Archive for October, 2009
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Qalandya checkpoint is one of the largest israeli checkpoints in the occupied West Bank.
It is located between Ramallah and ar Ram (both Palestinian) and it separates Ramallah residents from southern Palestinian town and Jerusalem neighbourhoods.
On Sunday 25 October, an Israeli border guard was stabbed inside the checkpoint.
Israely Army immediately detained ...
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
By: Aditya Ganapathiraju “Gaza is an example of a society that has been deliberately reduced to a state of abject destitution,” Sara Roy wrote in July. It has led to “mass suffering, created largely by Israel,” and aided by the active participation of the United States, European Union, and Palestinian ...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
(artwork by Carlos Latuff) The time has come for looking deeper into the Palestinian political system and empowerment of the Palestinian, Arab and international think tanks worldwide to face the thought-provoking challenges of the Palestinian divide and its negative impacts on the Palestinians, their neighbors and the international community. If ...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Zimbabwe expels U.N. rights investigator (Washington Post, October 29, 2009)
Zimbabwe Deports U.N. Investigator (New York Times, October 29, 2009)
Zimbabwe Deports U.N. Investigator (Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2009)
BUT: This headline is Absent.
Israel denied entry to Richard Falk, UN Human Rights special rapporteur and deported him from Ben Gurion (December 15, ...
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH
Futility Much Anticipated With Israel's Occupation
In a measure that has already vexed the internal Palestinian political arena, Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmud Abbas has called for "presidential and legislative elections" to be held in the Occupied Territories of the West Bank, East Al-Quds and the Gaza Strip ...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
One of the cruellest ironies of the occupation is that Palestinians are building it. Tens of thousands of labourers are employed in construction of the wall, settlements and the industries around them. Their co-operation does not go unpunished. Despite a 2007 Israeli High Court ruling that gave the same rights ...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Dr Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, appeared yesterday on the Daily Show, the American night television talk show, together with the Jewish American writer Anna Balzer. They discussed the situation in the occupied territories, advocating a non-violent approach.
Watch the full episode: Part one:
The Daily Show With ...
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