Berlin Wall Gone but Separation Walls are Growth Industry
The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall was one week ago today. With that behind us, it is now time to acknowledge that the construction of separation walls throughout the world is on the increase. According to l’Observatoire de géopolitique...
Leonard Cohen Performs in Israel, Despite Boycott
Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen performed to a sold out crowd in Israel Thursday night, despite many calls to cancel his show by Palestinian rights activists. It was 75-year-old Cohen's first Israel... West Bank Water Woes
" " Israel and the Palestinian territories are suffering a fifth year of drought. Water shortages are especially acute in the West Bank, where an aquifer shared by Israelis and Palestinians is being...
Extremist Israeli settlers "Maniacs" attack Palestinians
Palestine Telegraph http://www.paltelegraph.com/ West Bank, August 1st, 2009, (Pal Telegraph) -Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers of the Shavot Ami illegal outpost, installed on Palestinian lands west of the... Appointment of New Labor Judges Promises Justice
West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Palestinian workers who are wronged by their employers now have a better chance at justice, after the appointment of several labor judges in the West Bank. The...
Ziosweat meets prominent Israeli-Arab/Palestinian journalist
http://ziosweat.blogspot.com/2009/07/ziosweat-meets-prominent-israeli.html
I had the great pleasure of meeting Khaled Abu Toameh, a journalist writing for The Jerusalem Post and formerly for the PLO. He is one of the first journalists international media contacts about a... Israel Authorises 300 West Bank Homes; Releases Senior Hamas MP
Israel has authorised the construction of 300 new homes at a Jewish settlement on the West Bank, less than a week after the US pressed for halts on settlement expansion. " Israeli Army Radio said on Tuesday that 60 of the 300 homes slated for the Talmon settlement in the West...
Israel rejects demands to stop Settlements
Israel has rejected a US demand to completely stop West bank settlements and also stop natural growth. The Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu wants no interference with natural growth and thus the...
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New Palestinian Governing authority Sworn In
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, on Tuesday evening, delivered the oath of office to a new temporary governing body for the Palestinian people. These members are opposed by many sides. Two and a...
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Open letter To PM Benyamin Netanyahu FM A. Lieberman
An open letter To: Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu; Foreign Minister A. Lieberman – Deputy Foreign Minister D. Ayalon By Yoram Getzler Co-Host of Israelseen Several times in the past month both PM Netanyahu and FM Lieberman have been quoted as calling for new ideas in...
Palestine's Holocaust Museum, Hassan Musa Quietly Makes a Point
Hassan Musa is curator at a little known makeshift Holocaust Museum in the occupied West Bank. A Palestinian academic, in the Holocaust Museum displays Musa draws clear parallels between the Jewish Holocaust...
2 Israeli Police Jailed for Killing and Abducting Palestinian Boy
Two Israeli police officers have been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years and five-and-a-half years in jail, respectively, over the assault, abduction, and eventual killing of a 17-year-old Palestinian boy near Hebron. The 2002 events that led to the death of the boy paint a...
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