Sunday, August 14 2011| Ami Kaufman | +972 Magazine With the growing number of calls for J14 to address the “elephant in the room” that apparently no one is willing to talk about – the occupation (shhh!), it’s important to unde…
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Fatah is Violating Reconciliation Agreement Claims Hamas
PNN – Palestine News Network – 14.08.11 – 17:39 Gaza – PNN – Hamas today accused Fatah of going back on previous agreements between the two political groups and violating the reconciliation deal that had been signed in Cai…
OIC: Palestinian economy lacks infrastructure
[ 14/08/2011 - 01:10 PM ] JEDDAH, (PIC)– The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the largest international organization after the United Nations, said in a report concluding the month of July that the Palestinian economy, which is under construc…
Oslo’s Other Tragedy
By Dallas Darling | Palestine Chronicle | Aug 14, 2011 Oslo’s ‘other’ tragedy had nothing to do with a homegrown killer, one who had became mesmerized with extremist views and images shown in the global mass media, and one w…
Palestinian shepherd severely injured in landmine blast north of Jordan Valley
[ 13/08/2011 - 02:23 PM ] TUBAS, (PIC)– A Palestinian shepherd sustained moderate to severe injuries on Friday when an Israeli landmine exploded at him as he was grazing sheep in the northern part of Jordan Valley east of Tubas city. Local source…
Yousef: Netanyahu obstructed Shalit deal
[ 13/08/2011 - 12:55 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– MP Hassan Yousef, a Hamas leader in the West Bank, has charged Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu with obstructing the prisoners’ exchange deal after it reached an advanced stage during the reign of hi…
Abusisi: Hamas’ Nuclear Bombmaker
Aug 13, 2011 | Richard Silverstein « Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place Abusisi’s Hamas atom bomb design and signed confession. Caption: ‘Atom bomb (very dangerous, to kill Jews!). I confess that I designed …
Hamas calls on Lebanon to adopt civil rights of Palestinian refugees
[ 12/08/2011 - 08:38 PM ] BEIRUT, (PIC)– Hamas has called on the Lebanese government to rectify its relationship with the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon by adopting their civil and social rights and rebuilding the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp. The…
Palestinian Journalist Forum condemn Zionist threats to Russian journalist Maxim
[ 12/08/2011 - 05:35 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian Journalist Forum strongly condemned death threats made by a prominent Russian Zionist against Russian journalist Maxim Shevchenko, who is a member of the Public Chamber RF and TV presenter, f…
UN Report criticises Israeli policies which displace Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
Friday, 12 August 2011 15:45 | MEMO The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) has issued a report looking at the policies of the Israeli government which lead to the displacement of Palestinians. “Displaceme…
Fanatic Jewish settlers regularly attack Palestinians at Iftar time
[ 12/08/2011 - 03:07 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Fanatic Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian homes in the old city in al-Khalil on Wednesday evening for the second time in two days. The attacks take place when families gather at sunset to break their…
The Tent Protests in Israel
By Jeff Halper | Palestine Chronicle | Aug 11, 2011 The demonstrations currently roiling Israel constitute a grassroots challenge to Israel’s neo-liberal regime. Beginning as an uprising of the middle classes – especially young p…
Refusing to Be Enemies – Book Review
By Jim Miles | Palestine Chronicle | Aug 11, 2011 Refusing to be Enemies – Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Ithaca Press (Garnet Publishing, Reading, UK), 2011. Israel …
Number of West Bankers who refuse to comply with summonses on the rise
[ 10/08/2011 - 04:56 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– The number of Palestinian citizens who jointed the youth campaign against summonses issued arbitrarily by the Palestinian authority security apparatuses in the West Bank has risen since the signing of th…
Jewish settlers seize Palestinian homes by force
[ 11/08/2011 - 01:44 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Jewish settlers forced their way into Palestinian homes in the Old City of Al-Khalil and expelled their inhabitants out at dawn Thursday, eyewitnesses said. They said that the settlers used digging tool…