Tag Archives: West Bank

Third attack on West Bank settlers in three days – Israeli Interior Minister orders facilitated gun permits for West Bank Jews

By Syndicated News | Published: September 2, 2010
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 [...]
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“It’s a tragedy”

By Syndicated News | Published: August 31, 2010
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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Palestinians tell U.S. that East Jerusalem must be included in continued Israeli settlement freeze + more

By Syndicated News | Published: August 26, 2010
Akiva Eldar reported in Haaretz overnight that the Palestinian negotiating team (meaning Sa’eb Erekat and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas) have “delivered to the Americans an opinion prepared by Israeli jurists. The Palestinians say this paper proves that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims that the government has no authority to freeze construction on private land are [...]
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Yesh Din demands investigation into IDF killing of two Palestinian teenagers — 5 months ago

By Syndicated News | Published: August 25, 2010
Human rights group Yesh Din asked the Israeli High Court of Justice today to order the IDF Military Attorney-General to open an investigation into the killing of Mohammed Faisal Mahmoud Qawariq and Salah Mohammed Kamal Qawariq, two Palestinian 19-year old teens, who were cousins, shot to death by IDF forces five months ago while working [...]
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Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The People’s Record

By newsreader89 | Published: August 20, 2010
Less than four months ago, Israeli commandoes boarded the boats in the Freedom Flotilla headed for Gaza and killed nine peace activists. Investigations are underway into just what happened the night of May 31st, but just a few months after the attacks, a new anthology collects eyewitness testimony, analyses and thought pieces, and responses from artists and poets into a "people's record" of what happened that night--and how it just might be a turning point for the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
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Marleine Bastien, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara, and Green for Buffalo

By newsreader89 | Published: August 19, 2010
"Community organizer" was Sarah Palin's favorite slur on the campaign trail, but grassroots organizers have been fighting for the rights of marginalized people, often without recognition, for longer than Palin has been around. Marleine Bastien has been an organizer in the Haitian-American community in Miami for 30 years, and is now running for Congress.
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The bubble inside the bubble

By Syndicated News | Published: August 15, 2010
I spent the past weekend on a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, attending my nephew's post-wedding festivities. The last time I was in the vicinity of this particular settlement was about ten years ago, when I went – together with a group of Israeli peace activists - to the adjacent village, to express solidarity [...]
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“Suspected” – merely “suspected” – Palestinian man shot and killed in northern West Bank

By Syndicated News | Published: July 22, 2010
The Israeli Defense Forces announced today that “Overnight an IDF force identified a number of Palestinians infiltrating the Israeli community of Barqan [n.b. in the northern West Bank]. A night-watch that was set by the IDF because of numerous attempts made to infiltrate the community in the past few weeks identified last night’s attempt. The [...]
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Antony Loewenstein & Ali Abunimah: The Real Peace Process

By newsreader89 | Published: July 21, 2010
Peace process, proximity talks, one state, two state...though these terms are often tossed around the mass media, they have been rendered virtually meaningless. Instead, we see footage of Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama shaking hands, waxing eloquently on the need for mutual peace as the US simultaneously slips Israeli more tax dollars to further cement their occupation of Palestine.
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William K. Black, Real Peace Process, and Top Secret America

By newsreader89 | Published: July 20, 2010
Former regulator, savings & loan investigator, and current Braintruster at the Roosevelt Institute William K. Black says that if Elizabeth Warren isn't appointed to head the consumer protection agency passed as part of the financial reform bill, it will be a clear sign that the agency isn't going to protect consumers at all. While Warren has done the research in the field for 20 years, he notes, other candidates preferred by Treasury Secretary Geithner have fallen more into the Rubin/Summers camp of deregulators.
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