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The Israeli academics who helped design Palestinian emigrationEdo Konrad - +972 - According to documents recently uncovered by by Omri Shafer Raviv, a PhD student in the Department of Jewish History at Hebrew University, in July 1967, then Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol assembled a committee of academics including prominent Israeli sociologist Shemuel Noah Eisenstadt, economist Michael Bruno, demographer Roberto Baki, and mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky — all of them with connections to the corridors of power — and sent them into the territories to study the newly-occupied population. The objective of the “Committee for the Development of the Administered Territories,” referred to as the “Professors Committee” was, on paper, to create a body responsible for “long-term planning” in the occupied territories. The professors, along with their teams of researchers, were sent to villages, cities, and refugee camps to interview Palestinians about their lives, needs, and desires.-rh25/6/2019
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Will Israel’s Meretz officially become a Jewish-Arab party? Danny Zaken - Al-Monitor - A top Meretz official told Al-Monitor that Meretz swept the party too far to the left, alienating many intrinsically Zionist voters who do not like her criticism of army actions, unlike the attacks on the policy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which they regard as legitimate. The official said that if Zandberg opts for an internal party partnership with Arabs (such as co-chairing or changing the party charter and priorities) at the expense of trying to form a relationship with the Labor party, she would be condemning Meretz to the status of a barely Zionist, marginal party, undermining the ideological grounds for its existence.-rh 25/6/2019
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From spying to lobbying, Israel`s fight against BDS intensifiesLinah Alsaafin - Aljazeera - Recent revelations confirming the involvement of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad in efforts to actively disrupt the growing movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel did not come as a surprise to pro- Palestine activists. Gilad Erdan, the Israeli strategic affairs minister and a senior figure in Israel`s fight against BDS, met Mossad head Yossi Cohen to discuss "the struggle against the boycott", according to the politician`s 2018 official diary.-rh25/6/2019
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Palestine: The Arab `deal of the century`Marwan Bishara - Aljazeera - Unsurprisingly, the Palestinians have rejected what they deem as the "slap of the century" and refuse to participate in any meeting that is meant to facilitate its implementation. But why are so many Arab governments - who have repeatedly voiced their support for Palestinian national rights in a state of their own - facilitating, participating and supporting a workshop next week in Bahrain to plan and finance the implementation of a sinister deal which they haven`t seen, and whose architects reject Palestinian self-determination? - rh 25/6/2019
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Four Israeli Arab parties reunite for upcoming elections : Balad, Ra’am, Ta’al and Hadash to once again run on a joint slate in September, likely under MK Ayman OdehAP and TOI STAFF - The Times of Israel - In April, the parties ran on two separate lists, Hadash-Ta’al and Ra’am-Balad, which cost them a combined three seats, and the latter faction barely crossed the electoral threshold. Ayman Odeh, the group’s prospective leader, said Thursday it was a mistake to run separately and the group was now committed to “national unity.” The Ynet news site reported that a joint forum would meet in the coming days to decide the make-up of the slate. Israel is heading to its second election this year on September 17, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a majority coalition government following the April vote. Arabs make up about 20 percent of Israel’s 9 million citizens.-rh25/6/2019
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Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor isn’t Chernobyl, but does have vulnerabilities : A disaster at Israel’s reactor would be far less catastrophic than the 1986 meltdown, but the core is being kept in service far longer than intended, and experts warn that’s The Times of Israel - Dimona, unlike Chernobyl, was built with a containment structure meant to prevent radioactive material from escaping in the case of a meltdown or other disaster. A metal-and- concrete structure known as a sarcophagus was constructed around Chernobyl after the fact. In addition, the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center has been under threat almost since its construction, which has necessitated the Israeli government to put its safety (and thus the safety of those living nearby) at a premium. During the 1967 Six Day War, these air defense batteries shot down an Israeli fighter jet that accidentally strayed too close to the sensitive site after it was damaged when flying over Jordan.-rh25/6/2019
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With Trump`s help, Netanyahu is making the occupation permanentSusie Becher - Palestine-Israel-Journal - Regardless of whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes good on his promise to annex areas of the West Bank during his new term in office, the very fact that he made such a statement is damaging. Together with his friend in the White House, Netanyahu has been slowly whittling away at the principles that are internationally recognized as the basis for any Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. By uttering the word “annexation,” he has shattered yet another taboo, borrowing the unfathomable from the domain of the extreme right wing and inserting it into the heart of the public discourse on the conflict.-rh25/6/2019
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Bernie Sanders Is Exactly Right About Trump’s Saber Rattling on IranJohn Nichols - The Nation - In a remarkable exchange, the senator rejects the notion that a “limited strike” on Iran is anything less than “an act of warfare” that could lead to catastrophe.-rh25/6/2019
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When activism becomes ‘anti-Semitism’: the silencing of pro-Palestine voices on campusYumna Patel - Mondoweiss - Following condemnations and investigations from their respective universities and communities, and endless accusations of anti-Semitism, Mondoweiss spoke to students and faculty involved in both incidents at Emory and UNC to understand, from their point of view, the events that took place, and the wider implications for pro-Palestine activism on their campuses, and on university campuses across America.-rh25/6/2019
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I’m innocent!’ freed Palestinian rape suspect declares, hugging his familyJACOB MAGID - The Times of Israel - 55 days after police arrested him for alleged sexual assault of 7-year-old Israeli girl, Mahmoud Qadusa walks out of prison due to lack of evidence against him-rh 25/6/2019
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A high-tech facelift takes the sting out of an Israeli checkpoint — but not out of the occupationRuth Eglash - The Washington Post - It’s Qalandia — the notorious Israeli military checkpoint known for its reviled metal turnstiles and caged tunnels. For nearly two decades, thousands of Palestinian civilians were forced to wait here, sometimes for hours, as they tried to enter Israel for work, school, medical appointments or family visits. As the main crossing into Jerusalem from Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital, Qalandia has become a stark symbol of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and a constant source of humiliation for ordinary Palestinians. It also serves as a daily reminder of how deeply Israel controls their lives.-rh18/6/2019
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Summer could be `hot` in Palestine, PM warns Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - It is highly unusual for the Palestinian president to repeat a statement made by the prime minister, but that is what happened when President Mahmoud Abbas used his relatively new Twitter account to echo in Arabic a statement made in English by Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh to the New York Times. In an interview with David M. Halbfinger published June 5, Shtayyeh explained that if Israel continues to withhold tax monies it collects on his government`s behalf, it could necessitate laying off members of the Palestinian security services. Should that happen, Shtayyeh said, it will be a “very hot summer. At every level.” 18/6/2019
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Doublespeak in Israel and the United States Targets “the Left” as TraitorousYOAV LITVIN - Counterpunch - In spite of a seemingly convincing victory in Israel’s recent elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a right-wing coalition, which would secure him the premiership for an additional four years. The reason: hard- right Member of Knesset (MK), former Israeli Security Minister, and leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party Avigdor Lieberman – a settler in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, ex-nightclub bouncer and convicted child beater – refused to budge on a draft bill for ultra- orthodox Jews. In response to Lieberman’s opportunistic move, a disheveled-looking Netanyahu spoke to reporters claiming: “Lieberman is now part of the left”. Yet Lieberman is as far from left wing politics as can be. In fact, his signature fascistic opinions are no secret – e.g. he has openly endorsed expulsion of Palestinians from Israel and spearheaded attempts to legalize execution and even beheading of Palestinian prisoners, whom he collectively refers to as “terrorists”.-rh18/6/2019
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Israeli jets hit Gaza after rocket fire into Israel : Incident follows exchange of rocket fire between Israel and Hamas on T May.Aljazeera - Israeli warplanes have attacked several Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip following a Palestinian rocket attack in the south of Israel, the military has said. The incident comes after Israel and Hamas exchanged rocket fire on Thursday, in the first serious cross- border escalation since a surge in fighting in May.-rh18/6/2019
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Liberman’s un-Orthodox proposal: 8 things to know for June 16JOSHUA DAVIDOVICH - The Times of Israel - Let’s get together (without the ultra-Orthodox): Less than a month after blocking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a government, Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman has thrown a fresh wildcard into the political mix, vowing to force Likud and Blue and White to form an “emergency” unity government to keep the ultra-Orthodox out of power. Such a coalition, so long as the Haredi parties were out of it, would represent the will of “an overwhelming majority of the citizens of Israel,” Liberman wrote on Facebook. “Three months before repeat elections, Liberman has done it again, He’s managed to roil the political scene with a series of Facebook posts,” marvels Yedioth Ahronoth.-rh18/6/2019
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Bahrain conference may succeed, but not at bringing Israeli-Palestinian peaceRAPHAEL AHREN - The Times of Israel - Since Washington and Manama announced the “Peace for Prosperity” workshop with a joint statement on May 19, the Palestinian Authority has done everything it can to sabotage the event, repeatedly urging Arab governments to stay away — to little avail. Lebanon has unsurprisingly publicly repudiated the summit, citing the Palestinians’ refusal to attend, though it’s far from clear that Beirut was invited in the first place. Iraq is more politely staying away. (Iran, inevitably, has castigated the gathering from the get-go.) But the Arab world’s most important players, including the Palestinians’ closest neighbors, are all going, leaving the PA with little to do beside express “deep regret” and keep calling on “all brotherly and friendly countries to withdraw from participating in the workshop,” as PA government spokesman Ibrahim Melhim said this week.-rh18/6/2019
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Israeli Attorney Lea Tsemel Reflects on Defending Palestinians Who Resist OccupationAmy Goodman - Democracy Now - Attorney Lea Tsemel has defended Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli courts for nearly half a century, insisting on their humanity and their right to a fair trial. Her work has earned her the scorn and reprobation of many Israelis, as well as death threats. A staunch critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Tsemel has long argued that Palestinians who carry out politically motivated violence are freedom fighters, not “terrorists.” In 1999, Tsemel won a landmark case in the Israeli Supreme Court, making it illegal for Israeli officials to torture detained Palestinians during interrogations. The documentary “Advocate” narrates the remarkable life story of Tsemel. The film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and screened in New York City for the first time Thursday night at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. We speak with Lea Tsemel and the director of “Advocate,” Rachel Leah Jones.-rh18/6/2019
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“Israeli Soldiers Destroy Four Sheds, Solar Panels, Near Hebron”IMEMCNews - Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Monday, Masafer Yatta area, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and destroyed four residential sheds, and solar panels. Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of the National and Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in southern West Bank, said the soldiers invaded Khallet ad-Dabe’ area in al-Masafer ash-Sharqiya, and demolished four residential sheds.-rh18/6/2019
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US, Israeli, Russian security chiefs to meet in Jerusalem Ben Caspit - Al-Monitor - The upcoming summit is likely to star in Netanyahu’s reelection campaign throughout the summer months ahead of the Sept. 17 vote. For once, he appears to have come by this achievement deservedly. The summit was decided on before Netanyahu knew he would be unable to form a government and would be dragged into new elections, leaving him with an alibi. It was not a pre- election stunt, but Netanyahu will undoubtedly use it to leverage his electoral prospects, as he always does.-rh 18/6/2019
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Settlers target McDonald’s over what they call boycott of West Bank Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/06/israel-west-bank-mcdonalds-airbnb-boycott-settlements.html#ixzz5qZY5YageKsenia Svetlova - Al-Monitor - An organization comprising hundreds of disabled Israeli army veterans on June 4 placed large signs in front of McDonald’s restaurants in Tel Aviv similar in look to the warning signs posted at the crossings from Israel into the West Bank and Gaza. “Attention, Israelis! The area in front of you is Area M [a reference to Areas A and B of the West Bank] — an area under the control of a company that boycotts parts of the State of Israel. Anyone entering this area supports this boycott.” Many Israelis posed for photos next to the signs. The campaign against the world’s largest fast food chain follows a demand by Yossi Dagan, chair of the Samaria Regional Council in the West Bank, to the ministers of finance and transportation, to prevent McDonald’s from competing in a tender to run a franchise at Ben Gurion International Airport because the company refuses to open restaurants in West Bank settlements.-rh 11/6/2019
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That Kushner Interview Was Not Just Ignorant. It Was RacistMuhammad Shehada - Forward - The current U.S. peace team in the Middle East, guided by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, is unprecedented in its open and shameless ignorance. Kushner, Ambassador David Friedman and Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt are arrogant, hypocritical, and racist — and they never exert the slightest effort to hide it. Their inexperience and ignorance is everywhere on display in their belief that Palestinians will give up their 70-year long struggle for equality and statehood in excThange for foreign investment.-rh11/6/2019
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How Israeli police manipulated evidence to hide the targeting of Ayman OdehJonathan Ofir - Mondoweiss - Despite evidence that clearly countered the “terror” narrative, it took a month and a half until Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel issued a qualified apology, “if there really was a failure at Umm al-Hiran”, yet no policeman was charged and the investigations were closed. But there was yet another direct victim at Umm al-Hiran, one with a high profile – Palestinian-Israeli lawmaker Ayman Odeh. Odeh was first pepper-sprayed at point-blank range, and shortly after, shot with sponge-tip bullets – one to the forehead, and then when he crouched and turned around in response, one to the back. He fell shortly after.-rh11/6/2019
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Israeli occupation is like US occupation of Germany and Japan that people grew to like — Ambassador DermerJames North and Philip Weiss - Mondoweiss - Dermer was making the Netanyahu government’s argument against the two-state solution, which he said would give “unlimited sovereignty” to Palestinians. “When people say two states, you’re flying into unlimited sovereignty,” Dermer told the American Jewish Committee earlier this week. Netanyahu’s position is: “I want the Palestinians to have all the powers to govern themselves but none of the powers that can threaten Israel.” That would include a “flag” and “self-determination,” Dermer said, but Israel will not walk out of “Judea and Samaria” in a few years. “It’s not going to happen.” Israel left Lebanon and pulled settlers from Gaza and in each case got a “forward terror base” on its border.-rh11/6/2019
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Bernie Sanders and Palestine : Bernie Sanders links Hitler’s murder of his family to his fight against occupation of PalestiniansPhilip Weiss - Portside - We`ve closely followed the statements of Democratic presidential hopefuls to the American Jewish Committee. Almost every candidate so far has been careful to skirt the Israel question, hinting at some mild criticism of Israel but not actually voicing it. Joe Biden went after the Palestinians. Kamala Harris embraced Israel. No one has mentioned the occupation or Palestinian human rights with any specificity. Till now, that is. Bernie Sanders weighed in yesterday with a forceful message that connects the murder of his own family by the Nazis to his fight against the crushing, humiliating military occupation by Israel of Palestine. Sanders said that Gaza is also occupied, that Netanyahu is a reactionary who is planning to annex the West Bank, and that a two-state solution must produce a viable Palestinian state based on the ’67 lines, with Jerusalem as a capital. Just what Netanyahu rejected and shoved in Barack Obama’s face eight years ago in the White House, without any consequences.-rh11/6/2019
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The Treacherous Falsification of Palestine-Israel HistoryAriän Taher - Truthout - upporters of international humanitarian law must condemn the views espoused by DePaul University’s Jason Hill, a tenured philosophy professor, regarding his statements on Palestine- Israel, both in the past and in his recent article in The Federalist. Hill’s opinions on Palestine-Israel must be examined carefully as a microcosm of the myths broadly perpetuated by the right wing to justify Israel’s military occupations, operations and land seizures in Palestine. Hill’s article fails to present any primary-source and peer-reviewed material to justify his argumentation, instead providing only neophyte analyses, historical falsification and historical negationism.-rh11/6/2019
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On equating BDS and anti-Semitism: a letter to the German governmentSara Roy - Mondoweiss - To the Members of the German Government: I write to you regarding the motion recently passed by the Bundestag that equated BDS with anti-Semitism. I also write to you as Jew, a child of Holocaust survivors and as a scholar of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. My mother, Taube, and father, Abraham, survived Auschwitz among other horrors. My father was the only survivor in his family of six children and my mother survived with only one sister in a family that was larger than my father’s. I know, without question, that if they were alive today, the motion you are being asked to endorse would terrify them given the repression of tolerance and witness that it clearly embraces. I shall not restate what others have already written protesting your action, but I do have some thoughts I would like to share.-rh11/6/2019
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Naming backbencher as minister, Netanyahu ensures he stays Likud’s only big gunSHALOM YERUSHALMI - The Times of Israel - With the appointment of Likud ally Amir Ohana — the first openly gay MK in a right-wing party — as justice minister, Prime Minister and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu continues to undermine the generation of politicians set to succeed him. Netanyahu tapped Ohana despite the fact that there were plenty of more senior figures in line for the position. Though many may not realize it, this is a perpetuation of the prime minister’s long-held strategy of taking down — on his own or with the help of others — a long line of high-ranking Likud officials who have posed a threat to his leadership over the years.-rh11/6/2019
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Another chance for the Joint ListArik Rudnitzky -The Times of Israel - So, what should Arab politicians do now? They must address the Arab public directly and focus on two messages. First, that they have learned their lesson from the public criticism of the disbandment of the Joint List, and they now are working to correct their mistakes. Second, that a popular protest and boycott of the elections will yield no benefits for the Arab public, and that what is needed is constructive action in the Knesset.-rh11/6/2019
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Facing The Facts: Israel Cannot Escape ICC JurisdictionIMEMC News & Agencies - "The Chief Military Advocate General of the Israeli army, Sharon Afek, and the US Department of Defense General Counsel, Paul Ney, shared a platform at the ‘International Conference on the Law of Armed Conflict’, which took place in Herzliya, Israel between May 28-30...Israel’s shoot-to-kill policy, however, is not confined to the Gaza Strip but is also implemented with the same degree of violent enthusiasm in the West Bank." ca9/6/2019
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Hundreds of Palestinians riot as Jews allowed on Temple Mount for Jerusalem DayMICHAEL BACHNER and TOI STAFF - The Times of Israel - Clashes erupted between Palestinian rioters and police on Sunday morning at the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, as hundreds of Jews were allowed into the holy site to celebrate Jerusalem Day — the 52nd anniversary of the unification of the capital in the Six Day War. Later in the morning, hundreds of Palestinians rioters threw rocks and chairs at Israeli security personnel. There were no immediate reports of injuries. By mid-afternoon, police reported that the situation was again calm.-rh4/6/2019
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Peter Beinart suggests AIPAC should have to register as agent of Israeli governmentPhilip Weiss - Mondoweiss - Beinart says dual loyalty is inherent in the ways in which American Jews support Israel. And if someone asked me, do you have a loyalty to the Jewish people, which is separate from your loyalty to the United States, I would say Yes. I would say Of course I have a loyalty to the Jewish people. I feel an affinity and a connection and a concern for Jews around the world because we are Am Yisrael, we are a people. And so I guess, I totally understand that the suggestion that Jews are not good citizens is very, very dangerous and has a very, very ugly ugly history. But how can one talk about the fact that as Jews we do have a special for the Jewish people and for the Jewish state and I would imagine that if African Americans have a special concern for what happens in Haiti, why should that be considered illegitimate.-rh4/6/2019
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Blue and White gets rare second chance in politics Yossi Beilin - Al-Monitor - The centrist Blue and White, led by Lt. Gen. (res.) Benny Gantz, swept up 35 Knesset seats, equal to the Likud’s take, despite being formed only a few months prior to elections. It maintains a fragile existence, amid public tensions among its disparate leadership, and it managed to bring out tens of thousands of people for a May 25 protest against government plans to clip the wings of the Supreme Court. It also withstood temptation when the Likud floated enticing suggestions of top jobs in a bid to draw potential renegades into a Netanyahu-led government.-rh 4/6/2019
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Palestinians prove fraud, regain land after decades Ahmad Melhem - Al-Monitor - Youssef Abu Safya, a member of the National Land Defense Commission in Salfit, told Al-Monitor the case dates back to 1982 when Yakir Investments, with the help of some Palestinian brokers and tribal leaders, forged the title deeds of hundreds of dunams in the town in Area C. The landowners — who reside in the West Bank — started to pursue the case with Palestinian lawyers and rights’ groups, appearing before Israeli committees. When the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established in 1994, it took over the case and offered the complainants legal aid through the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, with which it is affiliated.-rh 4/6/2019
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Touching Photographs : June 1, 2019 : Umm Al-Amad, Susya, Kivsat Harash. Text: David ShulmanDavid Shulman - Touching Photographs - The problem is that the well is running dry. It has to be replenished with water brought in by tanker, but the road is mostly impassable for a tanker. It’s not clear how this can be solved. It’s hot and dry today, 36 degrees or more, a hot Ramadan, hard on those who are fasting. ‘Aziza begs us to allow her to make us tea. Not today, we say, we have other places to visit, and work to do. We promise we’ll come back for tea after ‘Id. Kul sana wa-intum bi-khair, May you will be well year after year.-rh4/6/2019
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Israel`s Role In 9/11Philip Giraldi - Information Clearing House - Now it is just possible that the Urban Moving Israelis were indeed uninvolved in 9/11 but nevertheless working for Mossad, which the Israeli government even subsequently admitted, but the new evidence suggests that the Israelis almost certainly had considerable prior knowledge and were likely involved in what developed. The new information reveals that minutes after the first plane struck the World Trade Center, five Israelis had taken up position in the parking lot of the Doric Apartment Complex in Union City, New Jersey, where they took pictures and filmed the attacks while also celebrating the fall of the towers and “high fiving.” One eyewitness interviewed by the Bureau had seen the Israelis’ van circling the building parking at 8:00 a.m. that day, more than 40 minutes prior to the attack, indicating prior knowledge of what was about to happen.-rh4/6/2019
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Smotrich says he wants to be justice minister so Israel can follow Torah lawTOI STAFF - The Times of Israel - The Israeli justice system should adhere to religious Jewish law, MK Bezalel Smotrich of the Union of Right-Wing Parties (URWP) has insisted, doubling down on his position despite drawing rebuke, and asserting that the country should aspire to run itself as “in the days of King David.” “We want the justice portfolio because we want to restore the Torah justice system,” Smotrich said Sunday evening at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, hours after Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked was fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.-rh4/6/2019
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Palestine needs freedom, not prosperityDaoud Kuttab - Arab Media Internet Network - I still vividly remember what a World Bank official once told me, “What Palestine needs is the end of occupation and restrictions for its economy to boom. You are not Bangladesh with 200 million mouths to feed, you have well- educated population and you are near major world markets, all you need is to be able to move people and goods around, and within five year your economy would be doing just fine.”-rh4/6/2019
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Palestinians need a state, not a `business plan`Sam Bahour - +972 Magazine - The plan is said to address four major components: infrastructure, industry, empowering and investing in people, and governance reforms “to make the area as investible as possible.” While on paper all of this sounds fine and well, it may very well be the first step in the collapse of Trump’s peace plan. The unforeseen silver lining is that the U.S. has lost any remaining influence it had on Palestinian society. As the U.S.-monopolized peace process was driven to total collapse, past U.S. administrations understood that keeping USAID funds operating in the West Bank and Gaza Strip gave the U.S. some sort of financial clout, after losing any semblance of political credibility. Now that Trump has closed the USAID mission in Tel Aviv, which previously served the West Bank, Palestinians are free to think without a noose of U.S. funding around their necks.-rh 4/6/2019
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A second Israeli election proves Netanyahu’s grip on power is slippingJonathan Cook - Countercurrents.org - Netanyahu’s panic was fully justified. He is due to face a hearing in October, when it is widely expected he will be indicted on multiple corruption charges. With parliament’s dissolution, he no longer has time to pass two pieces of legislation that could have absolved him of charges before the October deadline. First, he needed an immunity law exempting him from trial, and then a so-called “override law” to prevent Israel’s supreme court from using its powers of judicial review to rule the immunity law unconstitutional.-rh 4/6/2019
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Palestine in Pictures: May 2019EI - "Thirty Palestinians were killed [...] in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the month of May. Two of those killings took place in the West Bank on the last day of the month" [ry] 3/6/2019
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