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JERUSALEM — Heavily armed Israeli police dragged the Dana brothers from their home before dawn, tossed them in armored jeeps and hauled them in for interrogation, the Palestinian boys and their father told The Associated Press.
While Israel has long relied on night raids like this to nab Palestinian militants who seek to kill Israelis, the Dana brothers didn't fit the bill. Their alleged crime: throwing stones. Their ages: 14 and 16.
In a report released Monday, the Israeli rights group B'Tselem says the youths' arrest is part of an Israeli campaign targeting Palestinian minors — one just 5 years old — for stone throwing in east Jerusalem. It says police often arrest minors from their homes in the middle of the night and interrogate them, sometimes with no parent present, in ways that violate Israeli law.
Israeli police say the arrests are not only legal but necessary to stamp out stone throwing, which often targets police or Jewish settlers. It's especially common in parts of east Jerusalem, where tensions run high between Palestinian residents and Israeli police, settlers and their security guards.
"As soon as the law is broken and as soon as people are attacked, we will respond very quickly by making arrests," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
Full Story: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/e085b6afc7a74b1da3438e6ad9b673b7/ML--Israel-Child_Arrests/JERUSALEM — Heavily armed Israeli police dragged the Dana brothers from their... more
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Helen Thomas said on a radio show that aired Tuesday that the Jewish- run harrassment group, the Anti-Defamation League, was intimidating her. The journalist defended comments she made last Thursday in Dearborn.
"I just think that people should be enlightened as to who is in charge of the opinion in this country," Thomas, 90, told the Marion, Ohio, radio station WMRN-AM.
The ADL has called on groups to remove honors in her name. Hours later, Wayne State University pulled an award in her name.
Thomas, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, grew up in Detroit and graduated from WSU.
"I'm going to tell the Anti-Defamation League to back off," Thomas said. "They think they have the right of intimidation." "They already got my job. They want to get my honorary degrees."Helen Thomas said on a radio show that aired Tuesday that the Jewish- run harrassment... more
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JERUSALEM The United States has given written assurances to Israel that it won't pressure the Jewish state for additional settlement freezes after it accepts a limited 90-day construction moratorium to revive Mideast peace talks, an Israeli official said Saturday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from meetings with U.S. officials with an American incentive package designed to restart the stalled Israel-Palestinian peace talks.
The Palestinians left the talks soon after they begun after a dispute over Israeli construction in the West Bank, which Palestinians claim as part of their future state.
The U.S. proposal would mean Israel would cease settlement building for 90 days in return for U.S. pledges to vetoanti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations and a fleet of next-generation stealth fighter planes.
Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/11/21/1854540/us-gave-israel-a-written-pledge.html#ixzz1734mWzYAJERUSALEM The United States has given written assurances to Israel that it won't... 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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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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GAZA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinians on Sunday slammed what they described as the American incentives to the Israeli government to freeze settlement construction in the West Bank for three months for resuming the direct peace talks.
Leaders in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party said that "If it is true that the United States had presented incentives offered to Israel for freezing settlement, it will be totally rejected by the Palestinians and would never help the stalled peace talks to resume."GAZA, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinians on Sunday slammed what they described as... 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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More Israelis die from peanut allergies than Hamas rockets. The adverts used in the USA and around the world use computer generated images ( CGI )More Israelis die from peanut allergies than Hamas rockets. The adverts used in the... more
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The Palestine Center presents an analysis of settler violence in the West Bank. We ask what type of violence occurs, who is most vulnerable and most targeted, where the violence is concentrated and what motivates it. We will present the results of an analysis spanning over 1000 events of settler violence, as well as trends in the violence over time, to better understand how these attacks affect Palestinians.The Palestine Center presents an analysis of settler violence in the West Bank. We ask... more
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This comes only days after another leading rabbi declared that the goyim (gentiles) "exist only to serve the Jews."
"According to true Jewish values, your lives come before those of the enemy, whether he is a soldier or a civilian under protection. Therefore, you are forbidden from endangering your own life for the sake of the enemy, not even for a civilian," Shapira declared.
Shapira was arrested over the summer for encouraging Jews to kill Gentiles in his book "The King's Torah." The preface of the book, which was published in November, states that it is forbidden to kill non-Jews - but the book then apparently describes the context in which it is permitted to do so.This comes only days after another leading rabbi declared that the goyim (gentiles)... more
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Jerusalem Municipal inspectors and police demolished a street vending stall on Sultan Suleiman Street, across from the Old City's Damascus Gate, on Friday 15 October at 12.45 a.m. The stall belongs to Faiz Abu Ramuz and has provided a livelihood for him and his family since 1967.
During demolition of the stall and in contravention of a court order, Jerusalem municipal inspectors confiscated merchandise owned by Abu Ramuz worth thousands of shekels. When Abu Ramuz's attorney noted this to the police commander on the spot, he was detained on suspicion of incitement and later released on bail of NIS 5,000.
On Sunday at noon municipal inspectors and police demolished the street vending stall for a second time.Jerusalem Municipal inspectors and police demolished a street vending stall on Sultan... 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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This is Gaza, the biggest prison on earth. This is how people live in Gaza and go about their daily lifeThis is Gaza, the biggest prison on earth. This is how people live in Gaza and go... more
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Media attention has recently focused on the effort to obtain residency rights for children of foreign workers. But Majed Koka is not a foreign worker. He is a gay Palestinian man from the West Bank who came to Israel at age 14 because in his hometown of Nablus, he never could have lived openly as a gay man.
"If I returned to Nablus, it would be like throwing paper into a fire," said Koka, 26, who has been living in Tel Aviv for the last 12 years. "If I returned I'd be in big trouble, one long nightmare."
For the last eight years, Koka has lived with a partner, an Israeli citizen. In 2002, the two even signed a partnership agreement and registered themselves as married with the municipality - though legally, the state does not recognize gay marriage.
In June 2009, Koka finally asked the Interior Ministry to grant him legal residency on humanitarian grounds. Fifteen months later, he has yet to receive a response.
Meanwhile, since he is here illegally, he is subject to frequent arrests; his lawyer is constantly fighting for his release. He has been arrested nine times over the last 12 years, Koka said.
Koka also applied for refugee status at the local office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, but was rejected because that agency does not deal with Palestinians.
Koka's mother is from Jerusalem and does have permanent residency here. But she never bothered arranging residency rights in Israel for her son, even though for the first five years of his life, the family lived in Jaffa and then in Haifa. Only in 1989, when the couple divorced, did Koka's father take him to his own hometown of Nablus.
When Koka realized he was gay, his troubles began: Many Palestinians, influenced by Islam's strict prohibition against homosexuality, take a dim view of homosexuals. Koka said he received various threats, which eventually prompted him to infiltrate into Israel at age 14.
Since then, he has rarely been back to visit his family. But the last time he did go, he said, he was arrested by the Palestinian police on suspicion of collaborating with Israel and subjected to severe torture - which he believes was prompted by his sexual orientation.
"There have been cases of people like me who went back to visit their families and were attacked," he said, adding that in such cases, the assailants usually begin by saying they heard the victim is gay and only then move on to accusing him of collaboration with Israel.Media attention has recently focused on the effort to obtain residency rights for... more
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A United Nations Human Rights Council investigation has concluded that the Israeli military broke international laws during its raid on a Turkish ship that was part of an aid flotilla trying to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza.A United Nations Human Rights Council investigation has concluded that the Israeli... more
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More "honor" coming from the most radical, intolerant ideology in the world, Muslim law (the sharia). Watch the media ignore this story. Watch the phony feminazis ignore this story. Watch the left ignore this story. Watch the international community ignore this story. Watch the apologists ignore this story
Palestinian mental patients get hysterectomies
Muslim law permits parents to remove uteruses of mentally ill girls to protect family from shame Ali Waked, INN
A debate held by a Palestinian radio station has revisited the issue of female mutilation, with interviewed parents saying they prefer to perform hysterectomies on mentally ill girls in order to prevent them from becoming impregnated.
But the procedure is known to be performed in order to allay fears of embarrassment by a similarly ill offspring, and has been sanctioned to this end by both Sharia and the Palestinian Authority.
"We can't follow the girls around 24 hours a day, and we worry that they will be sexually assaulted, so we prefer to cut out their wombs," one parent told a radio station belonging to the Ma'an news agency.
The station held a debate on the matter over the past few days, uncovering a phenomenon not uncommon in the West Bank.
Parents who were interviewed anonymously cited protecting their daughters from rape as the reason behind the procedure, and the mufti of Nablus issued a decree approving hysterectomies "if they can put an end to a mental condition or social problem".More "honor" coming from the most radical, intolerant ideology in the world,... more
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On the eve of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the US has appealed to both sides not to let the killing of four Jewish settlers near Hebron derail the talks.
link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11148097On the eve of direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the US has... more
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More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
In a letter, they said they supported the recent decision by a group of actors and others not to take part in cultural activity there.
The academics said that acceptance of the settlements caused "critical" damage to Israel's chances of achieving peace with the Palestinians.
The actors were criticised for refusing to perform at a new cultural centre.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the last thing Israel needed as it resumed direct peace talks was a boycott from within.
'Stupid behaviour'
In a letter published on Sunday, the academics said they would no longer take part in any kind of cultural activity, or lecture in any kind of academic setting, in settlements built on land occupied following the Middle East war - demarcated by what is commonly known as the "Green Line".
They explained that they wanted to show support and solidarity for the 53 actors, writers and directors who last week said they would not take part in performances at the new cultural centre built in Ariel.
"We'd like to remind the Israeli public that, like all settlements, Ariel is also in occupied territory," the academics said.
"If a future peace agreement with the Palestinian authorities puts Ariel within Israel's borders, then it will be treated like any other Israeli town."
"Legitimatisation and acceptance of the settler enterprise cause critical damage to Israel's chances of achieving a peace accord with its Palestinian neighbours."
Close to 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. They are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.
A separate letter, signed by a number of well-known Israeli authors and artists, is expected to be published in the coming days.
Yigal Cohen-Orgad, the chancellor of the Ariel University Centre, told Haaretz newspaper on Tuesday that "stupid behaviour seems to attract academic stupidity".
Several right-wing politicians have criticised the actors, saying they are subsidised by the Israeli state and should have their funds withdrawn if they refuse to work in any settlements.More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish... 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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I think this is the best documentary I have ever seen on the conflict in the Holy Land, and how it affects America directly.I think this is the best documentary I have ever seen on the conflict in the Holy... more
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