Tag Archives: Israel/Palestine

The ethnic cleansing of Palestine

(Video: guardian.co.uk) Neve Gordon writes in The Guardian about arriving in the Bedouin village of al-Arakib as Israeli bulldozers finish razing it to the ground: The signs of destruction were immediately evident. I first noticed the chickens and geese running loose near a bulldozed house, and then saw another house and then another one, all [...]
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Birthright travel diary: ‘Outing’ myself on a kibbutz

Earlier this month, activist Rachel Marcuse spent 10 days in Israel as part of the Taglit-Birthright program -- a fully sponsored trip for young North American Jews to learn more about the country. She went to bear witness and ask questions about the Israeli state's treatment of Palestinians, and to learn about other [...]
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It is only Palestine

8000 rockets are no excuse Suicide bombers, it’s all just a ruse Unless you’re Israel, self-defense is right A Jewish army response is disproportionate might The activists sailed to deliver their aid Jihad cash is what they were paid Turkish delight in the media’s glare Slashing knives don’t seems fair And the song goes on… This is [...]
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Penn State Prez punts on Palestine petition

Penn State President Graham Spanier has refused to sign a Students for Justice in Palestine petition condemning the Israeli flotilla attack citing a policy against signing petitions. Somehow this wasn't an issue for an anti-boycott American Jewish Committee petition he signed in 2007. SJP thinks there might be something else behind it. The Daily Collegian [...]
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Oxfam: Palestinian village & nearly $30,000 of aid destroyed by Israeli military

And more news from Today in Palestine:Land and Property Theft and Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Daniel Dukarevich: Eyewitness Account of the Razing of Al-Araqeeb: ‘You Will Not Erase It’ http://theonlydemocracy.org/2010/07/daniel-dukarevich-eyewitness-account-of-the-razing-of-al-araqeeb-%e2%80%98you-will-not-erase-it%e2%80%99/Hundreds homeless as Israeli police raze village Around 300 Palestinian bedouin living in Israel’s Negev desert were left homeless on Tuesday after hundreds of police raided their village and demolished [...]
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Treason, loyalty oaths, Nakba and film bans– counting down the hits in the Knesset

Simply astonishing. The continuing crisis. Here is a list of the 14 worst--most undemocratic-- bills in the Knesset, compiled and commented upon by ACRI, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel: 1) Knesset Members Declaration of Allegiance Bill (MK David Rotem, Yisrael Beitenu): Members of Knesset would be obliged to declare allegiance to Israel as [...]
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Feeling pre-war uneasiness

I wonder how much the last bullet has to do with the all the others:The unending spy drama in Lebanon The farcical Hariri Tribunal  Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah's 7/16 and  7/22 speeches The Sayyed's upcoming 8/3 speech  (he is supposed to tell [...]
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Barak: Images of Palestinian suffering replace Holocaust memories

Smart answer by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak about why folks are losing sympathy for Israel, in interview with Janine Zacharia of Washington Post. And though he resists moral equivalence, of course there is moral equivalence.WP: Indeed, you were known as a master of stealth in Entebbe, Beirut, when you dressed as a [...]
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Notice the pattern in the Israeli stories?

From the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs' recent report on the Gaza conflict, absolving a soldier who shot at a group of terrified women who were waving white flags as they left their homes in an eastern Gaza village at 7 in the morning on Jan. 13, 2009. The soldier shot one of the women [...]
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Mort Zuckerman: U.S. occupations stink, but Israel’s is great

Here's Mort Zuckerman at US News & World Report saying that only Israel can defend its borders (wherever they are) and therefore we can't have a two-state solution, and for security reasons the Palestinians must exist in political paralysis forever. This is straight-up Israel lobby stuff (Kosovo and Tajikistan and Pakistan get a state, never [...]
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