Shadi Fadda brings us today's headlines relating to Palestine and other news from around the internet.
Land Theft and Destruction
Israel to raze 28 buildings in Nablus area
Nablus – Ma’an – Twenty-eight homes and agricultural buildings were issued demolition orders by Israeli military personnel on Wednesday, all located on the outskirts of Aqraba village southeast of Nablus, a Palestinian official said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
IOF troops advance in central Gaza Strip, bulldoze land
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) mounting four tanks and escorting three bulldozers advanced into central Gaza Strip east of Deir Al-Balah city on Wednesday and damaged citizens' lands.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment
Fayyad helps burn settlement products
Palestinian PM takes part in West Bank demonstration as part of campaign against Israeli settlements; throws products manufactured in Israeli settlements into a fire.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Students, the occupation must be opposed! - highschool principal speaks out
Naomi Reichman - Y-net/My-net - "When you join the army, go to the checkpoints. You will see what happens there, bring a spirit of moderation, help create a different situation, and eventually you will reach the conclusion that the occupation should not go on. Military service is a duty - but service in an army which guards the borders and protects the country, not in an army concerned with occupation duties".
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_
Candlelight demonstration remembers the martyrs of Nablus and Gaza
A demonstration was held in the northern West Bank city of Nablus last night to mark the anniversary of the 3-week assault launched on Gaza one year ago that left over 1,400 Palestinians dead, and to mourn the assassination of 3 men by Israeli soldiers in Nablus last week.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
‘Beautiful resistance’ in Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp
Gate into the Aida Refugee Camp with a key that says "Not for Sale."
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Artists Against Apartheid XII
Montreal album launch for Palestinian poet Rafeef Ziadah Thursday March 18th 2010 20h00 $8 in advance | $10 at door La Sala Rossa 4848 St. Laurent Montreal, Quebec performances from Rafeef Ziadah Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian spoken word artist who recently released her debut album Hadeel in 2009 with grant support from the Ontario Arts Council.
http://www.tadamon.ca/post/
In honor of Hedy Epstein
Hedy Epstein, 85, barely escaped the death camps as a child. Last week she was in Cairo as part of the Gaza Freedom March, and started a hunger strike to protest The Mubarak regime's refusal to let the marchers into Gaza to the Rafah border, which the Egyptians control. She has visited the West Bank many times and is committed Palestine solidarity activist. Because she is Jewish and a holocaust survivor, two attributes that confer a certain amount of symbolic capital in our holocaust obsessed culture, Zionists hate here with a particular passion and conduct against her outlandish smear jobs, equating her to the camps' capos, attributing to her statements she never made, arguing with her right to be called a survivor, psychoanalyzing her, and more. If you like gutter journalism, you would appreciate, for example, Lee Kaplan's overflowing sewage from 2007. After her stay in Cairo, the Jerusalem Tawdry found room for a pseudo-scientific analysis of her "sex appeal" (Because Zionism and sexism, lest you forget, go together like horse and carriage), and, noblesse oblige, labeled her antisemitic.
http://jewssansfrontieres.
Israel Fears Popular struggle
Dozens of people, including diplomats, Palestinian and Israeli activists gathered on Monday at Ofer detention camp an Israeli military prison in the West Bank to show their support and solidarity with Jamal Juma, Coordinator of the Stop the Wall Campaign. The demonstration coincided with an extension of his detention for a further three days, after being already held in a mobile home in the prison compound for 20 days without no charges have being brought against him.
http://www.palestinemonitor.
Egypt's war against Gazans
Girl age 11: Youngest Gaza supporter: Egyptian policeman beat me up and tried to wrest Palestine flag from me
January 6, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Despite her young age and small body, she decided to visit the occupied homeland. She endured the difficulties after she had traumatized of Gaza war scenes and the retrieval of martyred children from under the rubble. Israa Ameen Abu Rashid, 11, and the youngest supporter in the European campaign "Gaza Freedom March", narrated to PMC (Palestine Media Center) what happened with her in Egypt. She said: "after the Egyptian government had prevented us from the buses and vehicles that would take us to El-Arish then to Gaza Strip, we decided to go on foot last Thursday. While we were waiting for the rest of the campaign members at Al-Tahrir square, I was surprised that the security forces attacked us. They beat me with sticks and separated between me and my mother, who was being hit on the other side of the street too. An officer tried to take off the Palestinian flag from me, but I stuck to it. He continued beating me. I was so sad that I felt I was not in Egypt; I said to my mother it would be much easier for me if Jews were beating us, because I did not expect this from the Egyptian government."
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
Lethal clashes at Gaza-Egypt border
Confrontation between Palestinians and Egyptian troops leaves one dead, two injured.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
55 hurt as Egyptian police, activists clash over Gaza relief convoy (AFP)
AFP - About 55 people were injured late Tuesday in clashes between Egyptian police and pro-Palestinian activists trying to get a relief convoy into the Gaza Strip, militants and medics said.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Egyptian police clash with Gaza aid convoy
Activists and officers injured after some of the 198 trucks led by British MP George Galloway are stopped from crossing into strip. Egyptian security forces clashed today with a pro-Palestinian convoy led by the British MP George Galloway as it tried to deliver aid supplies into the Gaza Strip. The convoy of 198 trucks and more than 500 supporters left London a month ago hoping to enter Gaza despite the Israeli economic blockade. The trucks are now at el-Arish, an Egyptian port on the Mediterranean, a few miles south of Gaza.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Report: Viva Palestina humanitarian convoy to Gaza stopped by 2,000 Egyptian riot police
This story is breaking right now. Similar to the recent Gaza Freedom March, the Egyptian government is not letting the Viva Palestina humanitarian convoy enter Gaza. Here is the latest from Viva Palestina.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Viva Palestina Convoy Press TV Jan 5 Report from El-Arish #3
Press TV, Tue 5 Jan 2010 @ 2000GMT: 3rd interview with correspondent Hassan Ghani from El-Arish, Egypt where the Convoy is facing more hurdles from the Egyptian authorities, riot police and negotiations continue. Ghani is travelling with the Viva Palestina Convoy enroute to Gaza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Egyptian Riot Police reportedly Surounding Viva Palestina at Al Arish
http://husseini.posterous.com/
Latest Pictures from Confrontation
http://www.thesitch.com/
Hamas slams Egyptian authorities for attacking Viva Palestina activists in Arish
Fawzi Barhoum denounced the Egyptian authorities for assaulting Viva Palestina activists in Al-Arish seaport, saying that this attack confirmed that there is participation in the siege on Gaza.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Jordan's Islamists condemn Egyptian "assault" on aid convoy to Gaza
AMMAN, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Jordan's Islamic Action Front (IAF) on Wednesday condemned Egypt's alleged assault on members of the Viva Palestina humanitarian convoy in the Egyptian port of El Arish. "The attack by the Egyptian authorities on the Viva Palestina convoy late Tuesday is heinous and cruel. We condemn the assault on the convoy members who seek to break the siege imposed on Gaza and such behaviors do not reflect the history of Egypt," the IAF, the political arm of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, said in a statement posted on its website.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
European organizations, Turkish masses protest Egyptian assault
An alliance of solidarity with the Palestinian people in Europe has called for demonstrations in front of the Egyptian embassies to protest the Egyptian security authorities' assault on Lifeline-3.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Palestine Vivra! The French Heroes of the Gaza Freedom March, by Emily Ratner
A great many heroes have emerged from the Gaza Freedom March’s efforts in Cairo, where more than 1,400 internationals from 43 countries have come to demand an end to the Israeli siege on Gaza. The South African delegation have inspired us all by facilitating the drafting of the Cairo Declaration to End Israeli Apartheid, a document that reaffirms our commitment to the struggle for Palestinian liberation and self-determination and offers a concrete plan for moving forward. Small groups have flown the Palestinian flag from atop the Cairo Tower and one of the pyramids. Many delegates refused the 100 seats on two buses to Gaza that painted our historic political efforts here as yet another token humanitarian aid trip. We will all leave Cairo with far more hope, wisdom, and collective power than we had when we arrived.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
I told you so
As I said before, Viva Palestina should not have left Aqaba and submitted to Egyptian authorities. Didn't I tell you the Mubarak republic will not allow them in even if they changed routes? They are demonstrating right now at the gates of the Egyptian Rafeh.
http://gaza08.blogspot.com/
Israeli Aggression against Palestinians
Gaza militant killed in Israeli air strike: medics (Reuters)
Reuters - A Palestinian militant was killed and four others were wounded in an Israeli air strike on Tuesday in the central Gaza strip, medics and a Palestinian militant group said.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Fishing Under Fire Report 2009
http://fishingunderfire.
Fatah's Torture of Palestinians
Abu Juhaisha rebuts news reports about cessation of torture in PA jails
Hamas lawmaker Mohamed Abu Juhaisha refuted news reports about the cessation of torture in the jails of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank, affirming that such talk is untrue.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Detainees
Israel orders Hamas legislator held for six more months
Salfit- Ma’an – Israel has extended the detention of Abdul Jaber Fuqaha, a Hamas-affiliated member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Ramallah first arrested in 2006. Hamas PLC members issued a statement condemning the order to hold Fuqaha in administrative detention for another six months.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Hamas: Three arrested by PA
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Hamas said on Wednesday that Palestinian Authority forces arrested three of its members in the Jenin and Hebron areas. In a statement the movement said the arrests one was arrested in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, and two were taken from their homes in the city of Hebron.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Humanitarian Issues/Human Rights
Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory 30 Dec 2009 - 05 Jan 2010
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
'Cell No. 36' - DCI-Palestine submits 13 cases to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
[Ramallah, 6 January 2010] - On 6 January 2010, DCI-Palestine submitted 13 cases to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture for investigation. The cases relate to the ill-treatment, and in some cases torture, of Palestinian children being held at the notorious Al Jalame Interrogation and Detention Centre near Haifa, in Israel, between February 2008 and March 2009.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
Civil Administration backtracks on granting Palestinians access to Bir el-Eid, Amira Hass
The Civil Administration ordered Palestinian residents of the West Bank this week to stop erecting tents and building animal enclosures in the Bir el-Eid area - even though the state allowed them access to the site only two months ago, after a 10-year enforced absence and a protracted legal effort.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
In Gaza, it always feels like an emergency
Yasser Nassar, Oxfam Public Health Officer in Gaza, 37, and father of four children, was facing daily water and electricity cuts in the 22-day war on Gaza one year ago, but he had to come up with solutions for his people.
http://www.alertnet.org/
Israeli Racism
Israeli television confrontation is ‘a metaphor of the moral crisis in which Zionism is found today’
The above interview has been making the rounds online, and has been garnering much attention in Israel. The confrontation features Dan Margalit, a well known mainstream Israeli journalist, and MK Jamal Zahalka, a Palestinian member of the Knesset. There have been several responses to the episode in the Israeli press. Below is an illuminating article by Israeli professor Yehuda Shenhav, which appears on theHebrew version of YNET.Interestingly enough, there is a translated article on YNET’s English site attacking Zahalka called "History lesson for Arab MKs." Luckily, a Mondoweiss reader translated the Shenhav article. From YNET.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Israel’s treatment of Ethiopians ‘racist’, Jonathan Cook
NAZARETH, Israel // Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies. The contraceptive, known as Depo Provera, which is given by injection every three months, is considered by many doctors as a birth control method of last resort because of problems treating its side effects. However, according to a report published last week, use of the contraceptive by Israeli doctors has risen threefold over the past few years. Figures show that 57 per cent of Depo Provera users in Israel are Ethiopian, even though the community accounts for less than two per cent of the total population.
http://www.jkcook.net/
Israeli War Crimes/Criminals and their Enablers
Photostory: Commemorating the assault on Gaza
Approximately one year ago, Israel unleashed its assault on the Gaza Strip -- amidst its ongoing siege and occupation -- killing more than 1,400 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians. Thirteen Israelis were killed during the attacks, most of them soldiers. The attacks sparked mass demonstrations around the world in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The following images are from around the one year anniversary, when many groups around the world again led demonstrations to show their continued solidarity with Palestine.
http://electronicintifada.net/
remembering Arafa Abd El Dayem and the emergency workers, today, everyday
On this day [4 January] one year ago, 4 Palestinian paramedics were assassinated by Israeli forces. By the end of the Israeli massacre of Gaza, 16 emergency workers had been killed by Israeli soldiers, all while performing their duties, all in contravention of international law and the Geneva Conventions. Another 57 were injured by Israeli attacks. At least 16 ambulances were damaged with at least nine completely destroyed.
http://ingaza.wordpress.com/
British AG: Change policy that allows arrest warrants against Israeli leaders
Following report that Israel canceled departure of military delegation to UK for fear of IDF officers' arrest, visiting attorney general says her country adamant that Israeli leaders always be allowed to travel freely to Britain.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Political Developments
PFLP: Suspension of negotiations no longer sufficient
Gaza – Ma’an – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine called for a review of the Oslo process and negotiations that stem from its premises, blaming the recent Israeli decision to okay construction of tens of new settlement homes in East Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Mishaal: Faisal understood Hamas position towards the reconciliation paper
Khaled Mishaal stated that Saudi foreign minister Saud Al-Faisal understood the position of his Movement towards the signing of the Egyptian reconciliation paper.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
MP Abdel Jawad: American initiative a farce
MP Naser Abdul Jawad said that the American peace initiative is an attempt by Washington to drench the region in a new whirlpool after Fatah voiced desperate statements about failure of negotiations.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Jordan, Lebanon urge Israeli pullout from all Arab lands
Jordan's King Abdullah II and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri stressed Wednesday that any comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East should ensure an end to Israel's occupation of Arab land, according to a royal court statement.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Emanuel: U.S. is fed up with Israel, Palestinians
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel recently told the Israeli consul in Los Angeles that the Obama administration is fed up with both Israel and the Palestinians, Army Radio reported on Wednesday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Other News
While Gaza Starves: Arab-Israeli village stirs up hummus war with record bid
At the risk of whipping up discord with Lebanon, an Arab-Israeli village is planning to make the world's biggest hummus, a humble chickpea dip that stirs passions across the Middle East.On Friday, residents of Abu Gosh, near occupied Jerusalem, will mash up 4,000 kilograms (8,800 pounds) of chickpeas, sesame paste, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Analysis/Op-ed/Human Interest
Gaza and the path to accountability
The US, UK and Canadian governments are all embroiled in attempts to immunize themselves from accountability under international law for their own actions in the so-called War on Terror. Protecting Israel from international law has therefore acquired an added urgency, not only in the interests of the Zionist regime, but also in the interests of the US and its two staunchest allies in the War on Terror, Britain and Canada, to remain beyond the reach of international law. Sunera Thobani comments for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Gaza's suffering is Israel's shame
The 85-year-old Jewish, anti-Zionist, Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein is a sturdy looking woman. Her slightly hunched frame hides the determination to continue a life-long dedication to social justice. This week in Cairo she joined close to 1400 international delegates on the Gaza Freedom March (GFM), a project aimed at ending the suffocating blockade on Gaza. Epstein launched a hunger strike alongside about 50 others to highlight the human rights abuses in Palestine and Israeli and Egyptian collusion in the humanitarian crisis for the Strip's 1.5 million population.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/
"Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over?",Hussein Agha and Robert Malley in The New York Review of Books
The idea of Israeli–Palestinian partition, of a two-state solution, has a singular pedigree. It has been proposed for at least eight decades. Jews first accepted it as Palestinians recoiled; by the time Palestinians warmed to the notion in the late 1980s, Israelis had turned their backs. Still, its proponents manage to portray it as fresh, new, and capable of leading to peace. International consensus on a two-state agreement is, today, stronger than ever. Meanwhile, interest among the two parties most directly concerned wanes and prospects for achieving it diminish.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/
Welcome to Palestine, Avigdor | Nicholas Blincoe
Settlers such as Avigdor Lieberman have been offered the chance to remain in a future Palestinian state. Will he accept?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Occupation 101: Award-winning documentary film
A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.
http://www.
Iraq
5 Iraqis killed in traffic accident with US forces (AP)
AP - An Iraqi police spokesman says five Iraqis were killed and eight injured after their minibus collided with a U.S. military vehicle that was traveling in the wrong lane.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Iraq records 77 executions for terrorism offences in 2009 (AFP)
AFP - Iraq executed 77 people last year, all of whom were convicted of terrorism-related offences, the country's supreme court said on Tuesday.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
U.S. talking to former Baathists in Iraq
Members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party are holding talks with the United States inside Iraq, a senior Baath party official said.
The official, refusing to be named, said the talks were confined to the “Bath leadership inside Iraq” and that Baath officials in exile were not involved. “The talks between the Baath party and its allies of other armed groups are continuing,” the official, who lives in exile, said.
http://www.azzaman.com/
Iraq to file US lawsuits over oil-for-food: minister (AFP)
AFP - Iraq will file lawsuits in the United States against foreign firms for alleged fraud in a UN oil-for-food scheme under Saddam Hussein's regime, the country's commerce minister told AFP Tuesday.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Iraq: Fear Grips Anbar After Bombings
Double bombing follows wave of assassinations targeting leaders in western province. By Uthman al-Mukhtar in Ramadi (ICR No. 318, 05-Jan-10)
http://www.iwpr.net/EN-icr-f-
Widows Silent Victims of Ramadi Attacks
Women queuing for welfare payments among those killed and injured by double suicide attack. By Uthman al-Mukhtar in Ramadi (ICR No. 318, 05-Jan-10)
http://www.iwpr.net/EN-icr-f-
U.S. and other world news
CIA Reportedly Ordered Blackwater To Murder 9/11 Suspect
In 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al Qaeda, according to a little-highlighted element in a Vanity Fair article to be published this month.
http://rawstory.com/2009/01/
Afghanistan CIA killings a major blow to US and Jordan
The revelation that the man who blew up himself, four CIA officers, three security guards and a Jordanian intelligence officer in Khost, Afghanistan, was a double agent is embarrassing for both the US and Jordan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
Hundreds of Afghans rally against NATO occupation forces
Hundreds of people, mostly students rallied in central Kabul and eastern Nangarhar provinces against the killing of civilians in foreign forces operations.
http://pakobserver.net/201001/
US drone strikes hit Pakistan
Double missile strike in North Waziristan kills at least 15 people.
http://english.aljazeera.net/
"Obama Has Kept the Machine Set on Kill" - Journalist and Activist Allan Nairn Reviews Obama's First Year in Office
In an extended interview, award-winning journalist and activist Allan Nairn looks back over the Obama administration’s foreign policy and national security decisions over the last 12 months. “I think Obama should be remembered as a great man because of the blow he struck against white racism,” Nairn says. “But, once he became president…Obama became a murderer and a terrorist because the U.S. has a machine that spans the globe that has the capacity to kill, and Obama has kept it set on kill. He could have flipped the switch and turned it off but he chose not to do so.” He continues, “In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.”
http://www.democracynow.org/
U.S.-Led Forces Accused of Executing Schoolchildren
In Afghanistan, hundreds have taken to the streets of Kabul and elsewhere to protest U.S. killing of civilians. The incident that has sparked the most outrage took place in eastern Kunar on December 27th when ten Afghans, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed. According to The Times of London, US-led troops dragged innocent children from their beds and shot them during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from 11 to 17, all but one of the from the same family.
http://www.democracynow.org/
Sixteen Yemeni civilians killed in Saudi air raids: rebels
Saudi Arabia has carried out a series of lethal air raids across the border with Yemen, killing 16 civilians and wounding 19 others, Yemen's Shiite rebels said on Monday.
http://www.google.com/
Obama Adds 675 Million Muslims to the Ultimate US Terrorism List, FRANKLIN LAMB
However President Obama is judged on various subjects for his first year in office, he has already made history in the way that neither his predecessor nor any other leader has ever managed. On January 3, 2010, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued new security directives to all United States and international air carriers with inbound flights to the U.S. effective January 4, 2010. The TSA press release sought to assure the traveling public: "The new directive includes long-term sustainable security measures developed in consultation with law enforcement officials and our domestic and international partners."
http://www.counterpunch.org/
Library of Congress on Islam in Early America
Readers may be surprised to learn that there may have been hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Muslims in the United States in 1776—imported as slaves from areas of Africa where Islam flourished. Although there is no evidence that the Founders were aware of the religious convictions of their bondsmen, it is clear that the Founding Fathers thought about the relationship of Islam to the new nation and were prepared to make a place for it in the republic.
http://snarla.wordpress.com/
Message to Obama and Brown – How about asking WHY?
In their refusal to ask the question of why, really, Muslims are being radicalized, President Obama and Prime Minister Brown are no different from their immediate predecessors. When George "Dubya" Bush and Tony Blair ruled the world and were pressing ahead with their "war on terrorism", I used to ask this question: Are they ignorant of history and don't know what they are doing and therefore stupid, or do they and/or some of the powerful vested interests which pull their strings want a Clash of Civilizations, Judeo-Christian v Islamic?
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/
www.TheHeadlines.org
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