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Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by unlikely benefactors – a group of Israelis who installed solar panels and wind turbines to illuminate the Palestinians' makeshift homes. The villagers of Susya live in tents and caves with power lines darting right above their dwellings, connecting a nearby Jewish settlement to the power grid while bypassing them entirely. It was this lack of basic services that drew the physicists from Comet-ME, a group of pro-peace Israeli scientists and activists, to this dusty, desolate area. Now the entire village of 300 people has access to power that is reliable, free and green. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/your-details/43054-israeli-scientistsactivists-bring-green-power-to-west-bank-village-susya-south-hebron-mountains-Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the... more
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"In the Beginning was the Word," starts this episode -- but what language was it? Yiddish, which once had five daily newspapers in New York City, is now an Endangered Language. From the director of the Sholem-Aleichem House and the Yiddish storyteller, Sarat, we learn about the decline of Yiddish resulting from the rise of Hebrew as the national language of Israel. Sarat cooks us a delicious cholent, a stew combining many of the ingredients from the old countries.
While in Jerusalem, we experience the musical sounds of Ladino, the Spanish Hebrew of the Sephardic Jews, which is also endangered. The poet Ronny Someck, a "true Israeli poet from Iraq," gives Bob a tour of Jaffa and tells us about the multilingual diversity that used to exist in Israel. He suggests visiting the West Bank to hear Arabic, so Bob takes the grueling journey through the endless checkpoints and the Separation Wall to reach Ramallah. Once across the Wall we meet with some young Palestinian hip-hop poets who explain the complexities of living near the Separation Wall that dominates the landscape. In the end, Bob is left to ponder how the resurrection of Hebrew into the national language has created barriers between the many different voices and languages of the region and how the monoglot of Hebrew in a polyglot land may have effected Israel's political thinking."In the Beginning was the Word," starts this episode -- but what language... more
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The six Freedom Riders chose to board a bus that serves Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank on it's way to Occupied East Jerusalem, wearing kuffiyehs (Palestinian scarfs) and t-shirts reading 'Justice', 'Freedom', and 'We Shall Overcome'. They took this bold action to expose the racism and policies of segregation that pervade every aspect of life in occupied Palestine. To send the message to the world that separate is not equal. Not in the United States and not in Israel or Palestine. They also wanted to bring attention to the role of Israeli and international companies, such as Egged and Veolia, who operate these segreated bus lines, in perpetuating and profiting from the occupation. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43025-forbidden-roadsThe six Freedom Riders chose to board a bus that serves Jewish-only settlements in the... more
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Nabi Saleh - a new campaign was launched called ‘Refusing to Die in Silence’, which documents and confronts colonist “settler” attacks on unarmed citizens in the West Bank. The project aims to warn the colonists and make them feel pressured by the presence of media crews ready to document the attacks..... The group uses a coordinated system of cars and video cameras to monitor, respond to and intervene in settler attacks occurring this September across the West Bank. Speaking of the need for the group this September, Bil’in resident Mohammed Khatib of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee noted on the committee’s website that "If anyone needed further proof that Palestinians cannot count on Israeli authorities to prevent settler violence, recent events show beyond doubt why we need to organize to defend ourselves. This is exactly what these volunteers will do in a civic and peaceful manner". http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43012-refusing-to-die-in-silenceNabi Saleh - a new campaign was launched called ‘Refusing to Die in... more
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"Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is due to submit his bid to the UN for recognition of a Palestinian state.
He is expected to present a letter in the next few hours requesting admission to the UN shortly before addressing the General Assembly to argue the case.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to speak soon after, and is expected to denounce the move.
Israel and the US oppose it, saying a Palestinian state can only be achieved through talks with Israel.
President Barack Obama told Mr Abbas on Thursday that the US will use its UN Security Council veto to block the move, but Mr Abbas vowed to press ahead with the bid.
Meanwhile in the West Bank, Palestinians are expected to begin gathering in the early evening shortly before the submission of the bid.""Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is due to submit his bid to the UN for... more
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By Razia Iqbal, Hood Watch Media Admin: Italy |Sunday June 26 | It's no secret that Atlanta Georgia is a growing Mecca of music talents and underground greats. Local buzzes and southern charm, our division was informed that our CEO is still refusing to put the rap mic down and just enjoy making music for other artists, mainly because of the European market that still craves his music. Lord Hector Diono is the founder and CEO of Hood Watch Media Corp based in Atlanta Georgia USA, and is also my by boss "Hi Hector, salute"; like any music buff I can tell you he's still going stronger than ever recently signing a management deal with a veteran of Def Jam Records A&R division NYC Mr. Michael " Goldie" Greaux of Goldie Mack Artist Management, and launching his official production company Dark Town Licensing, a subsidiary to his independent label Dark Town Music Group, Hector has a new single just released on Saturday morning here in Italy entitled “Money Know Me” and is scheduled for the United States and around the world on Monday June 27, 2011. Be sure to check your local online stores for availability.Original Source by Jennifer Cozoletti Hood Watch Media Admin Italy http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/archive/arts/mafia.shtml http://www.mafiafamilytree.com/category/sicilian-mafia/
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/money-know-me-single/id446495052By Razia Iqbal, Hood Watch Media Admin: Italy |Sunday June 26 | It's no secret... more
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Israeli security forces have arrested two teenage residents of the West Bank Arab village of Awarta for allegedly carrying out last month's murder of five family members in the settlement of Itamar, the lifting of a gag order revealed on Sunday.
Palestinian students Amjad Awad, 19, and Hakim Awad 18, both admitted to committing the murder.
Five members of the Fogel family were brutally stabbed to death in their home in the West Bank settlement of Itamar on the night of March 11th. The murderers killed Ehud and Ruth Fogel, along with three of their young children, Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, 3 months old, before fleeing the scene.
The two suspects, who are unrelated to one another, were identified as members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine along with several members of their family.
Shin Bet investigators have at this point not identified the murder as being carried out under the auspices of the Popular Front organization. According to what is currently known, the murders were carried out independently by the two suspects.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/two-teens-from-west-bank-village-arrested-over-itamar-massacre-1.356396Israeli security forces have arrested two teenage residents of the West Bank Arab... more
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The MARDI GRAS Parade Schedule 2011 of the month Mach is as following. The routes and time are also given in the schedule. The City of New Orleans have right to change the schedule when they will found a need to change.The MARDI GRAS Parade Schedule 2011 of the month Mach is as following. The routes and... more
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took a rare public jab at his successor on Thursday, saying that Israel should agree to the U.S. demand to halt settlement construction in the West Bank in order to restart Mideast peace talks.
Olmert suggested the current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Obama administration are wasting valuable time by focusing on such a "marginal" issue, rather than tackling the essential issues at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
President Barack Obama has asked for a new three-month moratorium on settlement construction after a 10-month slowdown expired in September, leading peace negotiations to stall. Palestinians say they will not talk unless a freeze is in place.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-11-25/world/24947000_1_olmert-settlement-freeze-settlement-constructionFormer Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took a rare public jab at his successor on... more
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In this well-made, through-provoking short film that seeks to highlight the plight of Palestinians in the West Bank, London is under occupation and one man trying to take a woman to hospital faces checkpoints, delays and uncooperative soldiers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv57rJ2cEVA&feature=player_embedded#!In this well-made, through-provoking short film that seeks to highlight the plight of... more
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KHIRBET YARZA, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Israeli troops razed a mosque and more than 10 other structures in two areas of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinians sources said.
Most of the demolition activity took place in the village of Khirbet Yarza in the northern Jordan Valley, where residents said troops had razed a very old mosque and its much-larger extension, which was built last year.
They also said troops had levelled "more than 10 buildings used for sheep."
The army confirmed knocking down what it described as "eight temporary structures" which had been built inside a military firing zone.
"During the morning, the security forces and the Civil Administration destroyed eight temporary structures and the frame of another structure, which were built without the required permits inside a firing zone endangering the lives of the residents," said a statement from COGAT, the defence ministry unit which acts as a link between the army and the Palestinians.
Full Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101125/wl_mideast_afp/israelpalestiniansconflictdemolish_20101125120959KHIRBET YARZA, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Israeli troops razed a mosque and... more
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It's a startling fact: The workers building Israel's West Bank settlements have generally been Palestinians - even though Palestinians widely consider these communities a toxic threat to their dream of an independent state.
Now comes a twist: earlier this year, the Palestinian government passed a law forbidding work in the settlements - and its determination to stamp out the phenomenon is being sorely tested in recent weeks, as a settlement building boomlet has emerged in the West Bank.
With the Palestinian economy facing double-digit unemployment, the issue has sparked some soul-searching and debate.
"It is immoral for us - totally immoral for us - to work in settlements," said Economics Minister Hassan Abu Libdeh, an enthusiastic supporter of the law which passed in April and bans Palestinians from such work.
Abu Libdeh said the ban - which imposes fines of up to $14,000 and jail time of up to five years for violators - will eventually be enforced. But for now, he said, the government is holding off while it searches for ways to help workers switch jobs.
About 21,000 Palestinians currently work in settlements, either in construction, agriculture or industry. Their ability to return to the settlements in recent years - after a period of violence from 2000-2005 which saw the two peoples separated almost completely - has been key to the mini-revival of the Palestinian economy.
But it is also helping the settlements prosper and expand.
Some 300,000 Israelis live in more than 120 settlements across the West Bank - almost a threefold increase over two decades of peace negotiations. Another
180,000 live in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians hope to make their capital.
In the settlement of Ariel on Wednesday, Palestinian laborers readily admitted they were torn between politics and paychecks.
Dozens of them mixed cement, laid bricks and arranged red tiles on the roofs of 48 new apartments at a dusty construction site in what is already a town boasting 19,000 residents.
Most work eight-hour shifts five days a week and earn between $35 and $55 per day - which is somewhat less than what Israeli workers would cost, but more than what is generally available to Palestinians in the West Bank. There, similar jobs usually pay $25 per day in the Palestinian cities and $15 in rural areas.
Sitting inside a yellow tractor, Abed Abdel-Karim, 41, said he'd been working in settlements for 15 years. He said they threaten the future Palestinian state but said he has no other way to earn a living. He acknowledged it was a problem, but "it's not my job to fix it ... I'm married and have kids. I don't want to be a millionaire. I just want to pay my bills."
Complete Story: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/a-glimpse-at-the-palestinians-who-build-israeli-settlements-1.324108It's a startling fact: The workers building Israel's West Bank settlements... more
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While the left would have you believe, horrors that trump the holocaust are happenng to the Palestinians as a matter of daily life.The right will have you believe the Palestinians are not a people, but a terror organization striving for statehood.The reality is far from either of these portrayals.
In the West Bank, these supposed terrorists are getting into our most redneck sporting endevour.The "sport" of auto racing.
To the right it begs the question, since when do terrorists who only want the destruction of the west, engage in the west's means of recreation? How does racing around in circles like our rednecks, show a desire to institute sharia in your town? How come these supposed muslim militants allow thier woman to not only drive cars, but race them? In western dress no less?
To the left, how is it that amidst a genocide/aparthied/holocaust (or what ever hot button term of the week you fancy) does auto racing grow? How in a genocide do a people find racing a priority, or even have the freedom to do it? In an aparthied of segregation, how are auto parts, and fuel made available for use in auto racing? Wouldnt these scarce supplies be used in a manor related to survival, not used wastefully for recreation? Does it not show a surplus of supplies available, as opposed to the alleged lack of them?
Even if you dont care to read the story.
Even if you dont care to invest your critical thought.
The picture alone says it all.
A woman not in a burka, or hijab.Wearing a t-shirt with the british flag on it, and racing coveralls.Tooling around in a car engine, that she will race.In the palestinian west bank, just like any place else in the modern world.
No terrorism.
No famine.
Just people, being people.While the left would have you believe, horrors that trump the holocaust are happenng... more
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As Gaza continues to thrive to a degree that exceeds many of its nieghbors, the question of why such focus on the suffering of gazans supercedes that of other people, is unavoidable.As aid missions, and convoys continue to create self serving,political, media campaigns, the citizens of Gaza are being used by them as fodder.
The people of Gaza are certainly being exploited, and that exploitation needs to stop.
But who is doing the exploiting?As Gaza continues to thrive to a degree that exceeds many of its nieghbors, the... more
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The Independent reports that the Israeli military is being urged to investigate the recent shootings of at least 12 impoverished Palestinian teenagers and young men collecting gravel in an effort to eke out an income within 800 meters of Gaza’s heavily guarded northern border.The Independent reports that the Israeli military is being urged to investigate the... more
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File this under “Shut Up & Sing” . . . or Gerontological Studies in Aging, Over-drugged Rock Stars.
Roger Waters continues his “The Wall Live” tour. In this case, the “wall” Waters is referring to isn’t the famous Pink Floyd song Waters helped make famous, it’s Israel’s security fence, which the country was forced to erect to protect its innocent civilians from terrorist attacks–that’s what Waters has a big problem with.
Yup, an aging, irrelevant rock star actually has a whole rock tour to protest Israel’s right to keep its people from being blown to bits at pizza shops. And he’s using anti-Semitic imagery–bombs disguised as Jewish stars/Stars of David falling from the sky followed by dollar signs. Get it? The JOOOS are rich people who bomb those poor defenseless Palestinian terrorists. But, hey, that’s not a stereotype, right?
''The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday criticized rock music icon Roger Waters for using imagery long associated with stereotypes about Jews and money as part of a segment of his 2010-2011 “The Wall Live” Tour that takes aim at Israel’s West Bank security fence.
During his performances of “Goodbye Blue Sky,” an animated scene projects images of planes dropping bombs in the shape of Jewish Stars of David followed by dollar signs, according to an interview in the September 30 issue of Rolling Stone.
Waters, 67, is a known left-wing activist who has spoken against Israel’s policy in the territories. “It’s a horrific edifice, this thing,” he told reporters in 2006 as he stood beside a section of the separation fence in Bethlehem.''
In other imagery used in his concert about the wall, he apparently compares Jews to oversexed half-female/half-creatures and monsters. Waters began with his BS message during a 2007 concert in Israel. He was upset that it didn’t go over well, even with his leftist Israeli fans (see video, below). So he decided to make a BS documentary in 2009 and compare the Jews to Nazis, using Warsaw Ghetto references, and protesting that those evil, nasty, vermin Jews actually build homes on their own land. How dare they.
Message for Roger Waters: We don’t need no “education.” Not your version of it, anyway. All in all, you and you’re misinformed, anti-Semitic political opinions are just another brick in the wall . . . and just as relevant.File this under “Shut Up & Sing” . . . or Gerontological Studies in... more
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