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EU Warns Israel: Policy of Demolishing Palestinian Homes in Area C Will Harm Relations		Barak Ravid - Haaretz - "Public opinion in Europe is opposed to home demolition and forced evacuation of populations," he said. [bz]	31/5/2016
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Netanyahu says willing to discuss Arab initiative for peace with Palestinians		Reuters - Ynet - Netanyahu`s comments were a formal response to a speech last week by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who promised Israel warmer ties if it accepted efforts to resume peace talks. [bz]	31/5/2016
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Israeli court demands cancelling citizenship of Haifa Palestinian		PNN - "If he was a Jew, the Interior Ministry would not suggest the cancellation of his citizenship." [Alaa Zeyoud was found guilty of an October 11 car-ramming attack-bz]	31/5/2016
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Israeli authorities transfer political prisoner Marwan Barghouti to undisclosed location		Ma`an News Agency - "Barghouti, a member of Fatah’s central committee, was transferred to Israel’s Ramon prison five days before the most recent transfer to an undisclosed location, according to a statement by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners` Affairs...He has remained politically active from behind bars, including assisting in the drafting of the Mecca agreement in 2007, which paved the way for a unity government aimed at ending internal political conflict in the besieged Gaza Strip." ca	27/5/2016
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Retracing Jaffa’s erased Palestinian history		Silvia Boarini - The Electronic Intifada - "Zochrot’s Houses Beyond the Hyphen initiative takes up Jaffa, the historical Palestinian city currently obscured by the Tel Aviv-Yafo hyphen, as the site of a series of video installations in private homes and walking tours that uncover what has been happening there since 1948. " - id	25/5/2016
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Palestinian businesses report strong growth in past year		Ray Hanania - The Arab Daily News - "Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers recently launched its new Bravo supermarket in Nablus, the largest in Palestine, at a total investment of USD8 million. Total retail area is 3800 square meters and employs more than 100 people." - id	25/5/2016
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`This time, Netanyahu will not escape the international community”		Raoul Wootliff - Times of Israel - In his meeting with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, PM Netanyahu reiterated his opposition to the international peace conference promoted by France, and offered instead to hold in Paris a bilateral meeting between himself and Palestinian President Abbas. In his own meeting with Valls, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah dismissed Netanyahu`s proposal out of hand: "“Time is short. Netanyahu is trying to buy time… but this time he will not escape the international community.” “Time is short,” Hamdallah said. “[Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is trying to buy time… but this time he will not escape the international community.” [ak]	24/5/2016
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As Hamas Tunnels Back Into Israel, Palestinians Are Afraid, Too		DIAA HADID and MAJD AL WAHEIDI - New York Times - A neighbor who is 29 and goes by the name Abu Mohammad, said that the danger of nearby tunnels made him reluctant to rebuild. “I give it 99.5 percent that our house will be destroyed again,” he said. “I go crazy thinking about it.” Instead, Abu Mohammad said he was trying to sell his plot of land on the fringe of Beit Hanoun and move to the relatively safer confines inside town. But the only offer he has gotten was for the equivalent of $140 a square meter — less than half the $310 he paid in 2013. [bz]	24/5/2016
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Arab Worker Freed to House Arrest Hours After Barbaric Police Beating in Tel Aviv		Almog Ben Zikri and Yaniv Kubovich - Haaretz -  Abu Alqian complained that the police prevented him from receiving medical care for hours after the incident, and did not allow him to speak with his parents. Maysam’s father, Ahmad Abu Alqian, told Haaretz that he arrived at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv Sunday night at around 10:30 P.M. to visit his son, but police officers kept him from seeing him. A doctor from the Clalit health maintenance organization who examined Abu Alqian said a preliminary examination showed that he apparently suffered no irreversible injury to his eye, but added that further tests in the hospital are still necessary. [bz]	23/5/2016
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Border Police assault Arab worker in central Tel Aviv		Mairav Zonszein - +972 - An employee of Yuda Market, a mini-market, went out to dispose of some garbage, when he was approached by a plainclothes officer who, without identifying himself, demanded to see the man’s identity card. When the employee said his I.D. card was inside the store and asked the Border Police officer to identify himself, he and a friend began beating him. More officers and other citizens quickly joined in. [bz]	23/5/2016
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Leaders of Belgium`s parliament nominate Marwan Barghouti for Nobel Peace Prize		Ma`an News Agency - "Peace requires the freedom of Marwan Barghouti and all of the political prisoners, and more generally the freedom of the Palestinian people living for decades under occupation,” the nomination letter sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee stated. “By granting the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who embodies the Palestinian people`s struggle for freedom, but also their aspiration to achieve peace, a leader who can unite Palestinians around a political project that clearly includes a two-state solution on 1967 borders, more threatened than ever by colonization and the absence of a political horizon, the Committee for the Nobel Prize would be helping to resurrect the indispensable hope of creating a way out of the current [political] impasse.” ca	20/5/2016
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Ethnic cleansing is an everyday reality		Yara Hawari - The Electronic Intifada - "For millions of Palestinians, the Nakba is not an event that belongs to the past. It is an everyday reality." - id	18/5/2016
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68 Years of the Palestinian Ongoing Nakba		Sami The-Bedouin - The Arab Daily News - "The irony is that while Palestinian commemorating the 68th anniversary of their Catastrophe, the Palestinian exodus, Israelis celebrate what they call “independence day”." - id	18/5/2016
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French Foreign Minister: We don`t expect Netanyahu to come to the meeting, he wasn`t invited		Y-net - Netanayhau reiterated to the visiting French Minister his well-known position - i.e. that the sole acceptable way to proceed is "direct negotiations without preconditions"; other ways such as the international conference promoted by France are to be rejected out of hand. Foreign Minister Ayrault clearly anticipated that such would be Netanyahu`s reaction: "I explained to Netanyahu what our plan means. I will not ask him to come to the planned meeting, he wasn`t invited, he will only be expected at a later date." ak	17/5/2016
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While the Nakba Law threatens publicly-funded institutions, there are signs of optimism at the grassroots level.		Ben White - al Jazeera - This year marked the first time that the March of Return took place in the Negev/Naqab, a decision heavy with political significance. The specific village where it occurred, Wadi Zubala, was destroyed in 1948 and its land given to kibbutzim. Its residents were ultimately forcibly displaced by the Israeli military to Umm al-Hiran - a village that is now also under threat, with the state planning to destroy it and establish a Jewish community in its place. The "nucleus" of future residents for the new town comes from Eli, a West Bank settlement. According to an Israeli government website, the goal of their relocation is to "build a faithful community dedicated to …contributing meaningfully to the demographic balance, out of a Zionist vision of settlement". [bz]	17/5/2016
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French FM meets with Netanyahu, Abbas over peace initiative		Ma’an - "If we do not want the Islamic State’s ideas to prosper in this region, something must be done” said French Foreign Minister Ayrault. Unlike Ayrault`s tense meeting with Netanyahu, his meeting with Abbas in Ramallah was cordial. Abbas spokesperson Nabil Abu Rdeina said that Arab and French efforts were heading quickly "in the right direction" to attempt to stop the instability and deteriorating situation in Palestine and the region. The Palestinian Authority is hopeful of the French initiative, enough so to have a few weeks ago shelved its own plan of submitting an anti-settlement resolution in the Security Council when told this might sabotage th French efforts. ak	17/5/2016
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Bill Clinton defends his and Hillary’s Israel record, spars with heckler over Gaza		Eric Cortellessa - Times of Israel - “That’s [secretary Clinton’s] position,” he added. “Not to agree with the Israeli government on everything, not to pretend that innocents don’t die, not to pretend that more Palestinian children don’t die than Israeli children. But that we can’t get anything done unless [the Israelis] believe, when the chips are down, if somebody comes for them we will not let them be wiped out and become part of the dustbin of history.” [bz]	14/5/2016
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Gaza`s first food truck brings out the hungry and curious		Asmaa al-Ghoul - Al-Monitor - "With the help of the women in their family, which consists of 14 members living in one house, every night Mahmoud and Moath prepare 9 kilograms of marinated chicken that they will fry en route to each of their destinations the following day." - id for ca	12/5/2016
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Israel Independence Day Evokes Nazi-Era Slogan		Richard Silverstein - Tikun Olam - "A live TV broadcast featured a flag-bearing color guard which formed the configuration of Hebrew words reading: “One people. One nation.” In the Israeli context, this is Palestine denialism." - id for ca	12/5/2016
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13-Year-Old Terrorist Ahmad Manasra Convicted of Attempted Murder		Michael Bachner - Tazpit - "Manasra committed the attack in October 2015 with his 15-year-old cousin Hasan, who was subsequently killed by police forces. The two stabbed and critically wounded 13-year-old Naor Shalev, as well as a 21-year-old man." - id	11/5/2016
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Gag orders in Israel have tripled over last 15 years		Haggai Matar - +972 - "According to the figures revealed by Landau, 231 requests were submitted in 2015, as opposed to 186 in 2011 (more than a 20-percent increase)." - id	11/5/2016
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Israel brings fresh charges against nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu		Agence France-Presse - The Guardian - According to the charge sheet, Vanunu in 2013 met two US nationals in Jerusalem without having permission to do so. He is also accused of moving to a different flat in his apartment building in 2014 and failing to inform police. And in 2015, he granted an interview to Channel 2 television, in which he relayed to the interviewer “classified information (,,,)" says the indictment. In the interview, Vanunu said he no longer had any secrets to spill and just wanted to join his new bride in Norway, theology professor Kristin Joachimsen whom he married at a Lutheran church in Jerusalem in May that year. He cannot as he has been barred from emigrating on the grounds that he still poses a threat to national security. [bz]	10/5/2016
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The deeper meaning of IDF general`s Holocaust comparison		Dahlia Scheindlin = +972 = "I am not waiting for all Israelis to embrace liberal, universalist and humanist values that I seek as a guide for my life, because who knows if I’m right? But perhaps we can acknowledge we’ve gone too far in the other direction." - id	6/5/2016
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Killing the Count		Al Jazeera - "Bernadotte negotiated the release of more than 30,000 prisoners, one third of them Jews, from German concentration camps, in an extraordinary humanitarian effort which would come to be known as the `White Buses campaign`...three years later, as the United Nation`s first mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and his assassination four months later in September 1948 by Zionist extremists during an official visit to Jerusalem." ca	4/5/2016
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Statement on “Labour’s problem with antisemitism”		Statement published by the UK-based "Jewish Socialists" - Criticism of Israeli government policy and Israeli state actions against the Palestinians is not antisemitism. Those who conflate criticism of Israeli policy with antisemitism, whether they are supporters or opponents of Israeli policy, are actually helping the antisemites. We reject any attempt, from whichever quarter, to place legitimate criticism of Israeli policy out of bounds. [bz]	3/5/2016
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What the Left can learn about anti-Semitism from Ken Livingstone		Gilad Halpern - +972 - Why would the senior Labour member allow himself to be dragged into a debate about the Holocaust while his party is bending over backwards to fend off accusations that it is teeming with anti-Semites? [ry]	2/5/2016
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Deadly Israeli euphemisms		Asa Winstanley - MEMO - "There is a concerted campaign going on in the UK, in France, in the US and in the entire western world to suppress any form of criticism of Israel – especially the movement to boycott Israel. It takes many forms.A prime example is the current witch hunt in the British Labour Party against “anti-Semites” – a grave charge indeed. But in reality, the people being purged are those expressing support for Palestinian human rights" [ry]	2/5/2016
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Did the Arabs Betray Palestine? – A Schism between the Ruling Classes and the Wider Society		Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - “Arabs can be unelected governments as much as they can be a kindly old woman earning two dollars a day in some dirty Cairo hotel. Arabs are emboldened elites who care only about their own privilege and wealth while neither Palestine nor their own nations matter, but also multitudes of peoples, diverse, unique, empowered, oppressed, who happen at this point in history to be consumed with their own survival and fight for freedom. The latter ‘Arabs’ never betrayed Palestine; they willingly fought and died for it when they had the chance” [ry]	2/5/2016
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Israel appropriates Jerusalem`s Mamilla Pool		Lenny Thomas - AIC - Israel`s development of Jerusalem`s Mamilla Pool is a cynical appropriation of Palestinian culture to normalize the annexation of East Jerusalem [ry]	2/5/2016
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Why is Egypt calling on Israel to release Marwan al-Barghouti?		Ahmed Fouad - Al Monitor/Egypt Pulse - The fact that the Egyptian announcement that Cairo sought to see Barghouti released coincided with his wife’s statement that he intended to run for the presidency perhaps indicates his candidacy has Egypt’s blessing, given “[Barghouti’s] … wide-ranging popularity as well as his ability to convince Palestinian organizations to work with him," according to statements to Al-Monitor from a former official at the Egyptian Embassy in Ramallah. [bz]	28/5/2016
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The secret Arab plan to oust Palestinian leader Abbas		Middle East Eye - The UAE has already held talks with Israel about the strategy to install Dahlan, and the three parties will inform Saudi Arabia once they reach an agreement on its final shape. Not keen to present himself as a candidate for the presidency “at this stage,” Dahlan is said by these sources to be seeking the post of parliamentary speaker, a position from which he believes he can control the presidency. Dahlan wants former Palestinian foreign minister Nasser al-Qudwa for the post of president, although the Israelis prefer Ahmed Qurei (Abu Alaa). Dahlan claims to be able to influence both. [bz]	28/5/2016
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200 former senior security officials present plan to end impasse		Associated Press - Ynet - IDF generals and Mossad, Shin Bet, and police equivalents call for freeze on settlement building, acceptance of the Arab Peace Initiative, and recognition that East Jerusalem should be a part of a future Palestinian state; the former security officials also urge the completion of the security fence in such a way that does not undermine the two-state solution. [bz]	28/5/2016
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