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| 38 years later, Israel gives Palestinians new reasons to mark Land Day | | Amjad Iraqi - +972 - Like other Palestinian national days, Land Day commemorations are less about the historical event as they are reminders of things happening today. Despite years of active struggles, Palestinians are finding themselves protesting the same threats to their land rights in 2014 as they were in 1976 [ry] | 31/3/2014 |
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| Palestinians must resist Israel’s efforts to foment sectarianism | | Nadim Nashif -
Electronic Intifada
"On 24 February, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, approved a controversial law aimed at de-Arabizing Palestinian Christians. The new law identifies them as a non-Arab minority group.The initiative is led by the extreme right-wing member of the Knesset (MK) Yariv Levin from the governing Likud party.Some consider this to be only a small symbolic action but we in Baladna, the Association for Arab Youth, and in wider Palestinian civil society see this action as linked to a much larger and systematic process of “divide and conquer” as well as to attempts to destroy Palestinian identity among Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel." ca | 28/3/2014 |
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| `Hello, this is Rona from the Shin Bet` | | Hagai El-Ad -
+972
"The logic of Israel’s Security Service dictates that it can summon left wing activists and Palestinian citizens of Israel for friendly ‘chats’ about their political activities. Sounds like a movie script? Illegal? The State, it turns out, insists that this state of affairs is perfectly appropriate." ca | 28/3/2014 |
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| Plan to transfer Arab-Israelis to new Palestinian state seeks legal approval | | Peter Beaumont -
The Guardian
"The opinion appears to have been commissioned to lay the legal groundwork for the so-called Lieberman plan – or "populated-area exchange plan" – which he first proposed in 2004. The idea is that Israel will retain Jewish areas in the West Bank in exchange for giving the Palestinian Authority populous Israeli Arab areas within Israel, including the Galilee Triangle and the Wadi Ara valley, which includes cities such as Umm el-Fahm. However, the plan is opposed strongly by many Israeli Arabs." ca | 28/3/2014 |
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| Two steps forward, one step back: Israel’s new discriminatory health rights for Palestinians | | Michael Omer-Man -
+972 -
"The High Court issued an injunction, the state dragged its feet, and ultimately accepted the settlement." - id | 26/3/2014 |
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| Arab League `categorically` refuses to recognize Israel as Jewish state | | AFP - Ynet - Draft of final resolution also `rejects all pressure on Palestinian leadership` to accept Israel`s demand [ry] | 25/3/2014 |
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| U.S. attempts to keep peace process alive despite growing violence | | Sergio Yahni - Alternative Information Center (AIC) - "Israel`s return to its policies of extrajudicial executions and its second thoughts regarding the planned March 29 release of Palestinian prisoners has caused a growing wave of violence and rekindled worries about the future of the peace process" [ry] | 25/3/2014 |
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| Abbas looks to Arab League to revive its 2002 peace plan | | Jack Khoury - Haaretz - Abbas hopes that by reviving the 12-year-old Arab peace initiative, he will send a clear message to both Israel and the United States that this option will not remain on the table forever. “The Arab states, with Palestinian support, presented a fair package deal that could bring an end to the conflict, but so far no one has expressed serious interest in the product, instead treating it as though it were rotten; therefore we are returning the offer to the agenda specifically at this time, when the Americans are trying to advance the peace process,” said a senior PA official involved in the summit’s organization. bz | 24/3/2014 |
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| UN Human Rights Council to vote on Israeli settlement boycott resolution | | Middle East Monitor - The draft resolutions quote from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which calls to boycott Israel, impose sanctions on it and withdraw foreign investments from it. (...) The vice chairman of the National Security Council, Ze`ev Tzuk-Ram, was scheduled to travel to Geneva on Tuesday but his trip was cancelled when Netanyahu`s office understood that his trip will have no impact on the resolutions` wording. bz | 24/3/2014 |
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| Jordan hopes controversial Red Sea Dead Sea project will stem water crisis | | IRIN -
The Guardian
"The agreement paves the way for the Red Sea Dead Sea water conveyor (RSDSWC) project, though in a much-reduced form. It includes the construction of a desalination plant at the Jordanian port of Aqaba, which will desalinate 800-1,000m cubic metres (mcm) per year, to be shared by the participating countries, and the pumping of brine to revive the Dead Sea, through a 180km pipeline/canal.According to the water ministry, Jordan will have chosen the contractor by April 2015, construction will begin at the end of that year and implementation will last almost two and a half years. "With this, we will have solved Jordan`s problems at least for the next 30 years," said Nabeel Zoubi, project manager for the Red-Dead Sea programme at the ministry." ca | 21/3/2014 |
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| Israeli architecture association faces ban from international forum | | Harriet Sherwood -
The Guardian
"The Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) has demanded the suspension of the Israeli Association of United Architects (IAUA) from the international body, saying it is complicit in the construction of illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and other violations of international law." ca | 21/3/2014 |
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| Israel serves eviction orders to Palestinians in world heritage city | | Patrick O. Strickland -
Electronic Intifada
"Residents told The Electronic Intifada that state-owned housing management companies, such as Amidar and Akko Old City Development Company, regularly deny their applications for housing renovations. During inspections, the homes are subsequently deemed too dangerous to live in and the residents are given eviction orders. Amidar has been given responsibility for property belonging to Palestinian refugees who were displaced during the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that preceded and followed Israel’s establishment in May 1948." ca | 21/3/2014 |
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| Hillary Clinton: Test Iran, wait on new sanctions | | By JTA -
Times of Israel
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Clinton, speaking Wednesday night at an American Jewish Congress gala in New York, credited international sanctions that she worked to implement with bringing Iran to the negotiating table. She stressed the importance of pursuing the current multinational talks aimed at reaching an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program." ca
| 21/3/2014 |
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| Abbas` son: dissolve PA, force Israel to take over West Bank. | | Ynetnews - "If you don’t want to give me independence, at least give me civil rights ... | 19/3/2014 |
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| US slams Israeli defense minister Ya`alon`s criticism of Obama | | Michael Wilner - Jerusalem Post - The United States is using unprecedented language to condemn Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya`alon after he continued weeks of criticism of US President Barack Obama, and members of his foreign policy team, on Tuesday.
“We were shocked by Moshe Ya’alon’s comments, which seriously call into question his commitment to Israel’s relationship with the United States," a senior administration official told The Jerusalem Post.
"This is part of a disturbing pattern (...) given the unprecedented commitment that this administration has made to Israel’s security, we are mystified why the Defense Minister seems intent on undermining the relationship." bz | 19/3/2014 |
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| Obama urges Mahmoud Abbas to take `tough political risks` with peace talks | | AP/Guardian - “My hope is that we
can continue to see progress in the coming days and weeks.” Obama
acknowledged that with the deadline fast approaching, the task ahead is
“very hard, it’s very challenging.” The White House meeting marked a
renewed foray into a diplomatic minefield that the president has mostly
left up to his secretary of state, John Kerry. ak | 18/3/2014 |
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| Palestinians rally in support of Abbas | | Reuters - Ynet - Abbas, who met with President Barack Obama on Monday,
complained last week that he had come under great duress during US-
brokered peace talks with the Israelis, which are due to expire next
month in the absence of any accord. bz | 18/3/2014 |
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| Abbas at the White House: We Have No Time to Waste | | Wafa - `We have been reaching our hands to our Israeli neighbors for a just peace since 1988, and since then we have recognized the resolutions of the international legitimacy, which was a brave step on part of the Palestinian leadership at that time---and in 1993 we clearly recognized the state of Israel.` bz | 18/3/2014 |
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| The death of an Israeli war hero and Palestinian `incitement` | | Noam Sheizaf - +972 - Meir Har-Zion was a murderer, yet he was idolized this week by the Israeli media and the country’s highest officials [ry]
| 17/3/2014 |
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| Obama wades into Palestine-Israel talks | | Molly McCluskey - AlJazeera - President set to sell `US framework` to Palestinian Authority`s Mahmoud Abbas in Washington DC [ry] | 17/3/2014 |
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| Blurred lines: Palestinians to ask UN to swap Green Line for red one | | Josh Chester--The Palestinian Authority will ask the United Nations to change the color of the demarcation line that represents Israel’s pre-1967 borders, replacing the Green Line with a red one. dn | 16/3/2014 |
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| Israel Reaches Out to the Diaspora | | Ethan Bronner--OVER the past two weeks, Jewish leaders outside Israel quietly gathered in seminar groups to grapple with a thorny question: how to ensure that Israel is both a Jewish and a democratic state. dn | 16/3/2014 |
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| Right to refuse? Why 58 young Israelis won`t be joining the army | | Gideon Levy and Alex Levac--The new refuseniks are high-school students who are presently busy with matriculation examinations and graduation projects. The new refuseniks are an opinionated girl from Tel Aviv, a newly secular former yeshiva student from Bnei Brak, and a young man from Bat Yam who’s in his school’s theater track. | 15/3/2014 |
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| A kingdom of two halves | | The Economist -
"Indigenous Bedouin from Jordan’s East Bank, who number about 3m, worry that America’s plans to persuade Palestinian leaders to strip generations of refugees of their claimed “right of return” to what is now Israel would reduce Jordan’s original inhabitants to a permanent minority." ca | 14/3/2014 |
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| Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and the American Jewish Community | | Donna Nevel -
MuzzleWatch
"Criticisms, even extremely harsh ones, of the Israeli state or calls to make a state democratic and adhere to equal rights for all its citizens are not anti-Semitic. Rather, anti-Semitism is about hatred of, and discrimination against the Jewish people, which is not anywhere to be found in the call for BDS, and these kinds of accusations also serve to trivialize the long and ugly history of anti-Semitism." ca | 14/3/2014 |
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| Right-wing NGO reports on Israelis taking part in Israeli Apartheid Week events | | Ariel Ben Solomon -
Jerusalem Post
"Alon Schvartzer, the head of policy at Im Tirtzu, told The Jerusalem Post in an interview, “We wanted to show that Israeli organizations and individuals are justifying the BDS movement, giving it legitimization, even if they are not on the front lines." ca | 14/3/2014 |
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| Israel Denies Reports of Gaza Ceasefire | | Jason Ditz -
Antiwar.com
"Reports suggest there is a split in Israel’s cabinet about the deal, with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman hoping to use the rocket fire as a pretext for a new occupation of the strip, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly afraid that a new war would screw up planned celebrations of the Purim holiday." ca | 14/3/2014 |
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| David Cameron to tell Israel: peace deal would be `great prize` | | Patrick Wintour -
Guardian -
"British PM`s two-day trip to include Palestinian territories and speech to Knesset warning that time running out for deal." - id
| 12/3/2014 |
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| Israel`s Grip on Evangelical Christians Loosens | | Nathan Guttman -
The Forward -
"Younger Generation Open to Palestinian Side of Conflict." - id
| 12/3/2014 |
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| US confiscating a quarter of “Holy Land Five” wife’s wages | | Aviva Stahl -
The Electronic Intifada -
"For supporters of the Holy Land Five and of Salem herself, the garnishment is just the latest example of how far the government is willing to go to silence and scare those involved in Palestinian activism." - id
| 12/3/2014 |
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| Knesset raises threshold to four seats, putting Arab parties at risk of not entering parliament | | Noam Sheizaf -
+972 -
"The new legislation will benefit medium-sized parties like the settlers’ Jewish Home and Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid, while increasing the influence of big money on politics." - id
| 12/3/2014 |
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| Fatah backs Abbas: No recognition of Jewish state | | AFP - Ynet - Abbas tells delegates that `at 79 years old, he wasn`t going back on his people`s rights or betray their cause,` Palestinian official says [ry] | 11/3/2014 |
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| Knesset opposition threatens boycott of controversial legislation package | | Moran Azulay - Y-net - The Knesset opposition seems determined to
boycott the plenum where the government intends to steamroll a highly
controversial package of legislation and get it all enacted within three
days. The governance bill would raise the electoral threshold to 3.25%,
making it difficult for samll parties - and in particular, parties
representing Israel`s Arab citizens - to get represented. The referendum
bill would mandate a referendum to approve any cession of territory to
which Israeli soverignty was applied, such as East Jerusalem and the
Golan Heights. And the haredi draft bill would apply military
conscription to hitherto exempted students of ultra-Orthdox yeshiva
seminaries, though it would only become operative in 2017. ak | 10/3/2014 |
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| Stern Israeli airport security measures questioned | | Associated Press--JERUSALEM — Jack Angelides was about to board a flight out of Israel’s international airport when he was given a curious choice that baffles him to this day. Traveling with a laptop and a stack of printed reading material, he was told to part with one or the other, due to unspecified security concerns. dn | 9/3/2014 |
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| Over 150 academics submit letter condemning Israeli intimidation and censorship | | Celine Hagbard -
IMEMC
"A group of professors, researchers and other academics from around the world published an open letter this week condemning the Israeli government`s attempts to stifle debate and academic freedom at universities all over the planet." ca | 7/3/2014 |
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| Activists Heading to Gaza Stuck at Egypt Airport | | MAGGIE HYDE -
Associated Press
"More than 40 women on their way to Gaza as part of a delegation for World Women`s Day are staging a sit-in inside the Cairo International Airport after being refused entry into the country since Tuesday, airport officials in Egypt and activists said Thursday." ca | 7/3/2014 |
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| Oscars recognises Palestine for first time | | Kristen Saloomey -
Al Jazeera
"VIDEO: For the first time in the academy`s history, a Palestinian-funded movie has been nominated in the foreign film category with `Palestine` as the country of origin." ca | 7/3/2014 |
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| Israelis move to divide Christian and Muslim Arabs | | Ray Hanania -
Saudi Gazette -
"The truth is Israel not only discriminates against Muslims, it also discriminates against Christians. Israel confiscates lands from Muslims and Christians." - id | 5/3/2014 |
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| Obama gets lecture on peace talks from Netanyahu in White House meeting | | Michael Wilner - Jerusalem Post - “I think it’s about time they
recognized a nation state for the Jewish people. We’ve only been here for
about 4,000 years.”
bz | 4/3/2014 |
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| Abbas admits to pessimism about framework agreement | | Barak Ravid - Haaretz - “We will approach international organizations or
I’ll simply meet Netanyahu and give him the keys.” bz | 4/3/2014 |
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| Obama to Israel -- Time Is Running Out | | Jeffrey Goldberg [interview] - Bloomberg View - If Netanyahu “does not
believe that a peace deal with the Palestinians is the right thing to do
for Israel, then he needs to articulate an alternative approach." He
added, "It’s hard to come up with one that’s plausible.” bz | 4/3/2014 |
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| Obama: US Won’t Defend Israel if Peace Talks Fail | | Jason Ditz - AntiWar - Warns Settlement Expansions Killing Process [ry] | 3/3/2014 |
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| Muslim-Jewish dialogue at U.S. colleges proves hard to sustain | | Debra Nussbaum Cohen--NEW YORK – More than 30 Duke University students – Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu and Buddhist – met up at the Center for Muslim Life on the North Carolina campus last Sunday. Before adjourning to a barbecue that was both halal and kosher (with vegetarian options), they painted tiles for a gate at the new Interfaith Community Garden in the Muslim center’s yard. dn | 2/3/2014 |
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| Israel lobby group compiles secret dossiers on pro-Palestinian speakers | | Alex Kane -
Mondoweiss
"The day before Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, gave a speech on Palestine in Port Townsend, Washington in 2010, he exposed a dossier circulated about him. Authored by the right-wing pro-Israel group StandWithUs, it was a blueprint for what local activists should do when questioning Abunimah.“When Ali Abunimah comes to your campus, be prepared for a sophisticated, smooth advocate of radical Palestinian positions,” the dossier circulated by Rob Jacobs, Northwest Regional Director of StandWithUs, said." ca
| 1/3/2014 |
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| Row over Israeli calls for control of al-Aqsa | | Alan Fisher -
Al Jazeera
"Arab League warns of outbreak of violence as Israeli politicians demand control over one of Islam’s holiest sites." ca | 1/3/2014 |
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| Gaza Catholic church hit by explosion | | Al-Jazeera -
"A hand grenade has exploded in the courtyard of a Roman Catholic church in Gaza City, but there were no reported casualties or damage, a parish official said.An investigation was opened into the attack, which occurred Wednesday night at the city`s southern Zeitun district, Hamas police spokesman Ayoub abu Shaar told the Associated Press news agency on Thursday." ca
| 1/3/2014 |
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