Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing
IDF destroys West Bank village after declaring it military zone, Amira Hass
Since 1967, Israel has prevented the growth of Palestinian communities in the Jordan Valley by cutting off their water supply or declaring large areas as live fire zones.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-
Peace Now reveals new plan to build 3 more stories in Kubaniyet Um Haroun
The Peace Now movement revealed that a group of Israeli settlers intend to build three additional stories in Kubaniyet Um Haroun in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
A group of extremist Israeli settlers attempted Tuesday morning to burn the western entrance of the historical Hassan Bek mosque in the city of Jaffa.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Indeed, what business is it of Israelis where Palestinians choose to build their homes? Arab High Court Judge: What's Wrong with Arab Illegal Houses?
The State admitted in a previous court hearing that the mansions were illegally built. However, it had not taken action to tear them down. At the opening of Monday's hearing, the Prosecution announced that it had begun enforcement procedures for one of the nine structures. A representative of Regavim showed the judges photographs of the illegal homes. Judge Joubran took a look at the pictures and said: “These are beautiful homes indeed. Whom does this bother? Whom does this hurt? They need to live well!” The two other judges reportedly seemed taken aback by the statement but chose to ignore it.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
Solidarity/Activism/Boycott, Sanctions & Divestment
BSD: Youth Against Normalization
http://www.
Swedish peace activist arrested. Witnesses say charge of assault is ‘baseless’
A Swedish peace activist was arrested in Hebron last night and stood trial today in Jerusalem. Nursing student Marcus Rednanver was accused of assaulting a soldier at a peaceful demonstration in Hebron 10 days ago. Witnesses say the charge is baseless and that he has been targeted by police arbitrarily. The judge ordered that he be detained and questioned for a further two days.
At approximately 11PM last night (20 July 2010) Rednanver and another Swedish man were passing a checkpoint near Tel Rumeida when soldiers forcefully detained him, confiscated his passport and called police. Rednanver was not told where he had been taken but believed it was a police station near Hebron. Officials at the Court of Peace in the Russian Compound, Jerusalem, heard his case at 12.30 this afternoon. Following the judge’s ruling he was led wasy in handcuffs and shackled at the ankles. He told friends who attended the hearing that he had not been fed since he was arrested. He will be released on Friday 23rd at 12 noon unless the police investigation can produce new evidence.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
American Activists Plan Gaza Flotilla Ship Named for Obama Book
A group of Americans opposed to Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza is raising money online to pay for a ship from the United States to take part in a new protest flotilla scheduled to set sail for the Palestinian territory in September or October. In an appeal for money posted on the Web site UStoGaza.org, the activists say they are “planning to launch a U.S. boat to Gaza, joining a flotilla of ships from Europe, Canada, India, South Africa and parts of the Middle East.”
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.
Jordan Gaza activists stage protest at Egyptian embassy
Amman - About 150 Jordanian activists demonstrated before the Egyptian embassy in Amman on Tuesday to protest Cairo's refusal to allow a humanitarian convoy to reach the besieged Gaza Strip, according to a prominent unionist. 'We staged a one-hour sit-in before the embassy with an intensive presence of security forces,' Ahmad Armouti, president of the Trade Unions Council, told the German Press Agency dpa.
http://www.monstersandcritics.
The rising non-violent movement in Palestine: Mustafa Barghouti
A recent address by Mustafa Barghouti in Canada, in two parts. Born in Jerusalem in 1954, Dr Barghouti is a leader of the Palestinian National Initiative founded in 2002 and a member of Palestinian Legislative Council as well as a former Minister of Information in the unity government in 2007. The full transcript from these Real News Network clips appears over the fold. Also check out Dr Barghouti’s excellent 2008 address to the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) National Convention.
Video Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Video Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://pulsemedia.org/2010/07/
Liberate all ghettos
The action that we recently undertook on the terrain of the old Warsaw Ghetto -- to spray the words "Liberate all ghettos" in Hebrew and "Free Gaza and Palestine" in English -- has been used by some commentators in Israel and the Jewish community in Poland to accuse us of anti-Semitism. Ewa Jasiewicz and Yonatan Shapira comment for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Felicity Arbuthnot – An open letter to the Methodist Church on their decision to Endorse BDS
http://palestinethinktank.com/
Are Arabs swimming with or against the BDS tide against Israeli Apartheid?
Charles C. Boycott seems to have become a household word because of his strong sense of duty to his employer. An Englishman and former British soldier, Boycott was the estate agent of the Earl of Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. The earl was one of the absentee landowners who as a group held most of the land in Ireland. Boycott was chosen in the fall of 1880 to be the test case for a new policy advocated by Charles Parnell, an Irish politician who wanted land reform.
http://www.tadamon.ca/post/
Ra Ra Ramallah booms to Boney M (AFP)
AFP - Arabs and Israelis boogeyed ecstatically together in the occupied West Bank late into the night as 70s band Boney M belted out their nostalgic disco tunes at an open-air concert.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Johnny Rotten: "Rise" against racism, boycott Israel
The following letter to British musician John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, who is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv next month, was issued on 18 July 2010 by the Palestinian Students' Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI) and the University Teachers' Association in Palestine (UTAP).
http://electronicintifada.net/
Johnny Rotten is Actually Perfect for Israel: John Lydon's rotten politics | David Cronin
A few months ago Lydon claimed he's "well-known for being a pacifist" and named Mahatma Gandhi as his all-time hero. Surely, then, he would be open to supporting one of the most impressive examples of Gandhi's principles being put into action in today's world: the weekly demonstrations in the West Bank village of Bi'lin, where unarmed activists are regularly fired at by Israeli forces. Surely, too, he would be sympathetic to the call made by numerous Palestinian trade unions and other campaign groups for a cultural and economic boycott of Israel. Not a chance, I'm afraid. Lydon has vowed to go ahead with a PiL concert in Tel Aviv, scheduled for late August. "If Elvis-fucking-Costello wants to pull out of a gig in Israel because he's suddenly got this compassion for Palestinians, then good on him," Lydon told the Independent. "But I have absolutely one rule, right? Until I see an Arab country, a Muslim country, with a democracy, I won't understand how anyone can have a problem with how they're treated."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Violence and Aggression
Report: Palestinian killed after IDF fires at figures near Gaza border
This most recent clash on the Gaza border comes a week after sources claimed an IDF shelling killed a Palestinian woman.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
One Killed, Six Injured, By Israeli Bombardment To Northern Gaza
Gaza – PNN - At least one Palestinian civilian was killed six others were injured on Wednesday by Israeli bombardment targeting the town of Beit Hanon in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Local sources announced that Israeli tanks shelled resident homes close to the borders with Israel and later an Israeli jet fighter fired a missile at a group of residents killing one and injuring six others among them children. Dr. Mo’awyiah Hassanie, from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, said that Mohamed Kafarnah, 20 years old, was killed by the shelling. He added that three of the injured sustained critical wounds.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.
Army Invades Khan Younis
Israeli soldiers, accompanied by a number of armed vehicles, tanks, and military bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday evening Abasan Al Jadeeda town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59165
Israeli policeman beats a child in JerusalemIsraeli soldiers, accompanied by a number of armed vehicles, tanks, and military bulldozers, invaded on Tuesday evening Abasan Al Jadeeda town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Jerusalem, July 21, (Pal Telegraph) An Israeli policeman attacked yesterday and severely beat a child in Jerusalem, Sam Alseyuri 8 years near a market located near one of the gates of Al Aqsa Mosque. According to local sources the attack on the child occurred after the performance of Asr prayer with his mother and two siblings: his brother Hossam 7 years, and his sister Rodat two years, where they went to a shop named "gifts of children" belongs to his grandfather, Haji Mohammad Arif Seyuri, who gave him a "plastic gun" to play with when he and his brother were surprised at the gate of an Israeli policeman trying to disarm them by taking the plastic gun from his hand by force then breaking it into pieces, he took little sam aside and started beating him infront of his brother.
Sam was then taken to a hospital where he was treated from sever injuries and bruises, though he is still traumatized and doesn’t understand why did the Israeli policeman did so.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
Detainees
Israel raids Hebron, arrests 2
Hebron, July 21, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces arrested late last night Palestinian citizens after raiding several houses in the town of “Thahereyeh” and the village of Abu Alasja south of Hebron in the West Bank. Security sources said that the Israeli occupation forces also arrested Bassem Eid Tal (37 years) after entering the home his father and his brother's Mohammed house Mohammed and performed inspections operations. They also arrested Ahmed Salem Abu Sondos from the village of Abu Alasja near the town of Dura, south of Hebron and took him to an unknown destination. The IOF erected a checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Kirza south of Hebron and the Israeli soldiers searched the vehicles of the citizens there.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
IOF troops raid Abasan, detain four west Bankers
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) went on the rampage east of Khan Younis city, south of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday night bulldozing land and firing at Palestinian homes.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Ofer prisoners initiate protest steps against Israeli violations
Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli ofer jail started protest steps against the Israeli prison authority's violations of their rights.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
PA to compensate family of Hamas detainee
Hebron – Ma'an – A Palestinian military court ruled Tuesday that Palestinian Authority Intelligence Services must compensate the family of suspect who died in prison. But the Southern and Northern Provinces court exonerated five intelligence officers suspected of involvement in Haytham Abdullah Abdul Rahman Amr's death. Amr was detained by PA intelligence forces on 11 June 2009 for affiliation with Hamas. He later died in a Hebron prison on 15 June 2009. Hamas accused PA forces of torturing Amr during questioning, leading to his death in PA custody.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
The Siege (Gaza & West Bank)/Humanitarian and Human Rights/Restriction of Movement
6 Palestinians missing in Gaza tunnel
GAZA, July 21 (Xinhua) -- Six Palestinian smugglers have gone missing Wednesday when a tunnel beneath Gaza's southern border with Egypt caved in, witnesses and rescue workers said. The witnesses said it is still difficult to predict the fate of the trapped as rescue crews are digging the sand to look for them. The workers were bringing in goods from Egypt, the witnesses said, but the sorts of goods were also unknown.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/
Industrial Fuel – Needs Vs. Supply – June 20 – July 17
http://www.gazagateway.org/
An End to the Occupation Is Compulsory for the Achievement of Women's Rights in Palestine
The need for a solution to the Palestine-Israeli conflict is a national issue, but it is equally an issue of women's rights. Nicky Elliott spoke to a number of women's rights activists about their feelings regarding the importance of a political solution for women in Palestine.
http://www.palestinemonitor.
Palestinian Children Under Occupation, Stephen Lendman
The Al-Zaytouna Centre for Studies and Consultations is a Beirut, Lebanon-based organization engaged in "strategic and futuristic studies on the Arab and Muslim worlds, (emphasizing) the Palestinian issue." In July 2010, it published the latest in its "Am I Not a Human?" series titled, "The Suffering of the Palestinian Child under the Israeli Occupation," saying: Palestinian children grow up "under the Israeli occupation, surrounded by cruelty, oppression, killing, starvation and destruction." Yet, like all children, they dream of playing and living normally and safely. Instead, their father may be dead or in prison, their brother killed, their home destroyed, and their mother forced to give birth at an Israeli checkpoint, risking her and the newborn.
http://www.baltimorechronicle.
PA urges Israel to hand over oxygen machines
Ramallah – Ma'an – The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health appealed Wednesday to Israel to deliver seven oxygen machines donated by a Norwegian development agency that were seized by Israeli officials en route to hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza.
Heath Minister Fathi Abu Moghli delivered a second letter of appeal to donor countries and organizations, calling for "urgent intervention" for the medical supplies to be delivered to hospitals in the occupied Palestinian territories.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Human rights groups urge Ashton to end siege
Bethlehem - Ma'an - Gaza-based rights groups reminded EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton that calls to ease the siege on Gaza "fall short of addressing the root cause of humanitarian suffering" and urged her to take decisive action. A coalition of 13 rights groups issued a letter on Monday, the day after Ashton visited Gaza, where she told reporters she noticed minor improvements in the situation, but said more was required.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Indonesian medical delegation arrives in Gaza
Gaza - Ma'an - An Indonesian delegation of doctors arrived in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday via the Rafah crossing, border officials announced. Meanwhile, Egyptian authorities allowed the exit of a group of Palestinians with disabilities to leave Gaza. Egypt opened the Rafah crossing on 1 June, following an Israeli raid on a six-boat aid fleet destined for Gaza, killing nine on board.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Gaza official says new Israeli siege policy 'bluff'
Gaza – Ma'an – The Israeli cabinet decision last month on easing certain terms of its blockade of Gaza is a "continuation of Israel's attempt to bluff the world," an official said Wednesday. Jamal Al-Khoudary, the head of the popular committee against the siege and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said there was no real change in the Gaza Strip since Israel's declaration.
"Israel can't say it is implementing its decision if it keeps two Gaza crossings closed, while partially opening the other two," Al-Khoudary said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
During the time of the siege, Yousef M. Aljamal
During the time of the siege, Ahmed, a very young child in Gaza, left his home with his family because it was located very close to a big mosque that people had heard was going to be bombed. Later, while he was playing football, he was bombed by an Israeli F-16, separating his body into very small pieces. Ahmed escaped from his destiny to his destiny. During the time of the siege, Zyneb, a youth in her twenties, was prevented from leaving Gaza to receive medical attention. Due to that, she passed away and was the first victim of the siege. She left her family, husband, and many friends, all who loved her. After she passed away, one of the Israeli soldiers who worked hard to prevent her from leaving, asked her father, as he was carrying her dead body, “Why do you cry? All of us will die!"
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/
What happens after you allow cocoa into Gaza?
Twenty-one days after the June 20, 2010 cabinet decision, Israel allowed Gaza merchants to import raw materials for industry. This followed three years of prohibiting the entrance of raw materials to Gaza, as part of a declared policy of “economic warfare“. Last week fabrics, empty cans, thread and industrial cocoa were brought in. Although Israel states that the number of trucks carrying goods into the Gaza Strip has risen by 70% since the cabinet decision, when seen in context, that number still only accounts for 34% of the needs of the residents of Gaza and its economy (in 2005 the number of trucks entering Gaza was 10,400 per month).
http://www.gazagateway.org/
Ending the Gaza Blockade Might Help Israel as Much as Gaza
In the wake of Israel’s botched attack on a Turkish ship bringing relief to Gazans from Israel’s (and Egypt’s) economic blockade of Gaza, the Israelis have responded to intensely negative world opinion by relaxing the blockade. That move may help Israel as much as Gazans. Ending the counterproductive economic embargo and blockade would help both parties even more.
http://original.antiwar.com/
War Criminals
Israeli report on shootings of ‘4 civilians’ fails to state that they were three sisters, 3, 5, and 9, and their grandmother, Philip Weiss
On Monday the Israeli government posted its latest word on the Gaza conflict of '08-'09. It's called the "second update" on its investigation of incidents during the conflict. Below I have excerpted three accounts of one incident in the war: the shootings of three sisters and their grandmother on January 7, 2009, in which two of the girls died. The accounts: 1, the Israeli government's account, 2, a report on the incident in the Goldstone Fact-Finding Mission of the U.N., and 3, the account of the shootings from the girls' father, as told to the Goldstone Mission. Notice that the Israeli account, which absolves the Israeli unit engaged of any criminal responsibility, and describes the shootings as allegations purely, refers to the case as the shooting of 4 civilians, and while it gives their names, it does not say that the civilians were three sisters, aged 3, 5, and 9, and their 60-year-old grandmother.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/
Must Watch Video Documentary: Operation "Cast Lead, To Shoot an Elephant"
Members of the International Solidarity Movement were present in Gaza when the bombing started on December, 27th 2009. Together with two international correspondents from Al Jazeera International (Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros), they were the only foreigners who managed to write, film and report for several radio stations what was happening inside the besieged Palestinian strip.
http://dotsub.com/view/
Early release of Tom Hurndall’s killer symptom of wider Israeli crimes
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) condemns the early release from prison of the Israeli soldier that murdered photography student and ISM volunteer Tom Hurndall in Gaza in 2003. The Israeli press yesterday reported that Taysir Hayb will be released three years early from an already short eight-year sentence. His murder was only a symptom of a much wider culture of impunity in the Israeli army. This early release serves to reinforce the notion that the Israeli army can continue to commit war crimes against Palestinians without fear of serious consequences. Tom’s mother Jocelyn Hurndall told ISM London that: “this reduced sentence comes at a time when the world is becoming more sceptical about Israel’s investigations into its own actions. It’s a reminder of Israel’s disregard for international law and opinion.”
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Israel says it will limit white phosphorus, not outlaw it
A report given to the UN by Israel details how it will attempt to limit civilian casualties in the future.
http://www.imemc.org/article/
Political/Other Developments
Abbas: Specific US assurances on borders needed (AP)
AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told his Fatah movement he wants a more specific U.S. commitment on the borders of a future Palestinian state before agreeing to direct talks with Israel, an adviser said Wednesday.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Abbas demands Israel halt settlement before talks (AFP)
AFP - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement insisted on Tuesday that direct peace talks with Israel hinge on a complete halt to Jewish settlement building.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
MK Tibi: Israel prefers dialogue over peace
Bethlehem – Ma'an – The idea of a bi-national state is a “nightmare” for Israel, Palestinian-Israeli Knesset member Ahmad Tibi told the Ma’an-produced No Spin talk show on Palestine TV on Tuesday. “The Arabs living in Israel are much more interested in the two-state solution based on 4 June 1967 borders,” Tibi said. A solution based on the 67 borders would be the "minimum" Palestinians could accept, he added.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Israeli lawmaker visits flashpoint religious site (Reuters)
Reuters - A senior lawmaker of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing party on Tuesday visited a flashpoint religious site in Jerusalem revered by Jews and Muslims, a move that has sparked violence in the past.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Egypt, Turkey leaders discuss Mideast peace process (AFP)
AFP - The leaders of Egypt and Turkey met in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss stuttering international efforts to coax Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to the negotiating table, the MENA news agency said.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
EU ministers to visit Gaza in September
Delegation responds to invitation from Lieberman to see Gaza situation 'with their own eyes'.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Netanyahu: I'm willing to take political risks for peace
The Prime Minister is not saying whether he will end the settlement building freeze or resume construction as freeze deadline nears.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-
MESS Report / What did Netanyahu promise Obama?
Was a deal formulated under which the U.S. would play ball on Iran (tougher sanctions and policy) while Israel will make concessions in favor of the Palestinians?
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/
Other News
Report: Germany reconsiders funding Israel's latest submarine
The American weekly Defense News said the collapse of the deal presents the Israel Navy with major difficulties in renovating its aging fleet of ships and submarines.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-
Jurists say Arab's rape conviction sets dangerous precedent
Sabbar Kashur sentenced to 18 months for posing as Jewish man to bed woman
http://www.haaretz.com/print-
IDF guarding Hebron vineyard of former Jewish militant
Reservists in the Israel Defense Forces have been deployed at night to guard the vineyard of a head of the former Jewish underground in the Hebron area, a reserve officer says. This would violate the IDF's policy against guarding private property. The former militant, Menachem Livni, was convicted in the 1980s for his role in the attack on an Islamic college in which three Palestinian students were killed. He received a life sentence, but president Chaim Herzog pardoned him after seven years.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-
Awww poor baby... Supreme Court: Pearlman disconnected from world
Justice Edmond Levy rebukes State Prosecutor's Office, Shin Bet for failing to bring 'Jewish terrorist', other suspect to court hearing. Prosecutor: It was a misunderstanding.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
PA sues Israeli companies over fuel theft claims
Bethlehem - Ma'an - The Palestinian Authority has filed suit in an Israeli court over the alleged theft of fuel by an Israeli transport company contracted by the nation's largest oil distributor. The allegations, brought forth in a Ma'an investigation days earlier, involve a petrol distributor taking advantage of PA customs inefficiencies to pilfer thousands of liters of fuel.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
PA municipal chief accused of stealing water
Hebron - Ma'an - Palestinian Authority forces detained the head of the Tarqumiya Municipality on Wednesday on allegations that he and other Hebron officials failed to commit to the Water Authority's standards on infrastructure and water theft. Mohammad Al-Ja'freh and several others including employees of nearby municipalities and owners of illegal water extensions on the Hebron district were detained and taken for questioning.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Israel to deploy new anti-missile system in November
Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - Israel will deploy its new anti-missile system designed to combat threats from the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, the Israeli Defense Ministry said Monday. "The Iron Dome interceptor, in conjunction with air force and anti-aircraft systems, successfully downed a large number of threats in fully operational mode," the ministry said in statement quoted by Agence France-Presse.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Report: Knesset to review flag burning law
Bethlehem - Ma'an - The Israeli parliament is scheduled to discuss an amendment to the Burning Flag Law, the Hebrew-language daily Maariv reported Tuesday. According to the daily, the amendment is aimed at deterring anti-Zionist Jews from burning the Israeli flag, and would see convicted offenders fined up to 67,300 shekels.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Russia says delivers 50 armoured vehicles for Palestinians (AFP)
AFP - Russia has delivered 50 armoured personnel carriers to Jordan where they are now waiting to be transferred to the Palestinian security forces, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Israel rescinds travel warning on Turkey
Counter-Terrorism Bureau announces it is now safe to travel to Turkey, despite government's anti-Israel comments; however Israelis warned to stay away from mass rallies, avoid political arguments.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Third man arrested in case of espionage against Israel
Resident of Arab village of Baka al-Garbiyeh arrested week after police arrest Druze man suspected of crimes against Israel's security.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Likud lawmaker: Jews should be allowed freer access to Temple Mount
Deputy parliament speaker says it is 'distorted' Israeli police makes it easier for Muslims to visit the holy compound than for Jews.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
Analysis/Opinion/Human Interest
Gaza's only fisherwoman
In Gaza, traditional industries like fishing are dominated by men but one 16-year-old girl is changing that. She has taken charge of her father's fishing boat and the family's livelihood after he suffered an injury to his leg. Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston reports.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Harvard Study Documents Media Bias and Misreporting, Stephen Lendman
This writer’s November 2009 article titled “Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism” also discussed this topic in detail. It called major media journalism biased, irresponsible, and sensationalist — misreporting, distorting, exaggerating, misstating, or suppressing vital truths — serving state and corporate interests over the common good, including bankers controlling the nation’s money, unpunished corruption at the highest levels, democracy for the select few, sham elections, a de facto one party state, imperial wars, occupation, and torture.
http://dissidentvoice.org/
Time to crack down on settlement funding, Yousef Munayyer
The time has come for a comprehensive effort to crack down on this obvious loophole in U.S. foreign policy. Stating opposition to settlements, while allowing pro-settlement groups in this country to funnel tax dollars to Israel's hilltop colonies, undergirds the perception of hypocrisy Middle Easterners are all too accustomed to associating with the United States. Thus far, actions to counter the efforts of pro-settlement funders using a tax-deductible status have been limited to filing complaints with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Through this method, activists have been able to register a complaint with the IRS, usually claiming a settlement-funding charity either engages in misleading fundraising or funds discriminatory practices.
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.
Holy Land 5 case reveals double standard in enforcement of US law
On 21 June 2010, the Supreme Court ruled to continue to authorize prosecutions of charities under the Material Support provision, disappointing families and supporters of the Holy Land Five and troubling US-based organizations that directly support grassroots humanitarian programs in the Middle East.
http://electronicintifada.net/
One-state Debate Explodes Myth about the Zionist Left, Jonathan Cook
A fascinating debate is entering Israel’s political mainstream on a once-taboo subject: the establishment of a single state as a resolution of the conflict, one in which Jews and Palestinians might potentially live as equal citizens. Surprisingly, those advocating such a solution are to be found chiefly on Israel’s political right. The debate, which challenges the current orthodoxy of a two-state future, is rapidly exploding traditional conceptions about the Zionist right and left.
http://dissidentvoice.org/
Israel on Tish’a B’Av, 2010, Adam Horowitz
Today is Tish'a B'Av, the day on the Hebrew calendar that Jews all over the world commemorate the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem because of baseless hatred. So it's especially ironic that his past week we witnessed no less than FOUR new laws proposed and passed in the Israeli Knesset that are outrageously anti-democratic in nature: 1) Stripping an Arab parliamentarian of her privileges for her non-violent activism 2) Narrowly defining who is considered a Jew, and therefore able to access state privileges 3) Requiring a loyalty oath to a supremacist ideology in order to receive state privileges 4) Criminalizing free speech that advocates divestment from the occupation
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/07/
Israeli Operatives in the U.S., Jeff Gates
A long misinformed public lacks the tools to grasp how they are being deceived. Without those tools, Americans will continue to be frustrated at being played for the fool.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/
Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis Want To Reject The Diaspora, Threatening To Split World Jewry
A Jew is a Jew is a Jew. Except when he or she is not. Just ask Joel Chasnoff, a man who immigrated to Israel, joined the army, fought in Lebanon, then discovered the state didn't consider him Jewish.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Palestinian Chef Finds Occupation Hard to Digest, Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
RAMALLAH – Nasser Abdulhadi is a mild-mannered man who runs a restaurant. He was always known as the jovial sort. One day, his friends say, he stopped being jovial. He chose instead to fight for a world title for one of his country’s national dishes, and through that to gain worldwide recognition for Palestine. Nasser’s campaign began when he heard from a friend who had flown in from the U.S. that the Israeli national airline, El Al, had served mosakhen, a dish made of bread, chicken, and onion spiced with purple sumac, as an “Israeli national dish.”
http://original.antiwar.com/
Iraq
Tuesday: 11 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Killed; 32 Iraqis, 5 Iranians Wounded
As the British inquiry into the Iraq war revealed new insights into the internal machinations behind the invasion, violence soldiered on back in Iraq. At least 11 Iraqis were killed and 32 more wounded in various attacks. Five Iranians also died and five more were wounded in an attack on pilgrims. More casualties also resulted from the guerilla war between Turkey and PKK rebels.
http://original.antiwar.com/
Three killed by Iraq car bomb (AFP)
AFP - Three people, including a child, were killed and 18 wounded by a car bomb in Qara Teba in Iraq's Diyala province on Tuesday, security officials said.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Inside an Iraqi Kurdi refugee village
In northern Iraq, a 26 year conflict has been causing thousands of villagers to flee their homes. Gabriel Gatehouse has been to see the effects of the attacks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
Iraq's last Sabeans take sad New Year dip in Tigris (AFP)
AFP - Sheikh Alaa Aziz was saddened by the sight of only a handful of fellow Iraqi Sabeans in simple white cloths dipping in the muddy waters of the Tigris in an ancient purification rite for their New Year.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
Inside Story - Iraq's political wrangling
Iyad Allawi, the former Iraqi prime minister whose Iraqiya coalition won 91 seats in the country's March parliamentary election, has sought support to form a government from Moqtada al-Sadr, the Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia leader. What would it take for Allawi and al-Sadr to form a political alliance? And to what extent are outside forces hindering or aiding the process?
Lebanon
Israel threatens to attack populated Lebanese areas
BEIRUT: Israel threatened on Tuesday to attack highly populated areas of Lebanon as its military chief claimed Hizbullah was using urban infrastructure to conceal weapons. Chief of General Staff for the Israeli Army, Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, said his force would not hesitate to strike Lebanese towns and villages if forced into any fresh conflict. “Hizbullah is consolidating its presence in inhabited areas where the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) can’t discover weapons,” Ashkenazi told Israeli radio while on a trip to Italy. “We will move in these areas if need be.”
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
MP Fadlallah: UN Needs to Condemn Israeli Espionage
In an interview with Agence France Presse, loyalty to the resistance bloc MP Hassan Fadlallah urged the United Nation's Security Council to call for the arrest of three Lebanese communications workers suspected of spying for Israel., MP Fadlallah urged the Lebanese government to send the Israeli espionage case to the Security Council “immediately”. According to Fadallah, "Israel will continue its espionage activities if the world does not condemn it. The world needs to know about Israel's aggression and its consequences in Lebanon."
http://almanar.com.lb/
PM Saad Hariri Denies Links to Spy Suspect Tareq al-Rabaa
20/07/2010 Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri's press office described as "fabricated, incorrect and baseless" on Tuesday a report published by Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar stating that spy Tareq Al-Rabaa had close ties to his Future movement. The report also said that the alleged spy was the prime minister's right arm in the telecommunications sector, in addition to his relation with the ISF Information Bureau which gave him special facilities and licenses due to his position within the team.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Report: Lebanese party denies recruiting Fatah fighters
Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - A Lebanese party denied reports on Tuesday that officials asked the Fatah leadership in Lebanon to recruit fighters into the movement, Lebanese media reported. The Future Movement, the Lebanese premier Saad Hariri's party, said the allegation was "totally baseless," NOW Lebanon quoted a statement issued by party official Ahmad Hariri as saying.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/
Allow Them to Own a Home? La, Abadan! (No, Never!)/Palestinian Rights in Lebanon, FRANKLIN LAMB
The explosive issue of Palestinian civil rights for Lebanon’s refugees will move to center stage under the Lebanese Parliamentary spotlight this week, with meetings of parliamentary committees and a legislative session now scheduled to consider late breaking proposals by the March 14 alliance, led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri. The main holdouts, as predicted, will be the right wing Christian Phalange party and its allies and former Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has been tasked this week with getting them on board. The Washington DC-Beirut based Palestine Civil Rights Campaign, not heeding the admonition of the late Mahatma Gandhi, who when following various pre-Independence reports of ‘progress’ with representatives of Her Majesty the Queen, Bapu told the assembled media: “Promises are made and fools rejoice!.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/
A Southern Symphony: Woe Unto The Wretched
“They’re bombing Lebanon,” I remember my mother's words as they stung me like hot coals; On July 12th, 2006 my family was huddled around the television, listening to the news. The voices would shatter my eardrums as the death toll would climb higher and higher. Soon it was just noise. CNN,MSNBC,FOX,ABC – Media personnel would recite numbers and memorized, commercialized statistics. I shouldn’t have expected them to profess any natural sentiment for the Lebanese being slaughtered en masse but I grew bitter nonetheless. Lebanon’s graceful sky’s were raining blood.
http://almanar.com.lb/
Iran
Iran's Parliament adopts bill against inspections
Iran’s Parliament authorized the government on Tuesday to retaliate against countries that inspect cargo on Iranian ships and aircraft as part of new United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program. MPs, hoping to discourage compliance with a fourth round of Security Council penalties, passed a bill allowing the government to respond in kind, with cargo inspections of its own.
Last month’s Security Council resolution calls on, but does not require, all countries to cooperate in cargo inspections if there are “reasonable grounds” to believe the items could contribute to the Iranian nuclear program, and any inspection must receive the consent of the ship’s flag state.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
Obama: Iran's path of defiance will only bring it more isolation
At press conference with British PM Cameron, Obama says U.S. remains committed to diplomatic solution to conflict over Iran's nuclear program.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
U.S. and other World News
Ex-MI5 chief slams war on Iraq
The former head of British intelligence has criticised the US-led war in Iraq in a testimony before an inquiry panel in London. Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller said that the war, which was launched in 2003, was not justified because Iraq had not posed a threat to the UK at the time. She also said that Britain's involvement in the 2003 conflict played into Osama Bin Laden's hands and radicalised British muslims. Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from London. [July 20, 2010]
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'Iraq war led to surge in terrorist plots against Britain'
Britain's involvement in the invasion of Iraq led to an almost unmanageable increase in the number of terrorist plots against it, a former head of British intelligence revealed Tuesday.
http://www.mynews.in/News/%
Plane carrying U.N. secretary-general diverted by rocket attack in Kabul
A plane carrying U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was forced to divert less than a mile from Kabul when the airport came under rocket fire.
http://www.latimes.com/news/
US military build-up in Kandahar will bolster Taliban, warns security monitor
Nato's counterinsurgency tactic shows no signs of success, says Afghanistan NGO Security Office.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Private contractors' deepening reach in US intelligence
The man nominated to be the next US director of national intelligence has defended the role of private contractors in the intelligence community. Retired Air Force General James Clapper was speaking in the wake of a series of articles in The Washington Post which have revealed the extent of involvement of the private sector in the US government's top secret programmes. There are also concerns over former spy chiefs working for the private contractors after leaving public office. Roger Wilkison reports. (July 21, 2010)
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Egypt denies Mubarak's health is failing
* Information minister says president in good health
* Media reports "rumour and speculation"
* Statement issued two days after stomach cancer report
http://www.alertnet.org/
Saudi to codify Sharia 'for clarity'
Resistance from conservatives expected to slow formalisation of largely unwritten laws to bring uniformity to judicial rulings.
http://www.thenational.ae/
Bad Translation Makes Fundamentalists Of Us All
Religious phrases are scattered liberally throughout Arabic languages. The secret to translating is not to take them literally.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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