Human Rights | Collective Punishment

2010-07-30: Headlines

• Baltimore Sun: aramintaw: Cameron right about Israel 2010-07-30

  Nonetheless, he has now been assailed from both the left and the right. Some commentators accuse him of giving comfort to Israel€™s enemies, without conceding for a moment Israel might possibly be at fault. | For others, he is like the little boy in The Emperor€™s New Clothes who rushes in to state the obvious that others are too frightened to say.

• Feministe: a force more powerful 2010-07-30

  Keywords: i am going to start with kefah. kefah will be on a speaking tour in italy this fall. | i met kefah in the fall of 2004 under horrible circumstances. we were living in the southern west bank. and a couple of international friends had been walking with palestinian children passed an israeli settlement, when the israeli settlers jumped out of the woods and beat my two friends down.

• www.globalresearch.ca: Israel Threatens Lebanon 2010-07-30

  9/ 11 & 'War on Terrorism' | reddit_url='http:/ / www.globalresearch.ca/ index.php?context=va &aid=20359' | reddit_title='Israel Threatens Lebanon...

• Arutz Sheva: Rocket Hits Central Ashkelon 2010-07-30

  A Grad rocket fired by Gaza terrorists hit an open area near a residential neighborhood in Ashkelon on Friday morning. No physical injuries were reported, although several people suffered shock and required medical attention. A vehicle was also damaged. | Ashkelon had experienced relative quiet following the Cast Lead counterterror operation in Gaza in early 2009.

• Palestine Note: Arab League green lights direct talks, with conditions 2010-07-30

  In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...

• Eurasia Review: Mondoweiss: From Shatila Camp: What Does Right Of Return Mean In 2010? 2010-07-30

  Corruption in Russia could be reduced to manageable proportions if the country were to become a democracy, but Vladimir ... | The Chaco: Another Ciudad Juarez? | One of South America's most remote areas has become a focal point in the fight against transnational organized crime, comment ... | The most dangerous result of this week's clashes in the youth camp in Tuapse and of violence by Chechen ...

• Salon: The end of (military) history? 2010-07-30

  The end of (military) history? | U.S. soldiers run to firing positions after coming under attack by Taliban insurgents in the Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, on July 27. | This article originally appeared on TomDispatch. | "In watching the flow of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something very fundamental has happened in world history."

• Ventura County Reporter: Zaid set the record straight 2010-07-30

  I wanted to let you know that I appreciated the article written by Lisa Zaid on the IHH-sponsored effort to run the Isr aeli blockade to Gaza. This is simply a terrorist front organization, and it is time that people realize what is going on. | She did a good job of setting the record straight, and I thank you for publishing it. | Whose homeland is it?Ms.

• Al-Ahram Weekly: From Boston on Palestine 2010-07-30

  The northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, headed by Sheikh Raed Salah, has long been considered an organization that puts the issues of Jerusalem and the defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque at the forefront of its activity. Recently, however, the movement has expanded its ideological and political focus to the Palestinian cause as a whole

• National: Stance on Israel an issue in US Senate polls 2010-07-30

  NEW YORK / / Although the troubled US economy and stubbornly high jobless rates are likely to dominate this yearís mid-term Congressional elections, the pro-Israel credentials of some candidates have also emerged as a key theme.An ugly battle has erupted in Pennsylvania, where competing interests have fought over the positions on Israel of two Senate hopefuls.

• Independent: INM: Syria and Saudi leaders in mission to avert war 2010-07-30

  Syria is back. President Bashar al-Assad dropped off in Beirut yesterday – | president, ministers and members of parliament over a massive lunch. | chaos needs once more the guiding hand of Sister Syria. Not Syria's army – | In theory, the two rulers came to Lebanon to "smooth tensions" | returned to Lebanon – and the Lebanese showed their dutiful gratitude.

• Dissident Voice: Israeli Criticism of Zionism and the Treatment of Palestinians: The Politicians 2010-07-30

  Critically analyzing the political ideology of Zionism, or criticizing Israel's policies toward the Palestinians, almost invariably leads to attacks from th...

• Haaretz: U.S. encouraged by Arab support for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks 2010-07-30

  Arab League announces it would support Palestinian decision to enter direct talks; Hamas rejects Arab League endorsement.

• Haaretz: Rights group: Polices Captain George harrassed East Jlem organizer 2010-07-30

  Former army interrogator had been accused of torture.

• Inquirer.net: Passion For Reason World Court boosts Bangsa Moro claims? 2010-07-30

  Keywords: addthis_logo= 'http:/ / images.inquirer.net/ images/ inquirerlogo150x45.jpg'; | ContentSlider("newslistbox", "", linktext) | World Court boosts Bangsa Moro claims? | LAST WEEK, there was a big event at The Hague that went virtually unnoticed hereabouts. On July 22, the International Court of Justice held that Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia did not break international law.

• Haaretz: the disinherited 2010-07-30

  What happened to the 130,000 Syrian citizens living in the Golan Heights in June 1967? According to the Israeli narrative, they all fled to Syria, but official documents and testimonies tell a different story.

• Veterans Today Network: Depleted Uranium continues in the News 2010-07-30

  The news out of the Hearing on Dissatisfied Gulf War Veterans occurred on July 27th in The House committee on Veterans Affairs Subcommittee Oversight and Investigations. The video is archived on the House Committee web site and the submitted testimony is accessable on that website. The news was that the documents on Depleted Uranium that have been available for years were finally submitted. Or at least 2 key documents.

• memri.org: MEMRI - The Middle East Media Research Institute 2010-07-30

  The northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, headed by Sheikh Raed Salah, has long been considered an organization that puts the issues of Jerusalem and the defense of the Al-Aqsa Mosque at the forefront of its activity. Recently, however, the movement has expanded its ideological and political focus to the Palestinian cause as a whole

• Palestine Note: Build, build despite the occupation 2010-07-30

  In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...

• Palestine Note: US Rep Baird: US on the side of injustice in Palestine 2010-07-30

  In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...

• Palestine Note: Report: Palestinian-Israelis forced to build illegally 2010-07-30

  In this Reuters report, environmentalists are saying the Jordan River is no longer safe for pilgrims to visit. Thousands of religious tourists come very... | srael sent more than 1,000 riot police to guard bulldozers razing an entire Bedouin village in the Negev desert on Tuesday. Some 300 people are now homeless...

• Hudson New York: Soeren Kern: European Involvement in Gaza Spells Trouble for Israel 2010-07-30

  Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero will lead a European Union delegation that is scheduled to visit the Gaza Strip in early September.

• Palestine News Agency: British, Israeli Wounded in Weekly Demo in Bilin 2010-07-30

  Keywords: return theWidgetNone; | return theWidgetOne; | return theWidgetTwo; | function set_class(obj) | function get_class(obj) | function open_window(link) | The people of Bil'in were joined by several groups of internationals, including a group of rappers from Britain and the U.S. A large part of the demonstrators managed to approach the soldiers who had already entered the gate. | About 200 protestors;

• Haaretz: Study: Govt policy prevents building permits in Arab communities 2010-07-30

  About a quarter of Arab towns and villages lack detailed development plans, study shows.

• Reuters: U.N. rights body tells Israel to end Gaza blockade 2010-07-30

  GENEVA (Reuters) - Israel must lift its military blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a United Nations rights body said on Friday.

• Project Syndicate: The Gaza Prison 2010-07-30

  Keywords: return theWidgetNone; | return theWidgetOne; | return theWidgetTwo; | function set_class(obj) | function get_class(obj) | function open_window(link) | The people of Bil'in were joined by several groups of internationals, including a group of rappers from Britain and the U.S. A large part of the demonstrators managed to approach the soldiers who had already entered the gate. | About 200 protestors;

• Monday Morning: U.S. 'encouraged' by Arab support for direct Israeli-Palestinian talks 2010-07-30

  Arab League announces it would support Palestinian decision to enter direct talks; Hamas rejects Arab League endorsement.

• Deutsche Welle: UN says dialogue with Israel on human rights is difficult 2010-07-30

  Reviewing the performance of four members of a global rights covenant, the UN Human Rights Committee has criticized Israel's handling of the occupied Palestinian territories - areas Israel says don't apply to the deal. DW-WORLD.DE: German and European news, analysis and multimedia from Deutsche Welle -

2010-07-29: Headlines

• Intifada Palestine: Chas Freeman : “Israel; Asset or Liability?” 2010-07-29

  Chas Freeman In the words of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is credited with masterminding the 9/11 attacks, their purpose was to focus the American people ... on the atrocities that America is committing by supporting Israel against the Palestinian people €¦.

• Financial Times: To avert disaster, stop isolating Hamas 2010-07-29

  The Palestine Note is not only a news and opinion site €” but a cultivator of community and of perspectives about vital cultural, economic, social and political issues facing Palestine and its friends, as well as its critics, around the world.

• ABNA.ir: Mansi warns of dangerous plans to build hundreds of new settlement units in OJ 2010-07-29

  Keywords: t News Agency (ABNA.ir), GAZA -- Minister of Public Works and Housing, Dr. Yousef Mahmoud al-Mansi, warned in a press statement Wednesday of the seriousness of recently revealed bids to build hundreds of settlement units in occupied Jerusalem for new Israeli projects in the Neve Ya€™akov and Pisgat Ze€™ev settlements in northern Jerusalem.

• AFP: Palestinians briefly evicted from Jerusalem home 2010-07-29

  Israeli settlers backed by police took over a house in Jerusalem's Old City and briefly evicted a Palestinian family who have lived there for more than 70 years until a court intervened on Thursday. | The eviction came after a long legal battle between the Qarsh family and settlers who say they bought the building from its owners, another Palestinian family who emigrated to the United States decades ago.

• Haaretz: The Palestinian Authority is imprisoning Gazans 2010-07-29

  The same government that includes a call to end the blockade on Gaza, in practice aids in imprisoning the Gazans by preventing them from holding valid Palestinian passports.

• The Palestine Telegraph: Omar Ghraieb: West bank witnesses high activity of IOF 2010-07-29

  West Bank, July 28, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli occupation forces arrested Today a citizen near the Ibrahimi Mosque claiming that they found a knife in his possession, while the Israeli soldiers attacked the Palestinian workers en route to their workplace in the occupied territories. | Security sources said that the Israeli occupation forces arrested Fatiha Suleiman Al Razem (30) near the Ibrahimi Mosque.

• Palestine News Network: Ghassan Bannoura: Politics before and after the Gaza flotilla 2010-07-29

  Palestine News Network (PNN) covers the latest political, civil news. Depends on a unique network of journalists spread in Palestine.

• Jewish Tribune: Administrator: Hamilton Federation waffles on fringe group 2010-07-29

  The Jewish Tribune covers the key issues of importance and relevance to the Canadian Jewish community. With the largest audited circulation of all Anglo-Jewish publications in Canada, this newspaper is the trusted voice of the community.

• National Post: aramintaw: Cameron kicks over a hornets nest in Gaza 2010-07-29

  Full Comment€™s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: He may look unassuming, but Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, kicked over a hornets€™ nest when he said during a visit to Turkey that €œthe Israeli attack on the Gaza...

• OpEdNews: SO YOU WANT TO CUT SPENDING? 2010-07-29

  Taxes are the only option for increased income but the Republicans do not choose to offend the wealthy by allowing the overly-generous tax cut which President Bush allowed them to die a natural death as it was intended to do.

• Al-Bawaba: Archbishop Desmond Tutu Endorses of Olympia Food Co-ops Boycott of Israeli Goods 2010-07-29

  The Olympia Food Co-op's decision to honor the international call for boycott of Israeli goods has inspired an inundation of phone calls, e-mails, and petition signatures supporting the solidarity gesture, including an endorsement from South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. The Archbishop endorsed the boycott with the following statement:

• Hudson New York: Soeren Kern: European Involvement in Gaza Spells Trouble for Israel 2010-07-29

  Spanish Prime Minister Jos© Luis Rodrguez Zapatero will lead a European Union delegation that is scheduled to visit the Gaza Strip in early September.

• Haaretz: ACRI: Polices Captain George harrassed East Jlem organizer 2010-07-29

  Former army interrogator had been accused of torture.

• Monday Morning: My fear is that we are moving towards implantation 2010-07-29

  The Lebanese are moving towards implantation. As if to the two elements of the "Lebanese disease", confessionalism and feudality, a third is being added, namely implantation. The rights of the Palestinians, whatever one may say of them, lead to implantation. It's a matter of progression… From humanitarian rights to civil rights, to political rights. From recourse to resistance to complete citizenship.

• National: Settler violence flares in West Bank 2010-07-29

  The Palestine Note is not only a news and opinion site €” but a cultivator of community and of perspectives about vital cultural, economic, social and political issues facing Palestine and its friends, as well as its critics, around the world.

• Palestine Note: Nobel-winner Desmond Tutu backs boycotts of Israel 2010-07-29

  The Palestine Note is not only a news and opinion site €” but a cultivator of community and of perspectives about vital cultural, economic, social and political issues facing Palestine and its friends, as well as its critics, around the world.

• Leagle.com: IN RE ESTATE OF AMERGI v. PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY 2010-07-29

  THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION, Defendants-Appellees. | United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. | MARCUS, Circuit Judge. | Plaintiffs Rafi Amergi, Dan Davidovic, Judith Davidovic, Eliezer Davidovic, Ariel Davidovic, Sarah Zweig, and the Estate of Ahuva Amergi (collectively, "the Amergis") appeal the dismissal of their complaint against defendants the Palestinian Authority ("PA")

• Media Monitors Network: Once again, is the Wests Frankenstein out of control? 2010-07-29

  THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION, Defendants-Appellees. | United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. | MARCUS, Circuit Judge. | Plaintiffs Rafi Amergi, Dan Davidovic, Judith Davidovic, Eliezer Davidovic, Ariel Davidovic, Sarah Zweig, and the Estate of Ahuva Amergi (collectively, "the Amergis") appeal the dismissal of their complaint against defendants the Palestinian Authority ("PA")

• Palestine Note: Ethnic Cleansing in the Israeli Negev 2010-07-29

  The Palestine Note is not only a news and opinion site €” but a cultivator of community and of perspectives about vital cultural, economic, social and political issues facing Palestine and its friends, as well as its critics, around the world.

• Calcutta Telegraph: A SCAPEGOAT FOR SCORING BROWNIE POINTS 2010-07-29

  The Telegraph on the Web: Daily international, national international news, daily newspaper, national, politics, science, business, sports, weather, editorial, Op-Ed, calcutta local news, northeast news, jharkhand, jamshedpur, newspaper archive...

• Arab News: Escenic AS: Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima 2010-07-29

  The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004. | bomb strikes in 1945. | punishment and is, according to the laws of war, illegal. | to increase their effectiveness. | bomb survivors, who were exposed to intense fallout radiation. | higher than in Egypt and Jordan, and eight times higher than in Kuwait.

2010-07-28: Headlines

• Haaretz: Police destroy dozens of buildings in unrecognized Bedouin village in Negev 2010-07-28

  Keywords: eli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan's King Abdullah discussed on Tuesday ways of launching direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, a Jordanian palace official said. | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will decide soon whether to proceed with face-to-face talks with Israel, after he said he won a U.S.

• World War 4 Report: Dockworkers Worldwide Respond to Israels Flotilla Massacre 2010-07-28

  From Oakland to Stockholm to Durban to Cochin, dockworkers have refused to unload Israeli Zim Lines ships in response to the Gaza flotilla massacre.

• Palestine Note: BTselem is the test of Israels democracy, says director 2010-07-28

  The Palestine Note is not only a news and opinion site €” but a cultivator of community and of perspectives about vital cultural, economic, social and political issues facing Palestine and its friends, as well as its critics, around the world.

• OpEdNews: SO YOU WANT TO CUT SPENDING? 2010-07-28

  SO YOU WANT TO CUT SPENDING? | This writer is eighty years old and has spent a half century working with handicapped and deprived people and advocating on their behalf while caring for her own workung-class family. She spends her "Sunset Years"

• Middle East Online: Israel in fresh threats against Lebanon 2010-07-28

  Israeli Defense Minister says will strike directly at Lebanese institutions if Hezbollah attacks. | WASHINGTON - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned Monday that Israel will strike directly at Lebanese institutions if Hezbollah launches rockets at Israel. | Barak, who held talks in Washington on Monday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, made clear in an interview that his government will not tolerate Hezbollah attacks.

• Salon: Hamas leader says group considering Gaza draft 2010-07-28

  The top security official in Hamas-ruled Gaza said Tuesday he is considering setting up a bigger military force, first with volunteers and eventually with conscripts as well. | Such a step could further tighten Hamas' control of Gaza and deepen the rift with the group's Western-backed rivals in the West Bank. Hamas seized Gaza by force in 2007, wresting control from forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

• New Statesman: Cameron challenges the right over Israel 2010-07-28

  Our eclectic mix of politics, culture, humour plus religion, current affairs, the environment and much more on the New Statesman’s Blog page...

• Huffington Post: Ami Kaufman: Israel: We Choose Trees 2010-07-28

  Well, Israel finally did it. We finally managed to actually remove an illegal settlement. Oops! Looks like the inhabitants aren't Jewish settlers... They're Bedouins! In the Negev!

• Reuters Africa: Q Gaza blockade: What has changed? Whats the impact? 2010-07-28

  Q&A-The Gaza blockade: What has changed? What's the impact? | more than four years. | making a difference? | WHY HAS GAZA BEEN UNDER BLOCKADE? | months later. Gilad Shalit, the soldier, remains in captivity. | full control of Gaza in 2007. | For Israel, Gaza under Hamas rule is an "enemy entity". | offensive in Gaza in December, 2008. | punishment of the 1.5 million people living in Gaza. | released by the group show.

• Delaware County Daily Times: Pro-Israel group targets Sestak in commercial 2010-07-28

  Delaware County Pennsylvania daily newspaper covering local, regional, and national news including local sports, video and multimedia coverage, and classified advertising.

• Haaretz: The Palestinian Authority is imprisoning Gazans 2010-07-28

  The same government that includes a call to end the blockade on Gaza, in practice aids in imprisoning the Gazans by preventing them from holding valid Palestinian passports.

• Intifada Palestine: Chas Freeman : “Israel; Asset or Liability?” 2010-07-28

  SO YOU WANT TO CUT SPENDING? | This writer is eighty years old and has spent a half century working with handicapped and deprived people and advocating on their behalf while caring for her own workung-class family. She spends her "Sunset Years"

• ABNA.ir: Resheq calls for uprising to counter Israeli plans to destroy Negev villages 2010-07-28

  Keywords: t News Agency (ABNA.ir), DAMASCUS, Hamas political bureau member Ezzat al-Resheq called on the Palestinians in the territories occupied in 1948 to revolt against plans by the Israeli occupation aimed at destroying Palestinian villages in the Negev desert, at the same time paying tribute to the residents of Araqib, some of whom were injured and arrested during an attempt to face the Israeli war machine that destroyed the entire village.

• Los Angeles Times: Israel razes homes in Bedouin village 2010-07-28

  In another episode in the long-running dispute between Arab tribes in the Negev desert and the Israeli government, bulldozers knock down 45 homes and residents vow to rebuild.

• Huffington Post: Sara Reef: A One-State Solution? 2010-07-28

  Opponents of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have failed to offer any alternative proposals.

• prwatch.org: 'Big Shopping Malls' and 'No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza' 2010-07-28

  "Big Shopping Malls" and "No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza" | Submitted by Steve Horn on July 26, 2010 - 3:30pm. | "There Is No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza" | The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel hasbara-extraordinaire, Felix Frankfurter, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Alan Dershowitz, are both on the record as saying that "there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza."

• Jordan Times: Jordan supports direct Mideast peace talks as soon as possible 2010-07-28

  Jordan supports efforts to create a suitable environment to move to direct negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis as soon as possible, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Judeh said on Tuesday.

• U.S. Daily: Israeli, Jordan leaders discuss Palestinian talks 2010-07-28

  Keywords: eli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan's King Abdullah discussed on Tuesday ways of launching direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, a Jordanian palace official said. | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will decide soon whether to proceed with face-to-face talks with Israel, after he said he won a U.S.

• Tom Wilt News: child discipline and human rights 2010-07-28

  A good Samaritan spotted the boy on the streets and took him to SOS Village some four years ago. At first, Mama Lilly explains, the boy's behavior was extremely difficult to handle. | But Peter is now totally changed. When this writer talked to him on Monday 11th May 2010 at his SOS village home in Gulu, he was beaming with boy. | 'I like playing basketball and cooking.' He said.

• Globe and Mail: Canada should draw a Blanc 2010-07-28

  Keywords: .css({'background-image': 'none', 'width': '60%', 'text-align': 'left'}) | New France coach Laurent Blanc wasted no time in making his mark on the international soccer scene with his recent decision to ban all 23 World Cup players – following the insurrection in South Africa – for their next international game versus Norway.

• National Post: aramintaw: Cameron kicks over a hornets nest in Gaza 2010-07-28

  Nonetheless, he has now been assailed from both the left and the right. Some commentators accuse him of giving comfort to Israel€™s enemies, without conceding for a moment Israel might possibly be at fault. | For others, he is like the little boy in The Emperor€™s New Clothes who rushes in to state the obvious that others are too frightened to say.

• Financial Times: To avert disaster, stop isolating Hamas 2010-07-28

  As we all know, peace will come to the Middle East when Israel and Palestine agree to a two-state solution, with a viable Palestinian state rising from the rubble of more than 60 years of turbulence to live peacefully alongside Israel within the 1967 borders as modified through negotiation. All that is required is political will, brave leadership and a following wind.

• Media Monitors Network: MMN International inc.: Once again, is the Wests Frankenstein out of control? 2010-07-28

  Once again, is the West's Frankenstein out of control? | Bouthaina Shaaban is Political and Media Advisor at the Syrian Presidency, and former Minister of Expatriates. She is also a writer and professor at Damascus University since 1985. She's got Ph.D. in English Literature from Warwick University, London. She contributed this article to Media Monitors Network (MMN).

• Leagle.com: IN RE ESTATE OF AMERGI v. PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY 2010-07-28

  THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY, THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION, Defendants-Appellees. | United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. | MARCUS, Circuit Judge. | Plaintiffs Rafi Amergi, Dan Davidovic, Judith Davidovic, Eliezer Davidovic, Ariel Davidovic, Sarah Zweig, and the Estate of Ahuva Amergi (collectively, "the Amergis") appeal the dismissal of their complaint against defendants the Palestinian Authority ("PA")

2010-07-27: Headlines

• prwatch.org: 'Big Shopping Malls' and 'No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza' 2010-07-27

  "Big Shopping Malls" and "No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza" | Submitted by Steve Horn on July 26, 2010 - 3:30pm. | Recently, the newest batch of Israel-related hasbara was released on a mass scale by the Israeli news website, Ynetnews, which is the online English language news website of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel€™s most-read news source.

• Huffington Post: Sara Reef: A One-State Solution? 2010-07-27

  Opponents of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have failed to offer any alternative proposals.

• Palestine Note: BTselem is the test of Israels democracy, says director 2010-07-27

  The Palestine Note is not only a news and opinion site €” but a cultivator of community and of perspectives about vital cultural, economic, social and political issues facing Palestine and its friends, as well as its critics, around the world.

• Globe and Mail: Canada should draw a Blanc 2010-07-27

  "Big Shopping Malls" and "No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza" | Submitted by Steve Horn on July 26, 2010 - 3:30pm. | Recently, the newest batch of Israel-related hasbara was released on a mass scale by the Israeli news website, Ynetnews, which is the online English language news website of Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel€™s most-read news source.

• Palestine News Network: Administrator: Settlers cause mayhem in the West Bank 2010-07-27

  Palestine News Network (PNN) covers the latest political, civil news. Depends on a unique network of journalists spread in Palestine.

• Haaretz: Injuries, arrests and fires after illegal structure demolished in West Bank 2010-07-27

  Six people were injured and another six arrested after security forces demolished a house under construction in the West Bank on Monday.

• ZimDaily: How Mugabe Underdeveloped Zimbabwe 2010-07-27

  Local independent and foreign media as well as pressure groups previously deprived of activity have suddenly found something, a lot to do in this.

• Haaretz: Settlers block West Bank roads to protest construction freeze 2010-07-27

  Settlers blockaded 11 intersections across the West Bank on Monday evening in response to the home demolition on Monday at the Givat Ronen outpost.

• ReliefWeb: Taking water to the Jordan 2010-07-27

  Source: Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) | A few days ago, I was handing out bottles of water within a few miles of Israel/Palestine's only major river, the Jordan. | The village of Al Fasayel lies in a desert landscape, a contrast to nearby Israeli settlements, which have access to almost unlimited water. Al Fasayel itself has not had water on tap for over seven weeks.

• World War 4 Report: Dockworkers Worldwide Respond to Israels Flotilla Massacre 2010-07-27

  From Oakland to Stockholm to Durban to Cochin, dockworkers have refused to unload Israeli Zim Lines ships in response to the Gaza flotilla massacre.