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Israeli Deputy FM says military-administered sanctions on Gaza were “ineffective”
It appears that National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent in Jerusalem, Lourdes Garcia Navarro, managed to get a big admission from Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon: Israel’s two-and-a-half-year-old program of military-administered punitive sanctions against Gaza was “not that effective”. The Israeli military sanctions, which were to have been progressively tightened, were unsupervised by any [...]
4th Friday in Ramadan 2010
This is the fourth — but perhaps not last — Friday in Ramadan.
UPDATE TWO: AFP reported that Israeli police put the number of worshippers [at what AFP called the heavily-guarded Al-Aqsa mosque] at 160,000 to 170,000, while Muslim authorities said it exceeded 200,000. In his Friday sermon Sheikh Yusef Abu Sneineh criticised the relaunch [...]
Third attack on West Bank settlers in three days – Israeli Interior Minister orders facilitated gun permits for West Bank Jews
As the principals were in Washington for the re-launch of Israeli-Palestinian direct talks, a third nighttime attack on Israeli settlers driving in the West Bank occurred at around 9pm on Thursday night, in the northern West Bank near the large settement of Ariel. A 12-year-old girl was moderately wounded by stone-throwing when the car in [...]
"Solidarity with the entire Palestinian people"
The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights recently published Rights in Principle -- Rights in Practice, which examines a r...
Bedouin’s legal fight threatens Jewish state
Nuri al-Uqbi's small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighborhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel's Negev desert, hardly looks like the epice...
‘Triple Threat’ Looms Over Pakistan
The World Food Programme has warned that flood-ravaged Pakistan faces
a "triple threat" after the worst disaster in the country's history
left eight million people dependent on aid to survive.
Torrential rains triggered massive floods that ...
PA gets another chance to practice “democracy”
Palestinian groups — mainly left-wing “factions” — are holding a demonstration now in the center of Ramallah, at Manara Square, to protest the Palestinian leadership’s decision to accept a U.S. invitation to resume direct talks with Israel today and tomorrow in Washington.
UPDATE: About 300 people were at the demonstration and — as [...]
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Incitement – cont’d
Now, at last, at long last, the U.S. government has spoken out, and called incitement, “incitement”.
And it was on a Sunday, too, a day on which Washington is normally quiet.
The U.S. went further, and said that the remarks made by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in a sermon in a Jerusalem synagogue over [...]
Measuring Progress Five Years After Hurricane Katrina
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana - On the fifth
anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive storms in
U.S. history, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and
members of the Cabinet will travel Sunday to New Orleans.
The Preside...
Mass arrests, clashes follow settler shootings