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Global BDS Against Israel Is Working

RamallahOnline — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:27:16 +0000

Stephen Lendman, 7 Sept 2010 In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the Global BDS movement for “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights” for Occupied Palestinians, Israeli Arabs, and Palestinian diaspora refugees. The Tel Aviv-based Reut Institute (RI) [...]

Abu Mazen: Focussed + on story

RamallahOnline — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:04:43 +0000

Marian Houk, 6 Sept 2010 According to a report in the Jerusalem Post today, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) told one of the official Palestinian daily newspapers, Al-Ayyam, that in last weeks resumed “direct talks” with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyanu and company in Washington that ” ‘We clarified that [the Palestinian Authority] would [...]

flaws in the investigation into Rachel Corrie’s killing

RamallahOnline — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:01:14 +0000

Military police investigator’s testimony reveals additional flaws in the investigation into Rachel Corrie’s killing 5 September 2010 | Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice Haifa, Israel – On Sunday, September 5, 2010, the civil law suit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza, resumed [...]

Who pays for the loss of life in Iran?

RamallahOnline — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:29:02 +0000

Kourosh Ziabari, 5 Sept 2010 Since the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979 which toppled the U.S.-backed regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran has been facing with devastating and agonizing financial sanctions of the United States and its European allies who didn’t favor the post-revolutionary Iran’s doctrine of confrontation with the superpowers and [...]

Hamas, don’t blow this chance

RamallahOnline — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:32:47 +0000

Stuart Littlewood, 5 September 2010 Can the resistance exploit the fake talks, re-position itself and finally “come good”? Hamas “vows to step up attacks on Israel”, say reports in the western media. Reading further, we learn that this escalation is either “a natural response to the crimes of the occupation” or a spiteful reaction to [...]

“It’s like a situation where two people are sitting negotiating over a piece of cheese…”

RamallahOnline — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:27:48 +0000

Palestine Monitor, 4 September 2010 MARK COLVIN: Direct formal Middle East peace talks begin in Washington tomorrow, after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas had separate meetings with Barack Obama at the White House today. President Obama is pushing hard for a return to a real peace process, and [...]

On the Way to Washington: Damage Control

RamallahOnline — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:23:16 +0000

Uri Avnery A Dutch journalist asked me last Wednesday to try and divine the thoughts of Binyamin Netanyahu on his way to Washington. It seems that she was satisfied with the results, because she asked me to divine the thoughts of Mahmoud Abbas, too. She must have liked that as well, because then she asked [...]

Israeli Deputy FM says military-administered sanctions on Gaza were “ineffective”

RamallahOnline — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:20:26 +0000

Marian Houk, 3 Sept 2010 It appears that National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent in Jerusalem, Lourdes Garcia Navarro, managed to get a big admission from Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon: Israel’s two-and-a-half-year-old program of military-administered punitive sanctions against Gaza was “not that effective”. The Israeli military sanctions, which were to have been progressively tightened, [...]

Give them something to lose

RamallahOnline — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:08:36 +0000

Fadi Elsalameen, 3 Sept 2010, Palestinenote.com Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced earlier this week that he will consider Israel fully to blame for the collapse of the negotiations that were scheduled to commence yesterday, should it resume construction in the settlements. That statement could be seen as a reiteration of last week’s reports by [...]

Behind the Israeli Wall: A Lesson in Reality

RamallahOnline — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:44:54 +0000

Ramzy Baroud, 2 Sept 2010 Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book – or any piece of writing for that matter – is meant to provide a sense of completion. Sociological explanations are offered to offset the confusion caused by apparent inconsistency in human behavior. At times a [...]