Humanitarian Issues

[ninathedog]

EU Ups Funding for Libyan
Refugee Crisis

By LAURENCE NORMAN
MARCH 2, 2011, 8:12 A.M. ET
The Wall Street Journal

BRUSSELS—The European Union increased its aid to handle the refugee crisis in Libya, and will mobilize extra funds to help member countries maintain border control, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Wednesday.

In a press briefing Wednesday, Mr. Barroso said the EU must reshape its relationship with North Africa and provide more resources to the region.

Mr. Barroso said the EU was increasing its aid for the refugee crisis to €10 million ($13.8 million).

He said there are about 140,000 refugees who have fled Libya, many of them Egyptians who had crossed into Tunisia. He said the situation was a "humanitarian tragedy" with some of the people lacking any identity papers.

Mr. Barroso said the commission isn't involved in discussions of a no-fly zone, but that the EU must do everything possible to ensure that Col. Moammar Gadhafi steps down.

Speaking on the EU's future role in the region, Mr. Barroso said the EU needs to focus on helping countries that improve the rule of law and making more resources available to the region. The EU supports giving a greater role to the European Investment Bank in helping small businesses and job creation in the region, and having the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to invest there.

Mr. Barroso also said the group needs to reshape its role in the region to support democracy, dismissing idea that the Arab world wasn't fit for democracy. Similar arguments were made about southern Europe when it democratized in the 1970s, he said.

"They will of course follow their own road, make their own choices. It is not up to us to tell them what to do," Mr. Barroso said. But the EU is "totally determined" to help them along the "journey to democracy and a better future."

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[ninathedog]

Father of Furkan Doğan
seeks justice

>> heading edited for clarity

By Kristin Szremski, AMP Media Director
originally published by
The Electronic Intifada, 24 February 2011

As Dr. Ahmet Doğan drove from his home town of Kayseri to the Istanbul airport on 3 June 2010 -- three days after Israel attacked the Mavi Marmara and killed nine unarmed activists taking humanitarian aid to the occupied Gaza Strip -- he was still firmly confident his son Furkan was returning home to him. When the recent high school graduate was not among the crowd who disembarked from three planes bringing back Turkish flotilla passengers who had been detained in Israel, Doğan still did not lose hope.



And when he'd heard reports that Israeli commandos threw overboard some passengers of the Mavi Marmara -- the ship Furkan had been on -- he sat down, buried his head in his hands and "felt that boiling water was poured over me," he said. But even that momentary panic passed when the president of the human rights organization IHH, which sponsored some of the flotilla's vessels, said three Turkish residents were still being detained at the airport in Israel. There was also the possibility Furkan had been injured and diverted to Ankara with others. Or because he carried American -- but not Turkish -- citizenship, perhaps he'd been sent to the United States.

Such were the racing thoughts of a loving father desperately trying to learn the whereabouts of his youngest child, three days after the Israeli navy commandeered the Freedom Flotilla's six vessels in international waters, in contravention of international maritime law. After calling relatives in Ankara and Chicago to no avail, Doğan began to consider the unfathomable: perhaps Furkan was one of the three unidentified bodies lying in the morgue at the forensics department in Istanbul.

So he left the airport and went the short distance to the forensics building. He found his 19-year-old son lying among the unidentified victims, his young body riddled with bullets that, according to a UN report, were fired execution style at "point-blank" range. The report was published and submitted to the UN General Assembly on 27 September 2010. (See below.*)

The report, the result of an independent investigation conducted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), found Israel responsible for "grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention," and guilty of "willful killing, torture or inhumane treatment, and willfully causing great suffering or serious injury." Furthermore, the killings of at least six of the passengers were in a manner "consistent with arbitrary and summary execution" ("Report of the international fact-finding mission ..." (See below.)).

While recently recounting his story at a Chicago-area hotel, the mild-mannered but stoic accounting professor suddenly fell silent and looked off into the distance, his words spent. What had started out that June day as a confident journey portending reunion had turned unexpectedly into mindless tragedy.

And now this week, Doğan and his lawyers Ramazan Aritürk and Uğuur Sevgili, of the Istanbul-based Elmadag Law Office, are in Washington DC, "considering all their options," which may include filing a civil case against Israeli authorities. The trio is holding meetings with officials from the US State Department, the Department of Justice and the Senate Appropriations Committee through Friday. They want to ask the United States to initiate its own investigation into Furkan's death. Doğan also wants to know why American authorities have shown such little interest in the execution of his son.

The American Muslims for Palestine invited Doğan to Chicago, where the organization bestowed its annual Al Quds Award on Feb. 19 for the Doğan family’s sacrifice for the cause of Palestine.

Since the flotilla attack on 31 May 2010, Doğan has received scant information or help from US officials. Out of four letters requesting meetings sent to the US consulate in Istanbul and the US embassy in Ankara, Doğan received one response -- a form letter stating his letter had been received, Sevgili said.

A letter sent last fall to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains unanswered.

"We're disappointed with the approach of the US," Doğan said in Turkish on Sunday. Sevgili acted as an interpreter during the interview for this article. "The fact is, the United States does not protect its citizens."

On 31 May, US President Barack Obama issued a statement on the flotilla incident, saying the loss of life was "regrettable," which was similar to the statement put out by the State Department. On 3 June, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed Furkan was among the dead and said "We are in constant contact with the Israeli government, attempting to obtain more information about our citizens."

A report published by the independent Congressional Research Service on 23 June 2010 indicated the US response to the attack was predicated upon politics rather than condemnation of Israel's violations of international law.

"The United States is caught between two long-time allies -- Israel and Turkey -- and the Obama administration is interested in finding a path between them that will not antagonize either party. ... The administration's first reaction was circumspect, if not muted," the report stated.

The reasons are not justifiable to Doğan or his lawyers. To them, US policies and actions are biased and discriminatory.

"According to US policy, all the action taken by Israel is legitimate and legal before the US. Such a double standard has never existed within the history of law," Aritürk said.

"I am disappointed, but let us see what we can get from legal actions in the US," Doğan added.

According to Noura Erakat, an adjunct professor of international human rights law in the Middle East at Georgetown University, if Doğan does file suit, it will get thrown out before making it to trial because of the political question doctrine that stipulates the "judiciary should defer to the executive branch" in cases that could impact US foreign policy or the relationship with an ally, she said.

The political questions doctrine originated as a way to define the boundaries between the judicial and the executive and legislative branches of government, and is applied when court cases touch areas such as foreign policy or the ratification of constitutional amendments. However, the rule is vague and is open to broad interpretation. In cases in which Palestinians are plaintiffs against the State of Israel or Israeli authorities, its use is "so extreme as to demonstrate bias," Erakat said. "It is not just the merits of the case" that determine whether it will proceed through the court system, but its impact on foreign policy or on the relationship between the US and an ally, she said.

"While US federal courts have, through the [Alien Tort Claims Act], become formally available for redressing violations of international human rights, Palestinians have found no judicial recourse in these courts almost without exception. As defendants, Palestinians have no defenses available to them; as claimants, their claims do not withstand judicial scrutiny," Erakat wrote in an article titled "Litigating the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Politicization of US Federal Courtrooms," published in Vol. 2 of the 2009 Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law.

This time, however, if Doğan decides to file the lawsuit, the plaintiff would be the estate of an American citizen. But the fact the defendant would be Israeli authorities already precludes a successful outcome, Erakat said.

"The fact the United States does not accept the UN Fact Finding Mission but condemns it, and the fact the executive branch says everything [regarding Israel and the Palestinians] should be decided by direct negotiations leaves no room for the United Nations. It leaves no room for the courts to decide," Erakat said. "You would need a really creative judge to find an outcome that doesn't contradict US foreign policy and that's impossible."

Refer also to the case of 23-year old American: Rachel Corrie—
the-goldenthread.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=43&page=42#14181

So, in effect, legal cases involving Israel are politicized because of the judiciary's deference to the executive branch, among other things.

Whether the Turkish trio decides to pursue legal action in the United States remains unclear and may not be decided until after they finish with all their meetings in Washington this week. Likewise, State Department spokesman John Sullivan deferred commenting on the issue until after the meetings take place, he said in an email.

Putting legal wrangling aside, Doğan boiled down the predicament to one thing: "What I understand from US policy is if Israel is the issue, they can ignore [Furkan's] citizenship." Doğan added, "Israel has priorities in its continuing relationship with the US."

In October, Aritürk and Sevgili were among a delegation of lawyers representing approximately 300 victims of the flotilla raid who filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Sevgili said. The claim, filed under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, charges Israel with committing war crimes and asks the ICC prosecutor to conduct his own investigation.

"Furkan was generous and helpful," Doğan said. "You die as you live, and you're resurrected as you die. Furkan is an example of this. He became a symbol for young people."

This article was first published on Electronic Intifada.

www.ampalestine.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1526%3Afather-of-furkan-dogan-slain-on-flotilla-seeks-justice

Jun 3, 2010 23:50:04 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

Meet the 19-Year-Old American
Killed in the Flotilla Attack

Posted by paulwoodward at 8:53 am
June 3, 2010

This post originally appeared on War in Context.

For several days, Israel has been able to contain some of the fallout from the flotilla massacre by withholding information about the dead and injured. The object of this exercise has clearly been to slow the flow of information in the hope that by the time the most d**ning facts become known, the international media’s attention will have turned elsewhere.

But the dead now have names and faces and one turns out to be a nineteen-year-old American: Furkan Dogan.



Dogan is alleged to have been shot with five bullets, four in the head.

Does the Obama administration intend to investigate the circumstances in which one of its citizens was killed? Protecting the lives of Americans is after all the most fundamental responsibility of our government.

Dogan’s death was presumably instant, but according to Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal there were others on board the Mavi Marmara who died because Israeli soldiers refused to treat their injuries.

“After the shooting and the first deaths, people put up white flags and signs in English and Hebrew. An Isreali [on the ship] asked the soldiers to take away the injured, but they did not and the injured died on the ship.”

Crimes have been committed and since the suspects all acted under the direction of the Israeli government and its defense forces and took place on international waters outside Israel’s area of legal jurisdiction, “a prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation conforming to international standards” — a demand made by the UN Security Council with the support of the Obama administration — cannot be conducted by the Israeli government or a commission appointed by them. An investigation conforming to international standards must also be an international inquiry.

blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/06/03/meet-the-19-year-old-american-killed-in-the-flotilla-attack/

(many thanks to Tom V)

Jul 27, 2010 19:56:37 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

Op-Ed Columnist
The Forgotten American

By ROGER COHEN
Published: July 26, 2010
The New York Times

TROY, New York — The Dogans were a quiet family little noticed by their neighbors here in upstate New York. Ahmet Dogan had come to the area from Turkey to study accounting at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

He was a serious student; the Dogans did little entertaining. But when their younger son, Furkan, was born in 1991, the family threw a party and a neighbor recalled a toast “to the first U.S. citizen in the family.”

Furkan Dogan would live just two years in Troy, returning to Turkey with his family in 1993. But he was proud of his American passport and dreamt of coming back after completing medical school. Five Israeli bullets — at least two of them to the head — ended that dream on May 31. Dogan was 19.



The young American, who had just completed high school with excellent grades in the central Turkish town of Kayseri, had seen an online advertisement for volunteers to deliver aid to Gaza. The ad, from a Turkish charity called the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, or I.H.H, said the goal of the trip was to show that Israel’s “embargo/blockade can be legally broken.”

Little interested in politics, but with an aspiring doctor’s concern for Palestinian suffering, Dogan won a lottery to go.

How he was killed is disputed — as is just about everything concerning the Israeli naval takeover of the six-boat Gaza-bound flotilla — but his father suspects a video camera carried by his son may have provoked Israeli commandos.

O.K., enough said, that’s the start of the story you haven’t read about the short life of Furkan Dogan, an American killed by Israeli forces in international waters on the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara.

In truth I have not been to Troy but I do find the effacement of Dogan since his death almost two months ago at once offensive and instructive.

I have little doubt that if the American killed on those ships had been Hedy Epstein, a St. Louis-based Holocaust survivor, or Edward Peck, a former U.S. ambassador to Mauritania, we would have heard a lot more. We would have read the kind of tick-tock reconstructions that the deaths of Americans abroad in violent and disputed circumstances tend to provoke. (Epstein had planned to be aboard the flotilla and Peck was.)

I also have little doubt that if the incident had been different — say a 19-year-old American student called Michael Sandler killed by a Palestinian gunman in the West Bank when caught in a cross-fire between Palestinians and Israelis — we would have been deluged in stories about him.

But a chill descends when you have the combination of Israeli commandos doing the firing, an American with a foreign-sounding Muslim name, and the frenzied pre-emptive arguments of Israel and those among its U.S. supporters who will brook no criticism of the Jewish state.

This chill is a bad thing. Let’s do whatever it takes to find out how Dogan died — and the eight other victims. The Middle East requires more open debate and the dropping of taboos. It needs the leading institutions of American Jewry to encourage broad discussion rather than, as Peter Beinart put it in an important recent essay in The New York Review of Books, checking “their liberalism at Zionism’s door.”

Let’s face it, without the flotilla outcry that allowed the Obama administration to question Israel’s self-defeating suffocation of Gaza, Israel would still be imposing the blockade that handed Hamas control of whatever was left of the Gaza economy. Now that blockade has been eased.

As this suggests, Israel will, ostrich-like, push policies born of the security mantra way beyond their rationale, only changing course when its critical friends raise their voices. It’s time for the U.S. Jewish establishment to think again — and think openly — or risk losing the many younger Jews troubled by Israel’s course.

I hope every member of Congress read Beinart’s piece (posted below). I contacted the office of Congressman Paul Tonko, who represents the Troy area, to ask about Dogan. A spokesman, Beau Duffy, wrote saying that “There really isn’t much of a local connection here” and that Tonko had no comment. Hardly a surprise: Nobody in Congress has had anything to say about this American death.

I called the State Department, where an official said the U.S. ambassador in Turkey has offered the Dogan family assistance. (He also denied reports that the United States plans to designate I.H.H. a terrorist organization.)

Any further action, including a possible F.B.I. investigation of Dogan’s death, will hinge on the results of the inquiry being led by a retired Israeli Supreme Court justice and including two foreign observers. The Dogan family could also request F.B.I. action.

But it seems they have few illusions. Professor Dogan, who teaches at Kayseri University, told the Wall Street Journal’s Marc Champion (who wrote the best piece on Dogan) that he’s been wondering what the U.S. response would have been if his son had been a Christian living stateside. Having lived in America, he said, “I know what people do there when a cat gets stuck in a tree.”

It’s different, however, when an American Muslim male gets stuck in a hail of Israeli gunfire.

www.nytimes.com/2010/07/27/opinion/27iht-edcohen.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Roger%20Cohen&st=cse

*cited above:

Sept 26, 2010 23:42:47 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

Sept 23, 2010 1:37:23 GMT 4 @ninathedog said:

U.N. report
56 pages, click link to download pdf
bit.ly/FlotillaReport

A/HRC/15/21
Advance Unedited Version
Dist: General
22 September 2010
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifteenth session
Agenda item 7
Human Rights situation in Palestine and
other Occupied Arab territories

>>edited for length

download document with footnotes —
bit.ly/FlotillaReport

[ninathedog]

Diplomat: I can
no longer represent Israel

Veteran diplomat Ilan Baruch quits, says he can no longer represent government;
Israel's foreign policy is 'wrong,' he says, adds that blaming global anti-occupation
views on anti-Semitism is 'simplistic, artificial'

Ynet
Published: 03.02.11, 20:40 / Israel News

Foreign Ministry earthquake: A veteran diplomat says he has resigned from his post because he had a hard time defending the policies of Israel's current government, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday.

Ilan Baruch says he quit because "Israel's foreign policy is wrong," pointing to the Palestinian issue.

Should this trend continue, he warned, Israel will turn into a pariah state and face growing de-legitimization.

Baruch told Israel TV Wednesday that Israel's standing was in danger because of its policies, which he said were "difficult to explain."

"I can no longer honestly represent this government," he said earlier. "As (Foreign Minister) Lieberman was elected by a large public in a legitimate manner, I cannot question him – but I don't have to serve him, and therefore I'm quitting."

"I have nothing against Lieberman the person," Baruch added. However, he said he had a problem with the diplomatic messages conveyed by the Jewish state at this time and its dismissal of former understandings pertaining to the Road Map and the Palestinians.

'Don't blame anti-Semitism'

Baruch sent a personal letter to all Foreign Ministry employees Tuesday to explain the motives for his decision.

"Identifying the objection expressed by global public opinion to the occupation policy as anti-Semitic is simplistic, provincial and artificial," he wrote. "Experience shows that this global trend won't change until we normalize our relations with the Palestinians."

A more than 30-year veteran, Baruch resigned a few years before the usual retirement age. His last overseas posting was ambassador to South Africa last year. He quit several months ago. The longtime diplomat lost an eye during the War of Attrition and joined the Foreign Service in 1974.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said it was unusual for a diplomat to criticize the government upon retirement. Officials at Lieberman's office declined to respond to Baruch's comments.

AP contributed to the story

www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4036889,00.html

(many thanks to Max B)

[ninathedog]

[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1309

Tue Mar 1, 2011 6:09 pm (PST)

***Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles*

*News*
------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
*International Middle East Media Center* <http://imemc. org/>

*Palestinian Man Injured by Israeli airstrike in Gaza*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60751>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 18:33, A twenty two year old man was
injured by an Israeli airstrike in the southern part of Gaza in Khan
Younis, in the midst of an Israeli incursion in the area.

*Hamas Prevent Unity Rally in Gaza* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60750>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 17:50, Hamas security forces dispersed
a rally in the Gaza Strip, on Monday. The rally had been intended to
call for an end to political division within the Palestinian political
world.

*Al-Quds Brigades to Employ "New Tactics"*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60749>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 17:36, Ma'an News Agency are reporting,
on Tuesday, that the al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad,
are preparing "new tactics" to use against the Israeli military.

*Six Children Arrested in Silwan Clashes*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60748>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 17:19, Israeli 'undercover' forces
arrested six Palestinian children, on Monday, during violent
confrontations in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, local
sources informed.

*Another Palestinian Child Run Over in Hebron*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60747>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 16:26, An Israeli settler hit a
Palestinian boy with his car in Hebron, on Monday evening, Ma'an News
Agency reported.

*Israel To Legalize Settlement Outposts*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60746>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 13:52, Israel has announced plans to
legalize a total of 96 settlement outposts.

*Man Killed By Israeli Army in Gaza* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60745>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 12:47, The Israeli army killed a man
who entered the 300m 'buffer zone' in Gaza on Monday.

*Settlers Attack Homes, Property In Hebron*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60744>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 12:21, A group of armed fundamentalist
Israeli settlers attacked, on Tuesday at dawn, several Palestinian
neighborhoods in the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

*Settlers Set Fire To House in Huwara Village*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60743>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 11:53, A group of extremist settlers
set fire to a Palestinian home near Nablus, Monday night, Palestinian
media sources reported.

*Report: "Israel To Carry Out Specified Attacks Against Gaza"*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60742>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 01, 2011 - 11:43, The Israeli Radio reported,
Monday, that the Israeli Army intends to carry out specified and
targeted attacks against certain areas in the Gaza Strip without
conducting a direct confrontation or ground invasions at the current stage.

*Ma'an News* <http://maannews. net/en/>

*Report: Israel to legalize tens of outposts*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364398>
3/1/2011 - TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israel is moving to "immediately
dismantle all illegal settlement outposts built on privately-owned
Palestinian land," Israeli media reported Tuesday citing army officials.
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the decision would legalize
other outposts, which were determined to be on "state lands." The
announcement came hours after Israeli troops.... Related:Israeli rights
group lauds decision to dismantle 3 outposts
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364566>

*Second settler hit and run injures Hebron boy*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364348>
3/1/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- An Israeli settler knocked down a
Palestinian boy with his car on Monday evening, driving away and leaving
the child in the street, residents of Hebron's Old City told Ma'an. The
incident occurred outside the Ibrahimi Mosque, also known as the Cave of
the Patriarchs, in the....

*Israel shuts down Palestinian event in Jerusalem*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364433>
3/1/2011 - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli police and intelligence agents
forcibly shut down two events in East Jerusalem on Tuesday morning,
citing "security reasons" for the clampdown. Armed police and border
guards prevented guests from entering a conference on"Defending
Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem" at the Capitol Hotel on Salah Addin
Street in Jerusalem, organizers said....

*Gaza man injured in clashes near border*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364584>
3/1/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A 22-year-old Gaza man was injured
Tuesday, Gaza medics told Ma'an, and transported to hospital from east
of Khan Younis after what witnesses said was an exchange of fire between
Israeli forces and resistance fighters. Witnesses reported a clash near
the Israeli military base of Kissufim, east....

*Detainee's father dies without seeing son*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364673>
3/1/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The father of a Palestinian prisoner
held in Israel died Tuesday without seeing his son for three years, a
detainees' society said. Khader Al-Dahnoun, 62, had not seen his son
Saed Dahnoun since Israeli forces detained him in 2008, the center said.
Saed Dahnoun is serving a seven-year sentence in....

*Settlers plan 'Day of Rage' in West Bank*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364530>
3/1/2011 - HAVAT GILAD OUTPOST (AFP) -- Angry Israeli settlers said on
Tuesday they were planning a 'Day of Rage' later this week over Israeli
police action during the demolition of a caravan in a settlement
outpost. Plans were taking shape after police and settlers clashed
during an early-morning operation on Monday to remove a caravan....

*Hebron women march for unity*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364620>
3/1/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Palestinian women's committees held a rally
in Hebron on Tuesday to demand national unity. Dozens of women from
Palestinian unions and organizations marched in the West Bank city,
calling for elections and an end to the internal division, organizers
said....

*5 children detained from Silwan*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364217>
3/1/2011 - Jerusalem (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Monday detained five
children in the Al-Ein Al-Fawqa area of Silwan in occupied East
Jerusalem, locals said. Witnesses described the forces as "undercover"
saying they entered the neighborhood in unmarked cars and wearing
civilian clothes. Three of the children taken from the neighborhood were
identified as Fahmi Al-Haymouni. ...

*Gadhafi forces detain Palestinian students*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364160>
3/1/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Libyan forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi
detained Palestinian students Monday in Misurata, officials said.
Reports from informed sources said Gadhafi's forces detained
Palestinians studying at a military college in the northwestern city
after they refused to join the pro-regime forces. Palestinian military
intelligence director Nidhal Abu Dukhan told Ma....

*Israeli rights group lauds decision to dismantle 3 outposts*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364566>
3/1/2011 - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli human rights group Yesh Din
called Israel's decision to dismantle three settlement outposts a
"much-overdue and elementary decision," in a statement released Tuesday,
hours after the government announced the news. The government decision
also allowed for the legalization under Israeli law of tens of other
illegal outposts. Those.... Related:Report: Israel to legalize tens of
outposts <http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364398>

*Single Gaza crossing opens*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364355>
3/1/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli officials opened one terminal
for imports into Gaza on Tuesday, and crossings authorities told
Palestinian liaison officers to expect 190 truckloads of goods. Raed
Fattouh said he was informed that Israel cleared 190 truckloads of
commercial and humanitarian goods for entry. Permitted to enter were 13
truckloads are cement....

*Hamas govt urges children not to study Holocaust*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364472>
3/1/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Gaza government officials on Tuesday
urged school children to leave classrooms if human rights lessons
included information about the Holocaust. The Hamas-led government said
it would do everything it could to prevent children being taught about
the Holocaust in UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip. It accused the UN
agency....

*Gaza man returns home from Egyptian prison*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364362>
3/1/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian man detained in Egypt for
eighteen months returned home to the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis
on Monday, after an early release from prison. Palestinian sources in
Gaza identified the man as Nabil Mansour Al-Basheety, 38, and confirmed
that he was the ninth Palestinian to be released....

*Students protest to overthrow school principal*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364526>
3/1/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A hundred students of the Hussan School
for boys protested against their district superintendent Abdullah
Shakarneh and the school principal last week, demanding respect for
students and a change in administration. The protest broke out following
a visit by Shakarneh to the school. At the time students said he
insulted students.... Related:Family: UN teacher injured student at
school <http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364576>

*Family: UN teacher injured student at school*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364576>
3/1/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) - A pupil at a UN-run school in the Gaza
Strip was beaten by his teacher, his family said. Marwan Fisal, 10, was
seriously injured in his eye after a teacher beat him with a stick, his
parents said. Marwan's parents said he was beaten on his back and....
Related:Students protest to overthrow school principal
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364526>

*Palestinians in Libya get safe passage to Egypt*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364456>
3/1/2011 - CAIRO (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian ambassador to Cairo advised
Monday that Palestinians in Libya who want to leave the country to
contact the embassy to coordinate their exit. Barakat Al-Farra issued a
statement saying officials were doing their best to ensure that all
those Palestinians in the country were able to receive services ensuring....

*Israel says West must treat Iran like Libya*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364657>
3/1/2011 - JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
on Tuesday called on the West to impose on Iran the same tough measures
it is putting in place against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi." If the
international community is applying special pressure on Libya and
warning its leader and soldiers against violating civil rights, the same
warning must....

*Palestinian Airlines staff accused of corruption*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364219>
3/1/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The general director of Palestinian
Airlines has revealed the company was engaged in extensive financial
corruption. Based in Egypt and owned by the Palestinian Authority, the
three-plane fleet operates out of the El-Arish Airport south of Gaza in
Egypt, and offers once a week flights to Amman. It also offers charter....

*PA sets March consumer fuel prices*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364445>
3/1/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority Ministry of
Finance and Petroleum Authority announced the latest consumer fuel and
gas prices effective in the West Bank for March 2011. The prices, which
will take effect on Tuesday, were set at follows: -- 1 liter of diesel:
6. 30 shekels-- 1 liter of benzene (95 octane): 6....

*Rage against regimes spreads across Mideast*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364385>
3/1/2011 - TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
insisted his people loved him but was slammed as "delusional" as the
United States slapped a record-breaking $30 billion in sanctions on his
brutal regime. US and European leaders weighed the use of NATO air power
to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and stop Gadhafi from using....

*Israel, US behind Arab revolts: Yemen president*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364429>
3/1/2011 - SANAA, Yemen (AFP) -- Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh,
facing street protests calling for his ouster, on Tuesday accused Israel
and the United States of fomenting anti-regime revolts rattling the Arab
world....

*World turns screws on 'delusional' Gadhafi*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364651>
3/1/2011 - TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) -- The West heaped pressure on Libya's
Moammar Gadhafi on Tuesday after loyalists tried to retake a key city
near the capital following a show of defiance by the veteran leader the
US dubbed "delusional. " Washington said it had blocked around $30
billion in Libyan assets, the largest amount ever frozen....

*US: Libya no-fly zone would require bombing raids*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364658>
3/1/2011 - WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya would
first require bombing the north African nation's air defense systems,
top US commander General James Mattis warned on Tuesday. A no-fly zone
would require removing "the air defense capability first," Mattis, the
head of Central Command, told a Senate hearing." It would be a....

*Saudi shares dive 6.8% on Mideast unrest fears*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364662>
3/1/2011 - RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) -- Saudi shares dived 6. 8 percent
to a 20-month low on Tuesday amid panic sell-off by investors concerned
over unrest that has hit several Arab countries, traders and analysts
said. The Tadawul All-Shares Index shed about 403 points to close at
5,538. 72 points, the lowest level since mid-July 2009....

*Palestine Note* <http://palestinenot e.com/cs/>

*Palestinian women footballers tackle taboos*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ theater/archive/ 2011/03/01/ palestinian- women-footballer s-tackle- taboos.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - AFP - The stadium was packed to the rafters
with raucous fans, mostly female, who had turned out to watched the
first-ever public encounter in the Palestinian women's football league.
They came in their thousands, many...

*Militants have 'new tactics' to face Israeli forces*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ militants- have-new- tactics-to- face-israeli- forces.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - The Al-Quds Brigades have "new
tactics" they are ready to deploy against Israeli military action in the
Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Islamic Jihad's armed wing told Ma'an on
Monday. Militant groups will focus...

*Who Should the Palestinians Be Revolting Against?*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/01/ who-should- the-palestinians -be-revolting- against.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - "Freedom is contagious," someone replied
after I made a comment about the ineffectiveness of all the Arab
reformers who want to do their revolution in a month. Yes, freedom is
contagious. It's that we-can-really- be-free feeling started...

*Rediscovered, Ancient Color Is Reclaiming Israeli Interest*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ theater/archive/ 2011/03/01/ rediscovered- ancient-color- is-reclaiming- israeli-interest .aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - New York Times - One of the mysteries that
scholars have puzzled over for centuries is the exact shade of blue
represented by "tekhelet," which the Bible mentions as the color of
ceremonial robes donned by...

*Hundreds march in Beirut against sectarian political system*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ hundreds- march-in- beirut-against- sectarian- political- system.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Los Angeles Times - Hundreds of people
braving torrential rains and wind marched in the Lebanese capital Sunday
to call for an end to the country's sectarian political system. Throngs
of protesters, some holding signs saying...

*Egypt's cultural artifacts are casualties of political unrest*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ egypt-s-cultural -artifacts- are-casualties- of-political- unrest.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Deutsche Welle - While Nefertiti sits with
her head held high on Berlin's Museum Island, archaeologists are
besieged with worry over the cultural riches in her home country. Graves
have been plundered; artifacts were found smashed...

*Who Should Palestinians Revolt Against?*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ topnews/archive/ 2011/03/01/ who-should- palestinians- revolt-against. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Activist Ghassan Yonis argues it should be
Fatah Ghassan Yonis - "Freedom is contagious," someone replied after I
made a comment about the ineffectiveness of all the Arab reformers who
want to do their revolution in...

*Mixed Arab-Jewish cities in Israel: not separate and not equal*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ mixed-arab- jewish-cities- in-israel- not-separate- and-not-equal. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Issa Edward Boursheh, +972 - The Central
Bureau of Statistics defines the following cities as mixed cities in
Israel: Acre (27.2% Palestinian- Israelis) , Lid/Lod (24.4%), Ramleh/Ramla
(22.5%), Haifa (10%), Jaffa (31.2%), Nazareth-Illit/ Upper Nazareth
(14.5%) and Ma'alot-Tarshiha (22.1%)....

*From fear to fury: how the Arab world found its voice*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ music/archive/ 2011/03/01/ from-fear- to-fury-how- the-arab- world-found- its-voice. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - The Guardian - It was early morning on
Friday 11 February and the streets of central Cairo were throbbing with
adrenaline and fear. Long-haired American professor Mark LeVine and
Shung, founder of the Egyptian extreme metal...

*The art of protesting*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ theater/archive/ 2011/03/01/ the-art-of- protesting. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - The Guardian - With uprisings sweeping
across the Middle East , it seemed a good time to visit an exhibition on
The Right to Protest at Jerusalem's Museum on the Seam . It includes
works by artists from...

*Banned books return to shelves in Egypt and Tunisia*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ novels/archive/ 2011/03/01/ banned-books- return-to- shelves-in- egypt-and- tunisia.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Guardian - A number of highly political
titles censored by the regime of ousted Tunisian president Zine
al-Abidine Ben Ali are now returning to the country's bookshop shelves.
La Regente de Carthage by Nicolas Beau and...

*Fatah sets new standards for cabinet selection*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ fatah-sets- new-standards- for-cabinet- selection. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - Fatah's Central Committee announced
Sunday standards for the selection of cabinet ministers, as re-appointed
Prime Minister Salam Fayyad continues consultations ahead of the new
cabinet's formation. The standards did not reference reported moves to...

*Egyptian stock exchange reopening delayed*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ egyptian- stock-exchange- reopening- delayed.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - BBC News - Trading had been expected to
resume on Tuesday, but the exchange is now due to reopen on Sunday, 6
March. The exchange has been closed for more than a month in the wake...

*Wipro Sounds Caution on Middle East Unrest*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ wipro-sounds- caution-on- middle-east- unrest.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - The Wall Street Journal - Wipro
Technologies, the global IT business of India's Wipro Ltd., warned that
the political unrest in the Middle East could nip the rebound in global
demand for outsourcing technology services, casting...

*Will Palestinians topple governments if rivalry continues?*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ will-palestinian s-topple- govts-if- rivalry-continue s.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - With announcements of renewed unity
efforts coming to naught once again, Palestinians see their dreams of
dignity and independence crumbling into factional rivalry and have
become increasingly resolute in their efforts to end division...

*Report: Israel to legalize tens of outposts*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ report-israel- to-legalize- tens-of-outposts .aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - Israel is moving to "immediately
dismantle all illegal settlement outposts built on privately-owned
Palestinian land," Israeli media reported Tuesday citing army officials.
The Israeli daily Haaretz reported that the decision would legalize
other outposts,...

*Settlers plan 'Day of Rage' in West Bank*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ settlers- plan-day- of-rage-in- west-bank. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - Angry Israeli settlers said on
Tuesday they were planning a 'Day of Rage' later this week over Israeli
police action during the demolition of a caravan in a settlement
outpost. Plans were taking shape...

*Future Cloudy As Palestinians Dissolve Peace Team*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ future-cloudy- as-palestinians- dissolve- peace-team. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - NPR - As popular uprisings continue to
spread across the Middle East, Palestinian leaders have made a number of
moves aimed at appeasing would-be protesters in the West Bank. Among
those is the dismantling of their...

*Netanyahu Warns on Settlements*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ netanyahu- warns-on- settlements. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - New York Times - Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu berated leaders of his conservative- leaning Likud Party on
Monday after they pressed him for more settlement construction, telling
them that Israel was under international pressure and operating in...

*Treaty denying Egypt Nile veto set for ratification*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ treaty-denying- egypt-nile- veto-set- for-ratification .aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Al Arabiya - Burundi has signed a deal on
the sharing of Nile waters, paving the way for the ratification of the
accord, which will strip Egypt of its veto power on rights to the river,...

*With Mideast revolts, 'its cool to be Arab'*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ with-mideast- revolts-its- cool-to-be- arab.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Al Arabiya - The popular revolts shaking the
Arab world have injected a sense of pride in peoples across the region
often labelled as 'terrorists' or 'backwards' and for long subjected to
repressive regimes. "For the...

*Democracy is no panacea*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ democracy- is-no-panacea. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Lev Grinberg, Al Jazeera - The Egyptian
people have every reason to be proud. They have provided the world with
a shining example of how to overthrow a dictator within three weeks with
hardly any violence...

*Jewish settlers protest home demolitions in West Bank*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ jewish-settlers- protest-home- demolitions- in-west-bank. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Reuters- Israeli police on Monday arrested
at least 20 right-wing demonstrators after they tried to block roads in
Jerusalem to protest against demolitions of homes at a West Bank settler
outpost earlier in the day. A...

*Israel might seek interim Palestinian peace deal*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ israel-might- seek-interim- palestinian- peace-deal. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Reuters - Israel is considering pursuing an
interim peace agreement with the Palestinians, a senior official said on
Tuesday, signaling the government might abandon efforts to secure a
single, comprehensive accord. The official, who declined to...

*Can Data Predict Political Revolutions? *
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ can-data- predict-politica l-revolutions. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Richard Florida, The Atlantic - First
Tunisia, then Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Algeria, and Morocco seemingly
spontaneously combusted from the bottom up. Last weekend there were
online calls for mass protests in Beijing, Shanghai, and other major...

*Egypt military sets short timetable for democracy*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ egypt-military- sets-short- timetable- for-democracy. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Reuters - The Supreme Council of the Armed
Forces, running the Arab world's most populous nation since the
overthrow of Hosni Mubarak on February 11, is sticking to a short
timetable to open a new chapter...

*Calls mount for constitutional monarchy in Jordan*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ calls-mount- for-constitution al-monarchy- in-jordan. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Arabiya - Calls for a constitutional
monarchy in Jordan are growing as the government tries to clinch a vote
confidence, while the Islamist opposition plans a pro-reform
demonstration on Friday. Nationalists and independent Islamists have
formed...

*Is Egypt's Military Turning Against the Revolution?*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ is-egypt- s-military- turning-against- the-revolution. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Eric Trager, The Atlantic - The bands of
thugs that had roamed these streets barely three weeks earlier were only
a memory on Friday, replaced by roving face-painters, souvenir salesmen,
and food vendors. Tahrir Square had...

*It's not a Revolution yet*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/01/ it-s-not- a-revolution- yet.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Although commentators have been quick to
call the January 25th movement a "revolution, " democracy activists are
painfully aware that their struggle has only just begun. What will make
the movement a true revolution, and not merely...

*Tunisia legalises Islamist group Ennahda*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ tunisia-legalise s-islamist- group-ennahda. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - BBC News - Tunisia's interim government has
legalised Ennahda, the moderate Islamist group banned under former
President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. The move paves the way for Ennahda to
form a political party to stand in...

*Arab states seek London PR facelift*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ arab-states- seek-london- pr-facelift. aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - BBC News - Over the past two months, as
unrest spread across the Middle East, from Tunisia to Bahrain, many
Western journalists were discreetly contacted by PR agencies acting for
Arab leaders trying desperately to stem...

*Burying Pan-Arabism*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/01/ burying-pan- arabism.aspx>
Palestine Note 1 Mar 2011 - Leon Hadar, The National Interest - The
uprisings in the Arab World have generated two competing narratives in
Washington. The first has the making of a Middle Eastern End-of-History
prototype: The Arab embrace of liberal democracy...

*Amr Moussa to contest Egyptian poll*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/02/28/ amr-moussa- to-contest- egyptian- poll.aspx>
Palestine Note 28 Feb 2011 - Al Jazeera - Arab League chief Amr Moussa,
a popular career diplomat, has confirmed that he plans to run in Egypt's
presidential election expected later this year. Moussa, a former foreign
minister, declared his candidacy on...

*Aljazeera* <http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/>

*Jordan protesters demand change*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/video/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113123 552363334. html>
AlJazeera 1 Mar 2011 - Pro-democracy activists demand that king
establishes constitutional monarchy in country.

*Clashes as Iran protests continue*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113115 5137369204. html>
AlJazeera 1 Mar 2011 - Witnesses report security forces using teargas
against demonstrators gathered in central Tehran.

*Yemen leader blames protests on US*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113191 141211328. html>
AlJazeera 1 Mar 2011 - President Saleh accuses US and Israel of
destabilising his country and Arab world as fresh protests hit capital
Sanaa.

*Palestinian Center for Human Rights* <http://pchrgaza. org/>

*Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (17 -- 23 February 2011)*
<http://www.pchrgaza .org/portal/ en/index. php?option= com_content& view=article& id=7245:weekly- report-on- israeli-human- rights-violation s-in-the- occupied- palestinian- territory- 17--23-february- 2011&catid= 84:weekly- 2009&Itemid= 183>
Palestinian Center for Human Rights

*Jerusalem Post* <http://jpost. com/>

*Hamas forcibly disperses Gaza protest -- witnesses*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210415& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Eyewitnesses said that the policemen then
used force to disperse the protesters, some of whom were taken into custody.

*Barak: We have to act against illegal building*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210407& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - PM says special committee to be led by
defense minister which will consolidate gov't position on unauthorized
outposts.

*Rami Levy coughs up money for Nof Zion*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210406& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Threatened boycott of Bank Leumi by
settlers was called off on Tuesday after the bank accepted a new
financing offer.

*Rightists plan 'Day of Rage' over Gilad Farm violence*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210405& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Extremist activists smash Palestinian car
windows, throw Molotov cocktail into a home, roll burning tires into 2
West Bank villages.

*Center Field: Shabbat + humous = a new Zionist vision*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210395& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Schaefer was a Brown University student
from S. California who survived 3 years in an IDF combat unit only to be
killed by a drunk driver.

*Clinton warns of Iranian efforts to fill ME power vacuum*
<http://www.jpost. com/Internationa l/Article. aspx?ID=210392& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - US sec. of state says Obama needs to
maintain aid and involvement in region to keep Tehran from succeeding,
says "there's an opportunity for Israel" in the changed landscape.

*Jehan Sadat: Egypt-Israel peace treaty not in danger at all*
<http://www.jpost. com/Internationa l/Article. aspx?ID=210374& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - In interview, widow of Anwar Sadat tells
Israelis: "Everything will be fine," says vision in Egypt is one of
"more freedom and democracy."

*Iran says fuel not removed at Bushehr nuclear site*
<http://www.jpost. com/IranianThrea t/News/Article. aspx?ID=210373& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Statement contradicts earlier reports from
Iran's ambassador to the IAEA; move signals a further possible delay in
the plant's operation.

*Palestinians vow to foil Holocaust lessons in UNRWA schools*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210371& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Fatah officials also express opposition to
teaching "enemy's false claims and lies"; Hamas says UNRWA plan would be
a "cultural crime."

*PM mulling new initiative on Palestinian statehood*
<http://www.jpost. com/DiplomacyAnd Politics/ Article.aspx? ID=210367& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - PA's refusal to negotiate, as well as world
pressure and regional changes, spurred Netanyahu to consider new plan.

*Anti-tank missile defense system stops attack on IDF tank*
<http://www.jpost. com/Defense/ Article.aspx? ID=210366& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - "Trophy" system is activated for the first
time during an IDF operation; force identifies and kills the Gazan gunman.

*17 indicted for protest against Gilad Farms demolition*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210357& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Protesters try to block roads in J'lem,
attack police officers; following Gilad Farm clashes, Barak says
disturbances damage rule of law.

*Iranian forces fire teargas, clash with protesters*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210347& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Security forces in Tehran try to disperse
demonstrators demanding the release of 2 opposition leaders; Iranian FM
on whereabouts of the leaders: "Judicial authorities will handle the issue."

*Pete Seeger joins Palestinian boycott movement*
<http://www.jpost. com/JewishWorld/ JewishNews/ Article.aspx? ID=210344& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - American folk music legend reportedly tells
Israeli organizations: "I support the BDS movement as much as I can."

*Yemen president blames Israel for Arab world unrest*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210317& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Saleh says, "There is an operations rooms
in Tel Aviv with the aim of destabilizing the Arab world" and is being
run by the White House.

*Barak: We can't let citizens take law into their own hands*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210314& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Following clashes with settlers at Gilad
Farm outpost, defense minister says disturbances damage rule of law.

*Police chief: We must show restraint in West Bank*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210304& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Dudi Cohen says police are trying to avoid
an escalation in violence following clashes with settlers at Gilad Farm;
Palestinian cars in Hebron damaged in 'price tag' attack.

*Iran: 2012 Olympics logo 'racist,' resembles word 'Zion'*
<http://www.jpost. com/Internationa l/Article. aspx?ID=210299& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Tehran warns it may boycott London event,
calls on other countries, Islamic nations, to react "to jeopardize
Olympic games in the world."

*Hebron: Palestinian cars damaged in 'price tag' attack*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210288& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Right-wing activists allegedly smash
windshields of Palestinian vehicles in act of revenge for violence used
at Gilad Farm evacuation.

*'How can an intelligent people only see the short term?'*
<http://www.jpost. com/Features/ InThespotlight/ Article.aspx? ID=210253& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 28 Feb 2011 - In candid, highly critical interview,
Luxembourg's FM Jean Asselborn presents window into European Left's
thinking on Israel.

*Ha'aretz Defense page*
<http://haaretz. com/hasen/ pages/LiArt. jhtml?contrassID =1&subContrassID =5&sbSubContrass ID=0>

*Mideast Quartet due in Israel in bid to restart peace talks*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/mideast- quartet-due- in-israel- in-bid-to- restart-peace- talks-1.346546>
Ha'aretz - Netanyahu refuses to send Israeli representatives to Quartet
meeting in Brussels Wednesday, where they will meet with the
Palestinians, so Quartet officials to come to Israel in compromise.

*IDF armor-defense system foils attack on tank for first time*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/idf- armor-defense- system-foils- attack-on- tank-for- first-time- 1.346526>
Ha'aretz - The Me'il Ruach (Windbreaker) system, marketed abroad under
the name Trophy, successfully stopped an antitank missile fired from Gaza.

*Netanyahu: World pressure on Libya must also be directed at Iran*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/netanyah u-world-pressure -on-libya- must-also- be-directed- at-iran-1. 346514>
Ha'aretz - PM calls for strong international action against Libya and
Iran regimes, says world must send message to Libyan people that would
be heard in Iran.

*Egypt turmoil cuts African migration to Israel*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/egypt- turmoil-cuts- african-migratio n-to-israel- 1.346507>
Ha'aretz - The amount of asylum-seekers crossing the largely unfenced
Sinai border was reduced by half since protests to oust former Egyptian
President Mubarak began.

*Jerusalem court indicts 17 pro-settlement protesters*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/jerusale m-court-indicts- 17-pro-settlemen t-protesters- 1.346488>
Ha'aretz - Seventeen charged for attacking police, damaging police
vehicles in protests against IDF demolitions in the unauthorized Havat
Gilad outpost; seven of those indicted are minors.

*Deputy FM warns Islamist regimes could take over Arab world*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/deputy- fm-warns- islamist- regimes-could- take-over- arab-world- 1.346474>
Ha'aretz - Danny Ayalon warns that the anti-government uprisings in Arab
countries could follow model of 'Hamas in Gaza' and 'Hezbollah in Lebanon.'

*Yemen president: Unrest in Arab world is pro-Zionist conspiracy*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/yemen- president- unrest-in- arab-world- is-pro-zionist- conspiracy- 1.346469>
Ha'aretz - While addressing a group at Sanaa University, Ali Abdullah
Saleh said the control center for destabilizing Arab world is in Tel
Aviv; embattled president also slamed Obama for meddling in affairs of
Arab countries.

*Settlers attack West Bank villages following outpost demolitions*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/settlers -attack-west- bank-villages- following- outpost-demoliti ons-1.346451>
Ha'aretz - Police and Palestinians say settlers threw petrol bomb into a
house, damaged several cars in West Bank.

*Ha'aretz National page*
<http://haaretz. com/hasen/ pages/LiArt. jhtml?contrassID =1&subContrassID =7&sbSubContrass ID=0>

*Hundreds protest price increases, burn Netanyahu effigy*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ hundreds- protest-price- increases- burn-netanyahu- effigy-1. 346523>
Ha'aretz - Social workers and their allies demonstrate at a conference
of the government trade office in Haifa to protest increases in the cost
of living.

*Court rules 1997 murder of famous actress was perpetrated by her
boyfriend*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ court-rules- 1997-murder- of-famous- actress-was- perpetrated- by-her-boyfriend -1.346460>
Ha'aretz - Jerusalem family court rules that Anat Elimelech, whose body
was found laying next to her boyfriend, was indeed killed by him; Police
originally believed incident to be suicide.

*Top rabbi demands dialogue before West Bank outposts are demolished*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ top-rabbi- demands-dialogue -before-west- bank-outposts- are-demolished- 1.346438>
Ha'aretz - Rabbi Chaim Drukman sends message to Netanyahu conveying
concern over clashes between settlers and police that took place after
security demolished West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad.

*Authorities identify bodies of two missing Israelis in rubble of New
Zealand earthquake*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ authorities- identify- bodies-of- two-missing- israelis- in-rubble- of-new-zealand- earthquake- 1.346415>
Ha'aretz - Bodies of three Israelis have been identified so far in
rubble of Christchurch quake, which struck last week; Three other
Israelis have yet to make contact with their families since the quake.

*Police clash with rightists protesting in Jerusalem over West Bank
outpost demolition*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ police-clash- with-rightists- protesting- in-jerusalem- over-west- bank-outpost- demolition- 1.346288>
Ha'aretz - Eight settlers were arrested during violent clashes earlier
Monday when security forces arrived at the Havat Gilad outpost to raze
several illegal structures.

*Palestine Telegraph* <http://paltelegraph .com/>

*Settlers attack homes, uproot olive trees in Bethlehem*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 8594-settlers- attack-homes- uproot-olive- trees-in- bethlehem- .html>
1 Mar 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)- A number of Jewish settlers
accompanied by Israeli military forces started uprooting 25 olive trees
near the Fureidis mount in the east of Bethlehem and attacked civilian
houses. Local sources said that dozens of settlers carrying machine guns
stormed yesterday night agricultural lands belong to Ahmed Al-Wahesh and
uprooted hundreds of olive trees before their withdrawing. ..

*Israeli bulldozers invade south Gaza, no casualities*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ gaza-strip/ 8590-israeli- bulldozers- invade-south- gaza-no-casualit ies.html>
1 Mar 2011 - Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli military troops and
bulldozers advanced Tuesday morning about 200 meters into the town of
Al-Qarara in Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip and started razing
operations to the agricultural lands in the area.

*Israeli army captures 5 Palestinians in WB*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 8589-israeli- army-captures- 5-palestinians- in-wb.html>
1 Mar 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli occupation forces
detained Tuesday at morning five Palestinians following multiple raid
operations across the West Bank.

*Settlers burn Palestinian home in Nablus, two injured*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 8586-settlers- burn-palestinian -home-in- nablus-two- injured.html>
1 Mar 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-One resident and his wife were
injured Monday evening as Jewish settlers set fire to their home in the
village of Hawara, southern Nablus.

*Uruknet* <http://uruknet. info/>

*Israel Issues Eviction Orders to 600 Palestinian Bedouins in Jerusalem
Area* <http://uruknet. info/?p=m75459& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 1, 2011 - Hathem Abdel Qader, responsible for Jerusalem in
the Fatah movement, warned yesterday of an Israeli plan to deport some
600 Palestinian Bedouin residents of the Wadi Abu Hindi area, located
between the settlements of Maale Adumim and Keder, south-east of
Jerusalem. Abdel Qader noted that the Israeli military issued evacuation
orders to tens of Bedouin...

*Yemen leader blames protests on US*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75458& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 1, 2011 - Yemen's president has hit out at Israel and the
US, accusing them of destabilising his country and the Arab world as
protesters demanding his ouster press ahead with demonstrations. Ali
Abdullah Saleh's comments on Tuesday marked his harshest public
criticism yet of the US, a key ally with which his government is
battling al-Qaeda pockets...

*Gaza Protesters Prepare for March 15*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75455& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 1, 2011 - - A look at the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings
that succeeded in ousting long- entrenched dictators confirms a
universal truth: it is the youth who are leading the way in forcing
reform in the Middle East. In the Occupied Palestinian Territories,
particularly the troubled Gaza Strip, youth are a potential ticking time
bomb. Palestinian youth...

*Folk music legend Pete Seeger endorses boycott of Israel*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75451& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet February 28, 2011 Folk music legend Pete Seeger has come out in
support of the growing Palestinian movement for Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS) against Israel as a program for justice for Palestinians
and a route to peace in the Middle East. Seeger, 92, participated in
last November's online virtual rally "With Earth and Each Other,"
sponsored by the...

*Protest Tuesdays in Iran* <http://uruknet. info/?p=m75450& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet February 28, 2011 - ...It is obvious that the anti-dictatorial
movement of the Iranian people is against the house arrest of Mousavi
and Karroubi and protests those house arrests; however, in a country
where thousands of freedom-seeking youths and political and social
activists are in chains in dungeons, and where groups after groups of
innocent people are hanged for...

*Israel as NATO Member?* <http://uruknet. info/?p=m75448& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet February 28, 2011 - Cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder, Reagan's
ambassador to Austria who heads the World Jewish Congress, recently
demanded that Israel be admitted to membership in NATO. This proposal
has been raised over the past decade in academic and in political
circles but the rapidly changing situation in the Arab world, and in the
Middle East, gives it...

*Israeli Public Inquiry: Shehadeh Assassination Justified*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75444& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet February 28, 2011 - In 2002, after a smaller bomb failed to
murder Salah Shehadeh, then Hamas military commander in Gaza, the IAF
dropped a 2,000 pound bomb on a residential apartment building killing
him and his entire family: 13 civilians in all along with tens of
seriously wounded...It' s also important to note that at the time of the...

*Settlers fire-bomb Palestinian home in Nablus*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75441& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet February 28, 2011 - Settlers set fire to a Palestinian home on
Monday, injuring two children, and attacked Palestinian cars around
Nablus, officials said. Settlers threw Molotov cocktails at homes in
Huwara village, setting fire to the home of Rabi Taha As-Sebty, said
Palestinian Authority settlement affairs official Ghassan Doughlas.
Palestinian firefighters controlled the blaze, but two children who...

*The National* <http://thenational. ae/section/ FOREIGN?profile= 1011>

*Police in Egypt try to recover from reputation for abuse*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ police-in- egypt-try- to-recover- from-reputation- for-abuse>
The National 2 Mar 2011 - Brutalised themselves by their superiors, the
security forces in Egypt were brutal to the country's people, through
enforced bribes, beatings and false charges. Now, since the overthrow of
President Mubarak, they are facing up to a new environment.

*Saleh says Israel and US are behind protests rocking Yemen*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ saleh-says- israel-and- us-are-behind- protests- rocking-yemen>
The National 2 Mar 2011 - Ali Addullah Saleh claims 'there is an
operations room in Tel Aviv that is controlled by the White House,' and
accuses the US and European Union ambassadors to Yemen of orchestrating
protests with opposition leaders.

*Illegal Jewish settlers plan 'day of rage' after homes demolished*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ illegal-jewish- settlers- plan-day- of-rage-after- homes-demolished>
The National 2 Mar 2011 - Plans for demonstrations come after Israelis
from Hebron firebombed homes belonging to Palestinians and vandalised
cars and stores

*Alternative Information Center* <http://alternativen ews.org/>

*The Land Acknowledges el-Araqib and Knows its People*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ news/3357- the-land- acknowledges- el-araqib- and-knows- its-people>
Alternative Information Center - El Araqib was the last village I
visited before my arrest. El-Araqib is not just a village, but the very
heart of a nation and a people.

*Settlers Attack Palestinians, Property in "Price Tag" Reactions to
Outpost Demolition*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ settlers- violence/ 3361-settlers- attack-palestini ans-property- in-price- tag-reactions- to-outpost- demolition>
Alternative Information Center - At around noon on Monday (28/2), around
50 settlers from the Karnei Shomron settlement to the east of the
Qalqilya district gathered on the main road near the settlement and
attacked Palestinian passersby with stones.

*Palestinian May Succeed in Purchasing Part of East Jerusalem
Settlement*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ jerusalem/ 3360-palestinian -may-succeed- in-purchasing- part-of-east- jerusalem- settlement->
Alternative Information Center - The Nof Zion settlement project in the
East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel al-Mukaber may be forced to accept
the bid of Palestinian American real estate mogul Bashar Masri to buy
the remainder of holdings.

*Daily Star* <http://dailystar. com.lb/>

*U.S. sees civil war in Libya unless Gadhafi goes*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125476>
Daily Star 1 Mar 2011 AMMAN: Calls for a constitutional monarchy in
Jordan were growing Tuesday ahead of a parliamentary vote of confidence
on the new government, as the Islamist opposition called a pro-reform
protest for Friday. Nationalists and independent Islamists...

*Calls grow for constitutional monarchy in Jordan*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125481>
Daily Star 1 Mar 2011 AMMAN: Calls for a constitutional monarchy in
Jordan were growing Tuesday ahead of a parliamentary vote of confidence
on the new government, as the Islamist opposition called a pro-reform
protest for Friday. Nationalists and independent Islamists...

*Israeli settlers plan 'Day of Rage' over outpost removal*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125480>
Daily Star 1 Mar 2011 HAVAT GILAD OUTPOST, Occupied West Bank: Angry
Jewish settlers said Tuesday they were planning a 'Day of Rage' later
this week over Israeli police action during the demolition of a caravan
in a settlement outpost.

*Iran forces fire tear gas, clash with protesters, gunshots heard*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125479>
Daily Star 1 Mar 2011 TEHRAN: Iranian security forces fired tear gas and
clashed with anti-government protesters demonstrating against the
treatment of opposition leaders, pro-reform websites reported Tuesday.
Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Tehran and other
cities, chanting...

*Three more Tunisian ministers resign, destabilizing Cabinet*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125478>
Daily Star 1 Mar 2011 TUNIS: Three more Tunisian ministers resigned
Tuesday, leaving the caretaker government which took over power after
the president was overthrown teetering on the brink of collapse. The new
resignations meant that in the space of 72...

*Oman security forces use tanks to disperse protesters*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125477>
Daily Star 1 Mar 2011 SOHAR, Oman: Tanks dispersed demonstrators
blocking the port in the industrial city of Sohar and the coast road to
Muscat Tuesday as protests were also reported elsewhere in Oman,
journalists and witnesses said. The operation went...

*Huge demonstration in Sanaa as Saleh blames unrest on U.S. and Israel*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125461>
Daily Star 1 Mar 2011 SANAA: Huge crowds poured onto the streets of the
Yemeni capital Sanaa Tuesday in what the opposition hailed as the
biggest protest yet against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade
rule. The veteran leader, whose supporters staged...

*The Guardian* <http://guardian. co.uk/world/ palestinian- territories>

*Israeli settlers hit back after army demolishes their West Bank homes*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2011/mar/ 01/israeli- settlement- west-bank- demolished>
The Guardian 1 Mar 2011 - Call for a 'day of rage' as hardliners attack
Palestinian villages and block roads in Jerusalem Hardline Israeli
settlers have called for a "day of rage" on Thursday in protest at the
army's demolition of an...

*From the archive, 26 February 1972: Bonn paid $5M jet ransom*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/theguardi an/2011/feb/ 26/bonn-paid- 5million- ransom>
The Guardian 1 Mar 2011 - Originally published in the Guardian 26
February 1972 BONN, FEBRUARY 25 West Germany paid a ransom of $5
millions in cash for the release of the Lufthansa jumbo jet and its crew
which were hijacked to...

*Relief Web*
<http://reliefweb. int/rw/rwb. nsf/doc106? OpenForm& emid=ACOS- 635PFR&rc= 3>

*Strong as iron: UNRWA tackles anaemia in Lebanon*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /EGUA-8EJTYP? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 1 Mar 2011 - Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East

*American Friends of UNRWA Launches Adopt a School in Gaza MultiMedia
Campaign*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /EGUA-8EJTWQ? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 1 Mar 2011 - Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East

*Lebanon: Minister of Labour signs the decree implementing the Labour
Law amendments for Palestine Refugees*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /EGUA-8EJTSA? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 1 Mar 2011 - Source: International Labour Organization, UN
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

*Bilateral Aid Review results: Country summaries*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /SNAA-8EJQKM? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 1 Mar 2011 - Source: Department for International Development

*Inter Press Service* <http://ipsnews. net/middle. asp>

*Pro-Peace Jewish Lobby Group Urges Obama to Seize Moment*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 54677>
IPS J Street, the Washington-based "Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace" advocacy
group, drew a large crowd to its annual conference this year despite
criticism over its controversial calls for the Barack Obama
administration not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning
Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.

*Stop The Wall* <http://stopthewall. org/>

*Biweekly Repression Update* <http://stopthewall. org/latestnews/ 2493.shtml>
Stop The Wall - This update contains exerts from testimony gathered by
STW from a Bil'in resident shot with live ammunition during the February
18 demonstration. Over this period, one person was seriously injured and
others were also hurt during weekly demonstrations. The number of
arrests sky rocketed, with a total of 29 people, predominately youth,
were arrested by Occupation forces.

*YNet News* <http://ynetnews. com/>

*Yemeni president says US and Israel behind unrest*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036302,00. html>
YNet News - Speaking to students and academics at Saana University,
Saleh says 'there is an....

*Iran forces fire teargas, clash with protesters*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036249,00. html>
YNet News - Websites report security forces, people in civilian clothing
confront....

*J'lem protests: Indictments filed against 17 rightists*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036279,00. html>
YNet News - Rightists who protested against Havat Gilad razing charged
with disturbing the....

*Palestinians try to create 'Facebook revolution'*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036267,00. html>
YNet News - Success of Facebook in recent revolution in Egypt leads
Palestinians to seek own....

*Missile fired at IDF tank thwarted by new shield*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036240,00. html>
YNet News - Terrorists fire RPG at IDF tank near Khan Younis; new Trophy
system prevents....

*Barak: Settlers' anti-razing protest a 'provocation' *
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036166,00. html>
YNet News - Defense minister comments on soldier's refusal to return to
army after his Havat....

*Hebron awaits visitor surge*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036120,00. html>
YNet News - Local authorities welcome gov't initiative to send Israeli
diplomats, school....

*Benayahu: I entered UK with pseudonym*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036113,00. html>
YNet News - IDF Spokesperson tells Defense News magazine he assumed
false name to avoid....

*Lieberman: Assad's only goal is to stay in power*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036044,00. html>
YNet News - Foreign minister says willing to enter into negotiations
with Syria, but....

*Egypt's Moussa says running for president; adopts harsher tone on
Israel* <http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036409,00. html>
YNet News - Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa announced on
Tuesday that he was running for president of Egypt in elections
scheduled for this year. In an interview with .......

*Iran auctions leader's Peugeot for $2.5 mln*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036391,00. html>
YNet News - A 1977 Peugeot sedan belonging to Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was sold for $2.5 million on Tuesday in a charity auction,
Iranian media reported. .......

*IDF celebrates Armored Corps history: Trophy system successful*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036357,00. html>
YNet News - IDF feels like it has crossed the Rubicon in the anti-tank
missile battle with the operational success of the 'Trophy': Senior IDF
sources expressed immense satisfaction .......

*IDF Personnel chief calls out gov't over reservists' plight*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036304,00. html>
YNet News - They often serve more than 100 days in the military reserves
and their employees aren't pleased. The reserve regiment commanders, the
"heart and brains of the army" .......

*Palestinian Information Center* <http://palestine- info.co.uk/ en/>

*Questions I would want to ask Sa'eb Ereikat*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7fz43YL% 2fCxbwpl7q0AeXGw sa1nTgYVxmv3OQIn R5CRABAco3UASLqX asJgo7OZZTqi9VAc xyV%2bl2Q% 2fvoamqCkwZD% 2bYrZYrB5wb% 2fxhuHwYOak% 3d>
PIC 1 Mar 2011 - PA negotiator Saeb Ereikat recently submitted his
resignation in what is widely considered a tacit admission of
responsibility for the scandalous Jazeera revelations. .

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[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1309

Tue Mar 1, 2011 6:09 pm (PST)

*Hamas: PLO reforms the key to reconciliation*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7pNMueP% 2foTaREw8OlZG6Cw 043agy%2bLnOGDqW E4ncJD42y6vzCAk0 G%2bt%2f2ZSQ7Sq8 NzA3AFSqA5PcGV3f 0J1yW7T5G0fboSOU UDaXxZooUVrY% 3d>
PIC 1 Mar 2011 - The Gaza-governing Hamas party has more closely defined
what will score Palestinian reconciliation after several media motivated
shots at unity by the rival Fatah party in the West Bank.

*Palestinian youth wounded in IOF shelling*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7wZ1% 2bb0CewynnAIvUJZ SiSrwqHWFk6ORswd 7fd8nC9YGXl9eUg0 bifWF7UXn3j% 2bVsZtRTSOwVNhYK 2sPJ6Akm3Ny2IjjG s3b%2bkKR% 2f4y94MmI% 3d>
PIC 1 Mar 2011 - A Palestinian young man was wounded on Tuesday in
Israeli army shelling at a group of people east of Khan Younis, south of
the Gaza Strip, medical sources announced.

*Nazzal attends Erbakan funeral*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7kjgB3Whi9B kPtZuVj5u9awW% 2biP9DklIWWsBhCZ ykNpr%2fAHlfLaOK SHhf00ncpGu8a2wH geuj0kdSMkM2xNEt T9wIAo%2bJZ8n% 2b6D9OiupAlVk% 3d>
PIC 1 Mar 2011 - Political bureau member of Hamas Mohammed Nazzal
attended the funeral procession of Necmettin Erbakan, the former Turkish
premier and Saadet party leader, in Istanbul on Tuesday.

*Mishaal meets Russian envoy to Mideast*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7MqilvU% 2bHik8E3BRVIr% 2btP7lfn2wxwRfpX zWUaA8bC3LbaGPTd WGVt%2f%2bhG0voE 3VjRPnesPTzg5% 2fJkP6QzObK5SJJj yPLBJjScpRCoAU6q yY%3d>
PIC 1 Mar 2011 - Hamas politburo chief Khalid Mishaal met Monday evening
in Damascus with Russian envoy to the Middle East and North Africa
Sergei Vershinin.

*Israel allocates $24m to judaize eastern Jerusalem*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7%2f9gsbB5w xN6xSCRuJmAYxJNH GYYGZN43yENyJ15w WRT0BoJIaV0XE9ic BzMB9RJVZqffizPl 1Tr5uPfX8tb% 2b43zFMwoeOEiZcn llhdFkAgg% 3d>
PIC 1 Mar 2011 - The Israeli controlled municipality of Jerusalem
announced that it was allocating around 24 million dollars to "develop
and re-organize eastern suburbs of Jerusalem".

*Seven Palestinians killed by Israel last month*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s73hTc0rJBiV 8YaoV7g06dfhnrO6 PgLE7SANzNWK8Av2 zwaYwQ5tCA2Pecxr yQQizXSKVMyQ% 2f63CxynCV2oTClJ Sy7NqtjVuDYvW5fq D6IGIk%3d>
PIC 1 Mar 2011 - Six Palestinian citizens were killed by the Israeli
occupation forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip and another one was killed by
extremist Jewish settlers in occupied Jerusalem last month.

*Ministry of culture slams UNRWA for teaching Holocaust*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7pc0R5uZZru %2fiQl%2bqPlIOeB G8A1cNsgY0ye9xRi ooGtYfsz% 2bvLISY0uXj% 2bylukrjh% 2bt05ANhItV1EdC% 2fue9mTmSKR7O15T WuwSJwtvt2jQKg% 3d>
PIC 1 Mar 2011 - The Palestinian ministry of culture deplored the UNRWA
for its blatant insistence on teaching children in its schools about the
Holocaust.

*Press sources: Israel sent African mercenaries to fight alongside
Gadhafi*
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PIC 1 Mar 2011 - Hebrew media sources revealed that Israel hired African
mercenaries through one of its security companies to fight alongside
Muammar Al-Gadhafi's military brigades.

*Home set ablaze amid Jewish racial riots near Nablus*
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PIC 1 Mar 2011 - Hundreds of Jewish rioters continue violent racial
attacks against Palestinians near the entrance of the villages of Hawara
and Burin southeast of Nablus.

*Los Angeles Times* <http://latimes. com/news/ nationworld/ world/middleeast />

*Yemen's embattled president lashes out at U.S., Israel*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/Xy0Zvr2ySlY /la-fg-arab- protests- 20110302, 0,1504010. story>
LA Times 1 Mar 2011 - Ali Abdullah Saleh, a longtime ally of the U.S.,
says anti-government protests in his capital are being 'run by the White
House.' In neighboring Oman, protests continue for a fourth day. Turning
on a longtime ally, embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh
delivered a fiery...

*Hillary Clinton says U.S. is trying to avoid perception of an oil grab
in Libya*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/XdtGJ7uLblk /sc-dc-0302- us-libya- 20110301, 0,3152546. story>
LA Times 1 Mar 2011 - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tells the House
Foreign Affairs Committee that the U.S. has been cautious about sending
the military because it wants to avoid perceptions that it has a plan to
'invade for oil.' Also, Washington wants to respect the Libyan
insurgency's desire...

*New York Times* <http://nytimes. com/pages/ world/middleeast />

*Reports Say Iran Uses Tear Gas to Disperse Protesters*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=61a5e18b97bd06 eeef818fb4b101a4 a4>
New York Times 1 Mar 2011 - Police in Tehran arrested several people as
protesters demanded the release of opposition leaders in the biggest
clashes in Tehran in more than two weeks, witnesses said.

*Fleeing Migrant Workers Pile Up at Libya's Borders*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=d0f63ffdf0d3c9 0924cfe881dd296e ab>
New York Times 1 Mar 2011 - Around 110,000 people have fled Libya's
fighting for neighboring Egypt and Tunisia, the United Nations refugee
agency said.

*Misc* <http://vtjp. org/aboutus/ aboutus.htm>

*Can Americans really find no 'niche' for Al Jazeera?!*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/why-do- they-hate- us-4.html>
Mondoweiss - This morning, NPR's Morning Edition did a program on Al
Jazeera, focusing on Arab governmental efforts to keep Arabs from
watching the channel by blocking its signal by various means. Reporter
Deborah Amos chronicles the disruptive efforts and the cat-and-mouse
game between the network and Arab...

*There's work to do* <http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/theres- work-to-do. html>
Mondoweiss - Gallup says Americans favor Israelis over Palestinians by
record numbers, 63-17. Here's the poll, with lots of graphs. Support for
Palestinians is highest among American liberals, with 30 percent
sympathy. The numbers are 80 percent of Republicans for Israel, and 57
percent of Dems and Independents. ...

*Palestinians face 'price tag' revenge from furious settlers*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/palestinians- face-price- tag-revenge- from-furious- settlers. html>
Mondoweiss - A Palestinian woman displays damage caused by settlers
after a gas bomb was thrown into her house in the West Bank village of
Hiwwara near Nablus. (Photo: Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters ) 'Price tag' --
Settlers burn Palestinian home in Nablus NABLUS (Ma'an) 28 Feb --
Israeli forces...

*Palestinian LGBT group: Israeli fantasies about being 'democratic' are
absurd & the belief they are rescuing us is pathetic*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/palestinian- lgbt-group- israeli-fantasie s-about-being- democratic- are-absurd- the-belief- they-are- rescuing- us-is-pathetic. html>
Mondoweiss - PSAs produced by Palestinian Queers for BDS Three
Palestinian LGBT organizations have released statements responding to
the the New York LGBT Community Center's decision to cancel a "Party to
End Apartheid" under pressure from donors. You can learn more about
Michael Lucas (referenced in the first...

*Dershowitz rides shotgun for student attacking Palestinian scholar and
his wife in California*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/dershowitz- rides-shotgun- for-student- attacking- palestinian- scholar-and- his-wife- in-california. html>
Mondoweiss - Bassam Frangieh is an Arabic scholar and translator who
teaches at a California college, Claremont McKenna. I imagine that his
life is framed by the Nakba; his family was extirpated from Jaffa in
1948; they owned orange groves; he was born in a refugee camp. In...

*Children in East Jerusalem Get Short Stick of the Occupation*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1699>
Palestine Monitor - Over the past six months, if you were following
Palestinian and Israeli news, hardly a day would go by without reading a
report that more children were detained in East Jerusalem. Now, various
reports are coming out that confirm these impressions: children of East
Jerusalem are...

*Subscriber Plugin Problems*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/richardsilv erstein/ZOfh/ %7E3/wSDtMSrMl2M />
Tikun Olam - 600 of my readers subscribe to this blog via two plugins I
use. They receive e-mail notices of new posts I write. I've just had
the terribly unwelcome news that 388 of those subscribers have been
wiped out through some act of God I don't understand. ...

*Bahrain protests demand political change*
<http://www.wsws. org/articles/ 2011/mar2011/ bahr-m01. shtml>
WSWS - Anti-government protests are continuing in the Persian Gulf
kingdom of Bahrain. Demonstrators blockaded the National Assembly,
Bahrain's rubber-stamp parliament, on Monday. Crowds of thousands are
still occupying Pearl Square, the focus for demonstrators in the capital
city, Manama.

*Misc 2* <http://vtjp. org/news/ news.php>

*BNC thanks CUT Brazil for their public statement in "Solidarity with
the Palestinian people"* <http://bdsmovement. net/?q=node/ 798>
Global BDS 1 Mar 2011 - Artur Henrique da Silva Santos - National
President CUT Quintino Severo - General Secretary João Antonio Felicio -
International Relations Secretary Dear comrades of the CUT Brazil, As
the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee
(BNC), a wide coalition of Palestinian political parties, civil...

*Tehran police break up protests*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 12612133>
BBC 1 Mar 2011 - Iran security forces fire tear gas to break up
demonstrations by opposition supporters in the capital Tehran.

*Thousands back on Yemen streets*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 12608932>
BBC 1 Mar 2011 - Tens of thousands return to the streets of Sanaa, as
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh blames the US and Israel for ongoing
unrest.

*IOC dismisses 'racist' logo claim*
<http://news. bbc.co.uk/ go/rss/int/ news/-/sport2/ hi/olympic_ games/london_ 2012/9410046. stm>
BBC 1 Mar 2011 - IOC president Jacques Rogge dismisses Iran's suggestion
that the London 2012 logo is 'racist'.

*(en) Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle confront the desperate
escalation of the settler colonialist naZionism*
<http://www.ainfos. ca/en/ainfos2483 9.html>
A-infos 1 Mar 2011 - The more the shrinking of support and international
objection for Israeli settler colonialism the more reckless is the
Israeli rilling right. It is expressed in new laws, and onslaught
against Palestinian citizens of Israel. The harassment of the Bedouins
with focus on Al Arakib. The onslaught...

*(en) Ireland, Radio Solidarity - WSM* Inside Egypt: An Interview with
Mohamed Abdelfattah* <http://www.ainfos. ca/en/ainfos2483 8.html>
A-infos 1 Mar 2011 - This is the first of a series of interviews with
Egyptians speaking directly of their experiences within the revolution
and ongoing struggles. I hope to cover some themes not covered by the
traditonal/mainstre am press, and allow space for Eygptians themselves to
talk about aspects of the...

*Articles*

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*We saw the Arab revolutions coming*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/indepth/ opinion/2011/ 03/2011317269573 443.html>
Wadah Khanfar, Al Jazeera 3/1/2011
/Al Jazeera's director general asks why, when Al Jazeera saw the
uprisings coming, the West did not./
On February 11, the day Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president of
Egypt, Al Jazeera faced a welcome dilemma: Scenes of elation were
playing out not just in Cairo but throughout the region, and even with
our vast network of journalists, we found it difficult to be everywhere
at once. From North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, Arabs were
celebrating the reclamation of their self-confidence, dignity and hope.
The popular revolutions now sweeping the region are long overdue.
Yet in some ways, they could not have come before now. These are
uprisings whose sons and daughters are well educated and idealistic
enough to envision a better future, yet realistic enough to work for it
without falling into despair. These revolutions are led by the Internet
generation, for whom equality of voice and influence is the norm. Their
leaders' influence is the product of their own effort, determination and
skill, unconstrained by rigid ideologies and extremism.
It is now clear to all that the modern, post-colonial Arab state
has failed miserably, even in what it believed it was best at:
Maintaining security and stability. Over the decades, Arab interior
ministers and police chiefs devoted enormous resources and expertise to
monitoring and spying on their own people. Yet now, the security
machineries in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have disintegrated in short
order, while the rest of the authoritarian and repressive regimes in the
region can see the writing on the wall.
These revolutions have exposed not just the failure of traditional
politicians but also the moral, political and economic bankruptcy of the
old Arab elites....more. .
<http://english. aljazeera. net/indepth/ opinion/2011/ 03/2011317269573 443.html>e-mail
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*Murdered Jerusalem man subjected to racism even in death*
<http://electronicin tifada.net/ v2/article11830. shtml>
Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, Electronic Intifada 2/25/2011
All Hussain Hassan Rwidy wanted was to bury his son.
"They took me to see the investigator who worked on the case. He
called me inside [his office], alone, and asked me, 'Are you strong?'" I
said to him, 'I want my son,'" Rwidy told The Electronic Intifada.
"He said directly to me, 'Your son died ...'" Rwidy paused, then
continued. "'Your son died, and there are two people arrested.'"
Twenty-four- year-old Hussam Rwidy was killed in the early morning
hours of Friday, 11 February, on Hillel Street in West Jerusalem as he
and a friend, Murad Khader Joulani, were walking to their car to drive
home from work.
According to the Rwidy family, who live in the East Jerusalem
neighborhood of Kufr Akab, everything began when a group of extremist
Israeli Jews heard Hussam and Murad speaking Arabic to each other, and
shouted "Death to the Arabs."
"My son started to walk [away]," said Hussam's father, from a
mourning tent set up to remember Hussam in the occupied East Jerusalem
neighborhood of Silwan, where the family is originally from, last Saturday.
"They came from behind with a knife and jumped on him. After they
cut his throat, four more people came and started to beat them with
punches and kicks," he explained.
While Hussam died of his injuries when he reached the hospital,
Joulani survived the attack with a deep knife wound visible on the back
of his neck....more. .
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*A second chance in the Arab world*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ article.asp? edition_id= 1&categ_id= 5&article_ id=125341# axzz1FAPkCgAP>
Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star 2/26/2011
Sometimes in life you are given a second chance to get something
right, after getting it wrong the first time. The perception I get from
discussions in Washington with independent analysts and people in and
close to the Obama administration, is that the United States remains
caught and wavering between two approaches: One is to forge ahead with a
bold new policy that responds to the historic changes now rippling
through the Middle East. The other is to broadly maintain established
old patterns of American policy, especially vis-à-vis Arab autocrats and
the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The American government has responded rather cautiously to the
extraordinary revolt now taking place across many Arab countries,
expressing generic but not passionate support for those who demand
freedom and democracy, and mildly criticizing Arab governments that use
force to put down their homegrown rebellions. (Compare American support
for today's Arab freedom-seekers to Washington's passionate support for
Soviet dissidents in the 1970s, for example).
Privately, it turns out, the United States has spoken to Arab
leaders more forthrightly about some of their behavior -- corruption,
for instance. President Barack Obama is said to be much more supportive
of freedom-seeking Arab citizens than it appears when we hear American
officials speaking in public.
The logical response one would expect from the United States -- an
exuberantly romantic country when it comes to promoting freedom and
democracy -- is to come out forcefully in favor of Arab governance
systems that reflect the principle of the consent of the governed.
Washington would stand comfortably and naturally with Tunisians,
Egyptians, Bahrainis, Yemenis, Jordanians, Libyans and others who brave
beatings, imprisonment and bullets to achieve their rights, proclaiming
in Arabic the moral and functional equivalent of that great American
cry, "Give me liberty, or give me death."more. .
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*In whose name does Dutch FM Rosenthal speak?*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/yUsqU1fhRi8/ article11834. shtml>
Electronic Intifada: 1 Mar 2011 - Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal
claims to oppose decisions taken by governments without balanced,
negotiated political processes. But if this were really true, he would
understand the need to bring Israeli officials and military officers
responsible for such crimes to the International Criminal Court in The
Hague instead of defending Israel's actions in The Jerusalem Post .more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/yUsqU1fhRi8/ article11834. shtml>

*Palestinians call for unity protest on 15 March*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/Ud2TwgKByDc/ article11833. shtml>
Electronic Intifada: 1 Mar 2011 - GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) -
A look at the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings that succeeded in ousting
long-entrenched dictators confirms a universal truth: it is the youth
who are leading the way in forcing reform in the Middle East.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/Ud2TwgKByDc/ article11833. shtml>

*Children in East Jerusalem Get Short Stick of the Occupation*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1699>
Palestine Monitor: 1 Mar 2011 - Over the past six months, if you were
following Palestinian and Israeli news, hardly a day would go by without
reading a report that more children were detained in East Jerusalem.
Now, various reports are coming out that confirm these impressions:
children of East Jerusalem are being injured and arrested at an
alarmingly high rate. The Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
found that twice the number of children arrested in 2009 in the entire
West Bank was arrested in 2010 in East Jerusalem alone. A total of 1,267
Palestinian minors were investigated on criminal charges of stone
throwing according to police statistics. The pattern continues: Today, 1
March 2011, Maan News reports that another five children were detained
in Silwan by "undercover" forces. Furthermore, the Wadi Hilweh
Information Center , a crucial hub of updates on the situation in the
East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, reported that in January...more
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1699>

*Gaddafi Burning the House Down*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16691>
Palestine Chronicle: 1 Mar 2011 - By Shafiq Morton -- Cape Town My visit
to Libya in the late 1990's was as Kafka-esque as the life and times of
its then Brother Leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. It was in the era of
the Lockerbie bombing sanctions, and getting to Libya was no camel ride.
I'd been invited to attend a media conference in a country that had no
independent media, no opposition leader alive within its borders and no
freedom of speech. But that was only the beginning. Libyan airspace was
closed, so we'd been forced to fly to Frankfurt. From there we had to
catch a connecting flight to Malta, and from Malta we'd landed on a
Tunisian airfield somewhere near the Libyan border. From Tunisia we
would travel by bus to Tripoli. In the early hours of the morning surly
Tunisian customs officers confiscated the books of Dr Hassan al-Makki, a
Sudanese scholar, who...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16691>

*A Revolution in Rhetoric: The Word as Dynamo in the Arab World*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16690>
Palestine Chronicle: 1 Mar 2011 - By Khalil Elayan In looks a man may be
a shade, a specter, and yet be master of speech so crowned with beauty
that people gaze at him with pleasure. Courteous, sure of himself, he
can command assemblies, and when he comes to town, the crowds gather.
---from The Odyssey The words in the above epigraph are spoken by
Odysseus to the son of Prince Alkinoos of Skheria Island, a place that
knows no war, no blight, no suffering. Odysseus has experienced ten
years of war, eight years of abduction by immortals, and the loss of his
entire fleet, including all his men. Ironically, he has known only war.
All of his tangible honor (time') is lost; there is nothing to show for
his twenty year absence from home. All he has are his words. So, when
the prince's son insults Odysseus because he will not partake in their
Olympic...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16690>

*Concerns over Rising Violence in West Bank*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16689>
Palestine Chronicle: 1 Mar 2011 - By IRIN -- The West Bank Violence
between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in the West Bank appears to be
worsening, say UN agencies, NGOs, and the Israeli and Palestinian
communities living there. An increased number of Palestinian civilians
have been injured and had property or land damaged in incidents
involving Israeli settlers living in the West Bank since the start of
2011, reports the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(OCHA). Meanwhile, a systematic lack of law enforcement against settlers
by Israeli authorities is being reported by Israeli and Palestinian NGOs
and Palestinian victims. Israeli NGO Yesh-Din says nine out 10
investigations of Israeli attacks against Palestinians are closed, with
no indictment served, according to a 16 February data sheet on its
monitoring of police investigations of a variety of offences. However,
only a fraction of the actual number of incidents are reported, says
Yesh Din, as many...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16689>

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Jewish settlers mobilize for
Thursday of rage against Palestinians

[ 02/03/2011 - 11:22 AM ]
The Palestinian Information Center

NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers in the West Bank have called for days of rage against the Israeli premier and Palestinians alike to protest what they call a systematic harassment policy against them.

Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot on Wednesday reported that posters were glued on different West Bank areas calling on settlers to join the Thursday of rage while referring to Israeli destruction of minor settlement outposts such as Havat Gilad.

The paper said that the settlers threatened to close all major intersections in Israel and the West Bank to protest the "random destruction" of their settlement outposts.

The settlers also threatened to launch an attack on Palestinians in return for each settlement outpost being razed.

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Settlers plan 'Day of Rage' in West Bank

Published yesterday (updated) 02/03/2011 21:58
Ma'an News Agency

A Palestinian shows the damage to his family house which was firebombed by
Jewish settlers in the West Bank village of Huwwara near Nablus.
[AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh]

HAVAT GILAD OUTPOST, West Bank (AFP) -- Angry Israeli settlers said on Tuesday they were planning a 'Day of Rage' later this week over Israeli police action during the demolition of a caravan in a settlement outpost.

Plans were taking shape after police and settlers clashed during an early-morning operation on Monday to remove a caravan, a tent and the framework for a second structure in the northern outpost of Havat Gilad, some five kilometers southwest of Nablus.

It was not immediately clear what form the protest would take, but media reports suggested it would involve sit-ins at major road junctions across the country, as well as attempts to block Palestinian traffic in the West Bank.

And some settlers said it could involve attacks on Palestinians.

"The government must understand that it doesn't pay to destroy our homes and we are going to make them regret what happened here," said Rabbi Meir Goldmintz, who teaches at a seminary on the outpost.

"We are going to pay them a visit on Thursday to do what the [Israeli] government should be doing to them and not to us," he said pointing at nearby Palestinian villages.

The settlers routinely react when police and soldiers demolish structures in settlements or wildcat settlement outposts.

Reactions also include targeting Palestinians in a policy they call "price tag." This entails violence against the local population as a direct response to "anti-settler" activity by the Israeli government.

"Our revenge will be to build twice the number of homes that were destroyed," Ilana Shimon, a resident, told AFP.

At the site, around 20 young people were busy trying to rebuild the tent as Irish music blared in the background.

Some 20 families, mostly young couples, live at the outpost which is a bastion of radicalism that was set up in 2002 after Palestinian gunmen shot dead a settler called Gilad Zar on a nearby road.

This time, they were also particularly upset when police used stun grenades and paint ball guns against them on Monday.

Stun grenades are normally reserved for Palestinian demonstrations, while recalcitrant settlers tend to be handled with tear gas and truncheons.

Five protesters were injured during the Havat Gilad operation, settler sources said on Monday, prompting a furious reaction that hundreds of demonstrators block main roads in Jerusalem with burning tires.

They also carried out a series of "price tag" attacks against Palestinians.

Overnight, a group of settlers firebombed a house in the village of Huwwara near Nablus, and two Palestinian children were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation.

They also smashed up a shop in the southern city of Hebron, and later a group of settlers were seen lobbing stones at cars on a road near Beit Haggai settlement close to the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian security sources said.

On Tuesday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak condemned the acts of violence and said those behind them were an extreme minority.

"I think that these disturbances are harmful to the rule of law and even to the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria [West Bank]," he said during a visit to a military base, saying the protesters "don't represent" the broader settler community.

"These are the actions of individuals or small groups, whose behavior is unacceptable," Barak said.

Palestinians in the Nablus area said on Tuesday there was a large number of Israeli forces deployed around several villages to protect them from being attacked by settlers.

Anti-settlement movement Peace Now says there are more than 100 wildcat outposts strewn across the West Bank, all of which have been set up without permission from Israeli authorities.

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[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1310

Wed Mar 2, 2011 5:11 pm (PST)

***Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles*

*News*
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*International Middle East Media Center* <http://imemc. org/>

*Report: "Israel Kidnapped 80 Children in Jerusalem Since The Beginning
of 2011"* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60765>
IMEMC - Thursday March 03, 2011 - 00:37, The Research and Documentation
Unit at the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER)
reported that Israeli soldiers and policemen kidnapped more than 80
Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem since the beginning of
this year.

*Us Folksinger Changes Position To Support Boycott Of Israel*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60764>
IMEMC - Thursday March 03, 2011 - 00:22, The legendary 82-year old folk
singer Pete Seeger, an icon of the folk movement of the 1950s and 60s,
told an Israeli organization that he supports the movement for Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions of Israel "as much as he can".

*Army Kidnaps Elected Legislator* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60763>
IMEMC - Thursday March 03, 2011 - 00:08, Israeli soldiers kidnapped on
Wednesday evening legislator Azzam Salhab, 54, from the southern West
Bank city of Hebron, after stopping him at a military roadblock near
Jericho city.

*Report: Israel illegally interrogates, tortures children*
< www.imemc.org/article/60761 >
IMEMC - Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 18:38, The Palestinian Ministry of
Detainee Affairs published a new report Wednesday documenting the
torture of children as young as seven in Israeli prisons. Since the
beginning of this year, Israeli soldiers have abducted 150 children and
all of them were interrogated during the course of their imprisonment.
Many were subjected to harm treatment such as hitting, psychological
abuse, violence and the threat of violence without a parent or adult
representative present.

*Right-wing Israelis March In Jaffa against Arab Presence*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60760>
IMEMC - Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 17:00, Right-wing Israelis held a
march through Jaffa to protest against what they deemed, "the Islamic
movement gaining control" over the city.

*Jerusalem Municipality Approves Settlement Construction In East
Jerusalem* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60758>
IMEMC - Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 11:43, The Jerusalem Municipality
decided to transform a police station in the Palestinian neighborhood of
Ras al-Amoud in Jerusalem into a settlement outpost, and approved the
construction of 14 units that would become the base for a new settlement.

*Israel Shuts al-Mintar Crossing* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60757>
IMEMC - Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 10:51, The israeli army has shut
al-Mintar crossing, on Wednesday, and kept "Karam Abu Salem" crossing
open only.

*Israeli Navy Fires At Palestinian Fishing Boats*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60756>
IMEMC - Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 09:09, Israeli Navy boats opened
fire, on Wednesday at dawn, at Palestinian fishing boats near the shore
in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Damage was reported,
but no injuries.

*Haniyya: "Reconciliation Cannot Be Reached Amidst Siege, Collaboration
With Israel"* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60755>
IMEMC - Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 08:31, Hamas leader, and Prime
Minister of the dissolved Hamas-led government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyya,
stated that the Palestinian people want real reconciliation that
addresses the current political changes in the Arab World, and that this
reconciliation cannot be reached amidst collaboration with Israel and,
ongoing political arrests.

*Netanyahu Said To Be Weighing A Plan For A Palestinian "State" With
Provisional Borders* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60754>
IMEMC - Wednesday March 02, 2011 - 04:18, Israeli daily, Haaretz,
reported that Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is weighing a
plan that would lead to the establishment of a "Palestinian state with
provisional borders", and that this plan is intended to be part of a
transitional peace deal with the Palestinians.

*Ma'an News* <http://maannews. net/en/>

*Israeli bulldozers demolish Khirbet Tana for 6th time*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364769>
3/2/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- A herder village east of Nablus was
demolished by Israel's Civil Administration for the sixth time on
Wednesday, a Palestinian official confirmed. Early Wednesday morning, 13
Israeli patrol cars and three military bulldozers arrived in the hamlet
of Khirbet Tana, and demolished the tents and sheds recently re-built
by.... Related:ISM: Village of Khirbet Tana completely demolished by
Israeli military <http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 03/16834/>

*Israel closes Karni crossing permanently*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364756>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities decided on Wednesday
to permanently close Gaza's central Karni crossing. Palestinian liaison
official Raed Fattouh said Israeli authorities informed him the Karni
crossing east of Gaza City would close, leaving only the southern Kerem
Shalom crossing open for goods. In January, Israeli officials announced
the imminent.... Related:'Closing Karni crossing will tighten the siege'
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364986>

*Israeli forces demolish wells near Hebron*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364841>
3/2/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli bulldozers destroyed a well in the
agricultural community of Al-Baq'a on Wednesday morning, local officials
said. The well, on the outskirts of the village west of Hebron, belonged
to Hamed Yousef Hamed Jabber, who told Ma'an that he used the water
source to irrigate a small....

*Israeli force penetrates Gaza amid gunfire*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364953>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Gaza residents on the outskirts of Khan
Younis reported Wednesday an Israeli force entering the Gaza borders,
penetrating some 200 meters beyond the Green Line. The force entered
under the cover of gunfire, witnesses said, and included three military
vehicles and an armored bulldozer. An Israeli military spokesman said he....

*Israeli navy fire on Gaza fishermen*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364733>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY(Ma'an) -- Israeli naval boats opened fire on Gaza
fishermen in the early morning on Wednesday, near the Rafah coast,
witnesses said. Reports said the fishing vessels sustained significant
damage. Gaza medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya confirmed the Israeli
navy opened fire against boats off southern Gaza, with no injuries
reported. An....

*Settlement outpost expands*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364984>
3/2/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Settlers began expanding an illegal outpost
south of Nablus on Wednesday, local Palestinian officials reported,
adding several caravan homes to the area north of the Eli and Shilo
settlements. The expansion came the day after Israeli government
officials announced that outposts built on privately owned Palestinian
lands would be dismantled. Under....

*UN delegates 'walked out' during Clinton speech*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364721>
3/2/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Palestine's delegation to the UN Human
Rights Council walked out Monday in protest of US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton's speech in which she criticized the council for bias
against Israel. The Palestinian representative in Geneva on Tuesday
confirmed reports in the Arabic media that delegates stormed....

*Hundreds protest in Jaffa after right-wing rally*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364791>
3/2/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Hundreds of Palestinian citizens of
Israel protested Wednesday in the coastal city of Jaffa, onlookers said,
after right-wing activists paraded through the predominantly Arab city.
Dozens of police arrived to close streets as the demonstrators defied
orders to stop. They managed to break through a police line and some sat
on....

*Health Ministry investigating negligence claims*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364844>
3/2/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Palestinians protested against the
nonfeasance of medical services in public hospitals, which has resulted
in more than 10 women dying during delivery in recent months. Families
picketed Wednesday near the wake of the latest victim, 23-year-old Rana
Abu Maryam, who died this week during delivery in the northern West Bank....

*Worker killed in tunnel accident*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364858>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A young man died Wednesday morning
inside a tunnel at the Egyptian border in southern Gaza. Riziq Abdul
Aziz, 21, was crushed by a barrel that workers were moving under the
border at Rafah, medics said. His body was received at Abu Yousef Najjar
Hospital, medical officials announced... .

*Israel army tests advanced tank weapon*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364825>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY (AFP) -- A state-of-the- art anti-rocket system
designed to protect tanks had its baptism of fire on Tuesday as Israeli
forces clashed with Palestinian gunmen on the Gaza border, the army
said. The military said an Israeli tank on border patrol was attacked by
an anti-tank missile, but used the new equipment to neutralize the....

*Militant group says fighter fired on Israeli patrol in northern Gaza*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365019>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The armed wing of the Popular Front for
the liberation of Palestine, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, said
Wednesday night that fighters fired on an Israeli military patrol in the
northern Gaza Strip. The patrol was inside Gaza territory when the shots
were fired, operating east of the Beit Hanoun....

*Hamas: Fayyad unity plan 'born dead'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364999>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Political adviser to Gaza Prime Minister
Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday that Palestinian Authority Prime Minister
Salam Fayyad's plan to create a new unity cabinet was "born dead, it is
of no political value."In a government statement, Yousef Rizqa said
Hamas officials never received information on Fayyad'....

*PA: World must act on settler violence*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364934>
3/2/2011 - RAMALLAH(AFP) -- The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday urged
the international community to take action to halt Jewish settler
violence towards Palestinians. Following a series of attacks against
Palestinians across the West Bank, the Ramallah-based leadership issued
a statement demanding the international community "intervene with Israel
over the violent and provocative actions by settlers, which the....

*Lebanon minister refuses to cooperate with Hariri court*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365012>
3/2/2011 - BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) -- Lebanon's caretaker minister of
telecommunications said Wednesday he had ignored a request for
information by a UN court probing the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri
on legal grounds. Charbel Nahas told AFP that the Netherlands- based
Special Tribunal for Lebanon had sought documents relating to the phone
records of Lebanese citizens....

*1 Gaza crossing partially open*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364714>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities decided Wednesday to
partially open the Kerem Shalom crossing to allow aid into Gaza,
officials said. Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh said
approximately 170 to 180 truckloads of goods for the commercial and
agricultural sectors would be allowed into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom
crossing, including two truckloads.. ..

*2 detained near Hebron*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364955>
3/2/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Palestinian sources said two brothers were
detained by Israeli forces on Tuesday night, following a home raid in
their villge of Hadab Al-Alaqa. The brother were identified as Hafeth
and Maher Kayed Al-Komi. An Israeli military spokesman said no
detentions were carried out overnight... .

*'Closing Karni crossing will tighten the siege'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364986>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Campaign Against the
Siege slammed Wednesday, the official Israeli announcement that the bulk
goods crossing for imports into Gaza would be closed permanently as of
that morning. Campaign organizers released a statement saying that by
closing the crossing, the humanitarian situation in Gaza would
inevitably deteriorate, "causing human.... Related:Israel closes Karni
crossing permanently
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364756>

*Hamas says reports of weapons in Egypt false*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364748>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas officials in Gaza condemned as
false Wednesday, a Feb. 26 report in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ayyam,
which said the country's security forces had seized weapons in Egypt
belonging to the Islamist party's armed wing. A statement from the Gaza
government said it held the editorial... .

*Israel skips Quartet meet, as PM eyes interim deal*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364989>
3/2/2011 - JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is considering
pushing for a long-term interim agreement with the Palestinians in the
absence of any moves to renew peace talks, press reports said on
Wednesday. The idea was splashed across all of Israel's main newspapers
as Palestinian negotiators held talks about resuming peace dialogue in....

*Hamas: All factions want an end to division*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364954>
3/2/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) --"Ending division is the demand of all
factions, at the head of which is Hamas. We are making all efforts to
unify [as a way to] confront the Israeli occupation," member of Hamas'
politburo office, Khalil Al-Haya said Wednesday. The official spoke at a
ceremony recognizing the achievements of....

*Gadhafi warns of bloodbath if West intervenes*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364752>
3/2/2011 - TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) - Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi
warned on Wednesday that "thousands" would die if the West intervened to
support the uprising against him, as rebels drove back an attack by his
forces on an eastern town. The chilling warning came as western powers
dampened expectations of any early imposition of a no-fly zone over....

*Libyan oil output 'under threat in opposition areas'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364754>
3/2/2011 - LONDON (AFP) -- Libya's oil fields are largely in the control
of opposition forces and it is unlikely that production will return to
normal in the near future, analysts say. The most serious revolt against
Moammar Gadhafi's rule in four decades has brought most of Libya's oil
production of around....

*UNHCR: Acres of people waiting to flee Libya into Tunisia*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364880>
3/2/2011 - GENEVA (AFP) -- The UNHCR made a plea Wednesday for hundreds
of planes to help end a gridlock at the Tunisia border with revolt-hit
Libya, where what has been described as "acres of people" were still
waiting to cross." They are outdoors in the freezing cold, under the
rain, many of them have spent three or....

*Libyan rebels say Gadhafi forces repulsed in Brega*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364881>
3/2/2011 - BREGA, Libya (AFP) -- Libyan rebels said they repulsed forces
loyal to Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi in Brega on Wednesday after
they stormed the eastern town with tanks and heavy artillery... .

*Spain to freeze Gadhafi regime assets*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364882>
3/2/2011 - MADRID (AFP) -- Spain will freeze the assets of Libyan leader
Moammar Gadhafi's regime held in the country, a government spokesman
said Wednesday... .

*France sends planes, ship to help Egyptians fleeing Libya*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364883>
3/2/2011 - PARIS (AFP) -- France is to send heavy-lift planes and a ship
to create a land and sea bridge to ferry 5,000 Egyptian refugees fleeing
Libya home from the Tunisian border, the foreign ministry said Wednesday... .

*Gadhafi appears among loyalists in Tripoli*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364884>
3/2/2011 - TRIPOLI (AFP) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi appeared at a
televised public rally in Tripoli among loyalists of his regime on
Wednesday as rebels fought back his forces east of the capital....

*Palestine Note* <http://palestinenot e.com/cs/>

*Netanyahu's promise to dismantle settlements is a big step backward*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ netanyahu- s-promise- to-dismantle- settlements- is-a-big- step-backward. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Roi Maor, +972 - Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu announced yesterday his intention to legalize dozens of tiny
settlement outposts in the West Bank, which were built over the last
decade, without formal authorization by the Israeli...

*Hamas: Fayyad unity plan 'born dead'*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ hamas-fayyad- unity-plan- born-dead. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - Political adviser to Gaza Prime
Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday that Palestinian Authority Prime
Minister Salam Fayyad's plan to create a new unity cabinet was "born
dead, it is of no political value." In...

*Angelina Jolie, actress and ambassador, laments refugee crisis in
Libya, West Africa*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ angelina- jolie-actress- and-ambassador- laments-refugee- crisis-in- libya-west- africa.aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Los Angeles Times - Hollywood starlet
Angelina Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations' high
commissioner for refugees, expressed serious concerns Wednesday about
the tens of thousands of civilians caught up in turmoil in Libya...

*The Palestinians' Long Wait in Lebanon*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ the-palestinians -long-wait- in-lebanon. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - New York Times - Lebanon hands out and
renews hundreds of thousands of work permits every year to people from
Africa, Asia and other Arab countries. But until now, only a handful
have been given to...

*In Jordan, Some Regret a Missed Opportunity*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ in-jordan- some-regret- a-missed- opportunity. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - New York Times - Two weeks ago, Manal, 27,
dressed in a black robe, walked slowly in a crowd of several hundred
demonstrators --- mostly men --- carrying children, waving Jordanian
flags or holding up homemade...

*Opposition says Egypt's roadmap to democracy not good enough*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ opposition- says-egypt- s-roadmap- to-democracy- not-good- enough.aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Deutsche Welle - Egypt's military council
has presented its roadmap: the referendum on the constitution is
scheduled for March 19. The parliament and the president will be elected
in the summer. But the opposition opposes the...

*Israeli bulldozers demolish Khirbet Tana for 6th time*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ israeli-bulldoze rs-demolish- khirbet-tana- for-6th-time. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - A herder village east of Nablus was
demolished by Israel's Civil Administration for the sixth time on
Wednesday, a Palestinian official confirmed. Early Wednesday morning, 13
Israeli patrol cars and three military bulldozers arrived...

*Settlement outpost expands*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ settlement- outpost-expands. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - Settlers began expanding an illegal
outpost south of Nablus on Wednesday, local Palestinian officials
reported, adding several caravan homes to the area north of the Eli and
Shilo settlements. The expansion came the day...

*Israel skips Quartet meet, as PM eyes interim deal*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ israel-skips- quartet-meet- as-pm-eyes- interim-deal. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is
considering pushing for a long-term interim agreement with the
Palestinians in the absence of any moves to renew peace talks, press
reports said on Wednesday. The idea was splashed across...

*Arabs demand Libya halt violence, eye no-fly zone*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ arabs-demand- libya-halt- violence- eye-no-fly- zone.aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Arabiya - The Arab League called on Muammar
Gaddafi's government to halt attacks against Libyans on Wednesday and
said it would consider imposing a "no-fly" zone over the country which
has been suspended from the organization. ...

*UN urges mass border evacuation from Libya*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ un-urges- mass-border- evacuation- from-libya. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - BBC News - The UN has called for a mass
humanitarian evacuation of people fleeing Libya for Tunisia, saying the
border situation is at "crisis point". Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
said thousands of lives were at...

*Arab Unrest Puts Their Lobbyists in Uneasy Spot*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/02/ arab-unrest- puts-their- lobbyists- in-uneasy- spot.aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - New York Times - For years, they have been
one of the most formidable lobbying forces in town: the elite band of
former members of Congress, former diplomats and power brokers who have
helped Middle Eastern...

*The Transformative Generation*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/02/ the-transformati ve-generation. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Abdaljawad Hamayel - Ever since Bouazizi
decided to set himself ablaze, the Middle East has been undergoing
gigantic and tectonic revolts that have taken down two entrenched
presidents in Egypt and Tunisia, while Libya remains in...

*Israeli bill threatens dreams of community cohesion*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/02/ israeli-bill- threatens- dreams-of- community- cohesion. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - A few weeks ago, Jaffa witnessed protests
against members of the Jewish religious-nationali st community moving
into the area. At the same time, the Israeli parliament began debating a
measure which would allow small villages to select...

*Consulting Indonesia on the Middle East*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/02/ consulting- indonesia- on-the-middle- east.aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Suffering from an increase in radicalisation
and a certain level of religious exclusivity which has lead to vigilante
attacks against specific religious minorities, Indonesia is not always
held up as a model for others. However, as...

*Pro-Democracy in Palestine*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ topnews/archive/ 2011/03/02/ pro-democracy- in-palestine. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - Ray Hanania writes revolting against Fatah
loses sight of the real threat: the Occupation Ray Hanania - There has
been a growing discussion in the Palestinian community back home and in
the United States about organizing.. .

*Pro-Democracy in Palestine: Who should Palestinians focus on?*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/02/ pro-democracy- in-palestine- who-should- palestinians- focus-on. aspx>
Palestine Note 2 Mar 2011 - There has been a growing discussion in the
Palestinian community back home and in the United States about
organizing "pro-Democracy protests." Most of the focus has been to
protest the FATAH organization which is the dominant...

*Palestine News Network* <http://english. pnn.ps/>

*Preparing for Local Elections, Elections Committee Trains New
Employees*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9642&Itemid= 61>
PNN - Ramallah -- PNN --The Palestinian Central Elections Committee
(CEC) started training new staff members in preparation for local
elections on July 9. Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad announced
that his coming government.. .

*Palestinian Students Returning from Libya: Our Embassy Abandoned Us*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9641&Itemid= 56>
PNN - Ramallah -- Muhammad Abu Irqub -- PNN - Palestinian students
returning from Libya avoided the wave of violence that has swept the
country, according to Palestinian ambassador Atef Mustafa Awda. However,
only...

*One Killed in Rafah Tunnel Accident*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9639&Itemid= 72>
PNN - Rafah -- PNN - A 21-year-old Palestinian man was killed on
Wednesday morning in an accident in a smuggling tunnel in the city of
Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Local sources...

*Settlers Rebuild Water Wells near Nablus, Israeli Troops Arrest Five in
Hebron*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9638&Itemid= 62>
PNN - Nablus -- PNN - Settlers in illegal outposts near the northern
West Bank city of Nablus rebuilt water wells destroyed by the Israeli
army in recent days, while the Israeli army arrested...

*Let Us Announce a Shadow Government*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9637&Itemid= 56>
PNN - Fadi Abu Sadaa -- PNN Editor in Chief -- Without doubt, efforts by
Palestinian youth to end the Hamas-Fatah division is getting widespread
support and respect and embarrassing leaders on both sides....

*Israeli Army Razes Tana Village for Sixth Time*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9636&Itemid= 56>
PNN - Nablus -- PNN - For the sixth time since 2005, Israeli military
troops invaded and demolished the village of Tana, east of Nablus,
claiming the homes lacked permits. The village, home to...

*Palestinian Center for Human Rights* <http://pchrgaza. org/>

*Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (17 -- 23 February 2011)*
<http://www.pchrgaza .org/portal/ en/index. php?option= com_content& view=article& id=7245:weekly- report-on- israeli-human- rights-violation s-in-the- occupied- palestinian- territory- 17--23-february- 2011&catid= 84:weekly- 2009&Itemid= 183>
Palestinian Center for Human Rights

*Jerusalem Post* <http://jpost. com/>

*Aharonovitch: Plastic bullets were fired at Gilad Farm*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210558& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 2 Mar 2011 - Public security minister speaks to Knesset
plenum; police insisted paintballs were fired, settlers said rubber
bullets used.

*43 PA policemen training in Libya attempt to leave*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210556& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 2 Mar 2011 - The fact that PA policemen were studying in
Libya wasn't known until now. Most PA policemen have been receiving
training in Jordan, Egypt.

*'2 Iranian warships to return to Red Sea via Suez Canal'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210529& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 2 Mar 2011 - Vessels that were described by Israel as a
"provocation" are slated to leave the Mediterranean Sea, canal official
says.

*14 housing units for Jewish families approved in e. J'lem*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210521& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 2 Mar 2011 - Old police headquarter renovation project
was not open to public comment, may be part of large plan with 104 units
called Ma'aleh David.

*PM: I hope Schalit will be released while in I'm in office*
<http://www.jpost. com/DiplomacyAnd Politics/ Article.aspx? ID=210484& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 2 Mar 2011 - Netanyahu says "a day does not pass in
which we we are not working" to bring the kidnapped IDF soldier home in
meeting with Chilean miners.

*'IAEA inspectors to visit Syria acid plant'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210476& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 2 Mar 2011 - UN nuclear agency officials to examine
plant where uranium is made, but Syria will not give IAEA access to
bombed atomic complex.

*You say you want a revolution*
<http://www.jpost. com/Magazine/ Features/ Article.aspx? ID=210473& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 2 Mar 2011 - While historians and commentators are quick
to draw parallels with past Western revolutions, the revolting Arab
countries may find it more useful to examine the democratic foundation
of a Semitic country closer to home. You guessed it, Israel.

*Gaddafi: Libya is ruled by its people; I cannot resign*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210471& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 2 Mar 2011 - Libyan leader denies protests in the east,
compares rebels to "Israeli tanks in Gaza," calls on UN and NATO to "set
up fact-finding committees" on a "conspiracy to control Libyan oil and
its land."

*Tshuva: Gas will reach Israel's shores by 2013*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210445& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 2 Mar 2011 - Delek owner: "We will supply all of the
needs of the state. I believe that we will reach understandings with the
Treasury and Israel Electric Co."

*A portrait of Muslim Brotherhood' s supreme authority*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210424& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, who preached in
Tahrir Square 10 days ago, loathes Israel, justifies suicide bombings
against its civilians.

*Hamas vows to foil Holocaust lessons in UNRWA schools*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210371& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - Fatah officials also express opposition to
teaching "enemy's false claims and lies"; Hamas says UNRWA plan would be
a "cultural crime."

*The Israel Factor: Israel suffers from Tea Party confusion*
<http://www.jpost. com/Features/ InThespotlight/ Article.aspx? ID=210353& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 1 Mar 2011 - While the panel is still not enthusiastic
about the Partiers, it is also not as judgmental and negative as it was
back in November.

*International Solidarity Movement* <http://palsolidarit y.org/>

*West Bank Palestinians anticipate settler's 'Day of Rage'*
<http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 03/16845/>
3/3/2011 - International Solidarity Movement - Violence of settlers
against Palestinians throughout the West Bank is a known issue and is
often excessive, vandalizing, injuring, and sometimes lethal. One month
ago, in a span of two days - the 27th and 28th of January - two young
men were killed in settler attacks. One, 20-year old Oday Maher Hamza
Qadous was shot.... Related:Settlers plan 'Day of Rage' in West Bank
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364530>

*Hebron witnesses increase in settler harassment following al-Shuhada
street demonstration* <http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 03/16846/>
3/3/2011 - International Solidarity Movement - 02 March - Sunday a shop
in Tel Rumeida was attacked by a middle-aged settler who smashed the
shop's window with a stick. Of the two shopkeepers inside, one was
disabled in a wheelchair. The other went out and was then attacked by
the settler. Soldiers from the nearby checkpoint did not aid or....

*Village of Khirbet Tana completely demolished by Israeli military*
<http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 03/16834/>
3/2/2011 - International Solidarity Movement - 02 March - At 9 am this
morning the Israeli military arrived to the village of Khirbet Tana,
close to Beit Furik, south east of Nablus, with four bulldozers and army
jeeps. For the sixth time this year the Israeli military demolished
homes and animal shelters in the village, this time destroying the
village completely. Around.... Related:Israeli bulldozers demolish
Khirbet Tana for 6th time
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364769>

*Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem's visa revoked*
<http://palsolidarit y.org/2011/ 03/16840/>
3/2/2011 - International Solidarity Movement - 02 March, Arieh Cohen,
AsiaNews. it - Sheil Dawani is considered a foreigner, having been born
in Nablus, while the Anglican cathedral and offices are in East
Jerusalem. Without a visa, in theory he can be arrested and deported at
any time. Appeal already submitted to an administrative tribunal could
have the negative effect of giving.... Related:Source
<http://www.asianews .it/news- en/Anglican- Bishop-of- Jerusalem% E2%80%99s- visa-revoked- 20875.html>

*Ha'aretz Defense page*
<http://haaretz. com/hasen/ pages/LiArt. jhtml?contrassID =1&subContrassID =5&sbSubContrass ID=0>

*PLO envoy tells U.S. Jews: Peace process must lead to Palestinian
state*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/plo- envoy-tells- u-s-jews- peace-process- must-lead- to-palestinian- state-1.346752>
Ha'aretz - At NYU conference, Maen Rashid Areikat says negotiations have
lost credibility amid continued Israeli construction in the West Bank.

*Israel eases Gaza blockade to allow passage of Europe-bound tomatoes*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/israel- eases-gaza- blockade- to-allow- passage-of- europe-bound- tomatoes- 1.346653>
Ha'aretz - Israel began easing trade restrictions on Gaza in November in
response to Western demands against an embargo it imposed when Hamas
Islamists seized power in 2007.

*Ha'aretz National page*
<http://haaretz. com/hasen/ pages/LiArt. jhtml?contrassID =1&subContrassID =7&sbSubContrass ID=0>

*16 leftists arrested at protest against right-wing march in Jaffa*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ 16-leftists- arrested- at-protest- against-right- wing-march- in-jaffa- 1.346660>
Ha'aretz - March is organized by right-wing activists who want to
protest 'Islamic Movement gaining control over [the city]'; Arab
residents close businesses in protest.

*Doctor sentenced to one year in prison after taking bribes from
patients*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ doctor-sentenced -to-one-year- in-prison- after-taking- bribes-from- patients- 1.346658>
Ha'aretz - Court determined that Dr. Aryeh Figger, an oncologist, took
thousands of shekels from patients in exchange for special treatment
during their stay at Ichilov and Beilinson Hospitals.

*Veteran Israeli diplomat: Netanyahu and Lieberman harm Israel's
international standing*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ veteran-israeli- diplomat- netanyahu- and-lieberman- harm-israel- s-international- standing- 1.346624>
Ha'aretz - Israel's former ambassador to South Africa indicated in a
letter to Foreign Ministry officials that he is retiring in protest of
policies advanced by the Netanyahu government.

*Palestine Telegraph* <http://paltelegraph .com/>

*Israel permanently closes Al-Montar crossing*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ gaza-strip/ 8600-israel- permanently- closes-al- montar-crossing. html>
2 Mar 2011 - Gaza strip, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli authorities decided
Wednesday to close Al-Montar croosing in the east of Gaza strip
permanently and kept Abu Salem crossing open only.

*Gaza: tunnel worker found dead*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ gaza-strip/ 8599-gaza- tunnel-worker- found-dead. html>
2 Mar 2011 - Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)- A Palestinian tunnel worker
died Wednesday after a barrel hit his head causing his immediate death.
Medical Sources told that the victim known as Abdel Aziz El --Shaer,21,
was removed to Abu Yousif Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah city. Dozens of
Gazans were killed during such similar incident, electric shock, or
collapse. As Israeli siege upon Gaza...

*Israeli navy shells Palestinian fishing boat in Gaza*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ gaza-strip/ 8598-israeli- navy-shells- palestinian- fishing-boat- in-gaza.html>
2 Mar 2011 - Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)-As occupation military
offensive continues, Israeli gunboats near the shore of Rafah city in
the south part of Gaza Strip targeted Tuesday evening a Palestinian
fishing boat causing damage with one boat.

*Israeli army demolishes Tana for the 6th time*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 8597-israeli- army-demolishes- tana-for- the-6th-time. html>
2 Mar 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli occupation forces
demolished Wednesday morning several houses in Khirbat Tana in the east
of Nablus city for the sixth time, leaving excessive damage but no
causalities.

*Uruknet* <http://uruknet. info/>

*World Social Forum puts Palestine solidarity into action*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75484& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 2, 2011 - Tens of thousands of activists gathered in
Dakar, Senegal for the 2011 World Social Forum (WSF) in February.
Hundreds of workshops and assemblies on social justice struggles around
the world were held at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, including a
series of presentations on the Palestinian struggle for liberation and
the growing global boycott,...

*Materiel and personnel in place for military intervention in Libya*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75483& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 2, 2011 - The United States, Britain and the European
powers are deepening their preparations for intervention in Libya,
including military action. They hope to exploit the popular revolt
against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi to take control of Libya's oil
fields and establish a crucial base for further operations in the region
under conditions where dictatorships on...

*Israeli bulldozers demolish Khirbet Tana*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75480& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 2, 2011 - A herder village east of Nablus was demolished
by Israel's Civil Administration for the sixth time on Wednesday, a
Palestinian official confirmed. Early Wednesday morning, 13 Israeli
patrol cars and three military bulldozers arrived in the hamlet of
Khirbet Tana, and demolished the tents and sheds recently re-built by
residents, Ghassan Doughlas, the Fatah official...

*Analysis: Concerns over rising violence in West Bank*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75479& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 1, 2011 - Violence between Palestinians and Israeli
settlers in the West Bank appears to be worsening, say UN agencies,
NGOs, and the Israeli and Palestinian communities living there. An
increased number of Palestinian civilians have been injured and had
property or land damaged in incidents involving Israeli settlers living
in the West Bank since the start of...

*No to no fly zones in Libya* <http://uruknet. info/?p=m75470& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 1, 2011 - Apparently 200 Arab NGOs begged for the
imposition of UN-enforced no-fly zones over Libyan airspace, including
Ahdaf Soweif, a novelist and writer who is giving the Edward Said
Memorial Lecture in a week at Columbia University (someone please call
her out on this) and Omar Al Qattan (Palestinian expatriate
bourgeoisie) . Robert Danin from the Council...

*Six Children Arrested in Silwan Clashes*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75469& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 01, 2011 - Israeli 'undercover' forces arrested six
Palestinian children, on Monday, during violent confrontations in the
East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan, local sources informed. Six
children were rounded up in al-Ein al-Fawqa, in Silwan, after Israeli
forces entered the neighbourhood wearing civilian clothes, eyewitnesses
said. Three of the children from the neighbourhood are known as Fahmi
al-Haymouni, ...

*In whose name does Dutch FM Rosenthal speak?*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75468& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 1, 2011 - In recent months, a number of Latin American
countries have publicly expressed their recognition of Palestinian
statehood. Given that a Palestinian state doesn't yet exist, this
recognition also amounts to supporting the Palestinian right to
statehood. For Israel and defenders of its policies around the world,
the "snowball effect" of nations recognizing this right is,...

*Will the Palestinians keep silent?*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75466& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 1, 2011 - The Palestinian- Israeli conflict remains the
heart of the persistent crisis in the Middle East. But within the
persistent revolutionary wave, new questions on the issue have been
raised. Most importantly, where are the Palestinian people? Why they are
'relatively' silent, and when and how they will break this silence and
have their own say? So...

*The National* <http://thenational. ae/section/ FOREIGN?profile= 1011>

*'Firm legal action' urged against Iran opposition leaders Mousavi and
Karroubi*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ firm-legal- action-urged- against-iran- opposition- leaders-mousavi- and-karroubi>
The National 3 Mar 2011 - Parliamentary report claims 'clear need' to
prosecute Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. while Iranian
government denies the two and their wives had been transferred to
Tehran's Heshmatiyeh jail.

*Netanyahu may offer 'interim agrement' with Palestinians*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ netanyahu- may-offer- interim-agrement -with-palestinia ns>
The National 3 Mar 2011 - Israeli prime minister has not formally
proposed idea raised in media, but critics say move would be more
evidence that Israel is not serious about a peace pact

*Alternative Information Center* <http://alternativen ews.org/>

*Politics of Heritage in Palestine: Conflict between Two Narratives*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ news/3362- politics- of-heritage- in-palestine- conflict- between-two- narratives->
Alternative Information Center - Political dimensions and motives occupy
a great space in their relation and interaction with various heritage
fields and numerous human experiences. For every society, heritage
constitutes a fundamental factor in plumbing historical and cultural
depths. It...

*Jerusalem Municipality Approves New Settlement Construction in Heart of
Palestinian Neighbourhood Ras al-Amud*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ jerusalem/ 3366-jerusalem- municipality- approves- new-settlement- construction- in-heart- of-palestinian- neighbourhood- ras-al-amud->
Alternative Information Center - Jerusalem Municipality' s licensing
committee issued a permit Tuesday for the construction of 14 new settler
apartments in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood Ras al-Amud, at the site
of the former Samaria and Judea Police Division compound.

*Haifa-Ottawa Exchange: Evidence of Discrimination against Palestinian
Students*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ economy-of- the-occupation/ 3365-haifa- ottawa-exchange- evidence- of-discriminatio n-against- palestinian- students>
Alternative Information Center - Subject: Motion on Haifa-Ottawa
Exchange --- Evidence of Discrimination against Arab and Palestinian
Students at University of Haifa

*Daily Star* <http://dailystar. com.lb/>

*Gadhafi steps up massacre*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125540>
Daily Star 2 Mar 2011 VIENNA: Syria has agreed to allow U.N. nuclear
inspectors into a plant with possible uranium material, diplomatic
sources said, but Washington said the gesture would not be enough to
address allegations of covert atomic activity. The...

*Syria okays visit by nuclear agency: diplomats*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125545>
Daily Star 2 Mar 2011 VIENNA: Syria has agreed to allow U.N. nuclear
inspectors into a plant with possible uranium material, diplomatic
sources said, but Washington said the gesture would not be enough to
address allegations of covert atomic activity. The...

*Housing for Jews approved in occupied East Jerusalem*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125544>
Daily Star 2 Mar 2011 Officials in occupied Jerusalem approved new
housing for Jews in the heart of an Arab neighborhood, officials said
Wednesday, infuriating Palestinians who see the growing Jewish presence
in the city's eastern sector as undermining their aspirations. ..

*Mubarak in Saudi Arabia for cancer treatment: report*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125543>
Daily Star 2 Mar 2011 Toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is
receiving medical treatment for cancer in Saudi Arabia, according to a
report Wednesday in the state-owned Al-Akhbar newspaper while two
leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood were released after serving...

*Opposition gives Saleh road map for transition*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125542>
Daily Star 2 Mar 2011 Yemen's opposition presented Yemeni President Ali
Abdullah Saleh with a road map for a smooth transition of power this
year, offering him a graceful exit as street pressure grew for him to
step down now. Backtracking. ..

*Relief Web*
<http://reliefweb. int/rw/rwb. nsf/doc106? OpenForm& emid=ACOS- 635PFR&rc= 3>

*OPT: Israel allows first cherry tomato export from Gaza*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /ADGO-8EKSEE? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 2 Mar 2011 - Source: Agence France-Presse

*OPT: "Animals in a zoo have a bigger cage than one they're putting our
family in"*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /EGUA-8EKRUE? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 2 Mar 2011 - Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East

*Lebanon: Picking up the pieces in Nahr el-Bared*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /EGUA-8EKRG3? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 2 Mar 2011 - Source: UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East

*IOF Kills Palestinian Civilian Collecting Scrap in North Gaza District*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /VVOS-8EKQFY? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 2 Mar 2011 - Source: Al Mezan Center for Human Rights

*Inter Press Service* <http://ipsnews. net/middle. asp>

*Israel Grows Ever-Harsher in Treatment of Migrants*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 54691>
IPS A new report from the Global Detention Project (GDP) on Israel's
immigration detention policies reveals the tough reality behind the
feel-good story offered in the Academy Award-winning "Strangers No
More", an inspirational documentary about students from migrant families
who attend the Bialik-Rogozin school in Tel Aviv.

*Stop The Wall* <http://stopthewall. org/>

*Biweekly Repression Update* <http://stopthewall. org/latestnews/ 2493.shtml>
Stop The Wall - This update contains exerts from testimony gathered by
STW from a Bil'in resident shot with live ammunition during the February
18 demonstration. Over this period, one person was seriously injured and
others were also hurt during weekly demonstrations. The number of
arrests sky rocketed, with a total of 29 people, predominately youth,
were arrested by Occupation forces.

*YNet News* <http://ynetnews. com/>

*Gaddafi: Rebels like Israel in Gaza*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036671,00. html>
YNet News - Leader calls for probe on uprising as Turkey offers to
attack Libya in exchange....

*Aharonovitch: Settlers threatened security forces*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036643,00. html>
YNet News - Internal security minister endorses use of plastic bullets
against settlers....

*False alarm sounded throughout Israel*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036606,00. html>
YNet News - Tel Aviv, northern residents shocked by alarm sounded due to
malfunction in....

*Giuliani: Iran must not become nuclear power*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036452,00. html>
YNet News - Celebrated New York mayor tells Haifa Chamber of Commerce
military option not....

*Oldest IDF recruit begins service*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036454,00. html>
YNet News - David Patrick Shoval, 37, leaves comfortable post at Belgian
prime minister's.. ..

*PA: 150 states to recognize Palestine by Sept.*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036984,00. html>
YNet News - Palestinians expect broad global support: Some 150 countries
will recognize a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders by September
of this year, Palestinian Authority .......

*Clinton: US should fund Lebanon army*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036964,00. html>
YNet News - WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
told Senate Wednesday that America should continue to fund the Lebanese
army, despite concerns that Hezbollah's .......

*IDF drivers arrested for anti-tank missile theft*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036936,00. html>
YNet News - Three IDF soldiers serving as drivers at the Golani Infantry
Brigade were arrested recently for their alleged involvement in the
theft of four Light Anti-Tank Weapons .......

*Diplomat: I can no longer represent Israel*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036889,00. html>
YNet News - Foreign Ministry earthquake: A veteran diplomat says he has
resigned from his post because he had a hard time defending the policies
of Israel's current government, .......

*MKs: Probe outpost evacuation*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036852,00. html>
YNet News - Five rightist Knesset members called Thursday for a
commission of inquiry following the evacuation of illegal structures in
the West Bank outpost of Havat Gilad. .......

*PM: We don't know where Shalit is*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4036813,00. html>
YNet News - Meeting with the Chilean miners on the last day of their
trip to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced hope on
Wednesday that captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit .......

*Palestinian Information Center* <http://palestine- info.co.uk/ en/>

*IOF troops detain 6 Palestinians in Al-Khalil, destroy pond as settlers
escalate*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7m7pVhrQ6fw MOeYlFmPZQt8OOBg RRusuQHHfObln18q H3UbcOuljtwUsxn% 2fCvXeHi6WixUvdw TpoJKLG5YWtB7aQP F%2bB0Gz3ptUFTI7 TRw0k%3d>
PIC 2 Mar 2011 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained six
Palestinians in a number of villages in Al-Khalil and in a refugee camp
on Wednesday, local sources reported.

*Israeli authorities demolish temporary homes of Palestinian family*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7L%2bMucVNN id%2bGX30% 2f7xhLvepYjYfdEl trJNtuyyQ0xNBhbu EyToSU7Vrq2ZSbcN gauRnswhGMpDhbyg fVZuQT5hnGt6Yhdu CrfhHPts8WbEI% 3d>
PIC 2 Mar 2011 - Israeli municipality teams escorted by 200 policemen
razed the temporary (caravan) homes of the Palestinian family Abu Eid
after their homes were demolished a few weeks ago in Lod.

*Jerusalem municipality approves plan to build 14 homes in Ras al-Amoud*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7N5ET8% 2bKpw1peDXwhwou4 gzjnJLnRsqZCXqaX iUH8vXo6Y3YhA1P4 ucLoJoRo% 2fKcua2lESXiHkSI PKRwif8wJD8f8kqD FT8DbbeUS% 2feDjDPw% 3d>
PIC 2 Mar 2011 - Israel's Jerusalem municipality has approved a plan to
convert a deserted police station in Jerusalem's Ras al-Amoud district
into a settlement outpost.

*Zahar: Hamas has done all it could for reconciliation*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7l%2bQEnFO5 TLrMR5h0u3ulQPZj NALeRuMvr4OFrThN ZojiADlhe57sG6DP 98crpMUveqPt1uw1 Mduz3D8Q% 2frUd3M4qTOpaM09 hkCjNVeSy93g% 3d>
PIC 2 Mar 2011 - Hamas co-founder and politburo member Mahmoud al-Zahar
has said his movement has put forth all it could to achieve national
reconciliation.

*Dozens of Palestinians injured in clashes with police in Jaffa*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7rO4Gzj0txs 3ShrFvT2YAT22vHv OfqQ6%2fQ5tmfLBr 9mfN1iSrJomiqRL% 2ffvhHbIUOfdn7hW zhOZiNhcMT4UVYAv bFtbzPm1MuvUm24g f9teQ%3d>
PIC 2 Mar 2011 - Dozens of Palestinians have been injured in clashes
that broke out with police protecting Jewish demonstrations in the West
Bank city of Jaffa.

*Relatives of Palestinian prisoner ask for international medical team*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7dYI3N5gAh1 pGggQYcr30AUbaqC %2b35coy3ln4YQYJ AY%2brK7yOTckOXr P1o2%2fD4AZX1Ooi yFG6yUKrbELhmOuo yUPHYSWBOgNNXXTA bMaZLmI%3d>
PIC 2 Mar 2011 - Relatives of Palestinian prisoner Haithem Salehiya has
asked for an international medical team to call on Salehiya in his
Aishel prison after the Israeli intelligence tried to poison him.

*International campaign offers legal aid to MPs ordered out of
Jerusalem*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7%2fHq52aVM Sci0ZMk%2bzWrRsQ mic2ORq0IBBEBi1B %2fcdSbA0X7pHjFl YxMdnKWulgRR7CvX 4vGdpnUZHsklrTwf CYLOV9PY% 2fMHqECrP9492hZ0 %3d>
PIC 2 Mar 2011 - The three Palestinian public figures Israel ordered to
leave Jerusalem have marked their 224th day seeking sanctuary with a
visit from the international campaign against revoking citizenship.

*Hamas: Abbas authority rounded up 135 Hamas supporters in February*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7q1% 2fpVKUXcnEUVW% 2bNPR%2feI0VvwB9 ZH6X%2bns% 2f9XiI19MUr5eWX1 hU103Lu84xLwCZu1 1NiZR0TUheeniBDq FA%2frTCTl% 2foL9ZcebBnYPQzF Amk%3d>
PIC 2 Mar 2011 - The security apparatuses loyal to the Ramallah
authority summoned more than 1,500 Hamas supporters and cadres and
kidnapped 135 of them in the past month of February, Hamas said on Tuesday.

*IOF troops demolish Tana for the sixth time*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s732Q0aTf9% 2fGyc22uxmZuipq9 g4iFg7xjtsihy88b 6kRIC42enSvmC1D8 D04lPEP0By3qUHMq O9VhPQlr1JSp% 2fkHAOuFVaq5pjLO CR%2f2fVj% 2bY%3d>
PIC 2 Mar 2011 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished the Tana
village east of Nablus city for the sixth consecutive time, eyewitnesses
reported.

*Jordanian rights group to sue Israel after explosion kills child*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7onGP4hiPnQ Fl%2fj4R% 2fKr32zr9g1uWOrV V4f2uo8T% 2bGDjDqPqrf4sLEC 6RO4y4GaQ8tHsgsm 4PtnVDRkxkkcytGA rPTHN79xglcGx7v5 txiTM%3d>
PIC 2 Mar 2011 - A Jordan human rights organization condemned in
statements on Wednesday an Israeli explosion that killed a Jordanian boy
and left another wounded a few days back in the Jordan Valley.

*New York Times* <http://nytimes. com/pages/ world/middleeast />

*Middle East: In Jordan, Some Regret a Missed Opportunity*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=e97997cf33ed7a 7e647da254baa8da 31>
New York Times 2 Mar 2011 - Intellectuals, former politicians and
ordinary citizens say that if a 2006 National Agenda had been enforced,
Jordan would not be facing the challenges confronting it today.

*Middle East: The Palestinians' Long Wait in Lebanon*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=a96bfd85bcde09 c5e3f33c868c8299 bb>
New York Times 2 Mar 2011 - After 62 years, Palestinian refugees are
about to be granted the right to work in Lebanon. But whether there will
be real change remains to be seen.

*Misc* <http://vtjp. org/aboutus/ aboutus.htm>

*'Light a Candle for Gaza' --the rabbis' piece the Washington Post
refused to publish without major changes*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/light- a-candle- for-gaza- the-rabbis- piece-the- washington- post-wouldnt- publish-without- major-changes. html>
Mondoweiss - A week ago we posted an important story (related by Felice
Gelman) about two rabbis whose Op-Ed on Gaza was supposed to go online
in an hour's time at a major newspaper last Hanukah when the authors
were presented with a lot of Israeli-tilted questions about...

*'Israel Peace Week' speaker Senor lauds IDF and 'economic miracle' and
says nothing about Palestinians*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/israel- peace-week- speaker-senor- lauds-idf- and-economic- miracle-and- says-nothing- about-palestinia ns.html>
Mondoweiss - Last Wednesday Dan Senor, a neoconservative investor,
"geopolitical expert," and writer, came to speak at the University of
Rochester . The topic of his speech? "Israel's Economic Miracle,"
coincidentally the subtitle of his new book. Given Senor's past , the
fact that the university's president, Joel Seligman,...

*Mondo Award Winner: Jillian Kestler-D'Amours on al-Araqib*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/mondo- award-winner- jillian-kestler- damours-on- al-araqib. html>
Mondoweiss - This is the first of six Mondo Awards we are rolling out .
This entry was first published here in late December , and it wins the
Steadfastness Award. Writer Jillian Kestler-D'Amours will receive a half
dozen books. For the Indomitable People of al-Araqib It was 6 a.m....

*The Mondo Awards-- we start rolling them out, at last*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/the-mondo- awards-we- start-rolling- them-out- at-last.html>
Mondoweiss - The work we do as activists to effect social change rarely
has immediate rewards. It's a struggle that builds gradually so
sometimes, when it feels like we've been running in place, and injustice
continues to reign, it can feel pretty bleak. That's how it felt last...

*J Street is liberating Jews from Zionism. So far so good*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/j-street- is-liberating- jews-from- zionism-so- far-so-good. html>
Mondoweiss - The good news from the J Street conference is that the
organization made it a point to include the Jewish left, non-Zionist
Palestinian solidarity activists, and this opening will have important
consequences for Jewish life if not for the future of the Middle East.
To hear...

*David Yerushalmi, Islam-Hating White Supremacist Inspires Anti-Sharia
Bills Sweeping Tea Party Nation*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/richardsilv erstein/ZOfh/ %7E3/1xFbFhwON8Y />
Tikun Olam - David Yerushalmi You've gotta hand it to David Yerushalmi.
Until now, I can't recall a Jew who's ever been called a white
supremacist before (actually now that I think of it, I called him a
Jewish white supremacist way back in 2007). Thanks to him, we...

*After Mossad Cloned British Passports to Kill al-Mabouh, Promised Never
to Do It Again, IDF General Does*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/richardsilv erstein/ZOfh/ %7E3/9shu3AIzoI4 />
Tikun Olam - Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu used false identity to enter
Britain after Mossad promised not to engage in similar behavior In its
assassination conspiracy against Mahmoud al-Mabouh, the Mossad cloned
the legitimate passports of numerous Israeli dual-nationality citizens,
among them several from Britain. As a result, Mossad...

*INTERVIEW-Middle East turmoil seen inspiring Palestinians*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1700>
Palestine Monitor - * Senior Palestinian predicts new anti-Israel
uprising * Says non-violent protests could bring swift results By
Mohammed Assadi RAMALLAH, West Bank, March 1 (Reuters) - A wave of
popular unrest in the Arab world will soon inspire Palestinians to wage
non-violent protests of their own against Israel's...

*Protests spread throughout Arabian Peninsula*
<http://www.wsws. org/articles/ 2011/mar2011/ arab-m02. shtml>
WSWS - Renewed protests hit Yemen, Oman and Bahrain yesterday. There are
signs that the protests that spread from Tunisia and Egypt to the
Arabian Peninsula may also overtake Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1310
Wed Mar 2, 2011 5:11 pm (PST)

*Misc 2* <http://vtjp. org/news/ news.php>

*To BDS or not to BDS? If You're a Liberal Zionist, Try TBDS*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/jeremiahhab er/PcEx/% 7E3/jjp1uZ8ckuE/ to-bds-or- not-to-bds- if-youre- liberal.html>
The Magnes Zionist 2 Mar 2011 - I had the privilege of meeting Rebecca
Vilkomerson, director of Jewish Voice for Peace, in Jerusalem a few
months ago. At the time I was deeply pessimistic about the future. After
months of reading Haaretz 's print edition, of seeing a society I once
fell in...

*Some Thoughts from the J Street Conference*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/jeremiahhab er/PcEx/% 7E3/xTo-pjHycl8/ some-thoughts- from-j-street- conference. html>
The Magnes Zionist 1 Mar 2011 - I didn't attend the plenary sessions at
the J Street conference in DC; the last people I wanted to hear from
were Kadima MKs and Dennis Ross (though I did hear some of the panel
discussion afterwards. I never knew that Bernard Avishai was a kohen .)...

*Iran: 200 protesters 'arrested'*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 12625798>
BBC 2 Mar 2011 - Iranian opposition groups say more than 200 people were
arrested on Tuesday while trying to protest in Tehran over the reported
imprisonment of two leaders.

*America in the Middle East: US Policy Fails Its Purchasers*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/antiwar- original/ %7E3/7RirXPG4Kx8 />
Antiwar.com 2 Mar 2011 - Can anyone doubt that Israel and its American
friends direct U.S. Middle East policy? Do senior members of the
administration ever dispute the axiom that Israel's enemies must be
America's enemies? Does Congress or the corporate media ever question
the huge financial, military, and diplomatic support...

*J Street Urges Obama to Seize the Moment*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/antiwar- original/ %7E3/Ziy2SDDzzkw />
Antiwar.com 2 Mar 2011 - J Street, the Washington-based "Pro-Israel,
Pro-Peace" advocacy group, drew a large crowd to its annual conference
this year despite criticism over its controversial calls for the Barack
Obama administration not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution
condemning Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. In...

*Articles*

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*Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem's visa revoked*
<http://www.asianews .it/news- en/Anglican- Bishop-of- Jerusalem% E2%80%99s- visa-revoked- 20875.html>
Arieh Cohen, Jerusalem, AsiaNews 3/2/2011
Israel's Interior Ministry has revoked the permit for the
Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem, The Rt Revd Suheil Dawani, to live in
Jerusalem, and has refused requests to reinstate it, in spite of
protests by Anglican authorities in the West specifically the United States.
The Bishop is a native of the Holy Land and has spent most of his
life and ministry here, but cannot obtain either citizenship or legal
residence in Israel, since he was born in Nablus, i.e. in the West Bank,
which has been under Israeli occupation since 1967, but has not been
annexed to Israel. East Jerusalem, on the other hand, where the Anglican
Cathedral and Diocesan offices are situated, was also occupied at the
same time, but Israel annexed it and considers it part of its national
territory (although no other country in the world recognizes this
annexation). Therefore, Bishop Dawani is considered by Israel to be a
foreigner who can only visit -- let alone live in -- East Jerusalem with
a special permit, which the Israeli authorities can either grant or deny
at their sole discretion. In fact, even the original Palestinian
inhabitants of East Jerusalem, and their descendants, are considered by
Israel to be foreigners who are no more than possessors of a residence
permit, which Israel can revoke.
Since the Bishop has of course remained at his post, in Jerusalem,
without the permit, he could be arrested at any moment, be put on trial
for being in Israel illegally, be sentenced to a prison term -- or
simply be forcibly removed from Jerusalem.
This situation is causing deep worry to all the Churches in the
Holy Land. Because of the representative function of the Churches in the
Holy Land, on behalf of the world-wide Christian communities, and
because of various personnel needs, a large portion of the bishops,
clergy and religious serving in Jerusalem and elsewhere, come from other
countries... .more..
<http://www.asianews .it/news- en/Anglican- Bishop-of- Jerusalem% E2%80%99s- visa-revoked- 20875.html>e-mail
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*A revolution against neoliberalism? *
<http://english. aljazeera. net/indepth/ opinion/2011/ 02/2011224143152 49621.html>
Abu Atris, Al Jazeera 2/24/2011
/If rebellion results in a retrenchment of neoliberalism, millions will
feel cheated./
On February 16th I read a comment was posted on the wall of the
Kullina Khalid Saed ("We are all Khaled Said") Facebook page
administered by the now very famous Wael Ghonim. By that time it had
been there for about 21 hours. The comment referred to a news item
reporting that European governments were under pressure to freeze bank
accounts of recently deposed members of the Mubarak regime. The comment
said: "Excellent news ... we do not want to take revenge on anyone ...
it is the right of all of us to hold to account any person who has
wronged this nation. By law we want the nation's money that has been
stolen ... because this is the money of Egyptians, 40% of whom live
below the poverty line."
By the time I unpacked this thread of conversation, 5,999 people
had clicked the "like" button, and about 5,500 had left comments. I have
not attempted the herculean task of reading all five thousand odd
comments (and no doubt more are being added as I write), but a fairly
lengthy survey left no doubt that most of the comments were made by
people who clicked the "like" icon on the Facebook page. There were also
a few by regime supporters, and others by people who dislike the
personality cult that has emerged around Mr. Ghoneim.
This Facebook thread is symptomatic of the moment. Now that the
Mubarak regime has fallen, an urge to account for its crimes and to
identify its accomplices has come to the fore. The chants, songs, and
poetry performed in Midan al-Tahrir always contained an element of anger
against haramiyya (thieves) who benefited from regime corruption. Now
lists of regime supporters are circulating in the press and blogosphere.
Mubarak and his closest relatives (sons Gamal and 'Ala') are always at
the head of these lists. Articles on their personal wealth give figures
as low as $3 billion to as high as $70 billion (the higher number was
repeated on many protesters' signs)....more. .
<http://english. aljazeera. net/indepth/ opinion/2011/ 02/2011224143152 49621.html>e-mail
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*Right of reply: The Palestine papers revealed nothing*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364221>
Saeb Erekat, Ma'an News Agency 3/1/2011
/A response to: "Till September: The PA's Meaningless Deadlines"/
Ramzy Baroud fails to present the real picture of the Palestinian
situation today. Characterizing the Palestinian leadership as a "self
designated Palestinian leadership in the West Bank," Mr. Baroud
wittingly ignores some facts while distorts others. In fact, it was
Hamas that has refused until this day to sign the Egyptian brokered
reconciliation agreement.
The so-called "Palestine papers" have not revealed a single
official agreement or document that offers concessions. Rather the
majority of the documents were internal draft summaries of meetings
taken in shorthand and intended for personal use only. Moreover,
Baroud's failure to differentiate between official positions and
explorations or polemical rhetoric during the course of negotiations
shows a lack of knowledge or a deliberate distortion.
A responsible and careful reading of the minutes and official
Palestinian positions reveals that Palestinian negotiators were
insistent on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. The
issues discussed were mechanisms by which Palestinian rights would be
realized, rather than forfeited as claimed.
For example, the Palestinian position on territory never deviated
from the 1967 borders and illegality of settlements. However, there was
a willingness to discuss Israeli and U.S proposals for land swaps, only
if equal in size and value, as a possible way to establish the 1967
lines as a base line for borders given the complicated reality on the
ground created by Israel's illegal colonial policies. -- See also:Till
September: The PA's Meaningless Deadlines
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=363243>more..
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364221>e-mail
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*How Palestine's uprising inspired Egypt's*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/XBzMXTd27so/ article11838. shtml>
Electronic Intifada: 2 Mar 2011 - In the 1990s, one could only whisper
Hosni Mubarak's name. Political talk or jokes were avoided in phone
calls. This year, millions of Egyptians fought for 18 days against their
aging tyrant, braving the police troops firing teargas, rubber bullets
and live ammunition. People in Egypt have lost their fear, but it did
not happen overnight. Hossam el-Hamalawy comments.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/XBzMXTd27so/ article11838. shtml>

*US students face jail time for disrupting Israeli official's speech*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/UGUWsXLqoOc/ article11837. shtml>
Electronic Intifada: 2 Mar 2011 - Eleven University of California
students face criminal charges and possible jail terms for protesting
and disrupting a speech by an Israeli official as the Orange County
district attorney's office engages in what one of the students'
attorneys calls "selective and discriminatory prosecution" more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/UGUWsXLqoOc/ article11837. shtml>

*World Social Forum puts Palestine solidarity into action*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/P90ER2y- GR4/article11835 .shtml>
Electronic Intifada: 2 Mar 2011 - The Electronic Intifada contributor
Stefan Christoff spoke with Palestinian civil society activist Ahmad
Jaradat outside the Palestine people's assembly tent at the World Social
Forum global anti-capitalist gathering.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/P90ER2y- GR4/article11835 .shtml>

*Libyan opposition prepares for offensive against Gaddafi*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/vLMBcKVGZ5w/ article11836. shtml>
Electronic Intifada: 2 Mar 2011 - BENGHAZI, Libya (IPS) - As the
defectors from the Libyan army organize the weapons they have recovered
from Muammar Gaddafi's strongholds in the region, thousands of Libyan
men are volunteering to join the soldiers in a possible attack on
Tripoli to oust Gaddafi from power.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/vLMBcKVGZ5w/ article11836. shtml>

*INTERVIEW-Middle East turmoil seen inspiring Palestinians*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1700>
Palestine Monitor: 2 Mar 2011 - * Senior Palestinian predicts new
anti-Israel uprising * Says non-violent protests could bring swift
results By Mohammed Assadi RAMALLAH, West Bank, March 1 (Reuters) - A
wave of popular unrest in the Arab world will soon inspire Palestinians
to wage non-violent protests of their own against Israel's 43-year-old
occupation, a prominent Palestinian has said. Mustafa Barghouthi, who
came second in a 2005 presidential election behind Mahmmoud Abbas, said
the failure of peace negotiations over the past two decades would spur
Palestinians to launch mass rallies against Israeli rule. Barghouthi
said the turmoil in the Middle East showed how fast events were
evolving, producing much quicker results than non-violent movements in
India against British rule in the 20th century and that of Martin Luther
King in the United States. "None of these leaders could move half the
population over the period of two weeks to bring down a whole regime,"
he told...more <http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1700>

*Another Tidal Wave is Needed*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16695>
Palestine Chronicle: 2 Mar 2011 - By George S. Hishmeh -- Washington,
D.C. The spark that the impoverished Tunisian fruit peddler, Mohammed
Bouazizi, lit in his self-immolation act in protest for his mistreatment
and humiliation by a policewoman is still ablaze within many of the Arab
regimes anciens, regrettably abundant in the Arab World. Already two
discredited presidents -- Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Zine El Abidine Ben
Ali of Tunisia -- have been kicked out of office and a third, the
"delusional" leader of Libya, Moammar Gaddafi, is expected to follow
suit anytime soon. Still, other Arab leaders are encountering similar
unprecedented upheavals. A "day of rage" is now scheduled for March 11
in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital. Even Lebanon has had a similar
demonstration last week that called loudly for the abolition of
sectarianism in the country where all positions within the civil service
are divided in accordance with a formula based on...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16695>

*The Arab Revolution and Anti-Imperialism*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16694>
Palestine Chronicle: 2 Mar 2011 - By Daniel Renwick Tunisia falls. Egypt
falls. Anti-imperialism gets a shot in the arm. Ben-Ali and Mubarak, who
for decades acted as nothing but Western stooges, are forced from power
and the global order trembles. Cracks emerge under our feet and we all
wonder; what next? We are too close to these events to truly realise
their magnitude. However, what must be made emphatically clear is that
the global order stands or falls with the Pan-Arab revolution. The
fighting in the Arab street is a transnational fight of epic
proportions. While it is a fight for dignity, a fight for rights and a
fight for fairness -- these battles cannot be pitched without truly
knowing one's enemy -- the forces of empire. While major encouragement
can be found looking down the Arab street, forces of subversion have
been in play from the very start. Variables are not liked by the...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16694>

*Seventh Annual Israel Anti-Apartheid Week*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16693>
Palestine Chronicle: 2 Mar 2011 - By Stephen Lendman Apartheidweek. com
announced that the Anti-Apartheid for this year will be held in over 60
cities worldwide, including: Adelaide, Al Quds, Amman, Amsterdam, Bard
(NY), Basel, Beirut, Belfast, Berkeley, Bern, Bethlehem, Bilbao,
Birzeit, Bordeaux, Boston, Brisbane, Brussels, Cape Town, Cleveland,
Denver, Dublin, Dundee, Durban, Edmonton, Gainesville, Gaza, Geneva,
Grahamstown, Haifa, Houston, Ireland, Johannesburg, La Chaux-de-Fonds,
Le Mans, Lille, Lillehammer, London (Ontario), Lyon, Melbourne, Mexico
City, Miami, Midwest, Montreal, Nablus, Naples, Nazereth, Neuchatel, New
York, Ottawa, Paris, Perth, Peterborough, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria,
Providence, Regina, St. Louis, Stellenbosch, Sudbury, Toronto, Utrecht,
Yaffa, and Zurich. Other cities not officially part of IAW may also
participate, including major ones involved before. Launched in Toronto
in 2005 by over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations, it's held
annually to support calls for Global Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS) until Occupied Palestine is free. Last year's IAW was "incredibly
successful" with over 55 participating cities...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16693>

*American Intervention in Libya*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16692>
Palestine Chronicle: 2 Mar 2011 - By Ali Younes -- Washington, D.C.
According to high level sources here in Washington, the U.S government
is about to take a decision, or already made it, to intervene directly
in the Libyan crises by having its warships dock at the Libyan eastern
ports. This mean that U.S ground forces, Marines and support units will
establish Forward Operating Bases (FOB) in coastal Libyan cities to
coordinate with the Libyan "opposition" and establish a parallel Libyan
government in the event that the regime of Moammar Qaddafi did not fall
or toppled in the coming days. This action will require, however, an
immediate UN coordination and a legal cover from the UN Security Council
to place Libya under stricter provisions of Chapter 7 of the UN charter
that authorizes the use of force against a member state. Moreover, If
Libya is placed under clearer and stricter language of a future UNSC
resolution;. ..more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16692>

*What Really Happened in Gaza?*
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 03/what-really- happened- in-gaza/>
Dissident Voice: 2 Mar 2011 - The Israeli attack on Gaza in December
2008/January 2009 and the subsequent investigation and unequivocal
condemnation by a United Nations team led by Judge Richard Goldstone of
Israeli conduct before and during what the Jewish State calls "Operation
Cast Lead," have radically altered the way many view Israel's brutal
occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people. Gaza and Goldstone
have also caused many to question the 18 year-old US-sponsored
Israeli/Palestinian "peace-process" which never produces any positive
results. The Goldstone Report: The Legacy Of The Landmark Investigation
Of The Gaza Conflict Edited by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip
Weiss Foreword by Desmond Tutu Introduction by Naomi Klein, Nation
Books, 2011. 449 pp., $18.95 (paperback). Here in Central New York,
some local activists in the Syracuse Peace Council started the group
Central New York Working For A Just Peace In Palestine & Israel as a
direct result of the invasion of...more
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 03/what-really- happened- in-gaza/>

*Speaking to J-Street, but for Who?*
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 03/speaking- to-j-street- but-for-who/>
Dissident Voice: 2 Mar 2011 - Mona Eltahawy who takes pride in being
"the first Egyptian journalist to live and to work for a western news
agency in Israel" was a big hit at this year's J-Street gathering. This
is a video of her opening remarks at the racist, Zionist group's 2011
conference. Eltahawy, unlike Ray Hanania and James Zogby, two other
Arab-Americans who enthusiastically promote J-Street, does speak Arabic
with native ability and closely followed the Egyptian revolution.
Therefore, when she told the audience "not one anti-Israeli or
anti-American sentiment was expressed" during the uprisings in Tunisia,
and Egypt (11:40), she was knowingly making a false statement. While the
immediate demands of the Tunisians and Egyptians were naturally focused
on domestic issues, the tyrants' relationships with the Zionist entity,
and American support for these autocrats were on the minds of the
millions who took the streets to demand not only an end to dictatorship,
oppression,. ..more
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 03/speaking- to-j-street- but-for-who/>

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Nine Afghan Boys Collecting Firewood
Killed by NATO Helicopters

By ALISSA J. RUBIN and SANGAR RAHIMI
Published: March 2, 2011

KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine boys collecting firewood to heat their homes in the eastern Afghanistan mountains were killed by NATO helicopter gunners who mistook them for insurgents, according to a statement on Wednesday by NATO, which apologized for the mistake.

The boys, who were 9 to 15 years old, were attacked on Tuesday in what amounted to one of the war’s worst cases of mistaken killings by foreign-led forces. The victims included two sets of brothers. A 10th boy survived.

The NATO statement, which included an unusual personal apology by the commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, said the boys had been misidentified as the attackers of a NATO base earlier in the day. News of the attack enraged Afghans and led to an anti-American demonstration on Wednesday in the village of Nanglam, where the boys were from. The only survivor, Hemad, 11, said his mother had told him to go out with other boys to collect firewood because “the weather is very cold now.”

“We were almost done collecting the wood when suddenly we saw the helicopters come,” said Hemad, who, like many Afghans, has only one name. “There were two of them. The helicopters hovered over us, scanned us and we saw a green flash from the helicopters. Then they flew back high up, and in a second round they hovered over us and started shooting. They fired a rocket which landed on a tree. The tree branches fell over me and shrapnel hit my right hand and my side.”

The tree, Hemad said, saved his life by covering him so that he could not be seen by the helicopters, which, he said, “shot the boys one after another.”

WITH ALL YOUR FANCY, EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT,
YOU CAN NOT TELL CHILDREN WHEN YOU SEE THEM?

General Petraeus pledged to investigate the attack and to take disciplinary action if appropriate.

“We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan government, the people of Afghanistan and, most importantly, the surviving family members of those killed by our actions,” he said. “These deaths should have never happened.”

It was the third instance in two weeks in which the Afghan government has accused NATO of killing civilians. NATO strongly disputes one of those reports, but another — the killing of an Afghan Army soldier and his family in Nangarhar Province on Feb. 20 — was also described as an accident.

The attack on the boys occurred high in the mountains outside Nanglam in the Pech Valley of Kunar Province. American troops are preparing to close their bases in the valley in the next several weeks, in part because their presence has vexed the villagers, who would prefer to be left alone. The area is poor, and the only major road was built to service Forward Operating Base Blessing, according to local residents.

A rocket attack on the base on Tuesday led to a helicopter search for the insurgents responsible, the NATO statement said. The base is surrounded by mountains and is the frequent target of Taliban fighters, who shoot down on it from the rocky heights.

The helicopters “returned fire at the assessed point of origin with indirect and aerial fire,” the NATO statement said. “Regrettably there appears to have been an error in the handoff between identifying the location of the insurgents and the attack helicopters that carried out subsequent operations.”

Villagers — who heard the gunfire in the mountains and worried when the children did not return home — went to look for them. The boys had been out since the morning, local people said.

“As soon as we heard about the attack on the village’s children, all the village men rushed to the mountains to find out what really happened,” said Ashabuddin, a shopkeeper from Manogai, a nearby village, whose nephew Khalid was among those killed.

“Finally we found the dead bodies. Some of the dead bodies were really badly chopped up by the rockets,” he said. “The head of a child was missing. Others were missing limbs.”

“We tried to find the body pieces and put them together. As it was getting late, we brought down the bodies in a rope bed. We buried them in the village’s cemetery,” Ashabuddin added. “The children were all from poor families; otherwise no one would send their sons up to the mountains despite the known threats from both insurgents and Americans.”

Khalid, 14, was the only male in the family, Ashabuddin said. “He was studying in sixth grade of the orphanage school and working because his father died four years ago due to a long-term sickness. His father was a day laborer. He has 13 sisters and two mothers. He was the sole breadwinner of the family. I don’t know what would happen to his family to his sisters and mothers. They are all female and poor.”

President Hamid Karzai, who was in London for an official visit, condemned the attack “in the strongest terms possible.”

Calling it “ruthless,” he questioned whether the Western goals of combating terrorism and securing Afghanistan could be achieved if civilians continued to die.

More than 200 people gathered in Nanglam on Wednesday to protest the boys’ deaths, witnesses said. Waving white flags, they shouted “Death, death to America!” and “Death to Obama and his colleagues and associates!”

An Afghan employee of The New York Times contributed reporting from Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/world/asia/03afghan.html?src=twr

(Many thanks to Jenni H.)

[ninathedog]

[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1311

Thu Mar 3, 2011 6:58 pm (PST)

***Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles*

*News*
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*International Middle East Media Center* <http://imemc. org/>

*Soldiers Break Into Eshil-Be'er Sheva Prison, Attack Detainees, Search
Their Rooms* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60782>
IMEMC - Friday March 04, 2011 - 03:29, The Palestinian Ministry of
Detainees reported Thursday that Israeli soldiers and under-cover units
of the Israeli army broke into the Eshil-Be'er Sheva prison, violently
attacked the detainees and searched their rooms.

*Soldiers Kidnap Four Children In East Jerusalem*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60781>
IMEMC - Friday March 04, 2011 - 02:09, Israeli soldiers invaded on
Thursday Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped four
children.

*Hamas Delegates Start A Tour To Discuss Shalit File*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60780>
IMEMC - Friday March 04, 2011 - 01:56, Delegates of the Hamas movement
in the Gaza Strip started a tour that would include meetings with the
movement's leaders in the Arab World to discuss the file of
prisoner-of- war Corporal, Gilad Shalit, who was captured by the
resistance in Gaza in mid 2006.

*The Israeli Soldiers Inade Tulkarem To Eat Knafeh*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60779>
IMEMC - Thursday March 03, 2011 - 21:07, It's not strange for Israeli
soldiers to invade a neighborhood for the sole purpose of investigating
identity cards of young in the occupied territories; the strange thing
is to enter neighborhoods in order to eat "Knafeh".

*Settlers Organize "Day Of Rage"* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60773>
IMEMC - Thursday March 03, 2011 - 13:22, Extreme Israeli settlers have
launched a 'day of rage' in protest against the demolition of a handful
of illegal structures in the Havat Gilad outpost.

*Israeli Forces Arrest Residents From Hebron*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60772>
IMEMC - Thursday March 03, 2011 - 11:42, The Israeli army arrested, on
Thursday, residents from the West Bank city of Hebron.

*Israeli Police Detain Citizens From The al-Aqsa Mosque*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60771>
IMEMC - Thursday March 03, 2011 - 11:35, Israeli police arrested, on
Thursday, citizens who were present at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

*Kirbeh Tana Demolished For The 6th Time By Israeli Bulldozers*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60770>
IMEMC - Thursday March 03, 2011 - 11:11, Kerbeh Tanna, north of Nablus,
has been demolished for the 6th time, on Wednesday, after residents
recently re-built it.

*Israeli Soldiers Abducted Two Palestinians In Jenin*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60769>
IMEMC - Thursday March 03, 2011 - 10:54, On Thursday morning, the
Israeli military abducted two Palestinians and erected multiple
checkpoints in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

*February: Seven Palestinians Killed, 46 Injured By Army Fire In Gaza*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60768>
IMEMC - Thursday March 03, 2011 - 09:44, A report published by the
Higher Committee for Medical Services in Gaza, revealed that Israeli
soldiers killed, in February, 7 Palestinians, and wounded 46, including
several children, during several attacks targeting the Gaza Strip in
February.

*Ma'an News* <http://maannews. net/en/>

*Gaza banks strike after robbery, demand money back*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365100>
3/3/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Monetary Authority
announced that all banks in Gaza would close Thursday, following a
robbery at the Palestine Investment Bank in Gaza City. PMA officials did
not report the amount of cash taken from the bank, but said the
financial institutions would remain closed until the funds were
returned.... Related:Hamas: PA moving Gaza treasury to Ramallah
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365360>

*Center: Al-Qassam detainee punished for talking to another inmate*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365385>
3/3/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) - The detainees' center reports that
Israeli guards confiscated electrical supplies of an Al-Qassam detainee.
Ibrahim Hamed Al-Qassam, a former militant, was sentenced in 2006 and
kept in an isolation cell for several years. The 45 year-old detainee
from Ramallah is isolated at Al-Ramlah prison and he was punished by....

*Detainee appeals for medical treatment*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364843>
3/4/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) - The Palestinian detainees' center has asked
human rights organizations to save the life of sick detainee from
Nablus. The center said in a report that detainee Zeid Younis from Asira
village, sentenced to life, suffers from severe pain in his eyes and is
not given treatment... .

*Facebook activists: 'Refugee revolution' set for May*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365060>
3/3/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinian students and rights
activists in Gaza have initiated a campaign for Palestinian refugees
aiming to harness the winds of change in the Middle East and mobilize
the diaspora into action. On May 15, the group said, more than 1 million
people will participate in a global sit-in at Israeli....

*Red Cross urged to help prisoner with heart problems*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365387>
3/3/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian prisoners center is
appealing to the Red Cross to save the life of a prisoner with heart
problems. Itaf Abd El-Wahab suffers from severe pain in his chest,
headaches, and neck swelling, prisoners officials say they were informed....

*Gaza fighters: Projectile fired at Israeli military tower*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365083>
3/3/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A militant group in Gaza said fighters
fired a C5K rocket toward an Israeli military guard tower on Thursday,
saying in a statement that attacks against military infrastructure would
continue until Israel's occupation ended. The National Resistance
Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation.. ..

*Right-wing Israelis, settlers rally in 'day of rage'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365095>
3/3/2011 - TEL AVIV (Ma'an) --Right-wing Israelis and settlers blocked a
road to Jerusalem with burning tires and closed down train tracks to the
country's airport on Thursday, in what was billed as a "day of
rage."Israeli news organizations said police evacuated protesters from
highway 1 after a brief closure of the....

*Egypt releases 12 Palestinian detainees*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365215>
3/3/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Egyptian authorities released 12
Palestinians from the Al-Aqrab prison on Thursday, a spokesman for the
families of the detained said, adding that all were en route to the
Rafah crossing. According to families in Gaza, who have been in touch
with the prisoners, there are an additional 32 men who....

*Sole operating crossing opens for aid delivery to Gaza*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365057>
3/3/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Gaza's last remaining crossing terminal
was opened on Thursday, for what observers say will be a reduced amount
of delivered aid and commercial goods. Israeli crossings authorities
informed Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh that 190-200
truckloads goods could be expected to arrive through the terminal, after
they....

*NYC folk singer endorses boycott of Israel*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364966>
3/3/2011 - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- New York City folks singer Pete Seeger
announced his support for the Palestinian movement for Boycott,
Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel last week, the Israeli
Committee Against House Demolitions and Adalah said in a statement. The
92-year-old singer made the news public at his home in New York, saying
"I.... Related:Adalah- NY: Folk Music Legend Pete Seeger Endorses Boycott
of Israel
<http://adalahny. org/press- releases- other/folk- music-legend- pete-seeger- endorses- boycott-of- israel>

*Hamas: PA moving Gaza treasury to Ramallah*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365360>
3/3/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The interior ministry in the Gaza Strip
said Thursday that the Palestinian Authority was attempting to move the
Gaza treasury to Ramallah. The ministry will prevent this, it said in a
statement... . Related:Gaza banks strike after robbery, demand money back
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365100>

*Mid-checkpoint duty, Israeli soldiers stop for local snack*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365184>
3/3/2011 - TULKAREM (Ma'an) -- The bakers at Al-Massa Sweets at the
north end of Tulkarem were surprised Thursday when four armed Israeli
soldiers entered their shop and ordered Knafeh, a locally produced
dessert, during a break from manning a flying checkpoint. For the second
day in a row, an Israeli patrol unit set up a....

*Pope lifts blame from Jews for Christ's death*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365287>
3/3/2011 - VATICAN CITY (AFP) -- Pope Benedict XVI exonerates the Jewish
people as a whole from responsibility for the crucifixion of Jesus
Christ in a new book due to be published this month, prompting praise
from Jewish groups. The pope wrote that the condemnations of Jesus
Christ came from the "aristocracy of the temple" in Jerusalem and....

*In photos: US senator tours Nativity Church*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365361>
3/3/2011 - MaanImages / Luay Sababa - US Sen. John McCain takes a tour
of the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Feb.
26, 2011. The church marks the historical birthplace of Jesus....

*Hamas: 2 affiliates detained by PA*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365111>
3/3/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Hamas leaders in the West Bank said two
party affiliates were detained overnight by Palestinian Authority
security forces, and accused the officers of acting on
politically- motivated grounds. The detentions were said to have been
made in Bethlehem and Nablus, but could not be confirmed by Ma'an. On
Wednesday, adviser....

*Fayyad takes questions on Facebook*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365204>
3/3/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah
has been busy lately on his Facebook page. On Wednesday, he published
videos answering questions posed to him through the social networking
site. He discussed the new cabinet with Palestinians on Facebook and
with Palestinian civil society institutions. ...

*Police: Drug dealers detained in 2 raids*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365150>
3/3/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Police in the West Bank reported the
arrest of two drug dealers on Thursday, during two separate searches in
Ramallah and Jenin, a statement said. In the central West Bank, police
said they received a tip that a Ramallah home was being used to store
and manufacture drugs. A search of....

*War crimes court set to probe 10-15 Libyan leaders*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365155>
3/3/2011 - MADRID, Spain (AFP) -- The International Criminal Court will
probe 10-15 Libyan leaders for crimes against humanity over attacks
against civilians during the popular uprising, prosecutor Luis
Moreno-Ocampo said in an interview published Thursday in El Pais....

*Libya jets hit rebel town, crimes against humanity probed*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365214>
3/3/2011 - BREGA, Libya (AFP) -- Aircraft struck the rebel town of Brega
on Thursday as international prosecutors launched a probe into crimes
against humanity in Libya, while the West scrambled to evacuate
refugees. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned Libya is verging on
civil war while Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez proposed international
mediation to quell the violence raging....

*Arab League 'studying' Chavez Libya proposal*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365326>
3/3/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- The Arab League is "studying" a mediation
proposal by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to find a peaceful solution
to the crisis in Libya, the regional forum's chief Amr Mussa told AFP
Thursday....

*Mubarak ally quits as Egyptian PM*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365327>
3/3/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigned
unexpectedly Thursday, sparking celebrations from protesters who demand
a purge of the remnants of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime. The
country's military rulers said he would be replaced by Essam Sharaf, a
former transport minister who joined the rallies in Cairo's....

*Rebel-held Libyan town braces for new attack*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365329>
3/3/2011 - BREGA, Libya (AFP) -- A fresh air strike hit the rebel-held
Libyan town of Brega on Thursday, residents said, amid fears of a new
bid by troops loyal to Moamer Kadhafi's regime to recapture the key oil
port. The raid on the eastern town came one day after a battle with
pro-regime fighters that....

*Jordan PM wins confidence vote*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365332>
3/3/2011 - AMMAN (AFP) -- Jordan's Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit won a
close vote of confidence for his government from parliament on Thursday,
on the eve of an Islamist opposition demonstration to demand general
reforms. After a two-day debate on his policies, the vote was 63-47,
with seven abstentions and two MPs absent from the....

*Mubarak 'still in Egypt', says prosecutor*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365334>
3/3/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- Egypt's prosecutor general on Thursday denied
reports claiming toppled president Hosni Mubarak and his family were in
Saudi Arabia, insisting they were still in an Egyptian Red Sea resort."
There is no truth to what was reported (on Wednesday) that former
president Hosni Mubarak and his family are currently out of....

*Middle East violence hits education*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365337>
3/3/2011 - NAIROBI (IRIN) -- Several Middle Eastern countries such as
Iraq and Yemen are unlikely to achieve the education-for- all Millennium
Development Goals by 2015 because of insecurity and conflict, according
to a new report by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO). The education-for- all goals were endorsed by more
than 160 countries in 2000. But according... .

*Geithner: World can handle choked oil supplies*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365372>
3/3/2011 - WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The world can pump enough extra oil and
has enough stashed in reserve to limit any price shocks caused by
sustained turmoil in the Middle East, Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner said Thursday....

*Cairo bourse closes indefinitely*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365375>
3/3/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- Egypt's stock exchange, which suspended
trading a month ago when nationwide anti-regime protests erupted, said
on Thursday it will remain closed until further notice....

*Rage, fear and pain at Ajdabiya hospital in Libya*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365377>
3/3/2011 - AJDABIYA, Libya (AFP) -- "Gadhafi did this!" screams the
armed man guarding the gate into Ajdabiya hospital, as a pick-up truck
rushes past with another gunshot victim. The gate closes, and the guard,
beside himself with rage, shouts at journalists trying to get in that
they should clear off."Move! Move!" he says, pointing to the....

*Gadhafi counts on planes, militias to survive*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=365378>
3/3/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi is relying on
militias, mercenaries and Soviet-era airpower to prop up his regime as
he tries to fight back against rebels in the east, analysts said. A bid
by Kadhafi loyalists to retake the eastern oil port of Brega has thrown
the spotlight on the relative strengths of the....

*Palestine Note* <http://palestinenot e.com/cs/>

*The PLO, Hamas & Fatah are not Palestine.*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/03/ the-plo-hamas- amp-fatah- are-not-palestin e.aspx>
Palestine Note 3 Mar 2011 - This may come as a big disappointing
surprise to Mahmoud Abbas, Khalid Misha'al, Ahmed Qurai, Ismail Haniyah,
Yaser Abed-Rabou, Sami Zouhri, Saeb Eurekat, to Hamas and its leadership
in both Damascus and Gaza and to Fatah...

*Jerusalem approves settler homes*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/03/ jerusalem- approves- settler-homes. aspx>
Palestine Note 3 Mar 2011 - BBC News - The Jerusalem municipality has
approved the construction of 14 apartments for Jewish settlers in an
Arab neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. The plans relate to the site of an
old Israeli police station in...

*Bowing to Opposition, Egypt Premier Resigns*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/03/ bowing-to- opposition- egypt-premier- resigns.aspx>
Palestine Note 3 Mar 2011 - New York Times - Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq
resigned on Thursday, bowing to one of the main demands of Egypt 's
opposition movement which has demanded his ouster for days from its
informal headquarters in a...

*Middle East Conflict and an Internet Tipping Point*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/03/ middle-east- conflict- and-an-internet- tipping-point. aspx>
Palestine Note 3 Mar 2011 - Technology Review - First in Tunisia, then
in Egypt, now in Libya: technologically savvy protestors are making
extraordinary use of the Internet and digital media to support mass
movements against autocratic governments. The Twitter hashtag #jan25...

*PA: World must act on settler violence*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/03/ pa-world- must-act- on-settler- violence. aspx>
Palestine Note 3 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - The Palestinian Authority on
Wednesday urged the international community to take action to halt
Jewish settler violence towards Palestinians. Following a series of
attacks against Palestinians across the West Bank, the Ramallah-based
leadership issued...

*A Historic Moment for Arab World*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ topnews/archive/ 2011/03/03/ a-historic- moment-for- arab-world. aspx>
Palestine Note 3 Mar 2011 - Wadah Khanfar: The future has arrived TED -
As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the
Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly
optimistic view of what's happening...

*See? We Can Talk About BDS*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/03/ see-we-can- talk-about- bds.aspx>
Palestine Note 3 Mar 2011 - This piece originally appeared at The Third
Way I asked myself, should I blog first about the J Street conference as
a whole, or about the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) panel in
particular, since I...

*Palestine News Network* <http://english. pnn.ps/>

*Palestinians Youths Write "Free Palestine" On Cash*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9646&Itemid=>
PNN - Bethlehem -- Osama Awwad -- PNN/Exclusive - A group of Palestinian
youths started a Facebook group on Thursday calling for fellow
Palestinians to write "Free Palestine" on 20, 50, 100, and 200...

*Muhammad al-Za'tari: Innocent, Accused of Stabbing Settler, and
Tortured for Five Months*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9645&Itemid= 56>
PNN - Maysa Abu Ghazala -- Jerusalem --PNN/Exclusive - At 14, Muhammad
Imad al-Za'tari is not old enough, according to international law, to be
treated as an adult. But in the eyes of the...

*Gaza's Crossings Squeezed Shut*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9644&Itemid= 56>
PNN - Tel Aviv - Gisha To PNN -- the Israeli based Legal Center for
freedom of Movement - Gisha - expresses concern that Wednesday closing
of Karni Crossing will further restrict the ability...

*Lessons from the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9643&Itemid= 58>
PNN - By Daoud Kuttab - Many activists in Palestine believe that they
are the inventors of the concept of popular uprisings in the modern Arab
history. After all, many say, the Palestinian Intifada...

*Palestinian Center for Human Rights* <http://pchrgaza. org/>

*Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory ( 24 Feb. 02 Mar. 2011)*
<http://www.pchrgaza .org/portal/ en/index. php?option= com_content& view=article& id=7269:weekly- report-on- israeli-human- rights-violation s-in-the- occupied- palestinian- territory- 24-feb-02- mar-2011& catid=84: weekly-2009& Itemid=183>
Palestinian Center for Human Rights

*PCHR Submit Memorandum on Domestic Investigations to UN Committee of
Experts*
<http://www.pchrgaza .org/portal/ en/index. php?option= com_content& view=article& id=7271:pchr- submit-memorandu m-on-domestic- investigations- to-un-committee- of-experts& catid=37: pchrnews- &Itemid=30>
Palestinian Center for Human Rights Ref: 7/2011 On Wednesday, 23
February 2011, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) submitted
a Memorandum on the Status of Domestic Investigations Conducted into
Alleged Violations of International Law committed in the Context of
Operation 'Cast Lead ' to the Human Rights Council mandated Committee of
Experts. The Committee has been established to monitor domestic
investigations conducted in relation

*Jerusalem Post* <http://jpost. com/>

*Weekend power outages narrowly avoided*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210763& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - With no gas flowing from Egypt, Gilad Erdan
was forced to approve Israel Electric Corporation' s use of polluting
fuel, diesel oil.

*More than 30 arrested in settlers' 'Day of Rage'*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210746& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - In protests against Gilad Farm violence,
activists block roads, hold signs reading: "Barack Hussein Obama, with
friends like these who needs enemies."

*'Mubarak to be questioned on corruption charges'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210713& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - Sources close to Egypt's Prosecutor General
say ousted president enjoys no immunity and would be sent to prison if
convicted.

*Senior Fatah officials demand Abbas sack Fayyad*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210701& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - Letter sent to PA president and backed by
Fatah's central revolutionary council asks that PM be replaced with
"strong Fatah figure."

*Yishai criticizes Border Police violence at Gilad Farm*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210695& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - In "Day of Rage" protests, settlers block
roads, holding signs that read: "Barack Hussein Obama, with friends like
these who needs enemies."

*Gaza banks close in protest at Hamas cash seizure*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210649& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - Banking official says Hamas police forcibly
took $250,000 in shekels from a Palestinian Authority-backed fund's account.

*Egypt's prime minister quits after calls for purge*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210642& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - PM Ahmed Shafiq had been appointed by
Mubarak in his last days as president; Muslim Brotherhood called for key
ministers to quit.

*Badkhn Belt? Jewish humor was born in 1661, prof says*
<http://www.jpost. com/JewishWorld/ JewishNews/ Article.aspx? ID=210637& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - Years of terror during the Chmielnicki
massacres and the badkhn's appearance led to the canonization of what we
know as Jewish humor.

*Iranian navy ships re-enter Egypt's Suez Canal*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=210610& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - Vessels that were described by Israel as a
"provocation" leave the Mediterranean, head towards Red Sea, canal
official says.

*Palestinian farmers hawk wares at Israel agricultural fair*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? ID=210604& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - Among the thousands to attend the
self-proclaimed "World Cup of Agriculture, " were about 400 Palestinian
farmers from the West Bank.

*Settlers block roads, train tracks on 'Day of Rage'*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=210589& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 3 Mar 2011 - "Price tag" operations and blocking of
roads take place near Jerusalem in response to West Bank outpost demolition.

*Ha'aretz Defense page*
<http://haaretz. com/hasen/ pages/LiArt. jhtml?contrassID =1&subContrassID =5&sbSubContrass ID=0>

*Shalit negotiations to be discussed in Hamas talks in Damascus*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/shalit- negotiations- to-be-discussed- in-hamas- talks-in- damascus- 1.346997>
Ha'aretz - Hamas says progress made in negotiations over kidnapped IDF
soldier's release and that the German mediator has presented new ideas
to both sides.

*Fatah officials demand Abbas fires Western-backed Fayyad*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/fatah- officials- demand-abbas- fires-western- backed-fayyad- 1.346968>
Ha'aretz - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has no significant
political base of his own but wields substantial power as a former World
Bank economist.

*Barak: Make-up of government is problematic for advancing peace*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/barak- make-up-of- government- is-problematic- for-advancing- peace-1.346960>
Ha'aretz - The defense minister says in an interview that government's
right-leaning coalition isn't suitable for advancing direct negotiations
between Israel and the Palestinians.

*Hamas arrests wanted global jihad militant in Gaza*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/hamas- arrests-wanted- global-jihad- militant- in-gaza-1. 346933>
Ha'aretz - Hisham Saidani, leader of the Tawhid al-Jihad, a group
associated with Al Qaida and other global jihad elements, arrested after
being wanted by Hamas for 18 months.

*Memoir of Hamas leader's son who spied for Israel goes online*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/memoir- of-hamas- leader-s- son-who-spied- for-israel- goes-online- 1.346857>
Ha'aretz - 'Son of Hamas,' by Mosab Hassan Yousef, quickly become a
best-seller after its U.S. release last year.

*Veteran diplomat's rebuke of Netanyahu, Lieberman strikes chord with
colleagues*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ veteran-diplomat -s-rebuke- of-netanyahu- lieberman- strikes-chord- with-colleagues- 1.346790>
Ha'aretz - Ilan Baruch sensed an initial warning sign the day Lieberman
took office as foreign minister and gave a speech in which he rejected
the possibility of peace with the Palestinians.

*Ha'aretz National page*
<http://haaretz. com/hasen/ pages/LiArt. jhtml?contrassID =1&subContrassID =7&sbSubContrass ID=0>

*Jerusalem prosecutor reduces charges for suspect in racially-motivated
killing*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ jerusalem- prosecutor- reduces-charges- for-suspect- in-racially- motivated- killing-1. 346931>
Ha'aretz - Left-wing protesters demonstrated outside court in Jerusalem,
after prosecution reduced charges for a minor who allegedly stabbed an
Arab man to death last month.

*2 killed as light aircraft crashes near northern Israel airfield*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ 2-killed- as-light- aircraft- crashes-near- northern- israel-airfield- 1.346874>
Ha'aretz - Cessna 172 crashed near Rosh Pina airfield after reporting
engine failure; paramedics say plane had completely incinerated upon impact.

*Rightists launch 'day of rage' over West Bank outpost demolition*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ rightists- launch-day- of-rage-over- west-bank- outpost-demoliti on-1.346849>
Ha'aretz - Demonstrators block Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, place burning
tires in entrance to Jerusalem to protest demolition of illegal
structures in the Havat Gilad outpost.

*New York-based testimony for Olmert trial to be closed to public*
<http://www.haaretz. com/print- edition/news/ new-york- based-testimony- for-olmert- trial-to- be-closed- to-public- 1.346799>
Ha'aretz - The request to deny public access to the hearings was made by
Israeli officials, according to legal officials in the New York Attorney
General's office.

*Radical Muslim leader released from jail to house arrest*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ radical-muslim- leader-released- from-jail- to-house- arrest-1. 346718>
Ha'aretz - Details of Sheikh Ra'ad Salah, known for his hardline stance
against Israel, have been placed under gag order

*Palestine Telegraph* <http://paltelegraph .com/>

*Jewish Settlers desecrate Al-Nabi Younis mosque*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 8613-jewish- settlers- desecrate- al-nabi-younis- mosque.html>
3 Mar 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)- A number of Jewish settlers
stormed the mosque of Al-Nabi Younis in Halhoul town, northern Hebron
and performed religious rites.

*Israeli army opens fire at south Gaza*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ gaza-strip/ 8612-israeli- army-opens- fire-at-south- gaza.html>
3 Mar 2011 - Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)- Israeli military towers
stationed along the eastern border of Khan yunis city lunched Thursday
morning massive gunfire at Palestinian homes and farms. According to
SAFA News Agency, Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian houses in
the east of Al-Qarara, and the areas of Khuza'a and Abassan in the south
part of Gaza Strip. The sound...

*Seven Palestinians arrested by Israeli army in WB*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 8611-severn- palestinians- arrested- by-israeli- army-in-wb. html>
3 Mar 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)- Seven Palestinians were
captured Thursday morning after raiding and searching their homes in
Bethlehem and Hebron. All detainees were sent to Israeli security
officials for interrogation.

*Israeli forces demolish water wells near Hebron*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 8610-israeli- forces-demolish- water-wells- near-hebron. html>
3 Mar 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)- Israeli military forces
supported by bulldozers started Wednesday demolishing a water well in
Al-Buq'a village in the east of Hebron.

*Israeli authorities release Sheik Salah*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 8609-israeli- authorities- release-sheik- salah.html>
3 Mar 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-The so-called Israeli
magistrate court in the city of Jerusalem announced yesterday the
release of Sheik Raed Salah, head of Islamic movement in occupied
Palestine, who was arrested for about 10 days following his
participation in a non-violent protest held by Palestinian youths to
defend their holy places.

*Uruknet* <http://uruknet. info/>

*Israel to Sue Bedouin Residents of Demolished Village for Demolition
Costs* <http://uruknet. info/?p=m75530& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 3, 2011 - Israel's State Attorney's Office is currently
preparing a legal petition for more than NIS 1 million against the
residents of El Araqib, a Bedouin village in the Negev Desert under
increasing attack. The State's Attorney's Office is demanding that
residents cover the costs incurred to evict them and demolish their
village, which to date Israel...

*Facing up to Jewish nationalism and racist violence*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75529& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 3, 2011 - When we released the now famous and censored
video Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem, we were widely attacked and
dismissed for daring to publicize footage of college-age Jewish kids
behaving like racist fanatics while intoxicated. We argued that our
footage revealed a deep sickness within Israeli society and among
diaspora Jews who defined their Jewish...

*Bold Gestures Go a Long Way* <http://uruknet. info/?p=m75527& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 3, 2011 - The Palestinian delegation to the UN Human
Rights Council in Geneva walked out of the February 28 session in
protest. Guess why? Because, even though the session was held in
response to the Libyan crisis and Muammar Qaddafi's murderous grip on
power, the US, in the form of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, just...

*Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory ( 24 Feb. 02 Mar. 2011)*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75524& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 3, 2011 - Summary - Israeli violations of international
law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting
period (24 February -- 02 March 2011): Shooting: During the reporting
period, IOF killed a Palestinian worker and a resistance activist, and
wounded a worker, a farmer and a resistance activist in the Gaza Strip.
They also wounded...

*Diplomat: I can no longer represent Israel*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75523& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 3, 2011 -

*Report: Israel illegally interrogates, tortures children*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75512& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 02, 2011 - The Palestinian Ministry of Detainee Affairs
published a new report Wednesday documenting the torture of children as
young as seven in Israeli prisons. Since the beginning of this year,
Israeli soldiers have abducted 150 children and all of them were
interrogated during the course of their imprisonment. Many were
subjected to harm treatment such as...

*Israel's Al-Daraj Commission Illustrates Long-Standing
Institutionalisatio n of Impunity and Unwillingness to Genuinely
Investigate Alleged War Crimes*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75505& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 2, 2011 - The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
condemns the findings of the Special Investigatory Commission mandated
to analyse the Al-Daraj assassination of 22 July, 2002. The Commission's
approach and analysis, and their recommendation that no criminal
procedures be initiated, comprehensively illustrates Israel's desire to
shield all alleged war criminals from justice. PCHR note that it...

*Seventh Annual Israeli Anti-Apartheid Week*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75501& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 2, 2011 - The web site apartheidweek. com announced it in
over 60 cities worldwide, including: Adelaide, Al Quds, Amman,
Amsterdam, Bard (NY), Basel, Beirut, Belfast, Berkeley, Bern, Bethlehem,
Bilbao, Birzeit, Bordeaux, Boston, Brisbane, Brussels, Cape Town,
Cleveland, Denver, Dublin, Dundee, Durban, Edmonton, Gainesville, Gaza,
Geneva, Grahamstown, Haifa, Houston, Ireland, Johannesburg, La
Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Mans, Lille, Lillehammer, London (Ontario),.. .

*The Arab Revolution and Anti-Imperialism*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75500& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 2, 2011 - Tunisia falls. Egypt falls. Anti-imperialism
gets a shot in the arm. Ben-Ali and Mubarak, who for decades acted as
nothing but Western stooges, are forced from power and the global order
trembles. Cracks emerge under our feet and we all wonder; what next? We
are too close to these events to truly realise their magnitude... .

*US students face jail time for disrupting Israeli official's speech*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75496& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 2, 2011 - Eleven University of California students face
criminal charges and possible jail terms for protesting and disrupting a
speech by an Israeli official as the Orange County district attorney's
office engages in what one of the students' attorneys calls "selective
and discriminatory prosecution" . In a University of California at Irvine
auditorium on 8 February 2010, ten...

*Report: "Israel Kidnapped 80 Children in Jerusalem Since The Beginning
of 2011"* <http://uruknet. info/?p=m75494& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 2, 2011 - The Research and Documentation Unit at the
Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) reported that
Israeli soldiers and policemen kidnapped more than 80 Palestinian
children in occupied East Jerusalem since the beginning of this year.
The center said that Israel is escalating its violations and attacks
against children and youths in Jerusalem by...

*BACK TO THE ONE/TWO STATE SOLUTION IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75493& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 2, 2011 - Those who still adhere to the 'One State
Solution' are living a dream. Civil strife continues to grow in major
cities throughout Israel making that concept near to impossible. Ultra
Orthodox rulings have virtually rendered the Palestinians (and all other
non Jews) to be sub human creatures and have treated them as such. More
and...

*U.S. Prepares to Make Its Lunge at Libya's Oil Fields*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75489& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 2, 2011 - American progressives and peace forces have been
in a state of joyous delirium in recent weeks as they experienced
vicarious, televised popular victories in Tunisia and Egypt. Watching
unarmed crowds achieve tentative victories against entrenched,
U.S.-backed regimes produced a kind of giddiness on this side of the
ocean -- an otherworldly feeling that somehow, the...

*The National* <http://thenational. ae/section/ FOREIGN?profile= 1011>

*Egypt's PM Shafiq quits ahead of protest march*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ egypts-pm- shafiq-quits- ahead-of- protest-march>
The National 4 Mar 2011 - Former transport minister Essam Sharaf
appointed prime minister in time to defuse calls for another mass
demonstration over Mubarak-era figures in Egypt's cabinet.

*Israel PM may offer Palestinians 'interim agreement'*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ israel-pm- may-offer- palestinians- interim-agreemen t>
The National 3 Mar 2011 - Benjamin Netanyahu has not formally proposed
idea raised in media, but critics say move would be more evidence that
Israel is not serious about a peace pact

*Alternative Information Center* <http://alternativen ews.org/>

*Israel Demolishes Nablus-Area Palestinian Village for Sixth Time*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ news/3367- israel-demolishe s-nablus- area-palestinian -village- for-sixth- time->
Alternative Information Center - The Palestinian village of Khirbet Tana
was destroyed by Israeli forces for the sixth time early Wednesday
morning (2 March).

*Israel to Sue Bedouin Residents of Demolished Village for Demolition
Costs*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ jerusalem/ 3368-israel- to-sue-bedouin- residents- of-demolished- village-for- demolition- costs->
Alternative Information Center - Israel's State Attorney's Office is
currently preparing a legal petition for more than NIS 1 million against
the residents of El Araqib, a Bedouin village in the Negev Desert under
increasing attack.

*SodaStream to Open Plant within Green Line, but Not Closing Settlement
Operation*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ economy-of- the-occupation/ 3369-sodastream- to-open-plant- within-green- line-but- not-closing- settlement- operation>
Alternative Information Center - Rumors are swirling regarding the
possible closing of a SodaStream manufacturing plant in the West Bank
settlement industrial park Mishor Edomim.

*Daily Star* <http://dailystar. com.lb/>

*Egypt's military appoints new PM after Mubarak ally quits*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125592>
Daily Star 3 Mar 2011 Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq resigned
Thursday and the military asked a former transport minister to form a
new government which pro-democracy activists want to be purged of Hosni
Mubarak's old guard. The opposition hailed the...

*Jordan's PM rejects stripping king's powers*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125568>
Daily Star 3 Mar 2011 Jordan's prime minister rejected opposition calls
for stripping King Abdullah II of his powers and establishing a
constitutional monarchy, Thursday, telling lawmakers that such a move
would violate the constitution. Marouf al-Bakhit spoke in Parliament,
shortly before...

*International Criminal Court to investigate Gadhafi, sons*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125557>
Daily Star 3 Mar 2011 THE HAGUE: The international war crimes tribunal
said Thursday it would investigate Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his
sons and members of their inner circle for crimes committed by their
security forces. Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of The...

*The Guardian* <http://guardian. co.uk/world/ palestinian- territories>

*Letters: Antisemitism and criticism of Israel*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2011/mar/ 03/antisemitism- criticism- israel>
The Guardian 2 Mar 2011 - I am afraid that Arthur Goodman's letter on
behalf of Jews for Justice for Palestinians (1 March) simply will not
do. As someone who has been highly critical of Israeli policies for some
time, and sees...

*Relief Web*
<http://reliefweb. int/rw/rwb. nsf/doc106? OpenForm& emid=ACOS- 635PFR&rc= 3>

*2010 Socio-Economic and Food Security Survey West Bank and Gaza Strip,
occupied Palestinian territory*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /EGUA-8ELTSP? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 3 Mar 2011 - Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, World
Food Programme

*Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (24 Feb. 02 Mar. 2011)*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /VVOS-8ELSGF? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 3 Mar 2011 - Source: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

*OPT: Gaza banks protest being forced to hand over cash*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /ADGO-8ELSFV? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 3 Mar 2011 - Source: Agence France-Presse

*Unpicking the Bilateral Aid Review*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /SNAA-8ELQQW? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 3 Mar 2011 - Source: Overseas Development Institute

*Inter Press Service* <http://ipsnews. net/middle. asp>

*LIBYA: Thousands of Foreign Labourers Trapped in Turmoil*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 54700>
IPS As violent unrest continues unabated in Libya, with the potential to
descend into what U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called a
"protracted civil war" in statements to lawmakers here this week,
international rights groups are raising the alarm over the resulting
humanitarian crisis and the particularly desperate plight of...

*EGYPT: Mubarak Regime 'Provoked' Attacks on Christians*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 54699>
IPS Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak portrayed himself as a
paradigm of stability in a country he once described as a "powder keg"
of sectarian unrest. Yet far from promoting stability, his regime may
have actually been the source of much of the religious strife it claimed
to suppress.

*Stop The Wall* <http://stopthewall. org/>

*Biweekly Repression Update* <http://stopthewall. org/latestnews/ 2493.shtml>
Stop The Wall - This update contains exerts from testimony gathered by
STW from a Bil'in resident shot with live ammunition during the February
18 demonstration. Over this period, one person was seriously injured and
others were also hurt during weekly demonstrations. The number of
arrests sky rocketed, with a total of 29 people, predominately youth,
were arrested by Occupation forces.

*YNet News* <http://ynetnews. com/>

*Egypt's prime minister quits after calls for purge*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4037256,00. html>
YNet News - 'Shocked' Ahmed Shafiq aide says 'there have been pressures
from streets that he....

*'Arabs will protest like Egypt over social workers' strike'*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4037151,00. html>
YNet News - Following Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, will riots reach Israel
too? Arab sector....

*Iranian navy ships re-enter Egypt's Suez Canal*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4037146,00. html>
YNet News - Naval frigate, supply ship carrying 'message of peace and
friendship' on their....

*Abbas: We won't accept interim peace deal*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4037477,00. html>
YNet News - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Thursday that
the option of a Palestinian state with provisional borders was
unacceptable to the Palestinian leadership. .......

*Settler protest stirs havoc nationwide*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4037420,00. html>
YNet News - A rightist 'day of rage' aimed at protesting a violent
outpost demolition earlier this week caused mayhem at several sites
across Israel Thursday. Earlier in the .......

*Palestinian boy claims police beat him*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4037421,00. html>
YNet News - An 11-year old boy arrested in east Jerusalem for throwing
stones claims officers beat him while his hands were tied. Hospital
tests confirm the boy sustained injuries to .......

*A peek into settlers' war room*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4037369,00. html>
YNet News - Ynet peeks into the rightists' war room: In a small
apartment on the second floor of a building in Hebron's Jewish quarter,
12 right-wing activists gathered to create .......

*Gaza banks shut down after armed robbery*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4037394,00. html>
YNet News - All banks in the Gaza Strip have temporarily shut down after
gunmen forced a local branch to cash some $500,000 in stolen checks.
Gazan bankers say the checks were .......

*B'Tselem to authorities: Deploy to protect Palestinians*
<http://www.btselem. org/English/ Settler_Violence /20110302_ Defend_Palestini an_civilians_ from_settler_ violence. asp>
B'tselem 2 Mar 2011 - Yesterday (3 March '11), B'Tselem wrote to the
defense minister, OC Central Command, and the commander of the SHAI
District Police requesting urgent action to ensure that security forces
are properly prepared to protect Palestinians and their property frogram
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*17 years after Hebron massacre: city center paralyzed*
<http://www.btselem. org/english/ Hebron/20110303_ Hebron_17_ years_after_ Goldstein_ Massacre. asp>
B'tselem 2 Mar 2011 - The army has restricted Palestinian movement on
Shuhada St. since Goldstein's 1994 massacre in the Tomb of the
Patriarchs. Since the second intifada began, it has barred Palestinian
access to the main thoroughfare altogether, resulting in the economic
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*Palestinian Information Center* <http://palestine- info.co.uk/ en/>

*Speaker Dweik meets with officials from Russia's foreign ministry*
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PIC 3 Mar 2011 - Speaker of the Palestinian legislative council Dr. Aziz
Dweik and a number of lawmakers met on Wednesday with a Russian
delegation in Ramallah city.

*Acquitted Palestinian businessman tortured in PA prison*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7K8fxJJX7D5 rca3ufwqem9545SB A9rzhBVrKza% 2fPlHbu%2biB1eqT xW2UhBRz8yyEMeb6 reLSxxPxPK% 2bx8yPtdQrQLo0g3 xd4t94RE22RsK2f4 %3d>
PIC 3 Mar 2011 - A Palestinian businessman who is also a citizen of the
U.S. has been severely tortured while in Palestinian Authority custody,
sources told the PIC.

*Mandela: IOA holds Palestinian woman in cell with homicide convicts*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s71YQb40Y0gL cfCGFi4m2ypjz3XF F4JYHXbw0f3QW0eC Nox1WlkA6IB8prYj CLZMNRFOGRifnNEY 00cj6Q0DaeGHClTn wcVUgCXNP7J% 2bFeagM%3d>
PIC 3 Mar 2011 - The Mandela institution said that the IOA imprisoned
Palestinian woman Samha Hijaz in one cell with Jewish homicide convicts
before being transferred to Talmund jail.

*Qabaha: Boosted Fatah reconciliation calls a media maneuver*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7SkWOz6g4% 2fponAa20% 2bHFzyzG9go1aXr9 3LUevumZwnqS8a6R gV7ajThdh02lQzKP VSNhxV%2bqkv5l7V O3Ymr%2bLjWFBh7c BGJI7amby4hYQMtE %3d>
PIC 3 Mar 2011 - Former prisoner affairs minister Wasfi Qabaha has
called on Fatah to translate its intentions behind the recent boost of
calls to reconciliation.

*Askalan prisoners complain of being shackled during visits*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7dJPqvndUQW %2b2WHaQyGsv1uOO vI8FN8%2bD3uvtZC Bpn7nVEpyl7OE% 2bwzL5SSBDPYhOXf LvSFnRuvnaFEprVj U6CR9RkuRjmmtZVE Ui646xD%2bQ% 3d>
PIC 3 Mar 2011 - Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prison of Askalan
have complained that the prison administration shackles their hand and
feet during visits by their relatives or lawyers.

*Chamber of commerce warns of economic crisis in Gaza after Al-Mintar
closure*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7nlJOdh9dhD JTeD%2fhC% 2f4MZafJD1jJersr WTElLarVX% 2fV06LNOJbDZGqLO 7KWZKfWsox1Xoh42 cPah%2fpc9HyH% 2fRG70v2l0qhqd7% 2faQLeAzY1I% 3d>
PIC 3 Mar 2011 - A senior official of the Palestinian chamber of
commerce warned of a major crisis in importing basic goods to the
besieged Gaza Strip following the closure of Al-Mintar commercial
(Karni) crossing.

*Barak: Army to remain on alert at Egypt borders*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7sL5tqwrgvZ JChugs%2bnnSD% 2bVyTTdraqQ110q4 jY4wjImgImAKU00D mL4N4gyNYmsr4b7b ULmYxfyO9HOPAdYF 55enm9VR47zwOWom lTgs2s0%3d>
PIC 3 Mar 2011 - Israeli war minister Ehud Barak has said the Israeli
army will stay on alert along borders with Egypt until the security
situation during the revolution there stabilizes.

*Ufree calls on empowered Egyptian army to follow court orders*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7SO199RS7V2 HvLRC2x6bCj5rVZZ fX3v5lLg8sE6SgYE SThrGRVjw1SLmjxT VV%2bP8aoVUGABZt WrCRFTP85LsY30aA XnJ%2f24b3ehDrC8 R4CBA%3d>
PIC 3 Mar 2011 - The Oslo-based Ufree has called on the Supreme Council
for the Armed Forces, which was handed power in Egypt to comply with
court orders to free Palestinians held in the country's jails.

*Jordan summons Israeli ambassador over provocative Eldad statements*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7U32fB6QA% 2b5BZrkqmDXQtvYg g23aBZT5B5G% 2b4L3SczYW8qV1qO IfRrZdDmHCjyDoKn Yli7HQay% 2bmjbZ2G6jB59cBB Su7AFu4N0% 2br%2f%2b2obgtE% 3d>
PIC 3 Mar 2011 - The Jordanian foreign ministry denounced Israeli MK
Arieh Eldad's provocative statement and anti Jordan activity.

*IOF detains 7 Palestinians including crippled man, 90 in Al-Khalil in
February*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7vGZ50KDFmd 3uKaznoNcu46KeYk wWzBK6fkQLUckRuu VPXu6SLZgl6v8gWt U0Ptm%2f3jcnRVa2 naSRYP6%2fm11% 2fhKn4UZMkVX535z fenwMZfxw% 3d>
PIC 3 Mar 2011 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained seven
Palestinian citizens in pre dawn incursions in West Bank cities on
Thursday, the Israeli radio said.

*Los Angeles Times* <http://latimes. com/news/ nationworld/ world/middleeast />

*Key lawmakers back no-fly zone over Libya as Obama hesitates*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/nROCpvQPdts /la-fg-obama- libya-split- 20110304, 0,5357952. story>
LA Times 3 Mar 2011 - Liberals and conservatives in Congress say Western
forces should protect Libyan rebels from Moammar Kadafi's air force.
President Obama, however, appears to be sending contradictory messages.
President Obama's reluctance to use military force in Libya's civil
upheaval is putting him at odds with key players...

*Egyptian prime minister resigns; demonstrations for reform still
planned*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/r7mto4Q1Exc /la-fg-egypt- resign-20110304, 0,269160. story>
LA Times 3 Mar 2011 - Ahmed Shafik, who was appointed prime minister
before President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, was criticized for seeming
aloof to demands for change. Mass rallies to press for additional
reforms are still planned for Friday. The beleaguered prime minister
appointed by ousted President Hosni Mubarak resigned Thursday...

*New York Times* <http://nytimes. com/pages/ world/middleeast />

*Terror Quiets Libyan Capital as Rebels Battle in the East*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=8a7f7521cf4ce7 5e2d12f453132404 38>
New York Times 3 Mar 2011 - Tripoli residents say they are living in
fear, while rebels celebrated a victory over Qaddafi's forces in a
strategic oil town.

*Bowing to Opposition, Egypt Premier Resigns*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=8684533119421d bfabb2e365012c7e 88>
New York Times 3 Mar 2011 - The resignation of Prime Minister Ahmed
Shafiq follows days of protest from the opposition which had returned to
Cairo's Tahrir Square to demonstrate.

*Yemen President Apologizes to the White House*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=9ef1f79a11bfc9 92f6c33a039e80b3 34>
New York Times 3 Mar 2011 - President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen
expressed regret over remarks he made accusing the United States and
Israel of fomenting unrest in the Middle East, the administration
announced in a statement.

*Misc* <http://vtjp. org/aboutus/ aboutus.htm>

*Return To Sender: Israeli activists say, 'we won't be 'the US aircraft
carrier in the Middle East"*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/return- to-sender- israeli-activist s-say-we- won%e2%80% 99t-be-the- us-aircraft- carrier-in- the-middle- east.html>
Mondoweiss - (Image credits: Michal Vexler) Today at the US Embassy in
Tel Aviv, Israeli activists protested the United States's unconditional
support for Israel and its ongoing "settlements project, oppression and
apartheid." Below is part of the statement announcing the protest titled
"We Won't Be 'The US Aircraft...

*Help MECA bring attention to children under threat of deportation from
Israel*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/help-meca- bring-attention- to-children- under-threat- of-deportation- from-israel. html>
Mondoweiss - The Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) is trying to
take out print and online ads in the Los Angeles Times and Haaretz to
bring attention to the case of the migrant and refugee children
highlighted in the Oscar-winning film Strangers No More who are now under...

*Settlers rampage* <http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/settlers- rampage.html>
Mondoweiss - and other news from Today in Palestine: 'Day of Rage':
Tires torched near Jerusalem The settlers' "day of rage" began with the
blocking of Highway 1, burning of tires and an attempt to block the
train, and now after a short intermission -- the rage continues... .

*Report: Israeli company recruits mercenaries to support Gadhafi*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/report- israel-company- recruiting- gadhafi-mercenar ies.html>
Mondoweiss - Libya opposition prepares for 'battle' Here is a great map
of Who Controls What in Libya
www.guardian .co.uk/world/ interactive/ 2011/feb/ 27/libya- tripoli-unrest- gaddafi-map
Now before we get to Gadhafi's crimes, the reports of an Israeli
company's support for the mercenaries: Report: Israel company recruiting
Gadhafi mercenaries TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- An...

*The beat goes on: Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigns*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/the-beat- goes-on-egypts- prime-minister- ahmed-shafiq- resigns.html>
Mondoweiss - tomgara Egyptian army Facebook post (communique number 26)
firing Shafik has 9,000 likes and 17,000 comments. Zeinobia RT @tomgara:
Another Egyptian historical moment: Ahmed Shafik was the first world
leader to ever be fired over Facebook. BBC : "The Supreme Council of the
Armed Forces decided to...

*Misc 2* <http://vtjp. org/news/ news.php>

*Gisha response to closing of Karni Crossing: Gaza's Crossings Squeezed
Shut*
<http://www.gisha. org/index. php?intLanguage= 2&intItemId= 1975&intSiteSN= 113>
Gisha 3 Mar 2011 - Gisha's response to the Turkel Commission's interim
conclusions

*Missing ex-FBI agent 'is alive'*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- us-canada- 12641909>
BBC 3 Mar 2011 - Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in
Iran four years ago, is alive, according to the US State Department.

*Egypt's prime minister steps down*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 12634117>
BBC 3 Mar 2011 - Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, appointed in the
dying days of the Mubarak regime, has resigned, the army announces.

*Gaza banks close doors in protest*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 12640288>
BBC 3 Mar 2011 - All banks in Gaza close for a day in protest over a
seizure of cash by gunmen allegedly protected by Hamas.

*Jerusalem approves settler homes*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 12626758>
BBC 2 Mar 2011 - The Jerusalem municipality approves 14 new apartments
for Jewish settlers in Ras al-Amud, an Arab neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.

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[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1311
Thu Mar 3, 2011 6:58 pm (PST)

*Articles*

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*International schizophrenia*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364676>
Suhail Khalilieh, Ma'an News Agency 3/3/2011
It is time to reconsider the international community's position
against Libya.
What is happening in Libya today, and the way the world is
reacting to it, brings immediately to mind the international reaction to
Israel's 2008-2009 offensive on Gaza. An iron-fisted regime striking a
people attempting to overthrow its rule.
During Israel's Operation Cast Lead, the shameful attitude of the
international community allowed the deaths of more than 1,400
Palestinians, the injury of at least 5,000 and the destruction of
thousands of homes and civilian infrastructure.
This past week, we have seen US President Barack Obama's was swift
action, signing off on sanctions against Libya for using violence
against its own people, while the EU slapped on its own package of
economic sanctions - albeit none that jeopardized the 85 of Libya's oil
production that gets piped into Europe.
The gap between the stands is puzzling.
Days ago US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave Libyan leader
Muammar Gadhafi an ultimatum, saying he must surrender his power
'without delay," and using words of intimidation in a session for the UN
Human Rights Council in Switzerland.
"Nothing is off the table as the Libyan government continues to
kill Libyan civilians," she said.
There was no action even on the table when Israeli fighter jets
dropped white phosphorus of Palestinian civilians.more. .
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364676>e-mail
<mailto:?subject= International% 20schizophrenia% 20&body=Internat ional%20schizoph renia%20- -%20http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364676% 20--%20link% 20courtesy% 20www.vtjp. org>

*Lessons from the Egyptian revolution*
<http://weekly. ahram.org. eg/2011/1037/ op181.htm>
Mustafa Barghouti, Al-Ahram Weekly 2/3/2011
/A new and promising age has arisen in the Arab world, but it is fragile
and must be protected from Zionist and imperialist schemes that would
abort or blunt it./
The rush and tumult of events makes it hard, sometimes, to draw
the most important general conclusions from their significance. This
said, the revolutionary tidal wave, which began in Tunisia and Algeria,
reached its crest in Egypt and is currently sweeping other countries
such as Libya and Bahrain, offers a unique opportunity to watch how
people can reshape history as they reconstruct their fates and futures.
It also offers a rare scientific window to observe the birth of the new
from the old and to study a moment of qualitative transformation that
culminated from a long process of quantitative accumulation and that
manifests the dialectical laws of social dynamics with utmost clarity.
What happened in Tunisia and then in Egypt, and what will
certainly follow in other places, cannot be produced or fabricated by a
political party, movement or force, domestic or otherwise. The uprisings
are the product of a long cumulative evolution, lasting years, decades
or perhaps even centuries in some areas, that eventually erupted into
millions-strong grassroots protest movements of a magnitude
unprecedented in the modern history of the Arab world, and perhaps in
its entire history. Perhaps the only moment of similar size, scope and
breadth is the first popular Palestinian Intifada, in its first year
(1987-88). Sadly, the Oslo Accords undermined the magnificent initial
results of this uprising and destroyed a historic opportunity to end the
Israeli occupation. We should add that this Palestinian revolutionary
moment was never sufficiently documented, first due to the differences
in size and strategic importance compared to the Egyptian case, and
second due to the lack of media coverage and unprecedented
sophistication in communications technology that was available to Egypt
today.more.. <http://weekly. ahram.org. eg/2011/1037/ op181.htm>e-mail
<mailto:?subject= Lessons%20from% 20the%20Egyptian %20revolution% 20&body=Lessons% 20from%20the% 20Egyptian% 20revolution% 20--%20http://weekly. ahram.org. eg/2011/1037/ op181.htm% 20--%20link% 20courtesy% 20www.vtjp. org>

*Will the Palestinians keep silent?*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364183>
Alaa Tartir, Ma'an News Agency 3/1/2011
The Palestinian- Israeli conflict remains the heart of the
persistent crisis in the Middle East. But within the persistent
revolutionary wave, new questions on the issue have been raised. Most
importantly, where are the Palestinian people? Why they are 'relatively'
silent, and when and how they will break this silence and have their own
say?
So far, Palestinians have been in front of their televisions
watching Al-Jazeera, and not out in the thousands. What kind of changes
have there been that Palestinians now consume revolutions rather than
produce them?
These are hard questions to ask, but important to answer,
particularly given the central characteristic which makes the
Palestinian situation different from other revolutions; the occupation.
Even as the revolution sweeps around Palestinians, the fervor will
bring development, progress and freedoms to the region that have
hitherto been unrealized. Within that new Middle East, Palestine will
remain a cornerstone, and we will still have to work to break the
silence, or at least understand it, so we can carry out our own
revolution when the time comes.
The Jasmine and Nile revolutions inspired Arab youth and whole
nations, showing a whole range of new possibilities, but also
illustrating how long the walk to freedom is.
These two revolutions mobilized millions of people and created an
ultimate revolutionary moment. While the movement is spreading and Libya
is passing now in the revolution's bottleneck phase, the question who is
next? remains, and Palestine remains on the list of possible
candidates.more. .
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364183>e-mail
<mailto:?subject= Will%20the% 20Palestinians% 20keep%20silent? %20&body= Will%20the% 20Palestinians% 20keep%20silent? %20--%20http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=364183% 20--%20link% 20courtesy% 20www.vtjp. org>

*Is entertaining dictators worse than normalizing apartheid?*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/QXreQSlFEHY/ article11840. shtml>
Electronic Intifada: 3 Mar 2011 - As international stars face widespread
criticism for having earned huge fees entertaining Libya's Gaddafi
family, Nada Elia and Laurie King ask why artists who entertain
apartheid Israel should not be held to exactly the same standard.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/QXreQSlFEHY/ article11840. shtml>

*Mubarak regime source of sectarian unrest*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/1hW2n0lBDGY/ article11841. shtml>
Electronic Intifada: 3 Mar 2011 - CAIRO (IPS) - Ousted Egyptian
president Hosni Mubarak portrayed himself as a paradigm of stability in
a country he once described as a "powder keg" of sectarian unrest. Yet
far from promoting stability, his regime may have actually been the
source of much of the religious strife it claimed to suppress.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/1hW2n0lBDGY/ article11841. shtml>

*Casualties mount as battle for Libya continues*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/w41RCURdOUA/ article11842. shtml>
Electronic Intifada: 3 Mar 2011 - BENGHAZI, Libya (IPS) - The walls
outside the al-Jalah Hospital in downtown Bengazi are covered with
posters of missing persons, mostly teenagers and young men who
disappeared after the protests began. Inside, hundreds of gunshot
victims recover from the street battle between Muammar Gaddafi's forces
and Benghazi's citizens.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/w41RCURdOUA/ article11842. shtml>

*Facing up to Jewish nationalism and racist violence*
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/S7FEs_ sSfvE/article118 39.shtml>
Electronic Intifada: 3 Mar 2011 - The recent murder of Hussam Rwidy, a
Palestinian, by Jewish youths allegedly shouting "Death to Arabs" has
highlighted the link between racist incitement and violence. The
underlying ideology that fuels this hatred is Jewish nationalism, as Max
Blumenthal and Joseph Dana argue.more
<http://feedproxy. google.com/ %7Er/electronicI ntifada/% 7E3/S7FEs_ sSfvE/article118 39.shtml>

*Arabs Challenge Israeli Hasbara*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16697>
Palestine Chronicle: 3 Mar 2011 - By Ramzy Baroud When the Libyan people
took on their reviled dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, Israeli officials
seemed puzzled by the alarming and unprecedented trend of popular
awakenings in the Arab world. Israel's Foreign Minister, Avigdor
Lieberman, has claimed that these awakenings are only proof of the
'weakening' of the Arabs -- even at a time when international consensus
points to the opposite conclusion. According to Israeli daily, Haaretz,
Lieberman has claimed, "the Arab world is becoming increasingly
weakened." Worried perhaps that all rational analyses will show how
Israel's decade-long aggression has been a major contributing factor to
instability in Middle East, Lieberman decided to dismiss the notion
altogether. "Whoever thinks that the Palestinian- Israeli conflict is
part of the problems in the Middle East is trying to escape reality," he
said. It must be a strange 'reality' which Lieberman subscribes to, but
he isn't the only Israeli official that sees the...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16697>

*Roots of the Arab Revolts; Premature Celebrations*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16696>
Palestine Chronicle: 3 Mar 2011 - By James Petras Most accounts of the
Arab revolts from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Yemen, Jordan,
Bahrain, Iraq and elsewhere have focused on the most immediate causes:
political dictatorships, unemployment, repression and the wounding and
killing of protestors. They have given most attention to the "middle
class", young, educated activists, their communication via the internet,
(Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 2011) and, in the case of Israel and its
Zionists conspiracy theorists, "the hidden hand" of Islamic extremists
(Daily Alert Feb. 25, 2011). What is lacking is any attempt to provide a
framework for the revolt which takes account of the large scale, long
and medium term socio-economic structures as well as the immediate
'detonators' of political action. The scope and depth of the popular
uprisings, as well as the diverse political and social forces which have
entered into the conflicts, preclude any explanations which look at one
dimension of...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16696>

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Mid-checkpoint duty,
Israeli soldiers stop for local snack

Published Thursday 03/03/2011 (updated) 04/03/2011 16:29
Ma'an News Agency









Images of the soldiers as they closed off the university entrance in
Tulkarem on Thursday. [MaanImages]

TULKAREM (Ma’an) -- The bakers at Al-Massa Sweets at the north end of Tulkarem were surprised Thursday when four armed Israeli soldiers entered their shop and ordered Knafeh, a locally produced dessert, during a break from manning a flying checkpoint.

For the second day in a row, an Israeli patrol unit set up a partial checkpoint in the northern West Bank city. On Wednesday night, the patrol stopped young men and women near the Tulkarem refugee camp, checking ID cards and slowing traffic.

No arrests were reported by the time the checkpoint ceased operations.

Soldiers returned on Thursday morning, driving into the city and setting up at the entrance to Palestine University, a satellite campus for An-Najah National University in Nablus.

Disembarking from the patrol vehicle, soldiers began stopping university students, checking their identity cards and questioning them about the situation in the city.

With the car stationed near the university, soldiers were seen leaving their post and surrounding, in an apparent military formation, the Al-Massa Bakery, purchasing several servings of the cheese and semolina pastry snack before they left.

An Israeli military spokesman said no report of a flying checkpoint had been registered.

The incident came as soldiers and Israeli border police were mobilized across the West Bank on alert following right-wing Israeli groups declaration of a "day of rage," and fears that settlers could carry out acts of violence against Palestinian communities as part of the "price tag" policy.

Settler groups were angered Tuesday when an outpost in the northern West Bank was taken down following a decision to enforce laws which make the construction of settlement outposts illegal.

www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=365184

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Walls of division
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters adds his voice to the calls for Israel to remove its separation wall.

english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2011/03/2011331354479176.html

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[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1315

***Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles*
Tue Mar 8, 2011 8:19 pm (PST)

*News*
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*International Middle East Media Center* <http://imemc. org/>

*International Women's Day in Palestine 2011*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60817>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 16:44, Tuesday marks International
Women's Day, a global celebration of women. In Palestine, rallies and
conferences were organized to celebrate this day. These provided a
chance and space to reflect on the achievement of Palestinian women, and
the many steps still needed to attain full equality with men.

*Bethlehem Celebrates International Women's Day with Protest*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60816>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 16:37, To celebrate International
Woman's Day, on Tuesday, women in Bethlehem protested against the
annexation wall, that divides many parts of the West Bank and annexes
Palestinian owned land.

*Settlers Injure 3 Near Nablus* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60814>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 12:39, The Ma'an News Agency reports
that settlers shot and injured three Palestinians in As-sawiya vilage
near Nablus.

*Britain To Upgrade Palestinian Delegation To A Mission Status*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60813>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 11:42, British Foreign Secretary,
William Hague, stated Monday that his country has decided to upgrade the
status of the official Palestinian delegation in London to the level of
a Mission, similar to moves made by a number of European Union countries.

*Israeli Seeks $20 Billion in US Aid* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60812>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 10:52, The Israeli government is
planning to head to the United States to ask for a $20 Billion in
additional military aid to "cope with the new changes in the Middle East".

*Gaza's Ministry Of Detainees Calls On Egypt To Release Palestinians
Prisoners* <http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60811>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 09:16, The Ministry of Detainees at the
Hamas-led interim government issued a press release calling on the
Egyptian government to immediately release all Palestinian detainees
held in Egyptian prisons.

*Hamas Police Detains Six Protestors In Gaza*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60810>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 08:52, As hundreds of residents
marched, Monday, in the streets on Gaza City calling for an end to the
internal Palestinian divisions and urging for unity, the
Hamas-controlled Palestinian police and security forces detained six
residents.

*Army To Demolish Homes, Barns, Near Jenin*
<http://www.imemc. org/article/ 60809>
IMEMC - Tuesday March 08, 2011 - 08:38, The Israeli Authorities handed
on Monday evening eight orders for the removal of eight homes and barns
that belong to residents of Barta'a Al Sharqiyya, isolated behind the
Annexation Wall south west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

*Ma'an News* <http://maannews. net/en/>

*Israel hands Jenin residents demolition orders*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366565>
3/8/2011 - JENIN (Ma'an) -- Israeli military vehicles escorted crews
from the Israeli Planning Department to the northern West Bank town of
Barta'a Ash-Sharqiya on Tuesday, where eight demolition orders were
handed out. The village, located east of the Green like but west of
Israel's separation wall, is in the northern West.... Related:Arrests,
demolition warnings in Beit Ummar
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366684>andSouth Hebron
community faces demolitions
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366736>

*Flotilla to set sail to Gaza in May*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366612>
3/8/2011 - AMESTERDAM (Ma'an) - The Freedom Flotilla Coalition called on
the states of participating activists to ensure the boats' safety from
Israeli aggression at a meeting in Amsterdam. The group plans to sail to
Gaza in May. Campaigner Amin Abu Rashed noted that the international
community condemned Israel's raid of a Gaza....

*Palestinian women rally for unity on Women's Day*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366752>
3/8/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinian women in the West Bank and
Gaza held rallies Monday to commemorate International Women's Day. In
Gaza, hundreds of women took to the streets urging Fatah and Hamas to
end their rivalry. Demonstrators chanted slogans denouncing the division
and calling for reconciliation. They urged Hamas and Fatah....

*Arrests, demolition warnings in Beit Ummar*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366684>
3/8/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- A child, two teenagers and an adult were
detained by Israeli forces from the town of Beit Ummar overnight, local
officials said, adding that four home demolition orders were delivered
at the same time. Popular committee spokesman Muhammad Ayyad Awad said
that during the night raid, Israeli troops broke the doors....
Related:Israel hands Jenin residents demolition orders
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366565>andSouth Hebron
community faces demolitions
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366736>

*South Hebron community faces demolitions*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366736>
3/8/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Four tent homes, four caves and four sheds
will be demolished by Israeli forces in the coming weeks, orders from
Israel's Civil Administration handed out to residents of the southern
West Bank neighborhood of Zif warned. The third set of demolition
notices handed out to Palestinians in two days.... Related:Israel hands
Jenin residents demolition orders
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366565>andArrests,
demolition warnings in Beit Ummar
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366684>

*Child among villagers injured by settlers*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366667>
3/8/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Activists with the International Solidarity
Movement in the village of Qusra said that evening clashes with settlers
Monday night had left 13 injured, including a child. The group
identified Ibrahim Hassan, 15, as the youngest victim, who doctors said
sustained a bullet wound with an entry point at his back and....

*Rafah to resume pre-Mubarak operations*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366567>
3/9/2011 - CAIRO (Ma'an) -- Palestinian embassy officials in Cairo
released numbers from the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt Monday
evening, which showed a steady number of passengers traveling in and out
of the border terminal. The most recent number hovered at just under 300
travelers, with 224 recorded leaving Gaza, and 75 entering via....

*Ban calls for release of Palestinian political prisoners*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366770>
3/8/2011 - VIENNA, Austria (Ma'an) -- United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon on Monday said the plight of Palestinian political prisoners
must be urgently addressed. In a message delivered by his representative
Maxwell Gaylard, Ban said he had publicly urged for the release of
detainees in 2010 during a visit to the region. Ban said the release....

*NGO declares 2011 year of freedom for Arab women*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366100>
3/8/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian human rights center has
declared 2011 the year of freedom for Arab women. The Human Rights and
Democracy Media Center SHAMS invited frontline women's organizations and
civil society groups to join its initiative on the occasion of
International Women's Day. Applauding the struggle of women....

*PCBS: Palestinian women still 'marginal' in PA*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366452>
3/8/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian women are increasingly
involved in political life, but their presentation as decision makers in
the Palestinian Authority is still marginal, a study found. The
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics conducted the study to mark
International Women's Day. The positions of president of the Stock
Exchange Authority and governor....

*Israeli detains Nablus businessman at border*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366694>
3/8/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces detained a Palestinian
businessman returning to the West Bank from the United Arab Emirates, a
rights group said Tuesday. Mahmoud Abdul-Rahim Mas'oud, 52, was detained
by Israeli forces at the Allenby Bridge crossing on the West Bank's
border with Jordan, said International Solidarity and Human....

*Family says Egypt security executed Yousif Abu Zuhri*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366709>
3/8/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Abu Zuhri family on Tuesday accused
Egyptian State Security of executing Yousif Abu Zuhri, brother of a
Hamas spokesman, in October 2009. At a press conference in Gaza City,
family members said they had received new information from two Gaza
residents recently released from Egyptian prisons. The former detainees... .

*Beit Ummar demonstrators block settler road*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366732>
3/8/2011 - HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Beit Ummar's popular committee closed down
the main road between Hebron and Jerusalem on Tuesday, barring settler
cars from traveling on the road, a committee spokesman said. Yousif Abu
Maria said the closure was intended to remind settlers that Palestinians
are prohibited from accessing their lands located near settlements. ...

*Settlers to diplomats: Go home!*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366494>
3/9/2011 - RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers in the occupied West
Bank passed out threatening pamphlets to foreign diplomats on Thursday,
instructing them to "go home" and put an end to their "meddling" in
Israeli affairs. The flyers, handed to diplomats waiting at a military
checkpoint into Ramallah, warned that "meddling" by the American
government and....

*US group fights ban on Israel 'war crime' bus ads*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366664>
3/9/2011 - LOS ANGELES (AFP) -- A US lobby group is taking legal action
to challenge a local authority's refusal to let it put posters on
Seattle buses criticizing Israel's "war crimes" in Gaza. The Seattle
Mideast Awareness Campaign vowed to pursue a lawsuit, despite a judge's
refusal to force officials who.... Related:Seattle Mideast Awareness
Campaign <http://stop30billio n-seattle. org/>

*Ma'an, UNESCO hold safety training for Gaza journalists*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366659>
3/8/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Ma'an Network began a training course
for Palestinian journalists on Tuesday entitled "Media Coverage in Times
of Danger."Palestinian reporters and cameramen, working for several
media outlets, will attend the first stage of the UNESCO-funded course.
Head of Ma'an's Gaza office Imad Eid gave....

*Hamas: Gazans will turn Knesset into Tahrir Square*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366698>
3/8/2011 - GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar told an
audience in Sudan on Monday that the people of Gaza would triumph over
the Israeli occupation and "raise the banner of Islam" over Jerusalem.
Speaking at the eighth conference of the Iran-funded International
Institute for Jerusalem, Zahhar said his party would "not quit until....

*Abbas hints at resignation*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366798>
3/9/2011 - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- President Mahmoud Abbas hinted Tuesday
that he would resign if an independent Palestinian state was not
established by September. Abbas' remarks came at a joint press
conference with British Foreign Minister William Hague in London.
Responding to reporters' questions about his resignation, Abbas said all
options were being considered.. ..

*Models strut in rare West Bank fashion show*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366581>
3/8/2011 - RAMALLAH (AFP) -- Draped in sleek evening gowns and frothy
wedding dresses, the models at the West Bank's first haute couture
fashion show could have been walking at Paris Fashion Week. But the rare
presentation was instead staged in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the
de facto capital of the Palestinian territories, during....

*Worker dies in fall from building*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366768>
3/8/2011 - NABLUS (Ma'an) -- A worker died on Monday after falling from
the fourth floor of a school building east of the West Bank city of
Nablus. Medics said Maher Hassan Najeh Awwad, 25, died instantly from
the fall. His body was taken to the Rafedia Hospital....

*Arab FMs to discuss Libya no-fly zone*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366792>
3/9/2011 - CAIRO (AFP) -- Arab foreign ministers are to hold crisis
talks on Saturday to discuss imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, Arab
League officials said, as Libyan jets keep up near daily strikes to
crush a rebellion. The meeting was initially scheduled for Friday, but
was postponed a day after requests from several foreign ministers,
deputy....

*In Mideast revolts, women emerge as driving force*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366360>
3/8/2011 - BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) -- As popular revolts continue to rock
autocratic regimes across the Arab world, women are defying both taboo
and stereotype and emerging as a driving force that is keeping the
momentum of the protests going." Women played and continue to play an
integral part in the uprisings and revolutions in the region, and....
Related:The Middle East feminist revolution
<http://english. aljazeera. net/indepth/ opinion/2011/ 03/2011341114456 86926.html>

*Gadhafi slams West; US says too soon to arm rebels*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366602>
3/8/2011 - TRIPOLI, Libya (AFP) -- Moammar Gadhafi's regime accused the
West of "a conspiracy to divide Libya" as Washington, under mounting
pressure to help opposition forces, said it was premature to arm the
rebels. Fresh fighting was reported in the city of Zawiyah just outside
the Gadhafi-held capital Tripoli, while Gulf states including Saudi
Arabia....

*Tunisia Islamists back ban on polygamy, not head scarf*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366764>
3/8/2011 - TUNIS, Tunisia (AFP) -- Tunisia's newly legalized Islamist
movement said Tuesday it supported the country's ban on polygamy but
urged the government to lift one on wearing headscarves in schools and
universities. Ennahda (Awakening) was legalized this month for the first
time in the 30 years of its existence after the interim....

*Heavy shelling heard on Libyan front west of Ras Lanuf*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366785>
3/8/2011 - WEST OF RAS LANUF, Libya (AFP) -- Heavy shelling was heard
Tuesday on the front line of the Libyan rebels' fight against forces
loyal to Moamer Gadhafi, west of the rebel-held oil town of Ras Lanuf,
an AFP reporter said....

*Official: 1 killed, 60 hurt in Yemen prison riot*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366786>
3/8/2011 - SANAA, Yemen (AFP) -- One prisoner was killed and some 60
people, including around 20 police, were hurt Tuesday, in clashes
between Yemeni security forces and inmates at Sanaa's central jail, a
security official said....

*Website: Iran's Mousavi, wife at home, not in jail*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366787>
3/8/2011 - TEHRAN (AFP) -- Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife are at their
home and not in jail, the Iranian opposition leader's Kaleme. com
website said on Tuesday, apologising for previous claims that they were
in prison....

*Saudi minister: World oil supply 'very adequate'*
<http://www.maannews .net/eng/ ViewDetails. aspx?ID=366788>
3/8/2011 - RIYADH (AFP) -- Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi said on Tuesday
that crude oil available in the global market is "very adequate" and
that the kingdom has an extra output capacity of 3. 5 million barrels
per day if needed....

*Palestine Note* <http://palestinenot e.com/cs/>

*Israel and milking America.*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/08/ israel-and- milking-america. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Ehud Barak, the Israeli defense minister in
Bibi Netanyahu's government announced to the Wall Street Journal that
Israel would seek $ 20 Billions in upgrade for its already existing $3.2
Billions annual defense grants. It seems the...

*The UNSC Veto and "The Israel Lobby"*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/08/ the-unsc- veto-and- the-israel- lobby.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - This piece originally appeared at The Third
Way Back in 2007, when John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt released their
book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy , I disagreed with many
parts of their thesis. Most...

*Thousands protest against Lebanon's sectarian system*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ thousands- protest-against- lebanon-s- sectarian- system.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Reuters - The constitution in Lebanon, which
has been without a government since Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri was
toppled by Hezbollah and its political allies in January, enshrines a
division of power between different religious sects....

*Trapped in the Middle East between Iran and America*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/08/ trapped-in- the-middle- east-between- iran-and- america.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Jesse Rosenfeld, Foreign Policy - Iran is
the largest nation state supporter of armed resistance to Israel's
occupation, a country whose current leadership justify seemingly
provocative actions in the Middle East as counter measures to
Israeli-American. ..

*For better or for worse*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/08/ for-better- or-for-worse. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Israelis, like most Jews, worry for a
living. The dark side of Jewish history and the security challenges of
their national life compel them to. And these days there's plenty to
worry about. Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas,...

*China's deepening Arab ties: the dragon in the desert*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ china-s-deepenin g-arab-ties- the-dragon- in-the-desert. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Reuters - 3,950 wholesale and retail shops,
stretching 1.2 km, or about three-quarters of a mile, in a sinuous strip
alongside a desert highway -- is China's trade outpost in the Gulf,
selling everything from marble...

*Israel continues to target Khirbet Tana*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ israel-continues -to-target- khirbet-tana. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - Twenty portable water tankers
brought into the hamlet of Khirbet Tana after Israeli forces destroyed
the herder community's wells in January, were confiscated on Monday
morning, an official said. A group of Israeli military...

*Fatah: Revolutions impact unity efforts*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ fatah-revolution s-impact- unity-efforts. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Ma'an - Fatah official Osama Al-Qawasmi
issued a statement Monday urging Palestinian factions to find a way to
end the state of internal division. "We must be prepared for the
establishment of a liberated Palestinian state,"...

*Why Middle East Monarchies Might Hold On*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ why-middle- east-monarchies- might-hold- on.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Shadi Hamid, The Atlantic - Arab monarchies
were long thought to be more favorable to democratization than
republics. Monarchs who enjoyed popular legitimacy and political
security are on balance more willing to take risks, the argument...

*The new Egypt: Leaving women behind*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ the-new-egypt- leaving-women- behind.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Basma Atassi, Al Jazeera - Marwa Sharaf
el-Din, an Egyptian law PhD candidate at Oxford University, will be in
Tahrir Square this afternoon to perform Zajal, a popular traditional
form of Arabic poetry. "Do I have...

*Palestinian diplomatic status in the UK upgraded*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ palestinian- diplomatic- status-in- the-uk-upgraded. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - The Guardian - William Hague said that
Britain had upgraded the status of Palestinian diplomats in the UK, in a
largely symbolic move aimed at encouraging progress in peace talks with
Israel. The foreign secretary told...

*Gaza food situation tight as Karni crossing closed*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ gaza-food- situation- tight-as- karni-crossing- closed.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - IRIN - The complete closure of Karni
crossing on the Israel-Gaza border announced on 2 March will make the
delivery of food aid to Gaza more difficult, according to UN agencies
assisting Palestinians in the Gaza...

*Abbas calls for full Palestinian membership in the United Nations*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ abbas-calls- for-full- palestinian- membership- in-the-united- nations.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Jerusalem Post - The time has come for
Palestine to become a permanent member of the UN, Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday as he reiterated his opposition
to the idea of a state...

*How Food Could Determine Libya's Future*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ how-food- could-determine- libya-s-future. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Chris Albon, The Atlantic - As Libya's
protesters-turned- rebels fight a series of hard battles with forces
loyal to Muammar Qaddafi, the United States -- and the much of the world
-- struggles to find a meaningful.. .

*Brazil's 'lessons' for Arab rebels*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ brazil-s- lessons-for- arab-rebels. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Chris Arsenault, Al Jazeera - During
Brazil's two decades of military dictatorship, it would have been
unthinkable that a female former revolutionary would lead the country in
the 21st century. That transition, from autocracy to democracy,.. .

*Jordanian journalists call for press freedom*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ jordanian- journalists- call-for- press-freedom. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - The Washington Post - In the first protest
of its kind here, journalists from state-controlled media demonstrated
Monday for press freedom and demanded the ouster of the editor of the
main government-controll ed newspaper. "We're fed up....

*A Middle East without borders?*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ a-middle- east-without- borders.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Mohammed Khan, Al Jazeera - The modern
geography of the Middle East was carved out by British and French
colonialists whose sole interest was in sharing the spoils of war
between themselves and in maintaining their...

*Arab Foreign Ministers to meet Friday over Libya*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ arab-foreign- ministers- to-meet-friday- over-libya. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Al Masry Al Youm - Arab foreign ministers
will hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the latest
developments in Libya, the Arab League said on Tuesday. In statements to
the press today, Hesham Youssef,...

*Israel plans work at controversial Jerusalem holy site*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ israel-plans- work-at-controve rsial-jerusalem- holy-site. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Arabiya - Israel has given preliminary
approval for renovations at a contested holy site in East Jerusalem
where rebuilding has triggered violence in the past, a city official
said on Sunday. "The municipality last week authorized.. .

*Israel mulls temporary Palestinian state: report*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ israel-mulls- temporary- palestinian- state-report. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Al Arabiya - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanayhu is likely to offer the Palestinians a provisional state within
temporary borders, the country's defense minister said in an interview
published Tuesday, spelling out for the first time...

*Models strut in rare West Bank fashion show*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ theater/archive/ 2011/03/08/ models-strut- in-rare-west- bank-fashion- show.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Al Arabiya - Draped in sleek evening gowns
and frothy wedding dresses, the models at the West Bank's first haute
couture fashion show could have been walking at Paris Fashion Week. But
the rare presentation was...

*Facebook activists seek to heal Hamas-Fatah split*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ facebook- activists- seek-to-heal- hamas-fatah- split.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - Arabiya - Palestinian college students are
using Facebook Inc. to organize rallies across the West Bank and Gaza
Strip next week in a bid to heal the Hamas-Fatah rift that has paralyzed
Middle East peace efforts....

*Conversations with An Egyptian Friend*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/08/ conversations- with-an-egyptian -friend.aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - An Egyptian teacher told me, years ago, that
the revolution in his country was coming. Around the same time, he asked
me what Americans mean when we talk about "democracy." He wanted to know
what I...

*Lessons From the Egyptian Revolution*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/08/ lessons-from- the-egyptian- revolution. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - The rush and tumult of events makes it hard,
sometimes, to draw the most important general conclusions from their
significance. This said, the revolutionary tidal wave, which began in
Tunisia and Algeria, reached its crest in...

*Jordan Increases Budget to Add Measures to Tamp Unrest*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ news/archive/ 2011/03/08/ jordan-increases -budget-to- add-measures- to-tamp-unrest. aspx>
Palestine Note 8 Mar 2011 - The Wall Street Journal - The Jordanian
government has presented a revised draft budget for 2011 to include some
460 million Jordanian dinars ($650 million) in additional expenditures,
to cover a package of new social safety...

*Egypt Swears In New Cabinet*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ topnews/archive/ 2011/03/07/ egypt-swears- in-new-cabinet. aspx>
Palestine Note 7 Mar 2011 - Protestors attacked by knife-wielding men
over weekend Arabiya - Ministers of Egypt's new government were sworn in
on Monday by the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Field
Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, at...

*Aljazeera* <http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/>

*Libya oil tanks seen as 'time bomb'*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//video/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113912 019839325. html>
AlJazeera 8 Mar 2011 - Desperate Gaddafi might hit oil facilities in an
attempt to fend off encroaching rebels, sparking a human catastrophe.

*Copts, Muslims clash in Cairo*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113821 1326148908. html>
AlJazeera 8 Mar 2011 - At least one person killed as Egyptian Christians
protesting the torching of a church clash with Muslims in the capital.

*Libya Live Blog - March 9*
<http://english. aljazeera. net/http: //blogs.aljazeer a.net/live/ africa/libya- live-blog- march-9>
AlJazeera 8 Mar 2011 - As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you
with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and
citizens across the globe.

*Yemeni police fire on protesters*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113822 1445562590. html>
AlJazeera 8 Mar 2011 - At least 75 pro-democracy demonstrators injured
in the shooting as calls for president Saleh's ouster gain momentum.

*Protesters demand reform in Kuwait*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113818 4914763672. html>
AlJazeera 8 Mar 2011 - Demonstrations take place outside government
offices amid calls for ruling family to loosen its exclusive grip on power.

*Syria frees human rights activist*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113818 251795959. html>
AlJazeera 8 Mar 2011 - Haitham al-Maleh's release comes after president
issues amnesty for older prisoners and those jailed for minor crimes.

*Rafsanjani ousted from Iranian post*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113815 5214829504. html>
AlJazeera 8 Mar 2011 - 'Moderate' former president steps down as head of
state body, a move which seems to tighten hardliners' grip on power.

*Q&A: Iraq's former prime minister*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113892 012143679. html>
AlJazeera 8 Mar 2011 - Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh interviews Iraq's former
prime minister on the status of Iraq's political process.

*Oman ruler orders cabinet reshuffle*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113715 3813882998. html>
AlJazeera 7 Mar 2011 - Move is the latest in a string of concessions
aimed at appeasing protesters demanding jobs and political reforms.

*Allawi: Iraq power sharing a myth*
<http://english. aljazeera. net//news/ middleeast/ 2011/03/20113716 059143160. html>
AlJazeera 7 Mar 2011 - Leader of cross-sectarian Iraqiya bloc tells Al
Jazeera why he turned down position as head of national council.

*Palestine News Network* <http://english. pnn.ps/>

*EU Funds Data Center for Palestinian Courts*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9673&Itemid= 61>
PNN - Ramallah -- HJC to PNN - The Palestinian High Judicial Council
(HJC) held a ceremony on Tuesday to highlight its brand new electronic
court management system supported by a Data Center which...

*American Methodist Church Calls for End to Settlements*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9672&Itemid= 56>
PNN - Bethlehem -- PNN- The American Methodist church called on Tuesday
for an end to illegal Israeli settlement activity and American support
of them, part of a "series of unprecedented steps" from the...

*Bethlehem Celebrates International Women's Day with Protest*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9671&Itemid= 59>
PNN - by Circarre Parrhesia - To celebrate International Woman's Day, on
Tuesday, women in Bethlehem protested against the annexation wall, that
divides many parts of the West Bank and annexes Palestinian owned land....

*Soldiers Attack Sit-in in Southern West Bank*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9668&Itemid= 59>
PNN - Hebron -- PNN/Exclusive- On Tuesday, Israeli troops broke up a
nonviolent protest organized by the villagers of Beit Omar, north of
Hebron in the southern West Bank. Villagers along with Israeli and...

*Troops Arrest Eight Civilians and Distribute Demolition Orders to
Villagers in the West Bank*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9667&Itemid= 64>
PNN - PNN -- Hebron -- Israeli troops arrested eight Palestinian
civilians during morning invasions on Tuesday targeting a number of West
Bank communities. The Israeli army radio announced that all eight men
were...

*Gisha: Israeli Defense Ministry Only Allow Christian Worshippers to
Leave Gaza*
<http://english. pnn.ps/index. php?option= com_content& task=view& id=9665&Itemid= 63>
PNN - Tal Aviv -- Gisha to PNN - The Israeli Defense Ministry refuses to
allow Muslim women from Gaza to enter east Jerusalem in order to pray at
the Al-Aqsa Mosque but allows...

*Palestinian Center for Human Rights* <http://pchrgaza. org/>

*Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory ( 24 Feb. 02 Mar. 2011)*
<http://www.pchrgaza .org/portal/ en/index. php?option= com_content& view=article& id=7269:weekly- report-on- israeli-human- rights-violation s-in-the- occupied- palestinian- territory- 24-feb-02- mar-2011& catid=84: weekly-2009& Itemid=183>
Palestinian Center for Human Rights

*Jerusalem Post* <http://jpost. com/>

*Moussa says he would maintain Egypt's peace with Israel*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=211356& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Egyptian presidential hopeful says Cairo
has "a responsibility to lay the foundations for peace," but adds gas
deal with Israel may be rethought; defends Muslim Brotherhood' s right to
political participation.

*Fatah youth center names event after suicide bomber*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=211350& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Sports event to take place near Ramallah
named after Wafa Idris, the first Palestinian woman to carry out a
suicide bombing.

*Bahrain's Shi'ites want Sunni monarchy toppled*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=211348& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Protests hit Kuwait for first time; Syria
releases dissident judge; Egyptian court rejects Mubarak's appeal
against seizure of funds.

*Peace Now calls on A-G to probe Rabbi for incitement*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=211308& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Move comes after Wolpe tells settlers "fire
rubber bullets back at soldiers" who evacuate outposts; Wolpe retracts
statements.

*'Iranian activists, police clash in Women's Day protest'*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=211307& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Heavy police presence reported in Tehran;
dozens of women rounded up, beaten in Khartoum while attempting to stage
anti-rape protest.

*Peres doesn't anticipate civil war if land ceded for peace*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=211295& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Speaking in Ashkelon where he received
honorary citizenship, president says settlers would be angry but willing
to relocate.

*Livni named one of 150 'women who shake the world'*
<http://www.jpost. com/Internationa l/Article. aspx?ID=211279& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - "The Daily Beast" and "Newsweek" say Livni
is 'leading advocate of two-state solution'; 2 other Israeli women named
on list.

*Pro-Palestinian groups to send flotilla to Gaza in May*
<http://www.jpost. com/Internationa l/Article. aspx?ID=211274& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Free Gaza movement organizers request
governments of participating nationals to protect participants in
flotilla which will include 15 ships.

*'IDF will remain on Jordan River in any future agreement'*
<http://www.jpost. com/Defense/ Article.aspx? ID=211268& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - In Jordan Valley, PM says "this is Israel's
line of defense"; stresses need for security border; military keeps
terrorists at bay.

*Iran's Rafsanjani loses post as chair of state body*
<http://www.jpost. com/MiddleEast/ Article.aspx? id=211258& R=R3>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Former Iranian president stripped of role
after criticizing a crackdown on opposition protests after Ahmadinejad' s
disputed 2009 re-election.

*Torrential rains hit and snow falls on the Hermon*
<http://www.jpost. com/NationalNews /Article. aspx?id=211244& R=R2>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Heavy precipitation, thunderstorms, cause
traffic jams in Tel Aviv area, northern Israel; snow expected to spread
to upper Galilee, Safed.

*Farsi-dubbed 'Shoah' to be broadcast in Iran*
<http://www.jpost. com/JewishWorld/ JewishNews/ Article.aspx? ID=211241& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Los Angeles based Aladdin Project says lack
of Holocaust information in Iranian, Arab world inspiration for telecast
in Persian.

*Barak: Israel may seek additional $20b. in US defense aid*
<http://www.jpost. com/Defense/ Article.aspx? ID=211231& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 8 Mar 2011 - Defense minister in interview: Aid will be
used to guard from potential threats in light of changes, upheaval in
MidEast.

*International Women's Day goes to the movies*
<http://www.jpost. com/ArtsAndCultu re/Entertainment /Article. aspx?ID=211216& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 7 Mar 2011 - Jerusalem Cinematheque hosts film festival
on women and religion; Bar Ilan Univ. to screen 'Bend it Like Beckham,'
Israeli films.

*Bibi getting into gear*
<http://www.jpost. com/Magazine/ Features/ Article.aspx? ID=211172& R=R1>
Jeruslalem Post 7 Mar 2011 - Credit where it's due: Recent events have
triggered Netanyahu to take decisive action; But if the PM wants to
prevent the emergence of a binational state, he must announce the
immediate freeze of settlement-building in the West Bank.

*Ha'aretz Defense page*
<http://haaretz. com/hasen/ pages/LiArt. jhtml?contrassID =1&subContrassID =5&sbSubContrass ID=0>

*Israeli minister to visit Jonathan Pollard for first time in five
years*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/israeli- minister- to-visit- jonathan- pollard-for- first-time- in-five-years- 1.347972>
Ha'aretz - Social Affairs Minister Moshe Kahlon to visit the convicted
Israeli spy in a U.S. jail next week and pass on a message from Netanyahu.

*U.K.: Mideast peace process is too vital to fail over regional turmoil*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/u- k-mideast- peace-process- is-too-vital- to-fail-over- regional- turmoil-1. 347954>
Ha'aretz - Britain's Foreign Secretary Hague meets with Palestinian
President Abbas in London and demands both sides resume discussions and
seek a breakthrough on a permanent peace deal before end of 2011.

*Netanyahu: Settlers' price tag policy is unacceptable*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/netanyah u-settlers- price-tag- policy-is- unacceptable- 1.347941>
Ha'aretz - On tour of Jordan Valley in West Bank, prime minister warns
Israel will take action against lawbreakers.

*Palestinians dismiss Netanyahu's talk of interim peace plan*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/palestin ians-dismiss- netanyahu- s-talk-of- interim-peace- plan-1.347939>
Ha'aretz - Direct peace talks have been frozen since September 2010
after Israel refused to extend a partial moratorium on settlement
construction; Netanyahu said to be working on proposal to break the
deadlock.

*Israel: British upgrade of Palestinian mission is 'unhelpful'*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/israel- british-upgrade- of-palestinian- mission-is- unhelpful- 1.347930>
Ha'aretz - Foreign ministry spokesman says the Palestinians 'are
refusing to renew direct talks, and at the same time they are getting
these gestures that are encouraging them in their current policy.'

*Netanyahu: If enemy rockets get to Jordan Valley, all of Israel will be
a target*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/netanyah u-if-enemy- rockets-get- to-jordan- valley-all- of-israel- will-be-a- target-1. 347892>
Ha'aretz - PM tells soldiers on tour of area that Israel's 'line of
defense begins' in that strategic area, and must be preserved in any
future agreement reached with the Palestinians.

*IDF Chief makes surprise visit to army base in Jordan Valley*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/idf- chief-makes- surprise- visit-to- army-base- in-jordan- valley-1. 347874>
Ha'aretz - Chief of Staff Benny Gantz arrived at 5:30 A.M. with a group
of army investigators to evaluate base operations.

*Israel may ask U.S. for $20 billion more in security aid, Barak says*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ diplomacy- defense/israel- may-ask-u- s-for-20- billion-more- in-security- aid-barak- says-1.347866>
Ha'aretz - Defense Minister tells Wall Street Journal that Israel must
be on guard considering the unrest sweeping the Arab world, adding
increased aid could help make Israel a 'stabilizer in such a turbulent
region'.

*Ha'aretz National page*
<http://haaretz. com/hasen/ pages/LiArt. jhtml?contrassID =1&subContrassID =7&sbSubContrass ID=0>

*Veteran Labor MK Ben-Eliezer hospitalized with lung infection*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ veteran-labor- mk-ben-eliezer- hospitalized- with-lung- infection- 1.347921>
Ha'aretz - Former Defense Minister is connected to a respirator at Assaf
Harofeh Hospital.

*Social workers resume protests in front of Finance Ministry*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ social-workers- resume-protests- in-front- of-finance- ministry- 1.347887>
Ha'aretz - The strike enters its third day as gaps remain over social
workers' demands for pay raises.

*Woman found stabbed to death near Tel Aviv central bus station*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ woman-found- stabbed-to- death-near- tel-aviv- central-bus- station-1. 347856>
Ha'aretz - Emergency aid workers were unable to revive the 25-year-old,
who had been stabbed multiple times.

*Bill to punish anti-Israel boycotters passes first Knesset hurdle*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ bill-to-punish- anti-israel- boycotters- passes-first- knesset-hurdle- 1.347734>
Ha'aretz - According to proposal, Israelis would face harsh punitive
measures for such actions; controversial bill also calls for imposing
sanctions on foreign nationals and groups and on states that give
boycotts force of law.

*High Court: Explain why Israeli Arabs discriminated against by airport
security*
<http://www.haaretz. com/news/ national/ high-court- explain-why- israeli-arabs- discriminated- against-by- airport-security -1.347717>
Ha'aretz - Court responds to petition filed by civil rights group
against Shin Bet and Airports Authority, complaining that entire sector
is tagged as generalized 'security risk'.

*Palestine Telegraph* <http://paltelegraph .com/>

*Strike enters 3rd day to reopen Karni crossing*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ gaza-strip/ 8654-third- day-of-struck- to-reopen- karni-crossing. html>
8 Mar 2011 - Gaza Strip, (Pal Telegraph)-Truck drivers and workers
continue their strike for the third day in the protest tent set up
outside the gate of Rafah crossing demanding the reopening of Karni
commercial crossing permanently.

*Israeli forces open fire on southern Gaza Strip*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ gaza-strip/ 8653-israeli- forces-open- fire-on-southern -gaza-strip. html>
8 Mar 2011 - Gaza strip, (Pal Telegraph)-Several Israeli military forces
invaded Tuesday morning Palestinian lands near Sufa crossing in the
south of Gaza Strip.

*Israel to demolish Palestinian homes near Jenin*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 8651-israel- to-demolish- palestinian- homes-near- jenin.html>
8 Mar 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-Israeli forces stormed last
night the village of Bartaa in Jenin city and handed eight citizens
orders to demolish their homes under the pretext of illegal construction.

*8 injured as settlers invade Qusra village*
<http://www.palteleg raph.com/ palestine/ west-bank/ 8650-8-injured- as-settlers- invade-qusra- village.html>
8 Mar 2011 - West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-At least eight Palestinian
citizens were injured yesterday evening by Israeli gufire in Qusra
village in the south part of Nablus.

*Uruknet* <http://uruknet. info/>

*US to resume Guantanamo trialsUS president lifts two-year ban on
controversial military tribunals as he acknowledges the prison will not
close soon.* <http://uruknet. info/?p=m75669& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 8, 2011 - The US president has approved the resumption of
military trials for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility
in Cuba. The move ends a two-year ban and was the latest acknowledgement
that the prison Barack Obama had vowed to shut down within a year of
taking office will remain open for some time to come....

*Child among villagers injured by settlers*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75668& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 8, 2011 - Activists with the International Solidarity
Movement in the village of Qusra said that evening clashes with settlers
Monday night had left 13 injured, including a child. The group
identified Ibrahim Hassan, 15, as the youngest victim, who doctors said
sustained a bullet wound with an entry point at his back and exit
through the kidney,...

*Palestinian Women Deserve Celebration*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75661& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 7, 2011 - Tomorrow, March 8 is International Women's Day,
a global event celebrating women's rights and honoring women's
achievements throughout history. Palestine observes the occasion every
year, marking it with marches, activities and events that focus on the
Palestinian woman as an integral part of her own society and of the
global village. Like in other parts...

*Israeli Apartheid: A Socialist View*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75659& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 7, 2011 - The resistance of the Palestinian population to
Israeli occupation since 1948 has been central to resistance in the
Middle East to western imperialism. The reinvigoration of the movement
since the second Intifada in 2000 has also inspired anti-imperialist
resistance throughout the region, significantly in neighbouring Egypt.
It is the more recent boycott, divestment and sanctions...

*Gadhafi: Crackdown on Libya revolt is like Israel's war on Hamas in
Gaza* <http://uruknet. info/?p=m75658& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 7, 2011 - Long-time Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi said
Monday in an interview with TV network France 24 that his violent
crackdown on opposition protesters is akin to Israel's efforts to defend
itself from extremism during its 2009 Gaza war against Hamas... Speaking
with France 24 later Monday, however, Gadhafi defended his military's
right to oppress rebel activity,...

*Report: Mubarak's sons received millions of dollars for backing Israeli
gas sales* <http://uruknet. info/?p=m75655& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 7, 2011 - Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, the two sons of former
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, received hundreds of millions of
dollars in "commissions" from the sale of Egyptian natural gas to
Israel, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported yesterday. Gamal
initially demanded a 10% commission but eventually agreed to half of
that, while his elder brother and businessman. ..

*Why is Israel aid exempt?As US fiscal conservatives cut food programmes
for poor children, military aid for Israel is left untouched.*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75652& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 7, 2011 - Once upon a time, social security was considered
the "third rail" of American politics. The "third rail" is the train
track that carries the high-voltage power; touching it means instant
death. The "third rail" metaphor has for decades been applied to social
security, a government program so popular with the American public that
proposing any...

*Egypt: A Virtual Smoking Gun?*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75651& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 7, 2011 - ...Prior to his involvement with "democracy
promotion", Glassman was a resident fellow at the American Enterprise
Institute, the neoconservative propaganda mill that pushed the concept
of a "global war on terror" primarily to advance the national interest
of Israel. While there, he founded The American, a magazine of ideas for
business leaders and was its...

*An Urgent Call to Release Detainee Ahmad Asfour*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75649& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 7, 2011 - At the Algeria conference on Palestinian
Political Prisoners I met a desperate father, Samir Asfour. He told me
the story of his son. Ahmad was a 17 year old student when he was
severely injured outside his home during the invasion of Gaza on January
9, 2009. He was hit by a bomb, probably a...

*Extrajudicial Assassinations: Official Israeli Policy*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75648& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 7, 2011 - ...On July 22, 2002, an Israeli jet bombed a
three-story apartment building in densely populated Al-Daraj, a
residential Gaza City neighborhood. Suspected Izzidin al-Qassam Brigade
leader Salah Shehade was killed. So were 14 civilians, including eight
children, Shehade's wife, son, daughter, and bodyguard among them. Eight
nearby apartment buildings were completely destroyed, nine others partly,...

*Nablus: Settler, soldiers open fire on Palestinians*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75647& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 7, 2011 -- Ten Palestinians and a Jewish settler were
wounded on Monday during clashes in a village near the northern West
Bank city of Nablus, a Palestinian official and witnesses said. Ghassan
Daghlas, an official in charge of tracking settler activity, said six
Palestinians were taken to hospital and another four were on the way
after being...

*Video: Gaddafi insists al Qaeda is to blame for chaos and killings*
<http://uruknet. info/?p=m75645& hd=&size= 1&l=e>
Uruknet March 7, 2011 - In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi repeated his claim that al Qaeda was responsible
for plunging the country into chaos and denied media reports of mass
killings. Al Qaeda is responsible for the violent uprising in Libya, but
Western media has overstated the extent of the political crisis and its...

*The National* <http://thenational. ae/section/ FOREIGN?profile= 1011>

*'Downcast' Benjamin Netahyahu under increased pressure over Israel's
poor image*
<http://www.thenatio nal.ae/news/ worldwide/ middle-east/ downcast- benjamin- netahyahu- under-increased- pressure- over-israels- poor-image>
The National 9 Mar 2011 - Fast-moving recent developments in the region
and strains with the US and Europe, notably with the German chancellor,
Angela Merkel, add to Israel¿s isolation.

*Alternative Information Center* <http://alternativen ews.org/>

*El Araqib Destroyed for 21st time, JNF Changing Facts on Ground*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ news/3384- el-araqib- destroyed- for-21st- time-jnf- changing- facts-on- ground>
Alternative Information Center - Israeli forces demolished the little
that remains of the Bedouin village of El Araqib on Monday, as they work
to permanently change facts on the ground, erasing the village's very
existence and history.

*UK Upgrades Palestinian Envoy to Full Diplomatic Mission*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ news/3386- uk-upgrades- palestinian- envoy-to- full-diplomatic- mission>
Alternative Information Center - The Palestinian envoy to the UK, also
known as the Palestinian General Delegation in London,is being promoted
to the status of full diplomatic mission, announced British Foreign
Secretary David Hague on Monday (7/3).

*Nine Palestinians Injured by Settlers and Israeli Army in Nablus
District*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ settlers- violence/ 3383-nine- palestinians- injured-by- settlers- and-israeli- army-in-nablus- district>
Alternative Information Center - Nine Palestinian residents of the West
Bank village of Qusra were injured when settlers opened fire on them and
the Israeli military shot rubber bullets. Three remain hospitalized in
serious condition.

*Temporary Injunction against New Building in Palestinian Village
Destroyed in 1948*
<http://www.alternat ivenews.org/ english/index. php/topics/ jerusalem/ 3385-temporary- injunction- against-new- building- in-palestinian- village-destroye d-in-1948>
Alternative Information Center - An Israeli court has issued a temporary
injunction on selling luxury lots on the site of the historic
Palestinian village of Lifta, whose residents were expelled and forced
out in 1948.

*Daily Star* <http://dailystar. com.lb/>

*Iraqi forces defuse bomb at Baiji oil refinery*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125783>
Daily Star 8 Mar 2011 Iraq's security forces foiled a plot Tuesday to
bomb the Baiji oil refinery, the country's largest, days after militants
attacked and shut down the refinery, a provincial official and a police
source said. The bomb was...

*Iran's Rafsanjani ousted as head of state clerical body*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125781>
Daily Star 8 Mar 2011 TEHRAN: Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani lost his position as head of an important state clerical body
Tuesday, a move which tightens the hard-liners' grip on power. The
defeat for one of the great survivors...

*Peace process cannot become victim of regional unrest: U.K.*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125780>
Daily Star 8 Mar 2011 Britain warned Tuesday of a risk that the peace
process could fall victim to the unrest sweeping the region if Israel
and the Palestinians don't return quickly to stalled talks. The warning
by Foreign Secretary William...

*Shiite groups in Bahrain call for setting up of a republic*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125764>
Daily Star 8 Mar 2011 Three Bahraini Shiite groups raised tensions
Tuesday by forming a coalition aimed at establishing a republic;
neighboring Kuwait became the latest Gulf state to witness protests
calling for sweeping reforms while Saudi Arabia decided to release...

*Families find terror on road out of Libyan town*
<http://www.dailysta r.com.lb/ /article. asp?edition_ id=10&categ_ id=2&article_ id=125756>
Daily Star 8 Mar 2011 AJDABIA, Libya: They were trying to flee to safety
but were lucky to escape with their lives. As cars loaded with people
and possessions streamed down the desert road east from the Libyan oil
town of...

*The Guardian* <http://guardian. co.uk/world/ palestinian- territories>

*Israeli plan to demolish unauthorised West Bank outposts condemned*
<http://www.guardian .co.uk/world/ 2011/mar/ 08/israel- plan-demolish- unauthorised- outposts>
The Guardian 8 Mar 2011 - Settlers' groups label decision to raze
settlements built on privately owned Palestinian land as treasonous The
Israeli government has seemingly set itself on a collision course with
hardline settlers after announcing it intends to demolish all...

*Relief Web*
<http://reliefweb. int/rw/rwb. nsf/doc106? OpenForm& emid=ACOS- 635PFR&rc= 3>

*United Nations International Meeting on Question of Palestine, in
Outcome Text, Stresses Need to Internationalize' Issue of Palestinian
Political Prisoners*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /KKAA-8ES4GN? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 8 Mar 2011 - Source: UN General Assembly

*Israel: Stop Discriminatory Home Demolitions*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /KKAA-8ES2X2? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 8 Mar 2011 - Source: Human Rights Watch

*Human Rights Council concludes interactive dialogue on enforced
disappearances, arbitrary detention and internally displaced persons*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /EGUA-8ERUHC? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 8 Mar 2011 - Source: UN Human Rights Council

*Applicability of International Law to Palestinians in Occupied
Territory Reaffirmed at International Meeting in Vienna*
<http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /EGUA-8ERTEY? OpenDocument& RSS20=02- P>
Relief Web 8 Mar 2011 - Source: UN General Assembly

*Inter Press Service* <http://ipsnews. net/middle. asp>

*The New Egypt: Leaving Women Behind*
<http://ipsnews. net/news. asp?idnews= 54770>
IPS Marwa Sharaf el-Din, an Egyptian law PhD candidate at Oxford
University, spent part of International Women's Day in Tahrir Square
this afternoon to perform Zajal, a popular traditional form of Arabic
poetry.

*Stop The Wall* <http://stopthewall. org/>

*Commemorate Land Day 2011 by Joining the Global BDS Day of Action 30
March* <http://stopthewall. org/latestnews/ 2473.shtml>
Stop The Wall - The BDS National Committee (BNC) is calling on you to
unite in your different capacities and struggles to join the Global BDS
Day of Action on Land Day, 30 March 2011, in solidarity with the
Palestinian people's right to self determination on their ancestral land. [

*YNet News* <http://ynetnews. com/>

*Aharonovitch: Settlers should rage at themselves*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4039450,00. html>
YNet News - Minister speaks of settler violence over Havat Gilad
eviction, gives complete....

*Iran: Opposition supporters mark Int'l Women's Day*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4039440,00. html>
YNet News - At least 10 opposition supporters detained in Tehran rally;
in Ankara, some....

*PM: IDF must remain deployed in Jordan Valley*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4039331,00. html>
YNet News - Netanyahu tours Jordanian border, stresses importance of
army presence in area....

*Iran's Rafsanjani ousted as chair of state body*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4039235,00. html>
YNet News - Former president loses position as head of Assembly of
Experts after being....

*Israel seeks $20 billion in US military aid*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4039147,00. html>
YNet News - Defense Minister sees no immediate threat in Egypt but fears
repercussions of....

*Settlers resume construction in Havat Gilad*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4039119,00. html>
YNet News - Residents of village of Jit claim outpost settlers have
begun building prep work....

*'No Palestine without Jordan Valley'*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4039559,00. html>
YNet News - While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking
international support for continued Israeli military presence in the
Jordan Rift Valley, even in the event of a peace .......

*UK: Middle East peace process is too vital to fail*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4039487,00. html>
YNet News - Britain warned on Tuesday of a risk that the Middle East
peace process could fall victim to the unrest sweeping the region if
Israel and the Palestinians don't return .......

*Plastic bullet used in Havat Gilad sent to PMO*
<http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 4039474,00. html>
YNet News - Shomron Settlers' Committee head Benny Katzover on Tuesday
sent the chief of security at the Prime Minister's Office a plastic
bullet that was fired during last week's .......

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[OccupationNews] Digest Number 1315
Tue Mar 8, 2011 8:19 pm (PST)


*Palestinian Information Center* <http://palestine- info.co.uk/ en/>

*US lobby group fights judge's refusal to force anti-Israel ads*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s77Q7PsNopgL HTKSSJHqP% 2bq7KKb4rlMyTjrg CbxT0V6X1vR7XIba xOv7ns0dcPo7P4qm U2RUX2PuTFejhxDQ oa8p1nqqrcyFf2Yd jn0X6SeWc% 3d>
PIC 8 Mar 2011 - A US advocacy group has taken legal action to appeal a
ruling by local government that removed anti-Israel advertisements from
city buses, the AFP reported on Tuesday.

*Netanyahu: Jordan Valley would remain under Israeli control*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7XQlB0HIQ8M IOs6iQkCb9d4eBbP h20SCxj%2fDR% 2bCBUiU6IEVmcxSX mF%2fW5X0DSG7x3e n02NBjzk9mLF% 2fMm2b%2fRQTkFnA sAnlZDDMtUsCmHtv Q%3d>
PIC 8 Mar 2011 - Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu renewed assertion
that his government would not relinquish control on the Jordan Valley in
any future settlement.

*Israel arrests Palestinian businessman residing in UAE*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s7ELTL56% 2f7I01sNBe% 2b0bmhGeCPg2TAMs bgkdeZ0pkUzIAdi% 2bhvr5%2f7lG6aZL %2fAsIi%2b7HE2L9 6TZ7PzjVyRND3lHL lX3aBgj6XqHkw86V guUig%3d>
PIC 8 Mar 2011 - A Palestinian businessman residing in the UAE was
arrested a few days back while returning to his hometown of Talfit near
Nablus, the Tadhamon international human rights foundation reports.

*IOF serves more demolition notices*
<http://www.palestin e-info.co. uk/en/default. aspx?xyz= U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MD I46m9rUxJEpMO% 2bi1s72blZ11nWFm qV3j8xCf0IPWyXhZ SClxCVWNiXD% 2b2wVHBhzy2OuggJ N6q7dxe2K24yazes 8UoiMG8PMroHSnS6 fWghsdBCQfJWjr2Q dyu7Amc%3d>
PIC 8 Mar 2011 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) served demolition
notices to owners of eight installations in Barta'a Al-Sharqiya village,
south of Jenin, last night, local sources said.

*New evidence condemns Egyptian security in Yousef Abu Zuhri death*
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PIC 8 Mar 2011 - Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri has accused the Egyptian
security force of killing his brother Yousef in October 2009 while
jailed in Egypt based on solid new evidence.

*IOF troops raid southern Gaza*
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PIC 8 Mar 2011 - Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced into southern
Gaza Strip areas to the east of Khan Younis city amidst heavy firing,
Palestinian sources reported.

*Ban Ki-moon calls for release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli
jails*
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PIC 8 Mar 2011 - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on Israel
to free Palestinian political prisoners from its jails, affirming that
such a step would boost peace chances in the region.

*Freedom Flotilla coalition asks governments to ensure safety of
passengers*
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PIC 8 Mar 2011 - The Freedom Flotilla coalition has called on
governments partcipating in its next mission due to set sail mid-May to
take concrete steps to ensure the safety of citizens from possible
Israeli attacks.

*Israel changes names of Jerusalemite streets into Hebrew ones*
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PIC 8 Mar 2011 - Jerusalem center for social and economic rights said
that the Israeli municipal council started recently to replace the Arab
names of some alleys and streets of the old city with Hebrew names.

*Gaza workmen protesting Israel's closure of Mintar crossing*
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PIC 8 Mar 2011 - Dozens of Palestinian workmen on Monday morning rallied
near Al-Mintar (Karni) crossing in the industrial zone east of Gaza to
protest the Israeli closure of the crossing.

*Los Angeles Times* <http://latimes. com/news/ nationworld/ world/middleeast />

*Ayatollah Rafsanjani, Iranian opposition backer, loses clerical post*
<http://feeds. latimes.com/ %7Er/latimes/ middleeast/ %7E3/Zzv4gniIPaM /la-fg-iran- rafsanjani- 20110309, 0,149591. story>
LA Times 8 Mar 2011 - Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former
president, is replaced as head of Iran's Assembly of Experts in what is
viewed as a victory for his conservative rivals, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and supreme leader Ali Khamenei. The Iranian opposition's
most powerful sympathizer lost his post...

*New York Times* <http://nytimes. com/pages/ world/middleeast />

*Hard-Liners Ruling Iran Gain an Ally In a Key Post*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=ee918ef1badafb 1ff16fd06645ecfe 5d>
New York Times 8 Mar 2011 - The move to replace Ayatollah Ali Akbar
Rafsanjani is seen as strengthening the president's hand in his effort
to crush opposition.

*Netanyahu Vows to Keep Jordan River Posts*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=9f399c8cc18488 e772fc8e5fa87dbd 30>
New York Times 8 Mar 2011 - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the
Israeli military presence east of any future Palestinian state was all
the more necessary given the tumult rocking the Middle East.

*World Briefing | MIDDLE EAST: Iran: U.N. Official Says Iran's Nuclear
Program May Be Aimed at Making Atomic Weapons*
<http://feeds. nytimes.com/ click.phdo? i=73c83aea18617f 232227bb6700e7ba 48>
New York Times 8 Mar 2011 - The head of the United Nations nuclear
watchdog agency, Yukiya Amano, said he could not guarantee that Iran was
not trying to develop atomic arms.

*Misc* <http://vtjp. org/aboutus/ aboutus.htm>

*Al Arakib destroyed for 21st time*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/al-arakib- destroyed- for-21st- time.html>
Mondoweiss - And more news from Today in Palestine: Settlers resume
construction in Havat Gilad Ynet 8 Mar -- Residents of village of Jit
claim outpost settlers have begun building prep work on privately owned
Palestinian land. Havat Gilad spokesman says lands were bought by Jews
years ago...

*When will the ADL stand up to oppose Peter King's witchhunt against
Muslims?*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/when-will- the-adl-stand- up-to-oppose- peter-kings- witchhunt- against-muslims. html>
Mondoweiss - Last month The Anti-Defamation League condemned Glenn Beck
for comments he made about Reform Judaism. Speaking on his radio show,
Beck dismissed the branch as akin to "radicalized Islam." Reform rabbis,
he said, "are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam,
radicalized Islam in a...

*Amanpour says P.A. has 'not missed the opportunity to miss an
opportunity' *
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/ahmanpour- says-p-a- has-not-missed- the-opportunity- to-miss-an- opportunity. html>
Mondoweiss - Last night I heard Palestinian doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish
speak at the Cooper Union in New York, in a conversation with Christiane
Amanpour, an event that was canceled at the 92d Street Y uptown because
the Jewish writer the organization had lined up to counter or balance...

*Israel looks to cash in on upheaval in the Middle East; may request $20
billion more in military aid from the US*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/israel- looks-to- cash-in-on- upheval-in- the-middle- east-may- request-20- billion-more- in-military- aid-from- the-us.html>
Mondoweiss - According to an interview with Ehud Barak in today's Wall
Street Journal , Israel is looking to "upgrade" its defenses in light of
the democratic movements sweeping the Middle East, and, as per usual, is
wanting the US to foot the bill. The U.S. is already slated...

*On International Women's Day, Palestinian women are faced with two
struggles -- freedom from occupation and liberation within their own
society*
<http://mondoweiss. net/2011/ 03/on-internatio nal-womens- day-palestinian- women-are- faced-with- two-struggles- freedom-from- occupation- and-liberation- within-their- own-society. html>
Mondoweiss - The following interview is with Hitam Saafin, the Chair of
the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC), which was founded in
1980. UPWC's aim is to empower Palestinian women, while contributing to
the Palestinian national struggle against the Israeli occupation.
According to its mission statement, UPWC "...

*Graffiti History of Palestine*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1708>
Palestine Monitor - When 2006's elections split Gaza and the West Bank
politically, Anas Maraqa was looking at a pictorial battle between Hamas
and Fateh. Then it hit him. "They were telling their peoples' opinions
in graffiti," Maraqa said, puffing a cigarette. "I was like wow, this is
really...

*Protecting Palestinian Susya*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1707>
Palestine Monitor - March 5, 2011. Al Tawamin End of winter, early
spring: the hills of south Hebron are a shocking green. It won't last
long. Very soon now, unless there's one last burst of rain, green will
revert to the usual palette of yellow and brown; already the...

*Iran's Green Protests: Elite power struggle intensifies as Supreme
Leader nears death*
<http://www.wsws. org/articles/ 2011/mar2011/ iran-m08. shtml>
WSWS - In the midst of an historic uprising of the working class in
North Africa and the Middle East directed against the region's
authoritarian US-backed regimes, Iran's rightwing Green opposition has
failed to relaunch itself.

*Misc 2* <http://vtjp. org/news/ news.php>

*CMEP Bulletin: Settlements, Residents, and Plans in the Holy Land*
<http://www.cmep. org/content/ cmep-bulletin- settlements- residents- and-plans- holy-land>
Churches for Middle East Peace 8 Mar 2011 -

*133 Palestinians held in Israel's jails for over 20 years*
<http://palestinianp risoners. blogspot. com/2011/ 03/133-palestini ans-held- in-israels- jails.html>
Sabr 8 Mar 2011 - GAZA ( Ma'an ) -- Gaza's Ministry of Detainees
reported Monday that the number of prisoners held in Israeli jails for
over two decades has increased to 133. Ministry spokesman Riyad
Al-Ashkar said 39-year-old Imad Al-Masri entered his 21st year in
Israeli detention on Monday. Al-Masri, from Tubas,...

*Family says Egypt security executed Yousif Abu Zuhri*
<http://palestinianp risoners. blogspot. com/2011/ 03/family- says-egypt- security- executed. html>
Sabr 8 Mar 2011 - Relatives of Yousef Abu Zuhri mourn during his funeral
in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 14, 2009. Abu Zuhri died in
an Egyptian prison where he was held for entering Egypt illegally. His
family says the young man died after being tortured by Egyptian...

*Israeli Defense Ministry: For worshippers from Gaza, access to holy
sites allowed for Christians only*
<http://www.gisha. org/index. php?intLanguage= 2&intItemId= 1981&intSiteSN= 113>
Gisha 8 Mar 2011 - Bread prices expected to rise

*Libya no-fly zone 'UN decision'*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- africa-12683952>
BBC 8 Mar 2011 - Any decision to impose a no-fly zone over Libya should
be made by the UN and not by Washington, US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton says.

*Rafsanjani leaves key Iran post*
<http://www.bbc. co.uk/go/ rss/int/news/ -/news/world- middle-east- 12673821>
BBC 8 Mar 2011 - Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has
lost his position as head of a powerful clerical body, reports say.

*Buying Friends Creates More Enemies*
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Antiwar.com 8 Mar 2011 - Last week Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and I had the
opportunity to raise some of my concerns regarding U.S. foreign policy
and the costs of our interventionism around the world. Many observers
claim that the recent overthrow of...

*Articles*

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*The unraveling of the police state*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/06/ the-unraveling- of-the-police- state.aspx>
Sami Jamil Jadallah, Palestine Note 3/6/2011
For the past few days, I have been watching live news reports of
the unraveling and dismantling of Hosni Mubarak police state, with
officers and commanders of the "state security service" or "amn aldwla"
on the run after succeeding in shredding hundreds of millions of
important files implicating the Mubarak regime in torture, cold blooded
murder, invasion of privacy and abuse of citizens rights with the entire
force of 1.4 million strong serving Mubarak, his cronies, business
associates and his political allies. When it became clear General Ahmed
Shafiq was on his way out, deliberate fires were set to offices of state
security services all over the country. Citizens came to the rescue but
it was too late in many instances.
Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the PLO and president of the
Palestinian Authority (his term expired more than 2 years ago) forged a
close partnership with both Mubarak and General Omar Suleiman making the
PA an extension of Mubarak Egypt specially when it came to Hamas, the
continued siege of Gaza and reliance on security services as the
backbone of the regime with Ramallah becoming not so different from
Cairo's Mubarak.
Notwithstanding what we hear about 'state buildings" and
"institutional building" the future Palestinian state if and when it
comes will be nothing but a police state. This was the theme of an
article I posted on 29 November 2007 " The future Palestinian state will
be nothing but a police state", the same theme was also the subject of
an article written by Aisling Byrne dated 18 January 2011 titled "
Building a police state in Palestine" that appeared in Foreign Policy.
The late Yasser Arafat was so committed to the security of Israel
and committed to Oslo that he made "security services" his top priority
anywhere he went. On his first visit to the UK rather than seeking
substantial compensation for Palestinians for crimes committed by
England under its mandate and Balfour Declaration, he could not find
anything to seek support for except his security forces. -- See
also:Building a police state in Palestine
<http://mideast. foreignpolicy. com/posts/ 2011/01/18/ building_ a_police_ state_in_ palestine>more..
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*The UNSC Veto and 'The Israel Lobby'*
<http://palestinenot e.com/blogs/ blogs/archive/ 2011/03/08/ the-unsc- veto-and- the-israel- lobby.aspx>
Mitchell Plitnick, Palestine Note 3/8/2011
/It's very clear that AIPAC is always the 800-pound gorilla in the room/
Back in 2007, when John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt released
their book,The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, I disagreed with many
parts of their thesis. Most of the criticisms at the time attacked the
authors as anti-Semites or made straw man arguments about points the
authors were not making. Thus, Christopher Toensing of MERIP and I put
together an article responding to Walt and Mearsheimer in what I think
was a more rational manner. I later issued an update to that article.
While not agreeing with the Walt/Mearsheimer thesis, I disagree at
least as much with the two major alternatives: what I'd call the Foxman
thesis, and what I'd call the Chomsky thesis.
Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League wrote a book in response
to Walt and Mearsheimer which offered very little beyond the same straw
man arguments and insinuations of nefarious motives about the Israel
Lobby authors. But Foxman's case, separate from his critique of Walt and
Mearsheimer, is that the Israel Lobby, as symbolized by the
American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) simply educates the
public and Congress but is only one of many lobbying groups and, in the
end, American Middle East policy was based on a careful analysis of
American interests, which, to Foxman, are usually identical to Israeli ones.
Professor Noam Chomsky, well-known critic of American and Israeli
policy, contends that the Lobby is very powerful as long as it goes
along with extant US policies. That is, it does not play a significant
role in determining those policies, but does close off debate and
discussion about it.more..
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*Libya and the Return of Humanitarian Imperialism*
<http://www.counterp unch.org/ bricmont03082011 .html>
Jean Bricmont, CounterPunch 3/8/2011
/The Old Gang's All Here/
The whole gang is back: The parties of the European Left (grouping
the "moderate" European communist parties), the "Green" José Bové, now
allied with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who has never seen a US-NATO war he
didn't like, various Trotkyist groups and of course Bernard-Henry Lévy
and Bernard Kouchner, all calling for some sort of "humanitarian
intervention" in Libya or accusing the Latin American left, whose
positions are far more sensible, of acting as "useful idiots" for the
"Libyan tyrant."
Twelve years later, it is Kosovo all over again. Hundred of
thousands of Iraqis dead, NATO stranded in an impossible position in
Afghanistan, and they have learned nothing! The Kosovo war was made to
stop a nonexistent genocide, the Afghan war to protect women (go and
check their situation now), and the Iraq war to protect the Kurds. When
will they understand that all wars claim to have humanitarian
justifications? Even Hitler was "protecting minorities" in
Czechoslovakia and Poland.
On the other hand, Robert Gates warns that any future secretary of
state who advises a US president to send troops into Asia or Africa
"must have his head examined". Admiral Mullen similarly advises caution.
The great paradox of our time is that the headquarters of the peace
movement are to be found in the Pentagon and the State Department, while
the pro-war party is a coalition of neo-conservatives and liberal
interventionists of various stripes, including leftist humanitarian
warriors, as well as some Greens, feminists or repentant communists.
So, now, everybody has to cut down his or her consumption because
of global warming, but NATO wars are recyclable and imperialism has
become part of sustainable development. more..
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*Graffiti History of Palestine*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1708>
Palestine Monitor: 8 Mar 2011 - When 2006's elections split Gaza and the
West Bank politically, Anas Maraqa was looking at a pictorial battle
between Hamas and Fateh. Then it hit him. "They were telling their
peoples' opinions in graffiti," Maraqa said, puffing a cigarette. "I was
like wow, this is really saying something." "We want to make the book
from the first intifada until today," Maracas said, outlining a plan of
following a time-line linking events to their symbols called History of
Palestine Through Graffiti . "There is lots of things from words written
on walls - people get shot, things happened in Palestine, outside
Palestine." "it's all on the walls." In the First Intifada, for example,
freedom fighters wrote messages to stir the masses, Maraqa said, while
just two years ago a Dutch company charged EUR30 to paint custom designs
uploaded from anywhere in the world "It used to be a way for
Palestinians to...more
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1708>

*Protecting Palestinian Susya*
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1707>
Palestine Monitor: 8 Mar 2011 - March 5, 2011. Al Tawamin End of winter,
early spring: the hills of south Hebron are a shocking green. It won't
last long. Very soon now, unless there's one last burst of rain, green
will revert to the usual palette of yellow and brown; already the sun is
strong, a taste of the fierce summer to come. The rocky trails are white
with asphodels in full bloom---what the Palestinians call ghosalan and
the Jews call irit . On the drive down we pass dozens of almond trees,
another white miracle, in their short spring flowering. I am so glad to
be back, to be outside in the air and light and not at my desk, to be
with these people again, to act. We wind our way slowly uphill over the
rocks, a long early-morning walk. We pass a herd of sheep and goats,
with their lone Palestinian shepherd; here, on...more
<http://www.palestin emonitor. org/spip/ spip.php? article1707>

*Is Israel Ready for the New Middle East?*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16708>
Palestine Chronicle: 8 Mar 2011 - By Yacov Ben Efrat It so happens that
the week of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia was also a week of
internal Israeli shenanigans. Defense Minister Ehud Barak resigned from
the Labor Party and established a faction called "Independence, " into
which he drew four other Laborites. The move, coordinated with PM
Binyamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu, enabled Barak to avoid being overthrown in
upcoming Labor elections. It also enabled the Netanyahu government to
stay afloat, supported now by Independence. The Labor ministers had long
been threatening a pullout over the lack of progress toward peace. They
made good on the threat, but with little result. Thanks to Independence,
the government now seemed unshakeable. The Barak-Netanyahu ploy came
after heavy Democratic losses in the US Congressional elections, which
impel US President Barack Obama to concentrate on domestic issues. Where
the Palestinians were concerned, Bibi and Ehud could heave a sigh of
relief. The...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16708>

*A Comment on Saeb Erekat's Statement in the Palestine Chronicle*
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16707>
Palestine Chronicle: 8 Mar 2011 - By Issa Khalaf In the Palestine
Chronicle comments by Dr. Saeb Erekat, (' Palestine Papers Revealed
Nothing: A Response to Ramzy Baroud '), he writes, "The issues discussed
were mechanisms by which Palestinian rights would be realized, rather
than forfeited... " I suppose he's correct in a technical sense. That is,
Palestinians were stuck since Oslo in a "peace process" industry that
suited both Washington and Israel for obvious reasons. The industry's
essence was subsuming, or substituting, peace's basis or components for
endless talks about getting to peace, of form over substance--- hence
Erekat's mechanisms. But how else to characterize these talks except as
negotiations, or the Palestine Papers, in fact, revealing reality as
we've all known it? No analyst would describe the Palestinian- Israeli
talks during 2008, a period that apparently is particularly damning
judging by the Palestine Papers, merely as mechanisms or exploratory
just because they are dubbed as such or even entered...more
<http://palestinechr onicle.com/ view_article_ details.php? id=16707>

*Here It Comes to Save the Day!*
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 03/here-it- comes-to- save-the- day/>
Dissident Voice: 8 Mar 2011 - Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor
under Clinton, speaks of real progressive economic change and how to
restore the relevancy of the Democratic Party. His points on the former
would almost make one think there's a shred of socialism in his DNA.
Perhaps so, but there's a gaping hole in his genome sequence; his
reliance on the Democratic Party to achieve equity and fairness in our
economic woes of today. The tax code today, given to us by both the
Democrats and Republicans, in Congress and in the White House, favors
the filthy rich and the corporations. It is ironic that the last time
the wealthy had to pay their fair share was during the Eisenhower
administration, where the tax rate on the highest earners was 91%.
Today, it is they who have complete control over who pays for their
lifestyle. The last time the Democratic Party had a spine...more
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 03/here-it- comes-to- save-the- day/>

*Bradley Manning Is Punished for Seeking a More Perfect Union*
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 03/bradley- manning-is- punished- for-seeking- a-more-perfect- union-2/>
Dissident Voice: 8 Mar 2011 - Reports that Bradley Manning is being held
nude every night at the Quantico Brig, then forced to stand naked in the
hallway while he waits for his clothes, shows the inconsistency of the
treatment of Manning with basic American values of due process, fair
trial and human dignity. Here is how his lawyer, David Coombs, describes
his treatment: The Brig has stripped PFC Manning of all of his clothing
for the past three nights, and they intend to continue this practice
indefinitely. Each night, Brig guards force PFC Manning to relinquish
all of his clothing. He then lies in a cold jail cell naked until the
following morning, when he is required to endure the humiliation of
standing naked at attention for the morning roll call. According to
Marine spokesperson, First Lieutenant Brian Villiard, the decision to
strip him naked every night is for PFC Manning's own protection.
Villiard stated that it would be 'inappropriate' to explain...more
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 03/bradley- manning-is- punished- for-seeking- a-more-perfect- union-2/>

*Could Pariah Status Spell the End for Zionism?*
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 03/could- pariah-status- spell-the- end-for-zionism/>
Dissident Voice: 8 Mar 2011 - Definition: Pariah -- a social outcast
(Chambers Dictionary) One eminent Israeli who apparently thinks the
answer could be yes is Ilan Baruch, a veteran diplomat who resigned
ahead of his retirement because, he said, he could no longer represent
his government's "wrong" policy. He also ridiculed Zionism's assertion
that global anti-Israeli sentiments generated by occupation are a
manifestation of anti-Semitism. While serving as a tank platoon
commander on the Suez Canal front, Baruch lost an eye and, Dayan-like,
he wears a black eye-patch. His 30 years of service with Israel's
foreign ministry included postings to Singapore, Copenhagen and London
and he served as ambassador to the Philippines and South Africa. In
September 1993 he travelled with Prime Minister Rabin to Washington for
the ceremony on the White House lawn which ended with the historic
handshake after the signing of an interim agreement. (Prior to that
trip, Baruch would have known...more
<http://dissidentvoi ce.org/2011/ 03/could- pariah-status- spell-the- end-for-zionism/>

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