Land Theft and Destruction
Sheikh Jarrah court case delayed until April: Settler heckling continues
On Monday January 18th, a Jerusalem court case over the legal ownership of a Palestinian owned house in the Sheik Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem was postponed until April. The hearing against the Husseini family was delayed because the prosecution, who claims the Palestinian family does not have legal ownership over their house, needed more time to build a case.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Bedouin home demolished near Ramallah
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israeli bulldozers, accompanied by the Israeli army, demolished the home of Hassan Salem Al-Ka’abna in the village of Jab’a, southeast of Ramallah on Tuesday. According to Salem Al-Ka’abna, Hassan’s son, the family had not received formal notification of the demolition. The home was demolished because the roof is constructed out of aluminum, which requires an Israeli planning permit.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment
MIDEAST: Israel Jails Palestinian Peace Activists, Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Jan 18, 2010 (IPS) - Israel has long argued that Palestinians should pursue their political objectives in a non-violent way. However, several prominent Palestinian peace activists have recently been arrested and jailed for doing just that.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?
Beit Hannoun demonstrates to reclaim their land
Today the 18th January 2010 four International Solidarity Movement activists participated in a demonstration to reclaim Palestinian Land in Beit Hannoun, northern Gaza. The demonstration was organized by the Local Initiative Beit Hannoun Group and around 15 activists attended. Activists gathered in front of the Agricultural University College which now lays in rubble after it was bombed during operation Cast Lead.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Letter to the Israeli Ambassador in Athens from Theodoros Pangalos, Member of the Greek Parliament
Theodoros Pangalos - dialoguewithdiversity.com - Allow me to thank you for the three wine bottles you sent me for the holidays. ... Unfortunately, I have noticed that the wine you offered me was produced on the Golan Heights. I have always known since my childhood years that one should neither commit nor accept the proceeds of robbery. I, therefore, cannot accept this gift and must send it back to you.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_
Trafalgar Square: Gaza 1417 Remembrance Die-In
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Don’t be Complicit in Israel’s Apartheid: Boycott the 2010 Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Aggression/Violence
Abu Sha’ar deplores Israeli settlers’ assault on Palestinian girl in J’lem
Dr. Taleb Abu Sha’ar strongly denounced the physical assault by police-escorted fanatic Israeli settlers on a 16-year-old girl in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied Jerusalem.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
MADA condemns raiding of Al-Aqsa TV cameraman's home
Bethlehem – Ma’an – The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) condemned on Tuesday the raiding of Al-Aqsa TV cameraman and news producer Ammar Yasir Altilawy’s home on Thursday. Altilawy’s home was stormed in the evening by an armed person, working for the National security forces for the de facto Ministry of Interior, a statement issued by MADA said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Detainees
Hamas: PA forces detained 5 across West Bank
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Hamas accused the Palestinian Authority security forces of detaining five of the movement’s affiliates across the West Bank, in a statement issued on Tuesday. Security forces detained students Abdullah Nofal and Muhammad Daoud in Qalqiliya, the statement said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Detainee in Abbas's jail taken to hospital
Hakim Shalalde, municipality council member of Sa'ir village, has been taken from his detention cell in the jails of the PA security in Ramallah to hospital after his condition worsened.
Egypt and Israel's Humanitarian War Against Palestinians/Siege
Israel's Gaza blockade continues to suffocate daily life
Amnesty International: Full report: Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said one year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/
Real per capita income of Palestine plunges
Armed with growing global financial aid, the Palestinians in the occupied territories struggled to alleviate years of poverty, unemployment and other economic woes but their efforts have been ruined by Israel’s hostility. In such conditions, the aid was only helpful in preventing a human disaster in 2008.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Egypt tells Hamas: No more Mr. Nice Guy
No more ad hoc arrangements. This is the message Egypt is sending to Hamas and the other relevant parties by setting up a fortified barrier along Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip.The Egyptian move marks the end of an era in Egypt's policy toward the Gaza Strip and Hamas. In 2005, when Israel was getting ready to evacuate Gaza.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Ten days in the Cairo Corral
Who isn’t horrified by the situation in Gaza? It has been called the largest open-air prison in the world, a ghetto, or simply a violation of human rights by more organizations and journalists and bloggers than I can name. To summarize quickly, Gaza is a 25-mile-long narrow strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea that Israel captured from Egypt in June of 1967.
http://www.southsidepride.com/
Israel's new southern wall increases isolation from Arab neighbors
Ilan Pappe [Professor, Department of History, University of Exeter]: "The building of the separation wall between Israel and the West Bank in 2001 and before that the construction of the fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel in 1994, were claimed by official Israel to be barriers against terrorism. In reality, in the case of the West Bank, they separated Palestinians from Palestinians and barred many of them any access to their schools, fields, businesses and neighbors. In the Gaza strip the fence transformed the Strip into a human mega prison for its million and a half inhabitants.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
Gaza also flooded; Palestinians blame IDF
Palestinians say IDF made situation worse by opening dam flooding many houses. State of emergency declared in West Bank; vehicles, house catch fire.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
The story of a Palestinian family lethality of the disease awaits help
Gaza, January 18, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) -They look everywhere, meditate in bed, "Ali" and turning the clothes, "Mahmoud," this child, who was not yet known life, not what is meant by the blockade which has killed and his brother is waiting for the other sister scent story house in Khan Younis in the lives of suffering permanent companions with their young children who did not enjoy life like other children, it looked as pain and features a clear-Akhras family, which invited two of her children whom the child who is six-year-old Ali where he suffered from kidney failure in both kidneys pick-up was unable to complete the stages of treatment of this disease and after a period of work for the money are hospitals within the State of the occupation he passed away.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
What about Gaza?
Sever Plocker - Ynet - A truly powerful reason is required for stretching our resources all the way to Haiti, when many children in Gaza, a driving distance from central Israel, require urgent hospitalization. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate and just to provide them with an Israeli field hospital?
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_
Haneyya gov't asks for urgent assistance to deal with floods
The government of Ismail Haneyya on Tuesday appealed to the world community to save the flood-stricken areas in Gaza Strip and to send urgently needed construction material.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Gaza gov't to provide shelter for families affected by floods
Gaza – Ma’an – The de facto council of ministers announced on Tuesday that it will provide families affected by the recent flooding with shelter and immediate assistance, secretary general of the council Mahmoud Awad said in a statement. The ministry will provide more than 100 families made homeless as a result of the floods with shelter, Awad said, adding that the de facto government has begun a review of the damages and will compensate Gazans for their losses.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Aiding the War Criminals
Israel Seeks German Arms-Aid Deal
Germany and Israel are intensifying negotiations over a nearly 1 billion euro ($1.45 billion) naval procurement package, a considerable portion of which Israel hopes to fund from a combination of German and U.S. aid.
http://snipurl.com/u4bgz
British demo denounces supplying Israel with British arms
Hundreds gathered in Brighton, south of London, on Monday to protest the presence of EDO, an arms firm that develops weapons parts used in the Israeli war on Gaza last year.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Politics and Diplomacy
Abbas: talks only choice for Palestinians
RAMALLAH, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday evening that the Palestinians don't have any choice other than negotiations. When attending the ceremony of the Armenian Christmas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Abbas said the Palestinians "are not going to stop working for peace," the Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Hamas welcomes Kuwaiti role in reconciliation efforts
Hamas on Monday welcomed any Kuwaiti role in forging inter-Palestinian reconciliation, denying a website report quoting one of its officials that said there was nothing new in the Kuwaiti efforts.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Turkey: We're eager to resume Israel-Syria mediation
Turkey would very much like to resume its former role of mediating Israeli-Syrian talks, and is prepared to do so immediately, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told visiting Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Ankara on Sunday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Norway FM to Haaretz: We are not anti-Semitic, anti-Israel
There are "forces" in Israel that unfairly portray Norway as anti-Semitic, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store charged yesterday. He was responding to various reports critical of Norway in the local press.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Other News
Rights Movement: “Israel Harvested Organs From Palestinian Christian In 1988”
The Popular Movement for the Support of Prisoners and Palestinian Rights showed a video in Gaza City on Monday showing Israeli soldiers executing a Christian Palestinian from Gaza city after kidnapping him in 1988.
http://www.imemc.org/index.
To the victor go the street names
Gershom Gorenberg - The government of Israel is outraged because the Palestinian Authority has named a square after Dalal Mughrabi, who killed 37 Israelis in 1978. "Naming a square after Mughrabi is unconscionable. It glorifies political murder. Still, before Netanyahu looks out the window at the neighbors, he might try looking in the mirror."
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_
Palestinians host first East Jerusalem meet since 2001
The Palestinian Authority on Monday held its official meeting with a foreign diplomat in East Jerusalem since the closing of its headquarters there more than eight years ago.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Orthodox Christians brave rain to mark Jesus's baptism (AFP)
AFP - Thousands of Orthodox Christians braved rain on the banks of the Jordan river on Monday to plunge into plastic tubs filled with its murky water to celebrate Jesus's baptism.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Syria's Mufti: Islam commands us to protect Judaism
Syria's foremost Muslim leader declared on Tuesday that Islam commands its followers to protect Judaism, according to Army Radio.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Analysis/Op-ed/Human Interest
Nusseibeh: A Palestinian State Has Become Impossible
The Israelis have applied the same policy to the West Bank as to Jerusalem. This extraordinary colonial ingenuity was carried out at the expense of the people. The Zionists have succeeded in terms of concrete and tarmac; in this respect, they exist. But in terms of flesh and blood, they remain outsiders. The more they succeed in laying concrete, the less they manage to create a real democracy and have it take root in the region.
https://mail.google.com/mail/?
A Closer Look at Israel's Role in Terrorism, Jeff Gates
With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan poised to expand to Iran and Pakistan, it is time to take a closer look at how conflicts are catalyzed—by way of deception.
http://www.
"We are all complicit": an interview with Ewa Jasiewicz
A year ago, Israel launched its invasion of Gaza. Dubbed "Operation Cast Lead" by the Israeli military, the invasion started on 27 December 2008 and finished on 18 January 2009. During those 23 days, more than 1,400 Palestinians were killed including more than 320 children. Originally from Poland, Ewa Jasiewicz was one of a handful of "internationals" on the ground during the entirety of the attacks. Frank Barat spoke to Jasiewicz for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Subscribe to The Gaza Experience Channel
If you care to see recent videos from Gaza, please subscribe to this channel by and hitting the subscribe button. I already uploaded some videos and I will upload more on weekly basis. The videos will be of random things and places I saw or visited the Summer and Fall of 2009.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2010/
Iraq
Gunmen kill five in Iraqi NGO office
Gunmen burst into a Baghdad office of a nongovernmental organization on Monday and shot dead the five people inside, Iraqi police said. The attackers planted a bomb in the entrance to the office which exploded when security forces arrived, killing or wounding some of them.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/
Monday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 15 Wounded
Although casualties were light today—at least 13 Iraqis were killed and 15 were wounded—a number of important stories made the headlines. Among them is the announcement of Tony Blair’s appearance at the Iraq Inquiry. Meanwhile, a U.S. soldier was found guilty, while the Iraqi government moved ahead with plans to sue a U.S. company.
http://original.antiwar.com/
Amnesty International: Iraq must halt spiralling death sentences
Amnesty International has called on the Iraqi authorities to halt the mounting number of death sentences being handed out in the run-up to delayed national elections in March. Last week, 11 men were sentenced to death for allegedly committing terrorist acts including truck bombings, and on Sunday Ali Hassan al-Majid – a former senior official under Saddam Hussain known widely as “Chemical Ali” - was sentenced to death for the fourth time.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/
Sunni Iraqis fear disenfranchisement after hundreds of candidates banned
BAGHDAD -- By barring hundreds of candidates from an upcoming parliamentary election, a controversial commission whose members have close ties to Iran is threatening to disenfranchise members of Iraq's Sunni minority and weaken its fledgling democracy.
http://feeds.washingtonpost.
Lebanon
Nahr al-Bared's economic recovery hampered by military siege
More than two years after the end of the fighting, the war-torn Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared, located in northern Lebanon, is far from the model the Lebanese government has promised the camp would become. Instead, reconstruction of the camp is delayed, the area is a military zone with restricted access, and the camp's economy is stalled and residents are largely unemployed. Ray Smith reports for Electronic Lebanon.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Court condemns Palestinian militant to death
A Palestinian suspect was sentenced to death on Monday for belonging to a terrorist group. Military Investigating Magistrate Fadi Sawwan sentenced Rami Issa Abdallah to death for belonging to a terrorist group with the aim of conducting terrorist acts. He then referred the case to the Permanent Military Tribunal. Sawwan also sentenced seven people to 15 years of hard labor.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
How McCain was Greeted in Lebanon, FRANKLIN LAMB
John McCain dropped in on Beirut last weekend en route to Israel to join fellow US Senator Joe Lieberman in agreeing with their hosts that, just as he told them during the 2008 Presidential campaign, Barack Obama was real bad for Israel. McCain, fund raising for his 2010 reelection bid, emphasized that the Obama administration’s hint that the US might just possibly consider withholding a few largely superfluous loan guarantees to pressure Israel on settlements was a joke. Their hosts were likely pleased with assurances that no way would John and Joe allow Congress or Obama to pressure Israel.
http://www.counterpunch.org/
Lord Goldsmith warned ministers that Iraq war would be illegal
Lord Goldsmith, then the attorney general, warned Cabinet ministers in 2002 that he did not believe attacking Iraq would be legal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
U.S. and other world news
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
General Al-Zahrani grieves for his son, but at the end of a lengthy interview he paused and his thoughts turned elsewhere. “The truth is what matters,” he said. “They practiced every form of torture on my son and on many others as well. What was the result? What facts did they find? They found nothing. They learned nothing. They accomplished nothing.”
http://harpers.org/archive/
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes
One of the citations on the gun sights, 2COR4:6, is an apparent reference to Second Corinthians 4:6 of the New Testament, which reads: "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ."
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/
Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full Hospital and Staff Blocked From Landing in Port-au-Prince
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations.
http://www.
Caricom Blocked
THE CARIBBEAN Community’s emergency aid mission to Haiti, comprising Heads of Government and leading technical officials, failed to secure permission Friday to land at that devasted country’s aiport, now under the control of the United States.
http://www.trinidadexpress.
US doctors beg their government to admit critically injured children from Haiti
American Government allows one baby girl to be airlifted to hospital in Florida.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
US accused of annexing airport as squabbling hinders aid effort in Haiti
Brazil and France lodged an official protest with Washington after US military aircraft were given priority at Port-au-Prince's congested airport, forcing many non-US flights to divert to the Dominican Republic.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Obama must be less hazy on human rights in the Middle East
President Barack Obama has used all the right words to underscore his view that human rights concerns are a core element of his Middle East policy. In his Cairo speech in June 2009, he highlighted the importance of freedom of religion and women's rights, and spoke movingly of the "daily humiliations" and "intolerable" situation of Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Guest Post: The Muslim Cabbie Who Saved Christmas
There aren’t too many people who don’t remember Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, also known as “The Grinch.” It was a 2000 American film starring Jim Carey based on the 1957 book of the same name by Dr. Seuss. For four weeks it sat as the #1 film in the U.S., eventually earning $260 million at the US box office and breaking the 2007 Guinness World Record for Highest-Grossing Christmas Movie.
http://www.kabobfest.com/2010/
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