Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid PressTV - – Fri Sep 9, 2011 5:30AM GMT United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has announced his support for an independent and sovereign state of Palestine, emphasizing that a Palestinian state is “long overdue.” “But…the recognition of a state is something to be determined by the member [...]
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Support the Palestinian Initiative in the UN for Statehood
Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid by William James Martin | September 8th, 2011 | Dissident Voice Virginia Tilley, writing in the Electronic Intifada, under the title, “Bantustans and the unilateral declaration of statehood” has argued that the Palestinian Authority’s move toward a UN resolution declaring statehood is destructive of Palestinian aspiration for statehood. [...]
Pappe reassesses legacy of Palestinian dynasty
Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada | Thursday, September 8, 2011 Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and dissident living in semi-voluntary exile in the UK. He is most famous for The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, a seminal work which, although based on his own research, was more original for the sweep of its historical [...]
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 [...]
The September entitlement: Behind the headlines
Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid September 7, 2011 | The Palestinian Information Center By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine As it looks now, the Palestinian Authority (PA) seems fairly determined to formally ask the United Nations to recognize “Palestine” within the borders of the 4th of June, 1967, as a member-state of the international [...]
FAQ | Palestine Statehood Bid
SPECIAL TOPIC Continuous Updates below the FAQ IMEU, Sep 8, 2011 This paper seeks to provide answers to some frequently asked questions surrounding the Palestine Liberation Organization’s actions before the United Nations during its September 2011 meeting. 1. What is the Palestinian Authority planning to do in September? The Palestinian Authority had earlier announced its [...]
The freedom-seekers America ignores
With Washington’s bipartisan blessing, Israel is sabotaging a Palestinian plea for U.N. recognition By Rashid Khalidi | Salon AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Reuters/Ali Hashisho Once again Israel is doing its utmost to block Palestinian aspirations for self-determination, unleashing its diplomats in order to obstruct Palestinian efforts to secure some semblance of statehood and freedom at the United [...]
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. These remarks were made in a statement issued by the movement’s refugees’ affairs office in Lebanon [...]
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, for his support of the Palestinian rights and speaking against the siege of Gaza. The PJF [...]
Jamal Juma’: PA “killing popular resistance”
Ida Audeh |The Electronic Intifada |Ramallah |8 August 2011 Popular resistance has prevented the completion of Israel’s wall in the occupied West Bank. (Anne Paq /ActiveStills ) Few Palestinians are as closely identified with the struggle against Israel’s wall in the West Bank as Jamal Juma’. The coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign since its [...]
Palestinian university ranks seventh in Arab world
Aug 11, 2011 NABLUS (Ma’an) — An-Najah University in Nablus ranks seventh in a list of the top 100 universities in the Arab world, according to findings published by Spanish public research body CSIC. An-Najah is ranked as the top Palestinian university and is among the top 5 percent of 22,000 universities worldwide, a study [...]
Longest held administrative detainee arrested again
[ 11/08/2011 - 12:50 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The longest held Palestinian prisoner in administrative detention Ayed Dudin, 44, has once again been arrested just 40 days after being released. Prior to the incident, Dudin had been kept in administrative detention without an indictment for four years. He is considered the first case observed by [...]
Young make up one-third of Palestinian population
Maan News Agency | Aug 11, 2011 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics released a demographic study Thursday which showed that young people form one third of the Palestinian population. The results were published on the eve of International Youth Day and present statistics about the Palestinian population, above all about the [...]
Palestinian old woman wounded in IOF shooting
[ 10/08/2011 - 10:31 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A 75-year-old Palestinian woman was wounded afternoon Tuesday at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) to the southeast of Gaza city, medical sources said. They said that the old woman was hospitalized with a bullet in her foot fired by the IOF soldiers stationed to [...]
Israeli soldiers tried to rape teen during interrogation
[ 07/08/2011 - 12:54 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli soldiers attempted to rape a teen under interrogation in Etzion, sources revealed Sunday. The victim’s brother Ammar Jabir, 26, from Al-Khalil, said that he was arrested on 25 July alongside his brother Mahmoud, and that during the arrest he was beaten so severely by the soldiers [...]