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Land/Property/Resource Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing
Israeli forces demolish 4 Bedouin homes
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces demolished four houses belonging to Bedouin families in southern Israel on Monday, locals said. Forces demolished the homes of Atef Al-Athamen, who plans to marry soon, and Nayed Abu Ghuneima, a father of six, as well as two others in Khashim Zena village in the Negev region, local residents said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320736
Israeli committees discuss structural plan to judaize the Buraq wall
The Israeli Local Committee for Planning and Building in Jerusalem will discuss on Monday a comprehensive structural plan to further judaize the Buraq (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem in the coming years.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx
New Colonial Oupost
A new Israeli colonial outpost appeared near the colonies of Nokdim, Tekoa and El-David in the past few weeks. The new outpost consists of several caravans and semi-permanent structures in a valley to the east of the El-David colonial settlement. It sits on land belonging to people from Jib Atheib, Zaatara, and Dawahra. We toured the site October 1, 2010 with Hassan Breijiya and Mubarak Zawahra and two international observers from EAPPI. This video summarizes the situation in the area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm7heZoO60Y
Israeli court welcomes pre-1948 land claims, from Jewish Israelis only, Jesse Bacon
It has been pointed out repeatedly, but now it’s official, the Israeli Supreme Court will accept your pre-1948 claim, if you are Jewish that is. In one of those cases that is a testament to presumably intelligent people’s ability to ignore the larger implications of their actions, the court has been ruling that Jews who left East Jerusalem during the founding of the state of Israel/ Palestinian Nakba/ Catastrophe have a right of return. I hope there are Palestinian refugees filing similar court cases, as many more of them were dispossessed during that time. I would love to hear an Israeli court explain why the Jewish Israelis claims are more valid.
http://theonlydemocracy.org/2010/10/israeli-court-welcomes-pre-1948-land-claims-from-jewish-israelis-only/
Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Sanctions & Divestment
Four men arrested in a night raid in Ni’lin
Tonight, around 2 am, the Israeli army entered the West Bank village of Ni`lin and arrested four Palestinian men: Muhammed Ahmed Younis Amireh, Othman Risiqe Rasheed Amireh, Tarik Hassan Tawfeeq Mesleh and Asad Muhammed Abdulfattah Nafi. Israeli soldiers on foot arrived from the gate in the illegal apartheid wall and from the fields around Ni’lin. As they do very often, they surrounded the village and snipers from different positions made sure that nobody could leave their houses.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/10/14766/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
Action Alert: We stand with Abdallah Abu Rahmah
Seized in the night. Tortured. Held without trial, then tried in a military court where you have no rights; convicted on the coerced confessions of minors, you are facing a sentence of years in prison. All for organizing peaceful protests against the theft of your land and asserting your democratic rights. Most of us who believe in human rights and democracy can never imagine being treated in such a way. Yet that is exactly what befell Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a democracy advocate from Bil’in in the Occupied West Bank. His town is known around the world for the determination of its residents – joined by Israelis and internationals in solidarity – to protest weekly against the theft of their land by Israeli authorities.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/10/14755/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
U.K., Spain to boycott OECD tourism conference because it’s in Jerusalem
Palestinians insist to boycott the conference which this year is meant to deal with sustainable tourism.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/u-k-spain-to-boycott-oecd-tourism-conference-because-it-s-in-jerusalem-1.317212
Hundreds of activists from Muslim countries planning new Gaza-bound flotilla
The Turkish charity IHH, which sponsored a Gaza-bound flotilla that Israeli commandos boarded in a deadly raid last spring, say some 500 activists from Pakistan, Iran, Syria and Turkey aim to break blockade by December 27.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hundreds-of-activists-from-muslim-countries-planning-new-gaza-bound-flotilla-1.317150?localLinksEnabled=false
Asian activists to try to break Gaza siege
Turkish charity IHH says 500 activists from a dozen countries to take part in new convoy that will set off from India by land, hoping to reach Strip by Dec. 27.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3964044,00.html
Gaza-bound convoy from Jordan lands in Syria
A humanitarian aid convoy from Jordan landed noon Monday in Syria and is scheduled to join the European Lifeline 5 convoy before heading out to the Gaza Strip.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%
Poet Zach: Israel apartheid state
Leading Israeli poet says he wishes to join Gaza flotilla; ‘if I were better swimmer, I would swim to Gaza,’ he says.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3964398,00.html
‘Are you so afraid of offending Jewish members that you can’t take a stand?’, Rich Siegel
Last week Rich Siegel, a New Jersey musician, resigned from his union local, the Associated Musicians of Greater New York, in part over its failure to publish letters critical of the Israeli occupation in its members’ magazine, Allegro. He lately learned that Allegro wouldn’t print his resignation letter. So Siegel wrote to the president of the local Tino Gagliardi, and the two vice presidents, John O’Connor and Jay Blumenthal.
https://mondoweiss.net/2010/10/are-you-so-afraid-of-offending-jewish-members-that-you-cant-take-a-stand.html
TIAA-CREF: Divest from Injustice
Occupied Palestine, October 4th 2010 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to live up to its motto of providing “Financial Services for the Greater Good” by divesting its funds from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and violation of Palestinian rights. As in the struggle to end South African apartheid, divestment from wrongdoing companies is not just a moral obligation; it is a time-honored, particularly effective, non-violent form of pressure that can significantly contribute to ending Israel’s occupation, racial discrimination and denial of refugee rights.
http://bdsmovement.net/?q=node/775
Halper: American Jews (and the Congress) don’t want an Israel at peace, Philip Weiss
For anyone who tries to imagine a life of meaning amid inhumane circumstances, Jeff Halper is a hero. The Minnesota-born founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Halper has for decades now dedicated himself to Palestinian human rights, resisting the occupation by helping Palestinians try to defy Israeli power. Above, he drinks tea in a Palestinian friend’s house that has been destroyed by settlers five times– and that he has five times helped rebuild.
https://mondoweiss.net/2010/10/halper-american-jews-and-the-congress-dont-want-an-israel-at-peace.html
Dundee City Council flies the flag for Palestinians
Campaigners are celebrating the decision to fly the Palestinian flag from one of the most prominent council buildings in the heart of Dundee.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/article/5938/dundee-city-council-flies-the-flag-for-palestinians.html
#BDS: ‘Boycott Israel’ protest shuts down Israeli cosmetics stall in Brisbane
Brisbane anti apartheid activists closed down the Seacret Cosmetic stall in Garden City in suburban Brisbane as part of the global BDS movement to Boycott Israeli goods.
http://youthanormalization.blogspot.com/2010/10/bds-boycott-israel-protest-shuts-down.html
Irish Americans must act on Siege of Gaza, Fiachra Ó Luain
It is now four months since the deadly attack on our humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters. As Second Mate on the U.S. Challenger 1 vessel, it still disappoints me that Israel could not find another way of dealing with this peace protest in a manner that could have had a positive outcome for everybody. The flotilla was an opportunity for all parties to take new and imaginative approaches to dilemmas that affect us all as human beings. There are many humanitarian crises in the world, but Gaza is at the crux of everything that is out of balance in the HolyLands and the wider Middle East.
http://www.irishemigrant.com/ie/go.asp?p=story&storyID=7543
Early front runners for the Israel Project’s ‘Best Shots of Israel’ contest,Adam Horowitz
We’ve received a bunch of entries for the Israel Project’s “Best Shots of Israel” contest. Here are some of our favorites – please keep sending then in!
https://mondoweiss.net/2010/10/early-frontrunners-for-the-israel-projects-best-shots-of-israel-contest.html
Artists Against Apartheid XIV
BDS Quebec concert co-presented by AfroLatin Soul, feat Detroit MC Invincible. Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 doors 20h30. $8-10 Le Consulat, 1442 Bleury 2nd floor métro Place-des-Arts Montreal, Quebec Marking Montreal’s first international Palestine solidarity conference supporting the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israeli apartheid, the fourteenth edition of Artists Against Apartheid will feature celebrated Detroit MC Invincible.
http://www.tadamon.ca/post/7966
The Siege (Gaza & West Bank)/Humanitarian/Restriction of Movement
Industrial Fuel – Needs Vs. Supply – Sep 5 – Oct 2
http://www.gazagateway.org/2010/10/industrial-fuel-needs-vs-supply-sep-5-oct-2/
Human Rights/Racism
YouTube clip shows IDF soldier belly-dancing beside bound Palestinian woman
A number of IDF soldiers have over the last year faced investigation and penalty for documenting themselves performing questionable acts in front of Palestinian prisoners or while on patrol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxFlmXbzY3I&feature=player_embedded
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/youtube-clip-shows-idf-soldier-belly-dancing-beside-bound-palestinian-woman-1.317177?localLinksEnabled=false
EU consults civil society in Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — EU officials met with civil society organizations in Gaza on Monday to discuss the body’s European Neighbourhood Policy. An EU statement said civil society groups were “integral contributors” to EU projects, and were invited to present their thoughts on planned joint initiatives by the EU and Palestinian Authority.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320856
Violence
Israeli military incursion amid gunfire east of Bureij camp
A number of Israeli military armored vehicles advanced Monday morning amid sporadic gunfire into the east of Al-Bureij camp, central Gaza Strip, and bulldozed agricultural lands.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz
Wounded Man Kidnapped By Israeli Troops
A Palestinian man was shot and wounded, on Tuesday at dawn, after Israeli soldiers opened fire at him at a military roadblock near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59546
Israeli fire injures fourth Gaza worker in week
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A man identified by medics as a laborer was shot by Israeli fores in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon, as he was collecting stone aggregates for a construction company. Medical services coordinator in Gaza Adham Abu Silmiyyeh said a 27-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound in the left leg and was transferred by ambulance to the Kamal Udwan Hospital in Jabaliya.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=321079
Provocations
Settlers demonstrate against Nablus village mosque
NABLUS (Ma’an) — Hundreds of settlers demonstrated on Monday evening demanding the demolition of a Nablus village mosque, locals said. Villagers said Israeli soldiers stood between the settlers and residents to prevent clashes near the mosque in Burin village, south of Nablus.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320877
Reactions to Mosque Arson
PA says Jerusalem shooting ‘too familiar’
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority condemned Monday the “cold blooded killing” of a Palestinian worker in East Jerusalem. Israeli border guards fatally shot Izzedine Kawazbeh, from Hebron, as he attempted to enter the occupied city for work on Sunday morning. In a statement issued by the government media center, the PA said that the shooting of the 38-year-old on Palestinian land was “a travesty that has become too familiar, expected, and accepted within Israel and the international community.”
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320823
PLO mission demands action over mosque arson
WASHINGTON (Ma’an) — The PLO mission in Washington condemned Monday’s arson attack on a mosque in the Bethlehem district. Locals said settlers were responsible for setting fire to Al-Anbiya Mosque in Beit Fajjar, which destroyed prayer rugs and copies of the Quran. In a statement, the PLO mission condemned the assault, adding that “Revenge” and “Mosques, we burn” had been written in Hebrew on the walls.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320895
UN envoy ‘shocked’ by latest mosque arson
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The UN Special Coordinator’s Office for the Middle East Peace Process expressed shock Monday following an apparent act of arson carried out by Israeli settlers against a Bethlehem-area mosque. “This attack is shocking and completely unacceptable. Robert Serry, the UN secretary-general’s envoy here, is extremely concerned with this act of desecration. It follows a number of attacks upon mosques as well as ongoing attacks on Palestinian civilians and property,” UN Serry’s Richard Miron told Ma’an.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320782
Ihsanoglu: Mosque burning near Bethlehem a violation of int’l law
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu condemned attacks by extremist Jews on a mosque in the south Bethlehem village of Beit Fajjar as an outrageous violation of the Geneva Convention and international law.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx
Detainees
Report: Israel steps up violations against juvenile detainees
The prisoners studies center in Palestine calls for the release of all minors in Israeli custody, adding that Israeli occupation authorities must be forced to stop minor detentions.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6
Soldiers Break Into Nafha Prison
Israeli soldiers broke on Monday evening into the Nafha Prison and searched the rooms of the detainees causing damage. The attack led to tension in the prison camp especially after the soldiers forced the detainees out of their rooms.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59543
PCHR Condemns Continued Detention of Islamic Jihad Leader in Violation of Law
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the continued illegal detention of Khader ‘Adnan Mousa, 32, a leader of Islamic Jihad, from ‘Arraba village southwest of Jenin, by the General Intelligence Service (GIS). PCHR is concerned over Mousa’s health condition, who had been in a hunger strike since the beginning of his detention on 29 September 2010. PCHR further reiterates its call for the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and its security services to stop arbitrary detentions, and to release all political detainees as a step towards putting an end to the issue of political detentions.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/10/14750/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
Palestinian MP Ahmad Sa’adat passes 500 days in solitary confinement
Uruknet October 4, 2010 – The International Campaign for the Release of Kidnapped Palestinian Legislators today issued a press statement concerning the continued detention of the Palestinian leader and legislator Ahmad Sa’adat by Israel.
http://uruknet.info/?p=m70424&hd=&size=1&l=e
Israel’s Arab Helpers
Two Jordanians tortured in Egyptian jails for assisting Gaza
Relatives of two Jordanian men in Egyptian detention appealed to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry to take immediate action for their release, saying they suffer from tough conditions.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6
PA military court jails man and his wife for sheltering resistance fighters
The Palestinian Authority’s military court in Ramallah city on Monday sentenced prisoner Abdelfattah Shreim from Qalqiliya to 12 years in prison and his wife Mervat Sabri to one year.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U
Hamas: PA arrested 13 affiliates
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Hamas accused Palestinian Authority forces of arresting 13 Hamas affiliates in the West Bank on Tuesday. The movement said in a statement that the forces arrested 13 from Ramallah, Qalqiliya, Hebron, Nablus and Tulkarem. The accusation, which could not be confirmed independently by Ma’an, comes amid reconciliation talks between the rival parties.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320962
Hamas MP denounces security militias for storming his home
Hamas MP Mohammed Al-Tal denounced the security militias, loyal to de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, for storming his home earlier on Monday and kidnapping his brother Rami.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Q
PA security militias kidnap Quds Press reporter in Tulkarem
The Palestinian Authority’s preventive security forces in Tulkarem city kidnapped on Sunday evening Quds Press reporter Salim Tayeh from his home without giving reasons.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k
Nablus resident arrested for ‘blasphemy’
NABLUS (Ma’an) — Palestinian Authority police arrested a Nablus resident Monday for “blasphemy,” a police report said. Police said they stopped a car for reckless driving, and the driver was arrested when he shouted at officers and “cursed God.” The detainee was not identified.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320871
ATFP Defends Its Relationship With Zionist Groups And The PNA In the Huffington Post
The American Task Force On Palestine policy statement first released on its website, and brought to our attention through a tweet on Hussein Ibish’s blog was published in the Huffington Post a couple of days later with a short introduction by Ziad Asali. It’s unlikely that Asali, with his poor written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills, wrote the policy statement. It’s more likely to be the work of Ibish, who was hired for the abilities which Asali, and the handful of others at the ATFP nobody has heard of, or from, lack, and he can provide. Adopting a defensive posture and tone, the ATFP attempts to fend off criticism of its relationships with a variety of racist, Zionist organizations and its role as a Washington public relations firm for the Israeli-sponsored, Western-funded, and American-supervised Palestinian National Authority (PNA).
http://ikhras.com/2010/10/atfp-defends-its-relationship-with-zionist-groups-and-the-pna-in-the-huffington-post/
Political Developments
Zahhar: “Hamas Doesn’t Want War With Fateh”
Dr. Mahmoud Zahhar, member of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, stated that Hamas does not want a civil war with Fateh movement, and that the movement wants national reconciliation based on the interests of the Palestinian people.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59545
PA Cabinet urges peaceful resistance
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Senior Palestinian Authority ministers on Monday urged Palestinians to focus on peaceful resistance against Israel’s occupation. During its weekly meeting in Ramallah, the PA Cabinet reiterated that it held Israel’s government responsible for obstructing peace talks by refusing to extend restrictions on settlement building on Palestinian land.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=320857
PLC member: U.S. guarantees a blatant bribe for Israel
PLC member Mohammed Abu Juheisha said that guarantees made by George Mitchell hoping to freeze settlements for two additional months are “no more than a blatant bribe for Israel”.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6
Deadline extended in bid to keep Israel-Palestinian talks alive (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Sputtering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks received another reprieve over the weekend when a key Arab League meeting was postponed until Friday. It was the second delay for the meeting, which Palestinians said could mark their withdrawal from negotiations if Israeli settlement expansion continued.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20101004/wl_csm/329892
‘Abbas: Will Only Talk with Americans Until Freeze Reinstated
Speaking in Amman following talks with Jordanian King Abdallah II, Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud ‘Abbas reiterated that he will not return to talks with Israel until a freeze on building in areas acquired in the 1967 war is reinstated. ‘Abbas has looked to the Arab League for direction regarding Palestinian participation in the direct talks, and will now wait for word from the League’s meeting in Libya scheduled for Friday. The umbrella group, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has already urged ‘Abbas to leave the talks over the issue of building on post-1967 land. Obama Mideast envoy George Mitchell tried to put a positive spin on developments during a visit to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo.
http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=30180
Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No (37)
After Israeli Return to Settlement Construction: Two Thirds of the Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip Want the Palestinian Side to Pull Out of the Direct Talks. These are the results of the latest poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip between 30 September and 2 October 2010. The poll was conducted directly after the end of the Israeli moratorium on settlement construction and during Palestinian debate on the future of direct talks. Few weeks before the conduct of the poll, Hamas carried out an armed attack near Hebron leading to the death of four Israeli settlers. This release covers issues related to the direct talks, the withdrawal of government cars from senior civil servants, current conditions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, elections, future of reconciliation, Hamas’s attack on settlers, and others. Total size of the sample is 1270 adults interviewed face to face in 127 randomly selected locations. Margin of error is 3%. While press release covers public response to the resumption of settlement construction as well as domestic Palestinian issues, other issues related to the peace process and Israeli-Palestinian relations will be covered in a separate joint Palestinian-Israeli press release and later in our detailed report on the poll. For further details, contact PSR director, Dr. Khalil Shikaki, or Walid Ladadweh at tel 02-296 4933 or email pcpsr@pcpsr.org.
http://www.pcpsr.org/survey/polls/2010/p37epressrelease.html
U.S. Scrambles to Save Peace Talks, Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Oct 4, 2010 (IPS) – With a key Arab League meeting delayed until Friday, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is scrambling to keep one-month-old direct Israeli- Palestinian peace talks alive.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53055
Carter recovers, slams settlement building
Former US president back to life as normal after hospitalization, calls on Israel to ‘give up its ambition to occupy and control Palestine’.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3963999,00.html
Israeli settlements undermine peace process: Saudi (AFP)
AFP – The Saudi government said on Monday that Israel’s policy of building settlements in occupied Palestinian territories undermined the US-brokered Middle East peace process.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101004/wl_mideast_afp/israelpalestinianspeacesaudi
Other News
Study Shows Israelis and Palestinians Both Retaliate
Haushofer worked with Nancy Kanwisher of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Anat Biletzki of Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, who is a member of BT’selem, an Israeli human rights organization that collected Israeli military data used in the study. “The previous evidence suggested that Israeli attacks were often responses to Palestinian aggression, whereas this did not appear to be true for Palestinian attacks,” Biletzki said in a statement. “This implied that the conflict was one-sided, with Palestinians attacking Israel, and the Israeli army merely responding to this aggression. Our findings suggest that the situation is more balanced than that.”
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=11797229
Zionist Parallel Universe: MKs, rabbis rally against planned closure of West Bank synagogue
Some 200 rightists say government’s decision to seal shul in El Matan but not mosque in nearby Palestinian village ‘discriminatory.’ MK Eldad: Selective enforcement of laws against Jews while ignoring Arab violations’.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3964072,00.html
Israel rabbi: Spies can sleep with the enemy
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Jewish law allows women to sleep with the enemy in order to get intelligence vital to Israel’s security, a rabbi was quoted as saying in a local newspaper Monday. Yediot Aharonot quoted an academic article by Ari Shvat, an expert in Jewish law, in which he said it was acceptable to have sex with “terrorists” in order to obtain information.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=119986
Culture
West Bank Oktoberfest raises a glass to Palestinian culture
A brewing company sponsors the party to have a good time and raise awareness about Palestinian Christians.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/fgw-west-bank-oktoberfest,0,5488354.story
Analysis/Opinion/Human Interest
For Palestinians in Israel, “transfer” threat nothing new
Nora Barrows-Friedman reports on the response of Palestinian citizens of Israel to the Israeli Foreign Minister’s plan proposed to the United Nations to strip Palestinians of their Israeli citizenship.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11553.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifadaPalestine+%28Electronic+Intifada+%3A+Palestine+News%29
Border Control /Woe betide us, Palestinian contiguity!, Akiva Eldar
The road to the city of Rawabi spills into Area C, which is under Israeli control according to the Oslo Accords, and the settlers aren’t going to allow a violation of Oslo.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/border-control-woe-betide-us-palestinian-contiguity-1.317235
Execution at Dawn in Holy Jerusalem, Kawther Salam
The darkness was still a lowered curtain in the early hours of dawn in the holy occupied city of Jerusalem. The crows were flying in the sky, witnesses of the Israeli terrorist execution of a poor Palestinian laborer.
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/10/04/execution-at-dawn-in-holy-jerusalem/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PalestineThinkTank+%28Palestine+Think+Tank%29
Gaza victims trumped by talks, Fred Abrahams
Late last week the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah sent a cruel message to the civilian victims of laws-of-war violations during the Gaza conflict: we won’t demand justice for your suffering. The message came in the form of a resolution drafted by the Palestinian Authority at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The PA had the chance to increase pressure on Israel and Hamas to punish those responsible for war crimes. Instead, it opted to tread water, stalling justice and turning its back on victims, the vast majority of whom live in Gaza. If critics who say the Palestinian Authority is out of touch with the needs of Palestinians require evidence, last week’s resolution provided it in spades.
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/10/04/gaza_victims_trumped_by_talks
Shooting from Mavi Marmara: Time for Israel to Put Up or Shut Up, Richard Lightbown
The inappropriately named Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) is reputed to have links with Israeli intelligence. On 15 September the organization published a report that was based in part on information from ªefik Dinç. Mr Dinç had been on the Mavi Marmara for the newspaper Habertürk and has written a book on the raid entitled ‘The Bloodstained Mavi Marmara’. At present the book is only available in Turkish. Although there is no reason to doubt the ITIC translations into English, one can certainly criticise the way ITIC has blended its own material with that of Mr Dinç’s.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16310
Why Israel’s blockade of Gaza is still here
Almost half a year has passed since the historical events surrounding the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara in international waters off the coast of Gaza. This crazed Israeli act of high-water piracy, the vicious violence, the cold blooded execution of wounded peace activists outraged the entire world community and many very impressive statements were made in reaction. Turkey would sever all its diplomatic relations, huge armadas of volunteers would be formed to break the blockade and even planes would be used.
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-israels-blockade-of-gaza-is-still.html
Behind the Crisis in Obama’s Mideast Peace Process, Tony Karon
U.S. diplomats scurried around Middle Eastern capitals over the weekend as President Barack Obama’s efforts to broker a Middle East peace agreement risked collapse in the face of yet another breakdown over Israeli settlement construction.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2023209,00.html
The Firing of Ariella Azoulay, NEVE GORDON
“Everything is political,” cultural theorists often claim. Recently, Bar Ilan University in Israel, decided to prove them right.
Located on the outskirts of Tel-Aviv, Bar Ilan likes to boast that it is the largest university in Israel. Its official goal is to cultivate and combine “Jewish identity and tradition with modern technologies and research.” Fifteen years ago, however, the university became infamous after one of its students assassinated former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin in what turned out to be a successful attempt to arrest the Oslo peace process. The administration was appalled by the criminal act and consequently appears to have adopted a strategic decision to temper its conservative and right-wing proclivities. On the one hand, Bar Ilan continued to provide accreditation for two colleges located in illegal West Bank settlements, yet, on the other, it also developed an excellent gender program and hired a number of faculty members with well known left-wing credentials. It aspired to become a liberal institution guided by ostensibly neutral professional processes and regulations, like all major universities around the world.
http://www.counterpunch.com/gordon10052010.html
Jeffrey Goldberg Smears Goldstone, Mischaracterizes B’Tselem’s Position on Report, Alex Kane
Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the Atlantic magazine and a former soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, has been pounding the center-left lobby group J Street at his blog lately. In a Sept. 30 post, Goldberg criticizes J Street for allegedly arranging visits for Judge Richard Goldstone to Capitol Hill, smears the Goldstone report and mischaracterizes the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem’s position on the report.
http://alexbkane.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/jeffrey-goldberg-smears-goldstone-mischaracterizes-btselems-position-on-report/
Where is the Gandhi of Israel?, Philip Weiss
In the National Interest, Paul Pillar, former CIA analyst, looks at the recent Indian judicial ruling on the Ayodhya site, sharing it between Muslims and Hindus, for both of whom it is holy, as a departure point for a meditation on Why Israel, unlike India, is so intolerant of its minority? Note that the url for this post includes the words, “the-lobby-must-not-be-named.” Part of his very intelligent answer, which only obliquely mentions the lobby.
https://mondoweiss.net/2010/10/where-is-the-gandhi-of-israel-2.html
Al Gore, Donald Graham, and David Ignatius signed letter flogging Marty Peretz fund, Philip Weiss
I like the Marty Peretz story, and praise the lord, so does the Muslim Brotherhood; its website is now covering his racist statements about Muslims. And here is Eric Alterman, who has long denounced Peretz’s bigotry, asking the right question: “how many liberals will join The Atlantic’s James Fallows in announcing, loudly and clearly, of Marty Peretz: ‘He does not speak for us.'”
https://mondoweiss.net/2010/10/al-gore-donald-graham-and-david-ignatius-signed-letter-flogging-marty-peretz-fund.html
What Obama hasn’t changed about the peace process, Maggie Sager
Forgive my cynicism, but you will not see me holding my breath in anticipation of a comprehensive and just conclusion to the Arab-Israeli conflict, not this time around, not even with Mr. Change himself at the helm of negotiations. To illustrate my point, and for the benefit of all of you following along at home, let me recap what hasn’t changed with the most recent incarnation of peace talks.
https://mondoweiss.net/2010/10/what-obama-hasnt-changed-about-the-peace-process.html
Hasn’t ‘demographic bogey’ argument for Zionism passed its sell-by date?, Philip Weiss
Arnon Soffer, a former adviser to Sharon, offers the Zionist answer to rightwinger Moshe Arens’s call for a binational state, in Haaretz. Note that his entire argument for the two state solution is based on various notions of ethnic supremacy, including at one point imagining the possibility of “erase”-ing 1.5 million Palestinians. You’re an American with liberal ideals. Are you down with this? Shouldn’t liberal Zionists be condemning this kind of talk? And if they are condemning it, what sort of vision are they offering in response? I am not a slam-dunk one-stater (no I’m a waffler; I think there are a lot of ethnocratic places in the world that thankfully I have nothing to do with) but those who hope to redeem Israel have to come up with better ideas than this filthy demographic talk, and ethnic ferocity. Seems very 19th century.
https://mondoweiss.net/2010/10/hasnt-demographic-bogey-argument-for-zionism-passed-its-sell-by-date.html
Israeli feminism and liberalism
I wouldn’t have thought this video of international importance if it were not to the relentless hasbara effort to portray Israel as a feminist oasis in the patriarchal Middle East. It is in Hebrew, without subtitles (if anybody wants to transcribe, I could post a copy with English subtitles). So it is a special treat for the Hebrew reading/speaking visitors. But below is a summary for the rest. Watch and choke! So, the story: in 2006, a ring of rapists was busted on an air force military base. For a year, they kept a 13 year old girl on the premises as a communal sex slave. Surely, thacan happen anywhere, right? The two videasts impersonate two officers from the base, and take to the streets of Tel Aviv to ask for sympathy for the rapists. They ask people whether they would give them a certificate of honesty (a police document required by some job applications) or a jail sentence, symbolized by handcuffs. The poll is on the beach of Tel Aviv, allegedly the most progressive part of Israel society. Watch what happens!
http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2010/10/israeli-feminism-and-liberalism.html
Indigenous Resistance, from Colombia to Palestine, Anna Baltzer – Lopez, Colombia
“They only see our water, our land, our trees. They don’t care about us. They want the land — without the people on it.” These words are not of a Palestinian farmer but of Justo Conda, governor of Lopez Adentro Indigenous Reserve in southwestern Colombia, whose community was repeatedly threatened with displacement under former president Alvaro Uribe Velez. Uribe, recently appointed by the United Nations to investigate Israel’s fatal attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, has a notoriously horrific track record on human rights. Less explored are the clear parallels between his government’s mistreatment of indigenous peoples of Colombia and Israel’s abuses of the indigenous people of Palestine.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16308
The Rick Sanchez dust-up: it’s a mirror, Max Ajl
So am I concerned with Sanchez’s rhetorical stupidity? No. I am concerned with the racism of the culture that excoriates Sanchez’s verbal clumsiness while celebrating far worse racist stupidity when it’s against a more politically vulnerable target. A racist culture is a racist culture. Jews of all people should be aware, at the level of self-interest if not of morality, that a culture willing to incite pogroms against Arabs and Muslims is one that could turn on Jews when a fundamentalist group, furious at the occupation, cites it as the reason for setting off a thermonuclear detonation in an American city. In that respect, the Jewish cultural elite are not merely morally corrupt. They are fools.
http://www.maxajl.com/?p=4229&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+http%2Fwwwmaxajlcom%2Ffeedrss2+%28Jewbonics%29
Canada and Israel – Book Review, Jim Miles
(Canada and Israel – Building Apartheid. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Canada. 2010.) While much is made of U.S. support of Israel, its unstinting rhetoric and its similarly unstinting financial generosity, Canada has likewise been a strong supporter of Zionism and Israel. Not only has Canada been strong, they have in certain respects been stronger and more faithful to Israel than the U.S. In an enlightening little book, Canada and Israel – Building Apartheid, Yves Engler documents the strength of the Canadian tendency to give full support to Israel regardless of international law.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16307
Lebanon
Lebanese PM says Syria’s arrest warrants over Hariri’s killing disappointing
BEIRUT, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Monday that he was disappointed by Syria’s issuing of arrest warrants against 33 individuals, who allegedly misled investigations into the assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri. During the cabinet session on Monday, Hariri told the ministers that he had hoped progress so far achieved on the level of bilateral ties between Lebanon and Syria would have prevented the issuing of such warrants, but he stressed that he will continue to work towards building “excellent ties with Syria”.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-10/05/c_13542638.htm
Syria Issues Arrest Warrants against Mehlis, Hamade, Hasan, Khashan and Others
The repercussions of the false witnesses’ case in the assassination of former premier Martyr Rafiq Hariri are still coming to light with the Syrian judiciary issuing 33 arrest warrants against judges, officers, politicians and journalists of Lebanese, Arab and other nationalities; many considered to be close to Prime Minister Saad Hariri.
http://almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=156626&language=en
Cabinet refrains from discussing hot STL topics
BEIRUT: The Cabinet refrained Monday from discussing the Justice Ministry’s proposal on the issue of false witnesses as well as funding of the UN-backed tribunal as Syrian arrest warrants allegedly issued Sunday against prominent Lebanese officials close to Premier Saad Hariri became the focus of deliberations.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=120005
Lebanon heading toward crisis over Hariri killing – analysts
BEIRUT: Lebanon is facing a full-blown crisis as tensions over a UN-probe into the murder of its ex-premier mount with Syria, and a standoff between rival parties escalates, analysts warned on Monday.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=120006
Tehran, Beirut to cooperate in oil and gas exploration
TEHRAN – The Iranian oil minister said that Tehran and Beirut had agreed to cooperate in oil and gas exploration in Lebanon. IRINN quoted Masoud Mirkazemi as saying here after a meeting with his Lebanese counterpart that the two sides agreed on building oil refineries and exporting gas to that country. He added that soon there would be a meeting among Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to discuss details of purchasing gas from the Islamic Republic.
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=227905
77 couples, Lebanese-Palestinians, wed in Saida
154 Palestinians and Lebanese hosted their group weddings at The Rafik Hariri Sports City in Said on September 30th celebrating mixed marriages in Lebanon as a sign of openness and acceptance to others. This is the third annual wedding ceremony hosted by the Palestinian Lebanese Association for Dialogue, Development, Nearby and the Refugee Camps with the presence of the MP Bahia Hariri who offered $2000 for each couple. During the ceremony, singer Fadel Shaker entertained the crowd along with a Zaffe for the brides and grooms.
http://starscene.dailystar.com.lb/social-scene/2010/10/77-couples-lebanese-palestinians-wed-in-saida/
Iraq
Monday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 59 Wounded
Updated at 8:23 p.m. EST, Oct. 4, 2010 At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 59 more were wounded in numerous attacks across the country. While Baghdad suffered significant violence, particularly towards government employees, predominantly Kurdish areas of the country also saw many attacks. In political developments, a new deal that could end the deadlock preventing the new government from taking power could be in the works for Iraqiya.
http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2010/10/04/monday-11-iraqis-killed-57-wounded/
Iraq’s Sunni-backed bloc pledges united stance against premier
BAGHDAD: A Sunni-backed bloc that came first in elections seven months ago is united against the bid by Shiite Premier Nouri al-Maliki to remain in office, a party spokesman said Monday, in another clear sign of deep divisions over efforts to end Iraq’s political impasse.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=119985
Progress doesn’t end Iraq’s paralysis | Ranj Alaaldin
Nouri al-Maliki has been backed as PM, but the ‘national unity’ government will remain a collection of fiefdoms. Iraq remains without a government seven months on from the elections last March, a record-breaking impasse beating the previous record held by the Dutch in 1977. On Friday, however, progress was finally made after the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) – a Shia coalition – backed Nouri al-Maliki for the position of prime minister.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/05/iraq-paralysis-nouri-al-maliki
U.S. views sought in Iraqi contractor torture case (Reuters)
Reuters – The Supreme Court on Monday asked the U.S. government for its views about a lawsuit claiming that employees of two defense contractors took part in the torture and abuse of Iraqis at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/iraq/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101004/ts_nm/us_usa_iraq_contractors
What is the fate of Iraqi street dwellers?
Some children don’t know where to go. They have no home to go to and no family to care for. Are Some Iraqi children destined to dwell streets and beg for money? Or are they abandoned because of shortcoming?
http://www.alsumaria.tv/en/Iraq-News/1-54743-What-is-the-fate-of-Iraqi-street-dwellers%3F.html
The Iraqi holocaust
Arab media’s main concern today is the formation of the new Iraqi government. Otherwise, Iraq would have been a totally neglected topic, particularly by television news and current affairs. Arab television’s main target is paying attention to superficial events. As Iraqi factions squabble over posts, assassinations have taken a new dimension in the country, turning into a phenomenon world has never seen before. The number of Iraqis being assassinated every day is probably ten times as much as that of the early years of U.S. occupation of the country which started in 2003.
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2010-10-04\kurd.htm
Iraqis flock to Baghdad’s 4D cinema
After years of sanctions and conflict which almost killed off a once thriving industry, a new sort of cinema has opened up in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Its owners hope the 4D experience will tempt people back to the movie theatres, some of which are standing derelict. The BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse reports from Baghdad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11463963
U.S. and other world news
“Everyone Just Wants to Kill People at any Cost”; U.S. soldiers accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan
“The Army really let me down when I thought I would come out here to do good maybe make some change in this country I find out that its all a lie (sic).”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26509.htm
Nato strike kills three Afghan civilians
The raid comes only a day after another air strike by foreign forces targeting insurgents in Helmand which Afghan police said killed civilians.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1004/breaking46.html
U.S. Military Apologizes for Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
One of the dead was an 8-year-old girl. Two boys, ages 6 and 9, were wounded, he said. The American military issued a statement apologizing for the deaths.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/world/asia/04afghan.html?_r=2&ref=world
NATO head regrets killing Pakistani soldiers
Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen spoke in person with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at a meeting in Brussels.
http://www.euronews.net/2010/10/04/nato-head-regrets-pakistani-soldier-deaths/
Foreign Minister shows deep concern over border violations by NATO forces
The Foreign Minister said that Pakistan would only reopen the supply route for coalition troops in Afghanistan once public anger eases and security improves. “Unless the reaction cools down and we make sure that the supply line is secured, we cannot reopen it,” the Foreign Minister added.
http://ftpapp.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118108&Itemid=1
Court: NSA can keep mum if it wiretapped Gitmo lawyers: The Supreme Court won’t make the super-secret National Security Agency divulge whether it has records of the warrantless wiretapping it did of lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay inmates.
http://173.231.137.186/rs/2010/10/court-nsa-mum-wiretapped-gitmo-lawyers/
US Army Embeds Active-duty PSYOPS Soldiers at Local TV Stations, John Cook
The relationship between PSYOPS, Training With Industry, and television news operations has stirred controversy in the past. In 2000, after a Dutch newspaper reported that PSYOPS troops had been placed in CNN’s newsroom under the program, CNN discontinued the internships and admitted that they had been a mistake.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101001/us_yblog_upshot/army-embeds-active-duty-psyops-soldiers-at-local-tv-stations
Pa. homeland security boss quits over Israeli firm: Pennsylvania’s homeland security director quit in the wake of revelations that he hired an Israeli-American agency that reported peaceful protests as potential terrorist threats.
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/10/02/2741096/pa-homeland-security-boss-quits-over-israeli-firm
‘Bosniaks’ bring piece of home to Boise in newly opened mosque
While controversy has raged elsewhere surrounding Islam, a new mosque has opened quietly in Idaho.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/10/03/1365007/bosniaks-bring-piece-of-home-to.html#ixzz11RABQEAK
War on Terror Logic, Glenn Greenwald
The very idea that we’re going to reduce Terrorism by more intensively bombing more Muslim countries is one of the most patently absurd, self-contradicting premises that exists.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/04/terrorism
Anu Kumar: Does the U.S. Care about Women? That Depends on Where They Live
The Department of Health determines that contraception is not preventive care for women in the US, but USAID continues to expand access to contraception in the developing world? Talk about a split personality!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anu-kumar/does-the-us-care-about-wo_b_749621.html
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation From the Nazis to Tuskegee to Puerto Rico
Medical historian Susan Reverby, author of “Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy” discusses the history of medical experimentation at home and abroad. We also play excerpts of the documentary “Deadly Deception: The Tuskegee Study.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/5/the_dark_history_of_medical_experimentation
Erdogan: EU is holding up Turkey’s membership
SOFIA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has complained that the European Union is putting up hurdles to Turkey’s accession to the 27-member bloc. “Turkey is constantly being held up and various hurdles are being put in our path. This is not right,” Erdogan told a news conference after meeting his Bulgarian counterpart, Boyko Borisov on Monday.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=119987
Inside Story – A resumption of diplomatic ties?
Iranian and Egyptian officials meeting in Cairo signed an accord to begin 28 weekly flights between the two countries. Is it a strictly business deal or the beginning of a thawing of relations? And what could it mean for a region torn by competing powers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbCtcJfrIaU&feature=youtube_gdata
Egypt’s Journalists Accuse Government of Crackdown
The Egyptian Journalists’ Union has accused the government of cracking down on media critical of authorities after two popular talk shows were closed down.
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b4e5db91ea5008d8d11366ee54658c6d
Egypt authorities urged to prevent forced evictions in city slums
Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty has warned in a letter to the Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif that plans to redevelop Greater Cairo’s poorest areas risk leaving thousands in inadequate housing or homeless. Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty has warned in a letter to the Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif that plans to redevelop Greater Cairo’s poorest areas risk leaving thousands in inadequate housing or homeless.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/egypt-authorities-urged-prevent-forced-evictions-city-slums-2010-10-05
Syrian teenager ‘held for spying’
Syria has accused a teenaged girl, held without charge for nine months, of spying for a foreign power, officials say.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-11474780
Saudi prince beat servant to death in London hotel, court hears
Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al-Saud killed man in ferocious murder with a sexual element, prosecution alleges. A Saudi prince killed his servant in a murder of “ferocity” that had a sexual element, a court heard today. Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al-Saud had previously subjected Bandar Abdulaziz to physical assaults and mistreatment, the Old Bailey was told. The 32-year-old victim was found on 15 February beaten and strangled in bed at the London hotel room he was sharing with the prince. A series of injuries, including bite marks to Abdulaziz’s cheeks, revealed the “ferocity of the attack to which he had been subjected”, the jury heard.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/05/saudi-prince-abdulaziz-killed-servant-court-hears
Al Jazeera calls for jamming probe
Network calls on Jordan for a full investigation into disruptions of its signal during the football World Cup games.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/2010104134951296843.html
Interview with Robert Fisk: we preach democracy yet befriend dictators
There is a great understanding in the Middle East of what history has done to it and what we [the West] have done in history. So I’m not really sure that they always want to buy our products, like human rights or democracy ñ because we have not always demonstrated them to them. Very often we’ve bombed them, in fact.
http://www.newint.org/features/2010/10/01/robert-fisk-interview-democracy-dictators/
French women cause a stir in niqab and hot pants in anti-burka ban protest
Two French female students have made a film of the pair of them strolling through the streets of Paris in a niqab, bare legs and mini-shorts as a critique of France’s recently passed law.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/8036686/French-women-cause-a-stir-in-niqab-and-hot-pants-in-anti-burka-ban-protest.html
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