Posts Tagged ‘Palestinians’
March 13, 2010
Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to the US request with a big concrete slap
Johann Hari, The Independent/UK, March 12, 2010
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Could the Israeli government make it any more obvious they have no intention of sharing the Over-Promised Land with its other inhabitants?
This week the Obama administration – who give Israel $3bn a year, more than they dole out to any other nation on earth – made a meek and craven request for Israelis to simply have a pause in seizing even more land, and to sit down with the Palestinians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded with a big concrete slap: the announcement of 1,600 more homes to be built on occupied Palestinian land from which Arabs will be forcibly kept out. He has made it plain he will not loosen his grip by an inch, announcing: “Even if [Palestinian President] Abu Mazen comes along and says he’s ready to sign a peace deal on the spot, we will restore settlement construction to its previous levels.” No compromise. Never.
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Tags:Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza and the West Bank, independence, Israel, Palestinians, United States
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March 7, 2010
Evictions and planning decisions on the ground are jeopardising prospects for a two-state Middle East peace deal
Rory McCarthy, Jerusalem
The Observer/UK, arch 7, 2010
In the brochure handed out by the mayor’s office in Jerusalem last week, there were pretty sketches illustrating a development that would turn a poor, crowded area into a park, with streams, restaurants and hotels. It talked of reviving the area’s “ancient glory” and returning the site to “an island of green” just outside the walls of the Old City. True, some houses would have to be demolished but they had been built illegally and anyway the plan was a “win-win” for both the residents and the city, said the mayor, Nir Barkat.
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Tags:evictions from East Jerusalem, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestinians, residency permits, Rory McCarthy
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February 23, 2010
by James Petras, Dissident Voice, February 22nd, 2010
On January 19 Israel’s international secret police, the Mossad, sent an eighteen member death squad to Dubai using European passports, supposedly ‘stolen’ from Israeli dual citizens and altered with fake photos and signatures, in order to assassinate the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud al Mabhouh.
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Tags:Israel, Israel’s policy of overseas assassination, James Petras, Mahmoud al Mabhouh, Mossad, Mossad death squads, Palestinians
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February 22, 2010
Foreign Policy Journal, February 22, 2010
by Barnabe Geisweiller
In July of last year, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group, organized a mass wedding celebration for hundreds of couples in the Gaza Strip. The happy adult grooms, immaculately dressed in black suits and colourful ties, received $500 each from Hamas, no small sum in the besieged territory.
It might have been a joyous event if not for the fact that the brides were “pre-pubescent girls, dressed in white gowns and adorned with garish make-up,” according to the article written by author and journalist Paul L. Williams, and republished by rightwing pundit David Horowitz’s Frontpage Magazine, who regularly appears on mainstream news networks such as Fox and CNN.
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Tags:Arabs, Barnabe Geisweiller, mass weddings, Muslims, Norman Finkelstein, Palestinians, racist opinions
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February 13, 2010
Willian Blum, Foreign Policy Journal, Feb 7, 2010
“The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an overreaction,” writes Fareed Zakaria, a leading American foreign-policy pundit, editor of Newsweek magazine’s international edition, and Washington Post columnist, referring to the “underwear bomber”, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, and his failed attempt to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day. “Its real aim is not to kill the hundreds of people directly targeted but to sow fear in the rest of the population. Terrorism is an unusual military tactic in that it depends on the response of the onlookers. If we are not terrorized, then the attack didn’t work. Alas, this one worked very well.”[1]
Is that not odd? That an individual would try to take the lives of hundreds of people, including his own, primarily to “provoke an overreaction”, or to “sow fear”? Was there not any kind of deep-seated grievance or resentment with anything or anyone American being expressed? No perceived wrong he wished to make right? Nothing he sought to obtain revenge for? Why is the United States the most common target of terrorists? Such questions were not even hinted at in Zakaria’s article.
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Tags:Afghanistan, CIA base attacked, Fareed Zakaria, genocide, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, Iraq, Palestinians, sowing fear, torture, US policies, Willian Blum
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February 13, 2010
by PT Editor Mohammed Said El-Nadi
West Bank, 13 February, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)- The Palestinian Ministry of Detainee Affairs said that the occupation authorities have stepped up recently abductions of Palestinians from various parts of the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, where more than 150 residents were abducted during the past two days.
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Tags:abductions, Israeli occupants, Palestinians
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February 2, 2010
By Alex Kane, The Indypendent, Feb 1, 2010
For some Upper West Side residents, their usual stroll down Broadway this evening had a surprise: a group of 20 New York Jews denouncing Israel’s occupation of Palestine were standing with thought-provoking signs while a few passed out flyers.
Challenging the assumption that all Jews support Israel no matter what, the action, organized by Jews Say No, called on Israel to lift the blockade of Gaza and to end the longest running military occupation in recent history. The group was founded last year during Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Tags:anti-occupation Jewish activists, blockade of Gaza, demonstration, Gaza, genocide, Goldstone Commission report, Hannah Mermelstein, Israel, Jews Say No, military occupation, Nic Abramson, Palestinians, West Bank
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January 22, 2010
by Charles Fromm and Ellen Massey, Inter Press Service News
WASHINGTON, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – One year ago Thursday, the last Israeli tanks were lumbering out of the Gaza Strip, ending the 22-day Gaza War and leaving in their wake a decimated landscape and population.
A year later, the humanitarian and security situation in the devastated coastal enclave remains dire, yet the Barack Obama administration continues to overlook the crisis in Gaza, an approach which some experts say is an extension of the previous administration’s policy.
This policy has also done little to alleviate what human rights groups warn is a growing humanitarian crisis, plunging the Gaza Strip further into poverty and insecurity.
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Tags:blockade in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israeli war on Gaza, Obama administration, Palestinians, tunnels, U.S and Gaza, United States, war crimes
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January 19, 2010
Amnesty international, 18 January 2010
Palestinian girls try to cross a flooded street, Shati refugee camp, Gaza City
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Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said one year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza.
Amnesty International’s briefing paper Suffocating: The Gaza Strip under Israeli blockade gathers testimony from people still struggling to rebuild their lives following Operation “Cast Lead”, which killed around 1,400 Palestinians and injured thousands more.
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Tags:Amnesty International, Gaza, Israel, Israeli blockade of Gaza, medical conditions, Palestinians, unemployment in Gaza, war on Gaza
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January 18, 2010
Jean Shaoul, wsws.org, January 18, 2010
Egypt has intervened forcibly to prevent international aid reaching Gaza, and has implemented new measures aimed at further tightening Israel’s illegal and inhumane blockade.
Israel stopped all but the most essential food and medicine entering Gaza in June 2007. Hamas, the Islamist party which won the parliamentary elections against Fatah in January 2006, took control of Gaza in order to pre-empt a Fatah coup backed by Israel, the US, Jordan and Egypt. Israel has also banned virtually all exports from Gaza.
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Tags:Egypt, Egypt's support for Israeli wars, FM Ahmed Abul Gheit, Hamas, international aid, Israeli blockade of Gaza, Palestinians, President Hosni Mubarak, protest at the Rafah crossing, super strength steel wall, US army engineers, Viva Palestina aid convoy
Posted in Commentary, Egypt, Gaza, imperialism, Palestine, Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Peace and Justice Post 
Quiet revolution that is freezing Palestinians out of Jerusalem
March 7, 2010Evictions and planning decisions on the ground are jeopardising prospects for a two-state Middle East peace deal
Rory McCarthy, Jerusalem
The Observer/UK, arch 7, 2010
In the brochure handed out by the mayor’s office in Jerusalem last week, there were pretty sketches illustrating a development that would turn a poor, crowded area into a park, with streams, restaurants and hotels. It talked of reviving the area’s “ancient glory” and returning the site to “an island of green” just outside the walls of the Old City. True, some houses would have to be demolished but they had been built illegally and anyway the plan was a “win-win” for both the residents and the city, said the mayor, Nir Barkat.
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