West Bank

Settlers run rampage in West Bank

by Khalid Amayreh December 28, 2011

Burning mosques, burning vehicles, settlers appear to have a blank cheque to harass and aggress Palestinians, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem.

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Happy Christmas, O prisoners of the Little Town of Bethlehem

by Stuart Littlewood December 24, 2011

O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight

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What happens when a Gazan wants to marry a West Bank woman?

by Amira Hass December 19, 2011

Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? You don’t believe it?

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It’s not that Israel is finding new ways to expel Palestinians, it’s that no one cares

by Amira Hass November 15, 2011

Interior, justice and defense ministries decided to cease respecting a gentlemanly agreement with with Palestinians and their spouses holding passports of mostly western countries. Israel canceled their resident status.

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Palestinian Right of Self-Defense

by Stephen Lendman August 22, 2011

Repeatedly, Israel preemptively bombs, shells, and inflicts other forms of lawless violence on Gazans, bogusly claiming self-defense. When they respond, Israel calls it terrorism.

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Netanyahu and the Border Incident: The Return of the Generals

by Uri Avnery August 21, 2011

With a sigh of relief, Netanyahu returned to his usual stance. Here he was, surrounded by generals, the he-man, the resolute fighter, the Defender of Israel.

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Daily Rogue State Israeli Lawlessness

by Stephen Lendman August 17, 2011

It begs the question why Israelis put up with lawless governance harming them as well as Palestinians. When will weeks of social injustice outrage arouse them to embrace universal equity?

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‘Jewish state’ means Jewish fascism

by Khalid Amayreh July 19, 2011

New U.S. formula: Palestinian recognition of the “Jewishness” of Israel in exchange for an American endorsement of a Palestinian “state” on unspecific parts of the West Bank and few scattered neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem.

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US Congress loves being lied to about the Israel-Palestine conflict…

by Stuart Littlewood July 17, 2011

Stuart Littlewood reminds Israel’s stooges and other ignoramuses in the US Congress of a few basic facts about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict – the sheer injustice suffered by the Palestinians at the hands of Israel and its US supporter – and concludes: “There is only one thing worse than being lied to, Congress. And that’s acting on a lie.”

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Counting the cost of a Palestinian state

by Yousef Munayyer July 13, 2011

The size of the territory allotted for Palestine state continued to shrink with every new Israeli settlement. Do the Palestinians want this state? No, clearly not.

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Palestinian people power – could it be a game-changer?

by Alan Hart July 6, 2011

Just imagine it… Several hundred thousand or better still one or two million Palestinians or more marching peacefully to the 1967 borders.

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Welcome to Palestine – if you can get in

by Sam Bahour July 5, 2011

Israel is threatening to refuse to allow Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territory to receive visitors from abroad. We are not talking here about visitors such as the 5 million Palestinian refugees whom Israel has refused to allow to return to their homes after being expelled by force and fear when Israel was founded in 1948. Rather, the issue now is that foreigners who desire to visit the occupied Palestinian territory are being denied entry into Israel.

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Abbas: A September Palestinian State or Lose World Support

by Mohamed Khodr July 4, 2011

The Palestinian Authority, under Mahmoud Abbas, must immediately stop the limping and lackluster effort and present their resolution this September to the U.N. General Assembly to recognize a Palestinian State. This will be the only worthy initiative that the PA has ever adopted since its founding in which the far majority of the world is supportive.

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The truth behind another Israeli expulsion trick

by Amira Hass June 28, 2011

The artificial division between Areas A, B and C was supposed to be erased from the map, and dropped from the discourse, in 1999. Instead, Israel has sanctified and perpetuated it.

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Message to Congress: Take a Slow Boat to Gaza [Satire]

by Mantiq al-Tayr June 26, 2011

The “Department of State” strongly urges that U.S. citizens refrain from all travel to the Gaza Strip, an area living under such breathtakingly awful conditions thanks to Israel that even Hitler would have objected. But we digress. We also recommend that all US citizens refrain from traveling to Israel ever again and that they actively participate in the boycott campaign against Israel known as the BDS.

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