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Israel set to build new settlement in West Bank |
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Written by Associated Press on MSNBC
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
Palestinians call for U.S. intervention, warn plan will damage peace processJERUSALEM - A key committee has approved
construction of the first new Jewish settlement in the West Bank in a
decade, an Israeli official said Thursday. The news infuriated
Palestinians, who said the decision could cripple peace efforts. The
only hurdle that remains is Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who plans to
approve the Maskiot settlement within weeks, the official said. Barak
had signaled to the national planning committee that it should
authorize the plan, the official said. The
official spoke on condition of anonymity because the Defense Ministry
did not officially announce the settlement would be built in the Jordan
Valley Rift, an arid north-south strip that forms Israel's eastern
flank with Jordan. Asked why Israel was moving ahead with the
politically charged plan, the official said that it has been in the
pipeline for years.
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Using video cameras, Palestinians shoot back |
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Written by Martin Fletcher, NBC
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
July 23: An Israeli human rights organization gave out 100 small video cameras to Palestinians to document abuses at the hands of Jewish settlers. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports. (Nightly News)
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www.newsvine.com/_video/2008/07/23/1690253-using-video-cameras-palestinians-shoot-back
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US elections: Obama's political straitjacket |
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Written by David Hearst in Jerusalem
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 |
Barack Obama's schedule and statements in the Middle East make clear
his determination to court Israeli opinion, writes David Hearst for the Guardian.
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www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/23/israelandthepalestinians.uselections2008
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The Palestinian Bar-Mitzvah |
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Written by Bassam Aramin, Translated from Arabic by Miriam Asnes
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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My son Arab is 14, just past the age that his Jewish Israeli peers are celebrating their bar mitzvahs. This ceremony in Jewish culture is a rite of passage that marks a boy’s entrance into the realities and responsibilities of adulthood. And last week, my son experienced something akin to the Palestinian bar-mitzvah.  “Anyone who moves his head, I’ll put a bullet in it.”
It was a beautiful day on Friday the 12th of July when Arab went with his friends to the beach in Tiberias. He spent all of his time in the days leading up to the trip trying to convince me that I should let him go. At first I refused—he’s young to be traveling so far in a group without his parents. But then I remembered the regret I still feel about the death of my daughter Abir.
Abir was ten when she was killed by the Israeli Occupation Force on January 16th, 2007 in front of her school in Anata. That morning, when she asked her mother and me for permission to play with her friends after school, I’d refused. I told her, “Don’t even think of coming home late, come back right away so you can prepare for your next exam.” And she answered me with the last words I ever heard from her, petulant and innocent. “Well, I’m going to be late.” She was angry with me. She was late that day, but not because she met her friends. A bullet from an Israeli border patrolman found her instead, and she never came back. I regret having refused her request, not knowing that it would be her last—that she would be late despite me and despite herself.
When I saw how much Arab wanted to go, I thought of Abir and gave my permission with the condition that he look after himself and be in constant phone contact with me.
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Sign AUPHR's petition to Oregon Democrats about AIPAC |
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Written by AUPHR
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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Go to
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ORAIPAC/petition.html
And provide your name, email (may be private), and zip code
Thanks,
AUPHR
To: Oregon Democratic Party and Leadership
To Oregon Democrats and Democratic Politicians, especially Oregon
Governor Ted Kulongoski, Oregon State House Speaker Jeff Merkley
(D-Portland), Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney (D-Salem), Sen.
Vicki Walker (D-Eugene), Sen. Ben Westlund (D-Tumalo), Rep. Mitch
Greenlick (D-Portland), and Rep. Brad Witt (D-Clatskanie).
Dear Oregon Democrats:
On May 21st, 2008, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
held a "community dinner" in Portland at the Oregon Convention Center.
According to our sources, the Democratic leaders listed above attended
that event.
We are Oregonians who are opposed to the current aggressive and
militarized U.S. policies in the Middle East and concerned that yet
another war, this time against Iran, is being promoted by right wingers
such as were present at this event. As a result, we are very concerned
by your attendance.
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Twilight Zone / 'Worse than apartheid' |
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Written by Gideon Levy
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Monday, 14 July 2008 |
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I thought they would feel right at home in the alleys of Balata refugee camp, the Casbah and the Hawara checkpoint. But they said there is no comparison: for them the Israeli occupation regime is worse than anything they knew under apartheid. This week, 21 human rights activists from South Africa visited Israel. Among them were members of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress; at least one of them took part in the armed struggle and at least two were jailed. There were two South African Supreme Court judges, a former deputy minister, members of Parliament, attorneys, writers and journalists. Blacks and whites, about half of them Jews who today are in conflict with attitudes of the conservative Jewish community in their country. Some of them have been here before; for others it was their first visit. "To deprive people of humane medical care? You know, people die because of that . . ."
For five days they paid an unconventional visit to Israel - without Sderot, the IDF and the Foreign Ministry (but with Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial and a meeting with Supreme Court President Justice Dorit Beinisch. They spent most of their time in the occupied areas, where hardly any official guests go - places that are also shunned by most Israelis.
On Monday they visited Nablus, the most imprisoned city in the West Bank. From Hawara to the Casbah, from the Casbah to Balata, from Joseph's Tomb to the monastery of Jacob's Well. They traveled from Jerusalem to Nablus via Highway 60, observing the imprisoned villages that have no access to the main road, and seeing the "roads for the natives," which pass under the main road. They saw and said nothing. There were no separate roads under apartheid. They went through the Hawara checkpoint mutely: they never had such barriers.
Jody Kollapen, who was head of Lawyers for Human Rights in the apartheid regime, watches silently. He sees the "carousel" into which masses of people are jammed on their way to work, visit family or go to the hospital. Israeli peace activist Neta Golan, who lived for several years in the besieged city, explains that only 1 percent of the inhabitants are allowed to leave the city by car, and they are suspected of being collaborators with Israel. Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a former deputy minister of defense and of health and a current member of Parliament, a revered figure in her country, notices a sick person being taken through on a stretcher and is shocked. "To deprive people of humane medical care? You know, people die because of that," she says in a muted voice.
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