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08/11/2010
| | Breaking the Silence, November 2010 Update
| | | Israeli Settlers Threaten Sheikh Jarrah
Stephen Lendman - The Palestine Chronicle - "The fate of Sheikh Jarrah`s Hanoun and Al Ghawi families are typical. In August 2009, Israeli police forcibly evicted them. Fifty-three Palestinians, including 20 children were dispossessed, their homes seized, their property loaded on trucks, then dumped on a street near UNWRA`s headquarters. Besides losing everything, they now face high legal bills, fines and other charges, including for their own evictions" | | | PA: Israel raided thousands of homes in October
Ma`an News Agency - "The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Detainees` Affairs said Israeli forces detained 403 Palestinians and raided 2148 homes across the West Bank during October" | | | Shulamit Aloni: I feel like stranger here
Yoav Zitun - Ynet - As artists protest `wave of racism` sweeping country, Lieberman slams renewed call to boycott Ariel center | | | UN will be judged on whether it upholds Palestinian rights
Richard Falk - EI - "Because so much attention has been devoted to Gaza during the course of the last several years it is often assumed that material conditions in the West Bank are acceptable. Such an impression is strengthened by reports that economic growth in the West Bank reached 8.5 percent in 2009, mainly as a result of capital investment clustered around Ramallah. What is not sufficiently noticed is the actual living realities of the people" | | | The Middle East`s Stagnant "Change" - Conned by Democracy
Ramzy Baroud - CounterPunch - "Democracy in the Middle East continues to be a hugely popular topic of discussion. Its virtues are tirelessly praised by rulers and oppositions alike, by intellectuals and ordinary people, by political prisoners and their prison guards. Yet, in actuality, it also remains an illusion, if not a front to ensure the demise of any real possibility of public participation in decision-making" | | | Obama, Netanyahu`s excuse for the failure of peace talks
Zvi Bar`el - Haaretz - Netanyahu will have to chose between a fluently worded excuse for his peace talks failure and the other option: to speak to the Palestinians as if there is no Obama, and to Obama as if there are no Palestinians | | | Court okays Jews-only building in Jaffa
Aviad Glickman--She [High Court President, Dorit Beinish] stated that the Ajami residents were right to criticize the decision to define the national-religious public as a minority group in need of religious and cultural protection, but that in this case, the court can not make a decision because it would not be "practical to provide the petitioners with the assistance they desire". | | | Israel refuses entry to Sweden MP and ex-Israeli who sailed on Gaza flotilla
Chaim Levinson--Feiler, who currently lives in Sweden, also took part in the flotilla, though not on the Mavi Marmara ship where nine Turkish activists died in clashes with Israeli naval commandos. He has given up his Israeli citizenship but has been permitted to return to the country dozens of times since. This was the first time he was denied entry. | | | Open Letter from Gaza Students to the European Students’ Union: Oppose Apartheid and War Crimes
[forwarded by Ofer]One Democratic State Group--We are writing to you as students from the besieged Gaza Strip whose entire educational system has been crippled as a result of Israel’s four-year long and ongoing blockade. We are deeply distressed that you held your annual conference this year in Jerusalem, a conference organized by the National Union of Israeli Students and the Israeli Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs, in addition to the Prime Minister’s Office. We are saddened that you failed to empathize with us and break through the silence imposed on our voices by the state you visited, to stand against what the United Nations Special Rapporteur John Dugard described as the only remaining case after South Africa, “of a Western-affiliated regime that denies self-determination and human rights to a developing people and that has done so for so long.” [1] | | | For previous articles since 2004 go to respective sections rosetta stone | |
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