News Items
The following news items have been syndicated by the following sources:
- B'Tselem
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
- Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)
- The Mondoweiss Blog
- Health and Human Rights Project
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Are the settlers civilians?
Although I have replied individually to a few comments to my recent post regarding the recent killing of four Israeli settlers, there was one issue repeatedly raised in several comments. To what...
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Traveler
I'm off to the Middle East for a couple weeks. I wish everyone a happy end to Ramadan and happy beginning of the Jewish new year. Well-- those sons and daughters of Abraham, anyway!
I'm going to try and write from my destinations and keep an eye on the news. Others will be carrying the...
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Meet the Chernicks
A few weeks back Juan Cole created a data point to explain the neocons:
They have more assets than is visible on the surface. They have perhaps half...
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Palestinian parents donate organs of their dead 4-year-old to save 3 Israelis
and other news from Today in Palestine:
Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing
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Mearsheimer: There will be no two-state solution, only a greater Israel, and Palestinians will need the int’l community in the coming fight against apartheid
Something you won't see on American television: Al Jazeera ran a long piece on the peace talks (linked here at Pulse.). "Empire" host Marwan Bishara is incisive; he speaks of the "Zionist lobby" and the emergence of...
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Right-wing Zionists hammer out their vision of one state
We got the note below from a man called Peter Paton. It is a reminder that the Zionist right is actively developing its ideas of what one state between the river and the sea will look like. And it ain't pretty.
But the right recognizes a reality that the left, including the American...
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Arab leaders reaffirm ‘67 borders. And Israel?
This one sure seems like a no-brainer.
1. Jordan's King Abdullah attended Obama's peace talk photo-op in D.C. last week, then he went back home and visited Damascus and the two countries' leaders...
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Road to Jerusalem now moved from Baghdad to Tehran!
Wonderful post at Lobelog by Eli Clifton: The neocons used to insist that the road to peace in Jerusalem led through Baghdad.
Guess what, now they're saying it leads “through Tehran.” And the sad...
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Lessons in Palestinian truth (Ramzy Baroud, Al-Ahram Weekly)
Writers often romanticise their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book - or any piece of writing for that matter - is meant to provide a sense of completion. Sociological explanations are offered to offset the confusion caused by apparent inconsistency in human behaviour....
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Who are we to stand in moral and legal judgment of the settlers’ killers?
I appreciated David Samel’s thoughtful essay on the Hamas-claimed killings of the four paramilitary settlers in Hebron—paramilitary settlers, and not simply “...
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