Why don’t we dance more? Just look at the kids in these videos: This one is for Chris Gunness of UNRWA — and the kids: Go Gaza! And here, too (the kids, in Rwanda): Where the hell is Matt dot com…
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Via mondoweiss, here, a striking performance by American artist Emily Henochowicz, who had joined a demonstration of women and was with a small group carrying a Turkish flag to protest the Israeli naval assault on the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May, running across the Ramallah entrance of the terrible Qalandia checkpoint when she was shot [...]
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The Tawjihi (pronounced Taw – jee – hee, with accent on the middle syllable) is the exam taken by all Palestinian students at the end of their obligatory schooling. A whole year is devoted to preparing for the Tawjihi. It takes two weeks to take all the parts of the exam. Then it takes about [...]
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It has reportedly happened, again, in Gaza on 21 July – and this report comes via the International Solidarity Movement: “This is a mother describing to us her daughter, 9-year-old Sammah [Eid El-Massry]as she came in to her home at 4pm after the Israeli army reportedly shelled and fired four bombs into and around a residential [...]
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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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By Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem – Defense Minister Moshe Dayan condemned it for undermining morale and giving succor to the enemy. Army Chief of staff Haim Bar-Lev joked that it was raunchy enough to be performed for the boys at the front with Egypt. Members of the audience hurled curses, stink bombs and stones while [...]
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There are glimmers of understated suggestions that members of the Israeli government are challenging the country’s sacrosanct Defense structure. And, there are indications that this effort is being assisted by the American government’s touted effort to give Israel a “Qualitative Military Edge” or QME (see our earlier post from last week here) by allocating some [...]
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The Foreign Press Association in Israel has issued a strong protest over attacks by Israeli forces on journalists covering events in the West Bank. The statement said that journalists have been “harassed, arrested and attacked by the various on site forces before these forces turn their attention to the activists or demonstrators”. The professional organization [...]
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It was a strikingly ugly act, an act of public bullying, that made the soul cringe. It was excruciating to watch. This is incendiary and divisive stuff, in a country that has trouble managing minority-majority relations. Even writing about this group ganging-up against one individual human being causes revulsion. Haneen Zoabi, elected member of the [...]
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A report on CNN says that “A privacy group says the Transportation Security Administration is misleading the public with claims that full-body scanners at airports cannot store or send their graphic images. The TSA specified in 2008 documents that the machines must have image storage and sending abilities, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) [...]
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