Israeli Committee Rules that Fatal 2002 Bombing of Gaza Neighbourhood “Not Criminal” (Tania Kepler) - 28-feb-2011

February 28, 2011 - The 2002 Israeli bombing of the Al Daraj neighborhood in Gaza that killed 15 Palestinians and left more than 100 injured has been ruled not criminal by Israel’s Special Investigatory Commission. According to the committee's report, submitted to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday (27/2), though intelligence mistakes were made, none of the Israeli military personnel involved should be punished. The committee stated that the rules of Israeli and international law "unequivocally remove any suspicion that a criminal offense was committed by any of those involved in the operation." Not everyone, however, agrees. The purpose of the attack was to kill suspected Hamas commander Salah Shehadeh, whom the Israelis considered a serious terrorist threat. The Israeli air force dropped a one ton bomb on the home of Shehadeh, killing 15 people, including Shahade, his wife and 9 children. 150 others were also injured...

The Continual Struggle of al-Arakib (Palestine Monitor) - 28-feb-2011

February 27, 2011 - On 17 February 2011, the special police forces accompanied officials from the Israel Land Administration to demolish the Bedouin village of al-Arakib for the 18th time since 27 July 2010. There are 45 unrecognized Bedouin communities living in Israel’s Negev, and over the past seven months the ILA has targeted al-Arakib making life nearly impossible. According to Palestinian Knesset Member, Talab al-Sana, Israel is making an example of al-Arakib in hopes to pressure the other communities to disperse voluntarily....

Palestinian Children Affected by Armed Conflict: New UNICEF Report (UNICEF) - 27-feb-2011

February 27, 2011 - In 2010, grave violations continued to be committed against children in the occupied Palestinian territory. Eleven Palestinian children were killed and 360 injured in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. No Israeli children were killed but two were injured. Palestinian children continued to be detained and subjected to ill-treatment, and in some cases torture, during arrest and interrogations by Israeli security forces. In East Jerusalem, search and arrest operations involving children as young
as seven years old intensified in the Silwan neighbourhood, and child casualties increased at the end of the year as a result of the confrontations between private armed guards, hired by the Israeli Ministry of Housing to protect Israeli settlers, and local residents (unarmed). In Gaza, Palestinian
children were shot at by Israeli security forces while collecting rubble in or near the Buffer Zone, hoping to earn some money to help their poverty-stricken families....

28/02/2011

Europe’s Extreme Righteous
Stefan Theil - Newsweek - Far-right European politicians find love—and common cause—in Israel

Our absurd obsession with Israel is laid bare
Nick Cohen - The Guardian - The Middle East meant only Israel to many. Now the lives of millions of Arabs have been brought to Europe`s attention

Israeli Internal Probe: 2002 Bombing Which Killed 8 Children `Justified`
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News - "An `internal investigation` by the Israeli military released a report Sunday that there was `no wrongdoing` in a 2002 targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli airforce, in which Israeli soldiers dropped a missile on a crowded apartment building, killing a targeted leader of Hamas along with 13 civilians, including 8 children"

Murdered Jerusalem man subjected to racism even in death
Jillian Kestler-D`Amours - EI - "The Israeli authorities argued that they had secret evidence proving that if Hussam`s funeral was to be held in the vicinity of the Temple Mount, a riot would break out, similar to what happened when an Israeli settler security guard shot and killed Silwan resident Samer Sarhan in September 2010"

Till September - The Palestinian Authority`s Meaningless Deadlines
Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - "The PA wants to stall until September. But will Palestinians wait that long?"

Palestinians turn to technology to avoid roadblocks
Arieh O’Sullivan / The Media Line - The Jerusalem Post - Checkpoint-buster program uses text messages to warn drivers of long lines ahead in West Bank

A Crazy Prophet
Uri Avnery - Gush Shalom - "But now the Palestinian youth, too, has seen that it is possible to face live fire, that Qaddafi’s fighter planes did not put an end to the uprising, that Pearl Square in Bahrain did not empty when the king’s soldiers opened fire. This lesson will not be forgotten. Perhaps this will not happen tomorrow or the day after. But it most certainly will happen – unless we make peace while we still can"

Israeli Government, Universities Support Student Delegation Sent to Fight Israel Apartheid Week
Connie Hackbarth - AIC - "Ben Gurion University and the Weitzmann Institute are joining forces with Israel’s Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs to support and finance a delegation going to the UK to counter Israel Apartheid Week at the end of March"

In Netanyahu`s bunker
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz - Rather than pursuing negotiations with the Palestinian national movement concerning territories in the West Bank, the prime minister keeps pointing to the precedent of the unilateral transfer of areas of Gaza to the `subsidiary` of the Muslim Brotherhood, without negotiations

Activists change street names in TA to Hebron street names
Joseph Dana--

For previous articles since 2004 go to respective sections

Silwan Residents Injured by Israeli Fire Over Weekend

Monday February 28, 2011 - 16:28

Friday and Saturday saw a continuation of clashes in Silwan, East Jerusalem, leaving many Palestinians injured. Full Story

Army Abducts Two Palestinians From Hebron

Monday February 28, 2011 - 11:52

Israeli soldiers abducts, on Monday at dawn, two Palestinians from the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Full Story

Israeli Settlers Demand Firing Of Bus Driver For Crime Of 'being Arab'

Monday February 28, 2011 - 11:31

A Palestinian-Israeli bus driver, who holds Israeli citizenship, has been threatened with firing after he was assigned to a route that serves the Israeli colonial settlement of Elazar. Jewish Israeli residents of the settlement have launched a campaign to have the bus driver fired, submitting a letter to the regional council to that effect. Full Story

Elected Legislator Sentenced To Six Months

Monday February 28, 2011 - 11:18

The Israeli Authorities sentenced, on Sunday, a Palestinian legislator to six months in administrative detention without presenting any legal charges against him. Full Story

One Resident Wounded As Army Bombards Gaza

Monday February 28, 2011 - 11:06

Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday morning, that one resident was injured after the Israeli army bombarded an area near the Gaza International Airport, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Full Story

The kitchen or the battlefield? Women's experiences of violence and 'suicide terrorism' in the Palestinian territories  

28 February 2011

According to Egyptian Islamist Zaynab al-Ghazali, the 'ideal Muslim woman must work out, with God's help, priorities for her life: Should she stay in the kitchen or should she go out into the battlefield?' (quoted in Cook 2001: 88). In the context of national-liberation struggles across the globe, we hear much about what is loosely described as 'terrorism'. In some cases, acts of 'terror' take the form of suicide bombings. The 'terrorist' or 'martyr' is reviled by many but celebrated as a hero by others. What we tend to hear less about is the gender dimension of 'suicide terrorism'. In this article, with reference to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, I will explore the various roles of women in the problematic and emotionalized area of 'suicide terrorism' and its accompanying layers of violence.

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What are the implications of Middle East-North Africa unrest for the future of the Israel-Palestine peace process?  

28 February 2011

• In an interview for the BBC during an emergency tour of the Middle East earlier this month, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said: "Amid the opportunity for countries like Tunisia and Egypt, there is a legitimate fear that the Middle East peace process will lose further momentum and be put to one side, and will be a casualty of uncertainty in the region." Reiterating these perceptions in Tunis, he emphasised that the new status quo would "complicate the process still further" and stressed that it was time to "inject greater urgency into the Middle East peace process", particularly on the part of Israel and the US.

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Hamas delegation visits Oman for high-level talks  

28 February 2011

Oman's Deputy Prime Minster for Cabinet Affairs, Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said.

A delegation from the Islamic resistance Movement, Hamas, has visited the Sultanate of Oman for high-level talks. Led by the movement's political bureau chief, Khaled Meshaal, the delegation was met by Oman's Deputy Prime Minster for Cabinet Affairs, Fahd bin Mahmoud Al Said, on behalf of Sultan Qaboos. Further meetings were held with the Sultan's Adviser for Cultural Affairs, Abdel Aziz bin Mohamed, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Youssef bin Elwy Abdallah.

The Hamas delegation included Dr. Moussa Abu Marzouk, Sami Khater and Mohamed Nasr as well as Meshaal. Their meetings with Omani officials addressed the latest developments in Palestine and the challenges it faces, in addition to current events in the region and how they will affect the Palestinian situation.

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Palestinians mourn death of leading Turkish Islamist  

28 February 2011

Former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan

Palestinian factions and organisation have been mourning the death of former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, the founder of the Islamist movement in Turkey. Mr. Erbakan died on 27 February from cardiac and respiratory failure, aged 85; he had been in hospital since January. His passing came on the eve of the 14th anniversary of the military coup d'état which overthrew his government in 1997.

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Gaza medical centre performs ground-breaking surgery  

28 February 2011

A medical centre in Gaza has performed a surgical first in the besieged territory by implanting a Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy Defibrillator device (CRTD) in a 70-year old patient. The Hayat Medical Centre for Heart Disease, under renowned cardiologist Dr. Mohammed Habib and his medical and nursing team, succeeded in planting the device in Mussa Abu Sultan, who was suffering from severe weakness in his heart muscles.

Dr. Habib said that the device was planted under the patient's skin, a medical first for the Gaza Strip, in an operation which lasted for six hours.

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• Israel preparing to deport star of Oscar-winning doc ‘Strangers No More’
• Justice makes for a clear blue sky
• More Israeli attacks on Gaza, rising violence in West Bank
• Benghazi Commune – Capital of the Libyan revolution
• Mona Eltahawy’s speech signals shift in mainstream discourse that Zionists don’t want
• Pete Seeger endorses boycott of Israel
• US Palestinian Community Network to PA – ‘You’re fired’
• Judith Butler: LGBT center refusal to host Israeli Apartheid Week event is ‘to submit to the tactics of intimidation and ignorance’
• Arab nonviolent revolutions mark the beginning of the end of the 9/11 era
• Oscar night at J St: Michael Sfard says Israel made ‘an immoral choice’ and makes it again, every day
• Israeli inquiry: One-ton bomb dropped on Shehadeh house, killing 13 civilians, was ‘legitimate’
• At J Street, Eltahawy gets standing ovation when she calls on peaceful revolution to come to Israel and Palestine
• For Egypt’s workers the revolution is far from over
• The opposition is building an interim government while Saif says there is nothing going on…
• Desecrating the American flag

What are the implications of Middle East-North Africa unrest for the future of the Israel-Palestine peace process?
Zulaikha Abdullah  

Protecting Palestine through Cultural Heritage
Palestine Monitor  

01/03/2011

Ghost town
Gideon Levy - Haaretz - The well-kept (relatively ) and busy (relatively ) streets now give way to ghost streets. The lower down the slope we drive, the more deserted they are. Hundreds of locked, sealed stores, hundreds of abandoned apartments, blinds shut, windows barred, ancient stone homes that could be Palestinian heritage sites but are now desolate. Welcome to Hebron H2, under Israeli control.

The United States Stands Alone with Israel in the UN Security Council [or How (Dis)honest is the Honest Broker?]
Richard Falk - Znet - In view of this feverish Israeli effort to create still more facts on the ground, for the Israelis to contend that negotiations should resume without preconditions, is to hope that the Palestinian Authority will play the fool forever.

Israel issues eviction orders to 600 Palestinian Bedouins in Jerusalem area
Sergio Yahni - Alternative Information Center - Hathem Abdel Qader, responsible for Jerusalem in the Fatah movement, warned yesterday of an Israeli plan to deport some 600 Palestinian Bedouin residents of the Wadi Abu Hindi area, located between the settlements of Maale Adumim and Keder, south-east of Jerusalem.

Yesh Gvul`s Response to the Findings of the Committee Appointed to Inspect the Shehade Assassination
Yesh Gvul - The committee`s report is toothless, paving the road to similar military actions in the future. The report will not protect alleged war criminals from indictment.

Folk music legend Pete Seeger endorses boycott of Israel
Adalah-NY & ICAHD - Folk music legend Pete Seeger has come out in support of the growing Palestinian movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel as a program for justice for Palestinians and a route to peace in the Middle East

Europe’s Extreme Righteous
Stefan Theil - Newsweek - Far-right European politicians find love—and common cause—in Israel

Our absurd obsession with Israel is laid bare
Nick Cohen - The Guardian - The Middle East meant only Israel to many. Now the lives of millions of Arabs have been brought to Europe`s attention

Israeli Internal Probe: 2002 Bombing Which Killed 8 Children `Justified`
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News - "An `internal investigation` by the Israeli military released a report Sunday that there was `no wrongdoing` in a 2002 targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli airforce, in which Israeli soldiers dropped a missile on a crowded apartment building, killing a targeted leader of Hamas along with 13 civilians, including 8 children"

Murdered Jerusalem man subjected to racism even in death
Jillian Kestler-D`Amours - EI - "The Israeli authorities argued that they had secret evidence proving that if Hussam`s funeral was to be held in the vicinity of the Temple Mount, a riot would break out, similar to what happened when an Israeli settler security guard shot and killed Silwan resident Samer Sarhan in September 2010"

Till September - The Palestinian Authority`s Meaningless Deadlines
Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - "The PA wants to stall until September. But will Palestinians wait that long?"

For previous articles since 2004 go to respective sections

Palestinian Man Injured in Gaza

Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 18:33

A twenty-two year old man was injured by Israeli shelling in the southern part of Gaza in Khan Younis, in the midst of an Israeli incursion in the area. Full Story

Hamas Prevent Unity Rally in Gaza

Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 17:50

Hamas security forces dispersed a rally in the Gaza Strip, on Monday. The rally had been intended to call for an end to political division within the Palestinian political world. Full Story

Al-Quds Brigades to Employ "New Tactics"

Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 17:36

Ma'an News Agency are reporting, on Tuesday, that the al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, are preparing "new tactics" to use against the Israeli military. Full Story

Six Children Arrested in Silwan Clashes

Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 17:19

Israeli ‘undercover’ forces arrested six Palestinian children, on Monday, during violent confrontations in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, local sources informed. Full Story

Another Palestinian Child Run Over in Hebron

Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 16:26

An Israeli settler hit a Palestinian boy with his car in Hebron, on Monday evening, Ma'an News Agency reported. Full Story

Israel To Legalize Settlement Outposts

Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 13:52

Israel has announced plans to legalize a total of 96 settlement outposts. Full Story

Defending civil society in Israel and abroad 

Ishai Menuchin

25 February 2011

If it has not become clear by now then we should make no mistake: Israeli civil society organizations working in the fields of human rights, peace and solidarity are in an increasingly hostile and precarious position in the Israeli public sphere. Ishai Menuchin comments for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]

Arab pride reborn through revolution 

Yasmeen El Khoudary

28 February 2011

The "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunis, "January 25 Revolution" in Egypt and the ongoing uprisings in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain are the true Arab awakening, for they are being led by the people and for the people. [MORE]

iew: Jordan revoking citizenship from Palestinian refugees

Hazem Jamjoum

28 February 2011

Palestinians in Jordan constitute both the majority of the kingdom's population, and the largest Palestinian refugee community in the world. EI contributor Hazem Jamjoum spoke to Anis F. Kassim, an international law expert and practicing lawyer in Jordan to clarify what is known about the situation of Palestinian citizenship rights in Jordan. [MORE]

Palestinians call for unity protest on 15 March 

Pam Bailey

1 March 2011

GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - A look at the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings that succeeded in ousting long-entrenched dictators confirms a universal truth: it is the youth who are leading the way in forcing reform in the Middle East. [MORE]

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Palestinian fashion designer's uncompromising debut 

Neville Rigby

24 February 2011

With style gurus and editors reveling in another pageant of new creations flaunted at London Fashion Week, a talented young Palestinian is bucking the trend with his own captivatingly unconventional designs. [MORE]

Lia Tarachansky: Seven Deadly Myths 

1 March 2011

Seven Deadly Myths examines the concept of knowing and not knowing at the same time. Seeing and not comprehending what you see. It starts in the West Bank colony of Ariel where director Lia Tarachansky grew up. As she returns to the settlement, she discovers as though for the first time that it is surrounded by Palestinian villages, that the dispossessed are right next door, behind electrical fences, under watch towers, locked behind walls. But the Palestinians were not made invisible by accident.

IOA Editor: Highly recommended! And, this trailer will be removed this coming weekend – very few days left to watch it.

MK Ahmed Tibi: Israeli Arab leaders who visited Libya didn’t back Gadhafi 

28 February 2011

In Israel there is ethnic democracy: democracy for 80 percent of the public and exclusion and discrimination for 20 percent, and a regime of oppression and dictatorship in the occupied territories. I and my colleagues, my fellow Arab Knesset members, are sitting just a few meters away in the plenum hall from Israelis who have killed members of our people and are imposing a regime of occupation. Will anyone say this testifies to support for their deeds?

Palestinian military court sends five West Bank Hamas members to prison  

01 March 2011

• Five members of Hamas in the occupied West Bank have been given prison sentences by two Palestinian Authority military courts; the trials of four other men have been postponed. A press release from Hamas named the men as Bilal El-Qurm, from the village of Gelqamos; Samer Gradat, from Sila Al-Haretheya; and Refaat El-Hajj, also from Gelqamos. El-Qurm and Gradat were each sentenced to five months in prison; El-Hajj received a six-month suspended sentence.

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Netanyahu meets Blair to discuss restarting negotiations with the Palestinian Authority  

01 March 2011

• Israel's Prime Minister has held a meeting with the Middle East Quartet Envoy to discuss the latest developments in the region. Media reports claim that Benjamin Netanyahu and Tony Blair focused on the "concessions" that Israel announced it would make if bilateral peace negotiations resume following last September's halt to talks.

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• Palestinians face ‘price tag’ revenge from furious settlers
• Palestinian LGBT group: Israeli fantasies about being ‘democratic’ are absurd & the belief they are rescuing us is pathetic
• Dershowitz rides shotgun for student attacking Palestinian scholar and his wife in California
• More towns fall to Anti-Gaddafi forces
• The mood in Tahrir was somber and frantic as protesters realized Mubarak would not go down without a fight
• Speaking truth to power at the J Street conference
• Palestinian boycott call is part and parcel of the Arab spring that is sweeping the region
• Israel should be given the South African treatment
• How to be an expert
• IDF spokesman says he used assumed name in UK to avoid arrest
• Benny Morris is worried about the special relationship
• Brian Baird and Anthony Weiner to talk Israel/Palestine, moderated by Roger Cohen
• Yet another threat: Dennis Ross fears the Palestinians’ ‘biological clock’
• This isn’t about Lara Logan
• Khalidi: Arab youth ask why US sacrificed their rights to stability? Yes, why?

World Social Forum puts Palestine solidarity into action (Stefan Christoff) - 02-mar-2011

March 2, 2011 - Tens of thousands of activists gathered in Dakar, Senegal for the 2011 World Social Forum (WSF) in February. Hundreds of workshops and assemblies on social justice struggles around the world were held at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, including a series of presentations on the Palestinian struggle for liberation and the growing global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli apartheid. Activists from around the world held meetings, workshops and strategy sessions on the global BDS movement, working toward a global day of action on Palestinian Land Day, 30 March, and a global forum on Palestine to take place in the upcoming years within the WSF process...

Analysis: Concerns over rising violence in West Bank (IRIN News) - 02-mar-2011

March 1, 2011 - Violence between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in the West Bank appears to be worsening, say UN agencies, NGOs, and the Israeli and Palestinian communities living there. An increased number of Palestinian civilians have been injured and had property or land damaged in incidents involving Israeli settlers living in the West Bank since the start of 2011, reports the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Meanwhile, a systematic lack of law enforcement against settlers by Israeli authorities is being reported by Israeli and Palestinian NGOs and Palestinian victims. Israeli NGO Yesh-Din says nine out 10 investigations of Israeli attacks against Palestinians are closed, with no indictment served, according to a 16 February data sheet on its monitoring of police investigations of a variety of offences....

Six Children Arrested in Silwan Clashes (Alessandra Bajec) - 02-mar-2011

March 01, 2011 - Israeli 'undercover’ forces arrested six Palestinian children, on Monday, during violent confrontations in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, local sources informed. Six children were rounded up in al-Ein al-Fawqa, in Silwan, after Israeli forces entered the neighbourhood wearing civilian clothes, eyewitnesses said. Three of the children from the neighbourhood are known as Fahmi al-Haymouni, aged 16, Musalem Odeh, 11, and Khalil ar-Rishq, 7. The other two were not immediately identified...

In whose name does Dutch FM Rosenthal speak? (Rifat Odeh Kassis) - 02-mar-2011

March 1, 2011 - In recent months, a number of Latin American countries have publicly expressed their recognition of Palestinian statehood. Given that a Palestinian state doesn't yet exist, this recognition also amounts to supporting the Palestinian right to statehood. For Israel and defenders of its policies around the world, the "snowball effect" of nations recognizing this right is, unsurprisingly, unnerving. One such defender is Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal. In an 8 February interview with The Jerusalem Post, Rosenthal argued why he believes international support for a Palestinian declaration of statehood "does no good"...

Will the Palestinians keep silent? (Alaa Tartir) - 02-mar-2011

March 1, 2011 - The Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains the heart of the persistent crisis in the Middle East. But within the persistent revolutionary wave, new questions on the issue have been raised. Most importantly, where are the Palestinian people? Why they are 'relatively’ silent, and when and how they will break this silence and have their own say? So far, Palestinians have been in front of their televisions watching Al-Jazeera, and not out in the thousands. What kind of changes have there been that Palestinians now consume revolutions rather than produce them?...

02/03/2011

Netanyahu Warns on Settlements
ISABEL KERSHNER - NYT - "Settler leaders and their supporters have complained recently that no new building has been approved in some of the largest settlements."

Israeli settlers hit back after army demolishes their West Bank homes
Harriet Sherwood - Guardian - "...have called for a "day of rage" on Thursday in protest at the army`s demolition of an outpost in the West Bank."

In whose name does Dutch FM Rosenthal speak?
Rifat Odeh Kassis - EI - "Moreover, by defending Israel`s injustices through public office, Rosenthal makes his own country a partner in their perpetuation."

Israel To Legalize Settlement Outposts
David Steele - IMEMC - "All settlements and settlement outposts are illegal under international law."

Israeli Navy Fires At Palestinian Fishing Boats
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - "Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of Emergency and Medical Services in Gaza, said that the fishing boats were within Palestinian territorial waters during the attack."

PM mulling new initiative on Palestinian statehood
HERB KEINON - J-Post - "Although there is little expectation that the Palestinians would accept such an agreement, the feeling in government circles is that it would at least take some of the international pressure off Israel and preempt world recognition of a Palestinian state along the 1967 lines."

In dirt-poor Jisr al-Zarqa, showers are a rare commodity
Roy Arad - Haaretz - "For three weeks now Jisr al-Zarqa, one of the poorest communities in Israel, has been disconnected from the national water supply every day from 2 P.M. to 8 P.M. due to the city`s mounting debt to the Mekorot Water Company." id

Back in action
Yigal Sarna - Ynet - ""My sentence term was shortened by a third; I had visitation rights and was written about in the newspapers. These are rights they don`t have," he lamented."

14 new Jewish homes in Arab neighborhood
Nir Hasson - Haaretz - "The larger plan also calls for a swimming pool, synagogue, kindergartens, and an overpass linking the compound to Ma`aleh Zeitim across the road. That would essentially create one Jewish enclave of over 200 families in Ras al-Amud." id

The Right to Boycott
Adam Keller - Crazy Country - "Now, there is also the "Prohibition of Boycotts Act, 2010", a bill which the Knesset Judicial Committee approved for its First Reading. It includes draconian punishments of all who call for a boycott against the settlements."

For previous articles since 2004 go to respective sections

Right-wing Israelis March In Jaffa against Arab Presence

Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 17:00

Right-wing Israelis held a march through Jaffa to protest against what they deemed, “the Islamic movement gaining control” over the city. Full Story

Jerusalem Municipality Approves Settlement Construction In East Jerusalem

Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 11:43

The Jerusalem Municipality decided to transform a police station in the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud in Jerusalem into a settlement outpost, and approved the construction of 14 units that would become the base for a new settlement. Full Story

Israel Shuts al-Mintar Crossing

Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 10:51

The israeli army has shut al-Mintar crossing, on Wednesday, and kept “Karam Abu Salem” crossing open only. Full Story

Haniyya: “Reconciliation Cannot Be Reached Amidst Siege, Collaboration With Israel”

Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 08:31

Hamas leader, and Prime Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya, stated that the Palestinian people want real reconciliation that addresses the current political changes in the Arab World, and that this reconciliation cannot be reached amidst collaboration with Israel and, ongoing political arrests. Full Story

UN Delegates 'Walked Out' During Clinton Speech

By Ma’an

Palestine's delegation to the UN Human Rights Council walked out Monday in protest of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech in which she criticized the council for bias against Israel. Continue

Meshaal meets Russian envoy in Damascus  

02 March 2011

The head of the Islamic Resistance Movement's political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, has held a meeting with Russian diplomat Sergey Vershinin in Damascus. The Hamas chief met the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Middle East and North Africa Department on 28 February.

A press release issued by Hamas said that the Russian envoy delivered a message that "reflects Russia's interest in the developments currently taking place in the region, and stresses its trust in the people of the region and their ability to determine their fate via peaceful means... The message also expressed Russia's vision on the impact of such developments on a number of the main issues in the region, especially the Palestine Issue."

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Palestinians gather to pay respects to former Turkish leader  

02 March 2011

Palestinians have gathered in Gaza to pay their respects to the former Prime Minister of Turkey, Necmettin Erkaban, who passed away this week. Ismail Haniyeh, the Prime Minister of Gaza, expressed his condolences to the government and the people of Turkey. Mr. Erkaban and the current government of Turkey stood by Palestine and "formed a strategic alliance with the nation... as we saw in the recent war on Gaza. We have come to offer condolences to the leadership and the people of Turkey," said Mr. Haniyeh.

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Message to America and Europe: Spare us the crocodile tears over Libya  

02 March 2011

The uprising in Libya and the government's response dominate the news.  After the success of the revolution which ousted President Mubarak in Egypt, it only took a few days for the Libyan people to begin their own revolution against a megalomaniac dictator who has oppressed them for more than four decades.  It was clear from the start that Colonel Gaddafi would use great brutality in order to stay in power.  Within the first few days of the uprising, hundreds of Libyans were killed as Gaddafi unleashed a full scale military onslaught against his own people, using mercenaries from outside Libya and bombing cities form the air.  Gaddafi's actions were met initially with a deafening silence from the West.  The United States had little, if anything, to say about events in Libya and Gaddafi's chief ally in the West, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, said that it would be best "not to disturb" him at this critical time.  This response seemed to suggest that Western governments wanted Gaddafi to remain in power.  Although an enemy of the West in the 1980s, Gaddafi and his regime were "rehabilitated" in 2004.  Ever since then, lucrative trade deals have sprung up between Libya and the West.  The oil-rich state has become a market for Western arms and is a major supplier of oil to Europe, as well as a partner in the drive to combat illegal immigration from Africa to Europe.

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Plea for Muslim and Arab states to fulfil pledges for projects in Jerusalem  

02 March 2011

A plea has been made by the Bayt Al-Mal Al-Quds Agency for financial pledges made by Muslim and Arab states to be fulfilled. Made in resolutions of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Arab League, the pledges will help development projects in Jerusalem.

Reports in the Moroccan media claim that the Agency has called on the said countries to maintain their commitments to protect Jerusalem and support the resolve of Jerusalemites in the face of aggressive Israeli Judaisation policies. The Israeli government's plans threaten the legal status of the Jerusalem, change its religious and civil heritage and endanger Arab and Muslim residents of the Holy City.

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• ·  The Mondo Awards– we start rolling them out, at last
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• ·  Stop demonizing Arab institutions like Hamas and Muslim Bro’hood — Benjamin urges J Street
• ·  Suicide bomber is a hero for ‘Times of London’– in Libyan context
• ·  Tom Friedman says Israel and Salam Fayyad deserve credit for Arab revolutions
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• ·  There’s work to do
• ·  Palestinians face ‘price tag’ revenge from furious settlers
• ·  Palestinian LGBT group: Israeli fantasies about being ‘democratic’ are absurd & the belief they are rescuing us is pathetic
• ·  You can’t talk about Israel/Palestine without talking about the power difference

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory ( 24 Feb. 02 Mar. 2011) (The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)) - 03-mar-2011

March 3, 2011 - 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...

Diplomat: I can no longer represent Israel (Ynet) - 03-mar-2011

March 3, 2011 - Foreign Ministry earthquake: A veteran diplomat says he has resigned from his post because he had a hard time defending the policies of Israel's current government, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday. Ilan Baruch says he quit because "Israel's foreign policy is wrong," pointing to the Palestinian issue. Should this trend continue, he warned, Israel will turn into a pariah state and face growing de-legitimization...

Report: Israel illegally interrogates, tortures children (by Jeany Massad) - 03-mar-2011

March 02, 2011 - The Palestinian Ministry of Detainee Affairs published a new report Wednesday documenting the torture of children as young as seven in Israeli prisons. Since the beginning of this year, Israeli soldiers have abducted 150 children and all of them were interrogated during the course of their imprisonment. Many were subjected to harm treatment such as hitting, psychological abuse, violence and the threat of violence without a parent or adult representative present...

The Israelis keep bulldozing their village, but still the Bedouin will not give up their land (Harriet Sherwood) - 03-mar-2011

March 2, 2011 - The rutted track to al-Arakib leaves the desert highway at a sharp right angle through an unmarked gap in the roadside barrier. It's easy to miss, to be swept past with the stream of traffic heading through the sun-hardened and windswept landscape of the Negev. About a kilometre from the main road, you come first to the village cemetery, where the oldest grave dates from 1914, and a corrugated iron barn that serves as the mosque and now a communal kitchen and shelter. Then, across a trough in the land, you see the remnants of the Bedouin village: four simple wooden frames whose tarpaulin covers are continually thrashed by the relentless wind...

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)) - 03-mar-2011

March 2, 2011 - The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the findings of 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...

Seventh Annual Israeli Anti-Apartheid Week (by Stephen Lendman) - 03-mar-2011

March 2, 2011 - The web site apartheidweek.com announced it in over 60 cities worldwide, including: Adelaide, Al Quds, Amman, Amsterdam, Bard (NY), Basel, Beirut, Belfast, Berkeley, Bern, Bethlehem, Bilbao, Birzeit, Bordeaux, Boston, Brisbane, Brussels, Cape Town, Cleveland, Denver, Dublin, Dundee, Durban, Edmonton, Gainesville, Gaza, Geneva, Grahamstown, Haifa, Houston, Ireland, Johannesburg, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Mans, Lille, Lillehammer, London (Ontario), Lyon, Melbourne, Mexico City, Miami, Midwest, Montreal, Nablus, Naples, Nazereth, Neuchatel, New York, Ottawa, Paris, Perth, Peterborough, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, Providence, Regina, St. Louis, Stellenbosch, Sudbury, Toronto, Utrecht, Yaffa, and Zurich...

Mubarak regime source of sectarian unrest 

Cam McGrath

3 March 2011

CAIRO (IPS) - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak portrayed himself as a paradigm of stability in a country he once described as a "powder keg" of sectarian unrest. Yet far from promoting stability, his regime may have actually been the source of much of the religious strife it claimed to suppress. [MORE]

Casualties mount as battle for Libya continues  

Mike Elkin

3 March 2011

BENGHAZI, Libya (IPS) - The walls outside the al-Jalah Hospital in downtown Bengazi are covered with posters of missing persons, mostly teenagers and young men who disappeared after the protests began. Inside, hundreds of gunshot victims recover from the street battle between Muammar Gaddafi's forces and Benghazi's citizens. [MORE]

• More from Human Rights

03/03/2011

The historical narrative that lies beneath the Gaddafi rebellion
Robert Fisk - The Independent - Libyans have always opposed foreign occupiers just as the Algerians and the Egyptians and the Yemenis have done – but their Beloved Leader has always presented himself as a fellow resister rather than a dictator. Hence in his long self-parody of a speech in Tripoli yesterday, he invoked Omar Mukhtar – hanged by Mussolini`s colonial army – rather than the patronising tone of a Mubarak or a Ben Ali.

Gaza`s Crossings Squeezed Shut : Gisha response to closing of Karni Crossing
Gisha - News Release - Gisha expresses concern that today`s closing of Karni Crossing will further restrict the ability of Palestinian residents of Gaza to engage in dignified, productive work. Rather than considering opening new crossings, as Israel promised as part of its "easing" of the closure, Israel is squeezing shut one of the last gateways into Gaza, pushing all access into the small southern Kerem Shalom Crossing.

What do we tell our soldiers` parents?
Gideon Levy - Haaretz - The soldier should kill "anyone who hinders him in executing the mission." No formula better expresses the IDF`s new doctrine, which was applied with exemplary (and frightening) precision in Operation Cast Lead. One does not need to be overly fastidious about words to be shocked by Amidror`s statements.

Arab Democratic Revolution: Bringing It All Back Home–to Palestine
Richard Silverstein - Tikun Olam - While I admire Larry for his courage in being one of the lone lefty columnists at the Post and for the power of his voice, I think his column omits some critical differences between the Palestinian condition and those of other Arab nations where protests have toppled, or threaten to topple a powerful dictatorial elite. These differences render a potential Palestinian revolution much more complicated

PA: 150 states to recognize Palestine by Sept.
Elior Levy - YnetNews - The Palestinians apparently believe that broad international support, coupled with growing Israeli isolation, will enable them to achieve independence as early as this year.

JVP’s Rebecca Vilkomerson debates for BDS at J Street’s annual convention
Max Blumenthal - I just want to take a moment in appreciation of J Street for including this discussion at the conference. It is the most important conversation, in my mind, that we can have at this moment, and I thank you for having it. I want to take a moment to make sure we all are clear about what BDS is. BDS stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. It’s a Palestinian led, globally active, non-violent movement in support of equality and freedom for the Palestinian people.

Bold Gestures Go a Long Way
Joharah Baker - MIFTAH - It is naïve to think we can change US foreign policy simply by pointing out the obvious. I am sure even those in Washington’s inner circle of power understand how two-faced America looks in these instances. But it is never too late or too naïve to make bold gestures in protest. I think walking out on the Human Rights Council session was the right thing to do. If I were representing Palestine, I would have done the same.

How Palestine`s uprising inspired Egypt`s
Hossam el-Hamalawy - Electronic Intifada - Only after the Palestinian intifada broke out in September 2000 did tens of thousands of Egyptians take to the streets in protest -- probably for the first time since 1977. Although those demonstrations were in solidarity with the Palestinians, they soon gained an anti-regime dimension, and police showed up to quell the peaceful protests. The president, however, remained a taboo subject, and I rarely heard anti-Mubarak chants.

Rightists march in Jaffa
Yoav Zitun - YnetNews - Hundreds of officers, police chopper secure march against `Islamic takeover of Jaffa`. Residents take to streets to protest, holding signs saying `Extreme Right`s racism equals neo-Nazism in blue and white`; 16 leftists arrested

Right wing Israelis, settlers, `rage`
Ma`an - Focus of the protests, however, has been on the dismantling of a single outpost, with Haaretz reporting that protest groups were told that taking down Havat Gilad could lead to more actions. Supporters were allegedly told that strong action would deter police in the future.

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Israeli Forces Arrest Residents From Hebron

Thursday March 03, 2011 - 11:42

The Israeli army arrested, on Thursday, residents from the West Bank city of Hebron. Full Story

Israeli Police Detain Citizens From The al-Aqsa Mosque

Thursday March 03, 2011 - 11:35

Israeli police arrested, on Thursday, citizens who were present at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Full Story

Israeli Soldiers Abducted Two Palestinians In Jenin

Thursday March 03, 2011 - 10:54

On Thursday morning, the Israeli military abducted two Palestinians and erected multiple checkpoints in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Full Story

February: Seven Palestinians Killed, 46 Injured By Army Fire In Gaza

Thursday March 03, 2011 - 09:44

A report published by the Higher Committee for Medical Services in Gaza, revealed that Israeli soldiers killed, in February, 7 Palestinians, and wounded 46, including several children, during several attacks targeting the Gaza Strip in February. Full Story

10 Wounded, Sixteen Detained During Jaffa Clashes As Settlers March In City

Thursday March 03, 2011 - 08:25

Clashes were reported in Jaffa city, on Wednesday evening, as a group of extremist Israeli settlers and fundamentalist right-wing leaders and members, marched in the city demanding the Jaffa to be “An Arab Free Zone”.
Full Story

Remi Kanazi: Poetic Injustice 

3 March 2011

don’t mention Zionism
if you mention Zionism
they’ll call you anti-Semitic
and people will believe them

don’t cite Palestinian sources
no one will believe you
I won’t believe you
trust Israeli sources…

IOA Editor: It was a thrill watching Remi Kanazi in action last night at a Columbia University book release party for his latest book Poetic Injustice. It was poetry of defiance at its best. We wish him well, and know he’ll do well.

Stephen R. Shalom: Why we need to divest from the US-backed Israeli Occupation 

3 March 2011

(1) The Israeli occupation and its policy of building settlements and displacing the local population are unequivocally illegal and unjustified. (2) The Israeli occupation has been a vicious one, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. (3) The Israeli occupation has been the most long-standing occupation in the world. (4) Our government, the US government, has made possible this sordid record of occupation and abuse.

President of Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr Aziz Dwaik meets envoy to Russian Foreign Minister in Ramallah  

03 March 2011

On Wednesday (02.03.2011), the President of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Dr Aziz Dweik, along with a number of other PLC deputies, met with a visiting Russian delegation which included the Russian Foreign Minster's envoy, Alexander Ifimov and Russia's representative to the Palestinian Authority, Alexander Rudakov. The two groups discussed recent developments in the Middle East as well as Russia's role in facilitating internal Palestinian dialogue.

Dr Dwaik welcomed Russia's role, expressing appreciations for its support of the Palestinian cause and its fairness and advocacy for the people of the region. It also thanked them for their support of Palestinian democracy, unlike the US which had repudiated the results of the 2006 elections. The Palestinian delegation reiterated a number of their core principles including freedom, justice, human dignity and the concept of universal human rights rejecting extremism and violence in its forms as contrary to both those principles and to their creed.

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Revolutions in Arab world promise more support for Palestinian cause  

03 March 2011

The Forum of Palestinian Doctors in Europe has claimed that the peoples' revolutions in the Arab world are a "decisive stage" in the region's history. The Paris-based organisation added that they hold out the promise of more dedication to the Palestinian cause by the Arab masses.

In a press release the Forum said: "The popular uprisings in a number of Arab countries have come to turn the page of tyranny and human rights abuses accumulated over decades. We have reached a decisive stage in the Arab nation's history that marks a new spring and dignity." The Palestinian cause will, believes the Forum, see increased dedication from countries across the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the current events.

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International Civil Defence Day commemorated in Gaza  

03 March 2011

• On International Civil Defence Day, it is clear that civil defence in Gaza has a very different status and meaning than in most other parts of the world. Due to the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, members of the Civil Defence Corps say that the unit is struggling to meet the needs of the people. This is especially so after the Israeli war against the Strip, which destroyed much of the infrastructure. Several civil defence workers were killed during Operation Cast Lead and many more were left with horrific injuries.

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Israeli forces at the Egyptian border on alert pending restoration of political stability  

03 March 2011

Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak has said that the Israeli Defence Forces on the borders with Egypt will continue to be on high alert until the security situation settles and political stability is restored in Egypt. During his visit to the Givati Brigade's training base in the Negev Desert on 2 March, Mr. Barack said that Israel is intensifying its efforts to set up a security fence along the border with Egypt.

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Palestinian prisoner "Deans" reaches 136 in total  

03 March 2011

The number of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel for more than 20 years continuously has reached 136, according to the Director of the Department of Statistics at the Ministry of Detainees and Former Detainees in Ramallah. Such prisoners are referred to as the "Deans" of the prisoners. The names of 5 prisoners from the West Bank and Gaza were added to the list this week.

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• Return To Sender: Israeli activists say, ‘we won’t be ‘the US aircraft carrier in the Middle East”
• Help MECA bring attention to children under threat of deportation from Israel
• Settlers rampage
• Report: Israeli company recruits mercenaries to support Gadhafi
• Republican congressmen join Islamophobic hate rally in California
• The beat goes on: Egypt’s Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigns
• ‘CSM’ writer would push Gaza into Egypt
• Neocon concedes that Egypt-Israel treaty is liability for U.S.
• Forget the hasbara, Israeli army’s bombs never distinguish between heterosexual and queer Palestinians
• Brian Baird said that U.S. officials pushed him not to ask for investigation of Corrie killing, then Israel flat out lied to him about the bulldozer driver
• 2 important events: Chicago, Khalidi for Gaza; New York, Eisenberg channels Luxemburg
• Student group pushes Carleton to become first university in Canada to divest from the occupation
• Even the ‘Onion’ knows Americans need Al Jazeera
• Wait, why are we giving $3 billion to Israel? And why does J Street have no problem with this?
• Ignoring the Arab spring, J St lobbies for more money for a gov’t that’s cracked down on protesters

West Bank’s wind of change challenges Palestinian Authority (Joseph Dana & Jesse Rosenfeld) - 04-mar-2011

March 4, 2011 - The PLO leadership called for a Day of Rage across the occupied territories on 25 February, following the US veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution one week earlier condemning Israel’s continued settlement building. It sought thereby to deflect growing discontent at the Palestinian Authority (PA) and direct indignation at the US for protecting Israel. Though Hamas also condemned the veto, Gaza remained calm. In Hebron, a thousand turned out to protest against the Jewish settlements in the heart of the city, clashing with Israeli soldiers (IDF); as the protests spread, the PA sent in their riot police to help the IDF...

Israel to Sue Bedouin Residents of Demolished Village for Demolition Costs (Alternative Information Center (AIC)) - 04-mar-2011

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...

Facing up to Jewish nationalism and racist violence (Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana) - 04-mar-2011

March 3, 2011 - When we released the now famous and censored video Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem, we were widely attacked and dismissed for daring to publicize footage of college-age Jewish kids behaving like racist fanatics while intoxicated. We argued that our footage revealed a deep sickness within Israeli society and among diaspora Jews who defined their Jewish identity according to extreme Zionist ideology ("Censored by the Huffington Post and Imprisoned By The Past: Why I Made 'Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem,'" 6 June 2009). We insisted that Jews should focus their outrage not at us, but at the statements the subjects of our video made, and recognize the extent to which they echoed the rhetoric of leading Israeli politicians, military figures, pundits and rabbis...

04/03/2011

Mossad Kidnaps Gazan Engineer in Ukraine, Now Held Incommunicado in Israeli Prison
Richard Silverstein - " The wife of a Palestinian engineer has accused the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad of abducting her husband. Derar Abu Sisi went missing five days ago while visiting his Ukrainian wife... [He] is the head of operations at the only power station in the Gaza Strip ... he disappeared during a train journey on 18 February...Israeli intelligence services must account for Abu Seesi’s whereabouts and provide information about the charges against him. He must be allowed to consult with an attorney. He must not be tortured or abused (though that no doubt has already happened). This man is a professional, a civil engineer, not a terrorist. "

17 years after Goldstein massacre, Hebron city center paralyzed
B`Tselem - 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.

Palestinian boy claims police beat him
Omri Efraim - Ynet - Eleven-year-old boy caught throwing stones in east Jerusalem suffers head, stomach trauma.An 11-year old boy arrested in east Jerusalem for throwing stones claims officers beat him while his hands were tied. Hospital tests confirm the boy sustained injuries to the eye, head, and stomach.

J Street is liberating Jews from Zionism. So far so good
Philip Weiss -Mondoweiss - " The good news from the J Street conference is that the organization made it a point to include the Jewish left, non-Zionist Palestinian solidarity activists, and this opening will have important consequences for Jewish life if not for the future of the Middle East...J Street is doing great things by liberating American Jews from their servitude to nationalism. While I hope this makes a difference in the struggle for Palestinian freedom, that struggle is likely to require greater daring and imagination. " "

boycott-news : Letter to Josep Carreras
" The Academic and Cultural Boycott is an effective way of putting pressure on Israel and has a real chance of obtaining a change in the policies that contravene International Law; this was made clear in the case of South Africa. Israel clearly needs political legitimacy and moral recognition and the world of culture should not satisfy this need. For all of the reasons given in this letter we urge you to cancel your concert in Israel. As an outstanding and respected international figure in the world of music you can contribute to obtaining freedom, justice and a just peace in Palestine. "

The necessity procedure : Laws of torture in Israel and beyond ,1987-2009
Itamar Mann* and Omer Shatz - " the history of the regulation of torture in Israel, and shows how it foreshadowed the legal understanding of torture in the United States in the wake of “The War on Terror.”...We argue that this regime, which originated in the undemocratic political context of occupation, foreshadowed protections for torturers under the Bush and the Obama administrations. "

PA: 150 states to recognize Palestine by Sept.
Elior Levy - YnetNews - The Palestinians apparently believe that broad international support, coupled with growing Israeli isolation, will enable them to achieve independence as early as this year.

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Palestinian Prisoners Freed By Egypt, Arrive In Gaza

Friday March 04, 2011 - 09:16

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a number of Palestinian prisoners who were detained by Egypt arrived on Thursday evening at the Rafah Border Terminal between the Gaza Strip and Egypt after being released by the Egyptian Authorities. Full Story

Israeli Air Force Bombards A Car In Gaza

Friday March 04, 2011 - 06:55

Palestinian sources reported, on Friday at dawn, that the Israeli Air Force fired at least one missile at a Palestinian vehicle in An-Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza completely destroying it; no injuries were reported. Full Story

Soldiers Break Into Eshil-Be’er Sheva Prison, Attack Detainees, Search Their Rooms

Friday March 04, 2011 - 03:29

The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Thursday that Israeli soldiers and under-cover units of the Israeli army broke into the Eshil-Be’er Sheva prison, violently attacked the detainees and searched their rooms. Full Story

Soldiers Kidnap Four Children In East Jerusalem

Friday March 04, 2011 - 02:09

Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped four children. Full Story

The shape of times to come  

04 March 2011

I was struck by the huge difference between the response to my article "No Room for Western Hypocrisy" in Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper and the response of Western readers to the same article published in English in Gulf News. While some Arab responses were reactive in the extreme and gave vent to feelings of hatred, sectarian closure, preconceived positions and haphazard accusations, Western readers praised the exposure of the hypocrisy of Western officialdom; they expressed sympathy for the struggle of the Palestinian people, deprived for the past six decades of freedom, dignity and justice, the very things that the Arab masses are demanding from their rulers in their present uprisings. Some also apologized for the ignorance of their governments about the facts on the ground and the bias shown to the Israel lobby which orchestrates Western positions towards Arab despots in line with Zionist interests and their influence in the United States.

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• Defending the indefensible — badly
• “Our policies are almost criminal” – Israeli MK Ben-Simon
• Weiner-Baird debate lived up to its billing
• Israel in Egypt: consistency among turmoil
• Return To Sender: Israeli activists say, ‘we won’t be ‘the US aircraft carrier in the Middle East”
• Help MECA bring attention to children under threat of deportation from Israel
• Settlers rampage
• Report: Israeli company recruits mercenaries to support Gadhafi
• Republican congressmen join Islamophobic hate rally in California
• The beat goes on: Egypt’s Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigns
• ‘CSM’ writer would push Gaza into Egypt
• Neocon concedes that Egypt-Israel treaty is liability for U.S.
• Forget the hasbara, Israeli army’s bombs never distinguish between heterosexual and queer Palestinians
• Brian Baird said that U.S. officials didn’t want him to seek an investigation of Corrie killing, then Israel flat out lied to him about the bulldozer driver
• 2 important events: Chicago, Khalidi for Gaza; New York, Eisenberg channels Luxemburg

• ·  Another way to defy the US 

Latin America embraces Palestine* - Maurice Lemoine 

Suddenly many central and south American countries have formally recognised Palestine. Why?

Translated by Robert Waterhouse 

• ·  India, Brazil and South Africa plan a cooperative future 

A model for South-South alliances* - François Danglin 

IBSA has made South Africa a geopolitical bridge between South America and the Indian subcontinent. It intends to do much more than that

Translated by Ursula Meany Scott 

• ·  'Neither with the West, nor against it' - Alain Gresh 

The upheavals taking place across the Arab world have implications not just for the region but the world. As the United Nations attempted to calm the situation in Libya, the US told Gadafy it was time to go. While the EU fears mass immigration from Libya, the US faces the impact on the regional order of the fall of Mubarak, pillar of US policy across the region, from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Iran

Translated by Stephanie Irvine 

This Is What Complicity Looks Like: Palestine and the Silencing Campaign on Campus (Mary-Jo Nadeau and Alan Sears) - 05-mar-2011

March 5, 2011 - The campaign to silence Palestine solidarity reaches its annual crescendo during Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). As IAW 2011 approaches, we need to prepare for another round of silencing. This means assessing the silencing campaign and the experience of standing up for free expression over the last few years. The ongoing campaign to silence Palestine solidarity on Ontario (and Canadian) campuses represents a major assault on academic freedom and freedom of expression in general. Over the past five years, attempts to suppress speech about the issue of Palestine and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have become routine, both on and off campuses. The goal of this campaign is quite simply to shut down political activism and scholarly exchange that explores Palestinian experiences and/or criticizes the Israeli state. This silencing project echoes that of the Israeli state itself, which has systematically clamped down on all aspects of Palestinian life while trying to eliminate signs and memories of Palestinian existence...

Pushing for a Palestinian Tahrir (Sandy Tolan) - 05-mar-2011

March 5, 2011 - On a cool January evening at the height of Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution, Najwan Berekdar and a few friends were sitting at a smoky café in Ramallah, puffing on water pipes and strategising. "We were talking about what's happening in Tunisia, and we decided, maybe this is the momentum - we should use it," Berekdar remembers weeks later from her office at Sharek, a youth-oriented Palestinian NGO. "We were, like, five people. We were sitting with our laptops and we said, 'Okay, let's make an event.' We wanted something to encourage people to go out."..

3 March 2011: 17 years after Goldstein massacre, Hebron city center paralyzed (B'Tselem) - 05-mar-2011

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...

05/03/2011

Gisha: Karni`s closure is politically motivated and violates recent promises to the World
"Limiting access to a [single] small crossing near the Egyptian border is consistent with a series of steps aimed at cutting Gaza off from Israel and the West Bank – tearing at the fabric of Palestinian society and undermining the possibility of a two-state solution."

Palestinian Transport Association Threatens to Close Kerem Shalom Crossing in Protest
Israel unilaterally shut down Karni, the main goods crossing. The only remaining crossing - Kerem Shalom - is not equipped to handle the demand. Shutdown to take effect in 48 hours if Karni is not re-opened.

The Necessity Procedure: Laws of Torture in Israel and Beyond, 1987 - 2009
Academic analysis of the process of "standardizing" torture in Israel, and its impact upon the Bush administration. (pdf file) ao

JVP leader`s statement at J-Street BDS Panel Discussion

VIDEO: Sara Benninga`s Speech at the J-Street Conference
Starting around minute 8:00.

Palestinian Woman Attempts To Stab A Soldier Near Bethlehem

Saturday March 05, 2011 - 04:12

Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday evening a young Palestinian woman from Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, after claiming that she attempted to stab a soldier at the Etzion Junction. Full Story

When Buying Dinner Becomes Dangerous

Saturday March 05, 2011 - 03:59

On Thursday, February 24, 20-year-old Mohammad Gharib of al-Issawiya village near Jerusalem was driving home, bringing dinner from a restaurant in Jerusalem. Full Story

Israeli warns unrest could hit Palestine 

‎UPI.com

Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon, a former ambassador of Israel, speaks during a forum on disengagement and the prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace ...

Diplomacy: Advice from a leading critic‎ - Jerusalem Post
Intervention Needed In Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: UN Envoy‎ - Journal of Turkish Weekly
A major reshuffle in the Levant‎ - Asia Times Online
The Canadian Press - The Jewish Week (blog)

Ha'aretz

Palestinian September 2011 deadline doomed 

‎Palestine Times

Among the partners to the Quartet-sponsored Palestinian/Israeli “peace process,” practically deadlocked since the collapse of the US, Palestinian and ...

Distorting the Essence of the Great Arab Revolutions of 2011‎ - CounterPunch
Israel wants to navigate post-Mubarak Egypt according to Zionist ...‎ - ABNA.ir
Arabs challenge Israeli propagand‎ - Al-Arabiya
WAFA - Palestine News Agency - Middle East Media Research Institute

Ha'aretz

• ·  Background and History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 

‎Associated Content

After the Arab subjugation of Palestine in the seventh century the remaining inhabitants were largely integrated into the Muslim religion and Arab tradition ...

Behind the walls of Jerusalem‎ - Irish Times
Jaffa, the Orange's Clockwork: Palestine, Israel—and the orange‎ - World Socialist Web Site
Encountering Peace: Learning from J Street‎ - The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
Canada Free Press - The Skinny

Stuart Littlewood

Britain Cherry-picks which War Criminals to Prosecute

Mohannad El-Khairy

On the Challenging Road of Revolution

Uri Avnery

Sinking Israel on Wrong Side of History

Stuart Littlewood

BDS Success Answered by 'Boycott Arab Goods' Smear

William A. Cook

Beacon that is Israel: Self-serving by Delay, Denial

• ·  06/03/2011

Why is Israel aid exempt?
MJ Rosenberg--As US fiscal conservatives cut food programmes for poor children, military aid for Israel is left untouched.

Israel`s diplomats are spineless propagandists
Gideon Levy--Our diplomatic corps today is comprised primarily of spineless propagandists void of values or a conscience. Though some identify with the current government`s policies, a large portion of them oppose the state`s conduct. They are nothing more than puppets in an ugly show window.

`Construction in West Bank settlements quadrupled since end of temporary freeze`
Chaim Levinson--According to data by Israel`s Central Bureau of Statistics, settlers began building over 114 houses during the 10-month settlement freeze, and began construction of over 427 houses since October 2010.

West Bank Chaos, Just a Stone`s Throw Away
Gideon Levy--An old rattletrap, some despondent villagers, a unit of Civil Administration soldiers and some of the most beautiful landscapes in the country.

Oscar Winners Fight Deportation
Meital Yasur Beit-Or--Girl from Bialik-Rogozin School, which was focus of Oscar-winning documentary, begs to be allowed to remain in Israel. `I speak Hebrew, dream in Hebrew, and read in Hebrew, but even I don`t meet demands of Interior Ministry,` she tells protesters

Wrong Side
Uri Avnery--OF ALL the memorable phrases uttered by Barack Obama in the last two years, the one that stuck in my mind more than any other appeared in his historic speech in Cairo in the early days of his term. He warned the nations not to place themselves "on the wrong side of history."

Anglican bishop of Jerusalem sues Israel over visa refusal
Stephen Bates--Suheil Dawani appeals against deportation order tied to claims he made illegal land transactions with Palestinians

Patrick Connors, a member of Adalah-NY: The New York campaign for the Boycott of Israel, a New York City-based group advocating for Palestinian rights, takes on a Feb. 22 Los Angeles Times article.
Patrick Connors--Rather than seeing the U.S. as spreading freedom, Arabs who have taken to the streets have experienced "Made in U.S.A." tear gas used by repressive governments to kill and maim unarmed protesters and crush popular movements for justice.

Links to two videos
video of Friday’s demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah [link forwarded by Ruth] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzKPTv5vjTU&feature=youtu.be [about 8 minutes] ===================== video of Gaza woman confronting Israeli Knesset Member Nachman Shai [forwarded by Paula] Youtube: Gaza woman confronts Member of the Knesset Nachman Shai over the Gaza siege [about 4 minutes]

Three leftists arrested and several injured at East Jerusalem demonstration
Nir Hasson--Three leftists arrested and several injured at East Jerusalem demonstration

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Troops Attacks Women’s Protest, Dozens Wounded

Sunday March 06, 2011 - 11:20

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. Full Story

Israeli Air Force Carries A Series Of Air Strikes In Gaza

Sunday March 06, 2011 - 10:28

The Israeli Air Force carried out on Sunday at dawn a series of air strikes targeting a number of areas in Gaza city, and areas in central Gaza; damage was reported, no injuries. Full Story

Hamas To Re-start National Unity Talks With Fateh

Sunday March 06, 2011 - 01:46

The Hamas party, which won elections in 2006 but was prevented from forming a government in the West Bank, announced Saturday that it is working on an initiative to restore national unity with its main rival party, Fateh. Full Story

Palestinian Government In Gaza Protests Closure Of Main Commercial Crossing Into Israel

Sunday March 06, 2011 - 01:35

The Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday that they may close down the Kerem Shalom crossing from the Gazan side, in protest of Israel’s decision this week to permanently shut down Karni, which is the main commercial crossing between Gaza and Israel. Full Story

When We Do It, It Isn't Terrorism 

Dennis Jett, 03.05.2011

Professor of International Affairs, Penn State University

This week's NYT Sunday magazine features a story about Lori Berenson, an American arrested in Peru in 1995 on terrorism charges. While evoking sympathy, the article misses an opportunity to encourage much-needed national introspection.

Projecting Israel’s Crimes onto Iran 

by Kim Petersen / March 5th, 2011 (5)

Quebec member of parliament Irwin Cotler spoke at the Beth Zion Synagogue in Cote St. Luc on 27 February. His purpose was to push the Canadian government to take action against Iran.

“We needed to sound the alarm in what I call the critical mass of threat in Iran: the nuclear threat, the threat of state-sanctioned incitement to genocide, the terrorist threat and the threat of massive domestic assaults,” said Cotler.

The threat of “state sanctioned genocide”? Israel has been doing precisely this against the Palestinian people for the past 60+ years. What “terrorist threat” is Cotler rabbiting …

(Full article …)

We need democracy in the Middle East – and Israel  

6 Mar 2011: The big issue: Europe should now, as Nick Cohen argues, demand democratisation not only throughout the Arab world but also in Israel

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics: ‘Construction in West Bank settlements quadrupled since end of temporary freeze’ 

6 March 2011

According to data by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, settlers began building over 114 houses during the 10-month settlement freeze, and began construction of over 427 houses since October 2010.

Roger Waters voices support for Israel boycott

6 March 2011

Roger Waters, founding member, vocalist and bassist of the iconic rock band ‘Pink Floyd’ has voiced his support for a cultural boycott of Israel.

Rashid Khalidi: The Arab Spring 

6 March 2011

Suddenly, to be an Arab has become a good thing. People all over the Arab world feel a sense of pride in shaking off decades of cowed passivity under dictatorships that ruled with no deference to popular wishes. And it has become respectable in the West as well. Egypt is now thought of as an exciting and progressive place; its people’s expressions of solidarity are welcomed by demonstrators in Madison, Wisconsin; and its bright young activists are seen as models for a new kind of twenty-first-century mobilization.

March 7, 2011 - At the Algeria conference on Palestinian Political Prisoners I met a desperate father, Samir Asfour. He told me the story of his son. Ahmad was a 17 year old student when he was severely injured outside his home during the invasion of Gaza on January 9, 2009. He was hit by a bomb, probably a D.I.M.E., launched by an unmanned drone. His body was penetrated and lacerated by metal fragments. His father said that Ahmad was in hospital in Egypt for 8 months and then a doctor recommended he go to Jerusalem for more treatment. Ahmed has diabetes, is wheelchair bound and needs more internal surgery. He had lost body parts, sections of his intestines and his pancreas...

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7 March 2011 - While accompanying a Bulgarian delegation through the Old City of Al-Khalil/Hebron, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi was detained without reason in what can only be described as a racist violation of his human and civil rights. Just outside the Ibrahim Mosque this morning, Israeli police attempted to keep Dr. Barghouthi and the Bulgarian delegation from crossing the street in the H2 zone of the Old City in Al-Khalil/Hebron...

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Child among villagers injured by settlers (Ma'an news) - 08-mar-2011

March 8, 2011 - Activists with the International Solidarity Movement in the village of Qusra said that evening clashes with settlers Monday night had left 13 injured, including a child. The group identified Ibrahim Hassan, 15, as the youngest victim, who doctors said sustained a bullet wound with an entry point at his back and exit through the kidney, which he would likely lose...

Palestinian Women Deserve Celebration (Joharah Baker) - 08-mar-2011

March 7, 2011 - Tomorrow, March 8 is International Women’s Day, a global event celebrating women’s rights and honoring women’s achievements throughout history. Palestine observes the occasion every year, marking it with marches, activities and events that focus on the Palestinian woman as an integral part of her own society and of the global village. Like in other parts of the world, Palestinian women face a multitude of challenges, not solely related to their identities as women. In Palestine, Israel’s military occupation oppresses everyone, male and female...

Israeli Apartheid: A Socialist View (Abbie Bakan) - 08-mar-2011

March 7, 2011 - The resistance of the Palestinian population to Israeli occupation since 1948 has been central to resistance in the Middle East to western imperialism. The reinvigoration of the movement since the second Intifada in 2000 has also inspired anti-imperialist resistance throughout the region, significantly in neighbouring Egypt. It is the more recent boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel that has posed a particularly sharp threat to the ideological sustainability of really existing Zionism (see Bakan and Abu-Laban, 2009). The BDS movement originated with a unified call of 170 civil society (or non-state) organizations within Palestine. This is an important accomplishment given the divisions that followed from the failed Oslo peace negotiations, where the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), once itself a unifying force, served as a repressive force to advance a two-state outcome consistent with many features of an apartheid model, and thus opposed by many Palestinian political groups...

08/03/2011

Temporary Injunction Issued against Tender for Building Plots in Lifta Village
Coalition to Save Lifta: In the given situation that the village of Lifta is an abandoned village and its original inhabitants live as refugees at a distance of only a few hundred metres from their village, it would have been befitting to abstain from all construction in the area and certainly to prevent building that would result in destruction of the village and the complete dispossession of the rights of the original inhabitants of the place.

Army To Demolish Homes, Barns, Near Jenin
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - The demolition was ordered of eight homes and barns that belong to residents of Barta’a Al Sharqiyya, isolated behind the Annexation Wall.

Anti-Boycott bill passes first reading in Knesset
REBECCA ANNA STOIL - The bill defines boycott as “an intentional avoidance of economic, cultural or academic relations with a person or another agent, solely because of their ties to the State of Israel, its institutions or areas under its control.”

Knesset to outlaw consumer protests against the occupation
Gush Shalom - "This bill seeks to ban a legitimate and non-violent act of protest against the occupation, which is the real threat to Israel`s future."

It`s a Myth That Israelis Support a Two-State Solution
Jan Elshout - Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - The West is confronted with a choice between accepting continued Israeli expansion (the de facto policy of the past 20 years) or trying to achieve a Palestinian state (the stated goal) in more direct and effective ways, with international law the guiding principle.

Britain upgrades status of Palestinian diplomats
AP - Ynet - We want to see an urgent return to negotiations, based on clear parameters including 1967 borders," Hague said.

Israel Considers Military `Upgrade`
[seeking an additional $20 billion from U.S. tax-payers]
RICHARD BOUDREAUX And BILL SPINDLE - Wall Street Journal - Mr. Barak, a dovish gadfly in a conservative-led government, said Israel or the United States would have to assure the Palestinians that a full-fledged agreement on statehood is "in the offing" [quotation marks: bz].

Can Netanyahu prevent `disaster` for Israel?
Haaretz Editorial - If Netanyahu doesn`t have the power to prevent what he himself declared a disaster, he must hand his mandate back to the people. bz

Settlers provoke Palestinian villagers near Ramallah
Ma`an News Agency - "A noticeable rise in settler attacks across the West Bank has led to fears of night raids by armed settlers in Palestinian villages. Analysts have expressed concerns that settlers plan to provoke a reaction from Palestinians which Israeli authorities could use to foil the Palestinian Authority`s efforts to control security in the West Bank"

West Bank wind of change
Joseph Dana and Jesse Rosenfeld - Le Monde Diplomatique - As protests multiply across the Arab world and grassroots resistance grows in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority faces popular anger for its investment in a failed ‘peace process’

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International Women's Day in Palestine 2011

Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 16:44

Tuesday marks International Women's Day, a global celebration of women. In Palestine, rallies and conferences were organized to celebrate this day. These provided a chance and space to reflect on the achievement of Palestinian women, and the many steps still needed to attain full equality with men. Full Story

Bethlehem Celebrates International Women's Day with Protest

Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 16:37

To celebrate International Woman’s Day, on Tuesday, women in Bethlehem protested against the annexation wall, that divides many parts of the West Bank and annexes Palestinian owned land. Full Story

Settlers Injure 3 Near Nablus

Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 12:39

The Ma'an News Agency reports that settlers shot and injured three Palestinians in As-sawiya vilage near Nablus.

Full Story

Israel grouped with Iran, North Korea as world’s least popular countries

8 March 2011

BBC poll surveying 27 countries shows that Israel is viewed as having a negative influence in the world; negative opinions in US and UK increased over past year.

Leftist Israelis face masked policemen at East Jerusalem protest

7 March 2011

Israeli security service agents have obscured their identities in the past when confronting Palestinians, but this is a new phenomenon for Israeli citizens.

IOA Editor: No mask could possibly conceal Israeli Occupation crimes.

Sorry people.

The link should work now.

The language barrier was the culprit...

Its 4 mins and 24 seconds.

If confuzzled .... original email below should explain...

I made a short video on the demo on the 5th of March at Qalandja checkpoint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIJGAbAnVW4

inka x

Temporary Injunction against New Building in Palestinian Village Destroyed in 1948 (Tania Kepler) - 09-mar-2011

March 8, 2011 - An Israeli court has issued a temporary injunction on selling luxury lots on the site of the historic Palestinian village of Lifta, whose residents were expelled and forced out in 1948. Israeli Judge Yigal Marzel issued a temporary injunction on Monday (7 March) ordering the Israel Land Administration to freeze publication of the results of a tender to lease plots for building in the historic Palestinian village of Lifta...

US veto in UN led to 60% increase in settlement activity (Middle East Monitor) - 09-mar-2011

March 8, 2011 - A Palestinian specialist in settlement affairs has claimed that America's use of its veto in the UN Security Council last month has led to a rise in the rate of settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories. It has, said Abdul Hadi Hantash, increased by more than 60%. "The US veto gave a green light to the Israelis to push ahead with their illegal settlement policy and to escalate the attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians and their property," he added...

Lay off Amira Hass (Max Ajl) - 09-mar-2011

March 8, 2011 - As’ad AbuKhalil is attacking Amira Hass here: Amira Hass wants Egyptians to roll out the red carpet for her "While In Cairo, I finally found out that Israel is an occupying state. This is thanks to all those people who refused to meet with an Israeli journalist. In this way, my three-week stay in revolutionary Cairo turned into an adventure of seek bypass routes, and not without a great deal of professional frustration." Good for you, Egyptian people. (thanks Ali) Everyone knows that the Israeli left is feeble. Everyone knows that Zionism is hegemonic amongst Israeli Jews. We also know that the Israeli radical left gets over-promoted, and that people, especially left-liberal Americans and Europeans, are quite desperate to hear rustlings of change from within Israeli society. They are not there yet. But I don’t see the point of this sort of attack. First, read Hass’s article. It’s excellent...

The Big Lie: Israel's Concern for "Security" (By Rachelle Marshall) - 09-mar-2011

March 8, 2011 - ...Protecting national security has from the beginning been less of a concern to Israeli leaders than acquiring more territory. The Israelis have turned down Arab peace overtures since at least 1949, when at the Lausanne conference they refused Arab offers of peace in exchange for the return of Palestinian refugees. Immediately after the June 1967 war Palestinian elders offered peace if Israel withdrew from the newly captured West Bank, an offer that Israel ignored. Since the late 1970s Palestinians and Arab leaders have indicated they would accept a two-state solution. Today, with a Palestinian president pledged to nonviolent resistance, Israel's concern for security remains more pretext than reality...

Video: Gaza youth breaks out (AlJazeera.net) - 09-mar-2011

March 8, 2011 - The hardships of living in Gaza have been well documente., but now a group of young Gazan students have spoken out - and they've given their first television interview to Al Jazeera. They prefer to remain anonymous; telling the world through social media that they have had enough of the Israeli occupation, of Hamas and of the world's indifference...

09/03/2011

IDF is preparing for mass civil uprising in West Bank
Anshel Pfeffer - Haaretz - "Senior officers now serving, or who once served, in the West Bank say they have long felt there is no way to effectively contend with a widespread, nonviolent civil uprising." id

`Downcast` Benjamin Netahyahu under increased pressure over Israel`s poor image
Jonathan Cook - National - "The loss of European support, combined with US anger, may signal difficulties ahead for Israel with the Quartet, the international group comprising the US, EU, Russia and the United Nations that oversees the peace process."

Netanyahu Vows to Keep Jordan River Posts
ISABEL KERSHNER - NYT - "“Our security border is here, on the Jordan River,” he said, “and our line of defense is here.”"

Al-Arakib Demolished Yet Again
David Steele - IMEMC - "Problems for villages like al-Arakib are likely to intensify as the JNF’s operation “Blueprint Negev” continues."

World looks at Israel as it looked at Apartheid-era South Africa
Niva Lanir - Haaretz - "The world is looking at how the only democracy in the Middle East conducts itself in the occupied territories. It`s looking at events in Bil`in and Sheikh Jarrah, at the olive trees that are uprooted, and at the checkpoints." id

Encountering Peace: The speech Netanyahu should make
GERSHON BASKIN - J-Post - "It is now time for us to transform noble words into a new reality."

Lod Residents Protest Home Demolitions
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - "The Lod City Council has recently stepped-up its violations against Arab natives of the city by presenting and conducting plans that do not serve the needs and interests of the Arab citizens."

Rabbi Wolpo regrets inciting remarks
Kobi Nahshoni - Ynet - "... suggested that the rabbi "immigrate to Iran or Syria, where he`ll find partners to his hatred for the State of Israel.""

J Street Offers Alternative to AIPAC
Jon Basil Utley - Antiwar - "Several members of Congress thanked J Street for presenting its case and giving those concerned for Israel’s long-term viability another position than that of AIPAC’s pro-occupation and settlement-expansion promotions."

Head to Head / Civil rights lawyer Auni Bana, is there a logic to the security at Ben-Gurion?
Jack Khoury - Haaretz - "It begins with the entry barrier to Ben-Gurion Airport with a special lane for Arabs, up to the terminal entrance, and of course the meticulous security check. During one trip the security check ended only at the door of the plane." id

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Army Invades Several Villages Near Jenin, Kidnaps Eight Across The West Bank

Wednesday March 09, 2011 - 12:27

Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday at dawn several villages east of Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank. Eight Palestinian were kidnapped across the West Bank. Full Story

Lod Residents Protest Home Demolitions

Wednesday March 09, 2011 - 12:08

Arab residents of Lod held a massive protest, on Tuesday at night, in support of Abu Eid family that lost its seven homes after the Israeli Authorities demolished them four months ago. Full Story

Abu Mojahid Welcomes Stance Of New Egyptian Government

Wednesday March 09, 2011 - 11:52

Spokesperson of Popular Resistance Committees, Mohammad Al Abreem (Abu Mojahid), welcomed the stances of the new Egyptian government regarding rejecting the Israeli siege on Gaza and the necessity to lift it. Full Story

Qassam Fighter Killed In Gaza

Wednesday March 09, 2011 - 11:34

The Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, issues a press release stating that one of its fighters was killed in what was described “a mission in southern Gaza”. Full Story

Israeli Prime Minister Vows To Maintain Military Occupation Of Jordan Valley

Wednesday March 09, 2011 - 10:13

During a tour around the eastern West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu vowed to keep the Israeli military presence on the eastern border of the West Bank, which would mean that any future Palestinian 'state' would be an island, completely surrounded by Israel. Full Story

Army Does Not Believe It Can Contain A Widespread Revolution In The West Bank

Wednesday March 09, 2011 - 05:03

In light with the current events and protests against the ruling regimes in some Arab countries, and the latest removal of Egyptian and Tunisian presidents, the Israeli Army’s Central Command in the West Bank have been tightly monitoring what is happening in the Arab world, and updating its operational plans for an anticipated nonviolent uprising in the occupied territories. Full Story

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Israeli settlers attack unarmed Palestinian villagers in their homes

09 March 2011

• Yesterday (08.03), the Rafidia Hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus received dozens of casualties from the south Nablus village of Qasra. The injured villagers were attacked by scores of Israeli settlers from the settlement of Yash Ed which is built on territory belonging to the Qasra village. The illegal settlement had been previously evacuated, but the settlers returned breaking into the village and attacking the locals.

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Israeli report: the conditions of female migrant workers to Israel are "miserable"

09 March 2011

An Israeli organisation concerned with workers' rights has stressed that the conditions and circumstances that female migrant workers live under in Tel Aviv are "miserable" and totally incompatible with UN Conventions on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

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Tel Aviv criticizes Britain's upgrade of Palestinian diplomatic status

09 March 2011

An official Israeli political source has criticized Britain's decision to upgrade the status of Palestinian diplomatic representatives in the Palestinian mission in London, claiming that such a step "affects the efforts to resume the negotiation process" between Tel Aviv and the Palestinian Authority.

On Tuesday (08.03), Radio Israel quoted the official source as saying that "an upgrade in status will not encourage the Palestinians to return to the negotiation table. The real missing upgrade is Palestinian willingness to talk peace."

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International Women's Day celebrated in Gaza

09 March 2011

• International Women's Day is a global celebration of all the achievements women have made over the centuries and a reminder of what is possible when women are given a fair and equal chance at living in a free and justice society. Today (8.02.11), the women of Gaza gathered together to remind the world that they too were a part of this global female community and that they too should have their rights protected. The Palestinian woman is known for her ability to bare pain with patience and dignity as her country is occupied by the Israeli entity.

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Egypt-Israeli relations continue to cool

09 March 2011

The success of the Egyptian revolution has cast a shadow of uncertainty over future relations between Israel and Egypt.  Even though it is too early to predict the course of events, there have been indications that relations between the two will be much cooler than under Hosni Mubarak.

The appointment of Nabil al-Arabi as Egypt's new foreign minister is a case in point. Al-Arabi's predecessor, Ahmed Abouelgheit, was all too willing to cooperate with Israel; during his term in office, Egypt faithfully collaborated in imposing the siege on Gaza, while in late 2009 it began building a steel wall designed to cut off Gaza's only lifeline, the smuggling tunnels beneath the Egyptian border.  Al-Arabi, on the other hand, is not only an outspoken opponent of the Israeli siege of Gaza which depends on Egyptian cooperation, he was also a critic of the Camp David peace treaty despite being part of the team that negotiated it.

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• Abdeen Jabara to lead Goldstone discussion in NY tom’w night
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• NYU students feature Israeli soldier who attacked Mavi Marmara during ‘Israel Peace Week’
• IDF concedes they cannot ‘contain widespread civil uprising in West Bank’
• Qadhafi is making his Cast Lead dreams come true as his loyalists and mercenaries attack men, women and children
• Egyptians and the tyranny of liberal discourse
• Book Review – The Hour of Sunlight
• Israeli diplomats agree – Israel is delegitimizing itself
• March 15 protest organizers fight efforts to co-opt their movement
• Al Arakib destroyed for 21st time
• When will the ADL stand up to oppose Peter King’s witchhunt against Muslims?
• Amanpour says P.A. has ‘not missed the opportunity to miss an opportunity’
• Palestinian women are disproportionately impacted by the Israeli occupation
• Israel looks to cash in on upheaval in the Middle East; may request $20 billion more in military aid from the US

March 9, 2011 - The ultraconservative Lehava organization mounted a new campaign, issuing kashrut certification to Israeli restaurants that hire Jews, exclusively. The signs will read: "We hire Jewish workers and no enemies." This reflects a recurring anxiety in the Orthodox Jewish community: interracial mixing. "Assimilation has forever been one of the enemies of the Jewish people," Baruch Marzel said. Marzel is an outspoken member of the ultraconservative Leh ava Organization. He has huge, wiry black beard and wears a yarmulke. Marzel is originally from Boston, MA, but immigrated to Israel at a young age...

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El Araqib Destroyed for 21st time, JNF Changing Facts on Ground
Tania Kepler

The Disappearance of the Nightmare Arab: How a Revolution of Hope Is Changing the Way Americans Look at Islam

James Carroll, 03.09.2011

Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Suffolk University

Americans are seeing Arabs and Muslims as if for the first time, and we are, despite ourselves, impressed and moved. In this regard, too, the Arab revolution has been, well, revolutionary.

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The "Only Democracy in the Middle East"? Hardly.

Josh Ruebner, 03.09.2011

National Advocacy Director, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

As pro-democracy and freedom movements sweep the region, Israel's policies look more retrograde.

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Jewish students at Berkeley talk about their motivations on Israel

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 Palestinian presidency urges Quartet to support European statement

‎Xinhua

Representatives of the Quartet will hear the Israeli proposals and meet Palestinian officials before they confirm the date of the meeting in Paris.

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UN: Israel abducted Palestinian engineer in Ukraine

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Israel allegedly abducted a Palestinian engineer from the Gaza Strip during a visit to Ukraine last month and he might be currently held in an Israeli ...

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Local residents give voice to Middle East conflict

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Mousa said she and other Palestinian-Americans often feel like there is more American backing for Israel than Palestine, and she hopes in the future support ...

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Marrickville to Decide on Israeli Peace Team Visit

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Independent Councillor Victor Macri has called for permission to be granted to use Sydney's Marrickville Town Hall to host the Israeli/Palestinian ...

Anglican bishop fights Israel deportation

‎Jewish Chronicle - Anshel Pfeffer

The head of the Anglican church in Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan, Bishop Suheil Dawani, is fighting the Israeli ...

Episcopal leaders dismayed at Israel's denial of Jerusalem ...‎ - Episcopal News Service

March 10, 2011 - Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (03 – 09 March 2011): Shooting: During the reporting period, 11 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, and an international solidarity activist were wounded by IOF and Israeli settlers in the West Bank. In a joint attack by a number o f Israeli settlers and IOF against Palestinian civilians in Qasra village, southeast of Nablus, 7 Palestinian civilians, including two children, were wounded. Another two civilians suffered from tear gas inhalation and 3 others were injured as a result of being beaten. Medical sources described the conditions of three of the wounded as serious...

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Factions meet in Gaza

When September Comes (By Joharah Baker) - 11-mar-2011

March 11, 2011 - I like to think of myself as a realist, neither overly optimistic nor pessimistic. However, part of being a realist is not exaggerating expectations or getting hopes up too high. My hope is that other Palestinians feel the same, especially come this September. September 2011 has been earmarked as the cutoff date for what Palestinians are calling international "obligations" towards their cause. Negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis, which were re-launched in September 2010, were scheduled to end a year later at which time a final peace deal was to be reached. Consequently, the talks hit an impasse just three weeks later after Israel refused to renew its freeze on West Bank settlement construction. The September 2011 deadline for reaching a deal was endorsed by US President Barack Obama along with the Middle East Quartet Committee...

Occupied Palestine from A to Z: Basma – a Woman from Palestine (Reham Alhelsi) - 11-mar-2011

March 10, 2011 - Every morning she starts her day in front of the taboun; she bakes bread then prepares breakfast for her children and her grandchildren. She watches them leave to school, university and to work. She then sits on the stone step in front of her house in the over-crowded refugee camp, a dish of dried lentils in her hands, and while she cleans the lentils from stones, her thoughts wander. Every day, Basma wakes up in the small UNRWA room, looks around her, gets up and sits in front of the taboun. Every day, Basma sits with her children and grandchildren on the matt and while breakfasting, she listens as they talk of home works, of exams, of annoying teachers and co-workers. Every day, Basma sits on the stone step in front of her small house, peels potatoes, slices zucchini or cleans lentils for dinner. Every day, Basma’s thoughts wander, and she returns back to that day in 1948, that day when her father and brother hugged them and went to defend the village from the Zionist militias...

‘Palestinian Women Are Shackled During Childbirth’
Mehru Jaffer interviews FABRIZIA FALCIONE, UNIFEM (Mehru Jaffer) - 11-mar-2011

March 10, 2011 - - Female Palestinian prisoners detained in Israel are often denied legal representation and medical care while being housed in squalid conditions that can include sharing cells with rodents. According to Fabrizia Falcione, a women’s human rights officer for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), now part of UN WOMEN, told IPS that it is crucial to reveal the human face behind this breach of international law and international humanitarian law in order to address the plight of Palestinian political prisoners, including women and children...

Palestinian family in East Jerusalem told to make way for Jewish settlers (Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem) - 11-mar-2011

March 10, 2011 - A Palestinian family in East Jerusalem have been ordered to evacuate a room in their home so Jewish settlers can move in, following an 11-year court battle waged by a pro-settler US millionaire. Ahmed Hamdallah, 33, has been told to remove his furniture and possessions by Monday or he will be billed for the cost of bailiffs clearing a room occupied by himself, his wife and one-year-old son. New occupants will take over the property under the protection of armed guards, he has been told...

Ayalon: “Israel Will Absolve Itself From All Peace Deal, Should P.A Announce State” (Saed Bannoura) - 11-mar-2011

March 10, 2011 - Israeli deputy Foreign Minister, Danni Ayalon, threatened that should the Palestinian Authority declare a Palestinian state without reaching a comprehensive peace agreement with Israel, Tel Aviv will absolve itself from all deals and commitments signed with the Palestinians. The Israeli Radio reported Thursday that should a state be unilaterally declared "all peace deals signed with the Palestinians will become invalid". He added that such a declaration of statehood does not carry a real meaning, and will not help boost the stalled

11/03/2011

The wrong way to peace
Nicola Nasser - Al-Ahram - "The PLO, in being unable to evolve and share power with new players, is blocking both democracy and ultimate sovereignty in Palestine."

Neglected Revolution in Palestine
Doris Norrito - IMEMC - "“What can we do?” a friend blistered, “Israel does to us whatever it wants; America lets them and no one cares.” I saw in people who had had enough, unfurling buds ripe for revolt."

`British show demonizes Israel`
Aviel Magnezi - Ynet - "The mini-series, which provoked accusations of demonization and hate-mongering, has been hailed by British TV critics as the year`s best drama."

Check them, but respect them
Editorial - Haaretz - "Security guards display a blatantly suspicious attitude toward them, cause them lengthy delays that can even make them miss their flights and humiliate them in front of their families and other passengers." id

Left-leaning youth movement to initiate new West Bank settlement
Gili Cohen - Haaretz - "Uzon noted that other, existing settlements in the valley have been set up by the movement, and said he "does not consider them to be beyond the Green Line." id

Is there such a thing?
Adam Keller - Crazy County - "Israelis carefully selected to run around the American universities and speak out against the annual event called "Israeli Apartheid Week"."

Dexia excluded for involvement in Israel
Triodos Bank - "Belgian bank Dexia has been excluded from the Triodos sustainable investment universe because of its ongoing financing of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories." "

Nazareth activist honored by global women`s group
Jack Khoury - Haaretz - "Espanioly, 56 and unmarried, is a social worker and clinical psychologist. She is also active in the Hadash political party and in various Jewish-Arab peace groups." id

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P.A. Security Arrest Three Hamas Members in Nablus

Friday March 11, 2011 - 14:51

The Ma’an News Agency reported, on Friday, that Palestinian Authority security forces detained three members of the Hamas party in the West Bank in pre-dawn raids. Full Story

Leila Farsakh: The Arab revolutions and Palestine (video)

11 March 2011

Leila Farsakh discusses the implications of the protest movements in the Arab world on Palestinian politics and the Arab-Israeli conflict in a video interview with The Journal of Palestine Studies.

Lia Tarachansky: In the land of King David

11 March 2011

[T]he ideology behind these tours … builds on the Zionist selectivity we were taught in our schools, claiming a Jewish right over the land and erasing that of the Palestinians who have lived there for centuries. It prepares us for army service and it underlines the legal designation of Palestinians as ‘foreigners’ making them outsiders…

URGENT APPEAL-Demand immediate release of  disabled Palestinian patient, Ahmad Asfour

http://www.palestinematters.com/-Demand-immediate-release-of--disabled-patient-Ahmad-Asfour_Appeal_69.aspx

NAME: Ahmad Asfour, 19

 VIOLATIONS: ISA exploitation of the patients’ medical status

Israel Securities Authority (ISA) appears to have a deliberate policy of misleading patients while taking advantage of their medical needs, in order to tempt them to come into contact with security officials.

Ahmad was a 17 year old student when he was severely injured outside his home during the invasion of Gaza on January 9, 2009. He was hit by a bomb, probably a D.I.M.E., launched by an unmanned drone. His body was penetrated and lacerated by metal fragments. His father said that Ahmad was in hospital in Egypt for 8 months and then a doctor recommended he go to Jerusalem for more treatment. Ahmed has diabetes, is wheelchair bound and needs more internal surgery. He had lost body parts, sections of his intestines and his pancreas.

Ahmad 'Asfour was invited to the St. Joseph Hospital in Jerusalem to receive a treatment that does not exist in Gaza. After his request for an exit permit was approved, he was arrested at the Erez border crossing, taken from his terrified father, along with his medicines and insulin. . For two weeks he was prevented from meeting a lawyer and his family was given no information about his condition or the reasons for his arrest.

For further information- Physicians for Human Rights-Israelhttp://www.phr.org.il/default.asp?PageID=116&ItemID=546

Settlers raid villages across West Bank

Palestinian villages report raids by settlers after 5 Israelis from same family killed in Itamar settlement in brutal early morning attack.

Meet the people bringing down the division

Army storms village, dozens detained

How to friend an Israeli soldier

Listening to the hoof-beats of history -- Ahmed Yousef 

Settlers threaten Palestinian villagers near Ramallah

Nablus area closed after attack on settlement

Netanyahu: Palestinians, world must condemn settlement attack 'unequivocally'

PM blames Palestinian Authority for fatal stabbing in which five family members were killed in Itamar settlement; Abbas and Fayyad say 'violence will only bring more violence' in reaction to attack.

• U.S. condemns terrorist attack in West Bank settlement
• IDF launches massive manhunt after five family members slain in settlement attack
• Five family members killed in suspected terrorist attack at their home in Itamar settlement

Hamas demands explanation from Ukraine over Gazan's disappearance

UN official, wife of Dirar Abu Sisi allege that Mossad abducted Sisi while he was applying for citizenship in Ukraine; Sisi was deputy director of Gaza power plant.

Bedouin reject compensation offer, accusing Israel of land grab

Responding to reported deal to provide Bedouin with approximately 50% of their current land, some leaders accused the state an intentional attempt to divide their community.

BLATHERINGS FROM THE JERUSALEM POST
Steve Amsel

Israelis outraged, Palestinians condemn attack on Itamar settlement
by Emad Drimly, Saud Abu Ramadam

High alert as settlers commend new building

Fear of settler reprisals to Friday killings set Israeli forces in West Bank on high alert. Government says decision to build 500 new settler homes prompted by murders.

Israel announces mass settlement expansion

UN officials concerned over new settlements

Army: Palestinian detained with Molotov cocktails

Gaza govt: Settler attackers may not be Palestinian

Editorial: A hasty response

Settlers throw Molotov cocktails at cars in Nablus

Hamas appeals to Ukraine for release of engineer

Settlement products seized in Hebron

Gaza: First wheat deliveries through Kerem Shalom

Barak: Israel must advance peace or face a 'diplomatic tsunami'

Defense Minister says Israel must counter building international pressure to recognize a Palestinian state within 1967 borders.

Abbas aide: Israel's approval of West Bank homes 'unacceptable'

Cabinet approves construction of new settlement houses as a response to a deadly terror attack on a family of five in the settlement of Itamar.

 Palestinians honor Fatah terrorist, despite Israel's protests

Ceremony naming square after 1978 bus hijacking, in which 35 Israelis were killed, was not attended by PA officials.

Ministerial committee supports 'Anat Kamm' bill

Bill calls for a legal distinction regarding the intent of those who reveal classified information; Anat Kamm, a former IDF soldier, was accused of handing over secret army documents.

Zvi Bar'el

Israel's opportunity to appeal to the Arab public