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23/03/2018
| | Al Jazeera Did a Hard-hitting Investigation into US and Israeli Lobbying – So Why Won`t They Air It? Robert Fisk - Information Clearing House - I’m talking about a
documentary called The Lobby, directed by one of Al Jazeera’s top
journalists, Clayton Swisher, the man whose exclusive (and book) on
the “Palestine Papers” blew open the secret and scandalous American-
led negotiations between Israelis and the Palestinian authority
between 2000 and 2010. But after months of postponement, The Lobby,
which secretly filmed pro-Israeli US activists and Israeli government
officials and was completed last autumn, is still no nearer to being
shown – and Swisher himself has taken a paid leave of absence. He even
chose to explain his frustration in an article for the progressive
American Jewish magazine Forward, which has always maintained a
liberal and often very critical view of Israel.-rh | | | Americans have a constitutional right to boycott Israel Josh Ruebner - Aljazeera - It should be a no-brainer that Americans
can boycott whomever or whatever they choose without risking
governmental punishment. After all, the Supreme Court ruled that
states have no "right to prohibit peaceful political activity" such as
a boycott, which is an "expression on public issues" that "has always
rested on the highest rung of the hierarchy of First Amendment
values". Indeed, the recent blossoming of the #BoycottNRA movement
provides renewed proof of the centrality of boycott movements in
effecting social change in the United States.-rh | | | Three minutes over Syria: How Israel destroyed Assad’s nuclear reactor YOSSI MELMAN and DAN RAVIV - The Times of Israel - After more than a
decade of stubborn silence, Israel has finally acknowledged that its
Air Force destroyed the Syrian nuclear reactor, on the night between
September 5 and 6, 2007. Built by North Korea, the reactor was
designed to produce plutonium as fissile material for nuclear bombs.
This is the inside story of the attack itself, and the intelligence
gathering process — successes and failures — that facilitated it, as
disclosed by the central players themselves.-rh | | | Detainees minister warns of deteriorating health of veteran prisoners WAFA - Minister of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Issa Qaraqe,
warned on Saturday about the deteriorating health and physiological
being of veteran Palestinian political detainees who spent more than
20 years in Israeli jails. Speaking during an event for the prisoners’
families in Ramallah city in the West Bank, Qaraqe said most of these
prisoners have been suffering various diseases as a result of their
prolonged detention and the absence of any prospects for their
release.-rh | | | Apartheid Israel Jonathan Cook - AMEU - More than a decade ago, former U.S. president
Jimmy Carter incurred the wrath of Israel’s partisans in America by
suggesting that Israeli rule over Palestinians in the occupied
territories was comparable to apartheid. While his bestseller book
“Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” broke a taboo, in many ways it added
to the confusion surrounding discussions of Israel. Since then,
others, including John Kerry, when U.S. secretary of state, and former
Israeli prime ministers Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, have warned that
Israeli rule in the occupied territories is in danger of
metamorphosing into “apartheid” – though the moment of transformation,
in their eyes, never quite seems to arrive.-rh | | | World Bank: Gaza economy cannot survive without being connected to outside world WAFA - Gaza has seen conditions steadily deteriorate over the last
two decades, leading to collapsing of the economy and basic social
services, the World Bank said in a report published on Thursday. While
additional cash inflows are urgently needed to bring relief to the
difficult living conditions, a lasting recovery depends on a concerted
strategy to revive the Gaza economy through access to external markets
and expansion of commercial activities.-rh | | | Commentary: At 31, my first glimpse of life outside Gaza Abier Almasri - Reuters - I was born and grew up in Gaza. My father
was a soccer coach for many years and his stories about his travels to
other countries always made me want to travel too. But Israel imposed
a land, air and sea blockade on Gaza in 2007 and has kept Gaza mostly
closed ever since. So I never made it out until now, at age 31, I was
allowed to leave – for just a little while.-rh
| | | Jerusalem electricity company crippled by Israel, Palestinian Authority Daoud Kuttab - Al-Monitor - Ever since the occupation and the Israeli
unilateral annexation, JDECO has been seen as an important Palestinian
institution. But in recent years, it has been hobbled by debt and its
effectiveness has been greatly reduced. JDECO is one of the biggest
employers in Jerusalem, with more than 1,000 Palestinians working for
the company, according to Omari. As the struggle for Jerusalem and its
identity intensifies, the role of a company this large becomes crucial
in defending Palestinian national identity and the rights of
Palestinians in and around Jerusalem.-rh
| | | Ahed Tamimi to spend 8 months in prison in plea deal +972 Magazine Staff - Ahed Tamimi, the teenager from Nabi Saleh
arrested after a video of her attempting to push two armed Israeli
soldiers off of her family’s porch went viral, signed a plea deal in
Israeli military court on Wednesday, and will serve eight months in
prison including three months time served. Her mother, Nariman, and
cousin, Nur, also signed plea deals. Nariman will serve eight months,
and Nur was sentenced to time served.-rh | | | Netanyahu’s AIPAC speech – interrupted Jonathan Ofir - Mondoweiss - You were so happy about Israel’s
ambassador to the US – oops, I mean US ambassador to Israel, the
settlement-builder David Friedman. “The first ambassador to have the
honor of working from that embassy in Jerusalem is a great American
ambassador, David Friedman”. It’s all a one big family: “David, thank
you for that terrific job that you’re doing”, you said. Of course,
he’s doing a terrific job. He’s promoting the notion that the Israeli
occupation is just make-believe – by him it’s just an “alleged”
occupation, and he’s recently asked State Department officials to stop
using the word “occupation”. What a great job. Before we know it,
there will simply be no occupation, and it’s all thanks to David
Friedman. In this great man all our wishes converge – even the
leftists who want to stop the occupation, can get it from Friedman. A
great man. Believe me.-rh
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