Some good news:
Adalah-NY - UNICEF Rejects Support From Israeli Billionaire Known for Constructing Settlements on Palestinian Lands
Diamond Mogul, Lev Leviev, Facing Increasing Pressure for Human Rights Violations
A senior advisor to UNICEF’s Director said in a letter today that UNICEF will reject all partnerships with, or financial support from, Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. Leviev had previously [...]

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Haitham Sabbah, Mary Rizzo and Gilad Atzmon are very pleased to announce their new site, Palestine Think Tank. It is a site containing news, analysis, art and more to further the cause of justice for Palestinians. It concentrates on many aspects of the resistance, but also focuses on the issues affecting the entire Middle East. [...]

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German intellectuals: Israel’s creation made Palestinians victims of Holocaust
Last update - 10:43 19/02/2008 | Haaretz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A group of visiting German intellectuals called on Berlin on Monday to change what they termed its Holocaust-rooted blind support of Israel, saying the creation of the State of Israel turned Palestinians into victims of the Nazi Holocaust as [...]

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On behalf of the Palestinian soccer fans and the Palestinian National Women Football team, I would like to congratulate the first Saudi female soccer team.
The first soccer match between female teams has taken place in Alkhobbar (Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province). The match was held between two teams of university students. The Prince Mohammad bin Fahd [...]

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I got this email from a friend and it is worth sharing with you all.
Dear Haitham,
I do know if you were aware of this impending law before the United States Congress. It was a chilling one. But it seems to have been throttled before becoming law here. I think this would interest your [...]

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One of the biggest criticisms of Dubai has always been the traffic congestion, ask me about it as I lived there for six years.
In an effort to reduce the traffic, Dubai, opened a floating bridge which connect the two sides of the creek - Deira and Bur Dubai.

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The Floating Bridge [...]

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In last week’s New York Times there is a great article about the movement gaining momentum in Egypt to end the brutal and senseless practice of female genital mutilation (a.k.a. circumcision). However, it is important to say that circumcision is an inaccurate term for it. Female genital mutilation is the preferred and more accurate [...]

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I admit I have missed the news when it was announced end of last July, but better late than never.
Honored to be Bahraini by soul for living in Bahrain for the last four years, I am very happy to know that Wafaa Ganahi, a 23-year-old teacher from the Law Faculty of Bahrain University, won the [...]

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[Image by Ben Heine]
ISM Media Alerts
Victory for the residents of Bil’in village
4th September 2007:
Following popular non-violent resistance through joint struggle between Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, a court decision has been made in favor of the petition by Bilin village to change the current route of the Apartheid Wall.
The court decision dictates that [...]

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Thanks to the Zionist ‘Anti-Defamation League‘ (ADL), the ‘Free Gaza Movement‘ is getting a free publicity by the coverage here.
I already covered the story of Free Gaza few months ago, but the more, the better.

Project Description
This movement is an international nonviolent resistance project to challenge Israel’s siege of Gaza. Israel claims that Gaza is no [...]

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Via Haaretz:
The Dutch foreign minister, Maxime Verhagen, recently warned a construction company from the Rotterdam area to terminate its involvement in work on the separation fence in the West Bank.
“I expect Riwal to stop providing cranes for the wall. I hope this will be the last we hear of it,” Verhagen said in a media [...]

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South Africa’s largest trade union seeks to boycott Israel
South Africa’s largest trade union federation will launch a campaign against “the Israeli occupation of Arab lands” this week, demanding that Pretoria impose a boycott on all Israeli goods and break diplomatic relations. South African Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils, who is Jewish, told Haaretz that he actively [...]

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I’m speechless, but happy. Unlike any other Western country, boycotting Israel seems to be a healthy-contagious among UK organizations these days. After the journalists, doctors and couple of days ago, the top UK architects, UK professors’ union votes to boycott Israel.
The general secretary Sally Hunt urged delegates not to support the boycott call because [...]

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APJP calls on Israeli and international architects, planners and those in the construction industry to express their concern in each and every instance of unjust action in annexing Palestinian land, and the projects to be built on them. The future Security and justice, in both Israel and Palestine, are at stake.

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We are of all ages and backgrounds. Back home, we are teachers, medics, musicians, secretaries, parents, grandparents, lawyers, students, activists, actors, playwrites, politicians, singer-songwriters, web designers, international training consultants, and even a former Hollywood film industry worker and an aviator. We are South African, Australian, American, English, Israeli, Palestinian, and more. We’ve tried to enter Palestine by land. We’ve tried to arrive by air. Now we’re getting serious. We’re taking a ship.

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Quoting this blog:
Help us look for Dan Halutz!
minals and human rights abusers. Also be sure to ask if THEY have seen the elusive Dan Halutz and could help locate him!
Thank you for your support and remember to keep your eyes peeled!
Please address your correspondence to these administrators and cc messages to ajmeharvard at gmail dot [...]

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This is quoted from Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project:

For the last three years, community members in Olympia, WA, and Rafah, Palestine, have been working together to create a lasting, sincere partnership to better foster understanding between people who have not traditionally had a chance to get to know one another. It is our belief that by [...]

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June 2007 marks the 40-year anniversary of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights.
The ICNP (International Coordination Network on Palestine) has launched during last year’s annual UN civil society conference on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people a global Call for Action Days on June 9-10, [...]

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[Source: CNI]
Speaker Pelosi: After Damascus… Tehran?
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI should be applauded for taking a bipartisan group of Congressmen to Damascus to talk with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Her visit, which was sharply criticized by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, was clearly in the national interest.
Taking a tip from the Iraq Study [...]

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On the 40th anniversary of Israel’s illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, join the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and United for Peace and Justice in Washington, DC, June 10-11, 2007 for a protest, teach-in, and lobby day.
The campaign starts underground - into the Washington subway [...]

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