the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Employees - have called for an academic boycott, it becomes a responsibility of conscientious academics and students considering visiting the area for research or study purposes to become familiar with the context, which includes thinking seriously about the meaning of their affiliation with Israeli universities in light of the boycott call.

ML: Critics might say that this response is explicitly putting politics - however worthy - ahead of the advance of scholarship. For historians, for example, it is impossible to produce new knowledge without accessing archives. For student historians, their degree depends on their access to archives. If the archives are controlled by the state, then is the mere fact of using them mean complicity with the state?

LT: This is not putting politics above scholarship; it is about applying ethical principles to the practice of scholarship. No scholarly activity takes place in a vacuum, and every scholar must consider the consequences of his or her research strategies when pursuing scholarly activity. State control of some archives does not necessarily preclude using them, as I noted earlier; usually, it is enough to prove one's academic credentials to gain access to them. It is the same as using Israeli medical facilities or any other public service. The main issue is institutional affiliation.

Drawing inspiration

ML: Are there any lessons from the so-called Arab Spring, or from other mass mobilisations globally against oppression in the past year or two that can inform and even help the BDS movement and Palestinian resistance more broadly? Do the events of the last eight months give you hope, or is the situation in Palestine different enough - being at once a colonial situation and an internal struggle for democracy both within Israeli and Palestinian societies - that these other mass mobilisations can't really help beyond inspiring Palestinians to stay the course?

LT: The revolutionary spirit that has ignited the Arab will no doubt make the question of Palestine more urgent than before, both in those countries that have begun the process of revolutionary transformation and those in which struggles for freedom and democracy are still unfolding. Once there are free and unrigged elections for new parliaments in Egypt and Tunisia as well as other Arab countries, the new parliaments will have to be sensitive to the views of the people - unlike the situation that has hitherto prevailed.

It is well known that Palestine is an Arab question, and that includes widespread rejection of Israel's destructive role in the region. The forces of counterrevolution may try to combat popular sentiment, and there will be continuous contestation and ongoing struggles, but the policies of Arab countries will not be the same now that the revolutionary spirit has taken hold of the imagination of the Arab people.

ML: How do you think the sudden rise of the protest movement in Israel for "social justice" will impact the BDS movement and Palestinian resistance more broadly to the occupation?  Especially with the likely coincidence of renewed protests in Israel next month and a major Palestinian push for statehood at the UN, is there a space for Palestinians to make a significant intervention in the protest discourse inside Israel that helps reshape it towards broader ends? And if so, what role would BDS play in this?

LT: From all indications, the protest movement in Israel has nothing to say about justice for Palestinians, either as citizens or as occupied people. The Palestinian BDS movement does not address the Israeli public directly in order to persuade it or to appeal to its sense of justice. That is not the logic of BDS. It is up to Israeli political forces to make that connection and to influence their public. We expect that pro-BDS Israelis, however small their numbers might be, will be taking this up within their society.

Lisa Taraki is a sociologist at Birzeit University in the occupied Palestinian territories and a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Mark LeVine is a professor of Middle East history at the University of California, Irvine, and is the author of Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam and the soon to be published An Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989.

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Settlements or Peace?
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Starving Somalia: U.S. “Other Wars” Kill More than Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq

Glen Ford

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More people die because of U.S. military and economic attacks in places like Somalia and Congo than in the more widely acknowledged wars of American empire. These "Other Wars" consume "hundreds of thousands – millions – of lives, and have resulted in, or contributed to, the two worst humanitarian crises in Africa over the past four years." President Obama’s announcement of $105 million for Somalia is a cynical diversion from the fact of U.S. use of food as a weapon of war.

"International aid agencies feared retribution from the Americans if they distributed food in Shabab-held territory."

On August 20, the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations has called for an International Day of Action on the "Other Wars." People’s first question is: What do you mean by "Other Wars." Any explanation must include the U.S. war against Somalia, as part of the American project to militarize and dominate the Horn of Africa.

It is an undeclared war, like all of America’s "Other Wars" – the ones that the old-line, white-dominated U.S. anti-war movement doesn’t feel rate inclusion in their list of wars. Yet, these wars consume hundreds of thousands – millions – of lives, and have resulted in, or contributed to, the two worst humanitarian crises in Africa over the past four years. The U.S. has stolen not only the lives of the people of Somalia, but their sovereignty over their homeland. If that’s not war, then the very word is meaningless.

Somalia had a semblance of peace, and a government to protect the peace, for a very brief time before the U.S. armed and instigated an Ethiopian invasion of the country, in late 2006. They crushed and scattered the Islamist government – called the Islamic Courts – whose youth wing, the Shabab, then mounted a guerilla resistance. Almost immediately, the country was plunged into what the United Nations called "the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa." The Americans used foreign soldiers from Uganda and Burundi, its African clients, to prop up a pitiful, fraudulent mini-state in the capital, Mogadishu. Unable to control the countryside, or even most of the capital, the U.S. then made it extremely difficult for foreign food providers to reach the people in Shabab-held areas. This set the stage for the next great humanitarian crisis, when the worst drought in 60 years struck much of the Horn of Africa, threatening tens of millions in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti. But the Somalis were the most exposed, because international aid agencies feared retribution from the Americans if they distributed food in Shabab-held territory.

"Obama’s $105 million is less than half the assistance the U.S. sent to Somalia back in 2008."

Now, President Obama has announced, with great fanfare, that the U.S. will set aside $105 million to feed Somalis, wherever they are hungry. But many aid agencies don’t believe the U.S. is serious about halting its use of food as a weapon of war, and are reluctant to renew distribution. And, Obama’s $105 million is less than half the assistance the U.S. sent to Somalia back in 2008, after the first U.S.-made humanitarian crisis. So, tens of thousands will continue to die – from starvation, and from U.S. drone and Special Forces attacks in its shooting war against the Shabab.

Six million have died in Congo because of American proxy wars. Haiti’s sovereignty and dignity was snatched away by American force of arms. Colombia ranks number one on the planet in the number of displaced persons – most of them Indigenous and Afro-Colombians – as a result of U.S. colonization of that country. America’s "Other Wars" are, in fact, more destructive of human life than the recognized conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Since Obama claims not to be at war with Libya, maybe that should also be called one of the "Other Wars."

The Black Is Back Coalition’s August 20 Day of Action unfolds in cities around the United States and abroad. In New York, a teach-in will be held at St. Mary’s Church, in Harlem. Educate yourself about America’s many, simultaneous wars against humanity: the "Other Wars." For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the web, go to www.BlackAgendaReport.com.

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Museum of Tolerance: Israel's Blindness

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We are by now too familiar with the label anti-Semite aimed towards all who dissent from the deplorable policies of Netanyahu's right-wing disaster. It does not matter if the resistance to Israeli occupation and ongoing collective punishment arises from the actions of Jews, Muslims, atheists, socialists or any human rights activists. In addition, Jew against Jew has created a deeply disturbing divide that pits Jews against one another and seriously questions what it means to be Jewish within a context of compassion or as a fear response to having once been dehumanized and thoroughly victimized. How can this justify the continuous role of Israel as victimizer in the form of an obscene collective punishment, an entire population marginalized, hated, left war torn and homeless without freedom. What is the message to the world after decades of this occupied prison?

I personally have been called an anti-Semite and nothing could be farther from the truth. My motives are not anti Jewish but rather antiwar I see as fascism in the form of an extreme nationalistic Zionism. This behavior cannot help but destroys the soul of Judaism a spiritual religion that ascribes to tolerance, compassion, does not kill and has the courage to reflect on its way of life. It is by now known that the Knesset, the core of Israeli government has thrown out a female Arab-Israeli member, Hanin Zuabi, who had the audacity to participate in protest against her country's actions. She witnessed the brutal murder of 9 unarmed activists on the ill fated Mavi Marmara that attempted to break the Gaza siege. She is now threatened with the loss of her Israeli citizenship.

Yes it is me again, Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany shouting to the world, never again, not in my name." Every day I am bombarded with news of some other atrocity in the name of protecting the "democratic state of Israel." I want to awaken from this nightmare. I no longer can tolerate to hear, "Palestinians do not recognize Israel and wish to destroy us." How much longer can we hear Netanyahu's mantra (US complicit here) "we will never recognize the terrorists Hamas" (legally elected by a majority of Palestinians.) I want to reiterate again, those who call others terrorists must reflect on the terrorism within themselves. The US is grossly guilty of similar careless projections of the label "terrorist" while refusing to acknowledge their own use of terrorism. Tragically Israel and the US both suffer from inordinate forms of extreme denial on the nature of their own violent behavior to keep wars and human suffering going and cannot self reflect on their ego maniacal political agendas. Other countries aid violence by selling arms and contribute powerfully as destroyers of human life in exchange for exorbitant payments.

Recent news has induced a cringe response. Germany sold a torpedo submarine to Israel, capable of deploying nuclear missiles and firing nuclear holocaust. How is this possible? Can it be a form of German restitution to assuage unconscious (or conscious) guilt by association with their infamous history when Nazi insanity and rabid anti-Semitism coupled with Aryan delusions of grandeur ruled Germany? I do not claim to know yet recognize the sheer lunacy to send weapons to Israel. Do we need more killings and endless suffering? Where is the resistance, the outrage? I need to hear more, louder, stronger. Does the Israeli agenda now include a nuclear war with Iran? Has Israel completely lost all reality? I can say much the same for the US that would engage mindlessly with Israel for we are Israel's strongest ally for an exorbitant corrupt price. Is the agenda of Netanyahu's right wing hoodlums to blow up all their neighbors to become the only country in the Middle East and the "only democracy?" Let Israel not become victim to its own self-fulfilling prophesy by their own hand. Such a nightmare, calling for the destruction of Israel cannot happen. Israel along with their Palestinian neighbors MUST change political direction. As of now, Israel is drowning in a sea of paranoia and fear. How can a democracy and brutal occupation exist together? How is it so many remain blind? It has happened before in the 30's but this time it occurs with a twist of fate. Racism lives in a different form yet is equally virulent. I am afraid. Left undisturbed, this myth of democracy will support a continuous unending tragedy for both Palestine and Israel. They must, in order to survive face each other with honest dialogue and sincere attempts at mutual understanding and compromise.

Now I end with some comments on Israel's harsh decision to build museum over a century old Muslim graveyard. For years Muslims struggled unsuccessfully to prevent this construction. The irony is the "museum of tolerance" is being built to promote coexistence and is a project of the Simon Wiesenthal (Nazi hunter) center. Ultra orthodox Jews claim ancient Jewish graves were once located there. Instead of tolerance, one sees arrogance, racism, infantilism, and utter righteousness in action. Can it be this provocative and destructive decision serves to reinforce the tragic rise once again of worldwide anti-Semitism?

- Lillian Rosengarten, a refugee from Nazi Germany is a Buddhist practitioner, poet, writer and a pacifist. She contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com. Contact her at: truthpoem@gmail.com.

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Palestinians fear for ancient West Bank water source

By Tom Perry

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Bedouin Falah Hedawa herds sheep in the Rashayida area, in the desert between the West Bank town of Bethlehem and the Dead Sea, July 25, 2011. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman

July 28, 2011

* Israel demolishes cisterns restored to harvest rainwater

* Old cisterns, many ancient, rehabilitated in recent years

* Israel West Bank authority says cisterns in firing zones

* Bedouin say Israel aims to drive them off land



RASHAYIDA, West Bank, July 28 (Reuters) - Hewn from rock, the cavernous cisterns which dot the desert beyond Bethlehem have for centuries harvested winter rain to provide shepherds and their flocks with water through summer.

Under a baking sun, an elderly Bedouin explains how cisterns he remembers from childhood, many of them restored to full working order in the last few years, are once again helping his goat-herding community to survive.

That, he concludes, is why the Israeli authorities who control the West Bank have demolished at least three in the area since November.

"Maybe they are doing this to make us leave. We will not leave," said Falah Hedawa, 64, sitting on cushions in his tent home pitched in the hills that slope down to the Dead Sea.

Out into the desert, a stagnant pool marked the spot where one of the cisterns, chiselled out of a hillside, had stood until its recent demolition. A mud trail on the otherwise dry ground indicated where the water inside had drained away towards a wadi, a valley which becomes a river when the rain falls.

Israel has demolished 20 rainwater collection cisterns in the West Bank in the first half of this year, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which monitors conditions in the Palestinian territories.

Their razing is part of a marked acceleration in demolitions of Palestinian structures in "Area C" -- the 60 percent of the West Bank where Israel exercises total control.

Defined by interim peace agreements concluded between Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s, Area C is where all of Israel's West Bank settlements are located.

In the first half of 2011, more Palestinians lost their homes in Area C than in the whole of 2009 or 2010, OCHA says. Many of them were Bedouin. A total of 342 Palestinian-owned structures have been demolished in the area so far this year.

Typically, demolitions are carried out on the grounds that the structures, some of them as simple as tents, have been put up without Israeli permission -- something Palestinians say is almost impossible to obtain.

As for the cisterns, the Israeli civil administration for the West Bank says that in at least two cases, probably more, it took action because they were located in military training zones where live fire could pose a danger to people using them.

"LICENSED BY HISTORY"

That, Palestinians say, is just an excuse, part of a system of Israeli restrictions designed to curb their development while allowing the settlements to grow.

The non-governmental organisations (NGOs) behind the cistern rehabilitation project are deeply concerned: the Bedouin, who number around 27,500 in Area C, are some of the poorest of all Palestinians.

Rehabilitated, the cisterns have been providing them with a free water resource, easing their reliance on expensive tankered water that they have to tow to their encampments by tractor.

By reviving old cisterns, the project leaders hoped they could sidestep tight restrictions on the construction of new water infrastructure -- a factor which the Palestinian Authority says has exacerbated water shortages across the West Bank.

"These cisterns are licensed by history," said Nadi Farraj, a Palestinian agricultural expert who has helped to rehabilitate around 140 old cisterns in the last four years.

The Bedouin talk of cisterns dating back to the Nabatean era, some 2,000 years ago. During their rehabilitation, workers drawn from the Bedouin communities have uncovered artifacts including Ottoman-era military helmets.

At one remote desert site, amid stone structures believed to be the remnants of an early Christian church, workers found parts of ancient mosaic floors while rehabilitating two cisterns where goats are today taken to drink.

"It's clear they have been here a long time -- from the days of our ancestors at least," said Ibrahim Moussa, sitting in the shade underneath a rock outcrop as he watched over his herd.

Photographs taken during restoration work reveal cavernous spaces, buttressed by supporting columns and archways. Not all the cisterns are underground. Some consist of pools dug at the end of wadis to trap the rainwater flows.

Reaching the remote sites is often the hardest part of the work, Farraj says. Once there, workers must remove sediment, waterproof the walls with plaster and then rebuild collection channels that funnel the rainwater into the cistern.

"WATER CRISIS EVERYWHERE"

In the desert outside the town of Zaatara, one cistern bears a Christian symbol which shows that it predates the 7th century spread of Islam from the Arabian peninsula, said Ahmad Abou Rabada, a local notable.

The cistern is one of two where Israel ordered a halt to restoration work in June on the grounds the area was within a firing zone. Abou Rabada said firing had not been heard there for years.

"They have presented many excuses," he said.

He fears it is now only a matter of time before the civil administration demolishes the cistern.

The demolitions have drawn U.N. condemnation. DanChurchAid, a Danish NGO that has financed the project, says five of the cisterns it has worked on have been demolished this year, three by Israeli forces and two by Jewish settlers.

"I find it extremely concerning. The whole Horn of Africa and the Middle East are facing major droughts this year," said Mads Lindegarde, regional representative of DanChurchAid, part of an NGO coalition that has formed The Emergency Water Sanitation and Hygiene group in the Palestinian territories.

"To destroy ancient water cisterns and water resources in general is madness, but particularly in a situation where people are suffering from an extreme lack of water," he said.

The demolitions are compounding a water crisis across the West Bank, said Shadad Attili, head of the Palestinian Water Authority.

"I have a water crisis everywhere, especially in the area classified as Area C," he said. "I fail in providing water to those people. Supposing I have a water source, I have to get approval to lay a pipe, but I don't, so these people are relying on the cisterns," he said.

"What message are they sending? 'Leave this land' -- this is the only message they are sending," he said.

Though Israel denies seeking to displace the Bedouin by such methods, it does have a plan for resettling them in built communities.

"They will get land for free, electricity, water, which will probably improve their situation," a spokesman for the Israeli civil administration said. "They can't keep moving from place to place and land is limited."

"This is the only solution with the Bedouin."

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Who Commits Terrorism?

Robert Parry

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Exclusive: A right-wing Christian nationalist has claimed credit for the terrorist attacks in Norway, killing at least 76 people. Though his writings show that Anders Behring Breivik was inspired by anti-Muslim extremists in the United States, that bigotry also made Muslims the early suspects in the U.S. media, Robert Parry reports.

If the Fox News promoters of racial profiling had been in charge of investigating last Friday’s terror attack in Norway, they might well have encountered blond, blue-eyed Anders Behring Breivik and his two smoking-hot guns only long enough to ask if he’d seen any suspicious-looking Muslims around.

After all, it has been a touchstone of the American Right, as well as right-wing Israelis, that Muslims are the source of virtually all terrorism and thus it makes little sense to focus attention on non-Muslims. A clean-cut Nordic sort like Breivik, who fancies himself part of a modern-day Knights Templar, is someone who would get a pass.

Or, as Israel’s UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman told a conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in 2006, "While it may be true – and probably is – that not all Muslims are terrorists, it also happens to be true that nearly all terrorists are Muslim." [Washington Post, March 7, 2006]

So, if you were tuned in to Fox News after the Norway attack, you would have seen smug-looking Fox talking heads recounting how this attack was surely an act of Islamic terrorism and even one exchange about the value of racial profiling to avoid wasting time on non-Muslims.

Yet, while the biases of Gillerman and Fox News represent a large chunk of the conventional wisdom, the reality is that terrorism is far from some special plague associated with Muslims. In fact, terrorism, including state terrorism, has been practiced far more extensively by non-Muslims and especially by Christian-dominated nations, both historically and in more modern times.

Terror tactics have long been in the tool kit of predominantly Christian armies and paramilitaries, including Breivik’s beloved Crusaders who slaughtered Muslims and Jews alike when Jerusalem was conquered in 1099.

Terror, such as torture and burning "heretics" alive, was a big part of the Roman Catholic Inquisition and the intra-Christian bloodletting in Europe in the middle of the last millennium. Terror played a big role, too, in genocides committed by Christian explorers against the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere and other unfortunate targets of colonialism. 

More Crusading 'Knights’

During the Jim Crow era in the American South, white Christians organized Ku Klux Klan chapters, which, like Breivik’s Templars, considered themselves Christian "knights" harkening back to the Crusades. The KKK inflicted terror on blacks, including lynching and bombings, to defend white supremacy.

In the 20th Century, there were countless examples of "red" and "white" terror, as Communists challenged the Capitalist power structure in Russia and other countries. Those violent clashes led to the rise of German Nazism which empowered "Aryans" to inflict terrifying slaughters to "defend" their racial purity from Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and other "inferior" races.

To prevail in World War II, the Allies resorted to their own terror tactics, destroying entire cities from the air, such as Dresden in Germany and Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

After World War II, the United States created the CIA to conduct what amounted to a war of terror and counter-terror against revolutionary movements around the world. This "low-intensity conflict" sometimes spilled into massive slaughters, such as U.S. terror bombings that killed estimated millions across Vietnam and Southeast Asia.

The CIA also recruited, deployed and supported proxy terrorists throughout Latin America, with right-wing Cubans receiving special training in explosives and a generation of South and Central American military officers schooled in how to intimidate and repress political movements seeking social change.

A fierce slaughter occurred in Guatemala after the CIA ousted an elected government in 1954 through the use of violent propaganda that terrified the nation. The CIA’s coup was followed by military dictatorships that used state terror as a routine means of controlling the impoverished population.

The consequences of the U.S. strategy were described in a March 29, 1968, report written by the U.S. embassy’s deputy chief of mission, Viron Vaky.  

"The official squads are guilty of atrocities. Interrogations are brutal, torture is used and bodies are mutilated," Vaky wrote. "In the minds of many in Latin America, and, tragically, especially in the sensitive, articulate youth, we are believed to have condoned these tactics, if not actually encouraged them.

"Therefore our image is being tarnished and the credibility of our claims to want a better and more just world are increasingly placed in doubt."

Vaky also noted the self-deceptions within the U.S. government that resulted from its complicity in state-sponsored terror.

"This leads to an aspect I personally find the most disturbing of all — that we have not been honest with ourselves," Vaky said. "We have condoned counter-terror; we may even in effect have encouraged or blessed it. We have been so obsessed with the fear of insurgency that we have rationalized away our qualms and uneasiness. 

"This is not only because we have concluded we cannot do anything about it, for we never really tried. Rather we suspected that maybe it is a good tactic, and that as long as Communists are being killed it is alright.

"Murder, torture and mutilation are alright if our side is doing it and the victims are Communists. After all hasn’t man been a savage from the beginning of time so let us not be too queasy about terror. I have literally heard these arguments from our people."

Vaky’s lament, however, mostly fell on deaf ears. Before long, much of Latin America was governed by murderous regimes, including the Southern Cone dictatorships which went so far as to create an international assassination combine called Operation Condor to spread terror among political dissidents by killing critics as far away as Washington and European capitals.

The Bush Role

These terror operations reached a peak when George H.W. Bush was CIA director in 1976. In that year, U.S.-backed Cuban terrorists blew up a Cubana Airline plane killing 73 people, with the evidence pointing at Cuban anti-communists Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles.

But those two right-wing Cubans continued to receive help and protection from the United States, including from the next generation of Bushes, Jeb and George W. (Thanks to the Bushes and their readiness to harbor these terrorists, Bosch lived out his golden years in Miami and Posada was spared extradition to Venezuela.)

Some of the worst examples of state terrorism occurred in Central America during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Reagan threw the support of the U.S. government behind the blood-soaked militaries of Guatemala and El Salvador (ironically, in the name of fighting terrorism). He also unleashed a terrorist organization, known as the Contras, against the leftist government in Nicaragua.

The butchery was shocking. Tens of thousands were slaughtered across Central America with the U.S.-backed Guatemalan army engaging in genocide against Indian populations of the highlands.

Though Reagan was the leading proponent in this application of terror in the 1980s, he is today one of the most honored U.S. presidents with scores of government facilities, including National Airport in Washington, named after him. (He is routinely cited by all sides in policy debates, including by President Barack Obama in his address on the debt ceiling Monday night.)

Though Israel has been the victim of many horrible acts of Islamic terrorism, it also is not without guilt in the dark arts of terrorism.

Militant Zionists employed terrorism as part of their campaign to establish Israel as a Jewish state in the 1940s. The terrorism included killings of British officials who were administering Palestine under an international mandate as well as Palestinians who were driven violently from their land so it could be claimed by Jewish settlers.

One of the most famous of those terrorist attacks was the 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem where British officials were staying. The attack, which killed 91 people including local residents, was carried out by the Irgun, a terrorist group run by Menachem Begin. Another veteran of this campaign of Zionist terrorism was Yitzhak Shamir.

And, these Jewish terrorists were not simply obscure figures in Israeli history. Begin later founded the Likud Party and rose to be Israel’s prime minister. Shamir was another Likud leader who was later elected prime minister. (Today, Likud remains Israel’s ruling party.)

In the early 1990s, as I was waiting to interview Shamir at his Tel Aviv office, I was approached by one of his young female assistants who was dressed in a gray and blue smock with a head covering in the traditional Hebrew style.

As we were chatting, she smiled and said in a lilting voice, "Prime Minister Shamir, he was a terrorist, you know." I responded with a chuckle, "yes, I’m aware of the prime minister’s biography."

Defining Terrorism

The classic definition of "terrorism" is the use of violence against civilians to achieve a political goal. But the word ultimately has been transformed into a geopolitical insult. If "our" side is the target, it’s "terrorism," even if it’s a case of local militants attacking an occupying military force. Yet, when "our" side is doing the killing, it is anything but "terrorism."

So, for instance, when Palestinians trapped in the open-air prison called Gaza fire small missiles at nearby Israeli settlements, that is decried as "terrorism" because the missiles are indiscriminant. But in 1983, when the Reagan administration lobbed artillery shells from the USS New Jersey into Lebanese villages (in support of the Israeli occupation of Lebanon), that was not "terrorism."

Yet, when Lebanese militants responded to the U.S. shelling by driving a truck bomb into the U.S. Marine base at the Beirut airport, killing 241 American troops, that was widely deemed "terrorism" in the American news media, even though the victims weren’t civilians. They were military troops belonging to a country that had become a participant in a civil war.

As a Washington-based reporter for the Associated Press then, I questioned the seeming bias that the wire service was showing in its selective use of the word "terrorist." A senior AP executive responded to my concerns with a quip, "Terrorist is the word that follows Arab."

Working journalists understood that it was an unwritten rule to apply the word "terrorism" liberally when the perpetrators were Muslims but avoid the term when describing actions by the United States or its allies. At such moments, the principle of objectivity went out the window.

Eventually, the American press corps developed such an engrained sense of this double standard that unrestrained moral outrage would pour forth when acts of "terrorism" were committed by U.S. enemies, but a studied silence – or a nuanced concern – would follow similar crimes by the United States or its allies.

So, when President George W. Bush carried out his "shock and awe" assault on Iraq, there was no suggestion that the destruction might be an act of terror because it was specifically designed to intimidate the Iraqis. Bush then followed up with a brutal invasion that has since resulted in hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths.

Many Muslims and others around the world denounced Bush’s Iraq invasion as "state terrorism," but such a charge was considered far outside the mainstream debate in the United States. Instead, Iraqi insurgents have been labeled "terrorists" when they attack U.S. troops inside Iraq.

This double standard then reinforces the notion that "only Muslims" commit acts of "terrorism," because the Western news media, by practice, almost never applies the t-word to non-Muslims. By contrast, it is both easy and expected to attach the word to Muslim groups held in disfavor by the U.S. and Israeli governments, i.e. Hamas and Hezbollah.

Islamophobe Hearings

This double standard has been on display this year with Rep. Peter King’s Homeland Security Committee hearings on the "radicalization" of American Muslims. King has refused to expand his investigation to include what appears to be the new rising threat from Christian Right "radicalization."

Much like the Norway slaughter, a number of recent examples of domestic terrorism have emanated from the Right’s hostility toward multiculturalism and other policies of the modern American state.

Recent cases of domestic terrorism have included the gunning down of presumed liberals at a Unitarian Church in Kentucky; violent attacks on gynecologists who perform abortions; the killing of a guard at Washington’s Holocaust Museum; and the shooting of a Democratic congresswoman and her constituents in Arizona.

From Breivik’s manifesto urging European Christians to rise up against Muslim immigrants and liberal politicians who tolerate multiculturalism, it is clear that he was largely inspired by anti-Muslim rhetoric that pervades the American Right and has surfaced in ugly campaigns to prevent mosques from being built across the country or even an Islamic community center that was deemed to be too close to 9/11’s Ground Zero.

Rep. King’s hearings were inspired by the work of noted Islam-basher Steven Emerson, whose Investigative Project on Terrorism has sought to link the locations of mosques to the incidence of terrorism cases. Emerson, who has close ties to Israel’s Likud and American neocons, also was a key figure in the campaign to block the Islamic community center near Ground Zero.

In 2010, Emerson went on right-wing activist Bill Bennett’s national radio show and insisted that Islamic cleric Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leading force behind the community center, would likely not "survive" Emerson’s disclosure of supposedly radical comments that Rauf made a half decade ago.

Emerson said, "We have found audiotapes of Imam Rauf defending Wahhabism, the puritanical version of Islam that governs Saudi Arabia; we have found him calling for the elimination of the state of Israel by claiming he wants a one-nation state meaning no more Jewish state; we found him defending bin Laden violence."

However, when Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism released its evidence several days later, it fell far short of Emerson’s lurid descriptions. Rauf actually made points that are shared by many mainstream analysts – and none of the excerpted comments involved "defending Wahhabism."

Imbalanced Propaganda

As for Rauf "defending bin Laden violence," Emerson apparently was referring to remarks that Rauf made to an audience in Australia in 2005 about the history of U.S. and Western mistreatment of people in the Middle East.

"We tend to forget, in the West, that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than al-Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims," Rauf said.

"You may remember that the U.S.-led sanctions against Iraq led to the death of over half a million Iraqi children. This has been documented by the United Nations. And when Madeleine Albright, who has become a friend of mine over the last couple of years, when she was Secretary of State and was asked whether this was worth it, [she] said it was worth it."

Emerson purported to "fact check" Rauf’s statement on the death toll from the Iraq sanctions by claiming "a report by the British government said at most only 50,000 deaths could be attributed to the sanctions, which were brought on by the actions by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein."

What Emerson’s "fact check" ignored, however, was that Rauf was accurately recounting Leslie Stahl’s questioning of Secretary of State Albright on CBS "60 Minutes" in 1996. Emerson also left out the fact that United Nations studies did conclude that those U.S.-led sanctions caused the deaths of more than 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of five.

In the 1996 interview, Stahl told Albright regarding the sanctions, "We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?"

Albright responded, "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price – we think the price is worth it."

Later, an academic study by Columbia University’s Richard Garfield put the sanctions-related death toll of Iraqi children, under five, at 106,000 to 227,000.

Emerson didn’t identify the specific British report that contains his lower figure, although even that number – 50,000 – represents a stunning death toll and doesn’t contradict Rauf’s chief point, that U.S.-British actions have killed many innocent Muslims over the years.

Also, by 2005, when Rauf made his remarks in Australia, the United States and Great Britain had invaded and occupied Iraq, with a death toll spiraling from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands with some estimates of war-related deaths in Iraq now exceeding one million.

Far from "defending bin Laden violence," Rauf’s comments simply reflected the truth about the indiscriminate killing inflicted on the Muslim world by U.S.-British interventions over the decades. British imperialism in the region dates back several centuries, a point that Emerson also ignored. [See Consortiumnews.com’s "Islam Basher Claims to Unmask Cleric."]

It is Emerson’s kind of anti-Muslim propaganda that has infected the ability of the U.S. political system to deal fairly with Middle Eastern issues. Rep. King’s one-sided hearings have become another opportunity to exacerbate American hostility toward Muslims.

Emerson has boasted about his role in helping to structure King’s hearings, but lashed out at King when the congressman refused to include Emerson on the witness list.

"I was even going to bring in a special guest today and a VERY informed and connected source, who could have been very useful, possibly even critical to your hearing, but he too will not attend unless I do," Emerson wrote to King. "You have caved in to the demands of radical Islamists in removing me as a witness."

In a particularly weird twist, Emerson somehow envisioned himself as the victim of McCarthyism because he wasn’t being allowed to go before the House Homeland Security Committee and accuse large segments of the American-Muslim community of being un-American. [Politico, Jan. 19, 2011]

But such is the strange world of the propagandists who have managed to associate the crime of "terrorism" almost exclusively with Muslims, when the ugly reality is that the blood of innocents covers the hands of adherents to many other faiths (and political movements) as well.

It is that sort of anti-Muslim bigotry which feeds the Christian Right terrorism of an Anders Behring Breivik.

[For more on these topics, see Robert Parry’s Secrecy & Privilege and Neck Deep, now available in a two-book set for the discount price of only $19. For details, click here.]

Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book,Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, was written with two of his sons, Sam and Nat, and can be ordered at neckdeepbook.com. His two previous books, Secrecy & Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq and Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth’ are also available there.

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Breivik, the anti-Zionist
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The cancer of Christian Zionist terror
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Fateful fruits of Egyptian revolution in sight/ Zionist regime declining
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Zionist Rabbis Gather in Jerusalem, Learn from One Another
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ZOA complaint seeking probe of Rutgers
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It's the exploitation, stupid
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20 07 2011

Israel Terrorizing Palestinians Lawlessly

by Stephen Lendman

July 19, 2011

Palestinians bear witness daily to Israeli state terror. Complicit Western and regional nations, in fact, condone it through silence or failure to condemn what never is tolerable and must end.

For nearly a week, Israeli aircraft struck Gaza preemptively. As a result, fear of a new war grows.

Israel claims strikes follow rocket attacks. In fact, when launched, they're few in number and respond to Israeli aggression in self-defense.

On July 12, IDF jets struck alleged northern Gaza "weapons manufacturing sites," injuring one woman.

On July 13, three tunnels were bombed. Israel falsely blamed them for "terrorist activity." Two Palestinians were missing after one of the tunnels collapsed. Later one body was recovered. Five or more other Palestinians were wounded.

On July 14, other targets were struck, wounding four Palestinian civilians.

On July 15, overnight attacks wounded four Palestinians, including two children. Over the weekend, other preemptive raids followed. Blaming the victims, a July 14 IDF statement said:

"The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli civilians, and will respond with determination to any attempt to use terror against the State of Israel. The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for any terrorist activity emanating from the Gaza Strip."

In fact, Hamas is Palestine's legitimate government. Israel lawlessly terrorizes West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza residents preemptively, falsely claiming self-defense.

On July 17, four new raids struck Khoza village in Khan Yunis, critically injuring two Palestinians and traumatizing dozens of children.

Other same day attacks targeted Beit Hanoun, injuring seven Al Za'aneen family members, including four children - innocent civilians Israel calls "terrorists." In addition, Israeli armored vehicles and bulldozers raided Gaza's Al Bureij refugee camp, firing randomly and uprooting lands.

The previous day, Israeli planes dropped thousands of leaflets, asking Gazans to spy on neighbors for Israel. They also warned of continued strikes, especially in northern areas.

Gaza Emergency and Medical Services spokesperson Adham Abu Salmiyya said since early July, Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian civilians, injuring at least 20 others, including six children.

On July 14, Israeli naval forces attacked the Oliva, an international human rights monitoring Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGaza) boat offshore, nearly sinking it.

On July 15, a second attack occurred, crew members saying an Israeli gunboat indiscriminately used water cannons and live fire, including on 11 fishing boats in the area. As a result, nine vessels were badly damaged. In addition, the Oliva was too badly flooded to continue. Fishermen rescued its crew, then towed the boat to shore, pursued by Israel's navy to within one nautical mile of port.

On July 11, after passing an anti-free speech bill, Israel's Knesset targeted Balad MK Hanin Zuabi, lawlessly stripping her of parliamentary privileges.

On July 18, the Ethics Committee prevented her from addressing the Knesset or vote in committees through the end of the parliamentary season because she participated in Freedom Flotilla I.

Last July, other rights were lawlessly stripped, including her diplomatic passport, financial help, legal assistance, and right (Knesset members have) to travel freely to countries with no official ties to Israel.

At issue, is Zuabi's vocal criticism of Israeli policies. Last week, security officers forcefully removed her from the Knesset after interrupting Netanyahu's speech, defending the new anti-boycott bill. In fact, Knesset practice lets members interrupt, raising issues or voicing criticism. An Israeli Arab, Zuabi was denied her right to do so.

A Final Comment

Complicit with Washington and Greece, Israel blocked "Freedom Flotilla II - Stay Human (FF II)" boats from sailing to Gaza, or so it thought. On July 17, an FF II press release headlined, "French boat Dignite (al Karama) of Freedom Flotilla II leaves Greece," saying:

Departing on July 16, its 10 passengers "view themselves as (representing) the whole (FF II mission). The rest of the Flotilla's ships have been detained in different Greek ports, through bureaucratic obstruction, sabotage, sudden restrictions and withdrawals of flags."

Dignite, in fact, represents past and future missions. Saying "Gaza, we are coming," its message to Israel, Washington, and the international community is that initiatives won't stop until Gaza's illegal siege ends.

The Swedish/Norwegian/Greek MV Juliano also hopes to sail. So far, however, it's still blocked in the Greek island of Crete, per orders from Israel and Washington, determined to keep collectively punishing Gazan civilians illegally.

No wonder growing numbers of Israelis are voting with their feet and leaving. On July 15, hundreds of others joined with Palestinians (about 2,000 in total), marching in occupied East Jerusalem, calling for an independent Palestinian state. Among them were Hadash Party MK Dov Hanin and Meretz MK Zehava Galon.

Starting from East Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate, they followed the Green Line dividing East and West Jerusalem, ending at Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighborhood often attacked by Israeli settlers. In response, extremist Israelis tried to disrupt the march with an ineffective counter demonstration.

On July 15, Reuters writer Tom Perry headlined, "Settler violence against Palestinians up 57 percent in the West Bank," according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) saying:

Palestinian officials call it "a worrying sign of deepening hostility which they fear could trigger wider violence as hard-line settlers increasingly appear to be a law unto themselves...."

Coming from hilltop enclaves, they vandalize Palestinian property and commit assaults with impunity. PA minister Maher Ghoneim, monitoring settlement activities, says Netanyahu's government represents settlements. Extremist Foreign Minister/Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman lives in one. "This naturally encourages" violent attacks.

So far this year, settlers have stoned, run down, or shot at 178 Palestinians (killing three civilians), compared to 176 all last year. In response to Reuters' request, Israeli police and army officials provided no information regarding the scale of violence.

As a result, "(t)he role of Israeli security forces in dealing with settler violence is the focus of controversy." B'Tselem says they do little or nothing to protect Palestinians and their property. Even when arrested, settlers get lenient slaps on the wrist, freeing them to commit more violence with impunity.

At the same time, when Palestinians respond in self-defense, including by throwing stones, Israeli soldiers (if nearby) attack them with tear gas, rubber bullets, and at times live fire.

In Israel and Occupied Palestine, only Jews have rights. Arabs are denied them for being Muslims in a Jewish state, even on their own land.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

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Chabad is Zionist, Rabbi Says
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Israel shouldn't brainwash its children
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We've Got It Backward: Israel Education Should Come First, Then Advocacy
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Do not speak, do not resist - Israel rules out non-violence

Jonathan Cook

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July 18, 2011

It was an Arab legislator who made the most telling comment to the Israeli parliament last week as it passed the boycott law, which outlaws calls to boycott Israel or its settlements in the occupied territories. Ahmed Tibi asked: "What is a peace activist or Palestinian allowed to do to oppose the occupation? Is there anything you agree to?"

The boycott law is the latest in a series of ever-more draconian laws being introduced by the far-right. The legislation's goal is to intimidate those Israelis who have yet to bow down before the majority-rule mob.

Look out in coming days for a bill to block the work of Israeli organisations trying to protect Palestinian rights; and another draft law investing a parliamentary committee, headed by the far-right, with the power to appoint supreme court judges. The court is the only, and already enfeebled, bulwark against the right's ascendancy.

The boycott law, backed by Benjamin Netanyahu's government, marks a watershed in this legislative assault in two respects.

First, it knocks out the keystone of any democratic system: the right to free speech. The new law makes it illegal for Israelis and Palestinians to advocate a non-violent political programme - boycott - to counter the ever-growing power of the half a million Jewish settlers living on stolen Palestinian land.

As the Israeli commentator Gideon Levy observed, the floodgates are now open: "Tomorrow it will be forbidden to call for an end to the occupation [or] brotherhood between Jews and Arabs."

Equally of concern is that the law creates a new type of civil, rather than criminal, offence. The state will not be initiating prosecutions. Instead, the job of enforcing the boycott law is being outsourced to the settlers and their lawyers. Anyone backing a boycott can be sued for compensation by the settlers themselves, who - again uniquely - need not prove they suffered actual harm.

Under this law, opponents of the occupation will not even be dignified with jail sentences and the chance to become prisoners of conscience. Rather, they will be quietly bankrupted in private actions, their assets seized either to cover legal costs or as punitive damages.

Human rights lawyers point out that there is no law like this anywhere in the democratic world. But more than half of Israelis back it, with only 31 per cent opposed.

The delusional, self-pitying worldview that spawned the boycott law was neatly illustrated this month in a short video "ad" that is supported, and possibly financed, by Israel's hasbara, or propaganda, ministry. Fittingly, it is set in a psychiatrist's office.

A young woman, clearly traumatised, deciphers the images concealed in the famous Rorschach test. As she is shown the ink-splodges, her panic and anger grow. Gradually, we come to realise, she represents vulnerable modern Israel, abandoned by friends and still in profound shock at the attack on her navy's commandos by the "terrorist" passengers aboard last year's aid flotilla to Gaza.

Immune to reality - that the ships were trying to break Israel's punitive siege of Gaza, that the commandos illegally boarded the ships in international waters, and that they shot dead nine activists execution-style - Miss Israel tearfully recounts that the world is "forever trying to torment and harm [us] for no reason". Finally she storms out, saying: "What do you want - for [Israel] to disappear off the map?"

The video - released under the banner "Stop the provocation against Israel" - was part of a campaign to discredit the recent follow-up flotilla from Greece. The aid mission was abandoned after Greek authorities, under Israeli pressure, refused to let them sail.

Israel's siege mentality asserted itself again days later as international activists staged another show of solidarity - this one nicknamed the "flytilla". Hundreds tried to fly to Israel on the same day, declaring their intention to travel to the West Bank.

Israel threatened airlines with retaliation if they carried the activists and it massed hundreds of soldiers at Ben Gurion Airport to greet arrivals. About 150 peaceful protesters who reached Israel were arrested moments after landing.

Echoing the hysterical sentiments of the woman in the video, Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, denounced the various flotillas as "denying Israel's right to exist" and a threat to its security.

Although Mr Netanyahu's comments sound delusional, there may be a method to the madness of measures like the boycott law and the massive overreaction to the flotillas.

These initiatives, as Mr Tibi points out, leave no room for non-violent opposition to the occupation. Arundhati Roy, the award-winning Indian writer, has noted that non-violence is essentially "a piece of theatre. [It] needs an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?"

Mr Netanyahu and the Israeli right appear to understand this point. They are carefully dismantling every platform on which dissident Israelis, Palestinians and solidarity activists hope to stage their protests. They are making it impossible to organise joint peaceful and non-violent resistance, whether in the form of boycotts or solidarity visits. The only way being left open is violence.

Is this what the Israeli right wants, believing it offers a justification for entrenching the occupation? By generating the very terror he claims to be trying to defeat, does Mr Netanyahu hope he can safeguard the legitimacy of the Jewish state and destroy hopes for a Palestinian state?


Jonathan Cook is The National's correspondent in Nazareth, Israel. He won this year's Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism

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19 07 2011



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The Case for Israel
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18 07 2011



Schneller: End boycott of Zionists in High Rabbinical Court
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The right to fight boycotts
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Beware of the evolving alliance between Israel and Greece
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Raad says cabinet will defend Lebanon against Israel
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Syria: Zionist Mobilization Kicks Into High Gear
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Nothing could defeat Zionism - the Zionist pact with US imperialism, turning the Jewish garrison state into the largest aircraft carrier on the Mediterranean, made sure of that. But Zionism went just too far in its greed and began swallowing its own ...
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Sabrosky Responds: Palestine, Israel and America
Salem-News.Com
Responses to the next two pieces may well be better, because they won't be a critique of the anti-Zionist movement and people in America and elsewhere, and defensiveness won't generally be a problem. But if people don't accept the premises and the ...
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Scholarship, Advocacy, and Antisemitism at Yale
Algemeiner
It needs scholars on left-wing, progressive, Muslim, and Neo-Nazi anti-Zionist antisemitism. And we need, for example, scholars on anti-Semitism and anti-Israel propaganda in the Western mass media in the 21 st century. There is nothing wrong with ...
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Talking seriously about aliya
Jerusalem Post
Which brings us to the Jewish Agency's reform and to Thursday's angry screed by Isi Liebler (“The collapse of Zionist leadership,” June 23) against what he sees as the capitulation of everyone who isn't him to the dark forces of anti- Zionism. ...
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Blog: Of Course the Flotilla is a Political Provocation
Palestine News Network
By Joe Catron - As the launch of the Freedom Flotilla – Stay Human approaches, increasing numbers of Zionist officials and commentators illuminate the depths of their moral and intellectual bankruptcy by arguing that it is a political – not ...
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Slavoj Zizek in Tel Aviv: "Antisemitism is alive and kicking in Europe"
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19 06 2011
 
Jews & Their Self Interest-An Interview with Philip Weiss
Salem-News.Com
Really??, Nahida expresses some sharp criticism of Jewish anti-Zionist groups, forcefully arguing that “Anti-Zionist Jewish organisations are trying to silence Palestine's supporters, to frame the debate” and to “steer the course of the liberation” of ...
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David Cameron and Anglo-Jewish leaders
Jerusalem Post
In addition, there is a growing inclination, conscious or otherwise, by increasing numbers of Jews to adopt an anti-Zionist chic in order to distance themselves from the growing anti-Israelism which saturates all levels of society. ...
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International conference on Islamic Unity opens in London
Islamic Republic News Agency
A number of speakers, in the first day of the conference, called Islamic Revolution of Iran as an 'August uprising under leadership of late Imam Khomeini' which could shake western world and the Zionists and said that its effects can be seen in the ...
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Young Judea to become independent group
Jerusalem Post
Members of the Zionist youth movement in a joint statement with Hadassah, the Zionist Women's Organization of American, welcomed the decision. “The alumni of Young Judea are proud that Hadassah's national board voted this week to help the movement ...
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Ofcom vs. Press TV: Viewers' angle
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Press TV's truthful reporting caused pro-Zionist newspaper, The Sunday Times, to publish an article in which Press TV was described as a “domestic enemy” within the UK. They want to extinguish the light of truth: I don't know if they are really ...
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Sayyed Ali Fadlullah: "Imam Ali (as): The Imam of the pious believers"
ABNA.ir
The aim of the international arrogance is to dominate over the region so as to prevent it from turning into a significant force that could out-weigh the Zionist Entity. In the meantime, the Zionist enemy is seizing every opportunity and accelerating ...
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Grey's Anatomy Stars in Israel
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Hollywood is here!six Hollywood TV actors are in Tel Aviv right now on a delegation that wasarranged by the Zionist Organization's "America's voice in Israel. Among them are Greys' anatomy starsSara Drew who playsApril Kempner, and Kevin McKidd who ...
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Dr Gerry Mander: the therapist the stars trust
The Guardian
I can do the whole railing against Zionist-imperialism shtick and I know my way around a Kalashnikov as well as the next bearded guy in a cave. But I'm not sure I'm cut out to be the figurehead of global jihad. Business isn't so good. ...
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Leave yizkor alone
Ha'aretz
The yizkor prayer as has been accepted to this day is not a religious prayer, but a piece of literature, composed by Labor Zionist leader Berl Katznelson immediately after the battle of Tel Hai in 1920. Katznelson did not "remove" from his yizkor the ...
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12 06 2011


Paper supports Netanyahu's Zionist apartheid regime
Morning Sentinel
I can't believe that the editors approve of Benjamin Netanyahu's Zionist apartheid regime. I believe that Netanyahu's government is in state of denial. Israel's occupation of Palestine has continued illegally for more than 40 years. ...
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'US Republicans under Zionist control'
Press TV
The Republicans succeeded last year in the House of Representatives on this issue, but unfortunately the Republicans are also under Zionist control, they won't cut the defense spending and bring the troops home, which could very quickly start ending ...
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Press TV
Palestinians Join the Arab Spring and Reach for UN Membership
Salem-News.Com
It is difficult not to conclude that under its current right-wing government, Israel appears to be trapped in a fear-driven mindset, the same mindset which has sustained the Zionist dream since the 19th century. Look no further for verification of this ...
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Israel's foes face curse
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As a follower of Jesus and a Gentile Zionist, I applaud the response by Rabbi Stevens and Rabbi Kramer to the uninformed opinion of Jason Childs. I just returned from a visit to Israel and am now even more convinced of God's love for that land that he ...
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American Radical: The Life and Times of IF Stone by DD Guttenplan – review
The Guardian
Ten years earlier, he had joined the clandestine Zionist operation smuggling Jews into British Mandatory Palestine, and written the best-selling Underground to Palestine about this adventure, before welcoming the creation of the Jewish state in 1948. ...
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Disarmament Conference Kicks off in Tehran
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The international meeting mainly seeks examining ways to end nuclear challenges, Zionist regime's nuclear arsenals, nuclear disarmament and arms control. Also deputy of Iranian top nuclear negotiator Ali Baqeri is to address the meeting as well on ...
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05 06 2011


Ahmadinejad stresses confronting US hegemony, Zionist regime entity
Iranian Students News Agency
TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said confronting the US hegemony and Zionist regime's entity is the major line which should be followed in battling the West's hegemony. "We want to show the entire world that we defend the oppressed ...
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A nasty Echo from the past
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"This is the usual Zionist propaganda onslaught which sets out to crush and silence all opposition both within Israel and the shrinking West Bank and elsewhere in the world. "The problem is not one of anti-Semitism but one of aggressive, nationalistic, ...
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Jewish Voice for Peace? Really??
Salem-News.Com
Palestinians are always grateful and appreciative of the hard work and dedication of all their supporters whomever they are, however, Palestinians have NO obligation to adopt the aims and objectives of the anti-zionist Jewish supporters instead of ...
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Hadassah honors 'women of distinction'
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Knesset Member Dalia Itzik (Kadima) and Nancy Falchuk, national president of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, were honored recently at the Hadassah Boston Chapter's Women of Distinction Gala Event, held at the Mandarin Oriental ...
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Waking people up to reality
Malaysia Star
Stressing the difference between the Jews, Judaism, Israel and Zionism, Dr Sizer says: “Jew is the race, Judaism is the faith, Israel is the country and Zionism is the political system. “You can be a Jew and an Israeli and not a Zionist. ...
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COMMENT: Palestine: the simmering revolt —Lal Khan
Pakistan Daily Times
A number of areas within the Palestinian territory have been dissected by these settlements and the monstrous concrete wall imposed by the Zionist state. Gaza and the West Bank are already split asunder by a large swath of Israeli-occupied territory. ...
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Supreme Leader: Regional revolutions are Islamic, popular, anti-US
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The Islamic Republic of Iran will side any movement observed with such features anywhere; however, if we see that the US-Zionist provocation is at work, we will not side the movement because we are confident that the big Satan and its allies do not ...
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'Israel war rhetoric, outdated strategy'
Press TV
“The Zionist regime (Israel) has always announced that all options, including military strike on Iran, are on the table. This outdated strategy emanates from a barbaric and savage thought among officials of the regime,” a member of the National ...
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27 05 2011


With Jewish Agency out, Zionist groups get into promoting aliyah
Ha'aretz
In the wake of recent reforms at the Jewish Agency, more and more Zionist groups are taking the promotion of immigration to Israel into their own hands. By Raphael Ahren The trend started earlier this month when the Zionist Federation of Great Britain ...
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Christian Zionists, Bibi, Obama, and Armageddon
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Par for the course among Christian Zionists. Genesis 12:3 is their seminal verse, proof-texted to support anything from foreign aid to Israel to maintaining the occupation to bombing Iran. In Genesis, Christian Zionists maintain, God said he would ...
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Taliban and the need for 'evil USA, Zionists and India'
The Express Tribune (blog)
To boost the morale of the armed forces and the general population when the army sees a need for any military operation or intervention Before any military operation, it is a tendency of the army to label its adversaries as 'Indians' or 'Zionist agents ...
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Community bids farewell to Arieh, the Zionist's Zionist
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He was a classic religious Zionist who believed in social justice and the high ideals of Israel's founders. "To all who knew him, he was a role model of idealism and quiet courage, of Judaism and Zionism at their best. We will miss him deeply but we ...
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Israel always needs an existential threat to survive: Nima Shirazi
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War threats have been an inseparable part of the US-backed, Zionist-run propaganda project against Iran. The question which I want to raise is that, from a legal point of view, shouldn't incessant war threats by a fake political entity against a ...
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Can a Jew legally cancel his Jewishness?
Jerusalem Post
But here is one metaphor that I hope we will find useful in thinking through this challenge of how we make for a community that can countenance complicated ideas in the interest of preserving that very underlying notion of community: In my own Zionist ...
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Is it 1938?
The Atlantic
By Jeffrey Goldberg You've heard of post-Zionism? Alon Pinkas accuses Bibi Netanyahu of being a pre-Zionist (this is from behind a Jerusalem Post paywall): Netanyahu interprets Jewish history as a series of tragedies and near-annihilations of our ...
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Conservatives Who Hate Jews
Black Hills Today
Obama is a Zionist because all NWO-Approved (New World Order) Presidents are Zionist. (Why else would he have hired Rahm Immanuel as his Chief of Staff and named Ben Bernanke as Fed Reserve Chair? Do we even need to mention Tim Geithner? ...
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The Making of History / Fayyad's role model
Ha'aretz
The Zionist enterprise developed itself for 30 years before Israel declared independence. The Zionists understood that history is made with actions, not words, Fayyad says: settlements, roads, jobs, a school system. In the 30 years of British control ...
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US Presidents Support for Israel
Arutz Sheva
Before the Zionist movement assumed concrete form, among the first toexpress approval of the return of the Jews to Palestine was John Adams, the second President of the United States, who wrote to Maj. Mordecai Manuel Noah, the first American Zionist, ...
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Nakba Denials Must Be Condemned

by Yousef Munayyer

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26 05
2011


The Daily Beast, May 25, 2011

In a rebuttal to Michael Medved’s Daily Beast article on how the media distort the Mideast debate, Yousef Munayyer writes that the U.S. knew all along that the creation of Israel would endanger the Palestinian people.

When Palestinian refugees were gunned down by Israeli soldiers upon marching towards their homeland during unarmed Nakba Day demonstrations, the floodgates of historic revisionism opened.

Article - Munayyer Nakba Day
Palestinians carry an injured boy after Israeli soldiers opened fire at the protesters who approached the Israeli border during a rally in the village of Maroun el-Rass, Lebanon on May 15, 2011. (Photo: Mohammed Zaatari / AP Photo)

What is this 'Nakba’? Where did these refugees come from? Who should be responsible for them? Readers undoubtedly raised these questions when the spilled blood of demonstrators brought the discussion of the most pivotal year in Palestinian history, 1948, back into the headlines.

Often, the events of this period are recited like this in mainstream media:

After Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, armies from neighboring Arab states attacked the new nation; during the war that followed, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were driven from their homes by Israeli forces.

As a student of history and the grandchild of Nakba survivors, I find it not only inaccurate to suggest Palestinian refugees are merely the unintended consequence of war, but also offensive and disgusting.

That sequence of events, from a recent New York Times article, was repeated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his meeting with President Obama last week.

Both describe the refugees as a result of the "Arab attack" in 1948. But even a cursory look at history reveals how flawed this is. Before a single Arab soldier crossed into Palestine on May 15, 1948 more than half the total refugees were created. Arab mobilization then became a reaction to massive refugee flows and not the cause of it. When Israel declared independence, its military had already succeeded in depopulating Palestine’s largest cities of Jaffa and Haifa as well as Tiberias, Safad and Beisan. Perhaps those writing today’s New York Times should read their own reporting from this period because they’d quickly learn they are peddling distortions that are simply unfit to print.

The depopulation of Palestine was no accident. The Zionist movement sought to create a Jewish state in a territory where Jews were a minority. On the eve of the Nakba, Jews constituted 30 percent of the population and owned 7 percent of the land. Within months, they forged a state on 78 percent of the territory where they flipped the demographic ratio from 30:70 Jews to Arabs to 90:10. To think such dramatic demographic change happens by accident—only coincidently suiting decades old Zionist aims—is dangerous naiveté. Such things happen only by design.

Thousands of declassified files in Israeli military archives speak to the intent behind depopulation operations targeting Palestinian villages and the planning of these actions which began long before the war. In 1940, for example, the pre-state Jewish government began a clandestine intelligence operation that collected sensitive data on every Palestinian village. Prior to the depopulation, the Zionists had detailed information on the villagers, including name, age, property, political affiliations, wages, occupations, relationships. They documented water resources, roads, access to media and if the village had any weapon. They kept lists of villagers in each village believed hostile to Zionism. An expose in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed what historians have known for years.

In 1947, the UN General Assembly passed a plan to divide Palestine into four entities, one Arab (which was 99 percent Palestinian Arab on 43 percent of the land) one Jewish (which was 55 percent Jewish and 45 percent Palestinian Arab and on 55 percent of the land) a third entity to be internationally monitored around Jerusalem which was 51 percent Palestinian Arab and 49 percent Jewish and a fourth isolated enclave around the Palestinian city of Jaffa. For Palestinians, this partition divided their population into 4 and gave 55 percent of their territory to the 30 percent of the population which was Jewish, most of which just arrived in Palestine in the previous two decades. For the Jews, this plan would create the state they long desired. In short, the Palestinians had a great deal to lose while the Jews had a great deal to gain. That is why Palestinians justifiably rejected this deal and the Jews accepted it.

From 1919, the United States knew creating a Jewish State in Palestine meant disaster for the native Palestinian Arabs. An American fact finding team, the King-Crane commission, noted that a Jewish state could not be established without the "gravest trespass upon the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." The commission was shocked after meeting with Zionists at the time who "looked forward to a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine." Perhaps this insight led Washington to make a decision few people recall. On March 19, 1948, the United States withdrew its support for the partition plan. The Zionists knew the state they coveted was in jeopardy since the US, a global power after WWII, backed away from the plan. With the British Mandate ending in less than two months, it was time to take it by force. During this six week period the Israeli forces accelerated their attacks on Arab villages and committed massacres including at Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948. At this point, the depopulation was in full swing and masses of refugees were created either by direct force or fear for their lives before the Arab armies entered Palestine.

As a student of history and the grandchild of Nakba survivors, I find it not only inaccurate to suggest Palestinian refugees are merely the unintended consequence of war, but also offensive and disgusting. In many countries, Holocaust denial will land you in jail but in the U.S. Nakba denial may land you on the pages of major newspapers.

Some Nakba denials are particularly vile. Michael Medved denies the Nakba happened in his distorted history and argues Palestinians never had it so good and benefited from Zionist colonization of their land. Like Cecil Rhodes, who more than a century ago led the English colonization of Africa, Medved asserts proudly that the colonization of the natives by European newcomers was to their benefit. This twisted defense of colonialism is as repulsive as it is supremacist and archaic. Medved and his frankly racist approach are relics with a "heart of darkness" that are incompatible with the 21st century. They should be opposed in all their forms by people of conscience.

Until candid discussions about the events of the Nakba will be part of our discourse in the United States, we shouldn’t think we can ever be a fair mediator between Israelis and Palestinians. Sadly, as the willingness of some readers to welcome Medved’s brazen distortion proves, we are far from that point.

Yousef Munayyer is Executive Director of The Jerusalem Fund and its educational program, The Palestine Center.


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26 05 2011


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UNSC continuous passiveness makes Zionists ruder, says Salehi
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BBC tilted in favor of Israel
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Iranian, Egyptian foreign ministers meet
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Venezuelan Jews protest broadcast of 'Protocols'
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22 05 2011

Obama Speech Mired In Zionist Rhetoric
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The Anti-Giladist League of Great Britain?
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14 05 2011


ZOA lobbies for embassy move, PA cut-off
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A Zionist Organization of America mission to Congress lobbied for bills that would move the US embassy to Jerusalem and cut off assistance to the Palestinian Authority if it declares statehood. Some 400 delegates met with an array ...
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Iranian Envoy Welcomes Reconciliation Agreement among Palestinians
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The ambassador asked all Palestinians to commemorate May 15 Day actively and show to the whole world and the Zionist regime that Palestine nation and its resisting youth are alive and do not let the international Zionism confiscate their rights. ...
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Egypt, a new game changer in Middle East
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Which is more evil, al-Qaeda or Israel?
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Fukushima Deadlier than Chernobyl?
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'See, enjoy, and be educated' at the Israel Film Festival
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The great Zionist philosophers of a century ago imagined a state that could affect Jewish life around the world, as it clearly has in such areas as religion and culture. Yet, while Israeli music and culture dominated American Jewish life for decades, ...
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Community service
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Expose: From Izieu to Damascus
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“There was no better way for a detested minority regime to curry favor with Sunnis in Syria and the larger Arab world than by adopting the anti-Zionist cause as its own. As 'infidels', Syria's Alawites didn't feel they had the legitimacy to force ...
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07 05 2011


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Iranian Foreign Ministry issues statement on Syria
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Syrians Prep 'Day of Defiance'
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05 05 2011

Iranian MP: Bin Laden was Zionist puppet
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03 05 2011


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Jerusalem Post
By OREN KESSLER US Muslims welcome demise of Osama bin Laden, while Iran raps 'Zionist terror' and Arab regimes remain mum. News of Osama bin Laden's death Monday was greeted in large swathes of the Arab and Islamic worlds with an uncanny silence, ...
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J'lem: Naturei Karta try to burn flag during 2 min. silence
Jerusalem Post
By MELANIE LIDMAN In what has become a yearly ritual, dozens members of the extremist anti-Zionist group Neturei Karta gathered at Kikar Shabbat, in the ultra-Orthodox Mea She'arim/Geula neighborhood, to burn an Israeli flag as a provocation during the ...
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Jew for Sarah
Tablet Magazine
But Korn has a long history of trying to add a Jewish voice to political movements that seemed closed to some Jews—starting with his work in the left-wing solidarity movements of the early 1980s, which frequently adopted anti-Zionist positions in ...
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Tablet Magazine
Muslim Brotherhood: Resistance a right against occupation
Trend News Agency
... the group said that resistance against foreign occupation "is a legitimate right guaranteed by divine laws and international conventions," particularly against what it said was the killing of innocent people by the "Zionist enemy". ...
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Trend News Agency
The Eulogizer: Eichmann trial judge Moshe Landau and Holocaust survivor Henry ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
He described himself as a moderate and as a Zionist. “Zionism is the only one of the great ideologies of the 20th century that has proved its veracity," Landau said. "That's why I find it odd to see it now being pushed into a situation in which it must ...
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29 Apr 2011

The new leader of Reform Judaism: A Zionist and lover of Israel
Ha'aretz
But the rabbis who lead the movement believe that Jacobs' decisive advantage in the contest for the position, which pitted him against seven other rabbis, was his reputation as a Zionist activist who insists on nurturing close ties with Israel. ...
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Ulema conference warns against Zionist designs
Arab News
By ASHRAF PADANNA | ARAB NEWS KOTTAKKAL, Kerala: The ulema conference organized by the Samastha Kerala Jam'iyathul Ulema, a body of Islamic scholars, has warned against the possibility of the uprisings in Muslim nations into the hands of Zionists. ...
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Westminster university cancels anti-Zionist event
Jewish Chronicle
By Marcus Dysch, April 28, 2011 The University of Westminster has cancelled an event it was due to host featuring Israeli anti-Zionist Gilad Atzmon. A panel discussion examining "Israel criminality in the wake of the Goldstone Retract" was due to be ...
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ANALYSIS :Goldstone's U-turn threat to Gaza
The New Age Online
Only a sustained 18-month campaign of pressure and intimidation on the part of the global Zionist lobby and Israel's leaders could result in South African Judge Richard Goldstone's volte-face of April 3. In an opinion piece to the Washington Post ...
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Hamas-Fateh reconciliation: a great day for Palestine
Milli Gazette
Occupied Jerusalem, 28 April 2011: Much to the chagrin of the hateful Zionist entity, Hamas and Fatah seem to have reached a final agreement, putting an end to four years of a crippling national rift which exhausted the Palestinian people as never ...
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Report: Abbas' Holocaust-Denial Dissertation Widely-Taught in PA
Arutz Sheva
It downgrades the number of Holocaust victims to “[possibly] below one million,” and accuses Zionist leaders of encouraging the persecution of Jews. It also denies that the gas chambers were used to murder Jews, quoting a "scientific study" to that ...
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Arutz Sheva
Bernard-Henri Lévy, “philosopher” and hypocrite
Redress Information & Analysis
I would have expected Levy eloquently to advocate freedom of speech and human rights, but the Zionist “intellectual” failed miserably. Levy followed the well-trodden Judaeo-centric Zionist template and spouted half-baked ideas that hardly form an ...
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Redress Information & Analysis
Wanted: US claimants of Holocaust-era assets in prestate Israel
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
These include dormant bank accounts, real estate, bonds and other assets purchased by European Jews before the war in prestate Israel either out of Zionist impulse or financial consideration. Several years ago, after decades of withholding information, ...
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The princess and the press
Ha'aretz
Hatzofe, a religious Zionist newspaper, also carried a small, colorful report, saying that “during the final hours of preparation for Princess Elizabeth's wedding, a daring break-in occurred in the bridesmaid's room.” Stolen was a “diamond-studded head ...
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Ha'aretz
Can the Real Israel Survive Its Imagined Versions?
Algemeiner
Well, it could be the Zionist dream of salvation I had at age twelve, dropping tears on a page of my well-worn paperback Exodus in my bed in Brooklyn. I was twelve, Israel was ten, the Shoah burned vividly in my mind, and Israelis were superheroes, ...
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25 Apr 2011


US, Israel unable to change situation in region: Larijani
Tehran Times
TEHRAN – Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has said that efforts made by the United States and the Zionist regime to change the course of developments in the Middle East and North Africa are futile. “The developments in the region are so profound that the ...
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The Middle East's oldest dictatorship
Tehran Times
Israel and its various Zionist organizations have built over 600 towns, villages and other form of settlements for the Jews, but none for the Palestinians -- not even those it considers part of its own citizens, who make up almost one-fifth of its ...
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The lobbification of US politicians: betraying the people for the lobby
Redress Information & Analysis
As to the Jewish or Christian Zionist element among your voting constituents they, will promise to get those voters out for you. In exchange, all you have to do is vote in a pro-Israel manner in the Senate when required. The chances are you know little ...
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Jewish song contest tryouts underway
Ynetnews
Dozens of Jewish and Zionist organizations are calling on half a million Jews worldwide to apply or vote for the next "Jewish idol". Any young Jewish man or woman aged 16 to 26, who do not live in Israel, may apply for the contest by sending a video ...
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Egyptian Party Stresses Promotion of Ties with Iran
Fars News Agency
"Egypt should have good relations with the powerful and great countries of the Middle-East, like Iran and Turkey, to confront the influence of the US and the Zionist regime in the region," Kamal al-Halbawi told FNA on Sunday. ...
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Fars News Agency
'Bahrain follows Israel genocidal lead'
Press TV
“The ruling regime [in Bahrain] is using a Zionist technique just like the Zionists want to get rid of the Palestinians. The Khalifa wants to get rid of the Shias, which is unfortunate,” Nada Hashwi told Press TV. “It is like a déjà vu to me with how ...
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Press TV
Arab spring to reshape the Islamic world
Tehran Times
In 2006 the US-backed Zionist regime attempted to beat the Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement Hezbollah once and for all in a 33-day war but the Lebanese people confronted the enemy in a fight that will always be remembered in the Arab and Islamic ...
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'Tribal Marxism for Dummies'
MWC News
It is the Jewish Marxist rather than the 'Zionist' who exposes the Jewish political ugly attitude in its worst crude form. This is good enough reason to monitor the Jewish Left and to understand its philosophy. As we will see soon enough, ...
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Iran says army equipped with advanced tactical weapons
ISNA
Zionist regime has already threatened Iran with military strike to target Iran's nuclear sites. The West and the US are accusing Iran of pursuit of nuclear arms. Iran denies the allegation and insists that its nuclear work merely seeks peaceful ...
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17 Apr 2011


 
IRNA: Stuxnet a product of US and Israel
Jerusalem Post
... Bushehr nuclear power plant, was created by the United States and Israel. Gholam Reza Jalili, the commander of the Iranian civil defense organization, accused "the Zionist regime and the American state of Texas" of creating and releasing the worm.
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Goldstone's volte-face: Tribe before truth
Arab News
BLATANTLY self-serving Zionist propaganda is all too familiar. It would, though, be hard to find a parallel to the blatancy of the Zionist propaganda occasioned by Judge Richard Goldstone's apparent retraction of the charge in his “Goldstone Report” ...
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Dr Micah Goodman To Speak At Westchester Reform Temple
Westchester.com
Dr. Goodman directs the Ein Prat Academy for Leadership, a nonprofit that works to fulfill Israel's promise by inspiring thousands of young adults from across the religious spectrum through Jewish-Zionist education and leadership training. ...
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USA - dishonest broker in flawed 'peace process'
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
SYNOPSIS - Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari interviews American Professor Naseer Aruri on a wide range of issues relating to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, including the flaws of the Oslo accords, the stranglehold of the Zionist lobby over the US ...
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Hebron Besieged
American Thinker
Because it is the flash point for the continuing struggle over Zionist legitimacy. Hebron Jews are routinely demonized as Jewish "fanatics" or "zealots" by their fanatical and zealous secular opponents. Should Hebron once again become Judenrein ...
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US, Israel 'behind Stuxnet' virus: Iran officer
AFP
"Investigations and studies show that the source of Stuxnet originates from America and the Zionist regime," the commander of the Iranian civil defence organisation, Gholam Reza Jalali, said. Jalali was the first Iranian official to accuse Tehran's two ...
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AFP
Iranian FM Raps West's Double-Standard Stance on Human Rights
Fars News Agency
He also said that the action is an effort to deviate public opinion from notorious and numberless violations on human rights by them in the Arab and regional countries and crimes committed by the Zionist regime in Palestine. ...
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Fars News Agency
The festival of freedom? Not when you have a house to clean
Ha'aretz
For example, as a declared religious feminist who worships at an egalitarian synagogue, she wears ultra-Orthodox Zionist style clothing and head-coverings. "I'm the first-born in the family. When I was a child, I never left the house during the ...
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Ha'aretz
Behind Goldstone's about-turn
Times LIVE
Hence, it is claimed he was bullied into recanting by Zionist pressure, especially from the SA Jewish community from which he hails. Ironically, supporters of the Goldstone Report now find themselves caught by the same quasi-logical cleft stick that ...
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Times LIVE
Lobby, Lobbification, Lobbified
MWC News
Among the major lobbies that have, over the decades, carried out this corrupting process are the Zionist organizations in their various Jewish and Christian manifestations. In their present state, the lobbified minds of these committee members, ...
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16 Apr 2011


Richard Goldstone: 'Kinder, Gentler' Zionism
Palestine Chronicle
Given the amount of Zionist pressure put on Goldstone, it is a wonder that his backpedaling took so long. He was blackballed throughout the international Jewish community, even prohibited from attending his own grandson's bar mitzvah. ...
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Ahmadinejad Forecasts 'Imminent End' of US and 'Zionist' Influence
Worldmeets.us
President Ahmadinejad added that the collapse of America's main ally in the region, the Zionist regime, is also imminent. According to the president, if the region's nations remain vigilant against plots hatched by the United States and its allies and ...
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Insanity of a pro-Zionist US group
GulfNews
This organisation's support for the Zionist state, regardless of its heinous and apartheid colonial policies, is based upon fundamental interpretation of the Bible which is being marketed by John Hagee, the founder, who has been talking about cosmic ...
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GulfNews
Syrians Calling Protesters 'American and Zionist' Provocateurs
Arutz Sheva
Iran echoed the document's instructions saying "Americans and Zionists" were behind the Syrian opposition movement. Tehran has been quick to praise anti-government movements in the region as "resistance to western imperialism," but has remained ...
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Arutz Sheva
Women of Afghanistan's future
CNN (blog)
THAT WAY WE WILL FIGHT YOU FILTHY CAPITALIST, ZIONIST PUPPET AMERICAN PIGS. CNN welcomes a lively and courteous discussion as long as you follow the Rules of Conduct set forth in our Terms of Service. Comments are not pre-screened before they post. ...
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The Settler State
Media Monitors Network
The Zionists thus position themselves above God and prevent the coming of the Messiah. For the Orthodox, the Zionist idea of a secular Jewish “nation” still is an abomination. However, a few religious Jews did join the nascent Zionist movement. ...
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'Hafta-e-Azmat'
The News International
For this purpose, he asked the countrymen to raise their voice against Zionist conspiracies to show love for the Holy Prophet and Islam. Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi stated this while addressing a special function organised ...
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Islamic Revolution main feature of new Islamic Mideast
ABNA.ir
He added that the failure of the Zionist regime in the 33-Day Lebanon War and the 22-Day Gaza raid; intensification of the Zionist regime's invasions and injustice, especially the Israeli regime's military raid on Gaza, and the siege of this ...
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ABNA.ir
Passionately engaged, but not allowed to marry
Jerusalem Post
To this end, the World Zionist Organization, together with Israel's Foreign Ministry, has recently initiated a project of “Rabbis Engaging with Israel.” A pilot group of 30 – 10 from each of the three major streams of Judaism – will be arriving next ...
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Gaza War and Goldstone's moral collapse
Tehran Times
Goldstone is both Jewish and Zionist. His love for Israel has been widely and affectionately conveyed. In this particular case, he seemed completely torn between his ideological and tribal position and his commitment to justice and truth, as enshrined ...
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14 Apr 2011


Israel's plan for next year's school curriculum: Reinforcing Jewish and ...
Ha'aretz
It states schools' two main objectives are to reinforce Jewish and Zionist values, and to improve scholastic achievements, and instructs principals how to fulfill these goals. "This is education for Zionism and Judaism without education for democracy ...
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US, Israel will quit Mideast: Ahmadinejad
Tehran Times
He went on to say that they are seeking to incite Iran-Arab conflict and Shia-Sunni war to save the Zionist regime. Addressing the arrogant powers, Ahmadinejad said, “The regional nations are displeased with the hegemonistic powers' plans and also with ...
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US-Israel relationship remains unbreakable
Red and Black
In response to Jonathan Rich's opinion column (“Zionist actions only spread anti-Semitism,” April 13), we wanted to lend our thoughts on the strength of the US-Israel relationship. There are not many areas in which we agree, but on this issue, ...
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Ahmadinejad: New Mid East to be created without US, Zionist regime
ISNA
TEHRAN (ISNA)-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday a new Middle East is to be created without presence of the US, its allies and Zionist regime. "Colonialist countries are trying to create rift between Iran and Arab countries, ...
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When the Zionist Right Was the Scorned Side
Forward
I wonder if those supporters of the current Israeli government who label everyone who disagrees with them as anti-Zionists or traitors realize that they are repeating sins committed against their predecessors in earlier days, when David Ben-Gurion's ...
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Forward
Cal. State Prof: 'The Arab world will never prosper until the Zionist regime ...
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog (blog)
by Moshe Phillips But no, never will we recognize the Zionist State of Israel! We must go back to the 1968 PLO charter, not the one engineered by Bill Clinton in Ramallah. We Arabs, Palestinians, cannot be equivocal when it comes to Israel. ...
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David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog (blog)
Is the State of Israel becoming an anachronism?
Ha'aretz
The new law banning discrimination when deciding on new members of a community makes it essential to now set clear limits to the quasi-official status of Zionist institutions. By Alexander Yakobson The State of Israel, wrote Ze'ev Sternhell in Haaretz, ...
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One nasty candidate, &c.
National Review Online
Here is what he said the other day: “If Israel attacked Gaza, we would declare war against the Zionist regime.” (I am relying on this report.) There's the substance of what he said, yes. But note the language: “Zionist regime. ...
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Palestinians must reject new American tricks
ABNA.ir
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested the US would make fresh efforts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the occupation of Palestine by Zionist Jews who supported and backed by the West, especially the United States. ...
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ABNA.ir
The future of Palestinians in Israel as it transforms into a religious state
Middle East Monitor
It is possible also to conclude that the Zionist movement created a synthesis between religious ideology and secularism and even though the Israeli Declaration of Independence stated that "Israel is the national state of the Jews founded on a ...
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12 Apr 2011

Zionists Group Seeks Agricultural Homestead Where Jesus Traveled
Green Prophet
Calling themselves “Israeli idealists,” the Zionist group seeks to redeem and manage agricultural land in the North West Galilee. Not only does this region have a long history for multiple faiths, but it is also one of the few remaining outposts of ...
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Alexander Mashkevich looks to create around-the-clock Zionist news channel
Voltaire Network
Alexander Mashkevich, an Israeli tycoon from Central Asia, announced his intention to launch by 2012 an around-the-clock world satellite news channel offering a Zionist take on current events. He plans to submit his project to President Shimon Peres in ...
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Voltaire Network
Goldstone! What's New?
Media Monitors Network
He succumbed to the Zionist pressure “after more than a year and a half of sustained campaign of intimidation and character assassination”, says Ilan Pappe. In April 2010, the chairman of the South African Zionist Federation, Avrom Krengel, ...
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31.03.2011Gaddafi's White Book on Solving the Arab-Israeli ConflictLone ...
Qantara.de
Gaddafi then recalls proposals made by the British and other figures from the 1930s, which made suggestions for a single state of Palestine encompassing Muslims, Christians and Jews, and quotes pacifist voices from the Zionist movement of the time who ...
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Qantara.de
Local row over Golstone's retraction
Mail & Guardian Online
Judge Richard Goldstone's partial recantation of a United Nations-sponsored report on Israel's invasion of Gaza has predictably divided the local Jewish community, with a prominent anti-Zionist academic insisting that the judge was bullied and a ...
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Students asked to make video clips for Herzl Day
Ha'aretz
The contest is part of Zionist education. The clips, which can be no more than 90 seconds long, must deal with "Israeli society today in line with Herzl's statements, made more than 120 years ago," according to a letter sent to schools. ...
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Leader of Jafari People in Turkey: There isn't Shiite–Sunnite conflict in Bahrain
ABNA.ir
Ozgunduz emphasized that Kingdoms in the region are servants of imperialist and Zionist forces and continued “now the people rose up”. If whole people are raised up, it shows that government is imposed by imperialists and Zionists orders. ...
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'White angel' awarded Israel Prize
Ynetnews
The second prize recipient, Eli Alaluf, 66, dedicated his life to Zionist activities, which he began pursuing in his homeland of Morocco. He served in a number of positions at the World Zionist Organization, Keren Hayesod (United Israel Appeal) and ...
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Cable reveals Bahrain's secret contact with Israel
Washington Times
The king also told the ambassador that he had ordered his public information minister to stop calling Israel the “enemy” or the “Zionist entity” in official statements of the kingdom, said the cable, which was released by the anti-secrecy website ...
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11 Apr 2011


Israel wants Zionist-friendly democracy in the Arab world
Tehran Times
Political Islam has long become Israel's number-1 enemy, especially after the appearance of the Palestinian Islamic liberation group, Hamas, which refuses to recognize the legitimacy of Zionism. Hamas argues rather convincingly that Israel is a racist ...
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The Goldstone Affair: The Loyal Zionist Judge Who Came In From the Cold
Sabbah Report (blog)
Call it The Goldstone Affair: The Loyal Zionist Judge Who Came in From the Cold. On April 1, 2011, Goldstone wrote an op ed column for the Washington Post in which he offered a light clarification of the negative report of Israel's 17-day 2008-09 ...
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Sabbah Report (blog)
Right of Reply: US rabbinical students and Israel
Jerusalem Post
Despite what Rabbi Gordis seems to have concluded, my choice was an expression of my Zionist identity. I fully support the existence of the State of Israel as a democracy and national home for the Jewish people. I chose to have one of my birthday ...
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Zionist Advocate Alan Deshowitz! You're Not Welcome in Norway or Anywhere By ...
Al-Jazeerah.info
Seemingly, humanity and humanists are making an intensive effort to purify our cultural landscape of any traces of Zionist ideology and Zionist advocates: It is not just Israeli academics that we oppose -- it is actually people who are affiliated with ...
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Commemorating 63rd Anniversary of Zionist Massacre in Palestinian Village Deir ...
Alternative Information Center (AIC)
The village is now best known for the massacre that was committed by the Zionist underground paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi on 9 April1948, during which around 200 Palestinians were assassinated in cold blood by shooting or hand grenades thrown at ...
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Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Ahmadinejad: A Mideast Without Israel & America Now Possible
Yeshiva World News
In his first press conference of the new year 1390 [Iranian New Year was on March 21] which took place on Monday evening, April 4th, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asserted that a new Middle East, without the specter of the Zionist regime, America and its proxies ...
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Hamas has every right to smuggle weapons into Gaza
ABNA.ir
Indeed, the ideal thing to do is that the Egyptian revolution, which toppled Hosni Mubarak, the Zionist agent, should offer active assistance to the blockaded people of Gaza . This would be no more than doing Egypt's Arab and Islamic duty. ...
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ABNA.ir
Hamas says 'collaborators' arrested
Gulf Times
The ministry warned that it was actively monitoring “suspicious movements” and that “any traitor who works with the Zionist occupation will not escape legal prosecution”. Hamas has carried out sporadic arrests and prosecutions of alleged collaborators ...
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'Bahrain identity systematically attacked'
Press TV
Rodney Shakespeare: The International media is under American and Zionist control and they are condoning this sudden rise in fascism. When the ancient Roman general, Julius Caesar, wanted to destroy the ancient Britons, he searched for and ravaged the ...
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Press TV

 

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03 Apr 2011

The struggle for the soul of religious Zionism
Jerusalem Post
By YOSEF BLAU What role does messianism play in the worldview of religious Zionists in Israel compared to those we refer to as modern Orthodox in America? The plethora of dueling public rabbinic letters in recent months highlights a fundamental split ...
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Al-Khaleej Editorial: Zionist entity is a gang with a state called 'Israel'
WAM - Emirates News Agency
"The abduction of the Palestinian engineer Derar Abu Sissi in Ukraine on 19th February by the 'Mossad' shows once again that the Zionist entity is a gang with a state called "Israel" that makes little of all (common) laws". It doesn't show the least ...
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Murder is Israel's modus operandi
MWC News
Israel knows well that Palestinians in general can't just keep silent in the face of Zionist aggression and terror since doing so would only encourage the Nazi-like Zionist establishment to murder and maim more Palestinians. Hence, it is only logical ...
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MWC News
US dissatisfied with Muslim countries' close relations, says Iran
ISNA
"The US, Zionist regime and those supporting their aims are always dissatisfied with Muslim countries' close relations. They are trying to sow discord among them to secure their own interests through putting interests of the Islamic World at risk," he ...
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Appreciation: Shalom Maagan and the passing of an era
Jerusalem Post
Born in 1917 in London, to an Orthodox but not extreme family, the youngest of nine children, he was a lifelong religious Zionist, and a founder of the British arm of Bnei Akiva, founded in Jerusalem in 1929. The movement was founded as a response to ...
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02 Apr 2011


Zionism, imperialism and Arab reaction
Socialist Resistance
Thirty years ago or more, when the Palestinian left organisations were still influential within the PLO, they argued that Palestinians had three enemies: Zionism, imperialism and Arab reaction This slogan has been little heard in recent years, ...
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'Zionists in war with consciousnesses'
Press TV
As the Arab revolutions continue throughout North Africa and the Middle East, Attorney and Author Jeff Gates has explained the Zionist-Mossad war on our consciousness. Press TV interviewed Jeff Gates Attorney and Author of Guilt by Association ...
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Press TV
'Israel controls US, EU policies'
Press TV
Radio Show Host Hisham Tillawi has exposed the Zionist infiltration of the US and EU while explaining the Arab revolutions, and who is really to benefit from them. Press TV interviewed Host of Current Issues Hisham Tillawi regarding the war on Libya, ...
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Press TV
Israel's extended European holiday
GulfNews
By Stuart Reigeluth, Special to Gulf News Pro-Zionist and anti-Zionist politicians, policy-makers, researchers, analysts, and journalists, will all agree that Israel enjoys special treatment from the European Union. What they may all not know is that ...
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GulfNews
Moral bankruptcy in Libya war
Aljazeera.net
If the dandy French guru, Bernard-Henri Lévy, is so in a rush to make sure the post-Gaddafi shape of Libya is Zionist-friendly that he rushes in public half naked and has somehow convinced his ego-maniacal banality that his juvenile dress code is ...
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Aljazeera.net
'Facebook sued for negligence over '3rd Intifada' page'
Jerusalem Post
The ADL, Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, the Zionist Organization of America, and thousands of site users had requested both personally and online through Facebook that site administrators take down what was described as ...
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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Miral' flawed by artsy technique, relentless polemic
The Patriot Ledger
A Jewish man with Zionist roots, Schnabel has insisted in interviews that he's tried to show both sides of the struggle in his film, but it comes across as a study of the plight of the Palestinians and the ruthlessness of Israel. ...
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  31 March 2011

Zionism's History, Real And Imagined – OpEd
Eurasia Review
By David Samel Jerry Slater's magnum opus on the history, present and future of Zionism has led to a large volume and variety of debate. He offers a lengthy defense of the creation and existence of a Jewish State despite recognizing the inherent ...
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'Insulted' Zionist demands E600 000 from World Vision
The Swazi Observer
Masilela is a Zionist Evangelist and preacher at Nkalakashane, Lomahasha. Masilela has taken the organisation to court following his removal from the chairmanship of the Mkhangala Area Development Project (ADP), which he alleges was accompanied by ...
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Writer's anti-Israel sentiments quite clear
MyCentralJersey.com
Finally Stanley Mozda, in his letter published on March 21, came out of the closet and dropped any pretenses as to being other than openly and virulently anti-Israel and anti-Zionist. In this latest scream fest, he stated that Israel didn't deserve ...
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MJ Rosenberg Spits on Elizabeth Taylor's Grave
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog (blog)
by Janet Tassel So predictable is MJ Rosenberg, the big-mouthed Jewish anti-Zionist, that one avoids his rants like the plague. Rosenberg, who blogs at TPM Café and the Huffington Post, is a Foreign Policy Fellow at George Soros's Media Matters Action ...
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David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog (blog)
Diagnosed, dumped - Activist fired while fighting for life
Washington Jewish Week
by Richard Greenberg As chief lobbyist for Hadassah: The Women's Zionist Organization of America, Marla Gilson campaigned tirelessly to promote stem cell research and other potentially life-saving medical measures. "It is now our turn to advocate for ...
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We must stop the nationalist and racist Lieberman
Ha'aretz
Netanyahu has been sitting with the post-Zionist nationalist Foreign Minister Avigdor (Yvet ) Lieberman in the government and in an interview Livni called him a "friend." Netanyahu, without fawning like Livni, appointed Lieberman foreign minister and ...
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Ha'aretz
'Libya hijacked by imperial powers'
Press TV
This will have an effect on Libya because Egypt will be surrounded by Libya, which is under the indirect control of this imperial power, and on the other side the Zionist state. This is going to create turmoil for the Egyptian revolution to be back ...
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Press TV
Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor - Uri Davis
Ma'an News Agency
On 8 February 2011, I published the summary of my research on Rawabi, and its acceptance of a large donation of pine trees from the Zionist charity the Jewish National Fund (JNF). In my article I called on the developers of Rawabi - a project led by ...
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  30 March 2011
 
Faithful service
Jerusalem Post
Apparently Y., who until a few months ago was responsible for, among other tasks, monitoring potential Jewish terrorism, had developed bad relations with leading religious Zionist rabbis and leaders. The increased attention that religious Zionist ...
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Group petitions court to halt vote on Jerusalem chief rabbi
Jerusalem Post
A liberal religious Zionist organization is asking the High Court of Justice to put a freeze on the process of electing a chief rabbi for Jerusalem until the regulations governing the process are altered to better represent the public and prevent ...
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The Settlements And Boycotts
The Jewish Week
Do the Zionist boycott proponents only seek to abandon to a cruel opponent their brethren in places like Itamar? Or do boycotters believe that those children and their parents “got what they deserved” because they didn't belong there? ...
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Non-Islamic democracy is impossible in the Arab world
MWC News
Decades of anti-Islam incitement, spearheaded by Zionist circles, more or less succeeded in tarnishing the image of Islam in many western countries, portraying it as tyrannical and anti-democratic. Others are quite malicious. ...
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MWC News
Has-been Bob Dylan will play in the land of has-been Orthodox Judaism
MWC News
By MWC News I recently received a request from an Irish anti-Zionist to try to get Bob Dylan to cancel his upcoming engagement in Israel. Below are my answer to the Irish comrade and an article I wrote in 2003 on how I triggered off Bob's song writing ...
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MWC News
Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen For The Ghosts Within: Album review
Hornsby & Upper North Shore Advocate
Atzmon, an anti-Zionist Jewish activist living and working in England, has collaborated with Wyatt on other projects, and is steadily carving a niche for himself as one of Britain's saxophone titans. His invention and flair are given full rein, ...
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Google News Alert for: zionist


  29 March 2011

Anti-Zionist McGill student regrets violent web posts
Canadian Jewish News
By JANICE ARNOLD, Staff Reporter MONTREAL — The McGill University student who tweeted about wanting to shoot people at a campus event that he deemed to be “a Zionist meeting” has formally apologized. Haaris Khan now awaits the judgment of the ...
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The Zionists wield their influence by winning the ongoing propaganda war ...
The Baltimore Chronicle
Your donation is essential to our survival. by Kourosh Ziabari from Iran There will come a time, I feel sure, when civil societies will be savvy enough to clean up their Zionist-infested politics and force the necessary action. ...
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Anti-Zionist Nir Rosen resigns from LSE
Jewish Chronicle
Mr Rosen, a staunch anti-Zionist, announced on Friday that he had been appointed a Fellow at LSE's Centre for Global Governance. He was widely criticised in February for comments he made about the sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan. ...
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Jewish Chronicle
Goldblog is a Pro-J Street Blog
The Atlantic (blog)
I come out of Hashomer Hatzair, the socialist Zionist youth movement, which is significantly to the left of J Street, and though I don't subscribe to Hashomer's worldview anymore, I believe that that view is part of the pro-Israel consensus. ...
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How can Israel change Muslim extremists' attitude toward Israel?
Ha'aretz
As is the case among us, Muslim and extreme nationalist circles make selective use of the sources - the Koran and the Hadith - and add anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli/Zionist interpretations. As is the case among us, this trend has strengthened since the ...
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Ha'aretz
FROM RAFAH TO TABA
Moment Magazine
“Am I a Zionist? I don't know,” says Ofer Har-Tuv, 49, the proprietor of the Beerotayim Inn. “I don't get up each morning thinking I am stopping the Egyptians with my presence here. I'm not crying out like Ben-Gurion, who called on everyone to help ...
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Syrian Mufti warns against sedition among Muslims
ABNA.ir
The senior proximity figure said, "Syria's support for the Resistance has provoked rage of the enemies because they do not want to see any resistance in the Arab world so that everybody submits to the wishes of the US and the Zionist regime. ...
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Hadassah planning events for Norwich, Colchester in days before Passover
Norwich Bulletin
By JAMES MOSHER The Norwich/Colchester chapter of Hadassah, a women's Zionist organization, has two events planned in the days leading up to Passover. The group will have a social gathering to discuss Jewish life in the United States and Israel at 8:45 ...
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Edelstein: Hasbara activists can learn from Begin
Jerusalem Post
Tauber also recalled that Begin, after his September 1940 arrest by Soviet authorities in occupied Poland for his activities in the Revisionist Zionist youth movement, Betar, was so particular about semantics that he refused to sign a confession ...
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Occupied Palestine from A to Z: Canaan of Palestine

Reham Alhelsi

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March 28, 2011

My Palestine, March 27, 2011

"Ya Abu Nidal, lahhiq ibnak, lahhiq darak, hurry up, the soldiers are raiding your home and want to take your son Nidal." A neighbour came running to tell Canaan who was ploughing the land and tending the olive and almond trees. In a matter of seconds, Abu Nidal was running all the way down the hill towards the village and his home. Neighbours, relatives and other villagers were standing outside his home, some trying to talk to the Israeli occupation soldiers, others just standing and shaking their heads and talking about the occupation and what almost 20 years of useless negotiations had brought them. "Where is the Palestinian police they keep telling us about?! Where are they when we need them? Don’t they keep telling us they are there to protect us?!" One neighbour said in anger. "Where is that president of ours who keeps appearing on TV from Amman, Cairo, Washington and some Russian place we’ve never heard of before and talks about our steadfastness in the homeland while he himself is never here?!" Another said. "Our prime minister comes surrounded by tens of cameras to pick olives but when we are attacked by settlers or Israeli soldiers he is never to be seen or found!" Another said sarcastically with a voice that shook with anger and disdain. Abu Nidal made his way through the crowd towards were the soldiers stood holding his 17 year old son. It was only last week that Nidal finished his Tawjihi exams and the family had celebrated the achievement of their eldest and the first of their children to be going to university. Canaan always told his children that education is a weapon, a mighty weapon. His parents and siblings were proud of him. Nidal had always wanted to go to university and study to become an engineer. And although he found a part-time job at a local building site, his father promised to do his best to finance his son’s university education, even if it meant working 24 hours a day. And now, the Israeli occupation soldiers have come to kidnap Nidal, to lock him in a dark over-crowded cell. Abu Nidal struggled with the Israeli occupation soldiers, and despite knowing its useless, he even tried talking sense to those who don’t have sense, he tried pleading with those who know no mercy. The soldiers had come to arrest his son, he participated in a protest and threw stones at the soldiers, they claimed. "You shoot and kill our children for no reason, and when some of your soldiers claim that Palestinian youth threw stones at them you raid our homes and kidnap our children? What proof do you have? Why don’t you arrest the settlers who attacked the village last week and shot live ammunition at our homes and families?" he knew it was useless. It was useless talking to fully-armed occupation soldiers who attack Palestinian towns and villages and refugee camps with tanks and F-16s and later claim that the Palestinian unarmed population is the "threat". It was useless talking to fully-armed occupation soldiers who raid Palestinian homes and schools, kidnap and torture children and later claim that Palestinian children are the "terrorists". It had been useless trying to talk to these Zionist terror militias for over 60 years. It is useless talking to those who only know to insult, humiliate, shout, kick, beat, torture, kidnap, kill and collectively punish an unarmed occupied population.

As he watched the Israeli military jeeps drive away with his handcuffed and blindfolded son and disappear in the distance, Canaan thought of his child and the beating he was getting at that very moment, he thought of the torture he will be receiving during the interrogation and the torture he will be subjected do inside the dungeons of Zion. He knew what awaited his child, he knew it too well, for he himself was detained by the Israeli occupation forces a number of times for no reason other than protecting his land and that of his father and grandfather and his ancestors against Zionist colonists. And as he stood there, his wife Leila beside him, watching her child being kidnapped by monsters, being snatched away from her side, standing there and refusing to cry, Canaan could feel her tears fall silently down her cheeks, for he himself wanted so much to cry, he could feel her pain, for it was his. "He will be alright ya Im Nidal … this is Nidal … you know how strong and brave he is … No need to worry, he will be alright … he will be alright" He wanted to comfort her, he wanted to comfort himself. But no matter how much you prepare yourself for this day, it still remains hard to see your child being snatched away from your midst by criminals, and because you know Israeli dungeons, you know what it’s like being held captive by these monsters, it makes it harder for you not to worry, not to be afraid of what might happen in these torture cells. And because you know what awaits your child inside the interrogation cells, you know what awaits your child inside Zionist dungeons, you know and you feel the physical and psychological pain your child will be subjected to. Suddenly, Canaan felt a stark pain in his chest, he leant and held his wife’s shoulder. "Canaan! What’s wrong? Tell me! Canaan!!" His wife screamed as she held him, looked into his weary eyes and screamed: don’t leave us alone! We need you! Your children need you! Nidal needs you! Don’t leave me!" Around her, the villagers had come rushing, and while she still held his hand and looked into his eyes, the villagers carried Canaan to the main road to wait for the ambulance. She clung to him, wouldn’t leave him, even as he was stretched on the stretcher in the ambulance, she refused to let go of his hand. His eyes were open, he wasn’t talking, but he was just looking at one thing: he was looking at her face, at her eyes, speaking to her in a silent language, an unspoken language.

Im Nidal held her husband’s hand during the journey to the hospital. She said nothing, only repeated one sentence: "You are going to be alright, everything will be alright." He saw how courageous she tried to look, but the tears that went down her checks betrayed her. He watched her and saw his wife’s smile, saw her eyes, saw her soul. She was the most beautiful women he had ever seen; as beautiful as the hilltops of Al-Jalil, as steadfast as the walls of Jerusalem, as patient as the villages that await the return of their children, as fearless as the sea of Gaza, as courageous as every Palestinians from the River to the Sea; beautiful as Palestine for she was a daughter of Palestine. He looked in her eyes and saw that day. He had been standing in a line at the checkpoint waiting for his turn to be checked and humiliated before he is allowed to pass and go to the school where he taught. The soldiers were as usual harassing and insulting everyone. They waved to one elderly man to come closer for the check. But the old man’s walking stick was no compensation for the weak legs, nonetheless, out of fear of abuse and humiliation from the soldiers, he tried to walk faster and fell. He slowly stood up and walked on, slowly, obvious to everyone he was in pain from the fall. Halfway to where the soldiers stood, which isn’t much, a soldier came rushing and dragged the elderly by the collar "When I say come, you come, you dog, understand?!" "I am too weak to walk! I am sick, I am sick! Can’t you see? Are you blind!! Your day will come, Wallahi your day will come!!" the elderly shouted back at the soldier, his voice not as loud as that of the soldier, shaky, but full of so much pain and so much pride and dignity. "Ikhras! Shut up you filthy Arab!! Ruh irja’, go back, yalla, go back you filthy dog! This will teach you to talk back, you dog!" The soldier continued insulting the old man, kicking him and pushing him back. As murmurs from the Palestinians standing in line grew louder, Canaan made a step forward in the direction of the elderly when he heard a voice shouting: "Why don’t you leave him alone, don’t you see he can’t walk." The voice was loud and clear and like that of the old man, was full of dignity. At that same moment he was stopped by a hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see a young woman "let me go, they might detain you or beat you". She was the one who just shouted at the soldiers. She walked towards the elderly, held his arm and as he leant on her shoulder, he murmured something to her and they both smiled. And while a number of women argued with the soldiers to let the sick elderly pass, others walked the elderly back and helped him sit on a rock nearby. The elderly was not allowed to pass the checkpoint that day to go to hospital. But for Canaan, that day was special, for at that checkpoint her fell in love, and as he watched that young woman help the elderly and console him, he knew that she was going to be his life partner and the mother of his children.

Canaan was an orphan; his mother died in childbirth and his father, who despite the nagging and pleads of others, refused to bring a stepmother to his children. His father’s reply to people was always the same: "These are my children, no one will love them as much as me. No mother will replace their mother. I will dedicate my life to them." He had two treasures in this world: his children and the piece of land he inherited from his father. They were his one and only. He taught his children to love the land, for she was the mother they never knew. And to his beloved land, he spoke of his beloved children. He made the land their home, their refuge and their playground. The children would accompany their father to the fields, help him with the ploughing and the harvesting. In winter or in summer, in the cold and in the heat, their father would work the land and they would help him in any way possible. While he did the hard work, often it was small, easy tasks their father would give them, and with time, these tasks would increase along with their bond with the land. And from their father, Canaan and his siblings learned to cherish the land, to love her, for she was the mother they didn’t have, the mother of all Palestinians. And on his deathbed, this Palestinian father whispered to his children gathered around him: "Take care of each other. Take care of the land. You are one with the land, and don’t allow anyone to rob you of your right, of your land, Your land is you and you are the land."

And from his father, Canaan learned to love the land, his mother. He often took his children and his pupils to the fields, showed them the beauty of Palestine: the beauty the Zionists are destroying, the beauty many Palestinians are denied because their lands were stolen from them by foreign colonists. He taught his children how to plant olive seedlings, taught them how to care for the trees, taught them to listen to the land, talk to the land, for the land was their treasure, he told them.

He taught them the love of the land. He would walk around the almond and the fig trees, and pick the ripe fruits and give them to his children to eat. He would tell them the names of the flowers and the herbs that decorated Palestine. He would tell them stories of the land and the people who sacrificed their lives for the land. And while his children ran around and played among the trees, he would sit below an olive tree or an almond tree or a fig tree, would eat what fruits he had picked and would talk to the trees of his children; he would whisper to them of who much Basil loves playing football, how Farah wants to become a doctor, how little Amal painted their home surrounded by olive trees, birds and butterflies, how Amjad dreamt of visiting Haifa and swimming in the sea of Yafa, how he saw Nidal in a demonstration confronting the armed Israeli soldiers. Nidal’s face was covered with a kufiyyeh but he would recognize his son no matter what mask he wore.

As if in a dream, Canaan could hear the siren of the ambulance as it rushed him to hospital. It was as if he was there and not there. He felt Leila’s hand squeezing his, holding tight to it. He saw her face and saw the face of his children, saw his land and saw Palestine. He remembered the time when he was in jail and Leila was left with the burden of caring for their family and land. She would visit him in jail and tell him that everything was alright and that the children send their love. She didn’t tell him that their son Amjad was wounded by an Israeli bullet, nor did she tell him that their youngest Amal and many of her classmates had to spend a night at hospital after Israeli occupation soldiers shot poisonous gas inside their classroom, nor did she tell him that the Zionist settlers attacked the villagers during the olive harvest, burnt and uprooted many of his beloved olive trees and beat her and two of his sisters. He remembered how she never complained, how she always smiled and said that everything was alright. He remembered that day at the checkpoint when Leila stopped him and went to help the elderly, he remembered her courage and he smiled.

Canaan wanted his children to live in freedom, to live in dignity and to have the life he never had; a life free of occupation, free of oppression, free of fear, free of pain, free of tears, free of injustice. But how could they when they were still living under occupation. He often wanted to hug his children, shield them from the occupation and suffering, spare them the pain of humiliation at the military checkpoint, spare them the fear at every army or settler raid. He wished he could protect them from everything, from being harassed, beaten or shot by armed occupation soldiers or settler militias. He wished he could protect them from everything, that they might live a normal childhood, have a normal life, but there is nothing normal under occupation. And as the days passed, and when he noticed his children going to the streets with their comrades to protest the occupation of their beloved homeland he wanted so much to stop them, he wanted so much to hug them, lock them up in the house and protect them from the occupier and from the bullets, the tanks and the F-16. He tried talking to them, telling them to concentrate on their studies, for that is the most effective weapon, but he knew it was useless, for he himself went through this very same process: you can tell your children as much as you want, you can warn them, threaten them, but in the end they leave the house and witness Israeli oppression everywhere: on the way to school, in their classrooms, in the fields, in the playground. They see the checkpoints, see their friends shot by soldiers, witness the daily raids, the settler violence. They see all this and want to revolt against it, want to free themselves of the occupation, want to stand up and face the oppression. They dream of freedom and they want freedom and they will be free one day. And one generation after the other we will keep the flame of resistance alive until total liberation.

Canaan felt tired and sleepy, he looked in his wife’s eyes and said in a very faint voice: the children, the land. Laila looked into the eyes of her husband, the eyes of a Palestinian, and knew what his final thoughts were:
Oh mother Palestine, please take care of my family, take care of my wife and my children, they are your children, they have no one but you.

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  28 March 2011

Porat: Zionism Is About Redemption
Arutz Sheva
by Gavriel Queenann Rabbi Chanan Porat told attendees at the Religious Zionist Education Institution's (RZEI) Leadership Conference on Sunday that "Zionism is about redemption." Rabbi Chanan Porat, considered one of the foremost leaders of the Gush ...
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Dr. Hajo Meyer Discusses the Holocaust, Zionism & Israeli Occupation on "Never ...
Bay Area Indymedia
In commemoration of international Holocaust Remembrance Day, from January 24th to February 19th the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, American Muslims for Palestine, and the Middle East Children's Alliance sponsored a 13-city speaking tour ...
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Free Congressional Trips to Israel: Learning to Embrace Your Narrative
Salem-News.Com
There was no way that the Zionists could create a Jewish state in Palestine without doing large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Arab population that had been living there for centuries. This point was widely recognized by the Zionist leadership well ...
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Salem-News.Com
Time for Nasrallah and Obama to talk?
OpEdNews
By Franklinl Lamb (about the author) Page 1 of 3 page(s) An experienced Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, to his credit not among the most biased Israeli Hasbara spewers from the Zionist daily, dropped by our Hezbollah neighborhood known as ...
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Execution of American pastor demanded
The Nation, Pakistan
Commenting over the Islamic awakening in Middle East and North African Muslims Countries, they said that days of American and Zionist agents are numbered and soon we will see the New Islamic Middle east without Israel and its agents. ...
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SAZF shouldn't honour Dershowitz
Politicsweb
Although it distanced itself officially from the failed campaign to have Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu removed as patron of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, the South African Zionist Federation (SAZF) has now invited the most prominent supporter of ...
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Lost in Transit
Wall Street Journal
Stuck with his family in a purlieu of Rome densely populated by other displaced Jews, he immerses himself in his memories, which include seeing his father murdered by Cossacks and, just as hauntingly, informing on his cousin for Zionist activity. ...
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Israel air strike kills 2 in Gaza

Ma'an news

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Palestinians cry at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City after learning about the death of relatives killed in an Israeli military strike


March 28, 2011

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes fired missiles at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip Sunday morning killing two Palestinians and injuring three others.

Medics at the Kamal Udwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip identified one of those killed as Sabri Hashim Asaliyya, a recently-married nurse.

They said the five were hit by a missile fired from an Israeli reconnaissance plane in As-Sikka Street east of Jabalia refugee camp.

The Islamic Jihad's military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, announced that two of its fighters were killed in Israeli airstrike on the northern Gaza Strip, in a statement.

The brigades identified the two as 26-year-old Radwan Namrouti and Sabri Asaliyya, both from the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Ma'an's reporter said Islamic Jihad's supporters announced the death of two fighters through loudspeakers on vehicles in Jabalia's streets.

In a statement, the Israeli military said it identified "a group of rocket launchers preparing to fire a rocket" in the northern Gaza Strip and fired at them.

A hit was confirmed, the statement added.

The attack came less than 24 hours after Palestinian factions offered a truce if Israel's military stopped bombarding the Gaza Strip.

The latest strike brought the death toll in the coastal enclave to at least 12, including civilians and children, over the last week. More than 50 have been injured.

Israel's army says it is responding to projectiles fired by militants in Gaza, which have injured one Israeli over the last week.






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  27 March 2011

Elizabeth Taylor – an ardent Zionist
Jerusalem Post
Taylor was also one of 60 signatories of a telegram addressed to UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim (ex-Nazi) from famous women, slamming the UN Anti-Zionist Resolution in 1975. She did this at time when it was highly unfashionable to come out against ...
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Deconstructing the Zionist Myth
FinalCall.com News
This Dutch national of German-Jewish origin who survived Auschwitz said, “Zionism is contrary to Jewish ethics. Judaism was supplanted by the holocaust religion.” I couldn't have said it better myself. He went on to say it is “bad that the holocaust is ...
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Al-Jazeera: An Island of Pro-Empire Intrigue
Monthly Review
Having myself undertaken international solidarity work with medical staff during the height of the siege of Ramallah in April 2002, I can attest that, for those under the Zionist state's military curfew and occupation in Palestine, Al-Jazeera was ...
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Israel is guilty, bears responsibility for latest violence
ABNA.ir
According to Zionist logic, Palestinians must never resist the unmitigated theft of their ancestral homeland by East European land thieves, or else they would be killed and maimed by the American-supplied Zionist killing machine. ...
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My Word: A routine emergency
Jerusalem Post
It made me think of another reason to make aliya: Israel is probably the only place in the world where, when someone calls you a “Zionist” it's a compliment and not an insult. What really brought me here, strangely enough, was terror. ...
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Israeli leftists hold national conference in Tel Aviv
Jerusalem Post
The panels at the conference covered subjects including cooperation among the different branches of the Left, from the non-Zionist to the center-Left, how to return the Left to the forefront of Israeli politics, and what the Israeli Left's message and ...
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What Sarah Palin should know about Israel
Salon
What the fuck do Zionist Jews have on us? What do they have on our leaders? How do they control our government, and why do we let them? Why do Americans sit silently as Jews take over their country? Why is it that not one elected official in this ...
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Who is afraid of Julian Schnabel?
Aljazeera.net
In fact, the national Palestinian identity movement (as Rashid Khalidi explains in his book Palestinian Identity) was nearly the same age as the Zionist movement. Contrast that fact with the myths propagated for years by David Ben Gurion, ...
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NPR should work to wean itself from public funding
The Detroit News
A sting video shows then-NPR Foundation President Ron Schiller (no relation) saying that tea party activists were "seriously racist" and telling two purported Muslim program underwriters that there aren't enough "non-Zionist" news organizations. ...
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Fazl sees conspiracy behind Arab uprising
The News International
He urged the Muslims to forge unity in their ranks to foil the nefarious designs of the Zionist forces. “The country is on the verge of economic collapse owing to the flawed policies of the rulers,” he said, adding that the process to bring about ...
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  26 March 2011


Muslims And Jews Wrestle With Zionism
WBUR
Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian fight for the same land are at the top of the list. But a small, self-selected group of Muslims and Jews, who have been meeting monthly since November, decided they were ready to ride this third rail… for one ...
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Anti-J Street Inquisitor and Palin Israel Guide Close with Christian Zionists
Religion Dispatches
Danon is close with the American Christian Zionist community, which of course doesn't favor a two-state solution and gives money and succor to the occupation. Indeed one of Danon's other activities this week was accompanying Sarah Palin on her visit to ...
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University mum about alleged death threats
Toronto Sun
He also described the film, a documentary about left-wing bias on American campuses, as "Zionist/Conservative propaganda." The next day he added, "The jihad starts today." Khan apologized in the McGill Tribune, explaining that while he's not ...
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CIA Analyst Reveals Zionists' Role in Planning US Invasion of Iraq
American Free Press
Since Wolfowitz was largely responsible for the Iraqi invasion, his father wrote him a note that said: 'Paul, I'm an ardent Zionist, but first and foremost, I'm an American. What you have done for the Zionist cause is beyond the pale, and you should be ...
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Time for Nassrallah and Obama to Talk?
Salem-News.Com
(BEIRUT) - An experienced Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, to his credit not among the most biased Israeli Hasbara spewers from the Zionist daily, dropped by our Hezbollah neighborhood known as Dahiyeh the other day. ...
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Charge of the left brigade
Ha'aretz
While Israel's right wing goes from strength to strength, dominates the Knesset and tries to push through anti-minority legislation, a new left-wing Zionist initiative is taking root in Ramat Gan. Does this idealistic bunch of activists stand a chance ...
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Israel, right or wrong?
Gulf Daily News
If the rest of the world attempts to pass a resolution finding Israel guilty of wrongdoing, the US - under Zionist control - vetoes it. This has happened 36 times in the past four decades. Jews who criticise anything that Israel does, no matter how ...
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When is a twin (city) not a twin (city)?
New Jersey Jewish Standard
Siegel, who describes himself as a Jewish anti-Zionist activist, set out to find the origins of this relationship. “First I wrote the mayor and he ignored me,” Siegel told the Jewish Standard. Teaneck Mayor Mohammed Hameeduddin did not return requests ...
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Jordanian Government Daily: Israel Is To Blame for the Renewal of Palestinian ...
Middle East Media Research Institute
As long as the Zionist enemy insists on continuing his aggression, whether via [construction in] the settlements, Judaization, or the crimes of ethnic cleansing, and as long as he insists on killing innocents in the Gaza Strip, demolishing homes over ...
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  24 March 2011


Raucous Knesset committee debates J Street
Jerusalem Post
“There are plenty of people, even within the American Jewish community, who are anti-Zionist and who do not recognize that right. Second, they must recognize Israel's right to defend itself against threats – Israel must be strong, because it lives in a ...
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Grad Rockets Hit Israel as Initial Reaction to 'Zionist War Crimes'
Salem-News.Com
A statement issued by the organization said, "This is an initial reaction to the Zionist crimes against our people in Gaza." Source: News release issued by the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades in Palestine, (the military wing of the Islamic resistance ...
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Reviving Liberal Zionism
The Jewish Week
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of essays on Zionist thinkers and doers, in Israel and outside, who are pioneering new understandings of what Jewish nationalism can mean in the 21st century. How fitting that Ruth Gavison, a legal expert in ...
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Hadassah kicks off centennial celebrations
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
TEL AVIV (JTA) -- Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America kicked off its centennial celebrations with a reception at a Tel Aviv skyscraper built on the site of what once was a Hadassah hospital. Among the high-profile guests at Tuesday's ...
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Ameinu head to lead LA seminar
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
So says Kenneth Bob, national president of Ameinu (Hebrew for “our people”), the American successor organization for the Labor Zionist Alliance, who will lead an all-day seminar in Los Angeles on March 27. Ameinu's national membership stands at a ...
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Talking with progressives about Israel
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
by Andrew Lachman For years, liberal Zionists have been writing about the need to renew the traditional progressive-Zionist alliance, inspired by the civil rights and labor movements, and the importance of using these partnerships to maintain ...
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Where the Mind Goes
Jewschool
“I still am a Zionist—a super Zionist…That has never changed for me, you know. If I didn't want to keep Israel as a state of the Jews—a state in which the Jews are a majority and enjoy sovereignty—I would have lived elsewhere. ...
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IOF Kills Four Palestinian Civilians, Including Two Children, in Artillery Shelling and Four Members of the Palestinian Resistance in Aerial Bombardment in Gaza City

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Palestinians sit next to the bodies of three members from the Al-Helow family during their funeral in al-Omari mosque in Gaza City March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem


PCHR, March 23, 2011

Ref: 24/2011

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has continued to commit war crimes in the Gaza Strip and intensified its artillery and aerial bombardment in populated areas. These bombing missions are clearly targeting Palestinian civilians. Yesterday, 22 March 2011, IOF killed four Palestinian civilians. Two children were killed. A man, his grandchild, his cousin and neighbor were also killed. Another eleven civilians, including eight children, were wounded, three seriously. These civilians were targeted while playing football near their houses in al-Shejaeya neighborhood in the east of Gaza city.

This morning, the Israeli radio quoted Israeli military sources as claiming that one of the shells veered off course and caused casualties. PCHR investigations refutes this IOF allegation. A populated area was targeted with four shells. Whether any of the shells veers off course or not, this targeting could reasonably be expected to cause civilian casualties.

According to an investigation conducted by PCHR, at approximately 15:10 on 22 March 2011, IOF positioned along the border line in the east of Gaza City fired four consecutive artillery shells at al-Nazzaz street in al-Shejaeya neighborhood in the east of Gaza City. Al-Nazzaz street is approximately 2,000 meters from the border line. The first shell landed on a 2-storey house located on 150m2 belonging to Samer Walid Mushtaha. The second floor of the house was totally destroyed while the first floor was partially damaged. The second shell landed on vacant land located nearby vacant land which belongs to al-Helo family.

The third shell landed near a group of children and older boys who were playing football in a square near their houses in al-Nazzaz street. Mohammed Saber Harara, 19, and Mohammed Jalal al-Helo were immediately killed and their bodies were dismembered. Just few seconds later, the fourth shell landed near Yaser Hamed al-Helo, 51, and his grandchild Yaser Ahed al-Helo, 15, while they were trying to open the door of their garage and drive their car to rescue the wounded. They were immediately killed. Another 11 civilians, including eight children, sustained shrapnel wounds. The wounds of three civilians were described to be serious.

Note: PCHR maintains the names of the wounded.

In another crime, at approximately 19:50 on 22 March 2011, an IOF warplane fired two missiles at members of the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, near Abdul Aziz al-Rantisi Mosque in the east of al-Zaytoon Neighborhood, eastern Gaza city. They were approximately 1,500 meters from the border with Israel. Four of them were immediately killed:

1. Sadi Mahmoud Helles, 22, from al-Shejaeya neighborhood.
2. Adham Fayez al-Harazin, 28, from al-Shejaeya neighborhood.
3. Mohammed Ateya al-Harazin, 27, from al-Shejaeya neighborhood.
4. Mohammed Akram Abed, 32, from al-Shati refugee camp.


PCHR condemns these crimes and is gravely concerned. PCHR also:

1. Asserts that these crimes are part of a series of war crimes committed by IOF in the oPt, which reflect total disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians.

2. Warns of the escalation of war crimes against Palestinian civilians in view of the statements and threats expressed by Israeli political and military officials who have vowed more casualties in the Gaza Strip.

3. Calls upon the international community to take immediate action in order to put an end to such crimes. PCHR further renews its demand for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligation under Article 1 which stipulates "the High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances," as well as their obligations under Article 146 which requires that the Contracting Parties prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention. These grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same Convention and under Protocol I Additional to Geneva Conventions.







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Israeli Settler Violence Report: January and February 2011

Ahmad Jaradat




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AIC, March 21, 2011

A detailed account of settler violence throughout the West Bank in the months of January and February 2011. The report is based on primary sources, including interviews with Palestinian victims of violence, together with information from Palestinian activists and officials with first-hand information concerning settler violence.

On 2 January, while farmers from the village of Om El-Arayish in the southern hills of the Hebron district, in cooperation with internationals and numerous activists, were protesting Israel’s land confiscation policy in the village, some ten settlers came from numerous settlements in the area. Most of them were armed and they attacked the protesters physically and with stones. The Coordinator of the Popular Committees against the Settlements in West Bank, Azmi Al-Shouyoukhi, sustained injuries to the face and head. He was taken to the Hebron Hospital.

On 2 January, settlers from Beit Hadasa and Ramot Yishai in downtown Hebron prevented resident Mufeed Al-Sharabati from reaching his house on Al-Shuhada Street. Sharabati reported to AIC, "After entering the electronic checkpoint on the west entrance of the street, a group of settlers stopped me and called the soldiers to turn me back. When I told them I was going to my house, they shouted and said bad words. The soldiers who came again checked my ID and then turned me back. I waited more than an hour until the settlers left and I tried again. Although the soldiers know I live there, they checked and did what the settlers wanted. There is not only cooperation between the settlers and soldiers, but the soldiers actually do what settlers asked them to do."

On 22 January, approximately 25 settlers from the southern Hebron hills area prevented farmers from the Al Tuwani village from cultivating their land. The settlers, many of whom were armed, came and threw stones at the farmers. Israeli soldiers arrived and told the farmers that their land is a military closed zone, forcing them to leave while the settlers remained on the land.

On 23 January, around ten settlers from Ma’on, most of them armed, shot a dog and beat a goat belonging to the shepherd Hani Salameh Makhamreh. The dog died immediately. According to Makhamreh, "While I was shepherding my goats on my land near the settlement, the settlers came directly at me and from a distance of 5 meters shot the dog and beat the legs of one of my goats. The Israeli police came after they heard the shot and made a report about the event, but they didn’t do anything to the settlers who returned to the settlement."

On 27 January, settlers from the Susiya settlement in the southern hills of the Hebron district attacked the farmer Ibraheem Nawaj’a and inured him with stones. Nawaj’a was treated in the local clinic. The event happened while Nawaj’a was working his land near the settlement. On the same day settlers from Beit Haggai, south of Hebron, also threw stones and took farmer Salamn Yousef Tobasi, 26 years old, to the Israeli soldiers. The settlers claimed that Tobasi had been on land belonging to the settlement.

On 28 January, in the morning, approximately 150 settlers, most of them armed, from Bat Ayin and other settlements in the northern Hebron district, attacked the village of Saffa, including the farmers in the fields. The settlers opened fire and shot two youth. Yousef Fakhri Mosa Ikhlaiel, age 17, was shot in his head with a live bullet. Murad Ikhlaiel, age 23, was shot in his hand. Both were taken to Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron City. Yousef’s was case was initially defined as critical, and he later died. The settlers’ attacks came in the framework of ongoing attacks by settlers against West Bank villagers.

On 14 February, settlers from the Bat Ayin settlement to the north of the Hebron District uprooted 250 olive trees in the Saffa village. According to Mohamed Ayyad, spokesman for the Local Popular Committee, the settlers committed the aggressions in full view of soldiers in the area. The trees belonged to Jamal Mohammed Adi and had been planted one month earlier. When Adi came and tried to stop the settlers, he and his son Mohammed were beaten. Soldiers subsequently announced that the area was a closed military zone and forced Adi and his family to leave.

On 26 February, dozens of settlers from Karmei Tzur, north of Hebron, attacked protesters from the village of Beit Ommar. The demonstrators were protesting the settlement project on their land, together with internationals and Israeli activists. The settlers brought dogs to attack the participants. According to the National Committee against the Settlements, no one was injured because the participants avoided the settlers and their dogs.

On 27 February, student Amani Jaser Mattor from the village of Beit Anon to the northeast of Hebron, was injured after a settler’s car ran her over while she was trying to cross the bypass road to reach her school. Israeli soldiers took her to Hadasa Hospital in Jerusalem. Her father reports that her leg was broken and she sustained injures to her head.

Nablus and the Northern West Bank

During the morning hours of 7 January, settlers from an outpost in the southern Nablus district uprooted some 100 olive trees at Al-Baslah, south of the village of Qasra. The trees belong to Abd-Alrazeq Daoud from the village, and he had planted them just three months ago.


On 13 January, six residents from the village of Qasra, south of Nablus, related a serious incident in which hundreds of settlers from various settlements in the northern West Bank gathered to protest the Israeli decision to demolish caravans set up by settlers a few days previously in Basaleh, south the village. The settlers attacked the village from all directions and opened fire on the houses. Settlers also threw stones at the residents as they tried to defend their village. According to the Settlements File Office in the northern West Bank, six villagers were injured and Tariq Husain Oredi, 45 years old, was seriously injured in the head. He was taken to the hospital in the city of Nablus.

On 15 January, around 20 settlers, some of them armed, entered the agricultural areas of the village of Atoof in the Tubas District. The settlers brought cameras and engineering survey materials with them, taking pictures of the area around the village. All of this was done with full army protection. The Local Council chairman of the village, Abdullah Ibsharat said, "This is not the first time the settlers came to my village. It seems they want to claim the area they photographed, which is called Al-Buqai’a. This fertile area used to grow wheat and corn, but the army has repeatedly told local farmers that it is a closed military zone.

On 22 January, two settlers tried to enter Joseph’s Tomb to the east of Nablus. Palestinian policemen stopped the settlers and sent them to the Israeli side because they had entered Area A. In spite of this, the settlers come from time to time and claim that the tomb is holy for Jews.

On 22 January, around 15 settlers, some armed, tried to enter the village of Kufur Qallil to the south of the Nablus District. The settlers came in the middle of the night. When the resident realized some physical fight was taking place between both sides, the settlers were forced to leave and did not enter the village.

On 26 January, around 20 settlers, most of them armed, from the Maskiyot settlement in the northern valley, attacked the small Palestinian village of 'Ain Al-Helwa. The setters stoned several of the village houses and called the residents to leave the area. The Local Council Chairman Areef Daraghmeh said that, "The settlers came in the early hours of the evening and stoned the houses. It was not the first time settlers from this settlement attacked the village or the farmers in their fields. The settlers’ aggressions against my village and other villages in the northern valley is ongoing. These attacks have exacerbated the well-known Israeli policy of homes demolitions that have intensified and increased in previous years, along with the policy of declaring large areas as closed military zones. Today the northern valley villages face a very real and silent deportation due to the army and settler attacks." On 20 February settlers from the same settlement attacked the house of Sami Daraghmeh in the village, using stones. He was beaten when he tried to defend his family.

On 27 January, dozens of settlers from Yitzhar tried to enter the village of Iraq Boreen in the southern Nablus district. When the resident tried to face them, the settlers opened fire directly on the villagers, killing Adli Maher Qados, age 19. He was fatally wounded by bullets to the chest and died before he reached the hospital in Nablus.

On 14 February in the afternoon, settlers from Halamish, northwest of Ramallah, uprooted and damaged some 60 olive trees belonging to families from the villages of Nabi Saleh and Dair Nitham. The land targeted is located near the settlement and the trees were planted two months ago. Dozens of farmers came and physically fought the villagers. The Israeli army arrived, stopped the settlers, and also forced the farmers to leave.

On 17 February, settlers from the Gil’ad outpost, in the west of the Nablus District, uprooted 30 olive trees. They also took about ten of the trees to replant them in the settlement. According to a Land Research Center field worker for the Northern West Bank, six dunams planted with different trees were targeted. Farmer Mohammed Faris Hasan reports, "When I went to my land I found trees uprooted, along with other trees that had completely disappeared. The settlers had taken some of our agricultural materials. My land is very close to the outpost of Gil’ad and only the road separates the outpost and the land. It is important to mention that I have been attacked many times by the settlers from this area. They want to annex it to the outpost. The trees that were uprooted were planted only one month ago."

On 22 February, in the very early hours of the morning, settlers from Bracha in the south of the Nablus District burned two cars belonging to residents of Boreen. According to the Settlement File Office in the Northern West Bank, the cars belonged to Khaled Waleed Najjar and Abd El-Salam Abd El-Hamed. The settlers also threw a Molotov cocktail at the house of Iyman Sofan, located to the east of the village. "Fortunately the house was not affected because the fire burned out. All of the actions happened during a large attack by some 30 settlers, who tried to enter the village from the east side, but residents succeeded in forcing them to leave, following clashes with stones. The settlers opened fire on the houses, and an hour later soldiers arrived and stopped the settlers. Also as a result of this attack, two residents were injured by stones: Faris Nassar and Ahmed Sameer Abed."

On 25 February, settlers from the settlement of Adi Ad, northest of Ramallah, and near the Palestinian village Al-Mughair, damaged around 150 dunams of wheat. The targeted site is close to the settlement. Farmers need permission from the Israeli Civil Administration to work in this area. The farmers received permission a few months ago and they planted the land with wheat. According to the Local Council Chairman in the village, Faraj Al-Na’aas, the settlers sprayed the crops with chemical substances that caused a total loss of the crop. "The area has been the target of settlers in the past few years," he said.

On 25 February, settlers from Yitzhar in the south of the Nablus District burned a bulldozer belong to Ibraheem Ishtayya from the village of Boreen. The same day, other settlers wrote hostile words against Arabs on walls in the village of Jet, in the south of the Nablus District. The graffiti included statements such as "Death to Arabs" and "Go from our land". On the afternoon of the same day, settlers from settlements in the south of the district also cut 25 different kinds of trees belonging to farmers Hasan Abd Al-Fattah Safadi and Mohammed Salameh Safadi, from the village of Oreef. The targeted site is called Alsadara. When the farmers arrived at the scene, the settlers left in their cars.

On 26 February, in the first hours of the morning, a group of settlers from Arosa, south of Nablus and near the village of Boreen, burned a car belonging to Basheer Al-Zabn from Boreen. The settlers also tried to burn down his house by spreading chemical substances, but the family and neighbors confronted the settlers and put out the fire. The army finally arrived and forced the settlers to leave.

On 28 February, around 50 settlers from Karnei Shomron east of Qalqilya gathered in afternoon on the main road near the settlement and threw stones at passing Palestinian cars. Basem Yacooub from the village of Bidaya said, "My car windows and glass were broken when settlers stoned it on the main road near Karnei Shomron. I saw many soldiers who didn’t stop the settlers."





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Israelis retaliate for killing of settlers

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Palestinians survey the damage after their home was ransacked by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank hamlet of Awarta. Nasser Ishtayeh / AP Photo




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AWARTA, WEST BANK // A week after Israel's military put this impoverished Palestinian hamlet on lockdown, residents spent the weekend cleaning their ransacked homes and accounting for missing loved ones.

Hundreds of Israeli commandos stormed Awarta on March 12, imposing a five-day curfew a day after the murder of five members of a Jewish family living in the adjacent Israeli settlement of Itamar.

While speculation has centred on Palestinians, the details of the investigation are under a court gag order. Israeli officials have not announced if they have suspects and the military could not be reached for comment on the issue yesterday despite repeated calls by The National. Residents of Awarta, who deny any involvement in the incident, described the soldiers' response as nothing short of ethnically motivated intimidation, aimed as much at inflicting revenge on their community of about 7,000 as trying to solve the case.

"It's torture, collective punishment," said Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian politician who surveyed the damage on Friday, adding that this was one of the most intense Israeli incursions into a Palestinian area in the West Bank since the height of the second intifada.

"They beat children, arrested people haphazardly, destroyed houses. I saw one house where the family was shot at by the soldiers when they came to enter it. I saw an infant child who was injured because a soldier knocked his father down while he was holding him."

Human-rights workers, Palestinian officials and residents say between 45 to 60 residents still remain in Israeli custody, in many cases after soldiers stormed their homes, blindfolded and beat male family members at gunpoint and hauled them off to prison.

Shawan Jabarin, the director of Al Haq, a Palestinian human rights group, said there was evidence that Israeli soldiers used the curfew to collect village-wide DNA samples of residents. Roughly 500 people were rounded up in a local school at one point where soldiers took swabs of detainees' mouths.

"These DNA samples won't be used just for this incident but for data to be used in the future," he said, calling the crackdown a violation of human rights and international humanitarian law.

Residents said nearly every house in the village was searched in a similar way: soldiers would enter, often by kicking in doors, barricade families in rooms - in some cases for 12 or more hours - and destroy possessions.

Hisham, 30, a schoolteacher, said soldiers commandeered both the roof of his family home and the first floor. Meanwhile, he and four other family members were detained in their living room for nearly 12 hours.

He said the soldiers used the first floor as a lounge where they watched television, slept and littered the ground with cigarette butts. During their searches, he added, the soldiers overturned tables, broke dishes and stole money.

At one point, said Hisham, who declined to give his last name because he feared Israeli reprisals: "It was cold and we had the heater on. A second soldier went into a room and threw over the table, tossing everything around, and a chair fell on the heater. It caught fire, so he came out and got me and made me put out the fire."

The events were triggered when two unidentified intruders scaled Itamar's perimeter fence on the evening of March 11, entered the home of Udi and Ruth Fogel, and stabbed them to death along with three of their children. The youngest was a three-month-old baby.

Palestinian Authority officials have condemned the murders but appear to have few options over how to handle the Israeli response in Awarta. The PA's control over the village is limited, since much of it is under the authority of the Israeli military.

Many believe the crackdown was used by the military as a display of revenge to appease settlers over the Itamar murders. During the curfew, Bassam Abdat, 37, said he saw Jewish settlers walking freely around Awarta, some carrying signs that read: "People of Awarta, leave our land".

Tension between Palestinians, Israel's military and nearby settlements is nothing new. Awarta residents, for example, seethe over the fact that Itamar was built on land that they once farmed and that several new mobile homes have been erected in the settlement since the murders there last week. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, announced the construction of 500 new settler homes following the Itamar murders.

When soldiers came to his home, Mr Abdat said: "I told the soldiers that they didn't have to destroy anything," he said. "After that, they put me and my family in a room and began destroying things."

His cousin, Rami Abdat, 33, who lives nearby, said he began hiding family valuables after neighbours said money and jewellery had been stolen during the searches. "Even my grandparents had money on their counter and they [soldiers] stole it," he said.

Faisal Qawareek, a 48-year-old resident of Awarta, said the soldiers detained four of his sons. "They took their IDs, blindfolded the older ones, tied their hands behind their backs and threw them on the ground and hit them. I said, 'Why are you beating them?'"

Last year, the bodies of another of Mr Qawareek's sons, Mohammed, 19, and a cousin, Salah, 19, were found shot dead near Itamar, their hands tied behind their back.

He is taking legal action against the Israeli soldiers whom he accuses of the killings, which human rights groups, including Al Haq, say were carried out in the style of an execution.

Mr Qawareek suspects Mohammed's death is the reason why Israeli commandos began their crackdown in the village by first tossing stun grenades at his home and firing live rounds that pockmarked, and even pierced through, its exterior.

"I yelled at them, 'I know why you are doing this. Soldiers killed our son and now you are coming after us'," he said.

He said the soldiers kicked in many of the doors to the house, ripped down posters of his deceased son and ransacked every room. They used a shed in the back as a toilet.

"One soldier told me he wanted to enter the house in the back," he said. "So I handed him the keys, but he threw them to the ground. Then he just kicked in the door with his boots," he said.



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Israeli army kills 2 teenagers in Gaza

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March 20, 2011

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The bodies of two Gaza teenagers were retrieved by Palestinian medics late Sunday morning, after being killed by Israeli fire some 12 hours earlier in the boarder area east of Gaza City.

Medical crews said they were only permitted to access the site, east of Juhor Addik and north of the Al-Bureij refugee camp, when they got a call advising them of the deaths Sunday morning.

The bodies were taken to the Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where they were identified as Imad Farajallah, 17, and Qasim Salah Iteiwa, 17, both from the An-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said Sunday that soldiers fired at two men approaching the Gaza Strip's border with Israel. The army official told Ma'an that forces identified a hit, but she could not confirm that they were killed.

However, the Israeli daily Haaretz and Israeli news site Ynet reported on Saturday night that both men were killed, quoting a military spokesperson. The reports came out hours before medics were notified.

Palestinian medical sources told Ma'an on Sunday morning that they had not yet received any information from Israeli officials about the attack.

Israeli authorities usually inform Palestinian medics about such incidents through liaison officers, medical officials added.

Israeli forces are on high alert near the borders with the Gaza Strip after Palestinian resistance fighters launched over 50 mortar shells and homemade projectiles across the border on Saturday.

Ma'an's reporter said Israeli military tanks struck targets near the borders in the northern and central Gaza Strip late on Saturday night. Israeli missiles and artillery shells landed in Juhor Ad-Dik, east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp, and in agricultural fields east of Gaza City. No injuries have been reported from those incidents.

Meanwhile, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza, the An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades, said its fighters fired a Grad-style missile into the western Negev on Saturday evening.

The group said the shelling was a natural response to the ongoing Israeli crimes against Palestinians.

Livni calls for another Cast Lead

On Saturday, Israel's opposition leader Tzipi Livni said the escalation in mortar fire called for a new military campaign against the coastal enclave.

"The right way to deal with it is with force, just like Israel did during and after Operation Cast Lead," news website Ynet quoted her as telling local authority heads in the border region.

Israeli forces killed more than 1,400 Palestinians during the December 2008- January 2009 offensive, more than half of whom were women and children. Thirteen Israelis, 10 of them soldiers, were killed in the 22-day attack.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel would use "all necessary means to protect its citizens" in a statement from his office.

In January, Gaza's main militant factions confirmed a year-old truce after weeks of increased rocket fire and spiraling tensions along the border prompted a warning from Arab leaders that Gaza was risking a major new Israeli invasion.

AFP contributed to this story





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  20 March 2011


Time for a new Zionism
Boston Globe
For baby boomers such as myself, who received a strong Zionist education that emphasized Israel as an ideal, grappling with the tension between the vision and reality can be difficult. There are 70 “faces,'' or interpretations, to the Torah, ...
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UK Turns on Israel: Government and Media to Blame
Palestine Chronicle
But as all previous UK governments have meekly toed the Zionist line, it wouldn't be saying very much. After all Gordon Brown, Cameron's predecessor, was honorary president of the Jewish National Fund, Brown succeeded Tony Blair (need one say more), ...
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Palestine Chronicle
Taking a page from Esther's book
Ha'aretz
A social worker by profession who belongs to the religious Zionist stream of Judaism, Phillips speaks elatedly about reciting the Megillah to women only. Children dressed up for Purim in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea She'arim. ...
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Ha'aretz
The Hebrew He Would Be As gods and Live Forever
FavStocks
By Zionist Gold Report on 03/19/2011 – 4:48 pm PDT Ray Kurzweil the notorious, MIT transhumanist, and secular humanist and I suppose Zionist Hebrew was on Charlie Rose last night pushing transhuman life that is merging man with machines, ...
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Bernard Levy, DeRothschilds Agent?, Violent War Monger, Libyan Revolutionary
FavStocks
By Zionist Gold Report on 03/19/2011 – 4:32 pm PDT On the Charlie Rose show of 3/18/11, the neoconservative, Zionist Bernard Henri Levy, phoned in from France and more or less admitted by himself he ran the French arm of the Libyan Revolution and that ...
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FavStocks
Erasing Palestine from Lifta
Palestine Monitor
Over 500 Arab villages were depopulated or demolished during the 1948 war by the ruthless colonial Zionist forces. Lifta is an exception in this respect as it is 'The only village which remains as it was before 1948,' Daphna Golan asserts, ...
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Palestine Monitor
The Confused Nuclear Engineering Profession
FavStocks
By Zionist Gold Report on 03/19/2011 – 6:42 pm PDT My general observation of these people as undergraduate and a graduate and post graduate graduate, was they were very dangerous, and it is reflected in the number of units they use to measure radiation ...
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What Really Sadden Me About Japan
FavStocks
By Zionist Gold Report on 03/19/2011 – 4:32 pm PDT In Japan, like in the USA, to 'stay competitive' very few people outside of say the best engineering graduates from the top Japanese or American schools get jobs that are full benefit jobs at companies ...
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What does The Israel-Backed UAE Say?
The Public Record
Dubai was slated to become the heaven of Middle East with multi-billion-dollar investments of the American and Zionist-owned companies who would search their Middle Eastern ideal in the seashores of Persian Gulf, but with the continued “miscalculation” ...
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Israel court decides

to turn Rahma graveyard into Jewish garden

Palestinian Information Center



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March 18, 2011

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- An Israeli court decided to convert part of the Palestinian graveyard, Bab Al-Rahma, in occupied Jerusalem into a biblical garden and prevent the Muslim Palestinians from burying their dead there.

This decision was taken after an extremist Jewish settler called Arie King filed a petition with the Israeli court claiming that part of this Islamic graveyard, near the Aqsa Mosque, was in the past a biblical Jewish garden.

Pressures from Zionist right-wing parties, the societies of Elad and Ateret Cohanim and the bureau of defending Zionist antiquities also contributed to this court decision.

Director of the Islamic waqf (endowments) in Jerusalem Sheikh Azzam Khatib reported that the Israeli police installed a number of surveillance cameras on the wall of Jerusalem’s old city, especially at the entrance to the graveyards of Rahma and Yusufiya.

Sheikh Khatib added that the camera used to prevent the Palestinians from burying their dead in the graveyards.

The total area of Rahma graveyard is about 23 dunums and it extends from Al-Asbat Gate, the northeastern entrance of Jerusalem, to the end of the Aqsa Mosque’s wall near the Umayyad Palaces in the southeast.





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  19 March 2011


 
Anti-Zionist Jews to Protest Zionist Purim Provocation Against Iran
PR Newswire (press release)
The Zionists, ever since the founding of their movement, have adopted a policy of terrorizing and vilifying anyone who does not go along with their political line. But this policy has always brought, and continues to bring, severe consequences for the ...
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Amid Israeli Apartheid Week nonsense, a family bled to death
Toronto Sun
By MICHAEL COREN, QMI Agency Last week I wrote of how proud I was of being a Zionist, and how much I admired and respected the flawed but still remarkable state of Israel. The vomit of abuse was predictable — sent to me privately but also on display ...
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Musician files police complaint on authors
Jakarta Post
“They called me a Zionist Jew. What they wrote provoked terrorists to send me a mail bomb,” Dhani said at Jakarta Police headquarters Friday. Fakta Dan Data Yahudi Di Indonesia (Facts and Data on Jews in Indonesia) is written by Ridwan Saidi and Rizki ...
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MK Ze'ev Boim dies at 67
Ha'aretz
Boim, one of the founders of Jabotinsky's Zionist camp began his career as an educator, and was the school principal at the Rogozin School in Kiryat Gat. He left teaching for politics, becoming mayor of Kiryat Gat for 13 years. ...
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Ha'aretz
Where Might the 'Wrong Track' Lead?
Salem-News.Com
I think he is quite clever and very cunning in a Zionist-like way, and was always prepared to stop at nothing to keep himself and his family in power. The single word I'd use to describe him is evil. I imagine he knew better than anybody else that his ...
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Salem-News.Com
No Fly Zone over Israel- An Interview With Gilad Atzmon
Salem-News.Com
There is a massively expanding awareness of the Israeli brutality and a surge of antagonism against Zionist politics. In 2005-6 I was subjected to some extensive smear campaigns, I somehow managed to survive it. I am happy to be in great form and to ...
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Salem-News.Com
The Libyan Rebellion: The West's Cloak over the Gulf
Monthly Review
... the Palestinian revolutionaries in Hamas and other factions, Hizbullah, the resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan show that that Arab and Middle Eastern peoples can fight and defeat the West and its ally in the Zionist state. ...
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Palestinian nearly beaten to death in attack by Israeli settlers

Jeany Massad

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IMEMC, March 17, 2011

On Thursday afternoon, a 31-year old man named Sami, from Ytima village, was attacked and beaten severely by a group of eight Israeli settlers. He was taken to a hospital in Ramallah, where he remains in critical condition with severe injuries to his head, arms, legs and back.

Sami said that he had been working in the settlement for three months, but stopped after the Itamar attack in which a family of Israelis was killed last week, for fear of reprisals by the settlers. He said that he had to return to work on Thursday because he had to feed his family, and had been doing construction on the second floor of a house in progress when he heard the voices of the settlers coming up the stairs.

Sami's ordeal lasted for fifteen minutes, during which he tried to avoid their beating and kicking, but eventually crumpled to the floor where he pretended to be dead. They kept striking him until they thought that he was dead, and then ran away. The Police and ambulance arrived shortly thereafter, and took him to a hospital in Ramallah.

Maher Ghnaim – the minister of state – condemned this attack against Sami, and stated that the event showed that all of the recent attacks by Israeli settlers and Occupation Forces are planned attacks, and not related to the murder in Itamar settlement.

Ghneim blamed the Israeli occupation for everything done by the settlers. He also claimed that the escalation of settler attacks in the last week hasn’t come as a result of the killing of five settlers, including a baby and two small children, in Itamar settlement. He said the escalation has included increasing attacks and invasions by the Israeli military, not just by Israeli settlers living in violation of international law on Palestinian land in the West Bank.





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  18 March 2011

Transjordan and Israel: Examing the Foundations of a Special Relationship
Student Pulse
How then, could Abdullah the son of Sherif Hussien, the man that began the Arab revolt, have established a cordial relationship with the Zionist Movement? Even before its creation the idea of Israel had been a symbol of colonialism and the nearest ...
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Sarkozy Was a Mossad Agent?
Salem-News.Com
French daily Le Figaro has revealed the French leader once worked for the Zionist regime as a sayan, Hebrew for 'collaborator'. Ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky says sayans, who perform many roles, are Jewish citizens of other nationalities assisting ...
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Salem-News.Com
IAEA chief: Japan racing against the clock to cool overheating nuclear ...
Ha'aretz
On Saturday night, a day after five members of the Fogel family were murdered in the settlement of Itamar, Netanyahu urgently convened some of his ministers and decided on a Zionist riposte: construction of 500 new homes in the settlements. ...
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Military solution against popular demands doom to fail, says Iran
ISNA
"Recent developments in the region are popular moves which have made the US and Zionist regime gravely concerned," said Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili in a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem. ...
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Norman Finkelstei​n's claim that Palestinians' right of return is "complicat​ed"
Axis of Logic
If Norman Finkelstein would agree that there should not be a Jewish state in Palestine, then he would be calling for their right of return, and he would be an anti-Zionist. Instead, however, he joins the Zionists in his refusal to say there should not ...
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Queen Esther of the Philippines: Foreign workers' kids celebrate Purim
Ha'aretz
This week there was an explanation posted in a classroom about the Fast of Esther next to the official state symbol, the seven-branched candelabrum, and a picture of the founder of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl. The children in one first-grade ...
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Ha'aretz
Al Bireh Square named for Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi
The Cutting Edge
Today, the Zionist Organziation, which I represent, called on the Obama Administration to demand that Mahmoud Abbas take action to immediately terminate incitement to murder Jews and commit violence against Israel, including rescinding the naming of ...
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The Cutting Edge
Rabbi's home again targeted by vandals
Jweekly.com
In a press release, Tikkun magazine pinned the vandalism on “extremist Zionist haters,” though it stressed that not all Zionists “are responsible directly or indirectly for this attack.” Lerner's house also was targeted in May 2010, after Tikkun ...
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Bad romance: Poland and Israel's "love story"
Electronic Intifada
Not only is Jewish culture downsized and channeled into a Zionist narrative but Polish culture is also twinned with Israeli culture. Bartoszewski recently told journalists "All political forces in our country are friendly toward Israel . ...
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Google News Alert for: zionist


  17 March 2011

Iran on arms seizure: 'Zionist regime is full of lies'
Jerusalem Post
"The Zionist regime's diet is mixed with lies, lies and more lies," Gen. Amir Ataollah Salehi said. "We deny all false reports." "The Zionist regime is a usurper," he added. "There is an Islamic awakening throughout the Middle East and North Africa ...
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Threatening tweets shake McGill campus
Toronto Star
“I've infiltrated a Zionist meeting. I feel like I'm at a Satanist ritual,” he allegedly wrote at the March 8th screening. “I want to shoot everyone in this room,” another tweet said. “Never been this angry.” The tweets call the documentary a ...
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Iranian defense minister: Arms ship is a Zionist propaganda
Ynetnews
Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Wahidi commented on the seizure of the arms ship Victoria, which carried missiles from Iran, saying it was a lie and a "Zionist propaganda." Wahidi claimed Israel has shifted away from the spotlight due to the uprisings ...
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Zionist Extremist Hate Crime Against Rabbi Lerner: 3rd Attack on His Home and ...
OpEdNews
And for those who believe that there is a new tone of civility in the Jewish world, well....it obviously has not impacted on right wing Zionist extremists. Please note, however, that we do not want to imply in any way that all Zionists are responsible ...
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Feds to probe Calif. university prof's complaint that pro-Palestinian events ...
Washington Post
A former University of California, Berkeley, student who was co-president of the Zionist student group Tikvah sued the university in federal court earlier this month over her alleged March 2010 assault by the campus leader of Students for Justice in ...
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Jewish Voice for Peace: A New Beginning
Antiwar.com
Yet Peter Beinart, though still very much in the progressive Zionist camp, has warned that "the best way for the Jewish establishment to ensure that BDS enters the mainstream is to keep doing what its doing." The Jewish establishment could be making a ...
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Tight security in Tunis amid protest against Clinton visit
AFP
... deployed along with two army helicopters and an armoured personnel carrier equipped with water hoses as demonstrators chanted: "No to normalisation, Tunisia is free and not for sale" or "Tunisia is an Arab country, neither imperialist nor Zionist. ...
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6 other calamities blamed on divine retribution
CNN (blog)
“All hurricanes are acts of God, because God controls the heavens,” John Hagee, a Texas-based evangelical pastor who leads the Christian Zionist movement in the United States, said after Katrina. “I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was ...
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Google News Alert for: zionist


  15 March 2011


Right-wing Israeli group heads to Washington to drum up support
Ha'aretz
This week, the visitors were the leaders of Im Tirtzu, the controversial Israeli grassroots movement whose proclaimed goal is to "strengthen the values of Zionism in Israel and to renew and reinstate Zionist discourse, thinking and ideology in order to ...
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Ha'aretz
Sad About Not Finding My Place
Jewschool
How odd then, to find myself dismissed as a 'Zionist' here and there in the Palestinian solidarity movement. Not like so many people actually know me or anything. But… there was that JATO woman at the UFPJ gathering, the trainer at the Student PSC ...
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Hamas Speaks
Power Line (blog)
As translated by Al Mutarjim, Hamas wrote, in part: Five Zionist usurpers were killed the morning of Saturday, 12 March 2011, in a knife-stabbing carried out by a Palestinian in the usurper (settlement) of Itamar east of the city of Nablus. ...
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Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Opponent Dan Bacher Exposed
California Majority Report
"If it wasn't for the Zionist complicity with Nazi Germany and the Zionists actually had fought the Nazi oppression of the Jews, the Holocaust may not have proceeded so smoothly. But the Holocaust fit nicely into the Zionist plans of a 'Greater Israel. ...
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Dan Shapiro, already performing miracles
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (blog)
By Ron Kampeas · March 14, 2011 It's not often you see the Zionist Organization of America saying that the Obama administration has made the "best possible choice." It's less often that the ZOA and Americans for Peace Now issue essentially the same ...
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Israeli Rabbis Marry Gay Men to Lesbians
Advocate.com
By Advocate.com Editors Rabbis from the religious Zionist community have expanded their effort to marry gay men and lesbians who live together in order not to violate their faith's prohibition against homosexual sex. According to Haaretz, Rabbi Areleh ...
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Student investigated for hateful tweets
McGill Tribune
Over the span of about an hour and half, during the screening Khan railed against Jews and Zionists in 10 separate tweets. "I've infiltrated a Zionist meeting," Khan wrote in his first tweet, at 6:04 pm, shortly after the event began. ...
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A Different Kind of Gay Marriage
First Things (blog)
Rabbis from the religious Zionist community have launched an initiative to marry gay men to lesbian women – with some surprising successes. So far, 11 marriages have been performed. Haaretz conducted an email interview with one such couple, ...
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Fall of a Jewish Lion
Algemeiner
Much of its boom is due to the vision of one man, a visionary businessman and staunch Zionist who built the once-derelict and now top-of-the-line Mamilla and David's Village section of Jerusalem. Cyril Stein, who died last month and, as Chairman of ...
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  14 March 2011

Writer: Young Jews are divided
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
In a recent interview, he said he considers himself a liberal Zionist, although that description is becoming endangered. "I try to be respectful and make it clear I come from a position of love and commitment to the Jewish people," he said. ...
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Balance of power in Middle East
Irish Times
The main thrust of all these uprisings was to achieve sovereignty, freedom, democracy, and rejection of dependency and foreign interference and most important of all abhorrence of Zionism. This is well understood by the Zionist regime, which has been ...
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Found in translation
Ha'aretz
In his new book "Yolanda" (published by Keter in Hebrew ), which is autobiographical in a sort of misleading way, Sakal depicts the protagonist's Egyptian-born grandmother, who immigrated to Israel in 1948, but preserves Cairo within her; a Zionist, ...
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Ha'aretz
The Shekel Has Dropped
Salem-News.Com
In the last decade Israel and Zionist lobbies have been doing their very best to incite anti-Muslim feelings amongst Europeans. Yet, it seems as if this revolting tactics has backfired. It is actually the Jewish State which European seem to dislike. ...
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Salem-News.Com
Meeting the Middle Eastern crises
Pakistan Observer
Rather, through the Balfour Declaration of November 1917, British Government paved the way for the creation a Zionist state in the heart of the Arab. Indeed, the Balfour Declaration was a formal, but a classified policy statement of the British ...
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Global Day of Action
Salem-News.Com
In the usual Zionist colonial “response”, the apartheid state decided to build 500 more houses for more racist settlers on Palestinian lands. Israeli interior minister claims more will be done (at least 1000 colonial houses for every colonial settler ...
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Salem-News.Com
The Return of Pan-Arabism Amidst Upheaval: An end to Balkanization?
Center for Research on Globalization
The strategy is named after Oded Yinon, a Israeli foreign policy analyst who outlined the “Zionist strategy” for breaking up and balkanizing the Arab World. [1] The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must (1) become an imperial ...
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Center for Research on Globalization
ARAB UPRISINGS: Time to Quit Playing al Qaeda's Card
Intifada Palestine
This is how the Zionist-manipulated western mainstream policy viewed the Arabic/Muslim world. After his famous Cairo speech to the Arab world in 2009 Obama gave the Arabs the impression that his administration would support a more democratic Arab world ...
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  12 March 2011

 

 
A Zionist Purim
Jerusalem Post
The ultimate message of the holiday is a very Zionist one: Don't depend on anyone else. And do not depend on chance. Now that we are in Adar II, Purim is almost upon us. Soon the streets will be filled with costumed children and the stores with all the ...
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Israeli Rabbis Hooking Gay Men Up With Lesbian Women
Jewcy.com (blog)
Apparently the latter is acceptable and has been done over ten times in Israel by rabbis from the religious Zionist community, and according to Haaretz, to surprising results. They don't deny their sexual identity, he stressed, but “they want to ...
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Jewcy.com (blog)
Rereading: Khirbet Khizeh by S Yizhar
The Guardian
As he walks through the desolate Palestinian landscape, his soldier companion exults in the emptiness which he sees as proof of the superiority of the Zionist pioneers: "Wow! Our old-timers used to break their backs for any strip of land, ...
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The Guardian
BZA fo' life
The Brandeis Hoot
By Leah Finkelman Sivan Levine '13 is so passionate about the Brandeis Zionist Alliance (BZA) that her weekly presidential e-mails to the club are littered with exclamation points and signed “BZA fo' life.” The group, which has been on campus for ...
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Google News Alert for: zionist


  11 March 2011

Israeli rabbis launch initiative to marry gay men to lesbian women
Ha'aretz
By Yair Ettinger Tags: Israel news Rabbis from the religious Zionist community have launched an initiative to marry gay men to lesbian women - with some surprising successes. So far, 11 marriages have been performed. Haaretz conducted an email ...
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Ha'aretz
Jews, Zionists, and Israelis: Any Difference?
Onislam.net
I have two questions: First, what is the difference between Israelis, Jews and Zionists?Second, why does Allah (SWT) in the Quran call Prophet Jacob, Israel? Why does He address the Jews, Ya Bani Israil (Oh Children of Israel! ...
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Zionists, Major Enemy of Sayyed As-Sader, Libyan Regime Responsible for ...
ABNA.ir
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Iranian Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani confirmed that the Zionists are the major enemy of His Eminence Sayyed Moussa As-Sader, clarifying that is why they have interest in kidnapping him. In a speech he delivered in the ...
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ABNA.ir
WZO sets its sights on aliyah promotion
Ha'aretz
The World Zionist Organization runs programs promoting Zionism in Israel and abroad, has routinely struggled to formulate a clear identity of its own. By Raphael Ahren The World Zionist Organization intends to fill the void left by the Jewish Agency ...
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A New 'Hesder': Religious-Zionist Youth to Join the Police
Arutz Sheva
"But the police realize that they can gain twice in coming towards us in this: They will get quality manpower, and it will help decrease the strong existing tensions between them and the religious-Zionist public.” “This is a very long-term process,” ...
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Arutz Sheva
International Women's Day: Emunah and Inspiration
Arutz Sheva
by Rachel Sylvetsky Rabbi Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Kook, religious Zionist icon and the first Chief Rabbi of Israel, philosopher and poet, saw in the establishment of a Jewish state an opportunity for the renewal of all that was spiritual in the Jewish ...
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Arutz Sheva
Netanyahu's lebensraum
Middle East Monitor
Hence, the true motive behind Netanyahu's remarks is the known Zionist desire to usurp as much Palestinian land as possible, with or without an agreement with the Palestinian Authority, an agreement that looks increasingly unlikely given Zionist ...
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Jewish Groups Denounce NPR
Fox News
Morton Klein, the head of the pro-Israel Zionist Organization of America, called the comments made by Schiller anti-Semitic - and said the video might explain "at least some of the biased anti-Israel coverage which appears in NPR. ...
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Fox News
'What does it look like to have an authentic Jewish connection?'
Jewish United Fund
Its purpose then was to provide a Zionist alternative for Reform Jews, at a time when the movement had not fully embraced Zionism. Since then, the congregation—first under founding Rabbi David Polish, then under the leadership of Rabbi Peter Knobel, ...
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Jewish United Fund
Time to tune out NPR funding
Boston Herald
This week, a sting video shows NPR Foundation President Ron Schiller (no relation) saying that Tea Party activists were “seriously racist” and telling two purported Muslim program underwriters that there aren't enough “non-Zionist” news organizations. ...
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Extrajudicial Assassinations: Official Israeli Policy

by Stephen Lendman


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March 7, 2011

Extrajudicial assassinations are willful, premeditated, cold-blooded murder. Nonetheless, they're official Israeli policy. Killers get impunity. Investigations rarely happen. Occasional ones absolve crimes, letting new ones repeat freely. Israel's Turkel commission sanctioned the Mavi Marmara massacre. A previous article discussed it, accessed through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2011/01/gaza-flotilla-massacre
-whitewash.html


Israel's internal 2008 - 2009 Cast Lead investigation absolved brazen Gaza crimes of war and against humanity, explained through the following link:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/06/gaza-flotilla-massacre
-goldstone.html


Israel's July 22, 2002 Al-Daraj massacre is discussed below. Belatedly, its Special Investigatory Commission (SIC) whitewash followed, exonerating 16 murders, including eight children. More details below.

Relevant International Law

Portions of a previous article on extrajudicial assassinations are repeated below.

They're indefensible, morally abhorrent, and illegal under international laws and norms. Article 23b of the 1907 Hague Regulations prohibits "assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting a price upon an enemy's head, as well as offering a reward for any enemy 'dead or alive.' "

Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) states that "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." UDHR also recognizes the "inherent dignity (and the) equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family."

So do "just war" principles that rule out gratuitous violence, assassinations, (especially premeditated ones), war against civilians, and so on, despite the difficulties of distinguishing between combatants, those who've laid down their arms, and innocent civilians in times of war.

In 1980, the Sixth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders condemned "the practice of killing and executing political opponents or suspected offenders carried out by armed forces, law enforcement or other governmental agencies or by paramilitary or political groups," supported by official forces or agencies.

The General Assembly also acted in response to arbitrary executions and politically motivated killings. On December 15, 1980, it adopted resolution 35/172, urging member states to abide by the provisions of Articles 6, 14 and 15 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political rights, covering the right to life and various safeguards guaranteeing fair and impartial judicial proceedings.

The first provision of the 1989 UN Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions states:

"Governments shall prohibit by law all extra-legal, arbitrary and summary executions and shall ensure that any such executions are recognized as offences under their criminal laws, and are punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account the seriousness of such offenses. Exceptional circumstances, including a state of war or threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency may not be invoked as a justification of such executions. (They) shall not be carried out under any circumstances including, but not limited to, situations of internal armed conflict, excessive or illegal use of force by a public official or other person acting in an official capacity or by a person acting at the instigation, or with the consent or acquiescence of such person, and situations in which deaths occur in custody. This prohibition shall prevail over decrees issued by governmental authority."

These articles and provisions apply to occupied civilian populations. So does Fourth Geneva. Its Article 3 affords occupied populations special protection, covering all actions related to "(v)iolence to life and person, Murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture." In addition, "The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgment pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees....recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples."

Its Article 32 states: "the High Contracting Parties specifically agree that each of them is prohibited from taking any measure of such a character as to cause the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishment, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person, but also to any other measures of brutality whether applied by civilian or military agents."

Its Article 85 refers to "Grave Breaches" and defines them as "Acts committed willfully and causing death or serious injury to body or health....making the civilian population or individual civilians the object of attack (or)launching an indiscriminate attack affecting the civilian population or civilian objects...."

The 2002 International Criminal Court's Rome Statute also calls these violations war crimes. Under Article 8, they include:

-- "Grave" Geneva Convention breaches;

-- "Willing killing...."

-- "Intentionally launching an attack" knowing it will "cause incidental loss of life...."

-- "Killing or wounding" combatants who've laid down their arms;

-- extrajudicial killings; and

-- "Killing or wounding treacherously a combatant adversary...."

Israel's Al-Daraj Massacre

On July 22, 2002, an Israeli jet bombed a three-story apartment building in densely populated Al-Daraj, a residential Gaza City neighborhood. Suspected Izzidin al-Qassam Brigade leader Salah Shehade was killed. So were 14 civilians, including eight children, Shehade's wife, son, daughter, and bodyguard among them. Eight nearby apartment buildings were completely destroyed, nine others partly, and 21 more sustained significant damage. In total, 150 civilians were injured, some seriously.

At the time, Haaretz writer Amira Hass quoted the pilot describing a "good strike." One of his crewmen said he didn't know or want to know the identity of those killed. Their mission completed, they flew home and went to sleep.

On January 23, 2008, Israel appointed a three-member Special Investigation Commission (SIC) to "investigate," including:

-- former Military Advocate General Brig. Gen. (Res.) Tzvi Inbar, chairman;

-- Maj. Gen. (Res.) Yitzhak Eitan; and

-- Yitzhak Dar, former head of Shin Bet's Jewish section.

After Dar died on August 31, 2009, retired Supreme Court Justice Tova Strasberg-Cohen took his place.

Like for all Israeli "investigations," their mandate was circumvent the law, cover up and absolve, no matter the crime. They didn't disappoint.

On February 27, SIC's findings were released, an official statement accessed through the following link:
http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/Spokesman/2011/02
/spokeshchade270211.htm


The "investigation" "focused on the legality of the decision-making process" to attack and kill lawlessly. All issues "were investigated in light of legal, normative, moral and ethical criteria, according to Israeli and international law, and the values and norms of the State of Israel and its security forces."

In fact, past investigations of Israeli actions by independent commissions and human rights groups found clear evidence of serious crimes of war and against humanity, including targeted assassinations.

Israel flaunts international law and its own. It respects no "legal, normative, moral and ethical criteria." It does what it wants because no accountability follows, including for conducting targeted assassinations. Since September 2000 alone, the start of the second Intifada, Israel killed hundreds extrajudicially, including many women and children.

Once again, Israel's SIC sanctioned murder, releasing a sanitized report of findings, excluding "facts that cannot be disclosed for reasons of national security." In fact, it's to suppress important evidence too embarrassing and potentially indictable independently to reveal.

It called assassinating Shehadeh "imperative," despite killing and injuring many civilians as well as causing disproportionate destruction uncompensated for.

Israel bombed a densely populated civilian neighborhood at midnight when residents were inside sleeping, knowing maximum casualties would result. Yet SIC outrageously claimed that:

"targeted killing was selected as a measure that would guarantee Shehadeh's elimination, with the expectation that this would not cause disproportionate harm to uninvolved civilians." Only "in hindsight" was it "clear" that many "uninvolved civilians, mostly women and children" would be harmed. Doing so "was unintended, undesired and unforeseen. It did not stem from disregard or indifference to human lives," an outrageous statement showing contempt for non-Jewish ones.

SIC's entire statement defied responsibility and belief, claiming Israel answers to a higher power, its own depraved authority to do what it wants, including committing targeted or mass killings.

A Final Comment

Avi Dichter, Israel's former Internal Security Minister (2002 - 2005), now an MK, was in charge at the time, one of many unindicted Israeli war criminals. He knowingly and willfully ordered indiscriminate murders, injuries and residential destruction - crimes of war and/or against humanity, besides many others during his tenure. The Washington Post once quoted him saying, "After each success, the only thought is, 'Okay, who's next?' "

In Matar v. Dichter, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a federal class action lawsuit against him. On April 16, 2009, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed it, granting him immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). In so doing, it absolved him of mass killings. In Al-Daraj alone, they included:

-- Salah Shehadeh, his wife, son, and young daughter;

-- Ra'ed Matar, his wife Eman Ibrahim Hassan Matar, and their three children, aged 1 and a half, three and five;

-- Matar's sister (aged 10), niece (two months), and grandmother; and

-- Mahmoud Al Huweiti's wife, Muna Fahmi Al Muweiti, and their two sons (aged four and five).

Marwan Zeino was among the 150 wounded, his spinal vertebrae crushed. He also sustained other multiple injuries, remains disabled and can't work. The killers and co-conspirators got off scot free to this day. They never then or now said they're sorry. Only Arabs died. According to Israel's moral code, only Jewish lives matter.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.





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  08 March 2011
Zionist Speak
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Observations and provocations from The Times' Opinion staff
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Israeli Apartheid Week: Political Theater at Its Worst
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  07 March 2011


Israeli troops Attacks Women’s Protest, Dozens Wounded

Saed Bannoura

March 6, 2011- IMEMC

Dozens of women were wounded on Saturday after the Israeli forces violently attacked a peaceful protest at the Qalandia Terminal north of Jerusalem, and fired gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets at them.


The women were holding a protest marking the Palestinian Women Day, and the International Women Day.

Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli military attack was unprovoked, especially since the protesters were marching peacefully.

One of the wounded women is a member of a Swedish foundation; she suffered serious injuries as she was struck in the face with a gas bomb fired by the army, medical sources reported.

She received medical treatment on the spot and was moved to the Ramallah Governmental Hospital.

Also among the wounded were Targhrid Shalalda, representative of the Palestinian Women Workers Union in Hebron, and Mariam Maali, representative of the union in Ramallah.

Hundreds of women participated in the protest, including Palestinian Social Affair Minister, Majida Al Masry, along with Secretary-General of the Women Workers Union in the West Bank, Nada Tweir, and several international women and representatives of a number of women’s organizations and legal institutions.

The protest started in front of the entrance of the Qalandia refugee camp; the protestors chanted for Palestinian unity, for ending the occupation and for Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian state.

They also affirmed the leading role of women in the national struggle, and in building the Palestinian society and its institutions.

The army attacked them by firing gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets before they approached the main gate of the Qalandia terminal.





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Palestinian Politician Expects Popular Uprising against Mahmoud Abbas
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  06 March 2011

Israel wants to navigate post-Mubarak Egypt according to Zionist compass
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3 March 2011: 17 years after Goldstein massacre,

Hebron city center paralyzed

B'Tselem

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B'Tselem, March 4, 2011

Zlikhah Muhtasab, 49, is one of the few Palestinians still living on Shuhada Street in the center of Hebron. The street, one of Hebron 's main thoroughfares, links the north and south of the city and passes by the major markets, the Old City , the Tomb of the Patriarchs and al-Haram al-Ibrahimi, and Israeli settlement compounds. Since October 2000, Israel has forbidden Palestinians to walk or drive on the street, although no valid military order for the closure has been presented. Along with other restrictions on Palestinian movement in the area, this has led to an economic collapse of the city center. Many residents have left, and the area has become a ghost town. Over the years, the army repeatedly claimed it was about to permit Palestinians to use the street again, but this has yet to occur.

Israeli settlers, however, are allowed to move freely on the street. In a testimony she gave to B'Tselem, Zlikhah related the harassment she and her 75-year-old mother have suffered since they moved, for financial reasons, to a house on the largely deserted street in 2006. In the first year, settlers regularly threw stones at the house. After Zlikhah came home one day to discover a large amount of stones within the house, she asked the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee to assist her in installing iron grating on the windows and porches of the house for protection. The grating, which gives the house a cage-like appearance, did not assist in deterring assaults, and settlers continue to throw stones at the house from time to time, even at night.

Zlikhah Muhtasab in her cage-like house. Photo: Musa Abu Hashhash, B'Tselem, 13 Feb. '11.
Zlikhah Muhtasab in her cage-like house. Photo: Musa Abu Hashhash, B'Tselem, 13 Feb. '11.

Israel began to restrict Palestinian movement along the street in 1994. After the massacre carried out by Baruch Goldstein in the Tomb of the Patriarchs that year, Israel chose to impose restrictions on the Palestinians, rather than on the Israeli settlers in the city, contending that these restrictions were necessary in order to protect the settlers' safety. At first, Israel forbade Palestinian commerce and vehicle traffic on part of the Shuhada Street , and only residents of the street were allowed to enter by vehicle. Under the Hebron Agreement, signed in January 1997, control of a large part of the city, referred to as Area H1, was transferred to the Palestinian Authority. The section of the city in which Israeli settlements had been established, termed H2, remained under Israeli control. The parties agreed that Israel would once again allow Palestinian vehicle traffic on Shuhada Street , in area H2. For several years, until the beginning of the second intifada, the forbidden section of the street was alternately opened and closed.

When the second intifada broke out, in October 2000, the army placed more stringent restrictions on movement on the street. Now, Palestinians are forbidden to drive along the entire length of the street, and even to walk along the section between the Avraham Avinu settlement compound and the Bet Hadassah settlement compound. The army also prohibits Palestinian traffic on adjacent streets, thereby creating a contiguous strip of land in the center of Hebron , from the Kiryat Arba settlement in the east to the Jewish cemetery in the west, in which Palestinian vehicles are completely forbidden.

As a result of these severe restrictions, 304 shops and warehouses along Shuhada Street closed down, and Palestinian municipal and governmental offices that had been on the street were relocated to Area H1. Israel also took control of the central bus station that had been on the street, turning it into an army base. In 2006, B'Tselem's investigation revealed that most of the properties on or adjacent to Shuhada Street , including homes and businesses, had been abandoned or had been closed by military order. The army forces the few Palestinian families that continue to live on the street to enter their homes via side entrances, since they are not allowed to use the main entrances on Shuhada Street . Where side entrances are not available, the Palestinian residents have no choice but to climb on ladders leading to the roofs of the buildings.


Closed shops on Shuhada St. Photo: Tamar Gonen , B'Tselem, 2 March '11.

Like other residents still living on the street, Zlikhah and her mother are also forced to enter and leave their home by climbing a steep flight of stairs that serves as a side entrance. As they are forbidden to walk on the main street, they must take circuitous routes and go through two checkpoints in order to reach the mosque of al-Haram al-Ibrahimi (the Tomb of the Patriarchs) or to visit relatives who live nearby. Zlikhah's elderly mother has to walk almost a kilometer to reach her medical clinic, only 300 meters away if she could go via Shuhada Street . The cemetery in which Zlikhah's grandfather and other relatives are buried lies right across the street, but the two have great difficulty visiting it now.

In April 2007, following reports in the Israeli media and public pressure on the issue, the Civil Administration began to issue temporary permits to some Palestinians living on the street. These permits enabled them to enter and leave their houses via the main entrance on the street. Visitors were still denied use of these entrances. The permits were valid for three months, and were extended four times. During this period, Zlikhah, her mother, and their neighbors returned to using the front entrances to their homes and to walking freely on Shuhada Street.

Zlikhah told B'Tselem of the relief she felt and how she would often go out to walk on the street, sometimes at night too, in order to realize her newly returned freedom. She noted that soldiers posted on the street fulfilled their duty to protect Palestinians who were now using the street again, and that settlers in the area were displeased with the development.

The last permit given to Zlikhah expired in August 2008. She related that when she and her neighbors applied to renew the permits again, the Civil Administration said the requests would be handled after the Jewish holidays. Then the Civil Administration dragged its feet, and repeatedly postponed renewing the permits, until the communication ceased altogether. The Palestinian residents of the street had to return to using side entrances or rooftops.

In 2005, the Hebron Municipality and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel petitioned Israel 's High Court of Justice to open the street to Palestinian movement. The state, in response, presented a "plan for protection of the Jewish community in Hebron ," according to which Palestinians would be allowed to walk on the street, but the prohibition on opening shops and on vehicular traffic on the street would remain in force. Subsequently, military orders were issued restricting vehicular traffic on the street but not pedestrians.

Following this, ACRI wrote to the legal advisor for Judea and Samaria , who stated, in December 2006, that the army had prohibited Palestinians from walking along the street for six years "by mistake." This contention was clearly a lie. In any event, the army continued to prevent Palestinian pedestrians from using the street. In response to a request ACRI made to the judge advocate general, the latter raised a new argument, whereby the army maintains that the street should remain closed "for security reasons," without delineating the reasons. Two years ago, the army informed the media that it intended to cancel the prohibition on Palestinian movement on Shuhada Street . To this day, the prohibition remains in force.

The closing of Shuhada Street is part of the policy of separation that Israel imposes in the heart of Hebron. This policy has led to Palestinian mass abandonment of the city center and has brought with it severe, continuing breach of the human rights of Palestinians. It is, de facto, an unacceptable regime of discriminatory separation.



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  05 March 2011

Denying Nazi-Zionist Collusion
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To end prejudice the revolution begins in people's minds
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The Promise: an exercise in British self-exculpation
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Barak: Israel's undeclared extremist
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Settlers chop down 500 trees in Nablus

Ma'an news

March 4, 2011

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Settlers chopped down more than 500 olive trees owned by Palestinians in the West Bank district of Nablus on Friday, Palestinian Authority officials said.

Residents of the illegal Shvut Rachel settlement raided Qusra village and chopped down the trees, said Ghassan Doughlas, PA official for settlement affairs in the northern West Bank.

In a "day of rage" Thursday, right-wing Israelis and settlers blocked a road to Jerusalem and closed down train tracks to the country's airport.

Settlers were protesting the demolition of several structures at an illegal outpost near Nablus by the Israeli government. They threatened to carry-out "price-tag" attacks against Palestinians in response to the government's "anti-settler" activity.

In the past, the "price tag" has included arson, shootings, beatings, burning fields, uprooting trees and poisoning water wells belonging to Palestinians.

Following a recent surge in settler violence -- including fire-bombing Palestinian homes, smashing shops and damaging cars -- the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday urged the international community to intervene and stop the attacks.





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Israel to Sue Bedouin Residents of Demolished Village

for Demolition Costs

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Israeli forces hauling away the remains of the village of El Araqib, demolished 18 times


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AIC, March 3, 2011

Israel’s State Attorney’s Office is currently preparing a legal petition for more than NIS 1 million against the residents of El Araqib, a Bedouin village in the Negev Desert under increasing attack.

The State’s Attorney’s Office is demanding that residents cover the costs incurred to evict them and demolish their village, which to date Israel has done 18 times.

According to the right-wing affiliated news source Arutz 7, the State Attorney’s Office is currently gathering information on the costs related to evicting the Bedouin-Palestinian residents of El Araqib in order to calculate an exact sum for the petition. Expenses to be reviewed include working hours of police officers who evicted the El Araqib residents, costs of helicopters and/or airplanes and the trucks employed in hauling away the demolished village.

The many demolitions of El Araqib are part of the aggressive attempts of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and Israel Land Authority (ILA) attempt to claim their historic land and use it for forestation and future Jewish settlement.

More than 150,000 Bedouin, the indigenous inhabitants of the Negev region, live in informal shanty towns, or "unrecognized villages," in the south of Israel. They account for around 12% of the Palestinian population of the country, and yet discriminatory land and planning policies have made it virtually impossible for Bedouin to build legally where they live.

Despite being unrecognized by Israel, the village of El Araqib has existed since before the creation of Israel in 1948. Bedouin residents were evicted by the newly declared Israeli state in 1951, but returned to the land on which they live and where they cultivate. Ownership of the land is has been the subject of proceedings in the Be'er Sheva District Court.

The first of the 18 demolitions occurred on 27 July 2010, when Israel demolished 40 homes. At 4:30 a.m., 1500 police officers carrying firearms and stun grenades, followed by a special patrol unit, helicopter, mounted horsemen and bulldozers, entered el Araqib and began demolishing everything in the village.

The more than 300 Bedouin village residents, mainly children, were forcefully removed from their village as they watched the Israeli police destroy their homes and property.

Israel has yet to decide against whom to submit the petition. It has yet to be decided against who specifically to present petition, but apparently it will be against those suing for ownership over the land and specifically head of the Al Turi Tribe.

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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory ( 24 Feb. 02 Mar. 2011)

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)

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The Israelis Military aircrafts bombs the Palestinian citizen's house ( Ahmed Abu Shrab) east of al-Bureij refugee camp, middle of Gaza Strip, in 26 February, 2011.


PCHR, March 3, 2011

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Continued Systematic Attacks against Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)

 

 

· A Palestinian worker and a resistance activist were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.

 

· IOF launched a series of air strikes against civilian targets in the Gaza Strip.

 

- 4 houses were destroyed and 14 others were damaged.

- 11 civilian establishments were destroyed or heavily damaged, a security building was destroyed and a mosque was damaged.

 

· IOF continued to target Palestinian workers, farmers and fishermen in border areas in the Gaza Strip.

- A Palestinian worker and a farmer were wounded.

 

· IOF continued to use force against peaceful protests in the West Bank.

- 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded.

- A PCHR field worker, a paramedic and two journalists suffered from tear gas inhalation.

- IOF arrested a Palestinian civilian, an Israeli journalist, an Israeli human rights defender and two international ones.

 

· IOF conducted 40 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3 limited ones into the Gaza Strip.  

- IOF arrested 13 Palestinian civilians, including two children.

 

· Israel has continued to impose a total siege on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.

 

· IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

- IOF razed 15 donums of land in Deir Estia village near Salfit.

- IOF ordered the demolition of a school, a mosque and 13 houses in al-Ramadin village near Hebron.

- Israeli settlers attacked a house in Hawara village near Nablus using Molotov cocktails.

 

Summary

 

Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (24 February – 02 March 2011):

 

Shooting:

 

During the reporting period, IOF killed a Palestinian worker and a resistance activist, and wounded a worker, a farmer and a resistance activist in the Gaza Strip. They also wounded 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child in the West Bank.

 

In the Gaza Strip, on 27 February 2011, IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel shot dead a Palestinian worker who was collecting scraps of construction materials in the northern Gaza Strip, nearly 300 meters away from the border.

 

Another worker was wounded by IOF on 26 February 2011.

 

On 27 February 2011, IOF killed a Palestinian resistance activist in the east of Gaza City. An Israeli warplane fired a missile at a number of activists of The al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad).

 

On 28 February 2011, IOF wounded a Palestinian resistance activist in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. 

 

On 01 March 2011, a Palestinian farmer was wounded when IOF fired an artillery shell at a number of activists of the Palestinian resistance in the central Gaza Strip.

 

During the reporting period, IOF launched a series of air strikes against the Gaza Strip. As a result, 4 houses were destroyed and 14 others were damaged, 11 civilian facility were heavily damaged, a security building was destroyed and a mosque was damaged.

 

In the West Bank, during the reporting period, IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to Israeli settlement activities and the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank. As a result, 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded, and dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights defenders suffered from tear gas inhalation, including a PCHR field worker, a paramedic and two journalists. Additionally, IOF arrested a Palestinian civilian, an Israeli journalist, an Israeli human rights defender and two international ones.   

 

Incursions:

 

During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 40 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, during which they arrested 13 Palestinian civilians, including two children.

 

In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted 3 limited incursions into the southern and central Gaza Strip, during which they leveled areas of Palestinian land. 

 

Restrictions on Movement:

 

Israel had continued to impose a tightened siege on the OPT and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.

 

Gaza Strip

 

Israel has continuously closed all border crossings to the Gaza Strip for over three years. The illegal Israeli-imposed closure of the Gaza Strip, which has steadily tightened since June 2007, has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip. 

 

· The illegal closure has caused not only a humanitarian crisis but a crisis of human rights and human dignity for the population of the Gaza Strip. Measures declared recently to ease the blockade are vague, purely cosmetic and fail to deal with the root causes of the crisis, which can only be addressed by an immediate and complete lifting of the closure, including lifting the travel ban into and out of the Gaza Strip and the ban on exports. PCHR is concerned that the new Israeli policy is simply shifting Gaza to another form of illegal blockade, one that may become internationally accepted and institutionalized. Palestinians in Gaza may no longer suffer from the same shortage of goods, but they will remain economically dependent and unable to care for themselves, and socially, culturally and academically isolated from the rest of the world.

 

· Expanding the list of items allowed into Gaza does not change the illegality of this policy, which is inconsistent with Israel’s legal obligations both as an Occupying Power and under international human rights treaties to which it is party, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 

 

· Facts on the ground refute Israeli claims with respect to the easing of the closure imposed on the Gaza Strip and the reduction of restrictions imposed on the entry of goods.

 

· Israeli declaration of allowing new goods to be entered into the Gaza Strip constitutes an attempt to delude the international community, as such goods do not meet the minimal needs of the Gaza Strip. 

 

· IOF have continued to ban the entry of raw construction materials into the Gaza Strip. 

 

· IOF have imposed a ban on all exports from the Gaza Strip. 

 

· Israel had continued to close Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing to Palestinian civilians wishing to travel to the West Bank and Israeli for medical treatment, trade or social visits.

 

· Israel has imposed additional access restrictions on international diplomats, journalists and humanitarian workers seeking to enter the Gaza Strip. They have prevented representatives of several international humanitarian organizations from entering the Gaza Strip.

 

· Living conditions of the Palestinian civilian population have seriously deteriorated; levels of poverty and unemployment have mounted sharply.

 

West Bank

 

IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians throughout the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem. Thousands of Palestinian civilians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip continue to be denied access to Jerusalem.

 

· IOF have established checkpoints in and around Jerusalem, severely restricting Palestinian access to the city. Civilians are frequently prevented from praying at al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

 

· There are approximately 585 permanent roadblocks, and manned and unmanned checkpoints across the West Bank.

 

· When complete, the illegal Annexation Wall will stretch for 724 kilometers around the West Bank, further isolating the entire population. 350 kilometers of the Wall have already been constructed. Approximately 99% of the Wall has been constructed inside the West Bank itself, further confiscating Palestinian land.

 

· At least 65% of the main roads that lead to 18 Palestinian communities in the West Bank are closed or fully controlled by IOF.

 

· There are approximately 500 kilometers of restricted roads across the West Bank. In addition, approximately one third of the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, is inaccessible to Palestinians without a permit issued by the IOF. These permits are extremely difficult to obtain.

 

· IOF continue to harass, and assault demonstrators who hold peaceful protests against the construction of the Annexation Wall.

 

· Palestinian civilians continue to be harassed by IOF in Jerusalem, and across the West Bank, including being regularly stopped and searched in the streets by IOF.

 

Settlement Activities:  

 

Israel has continued its settlement activities in the OPT in violation of international humanitarian law, and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property. 

 

On 27 February 2011, IOF moved into Hariqat al-Khammas area in the west of Deir Estia village, northwest of Salfit. They razed a 15-donum area of land belonging to Hussein 'Abdul Rahim Zaidan. IOF destroyed fences of the land and 30 water tanks and uprooted 150 seedlings. 

 

On the same day, IOF handed notices ordering the demolition of a school, a mosque and 13 houses in al-Ramadin village, southwest of Hebron, claiming that they were built without licenses. 

 

On 28 February 2011, a number of Israeli settlers from "Gilad" settlement set up a number of tents and mobile homes on Palestinian land in the east of Ematin village, northeast of Qalqilya. IOF intervened later and dismantled the tents and mobile homes.

 

On 28 February 2011, a number of armed Israeli settlers from "Halmish" settlement, northwest of Ramallah, closed the entrance of Nabi Saleh village, west of the town. They threw stones at Palestinian civilian vehicles. IOF were present in the area, but did not intervene immediately. 

 

On 28 February 2011, a number of Israeli settlers from "Yits'har" settlement attacked a house in Hawara village, south of Nablus, using Molotov cocktails. The house was damed.  

 

On 02 March 2011, IOF destroyed a water well belonging to Hamed Yousef Jaber in al-Baq'a area, east of Hebron, near bypass road #60.

 

 

Israeli Violations Documented during the Reporting Period (24 February – 02 March 2011)

 

1. Incursions into Palestinian Areas and Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

 

Thursday, 24 February 2011

 

· At approximately 00:05, Israeli warplanes fired two missiles at an agricultural room belonging to Wa'el 'Abdul Hadi al-Majaida, 40, in the north of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. The room was completely destroyed and a nearby house belonging to Khaled Na'im Wafi was damaged.

 

· At approximately 00:15, IOF moved into 'Anabta village, east of Tulkarm. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Bir Zeit village, north of Ramallah. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. No arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Jenin refugee camp. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested 6 Palestinian civilians, including a child:

 

  1. Mujahed Marwan al-Sous, 18;
  2. 'Edwan Mahmoud Ya'qoub, 18;
  3. Qassem Jawad Hamed, 17;
  4. Qussai Ibrahim Sammour, 18;
  5. Lutfi Hussam al-Sa'di, 18; and
  6. Shiraz Mahmoud Abu Tabeekh, 18.

 

· At approximately 02:30, IOF moved into al-Yamoun village, northwest of Jenin. They raided and searched a house belonging to Murad Ahmed Nawahda, 20, and arrested him.

 

· Also at approximately 02:30, IOF moved into Qabatya village, south of Jenin. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· Also at approximately 02:30, IOF moved into Zeita village, north of Tulkarm. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 03:10, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a 2-donum, asbestos-roofed yard belonging to Adham Khaled Shurrab, 47, in Nussairat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The yard was destroyed. The same warplane fired another missile at a 250-square-meter building belonging to Hassan Yousef Shurrab in the same area. The building was also destroyed. A number of nearby establishments were also damaged:

 

  1. A 3.5-donum building, that includes stores and a factory of juice belonging to Ibrahim 'Olayan 'Ali and brothers;
  2. A 5-donum factory of textiles belonging to Mohammed 'Abdul Rahim Hamdouna;
  3. A 6-donum area factory of papers and nylons belonging to Ussama Baker al-Khuzondar; and
  4. A 5-donum flour mill belonging to 'Awni 'Olayan Abu Yousef.

 

· At approximately 03:30, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a one-donum workshop belonging to Ibrahim Mohammed al-Heela in al-Zawaida village in the central Gaza Strip. The workshop was damaged.

 

· At approximately 04:10, Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a yard in al-Shouka village, east of Rafah. As a result, a house belonging to Hassam Mahmoud Hamad was destroyed, and another house belonging to Ashraf Hassan Abu Rezeq was heavily damaged. Hamad's son stated to PCHR that he had received a phone call from a person who introduced himself as an officer of the Israeli intelligence. The officer order him to evacuate the house, because it would be bombarded, and the family did.

 

· At approximately 09:20, IOF moved into Jayous village, south of Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 10:35, IOF moved into Jericho. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. No arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 10:40, IOF moved into Nabi Elias village, east of Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 15:20, IOF moved into Deir Estia village, north of Salfit. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 18:30, IOF moved into 'Azzoun village, east of Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 18:55, Israeli warplanes fired 5 missiles at a civilian vehicle, in which two persons were traveling, in al-Salam neighborhood in Rafah. Two missiles hit a wall in a house belonging to Mansour Hamdan Bani Hassan, damaging it. Another two missiles hit an olive farm. The fifth missile hit the vehicle directly after the two persons had stepped down. One of the persons was lightly injured, while the vehicle was destroyed. The two persons were not identified.

 

· At approximately 19:00, IOF moved into Jeet village, east of Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 21:00, IOF moved into Far'oun village, south of Tulkarm. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.  

 

· At approximately 22:00, IOF moved into Fassayel village, north of Jericho. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. No arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 22:25, IOF moved into Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. No arrests were reported.

 

Friday, 25 February 2011

 

· At approximately 17:00, IOF moved into Far'oun village, south of Tulkarm. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

Saturday, 26 February 2011

 

· At approximately 03:30, an Israeli warplane fired a missile a 100-square-meter resort belonging to 'Emad al-Din Mohammed 'Aaqel, 38, in al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The resort was completely destroyed. Additionally, 8 houses and a bird farm were damaged:

 

  1. A 120-square-meter, two-storey house belonging to Nasser 'Abdul Karim 'Ammar, whose 17-year-old child, Hanin, was also injured;
  2. A 200-square-meter, 3-storey house belonging to Miriam Hamad Abu Marahil;
  3. A 330-square-meter, 3-storey house belonging to 'Omar Hammad Abu Marahil;
  4. A 100-square-meter belonging to Khaled Sha'ban al-Mabhouh;
  5. A 120-square-meter house belonging to Yousef 'Abdullah Abu Shu'aib;
  6. A 70-square-meter house belonging to 'Adnan 'Abdul Karim 'Eissa;
  7. A 165-square-meter, two-storey house belonging to Ussama Mahmoud al-Krunz;
  8. A 120-square-meter, two-storey house belonging to Mohammed 'Abdul Rahman Noufal; and
  9. A 150-square-meter bird farm and a room belonging to Jabri Khaled al-'Aalem.

 

· At approximately 04:05, Israeli warplanes fired 4 missiles at a training site of the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad) in the west of Khan Yunis. No caulaties were reported. The same site had been repeatedly bombarded by IOF.

 

· At approximately 11:30, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the north of Beit Lahia town fired at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting scraps of construction materials from destroyed buildings. As a result, Khaled Mohammed al-Hossoumi, 37, from Beit Lahia, was wounded by a bullet to the right leg, when he was nearly 300 meters away from the border.

 

· In the afternoon, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a site of the 'Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) in the northwest of Rafah. The missile exploded near a water wall of the Municipality of al-Nasser. As a result, a major electricity transmitter was destroyed and electricity was cut off in several areas in Rafah. Two Palestinian civilians were also shocked.

 

· At approximately 14:15, Israeli warplanes bombarded a training site of the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad) in the west of Khan Yunis. No caulaties were reported. The same site had been repeatedly bombarded by IOF.

 

· Also at approximately 14:15, an Israeli warplane fired a missile an under-construction building in Sa'ed Sayel site of the Palestinian National Security Forces in the east of Rafah. The building was destroyed. There nearby flast belonging to Jamal Mahmoud Abu Sharekh and his sons were damaged, and his grandchild, Saja, was injured in the head.

 

· At approximately 15:30, an Israeli warplane fired two missiles at two house belonging to Ahmed and Hatem 'Eid Abu Shareb in the east of al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The two houses and a barrack of animals were destroyed and a neighboring house was damaged. According to Ahmed Abu Shareb, he received a phone call at approximately 15:00 from a person who introduced himself as an Israeli military officer. He ordered Abu Shareb to evacuate his house because it would be bombarded, so he evacuated his house and his brother's house and informed the neighbors. Ten minutes later, the officer phoned again to make sure that the house was evacuated.  The damages to nearby civilian property were:

 

  1. A 200-square-meter house belonging to Mohammed 'Eid Abu Shareb was damaged; and
  2. A barrack of animals belonging to Hassan 'Abdul Karim al-Nabahin ws heavily damaged.

 

· At approximately 16:30, IOF moved into the area located between 'Azzoun and 'Izbat al-Tabib villages, east of Qalqilya. They patrolled in the area for some time and withdrew later. No arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 18:50, IOF moved into Nabi Elias village, east of Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

Sunday, 27 February 2011

 

· At approximately 00:20, IOF moved into Snirya village, south of Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Kufor Qaddoum village, northeast of Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah. They raided and searched a number of houses and arrested Mohammed Ibrahim Tamimi, 14.

 

· At approximately 02:40, IOF moved into Qalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

  

· At approximately 10:30, IOF moved into al-'Araqa village, west of Jenin. They established a checkpoint at the entrance of the village. They stopped and searched Palestinian civilian vehicles. They also summoned 4 Palestinian civilians for interrogation.

 

· At approximately 18:00, IOF moved into al-Jaroushiya village, north of Tulkarm. They patrolled in the streets and held two Palestinian children for some time. They withdrew later, and neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 20:40, IOF moved into 'Attil village, north of Tulkarm. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. No house raids or arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 22:00, IOF moved into Deir al-Ghossoun village, north of Tulkarm. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 22:30, Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a number of activists of the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad) in the east of al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the east of Gaza City. An activist, 'Abdul Majid Ghazi Shahin, 21, from Deir al-Balah, was killed.

 

Monday, 28 February 2011

 

· At approximately 00:15, IOF moved into Zeita village, north of Tulkarm. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· Also at approximately 00:15, IOF moved into al-Jaroushiya village, north of Tulkarm. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 02:00, IOF moved into Beit Reema village, northwest of Ramallah. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 09:00, IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired 3 artillery shells at Gaza International Airport in the southeast of Rafah. Two shells hit destroyed buildings in the airport. As a result, a member of the 'Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) was wounded by shrapnel to the abdomen and the thighs. The third shell hit a 100-square-meter house belonging to Hanan 'Abdul Qader Abu Jarad, in which 5 people live, who was not at home then. The house was completely destroyed.


· At approximately 10:00, Israeli soldiers positioned on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the north of Beit Lahia town fired at a Palestinian worker, 20-year-old 'Omar 'Arafa Ma'rouf, who was collecting scraps of construction materials from a site where the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinai" used to stand. Ma'rouf was nearly 300 meters away from the border. He was wounded by a bullet to the left side. At approximately 11:00, IOF moved into the area. At approximately 12:00, IOF informed the Palestinian side that they would deliver the body of a dead Palestinian at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing. At approximately 13:35, the body was delivered to a Palestinian ambulance. 


 

· At approximately 10:00, IOF moved into Jalqamous village, southeast of Jenin. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 11:00, IOF moved into al-Zababda village, south of Jenin. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 14:40, IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired an artillery shell at an open area in the east of Jabalya town. The shell landed nearly 700 meters away from the border. Palestinian farmer working on their agricultural lands in the area were forced to leave their lands. No casualties were reported.

 

· At approximately 20:40, Israeli soldiers fired sound and flash bombs near Kufor Laqef village, east of Qalqilya, claiming that stones were thrown at Israeli settlers' cars. No casualties were reported.

 

· At approximately 21:20, IOF moved into al-Fundoq village, east of AQalqilya. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids nor arrests were reported.

 

Tuesday, 01 March 2011

 

· At approximately 00:30, IOF moved into Sourif village, northwest of Hebron. They raided and searched a house belonging to Ahmed 'Abdul Fattah al-Hour, 53, and arrested him.

 

· At approximately 09:00, IOF moved nearly 400 meters into the east of Khuza'a village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. They leveled areas of Palestinian land. This incursion continued until 17:00. No casualties were reported.

 

· At approximately 10:00, IOF moved into 'Ejja village, south of Jenin. They raided and searched a number of houses and summoned Akram Waleed Ma'ali, 24, for interrogation.

 

· At approximately 13:00, IOF moved nearly 300 meters into Khuza'a village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. They leveled areas of Palestinian land. This incursion continued until 16:00. No casualties were reported.

 

· At approximately 15:30, IOF positioned at border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at a number of Palestinian resistance activists in the east of Deir al-Balah town in the central Gaza Strip. As a result, Rami Saleh Abu Mussa'ed, 22, was wounded by shrapnel to the right side.

 

· In the evening, the Israeli police in Hebron arrested 'Eissa Isma'il 'Amru, 30, a human rights defender. 'Eissa was summoned by the Israeli police for interrogation at 19:00. They accused him of incitement and affiliation to an illegal organization, referring to the Youth Commission against Settlement in Hebron. 'Amru had been arrested by IOF several times.

 

· At approximately 21:00, Israeli gunboats opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats opposite to Rafah beach in the southern Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported.

 

· At approximately 23:00, IOF moved into Kharabtha al-Misbah village, north of Ramallah. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. No arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 23:30, IOF moved into al-Jiftlek village, north of Jericho. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later.

 

Wednesday, 02 March 2011

 

· At approximately 01:30, IOF moved into Beit Oula village, northwest of Hebron. They raided and searched a house belonging to the family of Ahmed 'Awni al-'Adam, 32, and arrested him.

 

· At approximately 03:00, IOF moved into al-Hadd village, southwest of Hebon. They raided and searched a house belonging to al-Koumi family. They arrested Hafez and Maher Kayed al-Koumi, 28 and 23 respectively.

 

· At approximately 10:00, IOF moved into Tulkarm town and refugee camp. They patrolled in the streets and established a checkpoint near Kaffa suburb. They stopped and searched Palestinian civilian vehicles. They withdrew later and no arrests were reported.

 

· At approximately 15:30, IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel opened fire at Palestinian farmers in the east of the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. No casualties were reported.

 

· At approximately 17:20, IOF positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel opened fire at Palestinian farmers in the northeast of Beit Hanoun town. No casualties were reported.

 

· At approximately 18:00, IOF moved into 'Attil village, north of Tulkarm. They patrolled in the streets for some time and withdrew later. Neither house raids or arrests were reported.

 

2. Use of Excessive Force against Peaceful Demonstrations Protesting Settlement Activities and the Construction of the Annexation Wall

 

During the reporting period, IOF used force against peaceful demonstrations organized by Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders in protest to the construction of the Wall and settlement activities in the West Bank. As a result, 7 Palestinian civilians, including a child, were wounded. Dozens of Palestinian civilians and human rights defenders also suffered from tear gas inhalation and others sustained bruises.   

   

· Following the Friday Prayer on 25 February 2011, dozens of Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders organized a peaceful demonstration in Bil'ein village, west of Ramallah, in protest to the construction of the annexation wall.  Israeli soldiers stationed in the area fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the demonstrators. As a result, Qassem Barakat al-Khatib, 17, was hit by a tear gas canister to the right hand.

 

Additionally, a number of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation.  

 

· Also following the Friday Prayer on 25 February 2011, dozens of Palestinian civilians and international and human rights defenders organized a peaceful demonstration in Ne'lin village, west of Ramallah, in protest against the construction of the annexation wall. They clashed with Israeli troops positioned near the Wall. Israeli troops fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at demonstrators. As a result, a Palestinian civilian, who has not been identified, was hit by a tear gas canister to the right foot. Additionally, a number of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation. 

 

· Also following the Friday Prayer on 25 February 2011, dozens of Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights defenders organized a peaceful demonstration in Beit Reema village, northwest of Ramallah, in protest against land confiscations in the Wad al-Raya area between the villages of Nabi Saleh and Deir Nizam. When the demonstrators attempted to reach areas of land seized by Israeli settlers near "Halmish" settlement, Israeli troops fired rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at them. As a result, 3 Palestinian civilians were wounded:

 

  1. Bassem Mohammed Tamimi, 50, hit by a tear gas canister to the back;
  2. 'Abdul Hafiz Mohammed Tamimi, 52, wounded by a rubber-coated metal bullet to the head; and
  3. Nidal Hussein Tamimi, 22, wounded by a rubber-coated metal bullet to the head.

 

A number of demonstrators also suffered from tear gas inhalation. Additionally, IOF arrested an Israeli journalist, David, 54.

 

· At approximately 12:10 on Friday, 25 February 2011, the Youth Commission against Settlement in Hebron organized a peaceful demonstration in the center of Hebron, in protest to Israeli settlement activities and in commemoration of victims of an attack by an Israeli settler against Palestinian civilians in Hebron in 1994, in which 29 civilians were killed. When the demonstrators arrived near "Beit Rumano" settlement in the north of the old town, IOF fired rubber-coated metal bullets, tear gas canisters and sound bombs at them. They also violently beat a number of demonstrators. Three demonstrators were wounded by rubber-coated metal bullets:

 

  1. Nassar 'Essam Abu Maizar, 23, wounded by a rubber-coated metal bullet to the left foot;
  2. 'Odai Sa'id Nassar, 18, wounded by a rubber-coated metal bullet to the left hand; and
  3. Hussam 'Othamn 'Aabdin, 50, wounded by 3 rubber-coated metal bullets to the right leg.

 

A number of demonstrators suffered from tear gas inhalation, including Fahmi Hamdi Shahin, 27, a PCHR field worker, a paramedic and two journalists. Additionally, IOF arrested Mahmoud Ramadan al-Ja'bari, 26. IOF also arrested 3 international human rights defenders, but released them later. It is worth noting that the demonstration attempted to draw the attention of the international community to a series of human right violations perpetrated by IOF against Palestinian civilians, including the closure of al-Shuhada Street in the center of Hebron for 17 years.

 

3. Continued Closure of the OPT

 

Israel has continued to impose a tightened closure of the OPT and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.

 

Gaza Strip

 

Israel has continuously closed all border crossings to the Gaza Strip for over three years. The illegal Israeli-imposed closure of the Gaza Strip, which has steadily tightened since June 2007, has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip.

 

· The illegal closure has caused not only a humanitarian crisis but a crisis of human rights and human dignity for the population of the Gaza Strip. Measures declared recently to ease the blockade are vague, purely cosmetic and fail to deal with the root causes of the crisis, which can only be addressed by an immediate and complete lifting of the closure, including lifting the travel ban into and out of the Gaza Strip and the ban on exports. PCHR is concerned that the new Israeli policy is simply shifting Gaza to another form of illegal blockade, one that may become internationally accepted and institutionalized. Palestinians in Gaza may no longer suffer from the same shortage of goods, but they will remain economically dependent and unable to care for themselves, and socially, culturally and academically isolated from the rest of the world.

 

· Expanding the list of items allowed into Gaza does not change the illegality of this policy, which is inconsistent with Israel’s legal obligations both as an Occupying Power and under international human rights treaties to which it is party, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 

 

· Facts on the ground refute Israeli claims with respect to the easing of the closure imposed on the Gaza Strip and the reduction of restrictions imposed on the entry of goods.

 

· Israeli declaration of allowing new goods to be entered into the Gaza Strip constitutes an attempt to delude the international community, as such goods do not meet the minimal needs of the Gaza Strip. 

 

· IOF have continued to ban the entry of raw construction materials into the Gaza Strip. 

 

· IOF have imposed a ban on all exports from the Gaza Strip. 

 

· Israel had continued to close Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing to Palestinian civilians wishing to travel to the West Bank and Israeli for medical treatment, trade or social visits.

 

· Israel has imposed additional access restrictions on international diplomats, journalists and humanitarian workers seeking to enter the Gaza Strip. They have prevented representatives of several international humanitarian organizations from entering the Gaza Strip.

 

· Living conditions of the Palestinian civilian population have seriously deteriorated; levels of poverty and unemployment have mounted sharply.

 

Movement at Border Crossings during the Reporting Period:

 

Movement at Rafah International Crossing Point

23 February – 01 March 2011

 

Date

Details

22 February 2011

287 Palestinians were allowed to travel to Egypt and 66 others were allowed into the Gaza Strip.

24 February 2011

284 Palestinians were allowed to travel to Egypt and 66 others were allowed into the Gaza Strip.

25 February 2011

Closed.

26 February 2011

Closed.

27 February 2011

256 Palestinians were allowed to travel to Egypt and 117 others were allowed into the Gaza Strip.

28 February 2011

262 Palestinians were allowed to travel to Egypt and 98 others were allowed into the Gaza Strip.

01 March 2011

226 Palestinians were allowed to travel to Egypt and 70 others were allowed into the Gaza Strip.

 

Note: Palestinian university students were not allowed to travel to Egypt due to continued closure of Egyptian universities. Travelers who did not have visas to enter Egypt were not directly transported to airports as it was the case during the era of former Egyptian President Husni Mubarak.

 

Movement at Karm Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) Crossing

23  February – 01 March 2011

 

Date

Imports

Category

Amount

Tons

Liters

23 February 2011

Foodstuffs

860

 

Agricultural materials

138

 

Various goods

965

 

Humanitarian aids

115

 

Cooking gas

163.360

 

24 February 2011

Foodstuffs

1,001

 

Agricultural materials

207

 

Various goods

1,153

 

Humanitarian aids

1,051

 

Cooking gas

183.260

 

27 February 2011

Foodstuffs

863

 

Agricultural materials

130

 

Various goods

919

 

Humanitarian aids

488

 

Cooking gas

183.340

 

Diesel

 

98,000

28 February 2011

Foodstuffs

1,001

 

Agricultural materials

207

 

Various goods

1,153

 

Humanitarian aids

1,051

 

Cooking gas

183.260

 

01 March 2011

Foodstuffs

1,030

 

Agricultural materials

112

 

Various goods

933

 

Humanitarian aids

1,094

 

Cooking gas

180

 

 

On Wednesday, 23 February 2011, IOF allowed the entry of 383 tons of iron for the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility.

On Thursday, 24 February 2011, IOF allowed the entry of 380 tons of cement and 38 tons of iron for UNRWA and 210 tons of iron for Coastal Municipalities Water Utility.

On Monday, 28 February 2011, IOF allowed the entry of 25 tons of iron for ANERA.

On Tuesday, 01 March 2011, IOF allowed the entry of 400 tons of cement and 108 tons of iron for UNRWA; 94 tons of cement and 70 tons of iron for ANERA; and 110 tons of iron for Coastal Municipalities Water Utility.

 

Exports:

 

On Thursday, 24 February, 363,000 flowers were exported.

On Monday, 28 February, 427,000 flowers were exported.

On Tuesday, 01 March 2011, 173,000 flowers were exported.

 

Al-Mentar (Karni) Crossing: IOF partially reopened the crossing on Wednesday, 23 February, and allowed the entry of 1,131 tons of wheat and 585 tons of fodders. They opened it also on Sunday, 27 February 2011, and allowed the entry of 7,630 tons of construction aggregate. They opened it again on Monday, 28 February 2011, and allowed the entry of 2,535 tons of wheat and 1,769 tons of foddrs.

 

Beit Hanoun (Erez) Crossing: Israel has continued to close Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing for the movement of Palestinian civilians. IOF have allowed only diplomats, a number of international journalists, employees of international agencies and a limited number of patients who suffer from serious diseases to pass through the crossing. They have continued to prevent Palestinian civilians from visiting their relatives who are detained in Israeli jails. The small number of patients permitted to pass through the crossing is only able to do so under severe restrictions that include prolonged checking. 

 

 

Movement at Beit Hanoun (Erez) Crossing

23 February – 01 March 2011

 

Date

23 February

24 February

25 February

26 February

27 February

28 February

01 March

Patients

24

31

1

Nil

42

51

43

Companions

23

27

1

Nil

41

43

40

Arabs from Israel

4

1

6

Nil

34

2

11

Diplomats

7

Nil

1

Nil

Nil

Nil

4

International Journalists

1

3

9

Nil

Nil

6

2

International Workers

63

65

21

Nil

18

16

26

Travelers abroad

17

1

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

5

Business People

59

56

1

Nil

66

59

64

Economic Meetings

9

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

8

Security Interviews

1

1

Nil

Nil

3

1

Nil

VIP's

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

6

1

Nil

Ambulances to Israel

3

1

Nil

Nil

Nil

Nil

8

Ambulances from Israel

2

1

1

Nil

Nil

1

2

 

The West Bank

 

Israel has imposed a tightened closure on the West Bank. During the reporting period, IOF imposed additional restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians.

 

· Jerusalem: IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians to and from the city. Thousands of Palestinian civilians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have been denied access to the city. IOF have established many checkpoints around and inside the city. Restrictions of the movement of Palestinian civilians often escalate on Fridays, preventing Muslim Palestinians from praying at al-Aqsa Mosque.  

 

· Ramallah: IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of the Palestinian civilians in Ramallah. IOF troops positioned at the Jaba' and Qalandiya checkpoints, southeast of Ramallah, have imposed additional restrictions on movement and conducted prolonged checks of Palestinian civilians. During the reporting period, IOF established a number of temporary checkpoints, and stopped and searched Palestinian civilian vehicles. At approximately 16:30 on Thursday, 24 February 2011, IOF established a checkpoint near the entrance of Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah. They stopped and searched Palestinian civilian vehicles.  At approximately 14:45 on Friday, 25 February 2011, IOF established a checkpoint near the entrance of al-Mughayar village, northeast of Ramallah. At approximately 17:00 on the same day, IOF re-established their presence at 'Attara checkpoint at the northern entrance of Bir Zeit village, north of Ramallah. At approximately 21:20 on the same day, IOF established a checkpoint at the entrance of Turmos'iya village, north of Ramallah. At approximately 11:30 on Monday, 28 February 2011, IOF established a checkpoint at the entrance of Silwad village, northeast of Ramallah. At approximately 16:00 on the same day, IOF established a checkpoint near the entrance of Kufor Malek village, northeast of Ramallah. At approximately 08:15 on Tuesday, 01 March 2011, IOF re-established their presence at 'Attara checkpoint at the northern entrance of Bir Zeit village, north of Ramallah.  At approximately 17:15 on the same day, IOF established a checkpoint between Bitillo and Deir 'Ammar villages, northwest of Ramallah. At approximately 06:45 on Wednesday, 02 March 2011, IOF re-established their presence at 'Attara checkpoint, north of Ramallah. 

 

· Qalqilya: IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. On Thursday, 24 February 2011, IOF established 3 checkpoints around Qalqilya. On Saturday, 26 February 2011, IOF established 6 checkpoints around the town. On Sunday, 27 February 2011, IOF established 3 checkpoints around Qalqilya.  Israeli soldiers stationed at these checkpoints stopped and searched Palestinian civilian vehicles.  

 

· Tulkarm: IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. At approximately 17:30 on Thursday, 24 February 2011, Israeli soldiers positioned at Ennab checkpoint, east of Tulkarm, imposed additional restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. At approximately 13:00 on Tuesday, 01 March 2011, IOF established a checkpoint in Tulkarm-Nablus raod. They stopped and searched Palestinian civilian vehicles. On Wednesday morning, 02 March 2011, IOF closed the gate of the annexation wall to the west of Deir al-Ghossoun village, north of Tulkarm.         

 

· Jenin: IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. At approximately 21:00 on Thursday, 24 February 2011, IOF established a checkpoint near Rummana intersection, northwest of Jenin. They stopped and searched Palestinian civilian vehicles.

 

· Salfit: IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians. At approximately 09:50 on Sunday, 27 February 2011, IOF established a checkpoint at the southern entrance of Kufol Hares village, northwest of Salfit. They stopped and searched Palestinian civilian vehicles. At approximately 22:10 on the same day, IOF established a checkpoint the entrance of Yassouf village, east of Salfit. They stopped and searched Palestinian civilian vehicles. 

 

· Jericho: IOF have continued to impose severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian

civilians. At approximately 21:15 on Saturday, 26 February 2011, IOF established a checkpoint neat "Yataf" settlement, east of Jericho. They stopped and searched Palestinian civilian vehicles. 

 

4. Settlement Activities and Attacks by Settlers against Palestinian Civilians and Property

 

Israel has continued its settlement activities in the OPT in violation of international humanitarian law, and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

 

· At approximately 09:30 on Sunday, 27 February 2011, IOF moved into Hariqat al-Khammas area in the west of Deir Estia village, northwest of Salfit. They razed a 15-donum area of land belonging to Hussein 'Abdul Rahim Zaidan. Zidan presented documents of ownership of the land to an Israeli officer, and explained to him that the Israeli court would consider an appeal filed by him against Israeli claims of ownership of the land. The officer refused to see the documents. IOF destroyed fences of the land and 30 water tanks and uprooted 150 seedlings. 

 

· On Sunday evening, 27 February 2011, IOF handed notices ordering the demolition of a school, a mosque and 13 houses in al-Ramadin village, southwest of Hebron, claiming that they were built without licenses. The houses belong to: Mohammed Jakhadba; Mohammed Zagharna; Ameer Zagharna; Mohammed Sa'id Zagharna; Tawqfiq Sanyour; Mahmoud Zaghaghma; Younis Zagharna; Mohammed Jasser Zagharna; 'Aakef Jakhadba; KKhaled Zgharna; Hamda Shanyour; and Suleiman Jakhadba.

 

· At approximately 09:00 on Monday, 28 February 2011, a number of Israeli settlers from "Gilad" settlement set up a number of tents and mobile homes on Palestinian land in the east of Ematin village, northeast of Qalqilya. IOF intervened later and dismantled the tents and mobile homes.

 

· At approximately 19:30 on Monday, 28 February 2011, a number of armed Israeli settlers from "Halmish" settlement, northwest of Ramallah, closed the entrance of Nabi Saleh village, west of the town. They threw stones at Palestinian civilian vehicles. IOF were present in the area, but did not intervene immediately. 

 

· At approximately 20:30 on Monday, 28 February 2011, a number of Israeli settlers from "Yits'har" settlement attacked a house belonging to Warda Hassan Damadi in al-Haowouz area in the southwest of Hawara village, south of Nablus. They broke the window of a children bedroom and a Molotov cocktail into the room setting it alight. Residents of the house attempted to extinguish fire. The owner's child, Rabee', saw Israeli settlers throwing another Molotov cocktail into the room. The child covered it with a blanket, and the family continued to extinguish fire. Half an hour later, a fire engine arrived and extinguished fire. As a result of the attack, two beds and two closets were burnt. The settlers also threw a Molotov cocktail at a car belonging to Rabee' al-Dumaidi. The front of the car was burnt. 

 

· On Wednesday morning, 02 March 2011, IOF destroyed a water well belonging to Hamed Yousef Jaber in al-Baq'a area, east of Hebron, near bypass road #60.

 

…………………………………………………………

 

Recommendations to the International Community

 

 

1. PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their legal and moral obligations under Article 1 of the Convention to ensure Israel's respect for the Convention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. PCHR believes that the conspiracy of silence practiced by the international community has encouraged Israel to act as if it is above the law and encourages Israel continue to violate international human rights and humanitarian law.

 

2. PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to convene a conference to take effective steps to ensure Israel's respect of the Convention in the OPT and to provide immediate protection for Palestinian civilians.

 

3. PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to comply with their legal obligations detailed in Article 146 of the Convention to search for and prosecute those responsible for grave breaches, namely war crimes.

 

4. PCHR calls for the immediate implementation of the Advisory Opinion issued by the International Court of Justice, which considers the construction of the Annexation Wall inside the West Bank illegal.

 

5. PCHR recommends that international civil society organizations, including human rights organizations, bar associations and NGOs, participate in the process of exposing those accused of grave breaches of international law and urge their governments to bring the perpetrators to justice.

 

6. PCHR calls upon the European Union to activate Article 2 of the Euro-Israel Association Agreement, which provides that Israel must respect human rights as a precondition for economic cooperation between the EU states and Israel. PCHR further calls upon the EU states to prohibit import of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements in the OPT.

 

7. PCHR calls on the international community to recognize the Gaza disengagement plan, which was implemented in September 2005, for what it is - not an end to occupation but a compounding of the occupation and the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. 

 

8. In recognition of ICRC as the guardian of the Fourth Geneva Convention, PCHR calls upon the ICRC to increase its staff and activities in the OPT, including the facilitation of family visitations to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

 

9. PCHR appreciates the efforts of international civil society, including human rights organizations, bar associations, unions and NGOs, and urges them to continue their role in pressuring their governments to secure Israel's respect for human rights in the OPT and to demand Israel end its attacks on Palestinian civilians.

 

10. PCHR calls upon the international community to pressure Israel to lift the severe restrictions imposed by the Israeli government and its occupation forces on access for international organizations to the OPT.

 

11. PCHR reiterates that any political settlement not based on international human rights law and humanitarian law cannot lead to a peaceful and just solution of the Palestinian question. Rather, such an arrangement can only lead to further suffering and instability in the region. Any peace process or agreement must be based on respect for international law, including international human rights and humanitarian law.

 

 

 

 

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Public Document

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Israel’s Al-Daraj Commission

Illustrates Long-Standing Institutionalisation

of Impunity and Unwillingness

to Genuinely Investigate Alleged War Crimes



Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)


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PCHR, March 2, 2011

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the findingsof the Special Investigatory Commission mandated to analyse the Al-Daraj assassination of 22 July, 2002. The Commission’s approach and analysis, and their recommendation that no criminal procedures be initiated, comprehensively illustrates Israel’s desire to shield all alleged war criminals from justice.

PCHR note that it is now over 8 years since the attack, and no effective criminal investigations have been conducted in Israel. Instead, Israeli and military judicial authorities have misused the law in order to provide an illusion of investigative rigour, while comprehensively shielding those accused from justice. PCHR believe that this institutionalisation of impunity forms a core, and longstanding, component of Israeli policy. This claim is further evidenced by the absence of effective and genuine investigations with respect to Israel’s 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009 offensive on the Gaza Strip.

PCHR, who act as representatives of the al-Daraj victims, strongly refute the Commission’s claims and findings. In particular, it is noted that the choice of weapon, and the timing and location of the attack – at night, in one of the most densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip – could reasonably be expected to cause extensive death, injury and destruction of property. Indeed, this is precisely what happened.

The Commission’s finding that the consequences of the al-Daraj attack were "unintended, undesired, and unforeseen" defies belief. The Israeli authorities, as the Occupying Power, had detailed knowledge of the area, including the layout of buildings, and the number of inhabitants. The effects of dropping a one tonne bomb in such an area are easily foreseeable.

In launching the Al-Daraj attack the Israeli authorities were reckless as to the effects of such an attack. This indiscriminate attack amounted to the direct targeting of civilians and civilian objects;[1] grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions to which individual criminal responsibility applies. Significantly, the Commission implicitly acknowledged this recklessness (while simultaneously ignoring the conclusion of criminal responsibility), finding that "too little weight was given to the possible risk to uninvolved civilians".[2]



PCHR also note that there is no statute of limitations with respect to the commission of war crimes; these crimes are of such seriousness that they must be prosecuted regardless of when they were committed. The Commissions’ finding that "many years have passed" and so criminal prosecutions are not warranted is thus completely incompatible with the demands of international law, and is further evidence of a desire to promote impunity and frustrate the pursuit of justice.

The Commission’s report, and the actions of the Israeli authorities, has comprehensively proved that – in the language of the International Criminal Court – Israel is genuinely unwilling and unable to conduct effective investigations into alleged war crimes.

PCHR, therefore, note that:

1. this attack is currently the subject of litigation in Spain, where an appeal before the Constitutional Court is pending. In light of the Commission’s failure, the Constitutional Court should reopen Spain’s investigation into those responsible for the al-Daraj attack.

2. the impunity evidenced by this report is symptomatic of longstanding Israeli policy. In order to ensure accountability, and uphold victims’ legitimate rights, it is imperative that recourse be had to mechanisms of international criminal justice. The Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, must refer the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory to the International Criminal Court.

Background information relating to the Al Daraj attack

On 22 July 2002, at approximately 11:55 pm, an Israeli Air Force F16 fighter jet dropped a 985 kilogramme bomb on a three-storey apartment building. The attack was intended to kill Salah Shehade, the suspected leader of the Izzidin al-Qassam Brigade, Hamas’ military wing. The apartment building was located within the densely populated Al Daraj district, a residential neighbourhood in Gaza City. At the time of the attack, Shehade was on the upper floor of the building. As a result of the blast impact, eight other adjoining and nearby apartment buildings were completely destroyed, nine were partially destroyed, and another 21 sustained considerable damage. Excluding Shehade and his guard, a total of 14 civilians were killed, including eight children. Approximately 150 civilians were injured.

Israeli officials have acknowledged that they decided to drop the bomb on Shehadeh’s house knowing his wife was with him, intentionally killing her as well.[3] Available information also indicates that the Israeli authorities took into consideration the possibility that, along with Shehadeh, approximately 10 civilians would also be killed.[4]

Information Relating to the Special Investigatory Commission

PCHR note that the Commission is not impartial, and is not a criminal investigatory body, nor was it granted such powers. Significantly, its recommendations have no legal power.

On the basis of these institutional and well-documented inadequacies, PCHR refused to cooperate with the Commission, insisting that genuine criminal investigations constitute the only appropriate mechanism with regard to the crimes alleged. This is in keeping with the explicit requirements of international law.

For more details and information please contact:
Raji Sourani, PCHR Director
Iyad Alami, Head of Legal Unit, PCHR
Tel: + 972 8 2844299 – 2825893


[1] See, for example, the finding of the ICTY in this regard. Prosecutor v. Galic, Case No. IT-98-29-T, 5 December 2003, §57.

[2] http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/Spokesman/2011/02
/spokeshchade270211.htm,
§12.

[3] Matar v. Dichter, 05 Civ 10270 (WHP), 7 December 2005, §41. Available at: http://ccrjustice.org/files/Complaint.pdf

[4] Matar v. Dichter, 05 Civ 10270 (WHP), 7 December 2005, §42. Available at: http://ccrjustice.org/files/Complaint.pdf






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March 2, 2011

NABLUS (Ma’an) -- A herder village east of Nablus was demolished by Israel's Civil Administration for the sixth time on Wednesday, a Palestinian official confirmed.

Early Wednesday morning, 13 Israeli patrol cars and three military bulldozers arrived in the hamlet of Khirbet Tana, and demolished the tents and sheds recently re-built by residents, Ghassan Doughlas, the Fatah official charged with monitoring settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an.

According to AFP, there were 20 structures taken down.

On a recent visit to the hamlet, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Maxwell Gaylard said of the fourth demolition, that "under international law, Israel, as the occupying power in the oPt [occupied Palestinian territories], is prohibited from destroying property belonging to individuals or communities except when absolutely required by military operations."

Gaylard had condemned the demolition, saying "if the authorities ultimately responsible for these demolitions could see the devastating impact on vulnerable Palestinian communities, they might reflect upon the inhumanity of their actions."

On the occasion of the sixth demolition, Doughlas said he considered the act a "clear assault on Palestinian citizens’ rights," and noted the families living in the hamlet, who subsist on herding livestock and animal husbandry, were determined to "rebuild what was demolished."

Khirbet Tana is one of two Bedouin hamlets that have been targeted over the past months, with a second south of Hebron, Amniyr, demolished in mid-February. In both cases, residents have been herding in the area for years, and say they have nowhere else to go. In the case of Amniyr, residents said settler harassment had driven them from all other traditional grazing grounds.

On Feb. 9, 17 and 20, tents donated to residents of Khirbet Tana by the International Red Cross and the Palestinian Authority were destroyed by Israeli forces.

A representative of Israel's Civil Administration said that the Feb. 17 demolitions were a part of "routine law enforcement activity against illegal building," and confirmed that approximately 19 buildings were destroyed.

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