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Israel responds to Palestinian call to restart talks by legalizing three West Bank settlement outposts
The outposts, Sansana, Rechelim and Bruchin, were never formally authorized when founded in the 1990s and are still considered illegal under international law.
Palestinian prisoner hunger strike grows to 2,000 inmates despite punitive measures to stop it
Guardian: Human rights groups say 2,000 are now on hunger strike against indefinite detention without charge and alleged ill-treatment. The number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails has grown to 2,000 with more preparing to join the protest next week, according to human rights groups in the West Bank.
Barak told Clinton about plans to Judaize Jerusalem
In “Israel’s Strategy to seize Jerusalem, on display for all to see,” in the National, Joseph Dana shows the Israeli government plot of purging Palestine: Ehud Barak is rumoured to have informed former president US Bill Clinton that Israel had … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists, US Politics
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Video: Israeli soldiers arrest three children in West Bank raid
A video shows heavily-armed Israeli soldiers seizing three children from their home in the middle of the night in the West Bank village of Beit Ommar
Israeli gov’t advises bringing a gun on West Bank picnics
The Israeli government published a book of recommended tourist sites with 40 West Bank locations, including al-Kaws spring, which was confiscated from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh in 2009. Although Palestinians are barred from visiting the spring, it was visited by a group of Palestinian women in protest over the weekend.
Knesset members celebrate latest E. Jerusalem settlement by posing on evicted Palestinian family’s sofa
Following last week’s eviction of the Palestinian Natcheh family from their Beit Hanina home, Israeli Knesset members Michael Ben-Ari and Aryeh Eldad visited the house now inhabited by some eight settlers. To mark the occasion they took a picture of themselves lounging on the Natcheh’s sofa.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists
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Egypt and Israel, all is not well
There is increasing public pressure in Egypt to boycott companies doing business in Israel
‘Strong men wanted to legally evacuate Arab squatters’
Following threats of a vigilante eviction, on Wednesday settlers with Areyh King’s Israel Land Fund, under police protection, move into the Natcheh family home in Beit Hanina, forming a new outpost.
Israeli undercover unit’s murder of Palestinian civilian was part of “training exercise”
Khader Adnan returns home after months in administrative detention and a historic hunger strike
Rabbi Saperstein’s threat to ‘J Street’ –Updated
If you criticize the settlements too openly, you will alienate the Jewish community and rabbis and Congress, a leading rabbi warns J Street
New Migron bill could lead to massive Israeli land grab in the West Bank
Knesset prepares a second version of the Migron bill, legislation that could legalize all illegal outposts in the West Bank and give incentives for a flood of future settlements on Palestinian land.
As 100s of other prisoners begin hunger strike,Thaer Halahla, 7 weeks without food, vomits blood
and other developments from the occupation: Attack on Danish Activist / Suppression of Bike Tour Religious cover to attack peace activists: Rabbis: Officer reacted to highly unusual circumstances Prominent rabbis rally to aid of officer who assaulted foreign activist; slam military’s … Continue reading
Barghouti to U.S. Jews: I know you don’t like the word apartheid, but what do you call a system that gives a settler 50 times more water than a Palestinian?
The only system of segregated roads in the world: you can’t be proud of a system of apartheid in the 21st century, says Mustafa Barghouti
11-year-old child beaten in pro-prisoner march
And other news from Today in Palestine: Israeli occupation forces severely beat an 11-year-old child while participating in a peaceful march in Ma’sara village, south of Bethlehem, on Friday in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. link to www.palestine-info.co.uk Land Theft & … Continue reading
Power outages lead to the death of three children in Gaza
A family in the central Gaza Strip has suffered an unimaginable tragedy because of a candle lit during one of Gaza’s frequent power outages.
Settler leader: ‘We were here before Obama and the American Dominion . . we will continue build everywhere.’
Earlier this week, dozens of Israeli youth marked the Passover holiday by storming Palestinian land near Jerusalem to build a makeshift illegal outpost.
The children of Kufr Qadum: “You arrested our fathers, so we lead the demonstration today”
After Israeli army nightly incursion into Kufr Qadum accompanied by massive arrest of villagers , the children of the village have come out in protest with a message to the occupying army and the world: “You Arrested Our Fathers, So We Lead the Demonstration Today”. The weekly demonstration has again been brutally suppressed by the army, who blacked all entrances to the village, took hold of a home, made use of the “Skunk”, and fired the usual dose of teargas and shock rounds.
Netanyahu will get ‘talks’–plus 800 more settlers blocking Bethlehem from Jerusalem
The peace process charade continues, with more settlements!
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists
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Israeli army raids West Bank village, arrests minors and steals gold jewelry
The village of Kafr Qaddum has faced increasing repression in recent days, proving an Israeli official’s remark that the IDF doesn’t ‘do Gandhi well.’
Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Settlers/Colonists
Tagged Amos Gilad, Kafr Qaddum, WikiLeaks
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Israeli forces attempt to arrest 2-1/2-year-old Palestinian
Israelis crack down on Kufr Qaddoum, part of Jerusalem municipality on eastern side of separation wall
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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‘Prawer Plan’ to uproot Bedouins shows folly of the phrase ‘democratic Israel’
A close look at the Israeli government’s Prawer Plan, which calls for the forced relocation of tens of thousands of citizens of Israel, further shows why the notion of a “democratic Israel” is a farce.
‘The Crisis of Zionism’ and the contradictions of Israel as a liberal democratic fantasy
A review of Peter Beinart’s new book, ‘The Crisis of Zionism’. While Beinart styles himself “a partisan of liberal democracy” and skillfully argues against the continued colonization of the West Bank, proponents of universal human rights will inevitably be disappointed by his fundamental analytical failings.
Showdown in Hebron: Netanyahu steps in to protect illegal settlers facing military eviction orders
A closed military zone has been put in place around a three story building in Hebron taken over and illegally occupied by 100 settlers in an overnight raid last Thursday. Initially the military ordered them to evacuate by 3 pm today, but Netanyahu stepped in and requested a delay.
Video: Israeli military violently evicts Palestinians, internationals from Hebron house
Two days ago the Israeli military raided a house in Hebron’s old city, evicting Palestinian and international activists who hoped to prevent it from being taken over by settlers.
Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Arab Spring, BDS, Egypt, Gaza, Iran, Iraq, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Neocons, Occupation, On the ground reports, One state/Two states, Settlers/Colonists, Today in Palestine, Turkey, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
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‘German GQ’ gets a political story American media have ignored: Palestinian youth
Joseph Dana profiles for German GQ magazine Palestinian activists Dina Alzeer and Fadi Quran, who are at the center of the new youth movement flourishing on the ground.
