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UN Secretary-General Supports Full Palestinian Membership
▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid Friday September 09, 2011 07:44 by Alaa Ashkar & Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, stated that he supporters an independent Palestinian State, but added that UN membership for Palestine is an issue that will be determined by member countries. His statements came after [...]
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. [...]
Palestinian state long overdue: UN chief Ban Ki-moon
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 [...]
The PA doesn’t represent me; why should I trust its statehood bid? ~ by Sameeha88
Related: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid Sameeha Elwan | The Electronic Intifada | Gaza Strip | 8 September 2011 Will the PA’s statehood bid be a victory or setback for Palestinians’ historic rights? (Ryan Rodrick Beiler ) Here comes September. The long-awaited month has finally arrived and brought with it controversy over the ramifications of the [...]
Who can represent Palestinians at the UN?
▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid As the bid for statehood at the UN draws closer, legal scholars wonder who has legitimacy to represent Palestinians. Nour Samaha Last Modified: 08 Sep 2011 14:31 | Al Jazeera Palestinians both outside the Occupied Territories and within demand legitimate representation [EPA] A new legal finding has revealed the [...]
A thousand-and-one reasons why Palestine must get independence
Related to: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid and here’s perhaps the most important By Stuart Littlewood * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz | Sept 8, 2011 The following report from Bethlehem University that academic staff had been attacked yet again, this time by Israeli squatters, reminds me of how the Israelis apparently resent the [...]
American Envoy failed
Related to: ▣ FAQ ▣ Palestine Statehood Bid PNN – Palestine News Network – 08.09.11 – 16:29 An American Envoy of David Hale and Denis Ross failed in their mission in convincing the Palestinians not to go to the United Nations. The envoy made it clear to the Palestinians that “the US is against the [...]
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 [...]
Why Apple was wrong to pull iPhone app at Israel’s behest
30th August 2011 | Best Apple Iphone Thе Arabic word intifada — literally clarification “tο shake adult οff” bυt entirely translated аѕ “uprising” οr “resistance” — hаѕ crafty domestic аnd sequential connotations іn thе Arab world. Thе First аnd Second Intifadas wеrе twin рοрυlаr Palestinian uprisings over thе past 3 decades conflicting thе Israeli occupation. [...]
Refugee scholar in new legal opinion on UN bid
Maan News Agency | Sept 7, 2011 JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — The release of alegal opinion by one of the world’s top authorities on international refugee law has highlighted possible legal dangers in the September initiative at the United Nations. Guy Goodwin-Gill’s opinion sparked a public debate amongst Palestinians at home and in the Diaspora, amid [...]
#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) [...]
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 Cairo earlier this year. Hamas’ accusation was aimed at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after Abbas opened registration [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]