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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How Marty Peretz misrepresented Cordoba in Muslim history
Marty Peretz's reading of "Islamic" history is selective. He reads Islamic history in the same manner an anti-Semite reads Jewish history (to demonize them). He quotes a claim that "Cordoba,"...
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Ken Loach and Arundhati Roy are latest narrators of Goldstone Report
Surely you know that Goldstonefacts is an effort to dramatize the Goldstone Report on the Gaza onslaught with celeb readings. Noam Chomsky's sonorous monotone. Norm Finkelstein's Brooklyn twang.
Well the latest chapter they've dramatized is a key...
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Trying to enter Gaza– and my embassy gives me an appointment in 10 days
Susan Johnson of Doylestown, PA, has been invited to Gaza by two organizations seeking her assistance. She's still waiting in Egypt.
.....and I continue to sit in...
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BDS and one state as an alternative to the peace process
Omar Barghouti appeared on CNN to discuss the shortcomings of the peace process:
An...
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Shlaim: I’m not a refugee, my family left Iraq because we felt ‘insecure’ after Zionists wiped Palestine off the map
In the Financial Times, Avi Shlaim reviews In Ishmael's House, a history of Jews living in Muslim lands, by Martin Gilbert, and published by Yale. (thanks to Nader Hashemi)
Nowhere is...
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2010 Palestine peace talks - A Stallone remake? (Agustín Velloso, The Palestine Chronicle)
A new round of peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis has just begun in the United States. The summer was one of kite-flying, on the one hand in the form of indirect contacts between the two sides so as not to further provoke Palestinians sick of the Israeli Occupation and the...
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While Netanyahu harped on ‘the blood of innocents,’ Mitchell seemed to warn of Israel’s demise
I watched Thursday's State Department show on the peace talks on C-Span the other night and was left with a sense of despair.
There were very few people in the fancy rooms and little sense of excitement. The leaders all seemed motheaten, except for Netanyahu, who always reminds me of a...
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The settler killings– morality and effectiveness
The recent killing of four West Bank settlers by Palestinian gunmen raises the ever-present issue of violence in resistance to occupation and oppression. I write in respectful response to ...
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I.F. Stone supported state force to kill a racist movement before it poisoned society
I haven't gotten into the debate over non-violence on this site for a few reasons, mainly because other articulate voices are engaged, though I tend to be on the non-violent side, because this moment is just too important in reaching out to Americans who are finally opening their eyes but are...
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Ramadan goes down under rubble (Eva Bartlett, Inter Press Service)
With power cuts up to 16 hours to full days, a soaring heat wave and unbearable humidity, the Israeli-led siege on Gaza is but one of many factors leaving Ramadan miserable for the majority of Palestinians in Gaza. Abu Hani, 54, lives with his wife Umm Hani, 54, and three sons in Johr al-Dik,...
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