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The Terror that begot Israel

Monday, June 16th, 2008

“We committed Nazi acts.”
Aharon Zisling, Israel’s first Agriculture Minister

“There is no doubt that many sexual atrocities were committed by the attacking Jews. Many young (Arab) girls were raped and later slaughtered. Old women were also molested.”
General Richard Catling, British Army Assistant Inspector after interrogating several female survivors (The Palestinian Catastrophe, Michael Palumbo, 1987)

As the evil [...]

Hitler Youth in the West Bank

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Last week, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released video clips showing masked Jewish settlers ganging up on and severely beating elderly Palestinian peasants near the town of Yatta, southwest of Hebron. At least three Palestinians were wounded in the unprovoked assault, including a man and his wife, both in their early sixties.

The latest act [...]

Action Alert: Contact your EU represenatives now

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

On the 16th June, the European Union will be discussing the possible upgrading of relations with Israel. Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayad, already raised Palestinians concern about this issue in his letter to EU. Your support is needed.

Please send this letter (or write your own) to your various representatives and express your concern at this [...]

What you don’t see on CNN: IOF Shoot Live Ammunition on Peaceful Protest

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Warning: Parental Guidance Suggested!

June 13 2008 - A young man from Bilin was shot with live rounds during the weekly Bilin Protest. Ibrahim Burnat who was shot in his right thigh was taken directly to Sheik Zaid Hospital in Ramallah and was described by doctors as being in critical condition. Ibrahim posed no threat to [...]

Salam Fayad: Re:Potential upgrade of EU-Israel relations

Friday, June 13th, 2008

The European Union is considering upgrading its relationship with Israel, including in the political and economic spheres, and the European Council will take a decision on these matter in its June 16th meeting.

Salam Fayad wrote the EU a letter of protest which is worth noting:

Palestinian National Authority

Prime Minister’s Office

27 May 2008

Re: Potential upgrade of EU-Israel [...]

UPDATED: Not on CNN (or YouTube): Jewish settlers attack elderly shepherd and his wife

Friday, June 13th, 2008

UPDATED (See end of post for new version of the same incident)

Warning: Parental Guidance Suggested!

Spread the video. Get the code from here:

http://blip.tv/file/990007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bukTxWZJsN0 (YouTube Zionist censorship removed the video. Check update below!)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5rktn_jewish-settlers-attack-elderly-shep_news

As reported by BBC:

‘Jewish settler attack’ on film
By Tim Franks - BBC

Footage from a video camera handed out by an Israeli human rights [...]

If Silwan’s Stones Could Speak

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Above: A map showing the area of Silwan threatened with demolition and settlement expansion, including an indicator of the area in which settlements already exist. As highlighted on the map, Silwan as well as the adjacent villages of Tur and Ras Al Amud will be on the western side of the Wall, as Jerusalem is [...]

Saree Makdisi - Banned in the U.S.A. (Almost)

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

I didn’t think America was a place where bookstores barred people for their viewpoints, until it happened to me, right here in Washington, D.C., the city of my birth.

I was scheduled to speak at Politics & Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse last month about my latest book, “Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation.” My appearance was [...]

George Bisharat - The fallacy of Islamic ‘national suicide’

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat

Written by George Bisharat

A new buzzword is arising from the network of Israeli think tanks and security-oriented academic departments bent on instigating a U.S. attack on Iran: “national suicide.” The term describes a supposed Arab Muslim tradition of politically motivated suicide at the national, not just individual, level. Arab Muslim regimes have [...]

Italian Judge Injured By Israeli Army In Peaceful Demonstration Against The Wall, In Bil’in

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

PRESS RELEASE

BY

LUISA MORGANTINI

Vice President of the European Parliament

(GUE/NGL)

ITALIAN JUDGE INJURED BY ISRAELI ARMY IN PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE WALL, IN BIL’IN (WEST BANK)

Bil’in, (West Bank) 6th June 2008

A demonstration against the wall in Bil’in, a Palestinian village close to Ramallah, just concluded the Third Annual Conference (2nd-4th June) organized by the Bil’in Popular Committee for [...]