Land theft and destruction / Ethnic cleansing / Settlements
RAMALLAH, Jul 24, 2010 (IPS) - Anger has arisen in Palestinian areas over reports that millions of tax-exempt dollars from the U.S. are being funneled towards Israel's illegal settlement building in the Palestinian West Bank -- in flagrant violation of international law. This is happening under the nose of the U.S. administration despite its claims of support for a two-state solution and criticism of Israel's continued settlement building. The Palestinian Authority (PA) based in Ramallah has expressed outrage. "Adhering to international law is a big step towards holding Israel accountable for its actions," PA spokesman Ghassan Khatib told IPS from the Muqata (government) headquarters in Ramallah.
Activism / Solidarity / Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions
The group's official Facebook page displays a copy of a letter sent to them by Boycott Israel urging them to cancel show in light of Gaza flotilla raid.
A French university has canceled a conference of Mediterranean writers after participants protested the presence of an Israeli author. A French university has canceled a conference of Mediterranean writers after participants protested the presence of an Israeli author.
21 July - Australia's peak ecumenical body has asked Australians to consider boycotting goods produced by Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in solidarity with Palestinian Christians
BERLIN (JTA) -- A Palestinian bishop who has been a harsh critic of Israeli settlements and a proponent of a shared capital in Jerusalem was chosen for a top post in the Lutheran Church. Munib Younan, 59, told Lutheran leaders after his election as head of the Lutheran World Federation in Stuttgart on Saturday that he hoped to contribute to building peace in the Middle East.
The head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raad Salah, begins a five-month prison term Sunday morning after the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court convicted him six months ago of assaulting and insulting a police officer. The incident that led to charges against Salah occurred in February 2007 at the Temple Mount during an Islamic Movement demonstration against construction work carried out at the Mugrabi Gate. The demonstrators claimed that the work was an effort to destroy Muslim holy sites and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Palestinian Authority police said Sunday that a Palestinian resident of Tulkarem refugee camp was detained at the Allenby Bridge as he returned from Jordan over the weekend ... The report added that Israeli forces stormed several Hebron district villages, including Idhna, Sa’ir, Beit Ula, Bani Na’im, Nuba, Ad-Dhahiriya and Dura. Meanwhile, police said Israeli troops raided the Al-Auja town in the central West Bank district of Jericho, handing down two summons orders to Faysal Johara and Salah Abu Sittah.
Though Egypt opened the Rafah crossing after the flotilla incident, many still can't leave Gaza because they lack a passport -- Over the course of six days - between the 4th and 10th of July - 2,120 people left the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing. Another 396 who wanted to cross the border were turned away by the Egyptian authorities. And another small but significant number of people could not even reach the border, due to the struggle between Fatah and Hamas - even over the dubious authority to restrict their people's freedom of movement.
Two recent reports discuss it, a July Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR-IL) one and a June one jointly prepared by PHR-IL, the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. All cite Israeli medical ethics and international law violations by discriminating on the basis of need, denying adequate treatment to seriously ill Gazans by: *preventing the restoration and development of the Strip's healthcare system; and *restricting travel to the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Israel, or neighboring countries for treatment. In its July report, PHR-IL said Gaza's healthcare system is getting progressively worse "due to a lack of medical expertise, medicine(s) and medical equipment," the ICRC recently saying it's "at an all time low."
The officials insisted Thursday that the drugs and medicines, which were donated to the Gaza Strip by aid organisations all over the world over the last two years, had expired, Xinhua reported. Only 30 percent of the medical aid, sent to Gaza after the last Israeli military offensive 19 months ago, were used at hospitals and medical aid centres, an official in the Hamas-ruled ministry of health said ... ”Such random donations, mainly drugs had caused lots of problems,” he said. “22 percent of the medical aid sent to the Gaza Strip had its date expired, where different kinds of medical donations were not helpful for medical emergency and medical care.”
Gaza, July 25, (Pal Telegraph) Dozens of Gazans who own the destroyed houses (By Israel during the war of cast lead against Gaza 2008-2009) and users of the services of the agency for refugees "UNRWA", demonstrated today before the Agency's headquarters in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in protest of the delays in reconstruction projects. The protestors complained of the reduction of the services provided by UNRWA, and called upon it to continue to provide assistance as before, the provision of medicines and medical supplies in health centers and its affiliates.
Israeli authorities are expected to temporarily open one Gaza crossing Sunday for the delivery of food and fuel, Palestinian crossings officials said. Liaison director Raed Fattouh said the Kerem Shalom terminal in southern Gaza would be open for the transfer of 144-155 truckloads of humanitarian aid and commercial merchandise. Limited quantities of industrial diesel and domestic-use gas will also be delivered through the same crossing, Fattouh added.
Egyptian government sources rebuffed rumors Sunday that Gaza smugglers had cut through an underground steel wall built to thwart the smuggling of goods into the besieged coastal enclave. Officials said the wall's installation was ongoing and would be completed by the end of 2010 "on schedule," and described security campaigns along the border as "successful" following the recent closure of several tunnels ... Officials said the Hamas government has cooperated with Egyptian authorities in locating smuggling tunnels, and that Egyptian security regularly scans the border area. Reports surfaced Thursday that Palestinian tunnel smugglers sliced through the steel wall with a blowtorch, creating hundreds of holes in the wall meant to curtail smuggling, The Associated Press reported.
GAZA CITY (July 24) -- In stores across Gaza, Israeli products in shiny packaging cram window displays, while cash registers rattle. These days, Hebrew-brand names are everywhere in the coastal enclave, replacing goods smuggled from Egypt through a network of tunnels built up over the years as a workaround to the blockade ... But while the cheaper, higher-quality Israeli products may slightly ease the burden of daily life for some here, everyone agrees the new measures are piecemeal at best.
Amid mounting international pressure for an end to the Israeli siege of Gaza Strip, a large number of Iranian lawmakers have volunteered to join the cause and help break the siege ... Iran's Majlis representatives plan to take a trip to Gaza next week by travelling through Egypt and the Rafah border crossing.
Businesses in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory, have long suffered from many costly trade restrictions imposed by Israel. Taybeh, the only brewery of beer in the West Bank, and Pharmacare, a pharmaceutical company there that supplies medicine across Europe, are two companies with many grievances about Israel's restrictions. They say that high taxes and duties and long inspections of goods significantly hinder their ambitions to export and expand. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Ramallah in the West Bank.
The occupied Palestinian territories have one of the highest birthrates in the region. Over 50% of the population is under the age of 18. Thirty percent of the population in Palestine falls below the poverty line. Of the poor, 54% are children. In 2009, more that 300 children lost their homes after they were demolished from order of the Israeli authorities. Not including Operation Cast Lead, since January 2009, Israeli army have killed 20 children. In the last ten years 1,333 Palestinian children have been killed in conflict.
Sa’id Hillis, 60, has kept bees since he was a boy. Until the Israeli attacks changed his business.
The Israeli army said Saturday evening that four projectiles from Gaza landed in Israeli territory over the weekend. Israeli media reported that two homemade projectile landed in the coastal city of Asheklon on Saturday, causing no injuries or damage. Earlier, the Israeli news site Yedioth Ahronoth reported that a projectile landed in Nahal Oz, in northern Israel, with no casualties reported. Meanwhile, an unexploded projectile believed to have been launched on Friday was found near a kibbutz in southern Israel, the news site reported. One of the rockets that landed Saturday was not a so-called Qassam, but might have been a more advanced type of projectile which had been smuggled into Gaza, Israeli police officials told the Israeli daily Haaretz.
Saber Kushour, an Arab Israeli convicted of 'rape by deception' of a Jewish woman, gives his side of the story in an exclusive interview
Brasilia, July 25, (Pal Telegraph) The Palestinian residents in Brazil complained about the handling of the Palestinian embassy with their demands and direct actions protesting the difficult living conditions. They accused -in a statement issued to the press- the Palestinian embassy in collusion with local authorities to break up a sit-in they started infront of the embassy by force without any legal justification.
Arab League set to vote on whether to endorse direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks on Thursday ... The Palestinians are wary of entering open-ended negotiations with Israel's hardline prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. They want Israel to first accept the principle of a Palestinian state within the territory captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War, with some border modifications. Netanyahu has endorsed the creation of a Palestinian state but refuses to be pinned down on the details before direct talks begin.
Hamas officials on Saturday called on European Union countries to start direct dialogue with the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner had earlier Saturday expressed his country's readiness to hold direct dialogue with Hamas, "if France receives an official request from the Palestinian Authority."
The US State Department said Friday that it had not upgraded the status of the PLO mission in Washington, despite a decision to allow it to fly a Palestinian flag and call itself a General Delegation of the PLO. “There has been no change in the status of the Palestinian mission here in Washington,” State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. “It operates under guidance provided by the State Department. It does not have any diplomatic privileges or immunities.”
Independent politician Munib Al-Masri said Saturday that a new round of talks on a unity deal tipped to end Fatah-Hamas rivalry would begin next week. Speaking to Ma'an radio, Al-Masri, who heads the Palestinian National Coalition of independent figures, said meetings would be held with Fatah officials in Ramallah and then in Damascus, Cairo, and Gaza. Coalition members will convene with Egyptian officials, who have been mediating the unity deal.
The Shin Bet summonses for questioning which IDF soldiers serve Palestinians will be written in Arabic in addition to Hebrew from now on. The development stems from orders handed down by the IDF's West Bank division commander, Brig. Gen. Nitzan Alon. The move, which the Israel Defense Forces informed Haaretz of last week, follows an incident about six weeks ago in which the IDF mistakenly delivered a Shin Bet summons for the questioning of a 7-year-old boy. Because the summons was written only in Hebrew, and not Arabic as well, the boy's parents did not understand that the notification had been delivered by mistake.
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced Saturday the impending ratification of a law to end water theft in the West Bank, following the questioning of several Hebron-area municipal officials on allegations of tampering with water lines ... In addition to the law, which will criminalize the installation of water pipe extensions that have not been sanctioned by the Water Authority, five new wells will be dug in the area, Fayyad said. The new law, which awaits President Mahmoud Abbas' ratification, follows the detention of the head of the Tarqumiya Municipality and other officials Wednesday for failing to commit to Water Authority standards ... The premier said "noticeable improvements" were made in Hebron since the campaign was launched, including the blocking of several illegal water extensions and the increase of water distribution by up to 15,000 cubic meters a day, after three unused wells were re-commissioned ... Fayyad added that the PA was committed to solving the unequal distribution of water as a result of Israeli control and that a meeting would be held in Hebron to discuss the situation during Ramadan in August.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) dismissed claims over the weekend that its agents had “tortured” far-right activist Haim Pearlman, suspected of murdering four Palestinians and attempting to murder seven more. The Shin Bet said the allegations were part of a smear-campaign being waged by the suspects and their supporters against the organization.
...The children in question are either Israeli-born or have spent a large portion of their childhood in Israel, but their legal status in the country is in question. "The issue touches on two things," Netanyahu said Sunday at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting. "One is humanity, and the other is a Jewish and Zionist state." [decision has been delayed for a week]
Volunteers from 10 countries rallied to clean streets and parks in the West Bank city of Jericho on Saturday. Coordinated by the Seeds of Hope group, 140 people helped prepare for celebrations of the 10,000th anniversary of the city’s founding. "We come to help people here and we are pleased to share," a volunteer from Brazil said.
The cancellation of this election was an unjustified, unlawful, and unacceptable act. It damages democratic rights and makes a mockery of the interests of the Palestinian people. But this is far more than an internal Palestinian issue. The only lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians will be based on a settlement negotiated between two democracies — this was the case in Europe, and it will be the case in the Middle East.
We need to begin by recognizing that our relationship with Israel has never been driven by strategic reasoning. It began with President Truman overruling his strategic and military advisers in deference to personal sentiment and political expediency. We had an arms embargo on Israel until Lyndon Johnson dropped it in 1964 in explicit return for Jewish financial support for his campaign against Barry Goldwater. In 1973, for reasons peculiar to the Cold War, we had to come to the rescue of Israel as it battled Egypt. The resulting Arab oil embargo cost us dearly. And then there’s all the time we’ve put into the perpetually ineffectual and now long defunct “peace process.”
Israeli artist Yosi Even Kama's exhibit on display at Shenkar sees civil war between religious right and secular left only a decade away -- State-wide censorship of sexually explicit material on the internet. Laws prohibiting driving vehicles on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays. Women allowed to bathe in the Mediterranean only a few hours a week. The face of Baruch Goldstein on the 20 shekel bill. A national holiday celebrating our spiritual founding father, Rabbi Meir Kahane.
The gist of the Citizenship Law amendment, which will entrench the ban on family unification between Arab-Israelis and Palestinians, through a demand to pledge allegiance to a 'Jewish, democratic state', is discrimination against these citizens. After all, they would not be able to make such pledge, and in fact I too would not be able to do it, because a Jewish state cannot be democratic. On June 8, 2010, our Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that there is no such thing as the 'Israeli people', but rather, we have the 'Jewish people', and hence Palestinians and Arab Israelis must recognize the State of Israel as the 'Jewish people’s' state. Now we see a more interesting, Kahane-style demand being added: A pledge of allegiance to the State.
...In simulations undertaken by our security forces, the false basic assumption that necessarily leads to failure is that the Arab perception is the opposite of our own, that their wisdom is lesser, that their freedom fighters are despicable terrorists wholly different from the Jewish terrorists we admired during British rule, that life is not sanctified by them as it is by us, and that if they won’t get coriander and sweets they would topple Hamas’ rule, which they stupidly elected. The results of the above thinking have been the same for 100 years now, because we keep making the same mistake.
In Israel and Washington, where some have begun to calculate how much time is left before his demise, they are behaving as if Hosni Mubarak is eternal ... Mubarak remains the leader who wants and can advance political movement. If convinced that the time has come, he could push forward direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and he is the only one who can bring this process under his auspices. He is also the rumbling engine behind the three-year effort for internal Palestinian reconciliation. Mubarak is the sole Arab leader who does not fear Hezbollah, does not talk with Bashar Assad and is blocking Hamas. Together with Saudi Arabia, he is placing a solid wall against the spread of Iranian influence in the region, and is leading an axis once described as "moderate" which today faces a new axis in which the partners are Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq.
Combatants for Peace, a group drawn from Israel and Palestine's forces, are transforming their own experiences into drama. But will this help find a resolution to political conflict?
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) -- 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.
Excerpt: Three Iraqis were killed and 22 more were wounded in attacks in Mosul and Basra. Meanwhile, the INA’s rejection of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a second term as prime minister could serve as the impetus to help a new coalition of 220 lawmakers resolve the impasse preventing the formation of the next government. In Mosul, a bomb blast wounded 18 civilians shopping at a souk. Gunmen killed two policemen in Risala.
BAGHDAD, 25 July 2010 (IRIN) - Insufficient funds and an overburdened public services infrastructure have prompted authorities in Iraq’s central province of Karbala to assist the voluntary return of up 90,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 100,000 squatters.
MOSUL, IRAQ -- In Iraq's third-largest city, buildings are bombed out and scarred by thousands of bullet holes. But unlike in many parts of Iraq that have calmed significantly in recent years, much of the damage is recent. Mosul and the surrounding province of Nineveh are a microcosm of Iraq's most explosive and unresolved conflicts as the United States prepares to draw down to 50,000 troops by Sept. 1.
As US troops withdraw from Iraq, a large swath of the oil-rich north coveted by the Kurdish regional government remains a powder keg that threatens to explode in violence, experts here say. Since the 2003 invasion, US forces have managed to keep an uneasy peace in the ethnically diverse area, home to Turkmen, Kurds and Arabs -- including many forced to resettle there under Saddam Hussein's regime. The US military withdrawal from Iraq is on schedule, according to the commander of US forces there, General Raymond Odierno.
Authorities have arrested three suspected senior leaders of Al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq, including its self-styled minister of defence, a spokesman said on Sunday. Also among the group detained were two brothers suspected of masterminding major attacks in the central Iraqi province of Diyala, defence ministry spokesman Major General Mohammed al-Askari told AFP. "Iraqi soldiers arrested Saleem Khalid al-Zawbayi, the minister of defence for the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI)," Askari said.
Media freedom in Iraq has taken another turn for the worse with the announcement of plans for a special court to handle journalism cases
Reporting from Sulaymaniya, Iraq, and Baghdad -- The deaths of two Kurdish reporters in northern Iraq in the last two years has prompted charges that authorities in the semiautonomous Kurdistan region, long hailed as the country's success story, are complicit in the intimidation of journalists.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah says in televised interview that his movement will not allow anyone to defame its image.
A new initiative in Saudi Arabia aims to root out extremist teachers and 'reeducate' them away from terror.
When women’s rights activist Wajiha Al-Huwaidar flew out of Saudi Arabia last week for a holiday in Italy with her family, she was hoping for a brief respite from what she describes as the ‘gender apartheid kingdom.’ She wasn’t so lucky. As she left, her husband received an automated SMS text message from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informing him that his wife, legally considered his ‘dependant’ under Saudi Arabia’s strict gendered guardianship system, had left the country.
Ten years of bullying has failed. If the west wants a more peaceful, democratic Middle East it must be friendlier to Syria
Prosecutors working for the Bush Administration accused the Holy Land Foundation of supporting Hamas by trying to "win hearts and minds" of the Palestinian population through humanitarian assistance, and that the charities HLF worked with were "front groups" for the political party. But after several years of wiretapping phone lines, seizing documents and following money trails, the prosecution couldn't support its allegations of an HLF-Hamas connection. Elashi said they then resorted to calling on an anonymous Israeli intelligence officer, who called himself "Avi," as a key witness who told the jury he was an expert who could "smell Hamas." "It was the only time in the history of the United States that a witness inside a courtroom was allowed to remain anonymous, so the defense couldn't cross-examine him," Elashi said. "That in and of itself is huge grounds for appeal."
RIYADH (AFP) A leading Saudi cleric hit out at France for moving to ban Muslim face-veils, but approved Muslim women foregoing veils when visiting a country which outlaws them, a Saudi paper reported on Saturday ... he added, if Muslim women are in a country that has banned the niqab, or full-face veil, or if they face harassment in such a place, "it is better that the Muslim woman uncovers her face." Numerous scholars of various Islamic schools of thought agree on this point, Qarni said. "For Saudi tourists who face such a decision, there is a point in Islamic law where God says: 'So fear Allah as much as you can.'
-- A senior judge was under investigation yesterday after being accused of making anti-Semitic remarks in court that may have swayed his jury into acquitting a group of protesters. Judge George Bathurst-Norman was said by critics to have persuaded a jury to clear a group of campaigners who smashed up a factory making parts for Israeli warplanes.
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Incursions
Siege (Gaza and West Bank) / Restriction of movement / Humanitarian issues
Sa’id Hillis, 60, has kept bees since he was a boy. Until the Israeli attacks changed his business.
Retaliation
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Hamas spokesman says UN's call to prevent future flotillas to Gaza 'constitutes cooperation with occupation, allowing it to continue aggression without being held accountable'
Group spokesman says UN Human Rights Council right to investigate flotilla raid, but that 'Israel must be obligated to honor decisions of investigation, not be allowed to escape punishment' as in case of Goldstone report
PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday morning that thecommittee appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the deadly Navy raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla was "similar to the Goldstone Committee with unsympathetic trends, to say the least." According to Netanyahu, Jerusalem was deliberating "how much technical material to provide them with, if at all." Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon seeks to appoint a different committee, which will be headed by former New Zealand PM Geoffrey Palmer and include Israeli and Turkish representatives. "We are holding talks with the UN secretary-general on ways to cooperate on this matter," Netanyahu said
Israel is preparing to face four Gaza-bound aid flotillas from Lebanon, Libya, Qatar and Oman, all of them organized by Islamic factions, the Hebrew-language daily Maariv reported Sunday. While the timing of the ships’ arrivals is unknown, Israel is on high alert to prevent another deadly confrontation in international waters, the newspaper reported quoting unnamed Israeli sources.
Rashid Khalidi, a well-know critic of Israel, hopes to raise at least $370,000 in the next month -- WASHINGTON - A fundraising campaign is currently underway in the United States to finance the purchase of an American ship in an effort to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip in the early autumn. The ship is to be named after U.S. President Barack Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope."
If that isn't enough to stir the ghosts of the 2008 American presidential election, one of the prominent figures to support the initiative is Columbia University history professor Rashid Khalidi, a well-know critic of Israel whose friendship with the American president from their days together in Chicago engendered criticism of Obama.
ACTIVIST FIACHRA Ó Luain, who travelled on the Challenger 1 as part of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla, said he had been offered and would accept a Palestinian passport. A spokesman for the General Delegation of Palestine in Ireland confirmed passports and honorary citizenship had been offered to all those who participated in the flotilla last month.
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey defeated Israel 3-0 in a women's volleyball game Sunday that was guarded by hundreds of police because of concerns that pro-Palestinian demonstrators would try to disrupt the event. The game in the Turkish capital of Ankara was closed to the public, and the 7,000-seat sports hall was mostly empty save for clusters of officials, police and athletes who were allowed to attend. The two teams were playing for the bronze in the European Volleyball League finals.
Public security minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch on Thursday asked the state to pardon a policeman found guilty of manslaughter. Aharonovitch asked Justice Minister Yaakov Ne'eman to grant clemency to Shahar Mizrahi, jailed for shooting dead a car thief ... Mizrahi was convicted last year after shooting dead Israeli-Arab Mahmoud Ganaim. A court rejected his claim that he shot Ganaim in self defense.
A police commissioner who criticizes the Supreme Court is a commissioner who damages the rule of law ... The public's identification with Mizrahi, the wave of lament over his bitter fate and the threat that the police will not be able to fulfill their role have totally obscured the serious act he committed. This was intentional, of course. The criminal has become a hero, so let's recall the details of the incident that retired justice Dalia Dorner termed an "execution." Mizrahi killed an unarmed civilian who was not threatening the officer's life. With live ammunition from close range, Mizrahi shot in the head a civilian who was trying to flee the scene. He violated both the law and procedures for opening fire ... They are trying to mislead and terrorize with the claim that there are no police departments that don't kill unnecessarily, and no war against crime without excessive violence.That's a lie - as if the more than 40 civilians killed by the police in the past 10 years were not enough. (And the spokesman for the national police headquarters didn't bother to respond to Haaretz's request for more exact figures ). It's a horrifying figure that is accepted here with complacency because almost all the victims have been Arabs.
Aid ships / Flotilla aftermath
If that isn't enough to stir the ghosts of the 2008 American presidential election, one of the prominent figures to support the initiative is Columbia University history professor Rashid Khalidi, a well-know critic of Israel whose friendship with the American president from their days together in Chicago engendered criticism of Obama.
Join a sunset cruise in NY harbor - Thursday, August 5 - Our goal is to raise $100,000 of the $370,000 needed to buy and register a boat, secure a crew and sent a US delegation on the next Freedom Flotilla in the international effort to break the blockade of Gaza. Special guests Chris Hedges, Ann Wright, Gaida Najla Said, Ismail Khalili, Remi Kanazi, Lamis Deek....
Racism / Discrimination
Refugees
Political developments / Diplomacy
President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that Israel’s continued settlement building on what would become a future Palestinian state was impeding a two-state solution and renewing the cycle of violence. In his speech delivered at the summit of the African Union in Kampala, Abbas said Palestinians were clinging to peace “to build a better future for our coming generations and all peoples of the region,” the PA news agency Wafa reported.
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Iraq
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The lighter side: Jordan arrests vegetarian activist clad only in lettuce (dpa)
Activist Ashley Fruno's appearance in the Jabal Amman neighborhood of Amman attracts a large number of onlookers, causing traffic jams in the area.U.S., other world news
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