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Naim Ateek, a Christian Palestinian, talks about life for Christians in Palestine/Israel and the Kairos Document that a large number of Palestinian Christian leaders co-authored. He talked in 2010 at the Tree of Life Conference at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme (CT) Ateek is the founder of Sabeel, Christian Ecumenical Liberation
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by Jeremy R. Hammond
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Foreign Policy Journal
Special to the Palestine Chronicle.
July 19, 2011
The U.S. has long opposed any “unilateral” action on the part of the Palestinians to seek fulfillment of their right to self-determination, and there is a very real threat that if the Palestinian Authority goes to the United Nations in September seeking international recognition of Palestinian statehood, the U.S. will respond by cutting or eliminating aid that the P.A. has come to depend on in order to function.
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by Stephanie Westbrook
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
May 12, 2011
Italian construction firm Pizzarotti is stupefied, bewildered, stunned.
In an article on today’s Corriere della Sera, Italy’s top newspaper, covering Deutsche Bahn’s withdrawal from the Israeli project for a high-speed train line that cuts through the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Michele Pizzarotti said “We are astonished to find ourselves involved in these protests.”
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April 9, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
At 8.30am this morning around fifty settlers, some masked and armed with
guns, descended from Yitzhar settlement onto the Palestinian village of
Assira Al Qibliya. International observers from the UK and Ireland witnessed
the settlers threw rocks at homes and people on the outskirts of the village
injuring one local, who is being treated in hospital.
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Israeli ROR in mass demo against the separation fence in Bil’in (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
haithmkatib | January 01, 2011
Israeli Forces Kill Female Protester in Bil’in
Jan 01, 2011
Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital yesterday after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas during the weekly protest in Bil’in, and died of poisoning this morning. Abu Rahmah was the sister of Bassem Abu Rahmah who was also killed during a peaceful protest in Bil’in on April 17th, 2010.
Doctors at the Ramallah hospital fought for Jawaher Abu Rahmah’s life all night at the Ramallah Hospital, but were unable to save her life. Abu Rahmah suffered from severe asphyxiation caused by tear-gas inhalation yesterday in Bil’in, and was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital unconscious. She was diagnosed as suffering from poisoning caused by the active ingredient in the tear-gas, and did not respond to treatment.
Jawaher Abu Rahmah was the sister of Bil’in activist, Bassem Abu Rahmah, who was shot dead with a high velocity tear-gas projectile during a demonstration in the village on April 17th, 2009.
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with Noam Chomsky
chomsky.info
Novemeber 14, 2010
A-Infos Radio Project
Recorded: 2010-10-14
A benefit event for the Gaza Mental Health Foundation.
Produced by Nancy Murray for the Gaza Mental Health Foundation
Recorded by Chuck U. Rosina.
Edited at W.Bla3 Studio, Medford, MA.
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Talks between Israel and PA postponed past US midterm elections despite alleged US concessions.
While on a North America tour promote his new book, The Punishment of Gaza renowned Israeli journalist Gideon Levy spoke in Canada. The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky caught up with him in Toronto to ask him about the expiration of the so-called settlement construction freeze, or moratorium, and the lull in the peace talks between Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. According to David Makovsky of the Washington Institute on Near East Policy, Obama sent Netanyahu a letter offering him major concessions if the Israeli prime minister extends the settlement construction freeze past the U.S. midterm elections. One concessions Obama supposedly offered Netanyahu is the long-term stay of Israeli troops on the soil of the future Palestinian state in the Jordan Valley, a region central in the fight for water and land. However, both Netanyahu and Abbas refused to take a position, passing the ball into the court of the Arab League which in turn postponed taking a position until after the U.S. elections.
by Cindy Sheehan
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog
Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
September 27, 2010
Updated: June 26, 2011; added Transcript
Transcript: You Wanna Know What’s What in the Middle East?
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September 26, 2010 (SOAPBOX #74)
Cindy holds a very in-depth interview with British journalist, Robert Fisk, who has been living in the Middle East and reporting from there for decades. He is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent and has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported from the United States’s attack on Afghanistan and the same country’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. Fisk holds more British and International Journalism awards than any other foreign correspondent. Continue reading
by Michael Carmichael
Featured Writer
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PlanetaryMovement.org
September 5, 2010
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President Obama is making the Israelis and the Palestinians an offer they can’t refuse.
Reports in Israel suggest that Prime Minister Netanyahu will appeal for national unity tomorrow in a Rosh Hashanah statement on the Jewish New Year to prepare the way for a historic agreement that will be announced later this month or early in October.
The direct peace negotiations between the leading diplomats will take place in syncopation with the onrush of the Jewish holidays: Aseret Yemei Teshuva; Yom Kippur; Sukkot; Hoshanah Rabbah; Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah ending on the first of October.
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Journalist Jonathan Cook and Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard on apartheid & Israel.
Renown Nezareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook says not only is Israel’s control of the West Bank based on an apartheid system of segregation but also the system inside Israel proper. One of the top Israeli human rights lawyers, Michael Sfard, disagrees. In a Tel Aviv interview with The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky he talks about his conclusion that Israeli control in the West Bank is now only moving towards an apartheid-like system based on the dual legal systems that Israeli settlers and Palestinians get subjected to. He describes that if an Israeli settler and a Palestinian were to be arrested for the same crime, they would be judged, investigated, and convicted in separate legal systems.
Jonathan Cook is a British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel. He has written for the Guardian, International Herald Tribune and Le Monde diplomatique among other publications, and is currently a correspondent for the Abu Dhabi-based National newspaper. He is the author of three books on the Israel-Palestine conflict, the latest being Disappearing Palestine.
Michael Sfard is one of the top Israeli human rights lawyers. His Tel Aviv-based practice represents many Israeli human rights groups and high profile rights cases. Most famous is his firm’s challenge of the separation wall annexing land from the West Bank village of Bil’in. A former conscientious objector, Sfard represents reservists and others who refuse to participate in the occupation of the Palestinian Territories.
by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
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Truthdig
August 16, 2010
Time is running out for Israel. And the Israeli government knows it. The Jewish Diaspora, especially the young, has a waning emotional and ideological investment in Israel. The demographic boom means that Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories will soon outnumber Jews. And Israel’s increasing status as a pariah nation means that informal and eventually formal state sanctions against the country are probably inevitable.
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Palestinian Loss of Land 1946 to 2005
Info-map orders: PIAG
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Update: 7.20.10 added Part 2
Update: 7.19.10 replaced video
[Note: video taken down by TRNN; will replace it when a new one becomes available.]
TheRealNews | July 17, 2010
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti on Palestinian political dynamics and the realities of Middle East Peace
by Jeremy R. Hammond
Featured Writer
DandelionSalad
Jeremy R. Hammond
13 July, 2010
Here’s the Washington Post on the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem, emphasis added:
Ever since the administration was blindsided by Israel’s March 9 announcement that it intends to build 1,600 housing units in a disputed area of Jerusalem, U.S. officials have pressed Israel to take actions to encourage Palestinians to attend indirect talks, including canceling the project, making concrete gestures such as a prisoner release and adding substantive rather than procedural issues to the agenda for talks. Some U.S. requests have not been made public.
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