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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Abunimah on settler murders: security for all
Ali Abunimah was on Democracy Now this morning condemning the murder of the four settlers and pointing out that thousands of Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been murdered in the last two years by the Israelis....
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What is Hamas thinking?
As the “peace talks” are about to get under way in Washington, Hamas has decided to remind us all of its vitality by executing four settlers. According to the New York Times article,...
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No haven in New Haven for bigoted ideas
Yaman Salahi, a Yale Law School student, joins the call on Yale to dissociate itself from the...
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In East Jerusalem… a near riot
Joseph Dana says there is a near riot taking place right now in Silwan, during a demonstration against the Israeli occupation/landgrab in which police have used violence. His tweets and pictures below.
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Talks could be the funeral of the two-state solution
Yesterday Amjad Atallah, Daniel Levy, and Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation held a conference call (audio here) about the direct talks that begin today. There was a lot of...
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Hamas attack was wrong
The Hamas attack on settlers in the West Bank was wrong. The attack was wrong strategically, but more importantly, it was wrong morally.
The so-called peace talks aren’t going anywhere. But even if they were, executing civilians is always morally repugnant.
Colonized people have...
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Chas Freeman: Only Europe can skin the cat, out of the shadow of the Israel lobby
Helena Cobban reports on a speech by the man who was supposed to be Barack "Change" Obama's intelligence chief, but was kiboshed by pro-Israel forces...
The experienced American diplomatist Chas W. Freeman, Jr, has issued a...
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Canadian prof sued the Israel lobby
The campaign against Mustafa Bayoumi, a Brooklyn College professor and author, that was reported on this site yesterday by Zenowich/Kane...
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Recalling his encounter with Dayan, an Israeli soldier pleads for two states on ‘67 lines
I believe that an economically viable, sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel is the only path to peace and prosperity for the Israeli and Palestinian people. Although I have been an Israeli-American for 30 years, I speak from my experiences in the Israeli army during the War of Attrition...
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Palestinians skeptical of new round of peace talks (Edmund Sanders, The Los Angeles Times)
Independent Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti said Abbas was putting too much faith in President Obama's ability to secure a deal within a year. "There's an overreliance on external support," said Barghouti, a distant cousin of Marwan Barghouti. "As the leader of Palestinians, Abbas...
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