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Tag Archives: Palestine & Palestinians
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 [...]
What is Abu Mazen doing?
DOES THIS NEW YORK TIMES PHOTO SAY IT ALL?
NETANYAHU CALLS ON PALESTINIANS TO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL AS “THE NATION STATE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE”
At the official launch of direct peace talks at the White House on Thursday (2 September), according to a report in Haaretz, “Netanyahu explained, addressing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas directly, that just as [...]
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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“It’s a tragedy”
Four Israeli settlers were ambushed, shot and killed — apparently at close range — Tuesday evening, while driving to their homes in the West Bank settlement of Beit Hagai, near the large and well-fortified settlement of Kiryat Arbaa, outside Hebron.
The deaths occurred on Road 60, just after 7:30 in the evening, at a time when [...]
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Quote of the day – (6th in our series)
Haaretz (with an input from Reuters) reported today that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told journalists in Ramallah on Monday that it was important to know “What kind of state does Mr. Netanyahu have in mind when he says ‘Palestinian state? … I think this is a most fundamental question and I believe, without wishing [...]
What is going on here?
USAID just doesn’t know what to do with its money?
It could partly build a new school (it could build maybe one-fourth of a new school) with what it has agreed to spend in giving the Israeli team of the “Geneva Initiative” — not a deprived or unconnected group of people — to film certain [...]
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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 [...]
Israeli Deputy FM says military-administered sanctions on Gaza were “ineffective”