Friday September 09, 2011 11:08 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli sources reported Friday that “Palestinian sharpshooters fired ten rounds into homes in Nativ Hasara settlement, close to the border with Gaza. No injuries were reported. The sources said that at least ten rounds were fired at a number of homes in the [...]
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US vows to veto Palestinian statehood bid
Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid Maan News Agency | By Arshad Mohammed | Sept 9, 2011 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States said explicitly for the first time on Thursday it would veto a Palestinian bid for full UN membership, drawing an immediate rebuff from the Palestinians who vowed to press ahead. George [...]
Legal double standards: Itamar and Awarta
Related : Awarta under Siege Israel’s military justice system in the West Bank inflicts wanton punishment, not protection or order. Charlotte Silver| 08 Sep 2011 11:31 | Al Jazeera Military courts in the West Bank don’t provide justice to either Palestinians or Israelis [EPA] Last March, a vicious crime occurred in the occupied Palestinian territories. [...]
US Congress members take junket to Israel: who wins and who loses?
By Reverend Carolyn Boyd * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz | Sept 8, 2011 “What if we stopped the three billion dollars in aid we give to Israel annually and used the savings to create a national jobs-deficit reduction programme?… This is the time to reallocate financial resources to American families and communities and to [...]
Erdogan: “We Will Protect Our Ships En Route To Gaza”
Related: The Mavi Marmara Massacre Thursday September 08, 2011 23:25 by Alaa Ashkar – IMEMC & Agencies Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdgan, stated Thursday that Ankara intends to protect and support all Turkish ships, loaded with humanitarian aid, bound to the besieged Gaza Strip. Turkish PM Receb Tayyip Erdogan – sonara.net “Turkey will be [...]
Silwan youth sentenced to 5 months, after years of Israeli witch hunt, torture & prison
Friday, 9 September, 2011 | 00:34 « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Two young residents of Silwan have been sentenced to 5 months in prison, after a two year long legal battle against Israeli authorities. Omar Ameen Siyam and Mahmoud al-Bana, both 23, weathered two years of prison, house [...]
Turkey vows to challenge Israel at sea
Related: The Mavi Marmara Massacre PressTV – Thu Sep 8, 2011 11:0PM GMT Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will flex its naval muscles in the Mediterranean, providing a warship escort for any Gaza aid vessels. Turkey has announced that last year’s Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid convoy would not be repeated since Ankara intends [...]
Erdogan: Turkish forces to escort aid to Gaza
Related: The Mavi Marmara Massacre Defying Israel’s blockade, PM Erdogan says Turkey will send aid shipments to Gaza under the protection of naval forces. Last Modified: 08 Sep 2011 23:58 – Al Jazeera In May 2010, Israeli commandos raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, killing nine Turks and igniting a diplomatic row [EPA] Turkey’s naval forces would escort [...]
Turkish warships will escort aid vessels to Gaza
08 September 2011, Thursday / TODAYSZAMAN.COM WITH REUTERS,Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Turkey said on Thursday it would escort aid ships to Gaza and would not allow a repetition of last year’s Israeli raid that killed nine Turks, setting the stage for a potential naval confrontation with its former ally. Raising the stakes in Turkey’s [...]
For the Love of Israel: Congresswoman’s Misguided War on the UN ~ by Ramzy Baroud
by Ramzy Baroud / September 8th, 2011 From an Israeli point of view, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the ideal American politician. Although many in the US government aspire to her level of commitment to Israel, few can measure up to a dedication that extends beyond the very interests of her own country. “Lawless extremists infest [...]
Al-Jareeda “Israel Palestine under table negotiations”
PNN – Palestine News Network – 08.09.11 – 16:01 Ramallah/ PNN- Translated by: Hazar Khalilieh Israeli- Palestinian negotiations have recently taken place to postpone the bid for UN state recognition. According to Al-Jareeda, a Kuwaiti newspaper, under table negotiations are occurring between Israeli and the Palestinian parts in different Arab and European countries. The Palestinian [...]
The kidnapping of a ten year old child and assaulting him
Thursday, 8 September, 2011 | 14:07 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — A little time ago, the Israeli forces from the undercover units kidnapped a ten years old child, named Mahmoud al Abbasi, from Ein Alouzeh neighborhood in Silwan. Although there was the vehicle of the settlers that [...]
Soldiers demolish wells & Farmlands while Settlers Attack Nablus
Related: Settler Violence – in pictures Thursday September 08, 2011 12:34 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday morning the city of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, and demolished three wells while army bulldozers uprooted farmlands in the Nablus district. Armed Israeli settler also wrote graffiti [...]
Israel to the world: the Palestinian bid will not lead to Peace
▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid PNN – Palestine News Network 08.09.11 – 12:39 The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor says Israel is fighting diplomatically at the international organization to handicaps the Palestinian move to UN. Israel seeking to convince all the countries ambassadors that the Palestinian bid will not lead to [...]
PPSF member detained at Ramallah checkpoint
Maan News Agency | Sept 8, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained a member of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front late Wednesday after holding him at Atara checkpoint north of Ramallah. PPSF member Monadel Hanini told Ma’an that Israeli forces detained Awni Abu Ghosh, 50, while he was on his way back to Jerusalem, [...]