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French street artist launches new project in West Bank
Maan News Agency | Sept 9, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The French street artist responsible for adorning the separation wall with giant portraits of grinning rabbis, imams, Israelis and Palestinians has returned to the West Bank with a new project. The artist, known only by his initials JR, has launched his latest project ‘Inside Out’ [...]
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 [...]
Mer-Khemis Investigation: Staging the Shutdown of Freedom Theater
By: Taghrid Atallah | September 8, 2011 | Al-Akhbar Israel is apparently using the investigation into the assassination of Palestinian artist Julian Mer-Khemis, which has dragged on for months, as a pretext to hamper the operation of the Freedom Theater where he taught and performed. Since the slaying of Mer-Khemis, the theater in Jenin’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 [...]
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 [...]
US envoy in West Bank to stop UN bid
PressTV - Wed Sep 7, 2011 2:5PM GMT US Special Envoy to the Middle East David Hale has traveled to the West Bank to try and convince the Palestinian Authority to abandon attempts to seek statehood at the UN. Source Filed under: Occupation, Palestine, Politics, UN, US
#J14: No need to bring up the occupation – it’s the capitalism, stupid!
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 understand something: there is no elephant Demonstration in Beer Sheva, Aug. 13 (photo: Activestills.org) [...]
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 construction, lacks the infrastructure that qualifies it to work independently from the Israeli economy. This has had an [...]
Continued Efforts to Establish a National Center Dedicated to Treating Cancer Patients in Palestine
PNN – Palestine News Network - 14.08.11 – 12:31 Jenin – PNN – Ali Samoudi – Statistics and official data show that Palestinian society is prone to very high incidences of cancer, without a doubt due to a number of known factors: the absence of any institutions or officials to deal with the disease and [...]
#DissolveThePA ~ by Yasir M. Tineh
PA stands for Palestinian Authority, The legislative body currently governing the West Bank. August 14, 2011 by Yasir M. Tineh Headed by Mahmoud Abbas the PA is recognized as the government in control of Palestinian security and civilian affairs. The PA is considered by many of not being an independant Palestinian force but rather just another proxy of Israeli [...]
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 who had internalized a fearful, manipulative, impulsive, and militant “market place” of reactionary ideas. Instead, Oslo’s [...]
Women victims of Israeli occupation
PressTV | Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:14PM GMT Interview with Dr. Maria Holt, an author and Senior Lecturer in the Democracy and Islam Programme A prominent female author has written a book exposing impact of the Israeli occupation on the lives of Palestinian women. In her book, she also highlights pain and [...]