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Israel approves more construction in West Bank settlement in celebration of Joe Biden's visit |
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Written by Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
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[It is absolutely no accident that Israel announces new settlement expansion just as Vice President Biden visits Israel. This kind of behavior has been done by Israel again and again: if the US administration shows any signs of seriously moving the "peace process" forward which necessarily means that Israel must change its behavior, Israel sticks the US President's nose in his utter lack of power and inability to change Israel's behavior. This is the signal Israel gives this week, embarrassing (if, indeed, he can be embarrassed) Vice President Biden and the entire Obama administration by expanding these pernicious settlements when Biden travels to Israel.]
Approval to build 112 new flats in Beitar Illit comes despite Israeli government's partial curbs on settlement construction
Binyamin Netanyahu gives a televised press conference in Jerusalem
Binyamin Netanyahu had imposed a series of curbs on further settlement construction. Photograph: Sebastian Scheiner/AP
The Israeli defence ministry today authorised further construction in a Jewish settlement on the occupied West Bank.
The decision came prior to the arrival in Israel of the US vice-president, Joe Biden, who is expected to announce a new round of indirect peace talks.
Approval for 112 new flats in Beitar Illit, an ultra-Orthodox settlement near Bethlehem, was given despite a 10-month partial curb on settlement construction announced by the Israeli government under heavy US pressure in November.
The decision to approve the building work appeared to be an attempt to appease members of Israel's rightwing coalition government. It was greeted with dismay by Palestinian officials.
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www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/08/israel-construction-settlement-west-bank
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Joe Biden and George Mitchell arrive to kick-start Israeli-Palestinian talks |
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Written by Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 |
Indirect negotiations mark first return to "peace process" since Gaza war
George
Mitchell meets Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem
yesterday as he began a round of regional talks lasting four months.
Photograph: Moshe Milner/EPA
The US vice-president, Joe Biden, is due in Israel tomorrow for an American diplomatic initiative to start indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.  The
new round of so-called "proximity talks" could be announced as early as
tomorrow, but there is scepticism on both sides about the chance of any
agreement. George Mitchell, the US special envoy to the Middle East,
will shuttle between Israeli and Palestinian leaders for four months
hoping to find common ground. Although the talks are low-key, they mark
the first return to a peace process since Israel's war in Gaza more than a year ago. |
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www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/07/joe-biden-israel-palestinian-talks
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Taher Herzallah: Heckling Israeli ambassador at UCI was right |
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Written by Taher Herzallah
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Saturday, 06 March 2010 |
Taher Herzallah
A third-year political science major at UC Riverside and originally from Gaza
Today, our American civil rights movement is praised worldwide for its humanism, righteousness, and courage. But, it was not always this way.
The same leaders we now hold in high esteem were once labeled as rabble-rousers for their principled and unpopular stands. It is no surprise then, that those who stand today against one of the greatest injustices of our time are similarly labeled. I am in a worldwide movement advocating for the indigenous Palestinian population and opposing the apartheid policies of Israel. The United Nations has condemned Israeli actions with more resolutions than any other nation.
I know the pain of Israel's brutal military tactics firsthand. Three members of my immediate family were killed in Gaza last year during "Operation Cast Lead," in which more than 1,400 Palestinians were killed and more than 5,300 wounded.
Since then, Israel has launched a massive propaganda campaign to transform its image from a war machine to a victimized democracy. Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, represents the face of this campaign. During his recent appearance at UC Irvine, I took a stand against Oren and the brutal state he represents. I spoke out well within the bounds of my right to free speech and in the peaceful, nonviolent manner adopted by the likes of Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Since that day, I, along with the other protestors, have been dubbed by the media as the "Irvine 11."
Today, there are those who see my actions as beyond the exercise of free speech. They reason that regardless of the content of Oren's speech, it was unacceptable to interrupt him. Since he was an invited guest, he should have been granted respectful silence. I know and agree that not all speech is protected and acknowledge that the First Amendment can be restricted according to time, place, and manner. But UCI's, and now UC Riverside's, threats to suspend or even expel us for our actions are unfounded and inconsistent not only with the incident in question, but also with the long American history of protesting public and controversial figures.
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www.ocregister.com/opinion/israel-237775-speech-oren.html
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Ali Abunimah in Portland: Israel and Palestine: TWO STATES OR ONE? |
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Written by AUPHR
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
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Israel and Palestine: TWO STATES OR ONE?
Has Israel’s attempt to “change the facts on the ground” in Palestine been successful?
Is the “two-state solution” a viable option any more? Has it ever been? And what next?
Friday, March 5, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
First Unitarian Church
Main St Sanctuary
1011 Southwest 12th Avenue
Portland, OR 97205
Flyer at: http://www.auphr.org/docs/flyers/AliAbunimah-Poster-March2010.pdf
Ali Abunimah, founder of the Electronic Intifada and author of One Country, A Bold Proposal
to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse will lay out the arguments…
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Ron Wyden rakes in the pro-Israel lobby cash |
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Written by AUPHR
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
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Ron Wyden is running for re-election in 2010 and has already raked in about $36,500 in cash from pro-Israel lobby organizations which are often hidden behind innocuous names like "St Lousans for Better Government" Source: opensecrets.org Click here for more information about Wyden's pro-Israel cash
Citizens Organized PAC | $2,500 | | Desert Caucus | $10,000 | | National Action Cmte | $5,000 | | National PAC | $5,000 | | Northern Californians for Good Govt | $5,000 | | St Louisians for Better Government | $5,000 | | Washington PAC | $2,000 | | Women's Alliance for Israel | $2,000 |
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Rachel Corrie's family bring civil suit over human shield's death in Gaza |
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Written by Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 |
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Parents want case to highlight events that led to American activist's death under Israeli army bulldozer
RACHEL CORRIE
Peace activist Rachel Corrie died while protesting in front of a
bulldozer trying to destroy a Palestinian home in Rafah in March 2003.
The family of the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed by an
Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza seven years ago, is to bring a civil
suit over her death against the Israeli defence ministry.
The case, which begins on 10 March in Haifa, northern Israel, is seen
by her parents as an opportunity to put on public record the events
that led to their daughter's death in March 2003. Four key witnesses –
three Britons and an American – who were at the scene in Rafah when
Corrie was killed will give evidence, according the family lawyer,
Hussein Abu Hussein.
The four were all with the International Solidarity Movement, the
activist group to which Corrie belonged. They have since been denied
entry to Israel, and the group's offices in Ramallah have been raided
several times in recent weeks by the Israeli military. Now, under
apparent US pressure, the Israeli government has agreed to allow them
entry so they can testify. Corrie's parents, Cindy and Craig, will also
fly to Israel for the hearing.
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www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/23/corrie-death-law-case
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