Today in Palestine! Headlines December 2009

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Land Theft and Destruction

Israel approves 84 new buildings in West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel approved the construction of 84 buildings in West Bank settlements. The approvals of buildings whose foundations have not yet been laid came on Wednesday, despite last week’s 10-month freeze on new building in the settlements.
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/02/1009498/israel-approves-start-of-84-settlement-buildings

Barak: Settlements are part of Israel
In meeting with four West Bank council heads, Defense Minister Ehud Barak stresses that ’settlement blocs are inseparable part of Israel in all future negotiations with Palestinians’. Vows council heads can continue to authorize infrastructure construction, small changes.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3814387,00.html

Palestinian fury over evictions - 02 Dec 09
Jewish families staking claim to houses already lived in by Palestinians is all too familiar in occupied East Jerusalem. There is quite literally a battle underway for the identity of East Jerusalem. House by house, family by family, the settlers are trying to dispossess the Palestinians and replace them with Jews. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from Jerusalem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGxF9eGzsfw&feature=youtube_gdata

Israeli court to Al-Kurd family: Settlers will stay in your home
Jerusalem – Ma’an - The Israeli Central Court heard and rejected Wednesday the petition of the Al-Kurd family seeking the eviction of Israeli settlers from their home.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=243890

Israeli police demolish the only shelter of evicted Palestinian family for the fourth time
At approximately 9am this Wednesday, four police vehicles containing eight Jerusalem police and four border police armed with automatic weapons came to Sheikh Jarrah and demolished the Gawi tent for the fourth time. The demolition took place as there were several people sleeping in the tent. The police failed to alert those sleeping to their destructive actions. The Palestinian family’s possessions were confiscated and removed in police pick-up trucks and golf carts. One hour later, a British national was arrested. The Gawi family has lived in the tent for four months now, since 2 August 2009 when they were forcefully evicted from their home, now occupied by settlers.
http://palsolidarity.org/2009/12/9556?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+palsolidarity+(International+Solidarity+Movement)

Israeli settler mayor detained amid new inspector spats (AFP)
AFP - A mayor of an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank was briefly detained on Wednesday as new spats broke out with government inspectors charged with enforcing a building moratorium.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091202/wl_mideast_afp/mideastdiplomacysettler

Shattering Israel’s image of ’democracy’ | Ben White
In the Negev, an area targeted for so-called ’development’, lies the Israel that its government does not want to be seen. A struggle over land, home demolitions, and an Israeli government working with Jewish agencies to "develop" the land for the benefit of one group at the expense of another. It could be a picture of the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, but in fact, it’s inside Israel – in the Negev.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/03/israel-negev

Israel Uprooted 7000 Olive Trees This Year
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - The Center reported that 5720 trees were uprooted in Salfit district. 400 Olive trees were uprooted and burnt in Qalqilia district, 1600 trees were cut or uprooted by the settlers in Hebron district, and 30 olive trees were uprooted in Bethlehem. These violations were carried out in conjunction of preventing the residents from harvesting their olives in several West Bank areas, as the orchards became isolated behind the Annexation Wall.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=36996

Middle East conflict played out in the olive groves
Akram Imran says the Jewish settlers came at night. "I came to work in the early morning. It was a horrible sight, a massacre of trees," he said. "Some of them are at least 70 years old."
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7667

Activism/Solidarity/Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment

PGFTU statement confirms unambiguous endorsement of BDS
December 3rd, 2009— On 25 November 2009 the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) issued a statement re-affirming its support for the BDS movement. The statement, which was signed by its Secretary General, Mr. Shaher Sa’ad, and its Executive Committee and endorsed by all the main Palestinian trade union blocs that are represented in the Federation, affirms the PGFTU’s "principled and committed position for the boycott of Israel" and praises international trade unions and other civil society organizations that stand in solidarity with Palestinian rights and adopt the boycott against Israel.
http://stopthewall.org/latestnews/2123.shtml

Boycott of Ahava Dead Sea products makes an impact
The international campaign to boycott Ahava beauty products has recently won the support of a Dutch parliamentarian and an Israeli peace group. During the past few months, activists in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Israel, the United States and the Netherlands have campaigned against the sale of Ahava products because of the company’s complicity in the Israeli occupation. Adri Nieuwhof reports for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10925.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifadaPalestine+(Electronic+Intifada+%3A+Palestine+News)

USPCN stands with African American activists against Israeli racism
Israel’s appalling denial of entry to Palestine for African American activists Dhoruba Bin Wahad and Naji Mujahid comes as no surprise. The state of Israel, inherently racist and exclusionary, has always found common cause with other racist regimes around the world. It was a major military supporter of the South African apartheid regime when that regime faced boycotts around the world – boycotts that inspire today’s movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
http://palestineconference.org/wp/2009/11/26/uspcn-stands-with-african-american-activists-against-israeli-racism/

Aggression and Violence

Video shows Palestinian man hit in car attack - 02 Dec 09
Violence erupted in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday when a Palestinian man entered a petrol station at the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba in the occupied West Bank and stabbed two settlers. But that was not the end of the story. According to the Israeli army, the Palestinian was then shot by a soldier, after which a car, apparently driven by a settler, ran over the wounded Palestinian, twice, with Israeli soldiers all around. Jacky Rowland reports. *Viewers may find some of the images disturbing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpQrPsRfmvs&feature=youtube_gdata

Shock follows video of settler running over Palestinian, twice
Bethlehem - Ma’an/Agencies - The video of a bystander shocked the world Tuesday, catching the actions of what appear to be a settler running over a wounded Palestinian man in a gas station in Hebron on last week.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=243887

IOF bomb agricultural lands in Beit Hanoun in Gaza
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bombed Wednesday evening agricultural lands of Palestinian farmers located east of Beit Hanoun, but without reported injuries.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s70kZZMjRKBAutCSFapxFfb7z0GjUjT7WIWg7FhyQoBfzRVz0GtzvEMxybE8ArvFxsxzkMCiE2IQZnTqtTnVK%2bMFEehWbuAAUW47qFTJW2%2bTc%3d

Israeli ground forces invade southern Gaza
Gaza – Ma’an – Three Israeli tanks and a bulldozer invaded the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, witnesses said. Palestinians said the vehicles carried out a sweep of the area east of the Sufa crossing point, near the city of Rafah.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=243995

Prisoners

Hamas: PA detained 5 affiliates in West Bank
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Hamas officials accused the Palestinian Authority security services of detaining five of the party’s affiliates from locations across the West Bank. The five were taken from the Tulkarem, Nablus and Hebron areas, according to a statement from Hamas officials. The allegations come as unity talks continue in stalemate as earlier rumors of a post-Eid resumption turn out to have been false.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=243771

Abuse Continues Against Families Visiting Their Detained Loved Ones
Several parents of Palestinian detainees imprisoned by Israel complained of ongoing harassment and abuse against them while trying to visit their detained loved ones.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57285

Humanitarian Issues/Siege/Human Rights

Weekly report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory 25 Nov - 02 Dec 2009
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/JBRN-7YDHK3?OpenDocument&RSS20=02-P

Running Out of Gas
The severe shortage of cooking gas in the Gaza Strip has attracted scant media and public attention over the past two months. Generally, since the closure was imposed in 2007, the average monthly amount of cooking gas that Israel allows into the Strip has met only 56% of needs in Gaza. The situation worsened in the past two months, however, with only 1,202 tons of cooking gas being transferred in November up, constituting only 20% of the amount needed. The shortage has many implications: hospitals experience difficulties boiling water for sterilization and providing food and clean laundry to patients; bakeries have closed down; many families cannot cook; and thousands of chickens are at risk of death because their coops cannot be heated. The World Food Program has announced that the emergency cooking gas supply has been exhausted in all of the 40 institutions that it operates in Gaza.
http://www.gazagateway.org/2009/12/running-out-of-gas/

60% of Gazans no daily access to drinking water
Israel’s continuing blockade of Gaza has left thousands of schoolchildren without desks and the population exposed to million of tonnes of raw sewage, MPs heard. International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said refusing to allow desk parts into Gaza was "bizarre" and the Government was pressing Israel to give full access to humanitarian aid. The situation for Gazans was "extremely serious" and would only continue to worsen this winter.
http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m60709&hd=&size=1&l=e

No Second Thoughts : The Changes in the Israeli Defense Forces’ Combat Doctrine in Light of “Operation Cast Lead ”
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) - Special Report: November 2009 - Fundamental Shift in the Israel Defense Force`s (IDF) Combat Doctrine Resulted In Extensive Harm to Civilians and Civilian Infrastructure During the Cast Lead Offensive In The Gaza Strip. This shift is legally and politically dangerous. It is a moral stain and demands substantial public discussion.
http://www.stoptorture.org.il/files/no%20second%20thoughts_ENG_WEB.pdf

With the Little Beggars of Qalandiya Checkpoint
Aya Kaniuk - Mahsanmilim - Any time I see Hussam my heart leaps. He was five years old when I saw him for the first time selling stuff at Qalandiya Checkpoint. Back then he already had a different, wide open heart, unusually wide for such a small child. Since then, for these past eight years, and even before really, every single day of his life, from the moment school is out until the late evening hours, he is out selling his miserable goods, beaten and persecuted by both his own family and the various forces of the Israeli Occupation. The single day in which he did not work all these years was when he lay in a Ramallah hospital, after policemen had beaten him unconscious at the French Hill Junction.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=36991

600 helpless as Gaza war disabled them
gaza-hospital-09Gaza, December 3, 2009 (Pal Telegraph) - The Palestinian Medical Relief Society reported on Thursday that the recent Israeli assault on Gaza Strip caused more than six hundred Palestinian disabilities. It called for all official and private institutions to support disabled rights and enable them to exercise their role in society.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/diaries/featured-articles/3012-600-holpless-as-gaza-war-disabled-them

Increase of fetus deformity and cancer in Gaza
December 3, 2009 (Pal Telegraph) - Experts call to provide equipment to detect radiation and its degree and impact on human and environment as rates of cancer is on rise upon the last Israeli war on Gaza., In a specialized symposium, organized by Maan Center for Development- Afaq Magazine for environment and development- ,entitled " One year after the extermination war and three on the siege: the exacerbated health effects of Gaza war and how to tackle them" experts called to carry out scientific strict researches on the war effects. Also, they call to speed up the trial of the occupation’s generals who involved with crimes against humanity and used internationally prohibited weapons.
http://www.paltelegraph.com/hot-topic/3011-experts-warn-of-the-increase-of-fetus-deformity-and-cancer-in-gaza

Israeli Racism and Discrimination

BU student stranded in Gaza as Israeli court deliberates
Bethlehem - Ma’an - The Israeli High Court continued to deliberate on the case of Bethlehem University student Berlanty Azzam on Thursday, and declined to order the young woman returned to the West Bank to continue her studies following what her lawyers call an illegal deportation by the Israeli army. Berlanty was in attendence on Monday 30 November when the court heard her case in Jerusalem. Following the hearing Berlanty was transferred back to Gaza where she awaits the court’s decision on whether or not she can return to Bethlehem.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=243935

Ethiopian students still denied places at Petah Tikva schools
"One principal said the last open slot in the class had just been filled, and afterward it turned out that this was inaccurate," a municipal official said. "Another agreed to accept only 4th-grade boys, but there aren’t any in this group. The third simply refused to return phone calls." Only the mayor has the legal power to order the private schools to accept students. But Petah Tikva educators said that Mayor Yitzhak Ohayon has political obligations to certain National Religious Party activists who are also involved in the three schools, and has therefore refused to exercise this power.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1132424.html

Extremist Jewish groups call for closing Aqsa until release of Shalit
Al-Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage reported Thursday that fanatic Jewish groups released a document calling for closing the Aqsa Mosque until Palestinians release Gilad Shalit.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7GT87xXAUkTZqXF%2fDOiDDPkJQPzERZRBNKYogKSw0gJKcVawKKshWA0abC76l0v0ordioHkaY8HLY2zno9N8kne5rt987oNtzV3Bvu1TTZBI%3d

Women outraged MK Ben-Ari ’would prefer to employ man’
National Union member of Knesset says, ’I prefer his month in reserves to her six month maternity leave.’ Women’s rights lobby claims, ’He is making call for women in their fertile years and mothers.’ MK Ben-Ari calls campaign blood libel: I support women’s rights.’.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3814760,00.html

Israel’s Border Guards
Egyptian security services seize weapons cache on border
Al-Arish – Ma’an – Egyptian security services raided a weapons cache near the Rafah border with Gaza on Wednesday that were en route to Gaza via the smuggling tunnels, according to Egyptian security sources.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=243818

War Criminals

The Goldstone Report and the Debate in Israel
A United Nations fact-finding mission, headed by Judge Richard Goldstone and whose report was released on September 16, 2009, investigated the Israeli attack on Gaza that was launched on December 27, 2008. It found that Israel, “punished and terrorized” civilians in its three-week assault on Gaza … and cited strong evidence that Israeli forces committed “grave breaches” of the Geneva Conventions. The casualties included more than 1,400 Palestinians, about a third of them women and children, only thirteen Israelis died in the hostilities.
http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/12/the-goldstone-report-and-the-debate-in-israel/

Prisoner Release

Kuwaiti daily: Shalit in Egypt, prisoner swap underway
The Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Jarida reported early Thursday that Hamas transferred abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit to Egypt a few days ago as part of a prisoner exchange for his release. The newspaper quoted sources as saying that Shalit has been taken to a secret and secure location in the country, accompanied by Ahmed Jabari, head of Hamas’ military wing, and senior Hamas official Mahmud Zahar.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1132422.html

Israel awaiting Hamas response on final Shalit proposal
Israel is waiting for Hamas’ answer to the German mediator’s proposal on the final prisoner exchange deal over kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. The Islamist group is expected to respond within the next few days.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1132422.html

Israel FM excludes freeing intifada chief for captive Shalit (AFP)
AFP - Israel’s ultra-nationalist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Wednesday ruled out freeing one of the Palestinians’ most popular leaders in exchange for captive soldier Gilad Shalit.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091202/wl_mideast_afp/mideastconflictprisonershalitbarghuti

’Barghouti refuses to be deported’
Jailed Fatah operative Marwan Barghouti has rejected an offer to be deported to an Arab country if he’s released in a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas for captive soldier Gilad Schalit, his wife and friends said on Wednesday. "Marwan is going nowhere; he wants to return to his home and family in Palestine," said his wife, Fadwa Barghouti. She said that neither she nor her husband would agree to his deportation.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1259243067183&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Husband: All female Palestinian prisoners to be freed
Husband of Qahira Saadi, sentenced to life in prison for her part in Jerusalem suicide attack that left three Israelis dead in 2002, says all female Palestinian prisoners to be released in exchange deal. ’They were told they can start packing,’ he says.
https://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my#stream/user%2F10557706263859290149%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fstarred

Political Developments

Qureia: Return to talks would be pointless
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israel’s intransigence and rejection of international law means that a return to negotiations at present would be pointless, senior PLO official Ahmed Qureia told EU envoy Christian Berger on Wednesday.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=243843

Ban urges two-state solution for peace in Palestine
The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) held a gathering at the UN head office in downtown Beirut on Wednesday to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People of November 29.In an letter to mark the day, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said the UN would continue to work toward the goal of two States.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=109361

Palestinian president heads to Beirut
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to visit Beirut Monday for talks with top Lebanese officials, media reports said on Wednesday. During his visit, the first since the election of President Michel Sleiman, Abbas will discuss issues including the right of return for Palestinians, rejection of naturalization and the civil and social rights of Palestinian refugees.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=109357

Hamas: No desire for separate entity in Gaza
Bethlehem – Ma’an – Hamas has no desire to establish its own political system in the Gaza Strip, senior leader Moussa Abu Marzouq said on Thursday. Abu Marzouq, the deputy chief of Hamas’ Political Bureau, issued a statement denying a report in the Saudi newspaper Okaz that the group aims to establish its own independent entity in Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=244019

Other News

Sheikh Sabri Barred From Al Aqsa Mosque For Six Months
The Israeli Authorities in Jerusalem handed Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Committee in Jerusalem, a restriction order preventing him from entering the Al Aqsa Mosque, in East Jerusalem, for six months.
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57278

Haaretz’s Amira Hass awarded journalism prize by media watchdog
The Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday awarded veteran Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass a "Press Freedom" prize, for "independent and outspoken reporting."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1132274.html

Analysis/Op-ed/Human Interest

WORLDFOCUS INTERVIEWS BARGHOUTHI
Worldfocus, a nightly broadcast focused on international news, recently interviewed Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative. During the interview, Barghouti talked about the difficulties facing the Middle East peace process labeling it as “clinically dead." Barghouti believes stalling talks over the last decades have allowed Israel to continue its policies of illegal settlement expansions rather than work towards creating a real and lasting solution. He also highlighted the importance of Palestinian non violence struggle against occupation, quoting it among the promising changes for the next future. Watch the full interview clicking on: http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/11/...
http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/11/19/in-hamas-fatah-struggle-barghouti-embraces-third-way/8494/

Israel/Palestine by Mustafa Barghouti 1/5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlRJ8VUeW4Q&feature=related

Israel/Palestine by Mustafa Barghouti 2/5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFARLwDFg9M&feature=related

Israel/Palestine by Mustafa Barghouti 3/5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vll-whWWbK0&feature=related

Israel/Palestine by Mustafa Barghouti 4/5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiUmDAdkxy4&feature=related

Israel/Palestine by Mustafa Barghouti 5/5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9YHZDg5itQ&feature=player_embedded

Amjad Atallah Interviews Mustafa Barghouti
Amjad Atallah and Mustafa Barghouti discuss the Congressional resolution on the Goldstone Report, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Dr. Barghouti’s appearance on the Daily Show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP-qW9gwMTk&feature=player_embedded

A visit to the border
While Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving this year, Muslims were preparing for Eid Al-Adha, or the Holiday of the Sacrifice. In a way, the two are related. Both holidays celebrate the forestalling of potential disaster by the grace of a third party. Americans commemorate the aid provided to early settlers by Native American peoples, while Muslims celebrate God’s command to Abraham that he should sacrifice a goat in lieu of his son. Muslims who can afford it buy a sheep or goat, have it slaughtered or slaughter it themselves, and distribute the meat according to religious tradition; one third for the family, one third for one’s relatives, and one third for the needy. In a country where most produce is fresh, with an abundance of butcher shops, much of the slaughter is conducted in full public view. The experience can be overwhelming for new arrivals from Western countries. One British friend, a vegetarian, was mesmerized. He wished people back in the UK would engage more fully with the process of consuming meat themselves.
http://mondoweiss.net/2009/12/a-visit-to-the-border.html

M. Shahid Alam, "Native Orientalists at the Daily Times"
In the euphoria of Edward Said’s success, left intellectuals have nearly forgotten that the West’s servant classes in the Periphery produce an indigenous Orientalism. I refer here to the coarser but more pernicious Orientalism of the brown Sahibs, who are free, behind their rhetoric of progress, to denigrate their own history and culture. A few of these native Orientalists are deracinated souls, who put down their own people for failing, as they see it, to keep up with the forward march of history. Most, however, are opportunists, lackeys, or wannabee lackeys, eager to join the native racketeers who manage the Periphery for the benefit of outside powers.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/alam021209.html

"My Name is Rachel Corrie" and Israel’s waning impunity
Insidious pressures and overt threats have created a hostile environment to telling Rachel Corrie’s story and of course, the countless tragic stories of Palestinians. They are emblematic of a determination to maintain ignorance about the realities of life in Palestine, and a desire to perpetuate the notions of Israeli innocence, virtuousness and victimhood. In maintaining any hold to this myth, we are preventing the stories of Palestinian lives from reaching the light of day. Charlotte Silver writes for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10922.shtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+electronicIntifadaPalestine+(Electronic+Intifada+%3A+Palestine+News)

Palestinian Battle Cry in Cyber Warfare
Palestinian Battle Cry: "No credible Goldstone Investigation no International Holocaust Remembrance Day!" Echoing the demand for justice in response to the UN General Assembly’s endorsement of the ’Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ (document A/HRC/12/48), informally referred to as the "Goldstone report", after Richard Goldstone, the South African Justice who headed the mission. Goldstone Report provides for litigation in the International Criminal Court that ultimately would make political alliances nigh on impossible to justify with a nation governed by war criminals. While, likewise making Zionist attempts to maintain and perpetuate the Holocaust as a legal theory subsequently becoming morally problematic for Israel but pre-eminently more so for Israel’s American supporters.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2009/12/02/palestinian-battle-cry-in-cyber-warfare/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SabbahsBlog+(Sabbah+Report)

Playing the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Card Against Venezuela
In the early morning hours of January 31, vandals broke into Tiferet Israel, a Sephardic synagogue in Caracas. They strewed sacred scrolls on the floor and scribbled "Death to the Jews" and other anti-Semitic epithets on the walls, before making off with computer equipment and historical artifacts. Understandably, the incident frightened and upset many in the Venezuelan Jewish community. Right away, U.S. news outlets, including The New York Times and The Miami Herald, linked the incident to Venezuela’s increasingly strained relations with Israel, after the two countries suspended diplomatic relations two weeks earlier over Israel’s bombing of Gaza, then still under way.
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/4769

The Israel Lobby Celebrates Espionage in New York
The recent sting operation against former NASA scientist Stewart Nozette involved an undercover FBI employee posing as Mossad agent. Meeting in the posh Mayflower hotel in Washington, the agent set up clandestine payments in exchange for highly classified information. Nozette began delivering requested classified national defense information believing it to be destined for Israel while confidentially assuring the FBI agent that he thought he was already spying for Israel. This allegedly occurred under Nozette’s prior "consulting" contract with Israel Aerospace Industries, a major military contractor. Although the US has traditionally ignored, forgiven, or quashed investigations into Israeli espionage, the cost to America’s national security and economy may now have pushed law enforcement agencies toward a tipping point. Ironically, this very week, the Israel lobby is celebrating in New York the biggest clandestine operation ever conducted against US industries and workers.
http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2009/12/02/the-israel-lobby-celebrates-espionage-in-new-york/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+antiwar-original+(Antiwar.com+Original+Articles)

Palestinian Reflections on American Political Ideology, Dr. Haidar Eid
The Palestinians have ’realized,’ thanks to Hilary Clinton, that the US is biased towards Israel. According to the American Secretary of State, negotiations between "the two parties" should resume without preconditions. The Americans have even praised Netanyahu’s "unprecedented concessions!" Gone is the sweet talk of the American president Barak Obama; gone is the euphoria following his "ground breaking" speech in Cairo university.
http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15593

Armageddon, Straight Ahead
Arik W. Ascherman - Rabbis for Human Rights - Because this is Jerusalem. As I wrote a week and a half ago, I see a Palestinian anger burning so strong that, unlike what usually happens, neither the threat of arrest or the use of overwhelming force is a deterrent. That means a third intifada. That means that the fact that the world community forcing Israel into a settlement freeze (perhaps) may be too little too late. That means that the Obama administration remains a laughingstock at best, and in many quarters the U.S. is again the subject of scorn and derision.
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=36995

The question of Terminology in the Zionist propaganda to colonize Palestine
By terminology I mean roughly the semantic or the concepts which are mental representation or abstract ideas produced to explain things. My point is to unearth some of the Zionist terminology used in the Zionist propaganda which has sadly dominated the western media for decades and brainwashed millions in Europe and the USA. The function of these terminologies is to legitimize the Zionist policy of occupation and to conceal the truth especially for the western opinion.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2009/12/02/the-question-of-terminology-in-the-zioni

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