Shadi Fadda brings us todays headlines and other news from around the internet.
Land and Property Theft and Destruction
Homes of 32 Palestinian families in Jerusalem face the nightmare of demolition
The Jerusalem-based Jerusalemite Foundation for Community Development has confirmed that the IOA had notified 32 Palestinian families to vacate their homes before next week.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
"We don't want to let them stay here," he said, nodding toward his former home, where a large menorah now adorns the roof. At the opposite end of the building, Ramadan lights were still on display, put up by a Palestinian family whose case is pending in the courts. "We don't want them to rest in peace and quiet," Ghawi said of the new occupants. "We want to show the world they are sleeping in our homes."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Almond Tree Planting Interrupted by IDF
Saturday morning around 9am, Palestinian residents of the Jubbet adh Dhib Village, south east of Bethlehem, were planting almond trees on their limited land when settlers from the nearby illegal outpost of Noqedim called the IDF to stop them from doing so. The soldiers arrived quickly, but didn’t do anything before their commander arrived half an hour later with a paper stating that the area was a closed military zone. Meanwhile, the settlers tried to herd their goats out on to the field, but the Palestinians verbally herded them back and demanded that the soldiers tell the settlers to leave the area as well. After another half an hour of discussion about who started the trouble and whose land this is, the soldiers made the settlers go back to their road and the Palestinians proceeded back to their village as well.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment
250 Olive Trees Planted By Volunteers Near Osh Grab
Following the beginning of construction of a new watchtower at the site of the former military base, this week, residents of Beit Sahour and international volunteers gathered at the surrounding farmlands, on Friday, to cultivate the land, planting 250 olive trees.
The former military base at Osh Grab was abandoned by the Israeli military in April 2006, and part of the site was transformed into a public park and centre for the residents of Beit Sahour by the town’s municipality. The land private land reverted to its original owners, including the sites worked on today.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Arab woman pours water on rightist MK
Elderly woman targets National Union's Michael Ben Ari in east Jerusalem, flees scene.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3848519,00.html
Two arrested at Ni'lin demonstration
February 13th, 2010-- Occupation forces attacked protestors in Ni’lin with tear gas during the Friday demonstration. Two people, a local camera man and an Israeli activist, were arrested. Despite the intensification of the arrest campaign against Ni’lin, residents have refused to end their demonstrations.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/2178.shtml
Ma’asara Demonstration Takes a New Route to Settler Road
Activists in Ma’asara village near Bethlehem changed their demonstration route today and marched to the “settler only” road outside the village. Once they reached Highway 60 the demonstration was surrounded by Israeli soldiers and the area was declared a closed military zone. Demonstrators were then besieged by tear gas as they made their way back to the village. Soldiers began following people into the village once the activists crossed the razor wire fence that the military uses to block the progress of weekly demonstrations. Many people suffered from tear gas inhalation at today’s demonstration, and many children were terrified once the military invaded the village.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/02/11356?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29
Two arrested at Ni'lin demonstration
February 13th, 2010-- Occupation forces attacked protestors in Ni’lin with tear gas during the Friday demonstration. Two people, a local camera man and an Israeli activist, were arrested. Despite the intensification of the arrest campaign against Ni’lin, residents have refused to end their demonstrations.
http://stopthewall.org/
Ma’asara Demonstration Takes a New Route to Settler Road
Activists in Ma’asara village near Bethlehem changed their demonstration route today and marched to the “settler only” road outside the village. Once they reached Highway 60 the demonstration was surrounded by Israeli soldiers and the area was declared a closed military zone. Demonstrators were then besieged by tear gas as they made their way back to the village. Soldiers began following people into the village once the activists crossed the razor wire fence that the military uses to block the progress of weekly demonstrations. Many people suffered from tear gas inhalation at today’s demonstration, and many children were terrified once the military invaded the village.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Peaceful Protest in Al Masara Halted
Yesterday around 1pm, a peaceful demonstration at Al Masara was stopped by the Israeli army when tear gas and sound bombs were unexpectedly thrown into the crowd. The protest comprised of around 20 Palestinians, 8 internationals and 7 Israeli activists. Three mini busses of approximately 75 Palestinians from neighboring villages were stopped at a nearby checkpoint and prohibited from attending the protest. Palestinian demonstrators at this protest were completely nonviolent, both verbally and physically. The crowd at once obeyed the orders from the commander of the army to move off the spontaneously demarcated closed military zone.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Collective Wall-Building Effort Baffles IOF in An-Nabi Salih
Israeli army and border police used tear gas, stun grenades, rubber- and plastic-coated bullets, live ammunition and “stinky water” to disperse close to 150 Palestinians who tried to reach their village well in An-Nabi Salih. The villagers were accompanied by over 20 Israeli and international solidarity activists. Following mid-day prayers, protesters marched towards the well and their agricultural lands but were immediately confronted with tear-gas and rubber-coated bullets. A group of 50 settlers from the neighboring settlement of Halamish watched as the Israeli Occupation Forces attacked the Palestinians. In total, 14 protesters were injured, including one hit in the face with a tear gas canister.
http://palsolidarity.org/2010/
Begin's grandson: 'murderous blood flows in Israeli arteries'
Avindav Begin, who is also the son of the current Likud Knesset member Benny Begin, refuses to stand during the Israeli national anthem "Hatikva" and participates in protests against the Apartheid Wall. He does not see himself as a Jew or a Zionist and believes that his grandfather did not make real peace with Egypt. He also is not worried about being the target of rotten eggs after his inflammatory interview with Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
Jaffa graffiti protests 'Jewish building'
Residents of Ajami neighborhood step up protest, spray slogans reading 'settlers be gone', 'Jaffa is not Hebron'. 'Local residents feel they are fighting for their home, council chairman says.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
Emad Bornat's video: Bilin weekly demonstration reenacts the Avatar film 12-02-2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
West Bank wall still triggers weekly protests in village
Bil'in, West Bank (CNN) -- Tear gas, stun grenades, rubber bullets and rocks: It must be Friday afternoon in the West Bank village of Bil'in. It's billed as a nonviolent protest against what Israel calls its security barrier, what the Palestinians call the apartheid separation wall. The barrier separates the villagers from their farmlands. Protesters come from all over the world to support the Palestinian cause.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/
PACBI: All Israeli academic institutions complicit in apartheid
In response to the recent decision by the Israeli government to upgrade the status of the so-called Ariel University Center of Samaria to a full university, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel reiterates its call for a boycott of AUCS and all other Israeli academic institutions due to their complicity in maintaining Israel's occupation, colonization and apartheid against the Palestinian people.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Israel wields iron fist against nonviolent resisters
Wael al-Faqeeh has been held without charge by the Israeli military since his arrest on 9 December 2009. The 28 January hearing that lasted approximately three minutes here in Salem court resulted in the extension of his detention by a further ten days. Bridget Chappell writes for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/
Violence
Fighters Survive Assassination Attempt In Gaza
A group of Palestinian fighters survived on Saturday at night an Israeli assassination attempt targeting them in Al Zeitoun neighborhood, south east of Gaza City. Two residents were wounded in an explosion in the same area.
http://www.imemc.org/index.
Occupation soldiers beat up youth, police raise alert at Akka beach
Israeli occupation soldiers manning the Container road barrier east of occupied Jerusalem beat up a Palestinian youth on Friday night, local sources said.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Israeli policemen desecrate Aqsa Mosque
Al-Quds media center revealed that the Israeli policemen deliberately desecrate the sanctity of the Aqsa Mosque and urinate in its different courtyards and areas especially at its gates.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Detainees
Palestinians arrested in different areas of West Bank
GAZA, Feb 14 (KUNA) -- Israeli forces arrested several Palestinians in the West Bank, early Sunday morning.
According to local radio stations in Gaza, two arrests were made in the villages of Sorif and Bair Awa close to Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the West Bank, adding that houses of the two Palestinians in question were searched before they were taken away. It also reported that another three Palestinians were arrested in Bethlehem and Jenin, and they were taken to an undisclosed location for interrogation. In Jerusalem, the radio said that an elderly lady identified as Fatma Abu Diab was arrested in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, after being accused of spilling a glass of water at a Knesset member yesterday. The Knesset member was in the neighborhood yesterday to visit a number of settlers who had taken possession of Palestinian houses. The woman will face charges for attacking the Knesset member.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/
Saba'na fighting illness in the dungeons of Abbas's militia
The family of Sheikh Faisal Saba'na (50 years) expressed profound fear for the life of their son who is detained in one of Abbas's militia prisons and stressed that he was in a bad health condition.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
Political Developments/Diplomacy
U.S. Army chief to visit Israel for talks on Iran, joint defense issues
U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen will meet with IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi as well as Minister of Defense, Ehud Barak, and other senior IDF commanders to discuss other topics, including joint defense issues between Israel and the U.S. and mutual security concerns.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
PA official: Israel's anti-terror campaign going too far
Israel overstepping boundaries with covert assassination campaign, Senior Palestinian source tells London-based newspaper; Egyptian official says Israel has stepped up anti-terror activity across Mideast.
http://www.ynetnews.com/
The Polling Issue: Is it a Problem of the Poll Centers or the Change of Attitudes?
Some voters also said they were afraid to admit to pollsters that they supported Hamas.
http://www.pcpo.ps/articles.
'If Mideast peace isn't realized now, it may never come'
If Israel and the Palestinians don't reach a peace agreement now, the opportunity to do so could be lost forever, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry said at U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar on Saturday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
CHUTZPAH: Israeli rights group sues North Korea over 1972 terror attack
An Israeli human rights organization is filing a lawsuit against North Korea over a 1972 terrorist attack at Ben-Gurion airport that left more than 20 people dead and more than 50 wounded, Haaretz has learned.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/
Analysis/Op-ed/Human Interest
‘LA Times’ gives Wiesenthal Center a platform to spin falsehoods about Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem. Philip Weiss
Yesterday, and somewhat shockingly, the Los Angeles Times published an opinion piece by Rabbi Martin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) defending the desecration of the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusalem so that the SWC can build its "Center for Human Dignity– Museum of Tolerance" there. I say shockingly because the piece contained so many falsehoods. I excerpt Hier below.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/02/
The Wiesenthal Center
There is no doubt that lying is the modus operandi at the Wiesenthal Center. In recent years, the center has spearheaded a campaign to build “a Museum of Tolerance” right on top of a Muslim cemetery.
http://www.palestine-info.co.
In California speech, Oren says, ‘Barack Hussein Obama’, Philip Weiss
Spencer Ackerman’s column, guest-authored by Jolene Crixell, reporting on an appearance at UC San Diego two days ago by his holiness Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren: He told us about how when he was asked to be ambassador everyone kept telling him what a difficult job he’d face. Even Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman — whom he described as “not a squeamish guy” — warned him that he was going to have a hard time. The reason was that the American people had just elected Barack Hussein Obama [Ed. [Ackerman] Note: I asked Jolene whether Oren really did use Obama’s middle name here, and she said he did indeed. What a disgraceful dog-whistle] and that there were three potential issues of conflict between the Netanyahu government and the American president.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/02/
Michael Oren: sorry, but you represent a Nazi state, Khalid Amayreh
In trying to whitewash Israel’s cruel crimes against the Palestinian people, including the ongoing cruel campaign against the Gaza Strip, Israel’s ambassador to the United States Michael Oren made a mockery of human decency, freedom of speech and objective truth. During a lecture at the University of California-Irvine on Monday, 8 February, Oren tried to present Israel’s ugly face as that of a civilized, democratic state that shares basic western values such as human rights and civil liberties. However, many students in the audience couldn’t just bear hearing the pornographic lies. They heckled him, shouting “killers” and “how many Palestinians did you kill.” Some of the pro-Zionist officials of UC-Irvine lost their nerves as the hasbara activity was transformed into a great embarrassment.
http://intifada-palestine.com/
The new McCarthyism sweeping Israel, Donald Macintyre
Ms [Naomi] Chazan cites the arrests of Israelis at demonstrations against the encroachment of Jewish settlers in the Arab East Jerusalem district of Sheikh Jarrah. And the interrogation and fingerprinting last month of her friend Anat Hoffman, of the reform group Religious Action Centre, who for 20 years has challenged ultra-Orthodox control of the Western Wall by seeking to entrench the right of women to pray in shawls there. "There is an assault on the basics of law and order but most important I see this as part of a very pernicious attempt to stifle alternative voices, and most seriously to equate criticism with betrayal. And there is a very strong political underpinning to that. I would go further … behind this [is] a group of people who don’t want a political settlement. They don’t want peace, so they’re trying to delegitimise the human rights movement."
http://www.independent.co.uk/
Israel tracks the ‘delegitimizers’, Philip Weiss
The Reut institute, a Tel Aviv thinktank, has presented a report on the delegitimizers of Israel to the Israeli cabinet. Some of the language recalls the "loose coalition" language of Walt and Mearsheimer, accurately describing the Israel lobby. The Reut Institute was praised by Arianna Huffington on her visit to Israel. From Haaretz– oh and why can’t the American press cover the delegitimizers? I remember Benny Morris striking the gong on delegitimization in the New Republic a couple years ago.
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/02/
Israel Needs to be Put in Time-Out, Ami Kaufman
So, in a way, American Jews over the years have have enabled American administrations to become enablers themselves. Which is why, for the sake of American Jews and Barack Obama's administration, I searched for some no-nonsene parenting tips, and wound up on the official SuperNanny website. Let's get to it, shall we? There are steps you can take to prevent or defuse a conflict and help your children learn valuable lessons about respect and cooperation....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Photojournalist in Gaza imagines death scenes before taking them by his camera
Gaza, February 13, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - Israeli forces open fire on everything; they do not distinguish between man, woman, child, elderly, tree ......etc. Everything on the ground is targeted by Israeli forces. The Palestinian journalist can use various tools in order to depict the tragic reality of the Palestinian life as pen, paper, and microphone and the most important tool of which is the camera.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/
Iraq
Saturday: 2 Iraqis Killed; 22 Wounded
While there were few reports of attacks out of the country today, a string of blasts struck political targets in Baghdad, where the main talk of the day centered on the legitimacy of the upcoming election. Should Iraqis bow out of participating, it could re-ignite sectarian fighting if it has not already. At least two Iraqis were killed and 22 were wounded in the latest violence.
Bombs hit Iraq political groups
A series of bombs have targeted political groups across Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, wounding at least 11 people, police officials say.
The bombs struck on Saturday night outside the offices or homes of leaders of at least five political groups, four of which were Sunni, two police officials said. Three of the wounded work for a leading Sunni MP banned from Iraq's March 7 general election.
http://english.aljazeera.net//
Iraq: Raid on arms smugglers near Iran border kills 5 people
At least five people were killed Friday in an Iraqi-U.S. raid on a village near the Iranian border that targeted suspected weapons smugglers, officials said.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.
Female suicide bomber attack leaves 14 casualties in Kufa
A female suicide bomber with an explosive belt blew herself up near a convoy of pilgrims in central al-Kufa on Friday, leaving four people killed and 10 others wounded, a local security source and eyewitnesses said.
http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=
Civilian deaths anger Iraqis
US and Iraqi troops have been accused of killing several civilians during a military operation in Iraq's Maysan province, on the border with Iran. The troops say they were raiding Iranian-backed fighters and weapons smugglers when they came under attack. A gunfight ensued in which lives were lost. But Iraqis are angry and they are calling on the central government to punish those responsible for the civilian deaths. (13 Feb 2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Governor wants apology and compensation from U.S. troops for killing 10 Iraqis
The Governor of Missan has formally asked U.S. troops for an apology and compensation for the killing of 10 Iraqis in his province.
Mohammed al-Sudani described those killed in a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation as “martyrs” and said the victims’ families should be both “morally and materially” compensated. The join force was carrying out an operation in Ali al-Sharqi, a district within Missan’s provincial borders. U.S. troops have declined comment but an Iraqi army general said the joint force came under attack first.
http://www.azzaman.com/
Iraq secular bloc suspends campaign
The Iraqi National Movement, a coalition of Sunni Arabs and secularists, halts election campaigning to protest the upholding of a ban on some candidates. It hints at a ballot boycott. A leading coalition supported by Sunnis and secularists suspended campaigning Saturday and hinted at a possible boycott of next month's elections to protest a decision to uphold a ban on candidates because of their alleged ties to the outlawed Baath Party.
http://feeds.latimes.com/%7Er/
Inside Iraq - Iraqs political wrangling
What happened to national reconciliation. Is Saddam in his grave stronger than Maliki's government? And is Maliki upholding the law or playing with fire?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Baghdad battles to preserve its battered heritage (AFP)
AFP - Fawziya al-Maliki, an elegant and determined 44-year old, is spearheading Iraq's efforts to preserve what architectural treasures remain in the war-ravaged country, but her job is proving dangerous.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/
U.S. and Other World News
Not all Iranians hate their regime
To suggest that crowds only turned out for the 31st anniversary of the revolution to get free food and drink is western delusion.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Clinton seeks more Arab pressure on Iran
SHANNON, Ireland (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will seek to enlist more Arab diplomatic pressure on Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions during a visit to the Gulf this week, U.S. officials said Saturday.
http://www.reuters.com/
The Listening post - Arab satellite law in the US
On the Listening Post this week, the politics of satellite TV news being fought from Washington to Cairo and Ireland has a new blasphemy law that is being challenged, online.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
www.TheHeadlines.org
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