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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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The day starts early, at a petrol station alongside a roaring Jerusalem road. The mood among the 15 Israeli women is a little tense, but it's hardly surprising – they're about to break the law and with it one of the country's taboos. They plan to drive into the occupied West Bank, pick up Palestinian women and children and take them on a day trip to Tel Aviv.
Today's is the second such trip – another group of women went public with a similar action last month. It is hoped that these will become regular outings, designed to create awareness of the laws that govern movement for Palestinians, and to challenge the fears that Israelis have about travelling into the West Bank.
Riki is a 63-year-old from Tel Aviv who, like the other women did not want to give her surname. She said it took her time to sign up to the trips. "I was resistant to breaking the law. But then I realised that civil action is the only way to go forward, that breaking an illegal law becomes legal."The day starts early, at a petrol station alongside a roaring Jerusalem road. The mood... more
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Last month a story came to light that was truly odd.The story as it was told was that a jewish woman filed charges against a Palistinian man she had slept with, claiming it was rape because he lied to her about his backround.Saber Kushour, a Palastinian muslim was arrested, tried, and sentenced to 18 months of prison on the charge of rape by deception.
http://current.com/news/92580014_palestinian-man-convicted-of-rape-by-deception-speaks-out.htm
http://current.com/news/92560815_he-impersonated-a-human.htm
http://current.com/news/92558827_lies-before-sex-gets-man-prison-time.htm
(initial coverage of this story on current for easy reference)
As Saber Kushour appeals the decision, more information about this case has been brought forward.As it turns out the charge of rape by deception was issued as a plea, not a reach to persecute an innocent man.previous accounts presented the sex to be consentual despite it being a legitimate rape, while using the case as an example of how racist a society Israel is.At the end of the day, in fact Mr Kushour had not only been accused based on a legitimate charge, but wasnt punished to the fullest extent of Israeli law.The reality is a Palastinian man raped an Israeli woman and was locked away.Not beheaded,Not stoned,Not suffering any injustice.This case as it turns out is no different than it would have been had it happened here.Credibility of all parties was evaluated, a rape kit was done, and he admited having sex, that the rape kit concluded to be forced.
The irony is if it were not for Israel having a rape by deception law to use, Mr Kushour would have been worse off.
Lets see who follows up, and who selectively ignores reality in creating particular bias's.
In an attempt to not be as bias, the top link brings you a variety of sources to reference, not a just a partisan one.Last month a story came to light that was truly odd.The story as it was told was that... more
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are under pressure from extremists on both sides who want peace talks to fail. Hamas - the militant Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip and has publicly called for the elimination of Israel - claimed responsibility for the shooting deaths of four Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank shortly before the start of the direct negotiations in what was seen as an attempt to derail the talks. West Bank settlers, meanwhile, responded by resuming construction inside settlements, despite a building freeze.
Neighbors gather to mourn at a tent near the homes of the four Israelis from this settlement who were killed on the eve of the talks.
Ilana Radami is helping to take care of the orphans left behind, reading to the younger ones at night. The tragedy has strengthened her resolve.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Israeli-Settlers-Pressure-Leadership-on-West-Bank-Settlements-102447949.htmlIsraeli and Palestinian negotiators are under pressure from extremists on both sides... more
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(WINDSOR, N.H.) - Seated at the table, before the first hand is dealt, the game operator (President Barack Obama) brazenly informs the players that he is not adverse to a little cheating by the Prime Minister of Israel (Binyamin Netanyahu) and that his opponent, the Illegitimate President of the West Bank of Palestine (Abu Mazen), has a lot of work to do if he thinks he can win a single hand at this table.
President Obama then shakes the hand of the Prime Minister and clumsily passes 4 palmed aces as he tells the PM his security is assured. The Prime Minister grins smugly, tucks the cards on his lap, checking first to insure that those cards are from the marked deck he had supplied the President during the pre-game talk.
Assured, he nods to Abu Mazen and thanks him for being a serious partner in this high stakes game then nods to the just arriving audience and expresses his conviction, to them, that they will witness the fairest game he has ever played. The President then takes the hand of Abu Mazen, squeezes it as hard as he can, and wiggles his middle finger against Mazen’s palm.
At this point, the President rises, announces the dealer (Hillary Clinton) who makes her way to the table, jokingly whispers between her and Abu Mazen, “Remember to deal from the top!” and exits. As he heads out the door a reporter asks, “Why are there no Hamas players today?”, to which he quickly responds, “They cheat... and, besides, we haven’t supplied them with a big enough stake. Hell, Mazen will just barely make the ante.”
The reporter scribbles on his pad, “The President states that Hamas would only try to undermine the game.”
Sounds cynical, doesn’t it? Let’s take a closer look.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september062010/palestinian-people-mdp.php(WINDSOR, N.H.) - Seated at the table, before the first hand is dealt, the game... more
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"U.S. to Sell F-15s to Saudis." That was the Wall Street Journal's 8/9/10 front page headline. "The Obama administration... won't equip them with... weapons... opposed by Israel." But the "$30 billion, 10 year arms package" is still "one of the biggest single deals of its kind."
Obama "has championed advanced weapons sales to Gulf states as a way to check Iranian power." The U.S. sells weapons "to the United Arab Emirates and other Gulf states." The 8/12/10 NY Times reported that Obama plans to sell 200 Patriot intercepter missiles, worth $900 million, to Kuwait. The White House also supplies the Lebanese army and Palestinian security forces in the West Bank, training Fatah’s police in Jordan.
Massive sales to Arab “allies” started under Bush. Between 2001 and 2008, Kuwait bought $1.7 billion worth of arms, Egypt $10.4 billion. The U.A.E. purchased $10 billion. Sales to the Saudis brought in $10.5 billion. Pakistan bought $4.5 billion. Post the 2003 invasion, Bush’s Iraq sales came to $3.5 billion. According to the Journal, Bush saw these regimes “as a bulwark against Iranian expansionism, and the Obama administration has expanded the effort."
In that 2001-08 period, Israel purchased $5.9 billion worth of American weaponry and now, at least until after November’s Congressional election, Democrat Obama and Likudnik Netanyahu are political and military pals.
The Gaza flotilla crisis bent the Turkish-Israeli partnership out of shape, but Washington and Ankara are still NATO military allies, even as Turkey continues to denounce anyone in Congress that dares to say that the Ottoman army committed genocide against Armenians during the 1st world war, or complains that today’s Turkey denies independence to millions of Kurds.
It is impossible to deeply understand any one aspect of Middle Eastern politics, Zionism and Palestine, or Iraq or Afghanistan, etc., without seeing it in its matrix, U.S. imperial involvement with the entire region.
READ ENTIRE ARTICLE AT LINK:
http://www.thestruggle.org/brenner_looking_back.html
http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/us-arms-sales.gif"U.S. to Sell F-15s to Saudis." That was the Wall Street Journal's... more
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As the opportunity for peace rapidly approaches, the palastinians of the west bank have killed four israeli civilians.I guess this news doesnt generate as much advertising revenue as it does when the IDF kills palastinians.
The medias bias must all be in my head right.
Fox will certainly mention it every hour, especially as it helps stoke the flames of islamophobia.
Msnbc will avoid it like the plague in fear of alienating its pro palastinian and jewish audiance.
Cnn may or may not wiegh in, but if they do some how the israelis caused it.
I ASK ALL THE HUMANATARIAN ANTI TERROR ANTI TYRANY FOLKS WHO ONLY SEE ISRAEL AS THE ERRONIOUS CULTURE IN THE CONFLICT, WELL...............................
Why is the flotilla's 9 dead worth obscene coverage,review,and scrutiny and these four not?
How is settlement construction a human rights violation worthy of great condemnation, but murder not?As the opportunity for peace rapidly approaches, the palastinians of the west bank... more
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Israeli authorities destroyed 141 Palestinian homes and other buildings in July, the largest number in any month since at least 2005, and have already carried out dozens of demolitions this month.
In one example, Israeli military authorities recently demolished Al Farisiye, a farming community of roughly 135 people in the northern Jordan Valley that had been inhabited by Palestinians for generations. On July 19, Israeli authorities demolished 76 structures there, displacing approximately 113 people, including 52 children.Israeli authorities destroyed 141 Palestinian homes and other buildings in July, the... more
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Jerusalem’s police have tapped a controversial figure who has been accused of torturing an Arab detainee and threatening East Jerusalem activists as its new adviser on Arab affairs, drawing condemnation from Israeli-Palestinian legislators and human-rights groups.Jerusalem’s police have tapped a controversial figure who has been accused of... more
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Four Israeli settlers and three Palestinians were wounded Monday in clashes in the northern West Bank over the forcible removal of two mobile homes of the settlers, police said.
The clashes occurred when Israeli troops removed two mobile homes in the outpost of Givat Ronen, near the Har Bracha settlement, sparking protests from Israeli settlers, who hurled rocks at Palestinian vehicles at a nearby check-point.
As troops moved in to disperse the settlers from the check-point, the latter regrouped at the nearby village of Kafr Burin--the scene of several earlier attacks by settlers--where they clashed with Palestinian villagers.
The settlers also set on fire a Palestinian field near the village of Hawarrah, south of Nablus. Smoke and flames could be seen in early afternoon on the hill leading up to Har Bracha.
"Four Israelis were wounded this morning, one of them seriously, when Palestinians attacked them with stones in Burin," a spokesman for the Israeli police said, adding that border police had intervened to restore calm.
He confirmed that two settlers were detained while protesting the removal of the mobile homes.
Both the citizens' committee and the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip said they had no hand in Monday's violence. In the evening, the committee organized a protest, in which activists blocked 13 intersections in the Samaria region from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. to condemn the demolitions.
Hardline settlers have long pursued a "price tag" policy of attacking Palestinian farms and villages to protest the military's removal of outposts of settlements.
The international community considers all Israeli settlements on the West Bank and East Jerusalem--territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 war--illegal, but the settler movement of the Jewish state is strongly opposed to any withdrawal from these areas as it views them an inseparable part of biblical Israel.
The Palestinians view the presence of a half million Israelis in more than 120 settlements scattered across the occupied territories as a severe threat to their ability to establish a viable independent state.Four Israeli settlers and three Palestinians were wounded Monday in clashes in the... more
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European Union commissioner Chris Patten says that the EU must shake off US dominance and take a bolder approach in pressing for a settlement of the Israel-Palestinian conflict.European Union commissioner Chris Patten says that the EU must shake off US dominance... more
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The contents of a secretly recorded video threaten to gravely embarrass Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Obama administration. The film was shot, apparently without Netanyahu’s knowledge, nine years ago. In it, he boasts that he deceived the US president at the time, Bill Clinton, into believing he was helping implement the Oslo accords, the US-sponsored peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, by making minor withdrawals from the West Bank while actually entrenching the occupation. He brags that he thereby destroyed the Oslo process.The contents of a secretly recorded video threaten to gravely embarrass Israeli Prime... more
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Two Palestinian photojournalists were injured by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops on Saturday during a protest in the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar near Hebron.
The photojournalists were covering a weekly demonstration again the theft of agricultural land by the Israeli settlement of Karmei Tsur . The demonstration was attended by dozens of Palestinians as well as international and Israeli activists.
One photojournalist reported being hit in the face and leg by a soldier with a rifle and another photojournalist suffered concussion and hearing loss after a stun grenade exploded near his head.
17/07/10 Bait Ummar, Occupied Palestine.
© Fil Kaler 2010Two Palestinian photojournalists were injured by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops on... more
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"The day after Barack Obama praised Benjamin Netanyahu for easing the blockade of Gaza, the High Court of Justice supported the state's position that a lawyer from the Gaza Strip should not be allowed to leave it so she can study for a master's degree in human rights at Birzeit University in the West Bank. Justices Miriam Naor, Hanan Melcer and Isaac Amit wrote in a ruling they handed down on Wednesday, in the case of 29-year-old Fatma Sharif: "We are not convinced that under the present political and security situation, the personal circumstances [of the petitioner] justify intervention in the decision of the respondent [the defense minister]."
Since 2000, Israel has imposed a comprehensive ban on Gaza students who want to study in the West Bank, which has been upheld by the High Court. Even before instituting the formal prohibition, by the 1990s Israel had already imposed various restrictions on travel, which have become ever more stringent and led many Gazans to decide not to study at universities in the West Bank.
The academic year at Birzeit starts on August 15. Sharif wanted to get to the university by Thursday to arrange her registration, and was hoping that, with all the talk of easing the closure, the Israeli authorities would show understanding for her desire to specialize in human rights. On June 7 she asked for a travel permit, submitting her request to the Palestinian Civilian Committee, which is tasked with handing over the requests to Israel's Gaza coordination and liaison office. But the Palestinian committee, which acts under Israeli instructions, refused to accept the request since the liaison office deals only with travel requests that fall within the category of humanitarian or urgent medical needs.
On June 8, Sharif appealed to the coordinator of government activities in the territories and to the head of the liaison administration. She was informed on June 23 that "the request has been turned down because it does not meet the criteria that are set from time to time in accordance with the political and security situation." Sharif filed her High Court petition with the assistance of Nomi Heger, a lawyer with the advocacy group Gisha: Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, but the court ruled in the state's favor.
The court agreed with the state's position that the June 20 statement by senior cabinet ministers about easing the blockade "did not say anything about extending the present policy about travel," a policy that allows Gazans to leave "only in humanitarian cases, with the emphasis on urgent medical cases."
Deputy State Prosecutor Ilil Amir said the announcement about easing the blockade referred to making things more efficient. "The relevant bodies are working to make the handling of humanitarian and medical requests more efficient from the procedural point of view," she said, explaining that this included "a shorter waiting period for dealing with the requests, devoting more work hours to the matter, shortening the time it takes for a security check, and so forth.
This decision is not intended to extend the criteria, and certainly it does not include allowing travel so that someone can engage in academic studies for a master's degree." Amir said several times that the High Court has previously upheld the state's position on this matter.
She said it was dangerous to allow students such as Sharif to travel to the West Bank because Israel has to deal with the efforts of terrorist organizations to set up "branches of the Gaza terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank." One of the ways Israel deals with this is by "restricting movement between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank," she said.
Apparently it makes no difference that the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, where Sharif works, is one of the independent institutions in the Gaza Strip that regularly criticizes the Hamas government's acts of repression."
Read more in the full article (link below):
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/israel-bans-gaza-woman-from-stuying-human-rights-in-west-bank-1.301372"The day after Barack Obama praised Benjamin Netanyahu for easing the blockade of... more
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It look like Boing Boing blog is trying out a new article features section, which mixes online and article design into one (a iPad plan perhaps?).
The opening feature story follows Khalil Al Jadeily a 16 year old from the West Bank who grew up in the volatile political environment. Lisa Katayama meets Khalil in Dubai where he gets treatment from US-based charity Palestinian Children's Relief Fund after he lost his legs in an artillery attack.
It's a interesting story from Boing Boing and a must read. "All these kids think about is politics," says Rama Chakaki, a volunteer and one of Khalil's scuba instructors. "But there's something different about Khalil. He doesn't always talk about the enemy."-Boing BoingIt look like Boing Boing blog is trying out a new article features section, which... more
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Mayor Nir Barkat discussed the municipality's response to illegal building in Jeruaslem at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, May 20, 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYpp63CUu1MMayor Nir Barkat discussed the municipality's response to illegal building in... more
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says an Israeli investigation into Israel’s deadly raid on a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships is not valuable to Turkey even if the panel includes foreign observers.Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says an Israeli investigation into... more
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The recent decline in Palestinian violence is not a result of Palestinian reform from within. It is a result of ongoing IDF operations in Judea and Samaria and in Gaza whose goals are to uproot the terror infrastructures present. Israel must take every precaution in order to ensure that the areas to be included in a Palestinian entity will not be corrupted and exploited by terrorist organizations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9AhOrbU69Q&feature=channelThe recent decline in Palestinian violence is not a result of Palestinian reform from... more
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