Iran's leader said it won't back down in the confrontation over its nuclear program, as the U.S. and Israel disagreed publicly over timing for a potential military attack.
As Health Work Committees (HWC) Finance and Administration Manager, he helped "provide necessary healthcare to over 500,000" Palestinians. | Military commanders sign detentions. Military judges review them. Military court of appeals proceedings may follow. High Court of Justice ones may be requested. Up to six months can be ordered, subject to limitless extensions. | After two years imprisoned, military judges had reservations.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders on Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington, according to accounts from well-placed senior military officers.
Peter Symonds: World Socialist Web Site wsws.org Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) | Even as the US and its European allies intensify punitive economic sanctions against Iran, there are growing signs that Israel is threatening military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in the coming months.
Sebastian TK: Ismail Haniyah delivering the Friday sermon and (right) large numbers of the devout had turned out for the Friday prayers at Mohammed bin Abdul Wahab Mosque yesterday.
What rapper Mic Righteous was actually trying to say was 'Free Palestine '. But Palestine , it seems, is now a dirty word on the BBC. The BBC has defended the decision to censor the word, which it says was on the basis that implying that Palestine...
Iran's supreme leader lashed out at the United States in a defiant speech Friday, vowing to retaliate against oil sanctions and threats of war over Iran's nuclear program, and asserting that any attack "would be 10 times worse for the interests of the United States" than it would be for Iran.
Iran's supreme leader has pledged to aid any nation or group that challenges Israel and said any military strikes over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program would damage U.S. interests in the Middle East "10 times over." | It also may signal that Tehran's proxy forces — led by Lebanon's Islamic militant group Hezbollah — could be given the green light to revive attacks on Israel as the showdown between the archfoes intensifies.
Erin C. Breedlove of Rogers v. Ronald W. Breedlove II of Rogers; divorce sought. | Brian S. Anderson of Rogers v. Heather M. Anderson of Rogers; divorce sought. | Mary Papale of Salem v. Richard W. Papale of Salem; divorce sought. | Deborah J. Goughnour of Beaver Falls, Pa., v. Christopher White of East Palestine; collection sought of child support. | Bank of America v. Leonard and Linda Dorsey, etc...
GateHouse Media, Inc.: Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the collapse of the Soviet Union itself just two years later. | Additionally, Iran exerts growing pressure on Afghanistan to the east and growing influence in Iraq to the west.
The firing of high velocity tear gas canisters directly at protestors violates both international law regulating the use of so called non lethal munitions, and Israeli domestic law, yet several activists, both Palestinian and international...
Iran's supreme leader threatened to attack Israel yesterday in retaliation for Western sanctions against the Islamic Republic, warning that "threatening Iran and attacking Iran will harm America".
In related news, Yousef Abu Maria, media spokesperson of the National Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Ummar, stated that approximately 150 settlers attacked Palestinian farmlands in Za'ta area, east of Beit Ummar, and blocked...
By George Hishmeh Ten years ago, about 50 Israeli soldiers, including some officers, declared their refusal to serve in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, roughly about 22 per cent of the original state, Palestine , which until mid-1948...
The orthopedic operations are thanks to an agreement between the Palestine Children's Relief Organization Fund and the Chilean Society of Pediatric Surgery, with support from the Bethlehem 2000 foundation. “We are so thankful for the Chilean doctors...
A Turkish diplomatic source said Turkey does not want any trouble in the region as arguments on military threats against Iran were raised by Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believed there was ìstrong...
Al-Qaradaqwi applauded the emir of Qatar, Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, for his support to Palestine and to Gaza. “In light of what the triumphant revolutions in the Arab world achieved, I can assert that Palestine will achieve victory because Palestine...
Ramzy Baroud: Those of us who can see through such distorted thinking know that White is a principled writer who has never displayed a shred of racism in his work. Zoabi is very well-known civil rights leader with a long-standing reputation of courage and poise. How could anti- racist activists themselves become the subject of accusation by Halili and others like him?
Eric Walberg: The third annual BDS Conference opened 17 December at Hebron's Children's Happiness Centre "to expand Palestinian civil society's active implementation of BDS that is deeply rooted in the Palestinian struggle". European BNC coordinator Michael Deas affirmed, "BDS is now the main framework for solidarity. We are very close to closing the European market to Israel."
There are 7 million Palestinian refugees abroad and those living within the Occupied Territories are in the care of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East which was formed in 1949, two years before...
1969: With Yasser Arafat as its leader, the Palestine Liberation Organization is founded. By 1974 when he addresses the United Nations, Arafat has made significant strides towards establishing new respectability for the PLO's campaign for a Palestinian...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has secretly met Khaled Mashaal, leader of the rival Hamas movement, in the Jordanian capital of Amman this week, a source said Friday.
Courtney Anderson and Dra Ross each scored 20 points and the Westwood boys basketball team got a much-needed win over No. 15 Mexia Friday, 76-59. The win was expected to push the Panthers into sole possession of third-place in District 20-3A, but Groesbeck upset Fairfield, 71-63, to keep pace with Westwood. Westwood pulled away in the third period against he Blackcats —who were without four players —turning a 31-27 halftime lead into...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at a press conference during his party's primary race in Tel Aviv. (Oliver Weiken/EPA / January 31, 2012) | Why is Israel, Britain, the US, and Netanyahu are not subject to any law or UN resolutions? | WHO MADE WAR CRIMINAL BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ABOVE THE LAW AND RULER OF THE WORLD? Israel refuses to adhere to UN mandates for Palestine. Israel claims that it its war, but it is not war.
RAMALLAH, February 4, 2012 (WAFA) - Weather on Saturday remains generally clear with a further rise in temperature to 12 degrees Celsius, according to the Palestine Weather Service. Winds are moderate to active, southeasterly to eastern and sea waves...
The last time the New Palestine Dragons played at home, the Indiana Pacers' mascot stole the show at halftime by shattering a backboard. This time, the Dragons provided the halftime heroics. | "The conversation at halftime was going to be 'we've been here before,'" Barton said. "They pumped themselves back up rather than us trying to get their heads back up."
The foreign ministry will soon open a representative office in Palestine and is currently studying how to do so as Indonesia does not have diplomatic relations with Israel which occupies Palestine . “We will not open an embassy but a representative...
IANS: What is the 2G spectrum scam about? | New Delhi,27 Jan 2012-IGNOU Vice-Chancellor M Aslam receiving the "Best teaching practices Award" from noted film director Prakash Jha at the India Today Aspire education summit 2012,in New Delhi on Friday. Also in picture India Today Group's Rekha Puri.
The 'new anti-Zionism' It is vital to clarify that anti-Zionism remains at the heart of the struggle for peace in the Middle East and inspires all meaningful activism, stresses Tariq Shadid* | Years before the creation of the state of Israel, there was already a full-blown battle going on against Zionism. On one side, the Palestinians were resisting against the usurpation of their land, having grown aware of the far- stretching...
J With violent political winds battering their Arab neighbors, Israelis have watched with a mixture of nervousness and hope, wondering what the changes will mean for them. Will the end of dictatorships mean a better chance for peace and good relations, or will they usher in even more instability and insecurity?
BRUSSELS, Feb 3, (Agencies): US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a “strong likelihood” that Israel will strike Iran's nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said Thursday in an editorial. When asked about the opinion...
Saleh Al-Naami: Even the closest people to Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas's politburo, did not expect the bombshell announcement he made during the group's Shura Council meeting in Khartoum on 30 December 2011, when he suddenly announced he would not accept being nominated for another term in office. Elections inside the group will take place in six months to choose members of the group's Shura Council and politburo.
On any given Sunday, David W. Good might summon the words of T.S. Eliot. And Emily Dickinson, Theodore Roethke and Robert Frost. | If he weren't also referencing the Bible, you might mistake Good, with that gravelly voice of his, for a college professor rather than the longtime senior minister of the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme.
Tehran, Feb 4(ANI): Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that his country will back any group or nation targeting Israel. | "The Zionist regime is a true cancer tumor on this region that should be cut off .And it definitely will be cut off," he added. | His statement comes in the wake of Israel warning to target Iran's nuclear facilities. | He also said warned that any military strike by the U.S.
In a recent article, columnist Yaniv Halili described British author Ben White as 'anti-Semitic'. He also denounced Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi for writing a forward to White's latest book, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. | Those of us who can see through such distorted thinking know that White is a principled writer who has never displayed a shred of racism in his work.
Alresalah - Turkish Medical Humanitarian Aid Arrives Gaza: Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)--As a response to the emergent assistance call of the local health officials in the Gaza Strip, suffering from the illegal blockade, concerning the supply of out-of-stock and immediately needed medical equipment and medicine in the region, the Government of the Republic of Turkey donated a humanitarian medical assistance shipment for the benefit of the Palestinian people.
Palestinians react after their homes were destroyed by Israeli bulldozers near the village of Yatta south of the West Bank city of Al-Khalil on May 5, 2011. Residents of a small Palestinian village, including 10-year-old boy, have gone on hunger strike...
Most of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's rhetoric was not new, but its timing and setting hardened a standoff that some analysts say has the potential to spark military action. | Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech Friday that Iran will help any nation or group that confronts the "cancer" Israel.
Jerusalem: There is no question that gives more leaders in more countries more sleepless nights than this: Will Israel attack Iran? The answer is, analysts and officials say, largely unknowable. It depends on decisions yet to be taken, and assessments...
In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the week of 26 Jan. – 01 Feb. 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights found that a Palestinian civilian was wounded by Israeli forces in Gaza City. In the West Bank, 4 Palestinian civilians, including two cameramen, were wounded. The IMEMC is a media collective. We are independent journalists producing and distributing the authentic voices...
Palestinians threw shoes, sand and small stones at the convoy of U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon as he entered the GazaGaza Strip for a visit on Thursday.No one was injured during the hostile welcome and the vehicles, which crossed into the Hamas-ruled territory from southern Israel, pushed through the crowd and sped away.Mr.
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- World Bank President Robert Zoellick met PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah on Wednesday, and stressed the importance of Palestine moving on from a donor-driven economy. "World Bank research shows that the economic growth...
Occupied Palestine —UN leader Ban Ki-moon came under a brief shower of shoes as he entered Hamas-run Gaza on Thursday, hours after a barrage of rockets was fired from the territory into Israel.As the UN chief entered the Palestinian territory...
Cabinet Minister Moshe Yaalon: 'Israel Can Take Out Iran's Underground Nuclear Sites - Iran Will Be Stopped One Way Or Other' | No one should have any doubt about Israel launching a military strike to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. That was the message loud and clear from Israeli civilian and military decision-makers who addressed the annual Herzliya Conference on Feb.2nd.
As a Penn alumna, I was appalled to read today€™s Guest Column by Professor Ruben Gur. Not only is his belligerent rhetoric inappropriate and nonproductive, it does nothing to promote the civil discourse so desperately needed in Israel or Palestine today. As a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, his ignorance of the facts regarding the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions movement and the plight of the Palestinians...
In fact, on November 15, 1988, the Palestinian National Council (PNC) proclaimed an independent Palestine. At the time, Washington provisionally recognized its independence.
The Palestine Exchange (PEX) received consolidated unaudited year-end preliminary financial statements from Palestine Mortgage & Housing Corporation ( PMHC). The PEX disclosure rules in place give all of PEX listed companies a period of 45 days to report their preliminary annual financial statements reviewed by the company's internal auditor. This disclosure was published on the PEX website (www.pex.ps)
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a Palestinian child and a young man were wounded, on Friday at dawn, when the Israeli Air Force bombarded a number of areas in the coastal region. The Palestinian News and Info Agency, WAFA...
Like Waterbury, Vermont-based Green Mountain, SodaStream benefits from the so-called razor blade model of retailing, where customers are repeatedly required to buy complementary products such as gas tanks and flavor pouches. The 120-day correlation of gains or losses in the shares climbed to a record 0.37 yesterday, signaling the companies are moving in tandem. | Shares of Green Mountain gained 24 percent to $66.
KHAN YOUNIS, Feb 3 (NNN-WAFA) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Israel to open Gaza crossings and to lift the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip since 2006.
We also have more stories about:(click the phrases to see a list) | Click to view (15 Photos) | New Palestine girls' swimming and diving coach Steve Maxwell likes his current group of Dragon swimmers. What he is fond of is that they boast strength at nearly every one of the 12 events heading into Saturday's sectional final. | "I think this is probably our most balanced team,"
While the effect of the UIL realignment is most prominent in school's sports programs, the realignment will also affect other areas, such as band, debate, choir and other such competitions. | A local woman died Thursday evening in a one vehicle crash. | Texas faces the possibility of hosting two primary dates for November elections. | Sheet rock, old couches, paint tins and more have been illegally dumped on a property off of County Road 3402.
The United States has reportedly planned to utilize NATO's US-made radar system in Turkey as a platform to provide intelligence to Israel, Press TV reports. Citing an Israeli news outlet, a Turkish paper reported the prospect and warned that any...
By Leslie Gang Twenty-five HAFTR alumni studying in Israel spent a rainy morning together in Jerusalem last week. HAFTR High School Zionism instructor Tuvia Book, also a licensed Israeli Tour Guide, took them through the City of David to the Jewish...
JERUSALEM – Israeli leaders Thursday delivered one of the bluntest warnings to date of possible airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites, adding to the anxiety in Western capitals that a surprise attack by Israel could spark a broader military conflict in the Middle East.
2/3/2012 3:42 AM ET (RTTNews) - Possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities is fast emerging as both political and military leaders of the Jewish State claim that all of the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites are vulnerable and that a "military option is real and ready to be used if sanctions fail."
These were the words screamed into my face at Davos this year, whilst participating in the Refugee Run — an hour-long experience which simulates a refugee camp in 'a generic country'. | Within this hour you are given a character to play (I was a 14-year-old girl). As a refugee you are ripped from your home, forced to flee your country, lose your identity and step into a very uncertain future.
Concerns that Israel might decide to go it alone were fueled this week when hard-line Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon, a former military chief of staff, declared that all Iran's nuclear facilities are vulnerable to airstrikes.
The man who brought Gilad Shalit home is an immigrant from New York. | Gershon Baskin was the crucial negotiator in the secret talks that brought the captured soldier back to Israel in October after more than five years of imprisonment by Hamas.
Washington, Feb.3 (ANI): U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes that Israel is just months away from striking Iran, even as the latter continues with its underground nuclear program. | Fox News quoted Panetta as telling the Washington Post that he was worried that Israel may decide to attack Iran as early as this spring. | According to the report, the U.S. Central Command has been planning for the possibility of the U.S.
Feb 3rd, 2012 (No Comment) | According to report, the allies are arguing forcefully that an attack ultimately would strengthen, not weaken, the rulers in Tehran. | It said the US is leading the persuasion initiative, even though Washington largely has concluded that outside argument will have little effect on Israeli decision-making. | The reports says President Barack Obama maintains that the U.S.
The mind games that telegraph any military strike are simmering along and on the verge of a full boil. David Ignatius, columnist for the Washington Post, is reporting that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel could attack Iran as early as April to try...
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Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition in Reno Thursday night. | He started off talking about the United States' need to support Israel as opposed to Iran. | "We need to be honest with the American public about security threats, and I will do that," he told them.
GateHouse Media, Inc.: Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the collapse of the Soviet Union itself just two years later. | Additionally, Iran exerts growing pressure on Afghanistan to the east and growing influence in Iraq to the west.
Washington (dpa) – Israel could attack Iran this spring in a bid to stop Tehran from producing a nuclear weapon, an unnamed defense official told CNN Thursday. | The source was familiar with an assessment by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that Israel could act this spring before Tehran advances further in its nuclear program. | The Washington Post reported that Panetta thinks there is "strong likelihood"
There is a growing possibility that Israel may attack Iranian nuclear facilities over the next few months, U.S. media reported. | A Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, reported on Thursday that the U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "believes there is a strong likelihood that Israel will strike Iran in April, May or June," before Iran acquires the capability to produce a fully-fledged nuclear bomb.
Brandeis professors offered varying responses this week to the heightening of tensions between the already dire relationship between Iran and the State of Israel.
The chief of the Israeli internal security apparatus, Shin Bet, has charged Iran planned to hit Israeli targets in retaliation for assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists. | Iran's Revolutionary Guards are working tirelessly to attack Israeli targets abroad in order to deter Israel, the Israeli media network, Haaretz, quoted in its broadcast on Friday Yoram Cohen as saying in a lecture at a forum in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
No matter how you feel about gas drilling, you have to feel it was wrong to ban Pennsylvania filmmaker Josh Fox from a congressional hearing on the controversial natural gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Ruben Gur | BDS is 'hateful', 'discriminatory' | The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference, which begins this weekend, has generated widespread debate over the movement€™s mission and its place at Penn. | The two-day conference begins Friday night with a reception and film screening. On Saturday and Sunday the conference will feature panels, speakers and question-and-answer sessions to educate and mobilize the BDS movement.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta believes there is a growing possibility Israel will attack Iran as early as April to stop Tehran from building a nuclear bomb, US media reported on Thursday. The Washington Post first reported that Panetta...
The 1 percent are united, and so must we, the global 99 percent. Our aspirations overlap, our struggles converge. Unity is now a necessity, not a nicety.
But it is not just the uprooting and stealing of trees that is used by Israel as a tool in the occupation. They actually plant trees on Palestinian land, covering up ethnic cleansing with environmental concerns. This is called €˜greenwashing€™; using greenery to cover up evidence of violent displacement and destruction.
"The visit was an important recognition by Jordanian decision makers that Hamas is a legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. The movement did not want to obscure this message by appearing to interfering in Jordanian affairs," said Ibrahim...
Noam Sheizaf: Lisa Levi tries to defend the undefendable boycott law at The Jewish Week. After making the old case that the Israeli boycott law is anything like the French or the American (simply false claim, as any form of the current boycott movement is perfectly legal in the United States. In fact, a Knesset research report, prepared during the work on the boycott bill, concluded that it couldn€™t find examples of similar laws in Western democracies...
Government will use South African Week in Palestine to showcase its abundant artistic talent to the people of that country later this year. | Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile announced this after signing a cultural agreement with the Palestinian Minister of Culture, Siham Mohammad Abdel Salam, on Wednesday in Pretoria.
Your special report looks at allegations that Israel's military justice system mistreats Palestinian children who have been arrested for throwing stones. | Of the detainees, you report dismissively that "most are accused of throwing stones at soldiers or settlers", showing a bewildering disregard for this crime.
That's how a former British diplomat at the United Nations, Carne Ross, described last September's UN showdown over the Palestinian Authority's bid for recognition for statehood. [1] "This is how power works." he said. He might have added "money"...
Keywords: €” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest complaints about Palestinian "hate speech," after relatives of the killer of a Jewish settler family praised him in a phone call to the official Palestine TV, spotlight the intense animosity and mutual distrust that have blocked peace talks for years.
The Republican candidates for president once again tried to out-do the Likud Party in their devotion to the doctrine of the Iron Wall and their attempt to erase the Palestinian people from history and justify their being kept in a condition...
Recent research shows that Veolia is involved in €œnew€ Israeli projects in the occupied West Bank. Veolia Water Israel provides services to the illegal settlement of Modi'in Illit, and Veolia Transportation Israel operates a total of seven - instead of four - bus lines that run through Palestinian land.
Participants of the Occupy Oakland movement voted to back the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement during a regular general assembly (GA) meeting Wednesday evening at Oscar Grant plaza. In a near-unanimous passage of the proposal by 135 people voting yes, 12 abstentions, and 1 no vote, Occupy Oakland vowed to stand with the BDS movement.
The conference is scheduled to be held as a sideline program of the 2012 Fajr International Film Festival. | The event will discuss five principle topics namely 'Narration in Hollywood,' 'Role of Cinema in the World Awakening,' 'The Role of Hollywoodism and Human Decadence,' 'Portrait of Future in Hollywood' and 'Hollywoodism and Zionism.
Israel must halt settlement building and present detailed proposals for a border with a future Palestinian state, visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has said as he tried to persuade the Palestinians to continue low-level meetings with Israel that the international community hopes will evolve into serious negotiations. | With Abbas by his side, the U.N. chief affirme...
The U.N. Security Council remains deadlocked over a response to Syria's escalating civil war. The death toll is rising steadily as the Assad regime relies on its security forces to brutally suppress challenges from protesters, and by an insurgency dominated by defectors from the armed forces. But an Arab League-sponsored resolution demanding that President Bashar al-Assad cede power to a national unity government pending new elections...
Recent disputed interactions between Islamist political leaders from Morocco and Tunisia on one hand and Israeli media on the other sparked controversy in their home countries over the issue of normalization with Israel. A statement made by Rachid...
Noted American Paul Auster author defended his decision to refuse a Turkey visit over the limits the country places on free speech on Wednesday, after Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused him of having double standards for visiting Israel. | On Tuesday, Erdogan branded the acclaimed novelist as ignorant on Tuesday for refusing to visit Turkey in protest at the jailing of journalists, saying: "If you come so what?"
Housing benefits will not be granted to some 70 West Bank settlements unless specifically approved by the defense minister, who has authority over West Bank construction, the cabinet decided on Wednesday. | The decision amended a cabinet resolution approved on Sunday that granted various housing benefits to people living in national priority areas.
Munther Fahimi, proprietor of the American Colony Hotel's English-language bookshop, was born in East Jerusalem, but lost his residency rights after moving to the U.S.
Citizens should be allowed to try the police officers who broke the law, pass the findings on to the State Prosecution and investigate the police and ensure it listens to the people and protects their life and property.
About 200,000 missiles are aimed at Israel at any given time, a top Israel Defense Forces officer said on Thursday, adding that Iran's ability to obtain nuclear weapons was solely dependent on the will of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | Head of military intelligence Aviv Kochavi speaking at the Herzliya Conference, Feb. 2, 2012. | Speaking to the Herzliya Conference, Gantz said that Iran's nuclear progra...
Mariam Nabil: Now, more than 60 years after the creation of the state of Israel, the prospect of peace is as far away as ever. One of the forgotten reasons for this is the subject of water provision. A French parliamentary report published in January 2012 calls the Israeli allocation of water "a weapon serving the new apartheid". This was met with harsh criticism from the Israeli side.
International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. | Every Tuesday we demonstrate at the Erez border crossing, in Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip. The demonstration started at about 11.00 am. We headed for the No Go Zone. The No Go Zone is an area that extends along the Gaza€™s entire northern and eastern border with Israel inside Palestinian territory. For all intents and purposes, the No go Zone imposed...
After being blocked by Jewish lobbyists in Oakland, California, an exhibit of drawings by Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip will be coming to Swarthmore on April 6. The project's originator and organizer, Susan Johnson, met with the Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (SPJP) on Monday night to discuss the specifics of their collaboration effort. | The drawings were collected by Johnson herself, who, in 2009, visited the Gaza Strip...
Associated Press: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest complaints about Palestinian hate speech, after relatives of the killer of a Jewish settler family praised him in a phone call to the official Palestine TV, spotlight the intense animosity and mutual distrust that have blocked peace talks for years.
It all started when Coffee City annexed some land on the north shore of Lake Palestine and inherited some unwilling residents. Lynn Wier, Betty Savage and her son Lauren are all within walking distance, but now they walk on streets that belong...
Mariam Nabil: Apologists for Israel's continued occupation and control over Palestinian lives have long contended that Israel is more interested in peace than the Palestinians. One exaggerated argument, repeatedly put forward to justify military rule, is that Palestinians teach their children to hate Jews.
Keywords:... show division on January 19th and 20th. More... by Putt Riddle It wasn'ta good week for the Groesbeck Goats subvarsity teams. On Tuesday the junior varsity lost to Palestine 39-29. The freshmen boys lost by the same 10 point margin 41-31. More...
Keywords: €œI extend my hand to the Palestinian people, with whom we seek a just and lasting peace. €¦ I continue to hope that President Abbas will be my partner in peace. I've worked hard to advance that peace. The day I came into office, I called for direct negotiations without preconditions. President Abbas didn't respond. I outlined a vision of peace of two states for two peoples. He still didn't respond. I removed hundreds...
THE Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council is hosting Bradfield Federal Liberal MP Paul Fletcher as part of a delegation of Coalition MPs on a visit to Israel this week. | Mr Fletcher said it would be his third visit to Israel. | In 1986 he visited in a student political delegation and in 1999 took part in an Australian trade mission to Israel.
Feza Gazetecilik A.S. Bilgi Teknolojileri: The war of words between ErdoĿan and Auster kicked off after the Turkish prime minister commented on an interview the US novelist gave to a Turkish daily. "I refuse to come to Turkey because of imprisoned journalists and writers. How many are jailed now? Over 100?"Auster had said during the interview. | "American writer Paul Auster recently gave an interview to a Turkish daily."
As the first national Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions conference approaches at the University of Pennsylvania, several participants have faced false and sadly predictable smears. Ali Abunimah, a renowned Palestinian writer and solidarity activist who will deliver the conference€™s keynote address, was recently accused by Emily Schrader, an activist with the pro-Israel group StandWithUs, of €œincitement to violence against Israelis.€...
Jerusalem, Feb 2 (ANI): Former Israeli Defence Chief Lt-Gen Amnon Lipkin-Shahak has warned against a strike on Iran, insisting that almost the entire senior hierarchy of Israel's military and security establishment is worried about a premature attack on Tehran over fears that it could lead the Middle East into a war.
Posted: 02/2/2012 1:00 AM | Comments: 0 (including replies) getCommentCount(138551014) | Foreign Minister John Baird Tuesday publicly and unequivocally reaffirmed Canada's support for Israel in the Mideast conflict.
Today, on Thursday, the US Senate Banking Committee will officially start work on a new sanctions bill against Iran, Foreign Policy writes. | The news bill intends to put more punitive measures against Iran's energy, shipping, and mining sectors, while punishing a broader range...
Israel Casanova has been appointed Country Manager for Redevco Spain and Portugal. Casanova succeeds and will report to Javier Hortelano, who was recently appointed Chief Operating Officer at Redevco. By bringing in Israel Casanova to direct Redevco's...
Israel's Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan Wednesday rejected a request by the energy and water ministry to allow Israel Electric Corp. to use polluting fuels for power generation at its own discretion. The minister said he opposed...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (L) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), February 1, 2012. Israel has rejected calls by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to stop...
Li said, "China supports the establishment of an independent Palestinian state that enjoys full sovereignty, with East Jerusalem as its capital and based on the 1967 border. China supports Palestine's membership in the United Nations.
Peter Symonds: A lengthy article, €œWill Israel Attack Iran,€ published in this week€™s New York Times confirms that Israel has made advanced preparations for military strikes on Iran.
Mariam Nabil: Area B is under the Israeli security authority and the Palestinian Civil authority, which forms 17% of the West Bank. Area A forms 13% of the West Bank, while Area C is about 60% which is the majority of the West Bank lands. | The sources revealed that Israel's consent on those recommendations is still weak, because it asks to extend the negotiations for a further two months.
The Third Annual BDS Conference opened 17 December at Hebron's Children's Happiness Centre, 'to expand Palestinian civil society's active implementation of BDS that is deeply rooted in the Palestinian struggle.' European BNC coordinator Michael Deas affirmed, 'BDS is now the main framework for solidarity. We are very close to closing the European market to Israel.
Culture and Sports Minister Limor Livnat could have congratulated Mohammed Bakri on his decision to return to the Hebrew stage, being one of the more significant Arab artists contributing to Israeli culture.
After South Sudanese independence, Population Authority said asylum-seekers could safely return home; meanwhile, Petah Tikva District Court stays deportation order on 130 Ivory Coast families.
JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities have indicted an Arab-Israeli couple on charges they imprisoned the man's daughter for years in their West Bank home and encouraged her to kill herself. According to the indictment, filed on Tuesday, the girl was held...
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at night, the eastern area of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, and kidnapped two residents east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported that several tanks...
The main issue of the night proved to be the censure motion proposed by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP Edinburgh). SJP President Liam O'Hare, who was eager to outline his stance on Ms Meehan's trip to Israel as a “politically motivated trip”...
Khalid: After decades of human suffering resulting from Israel's occupation and illegal colonisation of Palestinian territory; fruitless and stalled negotiations; moribund policies; and legal options being overlooked in favour of diplomacy, it is time to look at a new strategy using political action and negotiations based on international law.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Tuesday's primary vote of his rightwing Likud party over his sole rival, the hardline settler Moshe Feiglin. | "I thank you for the confidence and the renewed support that you have given me," Netanyahu said in a public address before the official results were announced. | In an earlier statement, Netanyahu had congratulated his party on the conduct of the vote, sayin...
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei met with the secretary general of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine , Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah, in Tehran on January 31. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali...
Alresalah - Arraf to CPDS: Israel losing the PR battle: Huwaida Arraf, the co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, chair of the Free Gaza Movement, and a prominent Palestinian-American activist, talked to Gaza activists about "The Palestine solidarity movement: Countering Zionist propaganda globally". | Choosing discourse to communicate with others is one of the basic requirements to get one's voice heard.
Seems like both Barack Obama and Newt Gingrich have moved relentlessly right on the Palestinian issue. (Yes, and why?) Here's some more data. Tablet's Jacob Sugarman reports that one of Obama's rabbis on Israel/Palestine issue is, god help us, Ed Koch: What promises did Obama make?
Keywords: “The Palestinian Authority was created from the PLO ( Palestine Liberation Organization) as a quasi-governmental entity and given autonomy in Bethlehem and six other cities in Judea and Samaria” as a result of the Oslo Accords, Rubin said.
Keywords: “The $72 million contribution we are signing today represents our ongoing commitment to Palestine refugees. It will support UNRWA's general fund, the main engine that keeps the organization going and provides all its essential services.
Secretary-general of Fatah Revolutionary Council Amin Maqboul told Ma'an Monday evening that failure to appoint a new government was the main obstacle to elections in the West Bank and Gaza. | Mashaal, who lives in exile, arrived in Jordan on Sunday where he met King Abdullah II, his first visit since being expelled from the country in 1999.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, casts his vote, followed by his wife Sara, during the Likud party primary elections in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
Joseph Davis, East Liverpool, and Amber Davis, East Liverpool, dissolution sought. | Michael L. McHar Jr., North Lima, and April A. McHar, Negley, dissolution sought. | Marlane B. Icenhower, Negley, vs. Lewis D.K. Icenhower, Negley, divorce sought. | The First State Bank vs. David and Beverly Cline, et al., foreclosure ordered for property on East Rochester Road, East Rochester.
On a Friday evening in December, before heading to dinner at Harvard Hillel, I strove to protect a flickering candle from the wind rushing through Harvard Square. Along with dozens of other students, I was standing in vigil for Mustafa Tamimi, a peaceful Palestinian protestor who died after being shot in the head by a tear-gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier.
German FM Guido Westerwelle. | CAIRO: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle renewed on Tuesday his support for more openness and respect towards the new democratic Islamic forces in Egypt. | He said in statements during a visit to Cairo, where he met with the head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF)
BY URI DROMI / The Miami Herald JournalStar.com | Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:50 pm | Loading... | The so-called peace process with the Palestinians seems to be at a dead end, and no one really knows who to blame. President Barack Obama is busy trying to win re-election, so he can't twist arms or knock heads. And above all there hovers the growing threat of the Iranian nukes. | If this is not enough, Egypt is an enigma.
The West Bank and Gaza economies are inextricably linked to that of Israel€™s. Since Israel€™s economy has a growth rate of nearly double the United States€™ and nearly half the unemployment, Penn would be well advised to overweight its investment portfolio in companies in and associated with Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in the primary of his rightwing Likud party over his sole rival, the hardline settler Moshe Feiglin. | "I thank you for the confidence and the renewed support that you have given me," Netanyahu told a party gathering before the official results were announced.
Here's what Dana Olwan said about her $223000 multimedia project in the Queen's University Journal: “It's important to understand that the Israeli- Palestinian conflict hasn't ended yet…. Palestinians are being dispossessed from Jerusalem right now...
He ended up in Tiberias for a time, picking up temporary jobs as a waiter, a video store clerk and in a barber shop. Today, however, he is principal of the Branco Weiss technological school in Modi'in. He has an education degree and lives in a nice house. | Hagai Snir with his family. | Eyal (not his real name ), 38, owns a cutting-edge digital media firm with around a dozen employees.
Check out these photos from the Transition to Betterness gala at the Ciociaro Club on Sat. Jan. 29, 2012. | Check out LiveWire, The Star's news blog, for breaking news and upcoming events and everything in between. Your News. As it Happens. All The Time. | The head of Israel's intelligence service, Tamir Pardo, is in Washington for talks about a possible attack on Iran's nuclear installations, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.
A major portion of malware, has initiated from the country during the last three weeks (first three weeks of January 2012) during the so called cyber conflict in the Arab region, according to the news published by The National on January 22, 2012. | Further, the hacker confesses that it had posted 40,000 Israeli-owned cards online in earlier of this month (January 2012).
Israel likes to present itself as a bastion of democracy in the largely stifled Middle Eastern region, and many in the West have fallen hook, line and sinker for this pose. While the small nation may be more viable than its neighbors, Israel should not be put on a pedestal. If anything, much about Israel€™s current regime is worrisome to true supporters of republicanism. Just this past July, the conservative Likud Party in Israel€™s...
In your editorial "SA needs quick reaction on Iran," (January 26 ) you recommend that SA as the January chair of the UN Security Council elucidate its position on the European Union decision to impose an embargo on the purchase of Iranian oil.