Hebron is the only Palestinian city outside Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank where Israeli settlers are living in the midst of a Palestinian population. It is not a situation where good neighborliness abounds. Yes, there was a Jewish community in Hebron which became victim to enraged Palestinian mobs in 1929, and a horrible massacre [...]
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Today’s recommended reading [published during the last week]: Andrew Sullivan in The Daily Beast on “Why Continue To Build The Settlements?” — a review of the much-discussed book [or, polemic, as Sullivan writes] by Peter Beinart, The Crisis of Zionism. Sullivan writes: “Let us be clear. The Israeli government is systematically taking and holding the [...]
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March 30 protests [in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, as well as inside Israel and just outside its northern and eastern perimeters] marked the start of Year Two of Popular Protests against … continued Israeli occupation. It was, this year, a combination of the Global March to Jerusalem + Land Day. The day started [...]
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A colleague called me today as he was leaving Erez “terminal”, just coming out of Gaza after two days there. The situation of the people who don’t have any electricity, or any fuel, is terrible, he said. He asked, “Whose fault do you think it is”? [He said he is leaning toward blaming Hamas...] But, [...]
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Who or What is Ahvaaz [Avaaz]? And, why do veteran combat journalsts working for major news organizations trust Avaaz with their lives in getting into, and when inside, the Baba Amr quarter of Homs, Syria, which has been beseiged by the Syrian army on a mission to exterminate “Islamist terrorism”? Ahvaaz [Avaaz]: The name of [...]
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A terrible traffic accident — a crash between a fuel truck and a school bus carrying Palestinian schoolkids from Shuafat Refugee Camp to a park near Ramallah — happened on Thursday morning at 9am in rainy weather in a heavily-trafficked area of the near West Bank, not far from Jerusalem. It is an area where [...]
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With all the international attention now coming to the 61-Day Hunger Strike being carried out by Khader Adnan after he was seized from his home on December 17 in a village near Jenin in a pre-dawn raid that in which he and his terrified pregnant wife and two daughters were abused, is his treatment getting [...]
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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights [PCHR] in Gaza has offered a concise explanation of the complete and unconscionable mess that has been made in a complicated situation that resulted in today’s shut-down, once again, of the only power plant in Gaza, which supplies one-third of the electricity needed by some 1.5 million souls in [...]
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Although the outcry now is about saving Khader Adnan’s life, somehow it seems that even he might prefer the focus to be on ending the terrible system of Administrative Detention which is imposed by the Israeli military justice system in the West Bank on over 300 Palestinian political prisoners now [that is 100 more than [...]
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As Palestinian protestors outside Ofer Prison were surrounded by tear gas and hit by rubber bullets fired by Israeli soldiers [at "Beitunia Checkpoint"] today [the second such demonstration in three days], an Israeli military court inside Ofer affirmed the 4-month sentence of Administrative Detention that was imposed on Khader Adnan on January 8. UPDATE: Addameer [...]
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