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Israelis Demonstrate Against Settlement Building Freeze

More than 10,000 Israelis took to the streets of central Jerusalem last night to protest against the building freeze in Judea and Samaria.

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...

Settlement Freeze Rejected by Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving closer to a show-down with the Obama administration.  On Monday he rejected a call for settlement freeze unreasonable. Netanyahu is in a difficult balancing...

Settlement Freeze Rejected by Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is moving closer to a show-down with the Obama administration.  On Monday he rejected a call for settlement freeze unreasonable. Netanyahu is in a difficult balancing...

Boycott the fruits of apartheid

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested outside the main UK warehouse of Israeli company Carmel Agrexco in Hayes, Middlesex, close to Heathrow on Saturday 7 Feb, 2009, claiming its exports of flowers and fruit from...

Deadly Nepal flood river diverted

In a major relief and hope for millions of victims in the Nepal and bordering areas of India, the deadly river Kosi has been diverted back to its original course. The river caused massive flash floods that...

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2009

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009 with best wishes to all. blogs.telegraph.co.uk/damian_thompson/blog/2008/11/11/ant...

Obama and American Indians

Obama won about three fourths of the American Indian vote.  He should improve the lives on the reservations and appoint a very good leader of  the Department of Indian Affairs " American presidents have...

UN ‘concerned’ over Israel’s settlement expansion plan

UNITED NATIONS - UN chief Ban Ki-moon is ‘deeply concerned’ about Israel’s plan to expand a settlement in the occupied West Bank and renews his call to the Jewish state to freeze all settlement activity, his spokeswoman said Thursday. “The secretary-general is deeply...

Israelis Claim Secret Agreement With U.S.

Another example of the wide chasm between the US's stated policies on Palestine and its behind-the-scenes agreements with Israel. It's hard to see why they would make this public now though, and whether this was...

Facebook transfers Israeli Ma'aleh Adumim residents to 'Palestine'

 (An Update below) Facebook decided that the Israeli residents in the West Bank are Palestinians... " Facebook no longer allows members from Ma'aleh Adumim, Ariel, Betar Illit and other settlements over...

'Soldier ghost' caught on camera

"A group of amateur film-makers believe they may have proof that ghosts really do exist after one of them caught something strange on camera. George Gunn said he captured pictures of a ghostly apparition while out walking along a footpath in Outwood, near Wakefield, West...

International debt issuance hit by market turmoil: BIS

"Turbulence in global financial markets caused a sharp drop in the number of international debt securities issued in the third quarter, the Bank for International Settlements said.Bonds and notes worth 396 billion dollars (270 billion euros) were issued between June and...

Supermarkets fined £116m for dairy price fixing

After agreeing to co-operate with the Office of Fair Trading some of the supermarkets have admitted collusion whilst Lactalis McLelland, Morrisons and Tesco deny the allegations."Supermarket giant J Sainsbury has...

OECD warns UK outlook more ‘uncertain’

"The Bank of England should be poised to cut interest rates because of the risk of lower economic growth and a housing slowdown in the wake of recent financial market turmoil, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development said in a report on Thursday. “The...

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