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MURDERED BY THE STATE OF ISRAEL 5 YEARS AGO
Palestinian homes demolished without warning
The Israeli army demolished more homes in Palestinian
villages in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday morning.
The homes and property of Palestinian families in the
villages of Hadidiya, Jiftlik and Furush Beit Dajan, in the
Jordan Valley area of the occupied West Bank, were
demolished. Amnesty International's researcher on
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories witnessed
the demolitions. Donatella Rovera described the scene:
"In all the places, most of the people are children.
These homes mostly have three generations –
the grandparents, parents and children. In
Hadidiya, there were four families, in Furush
Beit Dajan, five families.
Gush Shalom Press Release: Assassinations
in Bethlehem and Tulkarm – a grave provocation
The government does not want a ceasefire, but a new
flareup. Those who sent the assassins to carry out
"liquidations" today, in Tulkarm and Bethlehem, knew
what they were doing – a grave act of provocation which
might blow up the serious chance which had opened up,
to reach ceasefire and calm. This is a wanton, completely
irresponsible act, which might return the inhabitants of
Sderot, Ashkelon and Gaza back into the hell from which
they momentarily escaped.
Report: the Israeli army kills 274 Palestinian
among them 50 children this year
The Palestine Liberation Organization – PLO,
international relations department issued a report on
Wednesday stating that the Israeli army has killed
274 Palestinians including 50 children and 18 women
since the beginning of 2008.
Israel kills 4 in West Bank after
Hamas sets truce terms
BETHLEHEM, West Bank - Israeli forces killed four
Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on
Wednesday, hours after the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers
demanded a halt to all Israeli "aggression" as a condition
for a ceasefire. A source in Islamic Jihad, which lost
three members, including a local leader, in the Bethlehem
raid, vowed revenge and charged: "The Zionist enemy
has no interest in calm."
In response to killing five resistance men,
Palestinian resistance group shells Israeli areas
The Al Qudes brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad
issued a press statement saying that they fired 15
home-made Qassam shells from Gaza at nearby Israeli
territory on Wednesday night and Thursday at dawn.
Palestinian fighter killed, house destroyed in
Israeli incursion near Tulkarem
Bethlehem – Ma'an – Israeli forces invaded the West
Bank town of Seida, near the city of Tulkarem, on
Wednesday morning, killing one fighter affiliated with
the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds Brigades.
Al Nunu: Israel is to be held responsible
for further deterioration
Taher Al Nunu, spokesperson of the Hamas-run
government in the Gaza Strip, slammed the Wednesday
Israeli military attacks which left five Palestinians dead,
and stated that Israel is to be held responsible for further
deterioration in the situation.
The Israeli army kidnaps 17 Palestinians
from the West Bank
The Israeli army kidnapped 17 Palestinians during
pre- dawn invasions across the West Bank on Wednesday.
The Israeli army kidnaps 13
civilians from Nablus
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army
invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus and
nearby refugee camps, then kidnapped 13 Palestinian
civilians on Thursday at dawn.
One Palestinian civilian injured in Jericho
Palestinian sources reported that one Palestinian
civilian was injured in the West Bank city of Jericho
on Thursday.
As Bethlehem mourns four resistance men,
Barak says the army will continue to kill Palestinians
At least ten thousand residents of the southern West
Bank city of Bethlehem took part in the funeral at
midday on Thursday of the four Palestinian resistance
fighters who were killed by the Israeli army late on
Wednesday night.
Thousands of Palestinian orphans protest
Israeli army looting of their food
Thousands of Palestinian orphans on Tuesday took
to the streets in this southern West Bank town to
protest recent raids by the Israeli occupation army
of their orphanages and boarding schools. Hundreds
of Israeli troops, backed up by armored carriers,
raided the Islamic Charitable Society in downtown
Hebron earlier this week , vandalizing property and
looting hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of food
materials, clothes, shoes and furniture donated by local
and foreign donors for the benefit of the orphans.
Hamas: No truce until Israeli occupation
force ends Gaza, W. Bank raids
Hamas publicly set its terms on Wednesday for a
ceasefire with Israel, calling for an end to Israeli
occupation force raids in Palestinian territory and a
reopening of Gaza border crossings.
Abbas: IDF operation in Bethlehem
a barbaric crime
Palestinian Authority condemns killing of four terrorists,
says 'crime exposes Israel's mask'.
Smuggler buried alive when tunnel
collapses near Egypt-Gaza border
U.N. blasts Israel for West Bank
housing expansion plan
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) --West Bank settlement,
saying the decision conflicts with "Israel's obligation
under the road map" for Middle East peace. Israel's
settlement activities have long been a major bone of
contention in efforts to bring peace to the region. In
December, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
ordered his government not to start any new
construction projects in the West Bank without his approval.
Israeli foreign minister criticizes settlement plan
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Wednesday
criticized a plan to expand a Jewish settlement in
occupied land as unhelpful but insisted it would not
prejudice a final peace deal under negotiation with Palestinians.
US security envoy said to be frustrated with
Israeli disruption of PA's efforts
Bethlehem – Ma'an Exclusive – The US security
envoy to the Palestinian territories, General Keith
Dayton, is reportedly frustrated with what he sees as
a deliberate Israeli attempt to disrupt and thwart the
efforts of the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank.
Barak: Israel is not about to achieve any
political agreement with the Palestinians
The Israeli Defense Minister Ehod Barak said on
Wednesday that there is no political agreement that
about to happen with between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority.
Barak warns of Abbas's demise
Warning of the potential downfall of Mahmoud
Abbas's Fatah government in the West Bank,
Defense Minister Ehud Barak rejected reports on
Wednesday that Israel had agreed to a cease-fire
with Hamas, while claiming that additional IDF
operations in Gaza were impendent.
Haniyya: "Israeli war on Gaza failed,
Hamas is not striving after a calm"
Palestinian Prime Minister of the disposed government
in Gaza, Ismael Haniyya, stated on Wednesday that the
Israeli war on the Gaza Strip have failed, and that the
Hamas movement, the ruling party in Gaza, is not
striving after a truce or calm with the occupation.
PFLP fighters claim responsibility for projectile
attack amid news of ceasefire
Gaza – Ma'an – The military wing of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the
Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, claimed responsibility on
Tuesday for launching two homemade projectiles at
the Israeli settlement of Zikim in the western Negev desert.
Islamic Jihad fires rockets into Israel, vows more
Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad fired
rockets from Gaza into Israel on Thursday in what
it described as an "initial" response to Israeli forces'
killing three of its members in the West Bank.
Wave of arrests at Birzeit University
Since January 2008, eight Birzeit University students
and one employee have been arrested by the Israeli
army. None of whom have been charged. This comes
amongst a wave of arrests all over the West Bank
under the pretext of the person belonging to a political
party. Three of the eight arrests are held under
administrative detention - a system of incarceration
without trial based on 'secret' evidence – meaning
there was no evidence to suggest they violated any
Israeli laws at the time of the arrest. Administrative
Detention is detention authorized by administrative
order rather than by judicial decree under the pretext
that there is not yet sufficient evidence to merit a case
but that the person should be incarcerated until enough
evidence is found. Prisoners can spend many years in
prison waiting for a charge to be brought against them.
Birzeit University currently has a student who has been
under administrative detention for 2.5 years.
Israel-OPT: Egypt quietly
lets in 230 patients from Gaza
Egypt has allowed over 200 Palestinian patients from
the Gaza Strip to make their way into Egypt via the
Rafah border crossing, according to Palestinian health
officials. After the large-scale Israeli incursion into Jabalya
refugee camp at the end of February and beginning of
March, which killed about 120 and caused many injuries,
Egypt allowed some of the wounded to enter its territory
through Rafah. A Palestinian health official in Gaza told
IRIN over 230 people had crossed since then.
ISRAEL-OPT: Group of Gazan doctors
gets war surgery training
Source: IRIN The International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) held a three-day seminar on war surgery in the
Gaza Strip from 11-13 March for 55 Palestinian medics,
with lessons ranging from international humanitarian law
to basic management of war wounded, and more specific
topics like head and stomach injuries.
In the Spider's Web
In the Spider's Web is a total of 47-minute long documentary
produced in 2004 by Al-Haq and directed by Hannah Musleh.
The film is part of Al-Haq's campaign to stop collective
punishment practiced by Israeli occupying forces against
Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Through In the Spider's Web Al-Haq provides an overview
of these punitive measures against the Palestinian civilians.
While the film mainly addresses the accounts of two women,
it also highlights the impact that collective punishment has on
the whole civilian population. The film also takes the audience
to a girls' school in Hebron, where it shows a typical day in the
lives of these students. The documentary also seeks to
capture and relay some of the disastrous implications of the
continuing construction of the Annexation Wall and the
further expropriation of land for its construction.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
Rabbi: Terror attack was punishment
for rebellion against Torah
Rabbi Dan Segal, a well known Haredi figure, told his
students on Wednesday that the terror attack at
Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav yeshiva last week, that
left eight students dead, was in fact a punishment for
the "Zionist rebellion against the shalosh shvuot."
Poll: Half of Jews oppose living in
neighborhoods with Arabs
About half the Jewish public objects to Arabs' living in
Jewish neighborhoods, a Haifa University public opinion
poll finds. Fifty-six percent of Israeli Arabs strongly
support living in the same neighborhood as Jews. While
69 percent of the Jews in Israel support friendship with
Arabs, 54 percent said they had no Arab friends.
How to be An Israeli Journalist: Never
Write "Murder" or "Palestine"
A year ago I applied for the job of Occupied Territories
correspondent at Ma'ariv, an Israeli newspaper. I
speak Arabic and have taught in Palestinian schools
and taken part in many joint Jewish-Palestinian
projects. At my interview the boss asked how I could
possibly be objective. I had spent too much time with
Palestinians; I was bound to be biased in their favor.
I didn't get the job. My next interview was with Walla,
Israel's most popular website. This time I did get the
job and I became Walla's Middle East correspondent.
I soon understood what Tamar Liebes, the director of
the Smart Institute of Communication at the Hebrew
University, meant when she said: 'Journalists and
publishers see themselves as actors within the Zionist
movement, not as critical outsiders.'
Salata Baladi or Afrangi?
While Zionism's atrocities against the Palestinian people
have not stopped for the last century, Israel's atrocities
against other Arabs in the last sixty years have remained
consistent, albeit intermittent. This not only includes Israel's
bombings and killings of Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians,
Tunisians, Egyptians, and Libyans, but also its terrorism
against Arab Jews, specifically Iraqi Jews whose exodus to
Israel it brought about in the early 1950s after a series of
bombings in Baghdad, and the tragedy it caused to Egyptian
Jews, to say nothing of Yemeni and Moroccan Jews whose
lives Zionism successfully interrupted and transformed.
While Zionism's activities in Egypt among Egyptian Jews
bore little fruit before or after World War II, Zionism's
insistence that it speaks and acts in the name of all Jews
have put Jewish communities inside and outside Palestine
in a precarious position.
Crossing the Line interviews Gaza-based
journalist Rami Almeghari
This week on Crossing the Line: Israel continues its
siege and steps up attacks on the Gaza Strip killing more
than 100 Palestinians, the majority of whom were
civilians according to various human rights
organizations. Host Naji Ali speaks with journalist,
Rami Almeghari, to get an update on the situation in Gaza.
Slowly strangled
We celebrated my son Yousuf's fourth birthday
two weeks last Saturday. We sang happy birthday.
And we counted the bodies as the death toll in Gaza
steadily rose. We ate cake. And my mother, stuck
here with us in North Carolina and prevented by
Israel from returning to Gaza, sobbed. We watched
the fighter-jets roar over Gaza on our television
screen, pounding its narrow streets; and we shuddered.
Yousuf tore open his presents, then asked my mother
if the plane he saw overhead was a drone, an awful
memory from his days spent living in Gaza. And we
were torn open from the inside, engulfed by feelings
of helplessness and anger and fear.
Dr. Sigmund Freud :
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Vienna: 26 February 1930: Letter to the
Keren Hajessod (Dr. Chaim Koffler)
McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam
Washington Dispatch: Televangelist Rod Parsley,
a key McCain ally in Ohio, has called for eradicating the
"false religion." Will the GOP presidential candidate renounce him?
Iraqis bury 10 after blast U.S.
says killed no one
It was an incident that aptly summed up the fog of war
in Iraq -- relatives burying nine women and a child they
said were victims of a bomb attack on a bus in
which the U.S. military said no one died. In Iraq, acts of
violence are almost always accompanied by multiple
accounts from witnesses, police, health officials and
U.S. forces. But even by Iraqi standards Tuesday's
attack on a bus full of mourners was a puzzle.
Severed fingers of 5 hostages held
in Iraq delivered to U.S.
U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five
severed fingers belonging to four Americans and
an Austrian who were taken hostage more than
a year ago in Iraq, officials here said today.
Christian archbishop's body found in Iraq
A Christian archbishop kidnapped in northern Iraq
last month has been found dead, according to a
Nineveh province deputy governor in the town of
Mosul. Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paul Faraj
Rahho was found Thursday near Mosul, where
he and three companions were ambushed by
gunmen on February 29.
Iraqi mother vows revenge on US
Um Saad, a middle-aged woman living in the
Sunni district of Khadra in west Baghdad,
blames the Americans for the death of her
husband and two of her sons and threatens revenge. "
They are monsters and devils wearing human clothes,"
she exclaims vehemently. "One day I will put on an
explosive belt under my clothes and then blow
myself up among the Americans. I will get revenge
against them for my husband and sons and
I will go to paradise."
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