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Obama gives Israel carte blanche on settlement construction Thursday, September 24, 2009 : Tuesday’s meeting in New York between Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas was widely regarded as little more than a photo opportunity before it began, as well as something of a political embarrassment for the US president....
Posted: Thu, Sep 24, 2009 6:40am PDT
How Israel Targets and Suppresses Opposition to Its Annexation Wall Israel attacks non-violent demonstrators...
Posted: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 12:14pm PDT
Obama Admin Urges Israeli-Palestinian Final-Status Talks, but Abandons Insistence on Israeli Settlement Freeze Wednesday, September 23, 2009 :The Obama administration has abandoned a demand that Israel freeze settlement expansion before the resumption of peace talks. President Obama signaled the shift on Tuesday as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. We speak to Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and former legal adviser to the Palestinian Liberation Organization; and Israeli historian Avi Shlaim, a ...
Posted: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 7:53am PDT
PSP Supports Kobi Snitz, Israeli Beginning Short Prison Term for Anti-Occupation Activity Kobi Snitz, a long-time activist with the Israeli group Anarchists Against the Wall, and a personal friend of PSP, begins a 20 day prison term for an arrest in 2004 in which he tried to prevent a home demolition in the Palestinian village of Kharbatha, in the Ramallah District. He is the first Israeli activist to serve time for a demonstration in the Occupied Territories. His statement (from yesterday) is below:...
Posted: Tue, Sep 22, 2009 7:15am PDT
Goldstone Commission Gaza Conflict Findings and Reactions Goldstone accuses Israel of war crimes...
Posted: Mon, Sep 21, 2009 12:38pm PDT
Israel: Not a Jewish State, A Zionist State The Zionist movement and its State—ISRAEL, do not represent the Jewish people. They never did. They represent a particular trend within the Jewish people, namely—the nationalist trend. To find out whether Israel is a Jewish State or a Zionist State one need only ask any religious Orthodox Jew anywhere. His answer will be unambiguous: a Jewish State must be ruled by Jewish religious law—“Halakha.” Israel is not ruled by “Halakha” laws, but by secular laws. Therefore Israel is not a Jewish Stat...
Posted: Mon, Sep 21, 2009 2:44am PDT
Action Alert: Palestinian reports sexual harassment in Israeli jail 19 September 2009
Since the last month WOFPP has accompanied, with deep concern, the minor political prisoner who complained of sexual harassment by one of the guards in Hasharon Prison where she was held....
Posted: Mon, Sep 21, 2009 2:17am PDT
Amira Hass / The one thing worse than denying the Gaza report On Friday an Israel Defense Forces soldier called to protest the publication of another story in Haaretz which in his words, tainted not only the troops' image but also his Sabbath day....
Posted: Sat, Sep 19, 2009 7:48am PDT
Treading the Borders Between Life and Death London, Septemeber 16, 2009, (Pal Telegraph)- It happened at 2:30am, Wednesday, December 31 2008. Israeli helicopter gunships and warplanes had been bombing the length of the Gaza Strip. In Eastern Jabaliya, white phosphorous had been exploding over Ezbit Abid Rubbu, Al Gerem, and Jabal al Rais....
Posted: Sat, Sep 19, 2009 6:52am PDT
East Khouzaa destruction & buffer zone Interview with Dr. Qudeh from the “Brilliant Tomorrow For Homes Sons Society” about the destruction of East Khouzaa during the December 2008 – January 2009 Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the attempt of the Israeli occupation forces to establish a “buffer zone” by shooting live ammunition against farmers. watch the interview:
http://palsolidarity.org/2009/09/8464...
Posted: Sat, Sep 19, 2009 6:47am PDT
American Radical: the Trials of Norman Finkelstein The new documentary about Norman Finkelstein has premiered in Chicago and will be available shortly for screenings, purchase and rental. It premiered at the Chicago Underground Film Festival this past weekend. Colleges, universities and other organizations can purchase an Institutional DVD copy (sold with non-paying public performance rights) on Arab Film’s website here. Home Video DVD copies will be for sale in early 2010....
Posted: Sat, Sep 19, 2009 6:41am PDT
Bil'in demo 18.09.09 Today's weekly demonstration in Bil'in was briefer than usual. The day marks a holiday both in the Muslim and Jewish calendar. Muslims are celebrating the end of the Holy month of Ramadan (Eid-ul-Fitr*), and the Jewish are celebrating New Year's Eve tonight....
Posted: Fri, Sep 18, 2009 8:55am PDT
U.K. labor unions back Israel boycott in wake of Gaza war British labor unions on Thursday agreed to support a boycott of some Israeli goods in response to the offensive in Gaza last winter....
Posted: Thu, Sep 17, 2009 1:02pm PDT
video of Israeli soldiers beat unarmed civilians, trash house Shortly after 1:30am, Israeli forces invaded Bil'in again. They raided the house of Abdullah Mahmoud Aburahma in an attempt to arrest him. However, he was not home at the time....
Posted: Thu, Sep 17, 2009 8:52am PDT
UN Inquiry Finds Israel "Punished and Terrorized" Palestinian Civilians, Committed War Crimes During Gaza Assault Wednesday, September 16, 2009 :A United Nations fact-finding mission has found Israel "punished and terrorized" civilians in its three-week assault on Gaza earlier this year and cited strong evidence that Israeli forces committed "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions. More than 1,400 Palestinians - about a third of them women and children - were killed in the assault. We get analysis from author and Israel-Palestine scholar Norman Finkelstein....
Posted: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 7:29am PDT
Goldstone Report Finds Israeli Military Guilty of War Crimes in Gaza From a Wednesday, September 16, 2009 entry on Informed Comment a blog run by Juan Cole...
Posted: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 7:27am PDT
United Nations Accuses Israel of 'War Crimes' in Gaza Breaking News: The United Nations Fact-Finding Mission in the Gaza Conflict has issued a report on "war crimes" by Israel....
Posted: Tue, Sep 15, 2009 7:01pm PDT
The Tel Aviv Party Stops Here When I heard the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was holding a celebratory "spotlight" on Tel Aviv, I felt ashamed of Toronto, the city where I live. I thought immediately of Mona Al Shawa, a Palestinian women's rights activist I met on a recent trip to Gaza. "We had more hope during the attacks," she told me. "At least then we believed things would change."...
Posted: Tue, Sep 15, 2009 9:05am PDT
Oakland man to sue for injury in Israel protest An Oakland man who was seriously wounded by a tear gas projectile fired by Israeli police during a West Bank protest will file suit despite a military report concluding that he was engaged in an “act of war,” his lawyers said Sunday....
Posted: Tue, Sep 15, 2009 9:00am PDT
Targeting Britain’s war industry Tuesday, September 15, 2009 :
"Warfighters around the world rely on Brimar products every day," a small company from Manchester in northwest England boasts on its publicity material. Brimar makes screens and viewfinders which allow helicopter pilots and tank gunners to carry out their bloody jobs in Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan. But a new local campaign is looking to turn Brimar's boast on its head, and it's just one of a number of British campaigns confronting the companies which arm the Isr...
Posted: Tue, Sep 15, 2009 7:58am PDT
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