Israel said Friday it will construct hundreds of new housing units in West Bank settlements before any slowdown in building, an announcement that drew harsh criticism from Washington, which demands a complete settlement freeze as a prelude to renewing Mideast peace talks.
Israeli officials painted the move as a concession to the U.S. demand because it might bring a temporary halt to other construction. But since it would also mean building the new units and finishing some 2,500 others now (…)
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Israeli plan for settlement building angers US
5 September 2009, by Steven Gutkin -
Barak Approves More Settlement Units Before Heading To Talk “Peace” in Washington
30 June 2009Hours before he took off to Washington for talks with the US administration on peace and settlements, Israeli Army Minister, Ehud Barak, approved the construction of a new settlement in the so-called Benyamin region.
The approval came as part of a deal with the settlers who were evacuated from the illegal Migron settlement outpost.
The settlers would move into a new settlement of 250 houses after they evacuate their outpost built on privately owned Palestinian land.
Migron is inhibited (…) -
Israel’s Kafkaesque "Matrix of Control"
3 février 2007, par Stephen LendmanFinding an equitable solution to the intractable, festering decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the Gordian Knot that must be cut to achieve peace overall in the Middle East. Today, no solution is in sight nor are any serious efforts planned to find one despite occasional rhetoric to the contrary like what’s now being heard from Washington with similar disingenuous echos inside Israel.
Palestinians know otherwise from long experience. They’ve heard this siren song before. It’s the (…) -
Birth of a settlement
22 May 2009, by Joseph Dana, Mairav ZonszeinHilltop 26 is the name of an illegal settlement outpost atop a tranquil, windswept hill just outside Kiryat Arba, in the southern West Bank. From its top, one can see the red roofs of the Jewish settlement to the south and, in the distance, the outskirts of the holy city of Hebron. Over the past two months, adolescent settlers from Kiryat Arba have built a structure atop Hilltop 26 that they use as a clubhouse for eating, studying and hanging out. Although Hilltop 26 was dismantled in 1999, (…)
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« Protocole de Doha » : fin de l’Etat syrien ?
12 décembre 2012, par Noureddine MerdaciIl faudra sans doute attendre encore des mois, certainement des années, avant que ne soit reconstitué le processus par lequel la Syrie s’est retrouvée piégée dans cette guerre civile. A l’évidence, Damas n’en a pas mesuré la dangerosité, non seulement pour le régime en place mais, singulièrement, pour la Syrie qui risque de disparaître en tant qu’Etat national. Or, le voile commence à se lever sur les circonstances du « conclave » qui s’est tenu à Doha au début du mois de novembre dernier, (…)
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Mahmoud Abbas and Barack Obama: tragic hero vs political prostitute
24 September 2011, by Uri AvneryA wonderful speech. A beautiful speech.
The language expressive and elegant. The arguments clear and convincing. The delivery flawless.
A work of art. The art of hypocrisy. Almost every statement in the passage concerning the Israeli-Palestinian issue was a lie. A blatant lie: the speaker knew it was a lie, and so did the audience.
It was Obama at his best, Obama at his worst.
Being a moral person, he must have felt the urge to vomit. Being a pragmatic person, he knew that he had to (…) -
The language of Zionism
13 May 2010, by Joseph MassadThe reason for the ongoing "violence" in Israel and Palestine is not on account of Israeli colonialism at all but rather a direct result of mistranslation. Joseph Massad provides an abridged lexicon of Zionist terminology
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Anonymous (المجهولون) عملية اسرائيل
17 تشرين الثاني (نوفمبر) 2012تحياتي ايها العالم
لفترة طويلة جدا، Anonymous (المجهولون) وقفو مع بقية العالم و شاهدوا بيأس المعاملة البربرية ،الوحشية الحقيرة للشعب الفلسطيني "الاراضي المحتلة" من قبل قوة الدفاع الاسرائيلية. مثل العديد حول العالم شعرنا بالعجز في مواجهة هذا الشر العنيد. وكان هجوم اليوم المجنون والتهديد بالغزو على عزة شيء دائما ما يحصل.
لكن الحكومة الاسرائيلية تجاوزت حدودها عندما هددت علنا بقطع كامل الانترنت و غيرها من الاتصالات في داخل و خارج غزة.
كما تعلم دكتاتور مصر "مبارك" بالطريقة الصعبة اننا( نحن (…) -
مساء الخير ياعرب.. مسا أمة كلها عطبّ ..؟؟
21 كانون الأول (ديسمبر) 2012, بقلم بلال فورانيمساء يليق بكم .. ولا عندي لياقة لاستقباله بالشكل الجميل فعذراً منكم مساء الوجعّ الذي لا أفردّ له جناحي .. لكنه بكل شطارة يسرقّ ريشي مني ويطير مساء الموت الذي فاحت رائحته من جثث أبناء غزة وما زال العرب يتغزلون بعطور فرنسا مساء الدم الساخن…الذي ينسكب على الأرض الفلسطينية كي يسقي العرب بعض الكرامة مساء ضحكة طفل فلسطيني مات تحت التراب قبل أن يتعلمّ البكاء على أرض الميعاد مساء الأقنعة المزيفة .. التي سقطت بكل تطرفّ أعمى أمام أمة يفترضّ بأنها أمة وسطى مساء التسولّ الرخيص من أنصاف رجال يجلسون في (…)
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Israel annexing East Jerusalem, says EU
7 March 2009A confidential EU report accuses the Israeli government of using settlement expansion, house demolitions, discriminatory housing policies and the West Bank barrier as a way of "actively pursuing the illegal annexation" of East Jerusalem.
The document says Israel has accelerated its plans for East Jerusalem, and is undermining the Palestinian Authority’s credibility and weakening support for peace talks. "Israel’s actions in and around Jerusalem constitute one of the most acute challenges (…)