Shadi Fadda brings us today's headlines relating to Palestine and other news from around the internet.
Activism/ Solidarity / Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
VIDEO: New Year's in Bil'in
Don't miss the amazing Israeli activist whose remarks to the soldiers start about halfway through....Residents of Bilin gathered today after the noon prayers to demonstrate against the Israeli occupation and the Apartheid Wall on to commemorate the first anniversary of the brutal Israeli aggression on Gaza. In addition, they celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Anti-wall activists say 10-year-old boy shot in head
Israeli forces shot an eight-year-old Palestinian boy in the head with a rubber-coated bullet in the West Bank village of Nil'in on Friday afternoon, local activists said. The boy, who was not identified, was taken to a Ramallah hospital for treatment, according to the Popular Committee Against the Wall, which said he was sent home with six stitches. The committee said in a statement that soldiers beat and arrested two teenagers, identified only as residents of Shuqba, a neighboring village, aged 15 and 17, and that Red Crescent volunteers "tried to come to their rescue. Soldiers then assaulted one medical volunteer – Juma’a Khawaja, he was beaten with a gun."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Anti-wall protesters express solidarity with Gaza
Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades at Palestinian, Israeli, and international demonstrators in at least three West Bank villages on Friday ... In the village of Al-Ma’sara, the local Popular Committee said 150 people participated in the weekly anti-wall demonstration ... “Five military vehicles immediately entered deep into the village of al-Ma’sara. Soldiers continued to shoot teargas for an hour and remained at the entrance of the village until [3pm],” the committee’s statement added. “One child was hit by a sound bomb and had to be carried away while soldiers were still shooting.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Weekly Sheikh Jarrah protest greeted with hostility in W. Jerusalem, cheers in E. Jerusalem
Michael Ratner send this short report on today’s weekly protest in the Sheikh Jarrah, the East Jerusalem neighborhood where Israeli settlers are taking over Palestinian homes: Today we went on the demonstration against the evictions in Sheikh-Jarrah and the take over of the houses by Jewish settlers. It was organized by young people and began in West Jerusalem and wound its way into East Jerusalem. Great hostility in the West–screams and the tossing of a few apples and water on us and then cheering in the East. The chants—at least a few that were in English were amazing to me, as they came from Israelis: "1, 2, 3, 4 –occupation no more" And then: "5, 6, 7, 8—Israel is a racist state." Incredibly sad and moving from the children of the holocaust.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Dexia Bank refuses grant for Jewish settlements
The Belgian-French Group, Dexia, refused to finance grants meant for the construction of property in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision came after a Palestinian and a Belgium groups filed a petition against financing settlement constructions.
http://www.imemc.org/index.
Violence / Aggression
Israeli jets pound targets across Gaza
Israel's air force bombed at least two sites in the Gaza Strip shortly after midnight on Saturday, an official said. There were no immediate reports of injury. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed that prior reports of explosions were caused by aircraft fire in northern and southern Gaza. The spokesman told Ma'an the strikes targeted "two terrorist tunnels" near the the Gaza-Israel border, which he said were intended for attacks on targets inside Israel. He added that the airstrikes came in retaliation for a mortar shell that was fired on the Israeli city of Netivot on Thursday, causing no injuries.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Qalqiliya residents report settler attack, army harassment, theft
Brothers from Immatin, east of Qalqiliya, were injured [Friday] when settlers threw stones at their car as they passed a junction serving the nearby [Yakir] settlement. Their family reported that one of the boys was in serious condition ... A Qalqiliya resident filed a suit Saturday, against Israeli border police he said stole his horse and handed it over to a kibbutz.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Arrests / Detentions
Report: PA forces arrest 5 settlers near Nablus
Five Israeli settlers entering Nablus were detained Thursday night by Palestinian Authority security forces, the Israeli news site Ynet reported. The group was reportedly on its way to Joseph's Tomb, a site in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Balatta and frequented by settler groups. Settlers are not permitted to enter the area without prior agreement from the Israeli military, which regulates and guards the groups. According to the report, the five were escorted to Israeli Civil Administration officials, who turned them over for questioning, the report said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Two Jerusalem Palestinians jailed for plotting to kidnap Israeli soldiers
30 Dec - Two Palestinian residents of Jerusalem were jailed for two years Wednesday, after admitting to conspiring to kidnap Israeli soldiers. The two, Ayad Avid and Abdullah Avid, from the neighborhood of Issawiyah, planned to use a tractor to ram a military jeep before kidnapping the soldiers inside at gunpoint. The two then envisioned striking a prisoner exchange with Israel which would result in the release of two of Ayad Avid's family members. both serving life sentences for terrorism.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Qaryut: Settlers attack Palestinian, police arrest the victim
16 Dec - from Ta`ayush's new website -- The day began normally, the farmers take wheat seeds, throw them around and turn the ground with tractors. There is something magical in connecting to earth (even with the filters of technology) that I don’t get much of in the city. Two settlers arrive after an hour and tell us to go away. They totally ignore the Palestinian, since according to their line of thought it is the leftists that instigate the whole event, while the Palestinian are passive actors with no wishes or goals of their own (other than killing Jews). A settler explains to us that God gave him this land.
http://www.taayush.org/?p=513
Israeli army releases Tulkarem detainee
After his seventh year in Israeli prison, 35-year-old Hamas affiliate Ashraf Abed Ar-Ra’uf Suleiman was released from Eshel, a prison facility near Beersheba. Suleiman was transferred to several different prisons during his seven years in custody. He was detained on 23 October 2002 and is a resident of the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Gaza Freedom March & Viva Palestina convoy
Cairo Declaration of the Gaza Freedom Marchers
The Egyptian Government, which reportedly receives US$2 billion per year from the American treasury, has done it best to stop, frustrate, and limit the Gaza Freedom March...The practical result of the Egyptian government blockade has been to leave the gross of the delegates behind in Cairo ... This "brilliant" strategy has had a predictable result: most of the Delegates remaining in Cairo have continued their actions, and have now issued the "Cairo Declaration" to end Israeli Apartheid. Here is the draft Declaration and a first list of signatories.
http://groups.google.com/
Gaza Freedom March: What we've accomplished so far
By Robert Naiman. Cairo - Some of us reached Gaza and particpated in the Gaza Freedom March as planned. All of us significantly raised the profile of dissent - particularly, American dissent - against the blockade of the people of Gaza imposed by Israel and Egypt, with the backing of the United States and the acquiescence of Europe. The groundwork is being laid for future campaigning in the U.S. for "citizen sanctions" against the Israeli government that could help change the balance of forces influencing U.S. policy, so that U.S. policy becomes a force for peace, rather than continuing to perpetuate the Israel/Palestine conflict as the U.S. is doing today. The New York Times (yes, the New York Times had two articles on the march) reported:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Fresh update on convoy
From: Romi Elnagar Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 8:11 AM Subject: BREAKING: Viva Palestina - 72 Hour Critical Period Begins Now. Tomorrow our 200 vehicles will travel on a 20 hour ferry aided by 60 volunteers into Al-Arish. The remaining 450 people who can’t enter the ferry will fly to Egypt and arrive before the boats to ensure a secure entry. Next 72hrs are critical as to the success of our whole mission. We don’t know what the Egyptian response will be as we pull into their shores, but we expect the worst and have absolute faith that in time we will enter the gates of Gaza.
http://groups.google.com/
Egypt and Gaza
Sit-ins in Europe today in protest at Egypt's participation in Gaza siege
BRUSSELS, (PIC)-- Massive rallies and sit-ins will be organized Saturday outside Egyptian embassies throughout the European continent in protest at Egypt for building a steel wall on its borders with the Gaza Strip and its participation in the Israeli siege.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Egyptian minister slams Al-Jazeera for 'instigating civil war'
Egypt's minister of legal affairs and parliamentary councils, Mofid Shehab, criticized Al-Jazeera Saturday for instigating "a Qatari civil war" with its reports on a steel barrier being built on the border with Gaza ... He said television networks were working against the Egyptian government "in order to engender a civil war and inflame the Egyptian and Arab streets, and cause a clash of official authorities".
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Baroud: The steel wall will cause environmental disasters in Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Naim Baroud, a Palestinian professor of geography, warned that the building of the steel wall would cause environmental and health disasters for both the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the Egyptian people in Sinai. ... Dr. Baroud noted that Egypt’s underground aquifer in Sinai is shared with Gaza and fed by rainwater which flow from south to north and vice versa to feed all this inter-aquifer, adding that the steel wall would affect the flow of water into this basin. The professor also said that Egypt’s intention to pump large amounts of very salty water, which is unfit for human use and contains pollutants, from the Mediterranean sea into the Palestinian-Egyptian borders will change the chemical properties of the inter-aquifer and turn its sweet water into highly saline water. He warned if this happens, the Egyptian and Palestinian citizens in the area of this aquifer will be no longer able to use water wells.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
PIC editorial: The return of Shawar
The Egyptian regime’s decision to build a sophisticated underground steel wall along the Gaza-Sinai border is a cardinal crime bordering on attempted genocide. Other similar epithets are used to describe this wall of shame built by an Arab state for the purpose of starving and killing an Arab people, already facing a virtual genocide at the hands of the Judeo-Nazi state of Israel. The description “attempted genocide” is quite adequate because cutting off food from the virtually imprisoned people of Gaza means one thing: killing them by starving them to death. [who was Shawar: See Wikipedia article.]
http://www.palestine-info.co.
War crimes / Aftermath of war
Gaza police: legitimate targets or targeted civilians?
Part six of a series recounting the findings of South African jurist Richard Goldstone's UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. ...Among 70 airstrikes on 40 targets on 1 January 2009 was a police command center in Rafah, the then-latest security site to be leveled. No one was hurt in that attack, but 248 members of the Gaza police were killed during Israel's overall assault ... Israel's characterization of the Gaza internal security forces differs sharply from the tasks of the police as they are described on the official website of the Gaza Ministry of Interior, in orders to the police issued by the minister of interior, and in interviews with the director of police and the police spokesman conducted by Goldstone's inquiry.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
PLC bombing carried out 'unlawfully and wantonly'
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) building in central Gaza City was, according to the Israeli military, attacked on 31 December 2008, the fifth day of its massive assault on the besieged coastal enclave. Ahmad Bahar, then acting speaker of the PLC in Gaza, told South African jurist Richard Goldstone's UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict that the parliament building was hit by three missiles launched from fighter planes.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Cast Lead aggression Day 5: the targeting of medical teams
On Wednesday 31 December 2008, several people were wounded in an Israeli attack in Jabal Ar-Rayis neighbourhood, north-east of Gaza City. Dr. Ihab Al Madhoun, 33-year-old director of Az-Zeitoun Clinic in Gaza City, ambulance driver Hishmat Ajour, 30, and medic Mohammed Sa'id Abu Hasira, 30, sped out in an ambulance to rescue them. As they stepped out of the vehicle they were targeted by an Israeli warplane. Hishmat was the only survivor. Mohammed died instantly and Ihab died the next day. Al Mezan interviewed Ihab's widow, Roshana Al Madhoun, 28, and his brother, Iyad Al Madhoun, 35, nearly a year after Ihab was killed.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/
'No one can take me away from Gaza'
Canada, January 2, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)- When Israeli shelling killed three of his daughters and his niece, Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish's immediate anguish was broadcast live to the world. Now in Canada, the physician has written a book which advocates compassion and peace. Interview by Hamida Ghafour ... The Israeli army initially claimed snipers were firing from the doctor's home and militants were inside the building. An investigation earlier this year found that the IDF fired accidentally on his house. The military said it was "saddened" by the harm it caused but under the circumstances the decision to fire shells on the building was "reasonable". "They said there were militants in my apartment. There were militants, my daughters were militants and they were armed with hope, love and education," said Dr Abuelaish.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
In Gaza: the rains
[great photos, short video] It’s pouring rain. Farmers are collectively breathing relief ... But the family of Saleh Abu Leila, with their 14 family members crammed into 1.5 tents (half the tent is occupied by a refrigerator) of poor-quality, torn fabric will be sighing with much less relief, as water seeps in through rips and breaks in the tent, floods the door, gradually streams into the tent entrance. Their focus will be on keeping warm, particularly for their infant just over a month old ... They have no income, are not refugees - and thus do not receive any UN aid - and have young children to raise.
http://ingaza.wordpress.com/
In pictures: Gaza children suffer in wake of conflict
Jamilla, 15, was on a rooftop when a shell struck during the Israeli operation in Gaza. Her 10-year-old sister and cousin were killed. Jamilla lost both her legs and is learning to walk again with the help of crutches and prosthetic limbs....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_
Assassinations / Extra-judicial executions
Orders were to capture militants alive - so why were they killed?
The orders prepared by the Judea and Samaria Division for the IDF operation in Nablus last week by a Duvdevan commando unit stated clearly that the unit "was to carry out a raid and capture the wanted men." ... The senior officers who spoke with Haaretz stressed that the soldiers were not given any verbal instructions that were different from those in writing ... But it is difficult not to wonder how two unarmed men, nearly 40 years old, sleeping in bed near their children and not behaving as wanted men, were killed without even having attempted to escape. It appears that, like in many other operations of this sort, the reality on the ground, and especially early intelligence on the three suspects, predetermined the result of the operation.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Abbas considers scaling back security ties with Israel
(Reuters) The Palestinians may review their West Bank security ties with Israel if it continues unilateral operations such as a Dec. 26 raid which killed three militants, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
PRC: Assassination attempt thwarted
An unidentified man carried bags of explosives to the office of the Popular Resistance Committees Secretary General Abu Al-Qasem Dughmush, but the bag failed to detonate, a statement from the party said Friday. Officials in the party said they believed the move was an assassination attempt and that "security apparatuses within the movement" are searching the responsible party. A statement blamed Israel for the move, and urged other resistance groups to step-up cautionary procedures.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Political developments
PA: Israel sent no word of Netanyahu-Abbas summit
The Palestinian Authority said on Thursday it has received no official request for a meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. “We didn’t receive anything about such a thing. So far what we heard was from the media,” Abbas’ spokesman, Nabil Abu Rdeina, told Ma’an on Friday evening.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Abbas to visit Egypt to discuss peace talks
President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to visit the Egyptian resort town of Sharm Ash-Shiekh Sunday, for a meeting with his counterpart Hosni Mubarak. The two will discuss Egyptian communications with Israel. On Thursday, Israeli officials announced Egypt as the host of a new round of peace talks following a meeting between Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The first meeting between Abbas, Netanyahu and Mubarak was set to take place at the end of January.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Hamas: We won't wage media war with Israel over Shalit deal
...The official, who remained anonymous, said Hamas is not interested in opening a "media front" in its conflict with Israel. He added that Hamas is changing tactics regarding prisoner exchanges, saying the group plans to avoid discussion of points of contention with Israel in the media. He added, however, that the deal is in the final stages of negotiation and that its completion seems promising.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Haniyeh salutes Fatah amid charges of detentions
De facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh congratulated the Fatah movement on the occasion of its 45th anniversary, asking those he called "rational" within the movement to complete the process of national reconciliation. Fatah celebrated its anniversary on 1 January, and accused Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip of detaining dozens of its supporters in an attempt to quash anniversary celebrations in the coastal region.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Haneya denies seeking reconciliation with Fatah not through Egypt
... "Hamas has never asked to sign the Egypt-drafted reconciliation paper in another place than Cairo," Haneya said during a seminar in Gaza city. "Hamas is ready to sign the reconciliation in Cairo immediately after an agreement is reached." On Thursday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Hamas of offering to reconcile with his Fatah party but not through Egypt, which has sponsored a series of talks between Hamas and Fatah.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
'Jewish terrorist' Teitel
Investigator recommended shelving Teitel case
In 1997, Jack Teitel was an American tourist who rented a car, murdered a man and fled Israel. In 2000, a lie detector test led to his release. Documents obtained by Ynet reveal police and Shin Bet's failure in getting their hands on Jewish terrorist for 12 years
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Teitel's profile: Settler, charismatic, ideologist
Review of thousands of revealed documents shows police formed fairly accurate description of Jewish terrorist almost a year before knowing who he was. Other documents reveal additional suspicions raised during investigation which were not verified, including links to Satmar Hasidim in US
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Release of police material sheds new light on arrest of 'Jewish terrorist' Teitel
...Haaretz has learned that Teitel's name first came up during 2009 when they were seeking the perpetrator of a series of bomb attacks. Investigative material released by the police has shed light on the process leading to Teitel's arrest. No such material has been released by the Shin Bet ... As early as May 2007, Igor Pekerman, head of the bomb disposal squad lab at National Police Headquarters had identified a link between a series of bombings.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Other news
Record numbers crowd Bethlehem for New Year's Eve parties
Bethlehem's halls and restaurants were filled New Year's Eve with an estimated 10,000 out of town visitors from all parts of the West Bank, and the city's Manger Square was full of celebrators though no official event had been arranged.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
MK Tibi named Israeli-Arab man of year
Three of the Israeli-Arab sector's most influential news agencies have dubbed United Arab List-Ta'al Chairman Ahmed Tibi as 2009's man of the year. In second place was MK Mohammad Barakeh, with 10% of the vote.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Spike in numbers of Arabs volunteering for National Service
Data show 1,400 Israel-Arabs joined program in 2009. Placement organization head attributes tend to 'strong desire to integrate into Israeli society'
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Report: Arab schools fail to mark Holocaust Remebrance Day
House report to discuss minimal attention given by Arab schools to Holocaust studies, commemorative activities [while Jewish schools, of course, commemorate the Nakba?]
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Israeli population 7,509,000 at end of decade
According to the figures, 75.4% of Israel's population is Jewish, 20.3% is Arab, and 4.3% is defined as "other" – immigrants who are not registered as Jews, non-Arab Christians, and residents without a religious classification.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Poll: Only 40% of Jews live in Israel
Global survey of Jews finds interfaith marriage and assimilation rising, especially in former USSR -- Most of the world's Jews do not live in Israel, says a poll summing up the past decade. There are currently 13.3 million Jews living in 100 countries all over the world, 41% of which have made Israel their home. A similar number, 40%, live in the US. However experts have predicted that the tables are set to turn, and that within 20 years most Jews will be living in Israel.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Opinion / Analysis / Testimony
End the siege of Palestine
By Ahmed Moor. I want to talk about the regressive way in which we discuss Gaza; it is an entity unto itself, divorced from Palestine. Our discourse does not arise solely from geographic reality – Gaza is cut off from the rest of Palestine – but also from deliberate American and Israeli policy. They have created a Gaza Occupation, which is different from the West Bank Occupation. Godlike, they seek to differentiate us from ourselves – by creating the Fayyadist ‘economic miracle’ in the West Bank, by refusing to permit families to unite, by refusing to permit students to move between the territories, by orchestrating coups. Maybe Zionists in the White House and Israel intend to shove off the Palestinians in the West Bank to Jordan, and those in Gaza to Egypt, or hell. I don’t know.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/01/
Robert Fisk's world: Walls never work: in the Middle East or in Ireland
We were walking round Milltown Cemetery last week, me and David McKittrick – Our Man in Belfast and among my oldest friends – and the wind came biting down from Cave Hill. "Cloaked in ice and snow," was how the Belfast Telegraph described Northern Ireland when I took the train back to Dublin the next day, but I think the bitterness of the Ardoyne, the Falls, the Shankill, the old Markets, made up for the exaggeration. "Peace" lines they may be, but just east of Andersonstown, that frozen, implacable wall of iron, stone and wire reminded me of an even more permanent "security fence" more than 3,000km away.
http://www.independent.co.uk/
A future without prisoners / Rotem Dan Mor
...For as the leaders of Israel and of Hamas (along with the press) are busy discussing the release of their combatants there are a few important prisoners whom have been neglected from the debate. These prisoners are those who have been imprisoned for taking a stand for peace and justice in Israel/Palestine. Amongst them are my friends Orr Ben David and Muhammad Othman, both young but experienced activists for peace ... These young people like Or and Muhammad, whom have committed their bodies and souls to nonviolent action for peace, justice and equality are the foundations on which we shall one day build a joint society for all of this land's peoples.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Settlers can stay, but only as citizens of Palestine
By Alexander Yacobson. The time has come to say to the settler leaders: Okay - you've convinced us. It seems that a mass evacuation of settlers is an impractical idea. You showed us clearly that you're prepared to turn such a removal into a national trauma. It's doubtful that any Israeli politician would chance it. But whoever seeks to determine the country's fate with threats must know that the final result is likely to be disappointing. Giving up on evacuation doesn't mean giving up on dividing the land.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
I've changed my mind about a two-state solution
By Mehdi Hasan. OK, I admit it. I was wrong. How could I have bought into all that idealistic nonsense at the start of the decade, about the prospects for Middle East peace? ... It is time to acknowledge that the peace process, as we know it, is dead. There is no longer a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Why? Because, as Virginia Tulley wrote in the London Review of Books, "the conditions for an independent Palestinian state have been killed off by the inexorable and irreversible advance of the settlements". Or, to borrow an analogy from Palestinian lawyer Michael Tarazi: "It's like you and I are negotiating over a piece of pizza. How much of the pizza do I get? And how much do you get? And while we are negotiating it, you are eating it." Consider the facts:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Peace with Syria would bring Israel nothing
By Zvi Bar'el. ...Does someone really think that it is worth it to remove even a single ranch from the Golan Heights so that we can read in the newspaper about what the Syrian ambassador's wife bought at a supermarket in Herzliya Pituah, or so we can see an interview in a magazine about what the ambassador's daughter thinks about Israeli teenagers? We already have that kind of peace - with Egypt and Jordan. What we want is genuine peace. Like the one we had with Great Britain during the Mandatory period in Palestine. Or like the peace we had with France, when we smuggled out five missile boats from the Cherbourg shipyard on Christmas Eve in 1969.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
...acting like a spoiled child...
A spoiled child who kills his mother & father, eat the nanny's liver and torches the neighbor's house on a Saturday morning! "The Saudi foreign minister on Saturday criticized Israel's settlement construction ... "The reason why a solution cannot be reached is the preferential treatment that Israel gets," he said. "When other countries violate international law, they get punished, except for Israel. If war crimes are committed, other countries get punished, except Israel." "Israel has become in the international community like a spoiled child," he said. "It does what it wants without being questioned or punished."
http://friday-lunch-club.
Israeli child's smile thwarted suicide attack
"While I was at the spot targeted for the operation, a child glanced at me and smiled; I smiled back, deciding not to blow myself up, as I didn't want to kill an innocent." That's what 27-year-old Arin Ahmed Shaebat from the city of Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, said last week in an interview with Israeli TV after serving seven years in prison. Arin had planned to blow herself up in 2002, armed with a handbag packed with 30 kilograms of explosives. Asked why, she said that "ever since the beginning of the intifada (uprising), Palestinians had lost most of the their sense of normality..."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Zionism's un-Christian Bible / Maidhc Ó Cathail
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign should widen its scope to target non-Israeli companies who contribute significantly to the oppression of Palestinians. As part of this broader strategy, priority should be given to one of the most egregious offenders, the prestigious British publisher, Oxford University Press. As unlikely as it may seem, the world’s largest university press is responsible for one of the greatest obstacles to justice for Palestinians – The Scofield Bible. Since it was first published in 1909, the Scofield Reference Bible has made uncompromising Zionists out of tens of millions of Americans.
http://kanan48.wordpress.com/
U.S., other world news
Jordan asks Canada to return stolen artifacts on loan from Israel
Canada was asked to take custody of a series of scrolls and parchment fragments uncovered in the West Bank and currently on loan to Toronto from the Israel Antiquities Authority. The ancient artifacts were seized from an East Jerusalem museum in 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank and illegally annexed Jerusalem. Since the artifacts were uncovered while the area was under Jordanian control between 1948 and 1967, it is the Jordanian government that requested Canada step in and protect the artifacts.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
US announces more security aid to Yemen; Britain to host meeting on nation
LONDON -- The United States will more than double its security assistance to Yemen, officials said Friday, and Britain will host an international meeting this month to seek ways to prevent the poorest Arab nation from becoming an al-Qaeda stronghold.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
US administration delaying trial against PA
Federal judge criticizes American administration's refusal to take stand on damages claim filed against the Palestinian Authority over terror attack which left American citizen dead -- The Obama administration, like the former Bush administration, has been refusing to take a stand on the matter so as not to appear as acting against citizens hurt in terror attacks, and not to harm its relations with the PA, on the other hand.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
US military aid to Israel averages $3 billion a year for last 25 years
Washington’s generosity towards Israel has amounted to $3 billion a year in military aid since 1985, and extends even further back to the mid-20th century. According to a Congressional Research Service report, no other country has received more foreign assistance from the United States than Israel from World War II until now, and it was the largest annual recipient of U.S. foreign assistance for each year from 1976 to 2004, when Iraq became a high priority.
http://www.uruknet.de/index.
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