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Bedouin village razed in Negev as Israelis cheer on

Syndicated News — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:51:02 +0000

Early morning on 27 July, Israeli bulldozers, flanked by helicopters and throngs of police, demolished the entire Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the northern Negev desert. Despite their land rights cases still pending in the court system, hundreds of al-Araqib villagers were instantly made homeless a month after Israeli police posted demolition orders.

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UN Declares Water, Sanitation as Human Rights

Syndicated News — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:47:30 +0000

by Bradley Bouzane

Access to clean water and sanitation was declared a human right Wednesday after a vote aimed at helping the world's neediest, passed unanimously at the United Nations.

Although the motion passed with 124 countries voting in favour of the resolution drafted by Bolivia, Canada was among the 41 nations to abstain on the issue.

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Israel’s Shin Bet encouraged accused killer to assassinate Raed Salah

Syndicated News — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:15:53 +0000

The arrest by Israel's internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret police, including attempts by one of its agents to enlist the accused to assassinate a Palestinian leader. Jonathan Cook reports.

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Israelis rally around officer convicted of killing unarmed Palestinian motorist

Syndicated News — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:30:12 +0000

A decision by Israel's high court to double a 15-month jail term for a policeman who shot dead an unarmed Palestinian driver suspected of stealing a car has provoked denunciations from police commanders and government officials. Jonathan Cook reports.

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Egypt remains complicit in Gaza siege

Syndicated News — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:14:38 +0000

CAIRO (IPS) - Almost two months since Egypt announced it would reopen its Rafah border terminal with the Gaza Strip, operation of the crossing remains sorely limited. "Rafah has only been opened to passengers and some medical supplies," Hatem el-Buluk, journalist and resident of al-Arish, located some 40 kilometers west of Rafah, told IPS.

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Israel wages war against media and activists

Syndicated News — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:26:03 +0000

NABI SALAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Palestinian activists are being jailed, Israeli activists are under surveillance, and the Israeli military is increasingly targeting journalists who cover West Bank protests.

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OK, Chris

Syndicated News — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:48:34 +0000

Why don’t we dance more?

Just look at the kids in these videos:

This one is for Chris Gunness of UNRWA — and the kids: Go Gaza!

And here, too (the kids, in Rwanda):

Where the hell is Matt dot com…

And this is the one with 30 million views — the kids, in South Africa; the dog, in Kuwait; the Bollywood dancers were impervious to his moves so he imitated them rather than vice versa, and more:

It’s the music, the way he dances, with the bottom half of his body moving mechanically, like a pump machine, independently from what he does with his arms and torso … and the sheer exuberance of movement.

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Is God listening?

Syndicated News — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:24:28 +0000

Via mondoweiss, here, a striking performance by American artist Emily Henochowicz, who had joined a demonstration of women and was with a small group carrying a Turkish flag to protest the Israeli naval assault on the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May, running across the Ramallah entrance of the terrible Qalandia checkpoint when she was shot in the face by a teargas cannister. As a result, she lost an eye. See our earlier posts here, including this one.

Emily wrote and recorded this song, entitled “I miss you, Palestine”, and put it up on Youtube (under her nom de plume, Thirstypixels), and added this explanation: “The week I got home, I got my energy back, and I was giddy with the joy of being alive. I walked my dog and bellowed out this song in the woods. I’m no musician, but the soul of the moment carried my voice. When I came home I got out my computer and recorded this in a message for my good friend Nick… but what the heck, I want to give it to the world! Also, if someone could remix this or re-sing this with piano, that would be brilliant“.

“Because I changed, people can change”, Emily sings in her song. “It ain’t gonna go on forever … I believe it can get better, if people just open their eyes”…

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International labor report’s omissions reveal pro-Israel bias

Syndicated News — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:41:27 +0000

The International Trade Union Confederation's annual survey released in June describes repression meted out to Palestinian workers and trade unionists by both the Israeli authorities and the Palestinian factions. But ITUC's omissions and brevity both disguise the complexity of life for Palestinian workers, and reveal some of the union confederation's own biases. Sarah Irving analyzes for The Electronic Intifada.

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Are they still using “flechette” bombs in Gaza?

Syndicated News — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:02:55 +0000

It has reportedly happened, again, in Gaza on 21 July – and this report comes via the International Solidarity Movement:

“This is a mother describing to us her daughter, 9-year-old Sammah [Eid El-Massry]as she came in to her home at 4pm after the Israeli army reportedly shelled and fired four bombs into and around a residential area in Beit Hanoun, Northern Gaza: ‘She came in through and it wasn’t clear she was injured. Suddenly a lot of blood came from her nose and she vomited. All of the family saw this – her little brothers were very scared. She had just been playing in the front of the house’ … . She is now in a semi-critical condition in hospital, suffering extensive blood loss and very low haemoglobin. She was hit by shrapnel and ‘flechettes’ from a nail bomb that landed 100m away, causing internal bleeding to the chest, severe head trauma and nails embedded in her body … The doctor told us she was in a ‘semi-critical’ condition with severe chest, head and abdominal pain. Her blood-loss was a major concern, arriving at the hospital with 7.5 haemoglobin levels, 4-6 below the normal levels, the problem exacerbated by the fact that she, like three of her brothers, already suffered from a blood condition known as Thalassemia for which the drug Exjade is in extremely short supply due to the Israeli blockade. She was clearly in pain and confused, trying to remove the nasal tubes. Her mother showed us the bandages on her chest. ‘She was in a very bad condition when she arrived – it’s difficult for children and very traumatic to insert a chest tube. Very painful. Blood was mainly coming from the chest. We will have to perform surgery and we will further explore her abdominal pain’, the doctor tells us. This is not the first time the family was attacked, Sammah’s 4-year-old brother Ryad Eid El-Massry was injured during Operation Cast Lead” …

[And now, following the attack on Wednesday, there were two more children from the same family who were also injured and receiving treatment in the hospital] Azzam Mohammed El-Massry (aged 11) has a severely fractured left elbow and Ebrahim Wasseem El-Massry (aged 4) has light injuries to his abdomen …
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[The fourth wounded child isHaitham Thaer Qasem, a four year old boy and a first and only child. He was sleeping on the hospital bed, occasionally gasping for breath through the strapping around his nose. He had suffered deep nasal trauma, and flechette darts from the nail bomb were still embedded in his tiny body, where they had pierced his back, right elbow and right leg. He was 200m from the impact of the bomb. In his hospital ward his mother was standing to one side crying quietly …

Two young men were killed: Mohammad Al-Kafarneh, 23, from severe shrapnel injuries in his back and chest and Kasim Al-Shinbary, 19, caused by injuries from nails embedded in his skull and shrapnel wounds to the back. It was unclear earlier whether they were resistance fighters or if they were civilians”.

All of them – the two dead young men, and the four injured children – are they all “militants”?

This was published by the ISM here.

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