Jerusalem
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Title | | Description | Date |
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Thirteen Palestinians, Demolish Two Buildings, In Silwan | | IMEMC -
"Media sources in Silwan said the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes in the town." - id | 27/12/2017 |
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The Power Politics Behind Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration | | Raja Shehadeh -
The New Yorker
". It is unlikely that the Israeli Cabinet carefully discussed the
pros and cons of this declaration. More likely, it was another
example of events being driven by power politics. Netanyahu,
threatened with looming corruption cases, needed to boost his
popularity. The declaration may, at best, extend his hold on power
for another few years. On the other side of the world, an obdurate
U.S. President was eager to please his wealthy donors and his
political base, particularly evangelicals. Surely, neither
politician is a statesman and neither is thinking of the good of his
country." ca | 30/12/2017 |
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Did Trump’s Jerusalem decision revive support for Palestine? | | Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - Palestinians and their supporters have
clearly put aside, temporarily, their differences to stand up for
Jerusalem. The big question that remains is whether this is a
temporary emotional outburst or whether it can be leveraged to improve
the lot of Jerusalemites and improve the Palestinian negotiating
position.-rh
| 20/12/2017 |
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Jerusalem: The Straw that Breaks the Empire’s Back? | | Peter Koenig - Dissident Voice - When President Trump on 6 December
2017 declared unilaterally Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to where
the US Embassy shall relocate, he violated UN Resolutions,
international law, common sense and went against all diplomatic
efforts to eventually bring peace to the region, not to speak about
130 countries that have already voiced opposition to such a decision.
And this, before the Peace Process is coming to an end, at which point
the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords would play out. They are also called the
Road Map for Peace, between Palestine and Israel, which foresees a
two-state solution and accordingly a mutual decision on Jerusalem
becoming the capital city for both Palestine and Israel. These Oslo
Peace Accords are still valid today.-rh | 20/12/2017 |
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Trump: Kotel Must Be Part of Israel in Peace Deal | | Richard Silverstein -
Tikun Olam -
"So when, if ever, would the Palestinians get their capital? At some undetermined time in the future, depending on their behaving well and dropping to their knees and thanking ‘massas’ Bibi and Trump for their goodness and kindness? I can see this going over exceedingly well with the Palestinian street." - id
| 19/12/2017 |
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US-outnumbered 14-to-1 as it vetoes UN vote on Jerusalem | | The Guardian - A UN security council resolution calling for the
withdrawal of Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital has been backed by every council member except the US, which
used its veto. The unanimity of the rest of the council was a stark
rebuke to the Trump administration over its unilateral move earlier
this month, which upended decades of international consensus.The UK
and France had indicated in advance that they would back the
text, which demanded that all countries comply with pre-existing
UNSC resolutions on Jerusalem, dating back to 1967, including
requirements that the city’s final status be decided in direct
negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.[ak] | 18/12/2017 |
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How Mike Pence`s Mideast Trip to Help Embattled Christians Evolved Into a Visit Devoid of Christians | | Judy Maltz - Haaretz - When Vice President Pence originally
announced his visit to the Middle East, it was supposed to be a show
of solidarity with Christian communities in the region suffering
from persecution. Yet now, Pence will not be meeting any Christians
or visiting any Churches in the Middle East. Pence’s scheduled trip
to Bethlehem – birthplace of Jesus and one of the most important
sites in Christianity – has been called off, as has his meeting with
the leader of the Coptic Christian Church in Egypt. Pence is well-
known for his links with Evangelicals in the US, and this played an
important role in Pence strongly supporting President Trump`s
declaring Jerusalem to be Israel`s Capital. Yet the same Jerusalem
Declaration caused Pence to be highly unwelcome to Palestinian and
Egyptian Christians... [ak] | 18/12/2017 |
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Abbas spokesman: We will not accept changes to 1967 East Jerusalem borders | | Ma`an - Abu Rudeinah’s speech, according to official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa news agency, was allegedly in response to statements attributed to a White House official saying that the US considers the Wailing or Western Wall - which Muslims refer to as Al-Buraq Wall -- as part of Israel. [bz] | 18/12/2017 |
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UN Security Council to vote on rejecting US Jerusalem decision | | Times of Israel - The Egyptian draft resolution, due to be voted on,
does not explicitly mention the US or Trump`s statement on Jerusalem
being the Capital of Israel. Rather, the text stresses that
Jerusalem is an issue “to be resolved through negotiations”,
expresses “deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of
Jerusalem” and states that “any decisions and actions which purport
to have altered the character, status or demographic composition of
the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal effect, are null and void
and must be rescinded”. Still, the intent is clear enough, and the
US is virtually certain to veto it. The strategy of the Palestinians
and their supporters is to gain as much support by other Security
Council Members, so as to isolate Trump and Netanyahu, and then move
the issue to the Assembly General, where the Us has no veto and
where it would be passed by a huge majority. [ak] | 18/12/2017 |
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Jerusalem: whose very own and golden city? | | Philippe Rekacewicz & Dominique Vidal -
Le Monde Diplomatique
"As much Palestinian land as possible with the smallest possible
number of Palestinians: that is the long-standing principle
governing the route of the wall, which incorporates Jewish
settlements and removes Arab districts to the West Bank: Kufr Aqab,
alongside the Qalandiya refugee camp, half of Beit Hanina, most of
Al-Ram, Dahiyat al-Bared, Hizma, the Shuafat refugee camp, Dahiyat
al-Salam, Anata, Ram Khamzi and Walaja. For the first time, 60,000
of Jerusalem’s 240,000 Palestinians have been expelled without even
moving, resulting in a series of losses." ca | 16/12/2017 |
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Tencent, Singulato, Cancel Visits to Israel Following Jerusalem Travel Warning | | Amarelle Wenkert and Orr Hirschauge - The Calcalist - Business
delegations from Japan and China canceled planned visits to Israel
this week due to safety concerns following a Wednesday announcement by
U.S. President Donald Trump stating the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as
the capital of Israel. The announcement drew criticism from world
leaders, and was followed by protests in Israel and elsewhere. -rh | 13/12/2017 |
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The many casualties of Trump`s Jerusalem move | | Ishaan Tharoor - The Washington Post - And while Trump insists the
move is critical to "advance the peace process and to work towards a
lasting agreement," it appears to have had exactly the opposite
result. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to skip a
meeting with Vice President Pence, who will be journeying to the Holy
Land before Christmas. Pence will also be snubbed in Cairo by the head
of Egypt`s Coptic Church as a result of Trump`s decision. French
President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
have said they are jointly working to persuade the White House to
reconsider. Meanwhile, protests continued in Palestinian areas and a
number of Middle Eastern and Muslim-world capitals over the weekend.
At least four people have been killed following Israeli military
strikes in the Gaza Strip. On Sunday, demonstrators in Beirut clashed
with police outside the U.S. Embassy; at least eight people were
hospitalized in the aftermath. | 13/12/2017 |
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Over 130 Jewish Studies Scholars Criticize Trump’s Jerusalem Decision | | JTA -The Forward - More than 130 Jewish Studies scholars have signed a
statement expressing “dismay” over U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as
Israel’s capital. The statement criticizes the Trump administration’s
“decision to reverse decades of bipartisan U.S. policy by declaring
Jerusalem the capital of Israel, and authorizing the relocation of the
U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv, outside of a negotiated political
framework that ends the legal state of occupation and ensures respect
for the rights of all Israelis and Palestinians to Jerusalem.”.-rh
| 13/12/2017 |
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After Jerusalem, the US Can No Longer Pretend to Be an Honest Broker of Peace : But that might not be a bad thing. | | Rashid Khalidi - The Nation - Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
The torrent of complex problems that Donald Trump has unleashed by his
recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital will plague United States
policy and Middle East peace-making for many years. You cannot un-
recognize a capital once you have recognized it. Whatever caveats he
may offer, Trump has effectively accepted Israel’s annexation of vast
swaths of the occupied West Bank into greater Jerusalem, and its
declaration of this entire zone as its “eternal undivided capital.”-rh | 13/12/2017 |
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Jerusalem Is (Is Not) the Capital of Israel | | RICHARD FALK - Global Justice in the 21st century - The harm done by
the Trump initiative on recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel, and declared intention to start the process of moving the
embassy is impossible to assess fully at this time. Whether there will
be an upsurge in resistance violence, political extremism, anti-
American terrorism, and wider warfare is now essentially unknowable,
although the stage has been recklessly arranged so that these
developments seem more likely to occur than earlier, and if they do,
will be treated as outcomes of Trump’s faulty diplomacy.-rh | 13/12/2017 |
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Jerusalem protests bring global attention to Israeli brutality | | Maureen Clare Murphy -
Rights and Accountability -
EI -
"Videos and photos showing the brutality of Israel’s occupation are streaming out of Palestine and circulating across the world as protests against US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem raged on for the sixth consecutive day on Tuesday." - id
| 13/12/2017 |
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Jerusalem, the Capital of Apartheid | | Ran HaCohen - AntiWar - “Since the fall of the South African Apartheid in
1994, no capital – in fact, no other city on the globe – has been divided into
60% first-class full citizens and 40% second-class ‘residents’. Precisely this,
however, is the essence of `united` Jerusalem” [ry] | 11/12/2017 |
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Video: Israeli crackdown brings protests in Jerusalem to standstill | | Harry Fawcett - Al Jazeera - "Protests over the US recognition of Jerusalem
as Israel`s capital have largely stopped in the city, after a heavy Israeli
crackdown. Israeli authorities carried out extensive ID checks and cracked
down on any use of the Palestinian flag" [ry]
| 11/12/2017 |
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Jerusalemites will be the ones to pay the price for Trump`s decision | | Yehudit Oppenheimer -
+972
"Trump’s declaration has already caused great damage, but it will
not change the fact that two nations live and will continue to live
in Jerusalem, and that any solution will need to take into
consideration the interests of both peoples and their connections to
the city." ca | 8/12/2017 |
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Abbas urges UN to stop Trump from recognizing Jerusalem as Israeli capital | | Ma`an News Agency -
"Abbas, the King of Jordan, and several other world leaders warned
of dangerous consequences and instability in the region if Trump
follows through with the announcement...If implemented, the move
would be seen as the first step to a drastic abdication of
longstanding US policy that has largely adhered to international
standards on Israel-Palestine, which maintains that East Jerusalem
is an intricate part of occupied Palestinian territory and the
capital of any future Palestinian state, despite Israel’s annexation
of the territory." ca | 8/12/2017 |
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Oh Jerusalem: Requiem for the two-state solution | | Omar Karmi -
Electronic Intifada
"(Trump said the two parties) must come to the table knowing that
the bond between the United States and Israel is absolutely, totally
unbreakable.” While few Palestinians doubted this anyway, some held
out hope that simply through the force of moral persuasion, sympathy
for the underdog, legality and in the interests of international
order, someone, somewhere in Washington would listen, eventually."
ca | 8/12/2017 |
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Protests across the West Bank and Jerusalem attacked by Israeli military; 50 injured | | IMEMEC-
"Following Donald Trump’s announcement Wednesday that Jerusalem is
an Israeli city, effectively denying the rights of the hundreds of
thousands of Palestinians who have lived there since time
immemorial, protests erupted in cities and towns across the West
Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip." CA | 8/12/2017 |
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East Jerusalem ‘Must Be Recognized as Capital of Independent Palestine,’ Insists PA | | The Palestine Chronicle - Any just solution [for the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict] must recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of
an independent Palestinian state, a spokesman of Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas insisted on Friday.“Tension and chaos will
continue dominating the region and the world as long as the
Palestinian issue remains unresolved,” Nabil Abu-Rudeineh told Wafa,
the official Palestinian Authority news agency, adding: “The
international legitimacy, which recognized the state of Palestine in
the UN General Assembly on November 29, 2012 and delegitimized the
occupation, will alone create an appropriate atmosphere for resolving
all the crises in the region and regain the balance of US-Arab
relations.”-rh | 6/12/2017 |
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Israeli forces detain 17 Palestinains overnight from West Bank, East Jerusalem | | Ma`an - In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces detained five Palestinians, according to locals.
In the Shufat Refugee camp, Israeli forces detained three Palestinians. They were identified as Nizar Muhammad Ali, Ammar Abu al-Saad, and Zaki Muhammad Ali.
Another resident of the camp, identified as Ahmad al-Rajabi, was detained by israeli forces while he was walking on Salah al-Din Street near the Old City late Monday night.
Also on Monday night, Israeli forces detained Moussa Jamal Qadamani after shooting and injuring him with live fire during clashes in the al-Suwwana neighborhood of East Jerusalem. [bz] | 12/12/2017 |
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Pence Prepares Mideast Visit, but neither Palestinian leaders nor Christian groups want him | | Jack Khoury - Haaretz - "The United States has crossed all the
red lines with the Jerusalem decision" said President Abbas`
diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khaldi. Therefore, Abbas is not going to
meet U.S. Vice President Pence who arrives in the region next week.
Originally, Palestinian Christians intended to meet Pence, who is
close to American Christian Evangelical groups, and present to him
their views as being "the original Christians, the first ones".
However, these Palestinian Christians were also offended by Pence
supporting Trump`s "Jerusalem Declaration". "We see Pence standing
behind Trump as he announced Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and
saying this not political, or legal or even security based, but this
is Biblical and this about the ordain of God . If you believe you
know His will then it shuts the discussion" said Palestinian adviser
Husam Zomlot. Now, there will be no Pence meeting with Christians in
Bethlehem, either. [ak]
| 12/12/2017 |
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Jerusalem Explained | | Patrick Cockburn - CounterPunch - “There was always a contrast between
Jerusalem as a small shabby city and its status as a great symbolic centre for
three religions. It seemed to be dwarfed by its history” [ry] | 11/12/2017 |
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Trump`s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel`s capital is politically dangerous and morally egregious | | Yousef Munayyer - US Campaign for Palestinian Rights - Trump has just
upended decades of US foreign policy by recognizing Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel. This effectively hands Israel a blank political
check for its illegal annexation of Jerusalem and legitimizes Israel’s
ongoing displacement and disenfranchisement of the city’s Palestinian
residents. Trump’s move is politically dangerous, and morally
egregious.-rh
| 6/12/2017 |
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Trump Denounced for `Reckless, Irresponsible` Decision to Move US Embassy to Jerusalem | | Jessica Corbett - truthout - Critics warned of violent consequences and
immediately condemned President Donald Trump on Tuesday after it was
reported he told regional leaders the US will recognize Jerusalem as the
official capital of Israel and relocate the US Embassy in the coming
months.-rh | 6/12/2017 |
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TRUMP’S CHANGE OF US POLICY ON JERUSALEM UNDERMINES PEACE EFFORTS, COULD LEAD TO VIOLENCE | | J Street - President Trump’s announcement today that the United States
recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is an unhelpful step
with no tangible benefits, only serious risks. Contradicting decades
of bipartisan presidential policy, it does nothing to advance, and
could seriously undermine, the administration’s stated commitment to
resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while potentially
threatening Israel’s security and alienating Arab regional partners.-
rh | 6/12/2017 |
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Donald Trump’s Jerusalem statement is an act of diplomatic arson | | Jonathan Freedland - The Guardian - ot content with taking the US to
the brink of nuclear conflict with North Korea, Donald Trump is now
set to apply his strategy of international vandalism to perhaps the
most sensitive geopolitical hotspot in the world. With a speech
scheduled for later today that’s expected to recognise Jerusalem as
the capital of Israel and reaffirm a pledge to move the US embassy to
the city, he is walking into a bone-dry forest with a naked flame.-rh | 6/12/2017 |
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Trump`s dangerous Jerusalem gambit | | Daoud Kuttab -
Al-Jazeera -
"But while the US has always been pro-Israel, it tried, at least in theory, to adhere to international law and the worldwide consensus while dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." - id
| 6/12/2017 |
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Absent in the clamor about Jerusalem are the Palestinians of Jerusalem | | Samer Badawi -
+972 -
"In Arab capitals speculation turns to panic about Trump’s expected reversal of policy on Jerusalem. Meanwhile, nobody seems to be talking about — or to — the Palestinians of Jerusalem, whose daily reality of occupation will remain irrespective of what comes next." - id
| 6/12/2017 |
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Trump’s Jerusalem Plan Unravels | | Richard Silverstein -
Tikun Olam -
"For a reason known only to the Mind of Trump, he announced last Friday that he would tell the world on Wednesday that the U.S. would relocate its embassy to Jerusalem and henceforth recognize the holy city as the capital of Israel. If he released this policy announcement as a way to test the waters, it went over like a lead balloon." - id | 6/12/2017 |
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Tensions mount over Trump`s Jerusalem brinkmanship | | The Guardian - In an act of brinkmanship over one of the Middle
East’s most fraught issues, President Trump appears to have missed a
deadline for signing a waiver on a US law requiring its embassy to
be moved to Jerusalem. This does not automatically mean that the
Embassy would now be moved, but it does increase the tension and
uncertainty. Either moving the Embassy or declaring a US recognition
of Jerusalem as Israel`s capital would have serious repercussions in
the Middle East and likely abort altogether the Middle East
diplomatic initiative which Trump was supposed to launch in the near
future. The Palestinians, Saudi Arabia, The Arab League, Turkey, the
EU and French President Macron have all warned Trump against
unilaterally determining the status of Jerusalem. However, as usual
with this President, no one - not even Trump himself - knows what he is going
to do. [ak] | 5/12/2017 |
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Raised to rebel | | Budour Youssef Hassan -
Electronic Intifada
"The occupied East Jerusalem suburb of Issawiyeh has long been a
flashpoint for confrontations between Israeli soldiers and its
Palestinian residents.But even by Israel’s repressive standards, the
crackdown to which the town has been subjected over the past three
years has been extreme...The Issawi family is as deeply engaged in
this grassroots resistance effort as any in Issawieyh.
Tareq, 77, and Layla Issawi, 70, have a large family. Six of their
children – Rafaat, Medhat, Samer, Firas, Shireen and Shadi – have
been imprisoned by Israel at different times; another, Fadi, was
shot dead by Israeli soldiers when he was 16." ca
| 3/12/2017 |
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