Window Into Palestine

How Zionist lobby stooges in Congress brought shame to their institution

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:35:00 +0000

As expected, the U.S. House of Representatives voted, on Tuesday 3 November, by 344 votes to 36, to urge the Obama administration to oppose endorsement of the Goldstone Report. But for those who are interested in truth and justice, not to mention democracy, the highlight of what passed for debate...

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How can someone give someone else something that is not his?

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:32:00 +0000

Balfour declaration and the moral responsibility of Britain towards the Palestinians By Iqbal Tamimi Few days ago all Palestinian around the world mourned the 92nd anniversary of the infamous Balfour declaration that lead to 4.5 million Palestinian refugees. Our agony as Palestinians started...

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Gazans not allowed to rebuild their lives

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:28:00 +0000

Rami Almeghari writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, Workers in Gaza remove rubble from last winter's attacks. With no construction materials being allowed into the besieged...

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Goldstone and Gaza

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:25:00 +0000

Jimmy Carter Judge Richard Goldstone and the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict have issued a report about Gaza that is strongly critical of both Israel and Hamas for their violations of human rights. On Wednesday, a special meeting of the U.N. General Assembly began a debate...

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America's old ugly face

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:23:00 +0000

The US is still playing fast and loose with its commitments on Israeli-Palestinian peace, reports Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah Speaking during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in West Jerusalem Saturday, 31 October, visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...

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Abbas admits failure of the peace process

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:20:00 +0000

by Khalid Amayreh Source: Palestinian Information Center Mahmoud Abbas, the beleaguered head of the Palestinian Authority, has finally but belatedly admitted that the so-called Peace...

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The End of Obama's Good Will Toward Palestine? What's Behind This Shift of Policy?

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:19:00 +0000

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Jewish settlers break into, occupy home of 83-year-old Palestinian woman

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:16:00 +0000

Settlers take over east Jerusalem home Jewish-Palestinian battle over 28 homes formerly of Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood continues. Dozens of people armed with court order take over Palestinian family's home that courts say belonged to Jews before State's establishment. http://www.ynetnews .com/...

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00:51 11/05/2009 Gaza Book Slated for Early Release to Coincide with Gaza Massacre Anniversary

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:14:00 +0000

The London-based publisher, Pluto Press has decided to move forward the date of a book about Gaza to coincide with the first anniversary of the Israeli war on the Strip, which began on December 27, and lasted for 22 days. The book, My Father was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story, was...

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A new resource from Ma'an on BDS..A must reference

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:11:00 +0000

Here's a great new resource from Ma'an in Palestine on Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions history, strategy, tactics and more. Check it out! http://www.maan-ctr.org/publications/Factsheets/Boycott.pdf

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UN Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:40:00 +0000

A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it. The report, which was favorably voted by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva last month, received overwhelming...

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Palestinian Women Suffer as “Israel” Violates CEDAW

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:00 +0000

by Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Nov 5, 2009 (IPS) – Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This is in flagrant violation of Israel’s obligations as a signatory to the UN...

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Michigan woman imprisoned by Israel fallowing settler take over of Palestinian home

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:35:00 +0000

Imprisoned American citizen and Michigan resident Ahlam Mohsen to be deported to the US after being arrested in a Palestinian home taken over by Israeli settlers in Occupied East Jerusalem. Ahlam was a guest of the al-Kurd family when on the morning of 3 November 2009 Israeli settlers burst in and...

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PFLP: U.S. is not a mediator but an enemy of the Palestinian people

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:34:00 +0000

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said on November 3, 2009 that the Palestinian Authority, and all Palestinian parties, must immediately end any and all illusions about the United States or its president, Barack Obama, and instead reject its "negotiations" based on surrender and...

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Give up on Obama, Disband the Palestinian Authority

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:32:00 +0000

By Sami Jamil Jadallah WRITTEN BY Sami Jamil Jadallah The issue of continuing and expanding Jewish settlements came back to haunt the Palestinian leadership that negotiated Oslo and continued to negotiate with Israel for the last 16 years while Israeli continued to build and...

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Why Does AIPAC Spy on Americans?

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:29:00 +0000

by Grant Smith, According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Steven J. Rosen will be allowed to move ahead with his civil defamation lawsuit against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Rosen and fellow AIPAC employee Keith Weissman were indicted under the 1917 Espionage Act in...

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Jewish directors challenge Israel

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:28:00 +0000

By Sakhr al-Makhadi at the London Film Festival Eyes Wide Open, a love story between two Orthodox Jewish men, provoked anger at its screening A series of controversial Israeli...

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Zionism's Jewish Enemy

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:25:00 +0000

Alan Hart Interviews Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “new” or “revisionist” historian. Like all Israelis, Ilan was brought up, conditioned, to believe Zionism’s version of the history of the making and sustaining of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It wasn’t until he went to England to continue...

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Michigan woman imprisoned by Israel fallowing settler take over of Palestinian home

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:21:00 +0000

My Picks of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:26:00 +0000

Picks of the day from Sami Joseph Zionism's Jewish Enemy Alan Hart Interviews Professor Ilan Pappe, Israel’s leading “new” or “revisionist” historian. Like all Israelis, Ilan was brought up, conditioned, to believe Zionism’s version of the history of the making and sustaining of the...

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Clinton tells Abbas: either you budge to Israel, or else

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:24:00 +0000

By Khalid Amayreh The latest visit by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to Occupied Palestine seems to have effectively terminated whatever hopes the Palestinians and other Arabs may have pinned on the Obama administration to adopt an evenhanded approach...

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Eleven Organizations Demand that The New York Mets Cancel Citi Field Fundraiser for Israeli Settlers

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:22:00 +0000

Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East www.adalahny.org Eleven Organizations Demand that Mets Cancel Citi Field Fundraiser for Israeli Settlers Media Contact: info@adalahny.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY, November 4, 2009 – Eleven organizations from the US,...

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Harper's extremism is showing

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:11:00 +0000

Another excellent article from Linda McQuaig on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's political extremism. Published in the Toronto Star, and by Rabble.ca. Ed Corrigan By Linda McQuaigIf, as polls suggest, Stephen Harper is poised to win a majority, it's largely due to the media notion that...

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Israeli Confessions

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:02:00 +0000

If one wants to know why and how the conflict started in Palestine more than 60 years ago, the "confessions" of Israeli and Zionist leaders should make it very clear. 700,000 Palestinians (more than half of the Palestinian population at the time) were expelled in 1948. More than 600 towns and...

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ADC Thanks 36 House Representatives who Opposed H.RES 867

noreply@blogger.com (dannyd) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:59:00 +0000

Washington, D.C. | November 4, 2009 | Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted 344-36 in support of the remarkably biased H. Res. 867 which called on the President and the Secretary of State to unequivocally oppose any endorsement of the ...

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