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  • Murdering Palestinians for their organs: "All facts on the ground prove Swedish report correct"

    by Saed Bannoura

    Former Palestinian detainee, researcher Abdul-Nasser Farwana, stated that all facts on the ground, since decades, prove that the Israeli occupation executed Palestinian detainees after they surrendered and refused to hand their bodies to their families. Hundreds of bodies were transferred to the families days, months or even years after the fact, and when the bodies were sent back, they were missing vital internal organs.
    Link for the Aftonbladet report by Swedish journalist Donald (...)

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  • US Turns Blind Eye to Israel’s New Separation Policy

    18 August 2009, by Jonathan Cook

    In an echo of restrictions already firmly in place in Gaza, Israel has begun barring movement between Israel and the West Bank for those holding a foreign passport, including humanitarian aid workers and thousands of Palestinian residents. The new policy is designed to force foreign citizens, mainly from North America and Europe, to choose between visiting Israel – including East Jerusalem, which Israel has annexed illegally – and the West Bank. The new regulation is in breach of (...)

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  • Peace Now: Halt illegal construction north of Jerusalem

    12 August 2009, by Efrat Weiss

    The left-wing Peace Now organization claims that construction works are being carried out to expand the settlement of Kochav Yaakov, located north of Jerusalem, eastward.
    A neighborhood with some 15 caravans has reportedly been established as part of the construction works. According to Peace Now, some of the caravans have already been connected to the water and sewage infrastructures, and a children’s playground has been set up in the area.
    The left-wing group said in a statement (...)

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  • Israel cuts 1948 ’catastrophe’ from Arabic texts

    22 juillet 2009, par MATTI FRIEDMAN

    The Israeli government will remove references to what Palestinians call the "catastrophe" of Israel’s creation from textbooks for Arab schoolchildren, the education minister said Wednesday.
    The reference to "al-naqba," the Arabic word catastrophe, as Palestinians call their defeat and exile in the war over Israel’s 1948 creation, was inserted by a dovish Israeli education minister in 2007.
    The phrase remains contentious six decades later, a symptom of the continuing divisions in (...)

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  • Judenrein! Netanyahu adopts Nazi term to back Jewish settlers

    10 July 2009, by Dan Williams

    OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Hosting the German foreign minister this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used an especially tainted term to condemn the Palestinian demand that Israel’s settlements in the Occupied West Bank be removed. “Judea and Samaria cannot be Judenrein,” a Netanyahu confidant quoted him as telling Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
    Asked how Germany’s top diplomat responded to hearing the Nazi Holocaust term for areas “cleansed of Jews,” the confidant said: “What could he do? He (...)

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  • Zionist Fanatics Practice Serial Vandalism in Paris

    6 July 2009, by Diana Johnstone

    Thousands of books drenched in cooking oil – that is the latest exploit of the Zionist fanatics who regularly attack property and people in Paris and get away with it.
    In the early afternoon of Friday, July 3, five men, mostly masked, stormed into the “Resistances” bookstore located in a quiet residential neighborhood of the 17th arrondissement in northwest Paris. To the startled women working in the shop, as well as two customers, they announcing that they were from the Jewish Defense (...)

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  • What about the Arabs’ natural growth?

    12 June 2009, by Akiva Eldar

    It seems that never before has so much been written and said about the "natural growth" of so few. The issue of construction in the West Bank settlements for the sake of the future generation is threatening to sabotage Israel’s relations with the U.S., or undermine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s relations with the settlers and their representatives in the Likud and Israel’s right wing.
    Maybe it is no coincidence that the government spokespeople insist on describing the homes for (...)

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  • Israel ’wantonly destroyed Gaza’

    2 July 2009,

    Israel inflicted "wanton destruction" in the Gaza Strip during its 22-day war on the coastal enclave in December and January, Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group has said.
    In a 117-page report released on Thursday, Amnesty cited evidence that Israeli troops put children and other civilians in harm’s way "by forcing them to remain in or near houses which they took over and used as military positions".
    Accusing Israel of "breaching laws of war", Amnesty said: "Much (...)

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  • Israel agrees to take action on settlement activity

    30 June 2009, by Barak Ravid

    Defense Minister Ehud Barak and U.S. special Mideast envoy George Mitchell agreed during their talks in New York this week that Israel must take action toward easing access for Palestinians in the West Bank and halting settlement activity.
    Their four-hour discussion brought Israel and the United States closer to ending its dispute over settlement construction, a source close to Barak said.
    Mitchell did not explicitly tell Barak that Israel must impose a complete freeze on settlements - (...)

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  • Barak Approves More Settlement Units Before Heading To Talk “Peace” in Washington

    30 June 2009,

    Hours 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 (...)

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