Watch: New DAM hip hop track with video co-directed by Jackie Salloum targets violence against women, Ali Abunimah
“If I could go back in time” DAM raps the story “backwards” from death to birth of a young woman murdered by members of her family for refusing to marry against her will.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/watch-new-dam-hip-hop-track-video-co-directed-jackie-salloum-targets-violence
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Tuesday that it was pushing forward with construction of more than 1,200 new homes in Jewish settlements, in an apparent warning to the Palestinians to rethink their plan to ask the United Nations to recognize an independent state of Palestine.
IOF troops pave land for new settlement outpost south of al-Khalil
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) started paving land in preparation for the construction of a new settlement outpost in Majnona area to the south of al-Khalil.
Occupation orders the evacuation of Wadi al-Maleh in the northern Jordan Valley
Israeli soldiers demolished, Tuesday, two Palestinian homes, a barn and two wells, and handed demolition orders against four more homes, in the villages of Ad-Deerat and Al-Jawaya, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.
Citizens prevent occupation from demolishing school and solar panels in Yatta
The Israeli occupation forces raided this morning the hamlets of al-Taban and al-Fakhit, in the east of Yatta south of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank.
A number of extremist Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of olive and prune trees that belong to a resident of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian collapses while detained at checkpoint during Eid holiday in Hebron
A Palestinian man, his initials being IS, was harassed along with his family at a checkpoint in Hebron during the Eid celebration. He and his son were reportedly beaten by Israeli soldiers. In the aftermath IS was held by the military for about an hour and finally collapsed. IS suffers from a disability which makes it difficult for him to walk. The family has been harassed by the army several times in the past, living in the Israeli-controlled H2 area of the city.
A short animated film by Alon Simone gives a lighthearted treatment to a serious subject: the devastating impact of Israel’s permit regime for Palestinian farmers with land across the Separation Barrier. Courtesy of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). If you don’t see the English subtitles please click the “cc” button on the bottom of the YouTube player.
Ten years on: Israel did not uphold its promise to prevent the separation barrier from harming Palestinians
Ten years after construction began on the Separation Barrier, a new B’Tselem report published today (5 Nov. 2012) examines the long-term impact on the Palestinian communities on whose land the barrier was built. The main conclusion of the report, Arrested Development, is that—in spite of promises to the High Court, the steps taken by the State have not prevented the barrier’s harmful effects on the lives of Palestinians. Since the construction of the barrier, Palestinians in nearby communities lost the ability to make profitable use of their lands—their major remaining resource. Today, with the barrier nearly two-thirds completed, the agricultural economy has shrunk drastically in West Bank areas once considered stable. Moreover, the spatial division between neighboring communities, and between them and their land, strains their ability to survive and paralyzes sustainable development.
http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/201210_arrested_development
How Israel’s West Bank barrier isolated Bir Nabala – video
Residents of East Jerusalem suburb tell how they have been affected by Israel’s separation barrier.
Welcome to Bir Nabala
The town of Bir Nabala, next to Jerusalem, is trapped in an enclave of the Separation Barrier. A residential suburb of East Jerusalem since the 1970s, Bir Nabala enjoyed relative prosperity in the 1990s thanks to its central location and easy access to Ramallah and East Jerusalem, and from there to central Israel. Now isolated by the barrier, Bir Nabala lost half its residents, most of them East Jerusalemites who returned to the city, and many of the town’s businesses closed. Using unique archival footage, “Welcome to Bir Nabala” documents the transformation of Bir Nabala into a ghost town, via the stories of two local banquet halls.
Due to Israel’s ongoing separation policies between Gaza and the West Bank, countless Palestinian spouses have been split while parents have been forcibly separated from their children.
Dr. Abdullah Lama, As’ad AbuKhalil
I wrote briefly the other day about the passing of Dr. `Abdullah Lama. I failed to mention that he was the personal physician of George Habash. When Habash had his first heart attack, a physician at AUB leaked the news to An-Nahar which then released to the world although Habash was staying under a fake name. But An-Nahar could not withhold the news, of course. His passing reminded me of my activism in my youth because of that one first meeting I attended at his house. Hana sent me this about him: “As’ad; It saddened me quite a bit to hear about the death of Dr. Lama. He was my family doctor and a close friend of my grandfather. A one-of-a-kind person, who is remembered by most people who lived in the Southern Suburb of Beirut, where he treated folks in his Burj El Barajneh clinic whether or not they had money, Lebanese and Palestinians. He kept coming to his clinic in the darkest of days in Dahiyeh, and we had many of those. He retired at an old age, and his daughter for a while picked up his clinical duties. He continued to drive to Palestine via Jordan and visit his homeland until a year or two ago. He could do that because he is an American Palestinian. His name is mentioned in Dahiyeh with a reverence that is usually reserved to prophets and saints. An inspirational, beautiful and stubborn-as-hell man.”
Prominent Syrian-born Palestinian actor killed
Prominent Syrian-born Palestinian actor Mohammed Rafeh, who was believed to be a supporter of President Bashar Assad’s regime, was kidnapped and then killed by anti-government gunmen, activists and his family said Sunday. He was 30.
Soldiers Invade Orif Village Near Nablus, Clashes Reported
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli soldiers, invaded on Saturday evening, the Orif village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and clashed with local youths before kidnapping one resident.
Jewish settlers and troops attack Urif villagers in Nablus
A Palestinian young man was injured and another was detained on Saturday evening during attacks by Jewish settlers and troops in Urif village south of Nablus city.
Five Palestinians Kidnapped in Tubas
Local sources in Tubas, in the central part of the West Bank, reported that five Palestinians were kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, by Israeli soldiers who invaded the city, and searched several homes.
Soldiers Invade a Jenin Village, Kidnap One Resident
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli soldiers invaded, Sunday, the Zabbouba village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and kidnapped one resident after breaking into his home. The army also detonated a suspicious object located near the Annexation Wall section near the village.
http://www.imemc.org/article/64504
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped at dawn Monday a Palestinian woman named Nawal Al-Saadi, 50, and a young man in Jenin city during violent raids on their homes.
Bassem Tamimi sentenced to 4 months in Israeli military jail
In a plea bargain, Bassem Tamimi was sentenced to four months in prison, ordered to pay a fine of NIS 5,000, and given an additional three-year suspended sentence. Just recently having completed a 13-month prison stint, he was arrested last month while taking part in a protest at a settlement supermarket.
Human Rights Center holds IOA responsible for Mohammed al-Najjar’s life
Detained journalist in serious health condition
The Palestinian journalists syndicate in Ramallah has expressed utmost concern at the health conditions of journalists held in Israeli occupation jails.
The leadership of the Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails denied it was offered a truce for 10 years by the Israeli prison authority in exchange for meeting the prisoners’ demands.
Al Tadhamon Foundation for Human Rights said that the Israeli intelligence service has been recently questioning some captives who almost completed their sentences.
Jordan said to allow Iyad Burnat’s passage to U.S. tour about Palestinian peaceful resistance, Susie Kneedler
As we reported here, the Jordanian government unexpectedly interfered with Americans’ ability to hear from heroic peace activist Iyad Burnat, head of Bil’in’s Popular Committee, about his village’s peaceful work against Israel’s illegal separation wall and his brave defense of human rights in Palestine.
Angela Davis: At least in the Jim Crow South the roads were not segregated, Annie Robbins
Angela Davis spoke at the closing session of the annual meeting of American Public Health Association in San Francisco, about “Incarceration, Justice and Health”.
PA apparatuses attack and arrest 2 cadres of PFLP
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine accused PA security services in the city of al-Khalil of arresting two of its cadres following organizing a peaceful demonstration yesterday.
Peres phones Abbas to thank him for his positions
Israeli president Shimon Peres hailed de facto president Mahmoud Abbas over the phone and thanked him for his latest remarks about the right of return and the popular uprising against Israel.
What Mahmoud Abbas said last week was that he’d like to visit his hometown, not live there. But because that hometown — the picturesque Galilee city of Safed — is in what’s today Israel, and because, as leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Abbas represents the people who claim the same land, his words were taken as more than a rumination on possible vacation plans. He had punctured the seal on the biggest can of worms in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the “right of return.” Abbas, 77, left Safed when he was 13, his family joining the torrent of Arab families who fled their homes in 1948 ahead of advancing Jewish forces who were intent on creating Israel. Some 700,000 Arab residents departed, many at gunpoint, taking refuge across international borders in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Gaza Strip, which was then administered by Egypt. Most expected to come back, once Arab states got their act together and finally defeated the Jews on the battlefield. It never happened. What victories came their way were in the realm of diplomacy and rhetoric: In December 1948 a sympathetic United Nations passed a resolution, no. 194, saying they should be allowed to go back to their homes.
Abbas’s Declaration = Balfour’s Declaration, Elias Akleh
On November 2nd 1917 the then British Foreign Secretary, Arthur Balfour, had promised the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland his country’s help to establish a Jewish home land in Palestine. This is known as Balfour Declaration. Last Friday, the ninety fifth anniversary of this shameful declaration, Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority and the Chairman of the PLO, had also made a similar shameful declaration.
Human Rights Group Denounces Hamas Attack On Women’s Procession In Gaza
The Palestinian Human Rights Foundation – Pal-Monitor (Rased) issued a press release denouncing an attack carried out against Freedom of Speech when dozens of Hamas’s security officers and policemen, in Gaza, attacked a procession conducted by women, including political leaders, who marched in Gaza demanding an end to internal divisions and rifts between the political parties.
Abu Zuhri denies Hamas had secret talks with Israel
A Hamas spokesman on Tuesday denied Fatah allegation that Hamas was involved in secret negotiations with Israel in Switzerland about establishment of a Palestinian state with temporary borders.
US forces accused of stealing Jewish-Iraqi archive and passing it to Israel
An Iraqi parliamentarian has accused the US forces of stealing the country’s Jewish Archive and handing it over to the Israelis. Talal Zobai, the chair of the Parliamentary Tourism and Archaeological Committee, said that the American troops found the archive when they broke into a prison in the headquarters of the intelligence department of the former Iraqi regime.
An adviser to the Egyptian president has said that the blame for the current tension and unrest in Sinai has to rest with the terms of the peace treaty with Israel. Mohamed Seif El Dawla, who advises President Mohammed Morsi on Arab Affairs, pointed out that the treaty imposes many restrictions on Egypt, especially with regards to the deployment of troops across the Sinai Peninsula. “The restrictions affect our sovereignty over the territory, resulting in the growth of lawlessness,” he said.
A spokesman for Hamas says the Syrian government has sealed its offices in Damascus, finalizing the break between the Islamic militant group and its former patron.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman warns that Israel will respond harshly if Palestine is given enhanced status at UN.
10 Border Guard officers injured in Shufat
Two officers sustain moderate wounds, eight sustain light injuries while arresting suspects in Palestinian refugee camp; teen who stabbed one of the officers injured during arrest.
3 soldiers injured in blast on Gaza border
Explosive device hits IDF force engaging in routine activity near border fence in southern Strip; soldiers fire back at suspicious targets.
Victory: Palestinian-American Muhammad Salah removed from US “terrorist” list after lawsuit challenge, Ali Abunimah
In a potentially significant victory for civil rights, Palestinian-American Muhammad Salah has been removed from the US Department of Treasury’s list of “designated terrorists.”
8 year-old boy donates money to Hezbollah
Judd Hashisho wants money he’s been saving for past year to help terror group purchase drones to ‘fight Israel the b**ch’.
It’s time for sanctions on Israel, Jamal Zahalka
The merger of the rightwing parties will increase extremism and racism against Palestinians. Sanctions are the only answer. Ahead of the Israeli elections next January, a merger between the parties of the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has been announced. They are to contest the elections on a joint list, intending to become the largest bloc in the Knesset. The move is seen as an achievement for both men. Netanyahu was shaken by the recent decline in the popularity of his Likud party at the rate of one seat per week. More specifically, his apprehension revolved around the possible return of Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister, as leader of an opposition alliance consisting of Tzipi Livni, the former foreign minister; Shaul Mofaz, leader of Kadima; and Yair Labed, a rising political star.
“If I could go back in time” DAM raps the story “backwards” from death to birth of a young woman murdered by members of her family for refusing to marry against her will.
Israeli director Guy Davidi and Palestinian Emad Burnat discuss their documentary following the Israeli military’s attempts to build a separation barrier in Emad’s village.
UK dance troupe al-Zaytouna retell Shakespeare through dabke, Asa Winstanley
A London dance company uses Shakespeare to tell Palestine’s modern tale through traditional dance.
http://electronicintifada.net/content/uk-dance-troupe-al-zaytouna-retell-shakespeare-through-dabke/11847?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifadaPalestine+%28Electronic+Intifada+%3A+Palestine+News%29
The Israeli / Saudi Nexus, BARRY LANDO
“What was the real cost for not recognizing Israel in 1948 and why didn’t the Arab states spend their assets on education, health care, and the infrastructures instead of wars? But the hardest question that no Arab national wants to hear is whether Israel is the real enemy of the Arab world and the Arab people.”
incredible video
“Palestinian hip hop track targets violence against women”
Sigh. They just don’t get it, do they? Hip-hop is supposed to promote violence against women. Simply no shared values.