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The Israeli academics who helped design Palestinian emigration | | Edo 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.-rh | 25/6/2019 |
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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 intensifies | | Linah 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.-rh | 25/6/2019 |
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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 Odeh | | AP 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.-rh | 25/6/2019 |
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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.-rh | 25/6/2019 |
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With Trump`s help, Netanyahu is making the occupation permanent | | Susie 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.-rh | 25/6/2019 |
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Bernie Sanders Is Exactly Right About Trump’s Saber Rattling on Iran | | John 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.-rh | 25/6/2019 |
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When activism becomes ‘anti-Semitism’: the silencing of pro-Palestine voices on campus | | Yumna 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.-rh | 25/6/2019 |
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I’m innocent!’ freed Palestinian rape suspect declares, hugging his family | | JACOB 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 occupation | | Ruth 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.-rh | 18/6/2019 |
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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 Traitorous | | YOAV 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”.-rh | 18/6/2019 |
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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.-rh | 18/6/2019 |
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Liberman’s un-Orthodox proposal: 8 things to know for June 16 | | JOSHUA 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.-rh | 18/6/2019 |
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Bahrain conference may succeed, but not at bringing Israeli-Palestinian peace | | RAPHAEL 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.-rh | 18/6/2019 |
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Israeli Attorney Lea Tsemel Reflects on Defending Palestinians Who Resist Occupation | | Amy 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.-rh | 18/6/2019 |
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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.-rh | 18/6/2019 |
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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#ixzz5qZY5Yage | | Ksenia 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 Racist | | Muhammad 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.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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How Israeli police manipulated evidence to hide the targeting of Ayman Odeh | | Jonathan 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.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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Israeli occupation is like US occupation of Germany and Japan that people grew to like — Ambassador Dermer | | James 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.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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Bernie Sanders and Palestine : Bernie Sanders links Hitler’s murder of his family to his fight against occupation of Palestinians | | Philip 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.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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The Treacherous Falsification of Palestine-Israel History | | Ariän 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.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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On equating BDS and anti-Semitism: a letter to the German government | | Sara 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.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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Naming backbencher as minister, Netanyahu ensures he stays Likud’s only big gun | | SHALOM 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.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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Another chance for the Joint List | | Arik 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.-rh | 11/6/2019 |
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Facing The Facts: Israel Cannot Escape ICC Jurisdiction | | IMEMC 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." ca | 9/6/2019 |
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Hundreds of Palestinians riot as Jews allowed on Temple Mount for Jerusalem Day | | MICHAEL 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.-rh | 4/6/2019 |
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Peter Beinart suggests AIPAC should have to register as agent of Israeli government | | Philip 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.-rh | 4/6/2019 |
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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 Shulman | | David 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.-rh | 4/6/2019 |
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Israel`s Role In 9/11 | | Philip 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.-rh | 4/6/2019 |
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Smotrich says he wants to be justice minister so Israel can follow Torah law | | TOI 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.-rh | 4/6/2019 |
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Palestine needs freedom, not prosperity | | Daoud 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.”-rh | 4/6/2019 |
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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 slipping | | Jonathan 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 2019 | | EI - "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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