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Protest Against Planned Museum of Tolerance to be Built over Palestinian Burial Grounds

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THE REASON FOR MUBARAK'S SLOW EXIT: PLUNDERING 30 YEARS OF GOLD

"It is easer for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle, that it is for a... more

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Britain's relationship with Israel increasingly fraught

Israel found New Labour to be a friendly force in an uncertain world but has been... more

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$5 MILLION LAWSUIT TARGETS JIMMY CARTER FOR ‘ATTACKING ISRAEL’

WASHINGTON – Former President Jimmy Carter has become the target of a class... more

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Racists and Hypocrites When it Comes to Palestinians

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Factbox: Israeli, Palestinian papers reveal peace deal moves

The Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967, but are ready to adjust the border in a land swap to let Israel to keep some of the Jewish settlements it has build on occupied land.

In 2008, Abbas and Olmert got down to details, with Israel asking to annex 6.5 percent of the West Bank and the Palestinians offering to trade 1.9 percent. As part of the swap, Abbas was ready to let Israel keep all but one of the Jewish enclaves built in east Jerusalem after 1967, now home to 200,000 Israelis.

While Abbas had not not said publicly that he offered to give up large tracts of east Jerusalem, it couldn't have come as a shock to Palestinians. Such a tradeoff was already proposed a decade ago by then-U.S. President Bill Clinton, as part of parameters still widely seen today as the foundation of any deal.

Perhaps most damaging for Abbas were his private comments on the fate of several million Palestinan refugees and their descendants. Officially, the Palestinian position is that refugees should be able to choose whether they want to return to lost property in Israel, move to a future Palestinian state, stay in their host countries or settle elsewhere.

Israel has said it would at best accept a nominal number of returnees, arguing that a mass resettlement to Israel would destroy the state's Jewish character.

The leaks quoted Abbas as telling Palestinian negotiators in a 2009 meeting that it is "illogical to ask Israel to take 5 million or indeed 1 million." Such a demand, he said, "would mean the end of Israel." However, Israel's offer at the time, to take 5,000, is unacceptable, he added.

Abbas has never shared such assessments with the Palestinian public.
In part, he may have wanted to avoid making inadvertent concessions to Israel by discussing the issue openly. But he may also have been fearful of a massive outcry. The "right of return" goes to the emotional core of the conflict with Israel, since a majority of Palestinians live in exile, including camps scattered across the region.
Some argue the leaks could force a more candid public debate among Palestinians.
"The papers have made it clear to every single refugee that the right of return is not part of a future deal between the PLO and Israel," said West Bank analyst Khalil Shaheen. "Now everything has become clear and the refugees should decide without any illusion."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1z1_QbEao8&feature=player_embeddedThe Palestinians want a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, captured by... more

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Leaked papers show Palestinian concession to Israel

A major document leak has revealed that Palestinian negotiators secretly told Israel... more

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U.S. Push Diplomats In 2008 To Gather Data On Encrypted Israeli Communications: WikiLeaks

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United States instructed its Middle East diplomats in 2008 to gather data on encrypted Israeli communications and build financial and "biometric" profiles of Palestinian leaders, a leaked embassy cable shows.

The secret memorandum, signed by then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and published by Wikileaks, suggests the Bush administration fretted about lacking intelligence despite warm ties to Israel and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA).

Citing the needs of U.S. analysts, the October 31, 2008 cable presented envoys in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and several Arab states with an exhaustive and prioritized list of data regarding the "Palestinian Issues" being brokered by Washington.

These included "evidence of Government of Israel support for or opposition to actions to limit and/or reduce settlement and outpost growth" on occupied land where Palestinians want to establish a state.

Settlement growth has been one of the chief obstacles to negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

Written two months before Israel's surprise offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, the cable sought "details on Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operations underway or planned" against Palestinian militants, "including targeted assassinations and tactics/techniques used by ground and air units".

Diplomats were asked for a comprehensive overview of Israel's high-tech communications, from Internet and cellphones to state-run "information repositories associated with radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled systems used for passports, government badges, and transportation systems".

The cable sought updates on the movements and private contact details of Israeli civilian and military officials as well as "biographical, financial and biometric information on key PA and Hamas leaders and representatives, to include the young guard inside Gaza, the West Bank and outside".;_ylt=AibxgxEIDuYCDTgoypOu68QUewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTNpMHNmbXI5BGFzc2V0Ay9zL25tL3VzX3dpa2lsZWF... more

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Gaza's Youth Manifesto - Gaza Youth to Planet Earth! Anyone out there? “Gaza what?”

Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in... more

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Israeli troops kill elderly man 'by mistake'

Israeli troops killed a 65-year-old Palestinian while he slept on Friday during a raid... more

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Israeli contractors start demolishing historic Palestinian building

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Israeli soldiers kill 65-year-old Palestinian man in raid

HEBRON, West Bank – Israeli troops mistakenly shot and killed a 65-year-old Palestinian man in his bed during a pre-dawn raid Friday to arrest a Hamas militant in the West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.

Late Friday, the Israeli military said a soldier was killed and four others wounded by friendly fire after a gunbattle broke out with Palestinian militants along the border with Gaza.

Palestinian security and rescue officials in the West Bank city of Hebron said Israeli troops shot and killed 65-year-old Omar Kawasmeh, who lived in the same building but on a different floor as the Hamas militant targeted in the early morning raid. Associated Press Television footage showed a bloodstained bed and shell casings in Kawasmeh's bedroom.

The Israeli military said in a statement that it "regrets the outcome of the incident" and was investigating. Soldiers still arrested the wanted militant, Wael Mahmoud Said Bitar, during the raid.

The military said Bitar planned suicide bombings before his arrest by the Palestinian Authority two years ago. One of the suicide bombings killed an Israeli woman and injured ten other civilians in southern Israel in 2008.

Bitar was one of six Hamas fighters released from prison Thursday by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian officials said. The militants, who had launched a hunger strike to protest their incarceration, were freed following a series of high-level contacts between Hamas officials and Palestinian Authority officials, as well as an intervention by the emir of Qatar.

The Israeli military said five of the freed militants — including the target of the raid in which the man was killed — were arrested overnight. The Western-backed Palestinian Authority has cracked down on Hamas in areas of the West Bank under its control. Hamas, an Islamic group backed by Iran, runs a competing Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip.

Full Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians_10HEBRON, West Bank – Israeli troops mistakenly shot and killed a 65-year-old... more

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"Yasser Arafat was Gay -- what a hypocrite!'

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The US must recuse itself from the Middle East peace talks

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Women fighters willing to die for Gaza

Gaza (CNN) -- With faces covered and guns loaded, Palestinian militants are training... more

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Protester death shows IDF may be using most dangerous type of tear gas

Questions are surfacing about Israel's use of tear-gas grenades, as security... more

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Palestinian Shot, Killed at Israeli Checkpoint

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man early Sunday after he allegedly... more

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Israeli Settlers Aim to Repel Palestinian

TEL AVIV—A leading Palestinian businessman is bidding to take over an ill-fated... more

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Saying It All

Christmas cartoon on the separation wall in Israel/Palestine.

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Noureen DeWulf Engaged

Noureen DeWulf Engaged.Ryan Miller Engaged to Noureen DeWulf.Noureen may not be a... more

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